skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is a decent solution to encourage pet ownership (dog or cat) among the single elderly? Not only can they help alleviate feelings of loneliness while you're alive but they could theoretically be trained to get help if you fall or if you eventually pass away.
DST is the civil equivalent of changing the behavior of some electronic hardware by doubling the clock signal instead of reprogramming and re-flashing the firmware. It's simple to do, but is also stupid and inefficient, and causes a lot of obscure unintended consequences later on. I'd actually be fine with converting all time and date records, all calendars, and all clocks to integer Julian Day Number, plus the integer number of milliseconds since mean solar noon at the Prime Meridian, plus another numeric field for greater precision, because there is an enormous advantage to not doing stupid tricks with clocks and time zones. Just count.
Don't forget legalized abortion
http://freakonomics.com/2005/05/15/abortion-and-crime-who-sh...
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This isn't an article about longevity, it's an attack piece on men.
I think spamming mutable objects around in your codebase is asking for trouble. I'd be really happy to be able to do something like this:

foo( Object.copy(barObj) );

I mean, why would you send your state's mutable object as argument if you're 100% sure you don't want it to be changed?
We shouldn't be defining what rights we have and leave the other "rights" to the government. It should be the other way around.

The government should not be able to take freedom from the people at large. Peaceful use of something shouldn't be abridged just to further the goals of the government. It is the government which should serve the people, not the other way around.
If the stock market is perfectly efficient, standard financial theory says that equity has a positive expected return (relative to the risk free asset).
This is ridiculous. The economy is already incentivized to find cheaper electricity by forces far more powerful than Bitcoin. By this logic, you would defend a craze for trying to boil the sea.
If the creation of human life is so easy to do, should we waste that much resources in making some of us immortal?

Also this article is more about why men are evil wanting to do so.
MIT scientists created a deep-brain implant that pumps drugs into your skull
there is a preventative mechanism in place: cancellation by host for a given night blocks that night from the host's calendar, preventing them from rebooking it at a higher price: https://www.airbnb.com/help/article/990/i-m-a-host--what-pen...
Is the humble sandwich a climate change culprit?
That's what I thought too... like this quote:

“Even letting people look at source code for a minute is incredibly dangerous,” said Steve Quane, executive vice president for network defense at Trend Micro, which sells TippingPoint security software to the U.S. military.
DỰ+ÁN+SWANPARK+ĐÔNG+SÀI+GÒN+|+SWANPARK+ĐÔNG+SÀI+GÒN
Very much. We've actually tried to capture some of those runtime variables within proteins and break down the programs into smaller compossible units. And start to keep track of which conditions are required for particular functionalities of which components. Life has already made a bunch for us to look at.

Ultimately, in our hands, those properties are strongly linked to physical associations, locations within a cell, enzymatic capabilities, and i/o (light, heat, chemical concentrations, force, etc.).

Then you start (re)building little i/o robots from reusable components for use by and within cells that are regulated by their location and associations (in a wet Brownian environment). All by coding using that same genetic source.
We've been hearing "how long will the problems of C persist" mere persist before people realize there might be reasons it's the most successful programming language yet invented?
Developers providing overwhelming amounts of funding for political campaigns, razor-thin profit margins on non-luxury condos, setbacks, foreign millionaires, local millionaires, rent control, parking requirements, inadequate transit, low land taxes, airbnb, demand for school districts, the average homeowner having most of their wealth locked in a single illiquid asset, limited capital gains taxes on property appreciation... I could go on and on.

There is no single lever that you can turn, and solve the housing problems of Seattle, Portland, San Francisco, Philadelphia, or NYC.

Blaming voters for this situation is like saying that the 2008 financial crisis happened because of voters. Technically correct (We could have - in theory - elected someone who could have appointed someone who could have appointed someone who could have stopped that particular disaster), but not in any meaningful sense.
Having had to work to help support my family since I was a teenager, I personally consider the ability to backpack across Europe with no money a Luxury in and of itself. I'd love to do that someday when my family are back on their feet.
"I'd say the middle class are the real problem."

Do you suggest to destroy middle class? It was done before and didn't end well.

The real issue with public transportation is convenience. The public transportation is trying to optimize for the most common transportation patterns. In reality, this doesn't work very well because 1) it turns out that there are more slices than we can efficiently support; 2) the patterns change faster than we can adjust the service (e.g. during the day).

Carpool/ridesharing is trying to find the middle ground between 100 routes / 100 passengers each; and 10,000 routes / 1 passenger.

Re "driving cost", the public transportation is usually heavily subsidized from taxes. The actual costs per transported passenger per mile are significantly hire than cars (in US). What you are describing as "driving cost" is a tax on drivers which also covers public transportation (partially). In reality, fully commercial public transportation is profitable in very few routes that doesn't cover the needs of all the people.
The perfect argument against allowing people access to their phones at performances.
Part of designing a 21st-century company is designing a Board of Directors that can help us implement our 21st-century vision ...

This is the dinosaur who will transform Airbnb into an "infinite" 21st-century company??

Here's the ridiculous story of how Ken Chenault's old-school ways cost Amex their Costco relationship and chopped their customer base by 10%.

https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2015-how-amex-lost-costco...

The Costco guys were tickled by how meticulously Amex choreographed Chenault's movements.

Ken Chenault would have an advance team come to our office before he visited. They planned everything — where he would enter the building, the route to the boardroom, where he’d sit at the table.

Soon after the breakup with Costco, JetBlue ditched Amex for Barclays and MasterCard. Fidelity may also be thinking about canceling its affinity card.
Cloning monkeys might not be a good thing
Would it also be fair to say most likely these same places (SAP, Symantec and McAfee) probably let other governments "probe" their software as well? I'd be surprised if 5 Eyes countries weren't all over it as well.
When even a news agency cannot hide incompetence and bias the media has a problem.
> If you don’t expect cyclic objects and don’t need to preserve built-in types, you get the fastest clone across all browsers by using JSON.parse(JSON.stringify()), which I found quite surprising.

I wonder if that’s because browser devs know by now that this is a widely used technique and hence optimise for it.
Over 1000 private jets bound for small Davos airports for World Economic Forum
Most discussions about research findings are like that and HN is probably no exception. :-)

"The sample size is too small" or "they didn't control for [x] effect" are the sort of gut armchair comments people make offhand, knowing it probably applies to any study if you get challenged. I assume that's the sentiment you reacted to and I agree it can be frustrating.
When new evidence suggests otherwise. All theories are based on our best evidence and we absolutely don't have all the evidence for anything. See, Structure of Scientific Revolution.
If you split off Google Maps, then you split tracking of where I go apart from tracking of what I search for. That's not perfect, but it's not nothing.
Mozilla's integration with Pocket is at direct conflict with their values: "Internet for people, not profit". I expected better of them.
Ironically, if immortality existed and was ubiquitous, it would be the very thing that would drive us to extinction due to the lack of genetic variability.
Even at current levels, BTC's built in block rewards dominate tx fees (12.50BTC built in + 1.38 tx fees). The 12.5 built in reward is essentially a subsidy for mining.
That's really neat, I hadn't considered that. I will definitely try it out, and might end up using it for the library.
> very private interview with the head of the company; even the board of directors

Are you assuming that OP works in a small SV startup? Most jobs are in companies where that isn't plausible.
In hospitals in the U.S. the way it works in some is nurses can view a lot of the patients charts (including VIP). And then someone is supposed to audit who viewed those VIP patients (celebrity or what not) but every hospital is different and it's a mess.
That doesn't apply to instant book bookings. Seems like a pretty big loophole to me.
That struck me as a little odd, too. What fiscal year do they use? September to September?
Regarding the proof-of-stake part: Ethereum devs are also working on sharding which will make scaling on the Ethereum Blockchain way easier. I really think that Ethereum will be the No.1 cryptocurrency in the near future. Bitcoin devs showed plenty of times, that they are not capable of keeping pace with demand (couldn't even get the block size thing right). Bitcoin is virtually dead. No one can really use it for real world transactions. Plus Bitcoin in reality is a really central coin, completely in the hands of the miners. Even if the Bitcoin devs decided to go with PoS, the miners wouldn't agree.
A simple zero-hassle solutions is to have walls that block any cellular and wifi signals. It solves the problems you mention.

I don't know why such walls are not more common in schools too. A lot of parents would be happy to pay for such walls if the learning experience improves substantially.

Edit: about the emergency and possible bomber attack: if the block-signal-mecanism is active (create some sort of interference) then it becomes easy to deactivate the mechanism automatically when the fire alarm or other emergency is triggered: simy cut the power source.
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You're getting downvoted for tone but I share your sentiment. This guy is writing like he's the president of the united states. "We think that a company should survive to see the next century, not just the next quarter."

Really makes me admire guys like Buffett who manage to build long-term empires without the need to write manifestos like this.
Using the same logic why should we spend that much resources on doctors? Just make more humans - some of them will be healthy.
How to fight mass surveillance even though Congress just reauthorized it
Published title is "The number of private jets descending on these four Swiss airports is about to spike by 335 per cent"; I edited for brevity and better context (it's because of the WEF).

One irony of this is that one of the major topics of the conference is the "major threat of climate change".
I have shared my story in the article's comments how a virus affected our hosting company's server and had to move us on a newer one.

All of this from inside a .ico file...complete madness!
It really is extremely sexist against both men and women.
Ron Wyden (D) Oregon is the senator who asked the FBI to name any cryptographers that support backdoors. He’s by far the most tech savvy and encryption savvy member of the house or Senate.
I guess if you really try, you can probably do all/most things flex can do with grid. However grid isn't really meant to have flexible responsive grid-cells, e.g. "how will the item1 grow in relation to item2 if we have additional space available?". Grid is more meant for scenarios where you wan't to completely change the layout of components of the site when you cross breakpoints, and when you have to do 2d gride-like layout (...duh!).
Jamming legal signals, even in private property, is very very illegal.
Why can't the alternative just be a media establishment that doesn't lie all day every day.
Would it be fair to paraphrase what you saying like this: The U.S. Bill of Rights are not 100% absolute; therefore, people/courts/whatever are not going to accept a right to unbreakable crypto that's even stronger than those in the Bill of Rights?

I don't think that crypto needs to be a stronger right than the Bill of Rights (confining myself to U.S. laws for the purpose of this discussion). What I'm saying is that whenever government proposals come up about restricting or backdooring crypto, we techies (and other thought leaders) should take the strong position that this is a right and then--maybe--have discussions about warrants, etc., afterward. What we've been doing for over 20 years is arguing that crypto is necessary for good security and backdooring is bad for security. That's all true, but it's a technology argument. It would be much better if we start off with the premise that unbreakable crypto is a right, that we're allowed to use it, that we don't need permission.
A better way of wording this is:

If there is a way of bypassing technology then it should be assumed it will be bypassed, most particularly by those whom that technology's presence would be used to defend against.

Golden keys will be stolen or otherwise recovered (eventually).

Only by making the cost of that effort more than any possible reward will security be maintained. Just the same as physically defending a physical location.
> every node it deems trustworthy

How does it find trustworthy nodes? Is the trust delegated to the node operator? So web-of-trust?
Here in Sweden you can view any patients info, and there is supposed to be audits to check that a doctor only ever checked relevant patient journals.

Always a few cases now and then of people getting caught checking friends, family and foes.

Pretty sure that auditing is completely separate from the caregiver.
The iPhone app "Clock Wave" is able to generate and transmit this signal from the speaker (!) in your iPhone, so you can accurately set radio-controlled clocks and watches if you cannot receive the real thing. It can simulate the five major time transmitters around the world.

I'm always amazed that it works at all.
I can't follow your tortured reasoning well enough to match it up to the applicable logical fallacies.

But I cheerfully point out that US Intel's focus on SIGINT at the expense of HUMINT is just so, um, myopic.

Instead of using "24" inspired fever dreams to dictate policy, electrocuting noobs while demanding to know where they hid the nukes, we'd all do better to actually listen to what spy masters and police chiefs are asking for. As a start.
You would hope so. Longstanding practice in crypto is to assume that 'the enemy knows the system'. It should apply here, as well.
Didn’t the Time Warner merger get partially blocked?
Isn't cement mostly lime?
I suspect it is because JSON.parse and JSON.stringify are more commonly used methods and therefore see more optimization than methods use less.
I appreciate the lengths Trent Reznor is willing to go in order for his fans to enjoy his peformances.
That's because a lot of current crypto holders are potential future losers.
If you settle all crypto in USD today, most people will be left with close to 0.
In a libertarian world, of course it's winner takes all. Luckily we still have some governments (boo, government, right?) that actually care about their cities, and they prefer long term tax-paying community-contributing residents, not short term tourists. So, it's mostly local governments making rules that disallow AirBNB-style short-term rentals.

Maybe if the government just wants to have a Disneyland with rich apartment owners who rent everything out and zero long-term residents, they'd go along with AirBNB, but then these people wouldn't be in government, they'd work as resort managers. And they'd be voted out of office and be replaced with people from the community who actually care about said community. Also, tourists go to a city to experience its vibe, it'd be kinda interesting if they go somewhere and all they see are other tourists.
> Additionally, after the Holocene some of these non-African groups also experienced huge population growth due to intensive agricultural practice.

This happened "after the Holocene"? Aren't we in the Holocene epoch?
Each Gitaly server instance was fork/exec'ing Git processes about 20 times per second so we seemed to finally have a very promising lead.

What's really wrong here is that they're apparently spawning processes like crazy. Do they spawn a new process for each API call? That's like running CGI programs under Apache, like it's 1995.
How did you arrive to that conclusion?
> I haven't met or know anyone mastering C/C++ (especially C++), and doubt I'll ever hear about one.

C can definitively be mastered. C at it's core is pragmatic minimalism. The basic ideas are very simple. If you want to be a language lawyer and know the standard completely (including all historical accidents), it can get complex, but still manageable. But anyways, you shouldn't be a language lawyer. That's not C. Make maintainable programs instead, stay in the middle of the road.

C gets out of the programmer's way. It's not about mastering C, but about mastering programming. And while I agree there's much bad C software out there: I haven't seen one maintainable non-bloated Java project. Here is one master of C that I'm sure you know: Linus Torvalds. Of course there are many, many more. Just remember it's not about C, but programming machines in general.
We should be investigating ways to sequester that CO2 as quickly as possible, via photosynthesis or industrial uses: https://futurism.com/a-plant-1000-times-more-efficient-at-co...
Hmm you are partially right.
Doctors make sense because healing someone is still cheaper than creating a new human and raising+educate it.
Still my logic does not fully apply here.
Yes, and then energy prices would decrease due to less demand. Blockchain energy usage maintains demand for energy; which keeps prices high enough that production of renewables can profitably compete with nonrenewables while we reach production volumes of solar, wind, and hemp supercapacitors for grid storage.

> Throughout the first half of 2008, oil regularly reached record high prices.[2][3][4][5] Prices on June 27, 2008, touched $141.71/barrel, for August delivery in the New York Mercantile Exchange [...] The highest recorded price per barrel maximum of $147.02 was reached on July 11, 2008.

At that price, there's more demand for renewables (such as electric vehicles and solar panels)

> Since late 2013 the oil price has fallen below the $100 mark, plummeting below the $50 mark one year later.

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

... Energy costs and inflation are highly covariate. (Trouble is, CPI All rarely ever goes back down)
Anyone know what they are actually doing here?

> Cryptocurrency prices are notoriously volatile. To counter that, Robinhood Crypto gives users an estimated price, and once users confirm a buy or sell order, they scan a gamut of trading venues, exchanges and market centers to find the lowest offer, TechCrunch explained. To account for wild price fluctuations, the service puts a 'collar' around your order; If it can't find a price within this margin, it will wait until one surfaces to execute your order or inform you.

This doesn't really make sense given the language they are using. A collar is a strategy executed with options, there are no options yet on crypto (BTC maybe, hard to keep track, but def not ETH or LTC). I assume the quotes indicate they don't mean with options, but what do they mean then?

What does scanning the exchanges to find the lowest offer do? Is Robinhood going to hold cryptos on those exchanges and actually make the trades in real time? Or are they just using exchanges as a quoting tool a.l.a. Shapeshift.io?

Are you actually buying Bitcoin through Robinhood or are they just tracking when you bought and sold it and pretending that you are buying Bitcoin? Can you deposit and withdraw Bitcoin? Does Robinhood even have any Bitcoin?

I wish journalists asked those kind of questions, but every article I can find reads like they were based on the same press release and adds nothing.
I fully agree, but want to point out that JSON can be compressed.
So what's the real problem? That they have too much power? Or that wrong people made better use of the power?

If you take the position that this would all be OK if it had worked out for a Hillary win, then you have two problems:

1. Assuming that one side is always right is very dangerous - it blinds you to their flaws. One side is not composed of angels, and it does not have a divine right to be president.

2. Creating power that is fine "as long as the right people use the power" is extremely short-sited. The wrong people inevitably find ways to use the power.
If they felt that way they'd just contribute to Bitcoin.
It would be a fully removable extension if it actually did. Nothing less. Even after Pocket code is open source, if at all - the least I am going to accept from Firefox is:

1. pocket as a fully removable extension

2. turned off by default
Some might consider Soros a greater menace to society than Google...
Adding to that conceptual challenge is separating in time the various components of the regulation and manipulation in the above analogies. Low-level programmers have an intuition of the 'time-cost' value of various hardware calls - the various caches, RAM, HD, network, etc. and how they can be many orders of magnitudes different even if the API considers them identically.

Life goes the other way and requires you not only to integrate over nanoseconds, but also over petaseconds. And at most scales in between there are mechanisms of regulation and operation.
Yes, trust is delegated by the node operator.
In other news:

Thompson-reuters finds procedural flaw in outsourcing of critical software to uninterested 3rd party companies; uses to frame russia as malicious and and create lingering mental justification for trade embargoes
That may be, but the fires were caused by Uber.
I'm not the parent commenter but yes, you both made the same distinction as far as I can tell.
interesting to see GitHub catching up to features in GitLab...

https://gitlab.com/help/user/project/description_templates.m...

;)
Lots of people here talking about what it is like to work at Google or other companies.

I am puzzled that nobody is talking about the author's claim that Google has lost the ability to innovate and is not focused on users any more. Is he right or wrong?
Unfortunately there are even young Europeans who have been witness to genocide. The Srebrenica massacre was 22 years ago.
Some big companies in Europe have such walls for their headquarters, probably for productivity. I guess that their solution is fairly legal, although it may not involve jamming.
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It doesn't need to be normal. There's no reason companies couldn't build a system that required approval from your manager before being able to access customer data. Any time a manager granted access, that could be audited by some second tier.