skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
On HN recommendation, a couple of years ago I read "Beyond the Black Box: The Forensics of Airplane Crashes" by George Bibel. It's a book-length survey, from an engineering point of view, of the processes that cause crashes, and how they are tracked down and their root cause addressed.

One of the messages of the book, repeated several times at various places, is that most crashes are survivable. Even the crashes that result in total loss of the aircraft tend to have significant numbers of survivors.

One number from the Kindle preview is that, of the 53K passengers and crew on the 568 accidents on U.S. commercial craft from 1983-2000, there were 2280 fatalities (4.3%). This includes "severe turbulence" incidents as well as total-loss incidents, contributing to the low 4.3% figure.

But still, over the same time period, of those 568 accidents, there were 26 "serious" accidents involving 2739 people, and about 55% of them survived. 19 of the accidents had some survivors, 7 did not. Of the 19, 66% of casualties were from trauma. Which would indicate that wearing the seat belt is a very good idea.

The book has more statistics and breakdowns that point in a similar direction.
It Matters Where Solar Panels Are Made
"Weight" in this context refers to execution and memory overhead, not file size.
This is just one of many things Facebook bans, including dating ads from sites that aren't preapproved, payday loans, sketchy supplement ads, and the list goes on. They even banned fantasy sports betting sites for a while (until the legality got cleared up in NY somewhat).
SF tourist industry struggles to explain street misery to horrified visitors
Maybe the fact you keep clicking on Chinese ads is reason enough?
From my original comment:

And the crash in SF where two people were ejected from their seats: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asiana_Airlines_Flight_214

> Neither victim was using her seatbelt. It is likely that these passengers would have remained in the cabin and survived if they had been wearing their seatbelts
How about the Certificate Store? The ability to access the system root store in iOS is not a public API - it's hidden behind the implementation details of SecTrustEvaluate which only the Apple system apps can access. This affects the ability for other browsers (non-Safari) to use client certificates in a simple manner.
The Human Rigths Act specifically does not grant the courts the possibility of not following Acts of Parliament when the too conflict. The courts can only give an declaration of incombability which they have done. This is how an Parliamentary sovereignty works.
So when did the auditor quit? Before or after the subpoena?

I wonder if the auditor made a 'noisy withdrawal', basically alerting the regulators that this company is fraudulent.
“The children now love luxury. They have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place of exercise.”

-Socrates, ~450 BC
> Is anyone at all surprised that they got subpoenaed?

Not very surprised, no. It was just a matter of time until it became public:

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DRGSIPEW4AEi_Du.jpg
From my personal experience, you have another month to wait… I waited 6 months for a withdrawal to be handled. To be fair, I withdrew to the wrong account number (to Simple, to the old account number with Bancorp), but the bank bounced the transfer and the funds were returned within the week. After that, Coinbase drug their feet for 6 months before I finally got the money right around Christmas time (i.e. I initially withdrew in June).

What bothers me even more than horrible communication is the fact that I converted BTC to USD and withdrew the money because I need the cash at the time (baby + move) and never saw it until much later. Had I kept it BTC–which I would've had I not needed it–that same BTC would've been worth about 8x what I got.

I don't want to scream "foul play" but it REALLY seems that way. There's NO WAY it takes 6 months, including a lot of pointless repeated "Have you checked with your bank? We're so sorry it's taking so long."

So yeah… good luck with Coinbase support. FWIW, Coinbase is the reason I'm done with crypto for good (as currency/investment). It's a minefield of bad actors and greed, incredibly susceptible to foul play and literal criminal activity. I willingly paid more fees with Coinbase because I thought they were a legit business… Nope!

I would normally end this with "…but mileage may vary." Not here. Good luck and godspeed, my friend. o/
I think that's close. Scam artists slaughter the sheep, while Facebook would rather keep shearing them.
An Algorithm Will Be Your Best Therapist, but It Can Be Hacked Too
> rewards it's users for sharing content and attention

You mean spamming content?
This is 2 months old.
A charging circuit has to provide power to the same battery terminals with which power is drawn from. The effect should be cumulative.
Two-person cars are already reasonably common (here in Europe), no need to wait for the brave new future.
Sorry: no one else with power to make it right gives a damn.

Why they? Because that's their job - to help individuals coordinate at scale.
That's how RSA encryption works.
The fact that they don’t publish financial statements that have been audited by a major accounting firm on a regular basis clearly indicates that the whole thing is a massive fraud.

Bernie Madoff’s operation sucked in billions for years and years. Were there an audit at any point, the scam would have been revealed.
Wow, just gave iTerm2 Nightly with Metal renderer a spin! Holy shiet it's fast and smooth! FINALY! Opened 20k C file in Vim (stock vim 8 that comes with macOS High Sierra), pushed that scroll down and let it roll, it was soooo smooth! Amazing!
thanks quarizmi!

Lets see how recommender systems evolve in this space. The tech and implementation will need to be very different to traditional recommenders, and access to data will be a huge barrier imho. We'll see:)
Trains generally make much wider curves, so the effect is minimized.
Localhost: David Nolen – Fundamental Principles of Software [video]
I agree with most of the article, but no one cares how much you can live on to be comfortable. The market decides that. If you do all of the calculations and you still can't meet your lifestyle requirements you have to either change your lifestyle or change your market.
> Is it possible to write a post on HN that isn't pointlessly critical of Facebook

Mostly it is just impossible for there to be a story about FB on HN that doesn't have a bunch of people tripping over themselves to tell everyone they don't use FB.
Here: https://omniexplorer.info/lookupadd.aspx?address=3MbYQMMmSkC...
Redux is easier than you think
Same w/ Mexican American communities around the states, mejorar la raza and all that
I'm not discrediting that notion. My point was to echo the sentiment that a closed-loop healthcare system has it's downsides when it hits edge cases.

For the record, I pay the same for healthcare from UHC now and it would cover the $25k cost for the specialist because they're in the UHC network.
> That means it is illegal because it goes against the (higher) EU law.

It actually does not mean that. The courts cannot ignore an Act of Parliament even if it conflicts with the Human Rigths Act but can o ly give an declaration of incombability which they have done.
Tomorrow's news:
Google announces a healthcare initiative where AI & bots will drive consumers mad
Because Facebook (and most others) can't tell the difference between a legitcoin and a shitcoin. They already got in trouble for trying to separate "fake news" from real news, so why double down on the same problem?

Take Tezos for example. Greatest innovation in blockchain history or greatest scam in blockchain history? You could lose a lot of hair over that decision, or you could just kill 'em all and let Satoshi sort 'em out.
This is exactly why we need to keep ASR tech open. These kinds of issues affect DNNs in general, and other ASR engines based on them are also vulnerable. Having models and the data used to train them open is a great way to help academia make progress in this space.
They should sort the shelves in LRU and then re-stock accordingly...
If I was auditing and obviously fraudulent operation, the easiest way to cover my ass would be to notify regulators immediately.
New Samsung bootloader hard bricks phone flashed with carrier unlocked firmware
Is anyone actually playing? I thought that was like a short-term gimmick where people were trading cats but there is no actual game. I don’t know if I’d call it a successful use case just yet, but rather I would wait at least a year or two to see how such experiments play out before making a call.
1) they don’t have to re-tool getting more profit from the production line.

2) the tyre was probably just barely not good enough for RV use - but a lot cheaper to manufacture.

Mix obvious profit with an FU attitude in management, and it goes to market.
So could you in a bus, yet we don't, even on private buses.

I also doubt the windows will go away. Who prefers to be stuck in a windowless cubicle?
I'm afraid not, because most are spam and we spend enough of life answering "why is my site banned" emails already.
What exactly does 'won' mean to you in this context? Other than the fact you're tying it to some vaguely positive notion around momentum, it's not at all obvious what claim you're making.
If you touch United States dollars, then you are captured by United States regulators. The United States dollar system is only accessible via the federal reserve system, which is regulated by United States regulators.
“Old news” is news that merely reiterate facts that were already widely known.

News that makes new revelations that were not generally known about events in even the distant past is still new news, and last December isn't the distant past, anyway.
This is kind of nitpicky, but on your site you say Saas where I think you mean Sass.
You may be experiencing a different perf bug.

"My household has both an iPhone 6 and 6s. Both have become noticeably slower, more battery consuming.

I just did the full backup and restore trick. We think it worked.

https://daringfireball.net/linked/2017/12/22/glenn-iphone-sl....

http://mglenn.com/blog/2017/12/22/apples-bungled-battery-fea....

My boss (she who must be obeyed) and I both "feel" that our phones are now more responsive and some features have resumed working like normal.

Such as retrieving voicemails, which had become unresponsive. For both of us. I had been blaming our cell provider (carrier). My bad."

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16015840
I'm just not sure why Bloomberg would choose to omit the date until being pestered online. Doesn't this change things quite a bit? If there was a true smoking gun, they would be shut down then and there already instead of continuing to operate/grow, such as issuing more tethers in the past month.
Last year a lot of people thought that. However its not true and trades between crypto are taxable.
Already have, thanks. Actually bought another house after the 3 year mark when I was eligible for an FHA loan. Luckily, my credit score is pretty excellent.

This was back in the early 2000's just before the actual market crash. It was insane to me that banks were willing to work with people that bought houses they couldn't afford but that they wouldn't work with me on a loan modification because I wasn't delinquent.
Goal Line Lasers, Football Sensors and More: Why the NFL Is Slow to New Tech
And it didn't even choke on the email one!

You have to reformat the answer from stackoverflow to remove the line returns. Will this link work?

Edit: no, "comment was too long" :(

Copy regex from https://stackoverflow.com/a/801239/481788 and remove the 81 line returns.
Energy Risk Management: Five Steps to Improve Your Process
The sealing is annoying, cause the courts are doing that.

But dragging discovery or not doing it honestly... that’s what Uber is doing right now (judge is peeved about it too)
Tesla’s apparent model plan: S 3 X Y, what next?
Of course, not before the owners of Tether have already loaded up their Swiss vaults full of sweet sweet cash.
Thanks, I have. This was a while ago near the beginning of the housing crash and I've since been able to get a house with a local mortgage provider.
Thankfully, no there isn’t.
Oracle Extends Java SE Public Updates and Java Web Start Support
Have you tried making requests at your local library? They've always been very accommodating.
"This particular Go feature (which arguably came from C) is so open to future compatibility breakage that I wish it had never been included."

This is the community consensus view. I strongly disagree with it. Unkeyed literals are useful for when you want to get a compile-time error if any fields change, which is common in tuple-like structs. If there is anything wrong with this, it is that in theory you ought to be able to specify at the type declaration whether you must use unkeyed (IMHO a valid use case), must use keyed, or may use either. However this would not generally fit with Go's philosophy.

As a consequence of that theory, I would never use unkeyed literals to create a generated type; too likely that something will change in the generated type with future generators, exactly as I stated.

I suppose this could be layered on in another linter, although since the community and I part ways here even if I wrote "nobody" would use it.

"The second one, about structs no longer being usable as map keys or comparable with ==,"

One of the weirdest things about Go to me is the whiff on making several operations interfaces, like how Python has __del__ and such. == is a particularly weird case; the rules for == are downright dynamic language-ish: https://golang.org/ref/spec#Comparison_operators. I imagine they may have considered this "operator overloading" but IMHO that's only a problem on operators that come with a lot of implicit semantics like +, not the "lookup operator".
It took a serious tin hat warrior to actually believe that line. "If everybody in the world instantly switches over to my new currency overnight everything will be awesome!" That's so far divorced from reality only pure mathematicians could love it.

Not to mention it would never work, the blockchain has way too much overhead (many many orders of magnitude) to support an entire world's worth of exchanges every day. There literally isn't enough electricity in the world. People would have to do all of their transfers on third party exchanges that undermine all of the crypto guarantees of the currency in the first place. They're no better than putting your fiat currency in a bank run by criminals that have no respect for laws. And I'm not talking euphemistically about regular bankers here, I'm talking about full up scam artists. I mean why not, it's not like the law is going to get you. There are no pesky regulations to get in the way. No annoying insurance adjusters breathing down your neck. You have total freedom to scam everybody all day long.
'Silent hero': Senior in wheelchair cleans streets for free
> It's like if the NYSE only allowed you to cash out in scrip. I understand how this benefits them, but how does it benefit me?

It doesn't benefit you, as you're left holding a bag of useless scrip if there's a big crash.

Which is precisely why tether is such a cause for concern. Well, except for crypto fanatics that call anything perceived as negative as baseless FUD.
At best those are potential intrinsic values for blockchains, not bitcoin.
10 years ago Eclipse was most popular editor and was considered the best. Java, C++, PHP. Aptana, IBM IDEs and many more. And now it is pretty much gone.
Yeah all news are good news for greedy Bitcoin hodlers !
As well as almost any Polish professionals: Teachers, professors, lawyers, government officials, religious figures. The goal of the Germans was to dismantle almost all of Polish society and replace it with German society.
Not to mention the injuries prevented by your unsecured body not being thrown around and landing on another passenger.
An idea whose time has passed: The VMT Fee
even Tesla appears to be lagging behind Waymo

That's not surprising. Waymo's team goes all the way back from the 2005 DARPA challenge[1] - they've been working on it for a long time.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanley_(vehicle)
Ask HN: Did YC accept a mere idea anymore?
I'm broke and can't afford to hire developer to make my MVP alive but I have a clear idea on what my MVP will look like with details interactive prototyping. I've also prepare a pitch deck with validation and a clear target on how to make money and everything.

But I'm afraid this will be not good enough, watching YC's portfolios getting larger and larger with more complex companies that looks like Fortune 500 with proven revenues, and with that I'm getting more and more intimidated to even bother to apply.

Do I even have a chance?
Agreed that publicly there are mixed messages, but based on my phone conversation, the tone was basically, "If we want to get you, we will." because the Howey test is pretty restrictive against ICOs. Additionally, they cautioned that even if the SEC passes on regulating, states have their own securities laws which can be enforced and sometimes have different rules than the Howey test.

It's a legal minefield and unfortunately those brave enough to cross it and slip through will get a lot of money and those that try and get caught will get stiff penalties. It really would help to get more clarity in the SEC's public comments.
ZkSNARKs and their application to Zcash
FWIW, I charge $300 / hr as a mobile/full stack developer (and I'm based in TX). My clients are mostly startups. I have more work than I know what to do with, and have for quite a while.

Probably raising my rate to $350 soon.
Each doctor offers hundreds of services/procedures. Each one has a different price. The insurance company needs a certain number of doctors in the network to be competitive and they can't really have hard cutoffs for every single item. It's not that surprising that there are outliers.

Additionally, lots of doctors often bill incorrectly on purpose so that a particular services/procedure gets covered, so I am not sure we should keep "justified" and "validated" in these discussions.
It's still slow and tedious to move USD between exchanges, and likely raises a lot of flags with your bank.

Being able to move USD between banks as fast and frictionlessly as you can move crypto makes it easier to take advantage of price differences on different exchanges. The tethers themselves are also tradeable with people who may or may not pay taxes or trade on KYC-compliant exchanges.
Finally: Instagram now allows businesses to schedule their posts
Apple is delaying some key iPhone and Mac software features
planned for release this year to focus on quality improvements,
Bloomberg News reported earlier Tuesday.

In my book, that's the best news to come out of Apple in years.
Gold is shiny, stable (chemically and nuclearly), heavy (harder to fake by coating a facsimile), and rare. It's not "useful" per se (outside niche applications), but it definitely has a certain intrinsic suitability as currency.
Slides are here: https://goo.gl/PHCMC6
They do move like molasses.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Molasses_Flood
Mixed race people are often seen as outsiders by either race; how they personally identify can vary a lot (and often it's not simply with one or the other.)
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Well, yeah. This is the level of oppression Soviet Russia was. The horrors of Nazi camps are often discussed - not many people discuss Russian camps on Siberia.
Not shipping product and not showing growth is how you get fired and don't get bonuses. Hopefully you will be at a different company when the shit hits the fan. (Being overly cynical but it it probably more true than not)
My understanding is that their terms of service say that they have no legal obligation to do so, regardless of where you have a bank account...
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Wasn't that long ago people said the same thing with sublime.

What looks nice about Xi is that the next cool editor can be built on top of it and leverage it's stability.
Your Users Are Irrational
Yes, that's exactly what many people think is going to happen, and in fact there's already a small but persistent spread in BTC prices between exchanges that price them in USDT (like Bitfinex) and those that use actual USD (like GDAX).
You're okay with ugly exterior though?
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Glendower: I can call spirits from the vasty deep. Hotspur: Why, so can I, or so can any man; But will they come when you do call for them?

William Shakespeare, Henry IV, Part I

There are actually two issues here: Firstly, on what basis, under US law, does the CTFC have the authority to issue a subpoena, and secondly, whether, under international law or treaty, it has any power to compel compliance. The link in sna1l's post has something on both issues.
What's more, Nemtsov isn't the only one who was killed by Putin.

Alexander Litvinenko was poisoned with processed Po-210, which was determined to have come from a facility owned by the Russian state. It was placed in his tea by two Russian agents, and an investigation by the British government concluded that Putin probably personally signed off on the murder.

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

http://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/20160613090324/htt...
So is this where the founders all get to come in and contemplate, compare, and contrast their expensive luxury toys? And then move on to another thread on HN and wax philosophical about economic inequality?
See also the charming "Night Mail" (1936): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kHOHbTL3mpk

Auden and Benjamin Britten collaborated on what is surely the most talent-heavy documentary about a postal service to exist.
>Pragmatically speaking all of the great stuff Raph is talking about doesn't really matter. What Raph cares about are the kind of things people who build text editors like to geek out on and again

Unfortunately that's not true. If only MORE people that build text editors actually DID geek out on such things. Alas, we have 30+ years of editors that got all those wrong.

>Imma let you finish but VSCode and Atom and the entire Electron ecosystem have once again proven that a sub-optimal but powerful platforms with low barriers to entry win most of the time

Well, they don't win with me. But even if so, I don't see why you can't have an optimal platform AND a big ecosystem. Or how json-rpc (which is what the plugins will need to talk to) is a high "barrier to entry".
IIRC some exchanges don’t make it clear you’re trading USDT, not USD. If Tether were to implode users might be able to sue the exchange to try to recover the USD value.
If they would have the same rules as browsers this basically wouldn't be an issue. Those rules are along the lines of "don't mix character sets unless under a ccTLD for that character set". See here: https://www.chromium.org/developers/design-documents/idn-in-...
No they see individuals blaming their poor choices on things which happened hundreds of years ago. If your parents didn't give two craps about your education and you did poorly in school, that is your parent's fault, who made a conscious choice. If you do the same to your children, it is your fault.

And to blame something which happened hundreds of years ago, is to ensure this problem never gets resolved, because making poor choices is easy when you don't suffer the blame.
Criminals can certainly have integrity in the absence of a moral compass but for this sort of crime, integrity is in fact lost.

Child crimes are crimes that involve the abuse of trust in most cases. Like embezzlement, someone trusts you not to steal money or molest children given a situation with ample opportunity for you to do so, but you do it anyway. You demonstrate a lack of integrity when you commit a crime of this nature.

So why we should also trust him to be a living authority of a particular record? He has proven that trust in him is misplaced.