skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What they're doing is processing data that is publicly available online. Revenge porn law is something else completely - it's about releasing data to the world.

So, if such a law would be implemented, it would be much closer to DRM laws, which allows data authors and content right owners to dictate how you can process their data, even if they give it to you. In one case, it's copying the data to another format, or may be running a decompiler on it; in another, it's using it in deep learning. Either way, it's processing.
Requests for Research 2.0
The short list isn't very short... Somerville made it and I'd be stunned if we were chosen.
The WWW was developed 1989, first software (browser) in 1990, first websites went live in 1991, Mosaic came out in 1993, and things really exploded from 1994 on, with Amazon, Spiegel Online (German weekly newspaper), Pizza Hut, The Economist, etc. all going online.

Dotcom bubble was 1997 to 2001.

Bitcoin white paper came out in 2008, first software release in 2009. With comparable development, we'd have expected an explosion of usage and applications from 2013 already (that didn't happen), and a bubble about 2016 to 2020 (that arguably did happen).

At any rate, the WWW was super useful (and was being extensively used) pre- and during the bubble. You cannot say the same about cryptocurrencies.

(And by the way, during the dotcom bubble there were several companies, such as Flooz and Beenz, offering digital currencies. They're all defunct now. If only they had been decentralised on the blockchain...)
I totally see where you're coming from - name-dropping like that feels really tacky. I'd shy away from that on my own projects.

The challenge is helping people understand what something is and why it is valuable as quickly as possible. In this case, the fact that the team behind this are Mike Bostock (d3), Jeremy Ashkenas (Backbone, CoffeeScript) and Tom MacWright (Mapbox Studio) feels very relevant to getting me excited about the project.

It's such a strong product that I imagine word of mouth (plus how well it demos) will do that job for them though. This was just my first thought on loading up he page in Mobile Safari (and then realizing what it actually was).
>but I can't figure out exactly what corrections he wants made.

He wants accuracy in historical depictions, not over-representation of (insignificant at the time and place) populations the way they do in stock photos to show how "diverse" a company is.

He also doesn't like the historical revisionism of considering all the people coming from Africa or called african in Roman years as black, whereas the whole northern Africa was full of white populations. Those were not Ethiopians, Nubians, etc...

It's bad that the English were racist and colonialists, but that's their problem. They don't get to say their "sorry" today (after the fact) to the black people, by washing out whole populations of Mediterranean people, that were actually there at the Roman era, because they want to feature more prominently some populations they put down.
Procedurally; since updating IPNS records is free it's pretty straightforward to continuously deploy a tree.

What's obnoxious about that is that existing IPFS daemons aren't really good at managing multiple identities so if you have multiple trees to maintain you're left writing custom software or using docker containers.
I wrote more about the motivation for Observable (formerly d3.express) last year: https://medium.com/@mbostock/a-better-way-to-code-2b1d2876a3...

It’s easy to use D3 within Observable, but it’s not pre-loaded or specifically built-in. Any browser library published to npm can be loaded via require (for AMD) or dynamic import (for ES modules). I’ve published a bunch of notebooks with D3 but you’ll find other ones with THREE.js, Vega-Lite, Leaflet and other libraries.
I'm a little concerned that Atlanta pols are already leveraging Amazon as a form of coercion to influence social policies...at least wait until after we're chosen?

https://www.wsj.com/articles/to-get-anything-done-georgia-po...
If peoples from far flung regions had been present in numbers and those people tended to have rank (garrisoned, etc), one would imagine we'd have more bone evidence (from burial sites, given their ranks).

But as portrayed, it looks like there were more people from far flung areas than there were picts in the north.

In any event, it's interesting ironic in that its seen as progressive that an occupying force might have been slightly multi-ethnic, and this celebrated. The English in South Africa were also much more multi-ethnic in that they brought peoples from the Indian subcontinent and other places; let's celebrate that too, then.
You need them to clarify deep understanding? If someone said they wanted a candidate to have a deep understanding of jet engines, I'd expect they know every single thing there is to know about them.
You don't really upload things to IPFS, since it works like Bittorrent: you make files available by adding them, but that doesn't copy those files anywhere. They're only transferred via the network to clients that specifically request them, which makes this a non-issue.

Now FileCoin, that's a different issue...
Libel would be stating that this is a real recording. If someone publishes a deep fake video saying it's a fake video, it's not much different from a cartoon based on someone, is it?
Being able to recognise the protocol's limitations and guarantees depends on those limitations and guarantees, as well as best practices for developing applications using the protocol, being openly documented.
A friend of mine actually build a PowerBuilder decompiler and custom debugger, partly because he's smart, and partly because he was bored and had to maintain PowerBuilder projects.

I think he said at one time the developers contacted him regarding a bug.
GDP isn't really a great measure of how well a population is doing if inequality is high and wages are stagnant for low paid workers.

Florida has one of the highest levels of inequality in the US and the US in general had more inequality than most European countries.

Are the working poor in the south really that much better off than most of Europe where healthcare and social housing are more readily available? GDP alone is a bad measure of success for individuals living somewhere if the benefits are not shared.
Show HN: Dashbling – Hackable React-based dashboards for developers
Professor Goldman may be an expert but on IP law but his understanding of invasion of privacy law leaves a bit to be desired...Invasion of privacy doesn't require an actual invasion into a person's private life. It includes publicizing a person in a false light and appropriating their name, both of which would apply to deep fakes.

How then do paparazzi get away with photos of celebrities?

Almost all pictures of celebrities are in or from public areas where there is no right of privacy. (If a celebrity really didn't want to be photographed naked, they wouldn't undress in front of a public-facing window. There are decades of court cases on this point.) The pictures that aren't, i.e., Erin Andrews, resulted in massive court victories for the victims.

The appropriation cases are much rarer, as it generally applies to impersonation cases. It's usually in context of name appropriation, as most image appropriation cases thus far are pursued under different tort theories usually involving commercial harm. (Though since Catfish, image appropriation invasion of privacy cases are becoming more common.)
America Is Not a Democracy
> In most other colleges and universities, I think it would be much more beneficial, to both students and teachers, for philosophy to become part of a common curriculum for everyone rather than remaining its own department with its own major.

I don't see how that would benefit anyone more than the current situation, where a degree program will typically require one or two philosophy classes. It seems to me that the only reason to simply not have the philosophy degree program would be if there weren't enough faculty to teach the classes.

(unless you're arguing for a sort of common "humanities" degree, which I guess I would have to think about)

> Knowledge of philosophy is a kind of force multiplier. It can help you become a more thoughtful and ethical person no matter what you do. But if you do nothing apart from philosophy, well, zero multiplied by a force multiplier is still zero.

> Disclaimer: Got a Ph.D. in philosophy. Currently running my own business.

Did it seem to you that philosophy drew the kind of students (other than you, of course) who had no "force" to multiply, such that the philosophy degree program was a waste of time for them? I didn't take my study of philosophy as far as you did (I got a BA), but I bet you saw a lot of your fellow students go on to be successful professionals, as I saw.
Average churn is close to 20%. Definitely it is different for various cohorts. For Targetprocess we have this distribution:

1-20 users - churn 35%

21-100 users - churn 18%

100+ users - churn 7%
If you have decent filters set up you can only get notifications for emails that matter to you.
Fun fact: the U.S. spends more on education per student than any country but Switzerland, Norway, and Luxembourg. We probably don’t spend more on transit, because most cities here aren’t designed for it, but New York for example spends more per subway rider than London. We also spend more public dollars on healthcare per person than Canada, Sweden, France, etc.

Our total government spending per person (excluding defense spending) is higher than Canada’s, despite the fact we provide less services.

Additional facts: countries like Canada, France, Germany, etc., tax their corporations less than we do. Our taxes are a lot lower, but mainly because we have much lower taxes for the middle class.
It's a bit pedantic of me to say this, but if your cost of goods is $381, and the retail price is $399, you are losing money. There is the retailers cut, distribution, marketing, R&D etc. They were losing money to invest in the platform.

The article says the PS3 cost of goods was $800 per unit at launch, but it is worth remembering that the PS3 was an investment in two strategic initiatives for Sony. One was the PS3 standard, that they would earn future software royalties on. The other, and at the time maybe more important, was the BluRay standard.
My take on "there's more to it" is that the employee had allegedly already caused two false alarms through his own actions.

The fact that he made a written statement then refused any other cooperation suggests to me that, rather than shirking his duty by this act, perhaps he knows better than to dig himself a hole by trying to be "helpful".
>The book "Design and Evolution of C++" is quite interesting in that regard.

I found that book very interesting in many regards. I had bought and read it several years ago (out of interest, though I have not worked on C++ professionally).

Stroustrup goes into a lot of details about the reasons for many design decisions in the language. While I'm aware that C++ has some issues, I was really impressed by the level of thought etc., that he shows in that book, when he talks about all the reasons for doing various things the way he did them.
> There's some evidence that philosophy majors score pretty high on the GMAT (for graduate admissions to business school) and on the LSAT (for law school), as well as pretty good on the GRE Verbal and GRE Analytical Writing test

As a philosophy major you should be the first to point out this doesn't imply causation.
Yes, you could have found them just as quick by typing that into a search engine!
This is really cool and would be a great way to introduce programming concepts in an educational setting. Instant-feedback, inline documentation in a narrative style, and running on a browser really lowers the barrier for entry.

I would have loved something like this when I was learning programming in middle-school decades ago.

Since it comes from the guys behind D3 it's not surprising that much of the visuals come from D3. This is really evocative, but it may limit some of the audience for this tool. I would encourage the developers to take some cues from Apple's swift playgrounds and add visuals and sliders for even some of the simpler language constructs like loops and add some "simple" wrapper functions for drawing elementary shapes. This would definitely be a shift from the intended purpose as I see it right now, but it would have the side-benefit of increasing debugability as well.

Great work - look forward to having the occasion to using it.
When is a Set not a Set?
Are you suggesting that IPFS doesn't document the behavior of IPNS?
Only a truly great scientist gets mentioned as contributing to the philosophy of science, or is characterized also as a logician on wikipedia.

That's often because they were pursuing some philosophical riddle which they were more concerned about than the theories that would later become their legacy.

Cantor and Godel wanted to find God, and in their search, provided much of the early work for Turing and computer science to develop.

Einstein similarly wanted to know the mind of God, and in doing so contributed to quantum mechanics and invented relativity.

Bell's explanation of his theorem in a 1985 BBC Radio interview includes an appeal to the debate between free-will and determinism when interpreting his results.

TL;DR — Important scientific and mathematical breakthroughs often come from a deep exploration of metaphysics, epistemology, free-will, and ontological truth.
This isn't an argument with your overall point. But your second sentence isn't quite right: "This is not a drill" is part of the alert message itself. If it is a drill, the instruction to issue the alert is prefaced with "EXERCISE EXERCISE EXERCISE." This is from a thing I read yesterday that I can't find now, so I can't back it up I'm afraid. But you see that it isn't quite as you think.

(The UX of the system we all saw was truly terrible, but this employee had a track record of making similar mistakes.)
I don't think there's anything fundamentally different to F1 when it comes to marshalling, primarily just having similar red/orange/green lights on the roll-hoop to make it clear whether there's any risk in touching the car.
It's pretty short compared to the 238 cities that applied (https://www.seattletimes.com/business/amazon/amazon-refuses-...).
Cheapest I can find for 20+ years us stock market data, was on eBay for $100
And here's a doc covering only the secure network transport: https://github.com/auditdrivencrypto/secret-handshake
I spent a couple of years in Chile in some poorer parts of Santiago and I saw lots of ticks on lots of street dogs. I was outside much of the day and yet I never got a tick. I kind of wonder if the dogs being a plentiful and easy target resulted in the ticks just not trying with humans.
In the NE its largely because of exploding deer & mice populations, 30 years ago they were rare, now its normal to see deer in West Chester & NJ suburbs.

Bring back coyotes.
Google used to fund the FSF[0], not sure why they stopped.

[0]: https://opensource.googleblog.com/2008/03/updates-from-free-...
I actually agree with him. This is what got several US companies get fined in EU. Bribe is not only when you give money or favors to individual, companies do the same.

It is form of legalized corruption. It is not the same as stimulus for development of certain areas.
That depends, are you interested in a particular technology or skill? Please be more specific.
>If peoples from far flung regions had been present in numbers and those people tended to have rank (garrisoned, etc), one would imagine we'd have more bone evidence.

We don't have many human remains from that period. So not really.

>But as portrayed

Portrayed where? Not sure what you mean by this.

>and this celebrated.

Who's celebrating it? I'm confused by your comment.
They should be.

It would be absurd for a city to give an income tax break to a billionaire for moving in (but I will boost the economy by buying lots of stuff and hiring staff to serve me!).

So why is it different for big business?
I wish tabletop video games were more of a thing. I remember a local bowling alley had a version of classic arcade games built into the surface of a small table-style cabinet. The interaction of facing my friend as we played - talking during and between games - always felt a little more personal and board game like than playing console video games (even if next to each other rather than via the internet).
They are. I suspect GP is confused with cryptographic hash functions which are a strict subset.
I can't speak to f1 but in Le Mans and the wec they have had a variety of hybrid systems.

There are indicator lights on the outside of the cars that show the status of the hybrid system. They also have a emergency cutoff switch that is large enough for them to push with a fiberglass pole.

In some cases especially in practice if the car is badly damaged they will send one of the safety and intervention vehicles back to the pits and fetch a crew member from that car with tools to properly safe the hybrid system. I've also seen where the Marshalls will have the driver climb out of the car stand on the side pod and jump clear, then take 4 or 5 bunny hops away from the car.
Introducing Bit's NPM package registry
In this country (the US), your pure worth is what you're able to generate right now.

If it is low or close to 0, you are worthless - refuse to be left for dead, or hope some "church" has pity on you. The state sees you as a negative balance. The federal cares not. They realllly dont want to see money flowing from the state/federal down to the little guy.

My mother in law, until she retired, had to tell elderly on assistance programs , "I'm sorry, but there isn't enough food or money for food this week." BTW, this is in Bloomington, IN. Not exactly a "shithole country".

In reality, not much will or can be done until a massive social upheaval happens. At that junction, then yes we can fix these glaring wrongs. But the entrenched, gerrymandered, low-influence masses are stuck until that comes around. If.
Why am I unhappy? A new study explains Americas unhappiness epidemic
The difference between mathematics and philosophy here is that an undergraduate math degree is considered as the most appropriate training for middle school math educators, whereas there is no obvious career path an undergraduate degree in philosophy leads to.
Ask HN: How do I get into bioinformatics as a CS student?
Dear HN,

I am a 20-year-old university student majoring in computer science and minoring in mathematics with the intent of finding a way to build a career around data science and computational intelligence. Recently, I've started gravitating towards bioinformatics because it seems like the sort of work that appeals to me. I like working on hard problems whose ideal approach isn't well established and the idea of working with data related to the fabric of life itself seems like it motivate me to get out of bed every morning and look forward to what I do every day.

However, I have at best an American-high-school-level of understanding biology. I remember the basics: cell anatomy, the DNA transcription process, basic biochemical pathways, and basic human anatomy. How do I build upon my current knowledge of biology so that I can be a strong contender for a role as a data scientist at a biotech company or at a research lab in the next 5 or so years?

Specifically, I would like to find a job where I can use the latest and greatest in scientific computing techniques to help pathologists and microbiologists.

TL;DR: Got any good bioinformatics books that explain microbiology and pathology for programmers?
Not the same person.

> The head of Hawaii’s emergency management agency has resigned and a state employee who sent out an false alarm of an imminent missile attack has been fired
Those barriers are certainly falling. The campaign to end the live boiling of lobsters and crabs [1] is underway due to our findings that crustaceans can feel pain.

[1] http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-42873644
I think we are not far from each other in what we understand... the issue raised between Beard and Taleb seems to revolve around the meaning of "typical" .

Beard seems to say, "it was possible that it could have happened, here are a few Ethiopians for instance that we know were in Roman Britain, for example".

Taleb seems to say "typical means what is likely to have happened 50% or more of the time; since there was no chance that Roman Britain had 50% of marriages with children that involved Ethiopians/Berbers/etc. thus Beard is very wrong"
Not 'just like'; maybe not at all. This is where we fundamentally disagree.

There's no way to whitewash this president; comparing him to previous disagreeable presidents does a disservice to everybody. The degree to which things are off the rails is absolutely unprecedented in American history.
Malware Exploiting Spectre, Meltdown CPU Flaws Emerges
They follow F1 rules since its hybrid era. There is some battery-state signals, special routines like escaping from car for driver and prohibit of touching car without special gloves.
The most farcical part of Formula E for me will always be the Fan Boost [0]. I almost couldn't believe it when I saw it on TV for the first time. Fans vote for their favourite driver, and that driver then remotely receives a boost to their car. I thought it was a joke.

[0] http://fanboost.fiaformulae.com/
Ok, but then

> It seems strange to make something available without payment and then get mad when people don't pay.

Seems to imply that "get mad" here refers to the fsf getting mad, which was the reason for my comment.
How is incorrectly recalling the name of a company with its competitor cognitive dissonance?
I upvoted you because I want an honest answer from somebody.

It's like if mountain-climbing caused more mountains to rise up above you. This is great if you love climbing mountains but terrible if you actually want to reach the top.

We keep "improving" our languages but very few of us take the time to measure our real productivity.

What is the business value case for not using Elm-lang?

At some point, if we are "doing it right" the total amount of code in the world (modulus copies) should be contracting.
How is this different than Ipython/Jupyter notebooks? Whys everyone freaking out about this.
One question because I respect your position: do you believe that cities should have any tools available to incentivize "preferred" companies to come to the city?

I'm guessing your answer would be it can design its tax code so long as the tax code applies to all comers that meet the agnostic definitions therein.

The problem, however, is that opens up the question as to how fine-grained the definitions can become. It's not very hard to write tax regulations that are so narrow they only apply to one company while still on the surface appearing to be agnostic and naming no company.

IMO, it's a sliding scale of specificity and maybe you're right that there is a line somewhere that shouldn't be crossed, but it's more difficult than you suggest to figure out and describe where that line should be.
There's also the problem that the block size is capped which is maybe what you were referring to?
MySQL too (with InnoDB).
Do you mean they are removing the farcical re-charge?

IE, it was a farce to recharge in the middle of the race in the previous season.
Indeed I am - can you find me a document which describes whether IPNS is or is not currently vulnerable to replay attacks, in which scenarios its assumptions are broken, and/or best practices for handling any shortcomings of IPNS?