skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
brain power
boosted

These are vague terms. The birds seem smarter, however I think this would indicate little more than what can be observed in feral children, as compared to children raised in tribal circumstances or better.

Social exposure leads to imitation and collectivized learning. The innate intellect doesn’t change, but the limitations are expanded, since discovery can be diversified and not everyone needs to be an autodidact across every specialized skill.
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This is often called the Werther Effect. It may be interesting to look at the inverse as well: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18082110 i.e. a policy prohibiting publicizing suicides seems to correlate with a decrease in suicides.
Amazon to deliver Whole Foods groceries in two hours for Prime users
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America had to kill trade deals and accept One China in order to deal with China. So even if they disagree with it, they agree enough to shove Taiwan aside :(
Isn't that putting the cart before the horse?

If the connection were HTTPS they could simply block it or redirect it wherever they want to give the same message. An ISP will always be able to MITM the connection.
Is there a good reason to require https for localhost?
I still think 2% cash yield is reasonable. Say 5% gross, 2% to inflation, and 1% (1/3 of the remainder) to taxes. Leaves 2% to spend.
Why would you only have 2% yield?
It's not important at all for most people. How many times have you been MITM'd? I'll tell you about me: zero. Nobody cares enough about me to do that.

You know what people get bitten by? Hacked servers where the whole website is under a phisher's control or malicious website which downloads malware to your machine or sells your data (eg, Google, Facebook).

Maybe my knowledge is lacking, so please tell me what those 4 things are that you're being so elusive about. I suspect they are also as unlikely as MITM.
This is a very good point and I agree. We are actually in a 300M year low as far as CO2 goes. The rise in CO2 is arguably not even a negative thing.
Sorry I don't agree. The situation was one of the HOA's own making. The tax collector didn't make the mistake, the HOA did. That's how life works for most people. There are consequences for making mistakes.

Also, with regard to there being "no warning". Why wouldn't there be an assumption by the HOA that they owed taxes even though they weren't receiving a bill?
I've seen the robotically controlled Lockheed Martin laser that is meant to be able to take on drone swarms which is very similar to what you are talking about.

The question to me is how do you defend civilian targets like universities, city halls and malls? You can't build military style defences around these targets and the budget is going to be pretty low. Also you need a exceptionally low response time since the drones can deploy and kill in seconds.
I really don’t like this attempt to seek donations for open source projects.

As an employee I don’t want to donate my wage for tools I need for work. I would pay for a certification that demonstrates my knowledge.

As a business owner, I can’t donate to something without a clear business case. I can pay for certification because I can use that for promotion and as I recently found out having employees certified can reduce insurance costs.

Open-source needs to learn how to work with business if it wants to not have to beg for donations. But I think a lot of the people who run open-source projects enjoy the piety that comes with begging for their noble projects survival.
Just think about it logically - people live all over the world. In all sorts of climates. How can it even be possible that a native Hawaiian would have the same diet as an Inuit? The tundra of northern British Columbia has far less vegetation available to eat and larger animals. That's a diet totally different from the Japanese, or the Indians, or the Greeks.

The only thing that is true is that we have evolved to handle a diversity of flora and fauna, that is why we are classified as omnivores. And each sub population has further been accustomed to tolerate higher quantities of the foods native to those lands.
How the Government Controls Sensitive Satellite Data
I'm pretty sure we have that thing here too.
I'm a guy starting my own deep learning startup in my living room. I'm not associated with a university, and I barely make enough money to live off of. There's numerous papers that are relevant to what I'm working on, and at $30 a pop, that adds up quickly. Furthermore, the abstract for a paper is sometimes so vague that you don't know if it is relevant until you read half way through it.

Also, I am diabetic. Pretty much everything in pop science says to eat complex carbs, and avoid fats and simple sugars. There are a number of papers that talk about the benefits of a low carb and high fat diet, but they're behind a paywall.

So it's more than just a small specialist community that consumes scientific literature.
You can ‘tumble’ bitcoins to obfuscate the true source and destination walets
Since you used "we" and are on HN should I assume a typo?

You probably meant "how do we stop building it?" Which is a bit of an easy question, just stop building surveillance systems.

The hard part is how do we, as hackers, accept that most of our fellows will gladly do this for pay. Because it was fun to pretend they cared and be part of the subculture, but they never actually did.
I need enough money to support myself and have influence while working on things society will not pay me for yet will benefit them all long term.
I suspect politicians in Europe are less dependent on private contributions.
Whatever you want to put on the enemy drone, you’ll want to get it there fast, to prevent the drone from making evasive maneuvres. For a fixed reaction time of the drone, speedier delivery also means you can attack from larger range.

I think that arms race will rather quickly lead to the use of very fast moving objects that don’t slow down much due to air resistance (i.e. bullets or missiles)
The parent comment’s question posed it as why CHINA cares so much about Taiwan. So the point still stands.

I also challenge you on whether there’s de-facto recognition of Taiwan. Diplomatic contacts are limited, and there’s no formal US embassy in Taiwan. Taiwan doesn’t get a vote in any UN body.
By the time it goes to auction it's already been foreclosed on.
Your argument seems to be that because there are multiple ways to exploit people that closing any of those methods is not useful. I shouldn't have to explain why this is not a meaningful argument.

What I will say is that in many cases an attacker is far more capable of MITM than they are of posting forum comments, or otherwise convincing you to click a link. A phishing campaign is noisy - you are often alerting many parties that you're malicious. MITM within a network is much stealthier and you don't have to rely on users clicking on anything.

Really, they're just completely different attacks and the existence of one has no bearing on the other. TLS on every page would close off real attacks and, if it forced attackers to use noisy methods like phishing, that's a huge win.
While that is technically true, most people nowadays use them interchangeably especially because Reason is focusing so much on its web story, so I wouldn't expect people to make this distinction very often.
I wonder if academic papers are usually dense and non-accessible because they are not opened up to the public. Perhaps more effort should be made on the part of the academic to make their findings more accessible without compromising on the science. And this is coming from an ex-academic who have published dense and non-accessible papers.
Then you just flick the S3 switch "force https" and forget about it.
Maybe one day they'll all implement https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7710
the cc company still has reserves, and that ties back to the central bank.
>One of the arguments is that companies that are too large stifle innovation.

They might, but is "innovation" something that should be enforced by law? Do companies have a right to expect equal access to a market regardless of the successes or advantages of their competitors?
There is a realist argument and the argument that wins support.

Realistically, most people won't touch scientific papers. You might get a few people who can wrangle up incredible things from them, but those people would have succeeded in any environment. Most research will continue to be done at major institutions like companies and universities.

But that appeal to the heart is a winning argument, and it's not wrong. Open access in the end is a good thing, even if the arguments for it are stretched, and they are stretched. I don't trust a lot of my own colleagues to bulletproof their papers (get in a graduate course, you'll see how many holes are in most research), the general public with no scientific training is at best limited and at worst dangerous.

It is a natural step, though. Your's won't be a popular question (do we really have to downvote the guy for asking a question, even if you don't like that question?), but it's a good one.
I would worry about spraying rapidly hardening foam in a room filled with people (not sure if you can breath under it, nevermind how you get people out).

String polymer sounds like it could work, my only concern would be if you could design prop guards for the drones such that they filter the air (very coarsely) and don't allow any objects to touch the props.
Agreed. But the hard problem is "How do you sell tech workers on labor organization being necessary".

The whole culture depends on pampering and aggrandizing tech workers as individual heroes for whom collective action would only hold them back. You have to overthrow the entire mainstream worldview about employment in tech before you can get a foothold on that front.
The walls need to get thicker indeed, and that extra thickness gradually adds to the weight of the engine faster than adding extra small engines for the same thrust = less and less payload
The CFPB was doing its job until Director Cordray resigned and Trump appointed Mulvaney to be Acting Director. There is even a pending lawsuit about it: https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2017/11/28/judg...
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FFS, this is not politics.

Or rather it is, but it's politics both parties in the US system are in complete agreement over. Putting this down to a Democrat/Republican split is asinine, ignorant and counter productive. Never forget it was an Obama appointee that drove Aaron Swartz to suicide for doing much less than Alexandra Elbakyan.

There is a reason why sci-hub is run by a neo-communist.
"Publishing powerhouses like Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences have estimated its internal cost per-article to be around $3,700. Nature, meanwhile, says that each article sets it back around $30,000 to $40,000"

I work in book publishing, not journals, so I may be missing something in Nature's internal structure, but that seems like a lot to spend on one article. As in I think we spend less than that to do a whole book.
There aren't enough of these stores to impact any major metro area. Aldi tends to have more storefronts and their impact hasn't been that great. What did smack the old school grocers was when Wal Mart got into the business years ago and to a point Target.

example, there less than ten Whole Foods stores in Metropolitan Atlanta. There are probably that many competing grocery chains in the same area, with sixty plus of each of the larger ones.
Not entirely sure how that relates to OP but interesting read anyway.
An e-commerce site, glossy UIs, friend connector, and a searching utility...honestly our tech "giants" are just the the last guys standing from the Internet boom of the nineties
Will this happen? in a paper about path dependence or international relations, you don't have space to make your argument understandable to people who don't know the basics of the field. As it is, a lot of papers take serious trimming to get into publication.

Many arguments that have wide appeal do end up published as books. no disagreement on your goal, but is it something realistic for much academic work?
You can obviously believe whatever you want, but if you think that the consequences of failing to properly file a change of address form and then forgetting about a $14 annual bill should be that dire, that's pretty extreme.

What do you think the penalty for littering should be? The death penalty?
I am wondering if insurance companies would be interested to pay for this as well.

For surgeries that need pre-authorization from the insurance, the insurance has enough information about the upcoming surgery to use your services and prevent avoidable complications. (Insurance companies don't like to pay for avoidable complications!)
A small static site I operate recently got HTTPS with zero action on my part. My hosting provider just did it of their own initiative and notified me that it was now done. I suppose they're going to do whatever ongoing maintenance it requires.
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Could some kind of coarse powder foul up the props?
Space and Time in Loop Quantum Gravity
It's interesting how Elbakyan generally receives only praise in discussions like this. Do no supporters of capitalism want to denounce this self-styled communist and complain about the harm done to the profits of law-abiding businesses like Elsevier?
I browse a popular gaming forum that has not implemented HTTPS. Chatting with the admin, the reason is simple: Ads.

We can definitely blame the ad networks. Some have switched, but many won't work on https, and websites relying on ad revenue must stay with HTTP or make less money with HTTPS-friendly ad networks.
Seems like a positive feedback loop would be the most likely explanation if a correlation does exist.
Ask HN: Are Square's marketing emails legal?
For a long time I've been annoyed by emails from Square (including unsolicited receipt emails) but I wonder now if they are even legal. Case-in-point, a marketing email I just received from a restaurant I visited once some time ago.

By what process did I opt-in to this? Is there fine print hidden somewhere in every Square kiosk that you adopt simply by allowing a merchant to swipe your card? Did I unknowingly opt-in to these marketing emails?

Square's website is of little help. In the spam email I received, I followed a link near the bottom next to the unsubscribe link that said "Manage Preferences." There is a link on the page with the text "learn more about marketing," which merely takes me to some other page called "Redeem your Square rewards." Is there even a copy of whatever I may or may not have agreed to posted on their website? I can't find any such thing in the "Legal" section of the site.
Because adults today are increasingly infantilized.
I don't think reddit does a good job of dealing with academic subjects or discussions either. Any /r/{academic_topic} is usually filled with undergraduate-level discussion. I think that is a direct consequence of reddit being an insta-community though - it prevents the development of actual-expert communities.

There are some good expert communities like /r/askhistorians, and their model certainly works for something like history, but I don't think the same format would really work for something like machine learning or mathematics.
Tommy Tutone doesn't follow your guideline:

> Eight-six-seven-five-three-oh-nine
Grounding common sense and philosophical ideas of space and time in current physical theory. Most of the discussion makes sense across a broad range of theories, it is not limited to just loop quantum gravity. Impressively readable.
I'm for the Northwestern Ontario, or as we think of it as the "truth north"

up and down are directions. Also we say pack sack instead of back pack.
Q9. How did you discover this problem?
Lenovo has received three customer reports worldwide of
overheating which resulted in damage to the PC. Lenovo has
received no reports of damage to persons or property, other
than to the laptop PCs.

There is something missing here. Three people reported that their machines overheated and Lenovo went all-in on a lab investigation and CPSC recall?
You understand nothing about how the Federal Reserve truly works.
I have dnsmasq running internally and my regular Netgear router gives out the IP of that internal host as the dns resolver. Local hosts are given subdomain names for a domain I control (pi3.example.com camera.example.com seedbox.example.com etc) and resolve to an internal IP. These domains resolve, on the public internet, to the one publically-accessable host in my network. That machine runs certbot and gets the cert. It then rsyncs the certs to the internal machines every renewal.
Going to the extreme and eating only meat is a bit bonkers.

The main problem with our diet and what causes the most disease and death are carbs and sugar.

Take a look at this regarding nutrients and plants http://www.zoeharcombe.com/2014/04/the-perfect-five-a-day/

I have been researching all sides of this for 6 months now for a doc http://foodlies.org so I'm very familiar with a ll the arguments and studies on both sides.
This is such a good way of putting it, and despite having watched every episode two or three times, I had never quite thought of it this way. I think this is best captured by the moment (which I think about all the time) is when George gets so mad at the person hogging the phone at a Chinese restaurant and yells, "you know we're living in a SOCIETY!". After reading your comment, I realize that complaint could be applied to most of the story lines in the show.
> Universities make so much money nowadays

It might be true in some countries but that's certainly not the case everywhere.
Agree, Lego’s Serious Play is a great set of ‘starter toolkits’ for prototyping and design thinking sessions.

Somewhat pricey (as all Lego is), but worth it for many scenarios IMHO.
I'm sure someone can correct me if I am wrong, but I think countering EMPs wouldn't be that difficult of a task.

Commercial electronics designers have been designing around EMI for decades now. Is it that hard to imagine that actors would put in the effort to shield their devices? A Faraday cage around the electronics would go a long way towards eliminating the effects of an EMP.

Even if you couldn't stop the EMP from knocking systems out, you could design them to come back online very quickly, making the EMP a rather expensive temporary measure.

For home-made drones it might be effective, but those drones are cheap, and the attackers could always launch more. I just don't see EMPs as posing a real threat to any military.

Am I off in my estimation?
The theory that non-capitalist societies can have thriving long-lasting economies that produce new innovations and lift their people up is pretty questionable so far.

I can't think of a single example where there's not at least a core nugget of capitalist incentives driving things.

Sure, let's layer on some socialist policies, I'm all in favor of turning that dial quite a bit further, but that's turning a dial, not blowing up the whole machine because it's not working quite as well as we'd like it to.
Raised in LA and so was my mother, but she would say "back east". I always took it in a historical sense.
Globally, that might not be a bad thing. The 20th Century has many examples of genocide and mass murder committed by armed State- or State-backed actors against their own population.

Democratizing a means of preventing that might help prevent similar atrocities in the 21st Century.

A second amendment for the 3D printed drone age, if you will.
Those numbers can't be right, honestly.

Bjoern Brembs has been writing a lot about open access publishing and the costs associated, here he cites a few numbers:

>There is ample material on how much the publication of a scholarly open-access article costs. SciELO publishes for under US$100 per article. SciELO, however, publishes largely in regions of the world where labor and other associated costs are comparatively low. How much costs do other organizations cite? The Open Library of Humanities is on the record with about US$500, Ubiquity, Hindawi and PeerJ are also on record within the US$100-500 range and Scholastica, RIO Journal, Science Open, F1000Research or arpha mention similar figures. Thus, there are now about ten different companies or organizations which all agree that open access publishing costs about US$100-500 and Independent analysts agree: it is established that the actual costs of publishing a scholarly article are in the low hundreds of US$.

Note that he focuses on open access articles, not closed access + open access articles, but I can't think of a reason why closed access would cost more.

http://bjoern.brembs.net/2017/11/is-a-cost-neutral-transitio...
I agree. All meat is too extreme... What makes low carb diets great is that they exclude grains and sugar which are the real problem.
In the former case, granted. In the latter, you could also use powdered magnets, some form of self-adhering powder, etc. the basic idea of attacking rotors should be hard to defend against.
What is the modern simple and cheap way to set up a static HTTPS site with a custom domain? With HTTP this was doable with S3 for pennies a month; is S3+CloudFlare now the current price leader?
Europe has wider variation in political corruption (less corrupt in Germany, more corrupt in Romania). Whereas US politicians always seem to be moderately corrupt, wherever they come from.
Law-abiding is by no means synonymous with good, or even neutral in a moral sense. Obligatory reposting of old HN content (especially under the section "Is Elsevier really so evil?"): "Why I still won’t review for or publish with Elsevier–and think you shouldn’t either" http://www.talyarkoni.org/blog/2016/12/12/why-i-still-wont-r...

I'm also discovering that law-abiding is as much a reputation as a technicality. Companies get away with breaking the law all the time. They just aren't universally or publicly punished for it.
You can import into the User CA store, not into the system CA store.

Since 8.0 these are separate, apps have to explicitly opt in to using user CA certs as well.

For example, Google's News app doesn't, and as result you can't ad block on the articles it shows.
The point is you dont have business data yet, you need to create it ... using business logic. All the data is in sql but for some reason you dont store value x (probably an aggregate of sorts) and sql environment doesnt have a good generalized syntax for logic.

I think the problem is maintenance instead of performance. When you really want performance (in data reads) youll be precomputing and storing the values. Then your report can filter and be indexed properly.

I dont think that any tech solution will give you fast reads and fast writes you need to pick one.

Your server probably has alot of down time ... use it , make a cron job and make a seperate reporting table ... reporting on raw data does not scale , window functions do not scale

Using window functions is equivalent to using a better cpu. Maybe the environment you work in is faster but you have not factored the logic to make the best use of the resources.

You can take a crap approach in java and port it to sql. But the approach is crap and you should create a seperate reporting process or at least use hadoop.
As a California native, I say "back east" with the same connotation as a farmer saying "the back 40" -- somewhere annoying to get to and somewhat overgrown.
Are you proposing that Chrome drop the security warning if it detects that the user is visiting a site that only has cat videos or blog posts on? Do you realise that people have been arrested for writing blog posts?
Depends on how much protein she's consuming. If she consumes too much protein, she'll no longer be on ketogenesis. It doesn't say in the article how much fat she's consuming vs protein, but judging by her saying she's mainly eating meat, I don't think she's on ketogensis.