skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A problem with having your police look like a miltary occupation force is that people who oppose the police (for political and other reasons) will treat them like that.

That and it separates them from the community they are supposed to serve, that's why I hate it when I see police call members of the public civilians, police are civilians.

Robert Peel understood this nearly 200 years ago.
> MIT's Pirate Certificate became available in the Fall of 2011.

Officially, yes, but as far as I know, it has existed there for much longer.
Blotter.js: A JavaScript API for drawing unconventional text effects on the web
Other than the people at the top laundering money, I don't see how anyone could get tricked into putting any money into this.
>They make logistics for us a 1000 times easier. In 3 clicks I can get items ordered that we need and not have to worry about it. (Need a new storage rack? BAM! Be here on Tuesday? We need a new printer ribbon? Phone camera + Amazon app = I have the exact one I need to replace.)

There's a balance between convenience and being subservient l or redundant to them long term.

People have found that the convenient (no pun intended) store that sold everything at nice prices also ended up killing local businesses, and eventually their own livelihood, even if not related to retail.

Not to mention the power the private interests behind those stores get in the country's politics or even globally.
Progress (https://www.progress.com/) is behind NativeScript, and officially supports the two usual NativeScript stacks (plain JavaScript/Typescript & Angular). NativeScript + Vue is a community driven project that seems to be on its way to also being officially supported by Progress.
Yeah, they might not have made that investment in Apple in 1997 -- where would they be today with no Apple?
>I think we have to see the bigger picture. Growth, momentum, and investments should be a good thing.

Why? As a an a-priori assertion?
To me the real problem isn't the size of Amazon's business, but rather the nature of it.

Amazon is both the owner of the most successful and widely used marketplace, as well as a competitor of the merchants in that marketplace.

Having access to all of the transactional and user data, Amazon has an unarguable advantage over the rest of the merchants in it's market. They can beat anyone on price, placement, or delivery speed.

Barrier to entry into running a competitor market is effectively controlled by network effect. Simply running a competent customer service system and keeping prices within a certain range close to lowest provides an effective license to eternal profit.

Adding competing products when successful volumes are proven by their merchants gives them a very effective way to widen that profit on demand at the expense of their merchants and ultimately to the detriment of their customers who wind up paying more with less available selection.
Is the correlation between mild autism and successful computer programming completely irrelevant coincidence?
Credit Bubble Bulletin: Permanent Market Support Operations
And then fall in the Reuleaux triangle rabbit hole.
Semi-related question: Assuming I drafted up a software license with generally permissive terms (freedom to use, modify, sell, etc.), but included some perverse clause that would forbid forking (such as only allowing the software to be distributed from the canonical repository on my profile), would I have legal grounds to request repository removal from GitHub if someone pressed the repo's fork button?
The one thing about this topic more infuriating than America's draconian and absurd intellectual "property" law is the vigour with which they force it upon the rest of the world.

This is an area where China is clearly the freer country.
Does it support OStatus?
What's worth more, time or money?
Out of 100 visitors, 90 will passively look. 9 will participate (commenting/discussing). 1 will create (post).

These are very general numbers of course and really depends on the actual service, but it’s a good rule of thumb to follow.
Every day I'm further convinced that all that's happening in this space at the moment is that cryptocurrencies are soaking up enough fiat money to push it at someone to come up with a good reason for them to exist.
> I'll brush off your sneer at my perceived lack of ability.

This is an admirable sentiment. Thank you for making HN a better place.

> But everything comes at a cost that has to be weighted against the corresponding benefit, and the apparent benefit (to management) in this case is near-zero

Software can have virtues that do not present short-term benefits, but instead contribute to a wholesome UX, even to captive users. It is the responsibility of the software developer to make these hard calls and stick to their guns in the face of management pressure.
Is this paper published yet? The `Article` link doesn't go anywhere, and Google Scholar doesn't know where to find a copy.
Show HN: Cookiebro – Advanced Cookie Manager
Did someone say this applied only to US?
Eat less meat.

Meat production uses more resources (land, water, energy) than plant based food production. It also contributes to global warming, as well as other kinds of environmental pollution.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmental_vegetarianism
So management decisions don't need any scientific backing, but criticisms of management must be PhD quality or GTFO?
I'm writing a swarm-based system that's experimenting on a bunch of different algorithms for trading. However, I'm currently building upon a modified [Quadratic Voting][1] mechanism as a means of communicating success/fitness and influencing other peers beyond pure algorithmic trading.

[1]: https://www.sss.ias.edu/files/pdfs/Rodrik/workshop%2014-15/W...
Real relationships can’t be purely online: Disagree.

An app that introduces two people and says “Be friends you two!” can’t be the answer: Agree.
For a biased answer, look at per-capita health care costs versus life expectancy for different countries. One problem is that cost is driven up and down by a variety of other factors as well.

And then, any country's life expectancy is based on a mixture of causes, e.g., I've read that it's declining in the US due to things like the opioid epidemic, suicide, and so forth.
Sounds like safety rather than freedom.
IIRC their brain chemistry is more similar to ours than most other animals.

They do simulations and petri dish testing as well, what would a better method look like?
Aren't text posts with links penalized?
I really appreciate this comment. I was trying to figure out why I wouldn't use native data types and functions, but this makes it clear.

In your opinion, where would someone be storing the json such that they'd benefit from a tool like this? The only time I use json outside of pulling it from an API (where I can convert it to a native object) is probably storing it in postgres, where I've already got json querying tools.
Not sure why downvoted, but this basically allows you to redefine (within limits) the behavior of opcodes after you have shipped the CPU. I thought that was relevant.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microcode
Cleaning sprays have an impact on lung health comparable to cigarettes
The problem is that there isn't am aging process. There's a bunch of changes that happen to you over time, all of which people think of as "aging."
No you're right, he didn't address harass a single coworker. Instead he harassed all of the women he work with at the same time. Just because he didn't name names doesn't mean it's not harassment; he deliberately insulted an entire demographic of people, and then tried to pretend it was "scientific" when it was just a load of bullshit, as if that makes it any better.

If his memo was railing against, say, the Irish, would you still think he wasn't harassing any of his Irish colleagues?

> any female

Now I understand. Go back to redpill please.
Exactly. You can even have your own formulae for 3rd order polynomial interpolating curve (no need to go through the "original" formulae)
Editorialized clickbait from the HN user, that is. The original is just fine.
Two points:

1. Apple would be forbidden to subsidize unrelated unprofitable businesses for too long.

2. Developing a feature of an existing business is okay under my proposal (so iPhone upending P&S cameras is okay because camera is just a feature of iPhone and hence not completely unrelated business).
author never said "it is not a bubble". he said "the story is mostly wrong".
I'm frustrated that is patentable
Its a protestantic thing. If you have sinned, as in you couldnt keep your behaviour under controll- you must suffer and punish for your sin and repent.

Its the same thing that creeps into every drug discussion. Its one of those caddisfly larva conglomerates, where people glue lots of pseudo science onto theire "feel-good" opinions instead of really trying to solve the issue with realistic solutions.

You could sell the realistic solution to these individuals by telling how much the "sinners" suffer after the operation and how heartily they regret taking the left hand path.
Was correcting several statements that mobile devices aren’t computers. Lots of “computer knowledge” had to be aquired in the 90s due to the poor design of wintel boxes.
Hydrogen has hard risks, and high costs. Density. Corrosion. Tunneling/leaking. A new trillion-dollar distribution infrastructure to replace the fluid-version we use for petrol.

What about methanol? We can convert hydrogen to hydrocarbon. Liquid is dense, much less dangerous, less acidic, less leaky, and our current trillion-dollar infrastructure already uses it as a substantial additive.
“or regulated” covers modern democracies fine.
On many trails in western USA, horseback comes first because you can't really trust another person's horse not to do something harmful.
Still, the US is not too bad. It's ranked #17 out of 159 for the Human Freedom Index:

https://object.cato.org/sites/cato.org/files/human-freedom-i...
I wonder if it can be used to treat tinnitus.
I was pulling in 100K (base pay) as a tradesman, granted I was an operator, but it is still considered a "trades" position. Also, a college degree is not required in order to land most power plant/transmission/distribution system operator positions. Hell, you have nuclear power plant reactor operators making > 175k/yr and they don't have any degree whatsoever.
Nah we need them for cross platform. But yes, learn Swift and Kotlin anyway!
Yes, when you created a GH account, you read and accepted the TOS, which enforce your project must be forkable.
I bet they receive these “desire to kill” warnings daily
But offering heat / AC / lights is not unrelated - it is a related feature of existing B&M businesses. As I said in a reply to your sibling comment, related businesses or legit accessories to your business should be okay (so an airline offering free luggage is fine; search engine subsidizing browser or mobile OS is not).
Well the US is no longer part of the tpp.... In the counterfactual world where tpp is signed by the American president I think it would have quite potent

https://www.google.com/amp/foreignpolicy.com/2015/10/07/chin...
If they did arrest on that basis everyone would be complaining about pre-crime
We know ketamine is relatively safe for humans from the recreational use.
> If Amazon becomes abusive, the US Government will still be able to take them.

I agree that we shouldn't preemptively act, that "but what if they attack us first" mentality, but I contest the accuracy of that statement.

Amazon has the resources to entrench themselves into the political system and are surely already doing so in ways we cannot yet see.
drop https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=lt-zvsGvtqg
So, a letter of marque and reprisal
It’s a mvp wget clone.
Ah, thanks, that's not obvious from the original article. Or from Paypal, either, to me. Very obnoxious, that.
I don’t know what kind of jet Thiel uses, but SNA should be plenty big; I doubt proximity to a larger airport is part of his equation.
Don't know where this is coming from because in my experience developing for the web is much easier. There is tons of up to date documentation out there.

Whereas developing Mac apps seems to rely on a set of arcane knowledge and having been in the scene for years. The documentation for AppKit is vastly outdated and there is almost no blogging/tutorials scene so as a newbie you are basically going to be going through a lot of trial and error.

And then most of the documentation you will find is in ObjC while everyone around you is telling you to develop in Swift, but then Swift changes every few months. You open up a project from a few months ago, it doesn't compile anymore, and you basically have to work at Apple or be a dev god to fix it.

So.... native is easier to develop for? No way.
I covered that as well - startups should be allowed to subsidize their operations only for a reasonable length of time and/or until their market share is below a certain threshold. (So Uber should be allowed to operate in a market without profits until they serve, say, less than 8% of taxi rides).
> Providers would not be free to provide Healthcare in their terms. They would be forced to provide it in methods approved by the government.

I know the "free market" argument is that the providers would innovate etc. but in reality they would just jack up prices where possible. Healthcare shouldn't be for profit, just like prisons, it only encourages bad incentives.
And?

People don't wait until they stink to put deodorant on, they put it on in the morning after a shower when they don't smell to prevent odors later on. Even if "prevent" means "covering them up with fragrance"
It is considered to be somewhere between very technically challenging and actually impossible to significantly increase life span without making people healthier. Without fixing the underlying damage that results in raised mortality with aging.

The medicine of the past few decades has really aimed at doing just this, however, extending life without fixing the underlying problems. It is the heroic model of medicine, throw everything at the symptoms rather than the cause: compensating or patching over the problems, tinkering with metabolism, intervening in consequences or secondary contributing factors, but never going near the root causes.

It has been expensive. It has eked out only marginal, incremental gains. It is a history of failure dotted with the occasional hard-won success. It has conditioned people to think that this model is the only way forward. It is wrong, bad, and the research and development community need to adopt a better way forward.

I think that when senolytic therapies to clear senescent cells become more widely used, that will be a pleasant surprise - to find a pharmaceutical approach to age-related conditions that improves the situation for near all individuals and pathologies of aging, cost-effectively. It reduces inflammation, partially resolves loss of regenerative capacity, turns back atherosclerosis, restores loss of tissue elasticity to some degree, effectively treats osteoarthritis, clears out many forms of bad immune cell, removes a contributing cause of Parkinson's disease, and so for for a much longer list. The reason it will be so much better is that it targets a root cause of aging, a form of damage, and directly repairs at least some of it (25-50% in some tissues for some of the approaches).

One of the candidate therapies, dasatinib/quercetin, costs ~ $30-100 / dose. Take it once every few years.

I think it very hard to argue that this is going to cost the world money. The reason why present strategies have poor results is because they are terrible at achieving their goals. They have tiny effects. Do better, and the picture changes.
What could have changed if they did follow up?

As I understand it, he did nothing illegal until he took his first shot. How would the FBI know when someone goes from posting threats on Youtube to an actual shooter? Go to YouTube/FB/IG/any forum and you'll see millions of threats, 99.999% of them don't ever result in a bad outcome.

Additionally, how many tips come in? How many do they follow up with and how many turn out to be nothing?

I think the FBI has a tough job trying to decipher what is a real threat and what is just talk, and I'm not sure how they tell the difference. Is it threat + owning gun + militia involvement = mass shooter? If so, how do you stop him other than following him 24/7?
Sorry I meant cubic, control points can just be points of the original curve with a catmull rom spline.

So an easy method is just to remove the point with the minimal error contribution and iterate until a given threshold.

But the cost is too high for large curves.
I would still consider them carbon neutral, if the kiosks want to be carbon neutral that is their responsibility. By your logic essentially no service or company can be carbon neutral because their customers are not.
I can't really speak for large scale corruption, but small scale corruption and "bending the rules" is pretty much the only way anything gets done around here..
I agree that it would be a chaotic process to begin with. But since it reflects real life which is itself chaotic and messy, I won't be surprised (just like, say, tax laws).

What I object to is the behavior of private entities to use their resources to subsidize their products/services and capture new markets.
How not to hack the growth of your Blockchain company before your ICO
Labor Board Found Google Was Within Its Rights to Fire James Damore
Yes, but the discounted present value of that tulip's reproductive capacity into the future is much more justifiable to value so highly. It turned out not to be a good investment, but that doesn't make it irrational. Had a moderately good tulip market persisted, it may have justified paying such a high price for uniquely high quality bulbs, because you could turn them into a productive asset by breeding them.
It seems that Microblog is a mixture of Feeds and the Indieweb, namely the Micropub API which originated there:
http://help.micro.blog/2017/api-posting/

Btw: Isn't ActivityPub the new OStatus?
In your company, how much better merit-wise must a white/asian/male applicant be to get hired? Fifty percent better? My gut-feeling is that these well-intentioned policies don't weed out the upper echelons of the "over-represented" groups anyway - they'll just use position/elite network to get in the door. Instead, the policy weeds out the "working class" applicants who must rely on merit, but who have the wrong skin color.
So you did a controlled test where you used just water one day, a sponge/washcloth another day, and a stone another day and had blinded judges to smell you throughout the day?
That and the certificate.
Linux, of course.
> If it's not the same procedure (IV) with a compound that is pure you might not be getting any of the benefits.

At the same time since insurance doesn't cover this the only real option for people who don't have that kind of money (myself included) is black market self-administration or more traditional therapies which may not be as effective.
Vision therapy is only endorsed by mainstream optometry and insurance companies when glasses don't work, but it has helped some people. You may want to learn more about the approach you've accidentally discovered.

Neuroplasticity: http://www.allaboutvision.com/parents/vision_therapy.htm

Undercorrection: https://gettingstronger.org/2016/03/faq-for-vision-improveme...
Interesting, thank you!

Relevant excerpt:

> If you set your pages and repositories to be viewed publicly, you grant each User of GitHub a nonexclusive, worldwide license to use, display, and perform Your Content through the GitHub Service and to reproduce Your Content solely on GitHub as permitted through GitHub's functionality (for example, through forking).

For those interested, GitHub's entire TOS is written in a very approachable way.

https://help.github.com/articles/github-terms-of-service/
Port to Golang using stdlib:

https://play.golang.org/p/vXTpR9IjBxV
Given that someone sabotaged a turbine in a Belgian nuclear power plant a couple of years ago, I'm guessing the security isn't exactly top-notch. I've subcontracted for various Belgian government agencies (as a software engineer), and I've been less than impressed by their security practices...

I'm not saying ehealth is broken by design, but I won't be surprised if it turns out to be broken into a couple of years from now.
Why on earth did they call it a pirate certificate and not a pirate's license?
Isn't the whole point of protests to make it inconvenient for the more powerful to ignore the needs of the less powerful?
Why is California so fascinated on agriculture which is extremely water intensive? Coffee is up there with Almonds as far as I understand the situation.
What Silicon Valley steals from pirates
How much time do you spend on the computer each day? Are you wearing your full-strength distance glasses when using the computer?
It is disingenuous to plug your own library with a click bait title and no indication that you are the author.
The better question is why are more states not so fascinated with agriculture?
"There are only two FreeBSD filesystems that are really useable: UFS2 and ZFS."

Keep in mind that the intense proliferation of different filesystems on Linux is the rare exception. On Windows, you get FAT, NTFS and ReFS, but nobody uses ReFS, and FAT is mostly for USB drives, SD cards and such.

On macOS, the situation is not that much different: They have HFS+, more recently APFS, and they support FAT so you can use USB drives and such.

In practice is not much of a problem. Especially when one of your two options is ZFS. ;-)
> Why then do so many people become convinced, anecdotally, that glasses have made their eyesight worse?

It's so surprising to me that people never consider their in experience and wondering. The first time wearing the correct prescription is amazingly clear. The first time taking them off makes vision much worse than before trying the glasses. Of course it's natural to question if the latter is 'being caused'. That of course is only a feeling or hypothesis, so the more results like this we have the better.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/11/16/leonardo-da-vinci...

this counts as many many homes, and no one seems to flinch.

we don't know who bought 5,000 guilder tulip, but we can assume that he could afford it.

_Is this evidence of absence, or absence of evidence?_

author spent a long time in archives studying this particular subject. this is evidence of absence.

in any case, even at inflated prices, buyers were getting something they could touch. what buyers of $1,450 Amazon share are getting - is totally unclear. no voting rights, no dividends, nothing. one helluva value.
Might also be worth pointing out that Micropub is a W3C Recommendation [1], and I think MicroPub and ActivityPub are meant to work together [2].

[1] https://www.w3.org/TR/micropub/

[2] https://www.w3.org/blog/news/archives/5286
Those titles suck. Next week I post my 'Wget in 2 lines of Bash code':

#!/usr/bin/env bash
curl "${@:2}"

I mean, if you use a lib it is no wonder you have a low line count and the result is in fact as much Wget as curl is wget (probably even less).

How about 'Tutorial: HTTP Client in C with libdill'?
I knew someone would bring up letters of marque but that's not really piracy is it? Especially not in the popular conception of pirates and piracy.

And Google defines a letter of marque as:

"a license to fit out an armed vessel and use it in the capture of enemy merchant shipping and to commit acts that would otherwise have constituted piracy."

Sounds like actions taken with letters of marque are perhaps specifically not piracy.
Aha....

So basically I've actually been washing with "bath bars/liquids/detergents" instead of actual soap.. uhmmm

I usually read the ingredients on pretty much everything I buy, but I always thought "lauryl sulphate*" stuff and palmitate oil and others where just industrial versions of fatty acids in regular soap...I guess I was wrong.