skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
btw Telegram is down also in many regions

EDIT: there is speculation it's Chinese DDoS since today is day 1 of the first session of China's 13th National People's Congress? The very Congress meeting that is going to remove Xi's 2 term limit (dictator for life).
>Why does he get a free pass on this?)

Why should I care?
The guy is an absolute legend.
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Why is that surprising? The idea of not owning the code you wrote isn't exactly cherished in hacker culture. People may half-heartedly accept that what he did was wrong, but they will be far from feeling outraged about it.
What is Facebook's end game here, I don't get it. GDPR is around the corner, it certainly won't fly under GDPR so why the jurisdiction argument even, the days for tracking people without consent is numbered - a rational organization would realize this.

I would think just say ok we stop doing it because we're going to have to stop doing it anyway. But they're not stopping, what is the plan?!?
"I am talking about 46.5 hours of 100 percent concentration. It could have changed your life."

This is nuts, an hour or so per day of low-quality time in the evening after doing a full days work and various chores, gym etc will never be 100% concentration. The only way it's going to change your life is to burn you out.

There are marginally more productive things you could be doing that don't require too much energy, say reading a business book, but do that for a month of evenings and see how you feel, I guarantee it wont be better.
This sounds serious. How many people have been accused of being Nazi supporters in this way?
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There is fairly good moral consensus that nazis are bad so it's probably not wrong to say "Nazis are bad" in most contexts.

But, IMO, morality and ethics are subjective, so for a minority of people who don't share this consensus, yes, nazis aren't bad.

An alien race that has constructed a feudal slave society might not object to concentration camps at all. They might love the idea.

Nazis, from a purely objective standpoint, are not bad. But not good either. What they did is facts.

Only when the human observer comes in, ie, you and me, we introduce morality and you and me both think that those things are bad and should not be done.

Or how Death expressed it in Discworld; "take the universe and grind it down to the finest powder and sieve it through the finest sieve and then show me one atom of justice, one molecule of mercy"
Instead of what?
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IMO the cookie law was good and (ianal) but a banner in your face is not consent, not in an opt-in way at least.
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> Too bad the more narrow minded segment of the HN population appears to have buried this one out of spite.. because this is some super pro badass shit, packaged in a hilarious format by jessfraz. Guess it's not everyone's kind of humor, a real tradgedy if you ask me.

I don't know how other users feel, but I feel really annoyed when I have to read this kind of vague attack on the HNers. The fact is that, fortunately, HN is not an exteded circlejerk of badass things and weird humour.

For the rest of your comment, I haven't read the article yet, but the phrase "a future where you don't have to install runtimes to run things anymore because they are all distributed with everything you need?" makes me frighthened. That would mean that the same piece of code but slightly different repeated many times in a computing environment. Why would I need multiple versions of Python 3.5 or Ruby 2.3 is beyond me, except for development, where there are tools to manage multiple versions of interpreters and runtimes. And when Python 3.5 is declared vulnerable to the next big security vulnerability, switching to the hypothetical Python 3.5.1 would be a breeze, and I'd be secure; whereas with every package having its stuff vendored within its opaque format, you never know what's outdated and/or vulnerable.
I use agoda.com over booking.com for this very reason: it lets me pay with paypal. If you care about that sort of things, I suggest you do too.

Of course, you then have to provide your credit card or another mean of payment to the hotel on arrival for insurance.

PS: and this is pretty much the why of how something as reviled by merchants as paypal is thriving, as a customer I love it.
It would look the same and be administered in the same way, but would have no drug in it. I imagine it would be a pretty coloured tab much like the real thing.

Unfortunately, even the full text of the paper doesn't say what it was or how it was administered.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-017-17546-0

Edit: I just missed it - the details are:
healthy participants (mean age 30.5 ± 8, 4 females) received 75 μg LSD in 10 mL saline (intravenous, I.V.) or placebo (10 mL saline, I.V.), 70 minutes prior to fMRI scanning. LSD and placebo sessions were separated by 14 days and occurred in a counter-balanced order
In theory, you cannot (easily) steal from the counter-party in a lightning payment channel. If you try to broadcast an old and more favourable state (=set of balances) to the blockchain, you have automatically also disclosed enough information for the counter-party to collect the entire funding of the channel.

Still, it is an annoyance that you need to fund a channel for 1 BTC if you want to receive 1 BTC in it. Maybe someone else knows a better way? I am quite confident that this cannot be the only way to pre-fund channels for receiving incoming payments.
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The difference between a "bet" and a "sure thing".
How much did they offer?
I just got a couple of messages through; not sure if it's back or if it's an intermittent/congestion problem.
None as of yet.

But if people want to keep going with flippant accusations of Nazism in everything they see, then I suspect using this technique to abuse the witch hunt will be the natural next step.
Thanks for the link. It will be interesting to see how they develop and if they have the soul of a true Saab.
I have a question: What is exactly the affiliation of the authors? To me, it looks like all of the authors are currently at Stanford but the study is run by an institute at MIT.

Any clarification?
Yes, because celebrities are known for genuine reactions in media and not maintaining a carefully crafted public persona for the purposes of publicity.
I think you're looking at it the wrong way. The issue of leaks and revenge porn isn't the nudity. It's the breach of privacy and trust.

Trying to claim that leaked photos are fake doesn't change the fact that they aren't. It doesn't make you feel any better knowing that there's intimate photos of you out there, whether leaked by a jealous ex or stolen by a hacker.

A lot of these people that have had intimate photos or videos of them leaked have actually posed naked for publications, and they've almost certainly been naked around strangers as part of their job. It's not the nudity that's the issue here.

This is especially true of revenge porn. I don't really care if someone sees pictures of my dick, plenty of people have seen it. I'd be more upset that someone I trusted broke that trust in just about the worst possible way.
Google seems to halfass a lot of their products. I really had expected it would at least be live in the Bay Area right now. It's not like Google doesn't have the money.
It is really aggressive getting any kind of data.
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For simple audio playback there's not much difference between their APIs. OSS is a bit of an outlier because it works on a sound device via standard IO system calls. All the other frameworks expose very similar functions: you initialize the library, you tell it about your audio format and then you start writing the audio data. Xiph.org's libao [1] is worth a mention because it's a very neat library that offers true cross-platform support.

[1] https://xiph.org/ao/
Did you read the article? He's given away everything and the Foundation is disbanding.
Ovi Watch Representing 10% of watches made outside of China. How it is?
More and more watches are created in Aisa every day. In fact, most watches are Asian-made right now, and their majority comes from Asian manufacturers. But the reality is that creating watches in China while inexpensive, does come with its own set of problems.
The Chinese manufacturers opt for the lower quality raw materials, which can end up being a problem in most situations.
The designs are also not that impressive. Since the focus is on creating as many units as possible to sell more, the manufacturers are less focused on delivering value, and that can be a problem. Also, the manufacturing costs for a Chinese watch would be around 5-15 Euro in total. Yet when they are sold in Europe or the US, these watches go for hundreds of Euros all the time. Sure, marketing costs are a bit high, but the added costs are just too much if you think about it.
That’s why it can be very important to opt for a high-quality watch, one that does deliver all the value and quality that you expect from it. The Ovi Watches are designed to be quality, professional watches. The fact that they have a great combination of wood and leather is amazing in its own right. The Ovi watches are created manually in a workshop in Latvia.
I don't have too much confidence in calibration. The legislative/regulative systems we have are not great at that. Legislation is principles and inflexible. Flexibility requires a more uprincipled, goal oriented approach. Also, goals (mine, anyway) like openness, cosmopolitanism, low barriers to entry and even playing fields... These are hard to measure.

In almost all cases, industry regulation (what this is, more or less) tend to be incumbent friendly. Ie, we could be moderating FB slightly in exchange for killing its future competition.
Yes, on their site. Not on any other site.

A somewhat related note: Relying solely on ads is a bad idea. Personally, I'll install an adblocker on every PC I get access to (family and friends stuff).
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But Wikipedia is run by a non-profit organization...
Do you have any examples of people's "flippant accusations of Nazism in everything they see"?
It's really not about what should happen in a perfect world. I'll stay after work or put some extra hours in to create a proof of concept using a new to me technology. The company may benefit from my extra hours but so do I. Either my current employer is going to pay me more or my next employer is going to pay me more based on what I learned.

If a company is doing fine with the current technology, it doesn't benefit them to invest in the new and shiney as much as it benefits you as a developer. It also doesn't hurt their business not to invest in the latest technology as much as it hurts your career.
Not that I think low taxation would be a net transfer to the poor, but many disagree with how the government spends tax money.
> OpenMRS said Pine had contributed software patches to the effort previously.

I think they should be more careful not to dox him/her.
Not really surprising, my own country is still profiting from the massive investment in cable done by the state owned telecom operators in the 80s. Infrastructure like this is something that can only be done with government support.
I know it's anecdotal but I agree. There is a risk that alternative ways of thinking can stunt one's life, but if the struggle is overcome, you will be left ahead of everyone else, learning self control while maintaining a unique and valuable alternative way of approaching the world. I remember reading a while back that there might be a genetic basis to ADHD and that it's really an older way of thinking, based around randomized hunter gatherer lifestyles rather than the single minded tedium of agriculture. This reminded me of the words of the author of Guns, Germs, and Steel, mentioning that despite lack of technology, he believed Papua New Guineans have some of the strongest native intelligence on Earth.
Headline is clickbait. Telecommuting isn’t a commute. Also nothing new that people from Silicon Valley are moving to Oregon. It’s one of the few places on the west coast with affordable housing (despite the locals saying housing prices are out of control).
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Well then the site dies. Sites die all the time, why should Facebook be any different (on the long run of course)?

If users want your service, they will pay for it. If they don't, well then your services is not needed.
In my experience you won't need to answer yes to every question in order to "pass" the info sec, but their team will want to be able to understand the risk of doing business with you. Depending on exactly what it is you'll be doing together, will determine how much risk they are willing to take on.
In the first quote it is implied that Einstein is being asked the question. Then it isn't clear who Eddington was. The questioner, I thought at first. Then no, a phone typo of Einstein? I found it confusing and the larger quote cleared it up.
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Since he seems to be referring to career success specifically, it does not seem that weird. There is a significant opportunity cost associated with school, not to mention the proclivity to pigeonhole oneself with increasing opportunity spent (the sunk cost fallacy). It is natural to think, from a career perspective, one is better off without that baggage.

It is true that the statistics show that those who are born with the right traits to succeed in life are more likely to do well in school and in the workplace, which is unsurprising. Life is a gradient, but when we take it to the logical extreme, it becomes quite apparent that someone with a crippling mental disability is not going to be able to go far in school, nor are they going to be a top choice to do business with. But that does not mean that there are not cases where people who are born with the right traits slip through the system. The education system is big and complex and sometimes fails. Someone with successful traits does not lose their successful traits from that experience.

That said, I agree that there is more to life than career success. The enrichment that school could have provided him may have made his life better in other ways.
Hi devgator, I coded a blockchain app in Golang.

https://github.com/Grrrben/gocoin

Used it as a study in Golang myself and still love coding it. It's an open project, any enhancement would be appriciated!
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I'm saying I can invent races on the fly, then find genetic differences that would appear to back me up. Is like playing numerology with a large enough book, you can always find patterns. Finding patterns however doesn't mean that black and white as racial qualifiers are anything other than a highly inaccurate classification system that is used to align skin colour with social class, and which doesn't even fall within the gamut of actual skin tone. Is patently obvious where black and white came from as concepts, if you look through history rather than biology.

While I do not expect to win this argument on nomenclature within the next fifty years, I do hold out some hope over the next century.

edit - Also, am British, the use of a sarcasm tag is offensive to our people. Probably for genetic reasons.
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The same cult found a proof that sqrt(2) is irrational, and kept it hidden because they believed natural numbers and their ratio's to be everything.
Then some dude Hippasus found the same proof and talked about it openly. The pythagorean cult murdered him for it.

(I checked wikipedia [1] and apparently, historians disagree on whether this is true)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hippasus
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Not even just near suicide. People have killed themselves over revenge porn: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiziana_Cantone
I should do that sometime. I'm afraid I've lost my ability to focus, something like that might help. I'd need a solid mission though, instead of a "look into tech X" without a goal.
Imagine if you'd limited Elon Musk's PayPal wealth with such confiscation taxes. We'd literally have no SpaceX or Tesla. Why should society put so much trust that politicians can allocate resources in a fair and economically beneficial manner?
I have one and it's neat in a retro kind of way; sorry to hear it's gone badly.
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Week 3 Probability
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> Are you saying that there are none to little genetic/biological differences between different races?

That's pretty much what any geneticist says.
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But what would the enemy know because of this "leak"?

That someone who is known to have a TS/SCI/PX clearance is a signal intelligence expert? Where is the threat, compared to other easy ways to figure out someone is a NSA employee?

What a budget item is about? Somewhat interesting, but hardly compromising security (assuming the budget wasn't obfuscated, e.g. by splitting entries and adding fake ones, to begin with).

That PANDA is probably small enough to have no subcompartments? A lot of data would be required to confirm such an hint, and clearly not a running around like a chicken with their head cut off matter.
I'd say it's part of the plan - don't pass judgment over a system until you've tried it for an X amount of time. Same with Windows and Visual Studio. It's sorta related to cargo cult I guess.
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You only get 5 seconds to let the visitor know what value you can provide them. This is typically done with a large page heading and maybe with a small secondary heading.

With a conversational landing page, you are making the visitor click on 3 buttons before he gets to "What is this and why should I care?". That is 3 clicks too many. I would expect a much poorer conversion rate with the new landing page. I have not previously head of conversational landing pages, but I don't see any benefit, and expect them to die soon.

Your old landing page needs a headline that explains the value add. All I see is (i) "It's finally time to live" (ii) "Zenify – Meditation, Clarity and Mindfulness" and (iii) a large block of text that is unreadable. I have no idea what your app does, whether it solves any of my problems and whether I really need it. I suggest you add a headline at the top that quickly tells me what to expect.

If you really-really want to try out the bot, I would go with putting the bot where you have the large block of unreadable text on the old landing page. - but ensure that you have a good headline and maybe secondary headline explaining what this does first.

P.S. I much prefer the colors of the new landing page v/s the old, so maybe you could copy the color to the old landing page.
Also from the Computer History Museum, a PDF transcript of an interview with Bill Atkinson and Andy Hertzfeld discussing the creation of MacPaint and early Apple and Macintosh lore.

http://archive.computerhistory.org/resources/access/text/201...
Color coding works too.
>Which one? Google, Twitter, Facebook, Microsoft, Yahoo, Crazy Egg, Criteo or NSA listening on the wire?

Or anyone exploiting either of those parties' bad security. That's an enormous attack surface. Also add the passenger's email provider to that list.
On cursory inspection, deepfakes may pass muster. But on close observation it's still relatively easy to tell they are fake.
That was the first question I asked on Twitter support, to which they replied, I can report the issues here.
https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/1600/1*VvnWUPs8xnWRtH92M...

Again, I am more than happy to report it proper channels. I understand the reasons of ethically reporting such issues.

I would really appreciate it, can you help me find correct channel even now for Emirates, Lufthansa, KLM, Air-France ?
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Yup was speculated in the github issue as well. Wouldn't jump to conclusions yet thought.
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> A lot of people are keen on industry regulations (which GDPR sort of is) but i think are not aware of (a) how bad the bad ones are and (b) the very dominant corporate/incumbent bias they give a market.

I think rather than arguing in general terms that regulation is bad, it is more helpful to address any specific problems you have with GDPR. I've spent a few months looking at it at a small organisation that is having to implement it. My take is that its goals and the way they are implemented look pretty sound.
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He doesn't. He is in the wrong. I just don't care. I'm in the wrong every time I pack a bowl of weed. Still don't care.

I understand why John doesn't own the fruit of his labor. I understand why John is willing to lie, cheat, and steal the people benefiting from the system that takes the fruit of his labor from him.

If you don't like it, build a better system that prevents it.
Side note: TIL that Barbara Ehrenreich has a Ph.D in cellular immunology from Rockefeller University.
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> But what I cannot understand is forcing me (as a service provider) into a contract with a customer even if the customer rejects some of my terms.

I'm not sure what gives you that impression. If the customer rejects the terms, you are free to walk away.
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> What about the next Facebook?

Maybe there can be no next Facebook (as in, one multinational actor is position of monopoly on one type of service) and maybe that's not a bad thing.

If the only way to have the same kind of service from now one is to use a network of separate entities each smaller than Facebook and interoperating between themselves, it might be a good side effect of the law.
I'm not sure which Ireland you're living on but its not the same one as I am. My part of the country wakes are still the norm for > 80% of deaths. I've been to dozens and I'm not even half way through my twentys.
Besides the issue that a physical demonstration only shows that the theorem is true for one particular triangle, reality is sometimes more tricky than one thinks. See for example this https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Missing_square_puzzle
I guess you missed out on this part -

"In the wake of responsible behaviour, on discovering these serious security flaws that violate user-data privacy, I decided to flag them to Emirates through Twitter DM in October 2017. Please note that I could not find a dedicated channel for reporting security bugs on Emirates website.

I also wrote an email to the Product Manager highlighting the security flaws. I was met with a deafening silence."
So then you have to go to other people in that field and have them look at it. Sure, you have to take them on faith too, but a little bit less each time unless they all wildly disagree, and they can explain their reasoning to you in layman terms when you canvas their opinion. Now, none of this guarantees success, but it is a long way from trusting others to just do their work properly.