skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think it is reasonable to question academia and research but I think a problem, often, is people want science and research to give us answers. It does not, it provides evidence, and once that evidence gets supported enough times it is viewed as closer and closer to reality. I would say it is asymptotic though, we never reach what is fact because there can always be a missing piece of evidence that shows a different result.

There is one statement you make that I do want to directly comment on. The point of more research is needed is simply, that more research is needed. It goes directly to your statement of "do we know more about human behavior due to the ..." We learn more with all research and the way research currently gets disseminated is through publication. More research is needed publications as well as null result research is extremely useful in the research community and often does not get the attention outside (or inside sadly) the scientific community that it deserves.
You know what I'd love to do if my child/sibling/father/mother passed away?

Learn how Unix works.
As long as the reward is less than the cost of the bag, none. Of course, digital images cost nothing, so there isn't a right price to set. I suppose they could do something like, if one person keeps "finding" the same images, then maybe look into it.
> Of course everyone agrees with a see something say something policy

How about until that leads to discovery of maybe some unfavorable political opinions. What is to say the limits to criteria and how they might be interpreted.

There is a reason people are concerned about privacy
>On the contrary, since Uber is losing money, isn't every ride getting a subsidy from the company, shared by the driver and the passenger?

Essentially these studies are saying that Uber should provide higher rates of subsidy (or the customers pay more) in order for drivers to get "minimum pay".
Don't financial firms have to isolate their business models? Banks traditionally couldn't offer brokerage services for instance. I can't imagine the government granting Amazon a license to operate a retail trading desk, particularly if anyone can offer products on it.
I recently discovered that you can cut moist brownies with a plastic knife and avoid them sticking and falling apart.

For those moments you just can't wait for them to cool, although, even cooled a good moist brownie tends to stick to the knife.

Your welcome.
Many people still find first few albums of Metallica edgy..
Building Mathematically Verified Bug-Free Blockchains [pdf]
Only in a very strict interpretation that everything that is still used somewhere didn't get replaced. Perl was more or less replaced, for example, and I like that. The only kind of originality that is good in programming is "surprisingly simple". "Surprisingly weird" is terrible.
Crypto's Biggest ICOs Stay Silent on SEC Subpoenas
And that customer broke that responsibility first when giving the Geek Squad employee illegal materials.
Nope. They have to be able to cope with extreme changes in load, and I think have higher precision of frequency adjustment to pull the rest of the grid into sync.

Some coal plants had gas turbines[0] fitted solely to allow a black start, others a ton of diesel generators. Some plants need power from the grid to kick off - nuclear for instance. Only some percentage of the grid needs cold start capability, and the rest of the grid is bootstrapped from that.

[0] (edit) Think aero engine. Rolls Royce Avons were used at Didcot A, and the industrial Avon is still available after 60 years. That's the same basic engine found in the Hawker Hunter and EE Lightning.
I think the article is just stupid "do you know who you are nonsense". I've been a morning person and a night person at and I've had different ambitions and widely personality traits at different intervals of my life. One of the whole point of buddhism is maintaining that we don't have a consistent identity. Claiming that you're smart doesn't make you dumb and practicing humility doesn't make you smart either. The actual smartest people on the planet can be overconfident a$%holes just like that rest of us. Socrates also refused to "play the game" and chose to drink poison over just moving to another city. I'm not sure if that's wisdom, maybe. He chose to act in certain ways and made decisions that reinforced that, as the rest of us do - and the world certainly takes more "kinds" than that to keep moving forward - so whether or not we should show conviction in our personalities or not is, I think, the wrong question to ask.
Great post!! We need more like that :)
Whether health insurance, some of which is funded by taxpayers, should be forced to pay for sex change operations depends on whether one believes the claims of men/women who say that they are really women/men.
Something worth adding is that there isn't anything in your brain that is immutable. We aren't really capable of observing some changes as they happen so gradually, yet it is quite obvious the changes have occurred. The way you perceive the world is going to be significantly different today than it was when you were an adolescent, yet you can't recall exactly what it was like to be that adolescent since you would have had to create an exact copy of your brain/body at that point in your life to have access the same context.

I always try to remember this fact when dealing with others. Past experiences and environmental context (that is to say, internal environment, e.g. blood sugar levels, hormone levels, neurotransmitter levels, etc) are extremely important to how you experience life on a day to day basis. It is literally impossible to fully imagine what someone else's experience is like, so it is important to listen carefully and be empathetic with others.
On the other hand, using this as a baseline and evolve from there will save a lot of time. I mean git conventions are starting to sound a bit like tabs vs spaces, just with a lot more options.

Pick a standard example, go with that, evolve. Same with e.g. processes, pick e.g. scrum, do it by the book at first, evolve.

I've started at half a dozen projects and every time a huge amount of time is being spent (wasted) on reinventing the wheel, be it processes, version control, code style, etc.
How I built a fast JavaScript framework
> XMPP gateways aren’t able to handle

Yeah, sure. Though I only do bets in chocolate or beer, I do bet XMPP has some kind of extension built for it already, you just don't want to support it.

We so needed another walled garden of communication platforms.
> That's not inherently a value judgement

This is a great way to look at it. It's not that startups not being more as useful to rural people is bad, per-se. It's just that it'd be nice if there were some alternative set of new, innovative businesses that are good for them.

Though, I'm not really sure what a business like that looks like.
Are you demanding easy answers? There aren't any.

The goal is deterrence, but deterrence doesn't work if you don't have a credible threat, which means that you have to have the credible threat, and a sufficiently insane opponent may call you on it. It's the reason why China going to a dictatorship is scary... the details of the dictatorship are irrelevant, the mere fact that one man will be in charge of the military of China is intrinsically scary. This is one place where the general bias towards inaction and other problems of a committee are advantageous; history shows that an individual is much likelier to do something really stupid for really stupid reasons than any government that is run by many people, even if there is a clear leader. A committee may fail to exploit many opportunities and may in various ways run their country into the ground, or they may even engage in misguided military adventures, but they never really rise to the level of outright evil and stupidity that an individual can muster up.

For instance, if you've got a spare hour to listen, you could do worse than this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jdM3ID4m38U Which contains numerous examples of Napoleon doing stupid and evil things that cost thousands of lives and burned massive piles of reputation just to benefit himself. If you do watch that video, can you imagine a world in which that Napoleon has nukes? Or, can you imagine a world in which he has them, but doesn't use them? I can't.

So, alas, no, I can't promise that some of the really stupid wargame outcomes aren't on the table now. China could previously be modeled as reasonably rational, but that's rapidly going "poof", and yeah, that means some seriously bad outcomes are on the table, and the mere fact that they are seriously ugly doesn't take them off the table.
It's not just about the storage space (That in itself is a problem though...).

The download can also be an issue, especially when downloading over cell... more so in a rural or other poor signal area.
Buddy, may I introduce you to the concept of comparative advantage? :-)
It’s an interesting article.
I think it overplays the power of the record labels though. If Spotify increases its user base substantially enough, then bargaining power goes to them in the Long run. Record labels can’t make money selling directly to the consumer anymore.

Secondly, I don’t think the cost is a problem. if it IPOs, the proceeds will be used to fund (my guesss) customer acquisition which would be in line with their strategy of incurring larger costs now in return for future gain.
Personally I strongly disagree with the author here.

A characteristic of intelligent people is that they know their limits, what they know and what they don't, how quickly or slowly they can learn a new thing and in general have a pretty good idea about their intelligence and how they might be positioned across other intelligent people they know well.

You can't get far if you can't perceive your limits and limitations. This is also where your modesty should come from; the understanding of your boundaries.
When my son was circumcised the pediatric urologist said if we had any concerns we could text a picture of it to him. I thought that sounded weird, but could see how this is totally legitimate doctor trying to save himself time and save ourselves an appointment, and money for an office visit.
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7 characters should be enough for most repos, and iirc git can deal with collisions already (so git co 1536dd9 in your example would bring a prompt).

How many commits is the repo you're running this on btw?
All or most Finnish banks use an ~8 digit account ID and a 4-6 digit one-time password from a slip of paper that has 80 to 300 of them. Some have a separate PIN/password too.

For confirming large transactions (>5000 or 10000 eur) there's a separate phone call or SMA verification.

Nowadays there's apps for 2FA instead of always requiring the use of a one-time password. My corporate bank account still uses the paper backed one-time passwords though.
That was for ancestry only. They charge another $99 for the health service.
I think the name is also already taken, for brainfuck and bloom filter.
> I wonder if the payout is at the time of the report, or at the time of a conviction or even indictment?

The article suggests the technician was paid even though the charges were dropped.

>It was previously reported that the technician had been paid $500 (£360) by the FBI.

> The charges were dropped in November 2017 when a federal judge ruled that the image flagged by the Geek Squad technician was not sufficient evidence for the FBI to request a search warrant. The judge also ruled that the photograph did not qualify as child abuse imagery.
Isn't that the whole point of this utility? Or am I missing something?
I doubt the average Geek Squad customer pays any attention to this. The average customer also knows that they don’t have child porn on their computer and thus, in their minds, have nothing to fear.

The example in the story sounds like the doctor had a picture of his grandkids in the bath tub, so of course there is a grey area and it’s terrible if someone is arrested for that. I think that falls under poor discretion and/or badly written laws. It doesn’t mean that you shouldn’t report real “you know it when you see it” porn involving children.

Also, how stupid do you have to be take a computer full of child porn to be repaired at Best Buy?
Its also different whenever you physically hand it over to someone.
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Yep, that meant to be capacity, not length. Corrected. Thanks!
As far as I have understood, that's not how it works economically.

Spotify is trying hard to make free users upgrade to premium, while enlarging the user base. I don't think they have any interest in playing real ads (except some music-related ones that maybe keep the labels a bit more quiet); that's the reason you get tolerable ads. But in the longer term, Spotify might decide to kill the free service (or just make it a timed trial.)
I actually don't. Not that I condone criminal behavior at all, it's just that a society where everyone is always turning in the their neighbors is not one I want to live in. Also, our betters, the people who have been running this country for decades, are the biggest pedophiles ever know to mankind. If the cops want to bust someone, they should make themselves useful and bust the oligarchs trafficking in human flesh.
Neither of your last two points are Trump things.

Selling arms to Taiwan isn't new. There's the Taiwan Relations Act Affirmation and Naval Vessel Transfer Act of 2014 and an arms deal signed under Obama in 2015 for $1.83 billion (1).

Sailing within the 12 nautical miles of the man-made Chinese islands also happened under Obama (2).

(1) https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-taiwan-arms/obama-adm...

(2) https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/us-warship-sails-within...
> in software engineering we try to avoid unnecessary dependencies

leftpad would like to have a word
Tanks? (A self-deconstructing videogame, Unity WebGL)
If you want fun miniproject may I suggest Peter Shirley's excellent mini-raytracing bookseries: Ray Tracing In One Weekend, Ray tracing the next week, and Ray Tracing, the Rest of Your Life:
https://www.amazon.com/Ray-Tracing-Weekend-Minibooks-Book-eb...

If you get interested on rendering Matt Pharr & Co's Oscar winning "Physically based rendering" is a didactic masterpiece. https://www.amazon.com/Physically-Based-Rendering-Third-Impl...

The book is one of the best examples of how to combine high quality code and academic exposition together.
Requiring a physical presence at a single branch doesn’t sound like good security to me. It does sound effective at preventing unauthorized access, but good security must also be good about allowing authorized access. Otherwise, the best bank security would involve encasing your money in concrete and sinking it to the bottom of the ocean.
Someone selling security questions
me to lol, really clever way to get attention.
Do you mind asking 'Why C++'?

I know that doesn't answer your question and to be honest, I am curious about the resources which come up here too, but C++ can be so painful to learn that I wanted to know what drives you into that direction. I mean, there are alternatives like Rust. Do you have a specific project in mind, need it to fulfill some résumé requirements or something completely different?
I'm a Sinn Féin MP. This is why I won't go to Westminster, even over Brexit
Decoupling Computation from API Data Transformation
Explanation of Knightships, http://conwaylife.com/w/index.php?title=Types_of_spaceships#...
> Long to short, why can't this be a form of some sort? Engineers / developers have enough to worry about, why add more minutia to the pile?

It can! See Commitizen and its cli, used by e.g. the Angular project, which offers a cli wizard for filling in a commit message - type (fix, feature, chore, ci, doc, etc), scope (depends on project, one word category), short description, backwards-incompatble changes, etc; see http://commitizen.github.io/cz-cli/. This system can then be used to generate changelogs and do semantic versioning compatible version bumps - patch releases if the diff since the last tag only contains 'fix', minor if it contains 'feat', major if it contains backwards incompatible changes.
Implementing array.prototype.flatten broke MooTools' version of it
Ask HN: Why does there seem to be a widespread disdain for Facebook among HN?
It was mostly used in the common radio alarm clocks, the ones with a 4digit red 7 segment display that were all based on an IC from the 70s that handles everything (minus the radio which is a completely indipendent module).
Ofcourse, what I was referring to is the library manager itself. Finding parts (even in your own custom library) is horrible in KiCAD. UI/UX feels like it was developed my people with opposing opinions and finally mashed it all together. In any major software, you need a lead UI person that understands, listens, and responds to the community and integrates those changes in the main branch.
> On the contrary, since Uber is losing money, isn't every ride getting a subsidy from the company, shared by the driver and the passenger?

That the average ride is subsidized by Uber is inherent in the loss, yes; that the subsidy is shared by the driver and passenger is not. It's possible that one side gets the full subsidy, or that one side is subsidized by both Uber and the other side.

Given that the driver side net costs/pay are less obvious up front to drivers than the passenger side economics are to passengers, I would expect the Uber subsidy to be focussed more on passengers.
No concrete answers as to why, only that the drop began about 1995.
Terraform + Datadog + Cloudwatch

http://terraform.io/
http://datadoghq.com/
https://aws.amazon.com/cloudwatch/
Amazon's reputation is starting to converge with Walmart imo.
Defective C++ (2009)
This anti-lawyer rhetoric you're getting is comical. Your suggestions are solvent.
I really enjoyed this article, and especially how it dealt with audio directly rather than getting lost in library abstractions.
Ask HN: What was your experience at a long (atleast 10 days) meditation retreat?
What were the benefits? Insights Gained?
Did you continue to meditate daily after the retreat? Long term changes?
Will you recommend it to others?
I think there are two main kinds of criticism here; the first comes from people who think a lot of published work is misleading at best and fraudulent at worst (see replicability crisis); the second comes from people who think there's something horribly wrong with the culture of academia, notwithstanding the quality of output. Criticism in the second category touches on topics like adjunct professors (most instructors of undergraduate courses are temp workers making near minimum wage with no benefits), the takeover of universities by a class of professional administrators (many of whom have unbelievably cushy jobs), the distribution of research grants to researchers with the most political pull rather than those doing the most interesting work, the pressure put on researchers to acquire grants (see Stephan Grimm), and the crushing debt burden most undergraduates take on to get a university degree (most of which is spent frivolously while instructors and researchers work themselves to death). I think what you've described sits more in the first category than the second, while the parent belongs more to the second.
>sadly users sometimes don't have the awareness to take care of themselves properly, and will be taken advantage of by malicious software

Or they have better things to do.

One of the top 3 non-AD listings for a file manager on Android is an app that takes over your lockscreen, integrates performance killing, crash inducing “memory optimizes”, and (my favorite) takes over system wide touch events to implement a (vey easy to accidentally trigger) gesture to open a full screen menu that draws over all your current apps.

On my PCs I’m able to stay safe and those aren’t nearly as locked down as either, but I have better things to do than start figuring out which apps I’m downloading from a walled garden are malware... that kind of defeats the purpose of a walled garden.
I use one of those (it looks like this[0]) and am quite happy with it, especially compare to my Swedish bank account that uses a similar device (DigiPass [1]) but all the numbers have to be entered manually.

[0]: https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/gtoAAOSw5zNalXj7/s-l300.jpg

[1]: https://img3.mp-farm.com/3458223.jpg?w=500&h=375&v=3
I've seen this in other companies. It's like Amazon had a bad revenue addiction. They can't go cold-turkey and cut every suspect seller in the marketplace, because that would cause a large impact on their quarterly numbers. But if this goes untreated, it will drive out good sellers and destroy consumer confidence.
then port it to gcc?
Yet anybody can walk into a casino and gamble.
I certainly agree with the last part of your comment. In my opinion, mindfulness and meditation, and learning how to stop identifying ourselves with irrational, uncontrolled thought processes are steps in the right direction.
"and more likely, you're much closer to average"

Ah, yes, that resolves it nicely, all tied up with a bow.

But... wait! If you're using that logic, it is itself probably very strong evidence that you're above average in intelligence!

Crap. Just when we had this all figured out!

(This is a "ha ha only serious" post; there's a serious point under it, too, but one better communicated this way than by just dumping it out.)
I don't think so myself tbf, it's not very informative information - unless maybe it's about someone important or influential. I'm sure most of my internet comments I've left behind over the past decade - tens of thousands of them on numerous websites - will hover around for years to come, but I doubt they'd have historical significance unless I become famous somehow. The writings of Aaron Schwarz became eternalised in a way since his death, they're frequently getting "resurrected" on HN for example.
Google’s AI is being used by US military drone programme