skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They highlight where there are extraneous objects on one's body, but they do not reveal what's underneath your clothes. The OP that I responded to explicitly states s/he would be fine with TSA agents ruffling through your most recent messages on your phone, and that it should be OK for them to see nude photos of yourself that you may have just sent someone.

There's a big difference between going, "Hey, the computer put a red square on the left thigh of a generic outline of a human, it suggests we should look there to see if you have anything," and, "Hmm, let's see what Johnny sent Sally yesterday. Oh look, his dick! And this lady who isn't even traveling with him sent him six pictures of her breasts!"
This argument is completely disingenuous. Your average person is capable of critical thinking and logical reasoning -- those who aren't are either wards under the care of another person. Normal people just think logically and critically in reference to local optima, and that's not something that we can or should try to program out of them.

That quality is also known as adaptability and it's crucial to successful survival and prosperity, for exactly the same reason that it's useful in mathematics: global optima are generally difficult to deduce, if they can be conclusively and authoritatively determined at all.

Saying Side X is "not being logical" or "can't think critically" is virtually always just a cop-out. It says you either a) don't understand or b) don't want to admit the validity of some of their concerns.

Most of the time when the other side's argument is understood, the disagreements are a matter of priority and/or credibility, not nonsensical thinking. And those priorities are usually determined intrinsically; values as such can't really be programmed or taught. They're the result of the years of experience each individual has endured in the real world.

A good example of this is that many engineers are known for a just-the-facts, no-frills approach. This is because engineers tend to prioritize facts and correctness over aesthetic and emotional value. Other people who don't do this aren't objectively wrong -- they just put different weights on the considerations, leading them to different conclusions.

Another example is outlet credibility. Your average Fox News viewer may believe that MSNBC is propaganda secretly dictated by the shadowy figures in the background, and vice versa. If you believe this, the logical conclusion is to dismiss or at least discount the perspective of the propagandist.

You cannot "prove" that one side is propaganda and the other side isn't, because it is impossible to definitely deduce the intentions and motives of other people. Reports that say reports from MSNBC were more frequently errant are of no value because you can just say "Oh yeah, says who? The same shadowy figures?" to that.

It is important to understand that humans hold a variety of totally non-falsifiable beliefs -- things that cannot be definitively proven one way or the other, even if you try, like the state of mind of the speakers we're around. These have to be approached from the subterranean to be understood, let alone addressed.

All we can do is understand that our own perspective is not the default or de-facto correct one, and that other people are entitled to their own assumptions and unfalsifiable opinions just as we are. They're entitled to their own credibility heuristics and decisions about who is worth trusting. People are free to make their own decisions and conclusions, whether we agree with them or not.

Understanding that is critical to learning that it's OK to disagree with people, without having to pretend that they're insane just to preserve your own ego and self-worth.
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But do you think people know that video content is one element of Apple Music?
The US embassy in Beijing does their own monitoring of air quality and has a public feed for it (this was the source of the "crazy bad" description from a couple years ago). Presumably their numbers agree with these, or the author would've pointed it out.
They are only round when they cover a round hole. I've seen a number of covers that are other shapes, often square.

There are engineering reasons to prefer a round hole, but there are sometimes other considerations which push a different shape.
ok while we are on the topic, can you show us a sample of what is a good design in a deck?
That's a difficult thing to cite, I would say it's more along the the lines of the saying "There's no such thing as non-buggy code" or "there's no un-hackable system."

I get it, burden of proof. The blanket statement by OP also doesn't consider the ol' "baseball bat" ceiling of hacking strategies - at what point is it easier to just break someone's fingers until they tell you what you want to know?

(don't break someone's fingers that's not good)
Jesus, that is effective.
Wandering through linear types, capabilities, and regions [pdf](2007)
How to Make a Serverless Flask Site Using Zappa, Lambda and Contentful
I'd love to add this into the Ornament and Crime (http://ornament-and-cri.me/) for modular synth as well, which has a Tonnetz app already.
People who make outrageous claims need to be prepared to defend them. There is enough disinfo out there already.
I find that I've stopped buying Humble Bundle games, but I'm much more inclined to buy books now. So they've basically figured out how to extract the most amount of cash out of me possible.

I am a bit skeptical about this list as there isn't a single book that I recognise, but I have read at least one decent PacktPub book, so I was willing to take the risk.

You can skim through the books and at the very worst they'll just tell you what you already know. The Machine Learning with Go seems interesting as it's off the typical Python/R/C++ path.
Or at any checkpoint, simply shut down your device (or click power button 5x). Then they can have it, but it requires a passcode that is protected by the 5th amendment.
USSR cities used to be very walkable and very public transportation oriented because they were built with low personal car ownership in mind. And that was the reality until the iron curtain fell and imported cars flooded the market.
But the problem is lots of people can talk a great game but then turn out not to be able to do the code thing.
Not consenting to a search isn't really about preventing the search. The police are, by definition, they application of force; if they want to search you, they will. However, not consenting forces them to make up some sort of justification for their actions and gives your lawyer a much better chance of getting the fruits of the search thrown out.
My problem is that I can't change jobs easily (visa, paperwork etc). I took a risk last year and it didn't turn out well (for reasons outside of my control).

I'm learning random things in my free time, but without a focus. I know I am aging dinosaur, but I just don't know how to get out of it :(
Top Performing Reporters on FB Work at the Onion, Daily Wire, the LAD Bible
Losing weight, no matter how you do it, will lower your cholesterol and improve your overall health. And reducing your overall calorie intake also has a lot of benefits. That’s why people can report good results from a lot of different kinds of diets.

But the causal link between saturated fat consumption and blood cholesterol levels is very well established. See my earlier comments for links. There are a lot of people out there with very questionable agendas out there trying to confuse people on this issue.
Astronomers discover two bright high-redshift quasars
Discrimination, noun:

> the unjust or prejudicial treatment of different categories of people, especially on the grounds of race, age, or sex.

Is it unjust to make sure people from a minority do not feel alienated?
That was the joke... Apple Inc. has already trampled on Apple Corps multiple times, with the latest settlement giving them right to the name in every other context except this one, AFAIK.
To an approximation it's that. It also makes for somewhat more readable code since the properties are "result" and "error" rather than "left" and "right".

I've never liked to see much use of Either because it has the same readability issues as tuples.
>coercion, threat

This is what bothers me the most about TSA and Border Agents stamping on rights - there's the implicit "we're going to waste at least 1,300$ of your money by forcing you to take another flight and rebook hotels." I get so stressed about it I show up at least 3 hours early for any flight, sometimes even 4 for international.
There is no evidence that the cleanup achieved under the Clean Air Act through mandated blanked controls was achieved in a particularly cost-effective way.

On the other hand there is theory for why cap-and-trade schemes should produce results more cheaply. That is the market-based system that was likely being discussed.
Whatever happened to Blackberry? From market leader to intern farm
This looks neat, but the price tag gives me a pause. No way my employer is going to fund this, and it is expensive for my pocket.

Thank you for the link
I just recently started playing out of Yusef Lateef’s book and was wondering about the Coltrane diagrams at the front of the book myself. Did Yusef ever respond? I was planning on cleaning them up myself, glad to see someone has already given a lot of thought to it!
When that was discussed on HN, the consensus seemed to be that Cellebrite had found a way to allow brute forcing passcodes, but that they would be ineffective against a good password.
As it relates to an American returning from abroad, it doesn't appear what "briefly" means. From about 5 minutes of Googling, it appears anywhere up to 12 hours of detention is possible (based on a 2008 CBP internal memo).

Detentions have lasted more than 24 hours though, sometimes for days:

"Median Number of Hours Individuals Were Held in Detention, by Sector"

https://i.imgur.com/MNYTJzF.png
The problem is that reddit is one site. You can live in other "neighborhoods" on reddit that are not /r/the_donald, but you are still forced to live in the same city. That means people from there will show up in all of the other sub-reddits, voting and commenting away and twisting every single part of the site to be what they want. It's exhausting to put up with, and if you don't notice it then count yourself lucky. There are many regional city/state/province sub-reddits that have come under concerted "attacks" by /r/the_donald posters. Folks from there will re-post links (or share via chat) to "controversial" posts in other sub-reddits to coordinate brigading, for example.
The second edition is completely re-written.

We had a discussion on the strings thing the other day: https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=steveklabnik&next=16...

TL;DR, the language only has one string type. The stdlib has more. They’re all needed. Strings are hard.
let hello = String::from("السلام عليكم");
let hello = String::from("Dobrý den");
let hello = String::from("Hello");
let hello = String::from("שָׁלוֹם");
let hello = String::from("नमस्ते");
let hello = String::from("こんにちは");
let hello = String::from("안녕하세요");
let hello = String::from("你好");
let hello = String::from("Olá");
let hello = String::from("Здравствуйте");
let hello = String::from("Hola");

This is such a beautiful sight for anyone who remembers the bad old days of Extended ASCII.
I don't like voice assistants, but she's not that bad. When I ask these questions, she asks if I want to create a grocery list (I don't have one) and shows me the 7-day forecast.
I'd think so. More popular threads would 'cost' more to post in and there would then be less posters in it as a result. 'Brigading' would be difficult.
Who here thought this was eventually going to happen for domestic flights after this started happening on international flights?
But at least your settlements will pay for your lawyers and bus fare after a few years of foot-dragging litigation.
For many people in the US, the nearest truly walkable city is literally hours away by car.
What new stuff are you learning, anything you are allowed to talk about in public?
I do not like sharing my location, but where I live, the city is becoming more car-oriented, they began to put commercial buildings into the inner courtyards, and ugly in-fill condo buildings where they do not belong.
Hopefully Apple will turn Apple News into a News spotify.
I would happily pay a subscription - say 2 tiers light <2> heavy (hr pw) $10 / $20 pm - with the subs shared amoungst content providers based on time spent reading. I subscribe to several now such as FT, Economist, Times. Expensive and a real pain though, having multiple subs so I may drop them soon, an aggregated sub would be so much better. Apple News would be an excellent platform for this, I love it’s layout, quality and Font size controls. I tried Readly App it’s reader is truly awfull based on pdf version of paper mags so you have to pan and scan and scroll all the time.
Quite a filler article for something like Forbes. Nothing to see here.

I thought it was a bit of a quality outlet? This is very mediocre.
Laymen's guide to Bitcoin
Are the GPU makers ramping up production to meet demand? I feel like this shortage had been going on for, what, at least 6 months?
Could the Military Start Drafting Hackers in Their 40s?
I’ll put it on the list!
With the benefit of hindsight, I think “free-form platforms” like reddit or youtube may be the road to mediocrity.

Youtube is still the major player even though twitter, Facebook & netflix grew around them. It is less opinionated on how video should be consumed. Less opinionated on what should be consumed. Anyone can post. Anyone can see it.

Problem is, youtube doesn’t really have a purpose that it is trying to serve. At least not an obvious one. It has a lot of content. It’s searchable (I hate that the web is no longer searchable..). It’s the obvious place to put stuff. It’s everywhere. But…

The platform does not distinguish between the lazy mashup with a clickbait headline and the youtuber making original content for people who would really miss it, and could not get it anywhere else. No preference. No values. No taste. No goal. Just views. One content is as good as the next. Monetisation reinforced this, as did the partial rollback.

Go to the youtube homepage now. Is the content good? Read the comments. If the conversation interesting?

In the middle is Facebook. It started off highly opinionated. Use real names (big deal at the time). Connect to your real friends. Watch their videos and read their posts.

Over time though, Facebook has lost opinions. Stuff is stuff. Views, likes, pokes, plays and comments. Features that get users doing more stuff, they win. This caused their political pickle. Political baiting gets lots of views, likes, pokes, plays and comments. So, as they “optimized” for more stuff, that’s the stuff they got.

On the other end of the spectrum are wikipedia and stack overflow (for example). Highly opinionated. Wikipedia is for XYZ. Stackoverflow is for ABC. If you want something else, go someplace else.

HN is opinionated too. It takes effort to avoid comment threads full of bullbaiting an even more to avoid a flood of one liners.

So Reddit… Reddit did avoid uniformity, that’s a nice way of putting it. It has values. It has things (e.g. censorship) that it does not want to do. But, I feel it still lacks purpose. What does Reddit actually want, what’s the ideal comment or post or sub reddit?

Personally, I would love more HN-like places, more wikipedia like places, places with a job to do.

gdubs has an excellent comment about what Reddit is doing wrong (promoting impulse gut reactions), and I suspect it’s related. When you don’t have an opinion about what you are trying to do or be, and so you’ll tend to end up with whatever is cheap. It happened to youtube and it happened to Facebook.
An organization is allowed to collect donations when it files for tax-exempt status. It's donors are simply not allowed to take deductions for those donations until the exemption is approved. Once approved, the exemption is retroactive to the date of the application.

SO, no, the two situations are nothing similar in nature or scope.
It's not as simple as you might think. If Android OS becomes the plumbing, and Facebook controls the developer experience, then it levels the playing field for a competing hardware/software platform (e.g. Windows). It makes it harder for Google to "control" the platform.

It's analogous to how the browser came along and turned the desktop OS into plumbing for a lot of people. My wife uses a Mac but she really has no idea that it's a Mac. She only uses the browser, so she could easily switch to Windows. Apple has really no hooks into her at this point, and that's an uncomfortable position for Apple (or any desktop manufacturer) to be in.

Google _needs_ to maintain control of the developer experience. In my opinion they should add a TypeScript option to Flutter, embed the v8 javascript engine into Android, and support Flutter with JavaScript as a first-class citizen on the Android stack. They should start this work yesterday.
Kansas locked up more than 5,000 women and girls for having STDs
The actual sales numbers put them way in the back of the pack. And are they actually making any money? Because LG moves 5 times more units and cannot make any kind of profit.
I think, somewhat counterintuitively, the ability to "anti-like" or "Report as bad take" could actually make the internet a much more positive place.

The insulation from negative perceptions of those outside your in-group causes polarization and rewards unpopular but extreme opinions.
AFAIK the only particles that appear out of nowhere (which would in your view happen when those non-detectable particles collide) are particle-antiparticle pairs[1]. It does explain the Casimir effect.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_fluctuation
The lack of downstream price spikes provides some weak evidence about the cost.
gitlab projects - for todo lists, notes etc., (so they can be accessed everywhwere)

pycharm - for editing python programs

Zim - for wiki style editing

vim - for remote files, non python files etc., where pycharm is not option
A decent threshold test is Kerckhoffs's principle.
Im not sure that matters. They may make it a condition of travel; you do not have to let the TSA search your phone, but you will not be allowed to proceed into the airport without doing so.

That is what all the TSA searches have appeared like to me. Just a denial of service for maintaining a level of privacy.
Sounds nice from a PR standpoint but you can't really compare the two companies based on revenue growth. Lyft is still a smaller company so in a global industry it's much easier for it to grow faster on a percentage basis. They're still expanding to cities where Uber already exists. If you started a rideshare company and gave 11 rides this month you'd be growing 10x faster than Lyft.
It’s not; it’s just a good way to talk about the limits of the changes possible.
> Race is not a biological construct, as writer Elizabeth Kolbert explains in this issue, but a social one that can have devastating effects.

This is inane, as it conflates the connotation of "race" and the very useful concept of a "population". We should all be aware enough to know the terrible history of the idea of race. But there are well known distributions of certain features among different populations, melanin being one of them, physical prowess another, but also body height and weight.

Everyone can see folks from East Africa excell at long distance running, and athletes of Caribbean descent in sprint events. Jews excell at winning Nobel prizes and wars in which they are insanely outnumbered. If you want you can call it an "overrepresenation", but that is really wording.

If it becomes fashionable to view facts that denote population distributions as racist we as a society have lost, for the foundation of having discussions based on reason and truth will have been considerably diminished.

Putting it simply: If you give me a 1000 pictures from folks from Kongo, and 1000 pictures of Inuit, I'll eat my hat if I can't correctly identify the origin of 99% of them. (Never discount the possibility of a Kongolese moving to Qaqortoq a hundred years ago.)
All true, but Microsoft (until very recently) had never tried to grab 30% (or w/e it is) of their platform's revenue through an app store. They bent over backwards for the developers by keeping old obsolete broken apps working on newer versions at zero cost to developers.

If I as a company was forced to give 30% of my revenue to Google (or apple or ms), you'd best be assured that the most important thing, long term, is to make sure I get 100% of my sales. That is a very important carrot that you can use to get developers to switch - and as you alluded to, its just one piece of the puzzle.
For some context in case anyone is curious, two sentences later the article reports that "Bouncers opened it immediately after the fire broke out".

The door in question's main problem appears to have been that bouncers wouldn't let people use it, not its orientation.
Isn't the argument that every international airport constitutes a border, and every mile of beach, and every mile of an actual border? That zone covers the majority of the population of the US constantly.
And that point falls down when the "scrutiny" isn't equivalent. The grandparent was clearly jumping in to make a partisan point (e.g. to say that there is no partisan lean to the demographics subject to this harrassment). And the evidence simply doesn't back that up.

The government harrasses minorities and progressive groups with this kind of tactic far more than it does white middle class folks, and trying to pretend that playing games with a 501(c)(3) application is somehow "the same" is just laughable.
Achieving 3x is easy when your revenue was lower to begin with.
> it seems clear that either a dense arrangement or the countryside (if working remotely) are preferable to the burbs, where you get high costs and poor access.

HOAs are primarily to blame for the high cost and poor access of suburbia. Multiple gated communities all each attempting to create their own "privately-owned by the community" parks and recreation. Aside from HOA fees (which are basically taxes), the gluing together of all these private developments makes "freedom" and walkable / public access an illusion. Homeowners end up double paying and cities' infrastructure suffers from lack of funds.

Density is best if it is done right, but the HOA problem incentives fracture and disconnect. Thus: all public spaces in all densely-planned areas must be publicly-owned. The HOA cannot create walled gardens.
Isocaloric studies have been done. I don’t have links handy but if you search a bit I’m sure you can find them.

Ray Cronise has done some interesting work on the body’s metabolic priorities:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5326984/pdf/met...

In short, you’re basically right that eating fat along with carbs or protein will cause your body to store the fat and burn the other fuels it has available instead because storing fat is cheap.
Ideally, it should be "cryptographically" difficult to distinguish a steganographically-encoded message from an ordinary (noisy) encoding. The comparison between these kinds of cryptograms and steganography does about as much violence to the concept of steganography as it does to the concept of cryptography.
Maybe! Since it’s opt in, we’d assume that people wouldn’t update until it works. It would be interesting to see how people migrate though.
Is every person in your contact list ok with it?

Is your partner, who sent you private pictures, ok with it?

Is your company ok with internal emails being read by the TSA?

Does giving access to your accounts on certain apps and websites to the TSA violate the TOS of any of those apps or websites?