skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Anyone can sue anybody about anything. But getting very far vs Google probably takes some resources. And even with resources, liability over ad publishing seems iffy. But IANAL.
Vitalik Buterin Unveils Plasma Scaling for Ethereum
I'm not sure, are you comfortable living one day only, and leaving all the problems to be for future you to take care of? Because for that logic, you basically don't exist that much at all, and the moment you go to sleep, the rest of your life is somebody else's problem, because you effectively die. That is what you're saying (and that is what people like us would expect from mind upload).

So you tell me why it's a problem, but it seems, I may go to sleep all I want, but when I wake up the next day, all my problems are still my own. I doubt that if someone makes a clone of me, and I go to sleep, that I'm going to wake up as them and that other clone. How would that even work if there's two of us? There's only one of "me" to go around.

Oh, it's very awkward, yes, because it implies there's something else going on here that is required to hold this information, but we're all supposed to think that's impossible...
I returned a ~$150 item to Myer a few months ago, with nothing but a transaction ID provided to me over the phone by American Express (the account had been closed and I had no access to the credit card statements).

It turns out that the credit card network's transaction ID is completely useless to store staff and doesn't correspond to anything they can search up.

They went ahead and decided that the fact I could give them an ID number at all is sufficient proof of purchase and happily exchanged it.

(Of course, in this case I was returning a defective item and they're legally obliged to replace it - perhaps they're stricter on change-of-mind.)
There are other economic principles that apply to shipping specifically. It's a pretty old field.

A last-mile delivery truck goes out full and comes back empty. That's terrible logistics, but the fact that it happens anyway suggests that shipping from your home to a UPS center should be basically free - the marginal cost is nearly 0.

Amazon returns have to go through UPS. If Amazon sends out a lot more stuff through UPS than it receives from UPS, returns might just genuinely be free, occupying what would otherwise be slack in the system.
Retail Equation sounds like they came straight out of Little Britain's "Computer Says No" sketch. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AJQ3TM-p2QI
No, that's not even what they're saying.

They're basically saying killing them in their sleep is not a problem. That's where that logic goes. Because you die when you go to sleep.
First, there are many language who’s default integer type are not fixed bit width. For example Haskell and Python can represent arbitrarily large integers out of the box, limited only by available memory. Second, it is not too difficult to implement these “big integers” in any language. For example, I think java has something called a BigInteger class. Arguably if your “integer” type has fixed but width, it’s categorically not an integer. Third, two of the major underlying theoretical models of computation, Turing machines and Churche’s lambda calculus, allow arbitrary “memory” sizes and arbitrarily large integers. For example the universal Turing machine is imagined as operating over an infinitely long ticker tape. The objection you raise is a theoretical nonissue and I give the author some leeway to make this concept more accessible.
It might look like censorship, but they probably realized that most ads where getting similar to penis enlargment ads and thought they didn't want to be associated with that.
It's not consenting adults if it's a scam, and Google can't analyze every ad to check for that. In a space where most ads are scams, this looks legit to me.
It's really beautiful how the entire world [1] has in unison recognized the life of this great man. There's something uncanny, sort of cinematic, about the information of his death radiating out across the globe and "lighting" us up as we consider what an incredible human being he was.

[1] Maybe not the "entire" world, but all the news orgs I checked had news of his death on their front page as of 2-3 minutes ago:

Al Jazeera // CNN // Fox News // ABC (Australia) // France 24 // DW (Germany) // reddit // HN // NY Times // BBC // WaPo // the Guardian // the Japan Times // Xinhua (China)
Autozone’s tool rental (free) sells parts they sell, parts you might not otherwise be able to install without those tools.
Pitch Anything - About selling and the psychology of selling. Really need to re-read that one actually.

And +1 for Deep Work, So Good They Can't Ignore You or The World Beyond Your Head. They made me realize that being in a profession where you can reach "flow state" actually is a privilege.
As outraged as many folks might be this is just good business for Google and Facebook. Internet advertising, nay advertising at large, is dangerously close to becoming a regulated, or more regulated, industry in the wake of fake news and Russian troll farms etc. If they aren't proactive and people lose money they inch ever closer to requirements that can and will eat large chunks of their profit margins. This isn't even to mention that they're also getting pressure from the private side where a couple hundred companies control over half the world's advertising spend and are getting actively called out by consumer advocacy for where they advertise. The handful of dollars they will get from crypto ads (in comparison to their overall spend) pales in comparison to even one Coca Cola, Unilever, etc. pulling their ad spend. Advertising, and media for that matter, is not free and fair market. It is tightly controlled by a handful of players that will fight tooth and nail to keep it that way.
> Can someone explain to me why people will inevitably put in countless hours of free labor for Amazon here?

Most people is good a heart and they want to help, even when it's bad for themselves or even illegal.

"Under the federal Fair Labor Standards Act (“FLSA”) and many state and local wage and hour laws, the use of volunteers and interns is strictly regulated." https://www.forbes.com/sites/richardtuschman/2012/08/24/usin...

Amazon strategy is just another example of "if it's online it's legal". Destroying jobs in exchange of "experience", "visibility" or "a better curriculum" is regulated and for good reasons.

Do they want their software to be free? That's good. Everybody can use it and anyone can collaborate. Do they want their documentation to be reviewed and expanded by voluteers? Why not hire Technical Writers?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technical_writer

Amazon evades paying taxes while expecting that volunteers do their job instead of employees. The world economy can't continue running like this for long.
Sorry, but do you think Google (prior to turning on AdWords) was a ponzi scheme?
Answer to YouTube has arrived?
Indeed, the crypto/ICO advertising along with multi-level-marketing schemes are a plague on social media. Guessing it's only getting attention because it's 'crypto' in the title rather than 'likely scams'.
This is really NOT the topic that most people are OK handwaving away simply because the evidence isn't there, because this topic is older than the concept of science itself and it's the #1 thing that gives anything around here any meaning whatsoever.

Inventing the scientific method doesn't mean you get a carte blanche to call invalid everything you haven't gotten around to understanding with it.

This is not a solved problem and if someone gets this tech it's going to become an issue. A political issue, not a scientific one, because this one is in the region of politics, science doesn't know what's going on here.
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I don't believe this is accidental. It's a strategy to get updates out that help Microsoft, and then handle the PR afterwards. Most likely this won't get much attention and Microsoft gets away with it.
That's the thing though. The behavior change is to not eat meat. If I care so little for this thing that I'm willing to have it enslaved and slaughtered for my mild culinary amusement, what is there realistically to do other than pay hollow lip service? If we gave enough of a shit to do anything of substance, we just wouldn't eat the animals.
Not very familiar (mostly using 2.7 atm), but I think simplejson should be a drop-in replacement to the built-in, and as such shouldn't affect code migration.
This license is most definitely not Open Source.

The right place for this term is in the terms and conditions for using the hosted server provided by the project, rather than in a software license.
Pretty much the same as Mozilla Firefox.

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/993765

"I've tried to disable updates through the settings, and without fail a day or so later it's updated to the latest version again. Any thoughts?"
very cool - trying it out, listening to the first session - hoping I'm not in a Black Mirror episode...
> At worst,

You're just an NPC
I liked the movie, "The Theory of Everything", which allowed for more people to learn about this phenomenal human being. [1] I also liked his appearances in shows (like The Big Bang Theory). We would've looked forward to a lot more from him! He will be missed!

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Theory_of_Everything_(2014...
As Thatcher has famously said: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t37Oy8dD-U4
I always think that the "10 tough questions we got asked" [1] weren't really tough, and that it's still the same old Microsoft just presenting itself in a slightly different way.

[1] https://www.gatesnotes.com/2018-Annual-Letter
Oh! That's the one I was initially thinking about actually. Maybe I'll rewatch both. :)
> Why are there so many people excited to do this?

Because science doesn't have evidence for the presence of "you"s, and it's fashionable among intellectuals these days to only believe scientific ideas have validity.
PSoCs are nice, too. They're not full blown FPGAs, but you can experiment with Verilog pretty easily.
"lose packing which definitely needs autonomous driving. I want something we can build in 2018"

Yes, automatic driving only in these tunnels. Current tech in a Tesla Car (and some others) would already be able to automatically drive in a tunnel today with very short spacing, no problem. Here in 2018.

"Merging at 200kph in tunnels. Those on and off ramps are expensive to dig."

Yes. Tunnels are expensive. They are getting more expensive to dig. Thus the Boring company. This is the biggest problem with a tunnel system, but tunneling for trains is not cheaper.

"Load balancing between on/off ramps."

An automatic car can know if an off ramp is going to be full. Pay extra(congestion pricing, progressives love that) to exit or take one before or after.

"Where to park"
Automatic electric car goes back home until Miller Time or is rented to other people for the day.

Rail is not a point to point system. This is the problem. How are you getting trains to within a 5 minute walking distance of everyone's home in LA and can go direct (no train transfers) to a 5 minute walk to anywhere else they want to go. Not likely. With this system, being a 5 minute drive to the nearest tunnel entrance and then the connected tunnel system puts you out with a 5 minute drive to your destination. This would be possible.

The great thing about cities are the people. Being able to have a huge set of people that people can interact with and have long term relationships with. Groups formed by these people. I think it would be cool to have a city where most people can have a piece of land to grow things on and also have the possible interaction and long term relationships with >10 million other humans.
It's definitely relevant to me, if one copy is sent to the mines and another copy goes to paradise, it'd be very important to "me" to know which one that is.
It is also important to tease out if the demand is actually because of pricing your product too low which can sometimes be perceived as achieving product-market fit. Nothing wrong with that if cost efficiency is what you are trying to solve, but in most cases this is a sign of underestimating the true value of the product.
Sounds unlikely. Is there any evidence of this?
Update on Kubernetes infrastructure with Kubicorn
I don't really think the rail gauge causes any difficulties for automating the system, though. Tram gauges vary a lot and what manufacturers do is just use the same design and put underneath a different width bogie (wheelset).

(The Finnish rail gauge is in fact nominally different from the current one in Russia, because USSR changed from "imperialist" 1524 mm to "metric" 1520 mm between 1970 and 1990; the trains are in practice compatible, though.)
I had something similar happen to me once and didn't know how long it was going to last and it really was that terrifying, except instead of questioning what I was, I could remember everything I normally could. I just couldn't sense anything but my own thoughts and memories. Luckily I came out of it, but it would be an awful hell.
Stop using node-open module now because it's vulnerable and unmaintained
Awesome insight, thanks so much! I'd love to chat with you about that - anything you're specifically looking for out of the product?
Amazon to offer a small biz credit card
Good news: Only affects the AD / LDAP component. Bad news: That component is enabled by default. Good news: If you don't use Samba LDAP, an effective mitigation is to just disable the ldap service (search the fine article for "Disable LDAP").
Did ZeroStack Just Build VMware in 12 Months?
I realize it's not cool to post value-less comments here, but....damn it.
Yep, as someone living in Australia, this whole article and thread baffles me.

Why would a store ever accept returns without a receipt?

The whole process is even more convenient now that email receipts are becoming common.
A/B testing with groups of random people put together in a room, using unreleased versions of the application.
> documenting open-source code for free

Foundations that own the open-source projects are allowed to use volunteer work by law. Corporations with a for-profit interest doesn't.

> or answering a stack overflow question?

This one is more tricky. But it depends on who asks the question? It is an individual to get help on a problem? Or is it part of the ways of working of a company to avoid hiring experts? Evaluating intention it's usually hard.
A good start would be reading their CPS.
Hired an electric boat suited for 8 people and took it up our river (more the upper reaches of an estuary) they other day, it was great.

Quiet, no fumes, enough power as we were limited to 5 knots in the area anyway.

Not advertising, but so you can see the type of boat - www.goboatperth.com.au.
One of the true greats, RIP Stephen
>*
"If machines produce everything we need, the outcome will depend on how things are distributed. Everyone can enjoy a life of luxurious leisure if the machine-produced wealth is shared, or most people can end up miserably poor if the machine-owners successfully lobby against wealth redistribution. So far, the trend seems to be toward the second option, with technology driving ever-increasing inequality."*

Which coincidentally was a basic insight behind Karl Marx's communism -- not referring to the regimes it inspired, but to the idea that with the advancements in capitalistic production, distribution will be key to ensure a fair society.

In the end, a powerful 0.1% that can produce anything they want with robots, can use a small number of humans, say 0.9%, for service and such necessary jobs, and will have no use for the rest 99% of humanity -- which could be let to sort it out in slums.

Also the idea behind lots of dystopian fiction -- from Soylent Green to Elysium, and the reality in many places in the third/developing world, where there are more people than jobs needed.

Suggested reading:
https://www.amazon.com/Planet-Slums-Mike-Davis/dp/1784786616
A great Cosmologist, Theortical physicist Mr.Stephen Hawkings is no more
I know many people like you, but I have always preferred the piloting aspect.

Learning efficient maneuvers to transfer orbits and rendezvous was where the fun is for me. My friend would often build ships with specific delta Vs for me to pilot to a particular body.

Also landing safely before landing gear was added was a great challenge.
IntRec-Pack – Intelligence and Reconnaissance Package Bundle Installer
What's important aren't really the bugs, bugs can be fixed. What's important is who is allowed to run, inspect, share, and modify the code. If only the copyright holder is allowed to do this, that's proprietary software and that's malicious. If a user's software freedom is respected so users can choose to fix it themselves, wait for another release, hire someone else to fix the code, or live with the bugs that's treating the user properly.

Everyone makes mistakes; it's more about how those mistakes are handled and if a user's control over their computer is respected.
Does synology use samba for SMB drives?
Cheers. Haha don't worry you're not... yet. Kidding but would love you're feedback on how to session goes!
Finally. Been asking for this for years.
Try ffmpeg or vlc instead, you will get much better results. Ffmpeg has support for almost all video/audio formats ever invented.
Inequality is not that bad when everyone is getting richer even at the very bottom. Inequality speech is the tree hiding the forest.
What are you talking about?

The root certificate for this CA is already baked into our browsers; otherwise, there would be no way for them to issue working certificates.

It’s actually much more difficult to issue a cert for a domain like “www.google.com”:

- Google uses Certificate Authority Authorization (CAA) which tells the internet that only Google is allowed to issue certificates for google.com

- Google uses HTTP Public Key Pinning (HPKP) headers that shows the hash of the public key that will be trusted; a cert issued for google.com by a rogue CA can’t have the same public key and thus won’t be trusted.

- Google created the idea of Certificate Transparency (https://www.certificate-transparency.org); almost all certificates are logged publicly in cryptographically signed databases (blockchains actually) which anyone can examine. It would be obvious in a few minutes that a certificate were issued for google.com, assuming it could be done. Google, Apple, Mozilla, etc. won’t trust certificates that aren’t in CT logs.

Here’s the info on Google’s latest certificate issued yesterday: https://crt.sh/?id=354538345

The best part: everyone has access to these tools and standards, not just big companies. My free certificates from Lets Encrypt also go in Certificate Transparency logs, just like Google’s.
Hopefully someone with more experience can answer this, but could the stock be going up due to high short interest?

Maybe not technically a short squeeze (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Short_squeeze) but related?
Look at the interday pricing. There were some small slumps. Clearly most traders did not react too negatively to the story, at least by the end of the day.
Game of missuggestions: semantic analysis of search autocomplete manipulation
Can someone who’s actually worked/implemented/published face detection/recognition please point to state of the art results for this task? Are neural networks better than hand crafted feature extractors?
Cato Institute is about as trustable for facts about poverty as my cat is for facts about quantum mechanics.

Here's a rebuttal.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/monkey-cage/wp/2018/03/1...
> Well as a user of Amazon you have a vested interest in the documentation being correct.

As a Walmart customer it's in my best interest that the aisles are clean. But I will doubt the legality to ask customers to clean the aisles so they don't need to pay for a cleaning service. Actually using volunteers to replace employees is kind of illegal.
Is MOBE a scam or the best mmo opportunity out there? I go undercover
A serious YouTube competitor that doesn't demonetize content doesn't have nearly as many advertisers.
Let’s please honor the man and not link to her wretchedness. Steven Hawking hated Thatcher and regretted never having the chance to run over her toes[0]

[0] “Stephen Hawking: An Unfettered Mind,” page 91.
Except - you can check out the (old) version you want, and build it yourself?

Optionally disable the update code first...

[ed: there's also Firefox esr for those that need an old (if not ancient) version:

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/organizations/ ]
I can safely estimate that my daily life and my work have me deeper in the YouTube community than the average HN poster, and I say this is GOOD.

YouTube isn’t censoring here, just making sure that the most despicable users cannot lead astray the most vulnerable minds without at least a warning label.

If you think that warning label is too influential you should consider the influence of well paid, highly watched liars on YouTube.
I think nobody who was there in the previous era of Microsoft has any trouble seeing that they haven't changed. It's just because of a new generation without experience that they are getting away with rebranding themselves. People who go for Microsoft today will be locked in to their tech stack as always after a while.
This is complete nonsense on the part of Google. I'm not sure when they thought they became God. Banning all ads for something that isn't even illegal and is a fresh new wave of tech and financial innovation is a sad day. Do no evil, sure sure.

This reminds me of when newspapers wouldn't run my ads for internet sites back in the day.
"A strategy devised by Myhrvold the salesman was just as significant. He laid it out in a memo to Gates in 1992: "Regular upgrades are important for both revenue and loyalty...A feeling of progress and improvement is necessary to keep users loyal...and an important way to produce revenue. Upgrades are the closest thing we have to an annual fee or subscription."

source:
Profile of Nathan Myrvhold
https://www.1843magazine.com/content/features/myth-buster
I am a mediocre developer
For what you lose on each one, you can make up for in volume.
Doesn't matter if a handful of people get around it. The behavior for the masses will continue.
Yes, had to move even before started building the more advanced features like hosting. There were some bugs with the JS number type causing weird issues with emscripten. It's been a while so I don't remember the details.

Additionally, and perhaps counter-intuitively the server-side solution was better for folks in areas with bad internet and computers. Downloading 10mb of JavaScript is a lot for some people and sometimes their computers would run out of memory parsing the JS.
Only people have not been getting richer for a long while in some places, including the US. If anything the opposite.

https://hbr.org/2017/10/why-wages-arent-growing-in-america

That's difficult for those in upper middle class jobs to comprehend though, but in less fortunate areas and slices of the population, it's everyday life.
Gzipping a jpeg isn't going to save you any bytes.
Why we need to do more to reduce certificate lifetimes
1 Weird Trick That Forces Your Body to Heal Hemorrhoids in 48 Hours
It's true that an autopsy will show a cause of death for anyone. In that sense, you don't "just die".

But after a certain point, that cause of death starts looking pretty meaningless. Everything is failing at once; if you hadn't died of your actual cause of death, you would have died shortly afterwards from another one. In that sense, you do "just die" of old age.
You should try this Mindset app - I suppose it helps with procrastinating but I am on android and slacking off on Hnews;)
Hacker News is the textbook example of a highly successful content marketing platform for software engineers. Second only to Joel on Software.