skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I didn't say consensus can't fail. I said it's immutable:

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

Blockchains are immutable. Immutability is the property you want for elections. Blockchains are absolutely computer science. The consensus PoW mechanism is not part of 'blockchains'. It is a part of cryptocurrencies. Blockchains are simply a log-structured Merkle tree.
Maybe something like the IIHS ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Insurance_Institute_for_Highwa... ), which is funded by insurance companies?

Though that would of course depend on how insurance even looks for SDCs. Maybe big companies like Uber will self-insure.
New Zealand and Australia are used as technology test beds extremely regularly for the reasons you’ve cited. It’s lovely as someone who’s a citizen of both; and culturally, NZ has a neat way of rapidly adopting new tech in my experience (less so here in Aus).
Blue–green distinction in language
Wait: Stamos' tweet isn't exciting. The NYT story is huge news.
I am sure he is under NDA from the time of his hiring, and whatever his termination package will be, there will be a non-disparagement clause.
Pedestrian dies in Arizona after being hit by Uber self-driving SUV
I would assume the banal reality is that they heard a lot of adverse publicity about someone who was a major client including claims they'd breached Facebook guidelines around storing data taken from APIs, and demanded a meeting. Which CA, who don't really want to get kicked off Facebook's platform, were happy to oblige, whether they were prepared to disclose much information or not.

Of course, when the ICO gets involved then whether CA breached Facebook's EULA or not is moot, and Facebook become relevant only inasmuch as the question of whether their own executives breached or encouraged breaches of data protection laws.
nah its not missing the /s tag, ive seen similar advertisements on Daly City Bart above the ATM machines.
The appropriate comparison would be to ask how many pedestrians were struck by a car and killed.

Considering that humans would likely slow down if they see a pedestrian - even if one appeared suddenly - this is even more disconcerting.
These cases are not what the parent comment was referring to.

The PP was insinuating that people with leraner's permit (and, by law, an experienced driver in the passenger seat) or people who just got a license (and hence were, literally, tested) are "insufficiently tested".

The PP was responding tho the claim that letting "insufficiently tested" systems on the road with the goal of letting them improve is irresponsible.

For the response to have any merit, you need to cite accident statistics for people with learner's permits, or new drivers.
Why would people leave? Facebook knows your buttons and pushes them just right. In aggregate this is terrible for society, but individually it feels good.
discussed in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16619917
Repeating things don't make them true. You defined immutability as the inability of changing the past. I have provided you an example of the past of Bitcoin being changed (24 blocks were invalidated). I await your rebuttal.
All NDAs have exceptions for lawful warrants and other actions by government investigations. Some are even exempt from notifying the other party.
Noa-names are fascinating, the flipside to true names being taboo, because they would summon the thing.

Indo-european had a word for bear, but it's completely eradicated in germanic languages, and replaced with the noa-name: Bear. The brown one. The original rtko/arktos/ursus never made it.

Wolf works the same way in Swedish, the common word is "varg", which is a noa-name meaning cattle-killer. Ulv, derived from ulfr/wulf/vlk exists and means the same thing, but it's archaic.
yeah i dont like it
Yes, and that’s why such theories aren’t popular with theoretical physicists. If you can’t falsify a theory, it isn’t scientific.

The other extreme end, where there is significant interaction between parallel universes isn’t popular, either, because we would have noticed such universes if that were the case.

So, instead, theoretical physicists that think parallel universes may make sense look for mathematical models that either only have tiny interactions between those ‘separate’ universes or at least only have tiny interactions in the neighborhood (in time and space) where we live (the latter might even be a win; a theory that explains dark energy, dark matter or the Big Bang as detectable effects of paralllel universes would be a winner)

In the end, however, it all boils down to educated guessing, with good theoretical physicists being better (or luckier; the difference can be hard to spot if you need only one or two bright ideas/lucky guesses to build a career) at guessing and at building mathematical structures with some desired set of properties.
Since I'm more of a backend dev, I'm going to take your advice and try it on my next work. Let's learn something today.
Here's another scenario: Jeff Bezos goes on sick leave or sabbatical. I'm not sure anyone knows who is going to take over Bezos. For all the talk about Steve Jobs's health when he was at Apple, at least he left a lasting legacy and Apple went on to greater heights, in terms of financial and operational performance, under Tim Cook.
Most (maybe all?) people who use SSHFP would be no worse off were SSHFP to suddenly stop working, since SSH relies on key continuity, and the introduction-connection security risk is one that virtually everyone who uses SSH already mitigates manually.

So, no, you have not actually established that anyone would be endangered were the root KSK private bits published on Pastebin. I suspect, in all seriousness, that the answer to my question is "in reality, nobody would be endangered".
Just because it's new technology doesn't make it bad. Hitler used PA speakers and radio advertisements to win the election. Politicians since then have all done the same. Then there was TV advertising, then Obama's targeted intelligent internet advertising, now this. Are you opposed to all political advertising? In that case, this is not the moment that it became bad. It started, well, with the beginning of human politics.
I generally start with making something that accomplishes some small part of what I am trying to eventually accomplish, then iteratively add things.

It's awful to do in Java, but I felt fine doing it in go.
It's not an "exploit". This stuff was freely given to Obama back in 2012. My best friend was a canvasser and before going into each house, the iPad they used told canvassers what to talk about and not to talk about. It knew who was pro-life so you wouldn't bring up abortion. It knows who's pregnant and who's recently had an abortion (you can get this through knowing what purchases someone has made and not made). There is a file on everybody, their intricate political and consumer dispositions, and this is Facebook's product. CA has blown up in the news despite being only one of many consumers of the same thing because journalists can make the technically true charge that they are "Trump’s election consultants" and millions are primed to go apeshit at that. But CA is just one of many buying the unethical products, and Facebook is just one of many producers of these data sets.
You believe that it is decadent not to marry and/or not to have children??
Precisely! From what I cant tell, that tweet (which went rather viral) is misleading at best; based on the public information, the 2012 Obama campaign wasn't using that access to target people who volunteered access to their Facebook data, they were using that access to get info about their non-consenting friends and figure out how to get them to vote for Obama. (I commented about this in one of the other threads: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16620454) The 2008 campaign may have been more benign, but the CA Tweet he was debunking was about both, and those Carol Davidsen tweets appear to be about 2012 specifically.
I seriously don't understand what you're trying to say at this point.
Gestalt: A set of React UI components that supports Pinterest’s design language
Claimed today I believe. Possibly inspired by your post
Ask HN: GitHub slow scrolling on chrome
Since today, Github seems to be really slow on Chrome. While other sites are going well.

The pages i load are good on Firefox.

In particular, i'm having problems with : https://github.com/jakesgordon/javascript-state-machine/blob/2.4.0/test/test_basics.js

Anyone else?
collusion with more politicos

https://ijr.com/2018/03/1077083-ex-obama-campaign-director-f...
> Additionally, this information about Cambridge Analytica came out months ago.

Minor nit: Years ago.

The name Cambridge Analytica was being circulated in hacker circles since at least mid-2016. Thus far, the only new revelation was the Channel 4 reporting [1].

Security nerds have been complaining about Facebook's business model for years and it fell upon deaf ears.

Suddenly, the public gives a shit and I don't understand what changed.

[1]: https://www.channel4.com/news/cambridge-analytica-revealed-t...
> “We called the police because she wrecked her room and hit her mom… all because we took her phone,” Kelly’s father explained. He said that when the police arrived that evening, Kelly was distraught and told an officer that she wanted to kill herself. So an ambulance was called, and the 15-year-old was strapped to a gurney, taken to a psychiatric hospital, and monitored for safety before being released. Days after being hospitalized, Kelly was brought to my office by her parents who wanted to get help for their troubled girl.

For whatever reason I'm leaning less towards "Evil Tech Executive Boogeyman" and more towards "Bad/Negligent Parenting."
Splash of Color: Instance Segmentation with Mask R-CNN and TensorFlow
LG should buy back Palm trademark from TCL and make it a premium brand in its mobile portfolio.
That isn't changing the past. It's changing the interpretation of the past. The old transactions are still there, they're just not considered valid. That's fine. An election blockchain can't enforce its result anyway. A dictator can always simply say "yep, I got voted against, but too bad, i'm staying". What's important though, is that in a blockchain based system, that dictator would not be able to claim legitimacy convincingly. We would know and be able to prove that they invalidated or ignored the results. They cannot invalidate/ignore the true tally without everyone knowing they did it, just like you know that those Bitcoin transactions were invalidated. That is exactly the point.
my relationship with Facebook reminds me more of an abusive girlfriend than one which is on the whole good
> except in rare cases like gun laws

They're still very reactionary in that, which is precisely why it isn't very effective when a subset of them do react: there are plenty of smart things that could get proposed, but the overlap between people who know what they're talking about and people that want the laws is exceptionally small, so consequently dumb, ineffective stuff that has no chance of passing anyway gets proposed. What does get proposed is a knee-jerk reaction to what just happened, and rarely actually looks systemically at the current laws and gun violence as a whole. Example: the Las Vegas shooting prompted a lot of talk of bump stock bans. Bump stocks are so rarely used at all, nevermind in violence, and they will generally ruin guns that weren't originally made to be fully-automatic very quickly if they're actually used for sustained automatic fire. Silly point to focus on suddenly. After the Florida shooting last month so much focused on why rifles are easier to obtain than handguns. And it's because overwhemingly most gun violence is handguns. Easily concealable rifles are already heavily regulated at the federal level for that very reason.
I was referring to employees in the last paragraph. I agree that users will probably not leave, unfortunately.
Yeah, I agree, but I don't see a way around it. Big private companies are rare.
just fixed the Makefile and created a pull-request, it should build both epub and pdf as long as you have pandoc installed. The pdf file is 18 pages in total, so it is a very short one, or am I missing something?
Interesting. I thought this word is often used by incumbents to look down at the newcomer. English is not my first language so it's good to learn these subtleties.
Not really. Firefox OS failed for market reasons (impossible to break through) and performance reasons, but those were DOM related, not JS related
Wow that rent though, a great place to live frugally. How is your health insurance (if you don’t mind my asking)?
Abstractions are not a bad thing, but early abstraction often lacks understanding of the problem to solve. Abstraction is complexity. We often need complexity, but we should not add complexity without cause.

And I don't think this is a Java vs. Go thing. Let the program, or the problem if you will, prove to you where you need abstraction.
Police Say Uber Is Likely Not at Fault for Self-Driving Car Fatality in Arizona
> You can make sure

Essentially you're arguing for a centrally planned economy, where bureaucrats decide and micromanage everything.

Somehow, it never seems to work out very well, and they have to build walls to keep people from escaping.
they don't want to admit it, because Facebook is worst then Russia in election manipulation
I’ve never heard of a noa-name, and my attempts to Google frustratingly return only meanings of the name Noa. Do you have any good starting points for me to learn about this? It’s so very up my alley, and I’d love to learn more.
To be clear, the testing for getting a learner's permit (where I live at least) is 7 out of 10 questions on a multiple choice test, and the test for a driver's license is a 20 minute drive-about where the driver gets to more or less choose the area they'll drive and the weather when the test is done.

I don't think it's even a very tough argument that these are at best basically limited filters on actual driver skill. I've known people who literally went to another city for favourable conditions for their driver test. I've known of people who passed having driven not much more than a few hours in their lives.

Nowadays if you want to be the driver in the passenger seat for a learner you need to do a somewhat more difficult test and be older.

Also, I'm really not talking about this specific case but I think it's particularly relevant that in this case there was a qualified driver able to take over for the autonomous vehicle, which is actually more supervision than a 14 year old with a learner's permit has.
> Most interfaces have one implementation. Instead, they are about abstraction, design, and so on.

Then what you want is an abstract data type. Unlike interfaces, which can be implemented anywhere, an abstract data type is implemented in a single place. This has obvious benefits for performance (clients don't need to dynamically dispatch on operations), control (implementors don't need to worry about malicious clients supplying impostors) and precision (a single module can export several abstract types, whose implementations are mutually dependent).

Go's interfaces are pretty terrible at all of the above. Not that Java provides anything substantially better.
Can you elaborate: what are you testing and comparing to ? are you looking at a real-time application (gaming) or is your comment about offline rendering (visualeffects/animation) ?
I don't work on this project but I can forward the feedback to the developers.
>Applying an exterior coat does sound like an interesting idea. One concern I would have, is whether if and as it deteriorated, it might trap moisture and corrosives next to the tank, turning from protectant to trap and accelerant.

This is a real concern, and one of the big problems with conformal coatings. The short of it is that when coating ferrous materials, you need to make sure as much rust as possible is removed before coating. (As rust forms, it takes up a greater volume that the iron is forms from. This results in pressure that will lift coatings, and allow water to seep underneath, accelerating wear.)

Just to repeat, in your case, wire brush + the spray will probably net you another year or two, which is about what you could hope for with a tank that has already had seeping issues anyway. So I agree with your assessment of borrowing some rack time and giving it a shot. It is an inexpensive way to eek out a little more use of what you've got.

>As for the alcohol blend fuels, I was aware that they help significantly in keeping the tank "dry". It's been my understanding that they may also contribute to the lower instances of "vapor lock" that we see, these days. At least, at my mild altitude and (mostly) non-extreme environment.

Vapor lock used to be an issue when fuel pumps were located in the engine bay, powered off a rotating cam that ran a diaphragm pump from the gas tank to the carburetor. The pump would be pulling from the tank to the front of the car, then pushing from the pump a few feet up to the carb. Sometimes, in hot environments, the suction of the pump + heat of the engine bay would result in the fuel boiling inside the feed line before it reached the fuel pump itself, rendering it unable to pump any fuel at all until the system had cooled enough for the fuel to condense back to a liquid. Thus the term 'vapor lock'.

Nowadays, everything uses fuel injection and high pressure lines, with the pump located in the gas tank itself. There isn't any low-pressure part of the system that would allow vapor lock to happen any more, so it ceased to be an issue. :)
I totally understand the undercurrent of the 'cash only' operators - but I think that there will always be a portion of your customers who will use cash (travelling tourists etc.) as well as a large chunk who will want to use some form of electronic payment.

Far better for a business IMO to offer both - then they can still pocket most of the cash transactions without declaring, yet still show legitimacy to the ATO by having electronic payment records, which should keep the auditors at bay.

Our town is popular for market and pop up stalls all over the place, and while these used to be cash only for nearly as long as I have lived here, I have been noticing that a lot of them now have portable EFTPOS machines, or smartphones connected to Square or other payment swipers. Especially those that sell clothing or items >$20 because locals just don't seem to carry large notes around any more on a casual basis.
>I'm glad we stayed put, especially as we've started to focus on real revenue and scaling, and less on trying to be hot for the purposes of raising a big early round. I feel like the market for engineers around here is becoming an advantage for us, and we're not having to fight the same talent wars as those on the coasts. That matters.

Would you say there's any other advantage to your location besides being able to pay people less and having cheaper rent?
This is the difficult question at the heart of the matter. Certainly I am accustomed to hearing "breach" in the context of a "security breach," in which a third party accesses data without authorization by circumventing technical measures restricting such access. In this case, there was no such security breach. The Facebook API worked as designed, and returned all data according to spec, TOS, and API documentation.

The case of a "breach of trust" is a different story, and the problem emerges when you realize that what defines "private data" (the plunder from a breach) is nothing more than an arbitrary set of restrictions, set forth by the platform producing the data itself. Without Facebook, none of this data would exist. Without the Facebook API, no app would be able to collect this data within a sanctioned platform.

Because Facebook exists, and because Facebook offers an API to its data, Cambridge Analytica was able to collect "private data" on users. But it never needed to circumvent any technical barriers to collecting the data it extracted. The Facebook API and platform willingly supplied the data to Cambridge Analytica, as it did and does to thousands of other apps.

If it constitutes a breach that Facebook supplied that data to Cambridge Analytica, then there must exist some "bug," technical or not, that Cambridge Analytica exploited to gain access to the data. What is the bug? Can Facebook identify it, document it, and rectify it? If not, can Facebook really classify it as a breach?

The fact is, there was no bug. The Facebook API and platform worked as designed and documented, and supplied all data as expected to Cambridge Analytica, along with user authorization to supply that data.

If Facebook were to classify this as a breach, they must also point to the "bug" or "vulnerability," or whatever they want to call this, that enabled and precipitated the breach. Unfortunately, there is nothing for Facebook to point to, because the real vulnerability is the system itself. Facebook created an ecosystem of private data, and Facebook defined the boundaries for access to it. Facebook cannot claim an app, that was explicitly within the boundaries of its ecosystem, utilized the Facebook API in a way that constitutes a "breach." Facebook is the only entity in control of the boundaries defining a breach, or what exactly constitutes "private" data, so trying to call this a "breach" is like changing the rules mid-game.
As someone who's done exactly that with the Reddit data (http://minimaxir.com/2016/06/reddit-related-subreddits/), posts/comments aren't as useful for intent as you note. The valuable Reddit data is the nonpublic views/subscription/upvote/downvote behavior.
I could be misunderstanding, but is this also supposed to be a database of "clients" looking for devs or no? Basically, I'm missing the link between clients and devs. Like if I have a few spare hours here and there to do some coding on the side and want to get paid for it, can I just search for clients that posted cool projects and are paying by PR? Because conversely, if I have to find and bring my own clients into this system then I totally fail to see the benefit.
> Propaganda is not received in the same way.

Nothing new here, seriously. Propaganda from both sides before elections has existed for as long as there were political debates and political campaigns. The fact that we have now systems to make Propaganda more targeted may make it more effective than before, but that's all. In the end, believing or not in Propaganda is the individual's responsibility.
I must admit I am a bit too busy to network a whole lot, so that might be the case. I am more looking at it from a talent perspective.
People have been openly complaining about sexual impropriety in Hollywood for decades. There were comedic references to Harvey Weinstein [1] and Kevin Spacey [2] in shows like 30 Rock and Family Guy. Suddenly people started caring. What changed was the cultural moment of the 2016 election. Specifically with Cambridge Analytica and Facebook, the Mueller investigation may have taken a turn towards them in recent months.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ceNfXrccbQ

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M4dHf6jnwaU
One particular penalty that is an option is being disbarred from participating in Medicare/Medicaid. Depending on the disease the drug treats, that can be 50% of your market. And you're disbarred as an entity, not just the individual drug.

Interesting, when Pfizer was found to be promoting off-label use of their drug (another no-no), they were disbarred. Well... their Pharmacia-Upjohn subsidiary was disbarred. Luckily that entity doesn't actually have any sales.