skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
By "left," I don't mean "deleted their accounts in response to recent news," or even "disabled their accounts." I'm sure they still have accounts, but they never use them because they see no point in doing so. I probably still have an Orkut account, as do many thousands of people, but that doesn't really matter for Google's profits. How many of your "friends" regularly use the thing?
Using ML to Improve Streaming Quality at Netflix
I've never done this personally, but I'm pretty sure there is no way to protect against hooking and/or patching functions in Secure Transport (iOS's low-level TLS stack), since all network traffic goes through these APIs. I'm sure there's something similar in Android.
I think IEX has a free API with historical and real-time stock info: https://iextrading.com/developer/docs/
sudo netstat -tuple

:-)
They can't operate in NYS at all, at least not without safety drivers. They also can't operate a driverless taxi service at all without the city or state government passing laws. NYC/NYS is not the kind of place whose politicians are gonna stick their neck out and pull an Arizona early before the tech is proven, either.

NYC is already one of the most regulated environments for taxis in the country, maybe the most. Details down to specific models and equipment and driver behavior and pricing are specified by law and enforced by the TLC, and no driverless taxi service could comply with them as they are written today.

And if they did it using safety drivers, assuming the equipment complied with TLC regulations, they might have a hard time finding safety drivers willing to take the risk when they could just drive a normal cab. TLC licensed drivers have a lot of other requirements and liability and responsibility put upon them, and they cannot delegate that responsibility to anyone else.

As just one example, if the Arizona wreck had happened in NYC, Cooper's Law would have required the safety driver to have their license summarily suspended until the investigation is complete, then revoked permanently if found guilty of ANY charge, even a minor one like speeding 2mph.
Hey guys, have you guys looked into social impact bonds? I think your service would be a great fit for that type of product!
The same is being suspected here in India as well. Trouble ahead for Zuck
Because then we would never have autonomous cars
The British Government’s claim to be able to identify Novichok cannot be true
The Apollo program cost, according to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_program , $25 billion in 1973 dollars, over 11 years. According to https://www.bls.gov/data/inflation_calculator.htm that's about $146 billion in 2018 dollars.

That's an annual cost averaging more than the entire program cost of the JWST. Of course Apollo spending wasn't very even over those 11 years; for example in 196 according to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_program#Costs it cost
about $23 billion in 2018 dollars. So triple the entire JWST program cost in that one year.

If we were willing to throw this much money at the problem, sure NASA could build multiple iterations of things quickly, destructively test them to get lots of data, etc, etc.
Thinking Forth [1]. Yes, it's Forth and not Javascript. But it covers pretty much the same territory as Refactoring plus some pretty deep discussions on program design/architecture, for a book originally written in the mid 80s.

[1] http://thinking-forth.sourceforge.net/
Although you can buy a copy on Amazon.
Sounds like you have a code review and automated testing problem and not a bad coworker problem.
Uh, you can put it on another phone maybe?
Sweden has really improved in this regard recently. I also like

- http://rkrattsbaser.gov.se/sfsr (searchable legal database of the legislative organ of govt)

- http://riksdagen.se/ (homepage of the legislative organ of govt, where full transcripts of proceedings are uploaded after at most a day)

- http://www.gov.se/ (general govt portal website)

However, a special mention is necessary for https://www.systembolaget.se/. Sweden has a government monopoly on alcohol, and the state-owned seller is Systembolaget. They were really early with having a well designed website. Their search is advanced and filterable in almost anything you'd want. They were really careful not to break the web by ensuring the back button works, and more importantly, that the current view is reflected in the address field so you can share what you see by copying the addrews and sending it in an email, and so on. Really important stuff that so many get wrong.
Mass transit infrastructure will not provide VC's with 100x returns.
I'm by no means sure of the relative danger, but plain old gas cars can also have pretty big fires. Is it actually worse with batteries? The energy density is if anything lower.
Woah! snips.ai looks interesting. I might just fool around with this for a weekend project. thanks for the link!
Worse than having it forced on you from fifty small poorly calibrated TV's in the seat-backs of fellow airplane passengers who are too lazy, ignorant or oblivious to turn them off while you're trying to sleep on the first of two red-eye flights before your layover in O'Hare International Airport before work the next day?
Comments like yours are actually a lot more annoying than having to click the "web" button to bypass paywalls.
Let's put on our tinfoil hats for a moment: I find a bit odd the coincidence that both the personal data leaks scandal and FB's change in wall algo to show less news, appeared at virtually the same time. All this fb media lynching couldn't continue for long as long as some non liberal people like Peter Thiel can be blamed.

Let's not forget that Peter Thiel is VP at fb. If he wanted Palantir to have an app that went under the scrutiny radar of some fb data protection radar, he would've most probably been able to get that.
Writing well
Then Geotrust, in a petulant hissyfit, email ~20,000 of their customers private keys to DigiTrust - and the carefully laid plans of updating the app with newer ssl certs pinned 12 and 6 months in advance of expiry are - ummmm - revealed to be flawed...

Hilarity ensues.
Sure, but then you'd have to JB the phone. Most of this stuff is pretty straightforward, but not exactly 'trivial' - especially given the context is an iOS app specifically aimed at making MITM easier.
Oracle said in a statement on Tuesday that the recent "decision protects creators and consumers."

Gag me with a spoon!
So he wasn't a "Peter Thiel Employee" either then. Can't have your cake and eat it too.
> It took me about a year to recognize this pattern, but eventually I learned to catch myself whenever I was seeking this form of comfort

Most of the advice from self-help books can be condensed into this line - Recognizing a pattern and catching yourself.
Only after this in place can a behavior/habit be replaced. Or improved. Or removed.

If there is no self-awareness, changing behavior/habit is infinitely more difficult.
Well, the certs don't _have_ to be shipped with the app, there are workarounds to refresh the certs without sending out a whole new app binary.
To be clear, I personally don't espouse these "NIMBY"ist ideas, I'm just pointing out that they exist and that they will be a real problem for widespread deployment of autonomous vehicles.

Uber, with their recklessness, is inflaming them a lot.
Sounds like both.
I think yes we are actually over-engineering front-end development at the moment, and I think part of the reason is we are under-engineering on unified standard and toolings in front-end realm. The ever fast progressing in web platform concepts has surpassed the speed of advancements in the platform (mostly browsers) and development environments. Therefore what used to be as simple as an <a href> now could very well be 200 LOC of history state manipulation and observation, what in other programming language is out-of-the box with fresh install or IDE integration is a few hours of webpack config and everyone is different from everyone. In short I think the cause of notorious front-end development is the non-unified status quo. Can't say it is whether a good sign or bad, it may be the price we have to pay to evolve, or maybe we overpaid already.

That has been said. To answer your question, I think if user experience is not high on priority and there isn't much point re-use a lot of UI code, the company is fine with back-end framework and many do. I do believe front-end framework provide many benefits, code re-usability, loose coupling from back-end code, easy for team collaboration, such and such. Company should only switch to them for reasons not the fuzz it generates.
There's an "official" raspberry pi camera module with mature libraries already written, and I believe it comes in both a regular IR and a No-IR version for night-ish vision.

There are also a ton of different 3D-printable mounts and jigs for them on sites like thingiverse and instructables.

My favorite[1] comes as a kit with the jig, 3 servo motors, and an add-on board for a raspi. Using this I have a live-feed camera that can rotate up to 180 degress on 3 axis that I can control from anywhere in the world using my phone as long as my internet connection is up at home. All hosted locally, even the live feed frontend. It's not hard to build or set up either, took me a lazy day and I'm far from a good coder.

1: https://shop.pimoroni.com/collections/raspberry-pi/products/...
The gain isn't significant at all. At least in comparison to that of Donald Trump. Sure, Modi would prefer to be friends with everyone, including Facebook. That doesn't however automatically make him liable for spying on a billion plus Indians. That's stretching the argument too far. Just because Facebook was used as a tool to influence people in the US doesn't mean the same happened in India. Modi came to power purely because of the scam ridden and corrupt regime that existed previously and his track record of 3 terms as Chief Minister (spanning 15 years of real progress and development). Back then, Modi was a pariah in the US. He was denied visa by the US until he became the Prime Minister of India.

In fact, to make matters worse, Facebook's Free Basics service was outlawed by Modi Government. If he was a friend of Facebook, he would have enacted laws that helped Facebook. This happened after Zuckerberg's visit to India. Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/feb/08/india-fac...
But we don't have a military industrial complex to feed.

Also, New Zealand is laughably straightforward in terms of governing structure. Hard to have too much duplication (and easy to hit economies of scale) when there's only one Police Force for example. In the US there's the Federal, and the State, and the Municipal level. All with monster bureaucracies.

Observations: Also Kiwi, but live in 'Murica.
[I'm sticking this here because there was a dude who said this was a good reply and I tried to reply to him and HN say s his post was deleted. I don't know why, his post seemed pretty reasonable to me, he was asking if forth was a good boot loader. Shrug.]

I don't for a minute think that forth is the best answer, it's an awful answer. Even lisp, which I hate with a passion, would be a better answer because more people have experience in lisp than forth.

Forth is just less shitty than what Intel came up with, I think it was part of EFI, it's amazingly bad. I've designed a few programming languages and I'm not good at it, but holy crap, I could be drunk and come up with a better answer than Intel did. Forth is just a crappy language but it's less crappy than what Intel did.

The idea that Forth is somehow special for boot loaders is nuts. There is nothing, that I know of, that makes forth somehow magical for that.

What you want for the bootloader, and for the debugger that you drop into when there is a panic, is something like C but interpreted. You want to be able to walk a linked list of page table structures. And to its credit, Sun's forth could do that. It's sort of twisted to think it could but it did, there were forth words that did all sorts of kernel magic.

I think that the magic of forth was that it was tiny, back 30 years ago you didn't want to have a lot of storage for your debugger. That's not the case today, if someone made the case that they could make things better, here you go, here's a gig of storage. That's a little crazy but still. Forth was cool when a meg of storage was a crazy amount.

We can do better. Intel pushed us backwards, Forth would be a step forwards, but man, I'd take python or Tcl (because then I'd get my pet language L, http://little-lang.org) or even perl as a better boot language.

Froth has no special boot sauce in my opinion. It was just small.
Certificate pinning is inherently security by obscurity; it's intended as an annoyance for anyone trying to reverse-engineer the service, rather than an insurmountable barrier.
Is there a particulate size where a respirator becomes necessary in woodworking vs a dust mask? Like, above 120 grit you should really have a respirator on? I'm probably not as concerned about wood dust as I should be, so this is interesting to me.
The obvious answer to a hungry reader to avoid bad fiction is to read the NYT book review.

The answer to a hungry investor to avoid bad ICOs is to... ?

The obvious answer seems to me to be "avoid ICOs for the time being."

Is there really another obvious answer to that?
They usually investigate companies whose products have a major impact on safety on the roadways [firestone for the Explorer rollovers, for example]. Anyhow, if there's an extra-ordinary vehicular/transport accident of note, they will likely investigate.
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Thank you for the suggestion. I started that one but somehow never finished it.
> Some time ago I

As much as I'd like to believe this anecdote, more proof to back you up would be nice.

It's becoming super easy to post weightless stories here similar to this one, and I'd like to see the (rough?) integrity of HN somewhat preserved a little longer.
Is there a reason why it's breaking, though? Is it really because the person breaking it is incompetent, or is it because there wasn't enough documentation or education or safeguards in place to prevent this from happening?
Partly because of Cambridge Analytica and The Guardian's interest in that organisation (an interest somewhat motivated by CA's role in promoting brexit).

Basically politics.

n.b. don't misread this as me claiming that FB and CA are being unjustifiably maligned.
I guess I have worked with different types of sysadmins.

A good sysadmin has, or at least expresses traits of in their work, pessimism and realism. We have to constantly viscerally feel and know that any component can fail at any time. Remembering your own mortality goes along well with that.

Being easily disturbed by this is not a trait I would like to see in someone with these kinds of responsibilities.
It looks like it is corrected now. I didn't include the year in the original submission, so it must have gotten typo'ed by a mod.
The filter side AI, aided and abetted by human users, will effectively act as a GAN for the attacking AI. The consequences of such a relationship will be troubling to say the least. I guess we need to start building the immune systems to outpace the resistance to it.
The need for tooling and the need for mastering your tools
I do wonder why someone at HN decided that to stomp on the guy who was asking about forth as bootloader. Didn't seem weird at all to me. HN? Care to explain? Did I miss something?
It is time. #deleteoracle
> ...the guy died from the burns from the inferno, not from the actual impact of the crash.

Incorrect.

“Witnesses were able to extract the driver before the flames posed any threat to him.“

Here is VIDEO of the Tesla immediately after the crash, taken by one of the guys who helped pull the driver out of the car:

https://youtu.be/RlQTeF45aIE

The battery is only just starting to ignite at this point after suffering catastrophic damage. (You can see individual cells torn apart). I would say this is significantly safer than a dozen gallons of gas which surely would have exploded in the same scenario.

What IS true is that the aftermath is harder to cleanup because the damaged cells can pose a threat for reigniting.
I know it was meant to be a joke, about "foreign aid", but if you haven't seen https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2018/3/13/17096732/v... you should. Turns out voters aren't as daft on "foreign aid" as is popularly believed by the political commentariat.
I would contend that. Dissemination (even distribution) might be slower, but it could evolve in specialized local areas (large campuses, special transit corridors, etc.) and slowly but safely expand outside those areas.
It would take a complete uprooting of transport as we know it, no doubt. I suspect it would take something drastic like a federal ban on automobiles. Not going to happen.
Recent bankruptcy actually makes it easier to get credit cards than the typical pre-bankruptcy credit history. You're barred from filing bankruptcy again, so credit card companies are surprisingly willing to lend you money (since if you don't pay them back, they can sue you and garnish your wages and you have little recourse).

Something like 62% of bankruptcies are due to medical bills.
It's a hardware overhead that harms automatic testing, dude.

Dynamic type systems are an abstraction used to make programming faster and that's pretty much it. Also they only show up in interpreted languages so that tells a lot about focus on performance. I personally think it's overwhelmingly more interesting to drop this abstraction in favor of stability.
I cannot get the site to load in Chrome 65, by the way. I'm getting:

>This site can’t provide a secure connection

>wonderunit.com uses an unsupported protocol.

>ERR_SSL_VERSION_OR_CIPHER_MISMATCH
If hacker stole your data from lousy credit rating bureau or alike - security questions are not information commonly associated with your SSN.

Every merchant/sevice in this case keep their own "last line of defense" - your security Q/A's.

While being PITA sometime - they are offering a way to steer hacker away from you to easier targets.

You don't know how many times some bad guy failed to answer your security question and moved on.

But this does happen often.
> As for lifetimes, that syntax is from OCaml, though they use it for something else.

I hadn't noticed the similarity but it makes sense. This is the OCaml syntax for generics, eg:

type 'a list_with_generic = 'a list;
"Open Source" is not a strange phrase. It's the natural phrase for software that doesn't keep its source secret (or "closed", a common synonym for secret). This is so natural that the intelligence community has a parallel definition of "open source" that refers to non-secret/publicly available intelligence sources.

I understand that in practice, ESR successfully muscled others out and claimed effective cultural ownership of the phrase, but that doesn't mean that no one else is allowed to try to stake their claim and see if it sticks.

I personally think the unlimited redistribution clauses that are mandatory for "Open Source" licenses have caused some serious problems. Commercial vendors have improperly conflated the distribution of source code with the complete inability to make any money from it.

The problem, of course, is not that the source is available and people are free to tweak and understand what's happening on their own machines, but that the licenses which open-source programs grew up under made serious commercial sales effectively impossible. The only business model that's viable is selling support. Compare the market caps of Oracle and Microsoft to Red Hat for an illustration of the comparative effectiveness of these models.

Stallman at least swapped commercial viability out for the infectious nature of copyleft, intended to keep as much software free and shareable as possible. Permissive BSD/MIT family licenses just give it up.
Facial recognition to make debut at 2020 Tokyo Olympics
Interesting. Any idea if the significance of the up-vote is explained somewhere officially?
They'll "Alphabetize" and become more of a holding company, but that doesn't mean the core product is immortal.

Berkshire Hathaway is strong as a company, but they haven't produced clothing fabric in a very long time.
Unfortunately courts don't pay attention to your opinion. They only pay attention to grumpy old codgers who don't really understand technology or innovation. They only understand precendents or long ago useless decisions of previous courts and the pragmatism of someone raised on thoughts on computers and ideas of fairness from the 1950s.
Ask HN: How fast are your real time analytics?
According to 3D Developer John Carmack, "Human sensory systems can detect very small relative delays in parts of the visual or, especially, audio fields, but when absolute delays are below approximately 20 milliseconds they are generally imperceptible."

Source: http://www.altdevblogaday.com/2013/02/22/latency-mitigation-strategies/

So, do real-time stats really need to be realtime?
No;

Fake news is the specific phenomenon observed recently of websites, operated primarily by Romanian citizens, which made up events entirely to drive ad click revenue.

The sites were made to look like they were for legitimate news papers, but there were no actual newspapers with those names in existence.

Soon after the term was coined it was co-opted by president trump to mean all media, leading to the blurring of its meaning.

Fake news is neither journalism nor politically motivated. It’s pure avarice sans morality.

Yellow journalism was still about news and journalism. The root of fake news is hard to even put into words.

It’s people who didn’t care about news, they just a/b tested text and saw what got the most shares and likes.

Then they conned people into believing it was a legitimate source by putting it under a news site like banner.
I think the preferred term for software that doesn't comply with the OSI's definition is "source available".
None of this guy’s post makes much sense at all. Sounds like an undubstsntiated conspiracy theory and I am curious how this got on the front page.
It is possible via behavioral therapy. Most social anxiety stems from a lack of previous success in social situations. Once you realize that people don't bite, you stop giving a shit. The public is mostly oblivious and distracted. If you think you are getting attention its far more likely that no one cares.

Source: introvert who isn't scared of the mopey public anymore
You're probably right, though I'm sad about that. For a lot of people FB use seems almost like cigarettes. I mean, not that order of magnitude, but same idea. Doesn't really matter what bad news comes out because it's so habit forming.

The bad news has to be truly existential to make a real difference.
> "Let's put on our tinfoil hats for a moment"

Cambridge Analytica's involvement in the 2016 election has been reported since July 2015. Targeting via Facebook has been known since at least 2012 with respect to the Obama campaign, and with the Cruz, Carson, and Trump campaign since early 2016.[0] There's been an ongoing investigation into possible election improprieties, so people have been focussed on all of these areas for years. You don't need a tinfoil hat and some kind of coordinated campaign to explain that it was likely just a matter of time before something like this would hit the headlines. In this case, it appears that it was Wylie coming forward.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cambridge_Analytica#2016_presi...