skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The response to counter paranoia is to have trusted organization - that you can learn to trust, needing to learn how to trust as a pre-requisite - and regulation to counter bad behaviour and be proactive where reasonable.

Any violent act, no matter the size or whether it looks like or is a so-called legitimate reaction/response should be a signal/flag for response. All of these systems can be used for good or bad, they can excel at either - the broken piece will always be a lack of trust and relationships with community. This is the fight between good and bad/evil, between light and dark. The nervousness caused by bad/evil should be used and funnelled into strengthening oneself, one's resolve.

There may always be people trying to take advantage of these systems throughout history (perhaps at no fault of their own, we're born into the environment we're born into), however we can design systems for the environment and people to be healthy - health including being attached to empathy properly and to develop a practice of non-violence within society, and while educating to help people understand the value of these surveillance systems like tracking illegal activity in the management of Earth's resources - whether forestry, fishing, pollution; we're all fucked if we don't manage these. Not being a responsible being wanting to work together to manage these resources is very short-sighted and shallow thinking (primarily because of people stuck on scarcity/survival thinking), because we literally could all die if we don't manage these system. With economies of scale and automation we can do this - we can succeed. We can give an increasing higher quality of life to everyone than anyone on Earth has likely lived thus far. This isn't fiction, this is truth.

Stephen Hawking before passing was worried capitalism will get the best of us though -- that is his rally call for us to stand together, to align, and manage the negative impacts that a capitalistic-transactional system requires; http://www.businessinsider.com/stephen-hawking-final-reddit-... - the way we can honour this contributions to society is to, for those of us who are able, to stand and fight together. His passing on Pi day, the day Einstein's birthday, was no mistake - it's a bright beacon of light, the rallying call. Pay attention, stand guard.
I'll definitely be posting unboxing, tests, progress reports, etc., to the TenFourFox Development blog.
Is it the fact that I like Gabbard, or the fact that I voted for Bernie, which earns me such a commendation from such a valiant defender of the status quo (war) machine?
>Having them in your toolbox is certainly an advantage over having no choice

I disagree. Dependencies, or coworkers, will use them despite your decision not to use them. When a dependency does use them, chances are the documentation is poor or non-existent.

"Recover no matter what" doesn't require exceptions. A common C idiom is to call a function like f(input, *err), where err points to memory where f can write error diagnostic info. Clunky, but I like how it makes the "exceptions" somewhat self-documented in the function signature.
so you should've definitely taken harder classes then.
Sure, but if they have to process the RAW data anyway, they could easily send an unaltered copy in parallel to storage for offline use. I guess depending on the resolution & bitness, they'd want to downsample/compress it to save space. Heh, anyway its just pure speculation on my part. They probably have a good reason to do it one particular way...
It's the protocol that's non-proprietary, not the service. IP is non-proprietary but you still have to pay for servers.
A lot of people, including Pinker, seem to make too much of the connection between Good Ideas about philosophy and politics, and the resulting benefits to humanity. On the one hand, sure, good ideas lead to benefits. But good ideas aren't scarce and probably never have been. Anyone who spends some time surfing the internet will find dozens of good ideas that would probably lead to dramatic improvements in human welfare.

The limiting factor is the political willingness to try out new ideas. What's special about the Enlightenment era is not that the ideas were good, but that the political systems were willing and able to implement the ideas. Our current political system can't or won't contemplate even small changes to the Way It's Done. And this intolerance to new ideas is not just an unfortunate misrepresentation of the Will of the People: most people really don't like new ideas about politics and will often scream at you for suggesting them.
Obfuscating it with continuous loud noises would probably be easier than trying to change the sound of a the machine itself. A lot of the noise comes from the wood being cut, so even if you could totally silence the motor there is still that.
>Probably the largest "decentralized" tech success story in internet history ... and it depends on a central core of pre-baked trackers, safe DHT bootstrap nodes, and search engines to be usable.

I get the feeling you're not very involved in the private tracker community.
I think that GP's point was that a standard a la HTML or RSS should exist and be embraced by the OS. Something like Syncthing, I guess (just naming one of the first hits I got from searching, I haven't really kept up with what is being tried in this space).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syncthing
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IPO's tend to be bigger paydays even if they are more risky so I would assume they prefer IPO's.
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Thanks! Let's see if we can get it updated.
Also, is hackernews complied to GDPR? I didn't seem to see a "delete account" button? As I know GDPR asks that users' data can be deleted at anytime?
Would you buy their stock? What are their opportunities to grow market cap the next 5-10 years?
Yes, I said as much in the previous post. They weren't wage labourers because local landlords and churches could call upon their labour for free, besides which when they were actually permitted to to sell their labour (and early Middle Ages European peasants often weren't) they had few skills to sell and little to buy with the proceeds. Thus those periods of downtime between agricultural seasons are a lot closer to the modern concept of periods of "unemployment" than they are to "vacation"
> You can disagree with the means of the war, but the intent was to help society and the people most vulnerable in society by eliminating drugs through force.

Ha, ha, no it wasn't. It was started by Republicans to get people angry at the hippies and black people. Read this: http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/nixon-aide-war-drug...

The salient quote is: "“We knew we couldn’t make it illegal to be either against the war or black, but by getting the public to associate the hippies with marijuana and blacks with heroin, and then criminalizing both heavily, we could disrupt those communities. We could arrest their leaders, raid their homes, break up their meetings, and vilify them night after night on the evening news. Did we know we were lying about the drugs? Of course we did.”

A true "war on drugs" would seek to increase access to rehabilitation and counselors, while identifying and working to reduce the causes of addiction. Any time a lawmakers seeks to make something punishable by jail time, he is seeking to hurt someone he disagrees with. (There are obvious exceptions, like murder, theft, etc).
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I am interested in seeing follow-up research using this technique to investigate autism characteristics (such as, lack of neural pruning, or tuning parameters in predictive coding).
Edit: Removing comment.
Leave it to the socialist Europeans to fuck up the world's internet. GDPR is so terrible.
What would constitute a non-fraudulent blockchain ad?

All ICOs are all designed to be the same Ponzi-Pyramid scheme, as how they're incentivized - which is what makes Bitcoin, Ethereum's Ether et al in the same boat.
Agreed this is out of control now! And yet still, 20 years later, I can’t scroll the body of a table whilst keeping the header and columns aligned.

Surely things like that, or a src attribute for csv files, or even rudimentary charts and graphs for tables don’t even get considered.

Suppose fixing 20year old issues just aren’t as sexy as usb access from the browser...

As time goes on I connect less and less with browser developers.
> It does not seem very "viral" or income-generating. I know this is premature at this point, but without charging users for the service, is it reasonable to expect to make money off of this?

lol
Absolutely agree with (F). Writing, speaking and socializing are learned skills! I'm proof: I was horribly socially awkward until I learned how to speak to people! I also wasn't a great writer, but I kept at it and learned from people better than me. Now, I'm slightly better!

E) I agree that Fixed Cost is better than T&M/hourly...if you're good at estimating and scoping the work beforehand. I.e. if you have lots of experience to sell. It's very easy to lose money on the margin if you're not, hence why I'd recommend hourly for someone new to the game.

(I'd wager that it only makes sense to get into high-rate consulting if you have tons of experience, but that's another debate.)

D) I didn't know it was that cheap for young and single people! But it gets expensive fast if you have a family or advanced conditions.

C) Right, but you'd better be specialized enough to make it worth a startup's while to employ you. Also, it is easier to find startup's willing to hire you in hotspots like NYC or SF than, say, Columbus, OH. You could work remote, but that is a more difficult sell depending on what you do and your rates.

Definitely definitely agree with (A). Mistakes in filling are costly, and you'll eventually have a contract dispute that is easier to suss out with a lawyer.
That’s similar to the line Steve Jobs took when negotiating with them. Hard to tell if that was just nasty Steve coming out during a negotiation that wasn’t going favourably, or if that’s what he thought. Given that Steve wanted Dropbox, I’d gues he was just posturing.

https://www.businessinsider.com.au/drew-houston-dropbox-stev...
By the way Jessica, you told me that year that if one of us went public you'd do a keg stand. Just let me know in advance when that's going to happen so I can book a flight :)
Probably 3,000$ and 12,000$ respectively?
Have the creators of this project considered the privacy implications of capturing, recording, or analyzing audio from the rainforest? What happens if people are walking near a microphone and a conversation is picked up by the microphones?

I realize that the audio is probably analyzed for the sound of chainsaws, and then thrown away, but there's still the potential that such a system could be misused. So just wondering what people think about the ethical issues related to this technology.
> "I am considering a VETO of the Omnibus Spending Bill based on the fact that the 800,000 plus DACA recipients have been totally abandoned by the Democrats (not even mentioned in Bill) and the BORDER WALL [...]

Can someone explain to me how Congress cannot get DACA handled? The last polling I saw showed that it had near universal support among Democrats, and a solid majority among Republicans (about 80% overall for the general population).

It should be sufficient for the Republicans who are in charge of Congress to write a simple, clean, bill--hell, just codify the Obama executive order on DACA into law, since the problem Republicans seemed to have with that was that they thought Obama did not have authority for it, not that they thought it was a bad policy. That should sail through Congress easily.

Or, if they are worried Trump might veto if it is not attached to wall funding, instead of passing it directly they could explicitly give Trump the power to issue an executive order covering this. That wouldn't give him his wall, but it would give him the opportunity to issue an order similar to Obama's, and then take credit for personally saving those children for unjust deportation after the Democrats failed to pass a law.
Someone, somewhere has to pay for the disk.
I think C developers are harder to convince than developers who more regularly consume modern languages. I see no reason to use this over ANSI C.
Yeah, I believe these two things are more or less part of the same major API change to how permissions are handled. Note that until like... this year, you could simply target older Android versions to prevent users denying your app's permissions.

It looks like Google's going to try to start forcing apps to comply with targeting requirements to get apps on the Play Store now. But this really is a "too little, too late" situation, IMHO. Billions of users, as Android team likes to brag about, are already compromised.
Well, even if shwannomas are a relatively minor health risk, it would be pretty big news if low-level microwave radiation was causing them.

At present -- as far as I know -- there's no credible hypothetical mechanism by which microwave radiation at those levels can affect human biological tissue in that way. So, if it turns out that it is having that effect after all, then scientists have got a very interesting problem to investigate, and it would make for a much stronger argument in favor of restricting cellular technology just in case it had other health effects we're unaware of.

(I specified human here because it's an important difference. People have much thicker skulls and chest cavities than rodents, so we would expect that we'd need significantly higher doses of radiation to induce the same effects that are being studied in rodents.)
That's not an example. Heard about "show, don't tell"?
There is no race, it's all just brains doing overactive classification. I wish that we got over this as a species already.
Forget hydrocarbons and diamonds, the Helium-3 mining is the next candidate for the hype curve.
I would assume attractive women have more options open to them, not less. Same for atrractive males. Attractive people earn more, on average.

Being a booth babe is an option not open to unattractive people. Seems like a superset.
GP is asking, how much did this investment translate into.
Both parties have a lot more flexibility with M&A (this includes vested partners) — meaning private deals have far better conditions if the deal isn't a saving grace.

IPOs can have lengthy lock up periods and are generally much worse for leadership than acquisition (disclosure of personal information like compensation).
Agreed but could be a precursor to what could become of China if a revolution like the Berlin Wall episode were to happen.
> The French countryside isn't charming, it's horrible

I don't know which countryside you've seen, but most of what I've seen is not ugly, with still a great number of forest and other non-ugly parts. Cultivated lands is half of the total surface. Also water is not expensive in France and is not used for agriculture in most parts of the country, where they get enough rain. Of course, I agree with you that seeing those ugly corn fields receiving water at 12h in summer is infuriating.

The part of the GDP is 4.5%, not 2%.
I think that pretty much sum up what the major problem of Rust is:

"but I’m starting to feel seriously concerned by how glacially slow it is to get anything done."
unfortunately they seem to have ignored statics and dynamics in the design of cassie, which means the control system will be leaned on more heavily to keep the robot balanced.

for example, the knees don't seem to passively lock like ours, which means it will have to use energy to just stand up. and lacking good dynamics is probably why we don't see it run (the control problem gets way harder).

(my masters was in locomotion biomechanics)
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Your comment brings to mind this article: https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/the-blathering-superego-...!

I recommend giving it a read if you'd like your attitude challenged.
These are all very subjective. I personally love the error reporting; The examples and docs are excellent; Many times I've needed unstable nightly api features and have appreciated how easy it is to enable.
going to bed with excess blood sugar is the problem.
I found this regulation put too much burden on small businesses.

There's a very simple way around that problem - don't ask for your user's data.

The GDPR is about making sure you do your best to protect what they share with you. If they don't need to share anything then there is no burden on you to protect anything. In my opinion this is the ideal outcome. If you gather their data then there really should be a burden on you and your business to do the necessary work to make sure you've done at least the minimum to protect what they've shared, especially if you're profiting from that data.
NE-02 sent an electoral vote to Obama in 2008, whereas the other 4 NE votes went to McCain. In 2010, NE-02 was gerrymandered (arguably) and all 5 votes have gone to Romney (2012) and Trump (2016) since then.

Admittedly, that's sort of an exception that proves the rule. Only NE and ME don't operate under a winner-takes-all, they've so far only split their votes once each (2008 in NE and 2016 in ME), and their votes -- certainly splitting their votes -- has never impacted the result of a Presidential election.
Great post! As usual.
Yes IPFS the collective internet prices and earns for contributing disk.
That's a great question. Actually, one of the sounds that are pretty close to a chainsaw are mosquitos that are circling around our microphones due to the Doppler effect. We found ways of dealing with signals that are close to chainsaws by aggregating multiple models and also a time-based analysis. The system can draw causal/correlative conclusions such as a vehicle is usually present before a chainsaw. If there's no vehicle, the likelihood of a chainsaw goes down and the chainsaw model must be highly confident before we sound an alert.
Game developers push for unionization amid insecure positions, excessive OT
I'd love to hear from Drew on what pieces of advice from that ShowHN discussion actually affected their thinking for better/worse.
Isn't this a risk descision based on 'could I defend this against a likely prosecution'?

In that kind of situation, you'll probably end up getting measured against something between 'industry normal practice', and 'industry ideal practice'.

If you don't expect to actually get prosecuted or audited for compliance by a client or whatever, this probably doesn't matter much.

If you do, then you should probably look at whether an infosec consultant would pay for themselves in terms of avoidng fines or winning contracts.
This might sound a little mean, and I don't mean it to be this way, but this is a really naive viewpoint.

Look at any profession -- accounting for instance -- and they have all sorts of stuff like this. As an example, there's a concept in accounting of "materiality" - basically, something that's big enough to matter. Materiality is what lets fortune 500 companies present their financial statements rounded to the nearest thousand dollars. When you're talking about tens/hundreds of millions, individual dollars just don't matter.

Whether or not something is "material" is a matter of professional judgment, to be made in the context of a large body of professional knowledge, history, prevailing industry standards, economic/cost considerations, etc, basically that thing called "experience" that we so often toss under the bus in SV.

Perhaps the biggest difference between law and code, which are in many ways quite similar, is that law is highly reliant on context. For a court to determine whether "appropriate security" and "appropriate technical measures" are followed, they would solicit testimony from experts in the field (people like us) to determine whether they felt whether someone took "appropriate security". So ultimately it's a matter of opinion, but one made with context and expertise.

It works surprisingly well.

EDIT: For really complicated stuff, implementation is often delegated to an agency, such as the FCC, to create specific guidelines like you want. But this is the job of executive action, which is easy to change, not statute (on-the-books laws), which is much harder to modify once passed.
The GDPR isn't a set of technical specs. It purposefully sets out broad guidelines and leaves the implementation to each data-handling organization. Obviously the requirements and challenges of a hospital are much different than those of an e-commerce.
Therefore, it is the organization, or more precisely its DPO, that has to define what is "appropriate" to their business.

Then, according to your interests/knowledge/SOW, you can act as a security consultant who gives proactive advice, or as a contractor that develops a solution from a set of specs.
Legal cigarettes cap the profits that can be had from illegal cigarette trade. With cocaine, you can charge 100x production costs. This creates incentives that are sure to produce an endless supply of dealers, regardless of how draconian enforcement is.
This are not examples, this are very subjective anecdotes without any code or screenshots or ANYTHING to go on...
In the context of the time when it was written, "militia" meant the entire male population of military age. You can look up period law codes and find this kind of definition. It wasn't a legal fiction, either; that was the only civil defense most communities had, and threats were fairly common (e.g. Indian raids).

The plain meaning of the second amendment, in this context, is that _anyone_ is allowed to own arms, because everyone is expected to take responsibility for defending themselves and the community. There's also another layer; "militia" is as opposed to "standing army", and "a well-regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free state" thus means that the militia (that is, the population at large) needs to be armed well enough to resist tyrannical impositions by a standing army.
There is a long long history of well intentioned laws that liberals push through that end up harming the very same groups, or indirectly other 'vulnerable' groups, they were originally seeking to help.

The problem is there is so often a disconnect between intentions and predictable outcomes when the bills are being crafted... or worse when actual negative outcomes are apparent yet bills continue to stay active for decades.

For ex: 1970s rent control laws in NYC/Toronto significantly reduced the supply of affordable housing after 5-10yrs while a significant percentage of upper/middle-class people ended up getting cheap rent-controlled apartments and never leaving. Not to mention the massive increase in landlord arsons (who had no other choice in order to 'renovate' the building) causing already bad ghettos in the Bronx to turn into war-zone looking places.

So the big question here: Does this law actually help stop sex trafficking? Does it justify the huge costs it imposes on these web sites for which millions of legal sex workers depend on for their livelihood, just to enforce a tiny minority of bad listings? Especially when they completely shut down? Are sex workers being forced to go back to the streets to look for work because it's too hard for them and their customers to find sex-work listing websites?

Or more generally: First: Does it work, Second: if it does, how do they stack up against the side-effects and externalities imposed on law abiding people/industry to achieve that outcome?