skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> What we're dealing with here is loopholes and nothing more under various incarnations - take patents in the US or the lax tax policies of Malta or Isle of Man as an example - and you'll get a sense on why a bit of cleaning up is sorely needed.

Oh, I agree, it definitely needs cleaning up.
Pacifism is all well and good when the other guy doesn't want to kill you. Until we get to that point, I'm happy with the US policy of having an overwhelmingly dominant force as a deterrent.
_Amphigorey Too_ by Edward Gorey. When I've been staring at a computer screen and thinking about logic for too long it's nice to look at some beautiful hand drawn illustrations and enjoy some surreal humor.
Facebook now says Cambridge Analytica’s data trove may be bigger than we thought
Interesting, that's on the Army Advanced Situational Awareness reading list (http://www.benning.army.mil/armor/316thCav/ASA/ReadingList.h...).
Making AI Interpretable with Generative Adversarial Networks
Many times suits and management drive the company right into the ground.
The Occasional Curiosity, Volume IV: Would You Forgive a Dying SS Officer?
https://www.instagram.com/p/BhKKZ9vAWiQ/?taken-by=fogbeam_ph...
TRIOT: Faster tensor manipulation in C++11
Totally agree. This is a problem I have in general with linux - you don't know what you don't know, and using man to find a command to do the thing you need is akin to using a dictionary to find a word to describe a definition you have.
The past few years have seen a LOT of law enforcement officers getting away with brutal killings that weren't retaliatory in nature at all. (Not that this is a new phenomenon, it's only newly visible thanks to increased citizen vigilance, bodycams, etc.) So I'd empirically dispute your position that the state's monopoly on force is only retaliatory-- we don't and have never truly lived in a society of objective laws and legal processes.
Economist Paul Krugman Ponders the Sci-Fi Economics of 'Star Trek'
There were certainly signs that could have been and were seen. Her father warned police: http://www.businessinsider.com/nasim-aghdam-youtube-shooter-...
An Update on Our Plans to Restrict Data Access on Facebook
See also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clipper_chip
> Few countries and jobs have so little job security as being a YouTuber.

And unless this information is somehow hidden from anyone who consensually enters into a relationship with YouTube, this is not really a good point
> They also blocked URLs to competitors claiming the links were spam. Even if you legit posted the link, Facebook didn't notify you the message didn't send. It just failed silently.

Any links to more reading on this?
I read that many asian people don't even use it and simply wash themselves with a showerhead instead. Maybe we should just do it like that?
I would focus on the word tiny in your statement. America has to solve problems at scale. California has 3 million more people than Canada.

America is a federation of 50 states. The EU is trying to become a federation of the European states.
Meteor is a good example.

I'd expect full-on web frameworks -- as opposed to lightweight HTTP or utility libs -- to have routing, data persistence, access control, testing facilities (e.g. DI), and templating in an integrated way.

(FYI, I like libs rather than frameworks...this is just in the interest of comparing apples to apples.)
Please do explain how you would test whether you are being simulated or if you're an "actual" instance.

As in, perhaps there's an outer universe where our hairiest quantum physics are trivially solved. They are simulating a very simplified universe model, and everything we see is already simplified.

If you can prove it, you're far more clever than me. If you can't, then being "actual" seems to have no practical use.
Have you looked at oauth? This is the sort of thing it was designed for, but it assumes that all the domains support it.
Joe Grand developed a similar product for Parallax a while back, with a lot of interesting technical details on his site: http://www.grandideastudio.com/laser-range-finder/
Her site is 503 at the moment.
> If the user says he lives in Berlin, then apply EU laws to his data. If Facebook tries to "discern" the domicile and incorrectly discerns the domicile then that's Facebook's problem.

I hope they do this, and don't try to cross-check against login IPs or anything. I just set my FB city and hometown to European ones to increase my chances of benefiting from the GDPR.
My YouTube channel also used to net closer to $1k/mo (about 100 coding tutorials) and as a result of frequent algorithm changes and algorithmic demonetization now nets shy of $100 per month.

I am not fond of Google's censorship first philosophy, their willingness to push their own viewpoints (many times not backed by logic, reasoning or data), or the fact that they build platforms marketed for the users and than once these platforms hit scale they kill off the teams that took care of the users in favor of all-in monetization of any kind.

It is very sad what happened, but for a company with such a large monopoly in search and in online user-generated video I have expected better. I can see how this person would be furious if she lost nearly all of her income to a change with no way of fixing it.

To clarify, I also lost my highest grossing video to a copyright troll and YouTube ignored my support queries for 6 months before resolving it (about $400/mo lost in that time). They did not make any efforts to replace my lost income, and did not ban the copyright troll. I would have not been able to reach them to resolve it either if I just went through support. I had to send emails to support 3 times and than reach out on social media.

EDIT: And after a copyright troll steals your content, even if Google re-instates it the video seems to be lower in the search results. Being #1 for a search result is basically how you make money on YouTube if you aren't a YouTube personality. After several months of your content being removed it will lose several positions when it is visible in results again.

EDIT 2: http://youtube.com/devfactor

EDIT 3: Does anyone fear this is how large corporations in the "gig" economy will treat the people making them money in the future?

YouTube now treats creators as second rate citizens. It was definitely not like that when the platform was younger and still growing.

Many people make their living on YouTube, operating as a 1099 contractor similar to how many people are now making their living driving Lyft, Uber or similar services.

Once Uber and Lyft hit market saturation can we expect massive QoL declines for their drivers as well when the companies decide to pursue maximum profits since they no longer need market share?
> you at least seem to be aware of that fact that you are simply a gun for hire which makes it easier to reason about the position of others.

That probably is the case. Morality is also very subjective (which, to some, is a matter of belief). Maybe "hypocrisy" is not the right word. Perhaps I was looking for "lack of self awareness". That is kind of what I meant with "delusion".

There are a lot of good, empathetic people in Silicon Valley. More empathetic than probably any other subgroup I have ever encountered. And they have a deep desire to change the world. I have a lot of respect for that.

But they also circle jerk about that all the time (you see this in finance at charity events too). And in that circle jerk, thinking they are improving humanity, they end up cozing up with the federal government, foreign dictators, and even suppressing free thought! And I am not acquitting the Military Industrial Complex of doing a lot of the same things (but at least they are less deluded, having the "American interests" narrative as opposed to "make the world a better place" narrative).
And if they suddenly stopped paying anyone and just hoarded all the ad revenue, would they be subject to lawsuits?

Why does anyone think that what pays today must by definition also pay tomorrow, or else some grave ethical transgression has occurred?

Job security is an illusion (or a gross inefficiency, choose one)
Building  a city recommender for nomads ️ – with NomadList travel histories
Last article that was talking about Uber I asked why LIDAR wouldn’t have lit up that lady up. The response was “LIDAR might have been disabled”... as if that was any sort of acceptable scenario.
It does not scan email for ad-targeting anymore

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/23/technology/gmail-ads.html

Google has enough data on you that it no longer needs to scan email to show you relevant ads.
What is that last one?
Man.. you should have seen the fat at Motorola in its heyday. I had a long interview with one of their senior R&D people once and it was an eye opening conversation...
If we refuse to develop the technology, our enemies will anyway. Imagine a world where Nazi Germany developed nuclear weapons.
The Ars Technica article on their lawsuit against Apple [1] said they advertised a product on their website but received zero revenue from that product and seemingly didn't have any engineers working on it.

[1] https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2017/10/full-scale-of-ap...

Edit: Added the link.
Yes, it likely does. With English lacking a gender-neutral pronoun, "he" or "him" or "his" historically did not necessarily imply the male sex, depending on context. As "man" can refer to all of humankind, again it's a matter of context.
Abortion rights are predicated on not seeing a fetus as a “human life”. You may not agree with that, but if fetsuses were seen as a human life, then abortions would by definition be homicides.
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I agree.

The wikipedia article on LIDAR says

"Lidar [...] combine[s] laser-focused imaging with the ability to calculate distances by measuring the time for a signal to return using appropriate sensors and data acquisition electronics."

So this is not LIDAR. Still impressive though, I love the simplicity!
For better or worse the opposite happens at AWS

The upper parts of the developer career path as an individual contributor have more direct contact with system users
This well known process, which will play out over tens of millions of years, appears to be receiving media attention because ...

> A large crack, stretching several kilometres, made a sudden appearance recently in south-western Kenya. The tear, which continues to grow, caused part of the Nairobi-Narok highway to collapse and was accompanied by seismic activity in the area.
One of the reasons for current Steam refund policy is that Valve lost lawsuit in Australia: https://www.pcgamer.com/valve-loses-australian-legal-battle-...
"although the designer and I get along with him just fine"

It is very common that arrogant developers are condescending to non-tech people and not to tech people, considering themselves a special breed of human beings.

"I've drawn a pretty hard line in defending him thus far"

Why? Do you have evidence that the SDE is right? 4 different complains on a 9 employees company seems to indicate that's not the case.
Yes right trouble is this is often used by hr to try and explain why they don't pay market rate.

Doesn't really explain why google pays less in London UK for that google does in low col states in the states.

And I don't think Lockheed and BAE pay their engineers as much as FANG companies do and they certainly don't out compete on benefits.
Not a book, but an ASCII table comes in handy ever so often
What data are you really giving to Facebook?
Something with that much gear ratio would essentially be locked. It would most likely just tear the mechanism apart before it did any actual work.
AWS Certificate Manager Launches Private Certificate Authority
Lots of people don’t realize that North America almost did this same thing about a billion years ago. Check out the failed rift zone called the Midcontinent Rift. Ever curious why Lake Superior is shaped like that? MCR ground zero.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midcontinent_Rift_System
Considering the drift is occurring at a rate of a couple millimetres a year...no.
Bidet Toilet Seats, all the way.
We love peer-to-peer Web [video]
Humans are logical and rational, but can be illogical and irrational in the same breadth. Sometimes people are configured less trusting, some too trusting, everyone is trying to figure out the world.

Many of the things you mention, that there is some bigger power and belief being bigger than the reality, could also be applied to religious people which can also be troubling in many extreme areas such as cults or killing people that don't believe. Terrorism is largely a religious side effect of some belief that is avenging against a conspiracy. Conspiracy in a way is a religion, but some conspiracies are true and most people have seen humans be devious in small groups even at their workplace or in business, so it goes back to trust/belief as some challenge authority, some trust too much. Conspiracy has ranges just like religion but they may come from the same place, people trying to simplify their world with many unknowns or to deal with emotional issues, standing in society, trust in authority or too much confirmation bias.

All of this just goes back to the irrational side of humanity and the human condition where people are figuring out their world, anything that doesn't have a least a good hold in reality, solely based on belief over common trust and facts, can go off the rails.
"Code Complete 2nd Ed." - McConnell
"DevOps Handbook" - Gene Kim et al
"Deep Work" - Cal Newport
"Tools of Titans" - Tim Ferris
"Bleeding Edge" - Thomas Pynchon
Hah. So many great memories of MUSHclient. For a long time it was the first thing I installed on any new machine. Eventually moved to tinyfugue on a remote shell (so I could be "always online").
Maybe they don’t do it on mobile but on desktop they have a pop-up demanding you create an account to keep reading.
Or maybe like asking if Racket is a different language than Scheme.
FYI: I said I know why my grandfather fought, NOT WHY his commander in chief ordered him to fight.

That's a big difference, and one you chose not to respect.

His CiC may not have agreed, but my grandfather told me, to my face, that he fought fascism and was proud to do so.
Seems like someone already had that idea, atleast for the continental shelf:
https://patents.google.com/patent/US8258638
A bridge designed on purely utilitarian principles would not be 3D printed.

Art makes us think about what could be - and imagine a future of solutions that are utilitarian in new ways, or address needs we didn't know we had.

There is beauty in engineering. There is also beauty in pure imagination.
Great advice!

Notable omissions:

No real discussion of network protocols (or a network layer at all). For debugging in a distributed world, that's a valuable skill.

No real discussion of software deployment (although for backend services, docker might qualify). In a world of servers and PAAS's, it's helpful to know how to safely push the bits around.
So we should substitute 'strong cryptography' for 'arms' and see what happens.
Just one book: my notebook. Everything else is on the bookshelf.
Thanks, that’s pretty serious. Seems like they could have mentioned that earlier in the article.
That was perfectly put. When it comes down to it, making money is the same thing as "extracting value". Hopefully the system provides as much as or more than extracts, but that is very often not the case.
Anecdata - I remember that.
It's a very low margin industry. I would guess that it's industry wide when you read stories like this: https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2015/11/airplane-maintenance...
Also for preburning (ahead of forest fires) IIRC.
These are the ones right next to me now:

1. Design Patterns (GoF) - This book is all about design, someday I aim to really understand all the patterns.

2. High Performance Parallelism Pearls Volume 2 (Reinders/Jeffers) - There are couple of other books similar to this one. But, if you want to know how myriad HPC applications make use of parallel programming models such as MPI and OpenMP, this provides a good introduction.

3. The Annotated C++ Reference Manual April 1995 hardbound edition (Ellis/Stroustrup) -- What a fantastic little book, also got it for $4.95 at Powell's bookstore in Portland :) IMO this books provides a gentle introduction to C++, you can flip to any page and just start reading.

4. Numerical Recipes in C (Press, Teukolsky, et al.) - If I need to quickly prototype some scientific computation kernel, this is my go-to book.

5. Effective C++ 3rd edition (Meyers) - I like to approach this book from the back (i.e., indices), pick up a topic, and then read the contents one by one. Repeat.

6. Discovering Modern C++: An Intensive Course for Scientists, Engineers, and Programmers (Gottschling) - I like and dislike certain portions of the book. It definitely contains a lot of code explanations of C++ idioms, which helps a beginner like me.
They also downplay that in every case of a gun being used in some criminal way, numerous laws and regulations are already being broken. So what difference will more regulations make? The only thing that could possibly give the gun-control people what they really want is total confiscation of all guns, and even if that were somehow possible there would be a civil war over that if it were to be seriously attempted.
Pentagon and their killing machines is the #1 reason why there’s now peace here in Balkans, for 18 years and counting.

I don’t think people of ex-Yugoslavia would stop killing each other without being forced to.
By that same logic, aren't paranoid audiences ready to throw their money at post-nuclear-war supply kits and male vitality pills gold patches for advertisers?
Right, I think they said your content isn't monetized unless you have over 10k subscribers and X number of uploaded videos. This makes it hard to make money off of your cat, for example, as people click and share but don't subscribe. It's also harder to have a stream of these viral videos.

It's kind of sad that it went this way but I think it can open opportunities for alternatives to youtube.
I'm working on a travel web app right now and sadly it's still tied to GDS unless you want to affiliate link your users out to some other site.
Yes, that's true. It's alternatively called a bidet shower/spray[1] among other things and as an Asian, I feel using it is way more hygienic than using TP.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bidet_shower
Alternatively, there is an abundance of private sources of funding.

One of the founding principles of American government was the freedom from state surveillance and intrusion into private homes. Nowadays, the federal government of the USA can legally use any technology that is patented, so why should they be allowed to restrict inventors from disclosing or selling IP that inhibits surveillance?
The Man Who Wanted Everything
Facebook Says Up to 87M People's Data May Have Been Improperly Shared
I wish this was the only surprising bit in the constitution of Alabama. The section outlawing interracial marriage was only removed in 2000, and it still contains a section mandating segregated public schools.
Not laughing at the Buddhism books. That's actually a great suggestion!
an actual drawing class, unrelated to software. understand how line, color, and visual illusions affect humans.

the rest i just google, "design pattern for x" and take my pick.
AI kills again.
A MacBook.
Looks to me like she was always a bit 'out there' – possibly even in productively creative ways! – and wanted to be an avant-garde YouTube star.

But, because of her own limits in finding an audience (or tuning herself to an audience), or simply never having a lucky lightning-strike of fame, she didn't get the attention and wealth she wanted, and simmered with resentments.

Some background mental disorder(s) flared up – maybe due to some recent personal relationship or financial crisis, or drug/medication issues – causing a larger delusional/paranoid break from reality and civilized behavior. (Though, it may come out that she'd had other less-violent breaks in the past.)

Her known behavior before the violence doesn't strike me as that different from lots of other histrionic online personalities, or righteous ranters (either on mass media or in online niches), many with gigantic followings.
That's just hardcore. If I saw that on a desk I might think I was getting punked.
Transactional (Atomic) Updates in OpenSUSE
Without UK/US, all of Europe would have been in the USSR

It's extremely glib to point out that the Nazi's lost to the Russian winter (let's be frank, Russian weather did more to the Nazi's than Russian soldiers ever could...) without recognizing that:

- Hitler's strategy that lost in Russia was completely predicated on the knowledge of the Western Front. No UK/USA, we may not have had Hitler losing in Russia.

- The USSR would have taken all of Europe had it not been for the USA liberating France and meeting the USSR in Berlin.

Easy to say Russians did the heavy lifting when the truth is that Hitler fucked it all up.

Easy to say that Russians did the work, when the truth is that the reason why France and UK aren't post-communist bloc countries is because of what Americans did.
> I’m thinking of opening a chain called Urine-Urout All-Natural Laundromat. It’s a sparkling business opportunity!

Best line in the article. Though, TIL contrary to the popular myth, urine isn't sterile.
The article makes the case that he was inspired to create the business after suffering the problem himself. Not exactly a secret or unusual.
A few years ago while working on my undergrad I helped proctor a study involving a similar technology--transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS)--and it's impact on working memory. Although neither the tech nor the desired outcome in OP's article is identical to my undergrad project, the researchers are likely facing similar challenges which seem universal for low-current brain stimulation experiments:

- Effects are measurable but very very small

- Frequent stimulation is required to achieve the desired effect

- The desired effect diminishes over time

This seems really promising, particularly because they're changing the treatment for specific patients rather than using a one-size-fits-all model. I hope their trials go well.
That weekly economics blog at Valve sure lasted almost one month.
The book "Don't make me think."
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> The guns that a person are allowed to bear are nowhere near sufficient to take on the US military,

I'm tired of reminding HNers about Aghanistan.
Is it me or does it seem odd that docker community edition is left out? And isn't adding an additional "silent c is for container" in front of cgroups a bit... Much?

I mean, if java 10 recognises cgroup limits, that should work under things like systemd and all container runtimes?
Somebody posted about bidets on HN last time this discussion popped up. I bought two and installed them in my house. WOW! Much to my surprise, they are vastly superior to toilet paper.
As a researcher, I'm agree with your point. One important aspect of science/scholarship is reproduciblity [1]. There is a crisis in current science regarding this. The response to this crisis is the open science movement. Some protocols on how this body of knowledge is maintained should be change but this takes time.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Replication_crisis
You know the angle of light entering the lens. The tangent of that angle gives you the ratio of (the distance between the lens and the laser) and (distance between the laser and the target). Which lets you work out the distance between the laser and target.

Trigonometry rocks!
I'm still trying to figure out how different this is from their "parameter store" offering in AWS Systems Manager. The main thing I guess is you get more control over key rotation.