skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think some of the recent developments in run-time type checking systems like the one in Mobx-state-tree [1] and Clojures Spec [2] are interesting. I don't know enough about either to make any witty remarks but I'd like to see the impact they have on the field.

[1] https://github.com/mobxjs/mobx-state-tree#thanks see tcomb

[2] https://clojure.org/guides/spec
Locke was "right" in his answer by dumb luck. Fundamental this question isn't about philosophy at all, it's an empirical matter of science. Without a good understanding of vision and neurology, and the ability to run good experiments based on informed hypotheses, there's no way to answer this.

So, sure, Locke guess right based on a flawed (seriously: the basic science was 200 years in the future!) premise. That doesn't say much interesting about the subject.
No telegram with several hundred million users?
The article is about hash-based signatures, not signatures in general or public-key signatures (DSA or RSA).
Clickable link https://pyfiddle.io/fiddle/db7f130e-e2bd-4d13-ac4e-0114c09a6...
I thought psychosomatic meant a physical change that’s caused by the mind?

I think you’re just talking about false attribution.
It's clearly a "controversial" decision by the Chrome team, but IIRC they have a fairly strict rule about "options", so they seem to like to err on the side of "less options" in most cases.

But in terms of the "cost" of something like this. When you run at Chrome's scale, it can be quite a bit. From documentation, help articles, UI team costs (okay now we need to make sure all UI changes look good and work well in both configurations), development costs (when 1% of your users represent over 10 million people, there is a WIDE configuration of devices it runs on), and testing cost (either automated or manual, it scales VERY poorly with the number of options as possible permutations required to fully test it goes up at an insane rate).

At a certain scale, the better option (at least in my opinion) is to "choose" for the user if you are fairly confident that the extreme majority will be happy with it, doubly so if the default option doesn't "break" anything for most.
Isn't money a form of ranking in our society in this style?
If the data model was wrong and we must migrate, then I hope we were storing all the records that were falsely labeled incorrect.

It's a constant fight between analyst and application developer. The analyst wants a history of all states. The application developer often only cares about having a correct current state.
I don’t remember the English term for it nor could I speak Chinese at the time. I read about it in the 80s. I believe it was supposed to be a regular and mandatory communal activity and persisted after the rest of the cultural revolution petered out. Drat, failing memory
The main problem with Luxembourg’s GDP per capita statistics are cross border workers, who are about 20%. Average and median income are high, but not as much as these figures suggest.
I don't believe even most speeding tickets are a matter of public record, as citations and not criminal proceedings.
Android phones use the SD card in a more computer-like way than a camera-like way, so random rw is important. There's actually an "app" rating introduced in the last year or two, but I think most manufacturers haven't bothered to get their cards certified yet. But some Sandisk cards now have an "A1" or "A2" marking on them, which represents application performance.
I make about 6 trips a year, and last year my bag was completely lost after a tight connection at Paris.

The value of the luggage was much more than I would have expected - clothes add up in cost - but the work travel insurance covered everything. It was a hassle re-buying all the stuff I don't use very often, after I'd put that task off for over a month hoping the bag would turn up somewhere.
I think the new Lincoln sedans (and crossover SUVs) are very compelling. Beautifully styled on the outside with amazing interior. They also comes in hybrid models.

Their highest end sedan with extras is comparable in quality and sleekness to a Mercedes or BMW. (And about the same price I think).
So you stop the program immediately and allow no more transactions while you debug? Unlikely.

Keep the data. Log that it's weird.
Undoubtedly. It's come in other forms for me. I'm all the more grateful that all wheat/gluten does is make me fatter.
The actual quote:

> "Just look at this thread. It took closer to a hundred emails (ok, so I'm exaggerating, but not _that_ much) until the real reason for the tie-in was actually exposed."

http://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/1804.0/01690.html
I've been thinking about something similar.

My idea is to let programmers specify various constraints they care about on numeric-typed variables, including min/max value.

Then the compiler has the freedom to choose any representation(s) it cares to that matches the constraints.

For complicated constraints that are difficult to prove at static-compilation time, some checks might be deferred until linktime (when static call contexts are available) or runtime.
You would prefer college admissions be based on a blind lottery system? That seems like a great way to destroy an education system. Would degrees then be allocated randomly to people who may or may not have studied? Maybe you’re being sarcastic.
AutoML: taking the human expert out of the loop
It could easily have been used to help clean up after harassment or illegal material was sent between user. Can’t leave that sitting there.
The Hitler comparison is too much, even for an anti-China troll.
Good post with real numbers. Also has useful projections spreadsheet for download
Your comment history suggests that you've been through medical school.

I like to say that sometimes doctors do good work, and sometimes they make work for themselves. Please take this response as a gentle and well-intended effort to protest the standard practices that hurt patients by 'missing the forest for the trees', such as I've observed in my own family (who themselves are employed in the conventional approach to medicine), and my girlfriend (who is being harmed by allopathic psychiatry).

Did you know that the term 'allopathy' was coined by a homeopath? At the time bloodletting, calomel, and blister agents were the standard of care. Homeopathic medicine held that the body can fix itself when properly supported (diet, clean environment, etc). Allopathic medical practitioners engage in the heroic struggle against disease [0].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heroic_medicine

Allopathic medicine never went away, it just changed form. While conventional medical practitioners are doing much better than 200 years ago (w.r.t. not killing their patients), from my perspective, conventional psychiatry and conventional cancer treatments leave much to be desired.

> To suggest that increased research into the Warburg effect is going to be the thing that leads to an explosion in novel therapeutics for cancer is wishful thinking, as far as I'm concerned.

I have some great anecdotes about cheap metabolic therapies. But they're just my non-rigorous anecdotes... The one person who I'd most like to experiment on, trusts her doctors because they wear the halo of 'conventionality'.

> Cancer is complex, and while we could stand to learn more about metabolic changes in cancer, there's not going to be a magic pill for this one.

Consider the possibility that cancer is much simpler than the geneticists have led us to believe. Sometimes 'we must unlearn, what we have learned'.

Edit: google scholar turns up some papers about 'spontaneous remission' of cancer. To figure out how to induce spontaneous remission of cancer cells would be a revolutionary advance.
This is a good reason to demand the American government repeal civil rights laws and anti-racism laws.

The American people have every right to deny Chinese people access to American services, American businesses, American networks, American contacts, American financial services, and so on.

The Chinese are children who cannot be counted upon to operate a society, they are stupid idiots whose arrogance should not be tolerated.

This will bring China and the USA closer to war over ideology, values, freedom, sex.

The Chinese government should be punished for this arrogance.

The Chinese government should not be allowed to conduct scientific experiments while it engages in this mass dehumanization experiment.

The Chinese must choose between dignity and science on the one hand and communism and dehumanization on the other.

The Americans should not tolerate such stupid fools.

As an American, I have the right to spit on and yell at chinese.

I can exercise that right to demoralize and dehumanize pests.

I can push chinese into the street where cars will run them over.
We will, if this trend continues...
Yes, the US does seem to be keen on transferring tax dollars to private entities.
What's the big deal? Saying REST conveys the idea that it's for working with app specific JSON or XML over HTTP.
You Can Only Share Good News with Facebook's Sheryl Sandberg
IMHO fixing your world is better (and harder) than avoiding it, but we all deal with our crap in our own time.
The Disappearing Doctor: Mega-Mergers Are Changing the Business of Medical Care
Needs an explanation of the vetting process or standards required for inclusion.
> @Korni22 What if this doesn't happen because our security is amazingly good? ^Käthe

Famous last words?

No, your security is not "amazingly good" if you store passwords in plain text!

This is pure comedy[1]:

> Three of their subdomains (blog/kids/newsroom) were running wordpress blogs, the code managed via a git repository. You could download that git repo, you can test that by appending .git/config to the URL. [...] thus I was able to download their repo. The wordpress config (wp-config.php) was in the repository. That config file contains the database/mysql username/password. [...] But the database was running on localhost - so it's not a big deal. Well, except if they have a phpmyadmin interface open to the public. Which they had.

And it keeps on giving, there are a bunch of XSS vulns in their web site[2]:

> Great, so there are a whole load of XSS vulnerabilites on their site.
Interesting thing is, that the Telekom in Germany did exclude XSS vulnerabilites from their bug bounty program scope in 2013. Guess it were too much to pay.

Oh boy[3]:

> Customer service agents see only parts of customers‘ passwords which are safely stored in encrypted databases via industry standard encryption algorithm [...] ^Helmut @ojour

So they can't hash passwords, but they want to do biometrics:

> We are also using one-time-PINs for customer authentication and are evaluating voice biometrics.

This idea that a company who can't even implement a basic user/password authentication system should be trusted with user biometric data is scary.

Here is the software stack[4]:

Kernel 2.6.18, compiled in 2011, so RHEL 5.6

PHP 5.1.6, from 2006.

Apache 2.4.18, affected by multiple CVE.

I don't believe these PHPs and Apaches have any backported patches, as RHEL 5.6 support has ended in 2013. Can anyone confirm this?

The really sad thing about this is that T-Mobile's competitors (in Austria) are not any better. A1 also stores passwords in plain text, and I got reports that Drei does that too (although couldn't confirm as of yet).

[1] https://twitter.com/hanno/status/982530301024002048?s=19

[2] https://twitter.com/fabricio_giglio/status/98236273592413798...

[3] https://twitter.com/tmobileat/status/982394129249460226

[4] https://twitter.com/Pips801/status/982378530792136706
Two different tasks can have two different levels of "integrity" desired. For example, the task of mailing a thank-you note to all customers might not care if one customer accidentally has two addresses or none. For the task of billing customers, we probably want an exact one-to-one customer to mailing address.

If someone protects me with the constraint of one-to-one customer to address, then maybe I lose the fact that the customer has just opened a second office.

All I'm saying is that database constraints go both ways, they reveal bugs and they cause bugs.
Introducing the flamewar topic makes you responsible for the flamewar, which is why I replied to you, as well as to at least one other user who made it worse.

I don't disagree with your opinions; I don't even know what they are. The only thing I care about is that users abide by the site rules when posting here, because if we don't actively take care of that, this place will go up in flames.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Is it okay to sacrifice security because some members of society are either too old/dumb/misguided/whatever to bother?

At what point do we just have to leave these people behind?
Hi Hitler troll

Young Chinese activist missing after sharing plan to wear ‘Xitler’ t-shirt in public

https://www.hongkongfp.com/2016/11/03/young-chinese-activist...
> Yang, who asked that her real name not be used, ... has no privacy-related concerns. “I trust the government,” she says. “Who else can you trust if not them?”

Irony obviously not her strong point.
A big advantage of unsound types is versioning. IE you can add some member variables/methods to a structure/class and users of that library that were written with the old version still work without trouble, recompilation or redeploying. Of course if you remove the variable they're in trouble but removing can be avoided for that reason.
Making It Rain
China is less imperialistic and appears to mess less with other country affairs. China never gave support for a dictatorship in my country. USA also jailed and persecuted the Black Panthers and had the macarthism. Their 2 political parties which are able to win elections sometimes appears to be very similar, at least about their foreign policy which impacts the world.
I agree. Currently each of the entries links to some 'proof' on why the service is either privacy respecting or privacy breaching.

But I am open to ideas on how to improve the list.
For any who don't want to read the article but are confused by "curb cuts", the idea is that San Francisco has driveways instead of curb parking, and there isn't enough curb room for a car between the driveways, so you end up with less total parking and lots of cars crossing the sidewalk.
These are going to get blacklisted quickly
I might have missed your satire but Chinese people and the Chinese government are two very different concepts. It is wrong to use one too judge the other.
It's an expression. You're taking it way too literally. Jesus you sound like Spock, the way comically interprets Kirk's idioms and literal statements.
Rexxar's point was about mechanisms of locomotion and body size. While we generally expect birds to have a faster metabolism than mammals because they're small and because flying takes so much energy, the reverse would probably be the case when comparing ostriches and bats. The ostrich is a 250-pound non-flying bird, and bats are very light flying mammals. In that case, we expect the mammal to have the higher metabolism.

I've also wondered if non-flying birds defecate less often, and flying mammals more often. I always assumed that birds emptied out so frequently because it's important to keep your weight down if you're flying, and much less important if you're walking.
Ok thanks, we'll take that out.
That's a silly complaint. It's a tool powered by SQLite. Under your extended definition, tools like web browsers (which use SQLite to power various things) would be SQLite wrappers.
Facebook was Caught Secretly Deleting Mark Zuckerberg's Sent Messages
Another great tool to wrangle csv file is miller

http://johnkerl.org/miller/doc/
Ha, you explained it better than the quote did. And worse is that often they repeat the same mistake in the next project, and the ...
They could open source it. It felt like a robust software product.
but they waded into a market where customers expected to install arbitrary apps.

Of course. The locked-down nature of the platform was a big turn-off for me too, since branding it Windows made everyone expect it would be more like desktop Windows with a different UI.
Its not a duplicate. @mercer suggested the last paragraph should be removed, so thats what I did. Alas, the edit period had expired.

Edit: Notice that youve toned down your original reply, which had statements like "No one cares about your opinions about Google, Apple or Facebook." It seems I have agitated you. I apologise.
I bought the last big Lumia about a year ago on Ebay just for fun. Used it as my primary for about 6 weeks before moving to Android. I really liked the phone and would have probably stayed with Windows were it being developed on.
I feel for you, this could happen to anyone, I admire your honesty posting this and sharing.

All I can suggest is that you look at how you can help some people or causes you care about - I don't know what those would be... sick kids, kids in distress, animals, old people, culture, education, the environment, but something that matters to you. Perhaps this won't work, but at the worst I can't imagine it would be any less than neutral.
Reputation systems increase our ability to trust people, products, and systems in general. It seems like our logical concern should be whether or not such systems are accurate.

The flip side of all this is that betrayal of trust is also dehumanizing. When you pay to get an Uber ride and you're taken to the wrong place or ripped off, that's dehumanizing. When you loan someone money and they don't pay you back, that's dehumanizing. When you send someone a product from an E-Bay auction and their payment turned out to be a scam, that's dehumanizing.
It was philosophy back then; it's science now. A large part of philosophy is about asking questions that don't yet have scientific answers.
If I'm remembering correctly, the Pi's SD reader runs at 50MHz, doing 4-bit transfers, and not using any of the UHS signaling methods, because those use 1.8V signals that the Pi isn't set up to use for SD.

> kind of makes the tests useless if you want to figure out which cards are faster

But...which card is faster in a USB3 UHS-III transfer isn't useful information for a Raspberry Pi benchmark. It would certainly tell you which cards are faster, but the info wouldn't be directly applicable to what the tests are trying to measure.
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Chinese get irony and are smart about being subversive under cover, this was probably intentional.
Yes, well those are statistical anomalies. Once you get to a point where in a perfect scenario, you may only have 40 years at best, or 25 years normally, that weighs on your mind and actions. Not to mention, those last 20 years aren't nearly as good from a health/pains perspective as the first or middle 20. "Probable" that I used isn't a good word, more like "inevitable."

When you get a certain age, you know you will be dead in the time it took you to be born and graduate from college. Your window is rapidly closing. What are you going to do with the last 20-40 years? You might not be able to do much because you are stuck working, making someone else rich. You may very well be bound to that job because of health care costs.

When you are young, you may realize this will eventually happen, but you won't really understand it until you are in that situation. It's some heavy shit. People thinking about this sort of thing is probably why humans invented religion and spirituality.
> Soundness means that every program that typechecks is valid. Completeness means that every valid program can be typed.

I like this definition. Can someone link to an authoritative article that elaborates on this statement?
The only luggage I've lost (temporarily!) has been carry-on which ended up being gate checked. It was explained that during handling the gate check tag came off.
Which artificial sweeteners? Do you have a link to the study?
Good point. At some point WeChat, Weibo, et al will want to expand outside of China, and they could apply this system to everyone who uses those platforms.

Just imagine, your social media profile on WeChat, your messages on Weibo, your searches on Baidu, your images on Meipai could all feed into your score. Maybe Momo could display and sort dating matches by their score so you don't end up with someone who's undesirable.

Sounds terrible.
I find having one piece of low-power hardware that is always on a handy tool. A homeserver+router, basically. I can decloud a lot of things. Having a beefier piece of hardware makes it a non-issue. I try to run things in Docker for modularity. Total hardware cost is competitive with a high-end router, but I think I get more.

Bind9 seems to be better for blocking. RPZ is made for it. I don't think dnsmasq supports RPZ though projects like Pi-Hole use dnsmasq. I'm not positive, but I think RPZ is more flexible. Bind9 seems to do anything you like. I may want to resolve DNS myself and not just forward.

I'm starting to look into configuring Bind9 to have different blocking per user using "views." Some want Facebook, some don't, so I can block accordingly. I'm not sure you can do that in dnsmasq. I did discover subtle things break, like you can't block Facebook and still access Instagram, thus the "views" approach. I don't want to change hosts file on every device, especially mobiles, and can even provide some protection for guests this way. I might do a captive page for a blocked domain and let people bypass in their view if they like, then I can have a "block-first" approach.

I do like network-wide blocking for the malware lists - if anyone acquires malware, it can't phone home (if it's on the list) and I can detect via logs. DNS as firewall seems to be a trend. I'm looking into blocking IPs via iptables as well using public lists. Maybe I'll even setup Snort or Bro. The possibilities are endless.
If money were doled out exclusively by the government, perhaps.
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They should make a PWA version. Although i akready add the site icon to my home screen. Opens in chrome. But an optimized PWA would be nice. I read a WIRED story about a redesign, hope it doesn't slow it more.
Seltzer affects dental health.
> Most other professions don't involve being in the public eye all of the time.

Neither does this one.

> It is if that's in the contract you sign.

It shouldn't be in there and even if it is it doesn't make it right. Your boss owns your time when he pays for it. If you're not being compensated for your time you are off-work and there is nothing so much off-work as a cheerleader having dinner.

> It puts you in front of millions of people on national TV as well as other outlets. Being one of the select few - among thousands and thousands - that gets hired by an NFL team to cheerlead looks great on your resume if you have any desire to be a model, dancer, or involved in the entertainment industry.

Sounds like a lot of fluff people would tell someone to accept a job with a shitty wage, crappy contract and no life of your own.

> It gets you tons of exposure.

Well, apparently not that much, for instance, when you potentially are about to get some of that exposure you are asked to leave.

> Plus, maybe it's fun?

Most people get jobs to get paid.
Phone numbers do get recycled in a lot of countries though.
Python's pandas library can also do sql-like queries against csv data.

https://pandas.pydata.org/pandas-docs/stable/comparison_with...
Pi-Hole ends up booting, then probably mostly running in RAM, anyhow, right? I think it's just running as a DNS proxy. So you'd slow down your initial boot, but probably not hurt performance of the device much (unless I'm wrong, and it does need to read and write data often).