skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
HTML isn't Turing complete. It doesn't transform data, either through functions or routines, so it's not code in the sense that most people mean when referring to "code."
ISPs have your credit card number and home address. They can link your online and offline lives.

Google and Facebook have detailed social graph and search query, but your ISP could piece together a lot of that information by tracking your DNS queries, unencrypted HTTP traffic, email if you use their mail servers, and offline information.
So, to be happy, we should take a lot of vitamins?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16771044
> Except in Backpage's case it knowingly facilitated sex trafficing of children, and they wen't out of their way to frustrate law enforcement efforts to investigate those crimes.

All of which, if true, is already illegal and always has been. Which is why Backpage was shut down before FOSTA/SESTA was signed into law, and why there was already an active case against them, because they already lost immunity under the CDA.

SESTA and FOSTA have as little to do with sex trafficking as the PATRIOT act had to do with patriotism.
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I pretty much agree with you. The "right to be forgotten" may as well be called "the right to suppress information".
> Compare and contrast gold-digging versus being an escort

Honest trade reduces opportunity for dishonest exploitation? Sure, I'll agree that's the case, but...
I can buy a shirt at Whole Foods. It's still a grocery store.
Reducing violence, homicide, and sex trafficking are not the intention -- the intention is enforcing the law. If sex workers want to do their work then they can get on the first flight to Amsterdam.
Electronic health records have been way oversold. Expecting every little medical office to have industrial-grade data protection makes them far more of a liability than they are worth.

At best mostly subjective observations, at worst full of outright errors, they're largely useless from a health care perspective let alone for research purposes.
Sure, that's pretty common knowledge isn't it?

GGP was trying to make the point that airplanes don't collide and that they travel fast but that's not the whole story, there are a lot of people working hard to keep it that way.

Also, even though NASA is tracking stuff there isn't much they can do about it, it's mostly to help determine new orbits and to make sure that launches do not accidentally intersect with some chunk of space debris.
Self powered tiny cameras could hide almost anywhere
I wish I still had my copies of The Commodore 64 Programmer's Reference Guide and The Commodore 64 Inner Space Anthology (published by The Transactor magazine). Such incredible resources. I taught myself assembly when I was twelve or thirteen years old, although I sort of sucked at it because I grew up in a tiny, isolated northern town and couldn't get any of my questions answered. In fact, I am pretty certain I was the only person within a 500 km radius with any command of 6510 assembly.

Getting that bare-metal knowledge of that machine served me pretty well. I'm not sure if there's an equivalent path to programmer competency today.
I recommend the TS100 (<$100 budget) and JBC ($300-$500 budget). After getting a decent soldering iron I never looked back. Yes its expensive, but so are the parts you destroy with the crappy $30 irons, or the frustration of soldering big copper pads and the tip cooling down in the middle of the process.

Regarding the JBC, after the initial investment, various the tips (chinese clones ~$5 or even originals ~$25) add so much incremental value to the soldering iron base for such a little extra cost.
Relevancy is a problem that firmly falls under Google's responsibility... and businesses must be punished for discriminating over incomplete background checks.

However, I don't think the false conviction should be hidden - what if they were guilty and there's a crimes down the road? That information could be useful for the public.
This quote sounds familiar, but can't pinpoint who said it. It almost feels like I should know even...

Any pointers? :)
Do you have a source on the carbonic acid rotting your teeth? I thought it was the phosphoric acid. Carbonic acid is an incredibly weak acid.
0.033 fps, it updates once every 30 seconds.
Most of this just sounds like standard software engineering best-practices, though from what I've gathered it seems like standard SE challenges get multiplied five-fold in game development. It takes an engineer braver than I to work at a triple-A game studio.
Only when the endpoint nodes are both Starlink customers. Otherwise there will be a gateway at at least one endpoint and a number of hops after that.

I'm quite curious to see what their antenna setup looks like in practice that's going to be an engineering marvel.
Computers aren't the problem, search engines are.

There is nothing in the spec of a Turing machine that says "And this will remember what you did last Tuesday forever". It is a specific program that is written for a specific purpose. We have made the spam message network illegal to run I see no fundamental issue with extending this to other areas where it benefits society.
This is pretty cool, good job! I have a few questions:

* How long are you pinning files for?

* Is there a maximum size up to which you'll pin files?

Also, a tip: You can speed up your service by exposing the bridge on your pinning node. That way, your files don't have to go from node to node, the end user can just fetch them from your node's local pin store.

EDIT: Quickly skimming your code, it seems like you aren't uploading the files anywhere or pinning at all? Unless I'm mistaken, you're running ipfs-js and instantiating a node in the user's browser, which means that the user will have to keep the browser open for the file to be available, no?
I'm 29 and comfortable with the thought of dying. Not looking forward to it, but not frightened either. The "how" is just like anything else, practice. Since you can only die once, you have to rely on the deaths of others you care about to help you over your fear.

When I was in third grade, one of my brothers was murdered. I felt all the panic of mortality, and intense, visceral grief -- etc that you might imagine. A few years after that, a cousin was stabbed to death. I didn't know him much, and I figured that was the reason why his funeral felt much easier.

My grandmother died in 2007, she was the sweetest lady you'd ever meet. It was even "easier" than the cousin's funeral.

In 2009, an uncle died. In 2010, an aunt. Another aunt died in 2013.

Another one of my brothers always used to say that he never wanted a funeral. When he died October 2016, some family threw him a funeral anyways. I felt like I was doing his memory a solid by not going. At an earlier stage in my life, when I was more self important -- I would have been livid at the family who threw a funeral for someone who didn't want one in life. Now I know stuff like that just doesn't matter.

The pain of losing a loved one has changed from an acute stabbing sensation in my kidneys to somber waves that roll over me, then recede. Getting better at coping with the deaths of those you love helps you come to terms with your own mortality.

Basically, don't worry about it.
> PATRIOT act had to do with patriotism.

USA PATRIOT (Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism) was labeled as being about terrorism in the way that SESTA was labeled as being about sex trafficking.
I believe Iridium also uses its satellite-to-satellite crosslinks for backhaul.

In fact, the SpaceX proposal looks a lot like the Iridium concept in general, but with thousands of little satellites instead of dozens of larger ones (which probably makes the implementation very different).
Innovative social media apps yet to be built, according to YC's head of AI
They are for pimps.
True, it's good to see the scope while poking around. Also scopes can do higher voltages than salaes' analyzers. But to their defense, the newer analog + digital analysers are really decent for $200.

Annnd they doubled their prices, oscilloscope it is.
A lot of good advice on here....

Just as an aside, if you have kids especially, the "BrainBox" kits are really cool for playing around. For instance http://www.cambridgebrainbox.com/Explorer2.html they come with a bunch of passive / active components to play with. I found I could demo a lot of principles to my son and we could play around with ideas. It's probably not going to last you more than a week in terms of learning electronics, but it makes playing with simple circuits super easy.
It's my wish that someday speed limit is strictly enforced.
Instead here, the norm is for people to go 10 to 15 mph over speed limit. If you don't speed, you will receive harassment from the vehicle behind -- flashing of lights, honking, or tail-gating.
Hallucinogens, exercise and meditation got me to a point where I could finally appreciate beauty outside of myself.
You can combine BFT with dPOS for full decentralization.
The path between satellites would zig-zag.

Presuming a flat surface of 200 X 200, and a random line across half of that, and presuming that satellites only communicate with nearest neighbours you can guesstimate that the extra distance is significant (ignoring other factors).

If they can communicate with more distant satellites then distance could decrease (short cut segments around great circle).
> Avoid: the OpenSSL RNG

Is that just historical - i.e. a tiny chance somebody is still using the broken Debian version from a decade ago - or is there actually something still insecure, or at least suspicious, even in 1.1.0+?

I ask only because getentropy() is not widely available in the Linux world yet, and getrandom() - and direct use of the /dev files - do have some caveats of their own.
So you want a US based Google where only US based content is ranked?
Soylent used to contain 12g of trehalose per serving, and I’m wondering if that might have some impact? Based on this research it seems likely. I’m not sure if they switched out the trehalose for isomaltulose, and I don’t know if isomaltulose would have similar effects on the GI tract. I find this portion of the Soylent Wikipedia page interesting though:

Later versions of the product lowered the amount of fiber content, but this did not stop the reports of gastrointestinal problems.
Safe injection sites are only effective apparently when combined with legalization and/or decriminalization of the drugs injected, source: http://chasingthescream.com/

TLDR: the criminal lifestyle one must pursue to obtain illegal supercharged versions of the drugs is vastly more harmful than the drugs themselves when legalized. I see a lot of parallels here in equating all sex work to sex trafficking. Both sides have their points, but what is the most effective strategy to minimize sex trafficking?
Unless I'm mistaken, isn't geostationary orbit essentially a single circle? So it technically has zero volume. Individual satellites are assigned constant locations in longitude.

https://www.n2yo.com/satellites/?c=10
The job market is never very welcoming there is always going to be a lot of competition, either from peers or from abroad.

I stopped being employable somewhere in my early 20's and I still think that is the best thing that happened to me. It made me think of life not in terms of jobs but in terms of capabilities. You can learn new things and you can pick up new marketable skills and change careers. I did it when I was 42, I see no reason why it could not be done at 50 or older. In fact I know a couple of nice examples of people older than 50 that made radical (and lucrative) career changes.

It's really up to you, your appetite for risk and how much energy you can muster. At 50+ you probably have an advantage over 20 year olds trying to do the same except for the energy factor.
In my view as a lawyer, SESTA guts Section 230. Nobody is going convict the CEO of reddit sure. But by the time you’re on trial for facilitating sex trafficking you’re pretty screwed already.

Laws need to be clear enough where you can head off charges before they are filed with a letter to an investigator explaining why any case would be doomed. Section 230 drew bright lines and enabled that. If prosecutors think they can get to trial, and SESTA makes that dramatically easier through its loose language, that dramatically ups their leverage.
Ag fuck Shoulda randomized
Ah, it is the Danish "potato" in their throat :-)
For sure. The kind of thing that should get picked on is cheaping out and putting an analog section directly on a rippling rail.

Also, the discrete output section helps power dissipation in the regulator. Especially if the output gets shorted.

... And I was curious, so I just looked at the datasheet for RC4558. Maximum supply voltage is +/- 18V. So you'd probably have to bring that unregulated "20V" rail down to 12-14V actual to stay within that.
Tristan Harris: Digital platforms pose a great risk to the cohesion of society!
And I might be more specific and say "control of women's sexuality". A lot of traditionalist mores are much more accepting of men's sexual liberty than women's.
For those sports where there are weight classes, losing 5-10 pounds rapidly can move you from a weight class we're your average to a weight class where you dominate.
Would guess that the timing isn't coincidental...

https://www.yahoo.com/news/concerned-evangelical-christians-...
>diet soda sweetened purely with aspartame is harmless

You also have to consider other additives in the soda, such as acids that can damage your teeth, and the caffeine in diet coke.
It already barfs on a fair amount of valid SQL. Autoincrement vs auto_increment anybody?
"[Trehalose] is commonly used in prepared frozen foods, like ice cream, because it lowers the freezing point of foods."

More:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trehalose#Nutritional_and_diet...
Please don't think of yourself as old at fifty :)!
I think this depends on what you mean by "VM" and how high-level you want yours to be. If you're writing a programming language VM (as opposed to a container-like VM thing), and your programming language doesn't explicitly manage memory, then it basically falls to the VM to do it.

The language in the book is a little scripting language, so the VM implements both allocating memory for new objects and reclaiming memory for them when no longer needed.

If you were writing something like a bytecode Pascal VM, then the VM itself wouldn't need to allocate memory outside of, say, the built in "New()" function.
Yup. Turtles all the way down.

I'm not saying blockchains are a cure all. I'm saying I'm keenly interested in using shared ledgers for this use case.

My experiences with election integrity, for better or worse, inform my views (optimism). There was a lot of interest in auditing elections. And it was studied extensively.

For my part, I read up on Medicare fraud and forensic accounting, because they seemed to be the most mature related domains (at the time). My conclusion was that reducing fraud is best accomplished thru simplifying the accounting.

You still need relationships and face-to-face and "trust but verify".

My ultimate hope is that something like blockchains (not talking cryptocurrency, bitcoin, PoW) will somehow make the chasm between the physical and digital worlds smaller. Thereby reducing transaction costs, waste, fraud, uncertainty and so forth.
or Nevada
Email is decentralized so that's obviously impossible to do. Facebook is not.
Every satellite floating around without maneuvering capabilities is one more chance for that existing tiny debris to hit something and cause a chain reaction.
Oh yes [1] how glad we all are. Also the fourth amendment which prevents the Patriot Act from happening. So glad of that one! Also, you may grab a read about the rest of the world. 'Free speech' is basically the norm.

[1] https://law.yale.edu/mfia/case-disclosed/when-silence-isnt-g...
"In the next 5 - 15 years" has become a trite phrase I've grown to distrust. Somehow, that timeline is never fulfilled. It seems to be the favorite of people who feel they're close to a technology, but still don't know what they don't know. I hear it everywhere, but not everyone has gotten sick of that phrase yet.
> People (women or otherwise) who are trading sex for goods and services in the market are prostitutes.

That's pretty much all women; what defines a prostitute is the transparent price schedule and lack of exclusivity.
If you've never seen Gallagher's routine on English you'll enjoy it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mfz3kFNVopk
This reference?
https://archive.org/details/Commodore_64_Programmers_Referen...
Child abuse? If your child's friend's parent is a known child abuser, why do they have their own child staying with them? It shouldn't even come down to that. You should meet them maybe, or give your children a phone so they can contact you if something goes wrong. Or just don't worry about it so much in the first place.

Either way, I don't see why paranoia should be used as a driver of policy. You can "think of the children" all day long, but most of us have been children and remember it well enough to know we didn't need to be though of that much.
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And note that nothing here is going to stop your duly elected congressperson from booking a 1st class flight to sex slave island. There are 20M+ victims of sex trafficking outside the United States. Some perspective: https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2013/06/a-...
Just undergrad. I've also avoided phonology as much as possible, so I only have 1 semester of that. The only training in transcription was the phonetics section of the intro course (which consisted of only easy English transcriptions)
I think I used to do that for my first book, ages ago, but these days it seems like not many people are using RSS. Interestingly enough, I did just start using RSS again myself recently.

Posting on my blog feels kind of heavyweight for this, though. Do you do email? If so, subscribing to the mailing list is a good way to get notified. I only use the list for new chapters and other "major announcement" stuff like that, so it's not spammy.
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It doesn't even matter where they launch from - the Outer Space Treaty is written in terms of who does something, not where they do it from (cf SeaLaunch, and the absolute lack of ambiguity about state regulatory jurisdiction for objects it launched. In fact, emerging consensus (because the Outer Space Treaty is vague on the subject) is that it doesn't even matter who is launching the object, just which country('s citizens) owns and operate the satellites. cf. the recent incident where some American satellites were launched unlicensed on an Indian PSLV, the US government got all huffy at the company, and the Indians agreed by default that the US had jurisdiction (by washing their hands of responsibility).
Because Google makes it easy to find. Nobody cares about some rant about you by an anonymous customer, or just your ex partner when it is on page 73. But if it is on page 1 and the other party refuses to take it down you just feed an endless army of lawyers.
Lmfao, you don't know what eccie is then do you?

I trust the Admins of Backpage about as much as I trust the Senate.
You can watch me draw one of them here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iN1MsCXkPSA

:)
> stomach acids should break it down

"should", but it's really hard to find reliable information as to what actually happens since the internet is filled with FUD websites claiming aspartame gave their brother/grandma/cat/chair cancer.

> Methanol sounds threatening, but very little aspartame is needed to sweeten a beverage

Methanol is very toxic to humans, so that's a good thing.

> What's more unclear is whether the sugar-like taste of artificial sweeteners affect the body's blood sugar regulation.

Why would it?
> A new example: you can't log in to Starbucks' wifi (via Google) without verifying a real email address through Experian's API. (Open the browser console and watch the requests -- see if you can use a fake email address.)

I used a fake address yesterday without issue.
Whats stopping someone from creating a list of what strings trslate to each hash
After the law was passed, Reddit immediately banned a large number of communities such as /r/Escorts, /r/MaleEscorts, /r/SugarDaddy, /r/weeddeals, and even seemingly benign subreddits like /r/cigarmarket, /r/scotchswap and /r/pipetobaccomarket, among many others. So it appears the CEO of Reddit disagrees with you about how broad his liability is under this law.
Hopefully no more than using an envelope instead of a postcard marks you as hiding something.
This was discussed and patented already in June 2016. Here is an article, including a link to the patent: http://techpp.com/2016/06/24/facebook-messenger-unsend-messa... . Hardly something they have started to put together after the scandal, but maybe the worst timing or idea to go back to now...
I did make a little video showing how the illustration is done, but in general, no. I barely have enough time to write the book, and video production (at least for my perfectionist self) is very time-consuming.
There is a fantastic YouTube speed control extension for chrome that also does pitch correction. Perfect for EEVblog. Not joking.

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/youtube-playback-s...
There should be an exclusion for public figures. We have plenty of exclusions for them regarding privacy already.
Why is he like this
Who's paying you to post this same shit over and over?
C is certainly a family of languages: K&R "Classic" C, GNU C, ISO {C90, C99, C11}, MS Visual C, Borland Turbo C, ... interpreters like EiC. There are many C toolchains from all sorts of embedded vendors: like for Microchip's PIC, Atmel AVR.

C++ is in the C family; many C programs run as C++ with only small modifications and some cases no modifications at all.

Objective C is another C family member.

I maintain a fairly large FOSS project in such a way that although it is written in C, you can configure to use a C++ compiler; effectively, C++ is a target platform to which the code is portable. It's just another C dialect.
OMG: Ken is one of the most amazing people I have ever worked with. You are lucky to count him as a friend.
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Yeah, that's the one. I'm not normally one for nostalgia or memorabilia, but I spent a LOT of my youth poring over that thing. I think it eventually got tattered and my mom chucked it when I left for university.
In the midst of all this, one concrete action you can take is to give your kids common names that are hard to Google.
Diet soda is either on the same level of harm as seltzer, or is worse.

What's wrong with seltzer?
I believe they're using Eternum's API to pin the content. I didn't look at the code, but the download link I got in the email is from https://eternum.io
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Not to mention most of the abolitionists are flat out lying...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-watch/wp/2014/03/27/...
I think it is because UE4 (and Unity) make it possible to get 50-80% there on projects without solid engineering. So people think they can get by without having the skills on the team.
And governments and utility companies, too, please.
Seems like a very dangerous road to go down.

My parents abused me, however, they were never convicted of a crime in a court of law because nobody ever reported them. The statue of limitations has almost certainly passed by now so they are unable to be convicted. Are you suggesting it should be illegal for me to say that my parents abused me?

Same with Bill Cosby's accusers, the statue of limitations has passed on all of those. Should those women really not be legally allowed to have their voices heard?

I can't see this leading anywhere except an authoritarian regeme where court proceedings are conducted in secret - after all, the suspect is being publicly accused on crime in court.