skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Do they think the Egyptian gov't will turn a blind eye to violating the IP?

I wouldn't be very surprised if they do. Egypt doesn't have powerful domestic IP-reliant industries lobbying for the enforcement of IP. No doubt there are international obligations of some sort, but the benefit of "slash costs for curing a serious disease" is a lot more concrete than the penalty of "the country could face a protracted legal case." It's happened before, with e.g. antiretroviral drugs for HIV in South Africa. Ultimately the pharmaceutical companies backed down, both because they had limited material leverage and because "trying to make poor countries pay more for medicine" is judged in the court of public opinion.
> Nothing brings out creativity better than a limiting environment.

This is so true as a life principle!

I once read a book about the development of laser guided bombs [1], and in it it talked about how Texas Instruments made the first viable prototype [2] on a shoe-string budget even though they were competing against a large government contractor with a huge budget.

Because of the budgetary constraints, TI couldn't afford multi-million dollar wind tunnels for testing, so they built scale models of the bomb and dropped them into swimming pools, performing mathematics transforms on the results using the drag coefficients of water vs air. They came up with a bunch of other innovations as well, such as the shuttlecock seeker head and made a superior product that vastly outperformed the high-budget contractor.

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Weapons-Choice-Development-Precision-...
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paveway
In the US efficacy is typically measured through estimates of DALYs (disability-adjusted life years). Following WHO guidelines, cost of an intervention (or drug) up to three times the national per-capita GPD (~3x50K in the US) is considered to be cost-effective.
I accomplish most of this (other than no-links-allowed) with iMessage threads with friends.

What you're saying sounds basically like chat.
> I've been doing that for more than 15 years and the payback has been huge.

What about the opportunity cost from not looking as good as you might with a nice haircut? ;-)

Just bugging you. Wish I had a nice round skull that looked good with that style.

As far as life-hacks go, I generally seek to run my domestic operations like an OS scheduler - start background things first (get that kettle boiling, get that washing machine running, etc) and then proceed to interactive chores that need direct attention while other things are happening in the background. Keep as many things busy as possible. Buy a Roomba.
I assume tashoecraft was referring to the latest version of Angular - which I believe is 5. And 6 is right around the corner. I would make an educated guess that the most recent Angular is not user perceptibly slower than React for most applications.

Everything is a trade off, so if you value structure and convention over raw speed then Angular would make sense over React. Also, I imagine the latest versions of angular are faster than Ember (but I don't actually know).
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Each fatality from a self-driving car, no matter what level of autonomy, is incredibly high profile right now. It impacts legislation, it impacts stock prices, it impacts public sentiment. That is quite simply not true for any other crashes of cars, even though there are thousands of road crash fatalities worldwide PER DAY.

This is a hot topic, and I can understand Musk not wanting to stay quiet for an entire year on each investigation. Yes, he agreed to the terms, but to not agree to the terms means you are not involved in the investigation. You don't have much choice but to agree.
Ah.. brings me to another invention: artificial meat, but as tasty and indiscernable as the real thing, without all the food waste required to raise cattle.

Currently still in the lab phase, I think.
Whose society? Whose democracy? The fundamental argument for democracy’s legitimacy is that citizens can (theoretically) influence policy. You don’t get to vote in foreign countries, but they get to censor your view of the internet?

We wouldn’t even be talking about Russian election meddling if Russia had global internet censorship power.
A Parable
A better real life example:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Airlines_Flight_965

Basically, distracted/lost pilots accidentally used an autopilot/flight management system to program a flight path that took a jet into the side of the mountain. They did receive a warning in the cockpit, but attempted to recover too late.

Now, to your question (from the Wikipeida article linked above):
"American Airlines settled numerous lawsuits brought against it by the families of the victims of the accident. American Airlines filed a "third-party complaint" lawsuit for contribution against Jeppesen and Honeywell, which made the navigation computer database and failed to include the coordinates of Rozo under the identifier "R"; the case went to trial in United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida in Miami. At the trial, American Airlines admitted that it bore some legal responsibility for the accident. Honeywell and Jeppesen each contended that they had no legal responsibility for the accident. In June 2000, the jury found that Jeppesen was 30 percent at fault for the crash, Honeywell was 10 percent at fault, and American Airlines was 60 percent at fault."

So, yes - even in a situation where the automation system in question was much more rigorously tested and the users had much more specialized training, the automation system was found to be partially at fault.
What if Tesla isn't responsible? I assume you don't expect them to sit quietly for a year+ while they are ravaged in the media in that case. What is the correct course of action?

I feel like some of the criticism of tech companies has gone from thoughtful to kneejerk lately.
Also even if a perfect A.I. robot came along that would be the greatest lawyer of all time....

No profession is in a better position to lobby and pass new regulations requiring human legal services and protecting their jobs.

Except for actual government officials I guess. So A.I. Senator is less likely. But A.I. lawyer is right behind that.
The Lava Layer Anti-Pattern (2014)
>JS is the technology responsible for most of the malware infections and spyware ad-tracking. It's not like people disable it just to piss off developers, there are very good reasons to turn it off.

While I agree that JS is part of the malvertising problem but this statement is blowing things to an exaggeration. Chrome, Firefox and Safari are equally responsible for the infection that occurs because of JS.
If you have a fringe behaviour on any dimensions, where you are unlike the average, there are only two possibilities, you've evolved a superior trait, or you've evolved an inferior trait.

I feel evolutionary wise, chances are higher that you've evolved an inferior trait.

I am offset in my sleep, 3am to noon, and I need a minimum of 9hours to feel rested, 10hour of sleep is ideal. Now to be honest, this doesn't sound like the recipe to a superior trait, so I'm not too surprised if it ended up costing me something like additional health issues later in life. Sadly :(
So if Google operates a subsidiary in China, they should be completely immune from a lawsuit in the US, if say, they sell your private personal info to the highest bidder in that nation?

I don't see how that could be abused...
Pretty common on HN lately.
The labor market is tight, near full employment. In very constrained locations (like SF) wages for kitchen staff have gone up significantly. Other places it's just hard to find people to do the job for what the market will bear.

We're reaching the point where we seriously need to think about assisting internal migration in the country, but before that can kick in we'll end up with a recession to fight off inflation.
HERE’S HOW MUCH FACEBOOK DONATED TO EVERY LAWMAKER QUESTIONING MARK ZUCKERBERG
It sounds like your dermatologist is not just a good doctor but also a good person.

Giving the same (high?) standard of care to patients without regard to their financial resources.
"The NES Homebrew Scene Is Driven by Nostalgia"

Hey, why isn't anyone reading our article?
A subscription doesn't necessarily have to be a barrier to new users. You could offer basic functionality for free with a subscription to unlock extra features. This sort of model has been very successful in other areas.
G Suite for Education very clearly doesn't track students using it.

https://edu.google.com/k-12-solutions/privacy-security/
False according to the article you cited - Google could go to court in Canada with a request... as it always could. One can request anything, almost, in a court, or sue anyone. But can you win.
There's a similar joke around the brand of peanuts called "Rising Sun". I'm familiar with seaside postcard innuendo having grown up in a seaside town.

Yeah no offence taken. Connery was just a kid when he was delivering milk. He later worked as a lifeguard at one of the swimming pools in town, where I believe he was spotted by a talent scout. But he was also active in amateur theater at the time, so ymmv on that story.
So I’m just saying, over here in the other Washington, Seattle has raised the minimum wage. And after a bunch of whining about how it was going to ruin their margins, restaurants have raised their prices, and everything continues the same as before. Maybe DC restaurants could, I dunno, raise their prices a little and pay their staff enough to get by? Nah. It’ll never work.
I recently went to a conference presentation that attributed this CS in joke as indicative of how the field is deeply gendered. This paper isn't by the researchers I saw, but speaks to that. https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=3017794
Here is a mix of things likely to when there is a shift in the economic equilibrium for labor. This is true for all industries and not just the restaurant industry.

- Increase wages/benefits of workers (increased prices for customers)

- Substitute capital for labor (buy more machinery)

- Increase the supply of workers by training new people

- Close unprofitable businesses
The current job market for lawyers is kind of messed up. When in law school you can be applying and accepting job offers clerking or working at law firms 2 years before the start date.

I don't know what even more increased pressure on that job market would do to it.
Launched this week:

https://www.zillow.com/marketing/rental-manager/tenant-scree...
What about Google's sharing of data with data brokers? Example: the wifi at Starbucks (run by Google) now appears to use Experian's API to verify that your email address exists in Experian's database. I would be surprised if it isn't linking your real identity to your browser fingerprint and/or MAC address. Consumers need the right to use the Internet anonymously.

Once those (often unknown) companies have your MAC address, you can't turn your wifi on within range of a Starbucks without them having the capability to identify you and your location.

See also:

https://www.technologyreview.com/s/607938/google-now-tracks-...
It doesn't say whether it's opt-in or opt-out, that is: I don't trust their use of the word "directed."
They could justify that by saying: Autopilot saves lives. Therefore not setting the record straight as fast as possible could lead to less people using the autopilot and more casualties as the result.
(They could also be doing this out of pure financial motives)
Direct link instead of aggregator website: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nr5Pj6GQL2o
> The guy hadn't touched the wheel for six seconds

This phrasing is Tesla spin, and I recommend being a bit more cautious about accepting what they say about this at face value.

A Tesla motors car cannot detect whether or not your hands are on the wheel -- it can only detect torque on the steering column from the driver if it exceeds a specific threshold. Regular Tesla drivers have documented getting frequent false positives on this alert.
Well, in Linux, complexity is a choice. In Windows, simplicity is mandatory and heuristic.
Pretty much that. Then we go full circle and need to add additional services to support people who need to take two hubs to survive.

Switzerland seems to have achieved some balance in this regard. Japan too, although their wages are artificially depressed via other means.
Try asking Teddy Roosevelt: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theodore_Roosevelt#Trust_busti...
> We went down the rabbit hole a very long time ago, why is it only now that people are starting to realise what it means?

Because Trump won, and we're still trying to figure out who to blame.
Oh here it is. The website was not launched when the presentation happened. Now it is. http://cryptocouple.com/
What's better about a base-60 system compared to a base-10 system?
Or, even easier and more effective, abolish estate and gift and capital gains taxes, and tax inheritances, gifts, and capital gains as normal income to the people recieving them.

Because for some recipients, especially for the non-rich, these are non-repeatable, you do need to add some handling to the regular income tax system to address inconsistent incomes with multi-year smoothing mechanisms to make taxation of those kinds of income fair, but that also makes taxation of variable regular income more fair, too.
Are they using Upcall for calling?
Price elasticity of demand IIRC.

Demand functions aren't generally straight like the illustrative graphs used in intro classes. What you end up with is easy replacement with similar goods. Being able to differentiate goods in food-service seems like a very difficult proposition without some sort of brand recognition. Because of that, if someone can purchase some food that is equal or close enough to equal at a significant (significance as defined by the consumer utility) then they will go with the cheaper option.

While raising prices seems like the simple solution to this issue, the reality is likely that they would quickly - if not immediately - price themselves out of the market.
sounds substantially similar to IRC. if text is supported, i don’t see how retweets and links could be blocked. so if you accept that you can’t prevent those things (except by user agreement), it sounds like slack fits the bill.
Nostalgia doesn't have to be purely about one's childhood interests, although it frequently is. In your case, your interest still seems a product of nostalgia.

I don't really understand why people view interests based on nostalgia as a weakness. Being nostalgic doesn't have to mean that life isn't good or that things were better once upon a time.

Like what you like, do what you do, and enjoy what you enjoy without apology!
> "Where ever possible, technology need to evolve to serve what society (democratically) decides. You and I may not agree with this specific decision, but the process that created it is still far more legitimate than whatever Google or, in other cases, two guys and a compiler come up with."

Freedom, to the greatest extent possible, is what matters. Invoking 'the legitimacy of process' really makes me cringe here as it's undoubtedly the exact sort of logic that led people to let religious institutions hold back the world for centuries. And that rule was not authoritarian in practice, even if it may have been in law. Poll the masses of the time and you'd see a democratic consensus for most of these incredibly backwards decisions that held society back.

So to me the question is does a court in country A have a right to demand that a company in country B behave differently in country C? Is this a reasonable restriction of freedom? To me that seems to be a resounding no. Perhaps you can argue there are good reasons for this, but please do so in means other than invoking some appeal to 'legitimacy', whatever that's supposed to mean.
Is it disgusting and shady not to buy and use something when it is more expensive than you are prepared to pay? What obligation does Google have to drive visitors to newspapers' websites and pay the newspapers for doing so?
"I have high hopes for the Han Solo prequel, but Disney isn't putting money behind "alternative" Star Wars narratives until the nostalgia well is tapped, and even then they're going full-court on a trilogy."

Um, Rogue One?
the codecs in most lossy compression formats usually nuke the phase information so here in this example as ASK is being used there isnt any lost of information. If he tried to encode phase changes in the sound then you wouldnt recover it since the decoder regenerates the audio with 0 deg phase.
This is interesting idea, never thought about it! thanks!
It's bizarre indeed. Have their ever been criticisms that the NTSB isn't a fair and impartial investigator? I haven't heard of any.

Now Tesla is kicked out of the investigation, so I assume any leverage they had to help with the investigation is now gone.
Can they actually say "Autopilot saves lives"? It's never been proven that Tesla's system is safer than human driving so I would think they would run afoul of some marketing law if they were to claim that.
How do you think the folks for whom dining represents a significant expense feel about these raised prices?

Everyone talks about the minimum wage’s effects (or not) on employment, but I’d be way more concerned with its (potentially very regressive) effects on prices.
I tried that last year when I had a 2 hour commute.

It doesn't work well if you have to get off every half an hour to switch trains. Or if you can't get a seat.
Well, if it's being marketed to an English speaking audience, they will need to consider whether the name has negative connotations regardless of where it originated.

American companies have to be sensitive to this when expanding into new markets too.
Empirical explanation for Craig Wright's selfish mining Bitcoin bet
>Is this even enforceable?

You mean practically or legally?

The actual California sentence makes it unenforceable legally (in the US):

https://jolt.law.harvard.edu/digest/google-v-equustek-united...

It should be actually marked [2017], however.
Q1 2018 Cryptocurrency Market Highlights
To be clear I don't think Mark Zuckerberg is sociopathic, and I don't think it's productive or fair to speculate about him like this. My comment about his technical and business capabilities was intended in good faith, not as a springboard to rehash a discussion of "psychopaths in suits."

I also think we (as in Hacker News) need to consider the extent to which useful discussion about Facebook's legitimate failings is getting drowned out by the noise of hyperbole and outrage.
Your question at the moment is ill-defined. Carefully expand out the nationalities of the "you" who is buying the info, the nationalities of the person whom the info is about, the nationality of the subsidiary from which the information is being purchased, and the nationality under which you believe they should be suable. ("Jurisdiction", if you prefer, may replace "nationality".)

There's a lot of combinations in there, and I don't think conversation can be profitable had without being clear. It's fine to fill it in with variables, too, I'm not asking for a concrete binding, but at the very least your question as I read it now is missing whose information is being sold.

(Also note the ONLY thing I'm saying here is that you need to be more clear. I am not making any claims of my own at this time, because before I can have an opinion about an answer to a question, there needs to be a question.)
Yep. Having worked in the restaurant industry, it also means they don't want to pay healthcare, give sick / vacation time, or even hire enough employees to cover all shifts. ("Oops, no one is scheduled for tonight, guess you have to work a double!") It's way easier to exploit temp visa workers who are a missed shift away from getting deported.

I actually really loved working in a kitchen but it's absurd how bad the labor conditions are.
Not awesome in the short term, but better in the long term.
But the Egyptian gov't already entered into a deal with Gilead to sell Sovaldi for only $900. I assume that was negotiated in good faith.

If that hadn't happened I would agree that the Egyptian gov't could probably care less if someone broke the patent.
I found this site a week ago and submitted my email.

The author wrote back within the hour asking how he could help. There were several emails that followed.

While there is a lot of what you claimed out there I feel this site isn’t one of them and the author is genuine.
https://musiccog.ohio-state.edu/Music829C/hindsight.bias.htm...

Not every "common sense" hypothesis turns out to be true, hence the seemingly useless studies.
> If you think you are local to me and want in on the location, please drop me a tweet and we can connect securely.

Secret class on privacy, organized through a public social network...?
Yes, if your power comes from someone else and continues only as long as they choose to maintain it, the person directing power to you has the greater power.
You failed the test by knowing what sorts of information your browser shares and making a decision based on that information?
0.5% fees are high. are you getting value out of those, compared to index funds and some vanguard target funds that are 1/10th to 1/4 of the price?
Your comment seems like trolling.
This is awesome. Not everything built needs to be held to best practices and these sorts of projects are what make the web exciting!

I know I'm on HN but everyone responding is taking a tone like the creator said, "this is the best way to do it and everyone should use this in production" while on the page it only says they built it because they could -- because CSS has evolved to support it.
The founder of BET is saying that this tight labor market has enabled people who previously were chronically unemployed to become employable in this economy.

It's not that we don't have able bodies available, we do, what we don't have is people already trained in a skill set available for cheap. We have people who could be trained, and we're seeing that, and we're seeing a reduction in undocumented labor undercutting legal labor. This is good for the American worker, even as the price of goods may rise marginally.
Read and Modify Storage and Camera permissions are needed so that it can take pictures, presumably to post (Why so many Android apps think they need to be their own camera instead of just dumping out to the user's preferred camera app I'll never understand). Everything else seems pretty sketchy.
Incorrect. Autopilot offers by far the most important training data: driver overrides. That is the dangerous part of the learning and Tesla makes its customers do it.