skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Depends on whether your vid was unlisted - ours was public and we got 450 views so we can't really see through the noise.

I would think a video without a view isn't a good sign but I'm not sure how it all works.
I agree that the .NET runtime seems under invested in and the lateness to the portability game is damaging.

It would also be nice to see more experimentation, e.g as you mention Graal, Truffle, Substrate VM and Project Metropolis all look amazing and there doesn’t seem much on the .NET side to compete other than CoreRT.

However I’m skeptical about the claims that complexity has been pushed into C# and has caused tech debt. What do you mean by that?

To me they seem to have made the right trade offs. Java is getting value types too because there’s a limit to what run times can do on behalf of developers. Spans in C# and .NET seem the way languages are moving in general with e.g slices in Go, views in C++ etc.

There are definitely some pitfalls for high performance areas but they are actively being worked on as well as ensuring the general case is better, e.g devirtualization of interfaces and abstract classes where possible in the JIT IIRC.
> whose position from a purely legal perspective pretty clearly in the "wrong" side.

Can you cite which laws in the defendant's jurisdiction you base this assessment on?
From what I understand many trafficked males are children.
Demo: https://rob-leggett.github.io/ui-react-component-kit
Yeah, there’s times I talk to my phone with Hey Siri and it gives up control to the HomePod and I went “huh, ok, still works anyway. “
Is there standard software which is run on satellite images to detect these and other phenomena?
The crypto that protects a Tor hidden service is much weaker than you can have in HTTPS.

However the CA/B rules that allow certificates for .onion at all (it's not an Internet TLD and private names were outlawed years ago for good reason) require the certs to be validated to a named organisation. So if you aren't legal or insist on real anonymity then that's not going to work for you.
The talk of holding "random bits" reminds me of the idea behind the Owner-Free File System:

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

Basically people would be hosting random-looking blocks of data, but users could be instructed to XOR two carefully chosen blocks together, producing a meaningful file.

Because of the nature of XOR, if Alice sees that Bob is hosting a file F, she could generate and host a file G, such that F XOR G produces a banned file, providing plausible deniability for Bob (as long as he can point to a file H such that F XOR H produces an innocent file).
> What I don't understand is that if all of this blatant child trafficking was going on, why the authorities weren't using the information to actually hunt down the traffickers. Driving them farther underground seems like it will make them harder to find.

They were trying. Backpage has a history of being completely unhelpful in investigations (for reasons which are now quantifiable), and the amount of time it takes to conduct investigations and secure convictions far exceeds the time it takes for a pimp to ditch his burner phones and set up shop the next state over. Local PD can't chase them and the FBI doesn't have time to deal with this shit parade unless it's of sufficient scale.

When there's a website that makes it as easy to buy a night with a 14-year old as it is to buy a used toaster, nuking that cesspool and making it more inconvenient for buyers and sellers alike creates chaos and denies service.
Nope.

I'm logged in and still getting redirected to the original.
Right - that makes sense. Thanks!
Repo: https://github.com/Rob-Leggett/ui-react-component-kit
Ask HN: How to share credentials to team/clients?
Working with a small team and we're trying to determine the best way to share credentials for various websites/applications/CLIs. Occasionally have a need to share out ad-hoc access to a particular credential to a client, so solution can't bee too technical or at least needs to be augmented with a simple sharing mechanism.

Just curious how other teams/contractors handle this.
If you actually listen to sex workers and people who were victims of trafficking, this is not the way to go. Law enforcement can be very unhelpful to sex workers and giving them more powers puts them in danger. Moreover, not having online platforms to screen customers and share information amongst themselves isolates sex workers and further endangers them, forcing them to engage in dangerous work on the street.

Here is a good link on this[0]. Here[1] is also a short interview of the author.

[0] https://www.allure.com/story/sesta-sex-trafficking-bill-cele...

[1] https://youtu.be/2TEcWKz_TAg?t=8m52s
It’s likely that whomever exploits this would do both easier way and this way.

This one is particularly great because an air gap is assumed by default to be very secure.

So you may think things are fine and dandy cause you gotta fancy lil air gap but lo and behold your data has been exfiltrated through the power lines for years.
For the US at least, grant committees are almost always staffed by people with subject area expertise.

For NIH, there are two levels of SME- one non gov and one gov.
No. Turns out that question is irrelevant, because Backpage and pimps were empirically compatible.
as someone who is debating how to handle right to erasure this is very interesting. I've also been struggling with how to automate erasure within in 3rd party SaaS tools that we use.

I think to count we have 34 SaaS products of which something like half of them contain our customers PII.

Is the regulation state that we must guarantee right to erasure or that we must make a reasonable effort to erase customer data on request?

Are people generally automating this fractal process or manually deleting from systems that only offer a manual process (such as Google Analytics)?
Something like a dumb wordfilter? Or did they just ban words and traffickers posted ads that didn't include them?
> "AI models optimizing to use nonsensical communication is not surprising nor impressive, which makes the extremely hyperbolic media coverage of this story downright impressive."

Exactly! However, there is one thing common between those clickbaity articles and the language they claim AI bots invented: "Nonsense"!
Jekyll is awesome but Wordpress has pretty much a GUI for editing.
Yeah, the DC-X was neat and all but that's suborbital on a stubby cone shaped rocket. That's essentially what New Shepard accomplished and not really comparable to actually recovering the first stage on a real orbital launch. As for the shuttle, well there's a reason why Buran wound up being nothing more than a hanger queen and it was arguably superior to the shuttle. From a practical perspective I think it's fair to say that SpaceX has been the largest impact in access to orbit since the 70s.
That's not a magnetic field, that's polarisation of the light in the sky due to scattering.
Thank you for the link. I can read Reddit on my phone again.
Moving Beyond Defensive Programming in Scala [video]
I forgot to add that I received am email with this info from the creators of Jolicloud. Seemed like more of the same thing but I wanted to see HN’s take on it (the lack of email signup was a red flag for me).
Something like this was explored on Stack Exchange Code Golf.
https://codegolf.stackexchange.com/questions/33059/draw-with...
I’m also wondering if they damage peoples hearing? Some of them are extremely loud

and I feel especially bad for kids who’s ears could be less than a foot from the dryer due to their height.
If I thought his behavior was materially different (aside from capability) 11 years later, I'd drop it, just like I have with many other people who grew out of or otherwise dealt with their early problems.

On the other hand, I also repeat things about a person I know who stole from me many years ago. That person happens to be in jail for, among other things, theft.

The problem here is that he was and is rewarded for the bad behavior, so he keeps repeating it.
I think OP meant leaving it up and continuing to collect data / track the players.
I also sent a request. I put “All of it, thanks.”
How do you know did you flush well or not?
> Which almost always happens because someone messed up their C or machine code,

Or hardware failure, possibly injecting faults into the system. See Page 14: https://www.hq.nasa.gov/alsj/ApolloLMRadarTND6849.pdf
Is this different from the previous indictment? It mentioned trafficking a lot but they weren't actually charged with trafficking. http://www.businessinsider.com/backpage-executives-93-count-...
> I remember people here were coming out in droves to defend the company

Including this week, when someone linked either a troy hunt or krebs post about it.
That's because for many people, email is a to-do list.

Once you see the inbox as a task list, you will understand the feature.

A to-do list sorted by the time the task was put on the list is not optimal. Some people would like to see the tasks that they have to do this week (send pictures to Emily), and not in three months (check-in for the upcoming flight).

I was not aware of this feature myself until just now, but I'm going to be a user of it.
Guilded (YC S17) is hiring senior engineers to connect gaming teams (remote)
Texas Attorney General: Human Trafficking Training [video]
Pix3D: Dataset and Methods for Single-Image 3D Shape Modeling
High level of training is no longer required. Anyone can use a PS2 joystick to fly ours:
https://youtu.be/b7SjOOuTct0

You're right of course, that the economic challenge still exists. This one burns about $100/hr worth of fuel, and there's other maintenance costs on top of that.
14-year old prostitutes weren't willingly signing up on Backpage. They were still managed by pimps. It was the pimps who were on (and actively helped by) the site. They were literally given tips to hide real ages from profiles to keep law enforcement away.
Even on highways, you wouldn't need this to be on 100% of the roads to be useful. You could have, say, a mile of charging rails for every ten miles of road and on lanes that go uphill.

I guess the limit comes down to how much power the rails can produce and how fast the vehicles can charge. If a vehicle can charge at N times the rate they use that energy at highway speeds, then it needs to have at least 1/N of the road populated with charging rails.

If this becomes a widely adopted standard, maybe car manufacturers will look into using a low-capacity battery that can accept high current as a buffer. (Maybe a supercapacitor?)
People can believe that sex differences exist, while disagreeing with others on how dominant their influence is, versus the social constructs. One obvious example of this is arguments about the dearth of women in technical and programming roles.
Much like "computers" used to be rooms full of people doing calculations, "AI" is here, and it's large organizations running on people. It has been with us probably since the dawn of agriculture.
I just realized this too. No wonder many of the NyTimes journalists are here today.
My point is that you can't use money to measure the value of life. And that if you do, you'll eventually find that life is, well, worthless.
Perhaps he built an AI on an air-gapped machine, and simply documents what it's been trying to do to escape.
Mercedes has a night vision system like that https://youtu.be/d03SuJ0TVcY
Regarding public health, I’m not convinced dead humans are any worse than dead cattle TBH.

I do agree on the other two points you’ve made. This is one of those things that are fraught with irrationalities and taboos, and have been for millennia.
Teaching leadership, humility, empathy, and critical reasoning. Can’t say for sure, my kids aren’t old enough for me to put it into practice yet. With that said, I’ve had enough practical experience in the workplace to have a rough foundation for how to and not to acquire power and lead.
Checking the box by default is a dark pattern designed explicitly to trick people into signing up without realizing it. People who did that knew what they were doing. I don't have any sympathy that they now have to go back and ask for real consent.
When it comes to Facebook, assume the worst and in 6 months find out it was 10x worse
Its quite possible that that part of the play dried up.
Honest question: does it mean they were really guilty of it, or simply they have been offered a better deal than going through the trial? I guess if somebody accuses me of 93 indictments, which potentially leads to a life sentence vs plead guilty and you'll only make 5 years, I'll plead guilty. I'm asking because there is an implication. If I run a website which does not facilitate human trafficking - but I can get accused and risk 25 years - I'll also plead guilty, even if my website is a fantasy football website.
But they are selling something that has to be delivered in person, what's so hard about setting up undercover sting operations on both sides -- setting up meetings with pimps, and advertising to catch the johns? They don't even need backpage to help - like you said, the people placing ads aren't using their own phones or credit cards, so it's not even clear what help backpage could offer.

Seems like police should be able to make a steady stream of arrests just from this one website.
These guys were undoubtedly sleazeballs but I find it shocking to see this sudden wave of legistlation and enforcement against prostitution and its fa cilitation regardless. Craigslist, backpages, et al have been around for decades practically and everyone knows what the deal is. I thought we'd be on the edge of legalization, not doing a 180 in 2018.

EDIT: To clarify, I don't think any of this has anything to do with the declared intent, and commentary from those in a position to actually know about the issue are virtually universally against shutting down these mediums.
It's not like reddit is particularly well optimized for phones, in the mobile site or the app. Their mobile versions are unusable and if it weren't for third party apps I'd have given up reddit entirely.

Reddit should fit nicely into a mobile first site with good desktop functionality, it's just their useless team of designers.
One of the few aggressive, rapid turnabouts I've ever seen in the Internet space, was Netflix & Reid Hoffman absorbing the immense negative reaction about Qwikster and deciding to do the right thing and listen to their customers. Had they persisted and ignored the feedback, there would plausibly be no Netflix as we know it today (probably stomped by competitors given a big opening and or acquired).

The Netflix stock chart tells the tale nicely: https://i.imgur.com/sZ9FjeP.jpg
Geomagnetic reversal is not some atomic event but a gradual process lasting for several kY. Different parts of the Earth are in different stages of of the reversal, some further along than others.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Atlantic_Anomaly
> Tesla claimed that the driver had his hands off earlier in the drive, not at the time of the collision.

You are wrong: "the driver’s hands were not detected on the wheel for six seconds prior to the collision."

see: https://www.tesla.com/blog/update-last-week%E2%80%99s-accide...

Perhaps you shouldn't attack Tesla for using "weasel words" in their press release if you don't take the time to read it.

Edit: You seem to have edited your post without any disclaimer. Your edits were not visible when I responded. Most people on HN will edit their comments with an "Edit: I was wrong about ____" rather than ninja editing the mistaken claim away. This help make discussions easier to follow and limits misunderstandings.
I don’t believe Angular is any bit slower then react currently. Any comparisions I’ve seen usually have some level of bias where the author either chose not to use some feature that would change the comparision to be more equal.

I’ll say that Angular recieved alot of flack over the 1-2 change ( alot rightly so ) but it’s really solid now and marching at a steady pace of improvments. I’ve looked over react and vue.js projects recently and they are all basically the same thing with slighy differences.
Looks like they cut the size down some. I am seeing 10.7 MB for the GIF.

There are several reasons for why the GIF is so large that all contribute to the size. The GIF's resolution is quite large for a GIF, at 1004px by 788px, this is larger then they display it on the page. And the GIF is pretty long at 336 frames.

Since GIFs on like just about every video format except MJPEG has no interframe compression. So each frame only has to average 32 KB to make up that 10 MB (336 * 32.6KB = 10.7 MB).

This is an example of how extremely good our modern video codecs are.

[0] - https://ezgif.com/split/ezgif-4-240b758f26.gif
You could argue that it's not necessary but that's what it is.

Yeah, that's the whole point I'm trying to make. That it's not necessary. That JS it no more special than any other language, and that there are recent, real, practical examples of absolute disruption (Apple/Android app stores) which broke what we thought it was required to deliver content to users.

As per the one single application, that's a gross oversimplification.
> Focus on the repeat offenders. The ideas that you keep coming back to.

I totally buy this. Linked to it, I think the it's good to be able to entertain obviously bad ideas for a short while. You think of an idea because of some set of underlying prompts, so even if the idea as a whole doesn't have legs, there are often insights lurking somewhere in it that you'll end up coming back to.
squirrelmail
Try writing to the mods: hn@ycombinator.com

(Just for curiosity, which site?)
Crypto-shredding, as it is known, it is already well established as a valid process and covers the requirements.

The point is to make the data unusable. Obviously when you delete a file from your recycle bin, the data is all still there, but it's acceptable under EU data protection reqs.
How to Open a Pages File Without iWork Pages?
onetimesecret.com - you can set up your own instance if you don't trust theirs
I think the wording is pretty clear, but I think people didn't take the time to fully read the press release, just skimmed it.

This seems pretty clear:

"The driver had received several visual and one audible hands-on warning earlier in the drive and the driver’s hands were not detected on the wheel for six seconds prior to the collision."
It has been an interesting read of the many different points of view in support of C or of C++. But there is an elephant in the room here.

The problem with most languages, including the ubiquitous C, C++, Java et al, is that there are implementation defined behaviours and undefined behaviours that are specifically placed in these languages.

A previous discussion, which I can't locate at the moment, did discuss this in detail. Most programmers have a serious flaw in that they do not document. They may produce documents but they do not document. Every assumption, every trick and why it is used, every implementation defined behaviour, every reasoning as to the use of specific algorithms should be documented and is not.

I have seen incredibly detailed documents for programs that just miss some of the basic essential assumptions because "everyone knows them".

In everyday communications, we use language in a dynamic way, meanings can be changed subtly and we get around the errors. With the programming of machines, there is no such leeway ever. Our languages should be defined completely so that we will know that what we have written has actual meaning.

the reality, of course, is that this is a "pipe-dream" and won't happen. But as programmers, we could start calling for such completeness of definition of the languages we use.
There's a non insignificant number of people who plead guilty to murder for that same reason (to avoid death penalty) but are later exonerated via DNA evidence.
Scamming: The Misunderstood Confidence Man (2015) [pdf]
Admit doesn't imply wrongdoing, except insofar as hiding the truth is wrongdoing. The phrase "admit you like him" is in common enough use to have 101,000 results in a Google search, similar to "admit you were wrong" or "admit you did it". Having a crush isn't wrongdoing.

If admit is the wrong word to use here, what do you think the right word should be?
According to the Senate report on the matter[0], Backpage would systematically help posters reword illegal ads to appear less so:

"Backpage has publicly touted its process for screening adult advertisements as an industry-leading effort to protect against criminal abuse, including sex trafficking. A closer review of that “moderation” process reveals, however, that Backpage has maintained a practice of altering ads before publication by deleting words, phrases, and images indicative of an illegal transaction."

[0] https://www.hsgac.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/Backpage%20Report...
What YouTube, Pandora, Spotify, Apple Music and Amazon Are Paying Artists
And for further knowledge - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15508440 - this is the comment that got me to look into Fluent Forever in the first place.
While I agree, I wouldn't think BBC would be dealing with those same pressures, being primarily (I think?) state-funded.
If they actively banned/prohibited ads/posters that used obviously illegal terms, I suspect they wouldn't be in the situation they're currently in.

Instead, someone would post an ad for a "sexy mocha l0lita 4 you", and Backpage values profit over principles so they took it upon themselves to remove the term "l0lita" and allow such ads to be posted.
shows an incredible faith in our justice system.
I suspect the incentives are all wrong for that to work.

The people most able and likely to pay for Facebook are _exactly_ the people Facebooks advertising customers want most access to.
No, but you are required to be a licensed driver and the car warns you if you take your hands off the wheel. I don't know how you can claim that the meaning of "autopilot" isn't clear to the drivers.
It depends on what your deductible is. With the increasing cost of healthcare, we are seeing companies go with higher and higher deductible plans. We don't compete solely on price, however our prices are extremely competitive even for people who have insurance. (we are often cheaper than medicare/medicaid) We also work with businesses as part of their benefit plans. The major benefit of this system is time, we can schedule longer appointments with a more flexible schedule than most other doctor's offices.
Legalization of exploiting women and children? I hope I'm misinterpreting what you're saying
aka "Buying a presidency"...
More likely that the forces driving the legislation (which are very anti-sex, period), and the Congress critters willing to jump on board (who know their base), don't know and/or don't care about whether the boon it provides to law enforcement outweighs its visibility re: trafficking.

A lot of morals based legislation is driven by worldview, not by data.