skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah it's a bit like FOSS people not liking for profit companies using open source to make money or like people saying you have freedom of speech but what you say offense them.

Having your cake and all that.
The show was "six feet under"
lol you are acting like the rest of the world is developing medecines. The US market is the driving force for 95 percent of drugs developed worldwide, by a very, very wide margin. This is not random.
There does exist such thing as "crime", even in China (imagine that). It's not all angelic citizens and among them, some angelic dissidents.
Tesla CEO Elon Musk offers rare look inside Model 3 factory
they forgot this house.. http://www.house-crazy.com/colorados-famous-spaceship-house/
70 Years Since the Marshall Plan (2017)
Privatization is a key goal here. By making USPS appear to struggle to make money it improves the argument that UPS, Fedex and anyone else who could make more money would be "better" at delivery. But the requirement that all Americans have access to daily (6) deliveries which is a core requirement for the Post Office is in the way of privatization as no one can honor this requirement for so little money as a stamp and make public company profits. So this can be buried in this "review" by proposing doing away with daily or even direct to home deliveries of mail.

Interestingly enough by eliminating the daily delivery of mail also kills the DMA business, which while everyone hates spam mail, is still a vital business tool for small and local businesses. Fedex will not deliver mail to your house that costs a nickel.
"ensuring the profitability of ... companies is not the government’s concern; protecting the public is."

That's a pretty thought. I wish it were true.
Anyone know a cheap DIY way to generate quantum-random numbers at home? For example, get a Geiger counter and wire it up to code that counts the milliseconds between clicks... something like that?
I've worked in the industry for since 2003. Algorithm improvements in the past few years have been impressive. Plus if you set up a decent chokepoint at the ticket gate and get good images things are even easier for the algorithm.
Comet.ML Wants to Be the Google Analytics of the Deep Learning World
You'll need a pizza box sized dish to receive from Starlink. We'd have to wait for a hypothetical Starlink II or such before receivers in laptops become practical.
Further, it's one of the only (if not the only) federal agency explicitly required by the US Constitution.

(US Constitution Article 1 Section 8 Clause 7) > The Congress shall have Power... To establish Post Offices and post Roads.
The EU market is far from being harmonized medecines regulation wise. it always takes longer to get approval across all EU countries vs one approval in the US.
Pricing of drugs is not harmonized at the EU level either and thats a hard block for any launch.
Lets start with something simpler first. How about websites asking for user permission before using cookies instead of being genteel and saying "please note that we use cookies thank you", or at least have a 'delete cookie' button next to 'ok'? Doing this shows the respect for user's wishes wrt privacy. If this can't be done, then there is no hope of changing a billion dollar industry which is essentially based on similar tactics.

As for the topic, I can't understand why people demonize targeted advertising. This has been happening forever. On TV, you see products targeted towards housewives during soaps and products targeted towards men during sports. The same goes to news papers and magazines. You wouldn't find an ad for sanitary pads in a car and bike magazine. Stereotypes rule here. What we have now is just a more advanced technique, with good amount of maths helping it.

I think I know the answer myself - people conflate breach of privacy with targeted advertising. For me, breach of privacy would be something like my phone number being sold to telemarketers who make cold calls for bovine excreta, or gmail showing ads based on email content. However, google showing ads related to items I have recently searched is perfectly acceptable, even beneficial when done right.

That said, the point about ads that discriminate racially or based on other social factors is unethical and worrisome. I have no idea how the ad industry works behind the scenes, beyond the technology, but a business that socially discriminates in real world will always discriminate online as well. So this point is really sociological and not technological.
Kids today might not remember, but a big reason for carrying a phone traditionally was to receive a phone call. A farady bag is about as much use as turning it off.
Generic and annoying ad content plastered even more heavily on free sites to "make up" for the lost CPC rates could drive adoption of paid services.
Too bad the medicine part of TCM is junk science
Fecebook was told to localize data in Russia and complied, same as twitter.
thus allowed to operate.
Small or large company makes no difference.
>Although the term has no negative connotations in older dictionaries,[1][2] and the usage of such parallel compound terms as Englishman, Frenchman and Irishman[3] remain unobjectionable,[4] the term Chinaman is noted as offensive by modern dictionaries and is no longer the preferred nomenclature

In other words, BS creating an issue when there's none. Chinaman is fine.
< direct mailers

I'd love for that one to just go away. It's annoying to pick up the mail and just drop everything into the garbage. I actually wish I could unsubscribe from USPS ala that Seinfeld episode
The fact that the comment section isn't littered with reference to "The Big Lebowski" says a lot about HN. Much of it is very good -- serious discussion undiluted by the tempting instant gratification of easy shots.

I still miss some humor, but maybe it isn't worth it. Maybe its civilization ou barbarie, seriousness or eternal september.
Why don't companies just place ads by content? If you are reading an article on diaper rash then you would see ads related to caring for a baby.
So as I understand it:

* They had a keyword filter that automatically stripped certain words (like Lolita and teenage) from an ad before it was posed. Usage of these words doesn't necessarily prove that the ad was for child sex trafficking. After all in Hollywood women are teenage heartthrobs into their 30s. I'm not sure the reason why they had this filter, but a poster in a previous thread said it was requested by law enforcement.

* Because they facilitated prostitution their credit card facilities were removed by VISA/Mastercard and so they forced prostitutes to use bitcoin to buy ads. I think this is what the money laundering charge is relating to.

I think that back page made a significant amount of money from prostitution ads. Because that is illegal in most of the US, they went through these elaborate processes (aka criminal conspiracy) to protect themselves from criminal charges. If they were knowingly hiding child sex trafficking they should have the book thrown at them. But at this stage, from what I have seen from what has been alleged there is nothing concrete to support that.
As far as I remember flu vaccines work by looking at the origins of the yearly epidemic (in the east, typically china etc.), predicting which strains will become the dominant ones and then starting to cultivate neutered forms of those (in eggs) on a mass scale to have the vaccines ready by the time the epidemic hits 'the west'. Some years the predictions of the strain are wrong and the vaccines less useful as most people will get another strain.
> Creating a public institution with no pressure to make profit is a disaster waiting to happen.

We seem to have no problem with throwing $700 billion per year on the military and nobody is pressuring them to make a profit. Is that a disaster? No? "But that's different!" It's only "different" because that's what we've been led to believe.
Like Englishman, the eccentric Oxbridge schooled aristocrat who fights crime at nights?

We use *man for all kinds of ethnicities, Chinaman or China man is no different.
I encourage people to read (or re-read) this Ars Technica article, especially the second to last paragraph (the one that begins: "To get around the sustainability issue overall[…]") and put your prejudices aside when you do so. There is nothing "broken" about the pharmaceutical industry being described here.

The Goldman guy's opinion is that the industry should focus on treating the conditions that affect the greatest number of people, double down on innovation, and turn their focus towards improving the lives of the elderly—which we're all counting on being, once the promise of gene therapy cures the maladies younger and middle aged people suffer from.

Oh, the horror!
*Was sufficient in 2010
Maybe stop guaranteeing returns on investment?

"It worked in the past" isn't financially sound decision making. It might be lucky from time to time.
I think it is a publicity stunt.
Of course not. But now you're getting philosophical :) Can you really now anything?
“Top talent” and HQ2
It won't matter because we'll all spend our time in the virtual (VR) world instead.

Civilization's about to get a whoooole lot more sci-fi!
How to prioritize Chinese name candidates to meet branding criteria
Sure but my point was that Duolingo basing all of its courses on translating from one language to the other seriously limits its ability to actually teach you a language. My native language isn't English but as I'm writing these words I'm not translating, I think in English directly. If I switch to "translating" mode I'm a lot slower and I end up with unidiomatic English.

Any decent language learning course should try to immerse you in the target language as soon as possible, forcing you to actually think in the language instead of your own. There are many ways to do this, for instance making you answer questions. Instead of telling you "translate 'the cat is black' in French" they'd show you a picture of a black cat and ask you "Quelle est la couleur du chat?" and you'd have to answer "Le chat est noir". No English involved, like in real life. The problem of course is that such an approach is hard to correct by a dumb algorithm, especially as the concepts being taught become harder.
Natural language doesn't always follow the same structural patterns, even for the same meanings.

What's better to the ear or shorter often prevails over consistency.
> There is no ... "right to remember"

To quote Article 17.3.d:

> for archiving purposes in the public interest, scientific or historical research purposes or statistical purposes in accordance with Article 89(1) in so far as the right referred to in paragraph 1 is likely to render impossible or seriously impair the achievement of the objectives of that processing

In fact the whole of Article 17 contains exceptions to the right to be forgotten.

Meanwhile Article 16 of the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights (enacted 2009) is the "right to do business", and some of it conflicts with GDPR.

All legislation is interpreted by the courts. It's very rarely as simple as "the law says X, therefore you are guilty. Case closed." Instead, lawyers argue about conflicting legislation, and previous cases. A judge weighs all those arguments, and gives a decision, which then affects other future cases.

I am not a lawyer, but I have spent quite a bit of time working with lawyers to comply with GDPR. What I have said here interprets their words.
What's unethical about that? It looks very clever to me. In fact I'm kinda envious because I didn't come up with that...
What they’re doing is an extremely common thing and proven business model.

There are lots of interesting things you can do to consistently buy “below” market value. Don’t use a realtor, that’s 3-6% savings. Buying in cash and guaranteeing a smooth closing is incentivizing to a lot of sellers, another couple % points. Etc.
I don't have any skin in the game of who learns what, so I'm not sure why it would be considered biased. The intentions of the article is just to give some direction for those seeking it. I make very clear that these are just some of the options available.
U.S. Expert: China poised to transform English language in 5 years
Is a EMP spherical in shape or directional or is that purely a design choice?
Spray-paint, maybe?
How did we get in to this position...
I think Americans well understand huge metro areas. Take Chicago for example: the city proper is only about 220 sq mi (~3mil people) but the metro area is around 10,000 sq mi (~9mil people). Most of that is contiguous urbanization, too. You could drive from Milwaukee, WI to Gary, IN and just about feel like you've never left a city.

Pretty much all the major cities in the U.S. are like this.

We know how to do sprawl.
The difference between a one-shot cure and a chronic treatment is that the former is sold to customers and the latter turns customers into exploitable assets. If I own a cow, and I milk the cow for all the cow is worth so that I can sell the cow's milk in the market, is the cow my "customer"? Because I give the cow feed and a barn in exchange, whatever it needs so that it can keep giving me milk?

A free market works when players have information symmetry and can make free decisions of sound mind. We otherwise resort to regulation, for example to rein in natural monopolies. Regarding chronic treatments, there's nothing the government can do (within this narrow focus) to reduce demand - but the government can set the rules. Specifically, the government can regulate that pharmaceutical companies must balance their research spending between chronic treatments and one-shot cures, rather than going all-in on chronic treatments. The government can set a lifetime cap on revenue from an individual patient for a given drug, such a cap being formulated on the basis of the cost of development and the number of expected patients (i.e. market size - larger markets will have more patients and a lower cap per patient needed to recoup the cost of development), with production guarantees (since the per-unit cost of doses is trivial) for after the lifetime cap is reached. Indeed, such a production guarantee could be met with a publicly-owned-and-funded company tasked with producing generic versions of drugs for patients who have hit their lifetime cap - essentially, a generic drug company prohibited from selling to customers who haven't proven that they have paid more than the lifetime cap, which produces generic versions of drugs still protected under patent, which is now re-defined not as the exclusive right to manufacture but the exclusive right to manufacture and sell without restriction.
FTFY? I feel like this is the first time I’ve seen that one. Googled it, “fixed that for you”. Interesting.
Japanese engineer builds giant robot to realize 'Gundam' dream
You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.

Hacker News: Hack everything!

Cracking company: We've cracked the iPhone and are selling the tech to law enforcement.

Ref:
http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/meaning-of-hack.html
http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/C/cracker.html
So why aren’t they stripping materials from disposed electronics? I’ve heard it’s done, but it doesn’t seem highly common.
That's the ideal in a world without any competition from other products.

We don't live in that world so what you describe doesn't actually happen.

We have more cures being developed now than ever before and it's very lucrative for the companies doing it.
"parasites that'll use it as money drain" sounds remarkably like shareholders.
When he catches a guy he saves the company tens of thousands of dollars. He only needs to catch one guy a week for it to be economically feasible to use his time. By the time they give him the case, there had already been a number of red flags.
Typical American, when the only tool you have is a gun, everything looks like something to shoot.

We Brits are quite capable of removing cameras

https://www.crewechronicle.co.uk/news/local-news/speed-camer...

https://www.expressandstar.com/news/2018/04/13/police-appeal...
> Driving cars for hire has always been a shit way to make a living, ask anyone who’s driven cab.

Lol, nope.

My (single) mother drove a NYC taxi cab from 1978 through 1992 (after previous careers playing in orchestras, selling commercial real estate and being a corporate comptroller). The money she earned doing that raised two sons; she was able to invest in 6 medallions (though she was ripped off by her business partner, that's another story) and eventually helped her go back to nursing school.

Many, many cab drivers used to be able raise families on their income. In the 1980s it was a pretty decent, albeit dangerous, way to make a living. There were even whole city blocks, in Midtown, where all/virtually-all of the businesses were related to taxi service and repair (38th street on 10th avenue and another in the mid-60s on I think 3rd or 1st).

In the 90s, for whatever reason that started to become untenable and a rapid exodus of Sikh cab drivers began where they moved their families to New Jersey and started doing black car elsewhere.
I think there’s clear, intent-based copyright infringement at the very least.
And for even more context, military spy satellites tend to cost a lot, somewhere in the $billions so way more than the launch. Commercial satellites often share common components and typically cost a few $100 million so not that much more than the cost of the launch. And in the commercial sector the transition to cheaper satellites to match cheaper launchers might be more feasible.
How to Prototype Your Big Idea with Nordic Semiconductor?
Content aware advertising isn’t the problem or even remotely as creepy.

If I’m reading an article about ski resorts it’s not out of line to try to sell me skis or even a vacation package. It pertains to the content thats being interacted with and may be a commonality across everyone interacting with that content.

If I then read a political news site and see the same ad it’s creepy.

The real world analogy is a guy literally following you around, seeing what storefronts you’ve peeked into, then holding up signs for them (or likely their competitors) everywhere else you go.
Telegram hasn't even implemented proper end-to-end encryption; they still actively advertise client-to-server encryption as a privacy feature. Domain fronting is 10 years more advanced than their technology. Did you know they can't E2E encrypt group conversations? A lot of people seem not to know that.
Reading about municipal finance makes the freewheeling world of VC look positively conservative. E.g. there's this concept of a "13th check," at the end of the year in many poorly run cities. Basically, and surplus growth in the city's retirement funds were distributed to pensioners as a sort of annual bonus, rather than left in the general account to help make up for eventual shortfalls.

http://www.mlive.com/news/detroit/index.ssf/2013/10/10_thing...

There's a serious moral hazard for politicians. It's easy to give constituents services today at the expense of benefits in the future, when they'll be out of office. I wonder if a law that clawed back these government official's pensions if they were found to break from good accounting practices, would be a deterrent?
Hopefully none of those employees read HN.
NYC has control of billboard size, number, brightness and placement. If you want it to change, you can have local regulation.
Also available here:
http://www.cell.com/cancer-cell/fulltext/S1535-6108(02)00133...
The person indeed had done something wrong, technology just helped here to catch him more quickly
As someone who lives in the UK, this is funny and also makes me cry a little.
"The 'ideal' drug from a business point of view not only not cures the patient long term, it offer a short term mitigation while increasing the risk on relapse and thus future recurring consumption of the treatment."

One doesn't need to be Sherlock Holmes to figure out that that's just like the narcotics business.
Too close and awkward? By the time I scrambled up a 20 foot pole, citizens would already call the police on me for weird behavior.
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Don't forget to take into account that new words are added to each course regularly. For newer languages and any of the beta languages, the words you are taught can change very frequently.
It's anti-worker, except for those who wish to work who would otherwise be outside the workforce. In this case, there is no employer of one-off drivers. Cities with medallions are deliberately anti-worker to all but a few.
Why do you think they would do this?
In ye olde dayes, printing with solid black was a problem if you couldn’t count on your printer being able to put down an even coat—any imperfections were immediately obvious. Also, black ink by itself was dull, so it was common to punch it up with a hit of cyan or magenta.
Yep, remember the old George Orwell quote from 1984:-

"If you want a vision of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face - forever."

The future has more tall buildings than he might have imagined but it's going to be just as crap.
Not exactly true, but still very difficult to get a remedy.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latent_defect
China and Russia are developing space weapons
In Sweden the law basically says you as a seller are responsible for anything you reasonably should have known about (and didn't disclose to the buyer). So it's not enough to claim that you genuinely didn't know that your cellar had been flooded (because you never went down there) or that you shouldn't use wood glue to put up bathroom tiles, you have to prove that it's the sort of thing a reasonable person couldn't be expected to know.
Sure, "I forgot my password and want to recover my own data" is a legitimate use of a security flaw, and you might be happy in the short term if you need to use it like that.

That doesn't make it a good thing overall that the flaw exists.
Isn't "it worked in the past" pretty much the foundation of all investment advice? Based on what else can the average guy invest his 401k?

Regarding public pensions they should just adapt to reality and fund them higher. This was willful negligence for a long time.
Original report, http://www.pewtrusts.org/en/research-and-analysis/issue-brie...
Everything you wanted to know about SQL injection (but were afraid to ask)(2013)
And/or sell the system. Plenty of regimes out there that would love this capability.
Yes, we should also start calling black people a term they used to be called because it used to be okay. Why is it that some people lack the miniscule amount of decency required to respect a person's or group's preferences on what they like to be called? What kind of insignificant life does someone have to lead to have the time or energy to question a small change in vocabulary that relates to respecting another's preferences?
They were knowingly hiding child sex trafficking.
They're planning to discontinue Falcon 9 to free up factory space for BFR production while continue launching with their existing stock of reusable rockets. So there's quite a bit of risk there if BFR ends up getting too delayed.
This is much better than I expected: it seems to be cleaner but to keep (and maybe even increase!) information density, at least on the main pages.
I believe this has been propose as the more economically sound solution : https://wasteadvantagemag.com/old-electronics-could-be-more-...
That made me laugh.

I don't think you would last long, though. And horses are probably not allowed at most concerts.