skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My old boss loved to play big brother on us with LinkedIn. She'd get notified when we were updating our stuff, and I think she could see when we were messaging with recruiters/etc. I'm not entirely sure what the limits were with her upgraded account, but she wasn't good at hiding that she knew when her employees were looking for new jobs.
Based on the halting problem, a provably complete analysis of the behavior of some (most?) programs in a turing-complete language is impossible. To put it another way, it is impossible to be sure that there isn't another vulnerability after you've patched the last one.

I don't own any crypto assets myself, but I think that using a non-turing-complete scripting language for the bitcoin blockchain was a wise decision rather than a lack of vision.
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Even if that number is 3x higher than average, it's still an order of magnitude higher than I would have guessed.
Still waiting for street view...
My guess with all of these sites is that they are willing to give me the data I gave them, but not the data they inferred about me or pieced together from other sources. My concern is that this data may be more sensitive and hold more potential for harm than what I gave them (since I was willing to share it with them in the first place).
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Back before the popularization of smart phones, it was not that uncommon to use "apps" as an abbreviation for [desktop] applications.

Of course, "apps" is usually used to refer to [mobile] applications today, but it's still used in the other sense.
Yes, state of the art 4th generation interceptor that is blown out of the skies by 5th generation F-35. Is there something conceptually unclear?
Cross-site tracking: Let’s unpack that
Virgil led Dante down into the next layer of Hell, past the rapists, murderers and thieves.

“And here...” he gestured “...is where they torture people who place CTAs in a css content=“
reminds me of this nice icon project, where icons are also designed with one css block:
cssicon.space
I can point to three articles in three major daily news outlets(NY Times, Washington Post and Bloomberg) in the last 48 hours that question the sincerity and accuracy of his congressional testimony. There's plenty more but these are off the top of my head.
And yet on large programs unless you are very careful about which symbols get loaded VS will crash deterministically while debugging. This gets worse and worse over time as windows itself pulls in more modules for the same code with every update.

4GB simply isn't enough address space to keep every symbol in memory. I could manually manage them but that should be the computers job not mine.
Nope, this is totally wrong.

To put it bluntly, please stop spreading this garbage. CSW completely misunderstood memorylessness (which, just to state the obvious, is solid bayesian evidence that he is not Satoshi).

Regardless of the knowledge of the participants, it will always take an EV of 10 minutes when alpha = 1, or an EV = 15 given alpha = 2/3 in this example.
Some minor points:

- The pineal gland isn't the only organ in the brain directly sensitive to the bloodstream. The base of the hypothalamus, specifically at the arcuate nucleus, can sample blood-born hormones via the Hypophyseal portal system, which is the same permeabilized brain region responsible for the pineal glands' exposure to the bloodstream.

- Its also the hypothalamus that senses light levels, via the suprachiasmatic nuclei located just above the optic nerves. Its those neurons that sense light levels via retinal photoganglion cells. The SCN maintains the clock but then signals the pineal on its own. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15193530

I find the calcification hypothesis interesting. Certainly damage to the arcuate nucleus (gliosis) has been implicated in hypothalamic aging and obesity, and I contend that other forms of brain damage due to blood-born exposures are possible.

It would be neat to try correlating water flouride levels to millions of fitbit accounts .... if only encouraging people to donate their data for science was easier....
Forget about terrorist organizations, we have a long history of examples where disaffected young men with few prospects drop out of productive society and chase the danger, excitement and potential riches of the drug trade.
Yes, but even if your language is total you have an analogue of the halting problem, where instead of analysis being undecidable it just takes an unrealistic amount of effort.
Can we just change our info to say we're residing in some protected part of Europe? I've already gone in and falsified all of the good stuff, it wouldn't hurt to 'move' again if it means they have to apply an extra layer of privacy/right to forget.
between SABRE and pure rocket there is air-augmented rocket. The latter has significantly increased specific impulse, ~2-3x, over pure rocket while is significantly simpler and cheaper, no unobtanium required, construction compare to SABRE. Basically it is just wrapping your first stage engine block with an air-duct. 60 years ago USSR designed a very compact air-augmented ICBM and actually fielded a smaller missile - an air-augmented tactical ballistic missile.

http://www.astronautix.com/g/gnom.html:

"The concept was evidently been proved on a subscale tactical missile, the PR-90, now on display at MAI's museum at Orevo, north of Moscow. The PR-90, with a launch mass of only 1500 kg, of which 550 kg was payload, could reach an altitude of 40 km and a range of 100 km. The booster unit used 200 kg of RAM-10 ballistite with a specific impulse of 180 seconds to get the missile up to ram-air ignition speed. Then the air-augmented unit, with a specific impulse of 550 seconds, cut in and used 300 kg of propellant to boost the vehicle to its 1 km/s cut-off speed. An equivalent liquid propellant missile (such as the American Lance) weighed over twice as much. A solid propellant equivalent (such as the French Pluton) would weigh three times more. "

USSR Lunar rocket (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N1_(rocket)) was supposed to partially use that effect too - the gap between the 2nd and the wider 1st stages would serve as an air inlet ramming the incoming air down into the channel formed by the circle arranged engines of the 1st stage (the project failed for other reasons though).
It's almost like a reverse Monty Hall problem.

In the Monty Hall, the extra bit of information seems useless, but is actually useful. In a poisson process, the extra bit of information seems useful, but is actually useless.
Obama promised "if you like your insurance you can keep it". However what wasn't said is "if hate your insurance you have no choice but to keep it". I don't like my insurance, but since I otherwise like my job there is nothing I can do about it.

To be fair, this was a worse problem prior to Obamacare. At least now we have the exchanges, and companies can't deny you coverage for preexisting conditions. I agree with what you're saying, and the current system certainly has big problems, I just don't think you can blame Obama for that.
Any reasonable reader will assume that the Moon has to fill a significant portion of the frame and be well exposed as well as sharp for this headline to be meaningful.

I agree it’s not precise and I also agree it’s not a generally very useful way to talk about resolution, but I think the authors were looking for a way to convey high resolution and quality while using terms anyone might have heard and have a rough understanding of.
Hmm, tbh i haven't kept up with Angular so i wouldn't know for sure.

There was Addy Osmani's talk on performances of different JS frameworks and Angular was the slowest. Slower than what chrome team recommends :)
Just because it worked once or twice doesn't mean it's going to work forever.
> what originally drove the lions share

I think that is known to be false (although it is repeated ad nauseam on HN). The best estimate around 2011 / 2012, is from this study:
https://arxiv.org/abs/1207.7139

which estimated SR transactions to be between 4% - 9% of the total Bitcoin transactions. Hardly what I would call "The lion's share".
It's all targeted advertising so if you want to make the case that outside of targeted advertising Google is squeaky clean then you're welcome to that but it's a rather narrow definition for what arguably is the largest advertising company in the world.

They exist because of and for targeted advertising, everything else is just a means of getting there.
I just checked out their third_party/curl repository, and here is the full diffstat from the upstream they based it on:

$ git diff --stat origin/upstream/master origin/master
BUILD.gn | 438 ++
include/curl/curlbuild.h.fuchsia | 198 +
lib/curl_config.h.fuchsia | 1034 +++++
src/.gitignore | 1 -
src/tool_hugehelp.c | 9000 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
5 files changed, 10670 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

This adds a build file for the build system they use, and a couple of the config files that would normally be generated by the configure script but presumably the configure script doesn't support Fuchsia, along with an auto-generated source file containing the help output.

So it looks like they have had to make zero actual source changes to cURL; the POSIX compatibility layer and setting the appropriate defines in cURL's config files are sufficient.
I happen to be watching tree trimmers work on a tree from my office window, so I entered that into their form. Very high automation risk (77%)... but I'm looking at this work, and it's absurd. Automating it would be extremely difficult, and serve no purpose since there's nothing particularly expensive or wasteful about the current process. To be fair, it identifies plumbers as having a fairly low automation risk, which I think is reasonable.

Still, I'm skeptical how they identify automation risk, and I suspect they get it wrong in a way that makes small cities seem more vulnerable.
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I did this last night and the only surprising thing about the data they had were contact details from ~8 years ago.
Facebook at times appears to be doing something similar. After spending a day in a conference room with a colleague that normally works from a different location, all of a sudden he was at the top of my "suggested friends" list.
So cool that a tool like this exists for use with firebase
Ah yes, the almost, but not quite, dead Skylon. It would be a remarkable engine if they could build it, but to date they have run into engineering problems for which they really don't have any solutions for (like a material that can be 1000C at one end and -150C at the other and not lose all of its desirable properties.

Conceptually as soon as they figure out how to make materials that can exist and retain their properties in the extraordinary conditions this engine would create, its only a matter of building a few of them to make a completely reusable space plane.

Similarly if we figure out what causes gravity and then build a mechanism to nullify it, we'll easily be able to move into space.

But it is kind of a big step.
Facebook and others will be legally required to put in a reasonable effort to delete data they don't have any overriding obligation (public health, legal proceedings, other public interest, etc.) or business need to keep.

This might turn out to be different from what a random person on the street might expect.
Birds can see Earth's magnetic fields because of cryptochromes in their eyes
The original poster had it right - you are mistakenly thinking that the block time is 20 minutes when it's 10. Once you make that correction, you are both correct.
It would be cheaper and more easily scalable to fit more charging points in parking spaces at shopping centres, motorway service stations and so on.

Why do we keep on inventing new complicated ways of doing things instead of standardising and exploiting the things that we already know work?
I completely agree but in this formulation of the problem the honest miners started at t=-10 so may have found the block before the dishonest miners in the timeframe from t=-10 to t=0.
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From what I can tell, both Siemens NX and Catia/3DExperience seem to be widely used for "high end" stuff. With Solidworks regarded as a lesser/mundane package due to its limited functionality in comparison.

That could just be an incorrect impression on my part though. :)

Usability-wise on the other hand, Solidworks seems far ahead of Catia/3DExperience and pretty much on-par with NX. Again, just my impressions (to this point).

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The same page on the Reaction Engines website mentions they use RADAN, which seems to be a sheet metal specific thing.

Not seeing mentions anywhere obvious on their website of FEM (etc) analysis packages, so guessing it'll either be something that's a Solidworks add-on/plugin, or perhaps something custom written.
You're pointing out how a lot of fishing jobs have already been automated while trying to argue that automation isn't happening. The remaining jobs look difficult but that's only because we already got the low-hanging fruit.
Under GDPR, entities are allowed to ask you to prove your identity and by implication that you actually qualify for rights under GDPR.
Anonymous profiles can be addressed using either gender until otherwise specified, besides that HN is so skewed towards males that it is a safe assumption.

If you want to distract from the discussion at hand by making it about gender then that's on you.

As for 'consenting' and 'opting out' that's not how it should work, you don't 'consent' to being tracked by Google because you didn't opt out, that's Google assuming your consent (which, to tie it in with the previous bit is a lot more serious than assuming someone's gender).
Do something you are really excited about. Excitement and inspiration bring you energy.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15354613
My understanding is more hand-wavy than formal, but would the combination of a total language and some limitation on the total number of instructions produce a provably predictable language?
I personally would never pay for Facebook, since I don't get much use of it anyway. It's a nice to have, I check it every other month to see if anything important happened in my extended friends' circle, and that's about it.
I also know for a fact that while I hate ads, I hate wasting my money even more. Browsing FB with an ad blocker makes it essentially ad free. (At least for the main pages)
The only concern left is data gathering/privacy. Assuming that FB isn't lying about selling data to anybody, then I'm ok with my data just sitting around on their servers, informing ads I never see.

Now for a heavy user, I could see the appeal of paying to remove adds (ads between & injected in videos seems annoying) but I highly doubt that the math would checkout for FB. These users are the most engaged ones and probably make for the bulk of their ads revenue. They'd be foolish to offer them a small $5/m membership and lose all ad revenue from them.

All that to say: Since the low value customers are probably unwilling to pay and the high value ones would need to pay a lot to make up for ad revenue loss, I don't believe there ever will be a successful pay to remove ad model on Facebook.
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>Sounds like you're proposing makework programs?

Ok so tell me more about how building LAX was "make work".

>Wouldn't they use more automation to build roads and airports?

So - if we're looking at infrastructure - there are fewer people fixing potholes these days.

Are potholes currently being fixed more efficiently thanks to more sophisticated automation or are they just not being fixed?
This is the automation paradox, and one that Tesla itself has been facing with their assembly lines.

If you over-automate something you end up having to spend more time supervising and fixing it than if you'd just done the thing yourself in the first place.
I used to always update my LinkedIn a few weeks before performance evaluation meetings. Was hoping the HR would notice and recognize retention risk. They were still surprised when I eventually quit, ha.
You can load an Airbus 320 with 400 missiles and try that maybe. Even more cost effective.
Sounds like you are in the wrong job or the wrong company. If the day is that bad every day you need to consider moving.
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NGINX Unit 1.0 is available and production-ready
Anecdotally, I had a very strange experience with LinkedIn. I went to stay with my friend in another country for a few days and upon returning home, LinkedIn recommended his father as a connection - despite me never electronically contacting him. The friend I stayed with doesn't have LinkedIn nor have I contacted him over email or similar. My guess is that it must have been location based or because I connected to their WiFi - very weird.
As recently as 6 months ago I had react developers point me to a couple different boilerplates. So my info on this is a bit skewed. Good to check into this.
The open and shut case of Reality Winner – just took a curious turn
> Accepting insurance - in particular, Medicare and Medicaid, because of their particular reimbursement model - makes it impossible for most providers to provide up-front pricing.

I must be missing something. Suppose I tell the provider I am going to pay them cash, directly; I will not use Medicare, Medicaid, or any other insurance. Are you saying that because said provider accepts Medicare/Medicaid for other patients, it is impossible for them to tell me ahead of time what they are going to charge me?
Fastmail is superb. Their web UI is super slick, very responsive, and above all, quite functional.

Support is also really good, and that's something that's really nonexistant in many providers.
I support subscription funding but most of the rest sounds terrible. When I go scuba diving and post underwater photos on Facebook the likes are useful feedback on whether or not I'm taking good pictures and help me improve as an amateur photographer. Plus I enjoy it when people share my photos. It makes the world a brighter place and hopefully encourages viewers not to trash the ocean.
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There is no bigger enemy of a SaaS company than a successful consulting play. Good luck trying to re-focus on your SaaS project once the consulting company brings in a large multiple (with much larger overhead). You are also substantially reducing your chances of finding funding and as a side effect are reducing your valuation, so unless you plan to self fund for the foreseeable future you may want to re-consider the strategic impact of this decision. If you can please do it under a different legal entity.

Also: a crisis in your consultancy department will further reduce your focus on the SaaS part. A successful SaaS play with longer lead times and a hard to reach market requires deep pockets or a very tight belt. Adding a consultancy arm is akin to killing the SaaS project, only slowly.
> I'm not an insider, but I would imagine that with android, gmail, chrome, various search tools and google Web APIs (fonts, graphs, analytics...), Google tracks you everywhere, whether you are logged in or not. It doesn't even need a cookie with all the behavioral data it has to fingerprint you.

Why would they take all that risk when they allow you to opt-out of targetted advertising?
I would also like to recommend this Nature article, from August 2016, on the same Drugs for Neglected Diseases initiative (DNDi) discussed here.

"Busting the billion-dollar myth: how to slash the cost of drug development"

https://www.nature.com/news/busting-the-billion-dollar-myth-...

> In just over a decade, the group has earned approval for six treatments, tackling sleeping sickness, malaria, Chagas’ disease and a form of leishmaniasis called kala-azar. And it has put another 26 drugs into development. It has done this with US$290 million — about one-quarter of what a typical pharmaceutical company would spend to develop just one drug. … In that vein, the DNDi has started research on alternatives to pricey drugs for hepatitis C…
It seems every decade they reverse their position on tourniquets.

I believe that they're discouraged because they tend to do more harm than good when applying a gauze and pressure is sufficient. People tend to go overkill.

However, there are situations where they save lives. This is why simply having first aid supplies isn't sufficient, but actually knowing what to do is essential as well.
I don't have any sympathy for business who were complying with the letter of the law while finding any excuse they could to subvert the spirit of the law.

Neither do I. It's the organisations who were complying with the letter of the law, the spirit of the law, and generally accepted good practices at the time and still won't be compliant under GDPR that I'm worried about.

As a concrete example, every single charity that I support regularly has written to me at some point over the past few months, in order to get the kind of explicit consent they apparently believe they need to continue communicating with their supporters exactly as they have been for years before.

Now, there are really only two possibilities here. One is that all of those charities have this wrong, despite their resources and surely having taken professional legal advice on their particular situations. The other is that the usual HN suspects who maintain that the GDPR isn't a big deal and doesn't change much in practice are underestimating the concerns the GDPR raises for these legitimate organisations wanting to send legitimate communications to people who have previously been happy to receive them.

Since those exercises mean my donations are being wasted on red tape instead of their intended purposes like literally helping to cure cancer, I think it's fair that I have a problem with that.
Gilead bought Pharmasset for about $10B after clinical trials were complete on their $84k HepC drug. The R&D was priced in to that acquisition. Medicare and Medicaid spent $10B on that drug in 2015 alone (https://www.statnews.com/pharmalot/2016/11/14/medicare-medic...). Our current public health economics are very distorted and institutions are not set up to create affordable outcomes.
At least pretty much everything that requires an invitation by another user is doomed to fail.
And it's relatively easy to prove intuitively. If you pick a random point in time, the time from that point to the point of finding the next block will be 10 minutes. That is globally true.

The point will also be randomly distributed in an interval, so on average there is as much time between the random point and the next block as between the random point and the previous block.

Thus at a random point in time the average interval is 10 minutes + 10 minutes = 20 minutes.
I absolutely believe that you should be able to advertise to someone looking for your service, but that doesn't mean if I'm offering advice in a forum that you as an advertiser should get my name, IP, email, browsing habits etc. shared with you just because I mentioned your product category.

I don't think the organization hosting the forum, should be parsing my content submission and inserting your ad while sharing my info.
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The point of my example (which has some mapping to the real world) is that Costco does successfully compete with Walmart and pays “decent” wages, but to a lot fewer people. Costco has put smaller retail outlets out of business, too.
You would pay that, but what if you were married with 2+ teenage kids all with an account? Would ~40/month be worth it?
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> Well, that's what the printing press did, no?

Well, yes: the printing press ultimately caused Europe to end up in a hundred years of sectarian warfare that killed millions. I'm not eager to repeat that.