skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Do you not still pay a significant performance penalty by reverifying the container upon each application load? Especially considering that, if the container is signed, you need to verify the signature itself before trusting the container, and full signature verification - including checking whether the signature has been revoked - involves expensive network calls?

If your operational and security model really frowns on trusting your extraction cache, then perhaps a different workflow is more appropriate - download the container, verify the container, extract, bake the OS plus extracted apps into an image, sign the image, verify the image upon each boot and mount apps read-only. Then you don't need to re-verify anything upon each launch, instead trusting that your image creation process is routinely updating and re-verifying the software in your current images.
> CFC-11 is cheaper then alternatives.

Is it actually cheaper to manufacture CFC-11 over other refrigerants?

Since it's being done illegally, obviously no royalties or licensing would be involved. It's just a matter of actual cost to manufacture.
You're welcome, I can see you were eager to engage in meaningful conversation.
It's easy to decide how to vote with your wallet when the marketing efforts are visible and aboveboard.

Not so easy when it's a company selling their CRM DB to another company with no notice and no recourse. Or the spammers and call spoofers and... and...

Do we stop buying everything everywhere until backdoor data brokers are all revealed and shut down? All the tracking shops too? How do we get control of the rest of the iceberg?
“Self-finance” may not be the best term to use, given that their asset growth of $90bn (from $40bn in 2013 to $131bn in 2017) is mostly coming from the increase in liabilities (equity has increased less than $20bn, from $10bn to $28bn).

Long-term debt was $3bn in 2013, increasing to $8bn in 2014 and $25bn in 2017. Capital leases have also gradually increased from $2bn in 2013 to $8bn in 2016 and $13bn in 2017.
ELFs and magic in linux
I added it from webpage, works fine on waterfox, really fast.
Looks good. If you don't mind me asking, what did you use to build you web application (at https://terminal.quantra.io/)?
It continues to amaze me that (some) people (appear to) believe we have a fixed quantity of ozone and once that's depleted, we're in trouble.

From [1, PDF]: "These reactions occur continually whenever solar ultraviolet radiation is present in the stratosphere."

[1] https://www.esrl.noaa.gov/csd/assessments/ozone/2010/twentyq...
We Took a Dive into the NSA's Statistical “Transparency” Report
Link: https://youtu.be/sR4Gx2DqaUE?t=2m45s
Moving Beyond Facebook
Email: How do you prove that the server set the message id and not the client?

Github: How do you prove that the first commit was done with the web UI? And how do you prove that there wasn't a force push replacing that commit?
I understand where you are coming from and agree with 75+% of what you state. Most people who say they have a "bad trip" actually say it was better defined as "difficult" and had long-term benefits. Here is a key statistic from this study:

"Despite these difficulties, it is notable that 84% of respondents reported having benefited from the experience, with 76% reporting increased well-being or life satisfaction attributed to the experience."

Study: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5551678/
Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron’s cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience. They may be more likely to go to Heaven yet at the same time likelier to make a Hell of earth. This very kindness stings with intolerable insult. To be “cured” against one’s will and cured of states which we may not regard as disease is to be put on a level of those who have not yet reached the age of reason or those who never will; to be classed with infants, imbeciles, and domestic animals.

C. S. Lewis, 1948
Huh, well I guess that answers my question. I can't see anything about this being used as a mounting point for heavy bombs (which is where I was going with that) but I guess you can't build a large flying platform without at least considering how to strap weapons to it.
I'd agree and the easiest examples are in political coverage. By getting people fired up and angry they can ensure they stay tuned through the next day and keep a captive (and angry) audience
Which of those products were paid products and killed off?
The last one:)

I'm using client-side JS to create the image on a HTML canvas element and turning that DOM element into an image. Server-side rendering would be easier since you don't have to deal with browser compatibility issues but I think there are enough websites collecting whatever data they can from you. No need for more ;)
You're right. I wrongly assumed this had 2 capacitive controllers (like a steam controller) on the top not just 2 massive buttons.
Google Play Instant
You can rebase mercurial commits to a branch after the fact. As others point out you can also use bookmarks that are very similar to git branches, and you can also commit with no branch or bookmark at all and mercurial won't hide or garbage collect those commits (unless you tell it too). It's actually more flexible than git.
Yeah, that was my thought. I bet you could fit an awfully big bomb under there... or a long range tank with enough fuel in it to keep you in the air for a day or more.
Not sure what you mean, but you can change your primary audio source by clicking the right corner arrow on the little window that pops out when you click the speaker icon. EDIT: PIC https://www.howtogeek.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/img_57d...

Also this literally doesn't have anything to do with the subject of this thread.
All I need is the ability to listen to the audio of YT videos with my phone screen off.
As I read the comments here, I was idly pondering why there is no vocal ozone-depletion denial community that is actively trying to repair the unfairly tarnished reputation of CFCs - as we have with climate change. /s

Until I read the parent comment, my working theory was that CFC production was never backed by politically powerful aged billionaires and despotic states in the way that carbon production currently is. But it strikes me that the real reason is probably that the problem was identified and addressed back in the 1980s, before the internet gave a platform to everyone who wrongly believed them self to be an expert. Its useful to be reminded that things were once (for good or bad) different.
I would think it is beneficial to be more informed before asking questions and subsequently disputing all of the replies you get with more questions. The problem is that if you don't know enough, you often can't really ask the right questions, so by asking uninformed questions (and giving the logic behind those questions far more credit than it deserves), it's an exercise in frustration for anyone else. Comparing one's lack of understanding to Feynman's informed questioning doesn't really help either.

You seem extremely interested in questioning or learning further about this issue (great!) but I'm surprised that curiosity hasn't led you to read any of the science for yourself?

Trying to dispute established scientific conclusions without knowing or learning at least a baseline of the science involved in reaching those conclusions seems quite futile, IMHO

I also don't understand where you get the idea that there's an existing controversy (maybe I misunderstand, if so, sorry)? The very few that dispute the fact that CFCs deplete ozone are typically very conspiracy-theorist-based and unscientific- the fact that these few disagree with established science does not in any sense create a "controversy"- are you imagining one?
Perhaps you've been making decisions based on factors other than what YOU want. Now you have a life full of things you don't want. I would say take a step back and get to know yourself again.
I take issue with the way he describes securitization as if it's some horrible evil. Securitization (and financialization in general) just takes big balls of intertwined risks and breaks them apart into little balls of (theoretically) consistent risk so that everyone can get the amount of risk they desire.

Imagine a company that has a single customer. There's a 50/50 chance that the customer will pay. If the customer pays then the company makes a ton of profit, if the customer doesn't pay then the company goes out of business.

For the company, this is probably more risk than they want to take. But there's probably hedge fund out there who has enough money to survive the customer not paying and is willing to take that risk for a fee. So the company can go to the hedge fund and say "if the customer pays us in the future we'll give you all the money. In exchange give us 40% of it right now".

And the company is happy because they have a 100% chance of staying in business. And the hedge fund is happy because (if the risk was priced correctly) they have a positive expected value in the trade.

That's all securitization is.
The last update for TweetDeck Mac on the App Store was 14 July 2015 [1], and they discontinued TweetDeck for iPhone & Android back in 2013 [2]. Twitter seems to have little interest in native desktop apps.

(That said, the TweetDeck web app is not bad, and can be accessed by anyone at tweetdeck.twitter.com.)

[1] https://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/tweetdeck/id485812721?mt=12

[2] https://blog.twitter.com/official/en_us/a/2013/an-update-on-...
This should be Elsevier's corporate motto.
Both have good eyeball grabbing potential but for different reasons. They both fit into a storyline that captures our survivalistic imagination owing to our evolutionary roots. In the former it's "I'd better watch out for disasters like that one" and in the latter its "I'd better watch out for people like that." I don't think most people 'click the link' because they are in problem solving mode, that happens after they've read the shocking headline.
> Your claims don't match what I'm seeing even in non-partisan sources.

Yes, they do. Particularly, you need to reread your own Wikipedia link, particularly the “Regulatory history” section, paying particular attention to the parts from 2004 forward.

The Ars piece also doesn't contradict my post, it just doesn't cover much background.

> What I'm seeing says that the FCC's actions are specifically related to Title II

The recent action is a rollback of a 2015 order classifying broadband as a Title II service and adopting specific regulations for broadband under Title II authority.

That order followed a 2010 order in which the FCC adopted mostly similar regulations to broadband as a Title I service, which was strcul down by the courts which indicated that the FCC could only adopt some parts of that regulation to broadband if it were classified under Title II, and that Title I did not authorize key elements of the regulation.

The 2010 order itself followed a period in which the FCC enforced a policy very similar to the one enshrined in the 2010 order through case by case action (also under Title I authority) without general regulation, an approach that was struck down by the courts just before the 2010 order was issued.
If any animal has won the meta-game it's the cats. Yes, those adorable, cute, dumb bastards. They badly lose on any tactical level. But man, win on the strategical level so much.
Can you not read?

UTF-16 IS the "legacy" format...
Win at Fintech: Ensure Compliance, Earn Customer Trust and Secure Applications
I think people are going to find out we dont actually want decentralization on lots of fields.

I love Bitcoin and the concept of decentralized currency, but a decentralized logistics system, media, files, etc... sound like it will run into major issues when disputes happen or changes need to be done.

Not to mention the cost of blockchain is far more expensive than having a centralized database.
Yes, it’s really unfortunate that bitcoin doesn’t use a PoW that performs useful computations as a side effect.
> But I guess asking logical questions is frowned upon if someone else disagrees with the establishment

Yes. Challenging accepted knowledge on HN is a quick way of getting downvoted to oblivion and, in some cases, shadowbanned. (I've seen a couple of examples of the latter.)
Then go do it!

For me, I like doing the impossible. If no one has done it before, I don't need to get bogged down by books or stackoverflow. (And, you don't need a degree.) I have to figure out new ways to solve a problem. That's what makes programming fun and that is what makes this sort of stuff fun.

Like just the other day I figured out how to compress arm movement down to, so far, 4 variables (all floats atm), for every reasonably large change of movement. (Though, for small tremors while walking and other kinds of movements I'll need to output some more data.) My goal is to increase the accuracy of the signal beyond the initial noisy accelerometer data. The pain is going to be proving it through a high speed video camera or something else (Got any ideas? lol) because I'm designing this to be accurate to real life arm movement, not accurate to initial data. (If you're curious, an ellipsoid, plus an axis for like looking at a watch, and possibly a magic number or a large radius for a straight line.)

Does HN do PMs? If you want to hang out we probably have a lot in common. Though, I'm untrained and just kind of unusual.

Oh btw, I'm not sure if it is obvious, and not like I've read a book on the subject, but as far as economics goes I would think meta macro economics would help day trading. But what do I know? I'm just a rabbit.
Okay. Let's slow down here:

The OP says.

>> And they’re not that smart. I’d put our barn cat up against a raccoon any day on any sort of cognitive test. We think raccoons are clever because they have those anthropomorphic paws and those cute little masks and even a Marvel superhero with its own toy line, but please. Raccoons are takers, not schemers.

From Wikipedia

>> Zoologist Clinton Hart Merriam described raccoons as "clever beasts", and that "in certain directions their cunning surpasses that of the fox." The animal's intelligence gave rise to the epithet "sly coon".[120] Only a few studies have been undertaken to determine the mental abilities of raccoons, most of them based on the animal's sense of touch. In a study by the ethologist H. B. Davis in 1908, raccoons were able to open 11 of 13 complex locks in fewer than 10 tries and had no problems repeating the action when the locks were rearranged or turned upside down. Davis concluded they understood the abstract principles of the locking mechanisms and their learning speed was equivalent to that of rhesus macaques.

Learning speed equivalent to the macaques? You gotta be kidding me. These creatures are underestimated and the author might just not like them?

I mean, look at his eyes: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Raccoon_climbing_in_tree_... That guy looks really smart and self aware.
I've seen every single thing I mentioned ("murder, assault, malpractice") applied to C++ programming in comments in Rust threads.
You should claim uncertainty about anything you cannot prove in any way, shape or form.

All ontological claims are unprovable, resting on axioms that have to be accepted on faith. I can't prove I just wrote you this message, I just believe I did. Philosophically speaking, there is no certainty.

I would be interested to see what kind of definition you base it on

Binary classifications are useful. There are people who affirm the existence of gods. Let's call them 'theists'. There are people who are not members of that group. Let's call them 'a-theists'. Done.

Now, you might be interested why people do not affirm the existence of gods. For example, they might think it unlikely due to empirical evidence that contradicts most traditional religious claims. Or they might think there's not enough evidence to come to a conclusion either way. Let's call the latter agnostics and make our binary classification into a tripartite one. But wait, what about ignostics, believing that the question itself is ill-posed? Should we include them as well as their own category? What about all the other ways not to be a theist? You have to draw the line somewhere if you want to avoid an explosion in complexity.

None of the possible ways to draw the lines is inherently more correct as long as you take care to define your terminology, it's just that you might upset different groups of people because they feel underrepresented or resent being grouped together with 'those guys'.
> I'm wondering if a long vacation in thailand would work, financially speaking.

It all depends on your requirements. If all you want is beer, sea and sunshine, then you can get by on a few dollars per day. I would guess about 5 dollars would suffice if you stay away from tourist areas.
If you want to live in a 5-star resort or better, then your spending level is more like a few hundred dollars per day.
Anything in between is possible. I typically spend about 20% per day when on vacation in Thailand vs Europe and I don't pinch pennies.
That suction arm/grabber is Alien Queen level uncomfortable. I love it.
Ive been paying 1-2$ for a movie on amazon or whatever. Non issue
> Well I'm not running for a popularity contest. A players like to work with other A players. My jobs is to make sure we maintain that environment. If that means being very selective and exclusive and hire based on merit only then so be it.

I don't think anything you do would be able to hire or retain A players.
I can quote some good lines from movies - it doesn't mean I'm a great actor or great write.

That, to me, is an analogy to your use of the phrase 'A players hire A players'.

Just because you know that phrase exists doesn't mean you're able to use it..because you are clearly not a competent manager
Tesla also has a CEO that the media knows will react. Musk is the elementary school child who keeps crying when the bully comes around. What makes Tesla newsworthy is the guaranteed reaction. Elon can't keep it together for an earnings call so of course they are going to keep poking him
Would employees still get paid if their company didn't sell their information, or buy others'?

Unethical marketing behavior is never going to be the make or break point for a company, it's just plain greed showing through.
Podcast about internals of open source packages
How baby boomers broke America
I have been using Questrade for a while (I’m from Canada) but they are closing their API so I will have to switch to Interactive Broker...

My algorithms are mainly swing/long term, so making a few trades a month. I like to trade and back test ETFs like SPY and SPXL since they have high volumes and are more easy to « predict ».

I started with 10k and it didn’t feel risky at all since it was post 2009 :)
Just don’t pick a fight with someone who has the money and determination to hunt you down to the bitter end.

You're not making any sense. You started this entire thread by talking about how you'd hold this $billion+ company's domain ransom for tens of thousands of dollars per year, so your sad tale of woe about how you couldn't afford an attorney to chase down an embezzler is irrelevant.
Apparently not that horrible, with 25mg of psilocybin:
Treatment with psilocybin produced rapid and sustained antidepressant effects. Decreased depressive symptoms were observed in all 19 patients at 1-week post-treatment and 47% met criteria for response at 5 weeks.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-017-13282-7
There doesn’t appear to be an English translation, is there?
Chinese mass-indoctrination camps evoke Cultural Revolution
Charles Stross Keynote at 34C3 on AI, corporations and how they affect democracy
Elon couldn't keep it together through an earnings call, of course the media is going to go after him if only just for the reaction
Compiled by _phillysblunt_? Seems legit.
MongoDB Chain Replication Basics
Oh nice! I will give this a try
That's true in that it's what securitization is meant to be but unfortunately as was seen in the mid-2000's it proved extremely difficult to accurately price the little balls of risk and the money being made in doing the selling and breaking apart those balls provided an incentive for people to keep the pipeline of loans going well past what was prudent.

In the UK we ended up with all sort of shenanigans like "self-certified mortgages" where the person taking out the loan was allowed to certify their ability to repay. with that kind of product it's very difficult to classify risk of non-repayment as you can't believe the evidence provided (necessarily).
I'd agree in part. Outside of promoted content, they also try to force "things I might have missed" on me. I never want to see this. I browse in chronological order and will see it without their "help".
How Internet Behemoths Are Keeping Millennials Poor [poster is Thomas Cermak]
I'm glad RobertRoberts asked those questions here. Some people have answered in useful educational ways and I've learned. Taken to its logical conclusion "just Google it" more or less means comment threads and places like HN may as well not exist.

Also personally I don't see strong evidence that the questions were asked to stir up trouble and not to learn. People have quite a wide range of ways of using language and expressing themselves, and I know myself that when I'm talking to someone who probably knows more about me than a certain subject, and that my assumptions are probably on shaky ground, I'll still voice my arguments against what they're saying because they will be able to quash them. Otherwise those same arguments will probably drift back into my head later on and make me start doubting again. I've tended to find that the minds I enjoy interacting with the most have been ok with this as they want to share and test their knowledge.
> This makes large tarballs annoying to use on systems with slow disk I/O

Funny how tar was originally developed for tape drives!
I think the point is less that Rust runs everywhere that C runs, and more that there doesn't exist an environment that can run Rust and not run C (which is not true for Javascript)
The video is describing mind control. Literally... I have no words.

First they want to offer users to select how they want to change their behaviour. I guess that's fine, we all want to improve ourselves. This segment lasts a couple of seconds and the rest of the time is dedicated to describing how the system can be made to predict and target "bad" behaviours of humans as a species.

Who greenlit this.

EDIT: I understand this is not a product, but clearly it means Google is seriously thinking about doing such things. This is just as scary for me.
How do state broadcasters fit into this theory? The CBC and BBC produce content in a similar style to the for-profit broadcasters (better, but definitely similar in more ways than its not), but without the advertising mission.
Children should be heard
Before I graduated, when I was interviewing for jobs, lots of companies wouldn't interview anyone with lower than a certain GPA. Google was the most notable one, although they've since gotten rid of that requirement since they found it has almost no correlation with your performance as an employee.

Other larger companies that cared were Lutron, Epic, and a few more I don't really remember. I think Epic even asked me what my ACT score was.

Beyond that first job though, my GPA hasn't mattered at all, which is good because mine was pretty mediocre.