skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Can we? It's not looking likely that Kevin Spacey may work again, despite his clear talents as an actor. I wouldn't call Spacey's work life-changing, but it does bring a level of satisfaction and happiness to a number of people. And yet we'll now be deprived of that satisfaction. I'm saying that horrible people can make meaningful, positive contributions, but in the current politically charged environment we seem to be acting before we consider that.
I haven't had any real issues with my P51. It pretty much just does what it says on the label.

I have more issues with Windows 10 "updating" my printer drivers to versions with fewer features or replacing my working graphics drivers with versions that don't have any control panels. The only reason I still use Windows is to open Word documents.
The test is probably a routine part of an autopsy, whereas it likely wasn’t a routine part of the police response (which use visual and verbal cues to preliminarily assess inebriation).
Hehe, well I might have, but Happy Birthday is now pretty safe, the US copyright was successfully challenged in court and the EU copyright expired. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Happy_Birthday_to_You#Copyrigh...
I dropped my phone in the gym and it somehow typed garbage all over the Notes app where I keep my grocery list and record of what I did in the gym last...

This sort of thing makes me nostalgic for the old days of explicit "Save" commands in every application.
I was always lead to believe that anything inside "these" was a direct quote
Sorry, that was my fault! Should be fixed now.
Yes, big 5 is a good model for disposition.

However, to be precise, conscientiousness isn't the same thing as grit. To illustrate the distinction, look at John McCain - he embodies a sort of tenacity and resilience I would call "grit" (thumbs down at 2am), but isn't the most conscientious (didn't vet Sarah Palin).

I'm sure there's studies to say charisma and social intelligence correlate with intelligence, or some academic would argue those are a form of intelligence, etc. The article specifically calls out IQ / test taking intelligence as being overvalued by society in general, which is what I mean in my comment as well. Eg, The SAT doesn't test you for these traits and these traits will not make much of a difference in an academic setting.
This site repeatedly crashes my mobile browser, I can't even remember when that happened last. (Chrome on Android 8.1)
All 3 (says the back-end dev)
Lol. You've never been to a college town I take it?

It's a gigantic conflict of interest that plays out exactly how you'd expect. I've never been carded going to a bar near my former university.
>Instead, admit qualified (TM) people based on a blind lottery

If people have different aptitudes, and resources are limited, allocating resources randomly, instead of at least trying to optimize long term prospects, will result almost surely result in reduced quality of life for all in the long run.

I don't find that moral. The vast improvements in quality of life, even for the very poor and unskilled, in advanced countries over the last few centuries, is the result of allocating capital (human, financial, material) in better ways than random over time.

The countries and groups that have tried other forms of resource allocation have historically done far worse. Random (blind lottery) allocation seems worse than almost all of those systems.
Next - select your own cast for the movie you're about to watch.
Stupid in this context was pretty clearly defined in the article as low-IQ.

You're describing skilled vs unskilled.
Most docs I know feel the same way, but when you get shaken-down for pills all-day every-day, most people are just going to give up and start passing out nexium and lipitor like it was candy on halloween.
That's also a valid question, albeit with a more radical example. But we shouldn't deal in absolutes. To equate someone exposing himself to another people in an inappropriate way to Nazi war crimes is a bit of a stretch, which raises the question "where do we draw the line"? There is no right answer to the question, I suppose.
FYI, the slider doesn't work at all on Chrome Android.
Family claims their Echo sent a private conversation to a random contact
There is aggregated data on this, based on millions of data points: https://opensignal.com/reports/2018/01/usa/state-of-the-mobi.... Average latency for all four carriers is under 70 ms.

As to bandwidth caps: for $100 including fees, you get unlimited on Verizon, which has a 22 GB soft cap per line (in practice, you can use way beyond that).

Your point about duopoly is completely divorced from facts. The cell carriers are in a market with four competitors, and invest massively in infrastructure (tens of billions of dollars a year). Cellular has improve way faster than many other areas of technology over the last decade. 10 years ago, I had a Core 2 polycarbonate Macbook and AT&T 3G service. The former is still a perfectly serviceable computer (the new Macbook is maybe twice as fast). But my Verizon LTE is probably 10-20 times faster than my 3G service.

What else do you use that is 10 times better than it was a decade ago? Google Search? Gmail? Facebook? iOS?
He'll lose almost all of that phalanx when he leaves office. What does that say about the value of his life? It's the continuity of the office we value, in this case.
What jhpriestley pointed out is that what's really saving bitcoin from a 51% attack is the inefficiency of obtaining computing power.

If renting asic miners becomes vogue (and it might because it makes the computing market more efficient) then it might be possible just to rent asic miners for nearly free, since you'd be acquiring bitcoins while you were amassing the 51% computing power.
He instructed other people to delete tweets/messages after learning someone died to cover up what happened. That seems like obstruction and conspiracy to me.

I think it is a stretch to call tweeting a wrong address "wire fraud" though.
It isn't anymore, if it ever was. https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2016/02/happy-birthday-i...
Luck plays a huge role. But it’s something you can do nothing about. However you can work on your character. Competing against everyone else will oftern result in you finding someone else that’s done better. This is of no use. Compete against your self. Be better than you were. Then it doesn’t matter how lucky or privileged the next guy is.
Anecdote time... Tokyo train stations kinda suck.

Coming from a few weeks in Malaysia and Singapore, it was interesting to see just how little and how poorly translated English is there. (They speak Japanese and not English, but lets be honest about it being the lingua franca)

It was VERY DIFFICULT to figure out how their train colors worked, how Orange gets to Blue (it's a connect, but a couple blocks away). That Ginza station (iirc, might be wrong) has at least two names.

Also, that none of the machines take cards! We were 11 yen short - about $0.10 for a ticket to the airport, and while the very nice workers were happy to explain where a few blocks away the ATM was, it would have been great if someone just threw a coin at us to get us to go away, different culture, I suppose had I asked someone would have given it to us, but I feel like in the USA it would have just been offered.

Japan was a lot like NYC, the subway there is also more confusing than places like DC or Taipei.
Its a dangerous job , and that will not change. We want (I) them to protect themselves.

Its the responsibility of any person to act in an honest manner.

Officer says I shot because I felt threatened. Teen says I swated the person becsuse I felt threatened. Who do you believe. Same thing with yelling fire on a crowded room. Intent is very important.

Officer is not responsible because we pay them to be tough on bad guys. The fact this wasnt a bad guy is not his/her fault.

Now I all for solutions to false positives, but I wont do it at the expense of making an officer or citizens less safe. A strong police force is needed. Especially in a world with political tensions and violence occuring.
So which part of the law is ridiculous?
Disclaimer: I believe the principles that are applied within the law, data autonomy, data ownership, usage-binding of data etc., are sound. And just because people have aggregated any data on people that they could get to better manipulate them into buying crap for so long that it‘s hard to change track today, doesn‘t mean it‘s wrong for lawmakers to enforce parting ways with the past.
I'd also say we should absolutely use the results in that case. But that's not the hypothetical. I was asking whether to blacklist someone who might make future contributions to humanity based on an accusation is really a reasonable sacrifice.
Unless your cash-bitcoin counterparty is the mole.
The law doesn't make it illegal to have collected the data in the past. However, it introduces new rights for people for which you have collected data. I don't think this is unfair
Happy Birthday is in the public domain now. As of a few years ago though, it was indeed legally murky though perhaps not unwise as long as performed in your basement with the lights out, and all in attendance are trusted and sworn to secrecy.
>Some actions can just cause issues but if you handle the thing properly then you have nothing to worry about.

Those keyboards broke because of small dust particles, nothing related to liquids, people are using the laptops as before but this time the keyboards are to fragile.

The issue with Apple is that they sell products with defects and then refuse to replace them for free until they have to because of lawsuits.

Apple acknowledged that it made fragile phones that can bend, if you do not know people that had this issue does not mean that only a few people have issues, as you read in the article Apple made some changes in the way the phone is built to patch the problem, they would not have changed the production line for a few cases only,
I’m not sure sometimes if people are oblivious to consequences or they are aware of them and brush them aside until said consequences occur.
HTTP mocking application for testing and fast prototyping
Why would a government impose anything other than the maximum?
I had never heard of the chap until today. Just watched a couple of youtubes, and yes, I'm very impressed (perhaps being on the BBC front page for a bit will boost the ratings).
Andy Rubin Puts Essential Up for Sale, Cancels Next Phone
They can still call the police while locked, which is something that happened to a friend with an old feature phone while were were in the process of illegally hiding/dumping an old car.
HN tends more towards software and startups, everyone is an armchair CTO, Slashdot tends more towards tech, space and science. They both cover each other's topics, but there is a definite tendency on both sides.

You're unlikely to read about some venture capital gossip on the Slashdot side, while you're unlikely to read e.g. "Giant Predatory Worms Are Invading France" on the HN side.

The great thing about HN comments is that everyone is a smart ass, the bad thing about HN comments is that everyone is a smart ass. Slashdot comments are generally just toxic noise, dumb jokes and horrifically amateur analysis.
This comment is seen in almost every post positive or negative about the technology industry. It's mostly meaningless. You have to spend money to make money. Complaining that sometimes people spend money and don't make money is stating the obvious.
Thank you for the list! I've read and enjoyed 6 of your top 10, so naturally you've now given me a great reading list for the rest of the year!
Isn't the whole goal of tumbling to provide plausible deniability? The goal is to avoid tying the coins earned or used in an illicit activity with the the people involved in those activities.
If a drug dealer gets an assassin's coins and vice versa then the goal is still accomplished even though all the coins involved are tainted. The drug dealer's possession of the assassin's coins don't help in building a case against his or her drug dealing operation.
Wondering as a Canadian if these will ever show up here, or if the weather is too bad for too long to bother.
The people are using it wrong(but not the previous generation that did not bend), maybe Apple should sell them some cases for protection /s
If that's the only info you collect, it would take you way less than two years to get compliant with GDPR.

So there's something you're not telling.
Yea, the reddit I visit is wonderful. Full of helpful, technical people.
I guess because I have zero interest in politics or anything even slightly political - I can't even describe what left wing vs right wing actually means, or which I am (I must be one, I suppose)
I post/hangout in all technical forums (pfsense/proxmox/vim/android) and pretty much without exception people are lovely. Android gets a bit catty because people are very aligned to their favourite thing (Samsung etc) but I'd never call it a vile place.
Monero changing its mining algorithm doesn't change how most of the supply was produced and given away nearly for free to the dev team and early users.

The math behind it equates to existing capital wealth being used to generate the supply which is amplified by several magnitude for the first users to show up and run the software. Future production costs increase, and the relative newly produced supply decreases.

Old users rely on the gullibility of new users to exchange real world value for these easy to produce database-tokens.
I think the "internal use" argument is interesting because of its bearing to question what rights do employees have to internal software that is based on copyleft software?

Like for example should Google employees have right to redistribute their internal patched Linux (that I'm certain they have) code without repercussions (ie getting fired)? How would one even enforce such thing?
The "lock" analogue on an Alexa device would be the mute button on the top of the unit.

https://www.safety.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/mute-butto...
"for 1.3 seconds the system knew an accident was going to happen and failed to act on that knowledge."

This is so tragic. Even Volvo's own collision avoidance system would (could?) have mitigated the crash a fair bit. From Volvo's own spec. sheet [1]: "For speeds between 45 and 70 km/h, the collision is mitigated."
In this case, the NTSB reports mentions that the car was traveling at 43mph, i.e. 68.8 kmph :(.

What bothers me is that these systems are on public roads, without public oversight. Sure, Uber got permission from the local authorities, but getting an independent team of technologists and ethicists to sign off on the basic parameters should have been the bare minimum ... yes, that would take time, but do we really want to give companies, especially ones like Uber with a history of ethical transgressions, the benefit of the doubt?

[1] https://tinyurl.com/y9sp2fmu (WARNING: This open/downloads a PDF that I referred to above. Page 5 has the paragraph on pedestrian collision detection specs)
Suck it Trebec
> If there is a God, he doesn't care about economy.

If there is a God (or equivalent deity), he would be worth infinitely more than any other sapient being, thus disproving that all sapient beings are of equal worth even in a spiritual sense.
I never quite understood why "y'all" is singled out as being said by "dumb" people. I've said it my entire life, as well as everyone I know. It's a word. It conveys an idea from the person who says it to the listener to hears it, just like every other utterance since the beginning of time. The only reason I can think of people having a negative opinion of it is some form of audible elitism.
The new API as of 16.3 is stable, so I suspect ReactReason will support it soon (if it doesn't already, by default).

https://reactjs.org/docs/context.html
I can't read through the WSJ paywall. But, I like when people on the internet complain about gerrymandering and imply it's a Republican thing.

This is Chicago. https://www.bing.com/th?id=OIP.buywjQl9Qa3gWgFDJ2gb3wHaFi&pi...
hmmm...

If I had an instapaper account it would be interesting to submit a GDPR request tomorrow, and see what kind of reply I got. Now I don't, but I'm sure there are plenty of other interested people around.
Disclaimer: I work in Google, wrote the blog post.

We are working on rolling out containerd 1.1 to GKE alpha cluster. If everything goes as expected, it will be available in GKE alpha cluster soon.
It's interesting that so much neural net weirdness emerges from exploiting errors in physics simulators or floating point math.
I am now expecting the next generation of perpetual motion machines to include AI to try to take advantage of physics bugs in our own universe.

On a related note, does anyone know how you might go about fixing a simulator that allows collisions to generate more energy/momentum than was initially supplied?
Or otherwise violates known invariants?
> No, there is no such exception in US copyright law. Internal use of material falls under the same rules as anything public facing.

Internal vs. external use will in most cases materially impact at least one of the fair use criteria (effect on market for the protected work), so while it's true the same rules apply, it's not true that those rules necessarily produce the same results if that is the only element that changes.

> Yes, if your son is less than 18 years old, you are legally responsible for his copyright violations.

As a parent as such, probably not; neither copyright law nor general federal law on civil liability has a parental liability provision which would have this effect. State tort-law parental liability provisions generally aren't expansive enough to cover most (or in many cases any) copyright claims, though something like Hawaii’s particularly expansive parental liability rules might, if they applied to the act in question.

> Maybe you missed the rash of RIAA lawsuits a few years ago?

Maybe you can cite even one where a court upheld the parental liability theory you articulate; none of those referred to in your source seem to (the only one that mentions a minor infringer seems to mention the amount minor’s direct liability, but not any parental liability.)
Google Analytics isn't usually used as a revenue stream, but instead for analytics and telemetry.
The main goal of hashing is confirming the integrity of an object. [...] The goal was never to encrypt even if its possible to do so.

That is not true, cryptographic hash functions are just cryptographic primitives with certain guarantees about their behavior, they do not imply any usage. There is nothing fundamentally wrong with using a cryptographic hash functions as a building block for an encryption algorithm.
The important thing is that almost no use case of cryptography requires exactly and only the guarantees provided by cryptographic hash functions. That is why they are most of the time used as building blocks of more complex algorithms and not on their own.

Ensuring that a file was not modified while you did not look is just an exceptional case where just using a cryptographic hash functions alone may be good enough. But even in this case you might want to consider that an attacker may be able to change the file and its hash together and maybe you actually need an authenticated hash that can not be forged by an attacker. In that case a cryptographic hash functions would again be part of the algorithm but it would not be the only building block.
How the OpenStack Foundation Is Evolving Beyond Its Roots
Oh come on guys, it was at least a little bit funny!
What GDPR means for your app or side project
I find things like this very strange... why do we need to formally state that we should be decent human beings?
I'm sure another anecdote from a stranger won't be enough to convince you, but this also happened to a friend of mine just last week. A work contact of his received a voicemail from him which consisted of police sirens and muffled shouting. Of course he panicked thinking something bad had happened. Turns out my friend's Alexa had picked up a police show on the TV in the same room.
TBH, MBA trackpad failures are often caused by liquid damage, bright spots on the display are caused by pressure on the computer when it's closed, and the wifi again is an uncommon failure that can also be caused by liquid (the wifi/bluetooth chip is near the fan exhaust on the back of the top case, which can serve as an entrance for liquid). I'm not saying that all the issues you had were caused by user damage, but they may have been, and they aren't part of any larger trend with known failures.
Does fair use [0] apply to this at all?

[0] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fair_use
Solving the $10B Crypto Custody Problem
I posed this question in another thread, but I think it is interesting in other people's perspectives:

As a citizen in the developed world, how do you defend yourself against violence?

How would your (wife|husband|child|grandmother) defend theirselves?

I am not tough enough to physically fend off multiple violent aggressors, unfortunately.
Same on Safari iOS
more than that - the blockchain is global, reconciliation happens everywhere - and that doesn't mean that no country's laws apply to it, it means that ALL of them potentially do
"Resident" has a full scope of protection, whereas your interpretation has limited cover. I wouldn't have thought that GDPR would protect me only if I was physically in the EU territory - as if somehow once I stepped out of the EU my personal information is no longer worth protecting. Your interpretation makes no sense.
Getting started with RaftLib
And it explains why the officer wasn't charged.
From the OP:

> Let's not conflate human worth with value to society.

You're mistaking value to society with human worth, the exact distinction the OP wanted to make clear.
I found it very easy and each time I’ve asked for assistance I’ve received it. The stations are always manned with several staff so help is always available.

On the Tokyo subway all trains and maps, signage and in cabin screens provide English labelling. What more do you need ?

Edit: I have to add, the fact the trains a almost perfectly ontime, with little wait between services, always designed to meet capacity, are In great condition and spotless, I really don’t see how it “sucks”. In fact what more do you want out of a Subway?
Your entire point rests on the implicit moral premise that the "worth" of a human should determined by their ability to produce utility for society.

But why should that be? If someone, for whatever reason, is less able to produce utility, does that mean that person deserves less of that which is produced? That they should experience a worse life because of their lesser talents?

And if someone is, for whatever reason, more able to produce utility, do they deserve more? Should we divert resources to improve their life at the expense of others?

You can argue that inequality is necessary to create incentives. I don't personally believe that's true, but I understand the argument as a reasonable moral position. But to argue that some people are morally worth more than others is to discard the very notion of human equality.

Your point isn't "hard to swallow", rather it is the conclusion of a moral framework which many find abhorrent.
Yeah, I'm pretty conservative about signing up for new entertainment services--especially given how few hours per week I actually watch/listen.
> branch intensive code (databases, AI...)

AI is branch intensive? Like, video game style state machines are, but that's not what people mean these days when the say AI in connection with servers, right?
I am historically[0], categorically opposed[1] to the cargo cult surrounding Code of Conducts.. However, this one is quite fair and toothless.

It's not against any people or even for any people- It seems rather devoid of political affiliation..

It's just about attempting to be fair when interacting with people.. which we should all be doing anyway.

https://golang.org/conduct

[0]: https://blog.dijit.sh/freebsd-i-guess-we-weren-t-destined-to...

[1]: https://blog.dijit.sh/moving-away-from-github