skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Biobot Analytics (YC W18) is possibly the "Massachusetts Institute of Technology–affiliated company" mentioned in the article. They will "scour the waste pipes with robots that suck up sewage, measure drug amounts and remotely report the data". http://www.biobot.io/

The Techcrunch write up: https://techcrunch.com/2018/03/20/these-are-the-64-startups-... mentions "they hope to also measure pharmaceuticals, infectious disease and food consumption".

Infectious disease finding could be really cool. Imagine easily mapping where a zika outbreak was happening an hour after an infected person uses the restroom. That same day you could do mosquito abatement and post flyers to come to the hospital for treatment.
I imagine the first person to do that would get a very low amount of money in return. Then in the future we will look back at that person like we do at the guy that bought a pizza for 10,000 BTC. Like, someone had to do it, and it wasn't worth much at the time, and if he didn't do it that way he probably would have done it some other way, but still the feeling remains that he could have gotten rich instead.
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Also: not for everyone.

I keep hearing people mentioning vim and emacs but I have a strong suspicion that if people spent the same time that they now spend learning and customizing vim and emacs learning a more modern IDE or advanced editor they'd be even more effective (except when they need to edit over ssh).

Personally I use Visual Studio Code all day now. But I've also been happy with Netbeans, IntelliJ, eclipse and Sublime. I rarely have to use a mouse or touchpad, it's all alt-tab, wait-a-second, alt-tab, edit, ctrl-s, ctrl-p type parts of a filename, ctrl-arrowkeys, F2 enter new name for a variable or field etc etc.

I've done one honest attempts at learning emacs (and I kind of enjoyed it) + lots of involuntary training on vim (yes, I prefer it to nano).
Life is struggle, that's what makes life beautiful. Commies want to change that but we won't let them.
I would love apl with types.
monad pyramid is also present in ocaml :) Both concurrency libraries are monadic.
In a PDF on Project Gutenberg:
Calculus Made Easy by Silvanus P. Thompson

http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/33283
The GDPR: Ghastly, Dumb, Paralyzing Regulation It's Hard to Celebrate
In a sense, Gates is still the wealthiest, if including the amount he's spent/given.

Sure there was some degree of villainy, but nothing compared to the kind perpetrated by less famous companies that pollute and/or murder. Microsoft's evil was the kind of first-world problem that we love to get distracted by. Conversely, Gates' charity mostly affects people the "developed" countries like to ignore/exploit.
What is wrong with that?

Why do you need to risk a human life to figure out how fast a vehicle is going?( I am talking about a policeman sitting in his car with a radar gun which may or may not be calibrated correctly, then pulling you over and potentially risking his/her life)

Theoretically, if all vehicles were roughly the same mass and traveling the same speed, the probability of death would go down drastically in the event of an accident.

Just my 2cents
This is HN, somebody will have a privacy concern
Ha! Fast forward 6 year after undergrad and thats me.

I'm doing the Khan academy series on calculus, starting with single variable calculus to refresh my math, to relearn the math for ML and Data Science. It's not my day job but I'm interested in the space so I can understand things under the hood instead of just using libraries.

In college, I was more obsessed with getting an A in my classes, terrified of any lessor score, and all that at the cost of not understanding much at all but just repeating formulas and techniques on tests.

For my kids some day, the biggest lesson I can teach them is that it's okay to fail. Getting straight As doesn't matter much at all, and you should always question things and think critically.
It really doesn't matter, anyone who knows how to swim should be able to accomplish this with ease. Notice how he's not setting any sort of time limit.
Okay, then you can exercise without Brazilian Jiu Jitsu.
> So is the proportion of the population holding the wealth also the proportion of the population who has been working and saving for 30-40 years already?

I doubt it:
https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/...
That may be the nicest reply I've ever had on HN. Thanks!
Similar wrt undercover police cars, we have some restrictions that make 'em much less common: https://reason.com/blog/2014/10/20/washington-man-busts-cop-...
Compared to fully subsidized higher education, as is the norm in some other places, I don't think student loans ending up partially subsidized is inherently unsustainable.
Let’s normalize our exploitation with humor.
Chrome's Autoplay Policy Is Broken
Your essay is a bit of a wall of text, I would suggest adding headers and cutting up the paragraphs into smaller chunks to make it easier to read.

Also I feel like the general essay format that is taught to you in grade school is actually a bad format. Grade school project style reports are usually easier to read and easier to write.

Essays contorts most people's writing into a very awkward form. If people were allowed write without the restrictions of essays, they would usually be more clear.

Better yet, try the typical medium or journalistic article format to get better reading comprehension.
Lets Buiding a Timberman Game in GameMaker Studio 2
But why can't users be asked and given the option? If that's the result of their data being deleted, then I'm sure the company in question would make users well aware of the consequences of opting out.
Thought this very thing a few minutes ago, only to sit down and see this.
I had a similar idea to sell peoples personal data in bulk with their permission and then give people back a portion of a monetary award. Then people would bid for certain properties about the personal data. I was inspired to do something like this from the below article from the ACM https://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2017/12/223045-a-theory-of-pr... .

One of the issues I found was while I could easily charge people for the sale of large amounts of personal data the way to pay out would probably be in some kind of ACH with a minimum amount of money to accumulate for that.
I don’t think that is a fair rebuttal. There has been a systemic transfer of wealth from the young to the older. Social Security and pensions get funded; universities and schools do not.
But if the large company doesn't sell, then it would be a blank page for the most part?
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Every time, I think about her, I went into a panic attack state, most of the time.
Blood pressure drops and something shitty happens with the body. Really bad feeling. Hope you guys have something to share.
Sorry for asking this strange question, but I think you guys can help.
One coin I've seen is wrong is Komodo. It uses DPoW which is a completely different type of security scheme https://wiki.komodoplatform.com/wiki/Delayed_Proof_of_Work_(... even though the webpage says $593 to perform...it would be a lot more difficult
Visited it two years ago. It is humbling to see a ship that size and beauty, although partially restored, it speaks of its time.

For some reason I never made the correlation between overengineering and the Vasa. I probably classified it subconsciously as a front-end issue.
Deprecate CSS
People don't normally shit in their backyard? Now I know why the elderly gentleman next door keeps glaring at me at 530 am.
Whoever wrote this must be totally oblivious. The hardware costs alone to attack bitcoin are likely in the hundreds of millions. Beside that, think you can rent that much hash power at the spot price is hilariously naive and ignores the fact that this is a supply and demand driven market.
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I really enjoyed reading this piece. The author poses several rhetorical questions that I think could use evidence to support their assumed conclusions, but overall this piece seems very well informed and sheds light on a class of people that I am very familiar with but had never divided out in my head.
No.

Long answer: Not really. If it is aggregated to a point that you can't tell who it's coming from specifically, it seems like less of a worry. If they installed it at each toilet... different.

Also - I'm okay with it as long as it is not used to issue warrants. I would take another look at it if they did.
With your username, I bet you've had that one ready for years.
It’s relative on how you define wealth really - ability to provide stability in the form of a mortgage, or amount of money you make.

I feel like in SF or any big expensive city owning a home is not something for the middle or upper middle class - there’s a point that no matter how many brunches or vacations you can take, you can’t trade them for a house except in an area where you’ll be basically going down in economic and social class (live out in Tracy or something, have a 2 hour one way commute, far fewer vacations etc). The trade off for that “stability” isn’t one that a lot of people currently renting think is a good deal. IMO the best way to do it is keep on renting while putting as much money in investments and retirement funds as one can, with the idea of retiring somewhere else, or only buying if you get a windfall.

But I’m terms of lifestyle, those in that 9.9% have a far richer one than the rest, but they don’t have the long term security of owning their own home.
Cybercrime and Real Punishment
Bike meetings solve this problem too.
The brain has pretty direct contact to all the cells of the body. Regardless of overall activity, if the brain has an idea in mind, it can make it happen.

There's a tribe in Africa that comes to mind. They studied them, because they don't eat that much and they do a ton of activity. It turns out, when they run, they just burn fewer calories than most people. So, intake, calories burned, overall health, it all seems to not follow a hard and fast rule, apart from the intention of the mind.

Ignore politics for a second, the amount of time he spent on his feet and the amount of energy it must have required during the campaign, and how Trump's doctors say he's really healthy(assuming you believe them), but his diet looks pretty bad, but you know in his head, he's saying, "I'm the healthiest, I'm so healthy, my health is great, it's the best".

Take-away from article? "I'm so healthy, I'm the healthiest, my health is huge, it's the best."
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This is going to get interesting only when someone offers a good sample of blood with no strings attached (that is, you're free to clone me or even use my DNA to plant evidence for a crime). I admit an extremely generous offer would make it tempting to me.
Sculpting software animation
Was this on freenode? What channel?
> There are literally 0 people I know who think owning a house is not an investment.

I thought of my house as a "use asset", like a car. It's nice when the house appreciates. But I couldn't sell it and "cash out" if I had to use the proceeds to buy another house. But, as you said, it saved on rental costs.
Spend another half an hour, only effectively. Open the tutorial, do it. Sure, the keybindings are weird[0], but try to approach them without preconceptions or prejudice. Imagine you're learning professional software for a task you've never done before. Say, 3D modeling or audio work. There, you would just accept the conventions without second-guessing them.

Work on the tutorial, then spend about half an hour to a hour writing some text and code, so that you get used to interactions. Save a couple of files. Open a couple of files. You should be now comfortable enough to do basic work in Emacs. From there, it's practice, reading and exploration.

The cool thing about Emacs is that it's self-documenting. CTRL+h is your friend (in Emacs-speak, C-h). You remember a key combination but are not sure what it does? C-h k key-combination. Remember a function but not where is it bound? C-h w command, or C-h f command - the latter will give you a full documentation of it (and works for other elisp functions as well). Sorta-remember the command? C-h a whatyouremember - will run a regexp search on a list of all commands. Don't remember neither the key nor the command? M-x apropos whatyouremember - this will run a regex search on everything.

Also, the full documentation for Emacs should be available under C-h i. Or, if you are serious about Emacs and have some money to spare, I can recommend this book: https://www.masteringemacs.org/. It will get you up to speed in no time.

Beyond that, Google around. Look for Emacs guides, interesting packages, and interesting Emacs configs (search terms: .emacs, emacs dotfile). They'll introduce you to various productivity and life quality features for which Emacs is so loved.

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[0] - they're weird because they predate the modern fashion. What you're used to came later, from IBM, and was popularized Microsoft.
Seconded. I did calculus decades before I became aware of this book, but in reading it now I think it's excellent, and very much wish I'd known it before.

By contrast, I didn't find the submitted book very engaging, but I'm sure it's a matter of taste, and others will disagree.
Shebang Coming to Java?
How is GNU APL not there? It is standards compliant, 99.9% pure APL2 (per ISO standards), and is actively maintained (bugs and issues are usually turned around in a day or two). It performs quite well, and can be easily extended. I have even added memmap vectors to it to achieve even more performance (and to begin GPGPU integration).

GNU APL also supports a library version (libapl.so) which allows APL2 to be incorporated into other applications via C ffi. This is my primary use case -- interactive development followed by delivery via libapl.so.
Seriously? If you don't see the connection between learning a skill and job demand for that skill, then you don't deserve to be in college.
"Being healthy makes people feel healthy" (and thus more optimistic/active/positive) would be the more occhamish interpretation of that correlation.
Why did you consent to the search?
I'm curious if someone used vue with django and how's their experience
This is where workplace culture can make a big difference. Doing what you suggest is a lot easier in my current workplace which is full of fit, healthy people at an employer who values our health. Doing this at my last workplace would've gotten me some looks and I'd have been pegged the weird one. Not to say this is a good enough reason not to do it, but these social forces are powerful for encouraging or discouraging this kind of behavior.
I was wondering that too. However it ended up having the best highlighting and indenting packages for the languages I was using. It was available on most platforms and most of all worked in an SSH session.

I wouldn't try to learn everything at once would just learn:

1) How to quit
2) How to save a file
3) Basic navigation: up, down, left, right, end of line, beginning of line
4) How to cut a line, and how to paste a line

Some of those you might already know from using bash or even basic text editing on macOS.
Most readers aren't in the 1%, but most (Atlantic Monthly) readers are in the 10%. Articles about the 1% are about "them"; articles about the 10% are about "us". That's a reasonable premise for an article: move the goalpost and show what it's like to be on the other side of it.
I don't understand how you think the officers in question did anything wrong.

I'm not American, so I have no stake in defending the US border patrol, but this is what I'd expect border patrol anywhere in the world to do. Their entire job function is to prevent illegal entry, toll violations etc.

By your own account you were in possession of a valid passport clearly indicating that you're working in an official capacity for a foreign state. Why would border patrol anywhere in the world continue to detain you at that point?

Is there some illegal immigration problem in any country on Earth stemming from people in possession of official government passports indicating that they work for their respective states that I'm unaware of? How is this not as clear of a signal as anything short of the agent personally recognizing you as a foreign ambassador that you should be sent on your way?
Exactly. This is also why I think the trend to be "ASIC-resistant" is misguided and should be considered harmful.

All GPU-mined coins (except the hashrate-dominant one: Ethereum) are massively vulnerable to majority attacks because of the huge pre-existing installed based of GPU miners.

As I said in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17173774 the only solid defense is for each coin to implement an ASIC-friendly algorithm that is unique to this coin, so there is no risk of 51% attacks from a pre-existing installed based of miners.
Come on, we can solve that by adding a message queue manager in between. Whenever in doubt, just throw more layers at the problem.
Automated enforcement when tied directly to revenue generating activity incentivizes local government to make money ahead of public safety. The blight of traffic cameras in the last 15 years is proof of this. For example, many municipalities have chosen to shorten yellow light times at “gotcha” intersections with red light cams. These have been proven to both “catch” more people and decrease safety.
Well it isn't always. If it isn't you have to copy the article ID from the URL. Also you don't get pictures. This clearly isn't GDPR-compliant.
In a given area, someone making 35k and someone making 100k have very different options at their disposal.
That Emacs should not give an advantage to non-free operating systems.

Now, because Emacs is free software, this doesn't prevent anyone such as Yamamoto to go and modify Emacs. Rms doesn't want his officially-sanctioned version to have Mac-only improvements, but he also defends the GPL which allows other people to do so. Rms isn't going to go and tell Yamamoto to take down his fork or anything (but he probably will tell macOS users at every opportunity that they are working with an abusive OS).
I thought automatic speeding tickets are already implemented in Australia.
Netflix is great that way. Really easy to unsubscribe.
Better to have your teeth kicked in and land in jail than to passively support corruption and abuses of power.
I've been to the US plenty times on business, and once as a tourist - every time the border guards were deeply unpleasant and behaved like egomanical bullies. Maybe I've just been unlucky, but a lot of people seem to have a similar tale.

I should also add, I've been to dozens of countries and never experienced anything like this.
I wouldn't say it's normalizing the exploitation. It's putting it in perspective. My first thought when I read this post was "Why would you do that? That seems really stupid!", but then remebered, this is what we are already doing essentially. Only on a larger scale, and hidden from view.
Stop spewing crap
"How the hell did they master this beast?"

I came to Emacs from decades of using vim. I installed evil-mode, and then spent about 10 hours a day for about 3 months learning more, installing packages, and tweaking my config until it matched and exceeded what I had in vim.

This is a never-ending process.. and now, about 5 years later, I'm still learning and still tweaking (though my config has been mostly stable for a long time).

I wouldn't necessarily recommend Emacs to someone who's not willing to put in the time and effort to make it in to the editor they need... though they don't necessarily have to spend as much time or effort on it as I have. Everybody has different needs.

Fortunately we live in an age of plentiful, easy to get information, so if you are interested then learning more is just a few clicks away. I'd recommend joining #emacs on the FreeNode IRC network, r/emacs on Reddit, and the Emacs StackExchange. The people there can give you lots of pointers and detailed help when you need it.
In the US, there's no expectation of privacy in stuff you've discarded.
> Loads more, like who I vote for, my boss’s name, and where all my family live.

So their selling other people's data too?
That's very noble of you to protect those who do everything they see in a YouTube video.
Glad he is sharing his findings with OpenBSD and FreeBSD too. Great work.
To date, the best job I have ever had, not in terms of pay but in terms of fulfillment and happiness in doing the work, was working as a barista in a neighborhood (non-chain) coffee shop. I really enjoyed sizing up each customer, trying to figure out what would brighten their morning and get them in the mood to tackle their day, all while executing a non-trivial dance of logistics to prepare the drinks properly and quickly, with a bit of finesse.

We were on a transit corridor so there was a big morning rush. You'd get to know the regulars to the point where you could queue up their drinks to be ready by the time they got to the register, get a good flow going. There's all kinds of people: bubbly chatters, grumpy don't-talk-to-me-until-coffee folks, etc. and it was really fun and rewarding to try to get each of them to leave with a smile. You couldn't always do it, of course, but for me I hope to retire to e.g. Shasta someday and open a little coffee shop and bookstore.

All that to say this: one of the reasons why I am excited about the automation econo-pacalypse and the rise of what we're calling "Universal Basic Income" is that it will relax the need for people to "earn a living" doing something they don't genuinely enjoy. A general relaxation of the "profit motive" will permit optimization along other, more congenial dimensions.
I struggle to understand the point of your post. There are bad white people? Is that the gist of it?
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How does one go about conducting such audits? Is it just a case of looking at the code long with an experienced eye to spot potential flaws? Or are there standard techniques and tools that people follow?
"nobreak" also works, and arguably has less ambiguity than my suggestion.

And I agree getting a new keyword for such a limited use-case feature would be difficult and doesn't feel likely.
>I stumbled across a PR from 2010, which was briefly saying that PF’s TCP-SYN entry point could crash the kernel if a special packet was received. Looking at the PF code, it was clear, after two minutes, where the problem was.

I wonder how often problems like this languish in bug trackers (due to a shortage of developer availability? flood of low-quality bugs? other problems?)
I'd skip e-mail at the beginning, because it can be a real pain to set up (not necessarily on Emacs end - but the whole offlineimap thing, credentials, etc.). But I very much recommend magit - if you're using git, it'll blow your mind.

https://magit.vc/
Does the cost of a 51% attack rise linearly with time? Is this right?
Cost of 24h attack == 24 * (Cost of 1h attack)
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.magmafortr...
Requiring companies have an opt-out version of their sites is essentially the same thing as saying trading personal data for services is not a valid business model. It does seem that fundamentally that is the point of GDPR, it would be a lot simpler if they just came out and said that instead of these confusing obfuscations "you CAN use PII if you absolutely need to and the user agrees and you allow them to use your site as usual if they don't agree".
W.w.w.whaat ?
I wonder how this relates to the notion I've heard that faking a smile when you're feeling down can actually make you feel better. Any thoughts?
You're being downvoted because people don't like it when you remind them that the Emperor has no clothes.
The real game changer in Smooth UI is the way to extend components. This is a CodeSandbox example, feel free to play with it! https://codesandbox.io/s/7k8o4x7lj6