skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Is the murder clearance rate worse than it was in the late 20th century?

Why do you insist on this artificial restriction on whether or not police officers should have access to the data on an iPhone? It seems to me this would help the clearance rate if anything. It's another tool in the arsenal.

> As for the rest, I can't tell if you are just trying to demonstrate that you can think creatively...

The internet allows new styles of crimes, perhaps crimes you or I have never really thought about yet. Or maybe I've been paying attention to crimes on the internet lately. And for the record, I'm not the first to think about resequencing viruses. See point #5 here:

https://www.vox.com/2014/5/22/5739380/why-were-never-really-...

And to answer the rest of your comment, your rhetoric reads stronger than it truly is.
Australian court rules man can sue Google for defamation
Hmm, good point. Yes, that would probably make this much easier to exploit.

Unless the CPU does a partial pipeline flush upon realizing that there would be a trap. I don't know -- do Intel CPUs check for exceptions in order?
My money is firmly on the environment.
Get a second opinion?
But promotion is one of the incentives to be best - so unless the other incentives are stronger - promoting randomly or promoting the worst performers will remove a strong incentive and will pull down the productivity of the organization anyway.
Or there should be an explicit test for the skills needed at the next level.
I don't know, give me 10B and I'll get back to you in a few years.
New meltdown variant allows data leak from kernel, the hypervisor or other VMs
What sort of warrant process would Apple need to allow for with say, the Chinese government wanting to pull information out of a foreign national's device who is visiting the country? Or for that matter, is not visiting the country?

The problem is political, not technical. Apple can't be a fair intermediary for all the various governments and police departments of the world, so they use technology to cede control.
The key is that this system can operate in 3D. You can have bundles of tunnels where you need higher throughput, and greater demand can just be met with more tunnels. The focus on small tunnels/cars as the core technology is part of this, since it makes it easier to reach "mass production" scales.
Doesn't Ghostery allow in certain trackers if they're paid? I remember there was some controversy about their funding model.

I use uBlock Origin + uMatrix currently.

Your tracking situation doesn't seem out of the realm of possibility though.

1. You searched for Chicken Coops at a place.
2. That same laptop connects to your home Wi-Fi.
3. The user (you) who searched for chicken coups is connecting from a new IP.
4. Some ad engine rule says that IP belongs to a household (this probably doesn't matter; makes me wonder if people in a Starbucks get ads intended profiled against other customers).
5. Now let's just advertise chicken coupes to everyone in that house.

So in theory, this tracking attempt can be done with just a cookie and selling sets of IP+search word data, right?
If I used to do arithmetic mentally or by hand and you gave me a basic adding calculator that let me do the math more quickly, would my increased productivity really signify anything w.r.t. my intelligence?
The top three links on Google news about the red line: "shots fired", "man shot", "person stabbed". Those are all incidents in the last three days.

The L can be nice/mediocre but the red line has a reputation that is well justified.
> anticipated to be ten times faster than conventional boring machines

Anticipated. And this is probably top speed in perfect London clay, not average speed in average conditions.

EDIT: Oh, and it's also by reducing the size of the tunnel by 4?
For me to even start thinking about GraphQL instead of REST, there needs to exist Java, .NET and C++ mature libraries for GraphQL at the same level of available REST ones.

Using JavaScript ones is not an option. So that is the kind of thing I would care about.
Google Plus has become the new Voat then, eh?
I live in Hong Kong. In a city this small and dense (and where a residential parking space can cost several hundreds of thousands of dollars), 500,000 private vehicles is a huge number.
That's certainly possible. I also think that music teaching has improved, and my kids are growing up in a town that's crawling with great musicians -- part of why we live here.

In our house, the parent/child dynamic wasn't conducive to me teaching my kids. That's kind of luck-of-the-draw. So they go to private teachers. But I suspect our love of music, and having it be part of our lives, has rubbed off on them.
Wow, not only is the article title completely fake, but they even linked to the wrong patent.

Real patent is here: http://appft1.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=...

It looks like the main data points the system uses are time and location occurrence with previous outings, and characteristics of how they interact with the app, specifically text input.
Most users do not have AWS accounts and are not about to get them.
For those already working in Python, Numba is a 2 hour investment, that pays off with similar speed as Fortran code except no new syntax, semantics, compiler or FFI to bother with.
C++ for C Programmers: part 1
This is bad advice. Pip should be used in virtual environments, and not to install system packages
> No more third party connections. We don't really need them. Just put whatever data you want in the URL like we do with OAuth.

I'm a bit confused with this. Are you talking about deprecating CORS? How would putting information in a URL mean that you didn't need a third party request anymore?

> I don't know how to fix JavaScript, but it needs fixing. JSON is cool

I may also be misunderstanding here, but are you talking about getting rid of clientside scripting? Or moving all scripting serverside? If that's the case, do you have any plans on how to get businesses, devs, and users on board with that?

I understand that there's a sizable population on HN that would prefer if the web be a static document service and not an app platform, but even if they're right they have almost zero chance of getting anyone else to agree with them.

If that's not what you're talking about and you just hate JS, then you should look into web assembly as a compile target.

> We need a web-of-trust at the connection layer robust enough to be embeddable in our network gear.

This just screams vendor lock-in to me. It's very important that connection information and permissions be user-configurable.

It also seems at first glance like it might be problematic for security. Baking trust models into firmware means that it's a lot harder to patch them when the models need to be updated.

> no more untrusted, unsigned, unencrypted streams

I'm pretty sure Chrome is already heading in this direction. Archivists are mad about it, but I suspect HTTP will be deprecated sometime in the future.

> DNS is so f---- dumb it's painful.

Completely agreed. I would love to see DNS put out of its misery.
This is not really thinking though, just a ~3 hour commitment once to figure out how it is supposed to work.
Exactly my thought too. There is one more missing element here other than competence, namely Performance. The performance at a particular level depends on how the agents perceives the promotions are made. If randomly promoted or worse, promoted even without best performance, there is no incentive for people to perform even if they have the best competence.
I always refer to the following tutorial ('Git - the simple guide - no deep shit!') when I am blocked
https://rogerdudler.github.io/git-guide/
No, Microsoft is not rewriting Office in JavaScript
That could have just been someone simply nicking Harvey Weinstein's phone. I don't buy the "we were all hacked at the same time by scary unknown exploit" story.
> But I'm pretty skeptical of this since Tesla sells luxury cars; public transit seems unlikely to threaten their business.

Tesla has always been clear that their growth plan is to continue to move down-market from the high end to the mainstream, and they've acted in accord with that. Public transit does than that arc.
In theory you can track individual devices in a household instead of grouping everyone in one house, small business, building, etc. as one IP.

Currently, even with the limitations of IPv4, most trackers can use cookies and browser fingerprints (your browser's headers, fonts, etc.) to individually identify you even behind NAT. But with IPv6, ad engines could potentially identify that you're running two different browsers on the same laptop or device, and associate both of those browsers to _you_ (some type of single targeting profile).

They also have a more precise way to track you without a browser fingerprint.
It's a tradeoff. You can't easily have both.
It's official; this generation dumber! Now get off my lawn and listen to some real music!

jk, kids today outpace me daily.

PS I wasn't kidding about the music!
Why does it need to be diverged if there is no new functionality in their version? Because they can?
BoreX or SpaceBore will dig down into the void where it will be unencumbered by the physics of laws. Using Thielenite, it can tap into a liberterranean powersauce that can transform any argument using continental selfishness ... hup. Someone please fix this.
> diluting the current supply to offset the greater demand and keep the peg.

Their peg is created explicitly by being 1:1, not by manipulating their supply. This is how they create trust that they aren't subject to market conditions or threatened by a run on redeeming their tokens.

To you it may not be important, but it's right there as a bold claim on their home page, and it's why they've been used.

Note that I did not say that their peg could not conceivably work without 1:1 backing, I said that their claims would be a lie. As are their claims to have been subject to frequent audits - they've never completed a single one.
Depends on the ISP's traffic policy. I've witnessed many times when UDP packet loss is over 50% while TCP loss is below 10%.
Actually I misread https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transport_in_Hong_Kong#Private... and that's the number of licensed vehicles. Maybe a substantial portion are taxis/delivery trucks/etc.
"Your tracking situation doesn't seem out of the realm of possibility though."

Indeed. That's what's so invasive about tracking - anything that can be done to track you, will be done.

What if my search had been something more personal? Something I didn't want my wife to know about?

There's no way to opt-out of all this. We're being force fed this for the benefit of some corporation, somewhere.
I'm confused. Is the 100 IQ value's meaning, "average intelligence" (it's also supposed to be the median value, half of the population has an IQ around 100) stuck to a single point in the past for a certain cohort? How can IQ scores decline?
I think the idea of databases being on-disk (vs in-memory) is getting quite outdated. You want durability of course, but most datasets can fit in memory these days.

(Which is natural if you consider the retarded development of disk/ram vs processing power; cf the memes of "disk is the new tape" "ram is the new disk")
Is any package available to do optical scanning of vinyl disk records? I've heard of it but never seen it done.

My parents have a bunch of rare 78s which I would like to be able to listen to, but am afraid to poke a needle into.
Well, they don't for #PF at least, because that's how Meltdown works - I'm not sure if it works differently for #NM though.
Warez Wars – Wired – 1997
Technology is amplifier, not a replacement.
> muddling along strapping ever more duct tape

Let's strap some sockets to HTTP and run them through a web server. We'll call them Web Sockets.

Chat? I have this crazy idea called WebRTC. .. although our original idea was a huge security hole and now it's pretty much just used for games .. because browsers don't do Datagrams so let's just do some more hacking with WebRTC.

Anyone remember when Firefox was the lightweight version of Mozilla and web browsers were used to browse the web?

I feel like all modern web browsers are in a pretty sad state of bloat, are pretty much mini operating systems, and Javascript is taking over the world. It's frighteningly like that parody talk about "Yavascript"
Show HN: Do More
It's a chicken-and-egg problem. For many bad ISPs to care about this problem, QUIC adoption has to be high enough to cause mass user complaints. Yet QUIC's mass adoption requires it providing better user experience before ISPs change their stupid policies.

It would be interesting to see how it plays out.
This sort of thing is just a matter of doctor shopping. Keep asking different doctors until you get an answer you like.
so that means we can't use tamper monkey anymore?
Do People Really Get Promoted to Their Level of Incompetence?
The innovation claims to be that they’re drilling smaller holes. We’ve always been able to cheaply drill low diameter tunnels but we haven’t been able to use them for anything but aqueducts. The idea is that using little electric sleds they can make a transit tunnel using aqueduct-sized tunnels.
A post above thinks it might be 256!
There seems to be a lot of negative bias around IQ tests based on social stigma. IQ tests are far from perfect and I think everyone agrees they are a woeful indicator of success.

However, I think improving IQ testing for the purposes of documenting human evolution is just as important as documenting fluctuations in disease, addiction, obesity and the like.

For example, there has been considerable scientific research that points to a noteable increase in IQ in America in the twenties due to increased iodine intake. If we are in-fact getting less intelligent, I think it would behove us to purse potential causes.
The intent is the opposite - having individual cars allows you to parallelize ingress/egress, as long as you have pulloffs at stations (and sufficient elevator capacity). The decrease in trip time from making every trip express (instead of stopping at every station for the fraction of passengers who want to get off) offsets the smaller car/train capacity.
5G networks require lots and lots of fiber. This means a lot of digging is required.
A lot of talent is leaving the UK. Some of it is moving to Europe.

We have government ministers privately talking about “a meltdown” and Tory donors shorting the economy. Too many people under 30 are poor and heavily in debt.

Business confidence is low and investment is disappearing.

It feels as if Brexit is the UK’s closing down sale. The question is whether the meltdown will be an extended depression, or a Zimbabwe-style total collapse.

I don’t think the former is unrealistic, and latter hardly seems impossible.
The Blue Line train to the airport is also 30%-50% than taking the freeway. Esp during rush hour, the train takes a constant time where one has no idea how long it would take by car.
Really? I look at kids these days and see hyperactive idiots with access to all the knowledge in the world but who choose to watch fuzzes of color that nearly give me seizures. I'm not saying older generations were better just that this one isn't.
Why would they use this data to refuse to carry the passengers? Don't we want drunks on public transit and not driving their own cars?
Earlier this year Brian Krebs (KrebsOnSecurity) published an article about a large typosquatting scheme (https://www.krebsonsecurity.com/2018/04/dot-cm-typosquatting...). The story is based on 5 years of typosquatting operations' logs with quite many details on the scheme setup and persons behind it. However, when getting hold of these logs, we were intrigued to dig deeper into the figures to get a more comprehensive overview of the operation.
Don't forget to stack large quantities of tin and aluminum cans about 8 feet high or so.
It's certainly not "on by default" for all Windows users, twice in the last month I've broken into machines for clients where users forgot their password, both times using nothing more than a USB stick (then replacing utilman.exe with cmd.exe)

Both boxes had fairly recent hardware and were running Windows 10 Pro.
Scores are periodically renormalized to a new sample to keep 100 the median, but you can normalize to a single baseline to compare across time.
If by 3 days you mean 3 weeks, then sure.
The Tamagotchi Effect
There isn't a single point for "surveillance state".
IQ is just a proxy, so seeing it as such I don't have such high expectations because I try not to confuse it with intelligence per se.

This happens all the time, GDP is another fantastic example.

Let's try to educate people that proxies are not the real thing, not condemn the measures - because it's not their fault :-)
It's the water everyone! Don't drink the water! ...
Having your tonsils out in the 60s and 70s was a much more painful procedure with a longer recovery time so people were more aware when someone had them removed.

My daughter had her tonsils and adenoids removed 6 years ago. She had it done on Friday morning and was running around feeling fine on Saturday. No significant pain and she was back to school on Monday. Unless she mentioned it none of her friends knew.
I can't find it now, but two or three months ago I read a story in the news about a teenage girl who bled to death after her surgeon accidentally cut in to her aorta during her tonsilectomy. The saddest thing was that it was a slow, completely preventable death, and that the doctors did not take her symptoms at all seriously, despite her coughing up copious amounts of blood, telling her and her mother that it was all perfectly normal. Very sad story.
> Without some functional mechanism, I'd be very wary of these kinds of data analyses.

Kind of a tangent, but dumb question: wouldn't the sensible default assumption be that messing with your body is likely to be harmful unless proven harmless? Rather than the other way around? So if you're skeptical, shouldn't you be skeptical that it's harmless?
Typing "C:\con\con" into the run dialog bluescreened Windows 98 (the article is about a similar issue with the NTFS driver from yesteryear): https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2017/05/in-a-...
How come someone didn't come up with the idea of smaller trains (sleds) before? London tube is fairly small in diameter.
Leases haven't been on the balance sheet historically, although a 2016 change (which comes into effect next year) will see them move onto the balance sheet, however offset by a corresponding right to use asset.

The right to use asset is depreciated over the course of the lease whilst the liability is decreased as payments are made.

So it isn't a huge negative equity hole (particularly at present since lease obligations are off balance sheet), but with these changes gross debt will increase substantially, which may trigger covenants with regards to debt ratios (equity will be offset by right to use asset however, so no bit equity hole even with new accounting rules).
Designer Dresses for Women
There's William Butterworth, who has about 11 pseudonyms and over 100 published novels. I've read too many of them. You start seeing the same stock scenes coming around again. He writes good potboilers.

"Tom Clancy" books are still coming out, even though he died years ago.
http://bioinfomofo.blogspot.com/2014/01/r-hard-things-are-ea...
The core of the problem obviously is the fact of sharing our data without our permission and/or knowledge.

The issue I have with that phrase is that it is basically an appeal to emotion; it doesn't focus on dialogue about why such unrestricted sharing of data is bad and what can be done about it, but rather it encourages feeling of helplessness ("I'm a product, owned and sold by corporations").
I think maybe RedHat ships the kernel tar mostly pre-patched in-house now.

Yes, this was in the news a couple of years ago. They do not include separate patches anymore:

https://lwn.net/Articles/430098/

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/03/04/red_hat_twarts_orac...
Seattle’s MoPOP 2017 Inductees to the Science Fiction and Fantasy Hall of Fame
Article is paywalled. How about this for a hot take, based on the title alone: there is an overlap of an IQ boosting effect from environment (better nutrition, health care etc.) and an IQ depressing effect from genetics (e.g. increasing years of education depressing fertility of high-IQ people, or increased mutational loads from all those carcinogens California tried to warn us about, or whatever). For decades, the IQ boosting effect dominated (resulting in the Flynn effect), but now it's basically maxed out, and the IQ depressing effect drives the trend.
A couple years back at university, I created DoodleDebug[1,2], tackling some of your mentioned issues. It can be thought of as a graphical version of System.out.println(). There is a similar output format customization mechanism as toString(), but you can also customize the rendering of arbitrary types you don't control the source code of.

DoodleDebug's output is HTML-based and interactive with semantic zoom. That means you can click parts of printed objects to inspect them.

However, I didn't work on it in years due to lack of time, and even the linked description page is a bit outdated (it's not an Eclipse plugin anymore).

[1]: http://scg.unibe.ch/wiki/projects/DoodleDebug
[2]: https://github.com/CedricReichenbach/DoodleDebug

Edit: Maybe this PDF of my Bachelor's thesis gives a better overview of what DD is and does: http://scg.unibe.ch/archive/projects/Reic13a.pdf
Seems like this might be a good place to link to The Turn (1993):

> At the very heart of winged flight lies the banked turn, a procedure that by now seems so routine and familiar that airline passengers appreciate neither its elegance and mystery nor its dangerously delusive character. The author, a pilot, takes us up into the subject.

https://www.theatlantic.com/past/docs/unbound/langew/turn.ht...
While you're right that it's bad advice, it also highlights the problem with pip that these less experienced people have. The ideal way to deal with Python packages is virtualenvs, but setting up a virtualenv, and then activating it every time you want to use it (or setting up tools to do it for you) is an incredibly huge headache for less experienced people to deal with. R doesn't require that whatsoever.
Japan Aimed to Be a Bitcoin Capital. Then It Got Hacked
Bye bye Office 365. https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2000/04/06/things-you-should-...
AI in the Bread Industry
When people reply they aren’t just talking to you but lots of other people also reading this thread. The information may be useful to some.
So to first order, you'd have to build as many tunnels as there are road lanes to get the same order of magnitude throughput? I get that there is more space underground, but this sounds completely cost ineffective given that many municipalities can't afford to maintain their roads.