skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not sure how well "short" and "decentralized" go together. The problem is that there's no good way to prevent someone from creating as many short identifiers as possible and taking them up forever. Distributed, maybe, if you have a central issuing authority who publishes a complete list that others can mirror and archive. I think this is what a DOI is supposed to be.

IPFS.io itself is an IPFS gateway, but you can resolve /ipfs/ paths without it if you run your own IPFS daemon; in fact this seems to be the end goal of the IPFS foundation, with ipfs.io being an stopgap measure since most people aren't running an IPFS daemon yet. The easiest way is to get this is to install the IPFS Companion browser plugin, which takes over resolution of ipfs.io and replaces it with a local gateway on your computer.
> Even if we can't find a smoking gun email or audio recording, charges analogous to negligent homicide would be appropriate here

Nobody died for having a fake checking account. (People have died because prosecutors overreached.)
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They're overwhelmingly known:

awk -vFPAT='([^,]*)|("[^"]+")' -vOFS=, '{if ($1~/^[0-9]+$/){N++; if ($6=="Unknown"){ U++}}} END {print N, U}' Wrecks_April_2018.csv

17972,2137

EDIT: Didn't realise in the above that most wrecks are missing from the map due to unknown coords. Filtering these out we get

3736,1596
Obligatory xkcd: https://xkcd.com/1732/
Connecting Cars Reliably
The Stripe Christmas Surprise: destroying your competitor's holiday season earnings by issuing a well-placed chargeback.
Q: America has minor drug users incarcerated for life, and the highest per-capita incarceration rate in the world, save Seychelles. How many Wall St. bankers, corrupt DC lobbyists or public officials are in jail for their crimes? A: very few, just to make an ostensible show of a statement now and then to mollify the people during tough times. The bigger the crime, the lesser the time.
Also, people shouldn't really need a day off to vote unless they are working an insane schedule. Polls are usually open 12+ hours. You should have time to vote before or after the workday.
> None of them came close to just asking doctors ...

at a conference, i once heard that the best single predictor of ICU patient mortality was reduction of doctor attentiveness. in other words, patients in ICUs whom doctors began to visit less, treat less, basically start to ignore -- those patients were the ones for whom death was imminent.

the challenge is that it's hard to untangle cause and effect. was it a self-fulfilling prophecy? etc.
Stripe Suspends Accounts for Political Reasons
>Most recently this duplicity concerns payment processing, namely the fraudulent company Stripe which canceled FreeStartr’s account despite record low chargebacks. FreeStartr wasn’t alone. All of those companies who had their accounts suspended — Bitchute (a YouTube competitor), MakerSupport (a Patreon competitor), and FreeStartr.com (a Patreon, Kickstarter competitor)– were created by Trump supporters.

>This canceling of our business was done for political reasons by Edwin Wee, a Democratic political operative turned Stripe employee, and it exposes the libertarian lie that one can simply just go and create a competitor if one dislikes Silicon Valley ventures. You can’t. We need to get over that canard.
Woodrow Wilson helped start the 20th century version of the Klu Klux Klan and re instituted segregation in the federal government. That does not sound very progressive, Helen Keller was his contemporary and she was against those things and for Eugene Debs and workers' rights and women's rights.
Unfuck Google Search
Google search is cluttered and fucked. They're trying to be more personalized and relevant and they've ended up making their main purpose - finding shit on the internet - really annoying.

I made a Firefox add-on that rewrites Google search URLs to use 'Verbatim' search, which isn't ideal but much better. Hope some of you find it useful.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/unfuck-google/
Rise of Streaming SQL
Don't complain about downvoting: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7961827

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2569919
It is related.

When rocks cool, crystals start to grow from multiple seeds because of thermal/chemical impurities. If the material is sufficiently homogenous in composition and temperature, then the crystals from different seeds will grow at the same rate. When they grow into each other, a boundary between different crystal domains will form. Crystal domains formed this way look like Voronoi cells.

The peanut butter cup looks like this because it's injected from several outlets with an approximately constant flow rate. Each injector outlet forms a Voronoi cell of peanut butter under it.
Similar. I'd like to see a maglev (railgun) pumpkin chuck though.
This is very interesting and I have the same felling. I think it is due to expansion of smartphones and mobile internet around us. Before smartphones everyone typed with their keyboard on the table and you were sure, that the person who is connected have time to answer. Today you are basically reachable everywhere and when you don't respond immediately the other side of conversation think what could go wrong. It was not used to be like that before. It was more letter oriented conversation where you had time to write response properly and check your answer or modify it. Today on smartphone there is no time, you have to write answer in few seconds even when you walk or you are in hurry. You can not easily disconnect, because now by default they see that you received message and that you read it. That's probably the biggest difference between now and then.

The quality takes time and to respond 10 conversation at once is really exhausting. It's not anymore about joy of internet, what I feel is there is too much of it. Everyone is instantly connected and about 40% of new generation is basically addicted to smartphones and to internet, that's totally different feeling than before when you do it out of curiosity. The old generation recognize it and probably try to limit their time online, that's the reason why forums and blogs are not maintained today's, it takes time and effort to produce something valuable and this days not many people have even time to read it...
Delphi (Turbo Pascal's successor) today does a million in four seconds, or about 250k / sec.

https://youtu.be/Yq2mNUzcpE0?t=146
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The European auto-manufacterer test cheating is really, really pernicuous. It is mistake to view this as simple test cheating. These tests are a greater part of the "green/carbon reduction" policies that is europe's primary industrial policy of the last decade.

Domestic auto manufacturers have been primary authors of these policies. The bootlegger and baptist dynamic has been very strong here. The "baptist" objective has been carbon/pollution reduction. The "bootleggers" wanted to sell more European cars by (A) giving them an advantage over imports and (B) shortening the lifespan of older cars. They have had an extremely favourable regulatory environment, EU & locally. Pollution-centric tax bands favouring local manufacturers (based on these tests) are just a piece of that. To cheat the tests on top of all this is beyond the pale.

All that said, I think we have no way of holding corporations accountable. Prosecuting individuals is important (and effective), but it also semi-absolves the company. It makes it seem like individual bad actors acted against the law, and against the company. There aren't really ways of holding the company accountable, and limited liability becomes no liability in this sense.

I don't even know what should be done. "Justice" (IMO) would be fairly harsh. Volkswagon Group have annual Revenue & Gross Profit of 230bn & 40bn respectively. Trillions and hundreds of millions over the life of this scam. Some nontrivial portion of these sales were unearned in the sense that they would not have happened without fraud. €1bn-€2bn isn't even meaningful.

I think that shareholders should get a haircut, with a meanigful portion of the company's current value being turned over as a fine. Of course, this would only encourage a restructuring from equity to debt. IDK....

An individual business owner acting under full liability would have (in addition to jail time) almost certainly lost her entire business over something like this. To Volkswagen Group, it's a bump in the road. This is not fair.
You aren’t exactly wrong, but I disagree that some cabal of unified elites actually controls papers like the economist, but the same biases would arise because of their readership st any rate, which is true for any publication.

It isn’t as bad as The People’s Daily, for example.
It's maybe worth keeping in mind that Ireland was neutral in WWII. I guess that the belligerents still lost many ships in Irish waters (and indeed Irish ships were often attacked: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irish_neutrality_during_World_... ), but it's still some important context.
You're speaking hypothetically, but I'm speaking pragmatically. In the 2020 Presidential election, a Democrat or Republican will be elected, and a third-party vote will have the same effect on that as not voting: none, (arguably, unless it comes at the expense of a Democrat or Republican vote).
Javascript promises are a kind of monad. Douglas Crockford talks about this in his talk "Monads and Gonads" [1]

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b0EF0VTs9Dc
I'm curious. Can you share any specifics?
Commercial video for the most part has always been copy protected even in the analog days with Macrovision.

From a historical reason, the only reason we have DRM free music sells is because of Apple. In 2008, the music industry was trying to pressure Apple into licensing its DRM scheme so that competitors could sell music compatible with iPods. Steve Jobs countered saying that if the music industry would sell all of their music DRM free, there would be cross platform compatibility [1]. The movie industry didn’t make the same mistake the music industry did. They allowed multiple companies to buy and rent movies so Apple wouldn’t have the same power they had over music over movies.

As far as the cost to buy movies, you don’t have to guess. Most popular movies cost $14.99 to own and the less popular movies are $9.99.

The box set for “Everybody Hates Chris” is $110.00 on Amazon. So to buy all of the content we watched between Hulu and Netflix would be at least $700 - as opposed to $24.

[1] Thoughts on Music (http://macdailynews.com/2007/02/06/apple_ceo_steve_jobs_post...)
Understanding Maslow's Theory of Self-Actualization
Paywalled. I can't read this.
Then why does nobody outside of China use Chinese tech? This is a paradox that flies in the face of all the 'great news' coming from China.

In HK, nobody uses Baidu, they use Google.

The article is misleading because the size of these 'new industries' like 'car sharing' is going to be a function of the size of the economy, so really, it's like measuring the size of the banking sector ... it will be a % of the economy and that's that. Since banking is protected, it will be domestically owned. In China, so many sectors (all of them?) are strongly protected in so many ways so the outcomes are all rather predictable. Ride sharing, search etc..

For AliBaba though, and situations wherein they have done things differently given the state of their economy, they can claim a separate path and it'd be rather difficult to predict outcomes.

But those things notwithstanding ... we're still not using any chips, OS, software, services or tech out of China just yet.

I'm actually really surprised there isn't some great, commonly available mobile OS from China commonly available here ...
>>Yet shareholders who pushed executives over the edge with inflated performance expectations get to keep all their gains, if they sold before scandal hit.

No one pushed a super-educated and super rich CEO to do anything. His greed did. Shareholders that sold got lucky, those that didn't are paying the price with tens of billions in penalties.

Jail CEOs and a lot of problems will be solved.
I've flown in and out of Mataveri and I know it sounds superstitious or whatever, but I felt that isolation. It's amazing to me that the Polynesians were able to colonize so widely.

Also, I love Voronoi diagrams. I ran across them many moons ago when I was building a wayfinding application and was looking for ways to generate map meshes—this was not that—but I thought they were super interesting.
That's not exactly what I meant. I work in information security and I can't name a single colleague who would argue that a normal user should have full admin access to any machine right out of the box, but people like you and me who are responsible and educated enough not to make uninformed decisions should be able to have admin access. There are tons of ways that both can be accomplished at the same time.

Linux, for example, does it out of the box. Most Linux systems don't give you root access, and some even disable logins to the root account altogether. You have to specifically escalate your privileges. If the user account isn't in the sudoers group, tough luck.

Windows has UAC for this, too. I find it very lacking, but it's better than nothing. macOS has a similar permissions system.

Application whitelisting is another great option. Let users install trusted and signed programs, while admins have the ability to install anything they want.

And also look for iOS versus Android. Almost no one using iOS is able to install random applications from the Internet, and it still has huge marketshare because most people don't care. Android is an option for those who do care.

It's not either/or. Options exist for both use cases. What responsible tech people need to do is use the option they're most comfortable with, while steering normal end users towards the safest option possible. It's even as simple as installing Windows, giving the user a normal (unprivileged) account, and just not giving them the admin password.

The dancing pig problem has been solved.
This is propaganda. China is mostly an uneducated factory nation who will be crushed by automation. Articles like this are great for clicks on a website.

Edit: which Chinese tech companies are actually dominant? All of them are copies of American tech companies propped up by their government. Where is the market penetration into the USA? Where is the competition? There is none.
The initial analogy made me cringe, and to be honest, the rest of the post didn't change that impression too much.
Reading past the prose and paeans to loyalty, a couple points stick out to me:

> "we discovered that the specific charges flagged as fraudulent were not fraudulent charges" "where fulfillment was lagging heavily during the transition which led to some dissatisfied customers who opted to dispute charges"

Fulfillment lagging heavily is a fancy of way of saying people paid for orders, never got what they ordered, and so assumed it was a fraud.

> Despite understanding that our Stripe Atlas account was used across a number of businesses, and that the seemingly fraudulent/chargeback activity took place in a relatively short span of time through a single eCommerce store (that was no longer operational)

TBH, the actual percentages Stripe details in later emails would be alarming to me. 23% of charges disputed and 44% of volume are pretty red flags!
I don't think we are immune, we just aspire for a different "lifestyle" than a teenage girl from NYC. While the teenage girl would be dreaming about partying all night on a beach with cute guys (and nursing hangovers in a beautiful spa), a tech bro might dream about taking a Wrangler through the Moab, camping under the stars for a few weeks.
Having Lounge reconnect to ZNC every time you start the app neglects any speed gains you'd have from running it locally. And it gives you overall a negative experience because unread markers and other things are reset.
It's interesting just how much I've come to fit the facts stated in the article. Previous to online shopping, I'd wear clothes until they were threadbare to avoid going to a retail store, often having clothes for 10+ years.

Recently, I found that I like LL Bean for the style, quality, and sizing for both business and casual. So I'm slowly revamping my wardrobe and intend to replace pieces more often.

Shoes, however, I am still going in-person to find. I have a pair of podiatrist-made inserts to deal with my collapsing arches. It's devilishly tough trying to account for them when purchasing online.
I shoot a lot of Fujichrome positive film in 35mm and 120 formats. It will be nice to have another option available, because sometimes it seems like Fuji really doesn't want to be in the film business anymore.

I've got a cartridge of Super 8 Ektachrome in my freezer from 2012 that I've been saving. It sounds like maybe I can go ahead and use it without worrying that I'm wasting it, assuming that the new Ektachrome will be available in Super 8 eventually.
ebikes, scooters, and hoverboards were all out of china.
I'd guess more likely that they are chocolate nozzles -- it seems more straightforward to me to produce a precise chocolate "cup", pour or place the filling inside of it, then pipe a chocolate "lid" onto the cup. Presumably the multiple nozzles of chocolate would help it to settle flatter faster.

Edit: there's a video on Facebook that covers the whole process in a minute. My hunch is partly right: the wrapper and chocolate cup are indeed completed first, then a circle of peanut butter is indeed placed in, then the thing is shaken to encourage that peanut butter to fill the space uniformly. However the chocolate "lid" is just plopped on as one wide dollop from a hose, and then blown out across the cup with compressed air: so the Voronoi cells probably come either from this blowing phase, or else the hose has some sort of "spreader" inside of it or so.
V.K
Do you mean Qualcomm chips and smartphone tech that practically every runs every smartphone in the world? I can see how that would impact ZTE's smartphone business...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qualcomm#History
6.5% chargeback rate.

This entire blog post reads like other posts of its type from people who don't understand credit card processing or how it all works.

"Shortly after sending the above information we discovered that the specific charges flagged as fraudulent were not fraudulent charges. They were, in fact, due to chargebacks related to a recently acquired eCommerce store where fulfillment was lagging heavily during the transition which led to some dissatisfied customers who opted to dispute charges."

No, the transactions weren't fraudulent. However, selling something and not delivering is grounds for a chargeback and would be labeled as fraud, and to any reasonable person, would be considered fraud.

"Somehow we moved from an issue of fraudulent activity to whether or not we’re allowed to sell specific products."

Yes, because with such a high chargeback rate, they are going to reevaluate your entire business. It's called Know Your Customer (KYC), and it's critical.

But seriously, 6.5% chargeback rate. Even when I was still working in an industry know to be high risk, I never had a rate that high.

"Stripe is quick to put all blame and responsibility on us by claiming that it is not their responsibility to prevent fraud."

Because in the end, yes, that's where the fault lies. Don't believe me? Go to a bank and get your own merchant account and see what happens when you just let whatever you want go through your system. Just because it's on a computer doesn't change the fact that you are responsible for the fraud you are swiping through your system.

tl;dr: a legit 6.5% chargeback rate.
Wow!

What is the probability that a trivial variation on the decoding method results in otherwise unreadable text BUT STARTING with "sited at" ??? roughly 26^6?!?

1) I used/fixed Tobin Fricke's (@tobinfricke) doi-decode.c to first fix the indexing/versions of the Declaration of Independence. The result can be found in the thread:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17337421

2) Due to the quasi alphabetic sequences in beale.1 I came to the conclusion that beale.1 is in fact just scratchpad notes containing fragments of look-up table to use while encrypting, so is not the location file. Bummed at the lack of a location file, I just pressed on out of curiosity for the names file (beale.3)

3) I next tried some trivial variations on the cipher concept (second letter of each word, last letter etc) such that the kolmogorov complexity increase of the decoding would be nearly zero, but always got rubbish.

4) Until I tried a trivial variation (not giving yet, perhaps after convincing myself it is absurd coincidence), giving "sitedat...." with "..." being rubbish text.

EDIT1: the same decoding also contains "twograil" somewhere in the middle, but not as convincing, does "two grail" signifiy something in the area?
That reply is a bit factual... I want to talk about why it came to be this way.

Medicine has advanced to a point where some serious illnesses can be kept at bay for decades. People with some formerly mortal diseases can get medicines that cost $100k/year and/or professional help every day, and live well for thirty years.

This means that each of rich societies has to choose:

1. Raise health insurance rates until the budget covers everything that's possible medically. However, in some rich countries, people's after-tax income is only a few doublings above the current health care plus pension costs...

2. Decide that some treatments aren't worthwhile, ie. everyone with Hyperthis or Abnormalthat Syndrome gets cheap palliative treatment and a peaceful, gentle death.

3. Decide on a per-patient basis, often involving numbers such as "cost of treatment" and "years left of productive life".

Option 1 is the humane way, but slightly impossible. Options 2 and 3 involve treating people like dollar signs, one way or another. It's an unpleasant choice, not an avoidable one.
In all seriousness do they have any way to detect sabotage of this sort?
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Europe needs to build its own tech ecosystem instead of being a resource hub and market for US companies. There were some sense in the French driving Peugeot, the Germans VW and the Americans Ford, instead of all driving a generic car from a distant silicon valley company far away from local market and value chain.
So the author isn't reinventing the wheel. I should have explained that Railway programming isn't supposed to replace doing try/catch, it's typically best suited for scenarios where errors are not exceptional. It works best when errors are occurring very regularly, are part of the logic of the system, and where you want to ensure the programmer takes advantage of F#'s exhaustive pattern matching to ensure developers account for all the scenarios.

In this scenario, performance matters because you want the creation of the error (these aren't exceptions) to be relatively cheap because it is a regular part of the system.

In these scenarios, using exceptions would be abusing exceptions, because exceptions are typically supposed to be exceptional.
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This reminds me of my racist extended family and it makes me sick
Demand it from both.
I know the former bit. I don't see how the latter obviously follows. You're basically saying it's related because it looks the same but it's clear from the picture it looks the same.