skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Eh, there's been a lot of drama with them over the past few months.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L-UBfkUVGk4
The main one was the code that put the title of the post in the link. That created a huge traffic boost.

Also added a sitemap and rel=canonical links.
Apparently. Although in my defense that didn't happen till much later once reddit got a lot more popular.
My mind wasn't particularly open to the idea that I could be a victim (in spite of living amidst Columbine/school shootings, 9/11, and multiple tramautic experiences after coming out of the closet) until something truly bad happened to me -- I was robbed at gunpoint outside a BART station in San Francisco. I was with my girlfriend at the time, and whether it was or not, it read like a true hate crime. I didn't call the police until the next morning, after we both had time to collect ourselves. In retrospect, I see that it would've been better for everyone to call the police right away, but I was so traumatized I wasn't thinking about that. And, once we filed the report nothing meaningful happened to the perpetrators that I was aware of.

Since then, I have been on high alert to the bad stuff happening around me every single day. I'm getting help, and I'm lucky to be able to afford it, but I probably won't ever be the same. One thing I can't afford is doubting my instincts -- I have learned that doing so will get me burned.

This part of the excerpt struck me: "We don't need to learn about violence, many feel, because the police will handle it, the criminal-justice system will handle it, experts will handle it. Though it touches us all and belongs to us all, and though we each have something profound to contribute to the solution, we have left this critical inquiry to people who tell us that violence cannot be predicted, that risk is a game of odds, and that anxiety is an unavoidable part of life."
Uber just shows you the price, whereas it's less fun when you wonder "will I get a better price from the next taxi, and how long will it take until I see one"
San Francisco's many single-family-home neighborhoods have all you really need to accomodate car storage: garages instead of living space on the ground floor. Houses still come right up the sidewalk and squeeze wall-to-wall against each other.

Typical American suburbia takes density way lower than that. People here seem to value that separation for reasons above and beyond their parking needs. For example, not hearing the neighbors' footsteps through the ceilings or their TVs and family disputes through the walls. Giving each child their own bedroom. Having room for play and gatherings in the backyard. This suggests that, even without cars, we'd still insist on a pretty low densities. (Since it is homeowners in the center who control land use in the center, the frustrations of outer-ring commuters under such an arrangement don't make a difference).

I'm fortunate that I can afford to live in a high-rise district and commute in reasonable time by train and elevator. But even with so many places a short walk from home, it's a big metro area - there are many more I want to go which are not so close. Without a car, I felt isolated and trapped. It's great to have neighborhood businesses, but you get tired of the monotony after a while.
I love painting miniatures. It's a kind of meditation for me.. the attentional to detail. It's a little bit like pruning a bonsai tree.

The community at http://www.reddit.com/r/minipainting is wonderful and always willing to provide constructive feedback if you ask genuinely. Also http://www.coolminiornot.com to see some of the amazing work other people are doing (or just to feel bad about your own).
You're describing a fancy field sobriety test. There's a reason why those who fail field sobriety tests for alcohol are then asked for a breath sample (or when they refuse, a blood test)

A criminal defense lawyer would tell their clients to say in court they intentionally failed the test. (Burden of proof still lies with the prosecution) You can't be convicted for failing a test. You can only be convicted of being under the influence.
They have an artificial restriction of 200ms for their reaction time, and their actions per second is similar to human players. The main information the bots have that players don't is exact coordinates of everything they can see, and the amount of damage attacks and spells do. The bots know with 100 percent certainty that a spell or attack is in range before they use it, whereas the human players would have to base it off visuals, or press another button to bring up their spell's range indicators. Having the damage of attacks memorized allows the bots to know if an incoming projectile will kill them, that allows them to not waste healing resources if they know they'll survive. The bots also move based on coordinates, so misclicking and mouse travel time aren't an issue for them.
Very impressed with the bots. The main strategy I see from the bots that is different from pro meta is how they spam abilities aggressively. Now the main limitation is 5 unkillable couriers which enable this. Watching, I do feel like given more practice humans would beat this version of the ai easily. It looks exploitable, and still having many rules limitations it has a ways to go. It will win in the end though, that much has become obvious.
I strongly disagree. Even if we ignore confidentiality and security issues, there is a fundamental difference between contractors and employees. Employees are generally paid less than contractors and are provided stability inn return the company gets a stable employee.

Contractors are expected to be shorter term and change tasking if new opportunities arise, even for a short time.

If both parties enter into a deal then it's fine, if one is misrepresenting themselves it's not.
I remember working for a heart/health charity at the same time as a large fast food company. That felt weird.
4chan is anonymous, thus fewer consequences, thus more anarchy. The question of who is posting offensive content and why is worthy of debate. Some boards are relatively unpolluted and interesting e.g. /trv, /diy.
How to hone a dull knife
Ah, Usenet, where we were grappling with all the problems that today's big community unicorns like Facebook and Twitter are struggling with 20 years ago.

Those problems ended up strangling Usenet to death, which is too bad; there were a lot of things to like about that system. Certainly there are things we had back then that I wish we had today, like killfiles (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kill_file).

It says a lot about our industry's persistent lack of institutional memory that each generation ends up struggling with these problems de novo, without reference to similar systems that came before. So we end up in an endless circle, fruitlessly trying the same things people tried and failed to do in the past and then scratching our heads in puzzlement when they don't work.
This works for me: I have my own domain and pay for Fastmail. I do have a forward rule to send everything to gmail, and enable this rule when travelling.

Google Takeout is your friend, and I periodically download copies of email, calendar data, and many other options. I got my gmail 3 years before it became public, and I appreciate having the account, but I make sure my business would continue fine if I suddenly lost the account.

For backing up photos: this is easy, I set my phone to wait until I am on wifi and then save to Dropbox, OneDrive, and Google Photos. Before I put the phone on wifi, I look at pictures taken that day and delete the ones I don’t want to have 3 backup copies of. For most people, photos may be their most valuable didgital asset. Worth having multiple backups.
Ah, but it's illegal to drive without a license and the test is a de facto driving test so you could make it so that if you fail it you won't get arrested but you get your license suspended on the spot.
Nope.

You still have clustering on the sides. A proper uniform distribution would produce the same grey shade all over the circle, like this: https://jsfiddle.net/tz85wnxy/86/

Yours have darker areas on the sides.
All that proves is they failed a simulation, not that they were under the influence. Burden of proof lies with the prosecution.
Reminds me of

int main(int args, char ** argv)
{
static int foo[640*1024];
return 0;
}

This compiled into a valid MS-DOS .exe, but spit out "Out of memory" and exited when attempted to run. Was quite handy for getting an extra day to work on lab assignments back at school.
It'll illegal to drive dangerously though, surely. It's a test that removes the license to drive from those who can't drive properly, whether due to old age, eyesight, drugs, tiredness. Only self driving cars for you.
So my dad told me this story once,

He was working on a large, industrial construction project and they were nearing the end of it, so a QA engineer was scheduled to do a walk-through, and before that happened a higher-up purposefully damaged finished work, dented a pipe with wrench, unscrewed a bolt, etc... That way when the QA engineer did his checks, he'd find these obvious, easily fixable defects and mark them, whereas if he had found no problems, he would end up digging deeper, since he'll feel like he has to find something, and then he might potentially uncover some major, catastrophic problem that'd be impossible to fix and still hit the customer's deadline.

Theoretically everyone's happier at the end of it... QA because they did their job and found stuff wrong, the client cause the project was finished on time, and all that for an afternoon of extra work.

I worked for a company with an extensive QA process and on occasion I found myself being less then thorough before handing the code off. I knew there were bugs, but just left them in there, because they had bug quotas they had to meet, and we had a tight deadline, etc... At least that's what you tell yourself to justify the behavior.

Sometimes I wonder just how much of this kind of greasing-the-wheels goes on in other industries...
If someone drives as if they are drunk, all the time, then I don't think they should have a license as they are clearly a danger to public health. On a similar note, the driving test for a license could include a run in the simulator to both test driving skills and establish a baseline for the test. Then the impairment could be measured as relative to that baseline.

I think it's a good idea.
Yes, it is possible. It even happened more than once over the world.

What is also clear is that modern taxi regulations serve much more to create a lucrative market for favored people than to protect common people, promote an economy, or increase the safety of society. The fact that a few times it got distorted into something that was actually good for everybody does not make the regulation good, it's just something that happen to anything that is widespread.
> For example, if HN implemented ActivityPub this comment could be directly replied to by users on Mastodon or PeerTube or any other AP service

HN has a very particular culture and that would dilute it.
This also happened more recently in the CD era with intentionally badly burned CDs.
Cities’ Offers for Amazon Base Are Secrets Even to Many City Leaders
This is correct and covers most current attempts at implemention.

The public cannot be confused if you want new technologies to become mainstream. Selling the value of decentralization, something few ordinary people truly care enough to make behavioral or even proactive choices towards adopting, is the wrong strategy currently. That someday will change but it could be a while. The public needs other value propositions like the promise of benefit with little to no effort or mindshare to adopt.

This is similar to why mobile payments faltered (and to some extent still does) in the North American market. Too many players sending out different complex messaging. No unified voice.

Eventually we will eliminate the performance penalties, but mass adoption or demand for a decentralized web will require a complex multi pronged approach that includes education and extensive value adds which are easily understood.
Homemade Chicken Wings
Pigments were historically used as medicines
Impressive as they are, the last(final?) time the C-5 came to Christchurch the C-17s looked ordinary next to them.
When the C-5 was lined up, the taxing A320's looked like dinkys.
However, the C-5 was to big to head down to the ice.
Everyone involved in bars and restaurants here is Los Angeles that I’ve talked to loves Uber; it’s had a transformative affect, tax revenue on booze up 9% while DUIs are down 24% over the last five years.
The Sadness of Deleting Your Old Tweets
Beat me to it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sensitive_Compartmented_Inform...
The Soviet Union and taxpayer funded healthcare in capitalist systems are very different.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Straw_man
This is about as far from unethical as you can get...
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The main focus was/is Brian Crabtree’s Monome modules (https://monome.org) but it’s a fascinating community generally.

I can’t really afford any of this stuff (I use VCV Rack and Reaktor), but the design quality of Monome’s hardware is simply staggering.
Currently simulations aren't valid driving tests, so that entire section of law would have to change. Moreover, does any state do on-demand driving tests? Typically you set the appointment, not the state. Additionally Texas (I'm sure other states are similar) doesn't even "suspend on the spot" for DWIs (you have 40 days or more from the incident before the suspension is effective).
I've never paid for an Uber, but I have enough non-tech friends who swear by it, including one who spends over $1000/month on it.

For Uber the world is like a big Risk board. They invade territories all over the world and roll the dice. Some they win and some they lose, but they win more than they lose, and the more territories they hold, the more armies they get to play with next round.
> in starcraft, most "strategies" are heavily scripted build orders that almost never deviate from a handful of openings (similar to opening moves in chess) and a large amount of winning comes from the ability to quickly give orders to your troops ("micro")

As somebody who plays StarCraft casually (gold/low plat in ladder), this is not true. It's even less true for pro players. The level of strategy in StarCraft is impressive, it's really hard to guess in which direction games will go when two very good players are playing against each other.

Sure, perfect execution when it comes to one strategy (say, mech-heavy Terran) will give you the largest advantage against your opponent, but failing to scout appropriately and guess what your opponent is up to means your strategy is dead. You also have to decide when to attack, how much you're willing to sacrifice to damage somebody's economy, when you want to focus one economy vs building units, ...

The video you sent with zerglings is a gimmick made for fun (it's a hard-coded AI using the siege tank's aim logic to divert zerglings from that). That would not win you a game. (because most likely a pro Terran would have destroyed your base before that)
For context, the submission title was "This 67-year-old retiree solved a math problem–using Microsoft Word". Thankfully, it's been fixed.
Action anti-patterns: Shooting yourself on the foot. Avoid this.

The fact that this article is something that must be written, and it's clear why it's here and why it was upvoted is depressing.
Well I subscribe to moral relativism, so I don't have an issue with you not finding it to be unethical. But personally, it bothered me that so much user data would be mined from their financial statements.

I know B2C companies like Mint do this as well, and I don't have an issue with user data being used for market research. But it seemed underhanded since most customers aren't aware of it. If you use Mint you can read their T&C and understand your data is mined. But Plaid is not sold to users, it's sold to companies. So end users of a completely different company which simply uses Plaid for account verification would be implicitly volunteering their data.

The other thing that bothered me is that companies which have valid reasons for not wanting to develop API integrations for Plaid would be strong armed into doing so once Plaid had acquired a critical mass of their users using the methods I helped them develop.
How is either of these even remotely unethical?
I also once thought of that, but maybe there are other ways in which large vibrations have left fingerprints on materials. I don't mean gravitational waves, but really acoustic phenomena. Like a comet impact or a vulcano outburst. What's a delicate material which would be able to record sound but that doesn't get destroyed by time? Clay that dries up is a logical one.
Napster, Limeware, Bittorrent, Kodi, Bitcoin, were/are part of the 'decentralized web'. They were build by necessity to get around copyright, monetary restrictions, censorship etc.. and not necessary for convenience.

At the end of the day the average user just wants a convenient and reliable way to reach content and information. Centralization has been the best way to serve it, and I don't think it will change.
Also decentralisation make fighting abuses hard, such as spam, flood, dos, etc.
Right, which is why the researchers were reliant on video artifacts caused by the rolling shutter effect. Even at NTSC resolution, that could get you 262.5 scanlines per frame at 60 FPS (525 at ~29.75 FPS, because of interlacing... NTSC is complicated), which could potentially get you ~15 KHz as a baseline sample rate, depending on how prominent the rolling shutter effect actually is for that image sensor, and how much of the frame your vibrating object consumes vertically. This isn't perfect and would require all sorts of calibration, but I could see it being used to recover windows of time at much higher sample rates, and make inferences about the inbetween data with some FFT analysis on what you recovered.

Basically, it's more the rate of _scanlines_ that matters for this technique, and the quality of the image sensor used. The rate of full frames isn't the limiter.
> As a struggling low-income millennial, FATCA and accredited investor requirements have easily set me back a decade.

How? Are you wanting to be one of the scammers because those are practically the only people that would get rich if we got rid of these laws? Almost everyone would make less returns than an index fund and a lot would even lose more money to the scams than they would make from the good investments. There would be a few outliers who just got plain lucky but if you want to be one those people, just play the lotto or go to vegas where your odds would be better.
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Seems like we should care more about driving impaired than about driving under the influence. The former is what we're trying to prevent by policing the later. You can be impaired without being under the influence, and under the influence without being significantly impaired.
> If someone drives as if they are drunk, all the time

This doesn't test "all the time". It only tests at one point in time.

States have entire sets of due process for removing someone's license due to medical reasons, etc. It's not on the spot based on a video game running from a laptop in an officer's trunk.
If they can MitM you to see your post, base64 will just draw more attention. Consider checking SSL fingerprints from trusted and untrusted locations instead.

openssl s_client -servername news.ycombinator.com -connect news.ycombinator.com:443 < /dev/null 2>/dev/null | openssl x509 -fingerprint -noout -in /dev/stdin

SHA1 Fingerprint=BB:DD:64:6F:EB:11:0C:D5:EC:CF:57:D1:F7:52:AA:99:50:1B:44:FD

I would also suggest browser addons that will alert you when SSL fingerprints change, but they don't work in FF any more, so you will have to do it manually understanding that they can swap out certs based on tcp packet size. You can also pin the cert, understanding you will have to update it if HN changes out their certs or they expire.
What you've said relates two unrelated things. Drivers who double park suck, but Uber/Lyft drivers aren't the only ones that do. If it makes you feel better just honk at all cars that double park.
Have you considered use of WPA2 Enterprise? EAP-TLS can totally eliminate PSK and all of its problems without extreme approaches.
I have no idea legally how this would work, but is 'proving' impairment using your proposed method enough?

I would think the missing piece would still be linking impairment to a substance or condition that the driver knew about, but drove anyway. ...which is why a simple sobriety test is typically given before a Breathalyzer.
Bit strange seeing something that used to be commonplace dug up and posted to HN like its the Rosetta Stone.

Anyway, Usenet relies on what I call "Postel Decentralization": a system is described as lacking a central authority but has a critical dependence on a few sysadmins doing something manually. In the case of Usenet that's things like spam cancellation and deciding which groups appears on their servers.

Similarly ancient technology for group discussion is Fidonet, a modem-based message forwarding system.
Databook: Turning Big Data into Knowledge with Metadata at Uber
Let's read the GoPro example closely:

- $500m of GoPro stock was donated at about $95 per share, but actually sold by the fund at $18 per share (or so the article implies).

- Assuming the highest marginal tax rate (39.6%), the $500m tax-deductible donation would produce a net gain of $198m from reduced income taxes over the next 5 years.

- Selling all the stock at $18 per share would have produced a net gain of $76m ($94m minus $19m in 20% capital gains taxes).

So by 'donating' the large block of stock at its highest price point, the donor profited an extra $122m over what the stock was ever actually worth, in addition to the positive publicity associated with generously donating $500m (that was actually only worth $94m).

My reading of this is that the 'loophole' in this example has less to do with the particular recipient of the donation, and more to do with the supposed misrepresentation of the 'fair market value' of the stock donation, which the article implies was closer to $94m than $500m.

However, there appears to be a law specifically prohibiting this kind of inflated misrepresentation of stock value based on current selling price, 26 CFR 1.170A-1(c)(3) [1]:

> (3) If a donor makes a charitable contribution of property, such as stock in trade, at a time when he could not reasonably have been expected to realize its usual selling price, the value of the gift is not the usual selling price but is the amount for which the quantity of property contributed would have been sold by the donor at the time of the contribution.

So the so-called 'loophole' implied by the $500 million example doesn't actually exist. Assuming the full $500 million was actually deducted at its full value seems to be either fuzzy speculation on the part of the author, or something that will undoubtedly be heavily scrutinized/challenged in a future IRS audit based on the legal definition of 'value' of a charitable contribution.

[1] https://www.law.cornell.edu/cfr/text/26/1.170A-1
Heh ... back when I was still in pursuit of the elusive academic career, I used MuMath, Maple, and Macsyma along with Fortran, C, and this odd language called Perl (to automate many of my jobs). Mathematica was still new-ish, and mostly confined to Macs.

These days, post physics, I do most of my work in Perl, Python, Julia, and various DBs, with lots of spreadsheets and slide decks.

I have Maxima (GPLed Macsyma) on my laptop now. I love that the fortran(); bit still works ...

(%i1) integrate(sin(x) * exp(-x) ,x,0,a);
Is a positive, negative or zero?

positive;

- a
1 %e (cos(a) + sin(a))

(%o1) - - ------------------------------

2 2

(%i2) fortran(%o1);

1.0E+0/2.0E+0-(exp(-a)*(cos(a)+sin(a)))/2.0E+0

[updated to fix formatting issues]
Discussed 6 months ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16201745