skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
IMO mass communications vehicles like Facebook and Twitter need to be regulated with a regime similar to a phone company. There needs to be a firewall between the communications and tooling portion of the business and advertising business.

The obligation to maximize shareholder value for companies like Facebook (or legacy AT&T doesn't align with the public interest). You also have companies controlled by small numbers of people with unusual world-views. (Remember when Twitter was bragging about sparking the arab spring?) You need distributed regulatory force to compel behavior, just like how many aspects of electrical rates are governed in the US by state commissions.
They will use the data for ads.

Then in a few years when we discover it, they'll say they're sorry and they're trying to do better.

Facebook is changing.
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And a couple of months ago HN was full of entrepreneurs leaving EU because GDPR makes it hard to do business. Yeah, if that's your idea of business, you're welcome to leave, please don't bother coming back.

Please excuse my tone, I'm literally (a tiny bit) and figuratively (much more so) sick with disgust.
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Could you please stop breaking the guidelines?

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
California alone is about 1/8th the population of the entire US, so I'm not sure how your point invalidates the idea of a trend.
http://brandur.org/ is one I've recently discovered but it's become by far my favourite both in design, content and how it's built.

A lot of original thought I can agree with as an engineer
I also whole-heartedly recommend it.

When I took my first drawing class, the teacher didn't use it, but I kind of went through the book in parallel (excuse me, concurrently :-) with the class. That helped SO MUCH when he was (wildly) inarticulate, and occasionally near-incompetent at explaining things. (I say near-incompetent based on the results of the other student's drawings... they did what he said, and failed utterly).

So if you're incredibly lucky, you can find a class that uses it. By all means, ask around and find out about teachers in your area. I recommend Art-League (i.e., artist-run groups) instead of community colleges (like my first class), but those can be good too.

And, yeah, do all the exercises in DotRSotB in order, and practice a lot, and you'll get somewhere.
An interesting comparison would be comparison Boston to NYC without WeWork's massive funding. I think that single company has probably distorted NYC VC raise for the last couple of years.
OnLive’s pitch was great but latency ruined the experience. If you had a terrible computer with a superb internet connection it was ok (not great). And that is not a common combination.
2FA is a killer reason. Somebody needs the chops to write this for a Nokia brick
I support this form of pedantry.
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In this day of easy information sharing source transparency sounds like a great tool for democracy.

I am more inclined to believe that marketing spin, lawyer-approved press releases, and asymmetry of resources for vetting (reporter)/preparing (Facebook) lead to spun views for normal reasons; not to speak of other pressures and less friendly corruption that might occur.
Or those who require zero government services. Your implication is that lowering taxes would have no impact on the services people receive. Does that seem right?
This makes an excellent point, but is a bit out of date, as AWS have already revamped the user interface.

They got rid of the myriad of abstract icons, and now use a smaller set of recognisable icons, with related services grouped under the same icon.
Doesn't scale.
I have explained at least half a dozen places in this thread why it's a mistake to think there's no moral imperative for private individuals and organizations free speech just because the first amendment applies only to the government.

There is a moral imperative for private organizations to protect open expression in fashion appropriate to their position the national and world media "sphere" (Google suppressing a search is distinct from Apple not selling a tune is distinct from Youtube not hosting a video). None of them are identical to a government so none of them have imperatives identical to a government.

It's worth noting also that Facebook and others are transnational entities - hate speech is not protected speech in Europe, for example.
I'd love to know how stores are synchronizing their entire shelf+backstock inventory to Craiglist or FB Marketplace given neither service even has an API (Craiglist allows bulk posting but that's useless if you can't bulk delete/update for availability) or even basic metadata like product quantity, UPC/EAN, etc.

Ignoring that, the services you're talking about don't even do any kind of canonicalization or grouping of products like Amazon, so if you search for "Xbox" you're going to have to click through many pages of individual listings rather than having a unified product page displaying product details and specs from the manufacturer, consumer reviews, related product variants (e.g. color), etc.

It's fine if you think the idea's weak but at least give the idea a fair shake before dismissing it.
0.5% is not irrelevant when you talk about deaths.
Statistically if you consider the sample size and significance (P = 0.001) it actually looks very non questionable. https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamainternalmedicine/fullar...
Unfortunately a suburban back yard isn't a thing that I can realistically have anywhere in Silicon Valley.
> There are huge differences in drawing ability, but going from "I can't draw" to "I can draw quite well" takes days, not years

Maybe for some people, but not everyone.

I have developmental dyspraxia, a.k.a. developmental coordination disorder. I'm never going to be good at anything that requires fine motor control. Maybe at best I could get the first few strokes of a drawing to look good, but after that it's going to fall apart. I know this from my experience with seriously trying to improve my handwriting back when I was 24 because I was tired of writing chicken scratch all the time: I can now make the first few words of a paper—maybe if I'm lucky even the whole first line—look fantastic, but after that I just lose any sense of alignment and proportion and everything starts slanting in random directions and changing size all over the place. [0]

It is a medical condition, and there is no cure.

[0] This image on Wikipedia sums up my handwriting pretty well. It's specifically about motor dysgraphia [1], which is part of my dyspraxia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Dysgraphia.jpg

[1] From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dysgraphia

> Motor dysgraphia is due to deficient fine motor skills, poor dexterity, poor muscle tone, or unspecified motor clumsiness. Letter formation may be acceptable in very short samples of writing, but this requires extreme effort and an unreasonable amount of time to accomplish, and it cannot be sustained for a significant length of time, as it can cause arthritis-like tensing of the hand. Overall, their written work is poor to illegible even if copied by sight from another document, and drawing is difficult. Oral spelling for these individuals is normal, and their finger tapping speed is below normal. This shows that there are problems within the fine motor skills of these individuals. People with developmental coordination disorder may be dysgraphic. Writing is often slanted due to holding a pen or pencil incorrectly
Getting started simulating TR1 with Gazebo
The Keybase verifications (sigchain) are also encoded into the Bitcoin blockchain in addition to stored on their servers if you wanted a more distributed way to check them. https://keybase.io/docs/server_security/merkle_root_in_bitco...
well done, my bad :)
> It is a time of many uncertainties, all of which fuel anxiety. Life is hard and unclear if you aren't privileged.

When and where was that never the case?

Life in America, relative to history, is currently very, very good. For example, there's no famine. Childhood diseases are a thing of the past. Polio was defeated. No armies ravaging the countryside. No cold war. Health care is better than it ever was before. People grow tall and healthy.

Best of all, there is no caste or nobility system. People can, and often do, rise from nothing to wealth.
That's why I also hate the typical CEO/entrepreneur mindset; a lot of them think that they're helping to grow the pie and taking a small slice for themselves as a reward - In reality, the pie doesn't actually grow and each time that they take out a slice, there is less pie remaining for everyone else.

Corporate stocks are not actually growing in value, it's just the entire money supply which is being diluted for the benefit of corporations at the expense of everything else.
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Telecom Lobbyists Have Stalled 70 State-Level Bills
One could easily construe this with the bias reversed, and say that Google tries to be transparent, while Apple is actively deceptive.
Nexus of what kinds of cartels? I guess that's my question.
Yeah, right?!

They also have this “Software Update” thing in Settings, which installs kernel updates and other stuff from the internet!
Occasionally, at non-mainstream theatres. 'Dollar theatres' were also popular in my college days; they would play things like "Liar Liar" or "Home Alone" for a buck, and then you don't feel bad spending $10 on concessions.

As far as places to go watch classics, or cult movies, I haven't found anything that isn't just streaming/buying. What a shame! I think this would be pretty popular if reasonably priced.

I agree with you, there aren't 3 good movies a month. I don't need more 'infinite media' subscriptions when we're already overloaded with mediocre media every day.
That's the point I'm trying to make. You instinctively feel that the exchanged version isn't the same. That the exchanged version isn't kosher. Now try and figure out why.
You are already halfway there.
The SMS app is not part of the base Android OS. Install whichever SMS app you like. It sounds like there are several that do what you want.
Their business model is predicated on buying lemonade at $5.00 and selling it at $2.00. They should just go under and stop the farce. If they had succeeded, we'd just have another painful monopoly on our hands.
Fair. Garden up then? I haven't really looked into "urban gardening" but I know it's a thing.
You're discussing things which are discussed in the abstract of the linked study... which makes it all the more frustrating that these things are omitted from the article.

> Patients treated by female physicians had lower 30-day mortality (adjusted mortality, 11.07% vs 11.49%; adjusted risk difference, –0.43%; 95% CI, –0.57% to –0.28%; P < .001; number needed to treat to prevent 1 death, 233) and lower 30-day readmissions (adjusted readmissions, 15.02% vs 15.57%; adjusted risk difference, –0.55%; 95% CI, –0.71% to –0.39%; P < .001; number needed to treat to prevent 1 readmission, 182) than patients cared for by male physicians, after accounting for potential confounders.
Yuval Noah Harari: ‘The idea of free information is extremely dangerous'
That's a very terse question, but I'll take it that you're interested in whether TLS clients running on Java 7 will (out of the box) trust Let's Encrypt server certificates

The answer is that for Oracle's Java updating to 7u111 is necessary for this to work (or to 8u101 if you run Java 8) and that for other people's Java implementations it will depend upon where they get their trust store, Oracle's is the most popular in Java.
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If you're going to post in this thread, please do so according to the guidelines. Eschew flamebait especially.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
>This is offset by a higher likelihood of methodical individual care (perhaps at cost of speed) if the doctor happens to be female.

Then why wouldn't the female doctors provide better care for the men as well? The study concluded that the female-female match was better off, not that women were better doctors than men overall.
That's what I was hoping to hear. Thanks!
From a technical standpoint it's no different than any other DV (domain validated) cert. If you're selling a LOT of stuff online and care about user interface, the $85/year that it costs to have an EV SSL cert may be worth it just for the "green bar" user interface change which seems to be reassuring to non-technical users.

They're used to seeing EV SSL type address bar when they sign in to their online banking and such.

Some people think that EV SSL is like $400, it's not, you really shouldn't be paying over $100/year. Still a racket in my opinion but not one that's easy to circumvent.

https://www.google.com/search?q=EV+SSL+user+interface&num=10...
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I don't think your claim is true. You are not the lowest price.

I just purchased Biotrue ONEday 90 pack today from EZContacts today.

You say the price is https://imgur.com/a/66wFxvS $69.99 cheapest plan (option 2)

But just today I purchased it from EZContacts for $30.79

https://imgur.com/a/3x4ZzTD

So you'd be best served to Google for the contact lens of your choice and pay for whats the cheapest.

Note: When I tried to re-order from EZContacts, they were charging close to $50. So always start a new search when you are trying to order Contacts online!
They attempted to aggressively buy their way into a market with hopes to strong arm themselves into profitability.

There customer service is terrible.

I was using it maybe 1x / month so three is fine.. in nyc using it once saves you $5.
It would be interesting to take this project up a few levels later on and see how it compares to direct API interaction.

I would love to see camera/mechanical interface like mentioned by others. Similarly, like you said humans don't focus on the whole screen. I would love to see how well the AI could perform if it was given something like blinders where only a small portion of the screen is in focus at any one time much like how human eyes work.
Funny enough I had no idea that Wells Fargo was mixed up in any scandal before I saw these ads. Even then I didn't know what scandal was about, and finally this comment prompted me to look it up. :)
As others have pointed out in this thread, the software part is more or less already built. It's called OpenBazaar.

And you're right that adoption is the hardest part. OpenBazaar has had about 55k people using it since last November when the 2.0 version launched.
Good for you. I don't want to waste time on taking care of my phone. It should save energy regardless of my actions.
> But they also stood firm against some of the more egregious standards that Microsoft were trying to push.

Can you give a specific example?

I'm not saying this wasn't happening; I just can't recall a case where it really mattered much in the end, in the sense that the standard was being pushed by Microsoft _and_ wanted by web developers, but active Firefox opposition killed it.

Now Firefox certainly _has_ done some things like that (e.g. pushing back on NaCl), but mostly by offering alternatives, not pushing back with just a "no". Because just saying "no" doesn't actually work that well in practice...
Malicious Android apps infected with Windows keyloggers pulled from Google Play
Cryptocurrency? Ah come on you’re just being facetious now
Click on the link to the actual study, you will see P values right there in the abstract.
Massachusetts has recently banned them.

https://www.jacksonlewis.com/publication/massachusetts-legis...
The preceding sentence says "If a heart attack patient is a woman and her emergency physician is a man, he says, her risk of death suddenly rises by about 12 percent."

The 11.9 percent mentioned in your quote refers to probability of death for the population (i.e. a random person where the gender of the patient and the doctor is unknown).

The 12.4 percent refers to probability of death for a woman given a male doctor. If that is 12 percent higher, as the quote above says, then the probability of death for a woman given a female doctor is about 11.07%

So its an increase of 1.3 percentage points. The article kind of obfuscates that though.
Kinda an interesting take given how the collapse in 2008 occured.
I like the sentiment, but the current campaign infrastructure makes the labels a bit misleading. There will be some valuable candidates with a (D) next to their name. My recommendations are as follows:

1. Refer to https://www.justicedemocrats.com for a voting guide.

2. Register and participate in local DSA. Sign up here: https://www.dsausa.org
You posted link to source for Claire after making this comment. I said thanks above.
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Odd that you only mention federal income taxes, there are a bunch of other taxes that people pay (payroll, sales, excise and property to name some).
I guess I'll ask the elephant-in-the-room question again: Why should I use it over Django? What does it do better (for your opinion of better)?
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Its a good reaction to question oneself. Most youtube personalities has unique style and aspects and while her focus seems to be about hacking aspects of wearables and diy she does this under the theme of sexy cyborg. One can appreciate the work and skill she has on the topic while being uncertain if the theme is more distracting than contributing.

Personally I find that aspect to be a minor part of her videos and more of a "hook" than the meat, so it doesn't take anything away from it.

Could it be that this is actually about nudity that you find problematic as a theme for youtube videos. What would your reaction be to a male DIY maker that also happened to be a nudist and had that as his youtube theme?
No. If a new version of WireGuard comes out with new capabilities it would be done by having that new version understand the old system and you can make a choice if you support it or not.

However that will not really be an issue for a many years and there are many ways how that can be handled in the future.
Development teams wished appreneurs knew this basic info
Video link on youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xiyUSI-TEgo
Are you referring to Google Home being able to stack up a few commands or the routines feature?

eg Google, whats the weather and set a timer for 15min?

On Alexa you can enable a follow up mode which listens to the next command for a bit. It's a bit more natural, e.g. Alexa, whats the weather... you wait for her to complete, she then listens again and you can say, Set timer for 15min, she completes and listens, Read news, etc.

Sometimes I just feel like the machines are teaching us how they would like to be talked to vs us teaching them, as some commands require specific verbal markers in proper order to complete as otherwise they just give you a completely random answer or they simply don't process it at all.
The Cuban Missile Crisis? The Cold War?
Another thing that works against Midwest is that when the world things of "America", Midwest is not what comes to mind. To build a large competitive tech hub, you need to be able to attract huge numbers of Indian and Chinese developers are you scale your company to 10,000 engineers. However, most Asians (and even Europeans) prefer to stay on the coast due to the storied past, Silicon Valley name recognition, socially liberal policies, huge diversity, access to ethnic food etc.
Ages ago I spun an aws instance w/ Grid, setup VPN and used Steam in-home streaming to accomplish a similar result. Using spot-instances resulted in something like $0.06/hr if memory serves (which it seldom does).

Biggest caveats at that time were setup time and latency; since I was too cheap to preserve the instance volume and too lazy to split the steam save folder to a smaller separate volume, and had yet to secure gigabit fiber.

It was more of a dalliance for me since I don't game often anymore, and if I'm honest with myself I enjoyed setting up the infrastructure more than I did playing Fallout 4. Please note this has more to do with how little fun I am in my old age than any problems with the game.
Replace the system with another.. system.
I'm really excited to see the limits get lifted, in particular around items and couriers.

The team of semi-pros/ex-pros/pros that played against the AI commented that the AI was using the highly unusual 5 invincible couriers to enable a style of play that isn't possible in normal dota. The AI's solution to dota was unrelenting aggression once a small early game lead was established after ~10 minutes. This early aggression was possible because the AI was able to ferry items (healing consumables) with such frequency that once the human team made one mistake in a team fight it wasn't possible to recover.

Normally after winning an objective you are forced to reset as you have expended a lot of resources to order achieve your objective, and you are actually most vulnerable to a counter play right after you win something big. With a constant stream of healing this risk was significantly reduced.

Also, the drafting is a clear limitation that needs to get lifted. The AI was essentially pursuing a "death-ball" strategy of grouping as 4 or 5 and pushing right down a lane, which can be countered by picking mobile and fast heroes that can put pressure on different parts of the map and slow down the "death-ball" by forcing reactions. However, none of those heroes were draft-able, and so the humans were forced to play the AI's strategy. The AI's strategy favors team fight coordination (laying stuns correctly, and correctly calculating whether damage through nukes is sufficient to kill any particular target) and reaction times, at which the AI was clearly superior to the human team.
There's really not much you can do with this without more investigation.

For example, what about ages? Are male doctors more likely to be older and it's actually a generational effect, say, of not listening? Or to the contrary, are male doctors more likely to be older and more experienced, and riskier female cases are sent to them disproportionately out of some bias towards extra care? If a male has more female colleagues, does this affect his behavior or is this simply because they tend to be better-run institutions in general which already seek to be more diverse?

It feels like there are a million ways it could be sliced, and while I'd totally buy the "men without the influence of women tend to not listen to women or pay as much attention to them" if that were backed up causally... it also seems like it's jumping to a click-baity conclusion whose causality is completely unsubstantiated. (No mention that they also measured how much a patient felt listened to, for example.)