skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was working on Java at the time. While browsing tech sites, I came across Python. I think there was a good description of it as a VHLL, including the usual term "executable pseudocode"; also, there was a good online tutorial about Internet programming with Python, and I was new to both. Got hooked, and never looked back.
"I just find it alarming that when people criticize capitalism, they usually advocate for some variety of full blown socialism, which has been tried many times before and failed disastrously every single time."

Scandinavia says hi. And those "disastrous" times you're talking about are more the result of dictators, than any economic system used.
AI may destabilize the financial system
People got real joy out of seeing Alex Jones banned from public platforms. It saddened me. I think Alex Jones is foolish entertainment and nearly never agree with his message. But it hurts me to see someones free speech curbed. We can all say: Ah, these are commercial companies, so free speech doesn't matter. But these commercial companies aggressively took on as many users as they could and concentrated them (often behind walled gardens). For all intents and purposes, Facebook and Youtube are public spaces. Good luck with your social network if you are banned from Facebook. Good luck with your amateur news channel if you are banned from Youtube.

These people get banned for what their followers do. But there is no consistency, and political preference. When someone posts the phone number of an employer (after he is deemed racist by a one-sided video), and over 200 people call and the guy loses his job... Twitter does not act. When a verified journalist publicly shames, with photo, a teen alt-right protestor (in an effort to scare people into staying home next time)... Twitter does not act. When the president of the USA threatens nuclear war or reposts incorrect far-right propaganda... Twitter does not act. When people proudly in their bio state that they will punch anyone they perceive as a violent nazi, and post videos and incitements to promote punching more... Twitter does not act.

First they came for Alex Jones, but I wasn't a conspiracy theorist, so I did not care.

Twitter is now a platform where a single tweet can deny you entry to the US. Where sending a 10-year-old .gif to someone with epilepsy can land you in jail with a felony. Where terrorist attack announcements are broadcasted live for all to see. Where people dig up 5-year-old tweets and take them out of context, and send them to your employer. Where preference is given to a select few verified people and their voices amplified (who cares what a spoiled out-of-touch movie/music star thinks of politics?). It may be too late to salvage.
Depending on your application, if you're interested in A* you may be interested in using Theta* instead. It's not much more difficult to implement but provides much shorter paths if one does not need to remain on the edges in the graph.

Take a look at the explanation and figures here:
http://aigamedev.com/open/tutorials/theta-star-any-angle-pat... for more information.
The same strategy used by Microsoft, Mathworks, and drug dealers: Get 'em hooked and you'll have a customer for life.
Somebody should upgrade it to support a nice high resolution Dijkstra handwriting font!

https://joshldavis.com/2013/05/20/the-path-to-dijkstras-hand...
How 5G connectivity and new technology could pave the way for self-driving cars
That doesn't mean they are the only way to get security.
without us military tech you wouldnt even be able to post said nitpickings.

Such tech developed, isnt intended to kill innocents, just like the inevitable future deaths of self driving cars are not.
Google releases a searchable database of US political ads
It's a place where journalists post.
Yeah, the difference in pressure required is a huge part of it! I feel that a lot with gel pens. I also really love the clear, legible lines.

Interesting about your moving on to a fountain pen. Now I feel inspired to look up that local pen expert and go do some more experimenting!
> and allow replaceable cartridges for the auto-injector

A good idea, but also possibly a point of failure (by the end user) in an emergency. Epipens come in pairs for these rare, but possible, occurrences.
They also seem more attractive and less self loathing. I’d wager they do.
that sounds like a really good idea and not that difficult to implement.
> To note, I did use coroutines, which as of Kotlin 1.1 is still an experimental feature.

Mostly unrelated to the post at large, but coming up in 1.3 they are no longer experimental: https://blog.jetbrains.com/kotlin/2018/07/see-whats-coming-i...
There is no such thing as attention (2011) [pdf]
If that GDP per capita isn't adjusted for inflation then living standards would probably have fallen by about 1/3.
Blocking cookies is an OK first step, but I was expecting this to go into things like HSTS supercookies that exploit intended behavior and aren't really fixable.
Worthless = "no employer willing to pay good money for the skills or knowledge you acquired"
Why Western Digital Firms Have Failed in China
Making college free is a huge waste of resources.

College is largely an exercise in social credentialing and signaling. If we make college free, the people who want to get ahead in society will just go to expensive graduate programs in order to distinguish themselves. Then the discussion will shift to fully funding those programs...

Our current system is very fair. Take out a loan if you need to, but make sure your post graduation prospects justify taking a loan out. If they don't, then don't get the loan.

One of the major reasons why college is so expensive today is because the availability of loans means Universities are able to continuously hike tuition in support of ever expanding bureaucracies (not in support of the core educational mission) without fear of students not being able to pay, because the loans mean students can always secure funding! Society is basically writing them a blank check... The answer is NOT to give them even more money!

College education has become a financial black hole that will only expand if we throw more money at it.
Or any other medical school really...
Can you elaborate on the Californian bias with regard to community colleges? Is the California community college system better/worse than other states?

I’m a native Californian that went straight to a 4 year, but I sometimes think about how much cheaper college would have been if I had gone to community first.
Thanks! Yeah Conor mentioned that to me; I think the real benefit (at least personally for me) would be not being able to buy pre-made matching pairs of tokens, but being able to easily write my own key material plus the counter boost value. You know, yubikeys do have this functionality for OTP: their utility allows to program OTP keys. I actually expected the same for u2f, but alas.
I guess he means something like all requests to www.yoursite.com/foo123/BAR proxies to www.soulsucking.com/BAR
They can always fall back on consulting; there will always be corps willing to pay them in order to learn how to do things the "IBM way"
AirNZ offers a sleeper option in economy called "sky couch"
> At one point I investigated using service workers to intercept subsequent app updates to check signatures but there was no way to prevent the service worker itself from being replaced (probably because it would be easy for a site to permanently “brick” itself in users browssr).

Cyph nailed this back with appcaches, later migrating to service workers (and ultimately got a patent for the solution), but the implementation of the solution itself got an entire protocol canned by one browser (HPKP).

Source: did the talk on it.
>trying to keep things on the rails and civil. Including banning trouble makers

That's exactly what censors say
cyph.com
About time for another amazing battery breakthrough! I haven't seen one in a few months. :P
AFAIK he was kicked off Youtube. Which I think is fine and not at odds with supporting free speech.
He updates them every so often too! I hadn't seen them in a few years and I was impressed by all the new visualizations when I checked recently!
Sophisticated software can be written by anybody and is not solely in the purview of Google's flawless hiring system. Operating systems, physics engines, 3d graphics applications, have been created by many not-a-stanford-degree-toting individual.
Probably because everyone has already watched it, or watching individual episodes or entire seasons are not really suitable in a movie theatre.
What does that have to do with my assertion?

Are you saying it is fine to execute relatives of spies?
I have to disagree with the statement, that those techniques are not being used in the wild. I‘ve observed a porn advertising network delivering some js once, which opened a third-party domain served pdf with cookies in the background and then closed the popup immediately again. I was wondering what that was about. Now it’s clear to me.
Self destructing cookies will mostly defeat these problems unless trackers get clever about cross-correlating cookies from different sessions. Restricting JavaScript makes that even harder for them to accomplish.

For most purposes there's little benefit to keeping old cookies hanging around. Just whitelist the sites you want to stay logged in to.
Enhance.Computer, “a cyberpunk game you play by yelling at your computer.”
https://cryptonewsagency.com/?sort=latest
The link you provided leads to Page Not Found
I would say it is pretty hard to determine who would be fine without it. Just because a student is from a wealthy family does not mean that the family will pay for their kids tuition.
The school may not want to accept that...
"Why did you destroy your phone?"

"I was angry at losing a game of Pocket Tanks and I have anger management issues"
"Unions are incentivized to bargain for as much compensation as possible"

Yes, they are. And companies are incentivized to bargain for as much profit and as little employee compensation as possible, yet people here seem to consider that a moral imperative. I cannot, and will not begrudge unions for trying to get the best deal for their members while that is the case.
Related. The US government is starting to train dogs to find chemicals found in hard drives and usb drives.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zt2UhSBCl8Q
Manufacturing jobs are booming in the US. The very people that you're implying are hopeless, that specific demographic, have access to blue collar jobs in a way they haven't in nearly a generation.

It hasn't been a generation since the 2008 recession.. and there are still over 1 million fewer manufacturing jobs today than in 2008.

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/MANEMP

Since the low point, the industry has only added about 1 million jobs.. so they're only about 50% recovered by this stat.
For that to stick they would need proof that there was some evidence on the phone. Since the only way to prove that something was evidence on the phone is to know what was on the phone I'd expect that to be thrown out immediately.

If they were able to get the phones contents from some other avenue then destroying the phone had no purpose.
Meet the Man with a Radical Plan for Blockchain Voting
See also pixelpusher http://www.heroicrobotics.com/products/pixelpusher
First Interaction with Kubernetes on DC/OS
They stop bullets but break in the process. This absorbs much of the energy.
> now putting me outside of the income level where I'd get even federal loans (and quite frankly I still can't take on that debt load).

There are no income limits on federal student loans.
It wasn't an ad. It shut down before init if you hadn't manually set an about:config value telling it to run.

It was set up in a dumb way, but people also grossly misreported. The extension was "enabled" by default but did exactly nothing except shut itself down. The behavior was all disabled by default.
This makes me think somewhat of my current reading... The Ethics of Ambiguity, by Simone de Beauvoir. Although she's talking about our relationships with other people and the world, rather than our relationship with our future selves, there is significant overlap.

She talks about freedom in an existentialist sense. As her partner Sartre noted, we are all free, but freedom is terrifying, so we do all sorts of things to retreat or hide from it. She follows through on the implications of that freedom. One common interpretation of existentialist freedom is that we need only care about ourselves, not others (Nietzsche was a major proponent of this). She points out that this interpretation of freedom can lead to authoritarian, oppressive rule (she was writing in the immediate wake of WWII). So she argues that in order to exercise our freedom, we must use it to defend and exercise the freedom of others as well. To stand by when others are oppressed and lose their freedom (whether from external or internal cause) diminishes our own freedom, and puts our freedom at real risk. Our internal carelessness about the freedom of others leads directly to external risk to our own freedom.

It's a fascinating book. Extremely dense, but beautifully written and motivating. I find myself reading sentences again out loud, just to enjoy them.

I can see her argument easily extended to our relationship with our future selves - decisions we make with our freedom now can have negative impact on our future freedom. ie eat that cake now, still be fat tomorrow.
I mean, I feel like that's valid in the context of this discussion. That being 'Linux's unstable driver API designed to push drivers as source into mainline causes ISVs headaches'.

How does that apply here when Linux didn't change and you can still use the same kernel driver, but some other component decided to not work with the driver anymore?
Number of files doesn't really matter, at the end they all go to the same outline. Number of notes, complexity of the outline (clones), content loaded in the editor, that are hard numbers influencing the perfomrmance. But of course it also depends on the hardware.

On my old rusty system I usually experienced lags starting with some 10k nodes. Editor usually lags when content with longer lines (some hundred characters) or content with many lines (some hundred or thousand lines) is loaded. Directives in the content are influencing behaviour, as also the used syntax highlighting. Even activated features are influencing things of course. The declutter-code for example seems horrible ineficient and called way to often I think, but I haven't digged deeper there yet.

Though, it should be noted that in the last months some improvments were in progress, and the actual developer-version seems to behave a bit better on certain aspects. So version is also a factor.

My personal rule is to slim down leo-files when they go >10 MB.
Since it took them 20 years to make a half-decent shell and 30 years how to figure out how stdout should work: no they had no clue.

Maybe they knew how a kernel should work though, but weren't the NT guys old VMS guys? That's a totally un-unixy OS actually.
In particular, to identify different materials, we exploit
the WiFi signals transmitting through or bypassing the object,
which result in different characteristics (i.e., absorption,
refraction and reflection) in the CSI complex values from
antennas and their differences. Additionally, we extract the
signal reflected by the object from CSI to estimate its shape
(e.g., width and height) or volume based on the finding that
the strength of the reflected signal is proportional to the
reflection area of the object.

Wow, can I do this at home?
It Was the Gatekeepers Who Failed
"Currently Unblockable"

Unless you don't allow jerberscript. Which blocks all of them.

Hyperbole, much?
Mind you, the patient could ask for a prescription for the alternative products, and the doctor could suggest it. If the patient doesn't, it's probably out of ignorance. If the doctor doesn't... it could be ignorance too.
Oh haha, I had no idea I am a strange loop was about that topic. I'm familiar with Douglas Hofstadter, as I've attempted to read GEB (while playing along with his examples and exercises!) but had to give up because it took so much energy, effort and time to get even just a bit further, while I never really had the idea I was moving towards anything, unfortunately.

I've heard that that book is similar in its topic, but way less arcane, so I might give it a try when I have some more free time, thanks for the suggestion!
I think the point at the end of the article is reasonable. But the argument in the middle is a tad silly.

The idea that modern annoyances (sitting in traffic, waiting in checkout lines, searching/browsing for information) are somehow essential to the human experience is super weird given that most of these things have only been around for 50ish years in their current form and less than 1,000 years in any form.

If I didn't have house chores or a commute, then I could spend a lot more time learning new pieces of Mathematics. Or work through the rest of the half-finished anatomy textbook on my bookshelf. Or finally get around to building a digital simulation of a human heart. Or start a garden. Or just hang out with a coffee at the hackerspace or coffee shop or church basement.

There are a lot of opportunities for serendipity, many ways to build grit, and infinite opportunities to socialize.

Sitting on a 1950's style cement highway for 30 minutes to go to a mall where I stand in the 1960's style Macy's checkout line is not the end-all and be-all of what it means to be human. That lifestyle an odd cultural aberration unique to the 20th and early 21st century.

The idea that doing dishes or vacuuming or driving a car in rush hour traffic are necessary to experience serendipity or frustration or boredom is a truly tyrannical vision of what it means to be human.

It's certainly true that we're not headed for a tech utopia (or dystopia), and that new technologies will have unintended and probably negative consequences (in addition to positive consequences).

But I'm not worried about ending commutes or killing the modern grocery shopping experience. Those things are inessential to the human experience and a net drag on society.
That one precedent sets the most reasonable expectation of what U.S. law means in practice, unless and until overturned.
Well, why don't we overcome the discomfort? We overcome it for other things. Lack of identification with future-self means we don't see harm our current actions inflict on our future self as harm to ourselves.
Anybody? Clearly not. But you are right that the people capable of doing that are not just from Stanford. That just doesn't change the parent's point.
It's funny this is posted on Boingboing.net - I stopped reading years ago because their monetization attempts made their site unusable...
Green revolution’ crops bred to slash fertilizer use
UEFA Super Cup Tickets Are Successfully Distributed via Blockchain
Shouldn't this be prefaced with "Show HN"?
I did not have time, write this when I made my original post.

Just because I don't agree with free does not mean I am for the inverse which is crazy high tuitions. In my opinion the crazy high tuitions is a result of guaranteeing people loans. Demand went up on a near fixed supply thus cost went up. Then when people who probably should have not been going to school started dropping out the schools saw that as a loss of revenue and fixed the problem by lowering the bar to make sure they did not have as many dropouts thus keeping their revenue up. Nobody ever likes to see a drop in revenue even if the spike was caused by artificial means.

Free market really only works if you don't have people messing around with it. It's not a free market for schools if everybody can get a loan.
Don't allow 'jerberscript' and don't expect the web to work properly. Simple as.
I'd pay extra for Android apps that have an option to force me to enter a password EVERY SINGLE TIME. Or at least provide a way to log out.

There are a few that do, but not many.
There's no doubt that I spent a lot of time on HN, but there have been at least a few times that I've learned of things that directly impact my work first here. Off the top of my head, I knew that Sentry had rolled out hosted instance that were HIPAA-compliant when my team was about to install it and host it internally. That knowledge let us outsource it to them and ultimately save a good deal of time and money.

More often, I'll come across a problem and remember something that I've read that's applicable well enough to at least find it later when I need it.

I consider my time on HN and similar outlets at least partially "professional development."
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Weird, still gives me a paywall through that link.
If you keep posting unsubstantively like this we'll ban the account.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
"but the same people probably won't care about the privacy of Chinese citizens, ever."

I mean, I'd like them to be able to have it, but I have literally zero impact on any of those discussions. Since I can't really do anything about it, I don't fret about it.
Regarding your example of this person being forced into a mental institution, are you able to provide a source? I'm interested in learning more especially as I'm living in Australia, this is quite terrifying indeed.
Plausible deniability systems are pretty amazing but didn't seem to catch on. Truecrypt was awesome, it had hidden drives.

Edit: "didn't seem to catch on" I mean you can't do this with popular products like FileVault.

https://www.truecrypt71a.com/documentation/plausible-deniabi...
Truecrypt always had that - one password decrypts into your real partition, the other decrypts the prepared one, with a clear OS. It's impossible to say there is anything in the space where the hidden partition resides, and you have provided a password so at least in theory you are clear.
A friend of mine might have noticed something similar (on a news site, of course).
Is it possible to simultaneously have an over-educated population and an under-educated population? I am having a hard time squaring the two prevailing ideas on this issue. One is that we need more/free education because an educated population is best. The other is that we need to import vast amounts of new unskilled labor so we have someone to pick our fruit. I realize you only espoused one of these ideas, but I am curious if someone holds both those positions and would help me understand how both can be true at the same time.
> Sophisticated software can be written by anybody

Well that's just not true.

> is not solely in the purview of Google's flawless hiring system

Well that's not what was asserted at all.

> [...] have been created by many not-a-stanford-degree-toting individual

And neither was that.
These are normally sold by shady telemarketing companies located in San Diego. :)

Seriously. They really are. They're something like 1,000 for $189 or so ...

If you jawbone them, they will come down in price like 3 or 4 times. Of course, you will have to talk to some of the slimiest salespeople for 15-20 minutes...
Independently of legal risks, please everyone keep in mind that modern cell phone batteries are a serious hazard.
>I will also note that the cost of the EpiPen is not due to the drug.

Spot-on. I remember when I was doing my anesthesiology residency and I asked the guy who ordered drugs for our department what a 1cc vial or ampoule of epinephrine (an auto-injector delivers precisely that amount) costs; he replied (this was the late 1970s, mind you), "About 10 cents." Even allowing for inflation, I can't imagine it's more than $1/dose today.