skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
@__apf__ is being slightly disingenuous when she says "Not much ... like a Gmail login state indicator." Google logins are used across the web by a lot of sites. For instance here's what happens when you visit an Indian financial paper, the Economic Times, using Chrome 69: https://imgur.com/a/nFvxI0U (some personal info has been blurred out).

I almost never visit the Economic Times, and I certainly never log in, but now it gets a chance to log me in using my 'real' identity, and there's even a popup to nudge me in that direction. Any site that implements Google Logins can do this, as far as I can tell. I'm pretty sure most people who chose to enable browser sync in Chrome didn't opt for this.

I think the Chrome team really screwed up on this by not considering how Google IDs are used across the web. And for what? The rather marginal scenario of eliminating confusion in shared-browser situations?

Or they knew the full implications and did it anyway, which is even more disturbing.
I've happily used Chrome's Sync features for years with separate profiles for personal and $job. I use it across multiple devices daily.

https://chrome.google.com/sync

I appreciate people have different concerns, but also just completely fail to grasp them in this case.
https://github.com/projectatomic/bubblewrap

This is the most promising one I've seen.
How about showing the book from the start and giving me the ‘option’ of tweeting about it?

Personally I don’t feel very much inclined to promote a book I haven’t even read yet.
The logical fallacies of the Bible are only a problem if you expect the Bible to be logical, to possess a singular coherent narrative, or feel it must be taken literally. It's much easier to tolerate if you take it for what it is, an anthology of ancient mythology and poetry.
Using google with a vpn (PIA) was a non-starter. I usually had to solve 3 or 4 puzzles before I could get to results. Privacy is important to me and it is just as important for them to deny me it.
> (only a single world was unfinished)

I'm curious. Was that preventing to finish the (hacked) game?
Why Comcast wanted Sky so badly
"Being on the cutting edge" is exactly how Embrace, Extend, Extinguish [1] works. The "cutting edge" is the "extend" part. When Google uses their market position to make their desired functionality, service or standard the new hotness other vendors have to either adopt that standard or be left behind. When those standards are something Google themselves created that benefits them directly (and harms competitors) they are extinguishing those other vendors.

This is directly out of the Microsoft playbook and is why IE became as despised as it is.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace,_extend,_and_extinguis...
Rod Rosenstein’s Job Is Safe, for Now: Inside His Dramatic Day
> The answer in 1962 would be have been, "remove the subsidies and let God sort it out."

Aside from the pointless religious bit, that answer is still the correct one today.

Indeed, if any policy question is answerable via "remove the subsidies" then that answer is the correct one.

"Too big to fail" really means "too big", period.
Could they develop another version of the gene-drive modification that undoes the first effect? It seems like they should be able to do this and conduct an experiment in the laboratory that proves that there is at least theoretical ability to reverse the effect if it prove desirable to do so for some reason.

Seems like an achievable improvement on the safety model for this technique? Maybe a necessary step before deploying a tool like this for the first time?
A seemingly pointless article.

Whilst a lovely idea to see groups of people working together for their common good, it would be helpful to have several examples.

Falling that perhaps some suggestions as to how this can be resolved.
Fair enough, but I can't see how I "twisted it a little bit".

I don't see how any reasonable reader can interpret "Fanduel is gonna lose this one" as anything other than they pay the full ticket price.

There has absolutely been a PR hit, already, because most stories and lots of comments (like yours!) have implied FanDuel is in the wrong, and disliked for their behavior. (Even if it's a negligible effect among significant gamblers, it's not good for their brand among casual and new players. I had no idea they were operating actual betting windows, as opposed to online real-money "contests", so I've lowered my estimation of FanDuel from "novel online innovator" to "same old casino sportsbook".)

And further, if Fanduel were to confidently say they wouldn't pay, and then "lose" in a legal action as you predicted, there'd be deeper hits. First, a second round of stories that "Fanduel loses". Then, many more gamblers emboldened, in future similar situations, to insist on payment-of-errors rather than accepting the casino's "house rules".

And I believe definitionally, there are no "FanDuel loses but the bettor does not get anything meaningful" paths. If the bettor "doesn't get anything meaningful", for whatever reason
– including that the rules are murky enough the bettor gives up, or the courts/regulators are stacked against such complaints – then those are precisely "FanDuel wins" paths. As I'm predicting, and willing to bet on, while you're predicting they "lose".
Because it was repeatedly and conclusively shown at that point that her brain had atrophied to half its size. She was gone. The reason the situation almost devolved into an armed stand-off between the courts and the executive branch is because every judge (Florida and Federal) who looked at the case--that is, those officials presented with all the evidence from both sides--quickly understood the reality; whereas the politicians hundreds and thousands of miles away who hadn't the first clue about the facts had other objectives in mind.

The subsequent autopsy confirmed what was already known. But there was never any accountability because by then the media had moved on.

Terry Schiavo is not the case to point to when questioning the science and treatment of PVS.
This is the problem with non-technical lawyers making technical laws. It's like when the Attorney General was pushing for metadata retention but couldn't even explain what metadata was.
Reminds me of the time I was browsing through a scrap yard in a large mid-western city for art supplies and happened across an oil drum filled to the top with discarded chest x-rays. Kind of disturbing both from the sheer number of xrays as well as the deformities visible in many of the images.

Point being, hospitals have a very poor track record regarding their disposal of medical equipment and records so a motivated individual could probably easily find this data in a recycling center.
Actually it is "I'll not book". The time to make an impression on the user is while he is visiting your site.
In years past I worked for a couple different aerospace companies. Optimization for the tools had to be turned off, period! As sbradford26 mentioned, this was need for verification, especially for Software Verification Cases & Procedures document (SVCP). This is especially important for Level A. I worked on Level B LRUs.

The projects steered clear of C++ given there is a lot of code generated that is not easily trace to the written source if using C++ features (constructors and polymorphism as a couple examples). Yes, there are companies out there that do use C++ for aerospace, but I never worked at a company that did. The project also used in-house schedulers/executives. Boeing highly suggested to that company I was at, early 2000's, not to use a commercial RTOS (even a verified ones from companies like Green Hills or VxWorks). All companies developed a schedule/executive that suited the needs of the projects, but they were all very similar in the end.

I also worked at a company that developed solutions for industrial controls and they follow a similar path to DO-178B/C guidelines. The company followed IEC 61508 which had a very similar flow to DO-178B. All products, except one that was not safety critical, used C and used an in-house scheduler/executive also.

I took this from https://www.certon.com/do-178-development-certification/:

"Source to Object Code Trace Analysis (Level A Only)
The compiler converts the Source Code into assembly object code before it is compatible with the target computer. For DAL A software, it is required to provide assurance that all assembly object code generated by the compiler is traceable to the source code. Any assembly object code that is not traceable directly to the source code requires additional verification to be performed in order to provide safety assurance and the absence of unintended behavior."

Certification Authorities Software Team (CAST) (a bit dated and I didn't try to find if a newer version exist)
https://www.faa.gov/aircraft/air_cert/design_approvals/air_s...

Edit: For most projects, at least the ones I was on, 50% of the budget was allocated for validation/verification. Thus, reducing the additional work to verify code that was not directly related to source is always desired. One prime reason not to use C++.
Out: Free and Open Source Development where everybody is welcome to contribute!

In: Big Corporations will save us if we chase away all independent developers by calling them racists and bigots each time they disagree with us!

It is symptomatic though that PC proponents look for salvation in Big Government and Big Business, not in the community.

> fight over an agreement to adhere to professional standards is quite small.

It's like saying the American Revolution was "a fight about the address where tax forms are sent to". Formally correct, but the point is totally lost.
Is it though? The term “white couple” is already racially charged and its use across the internet will often be in that context.

Are you implying that there are Google employees manually tinkering with the result of millions of search terms for the purposes of influencing the American population? And nobody at Google has leaked it? That’s hilarious.

And how is that influence campaign going to work on a practical level? Are you assuming people are so dumb as to change their opinion on core political matters because their racially charged search term didn’t acid wash the internet of its diversity??
Probably because you want enterprise grade support, a real person that you can call and will help you solve your problems without having to deal with low level support before.
This reinforces my point about "just use Chrome". Google knows devs like Chrome and they make it easy because if more people use Chrome they can abuse their position to shape the rest of the internet to their preference. Why do you think they put energy into Chrome at all if not to get more eyeballs on Google services?
presumably in the "mathematical" group
A lot more "lay users" will care when random sites they visit start picking up their Google identity and showing it in the web page, all because the user signed into the browser. This is what it looks like: https://imgur.com/a/nFvxI0U

Assuming this isn't fixed, the ick factor of being in-your-face followed across the web will be quite strong, I think.
I learned this the hard way just a few months ago with Namecheap. Those guys dumped all of my personal information to some people (my name, address, phone number, etc.). I have kids in my home and all they offered me was $100 in Namecheap credit, which I didn't accept out of principle. I spoke with a lawyer and the privacy laws in the U.S. seem to make it not even worth going after them. Registrars basically can do what they want and it's hard to hold them accountable.
This is something entirely different. And FYI a strong incentive for companies to never offer any kind of severance in these situations since it's all socialized.

Better to just be transparent about things so employees can properly consider the risk in the situation.
The rise of YouTube’s reactionary right
Just make the faces buttons and have the button press signal a rotation.
Or you end up with `about:config`. Doesn't solve the impossible to comprehend everything problem, but it still gives people to option.
The laws of mathematics don't apply in Australia.
The thing is, some people think because they are goodthinkers, they can call oldthinkers whatever doubleplusungood names they like, and still be doubleplusgood. Because they are Forces Of Light, you see, and bellyfeel the goodthink.
Spark has scheduled sending, but not read receipts (I view the lack of read receipts as a feature; I do not need my outgoing emails to spy on the recipients).
The term debouncing is also used in an analogous manner for electromechanical switches and is probably the origin of the term. These switches literally 'bounce' off the contact during the first few milliseconds after the circuit is closed, rapidly opening and closing the circuit. Debouncing attempts to filter out these rapid, unwanted changes by e.g. adding a capacitor in parallel.
I don't recommend Namecheap. A few months ago they dumped all of my private information erroneously, including physical address, for a whois guarded domain. They admitted to it too and all they offered me was $100 in Namecheap credit.

Spoke with lawyers and from what i was told in consultations there's basically nothing I can do about it.

TL;DR Namecheap will endanger your family and they give 0 fucks.
Japan Has Launched a Minature Space Elevator
Cool stuff. Any real world usage/benefits for this? I can't think of any.
I have a game design degree... And there are waaaaay more of us than there are companies to hire us. I ended working with other things because all game companies I tried wanted to offer minimum wages because there was tons of people trying to get into the industry so no reason to offer more
Euthanasia is illegal in the US. The only thing you can do is remove artificial means of life support. It’s in humane. People should be able to die with dignity. We treat our pets better.
This is presumably why they do teach Java.
Don't take Ted up on his offer. Namecheap released all of my personal information erroneously and all they offered me was $100 in Namecheap credit.

This company literally has 0 morals and doesn't care about making sure people are treated right. Also, good luck getting through their regular support. It's straight from a script with 0 deviations.
I saw someone post to HN once in an article about a cancer vaccine - "Doctors want patients, not cures". Really stuck with me.

Modern society categorizes people. When a citizen fails to adapt to society (for better or worse) and they feel a certain pressure to submit to the opinions of an "expert", they become part of a revenue stream. The DSM-V has them figured out.

Many types of mental illnesses are symptoms of the environment. We are spending too much time looking at MRIs, that is, looking inward - the brain structure must hold the clues to the "cure".

But the brain molds to interface the user with its surroundings. It is the effect, not the cause.

Perhaps show empathy for the mentally ill once they've spent years being drugged out by attempted "cures".
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In Windows 95, right clicking did not always have an effect.

There was no way to know in advance if right clicking a particular thing would provide options or not.
I'm convinced that most users would prefer having zero options or checkboxes.
EXACTLY what happened to me just a few months ago. Looks like they do this to everyone... Maybe we should all get together because individually there's not much that can be done legally.

Edit: by exactly, I mean they got a subpoena for someone else, didn't respond to it correctly.. and just dumped all of my information to a bunch of third parties.
California they have to pay out PTO, that is, if they actually earned those benefits. When I worked in vfx, very few people were 'staff' and most were 'contractors' so basically W-2 with no benefits charging hopefully high enough rates to get by.

What they needed is to have a less reputable CEO - mine paid out $2k for signing a non-disparagement clause when 3/4 of the staff were laid off and the rest moved to Vancouver.
A comparative analysis of SQL-on-Hadoop systems for interactive analytics
Ask HN: What questions to ask when hiring for senior technical position?
We are a post series A startup, with a development team of about 10 people. We are trying to hire a senior developer (with experiences managing a small team). As a non-tech co-founder, what are some good questions I could ask during the interview (assuming the tech aspect of the interview is covered by someone else)? Thanks.
> show how spreadsheets and functional programming are equivalent

They are not in fact equivalent, unless the functional programming you're doing is trivial.
It does. The issue is that even with a permission explanation, it can be hard to see what the reason for a certain permission is if it’s asked out of context.
I can confirm: there are a lot of things that friends, coworkers, and family all think are illegal and yet when I tell them to call law enforcement, they then ask "but who do I call?" followed by "I can't afford to hire a lawyer"

They know what's happening is wrong. They don't know how to stop it. But they do still need to browse the web.
Indonesian 19-year-old survives 49 days adrift at sea in fishing hut
So, my wife has a (very small) retail clothing store, started about 15 years ago. Since then, she has compared notes with many other owners of retail stores. The number one feature that is shared by those who are still in business five years later, is not taking on a bunch of debt.

There is a cycle: spend, see results, learn from that. If you take on a bunch of debt, it's like you're doing all the spending at first, then getting the results, then doing the learning (for your "our startup went bust, here's what we learned" blog post). In a way, a business loan is sort of like a waterfall software project. Don't do that. Do agile.

Rent a small space, probably subleasing from somebody else, and see what works. Then do more of what works. It is harder at first, but a lot of people who take out big loans, don't realize how much they don't know yet, and spend the money on all the wrong things. What are the right things? It depends on your market, your product type, your customers, and therefore the best way to find it out is to do it on a small scale and watch carefully what works.
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Yup, without tacking out taxes. More like $410 I think when taxes are taken out. Luckily, the State doesn't tax it as well. I learned when looking more deeper into it that some states will do so. I think it's kind of shitty that it is taxed, especially if you live in a high COL like CA, but so it goes. That rate hasn't gone up in many years.
It's not mentioned in the article, but Julia was used to solve the huge optimization problem for this project—specifically, the JuMP optimization package [1]. This SIAM article has more technical detail: https://sinews.siam.org/Details-Page/a-school-bus-trip-to-th.... This seems to be a preprint of the paper that may describe the algorithm used in Boston, although it seems to talk more about the well-known New York taxi data set: http://web.mit.edu/~jaillet/www/general/travel-time-18.pdf.

[1] https://github.com/JuliaOpt/JuMP.jl

[2] http://www.nyc.gov/html/tlc/html/about/trip_record_data.shtm...
The Online Platform  Economy in 2018 [pdf]
Chrome 69 sign in indicator is just that, it doesn't autosync local data
based on humblenet: https://hacks.mozilla.org/2017/06/introducing-humblenet-a-cr...
Apple QuickTake 100 Digital Camera
Since this got some upvotes, if you want a taste for a process like this condensed into and hour you can visit:

https://pivotal.io/office-hours

(Free, staffed by a balanced team over a lunch hour)
I get the feeling intellectual property lawyers are going to have a field day with this one. . .
It appears that they are treated horrifically by the Chinese Communist Party. Falun Gong was founded in the 1990s as a Buddhist sect, and it grew rapidly. The CCP doesn't tolerate ideological rivals or power structures it doesn't control, so it banned them and propagandised them as an evil and dangerous cult, which is how they're widely seen in China today. Hundreds of thousands have been detained, and thousands have died in custody. There are reports of widespread organ harvesting:

Lavee describes how his attitude changed dramatically when a patient told him he was travelling to China for a scheduled heart transplant. This idea was shocking to Lavee, because the circumstances of death that allow heart donation cannot be predicted.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4919373/

The CCP claimed that they stopped using organs forcibly taken from prisoners in 2015, but not everybody is convinced by that claim.

Overall, they are treated as inhuman. There's also the photo on the Wikipedia page for cattle prods: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cattle_prod
I still dont get it. Is this sending signals into the severed spinal cord from an artificial device? If so, how is training going to help? Is it reading from one end of the spinal chord and transfering to the other?
LinkedIn is giving away phone numbers like candy
This train of thought does not lead to a good place.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mgKoCppbGFI
>For example, one vignette described “Terry,” a 28-year-old woman who felt deeply sad for the past four weeks and lost interest in activities she usually enjoys. In the “biological” version presented to the study participants, Terry’s father also suffered from symptoms of depression, a doctor told her as a teenager that she might have an imbalance of neurotransmitters, and an MRI scan revealed that she had an unusually small hippocampus, which could affect her reaction to stress. In the “psychosocial” version, Terry’s father died when she was five, her mother has always been highly critical and not very nurturing, and Terry suffered from a recent breakup and problems at work.

>...respondents felt less empathy for the fictional patients when they read the biological explanation.

Am I missing something here? Of course people would empathize more with a person who has relatable experiences. Nobody is going to relate to "an MRI scan revealed that she had an unusually small hippocampus" but almost everyone has experienced relationship troubles and problems at work.
Google doesn't even use google domains.
I don't disagree, but this recent assisted suicide story certainly has added some complexity to the debate: https://www.theguardian.com/society/2018/mar/17/assisted-dyi...

TL;DR: Assisted suicide approved and performed for woman suffering from depression and psychosis.

Actually, it wasn't the first non-terminal assisted suicide. I remember a 2009 story involving a man who decided to die with his wife. The wife had terminal cancer, he was healthy, albeit 80 years old. https://www.theguardian.com/society/2009/jul/14/assisted-sui...

That article also discusses another couple suffering from non-terminal but chronic illness and chronic pain. I don't remember reading about that couple at the time.
Am I the only person who liked the web a lot better before it encountered its own Eternal September?

I'm not trying to be snarky! It's just that I'm not actually sure I like the direction the web took, and I'm not sure these "content producing companies" are indeed a net positive.

Perhaps forcing a lot of (the more shady) commercial activity off of the web is actually the best thing that could happen. (Though they probably wouldn't leave quietly)
"What foolishness! What nonsense! .... For as children tremble and fear everything in the blind darkness, so we in the light sometimes fear what is no more to be feared than the things children in the dark hold in terror and imagine will come true. This terror therefore and darkness of mind must be dispelled not by the rays of the sun and glittering shafts of day, but by the aspect and law of nature."

LUCRETIUS, De Rerum Natura

:)
Metal is the way to go.