skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Can we really continue to claim that we're unaware

Yes, I can. Why?

Because I only have a vague abstract notion that they collect data and do something with it before turning that into cash.

How am I meant to explain this to my friends and family, beyond "they are bad"?

I've never seen a fully worked through example of exactly what they are doing with all this data. Please point me at an article or video or something that everyone else has already seen a hundred times, because I still haven't found that one thing that will convince other people.
Yea, they're the right size like many Japanese foods instead of the "make me obese" size that's served at too many places in the USA
Like kvark said, they don't really fit the ECS model well. The standard answer would be to encapsulate them into a system (i.e. go outside the ECS).

The way I see ECSs is that they are in-memory relational databases that only support equijoins (look up component matching entity ID) and optimize for table scans. The typical choice of an index structure is a contiguous ordered array, making for very fast lookups and scans. If insertion/deletion performance becomes an issue you can add one level of indirection and only keep a list of pointers to components ordered. However, like you indicated, games also need other kinds of queries, so scene graphs and quad trees should be supported as indices on the same level as the arrays and hash tables that are traditional for ECSs.

I would love to see an in-memory database with all the features required by games. There are some very different tradeoffs to be made than in typical in-memory databases:

- The most important queries are known up-front, since the simulation/rendering loop is fairly defined.

- Transactions don't need to be durable. Just need to be able to checkpoint once in a while.

- Lots of bulk updates from the simulation.

- Query language needs to be well integrated into the application language to avoid overheads.
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/wheres-the-proof-...

> The new paper cites a 2015 review published in American Psychologist reporting that only around 9 percent of research into mindfulness-based interventions has been tested in clinical trials that included a control group. The authors also point to multiple large placebo-controlled meta-analyses concluding that mindfulness practices have often produced unimpressive results. A 2014 review of 47 meditation trials, collectively including over 3,500 participants, found essentially no evidence for benefits related to enhancing attention, curtailing substance abuse, aiding sleep or controlling weight.

> Van Dam acknowledges that some good evidence does support mindfulness. The 2014 analysis found meditation and mindfulness may provide modest benefits in anxiety, depression and pain. He also cites a 2013 review published in Clinical Psychology Review for mindfulness-based therapy that found similar results. “The intention and scope of this review is welcome—it is looking to introduce rigor and balance into this emerging new field,” says Willem Kuyken, a professor of psychiatry at the University of Oxford in England, who was not involved in research for the new report. “There are many areas where mindfulness-based programs seem to be acceptable and promising, but larger-scale randomized, rigorous trials are needed.”

>As Van Dam and his co-authors wrote, “[there is] neither one universally accepted technical definition of ‘mindfulness’ nor any broad agreement about detailed aspects of the underlying concept to which it refers.”
Judging from Rob Walling's thoughts on this topic from his book -- the equation looks different for the kind of company they're looking for. There's no "huge risk of failure"; the focus is on businesses highly likely to succeed that will have (relatively) slower, but consistent, growth. And obviously (relatively) lower final valuations.
It's "obvious" to those unfamiliar with fasting. Once you're used to fasting, what was previously obvious and intuitive gets thrown out the window.
Because it is open. Things like wildlife, children, drunks, falling trees, snow, ice, flood waters, rock slides, and unsecured cargo can enter the road at any point.
And SO will probably fix this automatically for all answers.
> X11 applications can snoop on keystrokes, mouse events, and other applications, etc

Not just "X11 applications" but any process that can open your X unix domain socket (usually at somewhere like /tmp/.X11-unix/X0) or, god help you, connect to tcp://localhost:$((6000 + $DISPLAY_NUMBER)).
Copyright of a picture of a street isn't a monopoly on that street, you can head over there and take a picture of the street yourself.

Other than that, just thing of photographers who spend their life working on photography. Copyright allows them to charge for their work, or for a software developer to charge for their work.

Removing copyright entirely means you can only monetize your work based on the marginal cost, the result is zero monetization for any type of work that has near-zero marginal cost, such as a book, movies, photography, etc.

Sure, you can argue that we should move to the fairyland dream scenario where everyone is beautifully funded by fans and so on. We've been there, it was how art in the Middle Ages worked.

Anyway, that is a separate discussion:

1) Given that copyright exists, should X be copyrightable?

2) Should copyright exist?
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Oh yes I understand that very much, but I do what I can not to help them. The point I was making is about people who willingly put all of their info there, photos, addresses, location etc.
I like the trackpoint because of the nostalgia factor, but in terms of dexterity, speed, and accuracy, there's no way it can compare to a trackpad.
Is there another method of making a video?
Headless Chrome sets a different User Agent than normal Chrome. Once you get past that, there are trickier ways to distinguish bots from humans. These range from access pattern analysis (who visits hundreds of URLs per day but never clicks anything?) to differences in the JavaScript and rendering behavior of headless Chrome from normal Chrome. Developing a truly human-like bot that can pass modern anti-bot logic is very hard, and that's without even dealing with IP reputation or ReCaptcha.
People have done and do stupid stuff. What's your point?
Taligent Documentation
Quite the opposite. Telemetry data is an intended product, because it allows for improvements to the underlying product and much more (such as mapping, for example).

Think of it as Google Analytics. If you run a site and use Google Analytics on it, do you own the copyright of the data generated by it?
>IF may be a great way for some people to comply to their dietary goals better, but there is still not a single study that shows it actually does anything besides that.

I think Keto is the same way. There isn't strong evidence of a clear metabolic advantage (I'm not saying there is not one), but its one of the few ways I have eat a caloric deficit and not hate my life.

I think if IF and Keto take people off a insulin roller-coaster and let them comply with their targets, that is still a huge win, in and of itself. We know their are other benefits too such as depletion of stored liver fat or better acute insulin responsiveness, but these may be gravy, the real win is in compliance IMHO.
it's really hard to map subtle statements about probability to natural English sentences. pretty much any non-awkward formulation of that sentence is going to admit misinterpretations.
They mean that what they already sell, was stolen without being paid for?
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A downside to having deleted my facebook account before this security breach was reported is that I cannot find out if my data was compromised.
> There's other stuff to worry about anyway, when it comes to having kids. What if they become teenagers?

LOL. You made my day.
Computational photography on the Pixel 3
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I used a feature called "[Popup] List All Tabs" from the FireGestures addon. By holding down my Right Mouse Button and scrolling with my scroll wheel, a context menu would appear for me to select a tab or scroll to switch to a tab.

This is an example of what it looked like: https://vgy.me/t2KqD7.png

I use this combined with Tab Groups (Ctrl+Shift+E back in the day) to organize tabs into groups to switch between, then use my List All Tabs to switch between tabs in the groups. The only part of that workflow that still exists is Tab Groups. But you can't use Ctrl+Shift+E because that's now used by the "Network" tab of the Dev Tools.
You most certainly can use the web and a smartphone without being tracked.

It's not difficult at all actually.. it becomes increasingly more difficult when you want to use these services and apps which you are the product by design, and the truth is this is week within the rights of those companies that are giving you their services for free..

This is all virtue signaling to the max as well as endorsing a more censored, controlled internet by these media outlets, tech, or govt..

After all, mums the word on an actual problem, the data breaches of credit reporting agencies, e.g. Equifax. These companies have essentially a govt endorsed monopoly on all of our data. And no one goes to jail when my actual important info gets hacked even after being warned, (DL/SSN, last 10 addresses, loan amounts and who I owe, etc.). On top of this, these companies can sell my info to other 3rd party vendors, and I literally have no recourse..

All this Facebook nonsense is hogwash. If your conspiratorial, there is a strong case to be made that this is about censorship, deference to the experts who know the web better than the masses who are "incapable" of using any discernment regarding bots or fakenews. These are the same people who brought us SESTA, FOSTA, PIPA et. al., same ones who told us we'd go back to dial up without net neutrality..

I personally think it's just virtue signaling to the max..
You can still sue any specific person, just not the office they represent. E.g. if the Senate passes a law, all senators are still subject to that law as individuals.

The other side to rule of law is that the government can't punish you arbitrarily - they need to have an applicable law, and they can only apply it to you as written (including penalties etc). In a system without rule of law, a subject can be charged with wrongdoing on the whim of the ruler. That part is also missing in KSA.
I find that happens when I also have carbs during my eating window. By reducing carbs and increasing fat, I’ve noticed less hunger feelings and more mental clarity.
I had a similar experience with the social pressure around eating and fasting. I’ve had people get upset with me for doing a water fast and not joining them in eating while we’d sit around a dinner table. I workout a good amount (running, yoga, weights, swimming) and they thought I was being crazy, or they just felt judged for eating. For me it didn’t even register that highly: I’d wake up, decide to do it for a couple days to see what the effects on my body were, and that’s about it.

Honestly the hardest part was from other people, the fasting part was fairly easy and made me feel great.
I think I read recently that deletion does now delete your data post GDPR.
To clarify what was a very tongue in cheek statement with the assurance that I regularly petition DOC, governers, congresspeople and senators, I meant in the sense that I've never found those channels to be responsive or impactful in the way a "direct line" might be. I should perhaps have said, I don't think PA residents have any special powers in this respect, moreso than citizens of a nation might, this issue certainly seems more wide-reaching.

Anyway, don't let me take away from your very valid point. To those who aren't leveraging contacting your representatives, you probably should. I'm just not convinced it's sufficient, even minimally so.
You've never encountered a citizen flagging down traffic because of an obstruction just past a blind hill or curve?
You can own copyright on a dataset of facts.

A map is a dataset of facts. The MLB stats are a dataset of facts.

Copyright doesn't mean that you can't create a work that is similar based on the same facts, it just means that to do so you can't copy the original work.

You can create a new map of the streets, but you can't just do so by copying an existing map (with the exception of certain licenses and so on).
I am not an expert on psychology, but your goal "losing more (fat) and gaining more(muscle) as fast as humanly possible", might be detrimental to your success.

It probably took decades to get to your current body weight. Should it not then take at least 5 years to get back to your target weight ? True the caloric math shows you could probably get to 250lbs in a year with a 600-800 a day diet. But can any human actually stick with that diet for more than a month ? If not, you would be better eating 1600-1800 a day if you could stick with it for a year.

As an aside, at times I wonder if our obesity epidemic is in part related to an ever increasing target/acceptable weight. When I was a kid, if you could pinch an inch, you were overweight (I stop drinking calories if I pass the threshold). Even my childhood bathroom scale maxed out at 250 which implied that 250 must be extreme morbid obesity.

I know this is personal, but when you were young did you ever have such thresholds (weight, mobility, etc.) in mind ? Or did it just sneak up on you and by then you were in gaining weight at a surprising rate beyond your control ? No worries if you are too busy to respond. I wish you the best!
If you are "obsessing over food" during Ramadan you are doing it wrong.
Does a user with a deleted account qualify as an impacted user? I think the visibility is an issue.

As one of those people, this summer I encountered a spotify issue where my spotify would randomly start playing Cannabis Club ATL. Others had the same issue. Perhaps unrelated, too difficult to tell, especially if FB doesn't consider me an active user.
I wrote vulture-feeds specifically for headline scanning via RSS. I don't want to read everything.

https://github.com/Dotnaught/vulture-feeds
Man Wearing Apple Maps Backpack Surveying San Francisco on Foot
Based on the readme, this is basically an SFX archive, which runs a binary upon completion of extraction to temporary folder, much like winzip & the like have created for ages.
Google Reader had a little-known feature — a bookmarklet that opened the next unread item (the original page, not a google reader page). That, for a while, was my preferred method for rssing. A magic button that brings you somewhere good and familiar.
Mine continues:

Additionally, the attackers also accessed other account information, including:

- The following information associated with your Facebook account:

- Username.
- Date of birth.
- Gender.

- Types of the devices you've used to access Facebook.
- The language you choose to use Facebook in.

- If you previously added this specific information to your Facebook account, it was also accessed:

- Relationship status.
- Religion.
- Hometown.
- Current city.
- Work.
- Education.
- Website.

- The 10 most recent locations you've checked in to or been tagged in. These locations are determined by the places named in the posts, such as a landmark or restaurant, not location data from a device.

- The 15 most recent searches you've entered into the Facebook search bar.

- People or Pages you follow on Facebook.
> While bridge is infinitely analytical, poker is more psychological: In high-level matches, every player at the table can compute the odds instantaneously, and what separates the best players from the pack is the ability to pick up “tells,” such as the furrowing of the brow as an indication of bluffing.

This is largely incorrect, and I wish this stereotype of poker (esp. high-stakes poker) would not be propagated so often.

Pros playing against fish in a private cash game may get a huge advantage off of physical tells, but that’s not the most consistent information that almost all players give away.

The consistent information that players give away is how they play specific kinds of hands in terms of position, frequency, aggression, and/or bet sizing. This extends even to very high levels of play. This type of information cannot be hidden, it can only be varied.

A classic low-stakes live tell is that players bet small on weak made hands and draws, but they bet bigger with their stronger made hands. Once a good player gets a sense of what those ranges are and what type of pressure (if any) can make the weak player fold, it just becomes a field day for the skilled player.

Highly-skilled players will have gears that they shift through such that their opponents have a tough time defining the skilled player’s hand range. Once the skilled player shows down some unexpected hands and gets into the weak player’s head, the game again becomes extremely easy for the skilled player.

Contrary to what the author says, I’m not actually convinced that the gaming skill set of high-level poker players and high-level bridge players is actually that much different.

If any high-level bridge players (I am not one) want to chime in and compare and contrast high-level strategies and tactics in these two games, I would love to extend the discussion.
Did you read the paper I linked to?
MST3K at 30: How Riffing on Bad Movies Anticipated Social Media
> appears to need Docker as a runtime requirement

binctr does not require any runtime component other than a modern linux kernel with unprivileged usernamespace support.

Targetting OSX / Windows does make warp distinct from what I mentioned, though I don't use those OSs so I admit I didn't think about that possible issue.

Anyway, I thought this was a solved problem on both Windows and OSX since they both have conventions for self-contained applications, while linux does not.
Ask HN: What would make you comfortable buying a car online?
I am a PM at one of the largest automotive marketplaces and I am working on understanding the future of car ownership and what "transacting vehicles online" really means in 2018.

So I have a question for the HN community: What would make you have enough confidence to buy a car on the internet?
NewsBlur, as a feed reader does both (and more) - for each feed you can decide whether it shows the rss snippet, extracted story, original site.

It’s awesome, open source, self hostable, freemium if you don’t self host, has mobile and desktop apps if you care.

Not affiliated, just a very satisfied paying customer.
I wish <my favorite language> also had this. However, containers work. Not sure why they do java though, i thought java has been happy with jars so far.
Ehhhhh.
QUANTUM ARTIFICIAL LIFE CREATED FOR FIRST TIME
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I don't think the paper assumes a many worlds interpretation.
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> the team wanted to find out what the minimum size of a system was that could undergo self-replication—a hallmark of life.
so performance is ability plus the contribution of all other factors that are not ability.

tough to argue with that one.
There is a certain sense fish oil is snake oil (because they're marketed as something they're not) but evidence suggests fish oil supplements do have some health benefits to humans. [1]

>High doses of omega-3s can reduce levels of triglycerides.. Omega-3 supplements may help relieve symptoms of rheumatoid arthritis.

My understanding is that there is no evidence suggesting fish oil is beneficial for humans other than these two things. However, regularly eating fish has a few more benefits. So, instead of taking fish oil pills, it probably makes more sense to eat fish once a week.

[1]: https://nccih.nih.gov/health/omega3/introduction.htm
From the README, it looks like this unpacks the application and dependencies into a local cache in the user's home directory on first run.

Is it possible to instead execute the compressed application code directly and present to the resulting process a virtualized file system that decompresses the dependencies on the fly too? Then you could run the single binary without giving it any filesystem access. One way to do it would be to have have the parent process provide some routine that the kernel can call for reading a particular "file". Or perhaps just have standard embedding and compression methods that the kernel supports, so you would just provide the offsets to the kernel.

I guess what I mean is: do any platforms provide the necessary syscalls to pull that off?
Does that mean they are still storing my email address? I deleted my account 2 years ago.
There are attacks where flashing a malicious firmware on to the device prevents real firmware flashing (just updates version numbers, re-infects the flashing payload on write, etc). However, those attacks can be mitigated by physically connecting to the flash module and writing to the device directly through SPI. If you've got a chip between the BMC and the flash memory as the report suggests, it can re-infect the memory even when you're done. You could even read the contents of the flash memory directly and find no evidence of the attacker, as the attack code might never actually write to the memory and may only load when the BMC boots and attempts to read from the flash memory.
You could set up a “reader” to download full pages, using RSS as basically a notification service.
This is great, sadly I don't know how to push my favorite content creator to move from Youtube to Peertube.
> Try getting a math professor to admit that he doesn't actually have an intuitive understanding for any of the stuff he teaches.

I have an intuition for everything I teach.

I cannot speak for others, of course, and I don't teach 14-dimensional stuff, myself, so maybe there are areas where no intuition is possible but if I don't have an intuition then I keep plugging until I get one.
Jon Stewart is incorrect, but Cramer’s picks make money but do not outperform index funds, so they have too high of opportunity cost (not to mention the time spent watching the show.) Some reading: https://www.cxoadvisory.com/4811/individual-gurus/cramer-off...

Cramer himself is not an idiot regardless of the quality of his stock picks. He’s a successful entertainer, like Jon Stewart.
Steve Carell- the Office- Was Never in It for the Laughs
Anyway, I thought this was a solved problem on both Windows and OSX since they both have conventions for self-contained applications, while linux does not.

This is mistaken for Windows. Even if programs are run from Program Files, they will often source their DLLs from other locations.
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Hey there's a Tim Horton's! Kidding.. I got a decent chicken parm the last time I was there but most of the food inside Penn Station is pretty heavy and/or mediocre. Wasabi (the sushi place) was pricey and didn't look particularly appealing to me.

If you want better food you may as well hoof it to Koreatown especially if you think you may have to use the toilet. The toilets at Penn Station are truly the things of nightmares. I didn't go to Koreatown because I had a bunch of luggage, but that's another problem you wouldn't have in Japan.

Meanwhile the food options at SFO are generally pretty decent (if pricey) and the sushi place seems to be a surprisingly good value. If the Salesforce Transbay Terminal ever reopens it'll be interesting to see if the city puts any effort at attracting decent food there.
(2014), not that anything has changed.

The article is about Australia, but the content applies to pretty much anywhere that accepts international students for money -- grade inflation is very much a thing in the US too.
A military expert explains why social media is the new battlefield