skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd argue sports is the exact example where not only is everyone winging it, but where you must wing it to be successful.

How good you are at winging it is defined by your training, but in a competitive situation, if you're not constantly improvising to match the current state of play, then your play will be entirely predictable and as a result you'll be easily beaten. Think about a football team that runs one of three corners every time. After maybe a match, they'll be beaten by every defense. Now think about a football team that makes subtle improvisations on every corner they run based on the defense they're up against. Much, much harder to study and defend.
Not according to the abstract in your link.

"In none of the investigated samples were glyphosate residues above the limit of detection found."
A domain like 'microsft.com' is used to trick users into thinking the communication is legitimate and to Microsoft. But why would the actual Microsoft need to engage in this?
> And where does this Sandbox wrapper for third party app stores exist for the Android ecosystem where it is both allowed and their are five time more devices?

https://seap.samsung.com/sdk/knox-standard-android

https://yajin.org/papers/asiaccs15_appcage.pdf

> Have any statistics to back that up? Is Android more secure or less buggy than iOS?

Obvious confounder:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darwin_(operating_system)

But what metric would you use anyway? Number of discovered bugs doesn't work because the whole premise is that a higher percentage of the bugs will be found.

It's inherently difficult to measure. But refute the logic: Bugs found by vendor + everyone else > Bugs found by vendor alone. The only assumption is that bugs found by everyone else is non-zero, which is clearly true for any number of open source projects including both Android and Darwin.
Organic farming does not mean farming without weedkillers or pesticides. It means farming with weedkillers and pesticides that are largely unstudied, compared with known quantities like Monsanto's products (whose positive and negative effects are well documented and widely understood).

The 'organic' products may be better on balance, but we don't actually know that, because the body of knowledge isn't nearly as developed yet.

That's my layperson's understanding, anyway. I could be wrong.
From the 1930s to the 1950s, 'fluoroscopes' used strong x-rays to let customers and employees of many shoe stores consider shoe 'fit'. Each second they were turned-on exposed customers -adults and children- to a year's worth of natural exposure. And employees?

New medical technologies should be avoided during the de-bugging stages. Guinea pigs are underpaid.
Do you have any kind of geographic information on your users? Assuming they are mostly consumer oriented but are there business applications that can be leveraged? Make roadmap fundraiser goals? Switch to paying for binary distribution with option to compile from source? Could also try selling on Steam in an environment where people are accustomed to buying software, even if the only added value is having it in their library or auto updates through Steam.
No, the article refers to contact herbicides, not pesticides:

"Non-contact herbicides are taken up by the living plant and incorporated into still growing tissues, while contact herbicides kill the tissues they touch."

Also the article is written by a woman.
I don't think they are implying that people on more junior levels are not at smart. I believe they are attempting to explain that as you go up higher people tend to be less competent due to a lack of experience and proper training tools.
What is are you working with?
Its interesting to see so many here have the opinion that the subsidies were wasted and the governments should have let GM fail, not spend taxpayer dollars to bail them out.

And yet, most on HN seem perfectly happy to give Amazon huge tax breaks to setup in NY, which is exactly the same thing.
It should be noted that many countries that have proportional fines seem to consider speeding to be somewhere close to the severity the American legal system assigns to drunk driving.

It shocks me a little to think of a 14 days worth of income fine for going 45mph in a 30mph zone, yet when I think of the massive death toll from driving it's very possible my attitudes are not where they should be.
How sure are we they found everything?

Did they have official source code to work from, or documentation only, or did they disassemble binaries?
> what percentage of your operational best practices are invented/peddled by the industry vs truly independent research?

It would be helpful to define “independent” because there is an “industry” of anti-GMO advocates that produce research to support their views and, compared to a Cargill-sponsored study, they’d be viewed as “independent.”

I think we ascribe too much credibility to non-profit corporations. As an example, we routinely dismiss an Exxon climate study as “biased” or “corrupt” but a Greenpeace study is somehow more noble or accurate? Greenpeace lives and dies from donations — donations that would disappear if the threats they purport to care about are diminished. Greenpeace type organizations have just as much at relative stake as “industry” and thus studies they sponsor ought to be held to similar levels of skepticism as “industry” studies. Climate change is an industry with just as much as stake as fossil fuels. Al Gore, as an example, became a billionaire from the climate change issue. It would be difficult to argue that research promoted by a guy like him are independent considering he has gotten ultra wealthy from peddling climate alarmism just as Exxon gets rich from promoting studies rife with skepticism. Truly independent studies are extremely rare — everyone has an agenda.

We don’t necessarily need more independent studies because even independent studies are funded by someone with an agenda, what we need are more reproducible studies that can be analyzed objectively. A reproducible Exxon study is more valid than an in-reproducible study from the Sierra Club (and vice-versa

The problem is that an Cargill study is immediately dismissed as corrupt, but some non-profit study is given the benefit of the doubt.. I propose that all studies should be viewed with skepticism until their results are reproduced and corroborated.
Counter to your counterpoint: the people selling you those games on eBay also know that you might be able to revoke your payment either fraudulently or because of events outside the seller’s control, thus the selling price is almost certainly higher than it would otherwise be. In other words, both buyer and seller are incurring a cost due to the existence of chargebacks. Whether that cost is worth it depends on the actual probability of fraud or problems occurring, and at the very least, it seems reasonable to have an option for both buyer and seller to agree to not support chargebacks.
Good lord, someone is going to get fed up and pull a Bernie Goetz if that's the sort of thing happening.
Well you're the expert here, can you please tell me why I'm wrong? I'm just trying to go by your earlier explanation. I'd like to be wrong here!
I wonder how much this could be genericized to all (or most, or even some) states, let alone the US Code, regulations, etc. Actually, state formats and whatnot could be plugins or compilation switches.

I've actually thought about this for some years, but idly, and I haven't found the time yet to get started. It just seems like an excellent and obvious-to-me use for HTML.
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There is 0 opt-out telemetry in most (all?) major flavors of Linux.

But there's an even more important issue here. Even if there were some form of telemetry in Linux you'd be able to see exactly what it's collecting and where it's sending it since the OS itself is open source. I do not think many people are mostly okayish with purely diagnostic telemetry, but it's not clear exactly what Microsoft is collecting and their transition to a sort of 'free to play' style of OS does not lead one to the most optimistic views for either the type data they're harvesting, or their intended use for such data.
Academic publishing is a favorite recurring topic on HN, and it's one I've occasionally dipped into discussing, although these discussions are typically 99% one-sided and void of nuance or reasoned arguments. It's like discussing politics online.

I'm a shareholder and board member of a large privately-held, family-owned academic publishing company. If anyone is interested in trying to understand what makes the industry work, why it's so hard to disrupt it, etc. I'd love to engage or put you in touch with people within the industry smarter than me - my email is in my profile.

I know the industry is particularly frustrating to the HN crowd. We want to think it's a technology problem - that distributing PDFs is a solved problem (which it obviously is). But the root of the problems (of which there are many) are all cultural and much harder to change. If you're going to jump in and try to "fix" the industry or put publishers out of business, I highly encourage you to engage with folks in the industry with an open mind and really try to understand why things work the way they work. You're not going to have any success unless you truly understand the incentive structure of academia and the social and cultural aspects of inertia that are at play. If you go in thinking you can build a better "publishing" mousetrap you will fail. You have to realize publishers are in the reputation business. And when you start peeling back the onion of how academics are assessed, given jobs, given tenure, etc you start seeing how hard changing behavior can be.
Good points, but I would argue that micropayments would be great if they required micro effort and no overhead. They would transform the ability of non profits to fundraise.

Not that bitcoin offers that iirc, just saying.
Good to hear that they aren't so bad.

The ARMs (Adjustable-Rate Mortgages) here in the US can jump pretty severely, mostly because they are only given to folks with bad credit. Folks with bad credit push to buy something out of their budget, get behind, rates spike, then lose it all to the bank, continuing the bad credit cycle.
Ultimately we draw the line at what 5 Supreme Court justices would subjectively consider to be obscene.

https://corporate.findlaw.com/litigation-disputes/movie-day-...
It's entirely marketing, there is no actual data supporting the claim that it's healthier for you. It succeeds by the "appeal to nature" fallacy, which causes a bunch of problems and gets decidedly anti-science in a few ways.

Using only "natural" pesticides because they are "healthier". This is unsubstantiated, again it's just an appeal to nature. It can become problematic because natural pesticides often aren't as effective, thus certain farms/crops require using an excessive amount- way more than they would if they used the more effective synthetic pesticides. The synthetic pesticides are of course accused of being unhealthy (because unnatural)- though this is generally untrue. Furthermore, even the natural pesticides cause pollution problems, and overusing them isn't good.

Because the organic lobby succeeds by the appeal to nature, they are also anti-gmo. Which is a big problem.

While there are entirely organic farms, a lot of organic products are really not even what they advertise themselves to be, as many organic farmers don't actually run organic farms: they run normal farms with a section of it that adheres to organic standards. These standards are pretty arbitrary, except for the fact that organic farming is a significantly less efficient use of farmland, which is going to become a problem within the next century. We need to be making efficient use of our arable land, as we don't actually have much left on the planet unless we start turning national parks + protected areas into farmland.

Largely, organic farming is a faux luxury built on anti-scientific ideas that does nothing except waste valuable land resources, sold to relatively privileged people who are willing to pay a premium to feel better about what they eat.
search each chapter title. no need to give free promo to a major ad company.

the less we use this as a verb, the less the next generation will use it.

and cheers on your nanodegree. i've finished 2 myself.
I'll take my own 120sq.ft. home over someone else's 360sq.ft. space any day, thanks. Especially at 1/3 the price.
I smoke pot, and don't like the idea of being targeted at train stations because I smoked a spliff the night before while wearing the same sweater. FYI I am not 'poor' and I do have a small fleet of my own cars, but people with a small quantity of money behind them a) also like to smoke drugs on occasion and b) also do use public transport.

Edit: I realize that sounded a bit snide, apologies. I think my point is that it's not so much a fascist thing, and I agree with the GP that calling the draconian drug policies fascist does detract from the legitimately scary/quasi-fascist things that are going on. I fear that the more we misconstrue these kinds of arguments, the harder it will be to make progress.
> Also, my understanding is that whether the platform has useful things at address 0 falls in the category of "implementation defined".

If address zero is a null pointer, then IIRC no allocated object, whether static, automatic or heap, can have that address - i.e pointers to them must always compare unequal to nullptr.

If null pointer is something other than address zero, then it's just a regular address, and can have anything - it's not even "implementation defined", not anymore so than saying that e.g. 0x12345678 is a valid object address on x86.
In college I was somehow made the owner or something of my department building’s google maps entry. I worked for the department, so my .edu google account was in some admin/staff group I guess. I kept getting emails asking me to update the listing and definitely considered some harmless pranks/light vandalism.
So its closed and google hasn’t removed it. The restaurant bought some fake reviews that are still coming in.

This isn’t a scam like the article is talking about, just google failing to update a listing and letting in bad reviews.
By stopping free rides the enforcement will pay for itself and the empty cars will make everyone happier.
The baseline price for payment processing is well below 2-3%. In the EU, credit card processing fees are capped at 0.3%, and these companies are still able to make a decent profit despite.

What those high fees really come from is the need to cover the cost of all those rewards programs that are so ubiquitous in some countries such as the USA. Those would probably disappear pretty quickly in the presence of a law allowing merchants to add any processing fees (perhaps above some nominal baseline cost) on to the bill. 1% cash back doesn't seem like nearly so great a deal when you have to reckon with the fact that what's really going on is that you pay 2% more, and then the issuing bank gives half of it back to you, along with a generous dose of smoke up the ass, and then pockets the other half.
IIRC, fuel on satellites is used gradually over time to maintain a controlled orbit and orientation, not to actually provide altitude to keep the satellite up, or for dramatic changes in orbital parameters.
Those other compression algorithms don't have that feature. If they did have that feature, they would be different than what they are. If they did have that feature, zstd would not claim a big improvement. But they don't, so it does.
However that theory was challenged when Ted Cruz opposes ethanol subsidies and still won the state. The problem is that most politicians aren’t as courageous to fight for what is right (in their view) as opposed to what they think Iowa voters want.

But you are correct: Iowa’s status as the first caucus state has a lot to do with the state of farm policy.
Payment puzzle? I can easily send money with:

- Venmo

- PayPal

- Apple Pay

- bank transfer online

- direct deposit

- wire transfer

etc
Etc ...
> (1) Trust is not a problem, it's a huge optimization.

This feels like a response to a straw man, or at the very least an uncharitable interpretation of pro-cryptocurrency views. The problem cryptocurrencies intend to solve isn’t that trust is bad, but rather that in the real world you are effectively forced to trust a single entity or a small group of entities. I don’t think any cryptocurrency advocate claims that cryptocurrency is great because there’s no need to trust the parties on the other end of your transactions.
It may have been better to just end your post with "I've never worked in the industry".
We've banned this account for posting unsubstantive and flamey comments.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Well there's other issues with Linux on the desktop that doesn't let anybody except developers use it productively.

You always have to weight your priorities, and getting stuff done is often number one priority.
My impression was that HN largely felt that the tax breaks were unnecessary and pointless. Maybe I misread?
If leaf blowers are so time efficient, then why do I hear them for so long and so damn often?

I'm inclined to suspect it might be because the landscapers are paid by the hour.
Solid point, thanks for the additional context.
I disagree with it being called an Apple premium.

Apple has a store. Amazon has a store. Who is to say that Amazon's portion of operational costs and profit isn't the premium?

Amazon could choose to have a Kindle experience which doesn't go through the App store, such as a HTML 5 app. They distribute in the store because of the discoverability (and likely because they prefer to have a native app that can enforce their store's content DRM.)

Amazon could choose to expose more functionality through their app, such as title search, being able to look at reviews, download sample chapters, and even be able to fetch new books through the kindle unlimited and other prime features. They prefer to drive everyone to their own store instead.
Zcash’s privacy is cryptographic whereas Monero seems more like a chain with a builtin mixer. Monero has a history of fixing privacy issues as they are published (for example the paper by the National University of Singapore). Fixing issues is good, having so many is less good. Zcash has scalability limitations because it’s hard to add an L2 solution like Lightning because that would pretty much wreck privacy. But zcash is running at nowhere near capacity so that’s hypothetical.

They’re both great experiments and Stallman would be more impressive proposing better solutions than just sniping at the projects.
I've had the same issue and have been building a tool to further filter and curate flight deals. Right now you can select departure airports and airlines. Date filtering will be coming next in the next 5-7 days if not sooner. https://producthunt.com/posts/altitude
How much experience do you have with wire transfers? I have very little experience, but it always proved far from easy.
It's not exactly the same, though. Bailout uses the money that government already has, and that could be used on something else. Tax break is using the money that you don't have yet - and, crucially, will only have if the company actually is there!
Only because they could then do direct sign-up and billing without having to pay anyone a cut.
The highest comment in that discussion thread said it was good, and I got a lot of arguments when I disagreed.

Thread here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18454215
WinDBG possibly

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/drivers/de...
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It would be nice to see graphics representation of the software architecture in a README.md

> It then gets saved as PDF and shelved as an artefact that is disconnected from all the other architectures, and the system boundaries are inevitably out of date by the time the next person looks at it.

Personally, I think documentation should be stored into source control like git. Any changes needs to go thru this document first. Specification by Example is one I think would be beneficial. However, all of these takes human willpower and disciple and business buy-in... and is probably why I'm stuck reading an ultra-slow confluence that is not updated.
It is on the market, as C790 Carbon Black. I imagine it is difficult to get small samples as an individual, as 3M typically sells to businesses.

May I ask what you were working with said material for?
>the lay public is hilariously misinformed about this

Ironic for a scientist to rail on anecdotally and off topic about a problem they play the much larger role in deciding the fate of.

Knowledge of science among the general public let alone of how this sausage factory works is however unfortunate, not the key to fixing the problem.

There are a handful of different key roles and interests competing to influence the outcome. Researchers, universities, publishers, for profit businesses, etc.

It’s not that complicated. There’s the logistics, economics, and best guess modeling of any proposed changes.

Then separate from these technicalities people everyday are making value judgements and prioritizing principles against personal interests.

I’m not trying to advocate my opinion here in a comment of what these stakeholders should do. Only that these individual decisions, judgements, and will to act on them play a far greater role than public knowledge of who gets paid to review a paper.
AC/DC "Hells Bells"
None. I wake up naturally.
I've seen more than a couple instances of terrible addresses being marked on Google Maps. Painful while ordering food or taking an Uber.
It's a bit of a tangent, but all the roads I've seen labeled 30mph or 35mph would be quite safe to take at 45. The flow of traffic is 5mph over anyway. But this is with residential roads universally at 25mph. I'm not sure what kind of road he was on.
Chinese scientist claims first gene-edited babies
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18529049 and marked it off-topic.
HERE is a trivia question for you: what is the most profitable business in the world? You might think oil, or maybe banking. You would be wrong. The answer is academic publishing. Its profit margins are vast, reportedly in the region of 40 per cent.

40% are very normal and consider healthy margins for many businesses. The business with largest possible profit margins I know of is political donations. For mere $100K, one can own vast public land for mining and selling resources worth billions for many generations. That's 1000000% margin for you.
The next generation Shinkansen will begin testing around May next year (2019). The ‘Alfa-X’ is expected to travel faster than 400 km/h (360 km/h with passengers)

note: The fastest commercial train in the world is Shanghai’s maglev train (431km/h) which uses magnetic levitation.

- https://plus.google.com/117929795458007747856/posts/iVaesHMc...
- https://www.jrailpass.com/blog/alfa-x-shinkansen-bullet-trai...
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I haven’t used this myself, but Reason seems to fit your description of ‘learning any language’ while having static typing: https://reasonml.github.io

I’m more of a lisper, but OCaml should be a fun learning experience, especially if you enjoy expressive, static type-systems: https://ocaml.org
highly agree books are where it's at for some in depth knowledge.

after that, you have better honed long tail search queries for online.
I'm as opposed to subsidizing individual industries or companies as anyone.

Then again, nothing is forever, and the fact that a single factory closes after a decade doesn't exactly disprove the whole model. That is bound to happen in any industry, subsidized or bailed out or not.