skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Using your own logic, we should let healthy people choose to execute those who aren't immunized the instant they contract disease. It's self-defense, just let people choose.

Obviously that's absurd. There is a line drawn in any civil society, to keep it civil. If people want to opt out of immunizations, it should be legal and obligatory to eject them from society: they do not get to go to school in public schools, they can be discriminated against in hiring, they can be excluded from health care programs whether private or public insurance - until they comply. That is absolutely civil behavior, and it's reasonable. And they can still choose whether to participate in civil society or not.

And we have very nearly that policy. But the problem in the U.S. is religious exemptions. The flaw with the current coddling of religious folk, is that a person's right to religious freedom cannot be permitted to increase the risk to other people's lives. And yet it does, and we tolerate it so far.

The only people who should be exempt from immunizations are those who are immune compromised in a way that their life is at greater risk by being immunized.
You have an interesting point. Although... I always seemed to think the culprit wasn’t just unhealthy meals but the snacks/soda etc.
I heard sport facilities are actually a source of profit for the universities?
Korean war, Vietnam, and other activities in South America and Africa were all to prevent the spread of communism and soviet influence in general.
This is a great example of how 'just set up your own platform' may not be the best solution to issues of censorship and what not. Because if you do, then the platforms you need for things like payment processing are also likely to ban your service for much the same reasons as before, and neutral alternatives to them are few and far between.

Still, I guess this does provide a good use case for cryptocurrencies and what not.
> so the electrons are effectively moving in a vacuum

That’s true enough for a single cycle of a single transistor, not so much a billion of them doing a billion operations per second. Which is why they are calling this “vacuum-like.”
You can all thank Andrew Wakefield, the physician that published the fraudulent paper that linked vaccines to autism.

"Immunization rates in Britain dropped from 92 percent to 73 percent, and were as low as 50 percent in some parts of London."

Then he directed a documentary against vaccination, making things even worse.
This isn’t how immunizations work. Look up herd immunity. These things can and will fail. They don’t make you invulnerable.
The "man on an unidentified street in Burbank" [4] is likely on today's Lincoln Street. The railroad offers little clues; unfortunately, mileposts [5] are not visible -- the '40-30' on the sign is a speed limit [6].

The railroad crossing there is now closed; there's one slightly to the west on Buena Vista Street, from which Google Streetview has a similar view of the ridgeline [1]. A simulated view of the ridgeline from Lincoln Street [2] matches closely with the ridgeline seen in the photo. The N-S orientation of the street and the nearest building corresponds with the buildings seen on the right side of this south-facing 1939 aerial photo [3].

The photographer must be facing east-northeast, because the mountains towards the south are much further away and appear less prominent on the skyline. A south-facing photo would have had to been taken from the other side of the factory, which was the side with the entrance. From that angle, the street grid would be out of place with the railroad and the buildings would look much different.

[1] https://www.google.com/maps/@34.1898286,-118.3382049,3a,75y,... [2] https://www.udeuschle.de/panoramas/panqueryfull.aspx?mode=ne... [3] search for '1939 aerial view looking south at Lockheed' at http://members.tripod.com/airfields_freeman/CA/Airfields_CA_... [4] https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/1600/1*sY_ju9NCmwSEySh5Z... [5] http://modelingthesp.blogspot.com/2014/03/milepost-markers.h... [6] http://modelingthesp.blogspot.com/2014/03/speed-signs.html
Indianapolis collected 560 bags of garbage before Amazon visit
And it's actually "kind of authoritative".

Everybody uses it. There aren't a dozen competing Wikis, Sensei's is the central repository of Go information.

Forums come and go, but this Wiki has stood the test of time.
Which makes the experience frankly painful in my experience. You have launchers launching launchers etc... I bought some Ubisoft games on steam but now I can't play them because when I launch them they ask for my uplay login and for some reason it doesn't work anymore (I could reset it but I couldn't be bothered).

It also generally doesn't play well with Steam "family sharing" that lets you share your games with family members without having to share the same steam session.

I don't like DRM very much but I do use Steam and Spotify because they mostly just work and don't usually get in the way. Cloud saves are pretty convenient too. I haven't bought a Ubisoft or EA game in a long time, mostly because I know it's going to be a pain to deal with their launchers.

If only I could buy a boxed game and not have to deal with any of that nonsense like back in the days... Some days I long for CD keys.
Yeah, I'm fairly sure one of the first news pieces on the attack literally said the security team discovered the breach when "alerted by suspicious activity on their customer database" - sounds a lot like an IDS functionality.
That is exactly what due diligence is for. At the very least the potential of this happening should have been priced into the final purchasing cost
Anyone read "Factotum" by Bukowski? While looking at these, I can't help but think about Henry Chinaski wandering from job to job in 1940s L.A and all the characters he mixes with while doing so.
the problem is that the gardening and weed management actions we take eliminate the sole plant that these critters put their eggs on. MilkThistle is what they eat and lay eggs on ONLY. and so with RoundUp killing the milkthistle "weed" we blindly erradicate the support system for upsteam insects like the monarchs.

Funny how if you want to dploy a new building facility to a location you need to do an environmental impact analysis/report...

but looking at a pesticide, we dont look at the impact it would have to the lyfecycle ecosystem to all the critters who rely on the various "weeds" we think we are killing...

Look at the episode of chefs table on netflix with the buuddhist chef - she hasa . "farm to table" garden where she gets the ingredients for her amazing dishes - no pesticides, no weed killers - not insecticides.. just goes through and lets everything live naturally together.

monsanto should research how all the various ecosystem cycles rely on each plant type and what role insects play in every manner other than affecting their company bottom line.
"If you want to experiment with celluar mobile radios LTE you need a LimeSDR, BladeRF and a help processor."

Why would you need a LimeSDR and a BladeRF ?

I have done plenty of (rx only) GSM/LTE functions with only the (v1) BladeRF ...
"The Indy cleanup was just a small example of the lengths some of the 20 finalists went to in order to land HQ2. Pittsburgh offered Amazon nearly $10 billion in financial incentives. Maryland pitched $8.5 billion and Newark pledged $7 billion. Dallas said it would build an Amazon University, a joint project between local colleges to train engineers in a facility next to city hall, and Atlanta promised Amazon a private car on its MARTA rail system and an executive lounge at Hartsfield-Jackson airport. While New York and Virginia offered Amazon $2.8 billion and $573 million in tax breaks, respectively, the fact they didn’t offer the highest amounts—and that New York is paying so much more than Virginia—is proof that Amazon was eager to play one city against another."
This is the best idea here. What's funny is that the news sites in their typical technical incompetence are actually way far behind in this battle. Spoofing user agent does not work anymore on most 'techy' sites who have quality software engineering. Analyzing user agent is preschool tier blocking these days. If the news sites want to get serious they need to use browser fingerprinting to detect human behavior and only accept Googlebot user agents from Google IPs. They are basically complaining about something that they are too technically incompetent to solve themselves.
That is very useful, thank you
Not sure how impressed I am with the specs. It is nice that you can transmit 54MHz of bandwidth or whatever... but what can you do that's actually interesting? It doesn't go down to HF where you can communicate around the world. It doesn't have the oscillator stability to run WSPR in VHF. What do people that transmit with this actually do that a $20 (or even $300 HT) FM radio wouldn't?
Trust doesn't come into it. As Eschenbach puts it in his articles "My Other Request: If you believe that e.g. I’m using a method wrong or using the wrong dataset, please educate me and others by demonstrating the proper use of the method or the right dataset. Simply claiming I’m wrong about methods doesn’t advance the discussion unless you can point us to the right way to do it."
Curious why this is downvoted as while I think there are probably much larger factors, the physical size of an officer compared to their use of force is certainly something that would make logical sense to correlate somehow given how society views size and power. If we're going to do a full analysis, why not include it? It could help clarify what psychological factors (which can be affected by how people treat you, which could be affected by height) cause or prevent the use of unnecessary force.
The sad thing is, you'll rarely convince anyone with facts, as soon as we are just ever so slightly into emotional or quasi-religious territory.
Which is why antivaxers, moonhoaxers, and other assorted charlatans have such an easy run at us rational folks' expense.

Your best bet is probably to try scaring the shit out of her. Sorry, I didn't invent this state of the world.
> When people hear autopilot, they think...

Sounds like a problem with people.
I'll just say it: that's a clang bug. The assumption being made by the optimizer is wrong, for exactly the reason that overflow exists.

I get very tired of people trying to make this "really" about "undefined behavior" sanity when real compilers are real software with real behavior. And here there is a clearly desired behavior (whether or not it got written into a standard somehwere), and clang implemented something else. That's wrong.
Show HN: Anyway – A live feed of stuff going on around you, kind of like Yik Yak
Isn't the developer edition the replacement for Aurora? (which is supposed to be more unstable than beta)
You might be interested in this mod for KSP which adds n-body physics:

https://github.com/mockingbirdnest/Principia
As an engineer with experience in the medical devices field, my advice would be to continue to building your clinical experience (if it's in a specialization, even better) and look to establish relationships with startups in that field. They'll be very eager to partner with you as an advisor.

If you go into marketing, I'm not sure that your existing experience is anything but wasted.
There was a repeat RPT command/button
Have you experienced Amazon selling your “destroyed” items? I’ve always suspected that was the case but haven’t confirmed it.
Revenue is fairly useless it’s profit that you care about. Having less employees also means less effort managing them.
wishful thinking, unfortunately
True. And it's been happening at the global level for years. Developed countries have been setting pollution goals that they want even developing countries to meet, and the latter complain that the former didn't have to go through their development phase under such restrictions.

(Would England have been economically dominant without the industrial revolution? Could the industrial revolution have happened under today's emission laws? We're pulling up the rope ladder after we climbed it.)

It's been difficult for people in first-world countries to see this effect, since it mostly happens slowly, and far away. I'm glad this is starting to hit closer to home, and on timescales that impact us directly. I don't have a solution, either, but perhaps the new immediacy will help drive progress in this area.
Now we just get on the internet and bitch at total strangers. What an awful gnashing of teeth it has all become, too!
Can't we just make it really @#$_ing inconvenient to decline vaccines? Bar kids from school and whatnot. Wouldn't this filter people who anti-vax only when it's convenient?

I have a sense that a lot of anti-vaxers would change their tone if it's actually inconvenient every day to be one. But I don't have the facts on this one and can't find anything with a short Google.
I think a major point your wife and others don't understand is that being vaccinated doesn't mean you can't get a disease. But most diseases will be less deadly and harmfull

So the statistics most anti-vaxxers look up are about disease count while you should look at how many died.

And about mercury: sometimes traces can be found but are way too low to be harmfull. There is a much higher dose of mercury in some fish so that's why pregnant mothers and small kids should not eat those.
You could use a paper clip and complete the circuit and make it dump the load
I probably wouldn't have bought SimAirport if it didn't show up in my Discovery Queue or whatever on Steam, and I'm glad I did because it's filling a void in my soul left behind by Air Mogul. (And by the way: awesome job!)

Valve's rather enthusiastic and concrete support for Linux gaming certainly doesn't hurt, either. Coupled with the discovery features above, it makes it a lot easier to figure out which developers I'd like to keep supporting.
Pretty sure they were banned for taking on a public political stance supporting disinformation peddlers like Alex Jones. Payment processers don't want to be associated with this kind of content for obvious reasons.
Good catch. I was looking at them on my iPad, and the site puts enough junk on my screen that I can’t see the entire photo at once. That would also make a 4x5 press camera unlikely. It seems the 6x6 folder makes sense.
The diagram about tech monopolies is interesting, but I don't understand why he thinks it will happen.

You need a new business model to go along with the new tech. What is that for crypto?

- For Microsoft, it was selling software instead of hardware like IBM. "Open source" hardware complements software. This was hugely profitable.

- For Google, it was selling user attention instead of software like Microsoft. Open source software complements web services. This was hugely profitable.

This analogy breaks down here a bit because there is a strong incentive for "open source" hardware (money for dozens of vendors), but not as much for open source software. It's more of a byproduct of the SaaS movement. I guess you could say the real corporate motivation there is developer attention, e.g. the purchase of Github. So the analogy falls down a bit.

- So now he claims we will have open source data. I would love this, but why? What's the new business model? Companies USED to provide APIs in the 2008 era when they thought it would benefit then, but they've now pulled back -- Twitter, Facebook, Google, etc. Google APIs are in terrible shape.

He said someone proposed a regulation that Twitter be forced to write a better API? Huh?

That would be analogous to the government forcing Apple to open up its hardware like the IBM PC, or the government forcing Google to open source its search algorithms. I see why it sounds nice, but I don't think it will happen.

This is an honest question, not trying to pour water all over this ... what's the new business model, or is there at least a candidate?
but they didn't set up their own platform, instead they relied on patreon.
Agreed. My first thought was "'Any IDS worth its weight in salt'? That creature doesn't exist, my friend."
Would anybody like to fill us in on what BitChute is, in theory and / or in practice?
Wealth inequality between young and old has reached record high levels: https://www.forbes.com/sites/evapereira/2011/11/08/wealth-in...

Some possible causes: zoning laws, which benefit existing homeowners at the expense of future first time home buyers, have been piled on over the last 40 years.

The economy in general has become much more regulated. In the financial services industry, regulations around existing laws, like the Bank Secrecy Act, have steadily increased over the last 40 years, and several major new laws, like the Community Reinvestment Act and Dodd-Frank, have been passed.

The result is regulatory compliance costs making up 10% of expenses for banks with less than $100 million in assets, versus 5% for banks with between $5 billion and $10 billion in assets:

https://www.communitybanking.org/~/media/files/compliance%20...

Similar trends are seen in other major industries, like healthcare.

Greater burdens on small businesses means less new business creation, which we've seen:

https://money.cnn.com/2016/09/08/news/economy/us-startups-ne...

And more benefits being accrued to incumbents.

The public relations efforts of entrenched parties is totally overwhelming Millenials' efforts to cope too. Millenials are supporting many of the same political trends that are locking them out of industries.

For example, the recent astroturfing campaign by the hotel lobby to turn the public against Airbnb and create public support for more regulatory barriers to renting one's place on Airbnb was very successful:

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/16/technology/inside-the-hot...

And Millenials make up a significant percentage of the dupes.
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There is no official explanation for the obesity crisis except people are lazy and eat poorly. The only alternative to this is that officials are ignoring other explanations. This, in most people's minds, is conspiracy theory to even suggest and that's what makes people uncomfortable.

Most people don't know how to answer questions outside their limited domain expertise without relying on authority figures. Telling them their authority figures are unreliable on such an important topic seriously complicates their lives.
I see this to be a mirror of the trend of replacing products with services all across the board. Everyone keeps saying "opex is better than capex", but there's something really wrong about this. I can't put my finger exactly on what it is, but I feel it disenfranchises people.
I don’t have numbers but I if imagine you forced the compiler to assume that any two pointers, regardless of type, could alias unless it could be proven otherwise, many of the optimizations that reduce or eliminate the cost of repeated indirection through a pointer could no longer be applied.
> it would be a lot better from a financial point of view for a poor person to purchase a 15-year old 1,000 pound Vauxhall Corsa

Are you sure about that? Are you taking into account petrol, maintenance (a 15-year old car will need a lot of it), parking, insurance, registration fees? Those would cost at least another GBP 100/month + unproductive time spent in traffic. Not to mention the poor person would first need to save up GBP 1000 to be able to afford the car (or pay interest and more insurance).

GBP 200/month for a transport pass sounds insane though, so maybe they should focus on funding that better.
Yes, I am fine with that tradeoff, because on net society would come out ahead.
Where did I assert something similar to your example? It seems like a false analogy. The criticism wasn't even that my logic was flawed but that the same argument could somehow be made to justify any user-hostile action.

If the problem in your point of view is that I didn't /prove/ how big of a problem sideloading was then yes, I didn't even attempt to do that. There's a separate subthread on that question.
Tokyo has world class infrastructure.

London has expensive, unaffordable, dirty and always late transportation infrastructure.
Yep but it could only repeat the previous step, rather than a group of steps, iirc. So difficult to do anything interesting with it.

edit: I stand corrected. The repeat command could be told how many of the previous steps to loop. But it only looped once. I guess 8-year-old me should have read the manual.

http://www.theoldrobots.com/book30/Bigtrak_Operators.pdf
As always, seems to be full of right-wing anti-semitism, fake news and outlandish conservative conspiracy theories. Just check the 'popular' tab: "Welcome to "Your" Zionist Occupied Government", "EXPOSED: Jewish Donors Granted "Access To NYPD HQ", "How the Globalists Stole Our Home". All uploaded within the last hour.

- https://www.bitchute.com/channel/white-genocide/

- https://www.bitchute.com/channel/zionistreport/

- https://www.bitchute.com/channel/wayoftheworld/
This is the interview with Patreon CEO Jack Conte alluded to in the blog post. It's really extraordinary to watch.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ofpbDgCj9rw
Whats the point of pasting this second time in 24hour span?
It seems we were the first to do it, the article says that they have tools to influence online polls and spam emails and SMS and were using them as far back as 2009 in the Falkland Islands and to push regime change in Zimbabwe. People have also said Arab Spring wasn't exactly organic as well.
It does not seem to use arcs, so it does not use a trigger. It's more suitable to think about this as a triode valve or a FET where the the channel is made of vacuum instead of silicon. (And only comes on N variety, what is not great.)
Nope, that's the old way. Nowadays you do have access to the (un)signed add with carry (adc) builtins, which are the best way to provide an alternate method on overflow.
Collecting money is an important part of a business, but also not trivial. It therefore makes sense that people would outsource this. If you get big enough, you probably don't want a middleman in the way; this is why companies like Blizzard have their own store/launcher app. For everyone else, whatever they take is cheaper than having their own army of software engineers, lawyers, billing phone support, etc. In a world with Steam, as a game company, you don't have to worry about collecting money (and the associated customer support) and distribution. You can focus on your game. That is valuable, which is why people pay for it.

I work at an ISP. Billing is a constant influx of "interesting" requests that I would love to outsource so our software engineering team could focus on stuff specific to our business. But we never found a service that could do it better than our homegrown system.

Every week there are several one-off issues like "I overpaid because I didn't see the service credit" or "I would like to pay for the next 3 months in advance" or "my accounts payable department sent the wrong check, can you shred it and we'll pay with credit card". These things have to be handled manually. Not to mention people calling to change their payment method because they don't remember their password to the website, or just want to chat. All that is a drain on actually running the business, but unavoidable. You can't just say "nah we won't shred your check", so someone has to go find it and deal with it. While they're doing that, they're not making our product more innovative or reliable. They're running a check through a shredder. Anyone could do that, but unless you have 8 hours of check shredding to do a day, you are spending CFO salary on the task instead of check shredder salary on it. Therein lies the problem.

If this could all be outsourced, I'd pay a lot of money for it. So would any business. Billing is something you have to do if you want to collect money, but it's a time sink. Game developers don't have to worry about this, and generally seem OK with that. I don't blame them. They are lucky Steam exists.