skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I hope it's just where the toxic find their voice, an echo chamber for a hopefully small minority of the total population. It's really depressing to think that so many well-educated people are so narrow minded and lacking in empathy. It would however explain the systemic irresponsible behavior present in some companies such as Facebook and Uber. It's easy to believe that even a minority of such people could be the bad apples that spoil the rest.
For what it's worth, the word "dangerous" never appears in the report, unless my Find feature isn't working well in the PDF.

"Dangerous" is a value judgment; the PDF is a report on journalists who were "killed, detained, held hostage, or missing." Note that this doesn't include harassment, another metric that could be possibly quantified and used to inform a theoretical "danger" ranking.

I guess what I'm leaning towards is that NBC News has a lot of spin in this piece. The headline makes you think it's about the US. The lede cites Khashoggi and tries to conflate it with general hostility towards the media in the United States, but his death was a very different situation (and different country!). Then it cites the global figure without saying "worldwide" in the paragraph, while never explicitly saying that the total death count in the US is 6. The report also shows that zero journalists were jailed in the US and zero were taken hostage.

I don't wish to minimize anyone's death. But the piece gives off a feeling that the US is becoming Saudi Arabia, yet the reason it's in this list at all is because of two events that don't really feel systemic: Capital Gazette, and hurricanes. (Could argue that mass shootings feel systemic in the US, but not mass shootings targeting journalists. No, I don't feel great trying to make that distinction.)

ADDENDUM:

How many people are working in the US as journalists? A quick search was tough to nail down. And, even with the mass shooting that hopefully proves to be a statistical anomaly, how does the deaths per 100,000 in the US compare to the 3.6 per 100,000 in the US's workplace at large?[0]

Also, edited this to remove my confusion about where Khashoggi died.

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[0]: https://247wallst.com/special-report/2018/01/02/25-most-dang...
That's because the Chinese government has its thumbs in every pie in their country. If the government wanted, they could easily compel your company to do its bidding.
It sounded more like you were trying to discredit the report. The terms are well accepted laymen terms to use when talking about cracking passwords.
I guess you can at least look up the patent and validate the idea.
ZomboDB: Making Postgres and Elasticsearch work together like it's 2018
Show HN: Personalized email addresses for your entire family
I am using this book for interview prep as well. Code is pythonic and a joy to read.
> The data hasn't ever been stored in Australia. All our data is currently stored in the USA and Netherlands.

Though of course, since you're in the jurisdiction of our great nation you have to turn over data if requested anyway (this hasn't changed). Actually I'm a bit more concerned that you store data in the US.

> The AABill happened the way it did in Australia because our politics is particularly broken right now (seriously, we have a minority government which has change leaders twice and lost multiple members to scandals). We call it "wedge politics" and Labor were forced into supporting it because otherwise they'd look soft on terrorism going into the holiday period, and anything at all which happened would be blamed on them not supporting the bill.

Our politics has been broken for almost 2 decades. It's not really a recent phenomenon.
Same in Poland, some colleagues from India were very disappointed when they looked at the menu and saw vegetarian fish.
With WhatsApp, end-to-end encryption is used by everybody, even though most people probably do not realize it.

EDIT: Okay, that came out more snarky than I wanted it to. On the one hand, you are right, of course: Provide a secure, encrypted, easy-to-use means of communication, and people with something to hide will use it. If I wanted to download or spread child pornography, I would not do it via an unencrypted channel, either.

On the other hand, your comment might be read by some to mean that you think encryption is the problem. And I think, by the time somebody posts a video of a child getting raped to a WhatsApp group, the problem has been around for while and is not going to magically disappear if WhatsApp were to remove end-to-end encryption from their service.

And child pornography, understandably, provokes strong emotions, which is why politicians and law enforcement officials eager to push more surveillance or censorship like to use it as a reason to push their agenda.
I wonder why they need those coal plants. There’s an enormous looking nuclear plant on the outskirts of Orlando.
There was also a hurricane that killed 2 journalists.
I think the argument is about what exactly those receptors do and which compounds have which affinities for which separate cb receptor complexes
India allows 10 government agencies to access citizens’ digital messages
I don't get this, is there a financial difference if Facebook holds the money and stores the "amount" in WhatsApp vs. a cryptocurrency with tokens stored in WhatsApp that you can only use in WhatsApp? I'm too stupid for this.
We had three seasons today. And the rainfall of an entire season this afternoon.

Neemo of Brisbane.
Like many others here I've invested in index funds in recent years, just to see modest returns. I doubt this kind of return is really worth the trouble, even though all thouse "early retirement" people keep telling me I'll come out on top in the long run. I don't really think it's a very good idea to trust the global economy to do the right thing with my money, considering all those dumbf* running the show.
Why would anchoring a debris collection platform be a bad idea? Water flows and currents in certain areas can be quite predictable.

Something like one of those anemones that sits at the edges of of sea shelfs collecting organic matter as it passes by... Relying on the current.
My comments:

Use of unsaturated colors can become boring.

No use of photographic material in visualizations.

Don't try to create structure where there is none, as this can be confusing. For example, in the local activism graph, colors have little meaning, e.g. "abortion rights" and "peace/anti-war" have almost the same color, while they are semantically far apart.

Use icons to depict meaning. For example, in the fundraising graph, instead of using circles of various sizes, one could use stacks of money of different sizes, which would make the meaning immediately apparent.
Ah Melbourne in the "between spring and summer"... the storms recently have been impressive. But next week we enter the Xmas slumber and hot weather...
> Labor had a series of sensible amendments that would have diminished the opportunity for any government to abuse this silly legislation. I think trying to equate both parties is disingenuous and wilfully ignores a mountain of context.

A series of amendments that were dropped, despite the political reasons for keeping them (including the Nauru medical bill which didn't pass). Now, there were a series of useful House of Representatives amendments, but a series of useful amendments to an awful idea really isn't much of an improvement.

Feel free to put Labor above the Liberals on your next ballot, but please consider putting a third party (Greens, Science Party, Pirate Party) above them. We have preferential voting for a reason.
Portugal is a 4-year ‘success story’ for European Space Agency
Show HN: Paws, an AWS SDK for R
A Man-Eating Tiger's 'Vengeance' (2010)
Well, a person who creates the jugaads is called "jugaadi". So, Jugaadi News.
Hey HN,

We often use R and AWS, but felt limited in our ability to use them together. While AWS provides SDKs for many languages, R is not one of them. This led us to ask: how hard could it be to build an R SDK ourselves?

It turns out that it was harder than we thought, but our work has culminated in the creation of Paws - a Package for AWS. By using the existing Go and JavaScript SDKs as a guide, we developed Paws to provide users with packages for over 100 services that can be run in R. We have examples for a few of these.

We wrote Paws fully in R, with the hope that other members of the R community will feel comfortable submitting issues or contributing merge requests.

Thank you for checking out our work!
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Telling inasmuch as they are gateways to both companies’ paid offerings? Indeed. Sometimes the answer is simple and doesn’t require FUD, guys.
Also, is it really worth it to a doctor in the US? Even if I _know_ for a fact that it would work 100% absolutely the same as the multi-million dollar device, that's not the accepted procedure. I could still do it and save thousands of lives, but as soon as _anything_ goes wrong there's going to be a lawsuit and the fact that I used this crappy looking $5 thing is going to be a huge part of it, even if it had absolutely nothing to do with the death.

Even if your motives were good, you were arguably doing what is best for society, and the device had nothing at all to do with the situation your career is over... Who in their right mind is ever going to do that?
Google+ APIs to close down on March 7, 2019
The originals don't have enough merchandising tie ins.
In Project Maven's Wake, the Pentagon Seeks AI Tech Talent
Google's former AI chief is now an Apple VP
More specifically (but hopefully not too specific and turn away lay folks), THC affects the CB1 receptors and CBD affects the CB2 receptors. CB1 is mostly in the brain / nervous system and thus when modulated gives you a euphoric effect (the being “high” sensation). CB2 however is more related to the immune system and your gut. It thus when modulated has pain killing and other therapeutic effects. For those with auto-immune diseases, modulating the CB2 receptors with unadulterated CBD/CBN/CBG are very beneficial and doesn’t give you the “high” sensation commonly associated with MMJ. Same goes for those who have chronic muscle and joint pain. And unlike opioids, isn’t habit forming and mostly is side effect free.
WHOA. Alright, time to re-read that guy again.
Append URL after outline.com to avoid geoblocking and clean content:

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With Java vs C++, the experience seems similar. In C++, memory allocation is slow, so you worry about memory allocation up front. In Java, GC is a pain so you worry about memory allocation up front. As Daniel points out, there are a few extra tricks available to native developers (eg vector instructions), so there's a small factor speed-up in best-practice C++ vs best-practice Java, but this is closing (eg the JIT increasingly uses vector instructions). Overwhelmingly the difference between a slow system and a fast system is appropriate choices of algorithms and architecture, not the language.
It's not clear to me if he invented a new device, or simply built a 2$ home made version of a 6000$ standard bubble-CPAP.
In other word, is this a story about ingenuity saving lives, or about regulation and industry profiting on medical devices killing lives?

(Note that I'm not saying that we necessarily have too much regulation or that medical industry profits too much; I'm just saying that in this specific case they would be failing to save people, while overall they could still be optimal)
Universally Accessible Web Application – The New Web
Well, if we insist on being pedantic rather than charitable, from your link:

> Those who were convicted were freed by higher courts and had their convictions overturned or pleaded guilty on lesser charges

It would seem they plead guilty to lesser charges. If it would make you feel better, I can amend my original post to say “...none of the original charges stuck...” Would this make you feel better?
And while we’re talking about ridiculous what-ifs with no basis in reality, 5G could be giving you cancer!
Automated interceptor-drones must be a thing by now.
I know for certain there's a german company specializing in drone-defense, but I think their competency lies mostly with detection/jamming.
Here is an example of anomaly detection with ML.NET its not online learning based however.

https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/dotnet/2018/11/08/announcin...
The argument isn’t in favor of prohibition; the argument is that marijuana has risks.

The argument also isn’t, I think, that marijuana, or television, or social media, is “very vital to our health”. So I’m not super clear on what you’re arguing against, here.
NLP will only continue to improve in the years ahead. I've got a few echo's around the house, and yes the current implementation of NLP is not perfect. It requires some modification of how the user speaks, but the first time you say "Alexa what's the weather today?" and Alexa comes back with the day's forecast is a jaw dropping moment (at least for me it was). I believe voice activated devices will ultimately be placed all over the house and we'll communicate with our computers for a lot of various tasks through voice - it's just natural for humans. Think of all the mundane tasks you do typing into a computer - setting calendar appointments in outlook for example - and then think how many mouse clicks and typing are required. It's so much easier to just tell a computer using a voice command.

The privacy issue is easily solvable IMO. Google already requires a physical mute button on their devices to disable the mics in hardware not just software. It will require either user trust (admittedly in short supply with tech companies lately) or some government regulations but there is no reason even today for devices to have to "record" your conversations in order to process. As long as you require a "wakeword" to tell the device to start listening to your next commands the device doesn't need to record all audio all the time.
> If you're asserting it's a placebo effect, shouldn't that mean you have significant proof no other effect is involved?

Thats not how scientific research into drugs works. The null hypothesis that you hold by default is that the substance being studied has no effect. The purpose of research is to demonstrate that an effect exists and until that has been shown the null hypothesis is held to be true.

https://info.umkc.edu/drbanderson/null-hypothesis-testing/
https://niskanencenter.org/blog/policies/opensociety/

It seems the break is between redistribution and regulation. They argue that redistribution tend to result in lower regulation.
Pareto's law. You optimize the few parts that matter speedwise, and the rest you can do in ordinary "higher level, garbage collected" fashion. In C++ you can't do that. This is the standard argument for Lisp type-optimization (DECLAIM, THE, etc.) as well.
Came up with the idea for this with my wife and decided to build it! Been dogfooding it with my family and am now sharing it with the rest of the world.

Tech stack is Node/Express running on Dokku/Digital Ocean for the API. UI is built using Parcel and hosted on Netlify.

Would love to hear your thoughts and happy to answer any questions you folks may have :-)
Toggl is not US, it's from EU. But even as an European I feel uneasy when dealing with US companies, because the political landscape there seems to be quite unhinged.
re: the satanic panic, the tunnels (under the school) reported by the children were verified years later. At the time, the inability to find the tunnels was key in discrediting the childrens' testimony.

re: Wenatchee WA. The justice system not providing enough proof for a guilty verdict does not mean the events did not happen. It only means there was not proof beyond a reasonable doubt according to the courts. However, it does seem like law enforcement did not act ethically & it's more likely they created false testimony from their witness badgering (of children) & dubious theories. In this case, members of law enforcement conspired to create a false case.

Sometimes people act on incomplete information and are correct. When organizations act in secret, a rational person ought not to trust these organizations. In the realm of politics, where warfare is fought in many domains, it is beneficial to be critical of such organizations. Otherwise, instead of being a "conspiracy theorist", one becomes a "coincidence theorist", when creating models of how & why related events occur.
Apple did not place themselves about the law, they went to a properly constituted court and asked the judge to rule on whether what the FBI was asking was lawful.

During those proceedings, they also explained how complying with the FBI's request would lead to a highly damaging corruption of the privacy of their users data.

They asked the judge to make a judgement which was that Apple were right in saying that the FBI had over-reached in their warrant.

The case was headed to appeals when the FBI withdrew after finding another way to get the information they needed. Notably they did so without Apple having to compromise security or user data privacy.
I don't think you have grasped what a mass medium is - you don't get millions of people joining each house. You get lots of houses with a few people in them.
As a vegan with coeliac disease I am very grateful that the fad somehow decided to pair these things together.

I got very sick some years ago when I moved from a vegetarian diet to a vegan one and discovered that most specifically-marked-for-vegan protein dishes contain gluten.
I see now. My first thought was that they're responsible, but from the text the photo appears to be a PR photo and the post tounge-in-cheek.
Is Your New Feature Worth It? 2 Questions and 2 Alternatives
Same case as Rust then. Currently backed by Mozilla, with lots of big companies using it too. IIRC the most famous case is Dropbox. Rust has unique features that make it very attractive. I'd say Go has unique features too (e.g. uniformity of code style). Having unique features means the language will probably live on even if the current maintainers step down.

D doesn't bring anything new to the table, that's why it's not as relevant.
strace, mainly, and the help of the experts in #riscv on freenode.
You're welcome to do that yourself, if you're so inclined. I doubt they would take your argument seriously though since you're not making any sensible comparisons.
It is easy to task authorities with intercept and decryption duties; actually doing it successfully is another matter entirely. Mathematics works both ways, friends.
DDNS with Cloudflare API
Fosspatents and Florian Mueller.. Where do I remember these? In past he was paid by big corporations for his "Consultancy" services.
It's not clear what you mean by "assets". Stock prices tend to reflect growth expectations, so higher prices today imply that real incomes are expected to increase. Other assets are almost the other way around - they increase in price when future interest rates are expected to be lower, which is associated with stagnation and lower growth.

(The latter is why the argument in the article does not even wholly makes sense, IMHO. You don't raise rates in order to get some "room" to slash them in the future; you do it because if you don't, and market rates of return ("natural" rates) are trending higher due to improved growth, inflation will eventually spiral out of control. It's a bit like trying to balance a pencil on your hand, and keep it from falling.)
When I deleted my account it said "you will be unable to recover your password through Blind"

Heh, guess I could just use this table of hashed passwords that they exposed and figure it out myself ;-)
Drones at Gatwick Airport Was Just Waiting to Happen
Interesting. I wasn’t aware that ARM allowed this at all.
Microsoft Promises Sandboxed Apps with the Security of VMs
Sorry, but I'm not understanding your point. Index funds are almost no trouble at all. People harping on index funds typically suggest something akin to 'invest in an S&P 500 index fund and let it sit for 35 years.' So all you have to do is buy the shares and leave them there. If it's in your 401(k) then it can be essentially automated.

We have a long history of data that suggests that in the long run the stock market is the good investment to get returns from. Picking an index fund protects you from one of the companies in the index going to zero and removes the randomness of stock picking from the equation.

Considering returns compound, even modest returns are better than just sitting in cash. What would you suggest as an alternative?
You could at least do Buzzword Bingo since it's Facebook:

https://bullshitbingo.net/cards/buzzword/
It's also surprisingly nice. 8G of DDR4 EEC RAM, 4 surprisingly fast CPU cores, and a gigabit ethernet port - it all adds up to a really pleasant board to work with.
I have been tracking them since early 2014, and I follow their video updates regularly.

I'm surprised at how many scientists and experienced people are concerned about the booms harming marine life. If you see this video, you'll understand that they're sweeping and shepherding surface-level plastic in a boom. If a turtle or dolphin were to swim into the collection area, then the creature can easily swim out or beneath the booms. Indeed, non-living plastic too is slipping out beneath the boom (what this article itself infoms us!)!

I recently saw their video [1] where they showed how they've been able to detect that some (not "all", like this article insinuates) plastic has slipped under the boom. They tried some things on the spot, like bringing the boom ends closer, raising the boom arms, etc. This is a video that they had themselves published, and is thereofre hardly a "scoop" or an exposé.

See also their FAQ, that they update regularly.

For e.g. they intend to visit each boom once in six weeks, cleaning up, revising future designs based on lessons learned, etc, thus preventing the boom from becoming a Fish Aggregating Device.

Their techonology page [3] is also informative.

I urge HN readers to please review the videos and the FAQ, and not just conclude based on one article.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O1EAeNdTFHU

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RcRIE98y_UM

[2] https://www.theoceancleanup.com/faq/#

[3] https://www.theoceancleanup.com/technology/
I hope everyone likes the article and suggest updates to it.
Could you clarify on what the "trouble" is? Unless you are referring to not spending the money.

The article is fairly dramatic, however the silver lining I see is that, it would seem the wealth inequality will kill the economy before we end up with riots from the poor and working class and it'll be in the incentives of the rich to solve the problem..
I don't think Go should be used for larger projects. Apparently though the community disagrees because they're really adding generics.
Why would Facebook have any interest in this? Public trust? Is the public that smart?
By updating the packages you need that are outdated and sending patches upstream. The package manifests are pretty straightforward and easy to work with.
Kind of non plussed by this fiction. What is the point of trivializing a specific diet? Even if you don't have a doctor's note it's not really anyones problem that you're eating gluten free; except of course maybe if you create some entirely artificial situation in your fiction writing. I think this kind of thinking has generated a lot of people pushing back at me when they should just not care.
Not really, I recognise that using a car is a problem in terms of carbon emissions. If someone invites me on holiday, and I insist we all walk there, I am inconveniencing them even though I'm correct.
How many Instagram influencers does it take to clean up the ocean?
Because it's cheaper and easier to maintain to put the solar generating capacity next to the road instead of "on the road". You get twice as much solar capacity when you put it beside the road for the same money (installation + maintainance) -> better.