skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You should blame the makers of OxyContin for publishing misleading information and pushing it on people who don't need it and creating a big health crisis that way. The people who really need it are suffering from it. Blame the company and not the people who have to deal with the tens of thousands of opioid deaths.
Specifically, if you charge back the stay on your credit card, which would get you a refund. I expect that if you do this, Airbnb will ban you from the platform.
They really do make it much harder than it needs to be. I was in Colorado on vacation and accidentally ran a toll at night. Just got a bill a couple weeks later for the exact amount of the toll with no fine. No reason it can't be like that in Illinois.
If someone has a historical record of making delusions become reality, then I think they aren't really delusional.
It also isn't GPL-encumbered.
I wish you'd have dived into software part of rendering text. Fonts, scaling etc.

Great article, thank you very much!
> ... a Phase II trial, which means it is focused on identifying dosage ranges and side effects in human rather than a large-scale efficacy trial. (It's also the first time you actually give a drug candidate to humans).

FWIW your drug candidate is administered in all phases. Phase I you look for side effects ("safety and tolerability"). Phase II is, as you say, a dose ranging study, but you can't exceed dosages you've already tested for safety. You usually have multiple arms (a placebo and a couple of dosages); when you find an seemingly efficacious dose you then proceed to a Phase III where you test that dosage (or several) on a statistically representative enough sample to hopefully predict results in the population at large.

(former drug designer who has designed some Phase I and II studies).

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Fun fact: when you file your IND with the FDA to test a new drug you aren't actually asking for permission. You're asking them to tell you that if you follow the protocol you have sent them, based on the evidence you've sent them from what you know already, they won't prosecute you for violating the law on administering unapproved drugs. Section 505 for the food and drug law has a bunch of exceptions -- you ask then to tell you you fit in one of the exceptions.

And if they don't tell you "no" in a 30 days...you can go ahead! I wonder if the shutdown extends that 30 days.
Crypto isn't anarchocapitalism and that is derailing the subject. All those social ills occur under countries with regulated fiat currency.
A good rule of thumb is that if an establishment is based on a name (like "Penny's" or "Dotty's") and doesn't have any other indication of what its business is (and obviously isn't a bar), then it's a gambling joint.
> func F(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request)

And me thinking the days of C compilers with 10 character limit for identifiers on the symbol table was long gone.
Paul Graham had a great article on Lisp. In his view, Lisp programmers love Lisp because it offers extremely powerful features in a way that other programming languages don't. Those who don't understand Lisp are (rightly) skeptical. Their thought process goes something like, "I don't need these features, and I do my work just fine". In other words, they don't know what they're missing out on, and so it appears useless to them.

I've found this pattern of human thinking to repeat itself in countless places in my life. From politics to programming and everything in between, systems look like unusable chaos when you don't understand it and have not been able to derive a controlled benefit from it. Once you learn how to use it, everything falls into place, and you immediately see how blind others are to the system as you now understand it (the curse of knowledge).

Working with people effectively is a skill, and one as rare as competent programming. And when you don't know how to do it, it looks useless or arbitrary.
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I believe the self-test works because the person treats narcissism as a source of their special status, thus conforming to their desired false image.

In other words, it makes them special, so they happily admit to it, because being special is exactly what they want.
Amending the last commit does basically the same thing and records each state in the reflog.
> The big war machine isn't what keeps us safe; that is a fetishization of the military that has always been around as a justification for outsized military budgets.

It absolutely is, please understand that I'm not american, and I believe the US Mil. budget is way, way, WAY over the top. But the opposite, not having any of it, would be even stupider. You have the entirety of history to verify the claim, and giving exemples of countries who don't have it but are covered and defended by those who do does not really dispute it.

> Saying that we've gotten research via military funding also disregards how much more research we could get if it weren't redirected through the war bureaucracy.

Sure, if you're willing to forget the nature of what we are.

The possibilities are not "war and war research" or "no war, no war research, all in scientific research". The human nature of what makes armed conflict happen has been there since before there even was a notion of anything close to "research budgets".
> it's just exaggerated beyond any reason.

I'm not convinced that this would be legal.

As an example: let's assume someone is in a theater and has a lighter. They flick the lighter on, so that there is a flame. You them scream "FIRE!!! EVERYONE OUT!!!" Let's also assume that people follow the direction (a key point, which now fulfills insighting undo panic).

Would you be arrested, or at minimum fined? I believe so. The key phrase being "beyond any reason". But clearly this can be much more nuanced than the example given above.

Disclaimer: I'm not a lawyer
> And QT, a popular window toolkit, is quite expensive unless you release your software under GPL (at which point you can use QT for free under the GPL license).

WHY do people keep repeating that?! Qt is NOT under GPL, you do NOT need to release your software under GPL to use it!
I understand the line of reasoning, but in the case of Electron in particular, it really cannot be improved. The model is: run an entire web application, per app. That's incredibly expensive, and there's no way to scale that back in a way that is still Electron.
I learned early on in my career to not bother interviewing with non-local companies that wouldn't pay for my interview expenses up-front (hotel, airfare if necessary). If they're that cheap, they're not going to be a good place to work for.

I've also found that smaller companies tend to be really bad about this stuff (not universally!). Big companies are almost always very fair and honorable about treating interviewees well.
Sadly, this is the way that IT is going as well. It's getting harder to start at the help desk and work your way into a real position anywhere. When we interviewed for a Desktop Support person, 80% (my guesstimate) of our applicants only had (limited) access to the Office 365 portal, performed basic password resets, and did shit-work like wipe drives. They were totally silo'd out of being able to grow. They weren't even given local admin permissions on workstations to be able to do any real troubleshooting.

Of course, all this is in the name of "security" and the least-privilege thing. It's horse shit really. You need to be able to trust your employees and then audit. But it's easier to manage people when you can just lock them into a position and leave them there to rot.
For some things, Tor works just fine. For some sites, Tor is either blocked, or may send you through endless captchas. At least, that has been my experience.
I'm curious as to your thoughts on how big war machines do not provide safety, and why the thought that they do is only fetishism of the military?
Is there anything that could have been different in the phone interview or skype video that would have exposed this earlier? Or is it too easy for such a candidate to cheat when remote?

Was also wondering what is in it for the candidate -- if they know that they are going to flunk the on-site interview, do they just want a free vacation out of it?
Did you get to the part where his girlfriend has multiple personalities? 21 to be exact, one of which is a rabbit.

I started taking him and the article less seriously after that. Really smacks of someone who thinks they have the world figured out at every point in their life and every 6-12 months they realize how wrong they were but now they have it figured out.
Well, wordexp's purpose is literally to "perform shell-style word expansions", as quoted from the man page. It even supports command substitution if you don't pass WRDE_CMDSUB.

So really, the entire premise of that POSIX function is horrible[1]. Just like system(), which also explicitly executes the given command line using the shell. These functions are not safe to use with untrusted input (e.g. remotely), ever.

EDIT: [1] But arguably only as horrible as calling out to the shell is in general. If you e.g. use it as part of a shell utility that assumes full POSIX-permissioned access to your user anyway, it's not unreasonable because there isn't any privilege escalation at all. Though I'd argue that in the case of system() it's probably more clear to the developer that a shell callout is happening. And also, that the "shell-style" expansion performed here is kinda muddily defined.
How did they do this and only make a few million?...
we [as a species] already have probes landing on interplanetary bodies; and have made considerations to manipulate trajectories of such.

I would entertain the possibility the object in question could be just such a hacksteroid of mostly cosmic origin with some tech pushing it around.
Yeah, though I think the concern is that the article headline acts as if the default would ever have been linear scan. It's like saying "Microwave Ovens: How to make cooking 1,000 times faster" and then comparing to direct solar heating and cooking.
The have to put in some out of context ads sometimes, just so they can train their system.

For example they may show you an ads about hairdryers after you searched for computer keyboards. There is absolutely no relationship between the two, but Google doesn't know it yet, so they try. After all, there may be a correlation. In the likely event where there isn't, Google will simply stop showing hairdryer ads and show you computer mice instead (a known correlation) or running shoes (another experiment).
That's not a UBI, then, because it's not unconditional.

Also, I suspect the formula you intend is X + max(UBI - X, 0)—or, more simply max(UBI, X). Consider what your formula does for pension < UBI.
You can name the function anything you’d like. When you deploy the function, you specify the entry point function name. Many of our alpha testers used “F” for function because it’s quick and easy, but that’s not a requirement :)
Unless AirBNB solicits more fine-grained reviews to elicit feedback on such things, or enacts a policy around consumables, this is the direction many hosts will go. As long as it doesn't reflect in the photos, corners will be cut.
I wonder where he worked and why he was terminated. It was probably a similar pattern of behavior at work.
> One can find Electron bloated and inefficient but acknowledge that there are advantages to the platform, and respect that for some people the tradeoffs are worthwhile.

Totally agree. The problem is the biting Q&A is misconstruing such moderate opinions as religious zealotry and then mocking the people who hold them.
Yeah. Even a sqlite library would have been a MASSIVE improvement.
I'll bet it's really nice to have major cities beg you to move there.
Their privacy policy looked very different at the time Lin was allegedly using it:

> We Do Not monitor user activity nor do we keep any logs. We therefore have no record of your activities such as which software you used, which websites you visited, what content you downloaded, which apps you used, etc. after you connected to any of our servers. Our servers automatically record the time at which you connect to any of our servers. From here on forward, we do not keep any records of anything that could associate any specific activity to a specific user. The time when a successful connection is made with our servers is counted as a “connection” and the total bandwidth used during this connection is called “bandwidth”. Connection and bandwidth are kept in record to maintain the quality of our service. This helps us understand the flow of traffic to specific servers so we could optimize them better.

They appear to have made the policy (and presumably connection logging) change in June 2018. For reference, Lin pleaded guilty to charges related to the criminal complaint posted by OP in April 2018. I would imagine PureVPN's lawyers had advised them to wait until the case had ended before enacting the new policy.

Source: https://web.archive.org/web/20170128142453/https://www.purev...
What exactly is the first diagram supposed to be proving about angle trisection?

If it's trying to show a way to solve the problem, it's kind of missing the point of doing it with just a compass and straightedge. There are much simpler tools you can add that let you trisect an angle. And the device depicted doesn't actually work, because when you try to align the ends the middle points will poke through the paper.

If it's trying to argue that you need more tools than compass and straightedge it's just nonsense because you could make an analogous picture with a bisector yet angle bisection is trivial.
One problem this does is it shifts the costs of this to individual projects.

In my field, the average OA field is probably around $3000.

Assuming a five year project that produces 5 papers a year (not unreasonable), you get $75,000.

That's almost exactly what it costs, with salary, tuition, and fringe, to support two graduate students. So funders would have to accept getting less productivity from the same projects.

It also favors large labs with senior PIs that have the funding to absorb those costs.
Perhaps managing git is finally the business case for VR, Hold my coffee I'm going rebase jumping.
>it's a simple matter of parallel construction for domestic law enforcement to pop you.

This is more just putting some circumstantial evidence together. Parallel construction refers to going out and getting evidence a second time, because you don’t want to reveal how you got it the first time. Usually because the first time it was collected was without a warrant, or collected from a sources or via a method you want to keep secret. So the evidence is reconstructed in parallel.
Heck yes.
I still don't get how so many creators of apps justify choosing Electron to themselves, what with all the downsides (resource usage, power consumption, accessibility, security, and so on).

Another GUI-framework I've enjoyed using is wxWidgets, which provides a thin abstraction to a platform's native widgets.
Has a bunch of language bindings, and a pretty liberal license as well.
Key West moves to ban sunscreens that could damage reefs, while for certain increasing the risk of skin cancer for humans.

It's a very specially ordered set of priorities, a bit like in Star Wars Last Jedi were they freed the caged animals but not the slave child laborers.
Dr Robert C. Palmer: The legal loophole that defies democracy in Britain
Good eye. Swastika patterns are always something to beware of when creating a pinwheel based design, whether in a logo, decoration, architecture, or even just pinwheels.
> I believe the commonly accepted answer is "Yes, it's not my job to give you the necessary information to improve yourself". The same people who say that also often ask "Why aren't the people around me improving themselves?"

But that’s in no way comparable. When in the real world i screw up I can tell from people’s responses. Body language, their actions etc. In this case it’s just discovering at one point someone blocked one without any indication of when that happened and why without any indication.

//edit: also even weirder in an effort to see where our interactions might have been i found a tweet from 2014 by myself about the same topic: https://mobile.twitter.com/mitsuhiko/status/5264923088676700...
Because it's literally meant to perform shell style substitution, with all the myriad of expansions that the shell supports. Similarly to system(), which also passes its input to the shell, it's never safe to use with untrusted input. (The man-page says so.)
Basically, it depends on whether we're dealing with floats or integers.
This is mostly just a matter of release cycles, where Debian's is slow and the timing is unfortunate for them. Had this been discovered a few months from now (after the release of Debian 10, which has a modern-enough GCC version for -fstack-clash-protection), it also wouldn't have been vulnerable.

Fedora takes security very seriously and I adore the distro in part for being on the bleeding edge, but this has more to do with where these distros happen to be in their release cycles than how seriously they take security.
If you read TFA, there was this answer directly preceding it:

> Then you are not the target audience of this program. See mps-youtube (link above) for a similar program that will not taint your machine with a library you happen to dislike.

Which would be fine. It even goes the extra step to recommend an alternative, which is unnecessarily gracious.
>but it's a bit of a straw man.

Knee jerk legislation is not a straw man. It happens all the time. The CFAA is a knee-jerk law. Here[1] is a more recent example.

[1]https://abcnews.go.com/US/ny-gov-andrew-cuomo-bans-stretch-l...

And the last paragraph of the article mentions banning long vehicles, which itself is a knee jerk response to when a drunk t-boned a limo on Long Island awhile back.

I agree about regulating incentives though.
Ask HN: What tool do you recommend for landing pages?
Even if this became the law no one with more than a half of brain would ever pay 70% tax. People earning north of $10M usually have a team of tax advisors, and a lot of options of avoiding income tax: offshore companies, charity foundations, etc. The discussion about this is just a distraction from more pressing matters.
From the lack of fulfillment it gives most people, and thus the regret as they spend more time on it.
I know a couple of men like this, and it's not confidence, arrogance, or judgmentalism that defines them, it's a lack of respect for normal adult boundaries, and a need for external validation that motivates their basic decision making. It's solvable for them if they learn enough, but I see them as psychologically un-weaned.

Men interact based on boundaries and often hierarchies, and a guy who is obliviously transgressive to that is usually thought of as "on the spectrum," or more rarely, a narcissist. Sometimes they are in actual positions of competence or authority, where their lack of respect for personal boundaries is consistent with an externally granted authority role, and this misdirects from the more pathological aspect of their behavior. Being transgressive is sometimes a sign of exceptional intelligence as well, so people tolerate it under the aegis of "brilliant jerk."

Personally, I have some sympathy for them because it's such a steep hill to climb if they are going to ever improve, but have learned to just be unambiguous about setting boundaries and making it clear I think they have a blind spot on boundaries they need to manage.

Provided you aren't being paid to take their abuse, you can reasonably say to them, "Consider whether you may have a blind spot on personal boundaries." If you are being paid, I recommend getting paid somewhere else.
As I understand it we more about Ultima Thule than that.
First, it is in orbit around our Sun. Further that orbit is very close to the ecliptic (low inclination). Further there are many such objects of various sizes in the Kuiper belt.

All of those things are easily explained by it having formed at the same time as the other Kuiper objects formed and in the same way. It makes it significantly unlikely that it flew in from far away, decelerated into orbit in the Kuiper belt, and then changed its orbit to match the ecliptic.

And even though it was but a few pixels, by calculating its mass using its orbital parameters its density can be deduced to be similar to other belt objects (rock and ice rather than metals). Which further enhances the 'its a normal object' hypothesis.

It is possible of course, that an alien civilization designed a probe that would mimic the composition of a Kuiper belt object and flew it here, and then inserted it into its orbit, and then flew away, so that it could sit there and do what ever it does. But that is not the most likely answer :-)
Also there are plenty of gullible friendly souls online and if even 1 person writes him “hey, I can help you out” he’s established a possible payday.

Scammers just throw stuff out there and see if anyone bites. Asking “but why would he tweet it, why would he post to Reddit, why would he email me? Etc” all come down to: because it works.
> I'd probably have marched myself back to the company and been like...

Nah, I'd do it like this "Since you've cancelled my return flight, and I have no means, I'll be contacting local press and seeing if they have any interest in my story. My second round of calls will be to local law firms to see if they have any interest in becoming part of case law in exchange for some pro bono work since you've left me no way to get home after my interview with me".
Plant sprouts on the Moon for first time ever
We have indeed. This page has some that are also in the habitable zone: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_potentially_habitable_...

Note that, while some are super-earths, others like Kepler-438b or the planets in the TRAPPIST-1 system are Earth-sized or smaller.
My only problem with this method is the volume level of imported songs is different than spotify's, which is very annoying because the imported songs are often a lot louder than other songs on spotify. Apparently spotify's volume normalization setting doesn't apply to these imported songs.
Many of the complaints of mistreatment illustrate a feature of this housing marketplace: big capital assets are in control, not the demand.

This runs counter to many other marketplaces millennials (+- 10 years) are used to. Shoes? Chocolate? Restaurants? Types of alcohol? Transportation? Whatever the customer wants, the customer gets.

It’s a simple reality that Airbnb will align with the host who brings in $10-30k/yr over even the frequent traveler who spends $1-10k.

I’m super interested in understanding how this might bite Airbnb or open opportunities for competitors. I’m very curious about these huge economic, behavioral shifts and what they mean for the quality of a product/service and how these services align with humanity’s best interests.
As far as anonymity and abuse goes, the Internet is not a revolutionary development. The postal system has existed for a very long time, and is capable of much worse. The Unabomber is a poignant example.
>there is enough evidence to be pretty sure every other significant celestial body is not an alien artifact.

How the heck do we know that? We have no idea what "alien technology" might be or what the result of it might look like.
Millions Sillicon Valley Spends On Security For Execs
And save on some cache misses as well.
People generally don't write glowing reviews of their exes, so forgive my skepticism of your and parent's anecdotes.
Have you seen Office Space?
Behold, Slack's New Logo
social networking for spotify: .mixtape – iOS beta
I’d love to try it out but don’t want to get in trouble!
In none of those cases were the effects global and permanent.