skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is useless at this time. There are no legal businesses that are now possible that weren't before the advent of cryptocurrency and criminal businesses still existed in the cash-only world (although they are easier to facilitate with cryptocurrency).

> we're a few years at least before language and infrastructure can be mature enough to have value for most users beyond earliest of adopters

There isn't really a clear explanation of why that would be the case. The bottom line is that smart contracts require a trusted oracle to feed data into the system, at that point, the advantages over a centralized system are essentially zero. There is no reason why anyone except enthusiasts, tinkerers and criminals would get involved.
Note that the number of Tory MPs which voted against her in the 2018 no confidence vote (which was an internal party thing) is almost exactly the same as the number of Tory MPs who voted against her deal. Even though she survived that no confidence vote it apparently presaged doom for this deal.
Show HN: Jasper
> There is always that guy who will click on any link or open the document from what appears to be their co-worker.

Which is another reason why DPI is ineffective. The smart malware will identify when its connection is presenting a custom root certificate rather than the expected one and not proceed with its suspicious activities (if not deploy some kind of steganography). Then the same "that guy" will plug his personal phone into his computer, and now the malware has an unmonitored cellular data connection to the outside on a machine that's also connected to the internal network. Or a compromised laptop will hook up to the WiFi of the company on the adjacent floor or the coffee shop next door, or the user connects it to the coffee shop WiFi when they're in the coffee shop.

In theory you can build a Faraday cage around your space and then strip-search employees for digital devices at the door, but if your data is that important then you probably ought to just not be connected to the internet at all.
$13 is a burger and a soda at any sit-down restaurant in my town. At McDonalds that would get you two value meals.
It was the sweetness of it. Have had one of the Kickstarts before? All of the flavors are super sweet.
You're probably right, though that would be pretty funny, given that ranked voting would actually give the leave side a better chance since it would avoid them getting split.
> elections right here in the US are decided by as few as a dozen votes

But Americans get a re-do every two years =)
I wish I knew, I have asked and the best I can sumise is that their lives haven’t gone they way they hoped, the UK government has historically blamed stuff on the EU (a bit like someone blaming stuff on their manager to a customer) so they correlate the two “my life is not what I hoped because of the EU”, sprinkle on some patriotism (well I’m “British”) and the fear that 52/48 isn’t strong enough to see their “win” over the line and you get angry people. I could be way off but this is the best conclusion I have come to.
Obviously false - the body can highly vary how much energy it uses and for what, quite a bit. To name just one variable - it varies how much DNA repair takes place according to circumstance.
I wrote up this news here: https://e-pluribusunum.org/2019/01/15/president-trump-signs-...

This was the subject of a previous thread, here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18746132
I'm not trying to claim that people can't change their lifestyles with sustained effort. I'm really going for two things here:

1) Willpower is something for an individual to try, but given that so many people seem to completely fail at it, it's not a productive avenue for solving this problem in a systemic way. For the same reason, we e.g. prefer to design safe electrical systems instead of just telling people to be careful.

2) A lot of signals coming from our bodies influence our behavior on the level beyond conscious control. It would be much easier to will yourself into healthy weight if you only had to decide to eat less, instead of constantly fighting hunger, fatigue, stress, and compulsive thoughts about food. The degree and type of such subconscious influence seems to differ between people.
I disagree that it used to have more quality content. Used to be it had a lot of old things, and not much of real value. Now it has a bunch of new things(not all great) where more, and more stuff of value is being added all the time.

I do agree with the notion that the rating system has gotten worse though.
It's also one of the best providers of streaming HDR / Dolby Vision media.
Related, I love to send my bash scripts though https://www.shellcheck.net/
They've made some things better, and some things worse. Which I think was the point.
Life and Lost Art of Szukalski
I was 1/2 way through reading your comment and was thinking, "Yeah, but they can use the getrandom() that was ported from OpenBSD", but you obviously beat me to it. Take your upvote!
Mostly because, left is more then just one group. Some groups are violent on themselves, some are response to violence from the right. It is not like the left would habe monopol on harassment or violence. If anything there is more violence on the right.

Most importantly, USA is not 19 century Russia in pretty much any way. You went completely offtopic and also conflated antifa with social programs - in discussion about tribalism and biases. Achievement.
> fit a bunch of ugly angels on a pointless pin. It just feels so pointless.

A pointless pin would indeed be pointless.
The Russians allegedly spent 97 pence favoring brexit. Really. Indeed, they did get their money's worth.
I'd always want to make sure no PII is accidentally leaked. Example: in 1997, researchers at MIT showed that using only gender, date of birth and ZIP code, it is possible to identify the majority of US residents! They proved their point by identifying the Massachusetts governor's medical records in a publicly-available dataset that was presumed anonymous. In 2010, Netflix published an “anonymized” dataset of movie ratings by users. After it was released to the public, researchers were able to identify many Netflix users, even though the dataset only contained user ID, movie, rating, and rating date.
> Leaving the EU is not a completely insane thing to do.

Leaving is not insane in itself. Leaving with a favorable deal with questionable leverage is irrational. Not sure if insane, but at least it's borderline fantasyland
DDG uses Bing as well as a bunch of other sources, including their own crawlers. Portraying it as a sort of "Bing in disguise" is incorrect.
Said tools exist, though they're not particularly successful. Word is just too easy to use - even if the replacement is 5% better (which is unlikely), that's not enough to prompt a shift.
The problem is that everyone installs aftermarket headlights without bothering to adjust where they're pointed, so the lights are pointed directly in your face instead of down at the road.
>as unfavorable a set of exit conditions as possible

Have you read the deal? I have.

The deal says that after the transition period there are no on-going arrangements. E.g. It's a no deal brexit.

The deal arranges what happens around the exit (E.g. so that if you buy something the day before, it still has to be delivered to you the day after).
NYT's plan to make money from voice
> The streaming quality is fantastic.

That's highly dependent on your computer's operating system, web browser, HDMI cable, monitor HDCP version, whether your CPU was made by Intel or AMD, which generation of Intel CPU you have, and probably some other factors which I haven't ran into.
Yes, that's very much correct - thank you!

The correct link is:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-46885828

I'm afraid I don't have the privileges to edit the URL (I can update just the title).
Brexit has been sabotaged by a conspiracy by May? You seriously believe she is devious enough? This is tin-foil hat nonsense.

Brexit is and will be a failure by definition - simply because it was never specified exactly what it involved. There are 1000s of ways to NOT be a member of the EU. "Brexit" covers all of them so leave-supporting politicians have been arguing furiously on the basis that their particular version of "not being in the EU anymore" reflects the "will of the people".

The "Leave" movement consisted of many incompatible positions on the future relationship - this was made clear in the run up to the referendum. Many Brexit supporters advocated a Norway (EEA) type relationship, others wanted to stay in the Customs Union, others wanted a Canada free trade type of relationship, for other the European Court of Justice was the red line, for a significant number immigrants were the problem, etc.

Surprise, surprise, no matter what May presented was going to be objectionable to a majority particularly if you include the remain supporters. There is no conspiracy required to see that this circle is impossible to square.
The UK is a sovereign country -- how is it possible for them to never be able to do something without someone else's permission?
Well the way EU is sticking it the UK would be reason enough to leave.

Assuming the UK wants to remain a sovereign nation rather than an EU client.
True.

Kind of depends on what they say is "sensitive". Probably not much of a facility for appealing that designation either.

I sorta look at it like the "First Step" prison reform act, it's only the start.

Baby steps.
Netflix still has its classic DVDs by mail business, which is still a great deal when you think about what it used to be like renting movies. Or you could rent movies via streaming. Netflix isn’t trying to kill Blockbuster anymore. It’s trying to kill cable/network TV, where they have their own content, but also air reruns and a few movies.
Maybe so. Horses got people from A to B just fine as well.

I'm not sold one way or the other yet, but the amount of trust some institutions have taken on and abused has been a bit ridiculous the past few years (and emerged unscathed themselves while their clients were left to deal with it).
Netrunner Linux 19.01 – Blackbird released
I completely agree. To me it seem like we are in a media bubble, and I wonder how long until it all comes crashing down.
arXiv’s Annual Update
Is that what they say on TV nowadays? Somehow Britain existed for 2 thousand years without the EU all the way until 1973, and now for it to exist without the EU (and presumably with stronger ties to the US) would be "apocalyptically" bad? This doesn't pass the sniff test, IMO.
I looked at a few of those studies (including the top hits) and it doesn't look like any of them bothered to control for patient income. Since organic food and thus exposure to non-organic-farming hormone and pesticides is basically a proxy for income nothing at all useful can be drawn from these studies other than that poor people tend to be fatter.

Medical studies in general have a long way to go to catch up to even the stuff coming out of social-science and public policy journals.
Looks like this is an artifact of the built-in (old) bash on osx. I see that it works in the newer versions of bash on my freebsd and linux hosts. The mac bash man page says:

Only backslash (\) and single quotes can quote the history expansion character.

where the newer man page says:

Only backslash (\) and single quotes can quote the history expansion character,
but the history expansion character is also treated as quoted if it
immediately precedes the closing double quote in a double-quoted string.

Thanks for pointing this out!
The best position on Brexit that I've heard coming out of a British politician. Well worth the listen.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1XEj64IFzQ8
Upvoted - thanks for the reference!
It doesn't take nuclear winter for countries to make the decision that "if I nuke them they will nuke me and that will be bad".
GNU Ocrad 0.27 released
Assuming that a narrow result on a yes/no vote on a general concept means that the “will of your constituents” falls on one side of a complex policy issue irrespective of details of the concrete policies embedded in the available concrete realization of the broad concept that were not known at the time of the vote is quite ludicrous, even without the side that ultimately won using specific concrete descriptions as a sales pitch that conflict with that reality.

That's especially true when equally non-binding but current polling of your constituents on the same question shows that the opposite side quite likely leads now that the concrete options are known.

It's a well-established British Constitutional principal that a Parliament cannot bind a future Parliament. Why would one view the public will ant differently, even if it were fully informed?
Mathemarically, a slim victory with a large percent of the population abstaining does not indicate “majority desire”.

Democrasy doesn’t measure majority desire, it measures electioneering. Majority desire is definitely an aspect of elections, but it’s not the thing that gets measured.

There are better ways to accurately measure majority desire, and they are not one person/one vote systems.

What the system purports to give us is not accuracy, but fairness. It’s acknowledged that no matter what system you put in place, its ideals will be perverted. The best we hope for is that multiple parties all have access to those same perversions. So the difference between the U.S. and Russia is that both Bush and Gore had a right to sue the state of Florida. Of course the outcome doesn’t represent the will of the people in any meaningful way, but we take comfort in knowing that both candidates had the same games open to them.

In Russia, Putin is playing a wholly different legal game than everyone else. That’s anti-liberal, and anti-democratic.

Much hand wringing is happening in the U.S. today because the American President is mostly above the legal system, as its executor, with only the Senate holding him in check. And it’s not clear our current Senate is committed to the rule of law. We will see when Mueller’s report comes out. And perhaps some governors can also hold him to account.

Again, none of this bears any direct relation to the “will of the people” except that there is a method to the madness and any citizen can volunteer for any aspect of the game.
Which is surprising since "research" here means pasting it into a terminal...

Maybe they meant `cat file.txt | while ...`? Even then, you never want to do that when you're reading because elements of a pipeline are run in subshells. The usual idiom is:

while cond; do
thing
done < input > output

It's also the problem with cheatsheets: the underlying idea in bash is that compound statements are like mini programs, so they have file handles that can be redirected. That doesn't come through a cheatsheet very well.
I expect a similar string of incongruities regarding the USA-Mexico wall. Don't end up building it and disappoint me, please.
The New York Times also had an article yesterday [1] looking at some of the regular pro-Brexit people who just plain do not believe any warnings about no-deal. One quote though really jumped out at me since it was related to one of the earliest projects I ever did, working on a small bit of the Y2K problem, and I think it really serves as an example of a fundamental difficulty when dealing with public facing threats:

>Mr. Ridley compared the anticipation mounting before the Brexit deadline to the run-up to forestall the Millennium Bug, also known as Y2K, in which companies worldwide scrambled to avert technical breakdowns when digital systems switched from 1999 to 2000.

>“It’ll be like Y2K,” he said. “Remember that one? They were like panic, panic, panic, the world’s going to end, the electric grid’s going to go down,” Mr. Ridley said. “None of it is going to happen.”

I knew that this was the impression left with the general public after that, but it's really unfortunate because in my recollection Y2K is quite possibly one of the most unified, successful responses to a serious tech problem our industry has ever managed to pull off. Yeah, it didn't amount to much... after hundreds of thousands to millions of man YEARS of work. I know people who had gone full time digging through ancient code bases back by 1998 or so, wouldn't be surprised if some had started in 97. Initial issues began bubbling up well before 00 after all, stuff like credit card expiration dates that were a few years in the future. Enormous amounts of resources were sunk into working on it, sometimes for clean fixes and sometimes for hacks [2], and overall it worked. But of course then we ended up with "well what was the point of all the hype or effort, everything was fine!" and the public taking literally the opposite lesson.

I can't remember if there is a technical term for this class of problem (beyond "life in ops"), where it's like air, the general "success" state is "nobody even thinks about it most of the time" but the failure state is catastrophic. It's an issue with security too of course. Ops and security are non-revenue generating, but their absence can certainly be revenue destroying. It's hard to get budget support there.

It seems like a really hard problem, particularly when future testing isn't available and results are irreversible.

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1: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/14/world/europe/no-deal-brex...

2: Old systems are still in service that are still using 2-digit dates, but just were patches so that 00 to 30 were assumed to be 2000s while >30 were 1900s, so there is actually still lurking remnants of Y2K that will come up again if not dealt with by 2030 or so. And of course there is the 32-bit unix time issue for 2038, examples of which have also cropped up a few times already too.
Yes all sides are human. Some sides are superior morally, some lie much more and some lie less. Some groups have more groupthink and others less. Some people are more biased and others less.

The differences in degree matter a lot.
I do not get the bizarre cynicism that appears in every discussion regarding Netflix.

The service has loads of fantastic content covering every gamut.
Stewart Lee on Brexit, very funny:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ek9_GQa1lgc
An underlying stock market is useful because it allows companies to raise capital to take risk. But many of those trading tools are just vehicles for speculative trading.

When I buy options contracts as a trader, I'm speculating the price will go up or down. I'm not adding anything productive to the economy. For me to win, another trader must lose.
You know how Trump promised to build a wall and make Mexico pay for it? Most people, regardless of political persuasion, knew a wall would be built, but that the USA would pay for it.

May promised a divorce which would be a "good deal brexit," or one that includes trade deals which benefited the UK, but without any of the "undesirable" EU requirements. Most people, regardless of political persuasion, divorce could happen, but knew that the Britain wasn't going to get a "good deal" brexit.
This is already getting really exciting. Some government entities (including lower levels like local, county, and state governments) have moved to digitizing their old paper and microfilm records. But if they're expected to maintain many types of records essentially forever, it places a constant burden to continue to update and migrate data in perpetuity, whereas paper or microfilm can sit in a box in a closet for decades.

For the most part, common file formats like PDFs, JPGs, and TIFs are likely to be understood for a very, very long time, but you don't just have file storage, you have systems to manage, index, and find those files, and those systems are likely to need constant maintenance.
How is a Wall Street firm taking fees any different from a casino taking a rake?
Someone watched too many movies...
Pragmatically, yes, but where's the challenge in that?
Because she promised a submarine made of cheese, and delivered a submarine made of cheese, and the people who demanded a submarine made of cheese are mad that it doesn't taste good enough or dive deep enough.

There is no such thing as a favorable brexit deal. Britain is already in the most favorable position possible with regards to EU relations: they have all of the benefits of EU membership, but with a special deal that means they're exempted from some of the membership dues, and they can have their own immigration policy and their own money. Britain has a more beneficial position in the EU than any other country in the world, in or out.

There is absolutely no way that the EU is going to let them leave and keep most of the benefits of membership. The hardliners want to get everything and give nothing, and surprise surprise, the EU wasn't going to let them have everything in exchange for nothing, so the hardliners hate it, and everybody else hates it because it was a stupid idea in the first place.
Because you could ask for a checksum of the firmware and if it doesn't return the right hash you know something isn't right.

You also never store the hash, so once a user has gained access to the car it's impossible to get the right hash (as you would've had to modify the firmware/filesystem/etc in some way to gain entry).

You would also need to include a timestamp/car serial in the hash so that you couldn't reuse an old hash from before your entry (that you had MITM'd) or use a hash from a different car that still had its integrity.
> You don't get a re-do just because you didn't like the outcome.

Elections need to be held regularly. "one person, one vote, one time" is not a democracy.
Gambling in the prediction market for the time-value-adjusted expected profits of a company is allowed due to the historical fact that stock markets used to be the way to raise capital for companies. I have only seen Tesla do this in the last 30 years (I'm sure there are others, but it is rare for a list company to actually sell stock to raise capital for building things). We should allow gambling in other prediction markets for things we would like to know about. Say the average surface temperature on Earth in 2100.
My workplace uses Google's stuff, unfortunately. However that's only for work stuff. I don't use any Google services for my own purposes.

If DDG implemented their own set of apps, I wouldn't object -- but it wouldn't be anything that I'd actually use, either.
.. looking at >1000 LOC bash project this week, with autotools install to make them go.. it uses 'SOURCE' as an include mechanism.. runs FAST and uses lots of whitespace, but no one on earth but the original author wants to touch it
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speckle_pattern

Laser speckle has nothing to do with your headlight plastic.
Yes, but the right way to do this is to get a separate device for the connectivity part, in order to protect yourself against services having much shorter lifetime than hardware. Techies knows this, and customers who got burned on smart TVs know this too. Regular people don't always realize this, but companies pushing smart TVs know this perfectly well. This is pretty obvious planned obsolescence. In my eyes, it's scamming people.
May's Brexit Deal Crushed by Biggest Government Defeat in History
and almost all promises of governmental "revenues tied to expenses" work this way as well.
Taking from those who dont know about statistics to give to those soon to know about statistics
I bet the price elasticity on Netflix is pretty high. They should try changing it to $19.99 and see what happens.