skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think there are some misconceptions of "Religion" here. I will readily admit that there are some cases where it has been used for predatory behavior, but one cannot generalize that.

I can vouch that many churches do not treat the tithe as an "entrance fee" and honestly many have no idea how much you make or force you to give that. More-so, it is up to the person to decide how much to give be it 1% or 50%.

I personally believe in God, I think there is enough evidence to point that direction. However, even if I were to not believe this way, I honestly feel that my lifestyle as a result is more fulfilling and enjoyable. As a result, I regularly get together with like-minded people from a variety of backgrounds and occupations that I probably would have never met otherwise, which has resulted in some of my closest friendships. I regularly get together with others in our homes for Bible study and "just hanging out" (fellowship in "Church words"). This small group of people has been instrumental in each others' lives when things are stressful by helping each other out (providing meals, childcare, or simply a listening ear).

My children also have a group of friends and an organization that aids me in helping teach a moral compass and values that are overall advantageous to our society, such as generosity, politeness, putting others first, being helpful, among other faith-oriented traits as well. This can stand as contrasts to some of the traits our children commonly see in our society or in various media forms (advertising, etc).

As far as tithing, I currently probably am "a bit below" 10%, though I'd like to increase it over time, because to me the value in my life and the value I see being provided to others makes it worth it. But I do not feel obligated to give.

While all these things potentially could be replicated in the "secular world," there is little incentive for people to become dedicated to it, and this is why by-in-large it is not replicated. The "organized" part of organized religion I think is the key here.

Also as contrast to the "predatory behavior" you speak of, a very large portion of the aid provided the poor or "less desirable in society" is provided by religious organizations (food banks, homeless shelters, etc). Many of these, because of their religious convictions and the convictions of their supporters are able to provide more services, more personal care, and more impactful results for much less money than many of the government initiatives. To be clear, I'm not proposing we get rid of the government initiatives. I'm mostly pointing out that in many cases, if practiced in alignment with the values they teach, religious activities are the opposite of predatory.
I’m not missing anything. It sounded unusual, so I looked it up before posting :-D
Ask HN: What Does “Being Proficient” at TDD Look Like?
When you say someone is proficient at TDD, outcomes have they achieved? What capabilities do they have?

I’ll take your suggestions to put together another TDD episode for Agile Thoughts

http://agilenoir.biz/en/agilethoughts/why-developers-dont-tdd-a-radio-drama/

Here is what I’ve got so far.

You’re proficient when:

You can write a dozen tests in an eight hour day.
You are have refactored 4 big functions or classes to make them testable.
You bristle at any suggestion of skipping writing tests.
At least a week has passed since when you last used the debugger.

You are a master when:

You can teach others how to become proficient.
Your team’s project has very good code coverage (> 80%) and still climbing.
I am guessing that by \Theta , the author means the product of the \Theta_i ?

In the third paragraph, they say it is the “set of type profiles of all the agents”, which seems to suggest maybe {\Theta_i | i in U}, or maybe the disjoint union of the \Theta_i , but for the social choice function being from \Theta to X to make any sense to me, \Theta has to be the product of the \Theta_i over i in U. So I assume this is what is meant.

The author also writes that M is “the set of all message spaces”, which seems to mean { M_i | i in U }, but again, I cannot make sense of that with regards to the decision rule \varphi having it as the domain.
So, I also assume that M is actually meant to be the product of the M_i (with i ranging over U).

It seems strange that the cost-sharing mechanism is defined as being a function only of the agent index? It seems like the term “mechanism” should mean that it includes how the cost imposed on each agent is determined, not just, be the result of what cost is imposed on each agent?

I’m confused about the example. Are the different agents making offers sequentially?

I don’t think the author clearly established (or, really, even clearly stated) their claim.

They define a bunch of terms (like \Theta , M, \varphi ) but then they don’t do anything with them, or really say much of anything about them after they defined them.

They might have something interesting they are trying to say, but I don’t think they make it clear.

The second source it cites ( at https://crypto.stanford.edu/portia/papers/mukind-thesis.pdf ) looks interesting though, and I think is where they got the thing they were trying to explain (though it is much longer!).
Commercial use of a photo or video with an identifiable person requires permission (model release forms and stuff). I'm sure that airlines would argue that any data they use for commercial purposes are anonymous (despite you know aving video and name/seat/camera correspondence).
It'll be hyooooooge!
Please present an argument and data to back this up.
It would still be rude and violate widely held standards for personal space and privacy. Never forget that legal and appropriate are very different things.
> have something left over each year to reinvest.

Right. So my question is how much can you withdraw to indefinitely draw the same inflation adjusted value?
Ask HN: How to go about my first freelance web dev project?
Hi,

I just landed my first professional freelance project, I'd love if you can redirect me to some blogposts/resources on how to go about the legal/business aspect (contract/proposal/timeline/whether to put web app live early to show progress/how to go about payments/deployment payment/... )
The client has little to no tech knowledge so I get to choose the stack (I am going with Django)

Thank you in advance
When Slacker Radio decided it wanted my contact list, out it went. Sorry, but that information is NOT YOURS.

These days, if any important-to-me app is slated to be updated, I first run a backup in case ridiculous permission demands, feature removal, or other such f*ckery comes with the update.
Waymo's Self-Driving Car Navigates a Police Controlled Intersection [video]
>> What I don’t understand is why there aren’t commodify parts available sans cameras, given the myriad of use-cases and the customer volume for camera-free Android

Yes. In fact, an acquaintance of mine is staying at a psychiatric hospital being treated for schizophrenia. He has absolutely nothing to do all day and wants to read books from the library. But he can't easily access the library.

This is possible (but slow and inconvenient) to do with an e-reader, but very convenient with a tablet.

However, devices with cameras or microphones are not permitted in the psych ward. They can be used to compromise the privacy of other patients. So the hospital would not allow tablets.

I "upgraded" a cheap tablet for him by permanently disabling the microphoneaand camera using a power drill and some epoxy. He's thrilled with it and the hospital has asked for more!
You might want to check out the benchmark I wrote to compare exactly that.

https://github.com/jeremywiebe/json-performance
Is it opt-in?

Has spying on your customers revealed any surprises?
I guess it isn't clear to me what this actually does.

Every year I do a March Madness pool, a survivor pool, a couple fantasy football leagues, a college pickem, a superbowl grid, and a half dozen NFL game bets.

The idea here is that I should do some of or maybe all of these on this platform, rather then the various other ones I use?

I think the major platforms of these are pretty good, we use a smaller one for a college pick em that is pretty bad but we tolerate.

Is the value add here just the the UI is nicer and doesn't have ads? Or is there something else I'm missing?

I'm doing a vegas march madness with friends and I'll see if we can use Balto for our pools.

Congrats on the launch!
I'm not sure why Lego themselves didn't make Lego-based breadboards. Seems like a fairly straightforward idea.

Flat breadboard with conductive "lanes". Bricks with electric parts. Flat pieces with conductors. Conductivity in bricks would normally go from top to bottom, so you could easily stack things or connect them from the top side, without adding stuff to breadboard.

Would be great even for "adult" prototyping. No more wire spaghetti or bent pins.

Bonus points for "empty" bricks you could solder your own parts into. You do it once and get a reusable part.
It isn't as interesting as we are lead to believe.
It is such an outrage that it is now just taken for granted that your hardware and software will be remotely attacked by the manufacturer.
It doesn't even raise eyebrows anymore.

And looking at the Sonos debacle, I don't think they realize how damaging it is to their brand to just make their devices die every so often. Why not just save money and get something that is unreliable because it is cheap and poorly engineered?
> his specialty is really C#

He used to (maybe still does) work for Google and write Java. Thus, likely making him adept at both languages. C#, from what I understand, is his passion though
It's for detecting when your hands move towards the display, and turning on LEDs in response (for instance, many in-seat monitors have a USB socket with a LED ring around it) - I worked on those units many years ago.
It's easy to determine that Nazis are bad. It's far harder to agree on who the present-day Nazis are.
> Yes, it's vague and up to the interpretation of a court.

Exactly. Depends on how much risk you're eager to take. And as a non-lawyer I'd prefer to take none. Most guides for laymen I've found stated that if it's not just about your kittens or vacation, it's not "purely private" any more.

For instance, aforementioned Lennart who writes about his open source projects preferred to provide this info.

I've also heard that the lawyers in this extortion business know some tricks to make the case land on a judge with "correct" interpretations of the related paragraphs. But that's not for sure, I've never been sued in Germany luckily.
Just strategizing: a wired in jammer should work.

Or a micro-wireless jammer that’s so weak, it wouldn’t even disrupt anything outside of what it’s built into.

Even if you can’t block the outgoing signal, you’ll disrupt the incoming signal and prevent any kind of handshake from happening.
>Despite their unequivocal role in upending our democracy, Zuckerberg and Sheryl Sandberg still run Facebook. Dorsey is still the C.E.O. of Twitter, even though he has not been forthright about the number of bots on the service, and has done almost nothing to stop the spread of hate speech on his platform. The C.E.O. of Tesla, Elon Musk, has been charged with securities fraud, and yet he’s still running the company

The CEO's mentioned in the quote above operate at demonstrably higher level of competence than Holmes. The article kind of jumps the shark with this bit.
It's still an estimate.
Is Philanthropy Anti-Democratic?
Private equity groups. Several have been brokering their debt restructuring over the years. Here's their most recent complete restructuring from about a year ago (http://www.insideradio.com/free/restructuring-will-wipe-bill...) (they're currently in bankruptcy at the moment.)
I agree the format has changed a bit, but I still enjoy it. You're right though, going back to basics would be nice.
It is possible the maintainers of the various OS distribution packages will band together and maintain development.

BTW, what's the general recommendation for people looking to migrate to another Linux firewall package?
ST is pushing hard it seems. They bought Atollic and made their TrueSTUDIO IDE free, and while it's Eclipse based it's pretty easy to set up and get going at least. They've got a plugin for it, STM32CubeMX, which helps you configure and generate initialization code* for the peripherals and clock.

Having started out with Arduino I've lately been having fun with the STM32F103 "Blue Pill" boards. Like with this STM32MP1, ST have put a lot of interesting analog stuff in with the digital in their STM32 chips.

Both the STM32MP1 and STM32F103 has dual 12-bit ADCs, so you can do simultaneous sampling or interleaved for increased speed. The STM32F303 series has up to four. The STM32FMP1 has dual DACs as well (the STM32F103 series has at most one, but the Blue Pill has none due to using a low pin-count package).

Now, I've just been dabbling with this embedded stuff in my spare time for a wee while now, but it seems ST is pushing hard and on the rise.

*: now their hardware abstraction layer, the HAL library, leaves quite a bit to be desired, but it's nice to get a starting point for newbies.
The active anti-methane compound from seaweed is likely bromoform:

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10811-016-0830-7

It would be a cheap food supplement since the methane inhibition required only about 2% seaweed in cattle food, which in turn implies a bromoform feed content of only about 35 parts per million. Though no doubt some farmers would prefer to be able to say that they add seaweed rather than a particular chemical to their cattle feed.
Explore France’s Loire Valley in the Footsteps of Leonardo da Vinci
>Could you imagine being in her industry, and having the patience to go through years of trials and testing and passing through regulations?

I have worked at two reasonably successful healthcare startups. No 'unicorns', but they paid good salaries, made money, and were purchased for a decent price by bigger players. We waited. In the meantime we sold to researchers and performed LDT's (as Theranos did) to bring in revenue.

You do your work and put in the time. There is no other reasonable option. We didn't require a lying, arrogant CEO to pull it off.
To a point, but many podcaster players will run downloads through their own CDN
At first I thought you just meant that they used mathematical notation when it wasn’t helpful, but when I actually read it, I realized what you meant by “poorly”, and I agree with you.

I might say that they _tried_ to use mathematical notation.
I would guess that this strategy would be more effective in an industry where the people with the most influence over vendor selection were not seeing this story at the top of all their news feeds.
Using WiFi would be very surprising for most content, but it would be interesting to have live TV on aircraft.
> Why does the app need Bluetooth or WiFi scanning permissions?

In Android and w/r/t BLE, the OS doesn't provide a user-facing bonding interface. The app has to do it.
Wow, that's a really good idea. Time to find some boxes!
I didn't mean to convey that it didn't exist in Python; I was just remarking that it was a nice feature. No need for the snark.
The trick is to not fall into the trap of spending all the money you're making. Make a budget of how much you spend on rent, bills, and fun things, and don't bump it up each time you get a raise or a new job. Eventually, you'll find you're saving a lot of money. That gives you freedom and flexibility.
What is this hypothetical system like, and how is it different from the ones that have been tried, whose proponents would describe in a way similar to what you just said, but have been shown to have the same emptiness problem you attribute to capitalism (as well as some others, like mass murder and economic collapse)?
Tesla Model 3 Can No Longer Be Recommended, Says Consumer Reports
I wouldn't even mind, except when you're sampling trailers and watching movies on a long flight it sure gets annoying to watch the same 5 or 6 ads in a row for the 3rd or 6th time. And then again on the return flight.
Sounds like a good use case for Alibaba - see how big the market is!
I currently use translucent tape on my phone camera, which works well enough. I have to replace it quite often, though, because it is much more fragile than the electrical tape I have on my laptop.
> Forgot every phone number because it's 2019 and we all have our contacts in an app?

This is going to be off topic, but I find this dumb.

Is it so hard to learn a 7 digit number that you need to make yourself dependent on a stupid device?
It would be nice if there were non camera / no mic parts.

Or even just those with a physical switch that cuts power to them ... for everyone.

Maybe a backup switch that can be "broken" that effectively permanently cuts power to them? So you sell the same tablet, but you stick a key in a spot, turn, and they're disabled for good.
If you're in a taxi cab the driver will have a camera pointed at them and you, the passenger. You're paying to get transported from A to B. If you're on an airplane you're doing the same thing only paying more and going up in the air. I guess I don't see the issue? Maybe, and I mean maybe if you paid for a plane ticket that had a "private" seat with a door, could this be a gray area.
That is absolutely brutal lag! It would feel like using a 10 year old phone with today's bloatware!
Phone probes contain their MAC address. Although the internet tells me iOS 8 did add randomization.
"Discoverability is certainly a concern, but only because there is _so much_ good content out there."

Quality is in the eye of the beholder. I've scoured top podcast lists and recommendations far and wide, and have found maybe 5 or 6 podcasts worth listening to for me in my whole life. I'm sure there must be others that I'd like, but they're buried in a mountain of uninteresting content.
> Most of these are just COTS Android tablets

This isn't quite true. They're not off-the-shelf (COTS) Android tablets - the hardware is custom, especially in terms of industrial design (although the chipset is pretty standard). IFE manufacturers aren't going to OEMs and re-purposing commercial tablet designs.

You couldn't use off-the-shelf tablets anyway, because they have lithium batteries in them - and whilst the form factors might work for economy seating, in business and first class you often see very large units, larger than any tablet available today. IFE systems also need a much wider variety of I/O than "consumer" Android tablets provide.

There are also requirements vis a vis safety and impact that make commercial tablets unsuitable. For example, the display is usually made of plastic rather than glass, since these units have to survive a lot of abuse.

Some example components from one of the two big manufacturers: https://www.panasonic.aero/inflight-systems/x-series/key-com...

Source: I worked in the IFE industry when they were transitioning from Linux based systems over to Android. One of the primary drivers for doing so was software, rather than hardware.
Panthers on the Prowl in London
Neat. Might be worth implementing for Purelymail, but I'd have to roll my own since I don't use Dovecot. Maybe best to wait for the RFC?
I agree with you. I like the way packages are isolated from each other, meaning that to understand a package it is usually by definition a good start to simply read what is there. Smaller packages mean more bite-sized chunks of the program. And I think the discipline of slicing up your program this way is very, very good for the design, and often makes the tests easier to write to by significantly shrinking the surface of what your tests have to "fake" in order to test your code. I think it's just a whole heapin' helpin' o' benefits.

However, I feel myself to be in the minority on this one. To which I basically shrug and write my code with lots of relatively small packages. It really only affects code you're working on, or that your team is working on. Things you pull in as libraries and have no direct interaction with don't matter too much on this front.
You absolutely want to add documentation linters to your build process as early in any project as you can. Just requiring that something be in the function docstring is usually enough to get people to put at least a minimal amount of description there.
Your Phone and TV Are Tracking You, and Political Campaigns Are Listening In
that should be accounted for in govt household income calculations, but I could be wrong. For example, ton of stock holdings will pay you dividends or capital gains.
I also didn't like the tone, lots of assertions without much backing.
scotch tape
NYC Is Savills’ Top Tech City
There are all sorts of movies and narratives to reassure people that DNA-based social or hiring selection is unlikely to happen anytime soon, because supposedly there are few biological factors that allow you to easily predict life trajectory or productivity.

But I'm afraid the slightest boost in predictive power will matter to an organization of scale. And while it might be hard to tell if you should be a mathematician based on your DNA, it might be easier to tell risk factors about you or your relatives, which could cause an employer to see you as too expensive.

It's illegal to discriminate on disability, but if I know you're predisposed to heart disease and discriminate on similar basis, is that discrimination on disability if society doesn't classify it that way?

Also eventually judgments may be made on people which involve weights from thousands of data sources, only one of which will be DNA. It will be difficult to explain why any decision was made.
DNA Gets a New – and Bigger – Genetic Alphabet
I wonder how the conversation around the phallic smile logo goes. I could imagine they have a jolly good laugh about shipping it to all these people. Surprised the SJWs and metoo movement haven't taken issue
https://pageflows.com/blog/dropbox-downgrades/
> Apple’s commitment to privacy makes me feel way better about them having my purchase data ...

Sure. The thing is, how long do you think this "commitment" is going to last?

I trusted Google in the early days and got burned when I realized how invasive and intrusive they had become, and were totally unapologetic about it. I do not see why Apple - a trillion dollar multi-national corporate - will be any different.

In fact, they already have a lot of data on you, especially if you use iCloud. And Apple has already started becoming intrusive under the guise of protecting our privacy -

e.g. "Oh we are going to block all multi-site pervasive tracking on Safari - to protect your privacy! But ofcourse, first we need to know what and all sites sets these cookies on your device ... and so we can't let you control your cookies. But don't worry, everything will be anonymized ..."

or

how IOS 12+ now deliberately makes it even more difficult to find the "Restrictions" setting panel that gives you fine grained control over allowing or restricting access to cameras, microphones, contacts etc. (it's now under - Settings > Screen Time and tap Content & Privacy Restrictions)

or

how ios 12+ "Screen Time" is designed to collect information on everything you do on your iDevice (even other iDevices and sync all that info through iCloud) ...

And so on ... so let's not kid ourselves that a for-profit CORPORATE is our best bet in protecting OUR privacy - they want you to believe that so that we don't use our collective will to pressurize our democratic government to make privacy enhancing laws and regulate companies that insist on collecting our data.

(On a related note, other governments have begun to recognize that defending their citizen's right can protect their country's interest and sovereignty. That is why EU has been tightening their laws. And this - https://www.neowin.net/news/microsoft-has-been-sharing-india... - explains why India, for example, is now insisting that US companies store their data in India).
So what incentive do they have for "rape and pillage" of companies if they ruin them and themselves in the process?