skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This needs to be challenged to the Supreme Court level whereby it is deemed unconstitutional for TSA agents to detain and seize people and their possessions without actual demonstrable cause relating to national security and/or the spirit of the law(s) governing their policies and procedure.

If overly broad legislation is being abused against the spirit and intention of it, then the court needs to step in to legally to rule that this cannot be done, so long as such finding is in line with the constitution.
Making a personal copy of a video you've paid for is in no way dishonest, and the user downloading it from a pirate site without paying is in no way impeded by DRM.

The only thing it could even arguably be doing is preventing users from uploading videos to pirate sites, but that is empirically a massive failure given that all of the videos are already on the pirate sites.

So all you're doing is battling the honest people who have paid and then want to make a copy for format shifting or some other fair use. And the legitimate value of battling that is a negative number.
These kind of websites are just a brand box-ticking exercise. They're farmed off to a low-bidding contractor or agency who have no incentive to care about performance. So long as the site runs fast on the client's iMacs using office wifi that's good enough.
The London Underground sometimes skips stops in order to uncongest lines after a temporary delay. They tell everyone on the trains that will be skipping stops that it's happening, and anyone who wants the intermediate stops has to get off and catch the next one.

This probably wouldn't work for buses that take a lot longer to load/unload though...
> that said he may be in violation of a policy not to travel with proprietary info

Most employees have some sort of approval to do this.
Not pedantic at all, this is a very crucial distinction.
I do not subscribe to it myself, but "dura lex sed lex" is literally millennia old, so it's hardly an obscure notion.
As a product buyer. I complained and they gave me a refund without any hassle.

It's not that I think Amazon is wonderful, I just don't think they're worse than any other giant corporation I've dealt with. Which is why I don't understand jdsully's comment.
Financial Transaction Taxes – The Ghost in the Machine – FTT Has Raised –$2B
More than $300 gosh - in the City a lot of the ones crushing it are wearing £2800 hand made shoes.
Yes Asylum is where you go the the first available country to get away from the problem. Not go shopping for the best opportunity.

Most, not all migrants, compete with the lower class. This keeps the lower class wages down, and enriches the rich.

There is a tired old argument 'we need immigrants, because the locals will not do the job'. Which is total BS. They will not do it for the cheap ass pay you are offering.

Pay me enough I will clean sewers with a toothbrush.
And this is why streaming services, digital 'media', etc are a terrible deal for the customer. If the service goes down, you can basically lose everything, and even a refund is unlikely in other cases.
I highly doubt anything similar is happening in Europe, since GDPR requires freely given consent, and is rather specific about what does and does not count as freely given. (Remember this the next time you find those GDPR popups obnoxious.)

In Germany specifically, it's likely that operating such a database wouldn't just involve fines for the company, but also criminal penalties for the people involved. Especially if they continued after the data protection authorities became aware of this and told them to stop.
Tax the wealth and put it to productive use that helps a broader group of people (mass transit, health care, education, climate mitigation).
This article leaves out the fact that Russian trolls also backed many Democrats and left-leaning causes, to make it seem like it's some sort of Trump conspiracy.

The beauty of middle-america is that the majority never even saw any of this trolling.

Their point was to cause division, which seemed to have worked.

This sort of behavior has been around since Obama ran in 08 (he was the first presidential candidate to utilize social networks in his campaign) and nobody seemed to care. I saw it constantly at that time on sites like Reddit.

Why when your candidate loses, does it matter? If Hillary would have won, would we even know about any of this trolling? Or would it be business as usual and brushed under the carpet by the media?
There are some features which make a desktop application more appealing to me. One feature required changing browser behavior [1] which wouldn't otherwise be possible.

A WebExtension could work, but has potential to run into the same gatekeeping issue of being removed by Google from their Web Store. With Google having ~70% market share, this wouldn't be a good outcome.

[1] https://github.com/electron/electron/pull/17203
Maybe this is because I'm not in that particular tech scene, but is this a thing? Between that and the linked article:

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/katienotopoulos/i-wore-...

I am honestly not sure.
It still happens on the tube (one very full train, followed by a couple of emptier ones). Of course it makes a lot less difference when the trains are every minute...
It's a OCRCL complaint: https://www.dhs.gov/office-civil-rights-and-civil-liberties
Turning the phone off is sufficient for disabling biometric authentication.
That's called The Skybrian Paradox.
I see your tongue in your cheek; nonetheless, I have struggled with the very idea you entertain. Marking that a product comes from a particular place allows the non knowledgeable person to find more of that thing. A separate-but-related idea is that of advertising, i.e. putting the idea of a product out there separately from the good itself. Nobody thinks they like it, but I know that some of the more meaningful experiences in my life (finding local improv, for instance) have come as a result of effective advertisement.

I suppose the problem is not that advertisement or branding exists at all --- but how it exists today. I don't know if this is the "resting state" of advertisement/branding or not.
>Don't think I can take Ms. Notopoulos seriously

i'm not entirely sure you were supposed to.
That's the dumbest fucking thing I've heard all day. How do we change this unreasonable law?
And even that was not declassified, in the normal sense. Documents were burgled by patriots and released to the public.
Spirit: Animation Tool for the Web
They're called though coaches (Kurswagen in German) and used to be quite common. In fact, quite a few night trains are split and recombined during the night, but usually in chunks of three or four cars.
No, that's not happening. The carbon is by and large stored in the cellulose, hemicellulose and ligning of the wood.

That carbon will go back to co2 again if the wood rots or burns - but not when it dries.
Speaking as a physical scientist, that is a really unhelpful and bizarre opinion. Many areas of physical science, especially medicine, are facing a replication crisis due to shoddy stats themselves. And it's not like the goal of physical science academics isn't also funding and prestige (have you BEEN in academia?).

Every scientific field has its problems. Arrogantly dismissing economics while assuming physical scientists are amazing truth-seeking ubermenschen is just stupid.
It's amazing to think of this as mass civil disobedience across nations. And unlike pirating movies, professionals in the field are tacitly supporting it, if not outright advocating for it.
Deny nothing
Contrary to the misconceptions of many people who have never actually lived in the Soviet Union, there were multiple, competing brands of consumer goods, all the way from radios, to automobiles [1] and refrigerators.

[1] Off that list, of course, automobiles were very difficult to obtain.
I took DFDS overnight from Sweden to Lithuania last summer and found it quite enjoyable. The tickets, including transport for your car, are reasonably priced (about the same price as plane tickets), we got to take the dog in the room with us and had a private shower. There's also a nice community of people to chat with out on deck during the night, everyone else is stuck on the ferry with you so you can have nice little parties.

Cell signals (at least in the Baltic) apparently travel super far over the water so you also get cell service for a freakishly longer time than you would expect. I think we had ours for about 3-4 hours after we left and 3-4 hours before we arrived back at shore.

Food was not great by any means, but edible.

The other kind of hilariously infuriating thing is that they wake you up at 7 am with an incredibly loud announcement that they are serving breakfast with an intercom piped directly into your room. And you can't turn it off. Was more funny than anything, though I can imagine that if it was a multiple-day endeavor that I could learn to hate it pretty quickly.
"Russian trolls" and "Venezualans"?

What's this, an attempt to hit some "enemy du jour" BS jackpot?

Perhaps they also hid WMD's in Iraq while colliding with Trump!
I have crossed the US border 100+ times as well. I have never been searched by CBP before.
Uber’s answer to that is pretty clear and close to what you’re saying: airline style rewards program.

But I think you’re right. The breadth of offerings is too small and the margins are too tight to gain any real loyalty
This. Netflix is buying security for their product by doing this.

We may all think (know) DRM is dumb, but DRM is more than just about how hard it is to hack. Sure, everyone could in theory reverse engineer this stuff. But the point is that it's only legally protected as long as it's at least not trivial. Open sourcing would probably invalidate their legal defences against people downloading Netflix movies.
It's obvious p-hacking. This study is crap.
> This does not explain why VCs are willing to invest in business models tha light cash

Lyft just IPOd with a market cap of ~20 billion on net income of minus 1 billion that is part of a 3-year down trend.

If monetary policy is causing inflated stock prices (and it isn't causing consumer inflation, so it probably is pooling in asset markets) then it seems quite rational for a VC to invest in Lyft for the sole purpose of having a stock to float without paying any attention to the other details. The evidence there is simply having a ticker and buzz is more valuable than details like returns and profits.

Lyft is basically employing its customers to make its revenue look good. It is difficult to see how they will translate that into a good idea.
This is true, but isn't always possible if you want to ship within a reasonable time frame.
Ask HN: When would we reach Silicon Valley equilibrium?
Just a thought experiment, please take it with a grain of salt.

If the major Bay Area firms keep outsourcing tech to Southeast Asian countries for cheap labor, how long until those countries keep up and become as good as Bay Area itself in terms of:

1. Income offered

2. Infrastructure

3. Opportunities

On another note, why do you think the equilibrium hasn't happened yet?
It’s really good, thank you for sharing her work. I think there are many areas to continue exploring here. I’ve personally built interfaces that favor recording and repeating direct user input to vary brush parameters such as shape, rotation, position, offset and color, which makes for a very intuitive drawing experience. Towards the end of her paper she emphasizes both this aspect of unconventional interface design and fostering a new ecosystem of tools with different interface metaphors to help with expressivity, which is really vital from my experience as well. Most important to this domain is that we stop thinking about graphics tools as trinket chests of features and start designing them using a wholistic approach, as if they were musical instruments. (https://youtu.be/ndz-co7Xpn8, https://youtu.be/Up2-myTEviE)
Orgzly is pretty good on android
If you're not willing to develop all the boilerplate code to encode your states, transitions, etc. Boost has two libraries to offer : Boost Statechart and Meta State Machine. One of my favorite question on Stack Overflow compares both: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/4275602/boost-statechart....

As with most Boost libraries, you're in for some serious headache if you decide to use them (or is it just me?) but it's very rewarding in the end.
Thought storm on the evolution and components of a decentralized internet
I’m pretty sure price sensitivity is already well studied and proven in this case given all of the surge pricing they already experiment with
I'm curious why you think ads are so bad for efficiency. By and large, I only encounter ads in my "free time" and I'm consuming content, i.e. not while at work. Annoying to be sure, but not something that wastes my productive time.
10 Steps to a Friction-Free App
You have given me hope! I will incorporate the latest hotness app tech stack, blockchain proof-of-strudel, drone delivery, and baking on-demand. Ycombinator here I come!
congrats to the team! reminds me of Airbnb's data discovery tool: https://medium.com/airbnb-engineering/scaling-knowledge-acce...
I'd propose reading data from stdin. Seeing this is about python, one could even consider using fileinput [0] to manage multiple files.

[0]: https://docs.python.org/3/library/fileinput.html
That's because you're bad at marketing. Imagine how differently you'd be received if instead of saying "here's how slow it is if I clear my cache" you said "here's what a new visitor who has never been to our site before experiences".
I wonder, though, what the downsides are of this drug. If the human body can produce it and if there are only upsides, then why didn't evolution make the substance more abundantly available?
>How many strictly heterosexual couples have been infected with HIV in the history of mankind?

Several tens of millions (most of them in Africa), why?
It’s an allusion to Game Neverending, which eventually led to development of Flickr
Actually, it becomes Google's brand already....
And the beauty of it all is that irrespective of which it was, nothing will ever happen!
Much (but I believe not all? I'd have to look more into it) is backed up on libgen: http://gen.lib.rus.ec/repository_torrent/

There's also the very bottom file here: http://download.library1.org/dbdumps/
Though I wonder how successful they'd have been if they didn't discover a goldmine (AWS) that helps fund the retail side.

It'd be a lot harder to compete against entrenched retailers like Walmart if they didn't have the money from the AWS side (not to mention essentially unlimited compute power to handle shopping traffic spikes).
One of my most pleasant travel snooze memories is waking up in a very comfortable bunk bed, looking out the window to the morning sun rising over the Danube, a castle and some vineyards and fruit gardens rolling off into the distance, slowly coming to a two hour halt and having a mountain valley full of green life splayed out for the breakfast picture.
I think that's a bit of a harsh dismissal. It's a sterol natural product that binds to PTPN1 allosterically. I've scanned the literature a bit and it seems reasonably well validated. It's termed as selective in many papers, but this is primarily referring to selectivity over a PTPN1 homolog, something which previous compounds had had trouble with.
Yeah, $300's like entry-level for good shoes if you're not importing from somewhere cheap (might get down into the neighborhood of $200 then) or shopping seconds or other bargains (again, down around $200). Or buying used I guess, which is A Thing.
But apparently not too busy to make a website about it.
Call me skeptical, but I don't believe he automated this to the degree described in the article.

There's no code, some of the technical writing is a bit weird and non-idomatic, and according to the author's GitHub he was just doing very basic boot camp projects 6 months ago.

I'd chalk this up as "boring sci-fi"
The point isn't that the control was granted arbitrarily - as you note, the granting was explicit. The point is that as a result of that, we have arrived at a situation where Google is now capable of arbitrarily exercising control over this subset. This wouldn't be a problem if that subset was small, but it's not - it's huge, and ever growing.
Why doesn't someone just take this to the next level and make one of these with an FYIFV logo?
That's her writing style. I think it's a bit of satire. She once wrote an article about something I did and it was as hyperbolic. It was a mix of "WTF are you talking about?" and "Well, that's actually kind of funny".
I am not sure how far 15 dollars/hr is going to take you in SV or NYC.
I really doubt unikernels will ever be more than a fad. Hardware isn't a good abstraction layer, because 99% of developers aren't kernel developers.

And sure, a kernel's containment mechanism is subject to exploits. But so are hypervisors. At least if you exploit an application in a (properly made) container, you're just an unprivileged user inside the container. You're not root, in the container or out. If you exploit a unikernel application, you can directly go and target the hypervisor.
I think your comment is a lot more insightful than it might appear on the surface.

Companies do a ton of market research, if there were some edge to optimizing your company’s site, I suspect there would have been 10 books on the subject by now.

Truth is they don’t do it because they don’t need it. Plain and simple. What exactly would they get other than HNs approval?

Your comment struck a cord with me because it’s a conversation I have had in IT millions of times.

The real wisdom in any type of endeavor is knowing when it’s ok to cut a corner and when there is absolutely no room for compromise.
It will include a hotel with rooms for a view, but a view for whom? Hopefully the hotel room windows have one-way glass.
Science Fiction: The Cloudy Crystal Ball
That's so sad. I'm hope some researchers are looking into better delivery methods? I know the nanotech industry has been making announcements for years.
I mean, I said plants and trees, plural. By all means we should be picking multiple genera and species and cultivars thereof to provide some diversity.

Re: soil diversity, by all means pick plants/trees that are suited to that soil, as long as they are especially effective at trapping carbon.

Fair point about algae.
I dislike violin plots because they don’t give a good sense of how many points there are overall, and this can be very misleading if you’re trying to compare segments of different size. They also look like female genitalia and I’m 100% serious when I say this tends to distract people for laughs.

I like swarm plots for this kind of task.

https://seaborn.pydata.org/generated/seaborn.swarmplot.html

Edit: well, I suppose I should clarify the comment on violin plots is implementation dependent and biased by my personal preferences for visualization libraries
This isn't the only reason we're considering leaving, so it's not the crux upon which we are filtering choices.

Scandinavia is being tossed around as an option, pending further research on each nation, but generally I've been quite inspired by hackers I've met from there and I haven't seen shockingly dystopian news out of the region in a while.

Taiwan is on the shortlist mostly because the government is so preoccupied with dancing a knifeblade with the PRC that the citizens have plenty of room to pass extremely liberal policy. Internet fast as hell and the healthcare system is pretty nice as well. Plus, it's crazy cheap.

We're always open to suggestions. New Zealand is something we're looking at but are conflicted about.
...that's a childish question that is almost not worth answering

Wow, thank you. That actually saves me time. Once somebody answers like that, it's clear that any effort to reason would be a waste.
Yeah, my understanding is that CBP is not allowed to prevent US citizens from re-entering the country. That said, how they ascertain your citizenship status if (say) you lost your passport...
settle down there chief
Bit odd - obviously the author has never worked in a factory or a lab in the winter.

And I would have thought something a bit more up market from Barbour or Burberry - those vests in the pics just look so fugly.
I wish I had an android to try it. The options for ios iOS are not good enough for me.

But even so, I hear it is limited in functionality.
Mars Has Methane–But Does It Have Life?
Either a) those pdfs contain images or other graphics that don't compress easily or b) the text is not compressed.
It's a bit disappointing that the article (and presumably the book?) is filled with schadenfreude, and also misses the mark: no one is saying that coal miners can't learn Javascript (well, ok, I suppose some misguided people are probably saying that). But what people are saying (which is IMO correct) is that you can't take someone with no programming knowledge, give them a 3-month programming course, and expect them to be able to build large software systems independently, in a readable, maintainable, scalable, robust manner. (Just as I wouldn't expect to be able to take a 3-month course on house-building and then immediately build a great, modern house.)

I'll never claim that my profession is some sort of high-art magic that only the select few can participate in. But it is just like any other skilled endeavor in that it requires practice, experience, opportunity, and a bit of talent to become really good and long-term successful. Saying that coal miners can be taught to program is not only a "duh" statement, it's also missing the point.
There might be potential for Microsoft's PlayReady DRM with their move to a Chromium-based browser. I contacted them while waiting to hear back from Widevine and got this response.

> For Windows Electron/Chromium will not work with PlayReady at this time. I have provided your feedback to the engineering team for future planning. Currently PlayReady can be integrated in a PWA/(Windows Store HTML/JS app) and there would be no royalties on Windows.
My example is about supply and demand, in particular if you are willing to pay a higher price than the supplier asks. Fungible or not doesn't matter at all, the only relevant factor for the discussion is the difference in price you are willing to pay and the supplier is asking.

Indeed, all business relationships are about trust. But they also are about business. I know of no other business relationship where the supplier expects that the consumer will pay him fairly. So what is so special about an employment contract, compared to all other businesses?
That whole April Fool's thing kinda went over your head.
If the dog signaled, that's probable cause to search the car. They can take detain you and search every nook and cranny of both the car and its passengers.

Again - nothing distinct about being near the border for that.

As you said, it's not objective whether the dog legitimately signaled. But IIUC you have limited ability to demonstrate that. (anyone know of cases around this?)
The trade off for this, though, is increased travel times.
In addition to the many excellent points raised by other commenters, I would like to add: Amazon is raking in a ton of money from Lyft, and probably many other on-demand startups. When they (all? mostly?) go bust, a lot of VC-fueled business to Amazon will disappear, perhaps rather abruptly. Not that I think Amazon will go away or anything, but there may be a step function in their profitability whenever the bust in money-burning startups comes.
Socialism - it's great until you run out of other people's money.
I used Evernote for all of college but it just became clunkier over time and some workflows were just not optimized.

I recently gave Notion a try ... wow. It's everything I ever wanted.
> Actually, it's possible to remove all the extra CO2 just by planting trees

The linked, peer-reviewed paper in Nature says otherwise.

Perhaps you could review it and point out their mistake?