skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've priced insurance outside my job. It's never even close and your employer isn't going to hand you the money they were spending on your policy. You basically pay at least 150% and give you employer money if you want to self-insure.
You still won't be able to pay your policy if you get critically injured, so what's the difference.
Yes. You should consider core Clojure (including everything covered in this article) as a proof of concept that will never be revisited.
I probably shouldn't have said it's "easier" to declassify. It's more of simply being a matter of deciding that the NIIRS (basically resolution) rating of the imagery from the OBC is low enough relative to other sensors and collection platforms that it won't provide much of an advantage to an adversary.

The embedded Linux system that was added to the OBC also provided a continuously variable Velocity over Height (V/H) control that allowed the OBC to collect imagery at lower altitudes than what it was originally designed for. This improves the quality of the imagery but at a lower area coverage rate as a tradeoff.

Film from the OBC is digitzed, ortho-rectified, and exploited as soft-copy. Back in the day it was done on mechanical light tables.

A good video that shows some of the film and other details is located here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uemrNDEWgzA
Wordpress sites are easily done without any development work. There are many platforms providing ready to use wordpress sites, with nice themes and common needs covered. It is not targeted toward developers at all.

Comparing wordpress and developers, is a bit like comparing how many people like tyres (everybody got some on their car) to how many people enjoy making tyres for a living (not a very common activity).
Elixir String Processing Optimization
Automatic form handling (by just adding a "netlify" attribute the <form>) is a good example. It's a pain having to set up a whole dynamic infrastructure besides your static site just to record a few form submissions by visitors.
As a former member of the military who went through very good and relevant training, I can attest to the TACTICAL value of simulations and war games. However, they were basically worthless in training to a highly dynamic strategic environment. Many were designed to validate a system or belief rather than test the unknown. In theory war games should be built to be free play oriented...in reality the aren’t.
Star Trader from '74 seems to be the inspiration for Trade Wars and Drugwars of '84―they're essentially ‘grind simulators’ with the player looking at sheets of numbers for a lot of the time. However, the apex of popularity of such games was likely in the early-mid 90s when office drones apparently sought to get their minds off the grind with a different grind, and countless knock-offs appeared for DOS.

Still, this ‘spreadsheet’ gameplay is rather different from box stacking. Some Game & Watch titles might be closer.
Along the Coast of Peru, Scientists Discover an Ancient Whale with 4 Legs
If you can read Python you can almost read Ruby code
So why don't you do it? That's what I was asking. If there's such a big demand for it then it would be a easy business.
An AI assisted (or data driven) approach is more reasonable but less scalable. I think that makes the most sense given the problems that can arise if left on its own.
This little bit of misdirection Google and Facebook have propagated about how much better the advertising you get with tracking is the slimiest piece of bait-and-switch in history. Seeing people repeat it like it's fact is testament to just how insidious it is.

Targeted advertising is not designed to serve the viewer, it's designed to serve the advertiser. So advertisements you get are even sleazier than non-targeted advertising because they have by definition more information about the reader. So instead of generically exploiting people's self esteem, it exploits people's self esteem armed with much more information about the users.

Targeting and tracking is a plague and should be discouraged and blocked to oblivion.
can you detail your cristicism of Nate Silver?

I mean he's not a researcher trying to predict the election and somehow has to explain everythong the layman. So some derivation from the mathmatical definitions of probability are expected, i think (the mathematical definitions in its full glory are suprisingly complicated).

I always like FiveTheirghtyEight, mostly because the plots are so beautiful and it never struck me as blatantly wrong.
>The idea of copyrighting a publication of legal statutes or codes could have some good

No it cannot. Copyright grants things called "exclusive rights". They are called such because, absent copyright, nobody is excluded from them. There is no good whatsoever in hindering people from copying, distributing, publicly performing, or creating derived works from existing laws or regulations.

I'm not sure what you're trying to accomplish by saying "Copyright doesnt always mean no-one else has rights to it." It's like saying shooting someone's leg doesn't mean you shot their arm. Copyright's sole purpose is to exclude rights from people who would otherwise have them. Pointing out that it doesn't take away all rights doesn't add to the discussion.
Tokyo Bus Guide is my favorite Dreamcast game.

It requires intense focus. A single mistake 15 minutes into a course will result in a game over (small mistakes like going out of the lane or forgetting to signal the next stop will deduct points, but if you even tap another car then that's it). You have to find the perfect level of pressure to apply to the analog trigger to get the bus at the correct speed. I find it meditative in a way that resembles when I work on something that requires very precise and fine movement, like soldering or fine woodworking. A course might take 20 minutes to complete, but time seems to pass in an instant, and when it's done I feel incredibly relaxed.

I highly recommend it, at least to try once!
Ok. What were your opinions of the actual article we're commenting on? It's written by a Berkeley Math PhD, so I think it's unlikely that it includes a lot of misunderstandings of basic mathematical terms.
He's good friends with Stephen Wolfram. Take that any way you like.
I remember when I was little, I wanted to learn piano, and everyone recommended simple pieces for me to play. They all looked kind of boring, so I printed off the sheet music for Liszt’s Transcendental Etude No. 10 and started practicing.

I can’t say that my skill is anywhere close to that of a concert pianist, but I also can’t say I would have ever stuck with piano if I was forced to practice that other stuff first.
> I don't think there's a constraint on "Nate Silver has a probability model" that mathematically guarantees "Nate Silver's probability model" is correct

If I'm understanding the article correctly, it's not talking about models being "correct," it's just talking about the probabilities of all the outcomes adding up to 100%, which means you can't place a bet that guarantees you make money regardless of the outcome.

In other words, offering a bet that was based on the claim that there is a 99% chance of rain today in the Atacama Desert, and a 1% chance of no rain there, is arbitrage-free. It's still clearly a poor probability model for one of the driest places on Earth, but it's arbitrage-free.
Jesus surrounded himself with lepers, whores and thieves. I'm sincerely not trolling here, I just don't see a point in preaching only to the choir. I respect values of information here, like how Snowden landing in Honk Kong was announced here before any other website. But comfort zones, echo chambers, safe spaces and news bubbles are the same as any gated community, in that they block out most of reality by design. Including quite a lot of truth.
This is an idiotic article.

First, to suggest that padding comes at the expense of operational improvement is wrong; well-applied padding is operational improvement.

Second, some of those time losses are due to the move from turbojets (which are fast, screamingly loud, and inefficient) to high-bypass turbofans (which are slower, quieter, and much more fuel efficient).

More time is lost as planes usually have to fly complex noise-abatement profiles and navigate more crowded and complex airspaces before they get to cruise.
Right decision to make a step towards a user and protect their market. Preventing fingerprinting is interesting and non-trivial by itself. It's impossible to implement with just a plugin.

One day I found that navigator.getGamepads() did rat out my gamepad in Chrome while using private mode, I twitted Google, they didn't answer. Who knows what else is exposed.

I didn't know Firefox had privacy.resistFingerprinting.reduceTimerPrecision.jitter option, that's cool, but what about requestAnimationFrame()? Games wouldn't work without it. Not to mention spawning workers and passing values between them; delays while using things like shaders and gpu.js; decoding various formats like audio and measuring time, etc. Anyone tried to block videos on news sites? They are unstoppable, I can watch vids like with everything red in uBlock Origin.

I think Mozilla could make a contest for breaking their fingerprint resistance, before they are ready to merge their privacy features from Nightly to master branch.
UberTooth retails for $120.
Article 11 is a very clear attack on linking driven by legacy news and similar industries which are losing money in the Internet age and whining that everyone should pay them now, "just because" (read they can't properly compete).

If you want more in depth review of this, check Techdirt articles on the topic: https://www.techdirt.com/blog/?tag=article+11

But I doubt you would - since you simply will say "it's not that". I see no point in arguing then.
" just referring to assumptions -- i.e. the things we don't know we assumed, but are acting on subconsciously"

This is much, much more than "just assumption" to Zizek. In fact, this is what he refers to as ideology and it's basically the main subject he is known for
So default password was student ID? Who wants to bet there was a list of names and student IDs available somewhere that made this trivial to automate?

(Or they were sequential with blocks for each class)
Taleb's forte is applying various insights from practitioners of financial options to other domains.
Spotify losing artists from rate hike appeal, Apple Music reaping the rewards
I'm talking about actual information about what Google does with their data.

The cost-benefit analysis and risk tolerance doesn't tell us about how much Google secures their privacy, it tells us about how much the company cares about their privacy/security.
How Virtual Reality Is Disrupting the Gaming Industry
I can dig it. Does that mean we get to avoid the gender autotuners and highly produced studio gender? :D
That's not specifically a Brooklyn thing, it supposedly has more to do with the fact that most Italian families in the tri-state area came to the U.S. before Italy was a country with a standardized language. That's why e.g. in Connecticut they pronounce pizza as abeetz. For whatever reason knowing how to pronounce and spell Italian words "incorrectly" has become a point of local pride, even for people who aren't at all ethnically Italian.
Same here... Opera sets itself as default browser without any action/prompt whatever.
It also adds the Opera icon in the task bar without asking anything. Red line crossed.
Next step is probably to uninstall competitors ?
Maybe not a lot of friends among his professional peers, but that wouldn't narrow his circle much.
Could you give some examples of things they do that you disagree with? I can't really think of any controversial non-firefox things they've done.
Uppy Working in React Native
There is a project to port games from that book (among many other Usborne books) to python: https://yorkshire4.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
The very first result, Coachella, is listed as $300. Having attended multiple times (and going again in 3 days), I can assure you that the actual cost is much higher.

It makes me skeptical of the rest of the information displayed for festivals I am less familiar with.
So according to my reading - the ICC is an organization that makes building codes. Then they lobby state and federal governments to adopt them into law. Then they make their money by charging people for access to those codes. Talk about twisted incentives. No wonder building codes are becoming complex faster and faster.
Why is this such a common thing?

Short answer I suspect is old systems with complicated dependencies.
I have still never gotten Fallout NV to run without crashing catastrophically less than 2 hours in. I've tried different machines (laptop vs. custom desktop) and several mods to fix this, but when I realized I had sunk 4 hours into it already and it was looking like an all day project I walked away and haven't come back since.

It's one of my bigger gaming disappointments, honestly, especially after constantly reading how much everyone loves it years later. I keep hoping for a remaster or something so I can run it without buying new hardware which may or may not work and/or tinkering for hours.
You can still find the original ones all over eBay.
It's great that the popular press still runs science articles.

What's not so great:

1. There is no link to the original paper.

2. The description of the phenomenon has been so contorted that it's impossible to understand exactly what was found or its significance.

The article notes:

> “Somehow, these potassium atoms decide to divide up into two loosely linked sub-lattices,” Hermann says. But as scientists turned up the heat, x-ray images showed the four chains disappearing, and researchers argued about what exactly was happening.

Fine, there's debate about how to explain the experiment.

> The computer models confirmed that between about 20,000 and 40,000 times atmospheric pressure and 400 to 800 Kelvin (260 to 980 degrees Fahrenheit), the potassium entered what’s called a chain-melted state, in which the chains dissolved into liquid while the remaining potassium crystals stayed solid.

That's just one explanation consistent with the data. Clearly, there are others.

The article gives the false impression that some smoking gun has been found. Far from it.
This is a good insight.

Because Firefox is open-source, everything can be gamed. If they went for some more "intelligent" method, the kind that instinctively appeals to people like you and I and anyone posting on HN, the fingerprinters could see exactly what they were being tested on, and it would be faster to iterate their counter-measures (keep this particular activity just below threshold X on metric Y) than it would be to make new Firefox releases. And the counter-measures to these more smart kind of measures happen _in secret_, whereas counter-measures to the "bash the problem to death with simple rules" approach are public, are (if their fingerprinting is to have any point) widely distributed, and thus much more immediately picked up and remedied by the many wonderful people who work on the lists used by privacy tools like ad blockers.

While we all like a cool and innovative solution, sometimes bashing the problem to death with dumb rules really is the best approach :)

(edited for a clarification)
> No-one should have to Pay, login, sign up or give PII in exchange for access to text of legal statutes, something that is public property and derived from public monies remitted to an elected government acting within its bounds of authority.

So where's the utility in permitting the codes to be copyrighted? How could the public benefit from this?
Seriously, get off the internet and go volunteer at St Anthony's for an hour. You'll get to meet some representative sample of the homeless in San Francisco and gain a much more high resolution picture on what all the various causes of homelessness are. The picture is complicated but it's not at all what you're positing.

I guarantee if you spend a week working with the homeless in San Francisco, you'll meet at least some people more intelligent than you, people who at one point earned more money than you, people who are more mentally composed and happy than you. You won't meet all of them in the same person but you'll meet at least one example of someone who can disprove every single simplistic pet theory about homelessness ever proposed.
The best criticism I can come up with is that 538 probably doesn't do a sufficient job of explaining to its audience that their published probabilities are predictions for what would happen if the event occurred today.

This seems to be one of Taleb's (and others') criticisms of their predictions: that they don't consider the probability of major unexpected events occurring between now and the event (like an athlete getting injured in the future, or the FBI announcing an investigation of a political candidate). But as I understand it, 538 is explicitly not attempting to consider those things, and is simply publishing probabilities of outcomes if the event were to happen now.
>> the creative side of advertising is that it's an arms race.

Sure, for big businesses.

But small businesses just need to have a good enough design, not beat their opponent by a few percent.

And isn't that a big enough market to start with ?
And that presentation should be given in Russian.
No, your day care does not make itemized reports of potential deductions for all its clients to the IRS.
I moved from github pages because github pages didn't do 302s.
> It'd be far preferable to implement this as-is and fix edge cases

It looks to me like the "edge cases" constitute the majority.
They don't have to be optimizing for Facebook addiction. They could instead be optimizing the safety of chemical plant control panels. Just because SV is almost wholly devoted to ads doesn't mean all software is.
How to address a major problem for VR adoption: “VR Face”
I'm 100% willing to accept it. I feel like the people who aren't are the types who get extremely defensive about gaming in general. Imagine feeling so attacked that you have to try to claim that DoTA taught you "entrepreneurial skills".

Everyone has hobbies that are time-wasters to an extent. It isn't the end of the world if someone has the opinion that this one habit might be addictive.
Taleb's response to this article: https://twitter.com/nntaleb/status/1115684446081040386
? You don't exercise your options if below the strike price. For RSUs, you hope they were issued far below the IPO price.
Beautiful.ai does automate the boring but necessary part of the presentation design process (aligning and distributing objects, optimizing fonts etc.)

It's not truly creative but it enables creativity I'd argue.
Currently form submissions are only emailed to you, I will store them in the database if you tick the "Store Submissions" box, and in the near future you will be able to browse submissions.

There is currently no way to edit a form, and I'm not sure if I will ever build this, since it's all semantic, and you can always create a new form if you want.

Roadmap:

- Request links to form/submissions

- Export submissions

- Expose an API to query the submissions for a form (useful if you want to add a comment system to your static blog/website)

- Form Builder -- I know these are a dime a dozen, and I might just implement one off the shelf so I don't have to reinvent the wheel.
I think in the long run there’s none. Look at devaluations in various countries. Or cut of paper money circulation in India. Or the $8Trln “printed” by the US to balance out Chinese foreign reserves (also $8Trln at the time by coincidence)
Critique of pro-nuclear NYT article
Simply BREATHE 360 stereoscopic for VR headsets
Get that last March Madness fix!

Watch on your phone's youtube app for 360 functionality streams well on VR headsets too.

https://youtu.be/6hyK0tocmBY

Featuring Richie Ramone for all you punk rockers
Pensions Made Fun – Review of “The High Cost of Good Intentions”
I really like the Tufte CSS style, so much so that I adapted it for my own blog. In my opinion it suits the longer, more thoughtful posts that I was trying to create.

Tufte-style presentation really shines when trying to convey very complex ideas that require a lot of text. For example, this is my attempt at explaining HTTP from the ground up[0]. The side-notes really help to add additional information without breaking the flow of text.

That said, I don't think it looks that great on mobile devices in portrait mode. I still haven't found a good solution to this.

[0] https://sheep.horse/2017/10/how_you_are_reading_this_page.ht...
Yes, that's exactly what they mean.
That's probably about how I looked when I first booted up Doom 2016.
Maybe the ethicists are just more absent-minded? Missing books doesn't necessarily mean dishonest borrowers.
Possibly because he didn't want someone killed for his liver. Also it's not clear how long Jobs actually waited. In addition to the geographic system gaming, there was some shady stuff with the doctor who gave Jobs the transplant.

http://fortune.com/2013/12/08/the-surgeon-who-gave-steve-job...
See if your Chrome browser is managed
Simply BREATHE 360 stereoscopic for VR headsets
Aren't they just burning through VC cash as they suck up all the devs?
Hey thanks for the support! The best thing you can do is just raise awareness. Either sharing this article or our advocacy page (https://up.codes/free-law) to raise awareness helps.

It's hard to get most people to care, but this really does affect everyone.

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As you can see, we're not very good at social media and have small reach, so any help is appreciated!
> an exceptional event, especially in Northern Europe. This is not "a dramatic situation that isn't".

Exceptional, yes. Unprecedented, no.

> So if you want "thorough scientific methods", you'd have to look elsewhere.

I'd be happy if there was less cherry-picking and more linking to raw sources for verification. If this was about people of particular ethnicities committing crimes, people would cry foul and "racism" at such hand-picked examples.
Is there any reason to believe that some other medium won't have this exact problem? For instance, if you were to meet a public figure at a public event, do you think they will behave any differently? To me it seems like this is more a problem of public figures having a high number of people who want to talk to them or troll them, than of Twitter as a medium.
I switched completely to Firefox on my work computer. Don't miss Chrome at all.
In other comments you talk about "lightweight" as cognitive load, I'm curious why Python is any different than other languages?

I haven't used virtualenv very much, but I've been doing similar things for longer than virtualenv has been around. You need a `python` binary on PATH and a PYTHONPATH pointing to where you want to get your libraries from. virtualenv packages this up into a directory in a more user friendly fashion.

Most docs I've seen on Python2/3 advise on choosing one or the other, ideally 3. Which implies mixing should either be done very carefully or with a plan to transition to 3.

I get that some accidents of history have caused headaches. The deep adoption by distros have caused problems when people just want to use Python/libs installed with the OS (as well as moving to Python 3), authoring packages hasn't been great historically, etc.
He remains a real charmer I see.
Hey, I can still remember most of the copy protection poem from Faery Tale Adventure. Them's some valuable neurons that won't be repurposed any time soon.
Even so, you could hash the password somehow in order to produce the number, which then goes into that old system.
The title of the article is not properly translated. "Sverige vill ändra" actually means "Swedens wants to change", not "will change". Also, "Sweden", in this case is the "EU committee" of the Swedish parliament. The committee wants the government to vote no. The matter isn't final yet I guess.