skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't see a good reason why anonymity should be a good default for social networks in particular. It's quite literally in the name, the primary function is social interaction.

The idea that anonymity should be guaranteed on every website, in every context without justification needs to be argued for, it's not self evident.
EverQuest, I assume, which was a popular MMORPG prior to World of Warcraft
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Sure, if you don't care about art, or national pride, you might not get it.

Put it this way... would you run into a burning building to try to save the Declaration of Independence? (Assuming you're an American) Would most firefighters? Seems reasonable to me. The art inside the Notre Dame is on that level of importance, to France and to civilization itself.
Nah, what makes it hard for insurers isn't that we don't know what an "act of cyber war" is. That just comes up when they try to get _out_ of it, and the same thing comes up with non-cyber "acts of war" -- it might make it hard on customers who are trying to file claims, but it's not hard on the companies.

But it _is_ hard on insurerers to do under-writing on cyber attacks -- UNRELATED to the "war" exemption, even non-war attacks. Because it's _new_, so they don't have all the historical data and methods for estimating risk. As others are saying, this is the business insurance companies are in, estimating statistical risk and figuring out the right premiums to charge to cover it. But the cyber stuff is new, which _does_ make it hard.

As original article says:

> Cyberattacks have created a unique challenge for insurers. Traditional practices, like not covering multiple buildings in the same neighborhood to avoid the risk of, say, a big fire don’t apply. Malware moves fast and unpredictably, leaving an expensive trail of collateral damage.

But nobody said they had to cover cyber stuff. They can put stuff in their policies saying they don't cover it at all, if they don't know how to underwrite it. What they can't do is put stuff in their policies saying they cover it, take your premiums on that basis, but then try to weasel out of it.
Well it is "for the children" so that is a given.
As someone with a linnstrument, I have to say that I absolutely adore it. It's among my best purchases I've ever made and is completely intuitive to me (who has much more time on stringed instruments than keyboards). I don't hate keyboards, but I like them less after using the linnstrument. The isomorphic layout means that more time can be spent memorizing a diversity of chords and scales by function as opposed to memorizing the same function in different keys. It's a blast to play and the expressive bends and whatnot are incredible.
3D facial analysis could help identify children with rare conditions
Austin has a nonprofit rideshare app formed after Uber and Lyft pulled out for regulator-related reasons which more closely clones their business model
http://www.rideaustin.com/

I think the reality is such a project is less about the app and more about mobilising the drivers to join and sorting out various hurdles so they can safely and legally operate in a jurisdiction, especially if you're also taking payments on their behalf (that'll be the reason libretaxi uses cash). Doing that paperwork is a lot of man hours for somebody...
>Scientists believe that time is continuous, not discrete—roughly speaking, they believe that it does not progress in "chunks," but rather "flows," smoothly and continuously.

Is this true? I didn't think there was any kind of consensus on this topic. I also thought some scientists believe the Planck time(/length) is the smallest unit of possible time i.e. they would say time is discrete
Machine learning moves popular data elements into a bucket of their own
Users rarely audit extension updates either. You could wake up tomorrow with a new rewrite supporting extension. Would you know?
What I personally did was take the full week off. Buying a one way ticket there.

If it had gone on schedule, we would either have done a “different” trip, or simply come home for a “staycation”.

In general, I would not plan for it to go when it says it will.

Also, another helpful hint: it won’t go earlier than 3-4 days after the static fire. One option would be not to book flights till the static fire actually occurs.
Well it all depends what the requests are, doesn’t it.

I’m sure some have requested the ability to run javascript, that doesn’t mean it’s a good idea to add that to the api.
Cherish that memory! It felt good to read.
The other thing those people might consider, and this includes our president, is that they aren't firefighters, have no idea what to do, and surely live in a place unequal to Paris in any parameter upon which you'd care to compare. IT'S PARIS. They're in Paris. And to paraphrase Chevy Chase: You're not. They know what they're doing. Imagine you're the Paris fire chief. That's like being the NYC fire chief. Such a person has a distaste for explaining to superiors why they mismanaged a firefighting operation, and has a lifetime of experience, and hence, tends to manage it properly.

"Must act quickly!" Ya think? Hopefully the fire department in Paris, France is listening for gems like that from out here in the boonies / the ghetto hemisphere. How many medieval churches are there on our whole continent? Call us if you want a church bombed.

(edited slightly in response to child comments)
And yet the Sagrada Família is being slowly built in Barcelona, and financed mostly by tourism.
Any thoughts on why there isn't more evident action from building fire suppression systems? At least in smaller systems, I've seen sprinklers that work externally to the building to protect tall wooden spires, etc.
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"Linked to building work" could easily mean "they left a heater on". Workers don't have to be there at the exact moment for it to be related to their activity.
Not everyone is nationalistic.
Not just any hose though, you need rigid walled hose. Regular fire hose would just collapse flat under suction.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hard_suction_hose
You were wrong, give it up already.
> Gating content based on age does. not. work. Source: every teenage kid ever.

Do you mean to suggest that you too knew kids who falsely clicked "over 18" when visiting pornographic websites?
Their biggest defeat was perhaps the browser war. They were so strongly trying to dominate the open standards they totally forgot about the applications. Funny how Qt and Electron are now exactly where Microsoft had always wanted to be.
Randomized, double-blind, sham-controlled study of neurofeedback on motor contro
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Let's call settlements what they are: Bribes. Sometimes a bribe can bring justice, but in cases like this where they've created a systemic problem, the knock-on effects are too large for a bribe to ever be true justice. Thats why people need to go to jail.
Be cautious when using pretrained deep learning models
I would not be surprised to hear it was sparked by Islamic extremists. According to wikipedia there were two known attempts on the cathedral in the past 3 years:

> 8 September 2016: Notre Dame Cathedral bombing attempt. Arrests made after an explosives-filled car was discovered parked alongside the cathedral.

> 10 February 2017: Police arrested four people in Montpellier, France, including a 16-year-old girl and a 20-year-old man already known by authorities to have ties to extremist Islamist organizations, on charges of plotting to travel to Paris and attack the cathedral.[37]

see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Notre-Dame_de_Paris#Events_in_...
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Are you still doing the weekly?
It was never OK or legal but it was settled. I can say that I was happy with the settlement. I cannot speak for others except to say that I don't think I'm all that much of an outlier, so don't write me off, bro.

I still think this is a better argument than people arguing on behalf of hypothetical others they don't know anything about. One data point is better than zero. If you want to pursue justice, find a current problem with some identifiable victims.
User expectation is important. You don't generally have to put warnings on knives that they may cut you, but if you made a coffee mug that sliced peoples lips up you would get in trouble.

As a developer, I expect that browser plugins can execute code in some context (though I think general users may not even expect that); but I don't generally expect that plugins will execute code from some arbitrary 3rd party source.
Here's somebody standing right under one.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=87hfWatbVPY

You people are all being ridiculous today.
Or arson.
There are numerous ongoing "moonshot" projects in the west as we speak. Not sure where you get this idea from.
Why can't I be applying my skills to help with stuff like this, full time?
What kind of cultural war did I get in that by expressing my feelings towards this monument I get downvoted?
Also a paramedic and developer. You can imagine that the firefighting experience comes in handy a lot.
Is the hose to be dropped into the cistern different from the other hoses? I would expect it to be reinforced, such that it wouldn't collapse from air pressure. Hoses downstream from a high pressure pump wouldn't need such reinforcement. However, it's different upstream from such pumps.
No offense to PowerPoint fans! I've observed people making pointless presentations to shore up their brand as employees, not to facilitate trade.

It has other uses but... Have you not seen what I describe? That would be a useful data point for me if true.
When you're super rich, you already have that better society, it just costs a bit more (nothing you can't easily afford). Who cares about the rest of the hoi polloi.

That's how our society works and we applaude it by promising the potential to become one of the super rich, when much of obtaining that degree of wealth isn't earned through hard work and innovation but instead, pure situational luck and ability to curb your morals and ethics to climb over people and pull the ladder behind you.
If the password is stored in plaintext or can be changed by an admin(in a method other than a reset where the user still sets the new password), we've got other problems.
I skimmed that post and it uses the classic technique of "if I have to buy something for 10$ but only eat part of it I count the amount it costs me for that day" - that only works if you have the money to buy in bulk, which is not the case for the majority of people who get dished out the "you can eat for almost nothing!" advice.
I never considered this. Metaphors are very difficult to translate because while the primary definition of a word may be easily translatable, that translated word may have slightly different linguisitic properties that make the metaphor a little more abstract.

In this example, "Home" in english doesn't always just refer to somebody's primary residence, we also use it as a descriptor or prefix (hometown).

In china, the direct translation for "home" probably isn't also used as a descriptor, which means that they aren't used to using "home" in a more figurative sense.
I read the first three paragraphs, and was immediately reminded that this is a medium article.

Why is it okay, when promoting one gender, to pingeonhole the other gender? Could the point not have been made without saying all guys are sexist, or pretend not to be (but secretly are), or see something wrong but never speak up (except our author, of course! what a gentlemen).

Yes, there is a disparity when it comes to the sexes in STEM. Yes, there are toxic workplaces and piss poor attitudes. Yes, we (as women, men and whatever floats your boat) should address the issue.

However, we need to address the issues without doing these ridiculous 180 degree flipflops. Sexism isn't cool, no matter the source or the target. This is just a big honking virtue signal piece, with no solutions offered, a lot of blaming, and the stench of sexism still all over it.

Leave it to the male author to repeatedly tell the reader how women are feeling, and how he (and all of the slimy men out there!) can help out the poor women.

Just to top it off, the most interesting quote from the article:
"I am a man and I am here to give a man’s voice to all of what women have been saying all along!"

So, women need a mans voice to be heard, says the author?
A friend recently needed to move EUR sitting in one of her HSBC accounts to GBP in another of her HSBC accounts. To get HSBC to do it would have taken "up to three days", and the exchange rate was abysmal. On my recommendation, she used TransferWise instead, saved almost £300 on the exchange rate and it moved within an hour. YMMV, but in UK I've literally never seen big banks be cheaper than TW.
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I work for a remote-only company. We use payworks.ca in Canada, and I believe ADP in the USA, for direct deposits.
Live video from Reuters here: https://www.reuters.tv/l/PFyC
This

Stop buying nuggets and start putting real food on the table

Does't want to eat? Too bad, maybe next time

This is the same behaviour as with morbidly obese people. If you can't get out of bed by yourself you're not getting food. PERIOD
I guess this is the reason: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20180515-00/?p=98...

> Since its release in Windows XP, Zip folders has not been actively developed. The reason is the usual: Because adding features requires engineering resources, and engineering resources are limited. Furthermore, since the compression and decompression code weren’t written by anybody from Microsoft, there is no expertise in the code base, which means that debugging and making changes is a very difficult undertaking.
I stopped eating cheese at around 4 or 5 years of age. I just stopped liking it one day and started hating it instead. When I turned 25 I began eating pizza as an experiment, and had no problems with it, but still many years later I do avoid cheese and other dairy products in most situations. I suspect it might have something to do with lactose intolerance, but I have never attempted to verify this.
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My first point is also objectively correct IF size and age are strongly correlated. Do you agree with that premise?
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I guess what you're trying to say is that "if you're being paid mostly in stock then you're earning so little cash you're not really losing much cash if you quit".

This is a fundamentally incorrect assessment. If your cash salary is lower it is harder to leave the company. Being able to leave a company without a replacement job lined up requires having enough saved cash (not unsaleable pre-IPO stock), but if you're being paid less cash you have less to save after paying rent.

Put very simply, you're interpreting a "low cash income given actual market rates" and "no cash income" as being somewhat interchangeable. Hopefully when phrased that way it should be obvious why that isn't the case if you have mortgage/rent/healthcare to worry about.
While it would be great if the UK could reduce CO2 emissions by 10,000% of current levels, it’s probably easier for every country to individually reduce their own CO2 emissions, starting with whatever is most cost-effective. In those cases where a country can produce more than it needs, export it, like any other good — this already happens in some cases.
Microsoft's AI research with Chinese military university fuels concerns
I expect it to be completely worthless for the nominal purpose.

As for backfiring teens already prefer "not used by their parents" social media. I would expect moving on to less lawful platforms - at least when it comes to the UK.
Every app will be different, but I found (at first) that doing support myself, and doing a light "first principles postmortem" on every email that came in was a good way to drive support down over time. Essentially asking "what do we need to do to make this the last time anyone writes in with this question?"

Sometimes that means better documentation and self-serve content. Or adding better search terms to your support content so people can find it more easily. (If someone writes in on a question your help center doesn't cover, copy your answer to them and paste it into your help center CMS. If someone writes in with a question you already answer, pull phrases and keywords from their email and add them to the answer / tags in the CMS.) Sometimes it's making it clearer within the UI what your app will or won't do. Sometimes it's writing a new feature to appease people.

You want to maximize the number of ghost tickets — the ones that never come in, because they never had to get written in the first place. As with code, "No ticket is faster than no ticket."

Making your support content more present within the app itself, or hooking up your "need support?" request flow so the customer has to go through the support content first can also help. (Obviously, there's a balance between making them jump through hoops and just having an open line to you.)

Eventually I hired one of my most vocal customers (opinionated, but polite) to handle support part-time. Hiring her at an hourly rate meant I didn't have to worry about a lot of the normal staffing issues that come with a full-time employee.

If you do go the route of hiring someone, I highly recommend looking for someone with a librarianship/infoscience background. They're trained to communicate well, to discern the question behind the question, and to do self-directed research. They're also in a market where jobs are harder to come by.
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This is terrible. I’ve been to the cathedral. France is awesome. The Louvre was awesome. To see Notre Dame in flames is just sad.
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Because some remote employees move all the time and it's annoying to arrange where to receive the check.
especially when water hits the super-hot stone. Hannibal crossing the Alps thing
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Great way to teach a lesson, and a great promotion!
Interesting -- are there some good examples of that happening?
Second that. While I am in awe everytime I have the privilege to visit a grand place of architecture. I cannot forget that one of the reasons they exist was the societal structure back then, which I would rather not live in.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=87hfWatbVPY
By rapidly and accurately delivering health information to the population the NHS Choices website aims to save money for the NHS - by teach people about prevention, and by directing people to the right source of help at the right time.
I think the main useful thing about 7x50 is that 50mm (diameter of the input lens) divided by 7 (magnification) is just over 7mm, which would be the diameter of the image in the output lens and is also approximately the maximum diameter of your pupil, meaning that the field of view is never smaller than your pupil and you can always see properly. If the exit diameter is smaller than your pupil then it is like you are peering through a small hole.

If you know you are going to be viewing in bright daylight then your pupils will be smaller and you can use smaller lenses like 7x35 or so or for extra magnification you could use 10x40 but with higher magnification you get more jitter anyway.

In low light conditions, if you compare the field of view through some 7x50's vs straight gazing, you will notice that the scene seems brighter as well as closer. That is because you are receiving light from 50mm dia onto your retina vs light from 7mm diameter.

and thats enough about optics, back to the space rockets.
How is converting it to fiat a different subject when most people need to be paid in something that can then be used for rent/food/literally everything else?

This entire thread is insane.

The second a job tries to pay me in crypto is the second I'm looking for another job.
> Why would you be OK with giving up a certain percentage of your hard-earned money

The direct deposit fee is, at most, a couple of dollars per paycheck, and the employer should be paying that.

It's 2019. Paying employees by printed check is as silly as sending day-to-day inter-office communications by fax.
France does seem to have a deep seated nationalism that I don't understand very well. They care extremely deeply about their cultural works to a degree that does not make sense to me.
What's the harm in waiting until we have more evidence before we start throwing out ideas? Why is it important to be the first to declare "I see the pattern!"?
I found this interesting - shows how in demand data-science is right now - towardsdatascience is in the top 5 inbound and outbound referring domains on medium
There are organizational issues that make it hard @ FANG to be a full remote company.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadair_CL-415

Widely used in Canadian firefighting, mainly forest fires. These fires are huge, covering 1,351,314 hectares in BC alone in 2018[0].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2018_British_Columbia_wildfire...
like, really short: https://www.google.com/maps/place/Notre+Dame,+Paris,+France/...
Is it really hard to guess that I was talking about the cold war and the aptly-named space race (which is directly related to said cold war)?

I can't comprehend how anything else could come to mind.
Someday, when we win the final battle against Moore's Law, computers will stop evolving. Software will become as stable as medieval architecture. Maybe not in our lifetimes, but it'll happen.

I'm currently reading a science fiction novel that has a scene of someone who just woke up from nearly 200 years of hibernation getting attacked by all sorts of futuristic machinery, due to a 200 year old assassination virus that was still running. It could find him using the inevitable everywhere surveillance (retina scans everywhere), and then use whatever to attack - automated flying cars, a robot waiter, even a couch massage unit.
No idea, I gave it away for free to a solder-handy guy who was unemployed and needed something to drive a 5.1 set he was gifted from someone else. I did try a heatsink, but that didn't help noticeably.
This was shown on PBS in the 80's, and it still holds up. As a nerdy kid, I remember being captivated by the animated segments.

TL;DR - The danger of fire has always been an issue in the design and construction of these cathedrals.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MZpOd2pHiI0
>Apple's side-loading ban creates ideal conditions for authorities to compromise citizen's privacy via censorship, VPN bans, etc.

I can't really parse that. iOS being locked down and having strong system security prevents censorship because it prevents authorities getting access to your data. How on earth can opening that up and providing backdoors to the system prevent censorship?

The whole reason for the VPN ban is precisely because Apple's system security is so tight that eavesdropping on the wire is the only way the authorities can get at user communications. This criticism makes no sense.

Ultimately, your expectations of how gate keeping should pan out fail to match actual reality. iOS is vastly more secure that it's open competitors, so much so that it isn't even remotely close. I don't know how you can post that with a straight face, but I suppose ideology is a powerful force.
Does wood really last that long? I know ancient Japanese wooden temples are basically rebuilt every 30 years or so, a constant renewal akin to the Ship of Theseus. Are European wooden structures similarly renewed?
What is the building made of? Sand, gravel, stone, and cement are fairly inert. It must be made of some other flammable material.
I told the truth in Pokemon Go and now I can't battle or befriend or send gifts to my under-13 daughter :(