skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
After my partner read The Checklist Manifesto by Atul Gawande, he set out to help other organizations improve outcomes via the use of checklists. Together, we built https://www.manifest.ly

My main feedback from having witnessed thousands of organizations set up their checklists is that they can be used to help teams succeed and they can be used in an oppressive way to "ensure people do what they're supposed to do". Almost always they contain too many steps compared to what they should have and that is usually because the people creating/editing the checklists are often not the users of the actual checklist. When the users and editors are the same people, then the quality of the checklist goes up. We use our own tool on a daily bases for processes that have high risks or for processes that we don't do very often. They are great safety nets.
In the same vein, as an industry, pornography really improved computer storage density and video codecs whereas electronic trading really improved the tech to reduce networking latency. Virtually all engineering benefits from other engineering that came before it. There are plenty of other ways, but this is how it is. Most all of what NASA does or has ever done has directly benefited the Department of Defense. Does this mean we should shut down NASA because it helps the military make more efficient missiles or spy satellites? When does this silly argument end.
Another case of "Stallman was right": https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/right-to-read.en.html
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Virtue? For me, it's much more basal than that.

Railguns, rockets, explosions, lasers... fast cars, fighter jets, massive supercomputers... all impressive engineering "magic" that spark some childish awe in a certain type of person.

As an adult, I know the why behind the technology. That "awe" grows into "awesome" or "awful"... but it always starts awe.
I believe this is a huge issue to many iPhone holders.But also there is really no need in buying a new phone every year.
No, a clean browser and IP with the combination of what fonts I have installed, how my video card renders a canvas and WebGL instance (which may be affected not just by the video card you have, but the driver version used with it), my screen size, and a few other system level items that come through may or may or may not be enough to uniquely identify you. Along with linking to a prior profile if you screw up one time (or load a URL that has identifying information they can use), and you're busted.

So, sure, a clean browser and IP and never logging into a site you're previously visiting might be enough, but who does that, and doesn't that halfway defeat the purpose?
I think the primary reason for Europe being safer for pedestrians is that the speed limits are much lower. On roads with sidewalks, the speed limit is typically 30kph to 50kph, which is 18mph to 31mph. So pedestrians have more time to hear cars, and drivers have more time to see pedestrians and stop if needed.

Other factors... there is no right turn on red, most cars are manual transmission, drivers have to be more alert in order to not hit oncoming traffic, etc.
I think the DRY in popular mind-share (where it seems largely syntactic) is substantially less valuable than the original formulation, which spoke of "pieces of knowledge".

There are (at least) two ways the two differ:

First, stating the same thing in many different forms is not DRY, even if it doesn't look like repetition. If the piece of knowledge is "there is a button there", then saying so in HTML and JS and CSS isn't DRY.

Second, something might look like repetition but in fact be representing different "pieces of knowledge" in each place. Unifying them is not "more DRY".
It's not 'exactly that.'

Nobody gets cheques in the mail for it. When BC introduced its RNCT, the BC Liberals[1] sent exactly one set of cheques out, once - while burying the revenue-neutral revenues in an abstract, unmeasurable corporate and income tax cut. Rob the poor to pay the rich sort of stuff.

On the bright side, it also reduced gas usage by ~20% in 10 years[2], compared to the rest of the country, which is about ~20% more of a reduction then all the useless self-congratulatory hand-wringing about the plight of the poor has ever accomplished. [3]

[1] For foreign readers - the BC Liberals are liberal-in-name only. They are the mainstream conservative party of British Columbia, and have close ties to the Federal Conservative Party of Canada.

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Columbia_carbon_tax

[3] If we're going to put the brakes on any climate-disaster-related initiative, because someone, somewhere is going to be worse off for it, you may as well shoot me now. Someone, somewhere is always going to be worse off with every policy decision. We'll all be worse off if we keep wasting time, instead of acting.
On the flip side, people all over my neighborhood have put considerable effort into building awesome tiny sharing libraries. Perhaps without the issue being "solved" we'd see even more and varied institutions formulate organically.

So yes, I can imagine, but who knows whose imagination is closer to "alternative reality"?
> Now if they could just fix Firefox Mobile's abysmal tab management. Chrome Mobile's tab screen is a stack of pages in the Z-axis with the one closest to the user being the most recent tab and so on. Firefox Mobile's is a grid with the number of rows and columns being variable depending on screen dimensions.

You can change it to a linear list easily. Settings -> General -> Compact Tabs.

Personally I strongly prefer the way Firefox does it. The order is actually pretty simple. Left to right, top to bottom is oldest to newest.
FWIW the 4" iPhone 5s and SE are the last iPhones without a camera bump. Clean look.
Which seems crazy. But, yeah.

Also can do a search for "Working Copy", tap that app, then tap the button to show more from the same developer.
> But they accepted the case then couldn't sort out how a ruling against partisan gerrymandering would work or fallout, and here we are.

I like your line of thinking there, but I can't help but think they knew exactly what they were doing when they took it. Knowing what we know about Alito and Thomas they would've jumped at this type of decision, probably Gorsuch and Kav as well.
Ask HN: He submits the link 10 times, gets mega-upvoted on the 10th – Why?
Link: https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=http.cat
I first read this in the early 2000s. It's part of the Reciprocality project, which is hosted at https://www.datapacrat.com/Opinion/Reciprocality/

It's been discussed on Hacker News a few times before. There's also a Yahoo group for discussing related ideas: https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/progstone/info with posts going back as far as 1999.
The closest I'm aware of for active research is SpinLaunch:
https://www.nextbigfuture.com/2018/02/spinlaunch-is-using-la...

...but isn't using rails. Rails are kind of a pain anyway as they have a habit of eroding.
"The books will stop working"? They were never "working" properly in the first place! There's a reason why DRM systems are said to be "defective by design"; DRM is inherently anti-consumer (in denying entirely lawful rights, such as format shifting and copying for the purpose of fair use under copyright law) and DRM-encumbered media of any sort should always be regarded as fake media.
A Scanner Darkly comes to mine. A suit that's able to game all this surveillance tech: gait masking, face scrambling, heartbeat obfuscation.
Also noise.
yes, a gas tax can be regressive but what's the actual effect on the less affluent, especially over time? it would likely be a short-term hit (which you could mitigate with a one-time credit) until those SUVs and trucks were traded in for safer vehicles.

the more relevant criticism, in my view, is that a gas tax would be too indirect and wouldn't induce larger vehicles to become safer (not to mention it's confusing, thus making people mad).

so then, could we construct an incentive that was proportional to a vehicle's safety record (along with a progressive punishment for the inverse)? as another commenter added, insurance may be the right avenue for this.
https://blog.cloudflare.com/the-trouble-with-tor/

> like all IP addresses that connect to our network, we check the requests that they make and assign a threat score to the IP. Unfortunately, since such a high percentage of requests that are coming from the Tor network are malicious, the IPs of the Tor exit nodes often have a very high threat score.
It means taking out adversarial missiles or aircraft. When they're travelling so fast, they might not need any homing technology. The state of the art F22 Raptor has a top speed with afterburners of Mach 2 for reference. The railgun projectile is travelling at Mach 6 per the article. If the plane is within range, it might not be able to run away from one of these if they get the aiming correct.
I answer the question: to see how hard it is to work on a tablet.

Why: because desktops aren't widely available in the developing world

The "unrelated" link is a suggestion on how to write
fast without a keyboard. Something that might come in handy for a non-desktop machine, don't you think?
Also "under good conditions" is not very convincing.
You'd probably still want a centralized repo of checksums, otherwise it may be more difficult to verify the authenticity of the packages
Difference is you can block Google Analytics and the websites continue to work.
Wonderful description.
So what would be a good solution when you offer both email/password as well as multi tenant SSO as login methods? I want to cause as little friction, so that would exclude a separate page/url for SSO logins. I could off course remember the user's email the first time, and offer SSO subsequent logins if cookies persisted. However, what to do about the first login? Most of the users will continue to use email/password, and I wouldn't want to show the password field to users that will be going to use SSO. So the password fields need to be conditional on the email (domain). I don't want to hardcode the SSO domains in the login form, so some roundtrip to the backend would be required. I see little option except for separating into two steps. A hidden password field would accommodate password managers and a cookie could remember which login flow was used previously and conditionally show the password field. What are your thoughts?
As far as I know, litigation finance is just a high-interest, non-recourse loan secured solely by a future recovery from a lawsuit. It is used by plaintiffs to pay for personal expenses during a lawsuit. Plaintiffs just promise to repay the principal amount plus interest in case of a recovery, it's not an assignment of all or a portion of their interest in the recovery.

So, maybe I misunderstand this. Are law firms actually selling a percentage of their fee in contingent cases to these companies? Or is it structured as a high-interest loan like the loans to plaintiffs?
In a way paper books "stop working" after 10 years or so when the paper turns yellow and dusty
I wrote both comments. There are billions of impressions but a single creative is not seen by that many. The point is that the scale is too large to validate on the publisher side.
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Thanks, this is a fantastic example.
Is this the version you have been searching for? It is "A Fire Upon the Deep" and it looks annotated.

[0] https://i.imgur.com/260sH2V.png
I bought a "Love Handle" (https://www.lovehandle.com/) at a concert merch booth and have been using it ever since. It's thin enough that wireless charging still works, and much easier to get out of a pocket.
Your story of the time you encountered a drunk/stoned/distracted pedestrian is not really helpful to this discussion. No one is claiming that pedestrians are someone perfect. The fact is that most collisions are caused by an error on the part of the driver. Knowing who to blame still doesn't help but false claims that the pedestrians are to blame tend to cause people to forget about the problem.
There is also the case of Indian Reservation trespass which brings an entirely different set of police and rules to bear.

I live in AZ and am surrounded by reservation or BLM land. There are no clear markers marking the difference.
Sites that refuse to display an image without javascript are a pet peeve of mine. Naturally most popular image hosts are guilty of this. Even imgur which was created because other image hosts were so obnoxious and has since become more and more like the services it replaced.
This probably isn't the greatest case to lament that everything is securities fraud.

It seems fairly likely that Toshiba committed securities fraud and that if they did, that Americans making transactions in the US were detrimentlly affected.

It's certainly an interesting legal question. It would be nice for a perpetrator if they could use an international jurisdictional legal loophole to limit liability for their fraud.

But in terms of actual justice, it would be bad.

In general, you shouldn't have to directly control the mechanism by which your fraud causes damage to be held liable for the fraud.
The current binary Debian package format dates to 1995. RPM doesn't get any love because RedHat never seriously committed to improving it. Maybe that's because it was a poorer design than Debian's. The Debian build system is more layered, which arguably makes it easier to extend and evolve. At some point RPM got embedded Lua, but it seems half-baked and because the build phases are too closely coupled I'm not surprised methods and protocols for extending things using Lua never emerged in practice--there aren't enough degrees of freedom in RPM's build model to make extensions seem more than just a hack.[1] In any event the situation could be better, there's just not enough will to do it.

[1] For example, IIRC Lua extensions in RPM were merely a convoluted way to extend RPMs macro system. You're still limited to simply defining macro variables in RPMs rigid templating and translation stages. Most of the complexity of RPM is in the places you least need it, and all the pain points are in places RPM doesn't permit you much, if any, freedom to tweak or automate.
Its such a nice change, I cant believe I haven't come across this yet. From what little I have used of the app it feels really nice and slick.
Correct! And thanks, I fixed it.
Potential other causes

- Your ISP is a source of a lot of malicious traffic

- You have some browser extension or other adjustments that makes it harder to analyse you as a genuine web browser

For example, using a browser automation like Selenium testing triggers "hard" reCAPTCHA. Not sure if this because of some automated API that Selenium exposes, or just because your browser profile looks virgin (no cookies) without any prior reCAPTCHA solves.
Sure, but missiles have to propel themselves, are very large compared to railgun projectiles, and are easier to break apart by putting a heavy wall of lead in the air.

Railgun projectiles have none of these disadvantages. They don't need propellant (or a warhead; the energy delivered upon impact is more than sufficient to break things without needing to explode), they're a solid projectile (and as such can't be as easily destroyed or knocked off course), and they're smaller than a missile is making them much more difficult to track.

To successfully defeat an incoming railgun projectile, it would both required sufficient detection technology coupled to a laser that would need to fully ablate it; where missiles require detection of a significantly larger object and can be defeated by shooting at them/more active protection measures.
It seems foolish to me to target Google while simultaneously sending a constant feed of data about people visiting your campaign site.

In this case the only "service" it appeared to be using was hosting for jquery...
You're correct. Betting more than double the Kelly amount results in negative expected growth:

https://wizardofodds.com/gambling/kelly-criterion/
We're certainly aware of how significant ad blocking extensions are. This release required a great quantity of features with only a six month timeline until now.

We already support a very limited set of the WebExtensions API to offer features like Reader Mode. Rest assured that more features will land in the coming months.

If you're a developer and you want to help us, our Github site is at this link. We mark easier issues with a Good First Issue label. We also need help with translations, documentation, and even getting issues filed.

https://github.com/mozilla-mobile/fenix
Don't developing countries also have money-changers hanging out everywhere who specialize in things like swapping Libra for cash?

I am curious how it works when there is a net inflow into the country though.
Since when do you need eminent domain to buy a bus?
The author diaries doesn't include much on how he gained the knowledge. That is the most important part IMHO.
the reason I went to the 8 series was the wireless charging simply because I wanted to be able to use my wired headset while charging the phone. it has never lost more power than the charger added back even while on a call.

I even use Air Pods while it charges wireless at times, all depending on how much mobility I need at the time.
What's RMS up to these days? Haven't heard from him for a while...
A relevant NYTimes article about Superhuman was also published today: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/27/technology/superhuman-ema...

Key quote for me: "Mr. Vohra said the app was targeted at people who spend three or more hours a day checking their email. “When you’re doing three-plus hours of email every day, it’s your job,” Mr. Vohra said. “And every single other job has a tool that makes you do it faster.”"
Nonsense.
1. Rooivalk attack helicopters are on active duty in the Congo

2. The enriched uranium is still sitting in Pelindaba.
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20289590.
Tiny Libraries are cool but they aren’t even a pale shadow of traditional public libraries that come with commitments to levels of service and access to people of all backgrounds and locations and incomes.
In this case it's about financial communications in the workplace that are required to be recorded for compliance.

Amazingly enough, there are more than zero traders who are sufficiently arrogant bozos that they will chat, on these recorded channels, about coordinating to break the law, stating on the recorded channel that they know they are breaking the law.
>The author of the article doesn't understand elementary physics as well as you do

Don't be so quick to make such judgments:

There is ample scientific interest in the differences between inertial and gravitational mass [1]. That they seem the same is a profound question known to Einstein. He explicitly assumed they were the same in his equivalence principle [2].

So their equivalence is a postulate, not derived from deeper theories. But one day we may find it is not consistent over time. It most certainly is a deep question in physics.

There are other theories of gravity, taken seriously, as possible future modifications to relativity, such as Brans-Dicke theory [3], that remove this equivalence principle, yet still agree with all observational evidence to date.

Current experimental evidence puts them equivalent to under 1 part in 10^-15 [2], with more experiments still being done.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass#Inertial_vs._gravitationa...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equivalence_principle

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brans%E2%80%93Dicke_theory
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I read Don Quixote in a 4 volume edition printed in 1796. It had been sitting on a shelf in a house my parents bought for 200 years quite readable.
Depending on what is the source of energy used to charge the buses.
I'm sorry, I should have checked. I would delete my comment if there was not another interesting child.
Prison, but full of people who want to be there.
Bank of America is...
> You could either stop using these services

No you can't. Facebook creates shadow profiles for every single person in the world. If any single one of your friends has WhatsApp, Facebook has your phone number. They have your phone number and the entire address book of your friend, who probably has friends in common. If two of your friends have WhatsApp and they both have your number...

You see where I'm going here? There are pictures of me on Facebook that I did not put there. From friends or friends of friends.

I'm not even scratching the surface of what Google knows with GPS and WiFi connections.

No one consented to any of this bullshit.
Living Proof – Stories of Resilience Along the Mathematical Journey [pdf]
You are abysmally misinformed on the history of hip hop.

>My point is that it is racist to not hold all people to the same moral standard,

Ah, in that case you agree that _every_ American slaveowner in the South was a bad, immoral, evil person, right? Same goes for all Germans in WWII.
When everyone accepts libra, there is no need to exchange libra for hard currencies. Facebook, as the owner and operator of the world's largest social network, believes it can create a closed ecosystem where libra is used for many types of transactions.
That it's considered acceptable in Texas (and much of the west) to leap straight to "there's somebody on my property; if I don't shoot'em, I'm a dead man" is bonkers to me.
It took the richest guy in the world funding them like crazy to start them. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Carnegie#3,000_public_l... The one in Philadelphia cost the equivalent of $15,000,000 - and that didn't include the land, operation, or maintenance.
good read, i can totally relate on some levels, i used to work at this company which exclusively helped Sikh cdl holders with their tickets and fuel card discounts. Most of them are genuinely living the american dream. Godspeed....Wonder how automation, ai, and self-driving is going to impact this field? .....hopefully everyone has a plan-b...Also i'm curious to find out how electronic logbooks have affected them so far ?
New NASA Mission Will Fly Titan's Frigid Skies to Search for Life's Beginnings
The randomness of up-voting is pretty apparent on most sites user submitted content.
The correct question would be: why is the US so very very very bad at public transportation in general?

Electric busses are just a (tiny) extension of that question.
Me spilling tea about the business is far more in the spirit of a whistleblower than a shill.

I have nothing to gain and everything to lose by shedding light on one of the most powerful entities in existence.

But TLDR it’s not as interesting as people like to think.
>You might not be using it for abuse but a large volume of abuse originates from it.

Given that Tor is a tiny percentage of Internet traffic, most of the abusive volume out there has little to do with Tor.
They have no right to it, and I have every right to try to limit their visibility.

That's entirely fair! But also: You have no right to use my website, and I have every right to limit your access.

Recaptcha is simply part of this negotiation.
On bodies without atmosphere, yes. It is a common thread in many futuristic exploration plans and scifi stories.
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I do, referring you via your email address on your HN profile. In return, I think I'll take you up on

> If you have ANY (literally ANY) sort of problem that you need solved, contact me. I mean seriously, literally any problem, even the one you think I can't help you with. The harder the better.

How do I work at a Silicon Valley startup that wants to hire me, if I'm an EU citizen with no degree and 5 years of work experience?
I tried it for 1 month, it is genuinely great, just kind of expensive considering all the pretty good free email apps out there. It is nice for me (CEO), but buying this in addition to everything else for all of our staff is tough to justify.
Functional programming is not what you (probably) think (2017)