skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Also, high-strength steel and aluminum join together with weld regions that are stronger than the base metals."

Does that mean they can create a new "alloy" made entirely of this join?
Thanks for picking this up we're deploying the fix now!
A study of Magic Leap's new CG demo, frame by frame
If this still holds true:
http://www.digitaltrends.com/computing/study-gmail-users-you...

Then I would swing right and turn Yahoo into the Fox News of internets.

Get bunch of Radio talk show hosts and conservative commentators, give them multiple platforms and let them loose.

Get some cheap TLC reality shows that are exclusive and really try an appeal to Yahoo's current demographics.

Instead of trying to appeal to the educated and affluent already entrenched in Google and Facebook, you invest in what you have and expand that market.

This will create growth and momentum in the company. Once you have that, you compete with Google and Facebook.
> The latter experience can be given to the former's population.

How? Keep in mind only a small fraction of the world's population is even capable of being a tourist. Imagine how that changes when everyone is well-off enough to travel at will. Imagine your favorite beach, favorite museum, or your favorite national park and multiply the number of visitors by 10, 20, 40, etc. Waiting-lists for years to visit the Louvre. Prices so high that only the 1% of the 1% can afford to visit Maui.

Maybe you are assuming that VR will solve these issues? Perhaps a Matrix-like future awaits us.
I love that v8 (nodejs /chromium, JavaScript) does JIT compiler optimizations. It means I can build for maintainability and still get the same performance as if I had built for speed. Ex: array vs object literal, or array vs object properties.

I still do higher level optimizations though, like caching and tweaking formulas (less computations), when needed.
Glad you agree. :)

We're putting up a LoRa network here in SF, and plan to publish a bunch of our test data, including link error rates and throughput. Urban deployments are new so more data will help us all understand what's doable. (There are a few rural deployments in production; less uncertainty there.)
First blockchains are slow. Second you can put things in the DHT without having anything to do with a torrent.
>I understand that sometimes an old number or something might be called in error but that has be a pretty rare thing

I hope you're starting to get the impression that errors are not as rare as you believed they were this morning. I know I have received all manner of erroneous debt collection calls (looking for relatives, looking for people I've never heard of, etc).

> and something easy to deal with on the receiving end.

Obviously, it isn't.

> I think the best way to avoid robocalls from debt collectors is to not let your debt go into collections.

If anyone deserves to have their phone bill crammed, it's people who say things like that. I had mine crammed when I was in college & couldn't/wouldn't pay the several hundred dollars in extra charges; it followed me around for years.

BTW, if anyone is a Sprint or Verizon customer since 2010 and has had their bill crammed, there has been a huge fine, & websites set up to pay restitution.

https://www.fcc.gov/guides/cramming-unauthorized-misleading-...
I think this highlights the complexity of fighting battles against enemies who are operating out of another country. I suggested this as a thought exercise to my Dad, "Let's say Mexico flew a drone over Las Vegas and dropped a hellfire missile into one of the wedding chapels where a drug lord was getting married?"

Sounds kinda horrific that way, doesn't it?
What size dutch oven? 5 quart/liter such as:

http://www.amazon.com/Lodge-L8DD3-Casserole-Skillet-5-Quart/...
Thanks for you swift attention! :)
Very true. It alone tells us nothing except that, not knowing the cause of this conviction rate, you must accept any plea bargain whatever it is.

To get a better understanding we would have to ask whether persons convicted under even the most careful trials (death penalty cases) are later exonerated eg https://www.aclu.org/dna-testing-and-death-penalty

We might also ask whether jurors enter the courtroom convinced the defendant is guilty before the trial even starts. Even here it might a coincidence: the defendants are always guilty anyway so the prejudice of the juries is irrelevant. Or we have to convince ourselves that prejudiced jurors always become open minded somewhere between voir dire and jury instruction. I suggest the later is not too believable and the former outright disturbing.

We would have to explain why federal courts have significantly lower conviction rates than lower courts by saying something like lower court prosecutors prepare their cases better or federal judges are significantly more lenient. Intuitively neither explanation seems very satisfying.

Finally we'd have to explain how charges that a DA is willing to drop during a plea bargain are then proven beyond a reasonable doubt at trial and explain how such a system, however money saving, has anything to do with justice.

Ideally, given that the number of innocent people jailed is not zero, we'd determine objectively and openly what the number is and whether we are satisfied with that rate.
How's this news? BitTorrent's DHT has been around for years.
I like the quote: "Python is generally the second-best language for everything".
Bitcoin blockchain makes sense only for content which I want to store on 5000+ nodes - it is not very cost effective. You can store 40 bytes of data in one OP_RETURN transaction.

I was thinking more about storing bigger amounts of data, and more cost-effectively. Of course you can't rely on having the data in DHT:s. That could be fixed with incentivization (paying btc for the nodes for storing your data).
If you're interested in the fourth dimension, I've written an iOS app that explains what a tesseract is using a series of interactive 3D/4D models:
http://fourthdimensionapp.com

It's currently featured in the #3 slot on the home page of the App Store in China and got 4000+ paid installs and 5 stars there this week (wow!)
Elance and Odesk merged to become Upwork.

What you heard about those sites is incorrect-- or, more precisely, incomplete. It's like my saying "A lot of the people on GitHub couldn't build a program to display 'Hello World!'"

Many of the writers on Upwork who bid on jobs are worthless-- people who have trouble writing a coherent sentence. Others are fronts for offshore content mills.

You will also find (1) copywriters who got thrown out of work when their ad/PR agency folded, (2) reporters who have been laid off as their papers shrunk, (3) staff writers for magazines who quit to have kids (or, if they're men) raise a child, (4) retirees who need cash, (5) people with disabilities who need to work from home or (6) someone working 40 hours, but looking to moonlight to make extra cash.

Unlike (say) database administration, where you can't judge competence from a resume, you can evaluate a writer's ability in 30 seconds-- ask for a writing submission and read what they write.

The $300-500 places price for one job-- that assumes they do it, you go away and they never see you again. Part of the cost is the research time they need to become knowledgeable. For people who can provide a steady income stream, they charge a lot less.

I think it's simpler to find one of the many people who need work-- and would kill for a chance to make $100-$300 a piece-- but it's up to you.
Oh hell like anyone wants to shift power to president in Poland. Or as if anyone believed presidents have any power over anything (even the US president doesn't have any real power; you don't get to be in that position if you're a wildcard that is likely to do things against your party or the rest of administration).

If anything we have a conflict between people who want the country to be more Catholic and the ones who want it to be less Catholic, and a secondary push against any government because people seem to believe that entrepreneurs are force of good that is being murdered by the Evil Government through means like taxation.

Democracy is strong here - people are being indoctrinated in it since early childhood, and it's especially effective since we have the boogeyman of comunist USSR to scare them with.
I though the idea was that there was no one around.
Awesome, have to research this more.
No, it isn't.

They have the most popular video game of all time and you think that a poorly written client is killing them? It has had some problems over the years that are annoying to users (and frankly embarrassing when compared to DOTA 2), but at the end of the day the quality of the client is insignificant to most players compared to the fun-factor of the game itself, as proven by their unprecedented success.
To...?
Show HN: Home Buying List – list of stuff you need to do to buy a house (in CA)
We are getting closer. You are essentially saying that we can have geometrically indistinguishable states that are physically different. We can have an astronaut with a yo-yo hanging down and one with a yo-yo extending straight away while the world otherwise looks exactly the same to both of them. Both astronauts have to go through the same change in angular velocity just in opposite directions to get to the same state as the other one but one would see the yo-yo dropping down while the other one will see it rising. How does that make sense? What is so special about the one coordinate frame without centrifugal forces? With respect to what is the astronaut not rotating? Note that nothing looks unphysical here, just different but without any obvious thing that justifies the difference. And I am definitely not trying to say I am right and you are wrong, it just doesn't look consistent to me to have centrifugal forces in an empty universe.
I recently bought a house in California and had to endure a pretty un-organized, stressful, unclear and unknown 30 day journey to get there. I kept asking all of the involved parties for a clear roadmap, checklist, etc but none seem to have a good one that covered the process end to end so I figure I would put one together now that I am done with the process.

I plan on updating and adding more to this soon but am looking for early feedback on the set up of the site, navigation, clarity, etc.

Any early feedback would be great!

http://www.homebuyinglist.com

THANKS!
Hussein
Pricing is a bit steep. I'd pay $15 begrudgingly, $10 I wouldn't think about. $39 is a huge stretch. Just my two cents.
Anecdata:

Back when I had an old 2G featurephone, I inherited the exact same model from a friend (Sprint/CDMA). I used QPST to clone my ESN onto that one, to have a handy backup device.

When both were on, calling my number would ring both (I only ever checked this with them in the same cell). Picking up both I would hear audio in both until one of them "won". The ESN can't be considered any kind of secret, so the observed behavior makes it clear that there is no meaningful encryption.

We've had two generations of mobile protocols since then, but with Qualcomm et al's attitude of "lock things down harder" rather than Kerckhoff's principle and open review, I doubt security has gotten any better.

If you want meaningful mobile privacy, the only way to achieve this is with separate application/baseband processors that communicate over an auditable bus (so not a broken-by-design Qualcomm integrated chipset), with encryption done on the trusted application processor. The easiest way to realize this is using a mifi+vpn+voip. Note that this still leaves your location fully tracked, but most every use of the cell network will do that.
> many people into Freifunk .....

I rest my case. There is demand for such a thing even if it's far from perfect. Not everybody is willing to trust the increasing encroachment by the authorities into the mainline internet. They're willing to experiment to ensure that technologies are being worked on that permit independence from potential authoritarianism (corporate or government).
Security in the LoRaWAN standard is well thought-through, you might be surprised.
If it is in a region of space that expands beyond the light cone of anyone in existence, then no, it doesn't.

Otherwise, it would have an essentially negligible impact on anyone in a separate galaxy.
Compromise is you'll get a few bits to 1kbps at best over a few Km of range. It would work for some applications but not for all of them.
Their bidding rules encourage participants to behave strategically by bidding more than their reservation price, frequently rebidding and waiting until just before the auction ends to place bids.

Here's a suggested bidding format that would avoid these problems:

(1) Everyone bids the lowest price that they would be willing to accept for completing the task

(2) If the lowest bid is unique, the task is assigned to the lowest bidder and they are offered the rate offered by the next lowest bidder

(3) If many people bid the same price, one is randomly chosen and they are offered the rate that they bid.

(4) If they fail to complete the task according the requirements, the next lowest bidder is offered a quote according to the criteria above.

This is just standard auction design theory.
His life's work on the other hand is definitely helpful, to all of us.
There's not a lot of good hunting along the Nile.
Important: The headline was modified since I submitted this. Apple didn't actually open-source the code. They give you a 90-day licence to read the code.

> Apple grants you, for a period of ninety days from the date you downloaded the Apple Software, a limited, non-exclusive, non-licensable license under Apple's copyrights in the Apple Software to make a reasonable number of copies of, compile and run the Apple Software internally within your organization only on devices and computers you own or control for the sole purpose of verifying the security characteristics and correct functioning of the Apple Software;...
I disagree. They seem to be doing fine, and their client seems to work fine and not detract from the game at all.

I play League a lot. There are bugs, sure, but altogether the game feels very polished. Much more so than many other games I have played. [There were two high-impact bugs in the current tournament that go counter to this, but they've been addressed already.]

The 'hard way' you espouse is ludicrous and far from the best way. It's not even an option. (Of course this is just my hunch, but it's a well-founded one)

[The ways that league does not feel polished are not related to code quality. They're much more around the new user experience and the toolset available to hardcore players (replays, sandboxes, among others).]
How to Help Self-Driving Cars Make Ethical Decisions
How is this different from Team Treehouse?
Reversed stupidity is not intelligence. "2+2 = 4" said every murderous dictator ever, and yet we don't ban arithmetics for being a tool that Stalin used.
It could also be the case that they have monitoring systems on the host machines that would have reliably detected this issue being exploited, even before this specific vulnerability was discovered (or perhaps better to say, given the age of the bug, before being discovered by someone that disclosed it to Xen).
> Apple didn't actually open-source the code.

In that case you shouldn't have said they did in the title.

We changed the title from "Apple open-sources cryptography library (limited, see license)". If there's an issue with the license, by all means point this out, but please use a comment in the thread to do so. Using the story title to point out what you think is the most important bit breaks the HN rule against editorializing.
Here is a website that does the comparison between the 2, but you have to manually enter the surge percentage, http://www.whatsthefare.com/

I think someone mentioned it at least a year ago in a discussion about Uber vs. Lyft.
Extremely interesting and promising.
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Oh god! Google uses android to fuel users! Shocking! Thank you for opening my ignorant eyes to this bigger picture, previously hidden to me.
So, Security and CommonCrypto were already open source. The new thing here is corecrypto - but it has not been made open source! If you click the download link, you get a license agreement authorizing you to use it only "for the sole purpose of verifying the security characteristics and correct functioning of the Apple Software".

I don't really understand the point of not just publishing it under a regular open source license, since it's hardly some big competitive advantage for Apple when there are plenty of other libraries to do the same thing.

Still, nice to be able to audit it.
As long the dough fits in, and will not rise to touch the lid in the oven. 4 to 6 quarts (litres) should be ok. Of you want a smaller bread, make a smaller dough.
Maybe the people purchasing ad space wouldn't be able to verify impressions?
I've been making my own bread from http://www.amazon.com/Artisan-Bread-Five-Minutes-Revolutioni... and it's better than any of the breads I can buy around here. I'd be interested in seeing how much difference non-industrial flour would make.

Contrary to what someone said, I think bread is not a case where specialization pays off. Bread needs to be fresh, and it will basically take me longer to buy a loaf (if I could actually find a decent one) than to throw together one in the kitchen while I'm working on something else.

Not to mention that my half-assed bread, fresh, is better than the most awesome bread in existence if it's a day old. Hawaii is a terrible environment for bread, the crust is gone after a few hours due to the humidity.
Standard 800/900/2400 antennas on the client devices, obviously you can get more range out of a long high-gain antenna, but PCB antennas work as well.
Building a Business in the Shadow of a Giant
Richard Glossip vs. State of Oklahoma (2007)
Drizy Dash: Beer at the Press of a Button
Huge list of free stock photo websites
I guess I don't understand the point of this. It appears that these legislators don't understand that permanent blocking of calls and texts from an annoying number are just a tap away in both Android and iOS. They'll be spending millions to harass no one.
Unless you patch your web server of your choice.
Actually, they can, and quite well actually. The dotnet native compiler actually does quite a few analyses for "hotness", mostly centered around maintaining cache locality. However if there is a lot of entropy in the possible code paths, it might not be computationally feasible to analyze the hotness of all of the paths. In those cases, we accept heuristic substitutes, of which both JITs and PGO have shown good results.
The great chain of being sure about things
What tech are you using for the base station?

I'd love to put one in our hackerspace out here :) -- a few offices of people working on IoT would probably think that was pretty cool.
My experience joining TopTal
Restoring RAM: Fixing memory inside a 50-year-old IBM mainframe
It gives you a bit of extra data, I do use it on my site and all my client's sites, but in reality it's actually pretty invasive privacy wise.
Maybe for some cases, but sometimes (IMO) a compiler is just not going to know. For example, if instead of hitting the network on initialization for some information we delay load that later (say, for example, the MOTD), a compiler is never going to know it could do that.
Lisp, clearly. /s
Human rights are not some global constant, but something that evolves from culture & economics. China has experienced unprecedented growth in the past 30 years, never before seen in history. Hopefully its concepts of human rights will evolve with time, but to judge it now by the same measure we do for the West is unrealistic and impractical
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They don't. Same origin policy, cookies etc.. You just don't.
I wonder if it would be practical to expose the optimizations to the programmer and allow the complex ones that are easy to accidentally disable to be invoked explicitly. Your code would look something like:

optimization(fold_constant_vector_lookup_access_frobnitz) {
complex code here
}

And if the compiler can't apply the optimization, it can produce an error rather than slow code.
Yeah the amortized time is not much more than 5 minutes when you get it down. It comes out to a few 1-minute operations separated by resting/baking times, so if you're around anyway it's very little extra time.
IMO they will do this out of necessity soon enough.

This will mean advertisers can't count exact hits to their ads (or at least would be foolish to do so) so they will probably have to employ some kind of web crawler or HIT services to randomly sample the sites who are supposed to be serving their ads to make sure they are.

But eventually the blocker technology will become much better at blocking page element ads more easily and automatically. Then I guess they will have to think of something else.
Thanks for the info. I'll look into this now to see if I can find a fix.
I saw something similar about the apollo capsule where they used seamstresses to actually sew the ram for the computers.
This is all that IoT needs, though. It's not about streaming video or music or something, it's about a sensor that goes high when somebody is sitting in a chair, or that sends an integer value once every few minutes.
The point you are missing is that users don't need to send an analytics ping for the page to load. If you were to conflate your jquery load with analytics so that the page was broken, then you could prevent the use of ad-blockers (although you're just as likely to make people think your site is just broken).

The use of bandwidth is a moot point. If advertisers hadn't abused the user's good will we wouldn't be where we are today, but there's no putting the genie back in the bottle.
Airport Procedure [Germany]

Asylum seekers coming to Germany by air from a country of origin considered safe as well as refugees without passport asking for asylum at the airport are subject to the so-called airport procedure. This special procedure was introduced in 1992 when the fundamental right to asylum in the German constitution was altered. They may not leave the area of the airport and are accomodated in the transit area. Their request for asylum is heard and decided on by the BAMF (Federal Office for Migration and Refugees) in a summary procedure. Only if the request is approved or if the BAMF does not come to a decision within 2 days, will the refugee be allowed to enter Germany and to go through the regular asylum procedure. If, however, the request is refused as 'evidently baseless', the refugee may be deported without further judicial review. His/her only way then to avert this is a claim for [Eilrechtsschutz] which, however, is granted most scarcely. Many refugees in the transit area are awaiting their deportation for weeks.

http://www.proasyl.de/en/topics/basics/asylum-from-a-to-z/
Nice, I did something similar few months a go.
http://stanko.github.io/html-canvas-video-player/
Most web servers can log cookie data or even arbitrary HTTP headers, you just have to modify the log format.
And there were so. many. typos.
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Particularly since parts of it are just scavenged together from random other crypto libraries. A bunch of libtomcrypt code in there.

That's why people use the GPL.
We actually contemplated (in the state legislature) moving to Atlantic time in Maine a few years ago. I'm glad they didn't because we have enough business barriers as it is without adding that into the mix, but it might not be bad if all of New England did it together.