skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
@beachstartup @mikekij sounds great. when can we start? just moved from sf to venice, and now all i want to do is move where i can own land and start a farm.
True in a lot of cities as well, many of my AirBnbs stays have been because there isn't a hotel within a reasonable distance of my true destination.
Without analyzing any of the specific cuts, it is a brave move to cut divisions as well as people. Too often companies just say "Everyone bears their share of the 15% cuts" without changing priorities. It's rare to say, "Let's stop doing certain things" and make the cuts that way.
I'm actually convinced that you didn't pay any attention in portal. The story is thin, it's the story of a tester that is constantly being thrown curveballs. Finally the testing is done and the AI decides to kill you, you then escape behind the scenes and plot to kill the AI. I think when people praise the game for it's non-mechanics what they are actually praising int he characterization and writing of GladOS (and then later in Portal2 Whetley).
Yes, I did data simulations and analysis. My main interest is in vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) and vehicle-to-infrastructure (V2I) real time communications. Those things were simulated with a series of Python scripts, but there is nothing like real world testing. I am in the process of acquiring an SDR like HackRF to mock up some tests. But that also gets expensive when you have multiple SDRs transmitting or receiving data. Hopefully it will happen by the end of this year.

Anybody have some spare SDRs or some Lidars while we are at it?
I know about the IPBill in the UK. I also know several tech companies have already left or are currently planning to leave because of it and its repercussions.

So, yes I did my research.

Also, while none of the governments in Europe are close to perfect, there are probably also good reasons why several people on NSAs watchlist (Jacob Appelbaum and Laura Poitras come to mind) have decided to set up residence in Germany, which is home to the BND -- supposedly one of the closest partners of the NSA in Europe.
I was going to answer with the Gonzalez & Woods definition. Extremely clear book by the way.
Learn it in a group. Mathematics is a social activity. Meeting even once a week to discuss the material you're trying to learn will vastly improve the learning rate for everyone involved.
> the fact that gold price changed from $1700 to $1050 to $1200 says nothing about value of gold - instead it says everything about the value of dollar.

No. The value of the dollar did not change to that degree in the past five years. The only way you can define that as being changes in the value of the dollar is to define the value of the dollar in terms of gold. Then you're correct, by definition, but your argument is circular.

Your example over the last 100 years may be valid. For the last five years (or even 40), though, the change in the value of gold has been a reflection of peoples' fears about paper currency, rather than an actual measure of the value of that currency.
Practically speaking, nobody knows how their systems work and controls them top-to-bottom.

The inherent complexity of a modern computer outstripped that possibility ages ago. At best, you have a chain of trust you believe in.
Social Selling using Data
>it's not Apple's job to protect civil liberties

This statement reminds me of a time when a few companies tried to fix a road that the government refused to fix but kept awarding awarding contracts for yearly.

The government took em to court. The court said that building roads was not the job of civilians. And here is where things for interesting.

They asked the companies to give the government money so that the government would build that road
Its definitely the direction it is heading.
The promise is to accept for settlement of tax obligations.
Oh I understand, but in this case making such a public post about "come on, join us, we can do it" and then targeting essentially stud 'just graduated, have other backing' type teams in massive fields is conflicting to me. I'm basically under the assumption that any serious venture in AI, biotech, or energy can actually compete for investments outside of the YC sphere. As in, YC actually has more competition than these teams have to sacrifice to get started. It is common knowledge capital is sloshing around everywhere looking for yield and returns.

I do understand VC might not be the proper target in the purest sense but it's a similar story for most small businesses if I'm not mistaken. Like in hard bench science research - funding goes to those already being successful. Is it really practical to "boot strap" a hard tech company? I draw a lot of inspiration from the Wright Brothers, but I'm still pragmatic.

If there's a 'ground floor' arena where cottage industry would be best served, I'm all ears and would love links, guidance and direction to make progress. Not kidding, it's already been a few years and I've got another half a lifetime to keep plodding away.
Agree, it's do-able with baby Rudin. But as I recall it's a typical example used (early) in measure theory, not so much intro analysis. Hence "typical".

Ymmv, of course.
No need to devalue the work of others. It's likely many of these new hard tech problems will require software. Software that runs on the web. Software that is styled via CSS.
This acquisition fits exactly with GM's plans outlined by investing $500 million in Lyft to create self-driving car infrastructure [0].

It seems like companies who build products that have clear and significant business value with excellent market timing are successful. Perhaps you can extrapolate to saying hard tech is now a hot field but this is the first successful exit that comes to mind recently, rather than private investors putting more money on the table.

[0] http://www.reuters.com/article/us-gm-lyft-investment-idUSKBN...
Europe is bigger than the United Kingdom and France.
Sure - but I'd rather bounce off someone who already knows it and can tell me if I am nuts, first. I know its a hard problem, the idea - I just dont know if its worth doing...
This.

Coming from a line of ancestors in India who basically lived a primitive lifestyle until 1950s, I have the knowledge passed down.

Gold is durable. It will last for generations. In a world without digital currency and modern safeguards, real wealth used to be:
- Land
- House
- Cattle
- Slaves
- Stuff

None of the above (besides land) was durable for multiple decades (or even generations)

So, they created whole social systems around gold, preservation and transfer.
Having worked in this area, I can say you are on the right track. Not only the US, there are many countries/powers that will get very upset if certain people see certain areas.

As for who gets to see what, there are extremely stringent rules set by many of these governments; even within government organizations themselves, there is huge variation in access constraints.
I have had a hotel say they have no record of a booking.com reservation at all. Lucky it was not full and they had a spare room.

It's only happened once but if it was an important reservation i would now call ahead and make sure the hotel got the booking. At that point you might as well make a reservation direct. I'm sure they would be happy to match booking.com price.
Out of curiosity, what's wrong with ScalaTest? I particularly like the WordSpec style, which is easy to write and looks newbie-friendly.

It's true SBT is not suitable for beginners. Regrettably, neither is Maven. I don't know which tool is...
The worst part was trying to Back. Just scrolling actually adds a bunch of URLs to your back queue, so when you want to back out of the URL, you end up hitting back like ten times. :/

I suppose New Tab would be my best friend here so I can just X it, but weird abuse of basic browser functionality should be shamed.
Ransomware Visits Backblaze
I tell people I work for Booz | Allen | Hamilton, and the vast vast majority outside the beltway don't recognize the name at all.
This is really cool! What engine are you building in?

Have you considered approaching Sony's indie-developer program?

As far as I can tell, on this generation they are being incredibly supportive of indie developers ... and I would 100% pay for an indie game like this on PS4.
That solution would require a lot of leg-work on the FBI's part.

Much cheaper for them if they can get a judge to force Apple to work for them---they don't even have to pay Apple for it! ;)
My first thought when I read this headline was, "Thank God. We're going to need this in weaponized form when the robots take over." Next up, bacteria that eats carbon fiber...
Brilliant suggestion!
Once the Mac one gets released I'll probably move from Evernote permanently.
They mean landfill as in a garbage dump: https://www.google.com/search?q=landfill&espv=2&rlz=1CAZZAD_...

There are many forms of carbon sequestration, but this is the first I've seen someone try to redefine it all as garbage. There is more than just plastic (carbon) in a landfill, some of which takes centuries to degrade.
may work in a animals stomache?
You can only pay yours debts with the government with money created by the government. And this is not something new.

Government money is, also, a liability in a very real accounting sense too.

When the government creates money (by crediting the accounts of their providers, for instance) it is also registered as a liability for itself.

This same money always will be accepted back as a payment. That's the promise.
I am considering getting some check-up on the thyroid. It's really easier to get some anti-depressants from a GP than getting this checked and it's not normal considering my generation had the Chernobyl cloud over our collective head in our childhood.
I did, too. I thought Yahoo Chess was shut down long ago?

In any case, it was long surpassed by much better alternatives like ICC and Chess.com.
I would say 20GB at scale with a decent storage/$ ratio in 4 years sounds right.
I think the Scala learning experience is very different depending on whether you're coming from the Java -> Want to use Functional Programming route or the Functional Programmer -> Have to use Java for a project route.

As someone with a lot FP experience having to work with some Java libraries, getting started with the "This is more pleasant than Java" style of Scala takes very little time. To the point where the typing it saves you in a week roughly equals the cost of skimming through Scala for the Impatient to get started.

Granted the "This is more pleasant than Java" style of Scala is the equivalent of the "C with Classes" style of C++. But as far as getting started learning Scala I've found that it is quicker than most FP languages to just dive in and get things done, refactoring as you learn more idiomatic approaches to problems.

For me the big risk for Scala that I've seen is the same as C++: The language is so big and so flexible that you can have two developers write the same programs and get results that are difficult to see as being the same language. And because you can get stuff done without writing idiomatic code it's very easy to stop learning and be quite far from what experienced Scala developers would consider a Scala programmer.
> iPhone data shouldn't be encrypted on the basis of a 4-digit PIN. It should have a much longer password that's entered at startup.

As the iOS security documentation details, iOS uses a KDF to generate secure keys rather than just relying on a short PIN.

> The 4-digit PIN can be a "screen lock" to prevent casual friends grabbing your phone and swiping pictures but shouldn't be the thing that encrypts your data.

Photos ARE your data. You either require a full passphrase 100% of the time, or as Apple has done, only allow limited attempts with a PIN. Yes, they* could enforce a passphrase at all times, but this might make iOS less user friendly and drive regular consumers to less secure devices.

* A user can choose to always require a full passphrase/TouchID at all times. I don't use a short PIN on my iPhone.
Gold is also superior to silver for jewellery. It is more malleable, more tarnish resistant, and less reactive for those with sensitive skin. (People had allergic reactions back in the stone age too.)
My guess is it would be, but hasn't been formally spun out yet?
It doesn't sound like you can. Once you've created a secure system you can't be forced to open, the government will simply tell you to add a backdoor and not allow you to talk about it.
It won't happen. Car companies suffer from a huge NIH syndrome. The entire parts supply chain benefits from re-engineering everything. Its baked into the culture.
It's actually impossible to use this page on mobile. Scrolling is just locked.
If the user has to enter the code by hand, it's very impractical to require more than a memorizable number of symbols for the initial decryption code, unfortunately. Plenty of users turn off their phones periodically.
My impression on Appification vs Hard Tech is the length of the development cycle.

The combination of a few trends (Predominately smart phones, social networks & data analytics) enabled a whole new wave of technical possibilities. It was relatively quick to monetize this via App development, so that was the first wave to take advantage. Hard Tech can take longer (though from Cruise's point of view, not always that much longer) so these companies are only coming to fruition now.

When I look at AlphaGo's success, I think we are a new dawn of amazing things from Hard Tech.
Works for me with Firefox 46 and no ad-blocker/script-blocker except uBlock.

However, navigating the page is confusing as hell, I stumbled through it by using the little arrows on my scrollbar. Everything else would catapult me to seemingly random positions on the page. Seems to me they hijacked scrolling to make "one line down" "one section down".

Not going to lie, after fighting with the scrolling, I closed the page and came here to look for an explanation what this is all about - not going to click any links there.
HN is for anything that gratifies intellectual curiosity.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Which one do you prefer? Alan Parson's sombre take (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NNiie_zmSr8) or Judas Priest's angry laser-tinged screed (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b1B_pZC8aWU) as the soundtrack to our state of total surveillance?
The FBI want a precedent of compelling unlocking. They know there's nothing on this phone.
Interesting, it worked okay on Edge for me. Though the initial splash thing was a bit slow/chunky.
The regex operators can be ordered by precedence. The whole point is of course to avoid ambiguity...?
Really, really bad deal for GM.
Twitter? Foursquare? Linkedin?

(Also my old company, PagerDuty. Wee bit lower profile than the other three, admittedly.)
Please don't be rude.

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11262923 and marked it off-topic.
Simple linear regression in JavaScript
This is afaict a pr buzz piece. They apparently are hiring.
How about a market for custom made Faraday cages? :)
Where did you go to school? Those were just the prerequisites for my engineering degree.
This is one of the key requests made by advocate investors last year, although they wanted much deeper pruning. It seems like a good plan to me. I'm curious what's next.
People have been working out without "professional trainers" for millennia. Yes, you can be injured occasionally (but you also can with a trainer), but if you don't overdo it you'll be fine.
Maybe the name sounds generic because of this:

"Yatırım Finansman (YF Securities), Turkey's first brokerage house, was founded on October 15, 1976 by 13 major banks led by Isbank and the Industrial Development Bank of Turkey (TSKB)."[+]

[+] http://www.yf.com.tr/YF/en/about-us/yf-securities-in-brief.a...
Testing a gold bar's electrical conductivity will easily tell the difference between a real and tungsten filled gold bar. So will it's capacitance. Given the simplicity of this test (touch one or two wires to the bar and measure) this doesn't seem a very good technique.
If you saw the launch of YouTube Gaming as well, or how the old version of Google+ ran on not-Chrome, you'd have long reached the conclusion that nobody at Google tests on non-Google web browsers. My understanding is they like using 'web technologies' that they invented that either aren't implemented or well-supported in any browser but their own.
You are talking from the point of view of an advanced I-know-about-this-stuff annoyance level.

Newbies to Scala, especially those coming from Java, couldn't care less whether it looks more like ML or like Haskell. Both languages would be alien to them. Robert Harper's "Existential Type" blog is hardly aimed at the average programmer.

I'm pretty sure this is not the worst part about Scala :)
JavaScript Unit Testing Performance
Not a lawyer either, but AFAIK the main difference is you are not exceeding your authorization when using your own computer. You could break into a bank computer, harmlessly write a post on here, and probably still go to prison.
A uniform data standard for the legal industry?
Holy crap, that took forever to load...
When seconds really do matter
>I'd rather be ferociously competent.

And instead of improving the men too, we all regress to competitive monkeys...
Readable version: [view-source:https://terrabella.google.com/?s=about-us&c=about-history] (paste whole text in between brackets, seems like HN does not support markdown links)

Great content, though original presentation is unusable. My whole computer started to lag, not only the web browser (chrome). Probably Google's web developers use very powerful workstations..
The FBI seems to be overtly validating the power-drunk law enforcement officer theme that's been entering the public consciousness in the law few years.
If it has to be invented it's not hard tech, it is hard science. YC has a separate strategy for that.
What about being able to play as a Hero-class unit, as well as overseeing? The player could be Gandalf, who can exercise bad-assery and turn the tide in an individual battle, but also direct the overall battle. Like an RTS where you have to ride to line of sight give commands?
The bias in the posted source is far more blatant (it even begins with "surprise!"). You can argue that any source is biased, and that may be true, but I don't think you can argue that the bias is equal in all cases, or that the New York Times article is no more or less objectively written than the Washington Post. Preferring the latter over the former because of the political views of its author colors the thread before it even begins.

I agree with Radley Balko's point of view here, but I prefer the posted source not be one that is begging its own premise and telling me what to think. That's what the comment thread itself is for.
That's interesting, I hadn't thought of the funds being inflationary pressure. I don't know quite how to model that, in a totally rational world it's something like:

expectation of yield within x-1 years for investments in year y+1
over
expectation of yield within x years for investments year y

And that's what portion of value waiting gets you. If the yield in that first year is negative, they're going to wait no matter what. 1x is better than (<1)x.

Although then you get into how VCs get paid, mostly on the upswing... you're probably right. 1x gets no carried interest.
I think this is due to self-selection. Generally, children who are homeschooled have parents who are obviously extremely active in their child's education - an important factor in long-term academic success. Also, homeschoolers tend to be a special group of people on either end of the intelligence spectrum which led them to decide they need the specialization not offered in regular schools. The kids applying to Stanford would be on the high end of the spectrum.
As a mechanical engineer, I am excited to see more of a focus on hard tech content here! Unfortunately, there isn't really a HackerNews for EE's or ME's (though if someone wants to build it, I'd be grateful). So it can be tough to find startups working on these sorts of hard problems that are looking for all flavors of engineer (except civil, they stink and nothing they make moves /s). Personally, I work in ocean robotics and defense, which is I think is very cool, but mostly handled by large defense contractors and military research departments.
What are the tax implications of code signing?
Running an unsupported version of any operating system (as Windows 7 will be in 2017) is dangerous and stupid. Once you are no longer receiving security updates, you're basically leaving your front door unlocked and posting a sign pointing it out on the front lawn.
I'm not a biologist, but I don't think genes are contagious
Gold is an accident of history. It's valuable because it's shiny, it was one of the first workable metals (gold jewellery dates back at least to Sumerian times), and it required effort to produce (too Marxian?). Also, royalty and nobles had control of most gold because they controlled the means of production. With the connection to wealth and power, it was then used as a medium of exchange because let's face it, shekels of grain are somewhat inconvenient. Golds value persisted because of its durability, history, beauty, but mostly because it was always in demand.
I've done this with Mesa. Another way to is to run Xvfb and connect to it via x11vnc, or your xmacro system.
Making it easier to contribute to Jekyll – Affinity Teams
Persistent, Cross-Install Device Identifier on iOS: Using Keychain
Telling someone that their "ending up as a quadriplegic" would be a "great display of poetic justice" is indefensible on HN. If the word "opinion" covers something like that then the word "opinion" is meaningless.
Thanks for sharing the link, I was unable to locate this. I intend to look this over when I get some time.
> and the meltdown currently happening

Sorry?
> My coworker asks whether you can control the channels. Can you set all of your neighbours' TVs to pay-per-view while they're out?

Hahahahahahah! "Asking for a friend."

But really, folks are talking about the nuisance of waking people up in the middle of the night and that's true. However, controlling channels could be a more significant nuisance.
"Cruise took inaccessible hard tech and made it more accessible."

This seems to be a standard path for businesses in the tech space. The value many of these companies bring is not the tech itself but the ability to get that tech to the masses (which is no small feat).

It's why the classic techie response to a tech product is "who cares I can already do that with {insert X inaccessible technologies glued together with shell scripts}." The original dropbox thread on HN is a great example of this.
Some of us from the platform team that built Capital One DevExchange are personally keeping an eye on this post in case anyone has questions or feedback - we'd love to hear it!
Wow I expect a big acquisition of planet labs soon.
Look up horizontal transfer.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horizontal_gene_transfer
After an Easy Breach, Hackers Leave “TIPS WHEN RUNNING a SECURITY COMPANY”
I've seen those too. They're quite inconvenient because they actively prevent you from charging your phone or laptop while out of the room. They should leave some marked outlets enabled but usually they only do so for the mini-fridge. And of course "fancy" places build that into a cabinet.
A microbe species from a hitherto undiscovered kingdom, and a synthetic compound used for many of the same applications as rubber. But otherwise, yes :).
AirBnb seemed to not have good prices for off-season beach rentals. I was checking there a few weeks ago and found way better prices for off-season beach rentals on traditional rental sites... sometimes for exactly the same property. I assumed that individual property owners tended to forget about off-season pricing or just didn't want to rent their properties at off-season value. Perhaps I was doing something wrong in the search though?