skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Also, most if not all US states are required to run a balanced budget. This can result in cuts when forecasted revenues don't match actuals. The Federal government simply borrows more money and kicks the can down the road.
is this system going to be anywhere close to the actual needs of the region in 25 years?

Seriously, 25 years out. That just seems ridiculous to me.
They end up causing me so much frustration when someone is going just below the speed needed and I can see the lights changing sooner... and sooner... until I miss it.
In Maine, people bitch when it isn't cold and snowy enough. This winter was brutal for the ice fishers, snowmobilers, and skiers.
I came here to .. too late.
The problem with this is: billable hours are what make you money, not working in the product.

The two are not incompatible. Most of our new features are paid for by our clients, some of which we then include into our main product. Maintenance comes from other sources of revenue, though - hosting, for example, since many companies would rather not deal with that, even if they could.
They did the same for the Steam VR motion controllers. We call them the doughnut sticks for fun at the office, but they are really incredible to use. It was a huge blessing for us that Valve included the exact model for us to modify and reskin, because having 1-1 mapping of what you're seeing in the simulation and what you're actually feeling is huge. We did the same with the PlaystationVR Move controllers, which you can see in an image here: https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-TNDizq2W4eY/VvMWu0mcx_I/AAAAAAAAL... This is just a simple material change for now, but we plan on doing design modifications to the mesh data eventually. Likely we would only change the geometry of areas the hands don't touch, like the tracking sphere, so as to keep the player visual/haptic continuity.
​Apple's Swift comes to Linux
Do you think a customer service representative at Google should be the one making this decision? Seems like it should be a French official. There are hundreds of thousands to deal with though.
You mean, like this, for video timecodes? http://www.telescopictext.com/
Data Science Weekly Newsletter Edition #122
Nobody has mentioned Any.do? I've used a day planner, 2Do, Clear, paper, plus looked at a half dozen others.

The one tool, Any.Do, has really helped me grind away at life priorities. When I decided to migrate from 2Do to Any.Do, I had around 180 tasks in 2Do. Today I'm at 24 and the only reason it's over 20 is because of tax season, Chinese study, and an investment project.

The list will be back down under 20 soon enough and heading to 10.
In the past year I've had to replace cards 3 or 4 times. Each time I am out of using that card for a week or two. Last time, they failed to send me the card, and made me wait the full 10 business days before I could even request it again.
They don't mention why America the Beautiful was selected. I don't know that particular song, but Route 66 would surely have been preferable. A classic.

Could it be that RIAA would have been wanting to collect royalties on every "performance"?
How do your Privacy virtual cards affect your credit? Not at all?
Then you're creating an unwieldy situation where analysis is very difficult. That's just an advanced form of security by obscurity. What you're saying is, that it's better to go in blind, wearing lots of armor and padding. That strategy works if your enemies don't have anything more potent than a knife. It absolutely doesn't work if they have guns and explosives. Better to clearly know what you're up against.
Hasn't anyone seen how kids obsess over Let's Play?

I've talked to several kids who almost prefer watching Lets Play over playing any given game. That South Park episode was spot on.

Developers should be alarmed!
The David Lynch movie was both good and original. However the bits that were good where not original, and the bits that were original were not good.
I don't see why; the ideal format for such a thing isn't a derivative video, but a timecode script (like we're discussing here) that takes a legal copy of Breaking Bad as input.

Similarly, I've been thinking about using a bunch of copyrighted music in a game I'm making... not by shipping the songs, but rather by just using the copies people may or may not have in their iTunes libraries, with fallbacks to non-copyright ambient music.

Remix culture is too focused on embedding. Everybody forgets about the possibility of transclusion.
Computer programmers have the largest gender pay gap
Do you think a customer service representative at Google should be the one making this decision? Seems like it should be a French official. There are hundreds of thousands to deal with though. And over half are invalid (examples include public officials delisting articles critical of them, etc)
There is one in Lancaster, CA if you ever find yourself there. It was originally built for a Honda commercial but was moved a few miles out of town after nearby residents complained.

[1] http://www.wsj.com/articles/SB122469915344259035
I found this great software (called TIRG) which is free, open source, and finds text in images (though it doesn't normalise to black / white).

Compiles fine on Windows.

https://sourceforge.net/projects/tirg/files/
It's a factor of poor public transit. Imagine walking out of your house, walking 3 minutes to the nearest bus stop, waiting at most 5 minutes for the next bus, and then not worrying about any congestion until you're at work.

If you miss the bus, the next one will be there in 10 minutes. If you don't want to wait for 10 minutes, another bus that will take a slightly different route and cause you to walk an extra 7 minutes from bus stop to your destination, will be there in 3 minutes.

Unfortunately most Americans have never experienced anything close to that level of public transit, and cannot imagine cities functioning like that.
Because I think many people here have developed a game or app for the App Store with little to no traction and are upvoting out of frustration.

Here is mine https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/5-differences-2/id816500190?...
I'm referring primarily to the script. The set design was a very good 1984 interpretation of the feel for the book, I thought.
At first I was really really excited. This is something I've wanted for months if not years.

Then they asked for my bank username and password.
Cryptography Is Harder Than It Looks
I don't think it's so much about not wanting to give djb his due as wanting to point out that literally the rest of the industry is shamefully bad.
Depending on the service, they may send collections after you, and you may be legally obligated to pay. Gyms do this.
I don't expect any human would have a similar-enough concern to bother doing that for you—but that sounds like a problem amenable to automation.

You could pull it off pretty easily by running the audio track through speech recognition—not for content, just for detecting speech is happening—and then snipping out an overlapping fat-margined timeslice of the video around each instance of dialogue.
I think this is a good counter to my gut reaction. I think that would be an interesting show to watch as well but I don't think that'd appeal to a broader audience at all and the particular host also speaks to that direction being unlikely. I'd love to be surprised.
Who are the Atlanta employers these days? I left for SF because there seemed to be nothing years ago. Now I know one person at Cisco ex-Scientific Atlanta, but everyone else in tech works at the enterprise telephone system company. That one might just be nepotism…
Crosswalks are awful. Outside of the ones where there is an actual traffic light, they are always placed in terrible locations. Moreover, they are just about the worst place possible to try to cross a street. I've been doing a lot of walking around the medium sized town I live in the past year, and I've had to get very good at looking away from the road when I want to cross, otherwise vehicles that have a quarter-mile of empty space behind them will come to a stop, and make me feel like I have to rush across, when they could have just kept going, and we would have both been able to go about our business at our leisure.
Its grasp of language and context is surprisingly impressive, and definitely helped make it much more offensive. It'd just be a kid spouting profanities if it didn't have a rather decent understanding of language.

From a purely academic view, congrats Microsoft—this thing is quite impressive. Papers about how it works? ;-)

From a human view... good lord what have you done MS.
Youve identified a garage 3D printing startup
I really disliked the that Dune miniseries[1]. There was some really awful acting and very cheap looking sets throughout a lot of it.

I also thought they got the tone of Paul's character completely wrong. To me he came across starting off as an arrogant thug whereas my perception of him from the books was a very thoughtful and reserved young man. (Obviously subjective viewpoint, but it put me off right from the start.)

OTOH, the audiobook produced by Audible I thought was very good. I've probably read the book four or five times, the last time well over a decade ago. I listened to the audiobook recently and really enjoyed it and reminded me how much I liked the first book[2].

[1] Have not seen the Children of Dune miniseries.

[2] I'm in the "first book was good, the rest was crap" camp. I read through 'til about halfway through Heretics of Dune before asking myself why I was still reading and stopped.
Hey great work. I like that people are re-thinking spreadsheets as users get more technically inclined to use more sophisticated tools.

What do you think about fixing R notation to not describe cells, but the named array? i.e. instead of Average(A2:B2) it's Average(this_array) where this_array is the name for the row/column data and when the Average cell is clicked, highlight cells A2:B2?

There are many cases around detecting the proper array name or the user not inputing column or row names, but due to the ability to quickly read and understand the code as it relates to the sheet may make certain trade-offs more acceptable (i.e. forcing he user to enter array names).
I could probably have been convinced at points but it's a hard bargain since SDET career path almost feels like it requires SDET -> SDE. It helps that I've done SDET in an environment where I was given the right mentoring/inputs that I have a fondness for it. Otherwise, again, for career choices it seems like SDET wouldn't last long.

Aside from career overall and given that I do enjoy automating things, playing against bounds of things, etc. but, again from my personal experience and as indicated, those skills are often in something that doesn't transfer (e.g. proprietary languages) and/or is very product-centric.
You aren't including federal gas taxes.
Machine learning robot gets introduced to the internet, internet catches wind there is a new machine learning robot on the internet. Proceed to teach it as many offensive phrases as possible has been pretty much internet canon for the last two decades.

I'm very disappointed to see it happen again. The biggest disappointment is that I'm sure Microsoft has added some pretty neat stuff in there. But we're never going to be able to see it if they keep making the same mistakes.

This is how far machine learning computers were able to get 10 years ago.
I don't think 'kids' obsess so much over Let's Plays as they do over the characters doing the playthrough (piewdiepie, whoever else is big, etc).

You're ten. You don't have a debit/credit card. You can't buy games on Steam. Even if you could, your parents might not even let you play them (GTA, Fallout 4, etc).

But you have a smartphone with a 4k display, and probably access to an iPad, and certainly a laptop at your disposal, and all you need is a browser to access Youtube. So you watch games instead.

You don't care much about immersing yourself in the game's world, you care about the guy screaming "oh my godddddd!! what the shiiiiiiiit!" and making comments that ten year olds find funny.

I don't think this equates to "kids will never play games when they grow up since they are so used to watching them instead." Eventually they grow out of this phase and play games like mature people do.

Of course, that only covers the "Youtube Personality" clique of Let's Plays. I myself watch narrative and immersive Let's Plays for games I certainly don't have the time or money to play anyway (Firewatch, a bunch of indie horror games I'm too scared to play, etc).
But not very fun when it's 103 degrees outside.
noobermin: thanks for looking at Teleport with an open mind. Good point on grep: our people have heard of it. :)

The reason `tsh` takes label filters as an argument to all of its sub-commands (not just "ls") is to perform actions only on machines that fit the criteria, maybe you want to "tsh scp" a file to all "distro=debian" nodes, or you want to "tsh ssh role=postgres_master" not knowing which node is the master at this time.

The background story behind these little "niceties" is this: internally we've always wanted to have a bit of Ansible-like slice&dice magic in interactive mode for raw SSH, so we've built it and sharing it: perhaps someone else would find it useful.
Do you plan integration with mint.com?
It's telling that three of those five were developed for other platforms first, and ported to mobile after they became successful. In my experience, the majority of mobile games that are both decent and professional work like that: they're only ported once they've proven to be big sellers. Developing a good game specifically for mobile is a huge risk.
In case anyone didn't catch what this actually costs, the answer is: 1.5-2%, which is the rate you could get cash back (or airline miles/etc) with good credit.

Because this service draws directly from your bank account, and takes what would otherwise be your rewards from the credit card fees their banking partners charge, it provides a nice business model for them at the cost of you getting 0% rewards back. Not worth it, in my opinion.
Ask HN: Encryption Books?
Hi HN,

Can you recommend a book about encryption? More specifically, I want to learn more about implementing end to end encryption over the network with private / public keys.

Thanks!
Well yes the location of the country doesn't matter, but that's not at all what he said. He said that it's all based on vertebrates which is ridiculous. We can't begin to imagine what type of life form constitutes an alien, and if what we'll ever find will constitute a life form as we know it.

We know what a country is. And there's very (very, very, trust me I'm an engineer) little chance we'll find new countries with characteristics unknown to us...
For those who haven't gotten their hands on a Steam controller yet, I was very impressed. The software is still quite immature (par for Valve), but the haptic feedback in the hardware is immensely cool and the potential configurability is insane. It really is a great middle-ground between mouse+keyboard and traditional gamepads.
How are disputes settled?
Trust a Cato article/infographic/whatever to totally ignore the red scare and rightist motivation for virtually all political surveillance and repression.
Right. The actual boundaries of a city are often the result of historical accident and depend on the governmental power structure of the region. "White flight" and "urban decay" cause people to live as close to a city as possible without actually living within it. I think the inclusive meaning is even truer in areas of greater sprawl, e.g. most of US and Asia. Los Angeles is a big city, but when people talk about LA they often mean the entire county or more.
If you use Apple Pay then that's exactly what you get. A unique credit card number is generated per transaction and passed to the merchant.

Not only is it more secure but it also helps protect your privacy against retailers that use your card number to track your purchases across their brands.
Prairie Dogs Are Serial Killers
This might become more tenable if long-haul trucking gets automated, as it almost certainly will. Take the expense of hiring a human driver out of the equation, and registration costs for semis could be an order of magnitude higher, and still cost less.
> If he becomes President (very unlikely)

Quite likely, IMO.
Snapchat buys maker of bitmojis
Yeah, the TWiET podcast made a big deal recently about how chips are finally making their way to their cards. I couldn't help but laugh. IIRC, Norway had those since the late 80s. And in Australia, Paypass/Paywave is near ubiquitous now. I think the US is way behind in their banking infrastructure.
The assumption here is that if this were to catch on as a security mechanism the establishment you're in would clearly advertise their merchant name, or you could at least ask for it.

It wouldn't take that many customers to ask before the guy behind the counter at "Corner Cafe Market" would be able to give you "Culinary Drinkware Inc." as their merchant name offhand.
How does theoretical common ownership of the state mean a state doesn't exist? Do you have any examples of this theoretical non-state communist society? Has it ever existed at any scale?
I have one question: how? How can you fund my card at the time of payment, if you get my money through a wire transfer? By the time the money arrives, the merchant will have cancelled my purchase, no?
I'm in the middle of redoing the card processing system for a hotel property management system.

I'd consider using Stripe and have in the past, but we're doing millions/month USD (less than you'd think with a high-dollar, low-margin business) almost entirely card-present, now with EMV, which puts us way outside Stripe's target market. We also have a complex approval process and capture/settlement several days after approval, which, again, isn't really in stripe's wheelhouse.

Don't use heartland. I've had to deal with them a lot over the past month and they're absolute garbage. Shit API, integration specialists that can't be bothered, NDAs before they'll look at you, just all-around bad experience. They also announced they're deprecating SHA-1 support, which would be prudent except that they gave merchants two weeks notice before doing it.
That sounds a lot like a famous quote from Steve Ballmer as he watched Internet startups pass Microsoft by in the fast lane...
The car driving example is bad IMHO. Because you actually want to encode certain law breaking qualities into them. In particular if it's on a highway and everyone around you is going 10 kmh above the speed limit and yet the car isnt (unless it's encoded into software) then this will actually jeopardize the security of the whole system. So the right thing to do would be to break the law, but breaking the law is a wrong thing, and so on.
President Obama Discusses AirBnB's Success in Cuba
Sure, have fun convincing Verisign. They're the ones controlling the .com registry. Your TTL values are meaningless to them when it comes to SOA. Minimum 1 day TTL.
I think the argument is that art is sort of a predictive negotiation: to go with the food analogy, most chefs just won't cook for you if they know you won't eat what they're making the way they've served it (e.g. if you cover everything in a flood of ketchup.) If you're not interested in the idea they're trying to communicate to you through the art, then they stop experiencing the self-actualization of communicating that idea, and instead feel like a commoditized provider of grist for you to construct your own experience from. That's not what they signed up for.
Well, collapsible comments are not the end of the world.

Thank you for the links! I find it interesting how vicious comments around the supposed intentions of the sites maintainers are.
I'd like to see her develop in different cultural contexts, one mainly north America, one Britain, Australia, etc. And then into other languages, German, French, Japanese, and see what different things emerge or what similarities arise.
Sounds like my dream industry where a fully automated tailoring machine was combined with body scanning. So you could, once a year or whenever, get a scan and have your body in the system, and from there, be able to a) shop online seeing clothes rendered on your body type b) with enough maturity for the system, have the ability to have your favorite styles created in your favorite fabrics on-demand, ready to pick up at a local store which keeps the tailor machine and spools of material handy (with more a delivery away).
It is demonstrably not the case that diversity in cryptographic constructions is always a good thing. What it usually results in is a diversity of single points of failure.
I'm particularly curious about the "[...] serious vulnerabilities in an encryption protocol that I, and probably most of you, use regularly." ‒ does anyone know what this in reference to?
How's that article relevant? It's the typical Krebs "IRS sucks" piece with some intuit mixed in, because apparently even fraudsters - doing potentially hundreds of filings a day - think that turbotax is the most convenient way of filing your taxes.
I doubt Microsoft was oblivious to this. I kinda think they wanted to see how it would behave without too much coaching. It's an experiment, not a product or service. Sometimes it's not knowing if it will fail, but seeing how it fails.

And I doubt it's the last we've seen of Tay.
I think part of the problem in the US is the culture where eg police departments compete for resources basically to make their own department bigger. One of the ideas in the Ron Paul movement was that governments needs to be smaller. Of course, in the real world it probably should not go as far as Ron Paul suggests, but....
If this is what a robot learns from talking to strangers on the internet. What exactly are the kids going to learn?
You can have multiple NS records. You should have ns records that point to different companies DNS servers, and preferably different continents.
... I think original commenter is being sarcastic. There aren't a lot of movies that stand up well to having their dialogue heavily cut.
Yeah, that reminds me of this company https://formygrips.com/
I got some awesome furniture for my home office last time around.. a nice desk, office chair, a couple filing cabinets, and even a large whiteboard. I think it was $40 total.

I still have the whiteboard. Those things are stupidly expensive.
That's the idea behind monetizing streams/streamers accepting donations. It's a way the viewers can support the person to stream for X hours a day and have it be something they can routinely do because they are being paid for their time. It just so happens that time is being spent playing a game that is the result of someone else's work.

To me, the position of enlightened self interest would have the Let's Play creators offering their support by urging their viewers to give Patreon donations or buy the game. Given that is happening, then it's time for the game creators to start rethinking their business model.
There are rumors twitter is talking to those guys about 140 len version, they are likely to be acquired. We need to wait to see. Tomorrow we should know.