skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Decentralization in the context of social interaction services does not work. As long as the concept of a social network exist, people will connect to similar platforms.

It's been tried, again, and again, and again, and it fails for the same reason all such projects fail - the only people who care about this architecture stuff are those who are geeky enough to be running their own decentralized services.

Heading off the inevitable response: Email is not a social interaction service, it is a message passing service that happens to have social uses.
Not to mention there is free flight controller software with autonomous capabilites, e.g. APM.
I had problems with these sites even though I wasn't using an adblocker, I just didn't have Flash installed.
The Dark Side of Socialized Motherhood
Soup with Prince (2008)
New Full Duplex Radio Chip Transmits and Receives Wireless Signals at Once
No, there isn't. Message board nerds love to try to reason through vulnerability valuation, but the reality is that there are very few people who will pay for serverside vulnerabilities at Google or Facebook (or anywhere else).

The reason is that for a vulnerability to be worth money, someone needs to have a business process ready to go to monetize the vulnerability. Without that proven process, a vulnerability is just like any "Show HN" without a business model or revenue.

There are certain kinds of vulnerabilities --- browser code execution, most notable, but a couple others --- that organized criminals have whole businesses set to drop in and run and make money with. If you have one of those vulnerabilities, you've got lots of takers for it, and the prices for those vulns are nosebleed high.

There are a few kinds of organizations that will pay for a Facebook serverside RCE. Good luck finding them. Or, I should say, not finding them. Those same organizations will kill you and your whole family just to make a point. That is, after all, the only reason they want to buy Facebook serverside RCEs.
I wonder if you could call this guy a kind of a criminal renaissance man. The amount of criminal activity he was involved with and the things he did are mind bendingly complex.

How you go from raising an army to invade a country, operating shady call centers in a myriad of countries, and ordering hits on reporters and real estate agents is anybody's guess. The crazy thing is he was running all of this by himself. I'm still puzzled how he managed to do it for so long.
Glad to hear. I'm building a similar system with Gulp and Mandrill. Thanks.
It's sort of like a casino saying the chips are worth
zero because the cashier works for a different company.

This is exactly how pachinko gambling works in Japan. You win a prize (doll, medal, etc.) in the pachinko parlor, and sell it at the "we buy pachinko prizes" place next door.
I have seen several people use #!/bin/sh and write bash code. This is going to break on debian machines when you do ./foo

If more people used #!/usr/bin/env bash, it wouldn't be that big of a deal.
Had to happen. New PyPy release, new 2vs3 feud in comments. Can't we all just get along?

Anyway, my $0.02: I'm looking forward to test this with Hy (hylang.org) and seeing if some of the module referencing is fixed. Makes for a great JITed LISP already.
Obviously, the entire slide deck is terrible, but, a personal thought about the "The NOT male engineers" slide...

Some people might think "Well, it's a terrible thing to say like that, that women should get the more social jobs, but society/culture/genetics/hormones -- perhaps a grain of truth, right? Women are just social!" You might even think it's a good thing to promote them, or make them the "communicators" or put them in architect positions.

I just want to say that these are the good intentions that made my first few years of out of college job experience absolutely awful, which makes this slide especially upsetting to me. I was an engineering major with a strong CS background, but also a 6' tall, beautiful, outgoing, well-spoken woman. Obviously, I'd be perfect working with clients, or acting as a liaison between developers and designers, or as a technical sales engineer, right!?

So, I was "let go" twice, the first time, just 5 months after graduating, and then again a year later. I missed meetings, told clients their ideas were bad, was a terrible diplomat, didn't prepare very nice-looking reports, complained about using MS Office, constantly forgot to log billable hours, spent too much time writing code... I hated it, I was terrible at it, and yet I kept drifting towards these types of jobs! It was what recruiters showed me, what college counselors showed me, what everyone said I should do, and what I thought I should do!

It took me way too long (to my credit, I was young) to realize that I'm much much happier "just" writing code, and working on a project that I can really take the time to get into. If I'm going to do "collaboration" I'd rather do it with other engineers that share a common(ish) technical background, where we all bounce ideas off of each other and have similar goals for the product or feature. And I'm so much happier not having to worry about what I'm wearing to work every day, or if I need to prepare for a customer meeting in the morning!

So, even if you think that it might be true that women are more social on average (whatever your own personal reasoning is, doesn't matter) PLEASE don't automatically try to lead women into roles like this, or assume that she'll be great at bridging gaps between clients/developers/designers/god-knows-what (because she's a LADY! Amirite!?). Some are, some aren't. Some men are, some aren't. But using these social/cross-discipline positions as kneejerk suggestions for a woman to "move up", or "do something more interesting" may be doing more harm than good to her career if she takes the advice.
Employees? Wasn't Uber stressing they are independent contractors?
I am the author of the this. Would you mind sharing a stylish script or screenshot. Love to see how it looks after your changes.
I actually found out a few days ago that in some countries Uber does accept cash (like Singapore - https://www.uber.com/cities/singapore/). But it's still not anonymous, obviously, because your user profile is still tied to the ride.
>Also, finding a drone operator is not necessarily easy.

check their mom's basement
Tech will crash harder than 2008 (but not as hard as 2000).

The overall financial system will probably do a bit better, unless the student loan bubble blows at the same time. The dollar amounts in tech are tiny compared to the housing or student loan markets; there's just not as much room to go downwards.
Wow Cool. It would be cool to pair it with a visualization so I can get a sense of how the sound and the classic Mandelbrot fractal shape correspond...if they do.
After WWII, the rate at which weapons could use ordnance increased. In general, soldiers and weapons systems could move faster, fire faster, and engage more targets at greater distances. Mobility expanded and became even more important.

In general, greatly increased firepower and more advanced machines require lots more logistics. (By that measure the Soviet T-33 was superior to the German Tiger. It was more reliable and required less logistics for amount of firepower.)
Crashed for me, too.
The only way to truly solve this problem is on-premise devices that do not push data to Kite, honestly.

I'd need to ignore every file I have.
Musk: “There’s a new type of car or vehicle that would be great for that and that’ll actually take people to their final destination and not just the bus stop.”

What do you want to bet this involves daisy-chaining autonomous car-pods and linking them up in HOV lanes. Get to your stop, and it breaks off to drop you at your destination, and then goes back to queue at the "bus" station.
Goldman Sachs has many well-documented connections to the US government & White house.
https://prof77.wordpress.com/politics/an-updated-list-of-gol...

http://www.whiteoutpress.com/articles/q42012/list-of-goldman...
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Hosting this in MV is just... weird. All the hotels suck, there's no food, nothing touristy to do, etc etc.

I don't understand your note about costs. Google has infinite money. Even mid-tier meetings are held at Moscone, so I don't think it's that expensive.

Are the I/O hordes really going to be visiting the Google Campus? For what reason?

It's pretty weird.
Because the case rested on patent infringement, not contract violation? People don't need to sign a license agreement to be bound by patent law.

> Their business model depends on farmers agreeing to licensing their seeds. Nothing says that those farmers have to agree to that.

The entire concept of patents disagrees with you. If the farmers don't agree to a license, they cannot legally use the invention.
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Night Watch in One Brain Hemisphere During Sleep In Unfamiliar location
Is there anyone that has successfully migrated to MemSQL and that would like to share their experience?
The problem then becomes creating a simple to explain and process video and audio encoding scheme that also doesn't take up massive amounts of space. Compared to that doing the same for text is easy.
For some of those guns, I like how the virtual items cost as much as the physical useful items.
Seattle: Possible lead contamination in water pipes
Ask HN: Best single board computer for computer vision?
I know there is a Raspberry pi 3 on the market right now but I was wondering is there any other more powerful option for an embedded computer vision project (with OpenCV) ?
An interesting note is processes improve over time, so most companies end up binning processors much more conservatively over time. Price discrimination means company's want to restrict their highest bin even if they could sell it for less. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Price_discrimination
If the attacker has control of the box, he can just man-in-the-middle a two-factor token.

It would certainly require the attacker to be a little more proactive, but it would hardly stop the credentials from being useful.
How Device Data Is Driving Disruption on the Tour de France
There was the Polder Gap. We had plans to collapse mountains into the mountain passes wth nukes to try and slow down the Warsaw Pact forces.
The elephant in the room is "supply drop" AKA gambling. That should definitely be regulated.
Gizmodo(http://gizmodo.com/why-we-sleep-so-poorly-in-unfamiliar-plac...) has a shorter summary of this article as well.

I know for sure that I've experienced this phenomenon, it's interesting to see that it's probably a vestigial survival trait.
>What business is it of there's how I ended up with it? If I didn't sign a license agreement then I can do what I want with those seeds. That includes planting them, spraying them with roundup, then planting the survivors.

35 U.S.C § 271 makes it their business.
Hubble captures birthday bubble
Just failed for me on two desktop systems (one 14.04 and one 15.10).
Social Security or Savings? Um. Try a Little of Both
That weekend is also Maker Faire (5/20-5/22) just up the road in San Mateo, so something to consider checking out if you're in the area for IO.
Nah, the aliens are bound to have tons of post-doc archaeologists looking for faculty positions.
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> Your allegations miss a crucial detail, Monsanto sued farmers who planted seeds and then sprayed them with herbicide[1]. Ie the farmer knew what he was doing and used the patented trait. Why shouldn’t Monsanto sue over that? Like many things in GMO land the myth that they sue accidental contamination is wrong.

I disagree that anything is wrong with doing that. The way I see it, he identified that a number of plants were resistant to RoundUp and efficiently figured out which they were.

It's not his fault that Monsanto's business model fails to meet up with the reality that plants have plantable seeds.

> Monsanto has the worst PR team in history, which has made my company’s work much harder, but ‘Monsanto is Evil’ is a marketing slogan developed by Greenpeace, Friends of the Earth etc. These environmental groups are actually the true evil in the industry. Their campaigning has held back progress in the industry by many years. Smarter folks than me argue that their actions on Golden Rice meet all the criteria to be considered a crime against humanity[2]

Friend of the earth (lower case without a ™ symbol) sure, but I'm no tree hugger. I'm not against GMOs and think Golden Rice is amazing. I just don't like the idea of imposing licensing restrictions on farmers. It's a dark road that we don't need to go down.
Moscone center is undergoing renovation.
Considering the cost of both DJI and 3DR and the inevitable down-stream development and access, unless each and every manufacturer is mandated to include "smart" flight restrictions, then I would say the point stands. Making a useful application and product is fun to spit ball. Whizzing out some sanctimonious pontification is feeble.
Planes should have a camera in the front/nose (like newer Airbuses have in the tail).
You can solve the back-button issue with a little better UX design.

Don't change the url when people are clicking on the urls, but have a share icon for each element that is placed in the modal that pops up when clicking on it.

In this way, url stays the same while people are checking the elements, and you can still have specific urls for each element for people to point to a specific demo if they want.

Share icon copies the url e.g "http://hackerthemes.com/bootstrap-cheatsheet#dropdown-header... to clipboard and visiting this url pops up the dropdown-header demo.
Also - wasn't the battlecruiser concept largely discredited after WW1? I wouldn't be surprised if they were seen as more obsolete/expendable than battleships. Better to convert them to an aircraft carrier than have those expensive ships going to waste.
That's a completely different list than the (shorter) one I get.
Purple Tears
Hope we hear more from ATAP. They had some really interesting projects last year I'm hoping make it further towards market.
I only use it like you guessed (and what I think it's best/appropriate for): gluing things together, embedded scripting, and Tk on internal tools/gizmos and early prototypes. I wasn't clear earlier, sorry.

To be perfectly fair, on the decision matrix Tcl gets a helpful boost due to my own familiarity with it and playing nice with C; if a butterfly had flapped it's wings just a little bit differently or I was starting out today I would probably be using something else. Probably Java. Ada would be great, but the lack of ecosystem diversity makes me apprehensive.
TMZ broke the news before it was certain. AFAIK, the Associated Press were the first to have an inside source.

http://bigstory.ap.org/b9e3df0421a04344835cd4fac7680c24
If speeding tickets were intended to stop people from speeding rather than just to collect money from them, the answer would probably be yes.
Federal agencies are ultimately responsible to Congress and the President. The recent (last 20 years) trend towards deregulation and lax enforcement (IMO) starts at the top but most visibly manifests in the actions or inaction of regulators like the SEC.
> The entire legal concept concept of patents disagrees with you.

I'll leave it an exercise to the reader on whether I agree with idea of patents on plants (or software).
If all your customers are criminals, then yes, your reputation hinges on not complying (or not yet having to comply) with the law.
Drivers can still choose to avoid Uber and use other competitors as well as a result of this feature.
I am actually going to get my PhD in the next few days.

Perhaps I am an outlier, but I really think it was the right thing for me.
I hit the end of my undergraduate degree and I felt like I had just started learning, so I looked into graduate school and liked what I saw.
I've spent the last 4 years working on my PhD and I have learned a lot, I've made real improvements to human knowledge, and I've gotten a job that would have been impossible with a bachelors and 4 years of work experience.

But the biggest reason is simple and terrifying: because it is fun.
Many of the objections would be immediately put to rest if the patent was released to a global health or other ngo that could oversee and license it without restriction.

Patenting the food supply is one of the scariest things for the developing world. Certainly vitamin A deficiency is a real problem but we are then trading that problem for giving one company absolute power over a group of people with very few resources to defend themselves.
Detroit Auto Show to Debut an Autonomous Spin-Off in 2017
This is absolutely true. Beyond this, there's an additional concern that Kite simply hasn't been around long enough as a company for people who have the authority to allow it to be used within their teams.

If you're in the position to make a judgment call on whether or not Kite would be allowed in your team, there's a real cost to being wrong about the trustworthiness and security of Kite as a whole.

I'm intrigued by the tech, but it'll likely be quite a while before I use this with any of my teams for anything other than trivial coding in pet projects that are already open source/public repos.
But it would be much easier to run untargeted, large scale, automated attacks which would affect many more people. Just look at e.g. the world of self-hosted Wordpress installs. Somewhat competent people get hacked by scripts all the time because they can't keep up with patching their servers to respond to every new threat (even assuming they learn about said threats in time). Normal people don't stand a chance.

(Speaking of which, I just got script-hacked like this few days ago, and I think it's finally time to dump Wordpress and migrate to a static blog...)
http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2008/11/24/soup-with-princ...

"Prince had his change of faith, he said, after a two-year-long debate with a musician friend, Larry Graham. “I don’t see it really as a conversion,” he said. “More, you know, it’s a realization. It’s like Morpheus and Neo in ‘The Matrix.’ “ He attends meetings at a local Kingdom Hall, and, like his fellow-witnesses, he leaves his gated community from time to time to knock on doors and proselytize. “Sometimes people act surprised, but mostly they’re really cool about it,” he said."
Umm .. how do you get a ticket?
* Regulators might be unofficially blackballed from companies in return for doing their jobs too well.

* If regulators hurt the industry they're regulating, it means fewer jobs will be available for them when they switch to the private sector.
Since the site is currently experiencing a Database error, here's the link to the google cache:

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:2Zf0Pqw...
Russia delays ban of Bitcoin and cryptocurrencies
Why would anyone bother, even if such terminator genes were present? Your development costs would far exceed the cost of additional licensing, to say nothing of the eventual lawsuits that you would lose. Even with the licensing costs, the benefits of the modified seeds are significant. That's why farmers started using them in the first place.
Agreed. I actually checked this today to see if it had changed.. nope.
Not permitted by whom? Can the EPA prevent them from re-selling them in Mexico? I would not think so.
It does seem a bit weird that a company founded on the principles of ignoring the law and distancing themselves from liability would even care about the identity of their drivers.
I was cleaning the house last night and found that my kids are using the iPad 2 that I bought them as a coaster.

I'm not sure what to think of that: Either I'm spoiling them or it is just a great time to be alive.
That doesn't really make sense, because people "better than you" won't want to work for you. I certainly wouldn't work for someone who I thought had strictly inferior skills.

It makes more sense to frame it as "hire people who can do something that you can't". You should be able to do things that they can't as well -- otherwise you're not bringing anyting to the table.

In other words, this is someone who is equally talented but brings a different perspective or skill set. It takes a lot of different people and skills to make anything.
> What open source libraries are supported on a OS don't have anything to do with first class support.

Under your definition that is not true. Under mine, the ecosystem of libraries you can use on that platform is a key factor.
If I was an average user, cortana would definitely be one thing I might want to disable but probably couldn't do so easily. I'll admit I had to use my powershell script for getting rid of GWX on win7 as a base to completely get rid of Cortana without feeling like some update was going to magically re-enable her.

Also, see: https://github.com/dfkt/win10-unfuck
Many people mistakenly think the moon gets hit all the time by meteors because of the craters. Most of the craters scientist believe were formed during the lunar cataclysm [1] not to mention the moon has zero erosion and geo activity.

That being said no one is sure how often it gets hit but it is logically far far less than Earth.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Late_Heavy_Bombardment
Backups are good. More frequent backups are even better.

I have btrfs snapshots run on the fileservers at 10 minute intervals. Which, of course, captures the entire filesystem state, not just files that you have deleted by accident.
Credit Bureaus don't need to collect that much information anymore. People bring it to them, because reporting an account to the credit bureau is how you make people pay their bills.

The guys who do the scary data harvesting these days are "data furnishers" like Lexis Nexis.
Wish they give more details about tensorflow and related stuff.

Otherwise it is going to be Google Frontend I/O once again just like last year.
Sorry, but what's ATAP?
The answers on quora are generally well reasoned, but the questions themselves..

"What is it like to get 1600 on SAT?", "What it is like to make a million trading?","I am making $200k a year, should I buy a Porsche?", "What are best life changing habits of winners?". "What is it like to be born in a billionare family?"

Those are all real questions or very similar to real questions on Quora. For some reason Quora thinks these are the type of questions I want to read the answers to. I am a sucker for responding sometimes while cringing.

These are the type of questions I might have asked when I was 17 and maybe that is the answer to who is asking them.
Microsoft’s Q3 misses with EPS of $0.62, revenue in line at $22.1B
R.I.P. Prince
KEMP Receives DoD Unified Capabilities Approval
That would be a different story if CDs grew on trees....
Hopefully you use your in-game gun a lot more than your real one!
Alphabet slides 5% after missing earnings expectations on revenue of $20.3B
The payment gateway will probably be Stripe. They support "auth and capture", which is necessary with our plan to gather a user's micropayments into one combined monthly bill. We might also include PayPal if there is demand for it.

We've been discussing when we want to ask the users for their payment information. We want the sign up process to be as fast and painless as possible, so we might give the first article away for free, and only ask for payment information if the reader decides to buy a second article.

Once a user has saved a payment method to their profile, they won't be bothered about that aspect ever again when buying articles, we just charge them once at the end of the month for all the articles they've purchased that month.
the suspense is killing me
Also - the summary at the end of TFA is quite succinct:

> In summary, the present study has demonstrated that when we are in a novel environment, interhemispheric asymmetry occurs in regional SWA, vigilance, and responsiveness as a night watch to protect ourselves.
Have you had a look at the BeagleBoard?

Or maybe something like this http://www.nvidia.com/object/jetson-tk1-embedded-dev-kit.htm... ?