skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The UK Gov't really doesn't get it. Just imagine the marketing and sales opportunity for a Kids Television Show about Boaty McBoatface, the Research Vessel.

Or how about toys, educational videos, educational cartoons, educational books featuring Boaty McBoatface and friends.

This is a Scientific Research Vessel that people could really fall in love with, and instead of capitalizing on that possibility, they'll give it a name like the Hawking. Nothing against Hawking.
Since Tiananmen, the party has basically bargained that people will accept economic progress as a substitute for political freedom. Now that the rapid growth of the last two decades is starting to slow down, we'll have to see how the CCP and Chinese people respond.
It's interesting that plastic bag pollution is an issue.

I reuse all of my grocery bags as waste-basket liners. Making plastic grocery bags expensive, or just outright banning them, wouldn't actually reduce my consumption of plastic. Rather I would just shift to buying pre-packaged waste liners.
I suspect the person you replied to was talking about the new Gigafactory that is being built, which I believe will be primarily owned and operated by Tesla, although Panasonic is an investor.

Tesla does source its current batteries from Panasonic though.
For Internet 3 we should call John Carmack and put all of the internet in a MegaTexture.
> Feel free to ignore anyone making snarky comments about China’s average monthly wage being the same as the price of an iPhone 5C. The two pertinent facts about China are that:

I've seen plenty of Chinese people whose actual individual monthly wage was almost certainly less than the price of an iPhone; it didn't stop them from having iPhones.
They have a trans inclusion policy here: https://hackbrightacademy.com/transgender-inclusion-policy/

I attended Hackbright an am non-binary, and found it to be a welcoming environment for a variety of gender expressions.
Not right now. Pull requests are welcome!
I had no idea. I'm not downplaying Snowden. The guy is 100% a hero in my eyes. But, to claim we in tech community were all like "I have no idea this was happening" is completely bogus.
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It would be helpful to mention that the antidepressants of which you speak are SSRI's. A rare set of non-SSRI antidepressants, like Tianeptine,[0] do not have this deleterious effect.

[0]: http://www.tianeptine.com
> > But we were confronted with documented evidence in 2013 that even what most people would consider to be a fairly forthright upstanding government was abusing these capabilities in the most indiscriminate way.

> Um. Who thought this? Ever? Since the 90s.

To be clear this meant who thought we had "a fairly forthright upstanding government [not] abusing these capabilities in the most indiscriminate way" ever since the 90s.
Questioning the narrative is fine. I for one think he's a combo of whistleblower and traitir, hero and coward depending on what leaks and actions we're talking about. Yet, to think NSA or US did it intdntionally is beyond all reason. Snowden set back so many goal posts for US intelligence, LEO's, and industry that it's impossible thaf it was intentional by USG.
That was my impression of Science Fair as a kid - all the good projects were done by the parents, sometimes directly and sometimes using micromanagement.
Most employers would never let you hook that up - too much risk for zero gain (for them).

Hell mine won't even let me bring my own screen to work. (It lacks some enterprise cert apparently).
Police officials should officiate their employees who should enforce the laws. This is law enforcement, not law generator or law think tank.
Ziro robotics kit is 'success story' for Purdue, National Science Foundation
I was guessing trolling, conspiracy nut, or underhanded humor.
GTA 5 is ~65GB in size. One day, web pages will be bigger than that.
The iPhone 4s and iPad 2 are still getting updates, nearly five years on. I wouldn't be surprised if some of those devices are still plodding along in 2020, particularly iPads being used in PoS applications.
It is still acceptable to conduct psychological experiments on uninformed participants; everyone in the world does it every day. It is only "unacceptable" if you call yourself a psychologist while you're doing it, and subsequently try to publish a paper about it in one of the standard journals of the field.

Just by way of example, I saw a very funny TV show in which the setup was this: someone dressed up in a beekeeping suit walked through a public park with a stack of white boxes, stumbled, dropped them, and started sprinting in the other direction. The show did this several times and aired the footage.

It turns out that people in a public park are likely to run after the seemingly-panicked guy in bee armor when he runs away from a pile of boxes he just dropped. If you wrote a paper about this after doing it rather than showing your footage on TV, it would be totally unexceptional as a psych experiment. But writing the paper doesn't make the experiment any more or less dangerous to the unwitting subjects. It's just the trigger for institutional review.

The review system exists because professional researchers today generally are not self-funding. This isn't a problem for science fair entrants.
If you've got line of sight then current (cheap) tech should do just fine. Sure not 10x gigabit but you can def get some decent internet...
This is a huge discussion in the the alumnae community right now. While Hackbright has never been a non-profit, the equation for volunteering felt different when it was an independent startup with a strong mission. Alumnae volunteer hundreds of hours mentoring current and past students, making connections, talking to prospective students, etc. Some of us even help with admissions! I'm very interested to see how this will affect Hackbright's access to that kind of unpaid emotional labor.
Not supporting OP but their question is not at all a dichotomy. The question wasn't should everything have a whimsical name or should nothing have a whimsical name. The question was basically just should everything have a whimsical name. Sounds like your answer is no, because you're ok with things having whimsical names sometimes.
Because people have things to lose, and because the justice system doesn't always work as expected. Being proverbially gagged by the federal government violates everything I believe in America, but that revulsion doesn't necessarily mean that I'm willing to do significant prison time to object to.

There are people that are that brave, and their actions are indeed commendable, but many people have jobs, families, friends and social status that they'd probably like to keep intact moreso than their instinct to "stick up for what's right".
If HOAs are your idea of expansive new freedom, I think you can probably do better than that.

HOAs get a really bad rep for absolutely limiting the freedoms of the people who live there--from things like restrictions on what colors they can paint their houses to restrictions on what kind of political signage they can put up. HOAs are so completely recognized as little hotbeds of conformity (and abuse of authority, like all these stories about when HOA boards get it in for one of their residents, and end up booting that person out of their home!), it's actually surprising that you're positing them as sources of more freedom for the inhabitants.

And, also, I don't know how many people in these HOAs you're talking about chose them for their freedom-maximizing non-government-maintained sidewalks (which, to them, are of course de-facto commons anyway!).

I imagine if you asked any of them, they wouldn't even think about it, just that they'd pay a sidewalk tax one way or another.

I dunno, the whole thing keeps sounding stupid. Not that I lack imagination, but that you've gotten ahold of some dumb ideas and aren't letting go.
This article made me wonder how this might translate into tech choices (rather than consuming choices).

We'd have to define what a moral tech choice is (a candidate would be "tech X is more efficient doing what it's supposed to do than tech Y"). Then the other variables could be the price/cost, the trendiness, the license, the backers, the market share, simplicity etc.

Now, are people making choices based on efficiency of the tech considered weirdos or dismissed by others whose choices are directed by other factors like trendiness or simplicity? And if so, is it just because they know that their choice is not the "moral" one?
mjg59's comments are fair. ZD's headline is clickbait :)
Neat, but isn't this just a c64 text mode screen buffer fixed-font renderer in a shader? I mean, even the most basic statement "print 2" doesn't work.

Still, pretty cool to see a shader emulating a text mode screen buffer.
I kid you not. Stallman looked crazy in my eyes before Snowden. Even my "paranoid" perspective on all these things pre-snowden where never close to true Stallman "crazy" (or so I thought before..)

Now I want to use Emacs. I want to use everything FSF if possible. I'm no where close. There is a lot for me to do to get there. But I'm hoping I will because soon that may be our only hope.

> NSA's James Clapper lied to Ron Wyden in Congress about mass surveillance.

And isn't that crazy? Try lying in front of congress and not go to jail. Such corruption. Completely institutionalized corruption of the processes and the power of congress to check the power of the NSA.
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I don't mean it has to be pretty, but that is not even pleasant to look at. I can provide all the useful data in the world but if it's accessibility of low then it's value is greatly reduced.
Cryptol is a nice tool, but it can't eliminate most important crypto bugs (for example, the sorts of bugs found in OpenSSL). It's useful for proving things about bit-mixy crypto code like AES, SHA, etc, but that code rarely has bugs (due to known-answer tests).
A link to the actual legislation:

https://sfgov.legistar.com/View.ashx?M=F&ID=4399794&GUID=FE2...
The Honda CRX was famously cited by auto journalist David E. Davis as a minimal car he'd be willing to drive on the Autobahn with. That only had just a bit over 100 hp and could just barely make it past 100mph. My point isn't that German cars are overpowered. My point is that they aren't really, but they're still expected to be able to hang with it on their highway system. If an EV is going to have a sharply reduced uninterrupted highway driving time, then the unavoidable minimum charging stop time of 30 minutes is going to have a proportionately larger impact on travel times there.
I myself have already previously starred Cryptol (I'm acquainted with a few ex-Galois people) but was unaware as to its wider adoption. Certainly I get reasonably frequent notifications on its issues list from Github.
Lobbying from the outlet lobby, most likely.
How the rise of finance has warped our values
It would be really nice to be able to play with a demo account before signing up. I know people who could benefit from something like this bu can't tell them to check it out without me seeing the UI first and making sure its simple to use. :)
Wait, did I miss something? Did Congress successfully amend the Constitution? Because if something was unconstitutional before, how did it become conditionally just by a law being passed?
Semiconductor Pioneer & Nobel Laureate Dr. Walter Kohn Has Died
Or to turn them off of it entirely.
Same here (2nd para). IMHO, it all sucks pretty badly, though there are tiny patches of light here and there.

What I get somewhat tired of is advocates who have seen one of these tiny patches and then proclaims having seen THE LIGHT and declaring all the rest obvious darkness (and you're obviously not one of them).

I want to be able to adapt my language to my domain without having to write a DSL or solve boring multi-language integration problems, I want to reuse components without being overwhelmed by and stuck in glue code, I want to be able to define any type of architectural connector that's appropriate for my problem and have it be on par with any built-in stuff. I want static checking of any properties I care to check, and I want to that to not get in my way by obscuring the problem I am trying to solve. And I want it all live and with amazing performance that is under my control :)
>This kind of thing wasn't rare, even in 2003.

And it is not rare now either. Nothing has changed in that regard. Things have just gotten massively slower, use insane amounts of CPU, and are less functional.
It's interesting to see the huge channel bandwidths they're using to attain this. Advances like this are largely driven by higher sample rate ADCs and DACs becoming more viable in recent years.

Edit for clarity: channel bandwidths in the datasheet are up to 2 GHz. Need to close the link at 32 QAM to hit 10 gb before error correction overhead at that bandwidth, which is certainly doable. Also, it's interesting to note that they quote 7 gbps throughput @ 1 GHz bandwidth, and 10 gbps at 2 GHz. It implies that they can run at 256 QAM at 1 GHz, but only 32 QAM at 2 GHz, which also makes sense.

Having worked in the satellite communications industry, where channel sizes used to be limited to 72 MHz (because of hardware limitations of the spacecraft), getting modems designed to operate on larger channels is no small task. I would love to learn more about the internal architecture of these radios to understand exactly what's going on - are they using interleaved ADCs? Is the modulation/demodulation being done in an FPGA, or an ASIC?

If there are terrestrial microwave engineers on here, I'd love to hear your thoughts on this!
A few years ago I worked in a research lab for the DoD. They definitely aren't joking about the amount of onboarding tasks, training, verifications, etc. It took most of my time over the first two weeks. Some of the offices are only open for very limited hours and only on certain days and so they're always backed up. This will be very useful. Even just having access to modern web apps is a welcome change.
> The first would seem preferable though, as loading from an external source would expose the user to cross-site tracking.

You're right in that the first one you had with just the sha-256 would be pretty much equivalent as what I had especially given that hn readers have resoundingly given support to the idea that it is non-trivial to create a malicious file with the same hash as our script file. I was simply trying to be cautious and retain some control for the web application (even if the extra sense of security is misplaced).

This is the use case I'm trying to protect by adding a new "canonical" reference that the web application decides. As others in this thread have said, it is very unlikely that someone will be able to craft a malicious script with the same hash as what I already have. The reason I still stand by including both is firstly compatibility (I hope browsers can simply ignore the sha-256 hash and the authorized cache links if they don't know what to do with it).

As a noscript user, I do not want to trust y0l0swagg3r cdn (just giving an example, please forgive me if this is your company name). NoScript blocks everything other than a select whitelist. If the CDN happens to be blocked, my website should still continue to function loading the script from my server.

My motivation here was to allow perhaps even smaller companies to sort of pool their common files into their own cdn? <script src="jimaca.js" authoritative-cache-provider="https://cdn.jimacajs.example.com/v1/12/34/jimaca.js""></scri... I also want to avoid a situation where Microsoft can come to me and tell me that I can't name my js files microsoft.js or something. The chances of an accidental collision are apparently very close to zero so I agree with you that there is room for improvement. (:

This is definitely not an RFC or anything formal. I am just a student and in no position to actually effect any change or even make a formal proposal.
Does it auto-download? You still have to install it anyway.
I doubt it makes that much difference in reality, the value is in the data and since this data is unique and from a single source I can't see it mattering.

Not arguing the value of accessibility but in this case it's a nice to have rather than an essential.
No mention that most of Buzzfeed's content is from AskReddit? They usually even cite each entry!
According to scientific journalism, cancer and HIV have been cured over 100 times. Scientific journalism is monetization of hype.
Do you have any recommendations for current products for line of sight?
Dr. Kohn was a World War II era Austrian-Jewish Harvard trained immigrant to the United States largely responsible for cementing our understanding of the way electricity flows through matter. This theory, called the Density Functional Theory, has changed the way we understand solid matter's relationship to electrical current and has helped physicists to vastly improve computational power, as just one example among many. Dr. Walter Kohn was a brilliant and humble man, a professor, research scientist and gentleman of the first rate, and UCSB's very first Nobel Laureate in Chemistry (even though he was actually a physicist.)

http://web.physics.ucsb.edu/~kohn/

http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/chemistry/laureates/1...
In which case as most have already noted the irony is just too sweet.
Here's my strategy, which seems to work. Build product A to the point where it can run on its own with a skeleton support team.

Build product B such as if it is a completely new product. Incentivize people to move from A to B. Don't bitch if they don't. They'll keep paying you and won't cost you much to support.

If the domain changes such that it requires drastic changes to product A, then you didn't do step 1 properly.

It's working so far for the product I have now. The biggest complaint is "Hey, I hate the way you did X, I want the other one back." "OK, here you go: <url>".

They keep paying.

I don't understand it. The new one is awesome. Ah well.
If you ask him, he says he's doing fine. If you look at how he lives his life - you'd see a different picture.

That's the thing right, he's still deep enough in the fight-or-flight to think he's as happy as can be, given what a shitty world we're living in.

Little does he know, he's not living in a shitty world, it's his beliefs that are the main barrier to living a different life.
terrestrial microwave engineer here: "80 GHz" is actually 71-86 GHz FDD. The original FCC band plan allowed for 5000 MHz wide channels each direction and basically OOK or BPSK level modulation. Newer radios use 250, 500 or 1000 MHZ wide FDD channels and QPSK or better. Incredibly wide channels can be used because it falls off in the atmosphere so rapidly after a few km, and the antennas are all very narrow parabolic reflectors with less than 1 degre beamwidth.

Basically no colocation interference issues are possible unless two companies try to shoot from the same rooftop, to also the same rooftop, using the same channel AND the same linear polarity.
How do you plan to make money?
Even a quick screen recording of the high notes would help hugely for that, the only screen shots I could find where in the docs and tended to be parts of the UI not the whole thing.

I used to be a retail manager before I was a programmer full time, their IT skills on average are terrible so knowing something is easy to use would make it a lot easier to recommend.
Not saying I agree with it, just explaining why it is legally allowed. And yes I should have used "allegedly" as a qualifier.
How Tinder turns an emotionally stable adult into a lovesick teenager
You can pack many bits into a constellation point. Think 1024 QAM.
Uber also agreed not to deactivate drivers who regularly decline to accept requests for rides from passengers, a practice that previously would contribute negatively to a driver’s overall standing with the company. Instead, drivers may be temporarily logged out of the app and unable to accept new requests if they are “consistently not accepting trip requests.”

Does this mean drivers will be more able to decline rides from nearby areas they don't want to serve - like cabs? For instance, accepting rides from a business hotel zone, but decline from the poorer surrounding areas?
Big typo on home page: "Contactors"
$18M for a 25 person company that raised seems like an acquhire. I wonder how much of the goodwill & volunteers that kept Hackbright going will transfer over to Capella.

Disclaimer: I have a hackbright grad on my team (she's great) and a few friends who've done the program (and are mostly happy).
> My point was that you can't create a proper application
> development environment that is both an open and defacto
> standard the way the web is.

Why? Is there a technical limitation? Or are you saying that it's technically possible, but that you have no faith that vendors will cooperate and support such a thing?
There are a lot more problems than you think with letting users have arbitrary code execution. And no, Docker is not an acceptable security solution for this, since it's most certainly possible to break out of containers. Even if you're using a dedicated VM, this is not a good idea. And from a brief look at glot-code-runner, it doesn't seem like there's even that much built in to protect against various forms of use.

A more sane design would be to use something like emscripten to enable all these different languages to run in the browser.
But people don't have less money than before. "Stagnating" doesn't mean "going down".