skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's one of those mistakes you only make once in life. Now I wouldn't even dream of leaving my backpack in my car in my relatively low crime city that I previously never would have given it a second thought. It's a little sad that my entire world is now less trusted because of this invasive incident.
Why There Are More Consumer Goods Than Ever
Younger we share some excitement, some common libido for things that brings us somewhere for the sake of it (games, places, shops, experience). As we age, we crystallize and what we shared isn't anymore and the need for enjoyment reverts to a smaller, stricter, more selfish need. No more experiment and discovery, more sustaining what our ego thinks is good and what works. With time feeling running faster we have less tolerance for subpar times.
Our local police or other stake holders actually tried and succeeded in disbanding the groups chasing bike thieves with bait bikes. You can watch the episodes on yt.
I'm pretty sure that owners can refill the tank by themselves, but manufacturers are required to have a big enough tank that it can be done by the dealer as part of the regular servicing schedule. The tank itself not so much a US thing as it is a modern diesel car thing; it's part of the emissions control system on I think most new diesels.
I see random.org has an api
https://api.random.org/json-rpc/1/
The term 'wantreprenuer' could seem insulting to a lot of to-be and current entrepreneurs. Even if your website is content-rich, you'll put off a lot of traffic because of that term. Nobody likes being labelled a 'wantrepreneur'.
'load' I don't know, but quality surely. Animals, materials, climate, cleaning level will probably change what lies around.
Platform infrastructure for embedded Erlang/OTP, Elixir and LFE projects
I don't owe any money, since I told company I wanted to cancel before I had to.

Sorry, but that usually isn't how it works.

That is enough done from my part such that the consumer laws protect me and any lawsuit would be dismissed before I even hear about it.

I don't know where you're from, but in any jurisdiction I'm familiar with, it seems unlikely that would be the case.

From a purely practical point of view, I'm not sure it should be the case either, even though I'm generally in favour of reasonable consumer protection laws. For e-mail specifically, there are too many problems with relying on it, particularly if significant amounts of money or other commitments are affected by whether or not a subscription continues.
Why does that make a difference? Every insertion into an RB tree self-balances and sorts the elements. So if you sort the first k elements (insert them in the tree), sorting the next element is fairly cheap (log k). Maybe I'm misunderstanding what you mean.
So the manufacturer apparently does not get to chose the vehicle, which is one reason why the cheating code was present in all VWs with that engine model rather than just in the vehicles used for the testing.

Are you implying that it's a bad thing that a manufacturer is forced to implement cheats on all cars rather than just provide a rigged car for test?
The tests weren't the problem. VW made it so the car only passed during the tests. A test should be somewhat reproducible and that conflicts with not being able to cheat the test.

The solution would be to throw some people in jail. Your suggestion that it was even mandatory for companies to behave this way is so weird that I cannot respond to that.
Something like this?

http://arxiv.org/abs/1603.09382v1
Audible, although I'm unsure about cancellation, only allows setting your account to "suspended" by phone.

I do this because I'm unable to keep up with one audiobook per month, but still really enjoy their service.

Also, Rackspace email (paid hosting by email address) requires you to contact customer service to delete email accounts you are not using. Not quite making a phone, but still requires going through a "wait and communicate with a human being" ten-minute process rather than a simple click to delete an account.
Awesome stuff.

I do wish they'd release a module without the bayer filter for monochrome imaging.

Granted it is maybe quite a bit of work to rewrite parts of the ISP to suit a relatively niche market of monochrome sensor...
The emerging phenomenon of Moshkow's lib.ru is one of the most oldest and popular free self-publishing websites in the world, samlib.ru, where many authors are actually getting published by publishing houses. This is how "samizdat" works today.

What author misses is that Russian pirate libraries are based outside Russia for quite some time. The infamous http://lib.rus.ec was once the effort of a couple running cafe in Quito, Ecuador. Its freely accessible fork maintained as http://flibusta.is has sort of Icelandic scent. Both run Drupal.

What is even more interesting - http://alib.ru provides free access to acquiring cheep rare and vintage physical Russian editions from enormous amount of small second-hand booksellers. I can name nothing like that in the UK.
> In the US, voter registration is completely open. You can walk down to your Board of Elections and look at the full register, including party registration and whether you voted or not.

I don't get what purpose does it serve?
Is this a cultural difference ?

An hotel room is a place where I am supposed to sleep while a decent number of people (the hotel staff + anyone caring to social engineer) has full access to the door key and I rely on an unfamiliar security system to warn me when things go awry (fire, blackout, water leak etc)

The only places I would feel less safe would be a night train or a taxi in the middle of nowhere.
As the engineer being forced to implement patterns like this that I felt were shady, I can almost promise you that some "growth hacker" or "subscriber acquisition consultant" or "optimization consultant" comes in with case study stats or runs an A/B tool to see various effects. They're likely able to show several percent increase for each of these dark patterns, then management has real dollars to have to turn down. Then I complain that we're violating trust which can't be easily or immediately quantified, and the response is "eh, I see the button, a user will find it if they want it."

After raising the flag too many times without being heard, I finally quit. But is there a more scalable way to protest / stop this?

What about a browser extension that warns when you try to sign up for a service that you can only cancel by phone?
Raspberry Pi 1-3 image building toolchain (amongst other repos) on the project page:

https://github.com/nerves-project

https://github.com/nerves-project/nerves_system_rpi

https://github.com/nerves-project/nerves_system_rpi2

https://github.com/nerves-project/nerves_system_rpi3

Check out examples here:

https://github.com/nerves-project/nerves-examples
Ask HN: Honouring the Sabbath
I am not really religious at all (non-practicing lapsed catholic), but I recently stumbled upon a discussion that got me thinking: Should we as hackers/makers/business people honour the Sabbath? To be clear, I am not asking if it is _morally_ better to honour the Sabbath, but rather: would it make us more productive to be forced to have a "contemplation day"?

https://www.reddit.com/r/homestead/comments/4g800g/honoring_the_sabbath/
A hidden traffic crisis among internet giants
This should be a website. My ad blocker doesn't work and I can't open links from stories in new tabs.
Nice work! Lazarus is pretty nice but it's community is not large enough. It could be an excellent tool for cross platform and mobile, but the last time I tried mobile it was far from trivial to get anything working. It works, but it needs a lot of effort to make it easy.
Good to see Lazarus is still being developed. IIRC it's using Pascal as the base language, which may be of interest to some.

In a similar way, you can create programs for all Amiga platforms and a number of non-Amiga platforms using Hollywood:

http://www.hollywood-mal.com

This is the full list of supported platforms (at the time of writing):

AmigaOS 3 (m68k)

AmigaOS 4 (ppc)

Android (arm)

AROS (i386)

Linux (arm)

Linux (i386)

Linux (ppc)

Mac OS X (i386)

Mac OS X (ppc)

MorphOS (ppc)

WarpOS (m68k/ppc)

Windows (i386)
> (This is probably similar to much of the rest of Europe)

In Germany, we actually limited almost all cities to cars passing Euro 4, and many even to cars passing Euro 6.

Cars get a sticker with a color based on which standard they pass, and the zones are limited to cars with a sticker of the proper color.

So most busses in Germany are Euro VI now.
Thanks for this. I just discovered http://hckrnews.com for the first time through your list of links. I think I'll be using it to browse the site from now on!
I was going to ask that, but for me it doesn't have to be a PC. We work on pretty low power electronics at work, but it is very hard to figure out what the best combination for practical hobby electronics would be. So like what kind of MCU, radio and display would consume the lowest power while still practical enough for me to have fun with. That would mean the MCU has to be 10+ mhz and the display needs to be at least file of a smaller smartphone. eInk would work.

It could be combined right? Very tiny low power lithium ion with inductive loading in some way that is efficient and easy enough.
There's so many of these, you'll have to put more of an explanation of what makes this different, other than "it's for hackers, not scientists" (whatever that means).

Also it seems to use the standard method of stacking layers, rather than allowing you to describe an arbitrary computational graph which seems (to me) to be the far superior method (see CNTK's Network Description Language).
It depends where you are, but many places have something broadly similar. Here in England, for example, any limited company must have a registered address and mail to that address must be read. The registered address must be shown in various places by the company, and can also be checked by anyone through Companies House, which is the government authority that deals with such things. These are all legal requirements here, and the authorities will not look kindly on a company that doesn't follow the rules, with potentially serious implications for its directors.
I don't understand why one would care about this. What is the difference between the provider snooping your traffic and a 'hacker'? Do people really believe there is any kind of privacy on these networks?

The internet is not trustworthy. It doesn't matter how you connect to it.
> There's no law to say that you can terminate by email. Most companies won't bother chasing, but there's nothing to stop them really hurting you.

In most of Europe, there is.

In Germany, for example, the business has to allow cancelling via the same way as you signed up.
I know we're talking about POSIX here, but Linux does have the ability to wait on signals the same way it waits on file descriptors. It does this by also allowing signals to be delivered on file descriptors.

http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man2/signalfd.2.html
I'd think that would be a legal and valid way to cancel any service.

Please be careful. That is not necessarily the case, and depending on your local laws you may be left owing money, going to collections, and/or having your credit damaged for non-payment.
Stochastic depth is just a form of regularization over layers, it doesn't save any parameters or remove any connections.
I've been looking into home security lately and with the more expensive camera-kits (say $2k+)...

I've been wondering if a de-centralized raspberry-pi setup might be so much better. And with 8mp I think I should start a POC, right?
> Sorry, but that usually isn't how it works.

Depends on the laws I suppose. I Denmark you cannot bind a consumer to pay for a service for any period except for a few special cases (for instance, phone service up to 6 months).

I'm from Denmark, and we have some fairly strong consumer protection laws exactly to prevent things like this. If I cancel any kind of prepaid service, not only do they have to stop charging me money after the periode is finished, they also have to give me back the money equivalent to the remaining period from the end of month + 1 month and forward.
In Germany, for example, the business has to allow cancelling via the same way as you signed up.

That seems reasonable.

Do you know a lot of companies that will let someone sign up via e-mail? I don't.
fullmalls.com at #13 and etradinglife.com at #15? Maybe you should filter for dead or flagged comments?
I'd like to see a performance comparison with older versions. Some people here noted that these new ES2015/ES6 features are hurting the performance of old features. I have no idea whether this is true, so I think it would be best to just have the numbers.
Not the addressee but it's spectacular all around. There are a few classes that have a reputation for being poorly designed/maintained and a few with somewhat "unreasonable" time requirements (ie 50 hours a week for a single class). There are classes where you only interact with TAs/students (which is fine) and some where the professor is seemingly on a 24-hour modafinil drip, there to answer any question posed at any time.

For the most part it's intensive and immersive with enough learn-at-your-own-pace aspects to accommodate full-time jobs, families, hobbies, etc. I feel like I come away from every class like I've actually learned something that's embedded in me.

Udacity is what it is: a platform for watching videos with some minor ability to interact with coding examples / quizzes throughout. I have no issue with it, but agree that most of the meat of the courses come from other parts of the classes.

My hunch here, through Thrun's quotes and some in this, is that there were some aspects of CEO at this level that really didn't appeal to him. How many CEOs truly get to be personally creative in their position?
I returned home from Silicon Valley and built a failed startup
This is all completely new to me (and probably most folks unless they're running around in brand new diesel vehicles). The last diesel car I owned was a 1998 (Euro-2 standard when NOx emissions were more relaxed - so no DEF required [0]) Ford Mondeo which I disposed of in 2006 when the timing belt snapped ruining the engine. Since then I've owned older petrol engined high mileage "bangers" so I would never have encountered DEF unless I won the lottery and fancied a new Landrover :)

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_emission_standards#Em...
>I think there's an awful lot of "floor the accelerator to get back up to the speed limit" as well //

When I took my UK driving test (quite a few years ago) my instructor informed me that I needed to accelerate hard on a [uphill] dual carriageway section in order to not be perceived as "failing to make progress" (ie. keeping up with traffic). I wonder if modern tests take account of safer aspects of fuel economy, such as slower acceleration, or if it's still penalised?
I don't think this has been tried. What would be the heuristic for removing connections/nodes? It does seem to me, though, that the heuristic should be "learn from the data using backprop" and that you're essentially calling for L1 regularization (which encourages sparsity), or L2 regularization (which encourages small weights), which are already pretty standard in machine learning.
Solar plane flies across Pacific
>How are good newspapers to survive and turn a profit?

They might not. It doesn't surprise me, nobody wants to read objective news anymore. They'd rather seek out and read things that confirm their biases. It's one of the paradoxes of choice; more information and we actually learn less.
>The result is simple: Small Diesel cars can’t exist legally in the US.

And that is, of course, intentional. To keep some of the foreign competition away.
Yes, but if true, this finding could also invalidate other research related to sleep.
> just sleep in a weird [...] place

I find that changing my orientation on the bed results in a significant improvement. I suspect that it might have something to do with the location of the window.
I agree with your second point, but in case of codemill, the stats are that 2000 developers have already signed up to work on tasks.
A bigger 'issue' for now is that most ES2015 features are (much) slower than their ES5 equivalents. Code transpiled with Babel will usually run quite a bit faster than running ES2015 directly, especially with Babel in loose mode.
I am Sabbath observant, and I consider the requirement to unplug once a week a real blessing. Perhaps this is confirmation bias, but I feel my work benefits from a relaxation day. I couldn't imagine working a week where I have no end in sight.
"A third warning indicates when 515 miles are left and also warns that the DEF tank needs re-filling or the vehicle will not be able re-start when the distance countdown reaches 0."

Wow.

"The engine will only start again when the DEF tank is re-filled."

And thus the the "faulty DEF sensor" malfunction is introduced into our car fault lexicon.
Windows 7 Enterprise Product Keys 64bit / 32bit Free
>sudo curl -u USR:PWD http://kparc.com/download/k -o /bin/k;sudo chmod +x /bin/k

Is this targeted at web developers or something?
My feeling is that catalytic converters go the wrong way.

The biggest problem today is global warming. We want to stop burning diesel. By hiding the NOx, there is less of a problem with burning diesel so we burn more. That's sort of a hard ass approach, but.

Also using a catalytic converter also saps some energy and so requires more diesel to be burned and so more CO2 released.
>Especially when women are involved, discussing what outfit is being worn

Uh, why is this "especially" so, just because a woman is involved? Why are people so desperate to make everything a gender issue?
So I'm an above average JS developer. I feel save saying this and claiming this.

I would never use most of the exotic new stuff and I would probably never use any of the red stuff.

I'm not saying it shouldn't be in there. I love that JS can be a fit for everybody. I just wonder how much we're gonna be adding and when it's enough...
Perhaps its the quality of your bed/mattress at home..
I cancelled Audible online. I was still annoyed because I signed up for the free month through a couple of clicks on a kindle and then because it isn't integrated with the Amazon account I forgot about it.
I'm also a Georgia Tech OMSCS student. I'm really enjoying the program.

I found Udacity/Piazza to be adequate as a student while using my laptop. However, my wish is for the OMSCS program to embrace mobile as a viable method of consuming course content. Which isn't the case currently and rather disappointing as I travel quite a bit.
You've largely got the lay of the land correct. I'd add:

These two "religions" are irreconcilable; the pro-gun control group has, since at least the '70s when I started closely following this and being an anti-gun control activist, made it crystal clear that many of them will not be satisfied until they've taken all of our guns (or nearly so, e.g. the over and under shotgun class like Biden, what e.g. the U.K. has devolved to at the same time they've reversed the trend since the 13th Century of decreasing interpersonal violence). In return, we've made it clear that we know our 20th Century history, if they get very far in this, we'll kill them, wholesale and retail. No common ground possible there.

Second, this is part of a larger cultural war. We need look no further than now President Obama saying in 2008:

You go into these small towns in Pennsylvania and, like a lot of small towns in the Midwest, the jobs have been gone now for 25 years and nothing's replaced them. And they fell through the Clinton administration, and the Bush administration, and each successive administration has said that somehow these communities are gonna regenerate and they have not.

And it's not surprising then they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy toward people who aren't like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations.

Third, there have been some major changes in gun owning demographics, purposes and the like, part of what some call Gun Culture 2.0, and it really started becoming a thing post-9/11, when the Federal government made it clear we were on our own. The other part is a rapidly graying society as the Baby Boomers reached middle age and now retirement age. For whatever reasons, a very large fraction of them are turning to guns for self-protection, e.g. the vast majority of people in my 2008 Missouri CCW class were obviously middle aged or older.

There's also been some massive changes on the ground: starting in 1987, "shall issue" or better concealed carry regimes have swept the nation, such that they hold in all but 7 states, and cover 72.6% of the population. Issued licences are now growing by more than a million per year, the numbers are astounding, and on a percentage basis have reached 5-10% of the population in shall issue states.

In the same period, "Constitutional Carry", i.e. no permit required, went from 1 state, Vermont (which simply never restricted it post-Civil War) to 10, with 2 being added in the last month or so, and perhaps more to come this year. That's now 7.2% of the above percentage. See this with nice graphs here: http://onlygunsandmoney.blogspot.com/2016/04/every-picture-t... (although I'd add that DC, MD, and NJ are de facto no issue states (for a demonstrated serious need, MD may issue for the duration of the threat), even if the law allows it; also, many local units of CA, MA and NY are de facto shall issue or thereabouts).
I too would love to see prove for that, and possibly a good benchmark suite so we changes in performance between releases.
Dangling pointers and undefined behavior
> It was an interesting read and a thought provoking discussion but it doesn't fall in the realm of hacker news.

You're a hacker, and you found it "interesting" and the discussion was "thought provoking", so by the guidelines (which have been in place for very many years) it is solidly on topic for HN.

Here's a thread from pg from 8 years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=128439 "Ad exec driven to suicide (partly) by trolls (nytimes.com)"

Part of the reason you're seeing more discussion of suicide and mental health is because we're seeing less stigma and less taboo around these subjects.
Bypass the Google Chrome JavaScript filter using iframes (since 2010)
> Those are all really the same language with slightly different wording and details. Like german and english.

I'd argue you only think that because they've opted for a familiar syntax. E.g. the object model (or lack of one) is vastly different between these languages and they employ drastically different type systems.

Ruby is closer to Smalltalk than C in most respects other than syntax, for example, and provides most of the abilities lisp gives you, including the ability to define domain-specific languages. The major aspect you're not getting from Ruby would be homoiconicity.

Here's and article comparing Lisp and Ruby[1].

I'm not saying learning languages outside of this group isn't important, but that a lot of the reason why languages like Lisp and APL are seen as so different has more to do with syntax than semantics. Most people don't know what the semantic differences even are, because getting past the alien syntax is too much effort. When you do, the differences aren't all that huge.

[1] http://www.randomhacks.net/2005/12/03/why-ruby-is-an-accepta...
"Good performance" needs to be on par or better with any userspace RNG. It's great if it's better but as long as there's an implementation that is on par with userspace there's no reason to write userspace RNGs at least from the performance perspective.

Though there will still be people doing it for various reasons, one of them "because we can".
Pro tip: Email them to cancel. When they tell you they only cancel on the phone, tell them you're deaf and can't talk on the phone.

Works every time.