skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I love the image of an old stasi officer seeing the current trend of people paying good money to effectively bug their own appartments. It must be surreal to them.
Because people who hijack a plane are remotely sane...
"... and earn more money." Is this really necessary on the homepage? Sounds like a old misleading spam page
1. High levels of cortisol (stress hormone) are known to affect development.
2. Mother-child bonding is facilitated by the oxytocin rush at delivery and was probably disrupted by the aggressive response of the "care" providers.
3. A cascade of hormonal shifts at delivery probably make women much more susceptible to emotional stressors.
4. Care providers that cannot do math (e.g., understand a false positive rate or mg per kg of a drug) should be held liable so that the system can correct.
5. Class action lawsuits are often successful with much less clarity of harm.
Yes, and those semantics are purely functional, lacking any form of expression, which copyright expressly excludes from protection. The only reason binaries are copyright-protected is because they are "derivative works" from the original copyright-protected program code.
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404. That’s an error.

The requested URL / was not found on this server. That’s all we know."

is it only me who can't see the webpage ?

//EDIT: weird now it's working :S
When you buy digital content on Amazon or iTunes, you don't exactly own it
Ask HN: Autism?
I have recently been diagnosed with what people would call some sort of autism. I am 42 and I actually feel pretty relieved about it, since I have been struggling a lot with who I am and why I am somehow different.

It all just sort of clicked and I saw that I could never make a box shape fit through a circular hole. I tried to do this all my life and I realise this is not something I will ever be able to do.

I am wondering if there are other people in the same situation. How did you move on? Did you get better after changing your life direction maybe? I always had relationship problems and I never got married or had kids. I understand this now. It was indeed, as I started to suspect, my own problem. I am just sorry I left so many people sad and maybe broken in my wake. Did you manage this somehow? Managed to explain your situation?

I know there is a place for me somewhere work wise, since I have always been good at what I do, but I am afraid I will be lonely, if I am not able to communicate to my current partner what kind of problem I have. I really dont like to say I have been diagnosed with anything. I am just different from the majority and there certain things I am good at (like computers) and things I am not good at (like having personal relationships).

Even writing this small text about the subject felt good I just realised, so maybe this is something I should continue in some form (in my own language of course ;)).
I think what pcwalton might be talking about is this:

std::unique_ptr<Person> owner(new Person("name"));

auto stolen = std::move(owner);

std::cout << owner->name << std::endl;

Rust compiler will detect the usage of moved ownership and would not compile. C++ compiler will happily compile but result unhelpful run-time error.
We're basically all worried, but currently, we at least have the option of not buying the damned thing.
Sega v Accolade, the expression whose copying was deemed "fair use" was actually object code copied en route to discovering the programming interface for the Sega. The interface itself was deemed by the court to be "functional requirements for compatibility with the Genesis console – aspects of Sega’s programs that are not protected by copyright", and which Accolade had a right to access.
I find it scary there was absolutely no mention or even a hint of Google+ and Hangouts. They sure seem to be on their way out.
United Health Care is pretty bad. They are always finding some excuse to not pay. I suggest Blue Cross Blue Shield, at least the PPO.
It's definitely not positionally tracked, looks like it's just a nice imu + touchpad.
You see a lot of paper debris in the air that looks similar to the striated but crumbly paper in the OP video.

You make a good point and I think it's both things, actually.
1) The bonds in the paper fracture
2) The elastic energy in the press causes the cylinder to drive downward, splattering the malformed paper in all directions
3) Which makes room for the cylinder to make it most of the way through the book.
Owner of Mystery Oil Tanker Comes Forward, Shedding Some Light on Abandoned Ship
How Terror (and Twitter) Could Put Trump in the White House
The fact that there is a controller for input instead of having to tap my forehead will increase usability a ton. Though I hope they provide a way to clip the controller to the HMD when not using it.
I love Java. We shifted from c++ a year after it arrived on the scene. Since then, I've never needed to learn a new language in any depth. To me, that's a good thing and shows the longevity of the language.
You should never use products like this where you are completely vendor-locked and will be unable to switch easily to another provider. I did this mistake before and we used SQL Azure Federations (cool & cheap autosharding for SQL Server), then Microsoft decided to discontinue it and provide only very expensive up-scale version of SQL Server instead. We spend months to migrate our product to PostgreSQL... and this is just an example, Google also love to discontinue products, probably even more than Microsoft.
Drug testing around childbirth is a wreck and needs to be seriously looked into...

My second son was premature... when we were in the NICU... there was a lady there, whos child was born premature because the taxi she was riding in from the airport was involved in an accident. She came from california... where her gyno was pro-mj, and she used MJ to manage her Hyperemesis gravidarum... so its in her system, clearly... but this is Texas... so even though her doc recommended it, not only was her child in the NICU, but when he got out, he didnt get to go home with her... because of stupid laws that pay no mind to actual scientific evidence...
The Internet of Things Could Disrupt Tech Staffing
"It may not all be 'horsecrap'"

It's probably not. Bitterness creeps in far too easily and my words became caustic.
> That having been said, if Google chooses to release the data to the government, it has an obligation to tell us about that or it will be behaving unethically.

No, as far as I know that would be incorrect with NSLs in place. Gag order and such.
I'm frequently on a network that performs below 2.0 Mbps (with fast.com recording it as 2.0 Mbps, 1.6 Mbps, and 900 Kbps), generally with around 20% packet loss on the third hop (Verizon, now Frontier).

Netflix streams perfectly. It is astounding. No one else comes close. Amazon Video and YouTube work around half of the time, with rebuffering; video from anyone else—Vimeo, Apple, and any network's player included—is basically non-functional.

So, thank you all so much for excelling at what you do! It's very appreciated!
Speech recognition is a lot harder than you'd think, and the problems of far field speech recognition especially. All of google's in-house ASR (and wakeword) has been dedicated to near-field devices.

Speech is not a "solve it once and it works everywhere" kind of problem.

I would ballpark that Google needed to collect 10k hours of _far-field_ speech to train this to a level that was acceptable for the enormous variety of noise conditions and accents that a far-field system needs to work on. That scale of data collection takes time and a lot of trench-warfare effort.
That's what I figured. Still better than tapping my forehead on the GearVR.
Don't know what hardware AWS is using, but Ark has server boards supporting 1.5TB, which is close enough to make 2TB believable: http://ark.intel.com/products/94187/Intel-Server-Board-S2600...

Edit: Supermicro has several 2TB boards, and even some 3TB ones: http://www.supermicro.com/products/motherboard/Xeon1333/#201...

(Disclaimer: AWS employee, no relation to EC2)
Working extra hours = extra pay, effective Dec. 1
There's enabling state spying and then there's doing so knowingly and then there's doing so provably knowingly. Which do you trust?

Do you think devices like this have no remote vulnerabilities, that nation states don't have the resources to find and exploit them, or that they can but don't?
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In no other country that I have flown from did I have to take off my shoes to go through security.

Although on my last flight I did learn that Nutella is a liquid. Maybe I should have frozen it?
Constraint layouts with a visual editor. While a significant part of the iOS developer community doesn't like to work that way apparently there's not better solution out there?
Landmark status for a tree is rather unusual even in San Francisco. I don't know what would happen if this specific tree were damaged by a storm. My guess is they'd allow its removal and require that it be replaced by another one, but who knows.
The right answer should have been "because that was the bench-marked time result for the same code-base compiled in both modes" (before including the new header).
Brewery Develops Edible Six-Pack Rings to Save Wildlife
My guess is that it is not really DRAM but flash memory on a DIMM like this product form Diablo Technology:

http://www.diablo-technologies.com/memory1/
We hope you'll give the new features a try and let us know what you think!
And it can screen capture any app it likes to. So, it could read SMS, Signal chats etc etc.
The dynamic that requires companies to clean room, typically comes from some license that comes with the original product.

I license you a black box with 3 switches on it and 3 lights. The license dictates you may not look inside. The clean room implementation is, I right down what the effect of each switch has upon the lights. I then give that specification to an engineer who's never seen the box. They build a copy of the box, based on the spec.
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Is there an Open Source version of Firebase which we can use on our own hardware if we wish to? Vendor lock-in is the biggest fear I have with Firebase.

Like Facebook (Parse), if Google also decides that Firebase is not profitable and decides to close down, how do we run our applications without rewriting?

How do we protect ourselves, if Google decides to increase the price of Firebase 3-4 times in a single day?

Even just a public pledge from Google saying that they will open source the full featured Firebase if they decide to close down the devision will go a long way to alleviate this fear.
Google is dogfooding this in it's other companies, like Nest, fwiw.
Elon Musk on Twitter: “Tesla actually paid $55/hr.”
I was on the fence about using Firebase for my new project...I'm no in the fence anymore! Congrats, this looks awesome!
4 physical CPUs and 1.9TB of RAM is doable in a 4U server for sure, and possibly in a 2U. So, it just looks like a big server.
The headset doesn't look different from other mobile VR devices. I was hoping/expecting to see something with tango integration for head tracking.
Yes, this may be a good option. I just never tried it or worked with it, so I can't say anything about it.
New Relic Server Monitoring on AWS Elastic Beanstalk
They don't really have storms
As an animator and researcher on the piece, I'd want to clear up some details in the comments below:

We synthesized viruses as early as 2002,[0] and you can get the sequence for Variola right now.[1]

Ken Abilek is regarded as largely discredited.[2] Sergei Popov, seen here, made a great variety of claims, but the ones in the documentary seem to be the most consistent with other sources.

In particular, a great extra source is Jeanne Guillemin, a medical anthropologist who wrote a variety of books about the Vector institute, its accidental release of anthrax into the city of Sverdlovsk,[3] Ken Abilek and Sergei Popov's claims about what went on in Vector, and the Amerithrax case. Her analysis is largely consistent with experimentation with Variola at the Vector facility in Sverdlovsk, less so the chimeric agent making that allegedly occurred there according to Ken Abilek.

Richard Preston argued that man is the demon in the freezer. There is no compelling scientific use for variola today, and if it can be synthesized artificially anyway, there's no compelling use for it sitting around in preposterously expensive high security.

Mutually assured destruction by variola was the only reason it was kept around. The Soviet Union was alleged to have filled a handful of missile warheads with variola, along with anthrax and ricin. The Soviet Union was alleged to believe that the United States was developing anti-nuclear weapon technology (it was). But to be clear, the United States for a period of time violated the biological weapons development ban too. Weapon development is crazy business and it's the only legitimate use of variola today.

[0] http://www.nature.com/news/2003/031110/full/news031110-17.ht...
[1] http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/nuccore/NC_001611.1
[2] http://articles.latimes.com/2007/jul/01/nation/na-alibek1
[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sverdlovsk_anthrax_leak
> How on earth does putting Thunderbird into cold-storage help that mission?

Yeah, it's not entirely unfair to call it a copout when you hear the excuse that desktop-based mail clients have been supplanted by web-based email. There's a safety and privacy factor to having a robust desktop mail client, not to mention the addon potential of Gecko and Thunderbird that let you do more. I have always been dissatisfied with open source related to email both on the server-side and the client - it has ALWAYS felt unloved.

I didn't know about the IoT initiative at Mozilla, thanks for the heads up. That does seem like a farout goal compared to other better ideas like Persona, FirefoxOS, and Thunderbird. Maybe Mozilla has identified providing IoT code and services as a revenue source? That could further their overall mission, I guess. Nah, on second thought, I'm grumpy like you on this until I learn more. ;)
Meet your users where they are
I'm willing to bet that the hospital didn't even provide that information.

Drug tests are not a "magical black box", there's a process that goes on. And they aren't always right. They usually first start off with immunoassay test on the urine which attempts to measure substances in urine through the use of antibodies. These are "okay" tests -- not bad per se, but they are definitely subject to a wide variety of false positives (http://jat.oxfordjournals.org/content/38/7/387.full). The reported false positive rate I can Google is all over the map, but I've seen articles suggesting as high as 10% (http://www.webmd.com/news/20100528/drug-tests-often-trigger-...).

Drug testing uses these first because they are quick and relatively cheap. The gold standard, however, is GCMS testing. Very accurate, but expensive and time consuming. I assume that's the test performed in the article that took three weeks to resolve the false positive to the negative.

Assuming the story as reported is true, I'm a little bit peeved that there was a de facto assumption by the nurses that the test was correct. The meth / amphetamine test in particular seems to be one of the more problematic immunoassays in the literature in that it false-positives with all sorts of prescriptions, along with some non-prescription drugs (http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/726897_2). 90% correct is not correct enough in my opinion when it comes to messing with people's children by threatening CPS.
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Savannah, GA has no 'open container' law, and it's pretty nice. But yeah, what a dumb thing to do in the spirit of blind following.
You know that you can already do this right?
https://nest.com/support/article/How-do-Google-voice-actions...
Effective December 1, 2016, the US salary threshold for overtime goes up from from $455/week to $913 ($47,476 per year). If you make less than that and work more than 40 hours per week, you have to be paid overtime, at time and a half. This applies to 4.2 million US workers.

The salary threshold hadn't been updated in a generation, which is why overtime went away. Now, it's back.
It's a 301 directly to https://fast.com. No DNS involved.
Google Isn't Playing Games with New Chip
Presence in virtual reality and how mobile GPUs can help
It looks like that hard limit became a soft limit in August:

https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2015/08/amazon-s3...
> I think the difference for me is that my phone isn't a permanent fixture in my house - it's not explicitly a surveillance device.

For most people, its a permanent fixture on their person: people these days leave their home more than they leave their phone.

> Echo/Home are explicitly audio surveillance devices, though ostensibly benevolent in their design.

Echo/Home are no more explicitly audio surveillance devices than cell phones are.

> I can't say the same for Echo/Home, and it somehow feels qualitatively different in that phones aren't designed to be always-on microphones constantly processing audio to send it off to a server somewhere else for analysis.

Modern phones (considering the hardware and software stack together) are, in fact, designed to do just that, both Siri and Google Now voice recognition works (though it is, IIRC, disabled-by-default in the latter case) from the lock screen. Its just as always-on as Echo/Home.
> Absolutely the best book I've read on depression and suicide is Night Falls Fast ... I cannot recommend this book highly enough.

Honest question: do you recommend the book to folks suffering from non-trivial depression? As in: is there some sort of "happy ending" within the precise facts it lays out? Asking for a friend...
I think it's less likely to happen here because Google is investing heavily in building a business around developer services.
breastfeeding is a hell of a lot more than 'an experience'
According to Ars Technica, Google Home is actually gonna be more locked down than Amazon Echo.

> Initially, Google says that it will not be creating APIs for Assistant and Home and that as such, any integrations with services and other devices will have to come from Google first. This approach is a contrast with the Echo, which is designed to be extensible.

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2016/05/google-assistant-and...

Dreams = crushed :(
Not that you need fixing, but I remember watching an interesting TV episode of this:

http://hereandnow.wbur.org/2016/03/22/switched-on-after-aspe...

I remember at one point he was in a meeting with a bunch of people and the CEO had made a suggestion and he told the guy it was the stupidest idea he had ever heard.
We changed the URL to that blog post from https://firebase.google.com/, since it gives the background.
If we believe Snowden then Google and Amazon as well as any technology company that collects user data are enabling spying on you for many years now.
He is a phenomenal writer. Just realized I've been reading him for well over a decade now.
Not 451?
The difference between the US and other countries is not that we're stupider. It's that the slightly smarter/more powerful people are much better at manipulating the stupidity of masses, and much more greedy, than other countries. That's why we leveraged fear and pushed hard so that you have to bend over for the TSA every flight.

My question is, what does the US look like without the TSA, and can we ever get there?
> 2. Money buys you things. By definition people with more money will not be burdened by the same things as those with less.

Right. Like, laws and shit.
The Echo not only allows you to extend its vocabulary, Amazon offers the Echo functionality as as a service that any developer can use from their own hardware.

If you wanted to use your own voice recognition and natural language processing, you could easily tie that into open source vocabulary that has been written for Echo.
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Succinct and helpful C++ template compilation errors
I meant to write size. Thanks for catching it!
If you want to pull permits, get disconnected and reconnected by the electrical providers, you're gonna need a license. Also if you get an inspection on your house because you want to sell it and they find that unlicensed work was performed and no inspection found on file from when work was performed, guess what, the city can make you rip it out and redo it by licensed individual subject to a municipal inspector.

Now can you do electrical 'work' on residential without a permit or license? yes and sometimes it might be ignored but if the inspector(s) want to not ignore it, they can make you go by the regulations of your area.
I would say "was supposed to be", not "is", but would otherwise agree.
Firebase is an incredibly powerful tool, and in a sense is a "democratizing force" in web development. Now anyone can build a complete web application without needing to know anything about setting up servers, content delivery networks, AWS (which is still quite difficult to use), and scaling. I teach kids as young as 10 years old to build iOS apps and websites with Firebase - they can develop locally and push to Firebase hosting with a single command. After exploring this new update, I can say with confidence that literally everything is easy-to-use now.

Whenever there is a Firebase announcement there are many replies along the lines of "this won't work for me because it's owned by Google, may be discontinued, doesn't have on-premise solution, etc". If these are your thoughts then you are missing the point of Firebase. It enables small web development shops like mine to focus on building beautiful web applications without having to give up manpower toward backend engineering. The cost of using Firebase is peanuts compared to the savings in employee hours.

Perhaps some day we will have to migrate elsewhere, but I find that possibility extremely unlikely because the clear amount of effort it took to create the Google-y version means this is a long-term play.
Introducing Android Instant Apps
I cannot agree with that. Google Cloud services are way too small comparing to AWS or Azure and they don't make a lot of money with it. They can discontinue it easily.
For the same reason people bought iPods instead of audiophile stereos: yes, the quality was inferior, but there is a great value to "here, now".

Just minutes ago a co-worker grabbed the office Cardboard VR and slapped in his phone, and watched some of the Google I/O keynote. Cheap. Easy. Portable. Low res, but there he was virtually at the presentation.

People will get used to the oddity of VR just as they did with cell phones, hands free ear pieces, SIRI, coffee shop computing, etc and will get over self driving cars.

My Dodo Case Cardboard VR folds up and fits nicely in my messenger bag. And I like my Apple Watch, thank you very much.

Yours is a naysaying template I've heard for nearly every new technology for decades, and here we are with most all those things now ubiquitous.
I'm actually not seeing my current projects at https://console.firebase.google.com/ and I have two (one sandbox, one prod). Is this due to the over-capacity?

They're just not listed under "Projects using Firebase".
Main selling point? It doesn’t sound like they were able to sell you anything.
Powerboost has been dead for a while, but it let your burst above your advertised speed.
Self-Driving Trucks May Hit the Road Before Google’s Cars
> Are there server motherboards out there that support 2 TB of RAM

Sure, http://www.supermicro.com/products/motherboard/Xeon/C600/X10... supports 3TB in a 48 x 64GB DIMM configuration.
Intel processor support up to 1536 GB of ram so basically 1.5 TB per processor.
It seems that the local CBS has stories about storm damage in the bay area http://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/tag/storm-damage/