skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, just color me a little confused. I'm not sure what underlying problem you are talking about here.

The fact that people want to live in some cities more than others is not a problem in and of itself. The fashion of the times will dictate whether people want to live in suburbs, rural areas, or more densely packed urban centers. Refusing to build housing because you don't want developers to profit from it deals serious harm to the people who can't afford to live here because supply is short. Saying that we should make other cities desirable doesn't work because it takes too long by comparison—because of the high political and social complexity of urban planning.

You say that development damages quality of life, but I'd argue that denser cities have higher quality of life, subjectively speaking, and if you disagree then maybe you want to move to a less dense city. This is exactly what everyone else is doing—moving to improve their quality of life. That and voting for NIMBY policies which make it hard on people who move to your city.

I've lived in Portland since the 1980s, and the same forces that made life better for those who live here pushed out the disadvantaged, the black, the artist, the musician, the immigrant. It sucks but protesting development or throwing bricks at CATs is only going to make the problem worse.
Looks to be approximately here https://youtu.be/862r3XS2YB0?t=7320
Yeah, but it's different now. Now we have AI buzzwords!
I wonder if opening this up as a cloud offering is a way to get a whole bunch of excess capacity (if it needs it for something big?) but have it paid for.
On the other hand, when I worked at Verizon we used SpeedTest.net because our in-house tool often reported speeds slower than users would experience/
What about if you're out on a run and don't want to carry anything else?
Yeah, it seems like "Another Day, Another Hack" is just the name of the series they use to cover security-breach-related news. It's unfortunate that it confuses the meaning of the article to imply that there was literally "another hack."
Yes unlikely this person would be disappeared.

Tor Project distributes binaries, though. So it's not unreasonable to immediately hop on a flight to leave the country permanently. Once they hand you a national security letter (or use some other leverage), not sure what effective recourse you have. I think it would be like dodging service in a lawsuit (which can work).
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My argument is that you should prioritize your worries and these devices are a lesser threats than phones. To use your analogies, I wouldn't worry about tightening my seatbelt or getting cancer if I am in the back of an ambulance on the way to the hospital for some other life threatening issue.

Or perhaps a better analogy, I wouldn't stress about keeping the windows of my home locked if I never locked my front door.
40 Euro. 100mbit 9,90, 600mbit 19,90. Eastern Europe for the win ;)
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> the world had moved on from magnetic stripes

Here in the pacific northwest, a rather high-tech area, perhaps one out of ten shops/merchants I use actually supports some manner of NFC payments, while everyone supports magnetic stripes. Any payment mechanism that only works with NFC is DOA for me.
When they neutered the free tier last time is when I started ignoring them as a useful hosting option.

My approach was always to start projects on Heroku, and then to keep them there when they graduated to needing more resources than the free tier provided.

Now all my projects start on a little DigitalOcean instance, and when they graduate to needing serious resources, they don't go to Heroku.
Action Jack is focusing on sales, per the conjoined triangles of success. This is pretty telling.
The only reason I (somewhat) trust the encryption in Whatsapp is that it came from OpenWhisperSystems. For Allo, I imagine I'd feel the same.

Some of the value is in signalling to your users.
WebVan -> Instacart, Amazon Fresh

Napster -> Spotify

Chatbots (1996) -> Chatbots (2016)

Just because an idea failed, doesn't mean that it's resurrection is necessarily derivative or vacuous. Timing is everything, 20 years is a lifetime for applications of tech concepts.
It isn't limited to exception safety. The problem previously had been that there was no clear answer to the question, when should "delete" (and "~foo()") be called for a pointer? If you do it before some other code expected you to then you have UAF. If you do it in more than one place then you may have double free (and two calls to ~foo()).

Now the answer is that unique_ptr will do it when the pointer itself goes out of scope.
I have read The Vital Question, after hearing about it from BillG's blog. And it did blew me away. I immediately read also Oxygen, by same author, and I found it equally interesting (it goes in more detail on some topics, but some of the ideas in Oxygen are superseded by his later books).

If you can spare an hour, I recommend this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UGxAB4Weq0U . Is made by the author and it covers the ideas of life origin exposed in The Vital Question.

Also interesting his paper on the double-agent theory of aging: http://www.nick-lane.net/double-agent%20theory.pdf
Your own custom software based on Sphinx?

Is it PocketSphinx?

I was mostly interested in automated transcription, didn't look much at the live recognition stuff.
If my credit card failed one out of every 20 transactions (95%), I still wouldn't use it. At a restaurant, you'd be stuck having consumed the food but with no way to pay for it.
No, they told Isis's lawyer explicitly that they'd run around him and do so by approaching Isis in public[1]. Doing that would require them to have some basic idea of Isis's movements and the willingness to wait to set up an ambush. Given that, it's not unreasonable to suspect they're attempting something shady and that Isis is quite smart not to simply "trust us." There is no reason to trust law enforcement that wants to sidestep entirely legal representation.

It's also clear you didn't read the article entirely before making a comment that now acts to distract and misinform.

[1]: https://blog.patternsinthevoid.net/fbi-harassment.html
It's like my nosy neighbor who only just started watching me when we made eye contact.
I cover this briefly in my talk today: "Migrate to Firebase" [1]. Google Cloud Platform gives you massively scalable & robust building blocks at the IaaS and PaaS level. You can use these to do just about anything as long as you have the time and expertise. Combining building blocks to follow best practices isn't always trivial, so Firebase offers the next layer higher in the stack. With Firebase you can mix and match pieces that integrate together to be a turn-key backend. We also offer additional services to help you make your app successful once it's been built.

Firebase and Google Cloud Platform play nicely together and we've made sure you can mix and match the pieces you need. E.g. Firebase Storage lets you use Firebase Rules to secure Google Cloud Storage. The new server-side APIs for Firebase are authenticated with the Google's IAM policies.

The two teams are partners and we're excited to be working together.

1. https://events.google.com/io2016/schedule?sid=b4641ff7-0bef-...
>Any of the above was a very real possibility.

No it wasn't. Unless you are engaged in a criminal acts, the likelihood of the FBI arresting you are pretty damn slim. Sure it probably happens all the time, but there are 300 million Americans. The chances that it happens to any given person are nil.

The fact that the FBI reached out first is a pretty big clue that they she wasn't a target of an investigation. You don't subpoena the targets of the investigation.
no paywall :"Google Isn't Playing Games With New Chip"

May 18, 2016, 03:11:00 PM EDT By Dow Jones Business News

http://www.nasdaq.com/article/google-isnt-playing-games-with...
We also have many orders of magnitude more computing power on which to implement the concepts behind those buzzwords. Maybe it'll make a difference.
I think it's a feature check-off to compete with Apple Watch: "Hey, you can buy your post-workout latte with our band, too!"
I don't know that the numbers in this thread have any basis in reality, but even if they did... sex is fun?
There is. The feature is called "Screen Sharing."
I suspect you are referring to this post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11712035
I think they meant chip-and-PIN, not NFC.
That's the current state of affairs, yes; I wasn't talking about the current state of affairs.
Hell if I know. Look it up and post it here if you're that interested. I have things to do.
"Apparently partners with NSA" is very different from "for plausibly-legitimate reasons, runs only a platform that has an increased attack surface".

That's like saying that Ubuntu partners with script kiddies because they're slow about fixing security bugs in LTSes. I understand the point you're trying to make, but no.
GCS is relatively small today, but it's growing fast, and Google is investing a ton of money and resources into it right now. They've added a bunch of new systems and promised more coming soon. They also just signed a huge deal to host all of Spotify's data. Cloud Services aren't going anywhere, in fact my perception is that Google would like them to replace advertising as their #1 moneymaker.
Developers differ on preference for whether they want to do "desktop web + mobile app" or "web for all platforms".

Google, rather than taking a firm stand on which is "right", is providing tools so that developers can take either approach. Google, in this area, is more opinionated on the kind of UX that should be achieved than the route.

Now, you make some good arguments for why Progressive Web Apps might be the better route.
The thought of reliable, managed hosting is interesting.

But how does one extend an app outside storing and fetching data? What if you want to run a background job to send emails, parse a complex csv or create a custom pdf and write to firebase storage?
I've seen plenty of jokes that were good, relevant, and tasteful upvoted on HN. Do you think it is possible you are mistaken about the quality of yours?
Also, the common use case of "I don't need this hardware 24/7/365."

If you need to do some analysis or computation on a massive data set once a month or something, it's going to be cheaper to pay $5k/yr (assuming you run for 24 hours a month and don't make use of the spot market) than to purchase and maintain the hardware and infrastructure.
It's possible, but I think that the majority of ML optimization as seen by a programmer using tensorflow is more about optimizing the balance of accuracy, training & inference speed, and memory use, and a lot of the solutions in this space are pretty hardware independent. There's an entire other type of optimization about, e.g., making conv2d insanely fast, but that's not something that a typical data scientist-type user deals with.

(To elaborate -- it's questions like "how deep should I make this convolution? Should I use tf.relu or tf.sigmoid? How many fully-connected layers should I put here, and how big should I make them?". These are really knotty deep learning design questions, but they're often h/w independent. Not always - we certainly have some ops on TF that we only support in CPUs and not on GPUs, for example - but often.)
Perhaps not ready for prime time yet, hopefully later this year
Google Cloud is way more advanced than both AWS and Azure in many ways and just as big in capacity, if not customers yet. Cloud computing will likely be more profitable than ads in the future for them and they announced billions in new investment just a few months ago to build out the platform further.

It's not going anywhere.
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Ah. In that case: perhaps two out of ten of the shops/merchants I use support (but don't require) chip-and-PIN. But yes, any new payment mechanism based on magnetic stripes should absolutely support chip-and-PIN.
on rereading this today, i remembered it was the ACK/th_win portscanning method that I added to nmap (after independently re-discovering it), not the RST scanning method which I think was already in the Phrack article... lotta brain cells got a little foggy in the past 20 years...
Has anyone given this

https://medium.com/@wireapp/axolotl-and-proteus-788519b186a7

more thought and whether one should avoid Signal and work with a more friendly project that doesn't seemingly fail at its desire to have widespread use of the protocol and actually tried to sue WireApp? WireApp's now approved as a non-infringing implementation in Rust, so that's great for reliability.

Edit: The suing part was initiated by Wire as a response to Moxie demanding GPL compliance over their claim Wire is infringing. I got that backwards.
If you had read the book, you would know that Archaea and Bacteria both share some genes. Not many genes, but a few genes that are very fundamental. And not even the genes we were expecting to be the "minimum viable product" for life. Nick Lane thinks that the evidence is for there being a common ancestor between Archaea and Bacteria too.

The genetic evidence backs it. Your intuition and suspicious about bias just don't matter. :)

But, I think the mistake you're making is a misunderstanding of how long this early evolution takes, vs. how long it takes for life to spread around the ocean. Abiogenesis is probably much slower than the time it takes for a unicellular alkaline vent-dweller to occupy the globe.

And, as far as eukaryotes go, keep in mind that there was about a billion years where there were only bacteria & archaea on the globe. A billion years! Why did it take so long to form a eukaryote then? It's because it's very x 10^9 unlikely to happen.
> I want a Python IDE I use PyCharm, which I bought a license for.

I am 100% on-board with giving JetBrains money, because their projects are amazing, however, I wanted to remind folks that PyCharm community edition is very, very powerful and not only free but also open source under an Apache license. I build it from master every morning and consider that process quite easy if the user is familiar with ant-based build systems.

It is madness to edit Python in vi when such a fantastic tool exists, is free/libre and also even offers vi-esque keybindings.
My chemistry background is pretty weak so I don't know if it touches the specific points you're curious about, but there's a pretty extensive discussion of electron transport and what all the mechanisms we see in the world today tell us about how life began to harness it. He ends up using the discussion to make the argument that all life in the universe likely uses redox chemistry for energy. Made sense to me anyway.
Former telephone technician(* ) here. What I'm interested in is the connection from your home to our PoP. Anything beyond that is irelevant to me.

I don't know why he would trust customer equipment to run the test. I used one of these.

http://www.viavisolutions.com/en-us/products/network-test-an...

(* )I'm not sure what the english word is for that.
- Keep geeky friends out of home?

I'm definitely not entering a room with this thing.
Personally, I've never had a project that had so little traffic from robots or actual people that I'd expect there to be 4 hours a day with zero hits.

Assuming you have any of the billion spiders out there hit your site more often than once an hour, there's no such thing as sleeping.
I'm happy to hear that this is finally public so I can actually talk about the work I did when I was at Google :-).

I'm a bit surprised they announced this, though. When I was there, there was this pervasive attitude that if "we" had some kind of advantage over the outside world, we shouldn't talk about it lest other people get the same idea. To be clear, I think that's pretty bad for the world and I really wished that they'd change, but it was the prevailing attitude. Currently, if you look at what's being hyped up at a couple of large companies that could conceivably build a competing chip, it's all FPGAs all the time, so announcing that we built an ASIC could change what other companies do, which is exactly what Google was trying to avoid back when I was there.

If this signals that Google is going to be less secretive about infrastructure, that's great news.

When I joined Microsoft, I tried to gently bring up the possibility of doing either GPUs or ASICs and was told, very confidentially by multiple people, that it's impossible to deploy GPUs at scale, let alone ASICs. Since I couldn't point to actual work I'd done elsewhere, it seemed impossible to convince folks, and my job was in another area, I gave up on it, but I imagine someone is having that discussion again right now.

Just as an aside, I'm being fast and loose with language when I use the word impossible. It's more than my feeling is that you have a limited number of influence points and I was spending mine on things like convincing my team to use version control instead of mailing zip files around.
Oxygen, a previous book from Nick, cover these topics in great detail. The Vital Question deals with events that long predate the cyanobacteria, the Great Oxygenation Event and how we avoided oceans evaporating into space under UV radiation (at least the first chapters of the book, rest of it covers mostly origin of eukaryotic cell).
My guess is that a lot of people do interior work without permits. If you're tearing down an interior wall and re-building a bathroom, there's no evidence of that from outside, so no simple way for the city to stop you.
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Until the next time you take it out of the bag to actually use it.
I don't know much about this space, how do you know it's definitely not positionally tracked? My reason is that they didn't talk about it, so I figure it isn't but I'm not certain.
It already works on Gear VR (Samsung's phone-based VR thing), so we know it's feasible for it to run on phones that way.
That's what I've heard about LA as well -- especially with Hollywood being there. It isn't necessary to be a narcissist to want an acting career, but it "helps".

Now that I think of it, LA and Hollywood might have the same problem as DC and politics.

Our political class is a collection of horrible freaks and sad sacks for a reason: the only way to get power in this country is to want it so desperately that you'll spend your whole career trying to get it, even though you'll probably never get past the rank of junior senator or political aide. This is literally megalomania -- the level of power-hungriness normally associated with Lovecraftian cultists and evil wizards, and sometimes not even with them.

Anyhow, I could see LA having the sort of problem with fame that DC has with power: the people who make it in Hollywood are a subset of the people who want so desperately to make it in Hollywood that they'll throw their lives away on a career track that gives them a small chance of getting a big break and a large chance of waiting tables. Desperate commitment and fear of failure can make a good person turn very bad -- despite my quoting that rather smug Anglo-Saxon saying previously.
The actual reason is also why there are more men in prison than women.

The IQ bell curve for girls is thinner than for boys. Therefore there are more boys with lower IQ (in prison) or with higher IQ (in STEM).

The observed ratio of female/male in CS matches almost perfectly the observed variance in IQ.
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In the "Eon" books by Greg Bear, future civilizations communicate by "picting", which is essentially rapid-fire memes or emojis that are projected from a special necklace everyone wears, combined with minimal verbal cues.
But do you think that free software can keep up against these giants? In the near future, it will all be about having large amounts of data, and processing power; it will be less and less about the actual algorithms.

I'm afraid the only way out will be to rethink the economy.
I would assume that the API to use these is tensorflow.

So... just use Google's machine learning cloud thingy.

The software can build the community, where the supercharging is only available when you run it on Google cloud.

(although GPU performance isn't bad either, so you don't have to, thus community)
I really want to hear the other side of the story here. There's so much unfocused resentment in this article that I think something else is going on. (specifically, the asides about how the Venture firm flies private jets and hates minorities).

The whole point of venture debt is that if there is a bankruptcy, they get the whole company. Whether there was tortuous interference (I think that's the right term) or simply weren't willing to lose more money on this company, I don't know.

My basic take on the article is really just "man's company fails, he blames the last person to put in money".
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