skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you entered the US on a VWP, and try to reenter the US on the VWP without going further than Canada, Mexico or the Caribbean, you may find yourself denied entry.

I'm not sure if this applies if you were on a different class of visa before attempting to reenter the US using the VWP. I think the US border agents would be very suspicious though.

I've entered the US about 15 times since my E3 expired, and i'd say i've been specifically questioned about my E3 on 8 or 9 of those occasions. "You used to work in America? What's the name of your current employer? Are you looking for a job at the moment? You know you can't work in the US any more, right?" Stuff like that.
Why not replace? If there's a security flaw, I want those versions gone.

EDIT: you edited :)
They can't find or build alternatives? they could have the same impact at the Unix level that they've had on the high-level GUI. It could certainly use it.
Trick site that attempts to get email your address and then redirects to the rick astley song when you submit the 'paste'.
It's easy (and fun!) to criticize in hindsight, but there was a strong strategic case to be made for the Nokia acquisition back then. Obviously it didn't work out, but given Microsoft's cash reserves at the time it wasn't even a particularly large gamble.
What about the GPLv3 prevents them from using GNU user space tools?
Got permission thanks. Will download to local storage tomorrow ish.
We can disagree on if trans people should be allowed to choose no sex, but intersex people should be allowed to choose ambigous / no sex as they may literally not have one (XXY chromosones etc).

Therefore it makes sense for the government to offically allow it, and if we allow people to change from male to female and female to male, why not either to no sex?
Part of the reason that people go for the cheapest price is that all of the other variables in flight aren't really verifiable.

Among a wide variety of industries, a large portion of revenues come from "upsales", pushing some impulse buys extra like insurance. Which is to say that the impulse buy extras are shitty ripoffs and consumers over time have grown to expect promises to be worthless and to only pay for things they can clearly verify.

And that relates to selling cellphone with longer battery life - all the companies make unrealistic claims, how could someone feel safe giving up something that can see (like a feature or a smaller size) for something they can't see?
There are people who are not clearly male or female both from a biological or sociological perspective. That's not an opinion, it's fact.

Emphasizing that being nonbinary is rare only serves to legitimize labelling it as other as something that's not normal and to draw boundaries - where they don't belong - that inevitably bring discrimination with them.

The comment may be "reasonably" worded but it's just a thinly veiled call to legitimize discrimination. A difference between that comment and "you can't be neither sex" exists only rhetorically but not in what's conveyed.
I have never in RL heard anyone call it "OS ten"
MonetDB – Column-store database
Apartment units addresses will probably be based on the 3x3 square the most closely matches its outline, so door location will be irrelevant. Vertical stacks can be simply dealt with by assuming a standard 3 or 4 meter story, so unless you live in an industrial loft or something it won't be a problem.
Comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11895750, which ended up with the more active discussion.
Also, yeah, I don't really need most of the things that graph DBs are offering. They seem to focus a lot on making computationally unreasonable things possible -- such as arbitrary SPARQL queries.

I'm not the kind of madman who wants to do arbitrary SPARQL queries. I just want to be able to load data quickly, look up the edges around a node quickly, and then once I can do that, I'd also like to be able to run the occasional algorithm that propagates across the entire graph, like finding the degree-k core.
This is absolutely true, but you shouldn't let the cults distract you from the valuable tools we now have to build software users control. Decentralized applications are the only way to keep users in control of their lives as software eats the world. Otherwise, the Facebooks and Ubers of the world will write the rules for how we interact as a society, and we will have to submit to their will or opt out of the value of large social and economic networks.
Personally, if my old macbook can handle the new OS, I'll move my online shopping over to Safari.

That said, I would have much preferred that it work on any browser on any OS and only require an iPhone, but I'm interested in Apple Pay online enough to change some habits.
"Now in iOS 10 we have an intense API" did they mean "intents" by any chance?
Digital Currencies have the fanaticism of cults but without the removal of freewill of participants.
You clearly have a significantly deeper knowledge of this topic than I do, and I'm inclined to accept that and thank you for the lesson.
Retractions of what? There have been no (serious) publications regarding this yet. Presenting experiment data is just that, stating what was measured, not necessarily saying why.
Technologies of the Decentralized Web Summit
I don't understand. What is it about the licensing of _user space_ tools that prevent their being used?
Could you help me relocate? Inside EU. I don't know C# very well, but I worked with F# and also learned about some 110 other languages (https://klibert.pl/articles/programming_langs.html) and never considered stopping to learn new ones.

(Mostly just testing if it's really that easy ;-))
This really looks like the barrier between iOS and OS X have been kicked down fully. I am wondering if anyone is going to see this as an improvement?
Facebook does something similarly sleazy. I have multiple email accounts. Facebook hasn't made the connection that I'm the same person. On each email account I regularly get emails saying that my profile has already been set-up and all I have to do is log-in for the first time by clicking on this link (and yes, I have a Facebook account linked to a different email address).
Somehow feel that MS - Slack acquisition is coming soon
I had no idea LinkedIn owned these sites / services. Especially Lynda... Microsoft could do quite a bit with Lynda they could train programmers through that, maybe even make it more interactive? There's of course other things they could do to those other sites. I really hope they don't just pull the plug on some of them though.
I really liked The Culture books by Iain M Banks.

If hard scifi is your thing, Revelation Space by Alastair Reynolds.

And can't go wrong with the classics (Dune, Foundation, Hyperion)
Very nice. This kind of thing has been on my vaporware todo list for a while. I'm glad someone just did it. I really like your frame builder concept.
Sure, but consider how that's determined in the first place.
As to the second paragraph: in a "perfect" world yeah gender would probably be meaningless and yeah we could disregard it. But in the real world if you have one group of people that says "I don't 'see' gender" on the one side and the North Carolina legislature on the other side: the first group loses. Every Time.
The attack doesn't give them access to all information from another VPS on the same host. The are using timing analysis to detect what code the other VPS is executing and finding the private key from the noise caused by the victims VPS.

Crypto libraries can be fixed to prevent side-channel attacks like this. The article says that libgcrypt has already been patched.
Completely agree. Although I am no longer shocked by this stuff from Apple..
>Second, "sex" in legal terms (for identity documents, etc.) is rarely necessarily tied to genitals or chromosomes, and more often is tied to a set of expectations about how the designated person will appear or behave. So even though the legal system uses "sex", what they're really describing is "gender".

Really? I would say genitals as a heuristic for your legal status is probably extremely accurate.

Are you denying that humans are sexually dimorphic?
Complete and utter speculation, but if this is implemented well I imagine it is done the same as iMessages, with end to end encryption to all your devices. (Which, last I read about it, has its flaws and isn't a perfect system against state level actors, but it's not the worst.)
Users, how are u going to gain those many users.
So this is for the web but only on iOS devices? No support for Safari on macOS?
At least until you have an understanding of what gender is, how you yourself fit into that social construct and can articulate it, gender is ambiguous for everyone, intersex or not.
It's generally good advice to stop buying and promoting cryptocurrencies as investments. If you're a developer, learn how to use these tools to make better software for users. If you're not a developer, keep your money in your pockets and participate in the decentralization movement as an enthusiast—it's impossible for us to build good software without early adopters who are willing to give it a try.
The GPLv3 has clauses in it that opens up a new load of legal questions for Apple that they'd rather avoid. I just wish that Apple would move to using less encumbered shell that is actively being developed, like pdksh or zsh.
I just want to take a moment to appreciate the image at the top of the article.
Would just like to point out that a) he's not autistic and b) he did not learn mandarin in a few months; have heard he's been practicing for years.
"Is it worth it?" is the kind of question markets are particularly adept at solving, if we let them.
This is completely non sequitur, with a contradictory closing flourish to boot.
The One Question That Matters in Microsoft’s Acquisition of LinkedIn
I wonder if this is a sign of initial efforts by Boom (http://boom.aero/) to turn public interest and policy in favor of supersonic?
I remember early-90s BDL also. The security guards were pretty relaxed. We enlisted their help in faking out a younger sibling who didn't know we were going to Disney World; they played along that we were just going to meet someone at the gate, and let someone else take all the bags through ahead of us. Wouldn't be remotely possible now.

Then again, I also remember when kids were routinely let into the cockpit, either before takeoff or while cruising.

Air travel used to be almost fun.
Could of been LinkedIn who did it, they might of wanted to integrate the service into LinkedIn possibly?
To your point (4), I would counter that while WW2 Hitler was certainly ideology, WW2 Japan may indeed have been oil. Remember that the UK & US were squeezing Japan's oil access (90% of oil came from US imports which we blocked) and their only option was to assert themselves militarily and conquer the East Indies for oil. The rest is escalation.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Causes_of_World_War_II#Competi...
Have you seen augur.net; i think it's pretty cool and definitely not practical using BTC.
Those companies were profitable when they went public, and their founders were credited with their success. Twilio is losing money.
Vipassana helped Housing.com's former founder Adivitiya Sharma cope with trauma
And can get rid of horrible Webex calls.
The biggest thing hampering LinkedIn's growth has been such a strong tech market. This is also why many HN readers are not familiar with it. When the market is strong, those with technology skills can find work in a few hours without using any platform.

But if the market dips, things like LinkedIn's recommendations will become useful and relevant. Less so for technology workers than for those with softer skills, but far more relevant than they are today.

LinkedIn is pretty big in the NYC startup scene because overall people are more ambitious in a career ambition way... Silicon Valley has more ambition to build cool things and so having a LinkedIn profile feels like wearing a suit and having one's teeth professionally whitened and going around formally shaking hands with people.

LinkedIn is also one of the few innovators in dark pattern UI research. Each week I get an invitation email accidentally sent by someone over 60 who signed up for LinkedIn and spammed his/her entire Gmail address book with invites.

I hope the acquisition isn't being driven by LinkedIn's lead-gen functionality, since that has been the main reason I've considered deleting my profile. Most of the people who attempt to connect are selling something, which reduces the platform's usefulness as a social network.

The best thing about the acquisition is that lots of that money will flow back into the startup ecosystem.
You will be happy to know that we now removed profiling from production builds, age our Haskell is now 12x faster than the PHP instead of "only" 6x faster :-)

I agree that any new technology introduced into an enterprise requires significant investment in training, which can be hard to justify for a startup chasing product market fit.
It's also worth pointing out another aspect of subscription agents. The second largest subscription agent, SWETS, went bankrupt in 2014. If you look at the graph for the top publishers you'll see some big changes in 2014. Ebsco (another subscription agent) revenue starts dropping and Taylor and Francis revenue shoots up dramatically. I don't know this for sure, but I'd bet that those trends are 100% related to the SWETS bankruptcy. Publishers started trying to more direct deals without subscription agents. For some reason the data only has SWETS numbers for 2010, which doesn't seem right, I'd expect numbers until 2014. But for the big changes in 2014 (like the T&F jump) I'd guess that it's just about shifting from using agents to dealing with publishers directly.

So all this to say that there are a lot of intricacies in this data, and without the context a lot of it is misleading. Taylor and Francis didn't increased their prices by 20x in 2014.

Another example is where the post cites differences among publishers when looking at "cost per citation" (which alone is a dubious metric). This is going to be entirely dependent on field of study. Certain fields, like bio and physics have massively higher citation rates per paper than fields like humanities and social sciences. Publishers (like SAGE) who focus on social sciences are going to have vastly fewer citations per article than publishers with an STM focus. But the value of a journal (either defined as the actual cost or in more theoretical ways) isn't simply directly tied to citation counts. I'd argue that's a good thing, but I suppose you could debate it. But I raise the issue only to point out that "revenue per citation" types of metrics are almost entirely related to the fields of research and not publishers over or under charging for the same content relative to each other.
Ditto, this is supposed to be a Developers' event.
I know what DADT was; I was taking a little poetic license. Clinton represented the mainstream-left party, and signed both DADT and DOMA. In the 1990's, even the mainstream-left wasn't willing to throw its weight behind LGBT rights.
Sorry, I meant two things: License used for their tools and if they used any tools that aren't 'GNU specific' at all.
Growing up near a few Air Force bases (Holloman/White Sands and Kirtland) you'd occasionally hear sonic booms. They'd do quite a number on sliding glass doors with tons of visible wobble.
> Can GPU page table entry point to non-present page(s)?

Yes, new GPUs allow you to do this. This feature is called sparse textures / buffers in OpenGL (GL_ARB_sparse_texture and GL_EXT_sparse_texture2) and Vulkan (optional feature in Vulkan 1.0 core) or tiled resources in D3D.

This allows you to leave textures (or buffers) partially non-resident (accesses to which are safe but results undefined) and allow you to detect when accessing a non-resident region (EXT_sparse_texture2) so that you can write a fallback path in the shader (lookup lower mip level and/or somehow tell the CPU that the page will be required for the next frame).

The OpenGL extensions are a bit restrictive, but Vulkan/D3D12 allow much greater control (such as sharing pages between textures or repeating the same page inside a texture).

Hardware support for this is not ubiquitous at the moment, but should improve as time goes on.

This feature is somewhat orthogonal to pinned pages and WDDM residency magic (which is afaik more oriented to switching between processes), hopefully it will get more unified in the future.
I just logged in; haven't logged in for about 6 months. There was a bunch of promoted recruiter spam in my inbox and a "feed" that looked like a cluttered version of Facebook. I don't get it at all.
we are doing direct to consumer publishing via email (after failing to get our App to reach critical mass). Basically .0X% of people who downloaded our app opened it every day... now, 40-60% of people who signed up for our email lists open them every day.

plus... we don't need a 12 person tech team. I wrote about this here:
http://calacanis.com/2016/02/14/knowing-when-and-how-to-pivo...

tesla.inside.com is a good example of a 60%+ open rate email we do.
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Firstly, I wasn't aware there was a ban on supersonic flight. I thought Concorde was banned simply because it was too noisy, not because of concerns over sonic booms.

Secondly, reading https://www.faa.gov/about/office_org/headquarters_offices/ap..., I have the impression that the FAA already is working towards lifting this ban. Quote (2008):

We anticipate that any future Notice of Proposed Rulemaking issued by the FAA affecting the noise operating rules would propose that any future supersonic airplane produce no greater noise impact on a community than a subsonic airplane.

Given that, I expect that, if a manufacturer shows up with a supersonic plane that fits that bill, the FAA almost has to allow it to fly over the US.
> That just leads to overfitting a model.

My phrasing evidently did not make my point clear. The SM has been known to be an approximation (the usual term is "effective field theory") for several decades; and furthermore, there are well-understood reasons why that particular model is a good approximation up to a certain point. None of that changes if and when we discover experimental evidence of new particles not included in the SM (as we might now have done); in particular, the structure of the SM itself will not change. What changes is that now we have (hopefully) some evidence to help us build the theory at the next level down, the theory to which the SM is an approximation.

That process will not consist of adding parameters to the existing SM (which would be "overfitting"). It will consist of building a new model and then showing how the current SM arises as an approximation in the new model. If we had had this evidence several decades ago, what we now call the "Standard Model" would be that new model instead of the one we currently call the "Standard Model"; we could have jumped to the next level then instead of having to wait.
Static analysis tools for C suffer from modularity issues: These tools are primarily based on abstract interpretation, so their results are very sensible to the control flow of your program. This means that your procedures, as analyzed by these tools, are connected by monstrous preconditions and invariants that describe the state of your program in each control flow path the program could possibly take. For obvious reasons, this doesn't scale.
Note that despite advertising as such on their front page, this does not exclusively search the amazon prime selection, rather the entire rent/own/prime availability
(unstructured dump)

I have, and his assessment is that it's basically stress driving something similar to paranoia. Talking about it with friends and posting on places like HN helps, though.

It's kind of a long story why I'm doing a lot of this. After a project I'm (still) working on to analyze parking tickets in Chicago [0], I managed to get invited to Bob Fioretti's [1] office to show them what I found. They really, really liked what I had to show. When I brought up proof of [2] from a FOIA request that they could have used in their campaign, they told me to never mention it again and never contacted me back. It was very odd and gave me a very negative vibe. To make matters worse, they began using parking tickets as a large part of their campaign - without me. A friend suggested that maybe Rahm was involved with Fioretti, which led to an initial request for the mayor's phone records was submitted. The weekend before the election, Fioretti dropped out and gave his support to Rahm, so the negative vibes were possibly accurate.

The initial reason for the request isn't as important to me anymore, though. These days, the strong lack of privacy reciprocation and negative comments such as, "You're naive to think you can do this.", "Stop stalking the mayor." (my family), "You're crazy", "Nothing will come out of this", etc drives me to continue. It's incredibly frustrating, but when I finally got the phone records, a huge weight was lifted, as it showed that those negative comments were largely unjustified.

That said, a lot of people do believe me and do want to help me out. I expect to have a story published in the next month or so thanks to those people.

Thanks for the support. :)

[0] proof of concept: https://plot.ly/~red-bin/6.embed
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Fioretti
[2] https://thamovement1.blogspot.com/2015/02/is-willie-wilson-f...
Yes, particle physics has been stalled for some time, and suddenly a new piece of evidence is going to supply long awaited traction in creating a better explanation. In other words, it's going to crack wide open.

You've never heard this phrase in the context of, say, a fictional detective talking about an unsolved murder? "I'm about to crack this case wide open!"

Sounds to me like you just never quite understood what people meant by Crack Wide Open. It doesn't mean the theory is going to crack under pressure, forcing us to completely abandon it. It means deeper science, previously stuck inside a 'tough nut to crack', is finally going to be revealed.

EDIT: wow, looks like somebody else had the same exact comment to make. At least it corroborates the point..
This was discussed at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11880399.
Apple Website is Down
Did Apple take it down or was it brought down by the masses excited about WWDC?
If you use the say command in the Terminal you get the definitive answer.
> "sex" in legal terms (for identity documents, etc.) is rarely necessarily tied to genitals or chromosomes, and more often is tied to a set of expectations about how the designated person will appear or behave.

When you put it that way, it really becomes unclear to me why it should be there at all. If we're not describing what type of biological creature a person is, and simply how they can be expected to behave, it seems like we might as well write down if the person is ill-tempered or meek, and if he or she likes to dance the waltz or the tango.
That's soon, which is not now. If you have work to do, now is required.
Why rely on a heuristic, when you can do better?