skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was walking down 3rd ave at 2am a week ago. I saw a homeless man with headphones listening to music on YouTube on a link. He had a little chair and was rocking out. It was beautiful.

We might give up a lot, but maybe those with nothing to give have plenty to gain.
Any VM I provision seems to be setup by default with 1mb of video memory and 3D Acceleration off. The option to enable 2D Acceleration is greyed out.

The funny thing is that VB complains about this configuration whenever you load the console.

Have you tried increasing the video memory for the VM or enabling acceleration?
What PR Pros Should Stop Doing – Tweets Compilation
That's why we need fines that are based upon a percentage of revenue or profit within, say, the past year. A fine of, eg, 15% yearly revenue over FY2015 would make any company sit up and pay attention.
>Stacked 400 best in Autostackert

This isn't a photo. It a photoshop fiction of 400 different photos blended together. There's a big difference between that and a single frame from a spacecraft. Comparing the two seems silly.
Generating SYN cookies in Linux doesn't work well at those rates without help. That said, it's very possible. Solarflare cards are good at withstanding several million PPS SYN floods...provided you license and then extend their IP stack with the card.

Many hardware load balancers can do +100M SYN cookies per second (assuming a proxy/gateway deployment instead of DSR).

So SYN cookie solutions do work; they just don't work great on stock Linux.

Edit: Add clarification about LB deployment. Won't work with DSR.
Why exclude the era where hijackings became so common that the authorities decided they had to implement security screenings to combat them? That seems like a rather relevant timeframe to me!

In that period, there was an average of something like 30-40 per year in the US. And air travel has increased substantially since then, so if we saw that rate today it would be more like 60-100 per year, or one every few days. Looking at it another way, about one in 100,000 flights were hijacked, compare that to the modern rate of fatal crashes of somewhere around one in 10 million to one in 100 million. (The number is very approximate because not enough crashes happen to get an accurate idea of the risk anymore.)

Now, hijacking don't have to be fatal, but they also don't have to be safe. Even a fairly small fatality rate (for a hostage situation) would catapult air travel from the safest mode of transportation available to the most dangerous. And people like blowing stuff up too. If anyone can build a big pipe bomb and bring it onto an airplane with no risk of being caught, the rate of exploding airliners would look more like that old hijacking rate than the modern rate of essentially indistinguishable from zero.

Airliners are easy and attractive targets. You get a lot more bang for your buck there. For example, the bombs used at the Boston Marathon would have killed a couple hundred people on an airplane, versus three people when detonated on the street.

I see no evidence that the increased screening measures since 2001 have helped things at all. But it seems crazy to me to argue for zero security. We tried that, it worked poorly, and basic x-ray machines and metal detectors cut the rate way down.
It's actually both, and a file system.
WISP HR Solution
WISP, an innovative mobile HR solution, announced that new version of the platform will be expanding its functionality.

With the new update, HR-managers will have the opportunity to create polls, the results of which will be available on all WISP-linked employee devices. Employees will also be able to share files in all formats of up to 200MB.
Natural, we did plant them ourselves. I haven't tried to keep them afresh myself, my father is taking care of this. However, after quick googling I've found that it works only for some kinds of apples and the are certain tricks to keep them fresh for a long time.
What Distributed System means
While I'm generally libertarian and I don't like our current regime, I'm in favor of some modest government subsidies on food, especially food that is easy to store. The subsidies should take the form of the government buying and storing the food, and cycling out the middling-old food cheaply to those in need to keep the system moving. (This is not 'taking advantage' of those in need, because I'm explicitly spec'ing out foods that store well and aren't bad just because they're a bit older.) Because capitalism is remarkably efficient, which is just fine, until you plan for about 101% of the food you need this year and some unanticipated massive disaster happens.

(Note that there is a such thing as an "anticipated" disaster. Capitalism does in fact plan for some slack in the system, through insurance, futures trading, and other mechanisms, which is why we don't starve every single time there's a minor drought. But it'll only plan for so many sigmas out from normal, whereas Mother Nature is not so polite.)
I actually wonder if Airplane! is where people got the idea that "autopilot" means "the plane entirely flies itself." The bit where it's an inflatable doll is obviously satire, but maybe people thought the capabilities were real and the satire was just the doll part?
Yeah this thread has really squicked me out. Of course dehumanization is an age-old tactic for enabling asshole behaviors of all sorts. I'd like to hope, however, that outside the current commuter-hell driving context, few people would even admit to themselves, let alone broadcast to the world, their considered preference for killing children. That is, when they no longer drive, perhaps people won't be quite so insane about auto travel. The twisted ethos displayed in this thread will be considered an example of Arendt's "banality of evil".
The Datasheet on their site has some tech details:

http://icarusinitiative.org/sites/default/files/ICARUS%20SP%...

That one doesn't seem to be loading for me, but the Internet Archive has a version:

https://web.archive.org/web/20160331224522/http://icarusinit...
From an EE perspective headphone elements are merely small very low performance speakers.

The only "DRM" I can think of with USB-C is playing impedance games. So right now you could probably get away with soldering a 1K resistor and a RCA plug in place of the headphone element and you'll have a usable signal, but if they played weird impedance games you might need a simple opamp in there to adjust the levels to normal.

Something that's annoying today is to get line level audio out of the bluetooth connection to my car stereo I need to bypass a nanny warning about blowing my ears out, but only on my phone. Apparently "line level" on my BT adapter that makes my BT volume about the same as, say, the radio or CD, would, if connected to a BT earpiece or headphones, blow someones ears out. You can safely assume the people who screwed up something so incredibly simple as setting levels, will successfully find a way to screw up usb-C headphone levels. So one brand will nanny-state and prevent anything louder than a church whisper, others will sound different levels based on what device they connect to, it'll be the predictable epic fail.

Speaking of my nice bluetooth headphones with their couple hours of battery life, since buying them many years ago I haven't plugged headphones into my phone or tablet. They're nice enough headphones. I'm just surprised the marketing push is to keep shoving audio thru legacy wired cables instead of going full on bluetooth. I suppose there's a lot of money to be made in worn out headphone cables. When I'm not listening to music, but speech instead (audio books, podcasts, etc) I'll swap my bluetooth headphones for my bluetooth earpiece thingy.
In a DRM scenario, there would be an audio equivalent to HDCP in place, so you'd need a piece of technology which it's illegal to clone and only available if you sign a restrictive licensing agreement.

Mind you, you'd still be able to cannibalise an existing set for this.
I'm susceptible as the next man, but I'm pretty damn sure I will never go around killing drug traffickers or users with the justification of improving my country or something abstract like that.

It wouldn't be the same if, for instance, they posed a direct physical threat to me or my close ones.
>Throughout the ages there were and are great rational thinkers who profess faith in God. (e.g. Blaise Pascal, Isaac Newton)

This form of argument could quite easily be used to justify other beliefs. Newton, for instance, was also a practitioner of the occult and alchemy. Pascal regarded medicine as unholy. Even purportedly rational thinkers have their blind spots.
A lot really hinges on what a USB-C to jack adaptor will look like. If it's not bulky and inconvenient (or expensive), none of your listed concerns apply.

In the meantime, the 3.5mm jack actually takes up a not at all trivial volume in the handset.
I wouldn't buy it anyway. I already have a gaming device in my pocket, with a plethora of other options, the only person missing out is Nintendo for not putting their IP on it.
It's not lulling anybody into anything! The guy was given multiple warnings by the car that what he was doing was unsafe. The last of which was extremely pertinent to the crash. To quote the article, "As road conditions became increasingly uncertain, the vehicle again alerted the driver to put his hands on the wheel". This is after the initial alerts telling him that he needs to remain vigilant while using this feature. This isn't some burden of knowledge on when to use and when not to use the system, it's plenty capable of knowing when it's not operating at peak performance and lets you know. At that point, I'm willing to shift blame to the driver.
Good ol HN comments never disappoint.
the fines are always less than the gain

It's still surprising, because you can buy positive coverage without breaking the letter of the law. You simply don't explicitly say that good coverage = more money, but make sure everyone knows that's how it works.

For example, you take out a monthly deal for some standard normal advertising, and if their coverage is negative you stop renewing it.

Or you call a press conference at an exotic location and provide free flights and accommodation for select journalists. Who happen to have given you consistently positive coverage in the past.
This is theoretically very possible, and I know that at least a few people (http://ccimi.maths.cam.ac.uk/projects/create-semantic-search...) are working on it.
Supporting Trump or Clinton is like voting for cancer or heart attack
I don't understand what you are getting at.

I'm saying that a more specific thought experiment, one where there is someone in custody, with clear (but tainted) video evidence of them committing multiple murders is in line with the more general thought experiment proposed upthread. So the various lawyers, the judges, the cops, they all have knowledge of the clear video evidence and the question is whether it can be used at trial or not.

So you could have a whole bunch of people really comfortable calling the suspect a murderer (because they've seen the evidence) and no path to a conviction.
A good heuristic is to always favor the long term over the short, unless doing so significantly endangers the long term from ever coming to fruition. Of course, "significant" is subject to discussion. A serial killer, no matter how dangerous, has near zero chance of taking down the government and legal system, so to preserve the precedence for good policing practices, the judge should throw the evidence out. After all, if said person is actually a serial killer, there will be more chances to catch them properly.

In general, I'm willing to sacrifice a few people (including the people I love the most) to preserve just and fair institutions, but not the other way around.
Fertility rate higher among over-40s than under-20s for first time since 1947
> I just want to be able to run xubuntu 16.x (and newer when it comes out) in Unity mode

Apparently Workstation 12 removed Unity mode for Linux guests because it was rarely used[1] - I'm just speculating (I don't work in End User Computing) but I imagine that was based on Customer Experience Improvement Program (a.k.a. telemetry) data (I know some people prefer to opt-out of participating but the information is useful, we just implemented it in the product I work on and we're looking forward to being able to make better decisions about feature/bug priority based on it).

If you'd like to provide feedback on Unity support for Linux you might want to tweet to the Workstation team @vmw_workstation (and/or perhaps their PM, @mikeroysoft).

[1] https://communities.vmware.com/thread/518735
Europe is so progressive. Protecting the "social climate" of the people through censorship and raids.
Good point! This is an important distinction - to put it a little more simply, music theory tends to be more the study of the craft of music than the study of the science of music.
I am astonished that humans can do this technology. Here I am looking at these pics a flying robot snapped from 4M+ km away from Jupiter?!

I wish they mark these pics with some pictographs regarding the scale of things. Like something comparing the orbital distances between the moons and Jupiter itself to that of Earth's orbital distance to the Sun or something. I cannot comprehend 4 million kilometers (which I know is Juno's distance to Jupiter, not the moons' orbital distance..). I have trouble wrapping my mind around just 4 km.
heroin does have self-harm potential, but so do free climbing, flying in wingsuit, etc. Should we outlaw them as well?
Be there for your customers. Everywhere
>>In this incident, the driver was using autopilot in a fashion that it should not be; twisting road at high speed. The driver IS at fault.

It would be disastrous for the car to take control when it shouldn't. That itself is a giant red flag to me.

Its all or nothing when it comes to automation that involves human life.
Also light thresholds need to be taken into consideration. Jupiter is 5x[1] further from the Sun then Earth, so there is much less light to capture in an image.

[1] On average.
Read the last sentence of the parent comment again.
$.10/GB block storage is too expensive.

https://www.online.net/en/dedicated-server/rpn-san

There are several places you can get ~5 TB for +/-10% of the 1TB price at DO.

DO is offering a SAN at Object Store prices. :/
Looks like the YouTubers followed the contract that was vetted by Warner Brother Lawyers and other Warner Agents. Sadly the YouTuber should have placed the information first but I see them more as a victims. They should have seen the need to help their viewers and their channel more by fully disclosing in the video and with graphics.
I have been asking for non-SSD on DO for a long time now. My heart jumped when I saw the HN title, only to be dashed on the rocks.

What are us data nerds supposed to do? We want to take 10 terabytes, run a batch process on it, keep the 20TB, then continue with about 5GB of working data until the next month's terabyte comes in, then we want to batch through the 21TB. Right now the price slider doesn't even go up to 21TB, and clicking on the "need more storage button" doesn't go anywhere, but I'm assuming it would be $2100 / month which is more than 3x as expensive than vanilla S3.
> There also seems to be confusion about what Music Theory actually is - it's (usually!) not an attempt to axiomize music, rather it's an attempt to take a musical corpus and explain how pieces in it tend to wor

I think they try to address this in 1.3 but it comes out more as a complaining and misunderstanding. People get way too hung up on the term "music theory". I have friends who are professional musicians who refuse to learn music theory. Not because they don't like learning it, or they think it stifles their creativity (which are fine reasons to not learn it, you don't have to). But they refuse because they "don't believe in it" or "my music doesn't fit the definition of music theory". Which is totally incorrect, because like you said, music theory is an attempt to explain existing pieces and how they tie together. Not describe some magical pre-existing rules created by our ears and the universe.

It's like learning the grammatical rules behind a natural language. English isn't carved into a mountain somewhere, or programmed into our DNA, it's entirely made up by people, and you're free to break all the rules. But then you're unlikely to be understood. And if you are understood, we'll probably end up giving a name to whatever you did!
Interesting. I didn't realize humans have already attempted so many different automated systems. In the talk you linked, he points out how, historically, systems are never fully automated because humans are not comfortable with that. He seems to predict that cars will not be the first systems that we allow to become fully autonomous, and admits he could be wrong.

It's surprising to me that he feels texting should be permissible while driving with a driver-assist system [1]. His whole argument here doesn't add up for me. I'll have to check out his book.

It sounds like he supports driver-assist mechanisms, though maybe without Tesla's beta release schedule of OTA updates. He seems unconvinced that full autonomy will ever be achievable.

I think I still believe in Google's plan, despite the shadow he casts on full autonomy. Zero deaths and full disclosure seems better than selective reports and the possibility for more fatal accidents.

Given there are now a decent number of investors on both sides, I imagine the debate will continue as to which is the best path: testing driver-assist in consumer vehicles, or testing full autonomy with company-controlled cars.

I'd like to hear what Mindell thinks would be the best hand-off from computer to driver in a driver-assist vehicle such as Tesla's. He answers a question about that generally here [2], but is mainly talking about airplanes where there is a chance for a smoother transition. How does one slow down time such that a hand off is possible in a vehicle during an adverse event that the car cannot handle itself? I feel that is the most pertinent question to today.

It seems like the car needs to see the adverse event coming, but since it is not ready to handle the event, the car is unlikely able to give the driver much extra time. By definition of adverse event, it would now seem to have been better if the driver had been paying complete attention the whole time.

[1] https://youtu.be/4nDdqGUMdAY?t=41m32s

[2] https://youtu.be/4nDdqGUMdAY?t=35m37s
It made the rounds before, and it's only making the rounds again now due to the FTC's investigation reaching a conclusion.
Oh I guess I thought ceph was all about eventual consistency. I didn't know it was strongly consistent like what I expect from block storage.
> For example, say you're talking to your friend who sells weed and drive over to pick it up. The cops know you're buying drugs

That's not what a Stingray does.
I don't actually have a strong opinion on the matter, but keep in mind the OP is advocating killing people to improve the state of the country. In the abstract. It's "kill the narcos", not "if a narco rackets or threaten me", then I'd be justified in taking him out".

For me that's quite a line to cross.

Start fighting using non-violent means and maybe only resort to violence when confronted with violence from the other party.
I didn't even think about it until I responded to the person above, I'd like to think of it as hustle rather than dishonesty that's for sure!
That's not true. My gaming PC costs about that much, and normal consumers don't have something like that.
Hmm, it may not be very helpful, but there's a replicate function[1] right in the Prelude. I always thought that being clever in Haskell is to be able to find all the strange but powerful packages and functions and weave them in as tight a program as possible. Having to implement replicate by hand is definitely not clever from the start.

Hmm, it's also what drove me away from Haskell and kept me on and off with the language, as most of the powerful stuff are too powerful and so hard to tame...

[1] http://hackage.haskell.org/package/base-4.9.0.0/docs/Prelude...
Why would I want to be in a society where every other driver has a car that would act in the interests of it's occupants and not the general public?
However, for consumers, Apple has set the bar for audio quality at compressed AAC, which is arguably discernibly below CD quality. I'd be very happy if Apple went to CD quality, which very few people would need to downsample.

People with the (perceived?) need for higher resolution audio than CD seem like the sort of people who would probably want to hand-select their own DAC anyway, which should obviate downsampling their higher sample rate tracks.
Go serverless with SwaggerHub and Amazon
What part of illegal did you not understand?
Sega has done alright doing what Nintendo delayed to do, which is just becoming a third party developer for other platforms.
Or the Syndicate Wars intro sequence:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kGvIrf86g4Y
I agree, this is more of an eyesight test than C++ knowledge test.
You should be more bothered because it is something you consider to be a very good game. A publisher of a franchise you like has knowingly participated in anti-consumer practices, and for relatively little gain. It should reflect on them and their opinion of you as their customer.
"The more food is altered, the less sure we become about that."

Except with genetic engineering, by being precise as to how and where the new genes are inserted, we are actually altering it less than with traditional breeding or mutagenics. Those types of breeding have far less testing than transgenics. We can potentially create new genes with those older methods that have never existed before and never know about it.

This is something that taleb was criticised for by biologists and geneticists (and basically his reply was "that they are idiots", yup, great argument).

"Normal food has the advantage that we already know it has no disastrous ecological consequences".

There is no such thing as normal food: Take the sweet potato. It has been altered transgenically using the agrobacterium twice in its history without human intervention. The agrobacterium is the same bacteria used when doing transgenic GMO. Basically nature beat us to it a long time ago when it comes to transgenics.

You can breed a potato the old fashion way to contain high level of solanine (which can be poisonous). Its not how the genes are altered, its what they do that is key.
By the way, there are already services at least for automatic diffing: https://www.changedetection.com/ etc. (I don't know if this one is better than others, but this one has a memorable name; I have it pointed at one page, and get notifications from time to time, but never actually cared to dive in and check the diffs... :/ )
These two candidates are really a product of the political process.

Many democrats crossed the aisle to vote for Reagan back in the 1980s, but today such a candidate of that caliber could not possibly exist under the current process.
Life and death of a container. Self-healing resets and health-check probes
Apologies, I wasn't aware of the backlog. It wasn't intentionally snarky - if I ran a board as popular as this, prioritizing popular accounts would be sensible thing for me to do, so I assumed.
And what makes you think the author of that article has any control over the business model of the publication they're writing for? Are we not allowed to criticize ad tech online in ad supported venues? Because all of the most popular venues are ad supported. If you want a voice, you have to make compromises.
I'd be inclined to agree, if and only if "going too far" comes with its own (judicial, not administrative) punishments, not just letting the suspect go free. Otherwise the incentive structure is screwed up, since the police suffer personal consequences when they don't go far enough but do not when they go too far.
Life before the web – Running a Startup in the 1980's