skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd hypothesize that your car fetishists are egotistical and hazardous drivers when they're sharing streets with pedestrians and cyclists. City centers wouldn't miss them.
Show HN: Sentopia API (beta)
From 2 years ago...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8852772

I personally really dislike when online stories lack a date of publishing.
His circumstances would not change. We'd have to relay him for a couple of months in a week, two week cycles. Asking for a month of hosting is too much energy barrier. This is slightly working out. Got contacted by someone who's ready to host him till 15th of August.

It's like a startup. Can't see the end but you know you can't stop. =)

Would you be able to help here?
The abuse of passwords here on both sides makes my skin crawl.
Are you allowed to redistribute the models under the MIT License?
Why is this down voted? Wanna understand how people could disagree on this point, especially when it's the most common comment on this page
They're also the ones that are priced out of the housing market, so that's another plus.
I'd pay good money for an Ergo keyboard with mechanical switches. The last decade or so of MS keyboards have been rubber-domed disasters. I cannot type on the things.

I pre-ordered a couple KeyboardIO keyboards, and maybe I can make them work well with a little firmware noodling. Looks like November or later . . . .
I get by with English and broken Hinglish in Pune and Mumbai. Those are the cities with internet and money. That wouldn't work so well in smaller cities, but those are also not the places I'd target if I were building a business.

As for the south, in my limited experience the same is true. English works fine in Bangalore if you restrict your conversations to upper middle class people with good internet and money to spend.
Depends on how long ago "they" developed telescopes capable of viewing Earth with good resolution. We know in principle how to build such instruments.

"They" may have watched the Romans build roads and sussed out their mining activities from atmospheric spectroscopy. Or much earlier, signs of agriculture.

In which case they could be here...right about...just a sec, somebody's at the door....
What is the meaning of the dot in the big O notation there? like O(m.n)? Should it rather be O(m*n)?
Tried putting in quite a few IP addresses from /var/log/apache/access.log that have been trying to hit up "wp-config.php" and "phpmyadmin" and whatnot. All of them came back as risk_level 1.
Pretty cool that observed phenomena in space that can't yet be explained gets so much attention in the media. When you step back a bit and stop thinking about aliens
Until the constitutional right to communicate unintelligibly is declared invalid, encryption will remain constitutional.

[snarky comment about opposing political party placed here.]
This really reminds me of the time when hypertext was a thing. Yes, you can argue that technically any web page with links is "hypertext", but they really meant something else in those days. Literary works with links that would let you read scenes from another character's perspective, and so on.
Did that. Thanks!

Had added his profile so that people on the fence about hosting him would have a face to see.
>We do not have enough respect for our Indian consumers.

Stopped reading just about here. If this is what you China taught you, my guess is you are good at making up lessons.
THis guys not even right
> My point is to challenge the idea that middle america is relatively bad.

Gotcha. I'm glad you're challenging me because it's making me refine my thoughts.

Middle America often denotes the Midwest, but this is the wrong connotation and I shouldn't have used it.

Middle America is any region in America where there's a stagnation of thought due to lack of new people and new ideas. Urban or rural, Midwest or coastal. And next time, I'll use the term "homogenous towns" to avoid this ambiguity over geography.

Thank you.
It's here in programming too. C++ gets a lot of hate for being ugly, while Lisp is praised for it's beauty.
I swapped Del and Esc the first week I got my Kinesis. But even with it there I still sometimes use Ctrl-[ to press Esc.
Did they look into Bitcoin? It seems tailor made for this situation. Immune to hyperinflation, difficult for offline criminals to steal, and difficult for the government to block. There is a Venezuelan Bitcoin exchange SurBitcoin and also LocalBitcoins.com, though I don't know the feasibility of using either right now. But at least the initial payment would be no problem.
WeChat's operator, Tencent, has an office in Palo Alto, CA. They're hiring. But WeChat seems to be run separately from Tencent, as the Wexin group.
Most WeChat and Tencent services are available in English, but so far Tencent hasn't tried to take on Facebook directly in the US.

WeChat is more than an "app". It's a mobile OS/browser which can run other services.[1] WeChat calls those services "official accounts". Once activated, they can send notifications and participate in payment systems. So, rather than having an app for each service, most services work through WeChat's standardized interface.

Last year, WeChat kicked off Uber's official accounts for what they claimed was a TOS violation. This was a big hit for Uber. Customers could no longer call a Uber from WeChat. Didi's official accounts remained live, as did those of other taxi companies. WeChat is an investor in Didi. This may be part of why Uber caved and sold out to Didi.

When augmented reality comes, it might look a lot like WeChat.

[1] http://a16z.com/2015/08/06/wechat-china-mobile-first/
Show HN: PyCon Proposal – Big Data Analysis Using PySpark
Well, we don't know how bad things will get. Today they law is a useless paper. Tomorrow if things get bad enough, they could start enforcing it.

I think you are the second person in Venezuela I've found on HN. Check my profile for my contact info.
Right now, no. The project had raised about $60K earlier via an Indiegogo campaign but they ran out of it covering core engineering and manufacturing expenses.

They would most probably be able to raise a round if they qualify the demo round ahead.
I get what you're saying, but it seems pretty dictatorial. Would you apply it to startup founds? Lone inventors tinkering in their basements? Musicians practising to be the best?

It would seem to exclude trades like "work hard for 10 years with a reasonable hope of stashing way enough to retire", which are probably rational for some (60 hours/week of wage labour may be bad, but 40 isn't exactly wonderful either).
If in some artificial scenario, I had to blind hire one of two candidates with functionally identical resumes, where one asks for market value, and the other asks for half market value, yeah, I take the higher salary..
I was surprised the author is not Brazilian.
He’s the son of Osama bin Laden’s bombmaker. Then ISIS wanted him
Flipkart (India) vs. Amazon
> Please note, I am not trying to take a position other than public awareness and conversation about these things is always good; whereas, quotes about not deserving liberty or safety only serve censor an open conversation from a position of moral authority.

I agree with you fully, there. And I'm not a personal advocate of such quotes per se (though I note their power, as you do as well). I was simply arguing that it may be a false dichotomy to claim that the original meaning of the quote is "nearer the opposite" of it's current usage. Oversimplifying matters and creating false dichotomies also "serve [to] censor an open conversation" through logical fallacy and through historical authority, in this case.

I think Franklin's quote is bombastic for dramatic effect, and that has its pluses and minuses. I think the real meaning is fairly simple and worthy of consideration, though: be very careful about trading short-term security at the cost of long-term freedom/liberty.

In consideration of that point, there is a meaningful debate here. We should examine whether backdoors or other means of foiling encryption would actually provide a net increase to security in practice, or whether they might have no real effect or even decrease security. If we believe means of foiling encryption actually increase security overall in practice, then we would have to debate the tradeoffs to freedom/liberty, the potential for governmental abuse, etc.

Given the government's track record of dramatic overreaching in the name of "security", I'm personally hesitant to take any of this lightly.
I'll leave this here: "It doesn’t matter if users can use your site. It matters if they want to" ― Jacob Nielsen, 2001
It's not just about beauty, but experience. Imagine you have a spreadsheet with infinite rows where each row contributes to the Higgs mass. It also turns out that by and large each row contributes less than the previous. You can't calculate all of them, but calculating the bigger ones you can do pretty well. Now imagine someone plops in infinity into one of the rows, sure the rest could all just happen to contribute a small amount and conspire to add up and cancel that out (because the mass isn't infinite), but it just doesn't seem like the world we live in. However, if you add another column to your spreadsheet for super symmetry and suddenly that column naturally cancels out the discrepancies from the first column. It's a simplistic example, but hopefully gives a better idea why Physicists were hopefull for some kind of new physics.

This is called the hierarchy problem. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hierarchy_problem#The_Higgs_ma...
How to Hack an Election in 7 Minutes
"Sorry, you need to enable JavaScript to visit this website."

then ctrl-W it is, please learn to render plaintext
The code is under the MIT license, not the weights. The weights are under their respective licenses.

The weights are not included in the git tree and are thus not covered by the LICENSE file. They are automatically downloaded when you run the code.

EDIT: following your comment, I have added a point-by-point breakdown of licensing information in the README. This will avoid any confusion.
It's an equilibrium thing. People only have a certain tolerance for bad traffic, so to some extent as congestion increases fewer people drive. And vice versa.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disappearing_traffic
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smeed's_law
Well my initial thought was a PCIe card, but it could likely just as well be an SD or such if set up right. And yeah, you can get an approximation of it using _nix and clever mounts.

But i was thinking about having the initial OS sit on an actual ROM chip with a flash chip next to it on the same board/die.
Someone was able to break a skype bot
Hmm, not quite sure I agree; as with communication, I believe that the responsibility lies with the sender for the receiver to comprehend what you are saying.

Someone does not understand you? Then you are not explaining it well enough.

Someone can't figure out how to use your software? Then you did not create it in a way people can comprehend what they need to do.

Is a button you are not supposed to press (before you've completed some other action) enabled, it's your fault the user can click it.

Same goes for repeated clicks, allowing/not handling bad input, etc.
Smart Contract Templates: foundations, design landscape and research directions
I'm not fan of Quip (just does not work for us) - but it really does not matter from point of view of Salesforce: they cannot buy Office 365 and MS probably indicated that they will do something to directly attack Salesforce, so they have to do something.
>Science looks for a system which can exist without supernatural intervention, but the creation of time/space/matter doesn't fit within those constraints.

So our universe must fundamentally be a supernatural creation?

That's an extraordinary claim, what is your evidence? We currently have insufficient data and incomplete theories to fully describe the origins of the universe, sure. But how is this different from someone 500 years ago saying:

"Science looks for a system which can exist without supernatural intervention, but the creation of the Earth and humanity doesn't fit within those constraints."
Reminds me of when quasars were first discovered and people thought they were part of some alien telegraph system.
Production Meteor Deployment in 10 minutes
We do use Maltrail along with a whole lot else. You don't have experience with it perhaps? Are you currently employed or angry at your employer?
I find it funny that a clickbaity title like that bothers to tell people to "not get too excited" about the possibility of anything involving aliens. Further, you know what? I say this is something to be really fired up about. We've got a phenomenon here that matches nothing we can come up with theoretically. Live it up!
And AbuseIPDB
You keep insisting that no matter what evidence is presented, that the fiber infrastructure will not be able to pay for itself, even in other cities. I can't understand your resistance. Can you explain your position? Are you connected via lobbying, pr, or working for an organization that is opposed to municipal fiber?

Muni fiber could certainly be unprofitable or unworkable, there's no magic reason why it has to work in practice.
> The former will probably produce enough clones

Like China does or better than it?
Every other windmill is stationary, so they are applying breaks. As to wind speed we don't see a when it actually failed, only the current speed which is not exactly slow.
Not a motivator for me, but not a deterrent. Some of my best accomplishments were regarded as less than possible by the majority of other operators.

Sometimes the intersection of "because it can be done" & "the most that can be done with the resources within reach" can be applied in the most problem-solving of ways.

Haven't tried the Linux in W10 yet, but at least have gotten DOS to boot to bare metal on a modern PC from a GPT-structured HDD reliably with less monkey business than ever.
> Is maintaining smart phone encryption after the commission of a crime, when the Gov. otherwise has a lawful right to search and seize evidence used in the commission of a crime an essential liberty?

I would say NO. But, the issue is there's no way to only allow a backdoor to be used when/after someone commits a crime. As tech people we understand this, and history proves it. Apple had a person testify at the hearing who expressed this really well. She also brought up other points I hadn't considered.

Also, the FBI is missing non-encrypted communications in most of these cases! I know encryption by default is going to be a problem for them in the future, but they are acting like it's the reason the recent attacks went undetected - when it actually had nothing to do with it.
If you think a yes answer is unreasonable, bear in mind that you actually get less done in a 60-hour week than a 40-hour one (maybe not in the first week, but in the second and subsequent ones), so discouraging it in the three cases you mention would still help the people involved. Of course, if you're working alone in your basement, you're not obliged to tell anyone how many hours you work, let alone take orders from anyone on the matter, but it still shouldn't be considered socially acceptable to boast of long hours.

As for the last, the trade is only that way because employers with high-paying jobs can get away with gratuitous abuse of their employees, and that's precisely the state of affairs we need to put an end to.
Here's two versions of the XKCD comic for Spirit with a happy ending appended;

https://imgur.com/VbKV9DF
https://i.imgur.com/VZvj5S7.jpg
Okay, except I was already writing Python scripts to deploy, so now I'm where I started off except I have one additional engineer yelling at me for not doing things The Ansible Way.

This is the exact problem the article was describing -- CM tools promise ease-of-use and simplicity, then that premise is inverted entirely when the developer is now doing additional work to satisfy the operations team's standards.
I understand your point but imagine working in the FBI. How do you tell the victims of the crime that the people who harmed them is still out there because you can't get access to the last piece of evidence you need?

I'm not at all saying that encryption should be removed but I can definitely see how people who see the harm caused by crime every day could be a little upset about being unable to do anything about it.
It wouldn't. Don't believe what you read on the internet about money. The goldbugs are a vocal minority, not taken seriously in real economics discussions.
The PRC's 'Great Firewall' is built on Cisco, Blue Coat, and other US companies' technologies as well [1].

1: https://insidersurveillance.com/cisco-huawei-and-semptian-a-...
I hate saying stuff like this but this blew my mind.
Back in the day, they were just called catchy headlines.
An ode to Surface 3
Prohibition was repealed because it was an abject failure. It did not make the public safer last time, and I very much doubt this time around would be any different.

The claim that reinstating prohibition would prevent all alcohol-related deaths is simply not based in reality.
Airbnb is currently under intense scrutiny in Vancouver as the city is struggling with a 0.6% (!!) vacancy rate. Some studies have suggested that around 70% of Airbnb Vancouver revenue comes from commercial operators that permanently rent out their condo units as a sort of hotel[1]. The city is studying the issue and seems in my opinion quite keen and ready to take action to end these sort of wholly commercially Airbnb operations. Airbnb would likely only be allowed for casual, infrequent renting.

Cities love to copy one another. Going forward it seems likely that if Vancouver is able to end extensive commercial renting on Airbnb, other cities would adopt the same approach.

If commercial operations are as important to Airbnb's revenue as these studies suggest, this would be a very significant change for the company. They'd have to grow quite a bit to make up for this.

[1] http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/british-columbia/vancouv...
Fair enough. Past a certain level of complexity some learning curve is unavoidable.
FB is working on this. If misleading title > lower ranking score.
There are a lot of IPs out there. Unlike Pokemon we can't catch them all. It varies but we run less than 50 honeypot nodes in 15 different countries (because I pay for them out of the kindness of my heart each month as we are not yet profitable) right now that would collect this kind of data. Our goal is if we get more people to signup we will add more nodes. Obviously more nodes = more data.
I think the post is overly optimistic. No, they're not "trying to learn." They're just not willing or able to do the simplest of tasks.

These kinds of users should not be accommodated or even responded to. Good UI/UIX should not cater to the lowest common denominator.
:-) I built my own API and it is automatically updated every 2 hours. I'm using threatminer to do cross-validation on sampled values.
> you obviously just don't know what you're talking about.

I know you just called out all the stuff from my (DP/work camp prisoner) grandmother's house as some kind of crypto-genocidal symbols of pro-Fascist hate, which is one of more asinine things I've read this week. And this week involved a lot of news about Donald Trump.
I completely disagree with Wittes' take that there is any misappropriation of this quote or that it's meaning as commonly used in this discussion today differs greatly from it's original meaning. And please see comments above wherein Wittes' potential bias is highlighted, given his stated positions on these matters.

In the historical case, Franklin was making a simple argument: don't take the Penn's offer of a short-term increase in security at the cost of long-term liberty.

This reconciles perfectly well with the usage in this debate today: don't take the FBI's offer of a (supposed) increase in security (by weakening strong encryption) in exchange for a decrease in long-term liberty.
Blockchain Reaches a Tipping Point
These are now mechanical, though I prefer having it remapped.
Happy versions here; https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12239358
Prohibition stops 88,000 people from drinking themselves to death. But how many lives are lost due to the illegal alcohol trade? How many people die from drinking denatured alcohol, mouthwash and vanilla extract? Bootleg booze? Illegal distillery explosions?

If you want to know what kind of black market arises when you prohibit a popular drug, you have multiple examples from recent history to look to. Such as the drug war, and the last time we tried to 'save lives' with alcohol prohibition.
Another example: The phrase "an armed society is a polite society" is born of the frontier.

The clearest (to me) boundary worth discussing here, is Apple as iCloud provider versus Apple as iPhone producer. Do we think of cryptography differently in these two contexts, or exactly the same?
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Funny how 'superblocks' means something completely different in US: oversized street grids that are a pedestrian nightmare.
Yep. Although even my Skylake i7 xps13 can use better performance (it subjectively feels slower than a desktop sandy bridges i7, 5 years it's senior).
I've been using an Advantage at work for about a year, and this happens to me once or twice a week, usually with the Shift key, but sometimes with the Alt key, which is even more disorienting. It goes back to normal after tapping one or more modifiers.
I like this, but I have to tell you what I've been looking for in one of these services for forever.

I help develop a fairly popular webgame. One of our biggest headaches is people who are evading bans by using VPNs (public or not), VPSes, etc. Although we've outright blocked some large chunks of IPs (AWS, for instance), I've never seen a good service that identifies those specific blocks. Sometimes I go manually digging in the case of serious ban evaders, looking up the owners of specific IP blocks, but boy it'd be convenient if there was a service out there that did that.
Line has cool stickers too, though I'm not sure if it has animated ones.
Why does mailgun take so long to check an updated DNS?
So, I understand that DNS propagation takes time. But isn't it possible to just clear the DNS cache wherever it is?

And another thing is, suppose I add a new DNS record, now, if it is an updation, then the change needs to be propogated around the world and so on. But if it's a creation, no one really has the record yet, so, they have to come to the root server to get everything anyway. So, why does addition also take some time? (I see that this time is less than the updation time, but it still takes some time)
Has WeChat followed Facebook's approach of unbundling functions into single-purpose apps? Or is everything delivered through a common chat/IM interface, similar to Messenger?
It's my fault. I'll try to find a way to get this data and eventually adjust my code to not include non-exit relays or at least recategorize them as a lower severity.
Exit node:
https://atlas.torproject.org/#details/463DC28452F676B7A6597A...
https://fraudguard.io/?ip=5.196.143.10

Non-exit node:
https://atlas.torproject.org/#details/EF4BD6E8E5817690B79C67...
https://fraudguard.io/?ip=108.61.199.202

It does not seem to make a distinction between exit and relay nodes, they are both deemed "tor_tracker".
So what's the risk if it turns supernova in one year? As you say, it's 1500 ly away, not <50.

You sound way more expert on this than me (I had no idea lightyears had a notation, ly, nor that supernovas are dangerous to us as far as 50ly away), so I'll assume what you say is accurate, but I still see no imminent threat.

I'm also not suggesting we'd have the full 1481 years, since we don't see what's presently there but what was there, but as long as the phenomenon doesn't travel at the speed of light (and it doesn't, or we would be experiencing it already, since we can observe the effect) we still have time.
is there any more information on this custom init they are having?