skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Getting a loan doesn't mean you don't own the car. And leases represent one in three sales, but most cars on the road are not new.
http://www.wsj.com/articles/record-vehicle-leasing-could-pin...
That example misconstrues what foreign aid is actually about.

It's not about propping up poor economies: it's a diplomatic tool.

You may have perfectly legitimate reasons to support your Ferrari buying cousin, if you thought he was going to buy a house (or on the scale of an economy, build a factory in return).
> Tor is an order of magnitude slower

This claim is frequently made but I think I can objectively say (it's not the Tor fan speaking) that it's wrong. Can you back this up with numbers?

Like, real world user's numbers. That means WiFi or 3g, or at best a 100mbps wire to an old WRT54G; not a professional, cabled desktop setup with FTTH or 802.11ac that many of us might use (as professionals or hobbyists). Depending on some luck in the Tor circuit, it should be as good as a good public wifi hotspot. Or in a bad case it might be as bad as an overloaded and far away public hotspot, but circuits rotate now and then anyway.

I'd be genuinely interested to see some user testing in this area, especially if the users know the privacy difference it makes and can toggle it at will.
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Aid to India will come with many strings attached, which are intended to benefit Britain in the long term.

It's likely money well spent.
"Strong cryptography only means the passwords must be encrypted while the user is inputting them but then they should be moved to a recoverable format for later use."
You don't need 100% new data to get an idea of performance. It's meaningful (indeed, common) to select some arbitrary percentage of the real-world data as a "training set" then measure the performance of the algorithm on the rest. It's not proof against overfitting, of course, but it helps.
If we ever achieve some form of reasonable, in-system spaceflight, then we are really going to have to start worrying about every crazy person with a spaceship bumping a smallish space rock into an impact orbit with earth. Or even just unfortunate accidents. But it wouldn't take much of an asteroid to burn down through the atmosphere and create a Tunguska-level impact.

The most recent Expanse novel is an interesting take on how apocalyptic such an event could be http://amzn.to/2aD2AFl
Sorry. Obviously I should have done that already when submitting, but I guess I did not think too much. I do not seem to be able to make the edit (not enough karma?)
Wire is cross platform and works quite well. Since using it I've noticed steady improvements. I do notice that messaging apps take up quite a bit of battery on mobile.
It would take incredible energy over a long burn time to accomplish that.
Artist creates surrealist art piece of Donald Trump
Why does every framework for web development have to be described as "modern"? A more apt description would be "A CSS framework based on Flexbox for you to use until a new one comes along."
And it should be noted that Berlin is ridiculed in Germany for its horribly broken S-Bahn service. A few years ago, the Federal Railway Authority had to lay up about 3/4 of their trains because they were vastly underserviced. The operator then truncated many of the lines to have enough rolling stock available for servicing the remaining parts. These changes persist until today. (For example, I remember when the S3 used to run until Westkreuz.)
Its about a lot of things. Including disaster relief, and humanitarian ideals. Along with the diplomacy.
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Oh wow, that news totally passed me by. The knowledge that he was in jail had a definite positive impact on my quality of life.
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No, Apple isn't betting average users care about privacy. They're thinking average users will not mind it, and they can reach a new audience this way.

The people who want open platforms will want usability like everyone else, but they're willing to sacrifice that if they get an open platform. Open platforms can be studied, understood and verified to be secure. Now that Apple products are apparently also safe and private (they're making a big point of it), the remaining reason is fairly abstract and purely ideological. The hackers and professionals no longer have a justifiable reason for their friends not to get an Apple device, and they themselves might think twice too.

It's another step in the erosion of our values that I'm afraid is taking place. Is it really bad or just the next step in what humanity values and cares about? I'm not sure, but I'm also not sure we can tell until it's too late and power over many devices (and thereby people's lives) is in the hands of a very few, so I'm on the "let's not go that path" side.
Yeah... that. Uhhhh....
Orkut was produced by him under Google as an employee. Now he's trying to run with it again even though the whole thing is gamified and the letter is an ingenious as it gets. My guess is that he got a kickback to advertise and be the figurehead for someone elses shitty new social network. I would not be surprised if some celebs get paid off to start advertising it.
> How does one transport a week's worth of groceries for a family of 5 on public transport?

Carsharing. Or a delivery service, which some supermarkets now offer already.
> IBM never seemed to have gotten into that business (yet?) of recording and selling every American's data for ads.

Maybe not Americans, but they did pretty well from doing it for Europerans from 1936-1945. [1] and rather than ads, the Hollerith cards IBM supplied by the million tabulated the census data from 1930s Europe into Jew / Not Jew rather nicely.

When the death camps were liberated there was a special unit assigned to makes sure the leased Hollerith machines were returned to the USA safely.

Thomas J. Watson was one of four Americans to receive the Order of the German Eagle [2]

[1] http://ibmandtheholocaust.com/

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Order_of_the_German_Eagle
Re: Chrome. When it was introduced it was small and fast. IOW, it didn't have a lot of chrome in the trucker sense. Now it is big and slow and does have a lot of chrome is the trucker sense.
In your cities case, the problem starts by having separate residential/business districts. In traditional, less car centered cities, those would be mixed. Here in Europe it is quite common in the cities to have shops on the ground floor of most buildings and residential use above. This means you are never very far from the shops.
> A lot less people die climbing Everest than commuting to work.

If you're talking about absolute numbers, I don't even know why you want to mention this. Otherwise, it's just plainly not true.

> Seriously though, why do you have to throw snark at dead people who have their own lifetime of reasons for doing something you happen not to like?

> They're not harming you or anybody else. They're certainly not forcing you to climb the mountain.

> Your comment just manages to be rude, insensitive, pretentious and judgemental all at once - are you going for a record of your own?

> Urgh...

My comment is not about dead people but about those who're still alive. I generally don't like people dying. I hate it. So, I don't like when this "so cool to climb Everest" story ends in such horrible results so often, and still those romanticized climbers or people seeking fame and glory with help of media swirl another batches of careless people to play this russian roulette. Everest is just too dangerous. And it's also not true saying they don't harm anybody, they harm their families and friends. Seeing all those bodies and knowing that it's still not enough to make people think more clear just fills me up with emotions and that's why I comment. And if you tell me I'm not allowed to express my feelings toward anything I'm not taking part of and you're getting to get personal, then I'm afraid I don't have anything to discuss with you.
I can't live without Cookie Monster[1]. It's always at my bottom layer of privacy protection (installed earliest.) I wish one of the other things that I use that also regulates cookies would steal its UI (or FF itself), because once every year or two some interaction problem comes up between it and something else, though not nearly enough for me to give it up. Firefox seems to have adopted the Gnomeish philosophy to intentionally make it more difficult to selectively disable parts of the web as a way of guiding user behavior, so I don't see it happening.

[1] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/cookie-monste...
Not only save, as a disabled person who cannot drive a car, self-driving cars would instantly improve my life experience.
Well, I'm a hardcore anti-car person, and I'm coming by just fine. I need a car about once or twice per year, when I'm moving furniture or something. Everything else can be had by public transit.

I'm well aware that other people need cars, but I'm concerned that there is one group of people that get the benefits of cars (people enjoying the calmness of their suburb which then commute into the city for work) and another group of people which gets all the costs dumped on them (people living in cities who have to live with the noise and air pollution and missing space for pedestrians).
Why Data Will Be Stored in Cloud Databases in the Future
Cross-sectional area is most important metric for wires because it is directly (and linearly) related to resistance which in turn is related to current carrying capability.
What a great summary of extension installation process! I wonder why they never streamlined it and made at least a list of featured (curated / reviewed for security) extensions.

That said, I still prefer Firefox to anything produced by MS, sorry, I mean Google... :)
Thank you for writing about this.

Unfortunately, study [1] shows that children who grow up in less wealthy households, know 18000 fewer words by the time they are 5 than a child that grows up in a wealthy family leaving a very clear disadvantage early on.

[1] The Beginning of Life
That would assume they know we're scanning the skies for short-lived and easy-to-miss flux variations.

The corollary: if there are aliens around KIC 8462852 they don't care that what they're doing is visible for 1500 light years around them.
It's more that we don't have strong enough decision making computers/algorithms to rival a human's capabilities in cases where the action (in this case not having lots of weapons but apparently only one being launched) isn't exactly a binary decision. A computer could theoretically have advocated that this wasn't an actual nuclear launch, but the only way that would happen is if a programmer had been clever enough to have written an algorithm to account for the situation when writing the transcription machine.

A human can currently do a much better job when the outcome is that millions of people die , especially if its a sensor error. That's not to say that humans are infallible, just that we do not currently have the level of AI required to replace one.
America, for all its deficiencies, does not expect its citizens to be loyal to a foreign culture or language, in order to come up in life. Some idiot being elected to the throne is not going to change the U.S, nor will it change the fact that US's GDP per-capita is about 25-30x that of India.
I guess you can't mention Yahoo! either
300+BOTS
I wrote my own from scratch.
Eskil is a completely unrelated to tkdiff.
The only relation is that they both are written in Tcl/Tk.
Don't know why the wiki says what it says.
Also you can opt in now and see if it fixes your problems. I've run it now for a week or so and seems to work well.
And so what, it is anointed with papal infallibility and divine right of kings?
Hosted Wordpress (with WP-Engine).

The ecosystem (primarily the number of really nice themes) and the fact I've been using it for years just means it's the simplest option.

I'd probably never self-host it again for anything important, though. Too much configuration / update / tweaking / security / etc / etc time.
It's actually usable.
Give them a break man, it's the first release...
You mean like Lyft, who's been around as long as uber and raised billions of dollars?

Or like SideCar, and other companies, who have been left in Uber's wake?

While not the same, I think Uber has similiar network effects to EBay. Uber recruits drivers and riders and acts as the market for the matching between the two.

Riders want their driver to be close by, and drivers want their next rider to be close by- meaning the market with the most drivers wins big.

Sure, drivers and riders could install a different app- but what's the incentive to do so? Buyers- sellers of old collectibles could get off eBay, but they haven't yet, and why would they start now?
It's cool tho read the creator speaking :-)

In general we like to have it all given and explained, but this kind of contest always will interested someone.

Thanks!
Show HN: Scrollanim – CSS3 scroll animation
Well, you could always just use startpage.com (uses Google) or duckduckgo.com. It's not like Google is still ages ahead of the competition as it once was. I am not sure where the bug comes from but it would be much easier for Google to fix it, given that their JS is heavily obfuscated. But then again, that's not really in their interest, is it?
How to Make Your Dreams Come True
It's worrying to me that they imply ESR is less secure; isn't the whole point that it gets security fixes applied to it? Less churn should make it more secure.
That's interesting. Why would they learn fewer words? Do the less wealthy just talk less? Or, do they learn other words that are then culled from their vocabulary?
The head of Bloomberg's $150M VC fund explains formula for finding an AI startup
Watch a sunflower dance in the sun: Now scientists know how it’s done
Volapük: A Cautionary Tale for Language Communities
When Blood Pressure Is Political
Eskil creator here. Thanks for the + :-)
Line wrapping has been on my low priority todo list forever, but since it is so rarely needed in my usage it tends to not happen. Line zoom is enough for the rare circumstances I have long lines.
I'll give it some more thought.
I can see this maybe making sense for food deliveries, but I don't see the economics working for parcel deliveries. A UPS truck probably costs under $4/mile (including the driver) and carries hundreds of packages. An Uber costing only $0.54/mile (GSA rate) and carrying 1 package is ~20x as expensive on a package-mile basis (and that's not leaving anything for the driver).

Uber will need to either dramatically increase the packages per car or (more likely) Uber delivery will be confined to very time-sensitive packages (food delivery and maybe competing in the bike courier space).
Sounds like bulimia.
site requires javascript, here is link to plain video:

http://video.ted.com/talk/stream/2006/None/HansRosling_2006-...
There's libseccomp which provides nice interface, but still at syscall level. You can't easily implement pledge interface on seccomp, because you can't dereference pointers in BPF. So if you want to support both, you'll have to do a bit of rearchitecture anyway. But it's not very hard.

Mostly a: implement was you know, (see if all works, add missing calls, repeat)+ process
This analysis forgets one thing about the actual voting system: the electoral college.

If you live in a state like New York, California or Kansas that is a "safe" state, your vote is nowhere neat the margin so voting for Trump or Clinton is choice C.

Vote for Stein or Johnson and you could legitimize a party that puts pressure on the system with just 5% of the vote.

If you are in a swing state the argument is different, but in a safe state a vote for a mainstream candidate you dont believe in is a wasted vote.
Tesla: Code Is My Co-Pilot
Hopefully the next release will be a bit better on Mac. Tk itself has seen a lot of improvements on Mac lately, and I hope to get that in sync.
In the United States, IBM was the data processor for the Japanese internment camps in the US.
Hugged to death.

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:http://...
Another area like this is refund policies, Australia recently found Steam was violating consumer protection laws for their former refund policy that was designed to deny refunds. Lots of sites/services continue to have similar policies.

http://www.smh.com.au/business/consumer-affairs/online-games...
Prototyping Happiness
You seem to be agreeing with me. My claim is that some humans are high quality (quality in the sense of having traits that allow them to improve their economic station) and will escape poverty. Other humans are low quality and will not. I.e., quality of the human rather is what matters, and circumstances can be overcome.

The only place you seem to disagree with me is that you think many Indians are low quality too. That could be true; I have no strong evidence one way or the other on that matter.
at what point do we all say "maybe Xen isn't the best hypervisor to work with for this sort of goal"?
> User-facing software in cars is notoriously poor

Good thing companies like Apple and Google aren't getting into the self-driving car business
Zach Barth (maker of TIS-100) did a integrated circuit design game in Flash back in 2009 which might interest you:

http://www.zachtronics.com/kohctpyktop-engineer-of-the-peopl...

It's somewhat more of a game than DLS is at the moment, though working at a much lower level.
Three dimensional cellular automata for subpixel target detection [pdf]
Ask HN: What to do when a developer goes dark?
Recently I wanted to upgrade a n old (but successful) project and put out a request I was looking for outside help without giving out project details. A good developer was interested and responsive. I was interested in his skillset so I sent him the project, all upgrades I was looking to do in great detail. I've tried to contact him several times since and I've not heard a peep from him. Should I be worried that he liked it and would lock me out for his own version or could it be a case of disinterest (which I would assume at least a courtesy reply of "not interested")?
I can't find the source, but I've read that it's related to how much time a parent spends speaking and reading to their child.
Isn't that insecure because hostnames are sent in the clear? (both in TLS handshake and DNS lookup?)
I have a slightly unrelated question, but there may be medically trained individuals in this thread.

I'm a medical student, and it seems like most people in the field are rather cavalier when it comes to talking about the job outlook for physicians in most any specialty. Do you all think that some healthcare jobs will not be as vital in the next decade thanks to improvements in computing and AI?
In Dr. Strangelove, the absurd behavior of buffoonish humans contributes to the doomsday scenario. Idiots blindly following the orders of a madman on one side, and psychos constructing a completely automated self-destruct mechanism attached to a retaliatory weapon on the other side.

Both are bad, but people playing the game at all, were the real problem.
I for one would love to have metric time. Just today I had to add some durations together to get total duration, which would have been simple thing to do with metric time.

Of course for practical use using SI second wouldn't be very good solution. Traditionally second is derived from the length of day, and I think that would make sense for metric time too. 1 milliday would be somewhat close to 1 minute and 50 millidays (or maybe half deciday) would be close to one hour. Of course the name probably should be something else than "day" to reduce confusion.

So I could be working something like 16 decidays next week.
I hear you. I have been thru the same cycle. The one thing that got me thru it was my kids. Let loving, caring, raising them and your family be your own true motivation. It will always be there. Also find a project you love, see if a hacker space around you is active. So many amazing things going on in the world.

As for jobs, well I tend to be underemployed. Its hard to find companies with vision who are not fun by fools. The upside to that is it leaves me more time to work at my passion!
Look for optical sorting nor near-infrared separator http://www.sherbrooke-oem.com/optical-sorter

Here's a typical machine you can buy https://www.alibaba.com/product-detail/Fully-automatic-urban...
Of course. The trick is to decide what mix of lower price and lower complexity is your sweet spot.
"Don’t Panic – The Facts About Population" is probably the ultimate Rosling presentation. Highly recommended.

https://vimeo.com/79878808
Bubblewrap is a similar tool which carefully handles it's setuid responsibilities:

https://github.com/projectatomic/bubblewrap#related-project-...
Steam in Docker
X/Y Line Charts for G2 Graphics
Not plausible because:

a) Tabby's Star is roughly 1500 light years away from us; we only began emitting radio signals ~150 years ago (at most -- assuming propagation from early telegraph wires; not actually very likely) and it'd take ~3000 years for our signals to reach the vicinity of Tabby's Star and indications of a reaction getting back to us,

b) "Military" is a category error on this scale; the energy budget required to generate the sort of luminosity changes we're seeing around Tabby's Star by deliberately occulting it are mind-blowing compared to anything we've ever achieved. Might as well speculate about an ant-hill (us) wondering about the military intentions of an M1 Abrams tank driving across the Iraqi desert (hypothetical alien actors at Tabby's star) -- either they aren't going to drive over us, or we just encountered an Outside Context Problem.
Among its less visible advantages, it has a lot of ways to resolve tricky diffs, which comes in handy sometimes. Like manually aligning lines, and applying search/replace filters. Try the built in tutorial to see some of it.

But the main advantage is that it presents diffs the way I like it, naturally since I wrote it ;-)
Bubblewrap: Unprivileged sandboxing tool
It would increase the sun's temperature causing it to expand. I guess eventually it would expand out to reach your dyson mirror.

Of course there would be all sorts of secondary effects, lowering the density in the core could slow down the rate of fusion, increased temp would increase it, but no garuntee that the effects would cancel. Also depending on how far out your mirror is the core might not ever notice the change. The outer layers could heat up and destroy your mirror before the increased temperature reaches the core.
No, but that sounds like a useful feature to add. Thanks.
I assume the only point of contact is his email address? I've had cases were the email bounced (mailbox full) and turns out if was 17 year old living with his parents that just didn't notice. In other bizarre case the recipient had a fatal car accident.

Regardless if not responding is by interest or an external factor you can only write another stronger-worded email and then move on.
Nanoserver is it. No 32 bit, and no other legacy.
For the uninformed like me, what is the real world application for this? This is 100% curiosity and not criticism.

Basically I'm curious in plain English, what kind of application would use this and for what? Also, am I understanding correctly that this is simply a sort of low fidelity hash table?
This looks interesting, and definitely addresses some common pain points.
Did you even read what I said? I directly refuted your argument! Your suggestion is both politically difficult and would damage cities by decreasing the very thing that makes them cities: the time proximity between people!
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There would still be a curved orbit around the center of the galaxy. That is a bit like arguing that a mission from Earth to Mars would travel in a straight line because there isn't anything in between them.
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