skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This particular approach would require an extension to do that, likely decoding from the hand and finger related regions of motor cortex. It's a great idea but would require additions to the algorithm to decode overlapping discrete actions for chord detection.
Heh, but unconscious instincts can be quite rational, just in non-obvious ways.

In other words, they are responses to internal and external states, which means there is a reason for them. To find the actual source, we have to delve into many branches of philosophy and science.
I think I read the only way to order a Dot is via an Echo.
Pointing your rail gun up is best for getting out of the atmosphere ASAP, but how do you build a gun that goes, say, 20 km high into the air?

A mostly (the curvature of the earth will make it point up) horizontal gun will have the problem that the projectile will leave the gun at escape velocity, at around 1 atmosphere of air pressure (either after accelerating through 1 atmosphere of air pressure, which takes lots of extra energy, or leaving a vacuum, which makes exiting the gun barrel quite a bang)

Also, your barrel will have to extremely straight.

I don't think either is 'imminently' possible.
Isn't the quality of the logos left really dependent on the ability of previous purchasers to pick the better quality logos? I would say that it isn't necessarily true that the worst logos are last, much depends on the customers. Plus, it is a fairly subjective metric. (obviously there is a floor here)
Summary: Evernote is moving customer data, and possibly other processes, from its self-hosted two datacenters to Google Cloud Platform.
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You have to ask yourself; what's the purpose of this network? Is it to have a group of like-minded engineers so that if you lose your job you can get first hand referrals for a new job? Are you looking to establish yourself as a consultant? Are you looking to meet higher level executives in hopes of becoming them one day?

Whatever the case, if you email them with an shallow request of "looks like you're doing cool things let's get coffee", your request will probably be ignored. Everyone is busy, there's no time for random coffee with a stranger.

But if you can ask a very specific question regarding their work, you'll pique their interest. Offer to teach them something in return, now you're on the path to a mutually beneficial professional relationship.

Don't send out the same message to different people. Do the hard work; research each person's background, send an email specific to their likes/interests. Be strategic when making a request from someone and if you can offer something in return, even better.

I'm really good at writing these types of emails. Drop me an email at jim@techleads.io if there's something you want me to review.

Good luck!
If this was truly the case why are salaries in the Bay so high? You would figure startups would hire people in other places with lower salaries.
Great article - except the last paragraph.

There the author suggests you buy ones which are soft and durable by feeling them. The problem is that you can't tell which are durable.

My wife calls it "pilling" - forming tiny balls. It feels like sand to her sensitive skin. Unfortunately, you dont find out if they're going to pill until you've washed them a few times. She tries scratching the fabric with her nail. But its very subjective.
This is a fun thing to talk about in Hacker News. I'm outa this thread.
Interesting that the ME region can be even partially overwritten and will still let the system boot, albeit with an error (guessing a checksum mismatch)...
> Account created 3 days ago.

Really makes you think, huh?
US will not sink during my life time (2050?). The odds are so decked in US's favor. As Ian Bremmer said, what makes America great is, two oceans, canada and mexico.

The turmoil in Eurasian continent and Population explosion in Africa when you compared to improved peace in Americas. I will bet by shirt on Americas in general and USA in particular. No, Sir China is not going to touch US in military terms during my life time and probably have some economic benchmarks they may dominate but per-capita will suck. For all the hew and cry, China is middle-income nation with 17 neighbors, Middle East even with Petro-dollars in basket case, Europe is demographically falling and struggling with Immigration.

America will remain the power to reckon for next 50 years if not more.
Credit cards are far less common, and especially far less used for ecommerce. Figuring out how to do payment on delivery is what helped Flipkart in India (and doomed a competitor who couldn't). Example article http://indianonlineseller.com/2016/01/cash-on-delivery-cod-s...
> Of course if you're so sure about this then maybe start a company to create an electromagnetic launcher, it should be easy to raise money assuming you are right.

Could you explain how it would be easy? In my mind it seems hard to raise several billion dollars, no matter how you put it...
https://consumerist.com/2015/03/17/you-cant-discharge-your-s...
Another example of "Don't talk to the police."

I don't know what police agencies expect to happen. A certain number of grenades in babies cribs are going to happen, but if these things go unpunished and merely asking for directions (or calling 911 because your kid is suicidal resulting in cops showing up and executing him) results in a negative outcome, how can they expect continuing public support?

I go out of my way to avoid the police and for most cases where I might be the victim of a crime, I'm just not going to involve the police, unless it's something on the order of murder. And even in that case I expect there's a good chance if they feel they can pin it on me they will, without regard for the evidence or truth. The cost of defending myself would bankrupt me.

The system is broken.
Public sector’s new view of endpoint security
Monetizing business ideas (2010)
How do you feel if they respond 200 OK the first time, and then when the code detects that you are blocking ads, returns 402 the next time?
Wrong, they rationally prefer hedonic feeling.

How did you feel about this post? ;-)

Valid logic, different premises.
Nice to see it's going well. One thing that interests me as an NL-based entrepreneur (well, technically a freelancer for now): are you guys still based in Utrecht or did you have to move to the Valley in order to profit from the investment scene?
> If you approach a police officer and ask for directions (or any context where youre not a suspect) and the police officer asks for your ID can you legally refuse to comply?

Often, yes, the police ask for ID in conditions where they have no legal authority to demand it and you are perfectly free, legally speaking, to refuse. [0]

Of course, the officer asking for the ID may not be aware that they lack legal authority to demand it, and may not care if they are aware.

[0] related: https://www.aclu.org/files/kyr/kyr_english.pdf
> This doesn't move the needle in the biggest economy in the world. That's not even a viable business in most cities with high cost of living.

This sort of penny-wise, pound-foolish thinking is the root of the problem. Many large, important businesses start very small and stay small for a while. ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft#1972.E2.80.9384:_Fou... , https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Inc.#1976.E2.80.9384:_Fo... ) By admitting only founders of companies that are already large, you ensure that many of these companies are established and grow elsewhere.

> Why would the United States want to let you in where there are more promising businesses/entrepreneurs on the path to $100m/year companies within 5 years?

Blatant false dichotomy. Nothing prevents the US from admitting both.
Details were in the talk itself, watch the video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-SS4R1sFH3c. In particular, they mentioned how Tom Lane fixed a bug they found and did it just in 38 minutes.
> Your straw man requires someone not have a car and not have the money that one saves from not having a car.

That's not the predicament that most people are in. Just because you don't have a 30k car doesn't mean you have 30k in the bank to utilize. Hell, since most people finance cars now a days, having a 30k car doesn't mean that you had anywhere near 30k in the bank before buying. Whereas, if you buy that car, whether or not you had something in the bank to cover it before buying, you now are on the hook for maintenance, gas, insurance, etc. So no that's not straw man at all.

> For the price of a car payment, I can commute on the DC metro and rent a car for a weekend.

I won't get started on this, as owning and utilizing a car in the DC/NoVa area is a beast onto its own.
I never stated Islam is uniquely problematic, just that the person I was replying to was making a poor comparison. I think at this current moment in the world, one could certainly make a case that it's uniquely problematic. Would you claim otherwise?

>would be Christian theocrats have been defeated by other political actors.

What happens to the people in Islamic theocracies that try to challenge the religious status quo?

And which more Christian nation did you have in mind? Maybe we can dig up something on attitudes there if you think it's a more accurate comparison.
So, basically, don't ever talk to the police, don't even say 'hi'. There's no such thing as a casual conversation with the police. They should be avoided at all costs. Isn't this common sense? That's the first thing I'd teach my children.
Ah ... reading further down the thread its explained and is even more interesting: https://www.coreboot.org/pipermail/coreboot/2016-September/0...
Theatrical nudity is when someone gets naked in character for the purpose of creating an image. Pornography, modeling, etc.

Actual nudity is when someone gets naked as themselves, for some other purpose than creating media. Sunbathing. Having sex. Trying to get napalm off oneself.
Yes, in most states, you could refuse legally. Whether or not the Officer will accept that, and whether or not you actually want to risk potentially having to fight the legal fight to prove you were within your rights is a completely different question though.
Do either of you mind linking to your static blogs or an article discussing your process here? I've only ever used a wordpress install for blogging but have been thinking about just building a static blog from scratch.
On-demand delivery service Mealmade sees huge success on UberRUSH platform
Back to school: monitoring with Datadog
Apple rolls out iOS 10 to the public. Here’s how to get it
Am I missing something here? Snowden was never convicted of anything, how can he be pardoned?
Very informative, thank you!
Am I reading this correctly that the $20,000 YC fellowship is no longer available (and therefore the only want to get any form seed funding from YC is once again to move to the Bay Area)?

That said, the MOOC sounds interesting!
Does the use of methylphenidate help otherwise unfocused and easily discouraged people to put more effort and concentration in their training?

Because if this is the case, I don't see how this could be allowed- after all the rhetoric around sports is about the reward of effort and focus on the long term goal. But if this focus is gained through the use of a drug, then, uhm...
I think he meant "nothing out of the ordinary" as in nothing to warrant a pardon.

Except, of course, he was rich and well connected.
You can add Groovy to that list.
So, then it just takes an OCR step somewhere in the process. But it doesn't really stop the feds from knocking on your door 10 years after you sold the weapon. (this actually happened to a buddy of mine when his gun showed up as one of the "fast and furious" guns, or that was their excuse).
https://www.lucidchart.com/techblog/2016/09/13/selenium-ide-...
SQL Server performs slightly better than PostgreSQL for analytics. This is mostly because of parallel queries which will still be more efficient on SQL Server when PostgreSQL 9.6 is released.

On the other hand, PostgreSQL can take advantage of ZFS compression which is great for archiving cold data.
Yeah there's no bubble in tech.
The theme of YC Research seems to be futurology.
Unfortunately, direct democracy would reduce the power of current legislators, so it is unlikely that our political system will change.
That Sentimental Feeling: using sentiment analysis as a proxy for plot movement
What didn't work with the Fellowship, exactly? In light of the dissolution, how did the winners of the Apply HN competition (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11440627) work with the most recent Fellowship class?
> > Remember all of their one-off, over the top, skeuomorphic apps?

> I actually liked those a lot.

I also liked them, and I think skeuomorphism is a good idea, generally. And I think iOS's completely anti-skeuomorphic abstraction is a bad idea, generally. And I get why Chrome ate my title bar. But is it a good idea for users to have to learn different UI metaphors for every app? I feel like one of classic MacOS's real strengths was that there was ONE UI and users were really skeptical of any app that broke the rules.

> > Anyone else miss WindowShade?

> Oddly enough, I've seen it pop up on Linux desktops for ages.

If memory serves, that feature originally came from Linux/X-Windows, was added to MacOS as an extension first, and then incorporated in the official OS. (And then discarded)
I know that the laptop anti-theft arms race is a bad idea for a while now.
http://ideqa.blogspot.com/
You are making a few incorrect assumptions.

1. Israel isn't censoring anything. They are offering to help Facebook identify content that FB already determined they will remove(inciting violence.)

2. Governments in every country already control communication, Working directly with Facebook is a step towards less government control, not more.

3. The article mentions that hate speech is a slippery topic, not slope. The article is NOT saying abuse might happen in the future, it is saying that determining what is hate speech or inciting violence is slippery implying its arbitrary and subjective...but inciting violence is not subjective at all IMHO, which all that is being discussed.

4. This idea that slippery slope and the importance of free speech is absolute is ridiculous! In my opinion, that all flies out the window when someones life is at stake. Period. Saving a Life is more important than theoretical slippery slopes.

Yes, abuse is always a risk, but in my opinion, I would rather elected officials, we can vote out, be the ones who we are trusting over a corporation that we have absolutely no say or control over.

Facebook's ability to manipulate, control and influence the world is WAY MORE TROUBLING TO ME THAN AN ELECTED (AND ACCOUNTABLE) OFFICIAL's ability to potentially abuse power!

Edit: added the word NOT to point 3.
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>They use violence to take land from its owners

Actually the more often than not buy the land, there are almost no accounts of land grab by force.

Israeli leftist organizations constantly try to publish the deals knowing that it would result in likely deaths as the penalty of selling land to a Jew (not Israeli but a Jew) under PA law is death, and if the PA doesn't get to you the neighbourhood mob will.

The Israeli settlements especially around the B areas are a problem but it's less the settlement itself and more the supporting infrastructure associated with, primarily the fact that the Israeli armed forces have to step in and provide protection.

Israeli settlement policy is inconsistent they are actively dismantling the smaller settlements and supporting the big ones, however there is also a perception issue every time there is some headlines of 100,000 homes being built it's a gross and intentional misrepresentation of the facts; since they account for every construction permit as a housing unit even if it's a permit to change the porch or move the sidewalk, and there seem to be complete disregard to the difference between E. Jerusalem, the large settlement blocks which are effectively cities and the smaller settlements which spawn sporadically (and often dismantled) deeper within the west bank.
Show HN: 30-Day Challenge to Learn Something New Every Day
Yea America needs a different visa that allows people in without a lottery.
On my nexus 6 I had to rotate the phone horizontally
The argument is that if no one chooses the underdogs, then eventually there'll be a monopoly and no choice, regardless of switching costs..
According to this document from the USAF, the estimated energy needed to launch into orbit is 67GJ. Converting that to the US measurement of electricity is 18,611 kWh. According to the EIA, the US average for electricity, specifically for the transportation sector, was 10.22 pennies per kWh.

So yes, a lot of pennies...

edit:
The same document mentions that 20 degree launch trajectory gives LEO == HEO delta-v. So that 200km track also needs to, naively, be 72km high at the end to have constant acceleration through that 200km.

[0] - http://www.star-tech-inc.com/papers/lcls/low-cost_launch_2.p...

[1] - https://www.eia.gov/electricity/monthly/epm_table_grapher.cf...
Smart Sex Toy Maker Sued for Sneakily Collecting 'Intimate' Data (IoT)
It's a shame that we seem locked into using Intel or AMD for x64 processors, both of which have secondary, black-box processors.

Isn't x64 a standard? Couldn't another company create their own implementation of it and design their own processors for the paranoid to use?
I second the opinions posted above. Just a few days ago, we were comparing the costs of housing at a decent place (in the city/closer suburbs) are 3 to 4 years of my gross annual pay. If I dreamed of similar housing in India (Chennai, where I'm from), it would cost me ~30 years of my market annual salary for a similar job there. I don't want to work my life off to get a house to retire in.
>An aerodynamic vehicle could be extremely safe; in the event of a failure, you could just glide back to the ground. The possibility of violent explosion would be practically non-existent.

That is a ridiculous statement, considering the deaths that have happened during reentry

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Shuttle_Columbia_disaste...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soyuz_11

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vladimir_Komarov
>Build biggest concentration camp post WWII? sure, no problem (the irony in this case is slightly beyond ridiculous).

Jewish concentration camps fired 100,000 rockets into German cities? I never knew, it certainly explains a lot.
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Great point. You might make it shut off, but you should never be able to damage anything, no matter how clever the OS tries to be.
Not easily, one issue is patents. Another issue however with x64 is for example SYSENTER vs SYSCALL. Windows for example has a whitelist of CPU vendors that it will use.
Agreed. While GitHub announces new features, mostly my reaction is "Huh, interesting", but will never use it.

CI, Registry, Issues changes that GitLab is introducing is right on the money for what we want, need.
My take aways:

* Reasons to migrate were: unresponsive support, inconvenient deployment, closed source, huge cost.

* It took just 10 man-years to rewrite whole project from Oracle to Postgres (e.g. 10 developers, 1 year), which is amazing.

* They benefited from Postgres data versioning, arrays and composite types.

* They liked writing logic on PL/pgSQL more than on Oracle PL/SQL: reduced code size, increased test coverage.

* Easier deployment of changes due no library cache locks.

Great thing for community is that Yandex now commited to Postgres, meaning it will get more testing and bug-fixes faster.
Oh hell yes! I loved Aaron too.
I don't think the majority of H1 visa holders could be considered "top talent." Perhaps "cheaper talent."

We eliminate the Tata-style H1B abuses and actually make H1B for TOP talent and not cheap talent, then those future Einsteins can come to the US. Your average "top talent" isn't going to work for Tata or Infosys. They're going to apply directly or they're going to be recruited.

Ted Cruz proposed at $100K minimum salary for H1's. Not a bad way to solve this problem. $100K is nothing for actual top talent, but it certainly means that the incentive to outsource low level IT to H1 companies is much much less.

The problem isn't the lack of talent, it's the lack of companies willing to pay for the talent. You can hire anybody you want if you're willing to pay enough. Start offering $250K for a starting salary for an engineer -- you'll have hundreds of resumes within the hour and probably one or two would be top talent. That same job at $80k -- dozens of resumes and probably not a single one that could be considered top talent.
Visions of Life on Mars in Earth’s Depths
The reason the military personnel carried unloaded weapons is that commanding officers live in fear of an negligent discharge ending their career, this was true for most base sentries before and after 9/11, you can pretty much only count on those guarding nuclear weapons to have rounds in their weapons. "Nothing personal".

As for police carrying rifles/carbines in our airports today, well, they're much better weapons than pistols, more accurate and more likely to hit the target and not an innocent, much harder hitting if they have the right ammo in them, all police should have a "patrol carbine" instead of a shotgun in their trunk or secured in the passenger space of their vehicles.

The only question here, is the threat level at the airport high enough that routinely carrying rifles is warranted? That I can't say, but as noted by others, it's routine in more "civilized" Europe.
That's only at the federal level, though. Here in Washington State, a handgun purchased by a permit holder is entered into a state level database which is most certainly computerized.

Sadly, I know this because there was a shooting spree just a couple of years ago in my hometown.

http://www.capitolhillseattle.com/2012/05/police-release-det...

The above news blog post has a screen shot of how local cops were able to pull the records on the six legally owned handguns of the (mentally disturbed) murderer. They include serial numbers and purchase dates.

So, no, NRA does not know how to avoid big brother. They know how to perpetuate their power and influence by using concentrated voting blocs in a relatively few key congressional districts in order to invent a wedge issue of dubious relevance. But when it comes to having lists of guns in a computer run by a government, that train has sailed.

(All that said, there is certainly an effectiveness to what NRA has achieved here. But couldn't we acknowledge that effectiveness and then put in place a distributed crypto / key escrow system that would allow the guns themselves to be tracked by serial / model / dates of transfers, and then with the second keyholder's approval to unlock the names of individuals?)
There are certain channels in the 5Ghz range that require the access point to do checking to make sure they don't actively interfere with radar...

See here for a document from Cisco describing the issue:

http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/routers/access/3200/sof...

interestingly enough, hard setting the channel to 100 might violate FCC regulations, and DFS should still be used...
But then again, the same goal might also be achievable using cryptographic trapdoor functions.
Also python adopted siphash in 3.4, due to security concerns around its hash function (see PEP-456).
If you're looking for an open source web crawl, commoncrawl.org has billions of pages.
Oh hey, this is definitely the closest / fastest to what I want. Although if I cut and paste a line from another window, I still need a way to jump to some position in that line.
Honestly, I find that IntelliJ isn't anything particularly special. Yet another tool for warezd00dz. It is fadware.

Fadware with plugins. Plugins, upon plugins, upon plugins, upon plugins.