skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm a foreigner living in Barcelona for four years, only once has someone tried to pickpocket me and I noticed them easily. I agree with your sentiment though, Barcelona feels like an incredibly safe city (at least in the center/Eixample) and I've never felt worried at night. Having lived/visited in Leeds/London and NYC in my experiences they are vastly more worrying/dangerous at night.
I upvote whimsical humor because it represents the true reality.
Yes -137dBm sensitivity: http://www.semtech.com/wireless-rf/rf-transceivers/sx1272/

In the blog post we were using 27dBm transmissions. At that level the radio and power amplifier draw about 1.5W. If a transmission takes .3seconds that's .5Watt-seconds. So with a single AA battery (about 5Wh) you can do 40000 transmissions.

Transmissions can be much shorter in time depending on radio parameters, by a factor of 32 at most, but range can be affected.
How Safe Is Tesla Autopilot?
Ask HN: Those with small side projects, where did you find part-time talent?
I'm just curious where those with small side projects (w/ some cash flow) are finding talent to help with operations (sales, marketing, dev, etc...). Are people still using Elance/Upwork? What else is out there?
If you can find the link between the two in that article, please show me.
I had a 6 and upgraded. There are a few things:

1. The camera is much nicer. Besides being newer technology the 7 now has Optical Image Stabilization which is good for 1-3 stops and should help a ton in low light.

2. The phone is at least 2x as fast as the chip in the 6 and you can feel it

3. It is supposed to get about 2 hours more battery life than a new 6s, so (especially if your battery is wearing out) there is a good difference there.

4. Waterproofing is nice for some people.

I'm not saying there is a need but it's a very good upgrade.
Try an app like headspace, the free 10 sessions were a great help for me.

The 5 minute journal is also a good way to get some perspective.

Having something non computer like hiking or gardening I find also helps.

If its really bad, a vacation to some country with a vastly different culture helps.
California also makes material sacrifices to pay down the pension debt. Consider the condition of the roads (especially in Los Angeles) and the budget problems facing the UC and Cal State University systems.
> It is good to design systems with the assumption that most users will use them as intended.

Not in cryptoworld. This is an application running on Ethereum. The entire point of the platform is to provide means for people to interact without necessarily trusting each other.
B+G is a minor sixth, not a major third. If you invert it, it's a major third.

B+G followed by C+G is most likely going to sound like a cadence in C Major. You could claim it is G major only if you considered it unresolved transition to the subdominant.
This is actually isn't uncommon.

The GCC makes the similar exceptions. Libs/Snippets from peephole optimizations are technically covered by the compiler's license as they're part of the compiler. So the output program is in a sense a derivative work. This really hasn't been challenged in court, but you can see how this could invoke a rather lengthy case if you say pissed off Peter Thiel.

To cover this the GCC's GPL license has exceptions to the GPLv3 for output programs, or programs that use it's headers. You really can't argue the GCC isn't licensed by the GPL. It merely has a handful of exceptions that are specific to the legal oddity of a program who's copyright copyrights derived works, and its sole purpose is to produce derived works.

The Linux Kernel has similar exceptions as syscall functions are inserted into your program at load time. And really everything links against it's headers.

Makes sense the LLVM would do the same
Why not make it a choice for the prisoner to make then? Perhaps we could have life in prison by default, but make humane state-assisted suicide available at any time.
The word “Hollywood” itself refers to a monopoly. This article reads like a status quo that is accustomed to power and resistant to sharing it.
Yeah, Americans sleep when they hear 90% of drone attack deaths are civilians: https://theintercept.com/drone-papers/the-assassination-comp...

But they are wide awake and outraged when Snowden's ostensible act of espionage has caused an enormous amount of public good and technological innovation.

It's not really the American's fault. We hear few of their real voices. It's the media that speaks the loudest.
maybe it was so obvious it didn't need linking.
> I am surprised that the article didn't once mention the lack of advertisements on Netflix. The are inherently selling a different product than television by not having ads

By "different product than television" do you mean "different from broadcast and basic cable television in exactly the same way that premium cable television is".
Or maybe the french are racist?
Yep! I didn't address your other argument because I accept it and there's nothing about it I disagree with. I don't disagree with any of what you just said, either.

I just wanted to point out that "streaming over web-torrents" is the feature being demo'd here, which means that (a) it's a new feature (I assume?) to this project / these developers, and (b) it's clearly something they feel is a nice-to-have feature, because they not only chose to spend time making it, but also announced to HN when they had a working PoC. If people never posted something to HN until they were "100% complete", I think this place would be a lot less interesting than it is.
I still don't understand why you can't have a personal tablet and a separate work tablet.
We don't even have a shred of a clue how to do that, only prevent it, and it may well be a bit late to meaningfully prevent.
Thimble itself is an end-product, not a module. The only way to work with it outside of our deployment infrastructure is to run it with all the dependencies installed and brackets installed on the side. We're thinking of just dockerizing it, but there is no "casual install" for Thimble right now.
Rain is normally acidic due to dissolved Carbonic acid.

Source: http://chemistry.elmhurst.edu/vchembook/190acidrain.html
Sure. Wouldn't most people dig themselves out?
Just not ones you can set an army on...
Some interop-ability exists at this point:

- Bot A: Visit this URL to fulfil an order.
- Ar the URL you are faced with a GUI with a separate bot B.

E.g. if you are fulfilling a payment, nothing prohibits Strip from creating their own bot.
Ah, the hipster programmer attitude to learning, based on the idea that because something is:

a) hard (it takes more than a day to understand the complexities)

b) incredibly old

the community should declare it obsolete and immediately begin work on a replacement (preferably based on JavaScript).
I tried fiverr a few times, but the quality is so unpredictable.

I also tried working with a team I met overseas, but that did not turn out well.

My current approach was to find someone local to New York area.
Google Cloud web dashboard is down
An Unexpected Way to Stop People from Quitting – Ryan Holmes – Pulse
Not to defend them but it was Sun not Oracle who started bundling crapware with the JRE installer.
That's interesting. Civil monitors would engage in activity that includes more immediate attention beyond the post facto review and redress (which is the sense I got from your linked content).

[p.s. For example, detach from the deliberative legislative body functions such as United States House Committee on Oversight & Government Reform.]
> This is the destruction of the middle man monopoly in the form of the cable provider.

Right, instead of the cable provider as the middle man between the content service and the viewer, the ISP (often, the same actual firm as the cable company) is the middle man between the content service and the viewer.

Its only even a little different if net neutrality sticks.
> The cost of imprisoning someone for life is still less than putting them on death row.

That's openly because execution foes have made it so expensive to execute. Execution could be extremely cheap: lead the convict from the courtroom to the gallows, and be done with it. Imprisonment could be made to be even more expensive than execution, if there were strong-enough foes of life imprisonment (they could mandate every appeal and review that condemned men receive for those given life sentences).

'We shouldn't execute people, because it's more expensive to execute them (because we chose to make it more expensive),' is hardly a compelling argument.
Presumably China adopted some of the pollution control technologies developed in the 1970s as it industrialized.

edit: It's pretty likely that steel production since 2010 is greater than all steel production prior to 1900. I would think that the energy used to make steel since 2010 is at least comparable to the energy used for all metal production prior to 1900.

Industrialization certainly got started prior to 1900. I would say it took a while to really hit it's stride.
My point is a lot of people use Python because it's a simple and powerful language, Rust is not a simple language at all. And the performance it brings is not enough to make the decision to switch language in most cases.
I think we disagree on two big things, and the rest is fluff.

First, I still don't think it's fair to characterize the questions ("which is more likely" and "which has more M&Ms") as "nonsensical and purely logical." I wouldn't even call the questions atypical. We contend with simple questions like this all the time in society. The intent behind both questions is unambiguous, and there are no reasonable alternative interpretations, unless you assume the question asker is simply mistaken.

Second, we're on different pages about what the experiment is evaluating. I don't claim that the people who answer incorrectly are less capable of rationality, nor that they don't understand probability. What I believe is that they are less likely to recognize when it's best to apply their logical toolset. As a result, they're more likely to use intuition to answer questions that are best answered via careful analysis. This appears exactly like failing to understand the question itself.

To wit: The younger kids used the length of the line to answer "which has more M&Ms", but the older kids immediately recognized that it's better to use a more in-depth analytical tool: counting. I hypothesize that the younger kids are simply not as good (yet) at knowing when to apply this tool. Intuition is easier and less effortful, thus it's the default unless we make ourselves think harder. This pattern extends to adults, too. How many people think we should be tougher on crime because it "feels" like there is more violence today than ever before, yet don't even consider that they need to look at some actual numbers to justify this conclusion?
Troop is not going to be so strong as it is in 2 meter (140-144 MHz) band but 900 can bounce strongly off meteor trails, the moon, etc. Reflections off airplanes could be a big deal too.

Sporadic long range channels could be a bug and not a feature for this kind of system because if you are not a ham who thinks it is a blast to talk to someone 500 miles away on a a handheld, you want a radio system to work predictably and not be interfered with by distant stations.
They may be gunning for AWS, azure, etc publicly but I'd bet the main consumers of this service will be existing Oracle ERP (and other business apps) customers. They're already just fine with paying a fortune and having an iaas backing gives Oracle another way to squeeze a bit more out. We already run your erp in Oracle's iaas, you should bring your other applications up as well, and so on.

Evil empire comments aside more cloud infrastructure competition is good for us all.
> I argue that a life sentence is only marginally better than a death sentence. I further argue that if we oppose the death penalty on the grounds that it causes substantial irreversible damage, then we must also oppose perpetual incarceration because the difference in harm is not large enough (IMHO).

This is where your argument fails to convince me (and, I suspect, many others). I could accept, if I really stretched myself, that a death sentence is only marginally worse than a life sentence, but only up to the point when it is actually carried out. The obvious discontinuity brought about by the irreversibility of death cannot be ignored; it makes the distinction between the two sentences not marginal, but catastrophic.

Because of this, your argument is weak (IMHO, in keeping with your restrained manner).
Don't go as hard. Only Jack Reacher can go that hard, for that long.
> As surprising as this may sound, those of us born in other countries have the same rights too, and deserve the same protections.

Citizens of other countries in fact don't have the same rights and protections against the NSA as citizens. It's why the NSA exists.
I'm with them for personal and the app is great (website also pretty good but it has an unusually strict timeout on entering indentity codes that makes me sit there with the app poised, so I can enter it within 3 seconds!)

Santander's mobile app is awful though. It kind of works but it's a chunky pre-iOS 7 hybrid monstrosity. Web access is pretty smooth however.

Co-op who I was previously are a crap beast on all counts.
It could be argued that is not "discoverability". IMO, that's a feature to handle bad discoverability and unintuitive UI.

Discoverability is when you can see what/how to do something by just looking or clicking around a bit.
This is a strange article. The author glosses over the criminals charged with death penalty easily and goes into depth about his and his staff's personal experience and their moral burden/PTSD, the distress they might have felt. While that's a valid point of view, it completely sidesteps the core issue of why the author is advocating a change in his stance on the death penalty, or worse, it's the only reason for the change.

Being an outsider, it's something I notice a lot in American media - a tendency by law officials (and soldiers) to lament about their suffering while not paying enough attention to the people who are the real figures of the tragedies (death penalty, victims of war). It also relates to the hero worship that I see in American culture (even online). Every soldier with a PTSD is made out to be a "poor fellow who needs help". The person who said "yes" to being comfortable in killing people telling his harrowing story about how difficult it was for his staff.

Apologies in advance if the above comes across as too insensitive. Not sure what I'm trying to say here but just dumping my immediate thoughts.
Then you should have no problem showing me that link, obvious as you claim it to be.
States are gripped by the gerrymandering process at all levels from state legislature all the way up to the Presidency. Literally the only exception is our Senate. If we repeal the 17th Amendment, party stranglehold on state legislatures (compounded by the issue of gerrymandering) support artificial control by one party over all of the state's representation at the federal level.

There is no need for our state governments to have direct representation in our Federal government. All representatives should be voted upon by the people directly. The idea that the state governments themselves need representation at the Federal level was misguided from the start, in my opinion.
This is absolutely crazy to me. It takes 1.5 hours to commute from one side of London to another or does he live outside the city limits? How can you live INSIDE a city and endure such commute times.
The HN guidelines (https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html) ask us not to, instead saying to use the original title.
So why are they tipping off the scammers to this technique?
> In a systems language, it's important to know if you're passing around things by value or reference.

I'm not sure that distinction should be always in your face though. Systems or no systems, you almost never want to pass a number by reference or pass an array by value.
Google launches a personalized travel planner, Google Trips
Session with DJ Patil – U.S. Chief Data Scientist
>I condemn Snowden. Prove that I'm intellectually lazy.

You haven't even bothered to provide an argument to justify your condemnation. Case closed.
I would be. Good engineers can only make a good product if the management chain creates an environment for them to do it. Theres also a base level of hatred (lets not pretend its a loved company) oracle has to overcome to get people to use new products as well.
Sorry, that should have been WWII, you're right. Anyone who wishes to know more about France's lack of preparation for both wars should read the French historian Marc Bloch, who fought in both and died in the resistance. L'Etrange defaite is his great work.
Putin was behind this, I knew it!
I very much disagree. A one-star 'review' is seldom a review. Complaints, which is the better classification for these posts, are better when included in a 2-star review that offers some context and demonstration that the reviewer is in a stable state of mind.
Long time to watch the videos
> The extreme example is a melody that consists of only a single note. Ridiculous, but as a fellow nerd I'm sure you can see how I could call a single note a melody.

I got your single note melody right here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PQfKFwa-jEY
Eh, sure, if it's a pretzel or a piece of candy or whatever, we (in my country) will pick it up, blow on it a bit, wipe it a bit and eat it. It depends on where it fell and how sticky the food is, but obviously "time spent on the floor" isn't really a factor.
Seems to be back now; pretty quick resolution.
Blind hackers
That actually is true. Many forget that Sun wasn't far behind Oracle in the size of its hatedom for a while. We're only nice to them now because 1) speak no ill of the dead, (2 ZFS, and other technical innovations 3) because HN is full of ex-Sun employees, and 4) because we also have the odd Solaris fanboy or two, and speaking ill of Solaris or Sun is likely to get you into a holy war second only to the one you'd get for decrying the Lispm.
DelftAcopter, single-propeller hybrid drone
This is our solution to this problem. Our service is a general purpose "sql database over cors and https", posting forms with captcha is the archetypical use case. It is more low level and requires some coding. Let us know, we're happy to help out!

https://www.lite-engine.com/blog/post_form.html
The new version (with file/folder support and brackets as editor) has only been out for a year, I wouldn't call it brand new for obvious reasons, but it's not really "old" either?
For those interested, you can find one of the original Lemmings creators here:
https://twitter.com/mdf200
He also worked on many other things:
http://www.javalemmings.com/miked/aboutme.htm
Not sure if you want to pick the game again, but never ever losing track of the ball helps with that. You physically can't, but try to see the ball hit the strings. That helps.
Was DeepMind 'lost'? It was bought by Google, but it's stayed in the UK (even if it might have made more sense to be folded into Google Brain) and iirc the founders are very keen that it stay in London.
You didn't bother with an actual argument and instead tried to force others to do the cognitive work to prove you wrong. This is intellectually lazy.
> they will likely be much safer doing it in Europe than Africa - even with careful planning.

Can you enumerate the dangers that the two friends will face in Africa - sudden malnutrition? If you are referring to armed conflict or the danger of being abducted by the local African warlord[1], then you might be happy to know that such dangers are highly localized and the high-risk areas easily avoided; after all, Africa is a large place (larger than the US, China and most of Europe. Combined[2].

1. Common trope

2. http://io9.gizmodo.com/africas-true-size-will-blow-you-away-...
Ah, I more meant "how do you make sure people don't send spam to arbitrary destinations sending your form", but I see you're doing email verification of the recipient first. I thought "put this form on your site" was literally all there was, at first, hence the question.
The more widely held view is that var should be used as much as possible, as you can see in Resharper defaults. You needn't care about the types, if the compiler handles it for you. Code like int sum = getSum() needn't break if the getSum() implementation switched to using longs. There will be exceptions, of course.

People get by with dynamic types. Much better with structural types. You're having full nominal typing and using LHS declaration for documentation. Which if ever needed (typically you shouldn't), hovering over it gives you anyway.
No, iTunes Match simply allows you to sync your music via iCloud. If you have a song on your computer in iTunes, Match will find the song in their catalogue and let you download that to your iPhone, or it will upload the music file from your computer and let you download that to your iPhone. It was basically a way to cut the cord, so to speak, and not have to actually sync your phone to your computer.

You still need iTunes for it all to work in the end.
Does this include network-layer personnel? Oracle is talking big about their compute, but it's useless without a robust and dynamic network infrastructure. Since storage fabrics are also networks today, a solid infrastructure is doubly-important, yet some data centers and MSPs seem to struggle with this core competency.

* Since they seem to be targeting a hybrid approach, how flexible will they be at building and customizing network tunnels to multiple data centers and branch offices?

* Will they allow you to host webservers there, or will you have to figure out how to network to another data center - and will it run Java, or can you get Apache or Docker? IIS with License Mobility?

* What will they do about human error creating routing loops or erroneous BGP broadcasts, when they expand or perform maintenance?

* How will they mitigate both external DDoS and compromised machine attacks from inside?

Running a multi-data center MSP is no easy feat. It will be interesting to see what solutions are developed by Oracle's offering to the above problems.
Chat Services Timeline (https://cdn.sameroom.io/chat-timeline.pdf) needs another update.
Ah, I didn't know that, thanks. Sounds like Lektor was a good choice for me, then.
How does that make any sense at all? I don't see it making any more sense at all, not even a little bit. There's nothing arbitrary about C major/A minor being taught first as it's just the simplest scale with no sharps and flats. And calling a clearly minor scale major under a new system doesn't clear anything up for anyone.
I think the assumption is that he has in-demand skills that would be used in a job at home, while the work he would be doing overseas could be done by unskilled labor. Put another way, for a highly skilled technology worker, it is better to help fill a labor shortage in their field of expertise than displace a worker that is in a region with a labor surplus. Even without charitable contributions, the economics work out better for everyone involved.

Admittedly, this assumes both a labor shortage in the technologists field and a labor surplus for unskilled workers in the foreign country, but I think both of those assumptions are supportable.
I sure hope so. I'm trying to wrap my head around his logic and its not clicking.
Re: 3, the studios aren't about to give the talent a cut of the real profits, see for example http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/entertainment/2011/10/simpsons-a...