skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The Austrian company says its patented laser-welding and thermal-cooling techniques give them an edge over Tesla because the method preserves the full power of the lithium-ion cells.

This is what they say their advantage is against tesla. So be it, but I doubt it is revolutionnary.

More importantly, Kreiser, as far as the article explains, doesn't build entire cars. They sell drivetrains and battery packages. This is completely different, Tesla has a way bigger scope.
Drivetrains on bikes can be > 98% efficient, so I assume you mean the human power output efficiency. But 250W applied directly to the crank via an electric motor should get you a good 40km/h for 4 hours! :)
It is their problem; they will get paid in full by staying on ship (no matter what happens to their employer) but will forfeit that pay by abandoning the ship, and for the officers, there is the abovementioned criminal liability if the abandoned ship causes any harm (e.g. by leaking chemicals from cargo).
Everything listed there makes me more pessimistic about my own chances.

Only 30% of founders are from outside the US, only 14% aren't incorporated, 50% had no revenue, only 8.5% are solo founders, 54.7% were recommended by YC alumni...

So basically the odds of being accepted if you fit into ALL those buckets are probably very very slim. I don't see how fitting into all those buckets make your company unworthy of investment.

It's good to know this though then you can mess with your startup to make it fit into high-probability buckets. I don't think it would improve the startup, but it would certainly improve your chances of getting into an accelerator.
My daughter was born 8 weeks premature in Germany. She was considered an extremely unproblematic case (though without medical attention, she probably wouldn't have made it).

On the same ward, we had at least one 700 gram baby that was doing fine, and several that were close to that. So agree, the parent's claim is definitely way too broad.
Why Lisp Failed. (2009)
This sort of Windsorizing will inflate the average anyway.

Making decisions based on "average" view time is still silly.
It was so long ago that I honestly don't remember. It might have been something like HL model viewer or Milkshape 3D rendering things using a different software renderer. I did some research and there is also an option to set affine texture mapping in the HL OpenGL renderer. HL works on Macs so I will test that stuff out soon
That it logs invisible videos at all would be a problem.
maxima and wxmaxima computer algebra software are using gnuplot.
Show HN: Umbrella – Open Source Digital and Physical Travel Advice
You can bound polygon sorting by looking at the closest and furthest points from the camera for each polygon

That still fails to resolve cycles.
The Internet is supposed to be a dump series of pipes. However, in practice you can of course try a traceroute and then complain to the ISP, which will or will not cooperate. If the ISP does not cooperate, then you can call their upstream provider and kindly ask them to call their customer and yell at them, but note that money is flowing in the wrong direction for that to work.

Plus you get the problem that you are usually seeing DDOS traffic from innocent bystanders, if the ISP is shutting of a compromised home router, then their customer will not have internet for some length of time.
Congratulations!

And never, ever, ever give up the fight for GNU-style double-dash command-line flags!
Personally, I would have preferred you waited until you could release all the documents at once. I admit I was interested, but I've seen too many people and organizations start a conversation but never finish it or show the goods. It's misleading and unfair to dangle a solution when all you really have is a problem.

Take, for example, this post from CoreOS back in March 2016 that suggested that they might know a way to improve systemd-journald performance: https://coreos.com/blog/eliminating-journald-delays-part-1.h...

It smelled suspicious, but its release generated a bunch of noise on HN anyway. And they never followed up with subsequent parts, which suggests to me that they never found a solution in the first place.

I'm not suggesting that GitHub is blowing smoke -- if you truly have a solution, that's great! But there's no harm in gathering documentation and source code and cleaning it up and waiting until it's good and ready to go. Otherwise, I frankly mistrust the motives and abilities of those involved. Call me cynical if you must.

To paraphrase from another industry, "sell no wine before its time." There's a lot of wisdom there that is equally applicable to products in our industry too.
I've met Simon before and could maybe answer some of the QC questions.
ETLA is a FLA.

DETLA is also a FLA.
To start with, restrict it to a few countries where Yelp works reasonably.
It might be some time before it's abstracted enough. For example, there's software packages for Finite Element Analysis, but if you don't know the underlying math, you can't do anything more complicated than the basics. Plus, if there's a problem without that knowledge you can't really debug it. I'm guessing ML will be like that for a while. If you want to do something simple using a package is fine, but as soon as something goes wrong you'll need that knowledge to figure out what's happening.

For example, for a while there's been work on doing sentiment analysis using machine learning and they typically train them on a data set of movie reviews. It turns out that as soon as you apply that trained system to anything other than movie reviews the actual results are quite poor, but you might not catch it.
Huh? I submitted this 23 hours ago with the exact same url, glad to see som discussion though.
It seems to be a case of transitioning marketing claims from those about the potential of the core underlying technology to more real world scenario benefits. Some of the numbers included latency in the kernel/driver, so they are more focused on actual applications.

It is a bit different to say initial product shipped vs tech potential.. We've been waiting on zen err bulldozer/excavator/piledriver/steamroller for years now, and while mobile and Apus shipped, it has been a fluke in server and desktop markets.
That is one expensive book! It's discounted on Google Play and still 75 euro
Ou me ajude a descobrir a senha do facebook ou zap do meu jamorrado
iOS 10 has felt pretty buggy to me. Lots of little glitches here and there. We are still trying to get some hard data on a sneaky problem with random dropouts when using BLE beacons. I'd say this is more likely to be more of the same than a conspiracy.
A download manager would be fine if there was a non-opaque method of determining the download address, and they actually let you do that (I know the developer site for instance uses some combination of cookies/referrers to limit external access to binaries presented for download).
I won't say that it doesn't happen (bad outliers always exist); however it would be very unlikely you'd be convicted for it.

A few years ago when I worked in computer forensics there was this big myth that if you went on porn websites and one of the images was underage you'd get done for it. However intent is a big part of law and so there would always have to be something along with "just an image" showing some intent to have obtained and viewed it.
As far as economics is concerned, I recommend Mankiw's principle of economics. It's widely used as a textbook for economics undergraduates. It's very well written and entertaining. In my opinion, it's better than general public vulgarization books.
Yup, they did!
What is deepstream?
In every university I've seen (in France and Japan in STEM) the Ph.D. is minimum 3 years, but many (most?) students do it in 4 because they don't have the required publications in 3 years. It's rare, but some do it in 5.

Apparently in liberal arts the Ph.D. tends to drag on an on 5, 6, 7 years...

So yes, you do need a master before starting your Ph.D., and I've never heard of someone doing their Ph.D. in 2 years. Maybe if you hit a homerun and get prestigious publications very early.
Véhicules électriques: la France championne européenne du secteur
Elcomsoft is hardly "anyone" when it comes to this particular subject matter. You may want to look them up.
What would have been a bunch of positive earned media is now a flood of negative reaction and lingering questions that they buckled under the pressure.

The biggest DDOS ever, and Akamai dumps the client rather than defend it.

However they spin it, doesn't look good.
The GiraDora is a pedel-powered washing machine: http://inhabitat.com/human-powered-giradora-washer-needs-no-...

There are other concepts which are more bike-like: http://webseriesnetwork.com/photo/pedal-power-washing-machin...
How many on the public internet? Too many.
Here are close to 100k IP cameras on the public internet: https://www.shodan.io/search?query=ip+camera

Again, the speculation that it is IoT devices is unfortunately just that. However massive compromise of internet connected embedded device is not new: http://internetcensus2012.bitbucket.org/paper.html
Is it?

http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1978/37

> 1 Indecent photographs of children.

> (1)[F1Subject to sections 1A and 1B,] it is an offence for a person—

> (a)to take, or permit to be taken [F2or to make], any indecent photograph [F2or pseudo-photograph] of a child F3. . .; or

> (b)to distribute or show such indecent photographs [F4or pseudo-photographs]; or

> (c)to have in his possession such indecent photographs [F4or pseudo-photographs], with a view to their being distributed or shown by himself or others; or

> (d)to publish or cause to be published any advertisement likely to be understood as conveying that the advertiser distributes or shows such indecent photographs [F4or pseudo-photographs], or intends to do so.

[...]

> 4)Where a person is charged with an offence under subsection (1)(b) or (c), it shall be a defence for him to prove—

> (a)that he had a legitimate reason for distributing or showing the photographs [F6or pseudo-photographs] or (as the case may be) having them in his possession; or

> (b)that he had not himself seen the photographs [F6or pseudo-photographs] and did not know, nor had any cause to suspect, them to be indecent.

There are some amendments in the Sexual Offences Act 2003, but I don't think they turn it into a strict liability offence.
As someone who's contributed multiple patches to multiple open source projects, this is 100% truth.

I have >3 month old pull requests to add tests which have never been looked at - whereas someone who knows the project maintainer will get a PR looked and merged the next day.
One should not confuse 3D XPoint that is a sort a memory and Optane that is a product, a SDD. Octane uses all the traditional protocols to work like other devices in a computer and that slow down the operations a lot. We saw the same drawbacks with SDD when they used the SATA interface and the protocols of hard drives, before special drivers improved their speed.
That too, but I rather meant predeclared named types. According to Go specification, types that you define with "type Name OldName" are named, but "int", "string" and the rest are named too. Go disallows declaring methods on predeclared types.

https://golang.org/ref/spec#Types
It's better than first person plural form :)
I'm wondering if the rising scale of these attacks & the seeming ease with which sites can be taken down will ultimately result in an "authenticated" internet - ie. you can't even connect without identity verification.

We already see publishing through FB Instant Articles etc. moving in that land on top of the current internet, to combat these types of firehose attacks, the only solution may be to take authentication one level deeper into the connection level.

That of course sounds good to security agencies as that's the end of anonymity online.
Show HN: Domainomo – Domain Name Generator with Word Lists
>6. The oil, water temperature, and alternator warning lights would all be replaced by a single "This Car Has Performed An Illegal Operation" warning light.

Oh, how we laughed.
Just this link: https://www.hackread.com/brian-krebs-website-665-gbps-ddos-a...

I'm a bit concerned about the reliability of that report since there are no strong proofs for their claim.
For educational purposes only: Amazon store hack for free kindle books
Cortana connects UK woman police emergency call to USA
Z-Buffer had huge bandwidth impact that's true, but you can deal with it depending on you game. A good example is SSB which use Z-Buffer only for characters, all the rest is build from bottom to top. Combine this with the fact it only use "one cycle" graphic computation (N64 allow to do another shading computation pass in a mode call "2 cycles"). This allow big framerate.

> most games implemented their own pseudo z-buffer in microcode.

Just two or three IIRC. Mainly Factor 5 games.

Goldeneye use Z-Buffer, bullet texture overlaps because the poly offset value used to apply bullet texture on walls is always the same.

> The general theme of the technical analysis was that the N64 had a lot of "features" that had a massive performance impact to use, so many of them went unused.

I wouldn't say that.

1) The N64 is a complex console. It still inherit the "all electric" tradition of 16/32 bits consoles but focusing on 3d computation and shading so it need skilled peoples and time to do interesting things with it (in its last days, N64 had very impressive games).

2) With that, Nintendo devs provides GBI (graphic binary interface) which was not such efficient on the vector computation side (but generic enough to allow peoples to use it).

3) N64 had a all-wired per pixel processing unite (a GPU named RDP), meaning it could provide high quality pixels like never before but this was costly.

4) Because texture had to be stored physically "inside" the RDP chip for efficient processing (remember, 3DFX didn't even exists at this time and the GPU word was a concept), memory cost (and, I suppose, size limitation) were important so they choosed to focus on pixel quality over texture definition (there is actually many hack to "visually" improve texture definition: http://imgur.com/2EeH5Yg).
What about DistinctMyName? JobMyName? KindMyName? CruelMyName? Simply choose an adjective, perhaps a location, something to distinct you from the other homonyms.
Indeed. I'm an occasional packager for a small Linux distro, and there's a reasonable chance this counts as a non-free license with your modifications... which in this distro means we couldn't distribute binary packages and installing it from source would have to have a user manually enable non-free packages.
Good quality? I'm not sure. Just speculation on this one post: https://www.hackread.com/brian-krebs-website-665-gbps-ddos-a...
They don't have to build entire cars, because there are plenty of good car builders in Europe (which already seem to be their customers)

Tesla now has an edge on the technology front, but once the traditional European brands pick up, with technology that is better than Tesla (as assumed in the article), the question is if Tesla can keep it's market position. (This is in my opinion the main idea of the article)

I agree that the European brands came way too late into the game, and Tesla was clever enough to recognize this weak spot. But once Tesla starts building cheaper cars, will those who spend $70.000 on a car buy the "average" Tesla or a Mercedes, BMW or Porsche?

Don't get me wrong, I really admire Tesla for how much market share they were able to get in such a short period of time. Definitely well deserved and visionary! But it's indeed a question how this market will evolve further. This Austrian company might have an impact on it.
It's accelerating!
WScan – In-Browser Web Application Security Scanner
That's the IAB's standard viewable impression metric: https://www.iab.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/MRC-Viewable-...
Per Thorsheim says: "Apple have moved from pbkdf2(sha1) with 10K iterations to a plain sha256 hash with a single iteration only. Bruteforce with CPU!" https://twitter.com/thorsheim/status/779207177416351744
Being born in Aug 1973, he started university at 16 and did the Mathematica code analysis and extraction tool at 19. I expected to see an extreme prodigy but that's still a fast start and he only got faster.
One day, one of the 'potentially disruptive' battery technologies is going to get developed all the way to production. Surely. Right?
Wearables for Worker Safety in the Oil and Gas Industry
Feel free to count the number of successes vs the typical rich WASP. (include dropouts in the latter number) You might learn something you do not like.
From a usability point of view is it really such a huge huge win that instead of using `typings install foo` you can now use `npm install @types/foo`?

I can see it's better (not sure why a single repository(!) was ever considered a good idea), but in the end both methods work if all you need is to obtain the latest version of a .d.ts file.
That's not true. The wording of the act's relevant to CP specifically say things like "knowingly" which is well-ruled to mean Mens Rea is required.

Real-life sexual offences, as in actually attacking a child, is strict liability.
Well, to be fair to the parent poster (and without going deeper into the merits of this side-argument), I'd note that the expression "pro bono" as generally used in English is actually short for "pro bono publico" which does in fact mean "for the public good".

Law firms (and other professional services firms) call it "pro bono" when they use their specific skill-set to provide their services to those (e.g. the indigent) who couldn't otherwise afford them.

In that example, it's the fact that the indigent can get access to quality legal representation which is itself considered the "public good".
DockerHub seems down with a 503
This chatbot makes voter registration as easy as sending a text
Show HN: HOWL, a formant synthesizer (v2.0)
A botnet of coffee machines, thermostats and Teslas? :D
And it's back up now.
> The Inuit/Eskimo peoples are and were perfectly capable of moving and living on water

Suprisingly the Inuit are a very young culture! They started around 1000 AD in Alaska and had settled northern Canada and Greenland only when Europe discovered America.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/32/Arctic_c...

The Paleo-Eskimos (genetic studies show no connection to the Inuits, so no intermarriage) developed 2500 BC (and ended 1500 AD), so only 4000 years ago, this is way after the migration of Paleo-Indians into the American continent (40,000–16,500 years ago).
Right, right. Because the "rich WASP" people out there have so much trouble coming out on top when the go to college. And when they don't. It's almost like they come out ahead either way.

That actually doesn't bother me very much, to be honest.
Leaked NSA hacking tools
As far as I understand it, what happens is that views under 3 seconds aren't counted towards the average. So if you have 999 999 views of <1 second each and 1 view of 3 seconds, the reported average is 3 seconds / 1 view = average view time of 3 seconds, while the true average is something like 500 000 seconds / 1 000 000 views.
20 Beauty Basics each lady should understand by the Time She’s thirty
I am dared to say, so what. A man with money supports a nominated presidential candidate? Color me surprised...
3-5 years under ideal conditions. Stick a battery in a phone/laptop that regularly gets used in the heat and it will give up the ghost within a year. It's not even so much the ultimate lifetime that matters so much as the longer 95% capacity life, which is much shorter now. I wouldn't be surprised if this also has some major catch, like manufacturing cost, heat degradation, or instability under mechanical stress. So while it could be an really important discovery, I'll remain skeptic until I have a laptop battery that lasts for longer than 12 hours after a year of heavy use in a hot, humid climate.
> Go has the nearly perfect balance of readability, expressibility and simplicity

Is Go really expressive?
As a habit it is bad, but this is actually standard for short bios. It allows it to be dropped in place directly for conferences, PR shots, news articles, etc without any rewrite.
Yeah... And? Aren't people entitled to their opinions? Can't they be different from your own?

Who cares whether he's pro-Trump or pro-Hillary or pro-Johnson?
It already happened. Many times. Lead car batteries were disruptive. Li-ion batteries were disruptive (see all the mobile devices).
perhaps because the old API is still there? This appears to be a new less secure duplicate, with seemingly no benefit.

Also Apple took a lot of heat from the FBI case, perhaps this was part of the deal for them to drop the suit, which isn't a blatant back door.

The proof will be in their response to the issue.
* Interfaces which can have fields would be really, really great.

* A rust-style borrow checker would make dealing with channels and pointers a lot safer.

* Equality operations for slices would clean up some ugly parts of the standard net library (addresses are []byte, so a direct x == y doesn't work but seems like it should).

* Closed enum sets: some ability to setup an enum type which can be "complete" when used in a switch statement without needing a "default" and which will only panic/fail when a bad type conversion is made. Let me sanitize out a whole bunch of possible errors at one point in my code when I want to use constants (and be warned when I break the guarantees).
If it's allowed to sell unclaimed cargo, doesn't that create an incentive to jack up all the unloading fees?

I mean, if I pay $1,000 to ship my $30,000 car, what's stopping the port from saying they want $20,000 to give it to me?
Security.

The same reason security libraries are distributed independently so that they can be automatically updated without the program using them being re-compiled & re-released. On the Android platform, Chromium WebView updates far more frequently than the apps that depend on it & includes security patches on update.
For the layman like me, raising this much money for a company that is founded in 2008 sounds like it is still in the startup phase, and sustainability is not achieved. Am I reading this correctly?
I'd expect them to have gone further and probably invested/committed more resources to it.
Xkcd: Datacenter Scale
Show HN: Fliffr – Mobile Advice Marketplace
How is it "broken"? I thought they meant that there's a fundamental flaw with the tech, but instead it seems he just means that they didn't meet their original goals of the tech with their first actual product.
we didn't bid. we're still around though. we have plans :)

it will be interesting to see how Tesla makes money. it's probably mainly a test site.
This another demonstration how people can differ. A specific reason I liked gnuplot was the ease with which I could integrate it in my code, latex and xfig workflow. In fact that was perhaps the only thing that I liked about it.
What Can Optimus Prime Teach You About Leadership?
Fair point, although they weren't such big news when they happened.
I feel that since Li-On batteries there has been a lot of press for interesting academic work to could potentially lead to the next step change in performance, with no results as yet. I understand well the long path from lab to product and the low likelihood of success for any one technology, but there have been enough of them now that surely one of them will stick?
"Global Capitalism: Its Fall and Rise in the Twentieth Century" by Jeffry Frieden is a masterpiece. It will give you a thorough, expansive view of the global financial world - the major events and trends - as they unfolded over the last century. This book is regularly assigned as a text book in Ivy League economic history classes, so even though it's short on math/ econometrics, it's a serious work.
Cloudflare has this on their website: "600Gbps: Largest DDoS attack stopped" - https://www.cloudflare.com/under-attack-hotline/
But I suppose attacks may differ in other ways that Gbps.