skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
GOLD: Weakens, Targets Further Weakness
> Article states UK region "due in coming months". No location announced?

At the bottom of the English section it says it's London

The new European region, coupled with the existing AWS Regions in Dublin and Frankfurt, and a future one in London,
Airbnb denies it is pushing up rental and house prices
An interesting side note is that the most popular recent thread on /r/NoMansSkyTheGame/ has been about people who have stopped playing but check in daily for news.

A common theme in that sub is that the news about Hello Games is far more entertaining than the game itself.

Fundamentally, the game failed to deliver any emergent gameplay between the various procedural components. An infinite universe that's completely lifeless, waiting for for you to interact with it.

They've released 9 updates so far, mostly bug fixing, there's talk of new features in the future but I have a hard time seeing how they truly fix the game.
> Fortunately, there’s a solid body of evidence even without that secret data.

I doubt that, at least at the current state.
"THERE IS NO OVERSIGHT!"

Should there be? I'm not quite sure. I mean, personally I feel a lot safer managing my own data privacy with what I give these companies, rather than having a government do it for me. And I'm not exactly a libertarian, I just think it's rational that this should be decentralized, the risk of a company turning against "us" is a lot less than a government, given history.

"I've switched away from Facebook, and now I've lost touch with a lot of friends. They are my friends, why can't I export them? Why can't I export the data that belongs to me, and use it in some open-source format that allows me to reap the benefits of all the work that I spent tracking them down inside of Facebook's private garden?"

You can.
https://developers.facebook.com/docs/graph-api/reference

All those "What does your friend list say about your love life?" type surveys use it.

"As a society, we need to start addressing these things, or we are going to end up with Internet giants that we don't have the means to get rid of, and that aren't at risk of being out-competed."

We've heard this a lot over the years, but I've really never seen a case of a company that can't be out-competed. Who is it up to to "get rid" of an organization? On what basis? People stop using their services, and they stop making money is generally how it works. Otherwise, Antitrust law is the main mechanism today, isn't that sufficient?

People forget that Google didn't ask permission or get oversight or contact copyright holders when building a search engine. They hooked a couple servers on the web and started crawling it with their algorithm, and replaced other search engines pretty quickly because they had a better service. One could say that it's impossible to compete with Google, but I'm not so sure: Bing is doing fine (if small share), DuckDuckGo is growing, etc. Adding more oversight/regs to the Web just makes it harder to replace these companies.

I'm sure plenty wanted to "get rid" of Microsoft in the 90s because of their attitude and growing monopoly, and certainly they were fettered by the U.S DOJ., but looking back, the calls to break them up were a bit silly. No one would have predicted Apple was going to become much, much bigger (some still can't believe it).
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Solving a Crack Me with Triton and Pin (a.k.a the Lazy Way)
You can use a link local address of your public interface in IPv6.
Good point. I find it funny to read other comments here of "who cares about Apple not being in the group?". Apple is just one of the most successful companies of all times and it demonstrates over and over to have a bit more integrity and commitment to guarding user's privacy. Kudos to Apple.
That's just the same old phenomenon that as soon as AI does something outstanding, people redefine the meaning of intelligence to exclude it.

I'd say that in many of these cases, people expect "true" intelligence to come with conscience. But when some AI passes any test for consciousness you can throw at it, I'm sure there'll be people saying "it's not consciousness, it's just (perfectly) simulation consciousness".

Somehow I can see this ending in some sort of "AI rights" struggle in 40 years or so. (so to anyone from the rebellion reading this in 2058: please consider this early support of your cause. The sha256 of my name is ccf9342dc9f238ff10d97d4c4e86f3c2219d3ac1).
Five companies that collectively have more data on US residents' online behaviours than all the world's governments, working in partnership on AI.

What could possibly go wrong ?
~1500px X 104px X 10px which probably is enough to be interesting and of course this is a gen 1 device. I suspect bandwidth is a major issue as this is already close to 1080p pixels.
My original point was that I believe Wikipedia has a strong bias towards the best content available online and that they're weaker when potential content is only available in paper form. Which I suppose speaks to the ongoing OCR / paper -> digital backend effort to mass digitize legacy books and present them in a accessible manner.

I'll admit I'm basing this opinion only on my usage of Wikipedia and noting some glaring gaps or lack of depth in niche historical articles.
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So you need SSH.
Stressing concerns; I would say the IRS (and alike).
When did multicrew happen? The game is on life support as the company is working on other projects. They keep missing all the deadlines.
I love this, here is a straightforward technology getting the job done! Too many sophisticated and advanced solution are being built for no reason.
PCF Dev: Run 'cf dev start' and get a Cloud Foundry
This beautiful VR playset can teach your kid about UN goals
For anyone using Virgin Media as their ISP, the Dublin DC will perform more predictably, if not faster, because of VM's "give preference to data originating inside the UK/Ireland and don't give two shits about anything else" attitude.

If you run a data heavy service, PoP inside the UK or Ireland is a must if you want to avoid throttling and heavy-handed traffic shapping.
The 1920 Wall Street bombing
Are there some documented and testable examples of fraud and anomaly detection via deep learning? I'm asking from being able to play around / learn more about this domain.
If you google "portugal drug legalization study" you'll find plenty of positive results.
The end of the Cold War took a lot of the urgency out of nuclear weapons research, and with the urgency went the funding. That's why the US nuclear arsenal consists of designs from the 1960s and 70s, with little or no manufacture more recent than the 80s, and a litany of canceled programs from the 90s on.

Quite aside from that, there's a point past which chasing higher yields results in a loss of strategic flexibility, which is why both we and the Soviets eventually gave that up. (You can attack one big target with multiple warheads, but you can't attack multiple targets with one big warhead.) Modern nuclear weapons research and engineering, whatever there may be of it, would concentrate on boring stuff like improving efficiency and reliability, and reducing mass.
Thanks for the further reading! I really appreciate it.
Don't get me wrong, for what it is, if you don't think about the price...it's kind of cool.

Since a good glass of scotch can cost more than a game...sure why not.

EDIT: Also, at the length of a comment grows the probability of hyperbole being cranked up approaches 1.
> They have different cultural norms than the average American. They see nothing wrong with bunk beds, and four, or more to a residential bedroom.

So, just like silicon valley programmers then?

http://boingboing.net/2013/12/21/live-in-a-san-francisco-ike...

People will do what they need to, to improve their lives. I don't completely disagree with your post, but this comment was unnecessary and off base. You make it sound like they wouldn't be happier with more space and a nicer living quarters. They are human beings, of course they would be. Yet, they are willing to risk everything and put up with pretty desperate living conditions to come to the US. Maybe there is a reason.
Great overview always seems that Sweden/Stockholm is doing a better job then Copenhagen, Denmark. We need to promote our self because I believe we have a great community and investment opportunities!
We'll be adding it shortly :)
C's qsort() has a similar overhead vs C++ STL's std::sort() for much the same reason - the C version calls a comparator function but the C++ compiler can inline the comparator.
Ahhh...I will try that when I get home. Cause, let's face it...I waited for two years to play the effing thing. I'm going to play it for a while more.
I think they meant that there isn't really a freelancer visa, so most people would have a chicken and egg problem. AFAIK you can run your own business with a B permit which is in turn justified by income/employment in that business, but you would usually transition from a permit through another employer or other types of visas (family, student, etc.) I think waiting until you had a C permit would be more common, especially if your only connection with Switzerland is employment.
That's just a question of how wide the paper is.
Why are you certain military has those thermal images?

As far as I know, for many of their tasks (such as detecting missile launches) an infrared MASINT is sufficient.

If that’s the case, the system doesn’t produce images at all.
I think you should pivot if you find that what you assumed of your customers is no longer true.

From what I read here that may not be the case, and looks like it is probably a matter of sales/marketing.

Also two sides markets are hard

Just my 2c
..and here I thought we solved the config library war :( https://github.com/vstakhov/libucl
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I find it productive. It's a reminder that anyone we know who seems to have a successful, perfect life might actually be suffering. It lets regular people know they are not alone as some loser who is the only one struggling.

One example is Elizabeth Vargas. She looks perfectly professional and in control on TV, when actually decades of anxiety have cost her dearly: http://abcnews.go.com/Health/abc-news-anchor-elizabeth-varga...
Not at all :)
Anyone can complain to ASA.

Here's the page with information for consumers: https://www.asa.org.uk/Consumers.aspx

Here's the page that talks about what ASA covers: https://www.asa.org.uk/Consumers/What-we-cover.aspx
> this isn't a scary prospect for Hello Games.

You're right, they have far bigger problems, I wonder if HG has a future given how tarnished their name is?

I feel sorry for Sean Murray, in hindsight he seems like a Walter Mitty character; big on dreams and when anything was suggested in an interview he let his imagination answer.
Systemd v209+: local denial-of-service attack
So you're basically saying that this is a "Cartel on AI".

What I'd like to see is all of the consortium members sign a pledge that none of them will sell or use their AI technology for defense/military purposes (mainly looking at you Microsoft/IBM/Amazon).

I could see how 10 years down the line, the US government tries to co-opt the group to help it in its wars. This needs to be preempted now, in the same way they should've preempted calls for encryption backdoors by adopting end-to-end encryption years before and making it the status quo, before the government even gets a chance to think about it. They mostly failed in doing that, but I hope they won't fail with this.
Ask HN: How do you hire a senior programmer when you aren't one
I've inherited a cross functional team, and the lead programmer has moved on.

I'm an experienced dev, but not proficient in the stack for which we are hiring.

I'm in the process of replacing him.

There is a technical test in place which I am asking other developers to grade, however I have questions about the grading, and of course the test. We're passing or failing candidates based on the test, but I know the best person won't always be the best test performer. Further, someone could not 'pass' the test and possibly be good.

Does anybody have any magic to share here?
Programming languages and best practices evolve. For example object oriented programming, functional programming, goto instructions, global variables, include files, module systems, classes, template languages, PHP, MVC, XML, JSON, unit tests, test driven development, Git, JavaScript frameworks, SQL, noSQL, sequential, asynchronous, multi-threaded, etc.
This is an article essentially about how anxiety affects political views, so here's my experience on that matter.

I'm an independent that leans conservative especially on fiscal but also somewhat on social issues, and I know that my worry plays a part in it.

I've voted for independents, Libertarians, Republicans, and Democrats in past presidential elections, and plan to vote Democrat this year, and I will do so because of my worry about the Republican candidate. This candidate is unpredictable, and is focused on the wrong side of issues that I care about. I'm a compassionate person, and the candidate is not. I'm also a Christian, and the candidate is the antithesis of the behavior and goals I would hope to have in my country's leader. And of course, I think that a woman should have a chance at leading our country, even if she's not the one that I'd chose typically. So, my anxiety will play a part in the election, but not in the way this article would suggest.
Why the father thing and not him, shooting his past self?

Also funny that the abstraction, skipping conception, lead to the father having the child.
The 5 Guidelines we use to identify if a Unity Asset is Worth Buying
>Would I like to go back to the old days when a team of 20 and six months would do what a team of 3 and two weeks does today?

This is yet another race to the bottom, which as programmers , we should advocate against whenever we can.
I'm not sure that "Apple is behind" follows from
"Apple doesn't publicize".
Oh sure, I agree wholeheartedly. I was just a bit concerned about the 'pro-legalisation' claims they examined. Specifically they look at the claim that decriminalising MJ would reduce crime (presumably other than possession/intent etc related to MJ). It seemed a bit straw-man ish.

Yes, what you describe is a travesty and needs to be writ large - legalisation may not change much but it does reduce the number of people who get their lives ruined by the state for no good reason
Tradewars 2002... you are old. You and me both :) I definitely relate to the feeling of sinking thousands of hours into games to try and find something that was like TW2002 in its heyday on the BBS. WoW and EVE came pretty close... maybe there's something about the sound of your 2400bd modem finally getting the connection to the door on the BBS that you just can't recreate:)
Lion Kimbro on revisiting computerized notekeeping (2009)
Practically: if the paper is wider, it will probably lower your viewing angle and that stuff is expensive!
systemd.conf 2016 live stream
They need warrant to get access to your server. What they can do is to collect metadata in some points of the network, they don't need amazon to do that, because they target end users.

But it's probably not a good idea to host in France if you have not reason to do that. Like NSA, french secret service just don't care about laws. But if you target french customer that's good news you have one more alternative for hosting without trouble with regulation about data.
1. These companies have been collecting our information for years now. Some have acces to what we write in are emails, but of course, they never read them, they just scan them for marketing purposes?

2. Why do I feel certain people's information has been looked at, scrutinized, cross checked, collated, etc. by certain savvy insiders. Warren buffet, George Sorrows, any of the financial movers and shakers, information is sitting on a server somewhere, unless you're a Clinton. If I had access, I could help but look at it.

Before you made an investment, bought a stock, bought realeste, took over a company; wouldn't you be tempted to peak at some of that information?.

3. I feel certain individual information has been used as research for financial gain.

3. I belive it's basically insider trading without the other guy knowing he/she gave away any information.

4. I believe it will be exposed, and will be the next huge Financial scandal.

5. I believe this move might be a smoke screen. "We know some of us have already abused private information for personal/financial gain. Let's combine the data. It might put some reigns on what we all know some of our insiders have been doing. Let the people think we are doing this to better society.

6. I don't have any evidence, I just have a hard time believing no one is looking at juicy date pouring in from some high profile people.

7. I believe it will be on the front page of Forbes in less than a year.
Your quote from the article about celebrities is presumably referring to anxiety disorders (i.e. pathologic anxiety - as opposed to the "normal", sometimes helpful variety), though the article doesn't really differentiate clearly between the two.
UK startup bank launches long-awaited Android app
Sounds interesting, do you guys have a blog at mashtime? What kind of hardware/software do you use for training? Tensorflow? on AWS or bare metal GPUs?
From London:
(To Frankfurt)
--- dynamodb.eu-central-1.amazonaws.com ping statistics ---
100 packets transmitted, 100 packets received, 0.0% packet loss
round-trip min/avg/max/stddev = 20.431/26.779/80.987/8.822 ms

(To Ireland)
--- dynamodb.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com ping statistics ---
100 packets transmitted, 100 packets received, 0.0% packet loss
round-trip min/avg/max/stddev = 15.306/22.425/63.455/9.655 ms

To Softlayer Paris:
--- speedtest.par01.softlayer.com ping statistics ---
100 packets transmitted, 100 packets received, 0.0% packet loss
round-trip min/avg/max/stddev = 12.082/16.196/54.741/7.652 ms
The complaint, our reader tells us, was made not out of malice against this particular game, but rather a desire to make a larger point about the nature of the way he alleges customers are misled by gaming advertising

The trailers clearly say "captured in real-time" which leads the viewer to believe that is indeed the current state of the game (and games usually improve from their initial releases).
Then they don’t conform to the IEEE standards, and the Javascript implementers are wrong.
What can happen will happen.
I agree with almost everything you said, except this part.

> I think the winds of the world are changing direction; people are becoming increasingly aware about privacy concerns, and these issues keep making the headlines.

It seems like only a minority cares about privacy concerns to even understand them well and take some action. Even when privacy issues make the headlines, billions of people just shrug their shoulders (and perhaps a few thousand say a curse word or two) but still go back to the same old ways they've been using Facebook, Google, etc.

I feel sad that the winds aren't changing direction, or at least not fast enough to be a force to reckon with.
There are many great Micro SAAS idea you could build on your own any day and make an income of. A skill that is needed is focused on running a SAAS business, but there are so many great content and tools out there to support you.

Go for it!

See : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9877881
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I really liked this comment by @stray [0] from a similar Ask HN from a few months ago. That thread was titled "Ask HN: What makes a Senior Dev".

Mistakes, rewrites, late nights, firefights, and deadlines.
Core dumps, memory leaks, hardware faults, and plain bad luck.
Big O, data flow, always learning -- or out you go.
Manager metrics, schedules hectic, methodology hegelian dialectic.
Taking the heat, feature creep, open office, uncomfortable seat.
Holy wars, revolving doors, carpal tunnel, all you can take? There's always more.
Fucking suits, random reboots, and the ever present "thousand language stare".
Oh yeah, pressure -- lots of pressure. And time, time, time.
Metric shitloads of time.
Time, man. You gotta do your fucking time.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11341567
Samsung in 'exploding washing machines' probe
Agreed -- I've been a one-man-band for 13 years now, & it's the business administrivia which is the biggest time-suck. That and finding health insurance.
The most interesting and useful piece of information in this story is buried towards the end: there is an app which implements a gamified version of ABMT therapy.

The BBC didn't even mention its name! From searching around it appears to be Personal Zen (iOS only): http://www.personalzen.com/

Don't know what kind of twisted priorities in the newsroom would focus a story like this on using anxiety to make a political point, versus putting the focus on a way people can treat their anxiety, but hey, that's probably just my anxiety speaking.
Have you seen this video?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sf6gJ8NDhYA

It includes a lot of photos, videos, intercepted phone calls, and other related data. The video is official, meaning the investigation team has evidences backing every statement made.
They aren't investating the game for not meeting expectations at release. They are investigating whether the advertising being used today matches the product being sole today. So this isn't about hype. It's about ongoing false advertizing.

I have to believe that investigators have seen this vid:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RvAwB7ogkik
It's only in beta as of now, but will probably be released in a couple of weeks or so.

Is the game really on life support though? I only play sporadically and don't really keep up to date with the news, other than the ones you get in the launcher and it seems to be a healthy game as far as I can tell.
And of course, I think that a woman should have a chance at leading our country, even if she's not the one that I'd chose typically.

This I find the worst argument for her presidency imaginable. "I am so virtuous and anti-sexist that I prefer the female candidate for being female" It's pure sexism. You stop being sexist when you leave the gender out of the equation. Completely.
When you have to talk to a customer.

Seriously, I worked for a place where thay was the rule.

Titles are somewhat meaningless. Apparently I'm a consultant these days...
Coding Responsive HTML Emails After the Gmail Update
> A 23 year old in their first job will (generally) just plug away at whatever's given them. Older folks generally won't deal as well with bullshit work.

On the contrary, I've seen far too many 20 somethings that will refuse to do anything that isn't new development.
His book "How to Make a Complete Map of Every Thought You Think" has been on HN several times, eg:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8078819

An update to that technique is described here, I think:
https://web.archive.org/web/20130304042318/http://lion.poste...
As a non diplomat this seems like a good thing on both sides. A reasonable consideration for different cultures is one thing, full immunity is a terrible idea.
>pretty much everything these days except for PHP and CGI work this way.

Php has had a FastCGI implementation for a considerable ammount of time: http://php.net/manual/en/install.fpm.php
Yes, there's much disillusionment here about Amazon's capability in a field they're just getting into. Apparently they'll pay everyone extremely well, fire anyone who makes a mistake, and everything will work out perfectly.