skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No, you cannot move to antarctica, it is not legally possible to do so. There are very stringent treaty terms defining just what can and can't be done there, which are unlikely to be changed, ever. You cannot mine, you cannot own private property, you cannot build wherever you like. There are very narrowly defined provisions for scientific research and tourism of the continent, but that's it. Also, antarctica is in some ways a more difficult place to live than Mars.
> "The GR8 seems to be a rebadged Allwinner chip"

It could be, but reading up on the features of the C.H.I.P. Pro it supports mainline Linux. I assumed this meant without blobs. Is there mainline support for any Allwinner chips?
> If people who use the internet expect all their activities to be logged and mined for patterns that can potentially be used against them, they may behave very differently.

Unfortunately you see this already. Though usually people are worried about adversaries taking screenshots of conversations out of context and then painting them in a negative light, not the government doing that. But ultimately it's the same issue, there's a chilling effect on speech which is caused by the overwhelming fear of mass surveillance.
I'm waiting for a PocketCHIP (mainly to mess with pico8) that I preordered at the start of this month, and it has estimated shipping of November.

I wonder if the Chip Pro shipping in December will have any impact on my order.
> So I don't think interests will ever align to create a new registry.

Possibly not soon, at least from a technical perspective, but I could definitely see a PR fiasco (security, bias, etc.) causing a loss of confidence in its stewardship.

And I don't think it'd be that big of a disruption if it were to happen; for the hypothetical case of Facebook+Yarn, they're already proxying to NPM, so they could easily continue to do so while also accepting packages that are Yarn-only.
Sometimes it is easier to specify the reverse regex using the option instead of trying to invert it manually http://stackoverflow.com/questions/466053/regex-matching-by-...
For unknown reasons it will still try to contact the npm servers once in a hundred runs even though none of the package versions changed.
me too thanks
Likewise the QPAC building in Brisbane, Queensland has aged well on a similar climate.
Sadly I'm not in America and can't offer any interesting contacts, but I'd like to say this is fantastic, and for kids who are interested in engineering and applied sciences this would be an amazing opportunity. I wish more people were as dedicated to giving kids a great education experience as you seem to be! Nicely done.
Used to use logentries.

Now a days, on premise, logstash + elastic + kibana.
Musk has been very clear that the ITS is not a complete colonization package, it's just a transportation system.

That said, we have decades of experience with habitable spacecraft. Mir was inhabited for over 12 years, and the ISS has been inhabited continuously for nearly 16 years. That part of the technology we have a pretty good grasp on.
One of the good things with the Chinese companies is that the datasheets will usually make it out into the public if the chips get popular enough. A byproduct of the "Gongkai" ecosystem:

https://www.bunniestudios.com/blog/?p=4297
Many A20 features are in mainline kernels now, although sunxi-3.4 is still recommended for full hardware support.

http://linux-sunxi.org/Linux_mainlining_effort#Status_Matrix

EDIT: The GR8 is specifically called out on this page as having mainline support from kernel 4.9.
A.i.d.s. Ambulance Service, too. (attitude, integrity, dependability and service)

http://articles.latimes.com/1985-11-14/local/me-2370_1_aids-...
And I _still_ have to disable it on every Windows machine so I can modify things in Program Files without jumping through hoops.
> Also it keeps adding fucking Edge and Store to my quickbar every single update

This and the Cortana notifications are a real pain.
I suppose this could mean the Note 8 (7+?) will come a bit sooner.
I don't agree. Today you can push out packages to embedded device easily; even tiny <4MB rom devices like openwrt.

You can push out regular updates, but you have to be very careful. You need to have full testing environments and real lab units of all generations to test on before you push to production and realize you now have a brick on the roof of an 80 story building that takes a week to get a roof permit form.

The cloud stuff is gibberish. Today's cloud is rebranded hosted platforms. I agree, I don't see the argument of making _embedded like the cloud_ being meaningful either. I know on my embedded projects we had a tight ship pipeline and you need that for the reason stated above. Sure you can do that with Docker/ResinOS, and it might help with building a piece of that, but I have a feeling it adds as much complexity as it might mitigate.
Ask HN: Suggestions for learning English language?
Hi HN,

This question came from my mind because I feel that my English language doesn't improve in every single day. When I was writing this question, for example, I got stuck in the middle. I have something to say, but it's hard to write it on sentences. Beside that, I fear that I have grammar mistakes.

English is not my first language. If there is vocabulary that I have never heard before, I check out on the dictionary. I tend to improve my English. Writing, listening, speaking, and reading are my goals (order means the priority). So, how do you learn English language?

Note: if you suggest books, resources, or even stories, please don't hesitate to share it.

Thank you.
In 2014, Isis, the mobile-payment service built by AT&T, T-Mobile, and Verizon, changed its name to Softcard for obvious reasons.
My answer to that is no, but it's specific to my interests and not really related to the language. I am currently learning Elixir with Rust (definitely) and Kotlin (probably) being next.

If you don't already know Python, it is still a good skill to have. I love going back to it for quickly prototyping algorithms sometimes, manipulating some files, or other scripting needs.

Outside of that, how it fares in the science community and enterprise, I can't give much insight.

The version shouldn't matter too much until you have a need for hardly maintained, very specialized libs. The big stuff usually works with Python 3 these days.
But suicide vests have very limited (by bodies) lines of sight to their target that they have to try and punch through don't they?
FWIW, there's a tab to switch to the old view which is probably what most recruiters will know to do. I hope they track what recruiters actually click on when checking your resume.

I honestly don't know which they'd prefer. As someone who occasionally interviews people, I do tend to find the cookie cutter descriptions of jobs to be moderately unhelpful. I would be interested in seeing more "what you take pride in," in many cases.
Watching the scene, it looks like some creators recently moved back from Twitch to Youtube.
Did you cut/copy the entire line? I've noticed that if you cut/copy the entire line then paste at the beginning of the line it gets the indentation right every time... even if the indentation is different in the two locations.
"It's an accident of evolution."

Total speculation.
did you think it was real?
I don't know. The brand is so tainted, they might come up with a whole new name.

That's what I'd do, but then again I'm not a highly paid marketing executive.
How has broadway been coming along? I played around with it recently and it was incredible using my browser window to drive gedit. Nothing else really worked that well though. Imagine if webgl could be used when needed. Pretty incredible stuff.
What languages do you already know?
"There is just nothing to select for longer lifespans beyond the time it takes to reproduce."

Definitely there is. If humans spent a long time learning, and were more productive and fruitful in their later years, developing more intelligent systems, they would theoretically out-compete a civilization that wasn't able to develop such advanced skills and learning - especially related to passing on information.

The missing issue not obvious in genes is the amount of cultural information and learning passed on. A genetically 'superior' race of beings (faster, smarter, more disease resistant) would surely be 'beaten' by a group of lesser beings who were able to cooperate, learn, cognize, master tools, pass on wisdom etc...
Seems like a good enough prototyping kit for open source hardware.
I wonder why the 'no-price-scaling' per unit for bulk orders is considered a feature though.
A general solution is something like:

$ sort "$name" | sponge "$name"

Check whether:

$ sort -o "$name" "$name"

works with your version of the sort utility.
I'd keep it simple, pick an hourly rate that works for you, and just bill the initial meeting at that rate. Get them to agree to the rate informally before you pass around any paperwork. Don't write your own contract, use a standard one, and keep it short. I can share my half-pager with you if it would help.
Surely reliability will be improved with lockfile concept but why do we need another package manager with this. Can't we suggest same to npm team?
> Even though the percentage is vanishingly small

I thought so too. I meant it's just been three explosions, or so I heard. However this article claims 97 incidents with breakdowns on overheating vs burning. It seems pretty significant. I mean, not statically against devices in the wild, but it takes a relatively few amount of safety incidents to question an entire product line.
How is it optimized for SMT? It seems like the PCB that you mounted it to would need to have a hole or milled pocket in it to accommodate the backside thickness of the CHIP. Not sure how feasible a pocket is, but a hole would mean you then lose all your layers/backside in that area.
This will realistically not be a major problem. Most of these IoT devices operate only in a LAN or talk to a specific "cloud" service.

Thus, there's no way for an attacker to get access to services on them on a large scale basis (well, without hacking the cloud service, but hopefully someone can actively maintain that).

The cameras are only an issue because many people exposed them directly to the internet so they could access them remotely.

You will not see many people expose speakers, lightbulbs, blind controllers, thermostats, fridges, TVs, etc to the internet, so it's not exactly a major threat for most devices.

Not for now at least. If IPv6 becomes wide spread available to consumers, we're in for a whole new wave of attacks on these types of devices unless home routers are configured to block incoming traffic by default to devices behind them.
on my machine:
'curl' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file.
Doesn't help the engineers weren't able to solve the issue though.
Have any of Terrile's friends and family taken him to a therapist? For him to be so certain of such an improvable (and largely irrelevant) fact seems like a sign of mental illness to me.
I'm not a large JS developer but with my other experiences managing dependencies, it doesn't always allow this as a possibility. A bug in your system is tracked down to the library b using x@1.0 but the fix is to upgrade to b with x@2.0 however a using x@1.0 doesn't have an upgrade path. Waiting for another company or organization to release with an update is not an option. Our projects have several cases of requiring different versions of the same library -- we try to avoid this using the same logic you suggest but it's not a possibility in all cases so we have to work with it.

It's placing your own release cycle at the whims of your dependencies' release cycles. In the corporate world that would not be a viable solution.
I order the original CHIP at end of May, and I still haven't received it today, it was supposed to ship by June. They kept getting delayed. Latest update is that the shipping is for November. Can't help but suspect they are doing this on purpose to wait for price drop on the components to sustain the business.
Thank you. The people need to know.
Ask HN: Advice Needed to clawback equity from investors
(Using throwaway as i'm active on HN and have spoken about my startup in the past).

Need some advice. First some background.

Based in Australia.

SaaS CRM based product. 3 founders. Raised a small round from local VC. Received $250k investment and gave up 40% of the equity. Founders own 20% each and VC owns 40%. We accepted this deal at the time as it was the only deal we could get. Part of the term sheet stipulated that we get one board seat (between the three of us) and VC gets one board seat. So, even though we own 60%, we don't control the board.

At the time, we were only generating a few thousand dollars a month and thought it was a good deal.

Fast forward 5 years. We are now earning $450k per month in recurring revenue. Profits of ~30-50k per month. Our investors only put cash in. They were not strategic and didn't help us get to this stage. We are now looking to exit within the next 3 years and are starting to cleanup the business to get ready for it. However, we (the founders) are now feeling like we got the raw end of the deal. The VC's who only put in $250k and nothing else but, will make millions and we won't see anywhere near that amount of money. We feel like we have been in sacrifice mode (low salaries, re-investing every dollar) and are starting to become demotivated.

We have spoken to our investors and they have denied requests with regards to clawing back equity. We are also in the middle of creating an option plan for employees however, we have been told that we cannot participate. After having lots of fights with our investors, they have now requested that we come with some ideas on clawing back equity. The first thing that comes to mind is setting KPI's that would reward the founders if reached.

Does anyone have any ideas or been in similar situations before?
For example when you are running Linux on your MacBook but are too lazy to boot back into OSX for dev purposes. ;)
Yes, but then you need to carry said shrapnel packed around the explosive core. Ball bearings, metal shards, caltrops etc. all weigh a considerable amount - at least in quantities required to do wide area damage.
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Surprisingly, not many people know just how to write a good developer resume. The Developer Story is a good approach but even that is missing the key element that makes a resume work _when you are looking for a job_.

Imagine this scenario:

- Farmer looking for horse to plough my fields and inspect my farm
- Horse 1: "I am a stallion! My coat shines in the sun, my mane is dark and glossy, and the very earth trembles as I run. I have come from the stables of Arabia, have been in the armies of Alexander, the greeks, and the mighty Theseus! I have ploughed the fields of Asphodel, and won 'prettiest horse' in the Reading village fair"
- Farmer: "Wow! You're...impressive"
- Horse 2: "I enjoy ploughing fields and I'm pretty strong"
- Farmer: "Great! I can offer you two apples, four sugar cubes, a nice warm barn..."

To be effective, Resume's shouldn't be all about how great we are (unless we are _really_ someone standout). Rather they should be tailored to the job we want.

The resume needs to get through the "hiring funnel". This means they must contain the keywords that the ATS and Recruiter need in addition to our technical accomplishments that the Hiring Manager and Interviewing Panel will want. This really is pretty simple but we get caught up looking inward and not paying attention to the actual audience of the resume. So most resume's end up hit or miss.

For anyone interested, I've written a book on how to do this. The book's description on Amazon contains the entire process so you don't need to buy it unless you want to. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01KVVY9OA
I was planning on going through Pattern Recognition and Machine Learning by Bishop, for those who have gone through this PDF, which do you think is more useful for learning data science?
My first thought too.

"What fresh hell is this?"
If it's ultimately code that prevents the battery from overheating, in some architectures, what's to prevent a Stuxnet for batteries?
Paris has well-planned routes? Not at all! Take line 12 for example, a crooked, slow line with stations sometimes a single block apart.

There are no escalators or elevators except for a few stations, and the trains rattle and shake as much as NYC. Not to mention the narrow trains running on standard gauge, created like that on purpose so the federal government wouldn't take it over and run their own trains.

Line 14 is the only one which would qualify as a modern transportation system.
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Pretty much every SOC manufacturer. To protect their intellectual property, they control access to the documents that describe the behavior of their products. Also, if you leak any of their intellectual property, the NDA allows them to sue their lost profits (due to clones of their product) out of you.
On one hand, you get rid of a big attack vector.

On the other, if a vulnerability in your code exists, it's there for good.
I know a Twitter PM who doesn't work any more. He collects a paycheck, but he doesn't do anything but travel the world on Twitter's dime. I'd imagine that there are dozens if not hundreds of other Twitter middle management doing the same.
I can share my half-pager with you if it would help.

If you wouldn't mind, it would be nice to get a real-world example.
Why does everyone start talking like an architect when bike sheds are discussed?
Sorry, I was perhaps not quite precise enough. I agree that collaboration on complex technical topics is wonderfull. There is quite a lot of collaboration and we do have a great team. The system is divided to many components and each of those components has usually only one or two active developers.

The inherent technical complexity of the components is such that sometimes a feature needs days of coding - thus the 'more locksmith, less of a ballgame' analogue. I should have perhaps pulled some other analogue.
Dedicated ICs for LiPo batteries are supposed to prevent that
That's an awesome idea! You should suggest it on meta.stackoverflow.com.
I have the PocketChip; great device. Recommended for sure. Together with come CHIPs you can do nice things. Sure for the same price as the PocketChip you can pick up a far more functional Android / Windows 10 tablet but this has a keyboard and you can replace anything in it yourself and do interesting hacking for both software and hardware.

Edit: (I bought the PocketChip for the introductory price; it's more expensive now but still cheap I find, especially as I would really like more people to make things like this... Is there anything else than the Pyra & this for handheld devices with a keyboard that you can actually order now and be quite sure you'll get it instead of throwing money away?)
So I'm one of those developers that got forced into buying a Mac Mini in order to test my software on MacOS. On one hand, you're correct that Apple "won" because I was pushed into spending $500 on their hardware. On the other hand, the parent is very much correct. Candidly, I'm still angry at Apple for making their ecosystem a pain in the ass to work with. Hell, I would have paid good money to buy a MacOS virtualization license because it screws up my work flow. Every other OS I work with I can virtualize on my laptop, which means that I can work remotely without internet such as on airplanes or in cheap hotels. For MacOS, I have to ssh into the box, but even that is a royal pain in the ass because there's a lot of the ecosystem that flat out doesn't work without the desktop open. Environment variables are set differently. Some programs like MATLAB will not run (Yes, you can run MATLAB on the console through an ssh session, but you have to VNC into the box first to make sure the desktop is running.) I hate it, which means that I flat out tell my customers not to use Apple hardware if at all possible. So, yes, they got $500 out of me, but I actively work to ensure they get less business in the long run because their ecosystem is a wreck. Just letting us virtualize MacOS would go a long way to fixing that problem.
You should just upgrade your desktop machine to a retina iMac; they're the best machine out there for writing software.
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How does re-sending the message help? Everybody in the group has already received the message a dozen times or more.
Joe Halpern is involved? Awesome! Great guy, although I haven't seen him since grad school.

If nothing else, he may be the best songwriter I personally know. ;)
Is something supposed to appear when you launch this thing?

Because nothing does...
What was the audience? Maybe he does think it is a valid issue, but doesn't want to discuss it with the media since they are liable to misuse his words.
Hahahaha as someone who recently made the switch from corporate/tech-giant world to the startup world in the bay area, I can really relate to this article.
Sure. I think that law enforcement is necessarily there to keep us from doing things. That is enough for me to think it's not necessarily the same as benevolence. At the risk of flying my ultra-nerd flag, it's like the lawful-chaotic vs good-bad axes. To paraphrase the comment I was questioning, I think it ought to be a person's reasonable expectation that law enforcement is a lawful actor, but A) we aren't even there yet, and B) that is orthogonal to benevolence. The connection between lawfulness and benevolence is complicated by so much history and disagreement about what is actually "good" that I hesitate to just casually purpose them together like niftich's comment did.

It might even be worse, that we ought to expect law enforcement to be agents of order above all, and that just makes kinda me nervous. I'm not sure how rational those feelings of nervousness are. (both of those "ought to" statements are in the sense niftich used it in). Maybe law enforcement is fundamentally just a necessary evil, in that they're going to prevent someone from doing what they think is ok. Hence the orthogonal axes, where this is just a statement about order. I don't really know how I feel about this, hence the terse question. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Anyways, I didn't want to put my own opinion directly in my question because of the risk of sidetracking discussion towards my own opinion and away from my curiosity about why niftich felt that it was true enough to state without justification.
No but I don't see any reason why it isn't feasible to some degree. Wasn't it some CoD promotion? I just wanted to use it as an example of what I was talking about. It's a cool example :)
Surely not. I have 4000 mAh Chinese phone and it works 2 full days with normal (browsing, GPS, pdf reading) use. I don't doubt it's not "metric" 4000 mAh, but surely more than 1000 mAh, maybe 2000-3000 mAh.
If there is one thing that inspires me in this life, it's news like this.
Camouflage design is a fascinating area. And what's most amazing is that, two world wars (and countless small ones) later, they're still discovering new things. E.g. when these experiments took place, it was assumed, on common sense grounds, that the way to camouflage a human silhouette is to break up the shape. It wasn't until the 80s that several strands of research in biology have converged to deliver a conclusion that what actually matters is axial symmetry, and effective camouflage is largely about disrupting that (but patterns that disrupt shape well also tend to disrupt symmetry, so they were effective - just not in a way their authors anticipated).
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