skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sure. But that's not the kind of thing a IoT hacker would consider a success. Someone might be content, however, with making a mod for Tesla that can e.g. follow "complex" paths of bright orange cones in a parking lot. Test it there, without being in the car themselves and put it on GitHub for bragging rights of having made a cool AI+Systems project. The problem is then someone might see that "cool hack", think it is more than it really is, and kill themselves turning it on while on the highway...
"At the station, it became clear I’d been at work when the robbery occurred. The detective verified this with my supervisor, but then told me they were going to charge me with two counts of first-degree murder from two other robberies. They said my mother’s gun was the same kind as the one used at the crime scene, and that I matched the description of the man they were looking for. That was enough for them to pursue charges."

I'm baffled. Is this story real? That first sentence should prove the judge that there are big errors in the process. I think his lawyer should be sentenced for the way he did not do his duties.

But can someone explain me how this case still can pass the judge? I mean, "man matches description" and "same kind of gun as mother's" wouldn't be considered a solid ground for finding someone guilty in a developed country. Either this story misses some things, or the juridical system in the USA has a low standing.
I used SuperBBS and Remote Access.
How about "larger, not smaller" rather than implying a moral judgement?
Great theory.

How has the demise of rent control increased the amount of affordable housing in NYC?
Right, it's so lame how people immediately turn to "you're a hater, hate hate hate" when discussing this topic. You don't have to hate anybody to understand people's foibles and how to get a rise out of them.
I worked for a utility provider, to build out a pricing engine. Gathering data, and generating a kw/hr rate, and determining when product changes occurred, etc. We worked with a number of national utility companies. A big portion was pulling data from the different utilities and coalescing it into a common record.

In addition we need to make the records versioned. I.E. if the product for the product was updated changing the kw/hr rate, we would need to record the change and increment the version.

We were actually trying to get a common API and make it public like this. Being utility agnostic, but still allowing viewing of customer information, when authenticated. But we hit a lot of roadblocks. These can be narrowed down to lack of interest. The team that maintained a lot of the customer relation management (SAP). Only wanted to use vendor provided services, and nothing developed in house. There was also a lot of in the weeds type analysis. There was a utility in new york, that had a tariff tax, and candle energy tax that had to be applied based upon a zip code to the kw/hr rate.

I think it's a field that is rife for disruption. Definitely beneficial, but it's a bit of a work to encourage utility companies to utilize something like this.
Idiots all the way to the top, looks like something only the President or Congress can remedy
but just pretending no one will try bad things won't help either. It may speed up the progress and will prevent bringing a significant part of the internet down in the future and also remind everybody that these things can (and probably will) happen.
Democrats are neoliberal now. Baby boomers grew up
The article doesn't quote anyone from California's Congressional delegation, or from the White House. Is there really no reaction here? We're talking about a few million dollars from the federal government to relieve an awful situation.
You might be surprised at just how often those people being trolled are just as lonely and bored as you, and just as undiscriminating in their taste in virtual company. The rest, the aforementioned "vast majority" almost certainly recognize what you're about, and steer well clear of you as a result. In all likelihood, your activities achieve little more than to restrict your potential interactions by preemptively driving away anyone who's actually worth interacting with.
> but I don't understand the benefit of shortening it to a single word versus shortening it to a shorter phrase or acronym.

To give a comparison: One can in old versions of Java simulate higher-order functions by writing an abstract interface and a class implementing it. An instance of such an object is passed as the function to a Java implementation, say, of foldl.

This is possible - but it can be done in a much more convenient way like Haskell does.

Now imagine how much more "expressive" the English language would become if such very abstract concepts could be used as a single-noun subject or object in an English sentence. The advantage is similar to the difference between the Java vs. Haskell implementation of foldl.
You shouldn't be fiddling with your phone when the action is on you. Using your phone while you're out of the hand is totally fine.
gzip usually references the data from the previous window in the current window. If you lose one block, you're likely to lose the following one. And the one following it. etc. until the end of the compressed data.
Looking down Wikipedia's list of active conflicts (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ongoing_armed_conflict...), it's hard to believe that money is a primary cause of any of them. I'm sure someone somewhere is making a profit, but that's different from the conflict being "about money".
Where Was the Last Place Discovered on Earth?
Well, for the people who have a tent controlled apartment it's certainly not terrible for controlling cost. Be more specific.
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Water bears shall inherit the Earth.
Vertical integration like this is one of the major reasons for the promotion of bandwidth caps. Which certainly do affect cord cutters. It can also results in reduced network investments and higher traffic congestion.

It can also cause digital licensing shenanigans, like excessively high licensing fees, and even more platform fragmentation.
That's how I learned it in grade school, yup.
Elsewhere, a for-profit prison extended their contract[1] with Feds barely a month after the Department of Justice said it would end[2] contracts with private prison operators.

[1] https://twitter.com/i/moments/789498562904293376

[2] https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-nation/wp/2016/08/1...

These are pretty quick u-turns by an establishment that's confident about business as usual following elections. Gravy-train!
Personally, as a Californian I'm calling everybody on my chain-of-legislation on Monday.
They already have. :)

As a somewhat unrelated aside, I think that if we bite the big one as a species, Waschbär (raccoons) might inherit the Earth. They have that combination of clever "hands", social structures, omnivorous diets that could make it work for them. Still, beneath it all, the water bears will secretly rule, through freeze and thaw.
Management companies and big developers are too visible to avoid it, but individual property owners cheat the system all the time. For example, if you have an in-law unit attached to your home in San Francisco, you'd be smart to reach a handshake deal with a nephew or friend-of-friend instead of signing a lease with a stranger.
Wasn't IceZModem fairly late to the game? I remember Texas ZModem was my primary ZModem software for a long time.
This would never work in vegas for a bunch of reasons. I think this kind of thing would only work in a home game where you are mostly playing with friends/acquaintances. Maybe you're okay with cheating strangers in vegas, but you'd really have to have no conscience to be cheating your friends.
Well, yeah, exactly. Kermit was slow and careful and pretty well guaranteed to get your data across correctly, eventually.

Zmodem was more of a fast motorcycle. Your data might not always make it there alive in a rainstorm, but it was quick and and had fun doing it.
And separate from Time Warner Telecom (TWTC) which is owned by Level 3[1]. :-)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TW_Telecom
Now they get to live with them after they get married, too!
I am an Indian in UK. Culture of heavy drinking and partying even in age group well past 30 is a real hindrance for me. If you don't drink or want to stop at a few, you are not really a sport.

Many Indian face similar predicament.
> The only reliable way of knowing if a given version of a xz decompressor can decompress a given file is by trial and error. The 'file' utility does not provide any help:

$ file COPYING.*
COPYING.lz: lzip compressed data, version: 1
COPYING.xz: XZ compressed data

To me, this indicates a lack of data in the magic database used by file, more than something inherently bad with xz.
If girls don't want to pursue Computer Science, why force them to? The majority of girls simply don't enjoy programming. Some (like my sister), do. The rest are free to pursue whichever other career they prefer. Although the media tries to paint it as a matter of nurture, it's mostly a difference in nature between men's and women's preferences.

The only reason this push to get girls into STEM exists in the first place is because of all the money and opportunities that are pouring into tech careers. You don't hear the media complain about the gender gap for boiler repair technicians or the reverse gender gap in nursing.

Fred On Everything shared a similar opinion:
http://www.fredoneverything.net/Coders.shtml
I would say their ability to resist extreme conditions might not be the same as resisting change in general. e.g: absence of food. Tardigrades are known to eat each other and in the absence of food they would probably resort to cannibalism.
The actually looks like a simple single controller action using a view model. Nothing really stops you from implementing other abstractions like ORMs, state machine, authentication, web service calls, etc.

I actually think you could build a relatively well organized large project with not much more than this really needed.
As if the people who see bribes everywhere won't just claim them that the right people just weren't bribed, or that the competition's bribes were more convincing. Once bribery is assumed without evidence, it explains everything.
I'd say it's the primary cause of the Mexican drug war. Perhaps the exception that proves the rule on that page.
The actual paper itself is available in full online and released under Creative Commons. We should do our best to promote research like this instead of linking to blogospam that is advertising articles like "Trumps IQ Will Shock You" or "Eat This Junk Food To 'Reverse' Dementia."

http://www.nature.com/articles/ncomms12808

"Extremotolerant tardigrade genome and improved radiotolerance of human cultured cells by tardigrade-unique protein."
I'm not sure why, patents and strong-arming royalties out of car companies and end buyers everywhere just because you can aside, 1234yf is used instead of plain, old propane. R290 gets the same job done and doesn't cost an arm and a leg to use...

That said, R290 has been around forever and there are huge debates as to whether or not it actually increases the risk of fire in case of an accident. There are many who will retrofit their AC compressors to use R290 instead of the now significantly more-expensive R12 or its incompatible and inferior-cooling R134a alternative.

The argument goes that R134a is warmer enough that it takes less R290 to do the trick. It's a closed, separate system, and the gas itself is largely distributed and not pooled (like a gas tank would be) and there isn't enough of it to actually sustain a fire. It's also claimed that it's simply not as easy to combust as it's made out to be, but I'm not a chemist and I don't know.
Portmanteau
There was a PSX version of Diablo. I'm sure a ROM is floating around somewhere. It was pretty terrible though :)
Yes. Think about the 911 bill. Taking a decade to help cover medical costs of first responders and those that helped dig out dead bodies and hoping to find survivors. It was so sad to see Jon Stewart talk about this years later with only one person from the original panel because two were too ill now to show up and one died.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3350433/John-Stewart...
The font used by Smalltalk is worse than Comic Sans.
It would be poor press to announce that a war is about money, but the veneer of pretense is thin. The Syrian war, especially given Russia's involvement is almost certainly about securing passage for natural gas pipelines.

Who thinks the Iraq war was actually about Freedom? That might have been the rallying cry but it was about securing access to oil and securing massive re-building contracts and/or reparation money. Many argue that the 1990s stock market boom was a direct result of the US getting $10/barrel oil via the Iraq war reparation deal, where they repaid the US for the costs of having to attack the US.

Any war where people suddenly have an interest in saving humanity should be viewed very skeptically, since there are hundreds of crises of freedom around the world. If the crisis happens to be on top of a giant oil field, well, then there may be some conflating variable.
As a homeowner, I want speculators to drive up the prices in my neighborhood. I want them to snatch up and renovate the homes in disrepair and then rent them out at high prices to people richer than me. That would drive up my property value.

There's no need to shed tears for anyone. I fail to see why moral high ground be ceded to either side, honestly. These aren't tenements in 19th century New York. Renters know the deal when they sign leases.
I couldn't use twitter or github from noon till 4. If they mitigated the third attack and no customers were affected, why were github and twitter still down for me?
Twitch Plays Baxter
If a tree falls in the empty forest, is it happy that it fell?
Here's a lesson from a finance course that I thought was thoroughly non-obvious: all change happens at the margin. For instance, interest rate changes cause real estate appreciation or crashes by changing the decision of buyers that are just on the cusp of being able to afford a home or not.

This is not a 100% rule, just 5 or 6 nines.
In SF it's illegal to charge more than the actual rent to subletters.
Whether it's affordable to own in cities isn't entirely independent of what restrictions we put on landlords. To take one end of the restrictions scale: if being a landlord were simply banned, i.e. you could occupy property but not rent it out, purchase prices of apartments in most situations would end up lower. Copenhagen does that in large swathes of its property market, for example, by requiring owner-occupancy in some categories of housing. And you can clearly see the price differential: apartments in the buildings that allow unrestricted rental have much higher purchase prices than otherwise similar apartments in buildings restricted to owner-occupancy, by often a factor of 2-3x. (That isn't to say as a policy proposal this would fix SF's particular problems, just that purchase prices aren't independent of landlords' role in the property market, as prospective owner-occupiers have to bid against prospective landlords in cases where landlordism is permitted.)
Are 10-year waits for an apartment a reality in at least some of Silicon Valley?
> We observed 10s of millions of discrete IP addresses associated with the Mirai botnet that were part of the attack.

OK, so why don't Dyn staff identify owners of all IP subnets represented, and provide each with a list of participating IP addresses? That's a trivial exercise, right? And maybe they could publicly shame ISPs that didn't act on the information.
There are two kinds of givers: creators and sacrificers. Be a creator.
It's not clear from the article how this situation came to be.

Were these soldiers told how much they would receive before enlisting? If so surely that is a contract and they don't have to repay. It only makes sense if they ALL received more than they were told and all didn't report it. But ~10,000 people doing this doesn't make sense.
Russia Orders US: Tell the World About Aliens, or We Will
Alternatively you could remove the mortgage interest tax credit and/or tax the imputed rent that homeowners earn. That could cool the market, at least if you could apply it selectively to overheated markets.
You can experience compulsions that don't make you feel good. That mental illness, broadly defined, and very common.
Surprised nobody mentioned BiModem in the comments (popular at least in Europe). Simultaneous up- and downloads, which was great to get keep those up/down ratios at their proper levels.
No, it was an example of things that rent ceilings would cause
Ask HN: A Smarter Smart Thermostat that you trust?
Hackers,

Of the myriad options out there, are there smart thermostats or vendors that you trust that:

-Makes the software strong and secure, and I can lock it down

- Is a pleasure to use (good UI)

- Has a tie-in to other IoT protocols / automation?

Or, what do you use?
We have a pie. It only has a certain number of slices. Unfortunately there are more people who want a slice than there are slices. That sucks.

There's a lot of way we could determine who gets a slice and who doesn't get a slice. We could give slices to people who have been there longer. Or we could let people who have more money and value the pie slice sufficiently high to spend their money buy a slice. We could give some money to people who really really want a slice but just can't afford it. We can debate and argue about all the ways we could pick the pie slice winners.

But at the end of the day it doesn't matter. The exact same number of people will get slices. And the exact same number of people will not get a slice. All we're doing is picking winners and losers in different ways.

The only debate that matters is the one that grows the pie. We need more pie so more people can have a slice. Taking a slice from Peter to hand to Paul is an utter waste of time.
They were specific to the situation you mentioned.

>because people in rent control places will not leave.

What kind of details are you looking for here? That they don't leave because it's likely the lowest possible they would be able to find, and that the tenants would be increasing their cost otherwise.
This story is so unbelievable that I have seconds doubts about it's veracity. But it is on theguardian and they don't usually publish bs... any other sources?
I attended a high school in the US where around 50% of the students were foreign. There were many people (including me) who were the only ones from their country (or one of few). Yet even amongst us the foreign-American split was still pretty obvious. We basically had our little group of foreigners, mostly Asians (they were the majority of foreign students) but white kids like me too. Like the stereotypical arrangement of high school cafeteria tables by popularity, ours were segregated by nations. There was a big Korean table, two "Amercian" tables, a Chinese table and 1 "other countries" table.
"The Syrian war, especially given Russia's involvement is almost certainly about securing passage for natural gas pipelines."

Do you have a cite for that? No one on any side is building pipelines in Syria anytime soon, because, well, war. Also, pretty sure if I told Suheil al-Hassan or Abu Mohammad al-Julani they were fighting for natural gas pipelines, they'd knock my teeth out.
It has the same problem as climate change: it directly and obviously impacts their personal economics on a big scale. Global warming regulation makes companies that employ millions say they'll have to start firing people, and they will if it passes, and anti-rent-control measures mean a lot of current San Franciscans would have to move because in the short term any change in the regulations will cause their landlord to eject them (raise prices beyond what they can pay, not that raise prices by itself wouldn't be enough).

People are always saying that it's bad that people don't vote for their own self-interest but forget that there is a reasonable time horizon for decisions, and it's not infinite.

For people living at the margin, for whom it matters most as they'll be the ones affected, that time horizon is zero. At a zero time horizon the decision is obvious : no to change ! Yes to more rent control !

The minimum time horizon for considering these economics would be the amount of time it takes for new buildings to get built, which I imagine would be 2-3 years at least. If you consider the reasonable time needed for the building supply in San Francisco to exceed supply, we should say this measure will only start helping people when the market is oversaturated. That may never happen. Realistically, anything less than 10 years seems to me a very long shot.
I note the long list of obvious examples...? :-)

But sure, the world would be a better place if Rust, Go and/or Swift could fulfill that niche. I really don't know enough. (Go seems a bit boring. Rust is too new. Swift is a bit limited re Linux etc support.)

(I've seen the claim that some C++ gurus could develop features as quick as seasoned scripters, but... how many years did it take to get to that state? :-( )

(Sorry for coming back late.)
I was hoping to read a more detailed account of the attack and specific mitigation strategies. Have such details emerged anywhere?
That's never stopped people in NYC. Not sure about SF, but I imagine it is similar. The profit motive is too huge.
I used to think this was more like a conspiracy. It's very far from it, though. Years ago, even one of the most powerful US Government officials, who used to be labelled the most powerful man in the world, and the US's highest ranking technocrat, Alan Greenspan, wrote that the Iraq War was largely about oil.

Greenspan was an economist, and economists sometime us an analogy of looking at macro topics through the framework of a household, i.e. a national budget vs a household budget. Using that same framework, if one neighbor went to war with another over natural resources on their block and declared "he had a gun, a very big gun," as the reason -- and conveniently after the house was broken into but with nothing connecting the perpetrators to the victim, that would be clearly illegal, and probably viewed as insane.

I think those of us from America are very lucky to live in a country that places high relative value (though far from perfect history) on human rights and civil liberties, and it's likely a large reason we are so successful. I want us to keep improving on it instead of devolving into something less.