skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No, the only thing that will work is to pummel guilty companies into the ground with fines.

But you can bet GooBookSoft will lobby against that like their lives depended on abusing customer data. And they do depend on it.
All the AI experts in the world won't be able to solve the problem of people thinking a problem is equivalent to the halting problem.

You don't need perfect performance, you only need to stay ahead of most of the attempts. Fighting fraud is similar -- it's not possible to stop 100%, but you can get close, and try to make it easy to minimize/undo the damage done by the false negatives.
except as a man i cant die during a pregnancy or get saddled with pregnancy related illnesses for the rest of my life.
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Replace it with common sense.
America's Iconic Reaper Drone Has Stiff New Chinese Competition
I'm not sure that was the issue with OpenSSL. According to the libressl folks the OpenSSL team were spending massive amounts of time on FIPS support at the expense of known serious issues the OpenBSD team had raised.
Depends on the market though.

For example if your market requires large capital investment, e.g. insurance, banking, you could expect to part with a good proportion of your equity at every raise.

If you're a non-capital-intensive business and you still ended up with 10% at IPO I really wouldn't beat yourself up too much... You still did what very few people in the world have managed.
ZeroMQ 4.2.0
Changing to a parliamentary system would require a huge constitutional amendment. Remember that the innocuous Equal Rights Amendment has still not passed: the chance of a sweeping reform on that scale is probably very similar to the chance of having a successful revolt.

So, in short, if you really want a parliamentary democracy, you'll need to move to one.
Why? 50 Shades? Something else?
hn-logic at its best.
The comparison is probably not fair for LetsEncrypt, but you're right that we should help with its campaign.

Thank you for raising awareness!
I would agree for the most part, as meditation (from my experience) can provide a consistent, harmonising and content feeling that would persist for longer than the joy that comes from pure escapism or novelty of experience of a vacation.

I've been doing Transcendental Meditation I learnt through ZivaMIND for over a year now and I couldn't imagine being as on the ball emotionally/with reference to myself without it. I've found it so brilliant.

IMO, Meditation, and more broadly speaking, the uninterrupted time we allow for ourselves, should be taught in schools and by parents ubiquitously, as its an obvious antidote to our constant connectedness eating away at our wellbeing and creativity and compassion/gratitude.
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Thanks for the nuance.

Meditation is like exercise, actually it is mental exercise. (Mental) injuries can happen, just like any other form of (mental) exercise. It is indeed an issue that there's less awareness about it compared to physical injuries with physical exercise.

Also, when you do the beginner level, you do need to have done the introductory level. This means that you at least have meditated for half an hour per day, for 5 weeks at a minimum. That's what those derivatives of MBCT and MBSR tell you to do.
Yes, exactly. I've read that people are expecting photographers to move to Linux because the new MBP doesn't include an SD slot.

They're actually claiming I'm going to give up Photoshop, Pixelmator, Lightroom, CaptureOne rather than buying an external card-reader. And that's ignoring that most of us already prefer 3rd-party external card readers for speed alone ..
Replay how the browser drew your webpage with the Paint Profiler in DevTools
It may have just been electrical interferance.

But electrical interfance from a trackpad? - made me suspicious at the time.

And one way or another, a proof of concept is only a few lines of javascript.

A very very easy way to link people in a room together.

And it would explain why the facebook app wants mic permissions when afaik it offers no audio features. it doesn't even need to be audio the maker of the app controls - just "fingerprint" sounds and report them back to facebook (or whoever).
The lossy transform is important, but I think what's actually most important in video compression is getting rid of redundancy --- H.264 actually has a lossless mode in which that transform is not used, and it still compresses rather well (especially for noiseless scenes like a screencast.) You can see the difference if you compare with something like MJPEG which is essentially every frame independently encoded as a JPEG.

The key idea is to encode differences; even in an I-frame, macroblocks can be encoded as differences from previous macroblocks, and with various filterings applied: https://www.vcodex.com/h264avc-intra-precition/ This reduces the spatial redundancies within a frame, and motion compensation reduces the temporaral redundancies between frames.

You can sometimes see this when seeking through video that doesn't contain many I-frames, as all the decoder can do is try to decode and apply differences to the last full frame; if that isn't the actual preceding frame, you will see the blocks move around and change in odd ways to create sometimes rather amusing effects, until it reaches the next I-frame. The first example I found on the Internet shows this clearly, likely resulting from jumping immediately into the middle of a file: http://i.imgur.com/G4tbmTo.png That frame contains only the differences from the previous one.

As someone who has written a JPEG decoder just for fun and learning purposes, I'm probably going to try a video decoder next; although I think starting from something simpler like H.261 and working upwards from there would be much easier than starting immediately with H.264. The principles are not all that different, but the number of modes/configurations the newer standards have --- essentially for the purpose of eliminating more redundancies from the output --- can be overwhelming. H.261 only supports two frame sizes, no B-frames, and no intra-prediction. It's certainly a fascinating area to explore if you're interested in video and compression in general.
H.265 is my next post :)
The key goal is cross-device tracking. Your phone vs your notebook vs your TV vs whatever else around has audio and net uplink.
a) Would be better displayed as a sliding scale instead of a median.
b) not listing the real Twitter founders and their ownership is a huge oversight.

I'd be interested in how much equity each venture firm had for each of these too.
That depends on your point of view. Clearly the party has a lot of control over who they nominate, unlike the Republicans, who lost complete control over their nomination process.

Perhaps parties shouldn't have such tight control over things; I certainly would have strongly preferred Sanders as the Democratic nominee. Still, it's a party. Technically it is up to the party to decide who they nominate. That they use primaries to make this decision is certainly nice and democratic of them, but it's not a legal requirement, and it wasn't always like that.

The thing that's really broken is the entire political system that only offers these two parties as realistic options. But the Republican party has also become really dysfunctional over the past decade or so, where representatives and senators basically refuse to do their job and work to undermine the country by their political gamesmanship.
It's supposed to lower sperm count, which you could easily verify with a sample.
A real fun read. Had an assignment a couple of weeks ago where we used the most k most significant singular values of matrices (from picture of Marilyn M.) to compress the image. H.264 is on a whole other level, though ;)
It is being compared to the Raspberry Pi Zero, which costs about $5 and it is closer on concept to this VoCore2Lite.
That would certainly have cleared up this confusion where some people seem to read it as "Only Black Lives Matter". Nobody ever said that, but opponents seem to be arguing that that's what BLM means.
Drink a lot more water, consistently throughout the day just before cutting and after. It won't stop the headaches completely but it will help.
We're finally chewing through issues & PRs at the rate we _should have_ from the beginning. I have to admit to some wariness on my part for the few months after GA, but we are currently investing heavily in framework. As a dev I think we have a rosy picture ahead of us, with concrete examples coming in December (fingers crossed).
Your MacBook microphone can detect ultrasonic frequencies above 22khz, though I'm not sure whether my observed ceiling is an artifact of the microphone, or of the speaker I was using to emit the tones.

In my informal tests, most people are unable to hear any tone above 20khz or so. This is discovered, naturally, by starting with the highest pitch tone I can generate at the loudest volume, and lowering the pitch gradually until somebody covers their ears and starts screaming. This is usually the youngest person in the room.

You can generate and receive audio using web audio APIs. Creating a browser extension to detect ultrasonic comma would be fairly straightforward.
That headline is misleading. It was an experiment with 91 female volunteers and the 'vacation' was not something I would consider a vacation.
Meditation does nothing for me. It's ironic that the people I know who are into meditation tend to be completely out of touch with themselves and meditation doesn't seem to actually change anything about them.
Living without money (?)
I am happy this approach has worked for you but it's probably not a good strategy for everyone. You can make money at any point in your life, even in your 50s, 60s, 70s and onwards. Whereas there is only a limited window of opportunity in which to have children so that you have the energy and time to see them grow up.
If there are any other West Wing fans here (and apparently there are!), you have to check out The West Wing Weekly podcast. It's hosted by two people, one of them Joshua Malina, who played Will Bailey on WW, and is basically them recapping each episode, as well as interviewing people from the show or somehow relevant to the episode (e.g. senators, etc).

Seriously, if you love the West Wing, I can't think of any way that you won't love this podcast.
Agreed. Traditions have, over thousands of years, established the dangers and pitfalls of meditation. Best to start slowly - a short amount of time daily - and find a good teacher backed by some of that tradition.

For me, Shambhala Buddhism really resonated. Skepticism is encouraged, and the brilliance of those thousands of years of wisdom is a great support along the path.
The side effects experienced by the men in this study are not to be taken lightly. They're scary and dangerous.

They're also no worse than the side effects (from depression severe enough to cause suicide to life-threatening complications and yes, permanent infertility) that women on various forms of birth control have put up with for the past several decades. And continue to endure.

And even in studies not about birth control, women's medical complaints and concerns about side effects have been shown to be taken less seriously by medical professionals than men's similar concerns.

Your sister, girlfriend, date. That woman you saw on line at Starbucks. They may not all be experiencing those side effects (neither did all the men in the study). But they're all risking a LOT to avoid pregnancy. Today. Right this moment.

Ask yourself why those side effects and risks are OK for them to bear but not for you. Ask where the research is on female birth control without those risks.

I'm not saying this study should necessarily have continued. Just that there's very good reason for the bitterness.

If you want to understand the female perspective on this news, try the below opinion piece:

http://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/us_5818f13fe4b0922c570bd335
Kubernetes vs. mesos vs. swarm
Reporting issues to a vendor takes a hell of a lot of effort and time compared to idly posting them in a comment thread.

This is like those remarks along the lines of "it only takes 5 minutes to submit a patch to the documentation". No, it doesn't - it takes 5 minutes to write it and create a PR, and usually two hours to defend it from the maintainer's criticisms.
I've found two kinds of people who meditate: those who should be on drugs, and those who look like they're on drugs because they are so zen.

One of the benefits of regular meditation is a letting go of things that don't matter and focusing on the things that do.
Why does the company not consider offering pay cuts in the first instance before jumping straight to outsourcing?
How does this protect against SQL injection attacks?
Flux alternative for GNU/Linux
I love how you can edit photos from people to correct some skin imperfections without loosing the touch that the image is real (and not that blurred, plastic look) when you decompose it in wavelets and just edit some frequencies.

Don't know in photoshop, but in Gimp there's a plugin called "wavelet decomposer" that does that.
Addicted to your iPhone? The problem may be the software, not you
>it's because the vast majority of apps are simply
>designed to data mine or pump advertisements

This mirrors my experience. I derive all the value I'm looking for from my personal and work mobile devices (yes I like to keep them separate) with less than five apps beyond the vendor+carrier distribution on each.

This is particularly true for my work device, which is a BlackBerry Z30. There aren't many apps available for this environment so the browser is the primary point of mobile interaction.

Your point regarding browsers becoming a modern Emacs is a concern and a good expression of the issue. I'm not sure what to do about this - I can only pick and choose a browser where options are available and look to configure it to my advantage. Any suggestions?
I switched to Windows?
Space software? Nice! Going to check out MISRA now.

FWIW the initial page just reflects the JPL publication "The Power of Ten – Rules for Developing Safety Critical Code" by Gerard Holzmann [0]

[0]: http://spinroot.com/gerard/pdf/P10.pdf
Remember to charge your spares periodically, else they will go perma-dead.
Here are some mistakes I've made as a junior engineer:

- Not checking code well enough when working in a new and unfamiliar language (I broke production)

- Not negotiating my salary (almost took a massively underpaid job)

- using an obscure technology when I should have used something mainstream

The list goes on...

I'm writing each of my mistakes up as a weekly email, so if you want to avoid all the mistakes I've made in 20 years of software engineering check out https://softwareclown.com
Sarcasm is an excellent genre for short texts.
N.S.A. Appeas to Have Missed ‘Big Red Flags’ in Suspect’s Behavior
For me Trump's biggest problem is that it looks like he is Putin's doll. Even if he isn't that just look like it and he would probably be outplayed by Putin and give him anything he wants which in the long term is not good for US. Russians and their KGB are master manipulators and current information war really proves it. It went as far as "Hillary is eating children". Trump's megalomaniac personality might make him not to listen to his more experienced advisers and bad decisions might be made. That's what scares me. Having said that Thiel is a smart man. Trump is also a smart man and he could be a good governor or senator, but it's too early for him to take charge of the biggest and most powerful country in the world.
I'm not following, why can't I use:

e instanceof Error

or:

e instanceof MyError

why does toString() have anything to do with this?
I don't think that OLAP and SSAS were ever known buzzwords ^^
Ask HN: Why should I need to support non-secure HTTP?
Why don't browsers default to trying HTTPS if there is a DNS record but no response on port 80? Or better yet, default to just trying HTTPS first. I understand I can add my site to browser based HSTS lists, but this doesn't really help people developing command line applications or API client libraries where a 302 could be followed without the developer even noticing.

Is there a reason to support HTTP at all, other than current user experience in the browser?
Why people stay in jobs they hate
> With Linux, "smart" displays, USB webcams, OpenCV.

You can do that without Linux, it is just a matter of having bare metal drivers, the only issue is if it is worth doing so from the ROI point of view.
I received all of the CHIPs I was supposed to from the initial campaign. It's legit, just late.
Yeah java objects have big memory overhead...
As I understand it the satellites used as relays are in quite low orbits which limit the amount of time available for rovers to upload. A communication satellite in areosynchronous orbit or at a lagrange point could give more upload time. But presumably that would require more capable transmitters on the rover.
Jesus christ, how about if women dont like it, they can stop taking it? There are plenty of alternatives, none perfect as Im sure you are eager to point out.
Talking about security, wouldn't it be nice if arstechnica would enable https?
They need to stop showing up at neighbors doors.

My neighbor was supposedly applying for a federal job that required clearance.

These people would come by, and try to talk to me.

I had no idea who they were. I didnt want to talk to them. I thought they were a creditor of mine.(need to finish a chapter 7).

Anyways, one left a little note, and I finally figured out who they were--I think? I wouldn't put it past a slimy process server?

What am I suspose to tell the Feds about a neighbor who moved in a few months ago. I don't even know my long term neighbors, nor really care to?

The federal government needs to realize people don't know their neighbors like they did in the past; or if you happen to find a nosey one--you do not want their assessments. "I think I smelled the devil's lettuce?" "Their dod pooped in my yard?" "I don't like his old truck."

If this is how they do backround checks, NSA is not doing a good job. I don't like NSA, but use that information if it's just sitting around on a server?
Ghacks is shadowbanned on HN for some reason. I vouched for this particular story, but it didn't get traction :(

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12850214
In this day in age of PC, you'd think NPR would pick a less offensive title for this article. It screams feminism.
Since it happened after I left, I am not privy to the exact reasons for the move. However, I guess they were worried about their Lispers moving away (which to some degree had already happened) and them not being able to find new ones.
The part about entropy encoding only seems explain run-length encoding (RLE). Isn't the interesting aspect of making use of entropy in compression rather to represent rarer events with longer longer code strings?

The fair coin flip is also an example of a process that cannot be compressed well at all because (1) the probably of the same event happening in a row is not as high as for unfair coins (RLE is minimally effective) and (2) the uniform distribution has maximal entropy, so there is no advantage in using different code lengths to represent the events. (Since the process has a binary outcome, there is also nothing to gain in terms of code lengths for unfair coins.)
Leica (well, same parent company, I think that the structure is a bit complex) also makes microscopy equipment, but I'm talking about their lens lineup intended for photography. Leica makes very good things that are not very practical or realistically priced. Fuji makes good prosumer cameras and lenses, but they don't have wide professional adoption for ecosystem / features considerations.
It doesn't append the strings blindly.

Any variables are automatically replaced by placeholder strings. You also get an array of bind parameters. You then use your database library to bind the parameters into the placeholders.
> Donald Trump is just as involved with Epstein as Bill Clinton is.

And of those two, only one is currently running for president.

It's interesting to see Trump supporters go out of their way of pointing out that Bill Clinton is nearly as terrible as Donald Trump because they can't find that level of dirt on Hillary Clinton, but it ignores two important facts:

* Donald Trump is every bit as bad as Bill Clinton on these issues (if not worse)

* Bill Clinton is not running for president. Attacking him with the exact same dirt that Donald Trump has, is (or should be, in a sane society) be counterproductive. Attacking Bill for these things while continuing to support Donald is the height of hypocrisy.
Upvoted for humor and the username.
Oooohhh I'm sorry, we were looking for "What is google".
"The sort of company for whom design is critical" doesn't coincide at all with the sort of company for whose website a pixel-perfect layout makes sense.
Why would expert designers show off bad typography instead of good, and in the website rather than in products?

This "design control-freakery" proves that someone doesn't master simple and proven web technology. Why would you trust them with something technically complex like faithful color printing or something "artistic" like designing a logo?
https://www.sott.net/article/234667-Pestilence-the-Great-Pla...
I'm waiting for an "open" SSD for which you could modify the firmware to include your own little program stack.

Just run your entire little sensor/project out of the HDD itself.
ISRO aiming for world record, planning to put 83 satellites on single rocket
Making it to an IPO and owning n% is the platinum medal already. Anything else is just bonus.

Would love to see more in depth comparison between the cases.
Is this why Gmail requires microphone privileges? I've been looking for a feature in the app that actually needs it and have been coming up empty.
I don't know what you mean.

If you're a software engineer, London has many [good] jobs for you. Your home country may not.
I plan to add those macros in due course. Common where/and macros, utilities for date time manipulation are the ones that top the list.
Calling 999 could soon see you host a live stream
Microsoft Office 2007 Product Key with Activator Get Free
The Linux kernel is not mission critical? Many of those mission critical systems probably run off of a Linux kernel, you know.

I think the point is that while it is potentially a good rule for mission critical code, it is not essential. There are other ways as well.
People vary in what gives them pleasure and in their valuation of the time/pleasure trade-off. Cigarettes are a tool for some people to move pleasure from the future to the present (i.e., shorter life/less future pleasure in exchange for more pleasure now); they adress intertemporal pleasure-flow needs for some, much as loans address intertemporal cashflow.
Thank you for your enlightening perspective.
How do you explain Cryptocurreny to a grandma in less than 140 characters?
I think you can use their bookmarklet, but personally I don't see any benefits as somewhat similar Google Safe Browsing service is internally used by all major browsers.