skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> You have no bureaucratic incentive to look for the opposite.

Totally false.

Data which proves the opposite of the general consensus and is scientifically defensible would be of massive impact.

Your name would be everywhere AND every climate change denier would be trumpeting your results. You would be famous AND well-funded for life.

The problem is that you WILL come under heavy scrutiny, so your data, methods, and conclusions better be beyond reproach. Everyone who has attempted to defend the opposite of the consensus, so far, has collapsed when challenged.
There's some discussion about it on the /r/analog subreddit, including a test scan, here: https://www.reddit.com/r/analog/comments/5d4s2c/google_relea...
Blame apps?

No, that's secondary. Blame smartphones.

Perhaps that too is secondary. Blame humans.
> I don't think "Russian terrorists" are even a thing in public consciousness. Is there some cultural thing I am missing?

They are, but only in an action movie setting (same with Germans in the 80s...and Russians). I've never heard anyone vocalize legitimate concerns about them.
Welp, glad I abandoned my ambitions in Japanese translation to write software instead.
Thanks! I had not seen that before but it looks nifty.
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The speed of light is unlikely to improve: consequences
Which sketch dataset are they using for the "Quick, Draw!" experiment?
> Consider the history of the charge of the electron according to Feynman

Which is just as good an argument for the adjustments still being too high. Or being exactly right. The real question is, what evidence is there that this is an analogous situation?

Feynman's point was vigilance in scientific research, not that any dataset can be handwaved away by pointing out an unrelated anecdote.
I haven't used a vive no. My guess is that the "magical" feel does indeed rely on your hands showing up in the game ("tracked controllers" as you put it).

Without that hand tracking, it's difficult to feel truly immersed in the world.
thank you for spiped. Surprised at how often I find myself using it
Sounds like there might be some projecting in play...
There is still one icq contact occasionally online for me! And I think I talked to a friend using icq less than three years ago ;)

Though with all the closing of networks these last years I sometimes neglect starting pidgin at all since I'll need some tabs open fore messaging regardless :(
Yup. For small units on the move (or operating all stealthy-like), you can airdrop a few C-containers (FOB-in-a-box) right at (or behind!) the front line and be up and ready to go in not-that-many hours.
> That one is funny, it translated １７年度 as meaning 平成１７年 (17th year of Heisei era, which is 2005) when what's meant is 2017.

Yeah, but that's totally plausible unless you know this is a text from 2016.
Hm, then 48 just changed the way it works, because I've never seen it before that one.
The UK, Germany and Austria have banned the use of phones in cars entirely with a whitelist of permitted uses (like passively using it for navigation). I am pretty sure that is something that is happening all over Europe now.
This one was pretty popular:

http://www.snopes.com/1998-trump-people-quote/
I don't know about language learning but I think this stuff is going to relatively soon put even more translators out of work.
You miss a 100% of the shots you don't take.
Both require trusting others, how is this any different?
> In an alternative reality where the players agreed that they were creating a creative work together, and signed the copyright to it over contractually, would your attitude change?

Yes, that would probably be the same (in general) as any other work-for-hire.

> Can you talk a little bit about why a very short riff such as 10-12 notes of this [...] should be subject to copyright?

I imagine it is subject to copyright, a Haiku would be.

The grey areas here are that such a short sequence lends itself to brute-forcing which isn't creative and probably wouldn't result in a copyright, and that independent creators would each have their own copyright. You can't just generate all possible books (even if not combinatorially impossible) and block authors from writing them.

> I find this very very hard to believe. If I came up with simple rules for transcribing a chess game with notes and then discovered that for a particular chess game this was pleasant, you really don't think I could copyright that tune?

Your program to do this would be copyrightable, but it would only produce a machine-translation (by definition) of the chess game so while the end results (the tune) be copyrightable, it wouldn't be your copyright.
"Also, like all SMS based tools, if you reply with the word "STOP" you'll never hear from them again."

Or, it will result in your number being tagged as "confirmed as valid # as of (date)", making your number even more valuable to spammers. The recipient can't be sure which.
I think in movies it's somewhere around 80s-early 90s, since then boogeymen changed a lot, according to current political situations. Maybe back now due to Putin, though, but can't remember any recent instance (I watch a lot of action movies, I find it relaxing :). "Russian mafia" is definitely a cultural thing, but different from "terrorists".
In Iraq I was really surprised by how quickly these barriers showed up and how easy it was to build fortifications. I always wondered where they were made, the quality of the concrete and the cost. It seemed there was an endless supply. On the night before the first election alone we basically put jersey barriers up on every major street in the city. Nuts. I always imagined some factory in the desert near an aggregate source where they just poured these things as fast as possible.
I put in a few sentences, and it seems much better. It seemed to have trouble rearranging words and phrases over long distances (due to grammatical differences) before.
I doubt it means anything different when Trump controls a huge and likely unconstitutional surveillance complex than when Obama controlled a huge and likely unconstitutional surveillance complex.
I found the conclusions for mitigating instability in future efforts very surprising. There was no mention of test suites, dependency injection, etc.

If I was building this type of system, I would want to build an exhaustive test suite that allowed me to make stability invariant forward progress on the code base without relying on engineers eye catching regressions.

That would mean constructing a system to enumerate all the edge cases at different cluster sizes, automate testing, be able to simulate the network with DI and without docker, and be able configure different network delays and other salient parameters.

The omission of a system like this is surprising because it's really not that hard to build and make it an integral part of core development. I may be wrong, but the last paragraph of the post certainly seems to imply that this isn't done or hasn't been considered.
Now I know why both the new surface book and the mbook pro have such paltry ram configurations. Sad times when intel itself seems to be falling behind.
This stuff drives me nuts. Obama gets into office and all the people who were talking about how George W. Bush's presidency was illegitimate and the drone programs he was running were wrong suddenly switch positions to saying you have to stand with the president no matter what and drones are fine. And now Trump comes into office and everyone switches sides again.
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Towing companies may or may not be to blame for this
People do this already in Virtual Worlds. Although they typically meet in a social setting, there may well be matchmaking services that I just haven't heard of.

It's not "stereoscopic HMD" type VR - yet. There are projects (CtrlAltStudio, for one) working on that.
I'm going to guess you weren't there, because the concept of "air dropping" a 20 or 40 ft container is pretty silly... Such a thing almost never happens.

FOBs are established by cargo that arrives by truck. The only FOBs I ever heard of being established by air cargo (Chinook, and in very mountainous regions of Kunar and Nooristan mostly) were not exactly what you would call a FOB in the context of Afghanistan, but were much smaller sites on hilltops that would be designated COPs (combat outpost) or firebases.
It's hard to say because so far it's not like any president has shown any interest in reining them in. I think the last president with any real interest in muzzling the CIA was Carter and that work has all been undone by now.
I mean that's exactly what every cooling system does.
Oh? Maybe it's just that the documentation specifically mentions ssh -L but not ssh -R. Can you do something like run spiped on a machine behind NAT or on a dynamic ip address to create a reverse tunnel via a publicly reachable host?
Ask HN: What would you do with $5K for your project/idea?
I'm working on my startup idea (an app for turning spreadsheets into webapps) as a side project for now, and have the potential opportunity to apply for ~5K non reimbursable funding. The only thing I have to do is have a plan for 6 months to use that money to validate the idea.

I was thinking of making a basic landing page explaining the idea with a signup form and then spend some money on online ads and maybe with a freelancer to help me do "Things That Dont Scale" (i.e. developing the apps that my app would make).

I feel like I could use that for more useful things but cant think of nothing else (and maybe that's ok), so I want to know, What would you use that kind of money for?
I really need to read this book. It has been several time already i've seen quotes from this book
Why is everyone worried about this now?
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Seeing their salary calculator makes me depressed what a 1-year experience 1x developer in the NYC metro makes.
If the recipient explicitly asks you (or your partners) to text them this and that, and you text them this and that, you're not a spammer. Anything more and you've become a spammer. Seriously. Not cool. Receiving a spam text costs me a postage stamp each time. Buy your own postage stamps.
I'm just curious how hp can claim something completely opposite to what is obvious to many people. Isn't that false advertising?
I would expect Facebook to have a vested interest in being such a reputable organization.

If one doesn't trust the information he or she sees on Facebook, that certainly reflects on Facebook (whether rightly or wrongly).
So, mass transit.
http://hackernewsletter.com

Started it over six years ago and have been sending it every week since. Have about 39,000 subscribers and still see a 45% open rate. It has been a lot of fun, and even better, I have made connections with a lot of great people.
New Zealand too. If you want to make calls while driving, you have to have a hands-free system. It baffles my mind that there are countries in which people can legally interact with their phone while driving.
I would still rather have sex with real women, 18 hours a day. I'm sure VR porn will be big, but I don't think it will be possible to perfectly replicate sex without somehow directly intercepting signals to the brain. Standing there with a VR headset and some vibrating thing wrapped around my genitals will never compare to the real thing.
Humans were around before this development though.
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http://www.thedrive.com/opinion/5979/we-need-an-nra-type-lob...

Ill admit, I have not read it yet, I'm reading an ecology paper currently, but I will read it tonight.
> Where were the tanks? The airplanes? The warships?

I don't know about the tanks, but the airplanes and warships were all over the place - they just weren't property of the German military. Germany was building subs in the Netherlands, and aircraft in Russia - they got around the treaty by offshoring production and selling to other nations, allowing them to refine their designs and build their industry. They did a similar thing with the officer corps - they just changed their titles, but continued perfecting and growing their training program. Conscription is pretty much the last thing to happen, if you want to watch for trouble - watch the officer training program. All that was going on in the 1920s btw.

All this might sound like Monday morning quarterbacking, but the pattern is repeated throughout history. Watch Turkey. If they rebuild their officer corps before their economy totally collapses, they'll try to annex northern Syria and northern Iraq. They've started developing domestic production of weapon systems, dropped very strong hints that they aren't interested in remaining a NATO partner, and they have a madman as chief executive - enthusiastically put their by nationalists.
Ask HN: Anybody using Webpack 2 in production?
I know it's still technically in beta, but it sounds like that's mainly because the documentation isn't finished yet. Is anyone here using it in production, or should I stick with v1 for the medium term future?

P.S. The fatigue is REAL. :)
Many in the military are thinking about future warfare in complex urban terrain, to include operations in megacities with populations over 10 million.

For what plausible reason would you invade and occupy a city with a population of over 10 million? Here is a list of cities with a population of 10 million or more, please tell me for what good reason any one of them should they be invaded:

Tokyo, Shanghai, Jakarta, Karachi, Seoul, New York City, Mumbai, Manila, Mexico City, Delhi, Beijing, São Paulo, Lagos, Wuhan, Kyoto-Osaka-Kobe, Guangzhou, Chongqing, Cairo, Los Angeles, Chengdu, Dhaka, Moscow, Tianjin, Bangkok, Istanbul, Kolkata, Rio de Janeiro, London, Buenos Aires, Tehran, Kinshasa, Paris, Shenzhen, Harbin, Rhine-Ruhr, Lahore

Maybe invest as much time and money thinking about peace as you do on war and you might not need to bankrupt your country to fight another one. The US's military industrial complex is the ultimate case of when all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail.
On that note, i recall reading about a British project to produce quick rise shelters. They were basically a inflatable tent with cement impregnated outer canvas.

Roll out, inflate, soak in water, and wait for it to harden before releasing the pressure.

And such a gluing agent would be cement. Concrete is really nothing more than cement mixed with sand or gravel. The farm i grew up on had a barn where the foundation was nothing more than cement and small rocks from the land. It was built up like a layer cake. One spread of cement, then a layer of rock, repeated until desired height.
Here on HN, allegations don't usually go well without evidence.
Officially renouncing your (US) citizenship when you can't afford the cost is not the way to go.

If you really mean to "check out", just get on a plane and say, "see yah later, 'gator".

No one is going to come to Serbia to harass you about not paying taxes.
Our FOB was initially air-dropped into place (we had lots of spent one-use parachutes to show for it). I wasn't there then so I don't know how big the kit was, but yeah they weren't ISO containers obviously.
When did we decide to outsource the drug war to private employers?
I'm thinking in terms of resource-constrained use cases, like on an aircraft carrier or further out, deep space exploration. Until this thread, I had always assumed a laser cutter would be just as good, but didn't realize some of the unique advantages of a waterjet cutter.
There is, if you use an RSS reader. There are feeds associated with each tag. Try clicking any tag, and you should see a link where you can get an RSS feed of all the new questions that come in for that tag.

It's been there for a long time. ;-)
I was not there. I helped design power generation and radio-telecom systems & packaging for them. Now, it's not two C-containers on skids, to be sure! :-)

They were support for very (very) small sites. They were called FOBs by the airborne guys, but I don't know much about military terminology, and can't vouch for the correctness of the use of that term in this case.

EDIT: This doesn't look like what we worked on, but I just found this:

- http://www.foxnews.com/tech/2011/12/02/military-base-in-box-all-rage.html
There is still substantial reasons to be quick about it when you are out in public if you are gay, with exception for a few small geographical areas.
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Not so long ago there was AltaVista Babelfish, which has been now replaced by Bing Translator. I don't know if they trademarked the name.
It also translated １７年度 as "FY2005". I guess it thought it was H17, even though 2017 appeared earlier in the text.
http://www.nuggetsapp.com/

It helps you remember the things you read and learn by sending you timely email reminders based on spaced repetition (memory theory).
Actually, this tech could actually be a serious setback for language learning and communications in general. It's amazing how many people have taken the time to learn English around the world, which has made business and traveling easier.

Will there still be interest and investment in learning one of the biggest languages in the world, if you can just use translate.google.com? I hope not personally, but it does make me wonder if this will put things back somewhat as we get complacent and lean on technology to translate for us.
"A single videogame player with a grudge might have caused the massive internet failure"
Weird. I thought you were currently writing this comment.
Not necessarily just apps, how about IOS: The worst for me is the delay in rendering the bar that occupies the top of the screen when navigation is in use or when tethering is in use. I often look at the screen, then tap, but in between those events the bar appears and receives my click.

It's nearly always inconvenient to get the phone back to the intended screen.

It seems that the delayed appearance of the bar is an intentional UI 'feature' because in all cases the state is known prior to waking the phone.
It reveals that their email was detected as spam by an intelligent piece of meat instead of a shard of silicon.
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I'm guessing the parent's point was that calling a concrete defence barrier a 'weapon' is a bit weird. In the same way that a steel helmet is not really a weapon, neither is a concrete shield.
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You can use your own server if you prefer. Otherwise it's hosted. No subscription needed if you're not using massive networks.
This story has some highly improbable parts.

"I’ve been looking for a job here in San Francisco for the past three years. Very hard though, nobody wants to hire a foreigner. Most people think I’m a Russian terrorist because of my accent. ”You kill Americans. People say these things based on how I look and speak. It’s tough, you know? I get sad at heart when they shout like that at me. I just try to do good and provide for myself and my family."

San Francisco... I've spent time in San Francisco. It's not like that. Almost 40% of the population is foreign born and gainfully employed at something. Probably 100% of the employers this guy is likely to be an applicant of are foreign born. I really, really doubt his narrative of irrational 'muricans shouting "turrurist herp derp!" at him.

You can't find a job because you're old and living in a nation filled with unemployed older ex-workers. This state of affairs is deliberate policy so you're right to leave; it's not going to get better, particularly if you insist on living in CA. But please, stop it with the "everyone think i terrorist" fiction; most people in San Francisco struggle with very concept of terrorism; so-called terrorists are just the victims of capitalism righteously fighting back against their oppressors.
https://medium.com/@rinatrussenov/very-interesting-and-surpr...
Around the turn of the century people stopped going crazy with macros, globals and exposing struct definitions in header files, at least this is where I draw the line between old and new school
> An active radar pointed at the ground, so you'd need a pretty extensive detection network.

So they can't navigate a sudden cliff in the way?
The one-off cost is very high, and there is higher ongoing maintenance cost as well. Most organizations are moving to the cloud, because it in general makes more economic sense.
This calc engine seems like the cool part, anyone tried it?

Q: What is SPICE?

Amazon QuickSight is built with "SPICE" – a Super-fast, Parallel, In-memory Calculation Engine. Built from the ground up for the cloud, SPICE uses a combination of columnar storage, in-memory technologies enabled through the latest hardware innovations and machine code generation to run interactive queries on large datasets and get rapid responses. SPICE supports rich calculations to help you derive valuable insights from your analysis without worrying about provisioning or managing infrastructure. Data in SPICE is persisted until it is explicitly deleted by the user. SPICE also automatically replicates data for high availability and enables QuickSight to scale to hundreds of thousands of users who can all simultaneously perform fast interactive analysis across a wide variety of AWS data sources.
I'm surprised people are allowed to use their phones at all; there is a study showing talking on a hands free causes the same attention impairment level as someone under the influence of alcohol.
North Korea is thought to be gearing up for a missile test. Not a war.
Pressing Ctrl-Tab once without letting go of Ctrl shows you a graphical overlay of most recently used tabs. If you don't like what you see, just add one Shift-Tab to your already pressed Ctrl.
We haven't had a great-power conflict in the last 70 years. That doesn't mean we will never again have one.

Historically, wars have happened because the balance of powers of nations becomes ambiguous. Thanks to natural human over-confidence, each believes they could win it, and so they go to war even though in reality everyone loses. The U.S. has been the undisputed global power since WW2, but there's a ticking demographics time-bomb that's pretty apparent in your list of cities.
Love the use of the old Netscape animated logo.
As mentioned in the article comments it's not available for Android, that's disappointing
"Boom" in this context I assume doesn't mean kilotons of TNT equivalent explosion, it means "criticality event resulting in the release of a lethal dose of radiation". At Los Alamos, Harry Daghlian was killed by the "boom" resulting from simply accidentally dropping a brick onto a core of nuclear material.