skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, most people sleep at the same time.

Working for a CDN, we see our POPs gets about 4x traffic at peak compared to low times.
Except the Hamas account (and others) had been around for a lot longer, and received more reports, and they decided to do something about it only (coincidentally, I'm sure...) after a lawsuit was filed.

Did the CEO get off his ass and talk to someone from the State dept? No, but he sure got off his ass to talk to some random Hollywood celeb who was getting mean tweets.

As I said earlier, and you apparently missed in your angry rant, 235k accounts is nothing. It's utter child's play, given how disposable Twitter accounts are. Twitter has a "trust and safety" team that's entirely far too concerned about feminist's feelings and not concerned near enough with terrorists using their platform. If that makes me this terrible monster, sign me up.
Laying fiber isn't going to get your Tesla connected.
Improvements in batteries and solar panels might be another aspect that might not be an advantage for SpaceX specifically (they're commodity devices that can be bought by anyone), but it might be part of the reason why it wasn't done sooner.
Unlikely. It will be a phased array so they will need some spacing between the antennas. I've heard mention of ~pizza box size
I've done this abroad in a few places — Costa Rica, Taiwan, Greece. While it is pretty trendy, it's actually somewhat difficult to "live like a local" in places where you don't know a local. That said I think staying in an Airbnb spare room with a local host simplifies things a lot. I suppose they can kinda become your impromptu host family.

Also, you might like the short book Vagabonding by Rolf Potts.
> Worth adding here that it also appears Zcash stakeholders have been internally buying/selling their own ZEC at inflated prices on Poloniex to artificially increase both volume and the market price.

I don't understand this. None of the stakeholders have even received their money yet; this is publicly verifiable.
Although we always knew this day would come, nothing could prepare me for it.

Whilst I am sure What could be replaced, in due course and with sufficient effort, I fear with the rise of streaming music services, the desire to put that much effort in is no longer there.

This is utterly devastating.
Samsung Acquires Harman International
A synthetic pathway for the fixation of carbon dioxide in vitro
> We'd survive. But the plants and animals we depend on probably wouldn't have a very good time...

I'm not sure how you can reconcile these two adjacent statements.

Yes, some humans would undoubtedly exist somewhere. But only a tiny fraction of our current world population.
Everybody using Twitter in this manner feels themselves to be correct.

..I'm not sure what distinction you're trying to make, or how it is useful for discussion. Irrationality that ends in violence is irrationality that ends in violence.
Thanks for the work you're doing, it's pretty exciting! I hope MSFT remains committed to this project.

A) This is only a terminal, which isn't really more useful than opening a WSL window, I want to be able to debug python easily. I don't really know how the python debugging protocol works, so I'm not sure if stdin/out is enough, but even if it is enough there's some glue code missing to make this trivial, I need to have a binary that can take the same arguments as python and translate windows paths to WSL paths. And then the Python VS code tools also have some pretty cool Jupyter/IPython integration; I'm not sure that will just work with an executable that pretends to be python. Would be cool if the people working on VS code bits were thinking about WSL, rather than users having to come up with individual hacks.

2) Cool, I assumed backlog meant "not going to happen", will be great if it gets anywhere. Though I'm also interested in OpenGL for graphics; I wanted to run OpenAI's gym project, but that needed OpenGL for rendering. Not necessarily expecting you to write an X server, but would be cool if you could cooperate with or fund a project like Xming or https://github.com/kpocza/LoWe or something.
And where is E coli going to get this energy?

From the sun? That's where plants and cyanobacteria get it.
This doesn't make sense to me. Law enforcement has been able to get that information easily for quite some time directly from telephony systems. Timestamps and durations have been a part of phone UIs for quite some time, which to me indicates that it is in fact interesting to more than law enforcement... unless phone manufacturers conspired to display that information to help LEOs when they confiscate phones.

Anyone who cares about state coercion and violence should know phone calls are about the least sensitive way to communicate.
I think 5 of the most egregious tweets would have been sufficient.
>Get out before it sucks all the optimism out of you and replaces it with cynicism.

So, get out before you actually get informed about how the world runs?
True story: Back when I was doing desktop tech support, downloading Ad Aware via command line FTP was a favored method of mine when the user's browser was so fucked by spyware that it was inoperative.
NIPS 2016 pre-proceedings
This is why I went with CrashPlan. Backing stuff up to a friend's computer? Free and only limited by their storage.

or.. put a box at your friends house with as much storage as you want. Back when I had FIOS (and it was fast & reliable) this is what I did. Put a NUC with a friend, had an external drive, we were each others offsite backup location. Quite handy.
While all devices have security issues, not too comforted by this:

http://thehackernews.com/2016/11/google-pixel-phone-hacked.h...
> To some degree, it will make it so that we no longer have "two Americas", where one part feels completely alienated from the other part.

I don't see how you got there. What about simply understanding the right's position magically brings the two sides together? Wouldn't both sides need to agree? That seems unlikely, considering BLM's motto these days is 'kill all whites'. I don't know about you, but as a white man, I find it unlikely that I would ever sympathize with a sentiment that means I no longer exist.

> Hopefully, politics becomes more sane, more connected with what people in the country actually need, and more able to actually solve problems.

Again, I don't understand how you got there. Let's say the right is exactly as racist, sexist and homophobic as the left currently thinks and that more than 50% of the American people actually, truly want a return to the days when homosexuality was outlawed, blacks were slaves and women were property. How does understanding that make politics more sane?
Regular people (or computers) listening are going to have a heck of a time understanding world-record speaking speed https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l-o9vTk8Poo

As for auctioneers, most of what they say is repetition and filler. The fast talking is a gimmicky technique aimed at improving sales, not a practical tool for imparting information at maximum possible speed.

As I said before, the keyboard is not remotely optimized for the capabilities of human hands, and English orthography is not remotely optimized for information density as an encoding the spoken language.

If someone speaking had to say a full syllable for every letter, speaking speed would be much slower.

> almost as if our ancestors had evolutionary pressure to develop speech, but lacked the same kind of evolutionary pressure for typing.

More precisely, speech was developed over millennia by millions of people mutating it slowly over time, whereas modern typing hardware was designed by a single person, based on the mechanical characteristics of a particular prototype typewriter in the late 19th century (before any concept of “touch typing” even existed, and typists were forced to adapt to this mostly fixed hardware design as best they could.
It might be good for people living in remote places in USA.

But the world's poor have internet connectivity, 3G/LTE is cheap and widely available. Don't go by US prices for data.
Cellular plans here in India are cheap.
How do you view safety numbers on iOS?
> Timestamps and durations have been a part of phone UIs for quite some time

This is not familiar to me at all. If true, note the remaining points: the manner in which this data was synchronized allowed this material to be provided to law enforcement (Apple had other options) and Apple also included information from third party communication tools used by some people (mistakenly) to avoid being surveilled.
A Conversation with Dan Ariely About What Shapes Our Motivations
I actually daily drive a dual clutch gearbox. It's definitely not the same.
The thing is, my strong opinion is that Trump is basically a human cartoon character, so that leaves me just blown out of the water that so many people take him seriously. That's where I'm at right now, and where I've been this whole time he's been campaigning, like, "C'mon y'all, you're not serious. Where's Ashton Kusher, 'cause I'm being punk'd."

And yet, here we are.

So I don't want to participate. It's all fun and games until somebody elects Donald Trump president. Now I want off the planet, or back through the looking-glass, or whatever. I said, half-jokingly, that if Trump got elected I was going to sit in the middle of the largest nearby intersection with a sign around my neck saying "Give me food or kill me" and wait for death. I can't actually do that because I'm the breadwinner in my family, but yeah. Take my BS with a grain of salt: I'm a lonely curmudgeon with no friends who rarely leaves the house. ;-)

As for constructive and effective things to do, call your reps, participate in government, keep communicating your values in word and deed.

I really don't think this geriatric clowntroll will last four years. He has no idea of the demands that are going to be placed on him, and I think it will wipe him out in short order.
Windows at least has the decency to warn you that you're about ready to trash something. Every -nix ever will let me blow /sbin/init away with a carelessly placed file operation without so much as a "hey".

Uneducated users should be responded to with "WTF were you doing?" as computer is a precision machine and it is not unreasonable to expect some basic level of literacy.
Upvoting this, mostly so that folks can see how erasing a historical cultural identity works.
There are already satellite antennas larger than pizza box that fit into a backback.
How is E coli mysterioulsy going to convert solar energy into biochemical energy? I know how plants and cyanobacteria do it; they have photosystem.
CubeFit TerraMat | An Ergonomic Standing Desk Mat
Since people are mentioning VPN, be aware which server you use. You might want to stay away from servers in 14 eyes countries.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UKUSA_Agreement#9_Eyes.2C_14_E...

Few useful resources when deciding between VPNs

1. That one privacy guy - https://thatoneprivacysite.net/vpn-comparison-chart/

2. https://www.privacytools.io/
These changes seem to bring it much closer to the implementation in WhatsApp, although WhatsApp defaults to accepting modified fingerprints.
I would really love to see Google tackle fixing the security problems presented by the radio chip. A closed source esoteric firmware full of vulnerabilities that has DMA on your primary CPU and is remotely exploitable by state and private actors? Not to mention that it's an entry point into a device that's always on your person, has all of your contacts, emails, text messages, and phone calls, and has a GPS module in it. The radio is a huge problem and dramatically outweighs any other security concerns on a phone imo.
Well obviously the "opinion-making elites" in the "mainstream" media were not able to "make" the opinions of 50% of the people. So 50% is mainstream? Where do the other 50% get their opinions?

EDIT: I'm not ignoring this narrative about the elites but I don't think it's actually true. Trump golfed with the Clintons. They came to his wedding. He was a TV persona. During the elections he intentionally took an adversarial position towards the media to support this narrative (esp. taking on Fox News). From where I'm sitting they are all elite in the same way.

The same mainstream opinion making elites hurt the Clinton campaign by endlessly talking about the re-opening of the e-mail investigation.

Media is definitely opinionated and doesn't offer a diversity of views (which I sometimes see as annoying) but there's some points where it's almost like you'd say that the mainstream elite in education teaches evolution while ignoring the non-mainstream view of creationism.
Apple, although not a startup, was barely alive in 1997 (ready to default) and became the most valuable company in the world 12+ years later -- worth more in actual profits (never mind stock) than 100 "unicorns" combined...
Hey, you're right, getting memory usage correct doesn't affect safety at all.

good day.
It's not going to replace internet for cities/towns. Think of the latency!

It is directed towards middle of nowhere areas where nobody provides fiber.
It's like we discover the lessons of the Capitol Hill Babysitting Co-op [1] over and over again.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capitol_Hill_Babysitting_Co-op
What's wrong with Vue.js/TypeScript/ES6/Weex(native) or React/TypeScript/ES6/Native? It's no C#, but it's modern, performant, crossplatform and can be OS themed.
Answer: tap (not long press) the name in the conversation header.
This is perhaps the most terrifying news item I've read this year.

But I'm not scared because Google has changed the search results for 300,000 people in a deliberate, measured, and successful attempt to change targets political views.

Rather I'm terrified that that the political climate in the US is now at the place that it is safe to openly talk about mass search results manipulation in the service of making sure people have the correct beliefs.
I am really curious how the first method/process claim was granted.

'1. A method of treating a symptom of diabetes, the method comprising:
identifying a subject exhibiting symptoms caused by pancreatic beta cell destruction, the subject having a normal caloric intake; and administering multiple cycles of a diet protocol to the subject wherein a fasting mimicking diet is provided for a first time period and a re-feeding diet is provided for a second time period, the fasting mimicking diet providing less than about 50% of the normal caloric intake of the subject with both protein restriction and sugar restriction and the re-feeding diet providing 60-100 percent of the normal caloric intake of the subject, depending on a need to lose weight wherein the first time period is from 2 days to 6 days and the second time period is from 7 days to 85 days.'

This seems like un-patentable subject matter based on USPTO guidelines (https://www.uspto.gov/sites/default/files/web/offices/pac/da...). It seems to me that it fails the machine or transformation test for a process patent (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Machine-or-transformation_test). The only way I could reason that it was patentable is if the 'diet protocol' has to be followed strictly based on the definition in the patent. The diet protocol has a long section with very specific micro-nutrient content. So that is the 'product', a calorie restricted diet with a narrowly defined micronutrient supplementation.

If there is anyone well versed, what is your opinion on the patentability of the first claim?
Google seems like they have been pushing more into this "experience" space with the creation of their local guide program. They've effectively introduced a review-based system for anything inside of maps and incentivize people through earned points for reviews, photos and other items. Google has been sending emails out to local guides to conduct meet-ups and other inputs from the users. Wondering how long before you can start contacting local guides directly from the maps application.
Up to 5 times per month here.
There's a spin-off forum neven moderates (well, sometimes):
forum.arctic-sea-ice.net/index.php/board,3.0.html

It's a bit slow in the freezing season, even this completely out of control one, and can often degenerate into ridiculous arguments between a few posters.

But just in case... if there's any Sea Ice geeks in SF, I'd love to talk about it in person!
Open-RethinkDB meeting notes
Pre-shut down discussion at:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12981736
Sure, but C++ also has tools to do this checking in an automated way.
> Nothing listed is a backdoor.

I'm baffled. I like to think of the quality of HN comments as much higher.

Apple had options to make this data unavailable by design to themselves and to law enforcement. They chose a design so that they could provide this information. The phone does it without the user's consent.

However, I understand that there are people who would rather redefine terminology to suit their cognitive dissonance.

In any case we can agree on the following:

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Apple provides a near majority of your sensitive information to law enforcement by the design of the product, and you can not use the product in a meaningful way without that information becoming available to state surveillance and state law enforcement.
>(I am sure there are many reasons this would not happen but it certainly makes for a nice bullshit explanation if I wanted to write a story set in a far-future ice planet.)

You are a bit too late to the party:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1706620/
It certainly indirectly translates to it though. English + internet = tons more information. English + travel = far more destinations. English + business = far more international opportunities.

For example, want to open up some business in Germany? You're going to have an easier time speaking either German or English than if you just speak Russian. Swap in Chinese/French/Spanish/Arabic if you like, but all of these still take a back seat to English (at the moment).
>The labor part of the problem - not sure why it's such a large part of the cost

It's not. At least according to this, which seems well informed:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/22/business/apple-america-and...
> WSL folder

Which has both the hidden and the system flag set. You have to change two explorer settings to even access the directory, one of said changed gives you a prompt warning you that it might be dangerous to enable it.
Interesting idea but wouldn't a satellite to car connection be pretty unreliable?

Since the line of sight would often have things in the way. I'm assuming trees, bridges, and being in a garage would interfere with it.
You know you are an old timer on the net when you are brought up attached to the nipple of XCopyPro, and 30 years later, seeing kids talking like "Spotyify" is an acceptable alternative to WAREZ.
Actually, one of the eight propositions that got him executed was terrestrial movement, at least according to [1].

[1] http://web.archive.org/web/20120615050646/http://www.bruno-g...
Fully agree with your comments on how the magic of the Internet is leaving. It seems like piece by piece we lose the parts that made the Internet an exciting place.
Didn't SpaceX blow up the rocket carrying Facebook's Internet.org satellites (which more or less were doing exactly this)?

https://techcrunch.com/2016/09/01/a-spacex-falcon-9-rocket-j...
The Intrusion Artist: Robert Bresson
The email verification was easy when they provided gravatar ids, which used to just be MD5(email).
That site lists the things Bruno was accused of, not the ones he got convicted for - a rather important difference, don't you think?
Ah, I didn't read article.
But google also provides some options for that:
https://store.google.com/magazine/device_protection
https://support.google.com/fi/answer/6309809?hl=en
Can you even read?
Change the World – Silicon Valley transfers its slogans and money to politics
There is already fanfiction depicting Donald Trump as Warhammer 40,000's Emperor of The Imperium of Man.

https://www.google.com/search?tbm=isch&q=donald+trump+warham...
That's an interesting point. There are many companies excited to use low-bandwith 5G connection to link up all their IoT devices. A satellite network provides a means to route around the cell phone network, which could be valuable to Tesla if they think it's cheaper than buying data plans for their cars. It could also be an effective backup system in case cell networks are out of range or unavailable.

I suppose the interesting questions are: how many individual ground stations will a single satellite be able to support simultaneously? And what are the physical characteristics of the ground station? (Iirc, in the early 2000's, Teledesic was going to use multiple motorized parabolic antennas enclosed in beach-ball sized plastic bubbles to track satellites as they went over. We can do that now without moving parts with beam steering, but the antennas might still be kind of bulky/awkward.)
the article states that they'll be ~800 miles up, so about 8ms there and back
In the article it says that it's because of the current deployment of satellites being at 22k miles high. Tesla plans to launch the satellites at a range of 715-823 miles which will reduce the latency to 25-35ms.
There is a lot less distance between Low Earth Orbit and New York City than there is between New York City and Los Angeles.
Wow, you are deep and impressive. Very cool!
The problem is changing Linux files that are currently stored in %localappdata\lxss\ using a Windows tool.

Changing Linux files that are stored in C: and are accessed in Windows from C: and in Linux from /mnt/c/ is fine.
You Sir, win the internet for today. :)
w..what plugin is that? I need that!
> to instead live the same lifestyle as the citizens of the countries we visit: Stay in a neighborhood instead of a high-rise hotel, shop at the same grocery stores, eat the same home-cooked meals, get around via the same transit, I mean as high-fidelity as is reasonable

Until one of you gets severely sick or something like that, in which case you'll be very happy to not live like a local anymore and fall back on your home country.

This "citizen of the world" rhetoric seems to only ever be "citizen of the world that we like". How about being a citizen of the world in North Korea, or as a woman in Saudi Arabia, or as a gay teenager in Somalia?

Sorry, I have a hard time swallowing the "bourgeoisie traveling the world with Airbnb is the best way to combat bigotry" bait.
Iron Functions – Open Source Serverless Computing
Look, I'm a Libertarian as I stated before, I do not even want a government to exist as they are oppressive by nature but I recognise that there's brutal geopolitical competition among world powers.

I can't say with the little information I've got if it is necessary or not but I understand the rationale whereby someone might implement this because they are not willing to bet the survival of their people or their nation on the goodwill of others.
There's another serious problem with newer TLDs: there are millions of websites out there that "validate" email addresses against hardcoded lists of known/valid TLDs. Anyone who spends $1000+ on a fancy domain is going to be extremely frustrated when every other week or month they stumble on another site that refuses to accept their email address as valid.

The only safe domains for everyday use are .com, .net, and .org - and the well-known country codes that have been around for at least 10 years. Anything else is going to cause you headaches, and your "investment" for a short memorable domain name is not going to feel worthwhile.

Plus, the registrars are scum with these TLDs. Just stay away.