skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes: because Samoa Air's fleet aircraft are all Cessna 172s. You are essentially paying for a personal charter flight in a small aircraft, so there are no "averages" there. A single obese passenger can directly increase a flight's payload weight by +100% or more. Not the case with an airliner, where you are averaging across 75-600 people.

In general aviation just because the seat is there doesn't mean you can take off with someone in it. As a rule of thumb, "one seat" is a 150 pound person, no luggage, and sometimes that's counting some of your fuel there too. A 2-seat aircraft like the Cessna 152 doesn't take off with full tanks with 2 average adult males onboard even without luggage (360 pounds full-fuel payload), and it's a struggle to get off the ground with 2 heavier adults even with reduced fuel.

The C172 is a four-seater aircraft, 577 pounds full-fuel payload (note: less than 150 lbs per seat!). So with full fuel tanks you will get one pilot, one passenger, and either some luggage/cargo or a child passenger. Maybe a second adult passenger and no luggage if nobody is too heavy (above 175 lbs average). And an over-water flight in the Pacific is not the trip to take with a reduced fuel load. So you can see how the numbers work out here: the pilot plus one obese adult might literally be the entire payload for the flight.

(Note: a 2003 study from the New Zealand Ministry of Health set their "average" male passenger weight at 187 lbs without carryon, or 207 lbs with carryon, and the average female passenger weight at 159 lbs without carryon or 169 pounds with. Further, they noted that average passenger weight was increasing at about 2 kg/6.6 lbs per decade.)

source: https://www.caa.govt.nz/pubdocs/2003_pax_weight_survey.pdf
In some states you need to notify all parties (or get their consent) before you record their voice.

EULA does not cover it, your visitors did not signed it. Only way is to put label: "This area is monitored by CCTV"...

Also recording phone calls could be illegal. Amazon should put disclaimer before every conversation :-)

me: "Alexa"

al: "This conversation might be recorded for monitoring and training purposes"

me: "Call Dad"
Americans may learn metric, but we certainly don't think in it. Tell me that it's 27 degrees outside, and I'm going to grab my coat and wool hat, not shuck down to shorts and a tank-top.

To be honest, I think Fahrenheit is a more useful scale for typical weather temperatures.
The data extracted from mundane conversations would be very valuable to many entities. Companies/entities would pay through the nose to know what people value, like, even argue about.
This reminds me of my girlfriend's tale of her Chinese friend who married an Middle Eastern man. They communicate primarily through emojis, as they're not proficient enough with their shared language, English, to communicate.

I wouldn't take this as a counterpoint to the headline, as they don't seem to communicate very effectively.

XD
I disagree as there is a pretty broad spectrum of activities that you might not want broadcasted publicly.

Sexual acts, politial opinions, social opinions, partners, etc, all of these are commonly used to discriminate by all groups. Not wanting to have absolutely everything you do recorded doesn't mean that you're doing something that is harmful or wrong to society; there are a multitude of common situations in which you wouldn't want privately shared information attached to you directly. Examples can be given, but excluded for brevity.

Also given that Amazon has shown that it isn't keeping more than what it needs to catch the summon word "Alexa", it shows that it is very easily and technically feasible to balance "always on services" with privacy. Apple does this with iMessage and it's mobile line. Windows, macOS, and many Linux distributions ship with a disk encryption option. This is something we have a pretty easy and readily available technical solution to that allows people to retain their private lives while having "always on" tech.

When Eric Schmidt wrote that quote, it was defending an ill-fated and misguided attempt to force real names for a reason that wasn't really made clear. It was a very weak justification for the real name policy Google was trying to push across their accounts, a policy they eventually gave up on. I get that there are scenarios in which an always on, always tracked, forever recorded, real name data collection policy can solve; but it introduces far more threatening problems than it solves; I've heard talks given by former detectives and police officers on how mindless data collection is an abuser's dream, and how so many abusers were able to find their victims even after relocation because of things like store loyalty cards being leaked, service integration revealing connections, and so on.
The security community has been chasing these issues in UNIX for what? 40 years? It's a definite issue.
In what way is it off topic? It directly addresses the point raised in the comment it is replying to.
Transporting a family takes room. Rear facing car seats don't necessarily fit into smaller cars.
Ask HN: Why doesn't Moxie sign Signal's releases?
It's good practice and obviously the guy is smart and knows this...
not sure what the speeds these cars were traveling at but assuming this is regular highway speed is slow reaction time really a good excuse?

aren't you supposed to have a wide enough space between you and the car in front of you? to compensate for any slowness in reaction.
I doubt punishing Russia is actually their goal. I think they just want to promote the idea that Russia caused Trump. It's a conspiracy theory that very conveniently exculpates the current crop of DNC insiders whose incompetence and arrogance managed to get him elected.
Wouldn't it be more productive if they titled their article with something that describes the content of the article?
Isn't Kaby Lake the usual 10% "performance increase" for more X amount of dollars Intel has been doing for a decade?

Their CPUs are good because there isn't anything better, but their commercial practices have been worst than cancer.
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> lest we end up with putting GPS trackers and video recording devices on each and every person.

....phones?
> You want to be running the "guest" since that's where all your work is (just having access to the disk isn't really enough, you want to run your apps/settings/etc). I think we may see a move towards docks with graphics cards, but the CPU and RAM probably want to stay on the guest computer.

Like the Razer Core, with USB-C. Yep, I can see this happening, but also remote gaming where you rent the workstation and just get a thin client which only has to be able to download and see the 'movie'.

Gaming-wise, I can also see use cases where you want to get additional CPU power.
> Why is Norway consuming 22GW but UK only about 40-45GW, and Germand 60-65GW, given the great disparity in population of Norway?

Electric heating? Lower temperatures? Oslo is currently freezing (below 0C), neither London nor Berlin are.
> If the software does what you want includes all of those criteria.

Except most people don't consider those as criteria at all. The only criteria considered are "does it run and produce the output I want".
Replace "murder" with "homosexual relations in a country where it is punishable by death" and tell me you still stand by your argument. Are you okay with government using cloud-based computing hobbies to find and kill homosexuals in their country? If not - why? If it is illegal they shouldn't be doing it, right?

Tools used for "good" can also be used for "evil" and something so many people fail to account for is how a "good" tool can be misappropriated. This is why there are so many restrictions on how the police can operate. For example, restrictions or bans on entrapment, wiretapping, "bugging" a home, requiring a suspect to provide incriminating evidence against themselves, etc. We recognize that some bad people will get away because of these restrictions. A seemingly smaller portion of us seem to recognize why we let those bad people get away rather than erode our freedoms even more.

People who defend their freedoms have an unfortunate burden of defending the freedoms of the worst people imaginable.
Does this not suggest that Amazon could provide unencrypted audio files from their servers? That's not really "end-to-end" in my mind.
Everyone has a right to prevention of unreasonable search and seizure.

It's still up in the air whether going to a third-party to whom you've voluntarily given a bunch of information about yourself and asking that third-party to render that information is "unreasonable." It's pretty simple to make a case that it isn't. To wit: there's plenty of legal precedent for compelling a witness to testify against someone; are we to believe that your Amazon logs or your water meter history should share the same privileged status as your attorney, psychotherapist, or priest? "Alexa, forgive me, for I have sinned..."
It's also "a thing" in New Orleans. Check this out: https://www.reddit.com/r/NewOrleans/search?q=flip&sort=new&r...
More than one-third of schoolchildren are homeless in shadow of Silicon Valley
Individual engineers are held accountable -- sometimes criminally -- for bridges they design. Why shouldn't we do the same for programmers -- make it a licensed and bonded profession with serious consequences for screwing up? It could go a long way towards cleaning up the crappy practices which are accepted as normal for the field. Silicon Valley techie culture has long afforded programmers too much freedom. They serve the public and should be held accountable to the public.
me thinks it's time to start making fused CPU/RAM monster chips. Monster CPURAM chips and PCIe SSDs! nothing else makes sense! then make it smaller - use crystals for a 3D process! START USING BLOOD TO COOL IT AND FEED IT. CALL IT MITTENS. ehm.. got carried a way there.

the days of an Octacore sitting at the helm of 128GB of RAM on a single die are soon upon us, me brethren/ettes.

for the daily joe, all of this doesn't mean much really. if anything, there's some serious improvements coming to our backbone infrastructure and laptop industries. considering improvement in lithium, this might kill off the desktop entirely, if done right.
This is correct. SQL Server licensing is not changed. The major benefit is being able to share a single infrastructural OS for application and DB - it is not uncommon to see Linux app environment and Windows DB environment in a lot of large organizations.

The secondary benefit is removing the Windows OS licensing cost.
Yes there is. You want the filesystem to be flexible. If the shell doesn't like those characters, use a different shell that doesn't care. It's brain-dead to create a filesystem that prevents flexibility in user interfaces.
Exactly, he waits until the situation behind him is safe enough to get out. He also mentions a truck, so I think by the time he gets out, there's a reasonable 'impact' buffer between his family and any moving vehicles (far) behind.
One piece of research that measures vitals instead of just asking the users which one they liked more isn't very convincing. It could even be A/B tested by measuring how long people stay on the page or bounce rate above the fold.
A more extreme, but related condition is a "moose test":

The dangerous Toyota Hilux:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xoHbn8-ROiQ

The Jeep Grand Cherokee acting similarly dangerously:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zaYFLb8WMGM
In the situation where you're using work equipment this is really not a good idea. In a former life I was looking into users that were behaving 'oddly' to see if we needed to talk to their manager or our legal team.

Routing all your traffic to a server in Online.net's network? At best I'm assuming you're pirating stuff.
If in fact they are recording; we don't know.

And I don't know what laws might be broken were they to do so.

Note: I'm talking about general recording. You can tell from the Alexa app that they keep the queries themselves since you can review them yourself.

Do the police hope the accused said to the device, "Alexa, how do I murder someone?"
Objective-C is just an idiosyncratic COM-like system with first-class language support (something that COM desperately needed). There's a performance ceiling with Objective-C that C++ doesn't have, due to some key decisions early on that make it much more like COM than C++—pervasive atomic reference counting everywhere, mandatory heap allocation, virtual dispatch requiring (caching) hash table lookups, and so forth.

I think if Objective-C had caught on and C++ hadn't, the performance-critical world would look very different: you'd probably just see those domains stick to C.
Makes me wonder whether Americans really have that big of a problem with racism (relative to other countries), or whether they just talk more about it than others.

Btw, if you're interested in what it's like being black in Germany you should check out http://schwarzrotgold.tv/en/ . It's a series of interviews with black Germans, with English subtitles. The front page video is an interview with a mixed guy who as a child worked in an ethnic circus/display of a sort and in his youth was actually kicked out of the Hitlerjugend for being black. He's really thought a lot about this. Extremely fascinating. Tried submitting to HN, but no traction.
To break down that statement, is it the illegal aspect (which would be a case about international law) thats relevant, or is the impact of the news and their role in picking representing leaders for a nation.

For international law, we have had in the last year quite many hacking scandals involving the NSA and a common comment here on HN is that such activity is legal. If the country from where the hack originate has laws that permits it, then many view that as making every computer a fair target.

That leaves the interference aspect, and we saw quite a few examples during the election. There were a 7 years old non-published camera recordings which was used, without the consent of the recorded person. Is that form of interference permissible during an election?

Then we had news articles about allegations of crimes for which no court or judge have seen. Is publishing anonymous statement of such allegations a form of interference, and if so should it be legal?

Or should it only be legal if the entity that do the interference is located in the nation that holds an election? If so, what about international news agencies, many which originated in the US but is now, often for tax reason, located elsewhere. Should a news agency located in Ireland be permitted to interfere with the US election?
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Wow, the Quora reads very different to me. Article: "See the crazy amount of secrecy." Quora post: "I was read in informally on the project, sometimes you have to wing it to get any work done."
Caveat: I did not read the entire article.

I think the idea of "skin in the game" as described in the intro is close but not quite right. It's not about "falling from the pedestal" as such; it's about bearing the costs of your actions in fair proportion. This is an old argument: politicians make war, but it's working-class teenagers who actually go to war. Therefore people resent politicians for starting wars because the people being sent to die are not responsible for the war, while the people responsible for the war are not being sent to die. It's about fairness.
Can you configure MSSQL just editing files without a GUI, Unix-style?
> More often than not, brand-spanking-new software is written against 30-year-old APIs.

Let's assume this is true, brand-spanking new software will be written against 30 year old APIs that have survived 30 years of attacks and audits, but will avoid the ones that have proven vulnerable.

> I'm just less enthused about the prospect of refactoring my codebase once every few months to stay current.

The perception that you need to do this is false. You might feel pressured to refactor simply because of new syntactic improvements that make code clearer (like switching try!() macro to infix ?), but that pressure is a fiction. There's no real need to do it.
I've got a 25% overclock on my i5 2600k going right now using the stock air cooler that's pretty rad. And I'm not an outlier, it's normal for these chips. The Haswell "devil's canyon" model was reportedly also a great overclocking chip.

These ~30% overclocks are still out there if you're willing to look for them. (But I believe that 50% celeron was some kind of binning issue caused by marketing).

The bigger issue these days is that GPU performance matters so much more for gaming. I've had the same CPU/motherboard for 5 years but I'm on my 3rd GPU.
Show HN: Zork-inspired chatbot for FB Messenger
Where is gone the Ordonnée legend?
Near where I live is the Taum Sauk pumped storage plant [1], which actually overtopped in 2005 and flooded the valley below. You can see where the water cleared trees and things [2], and where the reservoir broke [3]. It drained over 3.7 billion liters in 20-30 minutes.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taum_Sauk_Hydroelectric_Power_... [2] https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/3d/Tscompar... [3] https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/76/Taum_Sau...
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> I've noticed that Switzerland, using a lot of hydropower, has a worse intensity than I expected.

The carbon intensity on the map seems to be for consumed kWh, not produced kWh. The map indicates Switzerland imports a lot of electricity from Austria and Germany which have a much higher carbon intensity.
I use Darktable to do basic edits to RAW files from my Nikon D3100 and it's incredibly satisfying to understand and adjust exposure, lens correction, perspective, and a few other things. Darktable has module presets for many cameras, which helps. I still don't understand levels, color correction, and other more advanced modules, but there are many great videos on YouTube, and my final JPEGs often end up looking better than the camera's (I shoot in RAW+JPEG just in case).
I am wondering though ... since you are putting all the rendering load on the browser, have you had any issues with that? Slow machines, slow browsers, etc?
Consumer based SSD's should be avoided. They are all a big lie when it comes to write performance. Some SSD's are hardly faster than regular hard drives for write operations.

https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/filecab/2016/11/18/dont-...
There's some on their kickstarter page.
I do but I'm not watching it thermometer for it to happen. I either apply heat until it boils or throw something in the freezer.
It's odd that the turn signal is only located at the top of the car. I guess the mid height one was broken ?

I think the situation is not entirely unclear, it seemed that there was a problem ahead of the SUV, that made a bunch of cars slow down altogether. I still don't understand the smaller red car driver decisions.. maybe he didn't know what to do and hesitated and tried to swerve as a last resort. Or maybe he was just not watching. The SUV break lights were on quite a long time..
From the post:

Since emojis often bear graphic resemblances to our real faces, the understanding has often been that there would be no problems in interpreting them, and that the sender and the recipient would agree on such interpretation.

As someone fairly immersed in the emoji community, this is a strawman argument (i.e., no one really tries to argue this).

People love and use emoji not in spite of their ambiguity but rather because of it.

Even Unicode encourages emoji to have multiple meanings:

http://unicode.org/emoji/selection.html

Does the candidate emoji have notable metaphorical references or symbolism?

And from their FAQ:

http://www.unicode.org/faq/emoji_dingbats.html

Do emoji characters have single semantics?

A: No. Because emoji characters are treated as pictographs, they are encoded in Unicode based primarily on their general appearance, not on an intended semantic.

Many people want to think there are some folks out there like myself who are seriously arguing Emoji are a language, but this isn't really true. And I say that as the author of a book called "How to Speak Emoji". The thing is, it's a humor book designed to be sold in Urban Outfitters. It's not a real language guide.

If you're curious about more nuanced takes on how emoji are actually being used, here are some good resources:

Tyler Schnoebelen's talk at Emojicon: http://www.slideshare.net/TylerSchnoebelen/emoji-linguistics

Gretchen McCulloch on how Emoji aren't really threatening English:
http://the-toast.net/2016/06/29/a-linguist-explains-emoji-an...

The tl;dr: journalists / bloggers would love to get someone to argue that emoji are a language so they can "Well, actually" them, but the truth is this isn't really happening much.

However, some of us are deeply curious about whether our usage of emoji are evolving language-like characteristics and grammars. See this recent research on whether emoji have their own syntax:

https://makingnoiseandhearingthings.com/2016/12/07/do-emojis...

Note that a distinct syntax is probably necessary but not sufficient for emoji to be considered a language.
‍http://pastebin.com/BvHAx43i (couldn't paste it here)

Missing on your OS probably, since emojis are not Whatsapp-specific.
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Hey everyone! I wanted to create an old-school style text adventure as a chatbot for a long time now. With a starter tutorial on bots and a little free time I spend the past few weekends creating a little Zork-inspired game. I think chats could be an exciting new way to tell interactive stories, if done right. Happy to answer any questions on implementation etc.
Tom Scott talked about this when he and Matt Grey made Emojli, the Emoji-only messenger. You can find their talk about it at https://youtube.com/watch?v=GsyhGHUEt-k

However, given that HN is startup central, note that if you are involved in startups and easily offended, you might want to give this video a miss.
You've always been able to do that. Almost all configuration of MSSQL can be done via a script. I can't think of anything that you need to do on a day to day basis that can't be scripted.
Also interesting to look at the solar power potential map.

Of course, I knew it already: I offered a birthday lunch to wife's relatives today. A nice inn on a hilltop. We went there just after sunrise (11:00 AM) and left just before sunset (1:30 PM). The map kind of showed that.

(Latitude 63°40.8′N)
There are various tiers of customer information, specified by law that have different requirements legally to obtain. In many cases a broad search warrant doesn't justify the release of what would be considered sensitive data. The more sensitive the data is, the more difficult it is to obtain legally. I highly doubt Amazon is "refusing". They have a legal team and are simply enforcing the protections specified by law. If the Police can build a compelling case as to why they need the information and jump through the appropriate hoops, Amazon will turn it over. In many cases the Police just want the company to cooperate because there are many investigations, and only so many man hours to put towards each case. Amazon is doing the right thing here, and even if the suspect is guilty, I highly doubt his Amazon Echo recordings are going to be useful in the investigation. It is a no stone left unturned kind of thing though.
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