skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thank you for doing this. For years the NYT has been my unencrypted go-to; having something like this is great.
These Reports Allege Trump Has Deep Ties to Russia
Yeah, once these things are moving, you don't need much resolution to see them - we're talking about objects several kilometers wide, at the very least. Easily visible on even the most primitive satellite imagery. The difficulties would be cloud cover and orbital inclination.
Researchers query hypervisor security in future AMD Zen processors
Sure it is. NNs can behave non-deterministic (i.e. they produce different output for same input because AFAIK some operations on GPUs are undeterministic) and it makes sense to invest into software systems that clearly take a closer look on software correctness.

One idea to get correcter code is clean code layout (I heard good things about the LLVM code base), simple to read code and compilers that exploit theoretical knowledge we gained over years of compiler and type theory research. I think Chris Lattner has expertise in all of them (or at least knows about their importance, contributions and drawbacks), and if want to build a full-blown self-driving car it is important to have no indeterminism in your car, and advanced languages and compilers help to guarantee specific statements about your code.

So it absolutely makes sense to invest in your compiler research team for safety, as our security, reliability and correctness expectations will rise (which is good) in particular for self-driving cars (they are not just DNNs).
Is your username based on your depression?
I don't use my Swissgear backpack anymore [1], but I actually did wear mine out and sent them a friendly email and they sent me a brand new one, free of charge, and I got to keep the old one, too. Customer. for. life.

I currently use a GORUCK GR1 and it is bombproof. It is my work and play backpack. I drag it through literally mud and over rocks on weekend climbs/hikes/trail runs, wash and dry it in front of a fan in time for the work week. But I do wish it had more affordable organizational options.

1. Because I often have to climb through tight places for work, and the Swissgear was pretty bulky and didn't compress well.
Research suggests appendix has purpose after all: reserve of emergency bacteria
Sounds to me like you should use these next three months tackling your "lose motivation" problem! If you are able to learn how to motivate yourself (and also do the hard work of being self-critical, smashing through mental barriers that are keeping you from what you want), it will pay more dividends than any of the other ideas you've already posted.
Awesome, I've wanted this for a long time.
Does it only work on macOS or also earlier versions (Yosemite?)
Clare Hollingworth, Reporter Who Broke News of World War II, Dies at 105
I assumed that Balgair was talking about baristas at the coffee shops that you wouldn't want to go to.
> needs to be somewhat hardened to that

Oh so you mean like folks reinstalling Windows all over again? Seen that happening many times.
I'm cautious simply because all previous attempts at this have involved the addition of a logging GPS device to all vehicles, when really the vehicle mileage should be used as a good-enough measure (with no privacy implications).

In particular the privacy language on that page seems to imply it's still the logging approach, only with some token privacy measures.
Agreed, I think it's less about being able to get it right, and more about being unable to get it wrong (because users can and will get it wrong in every way possible).

Linux is able to get it right in almost every way imaginable, but I can't think of any distro that's as resilient to the user as Windows. Almost all the bloat, crap, and bad decisions seem aimed ostensibly at making it difficult or impossible for the user to ruin their system, and obviously they still are far from impervious.
El Dorado County Declares State of Emergency in California
Apple is famous for having some of the most tenured employees in the valley. 11 years is good, but not particularly long there. Google will be the next Apple in this regard, I predict.
"Of course people in the civil rights movement broke laws. The difference is that they did so in a public and organized way. Aaron, on the other hand, broke into the computer closet at MIT as a lone individual. Therefore he was persecuted."

", half the country (mostly the northern half), as well as the federal government, supported the civil rights movement. The same can't be said about intellectual property today."

These are tremendously good points everyone should remember when evaluating whether to promote or reject Aaron's path. I just made a similar one. The guy was a lone warrior fighting a battle hardly anyone cares about in a way much of the country would want him prosecuted for. They'd say something like, "I understand this stuff matters to him or maybe me but we can't just let college kids go around doing B&E's and other crimes to make political points." They then might wonder how far that could go for various causes before being sure they wanted him arrested.

A big issue I have in the I.P. side is formulating strategies to get people to care about it. They especially need to know the I.P. holders, esp patent trolls or CompSci paywalls, largely aren't earning the monopolies in terms of benefits provided. They're just robbing others claiming they're taking what's owed. It's a trick subject if the audience is laypersons, esp unlimited copying part.
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Mac OS X app, because i get a dedicated task switch icon.
"a voter is only weighted highly if they are adding useful information"

Just how do you propose one determines if the information is useful? Again, back to my original point, you'd need a system trained in EVERY FIELD.

In other words, such systems are pretty much unworkable unless you're giving it full access to the entire ACCURATE knowledge of mankind. You happen to have a nice accurate database of everything man's ever accomplished and discovered for such a machine to use? Even Watson isn't even close to that level.
I checked Wikipedia for the different types, and apparently I had a panoramic X-ray made last year.

A quick googling finds [1] which puts the maximum dose for X-rays at 0.17 mSv. Wikipedia [2] puts the average background radiation around the world at 3 mSv per year, or 0.082 mSv per day. So while 170 mSv is indeed "orders of magnitude more radiation" than an X-ray of a single tooth, it's still roughly in the order of magnitude I estimated (around a day's worth of background radiation).

[1] http://www.ada.org/en/member-center/oral-health-topics/x-ray... (section "Radiation Exposure in Dentistry")
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My everyday carry is the daypack from an Osprey Farpoint 70:

http://www.ospreypacks.com/us/en/product/farpoint-70-FARPNT7...

Nice laptop sleeve, roomy main area, a couple pockets, it behaves exactly like a day pack should, I never notice it's part of a set.

When I travel, the main pack is my luggage. Three continents and a dozen countries, it's a great bag. The way the day pack can attach either to the back of the main pack or clip to the front for a chest carry is fantastic. Build quality is completely solid. Last set of travel gear I ever expect to purchase.

Edited to add: the way the straps on the main pack can be zipped up into a panel to make the outside shape sleek and duffel-like is a godsend when the main pack goes under a bus or gets checked on an airline. It even has a side handle that gets a lot of use for lifting and carrying. Really well thought-out design.
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Edit: About 75% of respondents at this point are from green accounts. I wonder if that will sink it off the front page quickly.
Neat! If you find this interesting, Thanissaro Bhikku of Metta Forest Monetary has absolutely superb resources with guided meditations, talks, and e-books, all for free under creative commons[1]. This is in the Thai Forest lineage, so not purely secular, but I feel like there's so much being offered to learn from in a full teaching tradition that it would be a loss to just focus on a Jon Kabat-Zinn style mindfulness meditation technique.

[1] http://www.dhammatalks.org/
Could you explain how you can no longer share ideas person to person? If anything, this has gotten easier. Where it ones required skills and access to tools and resources (or at least a willingness to use the office mimeograph late at night) to create an underground zine and where the 'phone tree' was charged on a per-minute basis you now have so many options for effective person to person persuasion that it can be overwhelming.

I think your point that there is so much noise (aka "other people trying to be persuasive") that voices find it hard to get an audience is fair, but I don't see any evidence that it is harder to speak widely now and all evidence seems to point in the other direction.
It did say that, "Rust kept its top 50 position (from 47 to 41)."

But also, Rust and Dart are very different languages, so bringing Rust up here feels very offtopic.
Thanks. I've just learned about the concept of SDN.
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>That is until the free market goes against what I want. Then the free market sucks!

I'm not sure anyone is saying that the free market sucks. People are saying that there is no free market in some sectors and that, in the absence of a reasonably efficient free market, the least worst alternative is regulation.
I can't wait for the Show HN hacks to get around these requirements.
Black Star Bags in Portland, Oregon makes the best backpacks I have ever seen.

They custom-made one for me for my laptop, external monitor, cables and peripherals, cannabis paraphernalia, etc.

They were really, truly awesome. If you live anywhere near Portland (or even if you don't), they're worth checking out.
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In Hungary I know about a few teams that are developing in Dart both server- and client side. Mostly under-the-radar because of the nature of their products, but still, choosing Dart over TS, Go, whatever your hype is...

(If locals are listening in: we are planning to organize a meetup in Budapest, contact me if interested.)
$0. Left a ~$120k base job in the Boston area to travel for a few years. Not the first time I've done this.
Ask HN: Is Google adwords totally useless?
I started a small campaign on AdWords, £10 down, 8 clicks so really small numbers I had a look at them and found:

-2 were from sites that were really spammy and had no actual adverts so I don't know how they referred to my site
-2 were from sites that had zero relevance to my keywords
-4 were from sites that didn't exist

Is this what other people see? I know the numbers are low but why pay for crap? Or am I missing something??
Thanks for the tip. My Miele does badly with or without the prewash.
I think you might need to recalibrate your idea of the scale of this object. The iceberg weighs about a trillion (10^12) tons. For comparison, a Nimitz-class aircraft carrier is about a hundred thousand (10^5) tons. So you're talking about moving an object which weighs about a million times as much as the whole US Navy carrier fleet.

Then, once you had it back into position, you'd need to apply your "glue" to the whole crack surface, which is around 40 square kilometers, a little smaller than Manhattan Island. Also, the majority of that crack surface is hundreds of meters deep in sub-zero waters in one of the most inaccessible places on the planet.

Then, once you've done that, the same forces which caused this bit to calve off would cause a new bit to calve a year or two later.
I find if I hate a formatting pattern that I'm forced to use, after a while I prefer it and hate all others.
Also I constantly aced their support and they said they would call me after 30 minutes over 12 hours and nothing
There's a cultural component as well. In Japan, for instance, it's considered rude to speak too loudly in public places. So the behavior there is to send text messages to each other instead of make phone calls. This may be the same for other cultures too.
I just tried, and it looks like it'll still work after dropping www as well:

gstatic.com/generate_204
There is a difference. A prostitute or escort is likely a transitory event. A sugar baby, generally, would be more long term.

The interesting challenge I have for people is distinguish between a sugar baby and a normal relationship. Academic surveys/studies show that ambition and wealth matter. Most women will not overtly say that they are specifically looking for money, but very few women would settle down with someone they are generally compatible with but who is constantly impoverished and reckless with their finances.
datatau.com and lobste.rs
Maybe not. OTOH, if it continues to grow at Google, that can power development for quite a while and provide plenty of opportunity to hit the key use case that drives outside adoption (e.g., the equivalent of Rails for Ruby.) With web front-end (compile-to-JS), server (DartVM), and early-stage mobile (Flutter) stacks, there's a lot of places that key win could come.
"There's nothing fundamental stopping semiconductor technology to reach those feature sizes"

The laws of physics most certainly are THE fundamental thing in the way. Electron leakage, current ripples at nanoscale, capacitive interference. There's a lot more involved when it comes to semiconductor technology.
not yet at least
By the same logic, you could complain that VW sells people new Golfs that have nothing to do with the original VW Golf from 1974.

It's an entirely usual thing to maintain marketing names between generations because the marketing name is rather a description of the target audience than of the concrete feature set or technical specs.
I mostly agree. That said, to some personalities, emotional attachment prevails. I can tell you I'd rather pay more than not "own" some stuff. I had to make room and sell the less useful things and it's gut thing, it's just hard. It's a part of me, of memories ... I think a car often fits this. That's what you took your girlfriend in, your kids to holidays, etc
Unlikely, it's hard for these things to get close to the coast - remember that the base is several hundred meters below sea level, so it will ground if it gets into even remotely shallow water. More likely it'll break up, and bits will wander off into the South Atlantic and Indian oceans.
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To add to this, Steam is still steampowered.com.
If somebody has an interest on what's new with Dart, I'd suggest to peek into the Dart Developer Summit 2016 videos. Previous HN link and discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12838749

TL;DR: great developer tooling, hyper-focus on web and mobile.
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I use https://github.com/motemen/ghq for that, which is really nice actually.
Data sommelier? Catchy.
We are writing spa frontend for email marketing service in dart. No angular, react, just lots of plain dart. Strong analyzer mode is used and dartium is always in checked mode. Dart shined most when we created drag and drop html editor. We like using it anl if anyone wants to know why we used dart ask for details.
Check our app at listshine.com
I agree, I think the story definitely belongs in a blog post. It's a good story, and you're building the company for a good cause, but it's not what you should put on your front page.
> whenever you've heard of company A poaching employee Y from company B, has it really subtly made you think of Y as a helpless object?

Yes. If that wasn't what someone was trying to convey, why did they pick the word "poach" in the first place? The whole point of using that word is to evoke a metaphor where the hired employee is mere game animal ensnared by the company.

> I think of the two companies plying Y with enticements, with Y manipulating them until (s)he finally gets rich rewards with the new company.

"Hire" is a good verb for that.
Then apply somewhere else that will value your talents. Google isn't the only company out there.

I couldn't figure out why he was so focused on just getting hired at Google. Either try, try again, or move on to something else. That's kind of how it goes. Who knows, he might thrive at a smaller company that he never thought about before.
Thanks, I didn't see it..I thought it's interesting because every few days there's a new library ported to Rust shown on HN, which gave the impression to me that it's the fastest growing language.
What I'm saying is that not revealing key from observing outputs is a required feature for such PRF to be cryptographically secure. What you cited is a "worst case" for hash table implementation — a hash table revealing its indices; which is fine with SipHash exactly because it's a cryptographic PRF. Network traffic authentication is basically, appending the output of SipHash(packet) to packet and then checking it — again, having many such outputs should not reveal the secret key or allow forging packets, because SipHash is a secure MAC.

You're correct — it shouldn't replace HMAC in most cases mainly due to its short output (64 bits) and because it received less analysis than common cryptographic hash functions/MACs.
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This is something I would definitely be interested in, but like some others I am instinctively put off by the back story. There is no doubt it is an important story, but its role here, especially on a product homepage, feels very ambiguous. If this was a blog post somewhere else talking about your motivation then sure but here it definitely feels like marketing.
ObjC (probably a little Swift just to test if its ready yet), C, and probably tons more like most huge tech companies :P
Hey, I have been following you fairly closely from the sidelines. I work on similar software, though strictly in the call-center space. You can see our stuff here:

https://help.mypurecloud.com/articles/navigate-schedule-edit...

Our main feature is simulating a call-center to build the correct schedule. Do you offer any features like that, or do you plan to?
What that bit is referring to is that the ice shelf has been thinning as a result of climate change. The temperatures on the Antarctic Peninsula have increased by about 3˚C (5˚F) over the past half century or so, which is a huge change to the climate of a region.
California passed a law making it unlawful to prosecute underage hookers. Whoever proposed this law has not thought this through.

https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml...
I actually watched a friend google Facebook and go to the website through the results... It seemed so strange to me. Maybe some people have become trained to do that? I've only seen it once but it stuck with me as odd.
I hope this site can reword their explanation. It's a bit confusing what their intent is, especially in the final paragraph.
Just big shots changing chairs.
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Or perhaps they want to go down the road of FPGA / ASIC. There is some LLVM based FPGA tooling around today [1], but perhaps they want to uplevel the core programming language to a new programming language? Chris has done this already from Obj-C to Swift.

[1] http://llvm.org/devmtg/2014-10/Slides/Baker-CustomHardwareSt...
I don't use partner sites just google.com to start with. Also, get rid of tablet and mobile traffic at first. If I can get that working I go from there. Also, it's pretty expensive traffic.
What was the worst risk you learned about?
Universities need foreign students to fund the school (including tuition subsidies for state residents) because state legislature won't.
Secure ATM Door Locking System Using RFID
Here's a bit from the report (maybe NSFW?): https://twitter.com/jrhennessy/status/818962817675968513
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There is skill in being a barista but you don't need to do the job as an apprentice first for two years or anything like that.
Not sure why parent is getting downvotes for a more gender-counterbalanced quip about The Mythical Man Month, which is entirely relevant to this discussion.
A Nixon administration official has claimed the War On Drugs was conceived by Nixon's White House to persecute Nixon's politial opponents-- blacks and liberals.

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The Nixon campaign in 1968, and the Nixon White House after that, had two enemies: the antiwar left and black people," former Nixon domestic policy chief John Ehrlichman told Harper's writer Dan Baum for the April cover story published Tuesday.

"You understand what I'm saying? We knew we couldn't make it illegal to be either against the war or black, but by getting the public to associate the hippies with marijuana and blacks with heroin. And then criminalizing both heavily, we could disrupt those communities," Ehrlichman said. "We could arrest their leaders. raid their homes, break up their meetings, and vilify them night after night on the evening news. Did we know we were lying about the drugs? Of course we did."
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Here is James Burke on this topic:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PeROEoimj7I

And here's Primitive Technology man:

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAL3JXZSzSm8AlZyD3nQdBA

(Should we leave his videos lying around on clockwork tablets?)
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Google mgmt fake releases and then subsequently cancels unlaunched products all the time. They do it to assess market viability and also to stymie competitors. Ara is notable because of the breadth of the project, but it was really just about protecting the android cash cow's flank.

The strategy has worked pretty well. Android was released as open source almost 10 years ago, and you still can't run it on any semi open hardware, like you could with eg. Linux on a PC.

To this day, it still boggles my mind that Intel won't sell an open handset.
Not to be a jerk, but as a video guy, this promo video needs some work.

1. The Premiere Pro "Morph Cut" doesn't really work that well and can easily be spotted. See :38 for an example.

Morph Cut Overview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VOvDwiE0qSo

2. The tracking/compositing of the app on the phone screen is very crude. :59

3. The audio needs a lot of work. I'm on a laptop with no headphones, and I hear the bad ADR work. "Your stories" at 1:28 stands out the most.
Discussed previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13361392
Yeah but not for automated driving which requires good algorithms more than anything else.
What's the process to assess whether a domain is on the naughty list?
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You're welcome! That means a lot to me. I tried really really hard to make it produce output I and others would like.

> I'm never afraid to peek into unfamiliar code because of that.

This is exactly why dartfmt exists. It's not about making your code more readable to you, it's about making strangers' code more readable, because that lowers the bar to contribution between people in the ecosystem.
While I have no personal love for Backpage's adult section or their facilitation, if any, of sex worker trafficking, I wonder: What determines which businesses the government pressures into shutting down and which they do not?

I fear it's ultimately politics and not law. The next President of the U.S. has often threatened news media; could they be similarly pressured?
It ultimately depends on how much of the car's action is driven by DNNs, a miss-classification in the CNN can easily lead to a car crashing on a highway and causing a pileup. DNNs are so complex, you can't really write unit tests like you typically do for deterministic code.

That's why some of the big banks flat out refuse to implement any form of deep learning for risk analytics. They're much more reliant on simpler ML models like random forests and logistic regression that are easier to analyse and diagnose by model governance teams.