skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Also, Ford Probe vs Ferrari 456: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferrari_456#/media/File:1995Fe..., https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:97ProbeGTS.JPG

(Ferrari have since moved a bit more upmarket; the replacement for the 456 is the 612 (so says Wikipedia), which I think looks a bit more like a Porsche Panamera.)
I'm surprised how much, as consumers, people will put up with in terms of bad audio. I think cell phones really helped lower the bar when the connections were bad but the mobility was unrivaled. I used to hate calling someone's cell phone because the land-line was generally crystal clear and responsive.

Granted, things have improved a lot over the last 10 years, both in cell phones and internet calling. However, video conferencing still seems pretty obsessed with figuring out a way to get high definition video and both audio quality (from the connection and the equipment) and latency haven't improved significantly for major video conferencing solutions.
You retain sovereignty in a technical legal sense, but the cost of exercising that sovereignty becomes prohibitively expensive if you can't get the other signatories to agree. That's why trade agreements that mandate extensive intellectual property and other regulatory frameworks are so dangerous.
Tesla Autopilot update now rolling out with new semi-autonomous features
This seems to be a rumor rather than an announced product. It's a revised version of the current GT86/Scion FR-S/Subaru BRZ.
For those that don't know who don't know who Vincent Canfield is (I didn't), it is worth reading up on the man as he is a fascinating if not controversial person with a flair for raw/abrasive humor and a confrontational manner. He faced extradition and criminal charges in Germany [0] and his email service, cock.li, was at the center of the terrorist hoax against US schools [1].

[0] https://twitter.com/gexcolo/status/715640881651564544?lang=e...
[1] http://motherboard.vice.com/read/the-story-of-cockli-the-sit...

I would like to respond to a few comments:

> Why do we only hear stories about this from the US and not from China or Russia? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13454966

As a proud US citizen, I understand the slight you are feeling. It's as if we are continually being picked on and singled out for every misstep. In these types of thread I always see comments like:

> USA: make East Germany great again. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13454689

> Yip. Traveling to the US is ironically the one place where I'd be concerned about my rights & freedom. Their tourist harassment force really needs to relax. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13455194

Which infuriate me! But, we (as US citizens) should be held to the highest of standards because at times what we preach as a country is contradicted by our actions. It's not good enough to say, "Well, this is an isolated incident," or "Look at what x_country does." To justify abusive over reaching actions by our government based on what another country does is not logical or constructive. What we need to do is improve ourselves as a country and by doing so maybe set an example for others.
Stop the page load, and the content will come up. www.fsf.org seems to be fine, but static.fsf.org seems to be having trouble.
Your 'anonmyized' web browsing history may not be anonymous
You're essentially agreeing that the point is to lowball the candidate.
Utopian ideas on climate change will get us precisely nowhere
It's not that, it's more that you want to get in and you have to make sure they don't have a reason to say no. They have something you want (access) and you don't have anything they'd want to grant that. So as soon as you make it hard you're bound to have trouble.
I can offer an opinion not yet seen in this thread. It comes down to tolerances. My father works for GM as a tool and die maker. He says that GM is obsessed with tolerances in their panels. This means that the gap between the hood and front quarter panel is the same near the windshield as it is near the headlights. Same goes for all other areas of the car. It's hard to get right. If you start to get more complex designs with panels meeting at odd angles and with multiple bends it gets even harder, and more expensive.

Therefore, my theory is that mid range car companies don't want to build complex designs as they will increase the price of their car needed to satisfy their tolerance specs.
Solar power cost down 25% in five months
A learning mindset.

When you treat each experience in life as a learning experience, it becomes much easier to persevere.

Another very useful skill, it not running away from pain or failure. This is not to say 'learn from your failures', but 'let the pain and anguish sink in'. Remember this pain, realize it is there and what caused it. Next time you encounter fear or hardships, the intuitive memory of the past pain - the one you didn't run away from or tried to suppress - will help you. I know it helped (and helps) me many, many times.
Sia is 100% open source: https://github.com/NebulousLabs/Sia
This is great work. I was expecting a toy Forth, but this one is pretty serious. I was happy to see quotations, immediate words, and Factor-style combinators.
The 50 Most Innovative Companies of 2016
Can we not flood HN with every new piece of Trump "news"? Sometimes non-tech stories are important enough to be featured here. This is hardly that
Virtual Panel: What's Next for .NET?
But the human brain is mostly dedicated to socializing and interpreting social signals. If you don't even stretch out those parts of your brain, you're not even satisfying intrinsic human needs.
There's a fairly comprehensive list here:

https://github.com/sbilly/awesome-security
The article states that he got the photo from the Birmingham Mail. Funnily enough, after this NYT article, the Birmingham Mail released an article about how their own image was used for this fake news article.

Even stranger, it looks like someone took this original photo, flipped it, got rid of all of the labels, then created new labels for a few boxes. Probably to make it more difficult for reverse image search to find the original.

http://www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/midlands-news/birmingha...
"My wife was home with the child for 5 months before getting back into the workforce and she complained frequently about the loss of identity."

I am sorry to say, If you lose your identity after taking care of a kid for 5 months, you didn't have much identity to begin with.
Hard to decide if incredibly smart or the opposite.
Though it's more like the verbatim title is preferred except when it isn't and there's a good chance an editor will change it to the verbatim title, or something worse, or maybe better and an equally good chance people will complain and it'll be changed [back].

I've always said we should have the verbatim title and an editorialised one and let people choose in config which one[s] they want.

Current system mostly works though.
Lua is strictly worse than MicroPython, I find. Memory usage is worse, and managing programs on it is bad too, although I haven't used it as much as MicroPython.
Is that so incredibly stupid? Did Google really start aggressively competing with Cyanogen and that's why they went down?
I cross the US/Canadian border in such a sleepy location once or twice every year. My experience is that the Canadian officials are professional and friendly whereas the US officers are sarcastic assholes. Note: I am a white US citizen.
> It is extremely stressful to walk your young child across a busy intersection in SOMA [...] where a crazy person is screaming at the top of his lungs, where a street that smells of urine awaits you on the other side.

It's not normal for a city to have these things. It's unacceptable that one of the richest cities in the world has normalized (or become conditioned to) such a sad state of affairs. You shouldn't be afraid to raise a young child in the city.
Uhm, citation needed?

I thought that it was well known that economic considerations such as career, daycare costs & even how many children does the car fit affect family size.
What chemicals are used for anti-browning commercially? For household use apparently citric acid, vitamin c, etc. are recommended, which doesn't sound too alarming.
http://overweeninggeneralist.blogspot.com/2011/08/universal-...
I found the information in the book The Subtle Art of Not Giving a Fuck, by Mark Manson, to be quite useful in overcoming adversity.

While the title is a bit on the nose, Manson's premise is basically that we need to identify what is important in our life, and then eliminate our worrying about all the trivial things we run into every day.

For me, this was my family and religion (yes, religion). I realized that as long as my wife and kids were there, and I had someplace to dump my personal issues (religion), my job really didn't matter much, since my skills are transferable elsewhere. I didn't quit my job, but I certainly don't rank it in the top-ten important things to worry about, like I used to.

Seeing as my job is about 90% of the adversity I face in life, just making that mental change resulted in a tremendous amount of joy and satisfaction.
Medication like Zoloft helped a ton for me with these things
Even more enhancement in newer versions:

"Version 7.0 20/July/2016

New Features
Row Hammer Test (Test 13) now uses double-sided hammering and random data patterns in an attempt to expose more RAM modules susceptible to disturbance errors."
> Antibiotic resistant genes don't just disappear when we stop using antibiotics. They will remain in the gene pool effectively forever at low levels.

They very likely already were in the gene pool before we went on the antibiotics binge. Remember that our antibiotics were discovered in nature. They're used by other species to fight bacteria. Penicillin was used by moulds for unknown millions of years before we coopted it.

Since bacteria multiply within days or even hours, evolution works very fast in them. This is why they develop resistance within a few decades. How fast they would lose the resistance if we stopped is AFAIK not something we can know until we do it and see what happens.
Sky net ;)
why? new AirPod cost $69 for 1pcs, I think it rather expensive, easy to use iRope fo $3.9 and never lose them)
2017's best Linux laptop: The latest Dell XPS 13
> Free/libre OSS won the battle for the server, lost the battle for the desktop

I don't think it lost the battle on desktop - if you don't rely on platform(or interest)-specific software like the adobe/microsoft suites and some 3A games then you'll be more than fine on the linux desktop.
KDB might be niche, but that niche is finance and there are a decent number of open KDB positions. I get a couple of unsolicited emails a week for them. And they pay very well.
Thanks for this, tried it in Android Canary version and it works great.
Thanks for publishing it. I had long thought about writing a compiler in Awk. Finding yours through a comment here on HN some time ago served as a major validation of the idea. I ended up writing one.

Here is the result: https://github.com/dbohdan/all-caps-basic. It targets C and uses libgc along with antirez's sds for strings. The multi-pass design with each pass consuming and producing text is intended to make the intermediate results easy to inspect, making the compiler a kind of working model. The passes are also meant to be replaceable, so you could theoretically replace the C dependencies with something else or generate native code directly in Awk. You can see some code examples in test/. Unfortunately, the compiler is very incomplete. I mean to come back to it at least to publish an implementation of arrays.
>You shouldn't be afraid to raise your child in a vibrant, stimulating urban environment.

"Stimulating urban environment". What do these words mean to you? Cities strike nothing but fear into me.
OP, would you buy one? Why?
Are you looking at a concept car celica? I don't think that car was ever produced.
Shinobi, an Alternative to ZoneMinder. Free Open Source NVR CCTV Software
Go back to 1950s USA where average annual salary was just over $3000 - if I told you back then I'd give you $500 a month - almost twice the average salary where do you think we'd all be now? Would we be even here?

Now take your $500 a month and project forward another 50-60 years. What do you think it'll buy you then and why?

By picking a monetary amount - be it $50, $500 or $1000 it IS absolutely making a determination about what's basic. And its doing it based on the living standards and cost of living of today. That's a large part of why its so flawed.
Do you have the power needed to run them? I once had an opportunity to get a huge HP "cluster in a box" server (two computers and a drive array all in one chassis) for not much money. It was looking good until I saw that it needed 20A to run and I'd have to hire an electrician to expand my circuit-breaker box.
I agree with the author that Haskell's unfamiliar syntax and functional constructs are why it hasn't taken over the world. I also think that Haskell's syntax and functional constructs are precisely why it should though. I also like the fact that Haskell isn't a mega-corp-owned technology, but rather grown by intelligent engineers to do intelligent things in intelligent ways.

I'm not the greatest Haskell programmer, but I love it. I recommend learning the basics of Haskell, if you haven't yet. Doing so improved my code in other languages quite a bit, so it was worth studying for that reason alone.
What is it like raising kids in east bay? does anyone have experiences to share?
Fragment: Collaborative Spectral Synthesizer
A martyr for a planet, now that's a new one.
My android [Acer E380] sometimes can't start without a few minutes on the charger, the battery is dying after the designed in service period.
> the market does not want their goods or services! They should fail as quickly as possible, not continue to drag on producing things people don't want.

You are forgetting about what the artist wants.
How about Mitsuoka Orochi?
Maybe not middle class but not pure supercar.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitsuoka_Orochi
Probably because most consumers want something average / something that doesn't draw that kind of attention.
I work for a hosted VoIP company.

>> it was great having a perfect call connection anywhere there is decent internet.

Thats the catch. The internet service has to be good enough for VoIP. Many times, having the right router is key.

>> I'd pick up the handset and the dial-tone was immediately there;

As long as the handset thinks its registered, dial tone will be immediate.

As far as the Ooma experience goes, if you can change the codecs for your device to use something like G722 rather than the normal PCMU/PCMA or GSM, call quality should be good. What handset did you get for your Ooma service ?
I'm concerned that all the open-source Solaris forks will lose all the reference documentation (see, e.g, http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/documentation/solaris-11-1...) if/when Oracle pulls the plug on Solaris.

Is there a way for this tragedy to be avoided?
Yeah, I think the real problem is that the functional tests actually pass (on my machine, and most, I would assume).

But the C code is invalid. In many circumstances, a one byte buffer overrun is exceedingly likely to "work", but ASAN flags those as bugs with 100% reliability.

If I recall, it also had eiter a use-after-free or double free. The former can obviously cause problems but may not, not sure about the latter.
Miguel seems to want break and continue in F#. That's my pet peeve as well; Scala doesn't support them either, but surely F# could do a better job here. The rest of the improve story is very solid, so it's shame to leave this fruit hanging.
I can vouch for Haskell Programming, but I haven't read the other book. Thanks for the recommendation.
Having been between work and grad school and back, my personal experience is that systems are easier to maintain during work. Grad schools is automatically less structured and easier to get into a funk if you don't focus right.
The questions I am about to ask are not meant to judge you. I am asking, because I am pretty sure you asked yourself these as well and I am just curious about your answers.

If you both are so busy and "barley" (not homeless barley, but like needing dual-income) can afford living in the SF Bay Area, then why have kids?

Similarly, why live in the SF Bay Area?
Or even better, make the minimum wage $150/hour. Why not?
Or maybe you are suggesting that it should be lowered? (It's already above the poverty line for an individual in the US.)
Windows Phones use the Secure part of the Secure Digital(SD) standard. Very few other platforms use it.
Cheers, having a positive outlook on circumstances is a commendable attitude. Good luck for the future.
I suppose it's easier to make new friends before having kids?
Donald Trump Bodyslams, Beats and Shaves Vince McMahon at Wrestlemania
As a Brit, such statements just blow my mind. Giving a random stranger on the internet medical advice - and for a branded drug at that.

"you may want to see a doctor, sometimes these things need medicated" seems like reasonable, responsible advice. But handing out specific drug recommendations - WTF?!

I experienced the same thing when my American cousins were over last summer. Unsolicited and highly dangerous medical advice tossed out like a TV show recommendation.

EDIT: I realise I do not actually know the nationality of the previous poster, and that their statement referred solely to themselves, yet I still feel it is dangerous and will leave the original message intact.
The most awkward experience I've had with an airport as a US Citizen is LHR. It seemed disorganized, lots policies being enforced by people who had no context on how to enforce them.

The most invasive experience I've had with an airport was TLV. Though it was helped by the fact that I knew they were going to be thorough, they had plenty of staff, and the staff all seemed very well trained. However, I've heard that it can be a lot worse if you provide the wrong answers or aren't a white American traveling on business.

Other airports like FRA or AMS have been relatively pleasant.
Childcare by grandparents is pretty common outside of the USA, often in places where both parents genuinely need to work
The New LinkedIn Looks Just Like Facebook
They were being hypocritical by being hyper-critical.
Do you continue to have the feeling despite attempts to go out and be social?
I'm waiting for our local CECs to get shut down. Every six months or so it seems there's another dust up, and we've even had several(!) shootings[0][1] at our two local joints.

[0] - http://counton2.com/2016/05/28/one-person-injured-in-north-c...

[1] - http://www.postandcourier.com/archives/calls-reveal-panic-fe...
If the object is only to improve performance, a black-box machine-learning model should outperform a hand-tuned algorithm. The generalisation (out-of-sample) performance will depend on how representative the training and evaluation sets are, but this is also true for an algorihtm with human-selected features.
This is the browning of the flesh of the Apple which happens when the Apple is cut and in contact with Oxygen. This is not related to wax or other treatments of the skin used to prolong freshness as I understand it.
ECC could also help to raise the alarm when you're under attack – the chances of flipping enough bits to evade ECC (and have them be the right bits to pull off your exploit) without getting a few detectable flips in the process must be quite slim.
No, it just means people will have an opinion about the article. Are they wrong to do so?
I have a feeling that Amazon probably provides financial incentives to employees for filing patents, which is the real reason this got filed.

And courts are fickle, on the chance this doesn't get thrown out, it might still be worth patenting for Amazon.
I meant it more in sense that when the human race (or rather 'civilization') starts to collapse that its easy to start propping up birth rates by making having children more and more attractive (financially-wise anyway) until you have the rate you want. The only problem is (and I'll probably get downvoted for this again) is that its mainly poor people that have lots of children. That's not good for society, so I'd rather incentive educated people to have more kids.
I recently finished a Linux course at school, part of which was focused on Vim. I got points taken away for using gg to jump to the top of a document and G to jump to the bottom. My professor said neither option would work. While I think it is reasonable to expect professors to know what they're talking about, it is fairly common that they don't.
This is a good answer. It boils down to what you're paying for. My dad was a suspension and steering engineer at General Motors years ago, and he impressed upon me the number of evolutions these designs go through. The current shape of a standard "middle class car" is highly optimized to give the best trade-off between aerodynamics, fuel efficiency, interior capacity, structural strength, etc. That's what a typical middle class buyer wants to pay for. A Ferrari is entirely optimized to look hot and go fast, and makes a huge number of concessions to those goals. Just try using one as a daily driver and grocery hauler and you'll see why few people do that.
The opposite is most likely to be true, as someone with nothing going on in their lives may welcome the activity.
The "500 rule" [0] is useful to know too. Without it, you risk star trails at higher exposure times. Then there's the need to avoid light pollution. This map [1] isn't super recent, but it's good enough for most use. And lastly, just having enough solar activity [2] to see them, especially at lower latitudes.

[0]: https://petapixel.com/2015/01/06/avoid-star-trails-following...

[1]: https://djlorenz.github.io/astronomy/lp2006/

[2]: http://www.aurora-service.org/aurora-forecast/
Prolong freshness, increase gloss, etc.
The "key" in that sentence, the one that gets padded, is the (RSA) private key, not the AES key.
That isn't the opposite of self-centeredness. In fact odds are you avoid behaviors that annoy you. You simply aren't gifted enough to know the range of behavior that might bother others. To think you do is arrogant and more than a little self-centered.
France gets more than 77 million visitors a year? That's astounding.
This is classic Wall Street private equity behavior. Use borrowed money to buy the company, loot the place, and flip it. It's pure parasitic behavior but not illegal.

I would advise anyone working at a company acquired by private equity to bail out ASAP. It is just a matter of time before you get screwed. Especially don't get left with a bunch of company stock.

I do wonder why creditors keep funding these PE deals and why anyone participates in their share offerings. You're asking to get taken.
My parents worked their nuts off to pay for my education and provide security for the family - my dear old late dad woke up at 4am EVERY SINGLE DAY of the year, except Christmas Day, to work for me, basically. There's no way I'm giving up on anything.

I have a ridiculously easy life compared to them, and because of them. That's my main motivation, apart from my own young family.

And I surround myself mostly with talented friends who work their nuts off too. Failures are no big deal, unless you don't learn something.
Many types of packaged apple slices in the U.S. seem to use salts of Vitamin C like calcium ascorbate.
My experience confirms this approach. When I relied on passion as my compass, I had lots of good times, no doubt, but a lot of other boring-but-important stuff didn't get done. When I decided that how I feel about something in the moment doesn't necessarily matter that much, that's when I started succeeding, first in small and then big ways. And besides, soon you become passionate about the things you're doing, that used to be boring. So you end up having both, rather than just the one.

In short, I guess it's about getting over yourself, to find a new part of yourself that you didn't know about.