skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The woman in this article is dumb. Things like:

> I had to plead guilty and pay the fine to restore my license

No she didn't, forcing the court to investigate its own ineptitude rather than accept guilt is exactly what our system is for. Even a public defender would have stood a good chance at spotting this.

Or when she was shown the other address, she should have recorded it and sent a letter or visited the other person. They could have cleared this up much earlier then the time 4 elections take.
> you should have started on it years ago

As somebody who has been following Android for a while, this statement is incredibly unfair. The Android ecosystem is huge and remarkably safe. For those actually interested in the details, the Android security team releases annual security reviews, and the report for 2016 was just released: https://security.googleblog.com/2017/03/diverse-protections-...

The tldr: the number of devices with a harmful app is 0.05%, and for 1.5B devices extremely impressive. Basically, if you only install apps from Google Play and never enable unknown sources (the default and the vast majority of users) you are safe.

While the argument that most devices aren't running the latest security patch is certainly valid, it's important to note that there are many services running on device and in the cloud provided by Google which are doing most of the heavy lifting. If anything, the example of Stagefright actually shows the safety of Android - many many devices have never received any security patch to address Stagefright and yet most users aren't affected.
It's less broken than the mixed insanity that is popular in America, and as I described, there is a functional situation in which the ordering might even be preferential.

Never the less, the one true date format is ISO 8601, and it should be used everywhere there isn't a clear and over-riding reason to use another format.
Alternative to Google Forms to Work Offline with GPS and Photos
It sounds fine in an Irish accent: "Early morning, April fourth, shot rings out in the Memphis sky..."
> The market could be wrong, Tesla could fail to achieve their vision, Ford and other existing big companies could somehow turn themselves into organizations that aggressively pursue ambitious new visions.. but the market is betting not. You're welcome to make an opposing bet.

I don't know about 'we', but I don't believe in an irrational market - the market may well be wrong, but it's not usually wrong for unreasonable reasons. And potential is all investors ever care about: they're looking to put their money where it has the most potential to turn into more money. Predicting the future is necessarily uncertain and involves ambiguous judgment; you can call that touchy-feely if you want to be dismissive, but there is no such thing as data on things that haven't happened yet.
Tesla: No algorithm prevents sudden acceleration into fixed objects
Unluckily this is true. But there is a central difference: If such a security bug occurs in an open source software, you can in principle look for the bug source yourself to fix it to secure your computer to against attacks. If it is closed source, this is hardly possible or often such a self-defense is even illegal.
>"You seem very defensive. I was just pointing out that I don't own a car and live in the epicenter of the ride-sharing revolution, and I'd much rather go back to owning a car."

And I was just pointing out that your personal experiences with today's ride sharing aren't relevant to a hypothetical discussion of an unrelated future transport technology.

I'm defensive because you're continually derailing a thread about futuretech to list your personal experiences with todaytech. I don't get why you derail this conversation to make it emotional and personal, so I get defensive about the track of the conversation of solving tomorrow's problems. Stop taking it personally, think bigger! Solve a problem!
>In my experience money is a key incentive for students in GSoC and that makes it hard to keep them as volunteers.

I think that's a bit pessimistic, bottom line is that during the summer, a lot of students take on jobs to improve their finances (at least back in my days), back when I was a student I would have loved being able to work on projects I love/interested in and getting paid for it, rather than, as in my case, pretty much waste my summer time working in computer/video game retail to earn some bucks.

So yes, money is an incentive, but you could probably make that money in a regular summer job, the big boon as I see it is to work on something you find interesting during the summer, which in turn increases the chance that you will want to continue working on it once GSOC is over.
Vertical Sysadmin, Inc. | Sales | Los Angeles, USA | REMOTE, PART-TIME
Seeking commission-only sales agent for high-quality Ops and DevOps training.
We deliver on-site training world-wide. Our model is: small class sizes (12 max), expert instructors, excellent materials, tons of lab exercises. Customers tell us it's the best training they've ever had. We are partnered with CFEngine, GitLab, Docker, and O'Reilly Media.
Looking for an independent sales agent.
Offering 25% commission.
We charge $3000 per day plus a $2000 admin fee.
Our last training sale was $5000 for one day of training on GitLab CI to a car manufacturer.

www.verticalsysadmin.com
This is why I love Google's feature of letting you generate addresses with a +. It's so very useful
.NET Core support is a little ways out still last time I checked, but it seems to be running at this point. IIRC, the Orleans team is working through kinks and compatibility to get it to 100% feature parity.
I'm with you on the sentiment, but damn, I sure don't want the government telling me what I have to say.

Voluntary, widespread, even "boycott the ones who don't do this!" All of that's free speech. But not mandated by law.
I just went to Amazon's locker search and plugged in the zip code for the state capitol and the Jackson, MS city hall (largest city in MS) - no results for either. I wonder why they're ignoring the state? We've got lockers in the semi-rural part of Pennsylvania I live in.
>Computer security experts have long warned that no computer should be considered secure if an attacker takes physical control of it.

I think the lack of physical security is more surprising than the lack of electronic security. A three-inch hole is pretty big, all things considered. I have to imagine that ATMs are designed to resist drilling three inch holes through to the money or the dispenser mechanism. Why isn't the computer protected to similar degree?
I did.

I literally did share a solution in this post, and the one before.

- Commoditize storage and transport it to you on demand

- Offer pet friendly cars

Boom. Solved.

As I also wrote: "I'm sure you could come up with a better solution if you tried."

Is this hackernews, where builders come to talk about exciting ways they're solving tomorrow's problems?

Am I on the wrong site?
If you read the article, you'd see the colony survived for a few hundred years even after trade with the mainland stopped. This is not a reasonable theory. Greenland was not peopled by clickbait marketing.
The point in that is two-fold -- to gradually get people interested in "art" -- most teens/pre-teens aren't really interested in art/historical-artifacts. The 2nd is to get money for the museum via admission tickets :-). In time, some subset of those teens/pre-teens will be interested in a more leisurely stroll through the museum.
Show HN: MantisVPN – New Chicago startup
Not at the moment. (Edit: At least, none that I'm aware of on the web team.)
Because it was real? It was infected computers scanning, not people. Once infected you joined the group scanning random ips and it grew like you would expect it to.

At the peak it got so bad that IPSs were blocking affected ports on all consumer connections just to save bandwidth.
Atlantic City algorithm
I have very uncommon first and last names. We apparently both go to the same national bank. And my parents met his parents when the traveled on vacation.

It's a small world. And even worse if you have common names.
I am a rarity here in the U.K. as I still text, having got fed up of constantly switching IM apps. I mean, I remember when MSN Messenger was all the rage. Then Yahoo, ICQ, GTalk, Hangouts, various Jabber protocols, FaceAche, errr I mean FaceTime and Messenger, WhatsApp etc etc ad nauseum, Skype

SMS has remained the great constant throughout all these games. Turns out people don't get in touch if you don't use WhatsApp but shows how much they care eh!
Marriott Rewards Snapchat Show is taking people on a journey around the world
Because Uber's value is all based upon self driving cars, as I said in my comment.
I dont have deep knowledge of this but wow, what a laugh this is. Tesla has a huge fleet of vehicles that its training with. Ford bought some lidar stuff. Yeah, once you have an aircraft carrier on your tail its big trouble but ford has directed their aircraft carrier in the completely wrong direction. An aircraft carrier is useless without a captain.
Major project just to stay in place. And then all the modules that aren't ready. Basically tons of work just to get the same result. Infinitely unproductive.
It's good to be one of 537 kings.
The format the NHS use is proven to work.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NHS_number
It's even better when you or a recruiter has sent them your resume and it's obvious that they've ignored it and are looking at your outdated LinkedIn profile.
Here in Europe, I know quite a few people that do not want to use their credit-card online. Seems like this is made for them.
Amazon Launches Native Shopping Ads
Your text does not appear to respond to mine.

Terrorist: "If we attack them, perhaps they will leave us alone/leave our holy land/give us independence!"

Terror victims: "$#*%! Get them! Shoot them all! Nukes are too good for them!"

-Rince, repeat-
> lady questions me in Spanish until finally they realize we have different birthdays and physical descriptions

(sarcastically) If only they could check the physical descriptions. And then flag the passport as "already checked".
Hexo 3.3.0 Released
Metromile | Senior Frontend Engineer | SF | ONSITE https://www.metromile.com

About Metromile:

Metromile is a start-up that is disrupting the $185 billion car insurance market by offering an entirely new model where the monthly bill is based on miles driven, paired with a smart driving app. Our product marries engineering and data science to deliver mobile technology, automotive telematics, and data-driven applications to make a car's data accessible and useful to modern drivers, including street sweeping alerts, trip stats, decoded check-engine lights, and car location. We aim to make car ownership as simple and affordable as it can be.

What we're looking for:

- 4-6+ years of hands-on development experience working on consumer-facing products

- 4+ years working with JavaScript, HTML, & CSS

- Experience with Angular, or any MV* or component-based frameworks

Technologies:

- CoffeeScript, Gulp, Sass, and Angular(1.5, and currently migrating to 2.0+ w/ TypeScript).

Joel Test Score: 11/12

Funding: $205.5M since 2011

Apply here: http://grnh.se/2dntly1

Questions? Drop me a line at arudick at metromile.com
I see this as trying to get more sales from their app from customers who only have cash.

Now, an amazon customer without a credit card or bank account has to use a gift card, which they purchase at a store. That is a lot of hassle, IMO. Sometimes an Amazon gift card is not available (i.e. not sold at Walmart) and they purchase a visa or amex or vanilla. Those have high fees and/or very confusing sign up requirements.

There is no way to reload a used amazon gift card. Since amazon has no brick and mortar store they can't sell me a one-time-only card for future loads.

Bankless and cash only customers, that I have seen, all have smart phones. Most of the time the reference numbers used to send and receive money are texted.

So, I think having a method to load an Amazon gift card from a store with cash is their end goal. [As an aside, I tried to find out if Amazon will accept credit cards at point of sale registers for gift card loading. This is, of course, prohibited, in most places as you can't buy a Visa card with anything except cash or a debit card).

I assume they have data that says the cash-only, smartphone sophisicated cohort underuses Amazon.
So help educate. There is clearly an interest. If you know the bio then you know it gets a fraction of the funding and attention of standard tech stuff. Help smooth the analogies out, correct timelines, and otherwise inform outside industries about the powerful things biology is doing.
This is a nice idea, actually. I'll have to see how to work this out with our partner ecosystem.

In the meantime, perhaps you'll find the list of hardware certified to work with Ubuntu useful: https://certification.ubuntu.com/
Inflect Inc www.inflect.com. Looking for full stack rails development San Francisco CA
Maybe some of them are. Ive also found some that are crap.

I have a tendency to pull on things like ATM covers, credit card slots, and the like. And that's because we have lots of skimmers that are found at local gas stations and places around here (big college presence).

So far, I've found an opened gasoline pump door. I called attendant and went to a different pump (attendands didnt have keys for that....) .

Ive also found an ATM that was partially locked and came opened when I gave it a tug. I called our bank's security after that one.

I also found a skimmer on a gas pump as well. It had a fishy look to it and gave it a tug. Pop. Was just a simple card reader and cam module in 1. I harvested the parts and put the microsd card through a good format.
Detroit is kicking Silicon Valley’s ass in the race to build self-driving cars
Eh, GSOC is working for a ton of projects, which is why so many projects happily apply each year, and are bummed if they aren't picked.

You seem to draw a conclusion solely based upon GSOC not being a good fit for the OpenBSD devs.
1. Nope. Are you just pulling numbers from a hat? Nissan sold 14,000 leafs last year, add that to the 24,000 volts and the 8,000 i3s and you get more than the model S.

2. Im saying the current business is minuscule, if we looked at elons promises as gospel (which you apparently do) we would have had a model x three years ago. LGchem and Samsung SDI are more than capable to meet the demand of the current lithium battery market without panasonic.

3. Speculation

4. Tesla has a SAE level 1 system which is the same as my VW golfs adaptive cruise with lane assist. They sell the car with the "hardware" and you think they are done? -> " All we have to do is build the controls and software now!!" By this logic throwing a couple cameras on the car means it has "self-driving hardware".
Read the quote again more carefully. It says nothing about perception. The movement of the hand and the object is essentially instantaneous.
This seems like Starbucks' mobile payment system, but in reverse. At Starbucks, you spend at the local store, and fund your account using your credit card. With Amazon Cash, you fund your account at the local store, and spend it online.
Link to underlying study:
http://www.navigantresearch.com/research/navigant-research-l...
It's really not that hard, Canada seems to have it figured out. You get points for job offer, education, experience, language, and family. If you graduate from a Canadian school, you get an open work-permit, not tied to any employer. Fast path to naturalization. Pretty good system imo.

US has never really had a proper immigration program for graduates and skilled workers. H1B is a hackjob, and has outlived its usefulness. Makes no sense that a MIT undergrad is given the same preference as a call-center worker. Sure get rid of H1B, but the problems will still be there if you don't come up with a serious alternative for graduates and skilled workers.
I've never seen the acronym ICE used before. Internal combustion engine. I probably just don't know the correct lingo more commonly used in this context and comparison.
As in "pleading the fifth amendment under oath"?
> So back in the days, I always made sure to turn off the DMZ before reinstalling Windows XP.

Why did you turn it on in the first place?
> You people treat it as a secret while it isn't.

It isn't now. But it used to be meant that way. I'm not sure what or how it started.

But old SSN cards had a line printed on them (on back, IIRC - probably not the best place) which read something like "For Social Security (or maybe IRS?) Use Only - Do Not Divulge".

That line has quietly disappeared (sometime before I was born - my Dad and my Mom's SSN cards had the line, but mine doesn't). Likely because the cat got outta the bag, and they realized it no longer mattered.

I imagine that it probably started with some company or other government agency deciding to use it without authorization of the SSN/IRS - and people went along with it because "it's the government, we can trust them", or some such malarky. Furthermore, most people probably never read the back of their card to find out that they weren't supposed to give that number out to just anyone, and of course no one thought of the potential implications to which that number could be applied.

This of course applies to any form of ID using a unique identifier: Bad actors in the system can easily exploit it - and when you are identified by a number, that number (and everything attached to it) is you - regardless of whether it really is or isn't.

Of course - all of this and more was covered in the book "Database Nation" - which was widely ignored.
You can hit me up at aijobs at nexosis period com :p
That way we don't have to create new fields

I'm in, but do note that companies can't even get a email field that works correctly ("thanks for the regex, SO!"). No way more than 50% of websites as written can handle a string containing numbers and $DEITY only knows what.
I do have a smartphone but oddly he is mildly correct that they really aren't smart. You have to spend ages on them to do anything.

It is odd that computers are meant to work for us but we spend such a long time using them and working on them, in a huge perpetual cycle of production and consumption cantered around the computer itself, particularly in the software industry.

Odd.
Yeah, the wording in the FAQ has me a little confused:

2) Where can I use Amazon Cash?

We have partnered with thousands of stores across the country, including CVS Pharmacy®, Speedway, Sheetz, Kum & Go, D&W Fresh Market, Family Fare Supermarkets, and VG's Grocery with more retailers coming soon. A directory of all participating stores can be found at www.amazon.com/cash.

Are they saying you can also spend your 'Amazon dollars' at those stores? Because then that definitely does sound like 'bank of Amazon'. It would be a logical way to get a slice of that sweet sweet payment intermediary industry pie.

EDIT: And it would put them in prime position to collect data on their competitors' retail transactions...
This happened to me. I left a new XP pluggged in, behind a nat, and first thing in the morning I had a virus.
Ok, check this out - Linux at 2.15% on the desktop vs. other services that have it lower:

https://truemarketshare.com/operating-system-market-share?op...

I have a theory:
- Bots don't show up as Linux, they spoof Chrome, iOS, etc.
- Since this service filters out bot traffic, it is removing non-Linux traffic.
- Hence, Linux share is actually much higher than is generally reported.

It IS the year of Linux!!
SEEKING WORK / Budapest / remote only

Former freelancer turned founder looking for freelance work once again. I have more than 10 years of professional experience, mainly as a web developer, but with a wide skillset ranging from typography and copy editing to C coding.

At some point I have worked or regularly work with: HTTP(S), HTML/XHTML/XML, CSS, JavaScript, Angular, Dart, PHP, the Zend Framework, Ruby, Lua, Node.js, Python, Java, Scala, C, C++, Ada, Apache, Nginx, Postfix, MySQL, SQLite, Ansible, and Linux servers, and I’m quick to pick up new technology.

Also mentored others in some of the above.

I’m fluent in English and Hungarian, and have experience in translating software and documentation.

I’m willing to put in some long days in the coming weeks, and living in East-Central Europe I may be able to offer lower rates than the more-to-the-West standard.

You can contact me at hiredlance@gmail.com.
I first knew about the Barkley Marathons when I stumbled across the documentary on a streaming platform. I recommend to watch it to anyone who wants a sneak peak on what this absolutely insane/crazy race is about. http://barkleymovie.com
Pretty cool to see some acknowledgement from the Fedora crowd, but almost everything listed here is "maybe in a future release" rather than being present now.
Why did this get [flagged]? Is that solely user reports? It seems like a good link.
Trump has voiced support for Duterte and his policies, by the way.
Cryptographically-Blinded Asset Issuance on a Blockchain
If you are happy with what you have that is even better. But some people wants to earn millions of $$ a year and be married with a Top model. If they don't have both, then it is not good enough for them. And a lot of people just want something better regardless what they have (forever unhappy people).
Cached version:

https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:Hy9yBE...
This seems pretty interesting considering that they just slashed their affiliate commissions across the board.

It appears to me that by slashing commissions, then offering a bumped up commission rate temporarily if you install these native ads, they're shooting for more lock-in with their affiliate base.

Interesting strategic play, I still have no idea why affiliates would want to put all of their eggs in the Amazon basket after they slashed the rates like they did.

Edit: a word.
Relatedly, if you're an engineer looking to build the software that powers CRISPR[0], Benchling (YC S12) is hiring!

Most of the major research organizations working with CRISPR leverage Benchling -- the Broad Institute, various labs at Berkeley, companies like Editas, etc.

Shoot me an email: josh at benchling dot com

[0] https://benchling.com/crispr
There was a whole reddit thread about this very question:

https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/19kkox/at_th...
6. any profane expression; curse; swearword

http://www.dictionary.com/browse/oath
How humans will lose control of artificial intelligence
Rotating molecules enable near 100% efficient OLEDs
And as with all gold rushes, it is the people selling the pickaxes who are really making money off of it.
It's not as clear as one might think. Here is an extensive discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13893870 (238 comments)

A few extra comments:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13886467 (6 comments)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13879156 (1 comment)

And many submissions with no discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13897279

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13893537

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13891064

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13889363

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13886530

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13884709