skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How a weapon against war became a weapon against the web
Safeguarding Digital Innovation and the Role of Internet Intermediaries [pdf]
I saw it mentioned recently in another HN-posted article about the broader / derivative consequences of electric and self-driving vehicles:

http://ben-evans.com/benedictevans/2017/3/20/cars-and-second...
I experience regular UI glitches and occasional full app hangs that require a force kill to reset, the latter most notably in poor connectivity situations like the subway. It's not terrible, it's just not that good either. It's tier-2 app quality with a tier-1 size userbase.
You're in luck, MN State Park Plates came out a few months ago! http://dnr.state.mn.us/parksplate/index.html
1ns is already two cycles at 2GHz and that doesn't count the switching delays of all the transistors between the memory cell and the register.
> i can't imagine how it gives the man the right to ignore the order of crew and airport police to get off the plane.

Neither 49USC§46501 nor 14CFR§91 applied at the time in question, according to applicable definitions (e.g. "crewmember" and "flight time") which anyone who presumes to interpret law can and should look up near the rules themselves. Absent either of those, the passenger had all the rights he would have in any other time and place. He had a contract establishing his right to be where he was. United/Republic had already recognized that right by allowing him to board in the first place. He had done nothing since to waive or nullify his rights under that contract. Thus, at that moment and under those circumstances, he was under no obligation to comply with the order that was given.

If they'd closed the doors, 49USC§46501 would apply. If they had left the gate, 14CFR§91 would. Those would have been different cases, but we're not here to discuss different cases. Anybody who wants to treat rules as sacrosanct should do so based on a full and accurate understanding of those rules.
Absolutely! And I'm not going to claim otherwise. I said above I think I can only implement it in a weekend if I can work to my technical strengths. Doing otherwise would mean learning, which is super slow compared to typing. Just implementing to a closed spec cuts out maybe half of the work of something like this, because you don't need to figure out the requirements or waste time going down blind alleys.

From my post above:

> But I couldn't implement r/place that quickly if reddit didn't already do all the work deciding on the scope of the problem, and what the end result should look like.
Panic Buttons Within Churches Helps Protect Sunday Morning Worship
I think you are right but since it's an immature product, we had to decrease the price significantly.

The goal is somewhere between passive income and becoming something more so maybe that's why the mixed signals. Have to take a look at that, I guess.

I know and we did the math on how free users impact our finances but had to somehow launch it and get attention. What would you suggest? Trials and increased pricing? By the way, thanks for providing your feedback!
I would say nearly everyone in astronomy and education is in agreement right now that there are at least 9 planets. The only question is which ones they are.

(Mike Brown, the "Pluto killer", is searching for the distant gravitational influence that he believes to be a legit ninth planet.)
>The OBDII protocol itself is read only

I'd say "read mostly". Clearing the CEL with mode 4, for example, would cause your vehicle not to pass a state inspection until it went through a drive cycle...which can be quite a while.

Mode 8 is more troublesome. It's not as standardized, so you have to know vehicle and model specifics. But you can actively manipulate real physical things in the car, canister vents opening/closing, etc.

So, not as wild west as unconstrained CAN bus access, but not really read-only either.
> You're not taking into account the illusory nature of thought ...

How ironic. You've just articulated the postmodern position -- that there are no objective truths that can be conveyed from one person to another, that everything is a subjective observation[1] -- in a message that, to serve any purpose at all, requires and presumes what it has just denied. You might as well have said, "This exchange serves no purpose, I'm merely exercising my wrists."

So I'll take you at your word.

> ... you can't even truely trust that what any of your senses tell you is even real.

Correction: you can't do that. I can.

One more thing: s/truely/truly/

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacques_Derrida
The best solution I have found is to use TODO (so it is grep-able) but then add a colon followed by your initials. E.G.

//TODO: JTF, Use new error handling strategy here

This way it is clear who put it there and makes it MUCH easier to keep track of your debt and not your buddies.
I view over-withholding as an interest free loan to the government. No thanks. I'd rather underpay by 1% than overpay. For me 1% is over $100/mo. I'd rather earn interest, dividends, whatever on that and then pay the balance.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I'd imagine that it would be in the same vein as teaching a child to draw; you don't start by teaching them how to draw like Van Gogh. I'd assume that Google is going to up the complexity once their neural network reaches a certain milestone. Imagine 20 years from now and you have a humanistic robot drawing with your child at the kitchen table à la iRobot.

It's interesting to think about, regardless. Stuff like this gets me excited (and motivated!) to delve into machine learning and AI.
12 hours in and the site is up: https://josephg.com/sp/

Polish and perf tuning tomorrow.

Code: https://github.com/josephg/sephsplace (warning: contains evil)
This does not work, because the latency of accessing memory is inherent to it. It's simply the time required to open a DRAM row (or charge bit lines), which stays more or less the same independent of process scaling. Moving the pointer chasing closer to the memory does not change this larger delay.
Snapchat is becoming a replacement for texting here as well. I've now overheard twice people say things like "I'll snap at ya" as they part directions and wave.
Your thoughts on culture/history are interesting considering the islands have been inhabited in some fashion for around 800 years at least.
Microsoft says U.S. foreign intelligence surveillance requests more than doubled
A while back I was going through the immigration process for NZ with an immigration lawyer and had all the points necessary and was moving on to the interview phase.

My wife and I ultimately decided to stop as she became pregnant and didn't want to be as far away from family. That and the flight/quarantine times that would be imposed for our dogs. Another big issue was taxes.

To my knowledge NZ and USA are two countries that will try to tax you wherever you live until you die unless you renounce citizenship. So dealing with being double taxed on income from NZ and USA was a big deal as well.

Whenever I read these articles, it does sound so appealing. My sister has lived there for many years and the quality of life just seems so much better.
Human creativity is related to process and the experience of creating from nothing.

The process is more important than the end result.
When it's something you can benchmark, sure that's a very straightforward decision. But I've found almost any important decision has a huge subjective component. We should use this database instead of that one because the community support is better, even though it is slower in a benchmark. How do you measure community support? We should design a system this way instead of that because it's more cohesive even though it's more lines of code. How do you measure design cohesion?

I think if we had a difficult decision to make and someone wanted to roll dice, it would feel pretty frustrating, like giving up. A more motivating process would involve giving someone responsibility, empowering them to succeed, and just letting them make the call.
Compiling programs is usually one of the cases that does benefit from filling all the hyperthreads, though? That's why people often cargo cult running "make -j<cores * 2>".
Packet.net adds NixOS Support
12 hour amphetamine binge can produce some good work!
Third International Conference on Archaeoacoustics will be in Portugal, October 2017 -- see: http://www.otsf.org/2017-conference.html
Thanks for your comment but this is a tutorial that people can actually try out, change, and learn from. All the sources are released at github. Why is it not fit for Show HN in your opinion?
Isolation sounds good. Super high housing costs relative to wages sounds... familiar, shall I say.
it's fine if you're in an urban area
That's a pretty misleading way to summarize Charles Murray, who is probably America's foremost exponent of the Just World Fallacy, having written extensively about why blacks, women, and just about every other minority are in whatever diminished circumstances they find themselves in due to intrinsic deficiencies. Particularly blacks.
Facebook runs newspaper ads against fake news in France ahead of the election
Hindsight Bias and Innovation
A Visual History of Square Through Jack Dorsey's Blurry Instagrams
Plus, you'd be further from Peter Thiel.
> They "solved" the heat problems with airconditioning and fans.

Wrong. Read at least the related Wikipedia article. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cray-2
Perhaps surprisingly the early PC had exactly the same architecture: two-state speaker, RC-timer based joysticks. A few games and eventually lots of demosceners managed to get decent sound out of the PWM speaker. Although I remember when demos and games really would have preferred you spend several hundred £ on a Gravis Ultrasound.
On the other hand, many computer functions have reached the "good enough" level. A normal laptop can handle web browsing and document editing just fine. Resolution over Retina level and digital cameras over 10 megapixels are not necessary. Also, sound fidelity over 44khz is not useful. Video over 4K also is on a diminishing curve of returns. We have little extra improvement to get from many domains. Where do you think more processing power would add a large benefit?
If all you have is a W-2 and minimal deductions, in my experience it's pretty close unless you think +- $1K is "a bunch."

Once you have dividends, stock sales, mortgages, other revenue, etc. your employer really has no way to know what the right amount to deduct is. If you're consistently over or under, you can change the number of allowances on a W-4 form.

>Some people choose to not deduct any

You can take a large number of allowances but I'm not sure you typically can just not take any deductions. If you significantly underpay you may get hit with a penalty and will have to make estimated tax payments the following year.
why downvote? this is just some anecdotal data provided. no strong claims, no offensive phrases.
I have peaked out at mid 70 and 80 weeks but a portion of that was hard and/ speedwork. You must have lovely biomechanics to not get hurt with that much bulk even at 8 minute pace. Still hard for 99.9%+ of people. But anyways...
You mean like the silicon based rock creatures in that one star trek episode? :)
Thanks. Did you bother with OCR and encryption?
I think those were unrelated complaints. The hallowed purity of 2D is weird to me, but Unity's tooling being hard to use certainly resonates.
VR is the next step, and it obviously needs more computing power to truly become immersive.
Pharmaceutical giant 'plotted to destroy cancer drugs to drive prices up 4000%'
I don't think that's true about NZ tax
http://www.ird.govt.nz/income-tax-individual/filing-your-ret...

I have heard that USA does that though
Nobody cares. What I hear? "So what?"
This fills me with joy; I was itching to write a similar blog post.

Quoting article above:

Music is an abstract medium — the printed note requires
interpretation and execution. Like the written line of
code, there is often much more than meets the eye.
SVG: 5 questions, 10 answers – O'Reilly Media
This is overdrawn and misses the process and the intent. They weren't staged, they were not "designed to train their people", etc. It was part of the larger ARPA community to learn how to argue to illuminate rather than merely to win. PARC came out of the ARPA community and Bob Taylor had been the third director of IPTO.

The main purposes of Dealer -- as invented and implemented by Bob Taylor -- were to deal with how to make things work and make progress without having a formal manager structure. The presentations and argumentation were a small part of a deal session (they did quite bother visiting Xeroids). It was quite rare for anything like a personal attack to happen (because people for the most part came into PARC having been blessed by everyone there -- another Taylor rule -- and already knowing how "to argue reasonably".
In my opinion, this is a bad practice.
1. It prevents discussion. Whomever wrote the "TODO" solemnly decides what is there "TODO", without the ability to discuss options.
2. It does not allow prioritization of tasks easily.
3. You need yet another tool to discover issues.
4. It prevents ownership of an issue.

All those issues have already been solved with a simple ticket system (github issues, JIRA tickets etc'). Why reinvent the wheel? What is the benefit here?
TODO's are for things that are optional to fix and probably won't be fixed. Sometimes not fixing something is the right move, but you leave a signpost that you deliberately skipped it. Someone else, later, can pick it up, if they choose.

Whether fixed or not, it's valuable to future readers to know there's a gap.
US tax payer here.

I'm going to stay away from discussing TurboTax from a political perspective.

However, I have used TurboTax since the first year I had income. It's super easy. As my income has gotten complex over time (from simple, one employer tax return to multiple employers in a same year, real estate, investments, and office expenses), I have found TurboTax worth the $90 or $100 it costs to purchase the software every year. I always purchase the $40 "Audit Protection" and have never used it: not once I have been audited.

It does take some investment of time. You need to read the questions, learn to figure out the forms that you get from banks, and be careful in inputing your data. But a lot of the sections are skipped anyway. I learned to stay away from buying stocks that are partnerships (pain the behind to do during TaxTime, not worth the hassle if you can find alternative stocks). TurboTax remembers my last year's numbers and that is also super easy. It helps me stay informed and keep responsibility for my tax situation and make my own decisions on what to do next year without "the government or the employer doing it for me."

I have always had the temptation to go to a full service (H&R Block, or some of the higher end ones offered by my bank), with the idea of maybe discovering that I have been overpaying all these years! But I have never done it, mainly because of concerns on identity theft. Today, all my data is in my computer and the only time the data leaves my network is when I send it to TurboTax for e-filing. This could also be avoided if I printed it and mailed it, but I rather not take my chances with lost mail.

I did have some large income a number of years back due to a sale of a company, and I was doubting myself about whether I was "paying too much." I simply asked folks around me, and they told me "nope, you are good" as the cash was distributed as regular income in my W2.

All in all, TurboTax has served me well. My investment is a total of about 10 hours or so spread over a few months. Every time I get a new form, I go to TurboTax and input it. Sometime around March I wrap things up and file.
Ask HN: How do you design a website in 2017?
I know how to BUILD a website but I'm curious to know modern workflows for designing a website before build out.

A decade (and a half?) ago, I was comfortable using Photoshop to mock up designs but that seems to have fallen out of favor for vector-based programs/web apps like Sketch, Webflow, etc.

So, HN, what are the tools you use for designing websites in 2017?
Older docs made this reference. I see someone else noted it too.

In my peer group back then, it was "load A" for LDA, not "load accumulator"
I'm not talking about the difference between unicellular and multicellular life. I'm talking about the difference between small cells that resperate over their cell walls (prokaryotes and archaea) and cells that resperatory organelles (eukaryotes). Both algae and hydra are already over this barrier and I agree that once you're a eukaryote or the alien equivalent there's an easy path from there to complex multi-cellular interactions.

So certainly there's no missing link there. Heck, you've even got prokaryotes forming bacterial mats. The clear boundary is, again, between small cells that resperate over their surfaces and more complex cells that can resperate using structures throughout their interiors.
Not the same crew or dynamic ...
Ah, last time I looked at this I thought, "This is cool but it's too bad it doesn't have EQU or some other way to give symbolic names to constants."

Now it does!

define appleL $00 ; screen location of apple, low byte

(Looks like the feature was added in November 2014.)
Since day one HN has used an algorithm that takes the article age into account when determining what to show on the homepage.
Critical thinking is the greatest threat to religious indoctrination as it relies on the acceptance of teachings as fact from authorities at face-value without question. If a child learns to be skeptical and questioning, they'll never learn to believe something that can't be supported given the currently available evidence, or may very well be contradicted by it.
You seem to be talking about US tax forms while the post you're replying to is talking about Japanese tax prep.
Technical Solutions To Social Problems are possible, but they require an appreciation for the complexity of those social problems and the difficulty of solving them.

If you're serious about this, I would start with https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/political-science/17-42-causes-a...

The study of the first world war is probably most instructive and there is a lot of content out there on the History. As you dig into this material, keep in mind that history is not just the study of the past but the study of the stories we tell ourselves about the past. Dig into the material OCW class or get started on youtube:

- https://www.youtube.com/user/TheGreatWar

- https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL931Bkj5KLMvaoUfenv1G...

- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cd2ch4XV84s&t=358s&list=PLi5...

- https://www.amazon.com/The-Guns-of-August/dp/B004UEKON0
You think the office of an avowedly partisan senator would be less contentious than a putatively 'neutral' news organization?
> This release includes logs, excel files, and even for the first time PowerPoint of TOP SECRET documents. This is a first from Shadow Brokers, this would mean ShadowBrokers has definitely more than only tools.

I'm curious what the implication is here. Why would a TOP SECRET power point slide be packaged together with malware on an attack server? It's either really sloppy OPSEC by NSA TAO (or random hired contractor) or may just be a collection of files put together by an intel agency/'criminal' hacker group from various sources to embarrass NSA.
Show HN: Automate QA Pipelines for Heroku Review Apps
No.

Say the US wants to attack North Korea. The US military's command and control is designed to withstand hacking from major state actors - China and Russia. So are individual weapon systems. A "hacker collective" isn't going to make much headway against that, unless they are better than Russia and China's state hackers, or unless the US military is woefully unprepared for a cyber attack from a prepared state actor.
I thought I was a great descender until I rode with a group of retired pro. They're not just following amazingly fast lines (they know most of the Alps like old friends) - their first-class handling skills allow them to do things that'd get me killed. Things like crossing the centre line into a blind turn on a busy road, bunny-hopping a fallen log at >90 kph, cornering whilst unseated on the top tube. Stuff no amateur should even consider. When they are in trouble (e.g. that blind corner had an oncoming car) they get out of it faster and more precisely and intuitively than I could ever hope to.

It might seem reasonable when you consider they spend kilohours riding, moreover in the company of other world-class athletes, but it's astonishing and terrifying to watch.

Of course, most of them also have war stories to tell, and all of them have shattered ribs, clavicles, vertebrae, pelvic bones at some point in their career. Because beyond the envelope there's nothing but injury and pain and occasionally and very tragically, death.

The very best bicycle descender of my personal acquaintance is a former Moto GP competitor. He has lightning reflexes and an amazing feel for the dynamics of any two-wheeled machine. I'm glad to say he shares his knowledge and occasionally runs
free cornering workshops. My ability to read a corner has been greatly enhanced by his teaching, I think he saves lives.
Local machine learning, rather than cloud-based?
One interesting, and somewhat ironic, historical footnote to this, is that Milton Friedman was part of the group that conceived of and implemented employer withholding as we know it while he was working at the Treasury department. Though by his account it was introduced during WWII and not in the 1930s.

ref: http://conversableeconomist.blogspot.be/2014/04/how-milton-f...
Funny how it goes from appealing to "American Lord of the Rings nerds and Peter Thiel" really quickly.

Had our honeymoon in New Zealand and really loved it. Auckland and Wellington are both beautiful, but, frankly, I'd rather be somewhere more relaxed like Nelson. I wish we had spent more time enjoying the south island and less time up north. Not so practical if you're trying to find work, though, I suppose. (I didn't make it to Christchurch).

The housing prices really did surprise, though. Granted, most places I looked at housing costs were more "wandering around town, find real estate office, look at what's in the window" so it ended up being expensive places like Auckland, Queenstown, Wanaka, etc, but it was still quite surprising, and left me wondering how anyone could afford it without bringing in money from the outside.

Then again, the grass is always greener -- I moved from Seattle to the SF area 15 years ago for the better weather and better traffic (don't laugh!) yet every time I travel, I find myself drawn to living in places like Reykjavik, Stockholm, Copenhagen, Nelson, etc. I'm sure the realities of the climates of these various places would come to me after the novelty wore off. And perhaps I just look fondly upon them because they remind me of "home" -- even though I was so happy to leave it.
Have fun putting a 180W, 30cm long graphics card into your Laptop to play a new game on low-medium settings at a stable framerate.
This brings back memories. Does anyone remember Eudora ? With the spicy pepper that would show how angry you are sending that email?
It's true, a recent MBP will destroy the iPhone or iPad in a benchmark. You can't compare Apples to oranges with CPU speeds alone. However, you can run a benchmark. And on a popular one, GeekBench, the iPhone generally beats the non-Pro MacBook.

And:

"The iPhone 7 scores better on both single- and multi-core than any MacBook Air ever made, and performs comparably to a 2013 MacBook Pro."

https://browser.primatelabs.com/v4/cpu/2385400

https://browser.primatelabs.com/geekbench3/6170528

https://9to5mac.com/2016/09/15/iphone-7-geekbench-benchmark-...