skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Did it just sort of happen or was it a conscious decision by you? It is no coincidence that eating rules are common in many religions, adhering to a special diet is practically a ritual, so I wonder if it was a big deal to you.
As a consumer, your only choice is binary. Vote yes and buy, vote no and don't buy.

If it offends you that your device has some enterprise feature that you don't really need turned off unless you pay $x... sorry? But you don't really have a right to the feature for some margin % that you deem fair.
Is there a set of English pronouns that refer to only males the way "she", "her", etc., refer to only females? [1]

All of the male pronouns that I can recall at the moment, such as "he" and "his", can do double duty serving both when you are referring to an actual male, and when you are referring to a person of unknown gender.

[1] I mean when referring to people. Let's leave the whole using "she" for boats for another time...
Video from space has been done by civilian spacecraft, e.g.:

https://terrabella.google.com/

We know that the film-return satellites were working in push broom mode (or "whisk-broom", as I've seen the KH-9 cameras described). I have little doubt that the primary observation mode of the follow-on electro-optical systems is also push-broom. But not sure I'd want to rule out the possibility that the more recent blocks might also have some kind of staring mode (which could plausibly give video of small-ish areas). They're still pretty secretive birds.
What is the change? Thanks.
SASS + webpack = (:love:)
I don't think he was trying to knock her from the course; I think his goal was to grab her bib.
Time and again MongoDB is innovating ahead of the rest. MongoDB-as-a-Service offering Atlas brings great new features:

1) hassle-free migrations from your local MongoDB replica sets into Atlas cluster by means of initial sync and oplog tailing

2) more AWS regions with VPC peering support -> including 3 EMEA regions. besides London & Dublin especially interesting is Frankfurt (Germany)

3) probably my personal favorite. next generation snapshot based point in time recovery with query functionality to get document level granularity -> partially restoring documents has never been easier.

can't wait to try all of these enhancements!
Ah yes that makes sense. Not sure what the right word for this is either. Maybe there isn't a good one.
Governments may not have survived, but the countries themselves did.

> Merely asserting that Western governments are immune to the foibles of fascism and dictatorship is folly.

The goalposts keep getting moved back. The world survived the Nazis and Holocaust and eventually became more stable. What could be worse than that?
Do you have the same or is it just my account?
It also looks very similar to a Smalltalk image...
Cloud Speech API is now generally available
Gas is too expensive to move a house that way. Most RVs get significantly less than 10mpg. Ours gets about 7. Even if it drove itself, there is no way that I would want it moving that much per day.
> Unexpected or rather unexpected to those on the far-left of the political spectrum...

Which planet are you living on? Noam Chomsky predicted the election of someone like Trump six years ago [1]. You have it backwards: it's the milquetoast neoliberal part of the spectrum that didn't see the rise of fascism coming. Socialists, communists, anarchists, etc. have been concerned about the rise of fascism ever since World War II.

[1] http://www.snopes.com/noam-chomsky-predicted-trumps-presiden...
Wootric: Analyzing customer feedback using machine learning
You can get some S3 compatibility with S3Proxy: https://github.com/andrewgaul/s3proxy/wiki/Storage-backend-e...
What issues do they cause? Is it just an eye-sore thing?
Ask HN: Do you know any boutique hotel owners/management?
Hi,

We're developing a Saas that lets hotel owners/managers reach out to guests before, during and after their stay to make sure their needs are always met.

We're looking for hotels who might be interested in working with us to trial the product.
Prior to deliberation, isn't a juror's main job to sit still in silence?
A promising technology/concept with several potential applications used to produce ugly/weird effects on dumb videos. This is, IMHO, very depressing.
I think you are borderline too late. I was too late for a lot of the blue-ish flowers. I suspect it will still be impressive, similar to my photos (which are jpegs right off the camera, no changes to the saturation/contrast settings).

That said, if this is your one chance and since you are going right by there, hell yes, go check it out. If it is at all decent it's so worth it.
Haha, yeah, however, i think that the application was always in previous applications, but you were able to edit the founders' profiles. Who cares, the invites are not sent
1:30PM in Colombia, so far no e-mail received
> You're assuming all the bombs will be dropped on population centers.

He isn't. He is assuming 5% of bombs will be dropped on population centers.

> Removing your enemy's ability to wage war will always take priority over non-military targets.

You are applying conventional military tactics in a nuclear war. They don't apply. See MAD[1], the cornerstone of nuclear deterrence.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mutual_assured_destruction
same - hoped that meant something special but doesn't look that way
If it were limited to major streets like Sukhumvit, that would be one thing. It can be impossible to squeeze down some of those blocks — especially if you're carrying your bags, having just landed, and trying to get to your room.

I don't think it is, though, and that makes me sad. BKK street cart food is some of the most amazing stuff I've ever eaten.

EDIT: phrasing.
Thanks Brian.

I like B2. And thanks for "absorbing" the cost of the list() function.

My sincere question to you is:

Sending this much redundant data in the response can cost YOU a lot, it is not "trivial" when you add millions of requests. How hard is it to allow the user to specify which fields he wants in the response?

Also, please answer my other question about the authorize() token headache.
When the bid you put in on a one bedroom house was a year's salary over asking price and you still lose "Fuck It" starts to seem a lot more sensible.
> Memory leaks on the server side are also a consequence of long-running single-process server software.

On a tangent to this. I noticed that one benefit my company reaped from embracing a micro service architecture was that we get away with _a lot_ of shit code.

Suddenly a NodeJS process can have glaring memory leaks and work fine for weeks because whenever it crashes, it restarts in 0.5 second and no one even bothered to investigate.

Compare that with the good-ol-JBoss monolith with a 3-4 minute startup time.

On the one hand, crap code can go unnoticed for weeks, which feels wrong and probably will bite us somewhere in the end, on the other hand, we can focus on function not code quality.
Brilliant! I can but wish someone would turn that into a longer story.
>What city is the microbrew capital of the US?

Why, clearly it's [my city].
I don't see how my suggestion is constraining anyone. If anything, it's liberating them.

All I am saying is that culinary traditions around the world have slowly evolved dishes around the ingredients and dietary constraints they had available to them, and it's useful to learn from them to see what all can be done with a particular set of ingredients.

This is more liberating (you have the whole world's culinary experience to pick from) rather than constraining yourself to eating regular meat dishes with the meat part subbed with tofu.

For instance, most American food just does not treat vegetables fairly. In a lot of cases, the meat is the center of the dish while veggies, well, they are just served boiled as a side or raw as a salad. If you go vegan and take the meat out of the dish, you are basically left with bland vegetables. No wonder 'recidivism' rates are high. Now go to any Indian or Thai or (even Chinese in some cases) restaurant and see what they do with vegetables.
Introducing the Apollo Android GraphQL Client
Fanless is hard -- there's an XFX fanless RX 460 but there's no need for it really. Most cards have a "zero fan" concept so unless you are driving the card real hard it simply won't spin the fans. I am using a single slot RX 460 and it practically never runs the fan, you probably will use a dual slot one with beefier heatsink -- even better.
There are other methods, I think. At least one guy I back does it based on a per-comic basis. Granted, the comics are big and usually go longer than a month, but it's pretty good, I think. Takes some of the 'gotta-deliver-constantly' off him, and it only charges what is delivered.

Which may just be an open pre-order on my part. Which is sort of the stupidest way to buy anything, I suppose, except for the social trust aspect I have in him.
There's a difference between moralizing and restricting a few particular tasks.
Rankings aside, I thought the data was very well presented and the visual story telling aspect was nicely done. Great use of SVG animations.
This is Facebook, a company worth billions of dollars, showcasing their last, earth shaking tech that is going to change mankind forever. Add silly hats and stars to your selfies! How could we live for so long without it!
I think I read that OpenCL on the 480 finally caught up to OpenCL on the 1060. I believe CUDA still works better.
> I don't believe the tax burden on the lower classes in the US has ever been lessened by increased rates at the top levels.

I'll be frank. I have no reason to believe anyone is honest (not even myself). While we like to say that we are not savage animals, we are. CGP Grey made a video https://youtu.be/rStL7niR7gs?t=1072 based on The Dictator's Handbook

I read an article on some online magazine which argued that the 0.01% is not the problem but rather the upper middle class as they like to call themselves. I imagine it is the same way all over the world.

> “Take the mortgage deduction,” he continued. “This is to stimulate homeownership amongst people who are already going to own homes. That is worth, to a middle-income family, a hundred bucks a year. I was a little surprised by that. You can have your own reaction; I was a little surprised by that.”

from https://archive.fo/UgQDd (NY times link, used to be the title link of this discussion)

I'm sure you know this but I didn't think about this for the longest time. Pretty much everybody is a hypocrite. Sorry but if someone advocates for less taxes on the wealthy, the first thing I will look for is whether I think the change will be good for me. Sorry for being selfish but then if I conclude the change is not in my favor, the first thing I will do is not the merits of their ideas but rather follow the money and see what they gain from this change.

Life is short. In the bigger scheme of things, we are just trying to find a locally optimal choice. When people say they want to lower taxes, they usually mean they want lower taxes for themselves. When people say they want fewer government services, the idea is usually they want fewer government services that they do not use.

> Let's take an example of Apple's $200 B sitting offshore.

Just to put things in simple terms, this $200B does not include money Apple made by selling iPhones in the US, right? It only includes money Apple made by selling iPhones in other countries? I don't get why we obsess so much over it. US economy is large enough. If they want to bring this money back to the US or they want to give money to their owners/stock holders, they can pay the tax at that time? I don't have a horse in this race. I am just trying to understand the premise as an outsider.
On that page there is a link to a listing on gearbest that - tough no price is shown yet - has all the technical specs:

http://www.gearbest.com/laptops/pp_622091.html
Track the U.S. Sanctions Program
I'm pretty tired of "far-left" and "far-right" characterizations of most people. Most people are moderates on one side or the other (or put another way, they don't easily fit into either of the "left" or "right" buckets). Lots of people across that whole spectrum were surprised by the election, not just "the far left".

Nobody failed to notice economic dissatisfaction, but many were surprised that the President's particular brand of speaking to it was as successful as it was, especially coming from a Republican.
Portland? Duh. Hipster ground-zero, globally.
At one point it had the most microbrews per capital.
Caffe2: Open Source Cross-Platform Machine Learning Tools
I'm sure that's true. But considering there are 100's of employees in your average museum and such a conspiracy would require just about all of them to be in on it I don't see how it could be kept a secret.

There are fakes in museums, but those are actual fakes where the museum isn't in the know either. Estimates run as high as 20(!)%.

But a museum that would have an exact duplicate of the art on display for the majority of their art would be incapable of keeping that a secret and likely would not be looked at favorably.

FWIW I was good friends with the ex-curator of the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam and have visited their vaults, and have been behind the scenes in the Tate Gallery in London. The only thing I've been able to establish with any certainty is that at least those two museums have far more art than they could ever display and that I'd hate to see their insurance bills.

I did not come across an army of master forgers working hard to make new old works or copies of works which I knew were on display.
Breach of ToS is a far way removed from illegal.
My whole small town is ~1 mile from a military target.

(For example, every single ocean port is a military target, war time industrial capacity is a military target, etc)
If you look at their API you'll see that the token can be cached for up to a week. I doubt that having a check if the token is up to date will add much complexity.
But how much control do you really have over your life, if your life is all about going to places your followers want you to go and striking poses your followers want to see you strike?
Two law professors try to mimic big activist hedge funds
This project has existed for three years and that hasn't happened yet. Rendering pages with this thing has many many downsides (most notably that it is insanely slow, but also that it is incredibly lacking in tons of basic functionality that would be a lot of work to implement) and very few upsides -- this JavaScript can be reverse-engineered just like any other.
Scientists and Activists Look Beyond the March
I don't recall overcoming long startup times in vi and vim. Did I miss something?
Brian from Backblaze here.

> my understanding is that B2 was intended for long-term storage...

Long term storage is a great use of B2, but it was never "intended" as anything other than the ability to reliably store blobs of data and retrieve them really fast whenever and how ever often you like. I suppose there are different use cases that work well for B2 and others that don't work well, but that is up for customers to decide, not Backblaze.

> ... they [Backblaze?] don't want to be the authoritative storage source for the data

Who told you that? Backblaze wants people to use B2 for whatever they want. Backblaze makes an AMAZINGLY GOOD authoritative storage source.

> I would need to redownload and reupload to complete a rename

Right now the B2 service does not include a "rename" function. If that would be useful to customers, we can add it? We collect customer requests and add them in the order that we have time and what gets the most customer votes.
Facebook Spaces VR Beta
Ask HN: GSM encryption suppression
I already asked the question here but have not got any answers...
https://security.stackexchange.com/questions/157316/gsm-encryption-suppression

The following papers explain that it is possible to suppress the encryption (or downgrade) in GSM using faked messages:

https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/3a86/4f867aadaea449623ddbf288c18815e7eb00.pdf

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/283723257_Investigating_Vulnerabilities_in_GSM_Security

The main problem seems, that the messages, which are used to determine which encryption protocols are supported, are not integrity protected so an attacker can modify them.

I am just wondering how you would realize that? Do I have to drop the message which comes from the base station (is that even possible?) or can I impersonate the user and send a message to the base station that indicates that I am only supporting A5/1 ? How would you guys realize that? Using osmocomBB or are there other ways?
I have visited and it's not that frustrating to me because I don't have to live there and I completely understand them deciding to make protectionist policies over choosing market efficiency.
Yet another example of how the tv show, Silicon Valley, hits the nail on the head [1].

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pAEAbqrE5Zw
In that case the insurance companies' models are as suspect as these criminal risk models.
Website Owners Have a First Amendment Right to Defend Content on Their Platform
Did you work remotely while living in a van? Or did you still work in an office? It sounds like you did the latter, which sounds miserable. I think you would've had a different experience if you had used your van to travel.
Scientists+Propose+New+Theory+About+the+Noises+Meteors+Make
Yep you are right. I see the numbers in the report and they are in the thousands: http://usafacts.org/report-slides?page=66.

This still shows the flaws in the website. It does not say what the scale is in on graph at all, and other graphs will not be so obviously incorrect.
I've also encountered arguments along the lines of "there's this other suffering you _aren't_ preventing".

Emotionally it has the same feel as the drowning child argument[1] by Pete Singer. That argument engenders a feeling of hopelessness for me, because I can't assail its logic but it implies a vast array of suffering for which I am morally culpable.

I think meat eaters feel similarly. When faced with the cognitive dissonance, they shrink.

Now, I mostly shrug and say, "I'm doing the best I can."

[1]: https://www.utilitarian.net/singer/by/199704--.htm
Relevant, too: Programmers who defined the technology industry: Where are they now? (2010) http://www.itworld.com/article/2826737/development/programme....
oh great. now my kids have even less of a reason to go outside. thanks fb!
Not really sure how they get the number of breweries. Here's all the ones I can think of in the Cleveland area (17) and I can't get it to show up on any list in that map with any filter set.

Bottle House
Brew Kettle
Brick and Barrel
Buckeye
Cornerstone
Fat Heads
Forest City
Goldhorn
Great Lakes
Hansa
Market Garden
Masthead
Nano
Platform
Portside
Sibling Revelry
Terrestrial
They are filtering out some of the biggest breweries in the city so that might have some effect.

https://www.ratebeer.com/p/founders-brewing-company-grand-ra...
>That said, selected populations may show a negative correlation such as when more attractive people are more easily given a job etc.

How is that possible? If intelligent people are attractive, wouldn't they be the ones getting the jobs?
Milky Way: Hydrogen halo lifts the veil of our galactic home
the cap MUST increase
WATCH Live: Real Madrid – Bayern
I can't really tell if you are for or against algorithmic sentencing from this post.

I think there are fair existing examples both for and against it, so I'm not sure calling either position futuristic or theoretical is fair.
Second Life v2?
The change for us happened the instant we submitted our application a few weeks ago.
That sounds great; I'm working towards a nutritional plan of small meals more often right now and I feel much more energized.
Comparing Scala relational database access libraries
They have been doing for ever. Remember the R9 280 and the 280X? What's the difference between the 280X and the 7970?
One can implement a class with an interface like java.util.List and have remove() just decrement an internal counter when the item to be removed is at the end of the list. This would be a correctly functioning implementation. One must go further and set the reference to null to prevent a leak.
Apple bought C3 Technologies, a Swedish 3D mapping company back in 2011. It was originally spun out of SAAB (the mapping solution was originally used for missile targeting systems, iirc.)

more info: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3apAXzf3JTg
Ask HN: Actor model vs. serverless/function architectures?
For a recent project we developed our application atop Akka.Net (a C# implementation of an actor system) We had a great experience with it despite the architectural learning curve.

Serverless or function apps seem to be quite popular at the moment. But in my mind they appear to be simply a specialised case of the actor model. I've not used serverless in production, but at a glance, actor systems seem to win in terms of flexibility, theoretical
soundness and maturity of tooling. In contrast I've heard horror stories about the kinds of hacks developers who've embraced function apps have made in order to squeeze out decent performance.

A compelling argument in favour of function apps appears to be: cost, hosted services providing an easy means to scale out and relatedly, platform buy in from AWS, Azure, et al. But equally I could easily imagine a PaaS version of an actor system which could share the same attributes.

Is it the language that actor systems are couched in? What makes "serverless" more compelling?
You should've annexed Belgium when you had a chance in '44. That would've settled the discussion.
I don't live there, visit frequently, but how the hell is Lexington, KY not on the list? I've been to Grand Rapids, Asheville, Ann Arbor, Denver, Fort Collins, etc and the breweries in Lexington stack up with any of the ones listed. Country Boy and West Sixth have a lot of fantastic beers, the newer breweries (MirrorTwin, Ethereal, Blue Stallion, etc) are really good as well.
> Most people do not find "fun" in losing.

Allow me to introduce you to a developer named https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FromSoftware ...
Too poor.
Hello It's been a busy few days, otherwise I would have responded to your post sooner. I am afraid there is NO warning about water on contact lens packaging. There isn't a leaflet in the box. That's why I'm trying to do something about it. If you ignore advice, that's one thing. But if it's not given to you, that's a whole different issue.
Reference counting is garbage collection: http://www.cs.virginia.edu/~cs415/reading/bacon-garbage.pdf
If there's a bull case on FB to me it starts with the release of this Facebook Spaces beta.

Spaces - or something like it - along with an eventual great set of AR glasses or contact lenses - is the end game.

There's no question the long goal for corporate AR is to digitize the entire physical world, catalog it, and then sell outrageously effective ad inventory / flair against everything that we see.

Using a fairly controlled VR environment as the beta case for this to get us all hooked is a huge step in the right direction and they already own the entire social graph to execute in this direction.

I don't know whether I should be excited or terrified that it's FB leading this effort.

They have the scale to execute, they have the technology to support the crucial relationships but they are SO FUCKING INVASIVE into our lives as a company.

Raph Koster's lecture at GDC got some fairly broad attention on this concept, although his was geared more to the potential negative consequences, but it's still 100% worth a watch for anybody interested in the space.

https://www.raphkoster.com/2017/03/05/slides-for-still-logge...
Unless your city is Phoenix.
A Place of Absorption
The irony is that Haskell had sorting wrongly implemented for awhile
On the {lambda way}, again