skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Re-employ them all to rehabilitate the land. Could take decades.
Who is jack and why do we care?
According to Russ Tice, the NSA has been conducting full-take domestic content collection on everyone.

In other words, not only metadata but full recordings and content of anything they can feasibly store—phone calls, text messages, internet conversations, video chat.

Collecting on Americans in such a manner satisfies legal requirements because the very definition of collection has been twisted to effectively mean accessing intercepted content present in storage.

The term metadata in particular was intentionally bandied about as a means of distracting from the fact NSA is getting everything. The metadata programs killed by congress amounted to little more than a dog and pony show, sacrificing deprecated programs for political ends. Personally I think it was a brilliant damage control measure.

Snowden arguably didn't help matters either, constantly using the term himself. The content he leaked was largely from JWICS, which wouldn't contain documents outlining the gory details of full-take domestic surveillance. Those likely are heavily compartmented, and reside on much more secure networks.
I wouldn't be surprised that for such a niche industry he couldn't make it 20x more efficient. I also wouldn't be surprised if he could only increase efficiency marginally because its a hard problem. But these niche problems often have huge potentials for efficiency gain.
This British spelling is driving me crazy. Here's my understanding of how chile is meant to be spelled:

Chile: the spicy fruit that we use to burn ourselves silly. Jalepeño chile, Habañero chile, etc.

Chile #2: the sauce made in New Mexico from red or green chiles, often Hatch chiles

Chili: a delicious stew made with three primary ingredients:

1. Beef
2. Chiles, either powdered or fresh
3. A very strong opinion as to what constitutes chili
Personally I think we are way past prevention and rapidly approaching the last hope for mitigation of climate change. The answer doesn't have to be a massive population decline - measures like reducing our emissions from power generation (https://www.epa.gov/ghgemissions/sources-greenhouse-gas-emis... - 29%) and more electrified transportation would have a real impact. It is unrealistic to assume dramatic lifestyle changes will help us but instead of wasting billions of wars and walls we could be investing in renewable energy and more efficient use of carbon fuels. Instead we have an administration pushing hard in the opposite direction - investing in coal and oil, removing fuel economy improvements, and destroying the ability of organizations like NASA to even observe the effects of climate change. It's madness.
I've actually played around with that. Yes, the browser side UX is a nightmare. It was real fun (for extremely small values of "fun") installing the client certificate on Firefox and Safari (on the Mac, on the iPad and on the iPhone). I was rather surprised by the number of different browsers (and number of computers) it needed to be installed on.
Stupid naive question. If Musk cares so much about environment and all that, why not just build proper public transport for the bay area?
Who will pay?
It's a joke :p
Seconded, carolina reaper is the bomb. The bomb of pain and deliciousness.
Why shouldn't it matter? I don't know! I don't know why it should either. What kind of bad fits are you talking about?
Ha, I have the vague sense that that's a joke but I'm not exactly sure what it means?
Perhaps Didi can ally themselves with Baidu.

Not sure how Baidu's self-driving program compares to its western rivals, but it's definitely the most advanced out of the Chinese tech giants.
thanks. comments like yours are why I always check the HN thread before deciding if something's worth reading.
Why do they think their brand will still meaningfully exist after this?
Self-driving is not going to be solved by throwing money at it. If it was, Google would have "solved" it already and Apple wouldn't have abandoned their effort.

The obvious shortage is engineering talent. This is more debatable (many people, like Elon Musk, don't believe this to be the case), but the field also needs one or more research breakthroughs, especially in the realm of planning and reasoning. Most of the machine learning in self-driving cars goes towards perception / detection / mapping. The actual decision-making is still heuristics and hard-coded rules.
Former CEO of Trulia Steps Down at Zillow Four Months After Acquisition
Chartio is hiring Sr Software Engineers to help enable anyone explore data
Those headlines are talking about different things, the article is already largely ice free in the summer is already true with only 28% being covered year round. As to your 2007 example the direct quote was "My thinking on this is that 2030 is not an unreasonable date to be thinking of."

Don't forget 2040 is only 22 years away, on that time scale weather becomes important not just climate.
Paywall :(
Didi is not Uber's competitor any more. Didi acquired Uber China, is an investor in Uber, and owns Uber shares. So does Uber in Didi. They don't compete directly in any major market at this moment.
I you would downsize the frames first and work on multiple frames in parallel (e.g. however many nets I can fit in VRAM). I find it hard to believe that it wouldn't work after these things.
I think the key difference in Elon's approach is that he snatches the most viable pie out of the sky and figures out how to make it happen today.

In my opinion that's part of "knowing how" - knowing how to make something actually happen outside of theories. Hopefully we'll get there soon.
I didn't say it didn't also have fats and protein. I said it has quite a bit of sugar.

It actually has more sugar than fat or protein. Quite a bit more.

If you dump 13g of sugar into 8oz of water, do you not have sugary water? If you then dump in 8oz of protein and fat, does it cease being sugary water?
Chile #3: the south american country
Ask HN: How to brand and land your first consulting gig?
Seeking advice, resources, and war stories
Here's an attempt at those things: https://medium.com/@i2amsam/we-can-do-it-ourselves-part-1-48... I'd love feedback. (And if you are interested in climate and tech join us at ClimateAction.tech)
The Focus Fusion http://lppfusion.com/ reactor does direct conversion to electricity.

A Shame these guys are the least funded contender in this race and could do their research on a rounding error from ITAR.
I mean to me this is a totally wild story from the money side.

- Raised $73 M from notable, no bullshit VC's including Sequoia, DCM, Draper

- Valued around $400M (results may vary)

- Sold for <$3M

Either we don't know the whole story (>50% chance), someone fucked up royally with IP or something or everyone was pissed off about this entire situation. It's really surprising to me that the Series B folks couldn't engineer or claw back more than that, especially given the brand recognition etc...

[1]https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/yik-yak#/entity

[2]http://www.businessinsider.com/yik-yak-sells-to-square-for-3...
I'll take that usability problem over the security problem of using my mother's maiden name though.
Italian police say Amazon has evaded 130M euros of taxes
This is an interesting idea, but it depends on Decoy Routing.

Decoy routing (in the sense of expecting someone to let State (== NSA) run some code on their biggest backbone routers) seems basically unworkable -- both technically and politically. I don't understand why anyone pushes it, except for people trying to find an excuse to give USG access to their backbone under some pretense.

You could deploy this in a more workable "domain fronting" model, vs. the decoy routing model, though. In that case, especially if the sites are user generated content sites, you wouldn't need the active cooperation of anyone -- neither site operator nor backbone network operator.
Although it sounds like the "eat the oysters" solution here is a joke, the idea of using cuisine to tackle the problem of invasive species is not new. The Lionfish is native to Indo-Pacific waters but is now established as an invasive species in the Caribbean; the NOAA and partner agencies enlisted the help of chefs to publish recipes for cooking these fish, and even convinced the Catholic church to suggest that their Colombian parishioners eat lionfish on Fridays.
We have a bit of that in the US too. Not super popular though. Usually just chocolate but also some other stuff.
As I said, I went quite a few days writing before I realized I had my fox "jumped" instead of "jumps". It was only one day when it occurred to me I did not have any practice writing an S that I stopped to think why. :)

And thanks for doing the post. Fun read!
#globalization

El Salvador is a small country with no pretenses of being self-sufficient. It doesn't matter how silly the local laws are.
You understand that Google has invested literally billions in search...
It's originally just an internet meme that indicates the Chinese eat all kinds of stuff no matter what. People were just self-mocking at first. Since oysters are considered fine food after all, so some companies exploited this trending topic as marketing materials. That's how we get here now.
I switched to dvorak for 10 years and made the switch back to qwerty because you have to type on other people's computers when you collaborate or teach.
Looks like the good old-fashioned Facebook confessions pages will be around for quite a while longer...
Serious potential to do what? Even darling companies like snap can't figure out how to come anywhere near meeting expectations with the supposedly high value audiences they have.
They settled out of court in 2014.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2014-10-31/20-millio...
Right but if there are six possible dogs at creation time you choose a different question.

If the answer is unique when you create it, but a new dog comes into the picture when you need to recall it, I doubt that's going to cause much of a problem. Maybe you get it wrong once and try again - you're only going through this because you already forgot your password.
The ends don't justify the means. For example, we banned Nazi science of all forms. This kind of industry is less directly damaging but still overly so
From what I have read, most of this SETI data processing involves very long FFT to channelize down to 1 Hz BW. However, assuming any alien signals would be like our digital comms, those signals are pseudo noise like, so using very narrow bandwidths just reduces the signal too. These narrow bandwidths would only be good for CW signals?
They can always buy the speakers from Amazon.com
Sex is to male and female as gender is to masculine and feminine.
That almost makes me wonder if some engineer at the company sold a development prototype on the side, or something. Maybe you were talking to one of the engineers that actually helped build the thing?
Wouldn't it be nice if something like the old Yik Yak (anon one) be used for local news. Or is there anything already present in this anonymous local news space.
That actually makes perfect sense. Both of them realized they couldn't make any money without becoming a cartel and colluding.
As a bonus you get a cool perspective-shift in the images as the trees slowly grow ;-)
Likely not that fast. Waste piles and water flowing out of abandoned mines will continue to mess up water for many years after a mine closes.
I bet this tunnel boring idea was inspired by the lack of an economical path for hyperloop to get to downtown LA. The hyperloop concept took a lot of heat for that.
Yeah, I have read to detect a transmission from several light years, it would take a transmitter like Aeroceibo. Also must assume the alien politicians would fund it long enough.
The best thing to do is hit up everyone in your network that you are looking for consulting work and let them always know you are doing so and what your skills are.
Jack Dorsey just bought another 574,002 shares of Twitter
I thought endorphins were released due to the pain, hence people really getting into it (same with some athletes I guess).
> Yak killed their own app overnight by taking the main feature that made it popular - the fact that it was anonymous - and making an about-face to suddenly require usernames

Wasn't anonymous harassment a rampant problem?
Fairly sure Spotify doesn't support 2FA...
The joke is that 90% of the people aren't "working".
While it seems clear all the sibling comments thus far want to point out how inaccurate your comment it, I fell it's an important factor in the general malaise about climate change.

Of any number of people who read headlines only some subset of those read the articles, and even fewer of them remember what the article said.

They literally have been saying, for at least a couple decades before I started paying attention, the world is going to end, for one reason or another, quite soon now.

I thought that if the world was going to end we were meant to lie down or put a paper bag over our head or something.
"We have to get to 80%, then we can talk about cost"? Is this like the "we have to do it to find out if we can afford it" version of "we have to pass it to find out what's in it"?
Curious: how many solar panels do you need to drive a tunnel boring machine?
Now he owns 1 million shares:

https://twitter.com/jack/status/858058486730465280
It would be interesting if TBC commercialized a subterrene [1], and drove down costs of building underground structures to a tenth or hundredth of current. But commercial mobile nuclear power is unfortunately not available.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subterrene
Sadly British and other Commonwealth countries like Australia seem way too overrepresented in crap like this. Something about British culture leads to atrocious ignorance of security.
This is still completely ridiculous and wasteful.
WeMoney.ru has been offering precisely that since 2007 at least.
So, you're ok if I open up a company in your town and dump mercury and tailings into the water your children drink?

I suggest that you visit or at least read about El Salvador or Guatemala. No insult intended, but your attitude is both ignorant and offensive.
They had a critical mass of users and the geofenced posting concept had a lot of potential- had they reached maturity they had a lot of monetization potential, likely in the billions over the life of the company.

In hindsight of course they should have anticipated the challenges of anonymity which are almost cliche at this point.

But Facebook and twitter have yet to introduce a geofencing option for user posts as far as I know. Maybe they will eventually.
On the one hand, as scientists we are ethically bound to the scientific method, in effect promising to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but — which means that we must include all the doubts, the caveats, the ifs, ands, and buts. On the other hand, we are not just scientists but human beings as well. And like most people we’d like to see the world a better place, which in this context translates into our working to reduce the risk of potentially disastrous climatic change. To do that we need to get some broad based support, to capture the public’s imagination. That, of course, entails getting loads of media coverage. So we have to offer up scary scenarios, make simplified, dramatic statements, and make little mention of any doubts we might have. This ‘double ethical bind’ we frequently find ourselves in cannot be solved by any formula. Each of us has to decide what the right balance is between being effective and being honest. I hope that means being both.

--Stephen Schneider in APS News, Aug/Sep 1996, p. 5, http://www.aps.org/publications/apsnews/199608/upload/aug96....
Nowadays every login requires a 2fa with a sms so got to have that phone handy to login. And as a bonus juggle multiple ids if you have a business account too in addition to your personal returns. Pure crap.
If anyone visits Melbourne, there is a restaurant called Spicy Fish (I think) in Chinatown. They make a spicy fish soup that feels/tastes like red hot lava made with those peppercorns and chilli presumably. Very nice.
>Concrete is something that's necessarily expensive to produce

That's true. But techniques like compressed stabilized earth blocks can reduce the required percentage of concrete from ~30% to 4%.[1] For example, recently a 4% concrete and 8% ash CSEB was shown to be as strong as class 30 concrete.[2] Fly ash can also be used. Obviously considerations like longevity and manufacturability need to be validated, but the strength is there.

Essentially you're mechanically squeezing all the air out of the concrete, thus reducing the cement requirement. Since TBM tunnels are made from precast formed concrete currently, it seems like a natural cost (and CO2) saving improvement.

[1] https://www.researchgate.net/publication/267637559_Effect_Of...

[2] https://www.hindawi.com/journals/je/2016/7940239/
I can vouch that Fedora does, decently well. My only issue is that if you're using Nvidia-vended graphics drivers, you'll need to sign the kernel modules after every kernel update & subsequent akmod build. And since you don't have RedHat's key, you need to generate your own key, upload it into your BIOS/EFI control panel, and run sign-file against each of the .ko that akmod generates. If you don't do this before rebooting, the drivers will fail to load and GDM will crash.

This is a rough overview of the process, though it's slightly outdated: http://www.pellegrino.link/2015/11/29/signing-nvidia-proprie... (I believe there's 4 modules to sign now.)
Can you elaborate on why it's not secure? Too many people have MS signed keys that just work out of the box ?
Sounds a little like taking a few sniffs and hoping to smell campfire smoke 100 km away. Eventually I hope we'll find more effective methods for SETI
Yep nice peppery twang. A lot of oil sold as olive oil or EVOO, isn't.
If we're talking about money wasted, the winner has to be Uber. Raised $8.8 billion, (billion!) lost $800 million (million!) 2016Q3, is on the fast track to bankruptcy, with nothing to show for it than a bunch of heavily subsidized cab rides.
WZ 2100, besides being relatively unknown, suffers from slower pace and far more complex tech tree. SC has three distinct races, relatively basic tech trees, and promotes fast and aggressive gameplay.
Out of curiosity, why have you disabled it?
why is it impossibly dumb?

> from a cost or safety perspective

Maybe that is why he is pursuing it, is because maybe he can help reduce the cost and safety. Just look at how much he is going to reduce the cost of rocket launches and landing them is far safer. And to me that is a far harder challenge than making underground transit cheaper and safer.

> By the time a system like this is built, all cars will be autonomous

I think even if we all switch to traveling pods, this doesn't JUST solve a transportation problem. It solves underground expansion problems.

That tunnel could alleviate 'autonomous pod traffic' in dense areas. OR perhaps it could be used to build underground cities (tube cities) or (tube storefronts). Or perhaps just improved and accessible infrastructure for a city to utilize more expandable tunnels instead of the tiny ones we have now. (If they made boring significantly cheaper/safer).

Just remember there is more to underground boring than just transportation. And your 2 reasons why it won't work is likely the very 2 things they are trying to address.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ateh7hnEnik
The problem is lack of demand for this particular oyster in Europe. Otherwise this would be considered a boon for local fisherman. The oysters the article is referring to are of the "giant" variety with many of them being about the size of a human hand (fingers and all).

Not having eaten them myself, I would guess the taste isn't quite the same as their smaller cousins served over ice on the half shell. Also, even if they did taste similar, the sheer size would likely make them unappetizing to even the most adventurous westerners.

The Chinese on the other hand are very familiar with the giant pacific variety and have many traditional recipes for them.
I'm all but certain this will be downvoted.. but..

I don't think you could have two more WASPy sounding names then "Tyler Droll & Brooks Buffington"
These oysters in the region the article is referring to are "giant" with many of them being about the size of a human hand.

Not having eaten them myself, I would guess the taste isn't quite the same as their smaller cousins. Also, even if they did taste as good, the sheer size would likely make them unappetizing to even the most adventurous oyster fans.
I guess you're not a fan of democracy, then?
This is actually a very, very good question.
Chilies are popular around the world for exactly this reason, that you can take cheap ingredients and, with some chilies, create an appetising meal.

Because Britain lacks a (good) cuisine of its own, we tend to eat exclusively the food of other countries, and those dishes are often spicy.
Wow, the CEO is only 33.
I've been out of it for a while, but the wikipedia page on z-order is probably a good place to start. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Z-order_curve. This discusses the basic idea of using a space-filling curve to map data to 1-d, and then using a conventional search structure. Hilbert curves should preserve proximity better.

Sorry to toot my own horn, but I wrote some papers that should be useful to someone learning the topic:

1) Algorithms based on space-filling curves for spatial join, a generalization of range search, points in a polygon, etc.: Orenstein & Manola, IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, Volume 14.

2) How to tune the index for non-point spatial objects: Orenstein, ACM SIGMOD 1989.

You might also find my software, which implements these ideas, useful: https://github.com/geophile

There have been many papers elaborating on the idea, but I haven't kept up with the area. Given that you can get such good results using space-filling curves and standard data structures, I think it's nuts to do anything else. I mean look at Postgres and MySQL. The spatial indexes in these systems have never been fully integrated because they are distinct index structures, always lagging behind progress with the main index structures.
something that takes ecc ram and can use zfs?
To me this isn't wild but what should (logically, not morally) happen with most tech companies. The microbubble of their own evaluation burst. If you used the app for longer than a month, you knew the app was going nowhere unless they completely changed the entire product by evolving so quickly. A lot of companies have similar problems in my opinion but are propped up by VC evaluations. If they play their cards right, they can cash out before the bubble bursts and get integrated into a product or company that has much more value than themselves. Yik Yak obviously failed there, but I don't think they are much of a unique situation.
it might point out that they are wrong and that they don't know what is really going on? which would not surprise me when talking about weather topics.
Self-driving cars are going to produce >$100B/year in value (probably at least $1T/year worldwide). They are going to cost a lot more than $5B to develop. Google has >$80B of cash on hand and Apple has >$230B. Those companies would spend $5B to develop self-driving cars in a heartbeat if they could, but they can't.
I wanted to use an IMAP sync but after much experimenting with existing tools concluded that the protocol wasn't flexible enough for a proper two-way synchronisation.

I can't remember the exact reasoning now but several years on I am using dovecot's excellent dsync protocol over SSH to keep my laptop in sync with a private mail server, and have never looked back.

Combined with pine, exim and the excellent mairix (surprised not to see that mentioned yet) I enjoy a decent search on a fast MailDir implementation, with full offline support.
Yeah, like you can't use the car transport floats without a car? Why?