skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And far as this particular model goes, There really aren't any pieces that stand out as being very uncommon anyways. It has a ton of common curved and round shaped pieces I've seen many times, and that's just because rockets tend to be cylindrical. Standout pieces are usually stickered/decal pieces.

I'd get it not just because I'm a space travel buff but because of the scale- it's a meter tall! Great job bringing out the immense size of the Saturn V, in Lego form.
Something is wrong when the ‘telephone app’ on your phone becomes 3rd party
They're not little-used unicode characters. They're code points in the Private Use Area, which is an area of Unicode that's explicitly set aside and will never be assigned to "real" characters, specifically so they can be used for custom things. vim-airline's use of the PUA for its custom glyphs is quite appropriate, it's just annoying that it requires a patched font.

Incidentally, the Apple glyph (, or ⌥⇧K on macOS), is actually in the PUA as well (in fact, it's the very last PUA codepoint, U+F8FF). Which is why it may not render correctly in fonts that don't ship on macOS. Anyone reading this on Windows, Linux, or Android probably won't actually see the apple character.
If I can't trust the justice system to interpret a simple contract plainly, then I don't have a chance of actually understanding the legal implications of a more complex contract.
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The Marxist hidden in me says

* listen to Richard Wolff's views on Puerto Rico
http://www.rdwolff.com/tags/puerto_rico

* listen to David Graeber
https://www.amazon.com/Debt-First-5-000-Years/dp/1612191290
Update: I decided to build a proof of concept for Electrino. It can run a "Hello world" now.

Here's the Show HN:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14260755
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Loved the same.
Yes, this programmable credit card for developers is exactly what the low-tech, third-world is looking for.
It's really a question of how malicious the author was- if they set it up to download everything attached to the account as soon as it connected, it could still cause a lot of damage.
"The high profile court battle ultimately ended after the FBI paid a third party company to gain access to the device via an exploit in the security system."

Why isn't this an acceptable solution?
Processors don't send l3 data for normal consumer based transactions. How would they know you were buying cuban cigars?
Based on what I can gather from the data model, this would be great for categorical type data where there are a limited amount of categories for each event? Would this be fast for querying quantitative data where values might be unique?
Most people I speak to find the Oculus Rift much more comfortable and the addition of built-in headphones is amazing. I still haven't figured out how to put my headphones on while putting on the Vive.

The FoV is pretty good on the Oculus cameras albiet a bit less than the vive's lighthouse. With two cameras I don't run into many issues unless playing Onward or something that requires me turning 360. I'm travelling atm so I actually just use one camera.

Very "comparable" and I'd argue you're actually getting more value for the $200 cheaper Rift than the Vive due to comfort and ergonomics of the HMD and controllers.
Dullahan – open source, C++ headless browser SDK to render web content to memory
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Dividends or the expectation of asset liquidation. A company can wind down and sell its patents, for example. I suppose you could say the sales proceeds are dividends as well, but they're not what one typically thinks of as dividends.
Are there any investment opportunities amidst this news? I've always wondered how these massive bankruptcies play out.
I'm immensely confused by this: `It's totally ok to write class="75%" if you define it as .\35 0\%{} in CSS.` How is this:

.\35 0\%{}

turned into "75%"? It looks more like it would turn into "50%". Why is there a space after the 5 (wouldn't that mean you're finished talking about the class and have moved on to explaining a descendent element?) and what does \3 mean?
With all the out of control government spending (in this case but also in general), I wonder... what did Puerto Rico get for all its borrowing? Obviously they spent the money but... on what?
This doesn't even mention Bayadera, his Bayesian data analysis environment:

https://github.com/uncomplicate/bayadera
The licenses that you are thinking of, are all related to copyright, not patents. Patents are a completely different beast.

I personally think that patents have no place in contemporary society, but that's just, like, my opinion, man.
Hey all. I'm working on a technical solution to reviving long-lost historical writing.

There are so many amazing archived stories from generals, world leaders, and artists, but so rarely are they enjoyed in their original forms (through the mail). In the process, I'm trying to make it more pleasant to check your mailbox.
It sends an email to that mailinator address, with all of the contacts BCC'd. mailinator shut it down very quickly but emails definitely went to that address.
This is where the concept of Veblen Goods[1] originated.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Veblen_good
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Then we should weigh the opportunity cost against the cost of the allegedly illegal externalities.

Of course that's a bit hard to do, but would it be a great tragedy if the less efficient outcome was that for the next 10 years your ride arrived in 6 minutes rather than 5? Across a few billion rides that's a loss of efficiency, but efficiency maximization isn't the only good in life.
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How so ? It was premature 2 years ago but kotlin is pretty much mature on Android right now.
until copycats start
>>I don't know about "taken lightly" but bankruptcy and defaulting on a debt should not be something to be "ashamed" of, for an individual, a company, or a government.

It totally depends. There is nothing shameful about declaring bankruptcy because you got into an accident and your insurance company refused to pay your six-figure hospital bill. But if you take out a big loan to build a new hotel and blow it all on hookers and booze? Fuck yeah you should be ashamed (and also go to prison).
Being discussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14260026
my summary of reasonattlm's post: Calico is going to fail like the Ellison Medical Foundation did. Everyone bet against SENS, and was wrong, as proven by senolytics. SENS is likely to be right about the other stuff as well, and people should put money into engineering instead of understanding.
Excellent, the author addresses latency-under-load and the use of queue mechanisms (CoDel) that are designed to avoid excessive queuing latency.
GCC doesn't crash if you tell it to unroll loops with an infinite while loop in your code, does it?
>Plenty of countries have defaulted, and they can still borrow money.

That's the lenders' fault. Bleed the suckers dry. Lenders like that shouldn't get to manage money.
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On the other hand, in 2001 (eight years before Uber):

Basically WebTaxi works well with people having wireless web access from PDAs (Personal Digital Assistants). Imagine a scenario where you are sitting in a restaurant and you need a Taxi service. You go to the WebTaxi website and request a Taxi to your home. WebTaxi comes back and tells you exactly how much it will cost you. It can even tell you how long you will have to wait for the taxi. You continue to chat while you wait for the taxi to show up. As soon as the taxi arrives, your PDA informs you that the taxi is waiting for you!

https://web.archive.org/web/20010127103500/http://www.eventh...
There is an update at the bottom of the article which is relevant:

"Thanks to reader tips and additional searches in PubMed, we’ve located and linked to several Calico papers we weren’t aware of when we first published this story on Thursday. I flagged the papers with the researchers quoted in this story who said they did not change their assessment of Calico."
Oh, I dunno. When is a phone going to do this:

http://www.mcvoy.com/lm/2016-hawk/2.html

or this:

http://www.mcvoy.com/lm/fog.jpg

or this:

http://www.mcvoy.com/lm/hockey-portraits/104.html

I love that phone tech is getting better but I'll take my
1DX & the 200mm f2.0 over a phone a 100x. Phone is handy
as heck because it's always with you but there are some
things you just can't do without a great sensor and great
big honking chunk of glass.
Quantum entanglement cannot be used for classical communications:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12548175#12548733

"Basic principle is that while measurements between both sides will be correlated, it's not possible to tell how they are correlated until both sides compare measurements."

https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/203831/ftl-commu...
Silver-plated contacts are fairly widespread in use, e.g. better XLR connectors, some Fastons, Hartings etc. use them. They are unproblematic with contact designs that scrape the natural oxide layer off. Mixing platings may prevent this mechanism from working properly, resulting in bad contact.
> saying such legislation would be “better from a public safety perspective”

According to whom, we the people or a bunch of authoritarians who'd like to be able to access every nook and cranny of our personal lives?
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When issues of local government financial problems come up, I think it's important to remember that local governments are typically not able to undertake deficit spending the way the Federal government is.

If the US Federal government were prevented from running a budget deficit, we'd likely see a lot more solvency issues and financial failures of many sub-organizations within government due to bad budgeting. It would also be a lot harder for our leaders to start wars or get away with sloppy cost estimates of their grandiose ideas.

My argument is not that government should be small, simply that its spending should reflect its income and the results of its spending should be easily correlated with their cost.

Since the Federal government takes the lion's share of income taxes, local governments are constrained in their ability to generate income. Yet for most people, local governments provide the vast majority of the useful government services they enjoy.

So while it may seem that the Federal government is comparatively stable and responsible, the reality is that it's simply far less accountable to anyone and is able to use that lack of accountability to launder its reputation. States (or local governments) do not have the same luxury.
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Governments can borrow in currency not their own. This becomes not only debt at adjustable rates, but debt at "adjustable principal" as well. Risky.
Wow! This is interesting. I thought the "WMDs in Iraq" was fake news, turns out the "no WMDs in Iraq" is fake news! So much fake news, hard to sort everything out.
Wait. I though Puerto Ricans were only exempt from federal income tax on Pueto Rican-sourced income.
Law enforcement is tasked with putting people in jail, not so much preventing future abuses of bad laws by governments. This is why checks and balances must be maintained, for when all you have is a hammer everything looks like a nail.
geeeez, how long is Cali going to foist Feinstein on the rest of the country. The level of idiocy is just beyond painful...

Edit to add: of course the same could be said about the remaining 49 states and their reps/sens as well...
Calling Bullsh_t in the Age of Big Data
As fidget spinner craze sweeps globe, its inventor struggles to make ends meet
How would you design a clinical trial for a life-extension drug? How long would it take, and how much investment would be required, to compile a compelling case to the FDA to approve your drug?
You can buy a Baseball cap and a hoodie, that was my way of supporting them :-)
My suggestion is to convince your company (or if you own the company, simply take action) to use a particular open source software package. As soon as you run into a feature you need but the package does not offer, take some time to develop on top of it (on company time or at home) instead of writing your own hacky in-house solution, using a more careful development process than your company's software. Develop it until it is used in production, and donate the feature to the project. This way, if it is not wanted or ignored, it will still benefit you or your company.
Tendency to think out of the box is a major problem when trying to be hired, if you are a software developer. Somehow most companies have strictly shaped role-"holes", so developers should develop and do not ask questions, managers should manage and do not code, and we already have smart guys, thank you.
It was Seides's idea to make it funds of funds and he could choose them -

http://archive.fortune.com/2008/06/04/news/newsmakers/buffet...

5 hedge funds I'm not sure would make a lot of sense, too small a number to diversify, funds wind down.

The hedge funds were winning for the first few years with the crisis. A straight up stock market is not great for the hedge fund side.

Also worth noting that Buffett is an active manager and claims he could beat the S&P by a large margin if he was managing a smaller portfolio. And he's said the efficient market theory is dumb and makes his job easier. He tells people to put their money into index funds and then does the opposite. From his perspective he's talking his own book, if there is another Warren Buffett level talent out there, no need to tell everyone to find the best competition and back him, might as well tell people they're wasting their time, just buy the index.
It's sophisticated because of it's simplicity and effectiveness.
But it would be about those trivial things as it gets implemented down in the smaller communities. That's the point: if an opinion like Thomas' held in the large, it would make it easier to get away with trivial things in the small. It degrades justice, at the core and at the edges.
Diane Feinstein is old and needs to retire. She is completely out of touch with the needs of her constituency, and comes off more like an old guard republican rather then a democrat that she is supposed to be.
People are freaking out that messaging service WhatsApp is down
Add Pelosi to that too.
I'm afraid I don't understand what you're trying to insinuate here. Capitalism is part and parcel to disruptive services such as this one entering a space where established players have created price fixing opportunities for themselves. The oligopoly you're deriding is what enables innovations like this in the first place.
I find most security 'training' to be really contrived. The examples are so trivial as to be useless and easily avoided in real life.

I have had to do several 'security' training sessions. I understand it intellectually, but they don't instill a deep understanding.
Forgive me, as this is completely tangential to your point, but it should be "according to whom". A simple explanation: https://www.grammarly.com/blog/who-vs-whom-its-not-as-compli... :)

Call me silly, but I think grammar is important. I hope you don't take this the wrong way!

Edit: lol, I thing I made a typo earlier.
> If the US Federal government were prevented from running a budget deficit, we'd likely see a lot more solvency issues and financial failures of many sub-organizations within government.

No, there's just be a lot more pressure to monetize government finances. We have some safeguards against that (e.g., the Fed being separated from Congress and outside of it's direct control), but the biggest constraint on that is that the government, so long as Congress is free to set fiscal policy within it's own preferences, has very little reason to choose the path of monetization.
Next up, prepare for the inbox onslaught of every CASB provider hawking their wares and telling you all about the googpocalypse and how they are uniquely prepared to solve it!
I'm confused about this. I'm hurried at the moment, but this seems to a bill that orders tech companies to provide a solution to encryption without having a backdoor?

Isn't this like legislating a violation of mathematics or something?
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I don't think it's meant for blind people. Just that braille characters give consistent looking high resolution dots.
> First, as far as I knew only the first book was unoriginal.

Maybe. It's been a long time since I read the series. I remember getting to the third or fourth and realizing that the plots of later books also seemed to crib off the earlier ones.

(1) The story isn't exactly the same, just noticeably similar. The presentation is also significantly different, with a different premise for the setting and such.

(2) Copyright laws (Berne convention and US copyright law) specifically note translations as being afforded copyright separate from the original work, but falling under the "exclusive rights of authorization" that govern the original work.
Chinese wuxia novels are great. Vietnamese people call it "tiểu thuyết kiếm hiệp" here, the author 金庸 (Jin Young - Kim Dung) is someone everyone in Vietnam knows. They have to be among the most popular items people searched for when the Internet was slow and people went online to just read text.

We use a lot of Chinese phrases ingrained in us from Chinese novels, for example, I still remember vividly the word "ngụy quân tử" - 偽君子 - hypocrite, dishonest man - that is used in Chinese novels - that the journalist I talked about used to describe himself: "You might think I am a 'ngụy quân tử' when I said this to you, but I really really want you to continue. I didn't send the previous email to stop you. Don't stop."

We have a site called Việt Nam Thư Quán that has mainly Chinese wuxia novels. It is among the oldest sites in Vietnamese that is still operational today. It still has my Harry Potter translation version somewhere, I think. I wish I could read more Chinese novels for my own enrichment. Learning Chinese is my pipe dream that I will do... one day.
> "Although a market crash is highly unlikely in the near future..."

Statements like this are just harbingers of doom to me.
Don't be so confident that the right thing happens always. I had a friend that was told he could delay a payment and they tricked him into paying late and they sold his home already... after many legal battles he eventually won but the bank said that they already sold the home so that we're in a losing situation either way. They picked the lesser of two evils. Form what i understand it was because two branches of the bank were working independently and they didn't properly relay information.
“I don’t think Congress intended that distinction but what it does do us is in our most important investigations it requires us that if we want to find out the subscriber info to a particular email to go and get an order from a federal judge in Washington as part of the FISA court. An incredibly long and difficult process. And I’m worried about that slowing us down — and I’m also worried about it being a disincentive for our investigators to do it at all.”

Hurdles to protect privacy are important. If it's not an arduous process we have a problem.
Putting in backdoors is sure fire way to kill US based mobile phone producers. Criminals will just use foreign produced phones and only way to counteract that is to outlaw those phones. Can't wait till they criminalize having certain firmware on your phones.
It's probably saying that they invest as though recessions that didn't happen were going to happen.
Down in Dunscroft.
It would be nice to at least have a court trial before killing a company

Yes, that is the mechanism we use for determining whether allegations of untoward behavior are true or false. Did I argue for denying or short-circuiting that process anywhere? No.

Your argument is circular, equivalent to complaining that someone can't be indicted or sued because their guilt or liability has yet to be proven at trial.

I think you understand this very well and that your skepticism is performative, meant to impress others rather than convince me. Good luck with that strategy.
Uber is active in 80+ countries and 600+ cities worldwide. That's a really big gap to fill.
Thats a thing?
Yes.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VPBH1eW28mo is a pretty good video for persuading people why this legislation is a bad idea. We might still be able to beat it by rallying support.
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> changing my passwords every 30 days is looking less and less important.

Sidenote: I don't think that was ever a good idea, unless you think you were likely to type your password into phishing sites in the last month.
Great explanation, but I'm unclear why it's so bizarrely automagical to expect a government to return money when it finds out it unjustly took it.
That. It's an old joke about bear investors.
good argument that all internet businesses were invented in the late 90s bubble. nearly all were too early.
It's already a violation of the law to import and sell routers with unlocked firmware
The folks coming from film/video to VR speak of it as a new medium. Describing it as analogous to the early days of cinema, before the now familiar cinematic idioms had been developed. The folks working on WebVR say similar things wrt web idioms. And, to a perhaps lesser extent, gamedevs do too (motion, controls, showing state, haptics, accessing inventory, etc). And almost none of these communities were active in past VR waves.

So perhaps you and the article are using the phrase "new medium" differently.
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It is interesting to see the reaction had on HN when someone like me, who recognizes the emperor has no clothes, comes along to critique a very real problem with one of these programs, Medicaid.

The analysis in your heavily downvoted comment is blatantly wrong!

Is Medicaid means tested? Absolutely.

Is Medicaid for elderly patients heavily means tested? Absolutely.

Is what you said: Medicaid enrollment as of 2016 reached over 70 million people. Here's the requisite chart:

https://www.statista.com/statistics/245347/total-medicaid-en....

Every single one of these people has, effectively, entered into a promissory note with the government. They DO NOT have health insurance, they have a loan. true? Nope, only people over 55 who have remaining assets are subject to estate recovery.
Then perhaps privatization is more important than they thought, no? And perhaps maybe that should be their single issue until they dislodge their representation?

The problem is that these same jerks aren't against privatizing YOUR stuff; they're just against privatizing THEIR stuff.

This is a common theme among the right wing of the US political system right now.
Are there any US banks that offer such a credit card api at the transaction level where you can reject within XX seconds? Been looking for something like this forever, or is there a way to partner with a bank for less than $1m to do such a thing?
"I thing" <-- while knocking OP's grammar? Yes, I'm silly too :)
It cost a lot of money, basically (AFAIK on the order of a million dollars to Celebrite).

One funny outcome of the San Bernardino iPhone cracking debate was the Government double speak:

To Apple ...

> We only want to force you to build a custom iOS so we can get into this iPhone.

To DA's across the country ...

> Send us all your iPhones for ... reasons.

But comedy aside, they really do care about the cost / time of un-encrypting things. They're position seems to be that anything outside of your brain (5th amendment and all) should be available with a court order in a reasonable time and at reasonable cost.

I don't agree with that, because manufacturers should be able to produce whatever software they damn well please. But, they have a logical position if you look from the right angle.