skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Gach resisted, but finally gave in when he was told that if he didn’t, CBP would keep his phone for an indefinite period.

The sad thing is if this happened to me I'd have no problems with just letting them have the phone and get myself a new one. In fact the company I work for would probably let me expense the new phone because they'd be happy I didn't give away the passcode to a phone that has company emails on it that contain private info.

So this ends up punishing those who can't afford to just dispose of a phone. Disgusting. Privacy should be a right, not something that you have to ask yourself if you can afford.
You can find in Wikipedia:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/At_sign
Right, that's my understanding as well. I'd lose the device but retain my freedom and (whatever shreds remain of) privacy, which is an acceptable tradeoff to me given the relatively low odds of this happening.
> I wonder if websites have considered the impact that clickbait headlines have on people with disabilities.

My guess is they don't give a damn. They don't even think about it, because if they did, they'd realize the damage they're doing to all readers and the society at large, and they'd abandon their practice.
Exceptions Are for Programmers, Error Responses Are for Users
>In the end, is it truly that much different than the prevailing economic structure disproportionately forcing the poor into high-risk or hard-labor occupations that result in significantly degraded lifespan and/or quality of life?

It's not different at all. We're not different from the Aztecs: our economy has become an elaborate system of human sacrifice to false gods.
I think that kind of comparison is just silly.
This is really cool and I hate to show up to complain, but the text is blurry on my screen (mac, chrome) -like blurry enough that i get an uneasy feeling that makes me want to close the window.
I've spent years using emacs. It continues to be a tool worth using.

My favorite editors are still nano and notepad.exe
The wright flyer was just sticks, canvas, and a small engine. Anybody could have done it - in fact there were teams around the world competing to be the first ones. The Wright brothers got a patent on it. Should they have?
I know a guy with the last name 'Tester' that had to have a gate agent book their flight every ~10 minutes until their flight departed because the reservation system in production would delete any reservations with the last name 'Tester'.

Thought it was a fun story related to the immaturity of reservation / booking systems.
I was flying from Dublin once. They scan your ticket before security and at the gate, and use some sort of facial recognition to identify you in both places.

One woman was stopped as she entered the aircraft, as the attendent checking tickets saw that the flight on her ticket was for the day before!
I don't think I've ever noticed anything too strange with font rendering in Windows. Can you (calmly) explain what you're talking about?
Yes, That's J. Peterman from 'Seinfeld' Pitching an IPO on TV
...and as the gates change the changes are reflected on screens displayed throughout the airport; it's not like the correct gate information is only stored in the minds of the employees working that day
Cloudflare, sued by its first “patent troll,” hits back hard
I average about 14 hours per week on my animation platform. It took a few years to have a release:
http://www.superanimo.com

The difference for me was when I got a nights and weekends membership to a coworking space. Since I'm paying for it I force myself to go at least 3 times a week.
Has anyone here looked into PACE financing (https://ygreneworks.com/faqs/ ) for projects like this? what is the interest rate or cost?
I noticed a few people here doing double takes at HOCON, which I did as well (let's say it's a good instinct). After using it, things made a lot more sense.

* Old school Gnome users may recognize its original author Havoc Pennington.

* Although it's a Java library, it's more natural in a Scala; the config objects are immutable, and Scala people like to rewrite the whole world anyway

* It's a very nice way to organize and write configuration files, although for our team we needed a session to understand how the final configuration was being derived since there can be multiple configuration files as well as the fallback/default values in reference.conf.
This was an interesting read, though I've never really delved into 68k assembler, even when I was playing with the Amiga.

In the early 1990s I purchased an Amiga 2000, then a couple of years later an Amiga 1200. A few years after that, Commodore "died" and I moved to a 486 and Windows (though I had used a DOS-base laptop prior to that). A few years later I move to Linux.

I still have my Amigas, and my 1080S - but I have no idea if any of it still works; they haven't been booted in over 20 years (though I have kept them stored well). I've thought about getting them running again; maybe someday (I've got more actual retro hardware than I have time and space for, honestly).
Hacking my Trash Company
The price.
Interesting summary text: "Prior to the bout, MMA fighter Xu had criticized traditional martial arts for being outdated and “a lie” without combat purposes, strongly insulting Tai-Chi in particular. In response Wei challenged him to a duel. The stage was set in Chengdu, China in front of a large crowd with a referee and MC."
Yes. They even have their own programming language for super-computing: http://chapel.cray.com/
I don't care if they believe they're a force for good or not. They're still being shitty, and they should be shat on.

"The road to Hell is paved with good intentions."
Indeed, disrupting airline-related industry is hard if you're an outsider. The technology is one hard thing, but knowing all the actors in the industry is the main advantage of GDSes.

BTW switching the reservation system is hard, but not impossible. Southwest migrated its international reservations from internal system to Amadeus this very week (after a lengthy development of course).
I had the very same reaction after reading this. A long post that describes how bad patent trolls are, a general call to embrace the fight, everyone should join the fight sponsored by Cloudflare and together we can win! But, if for whatever reason Blackbird leaves us alone and they bully someone else - not our problem anymore!

As someone who does not have a dog in this fight, I see no reasons to help them when it's blatantly obvious they are just fighting for themselves.
i'm thinking a cluster of bare metal servers is rather simpler than a cluster of containers on top of the same number of bare metal servers?
Given his username, I'd say he's found a way to cope.
Which sentence? I wouldn't have read the parent's quoted sentence as either of those.
Sorry to see you conclude the piece, or that portion, is malpractice :-\

The paragraph you quote was intended to give an overview of one type of work a machine like WindsorGreen might do, in broad terms. While it's true we mention RSA as a very basic example of the sort of thing a government would be /interested/ in breaking, we also specifically quote a security researcher saying WindsorGreen “might also have applications for things like … breaking older/weaker (1024 bit) RSA keys” and then quote another (bunnie) saying "“Even if [WindsorGreen] gave a 100x advantage in cracking strength, it’s a pittance compared to the additional strength conferred by going from say, 1024-bit RSA to 4096-bit RSA or going from SHA-1 to SHA-256.”

It's really not clear to me how the piece "puts forward a narrative that the USG is collaborating with IBM to build supercomputers that would break all of RSA" -- indeed, it specifically says this would be of use primarily against 1024-bit RSA.

That said, I'm definitely curious how you think the piece could have framed this more obviously for the lay reader.

(If it's not clear, I work at The Intercept.)
And I do. I fail to see any kind of "good" that this could fall under.
>Among the few things I appreciate about religion is how it tries to bring our lives into perspective by incessantly reminding us of its end.

Most religions, and all the major ones, do the opposite of that.
I changed my seat once after getting a boarding pass, and at the gate the scanner raised an error - so yes it does seem like there is some actual checking done.
As a data point, with DB Browser for SQLite (used to be known as "SQLite Browser"), which is reasonably popular (150k+ downloads/mo), we're trying a different approach.

We're making a "Cloud" platform for storing and sharing SQLite databases, with GitHub style forking/merging/social bits & integrating it with the next version of DB Browser for SQLite. Initial dev server online here showing the concept:

https://dev1.dbhub.io/justinclift/Belfast%20Bikes%20Docking%...

It seems like data scientists, universities, and government bodies will find it useful as it meets some needs they have which are completely unaddressed by anything else.

So, we're intending to generate revenue through this to support developing both DB Browser for SQLite and DBHub.io itself, though it's too early stage to say exactly how/what/where/etc yet.

Our initial hope ;) is that GitHub style public == free, private == $ will work. We'll find out over the next few months as we start putting real servers online, measuring usage, and figuring out possibilities from there.
Cant they use a simulation to do the training and then finetune it using the poor drone?
Fluent Design System
Okay, that's quite good! I'm going to see how good this can get with the Python std lib later. Probably not quite this nice.
Loving-kindness while one is doing helps one see through complacency and turning into an asshole. It also naturally start bridging into loving-kindnes for others.
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14314451 and marked it off-topic.
Exactly, it's pretty much identical to Nvidia's own DGX-1 (actually, the DGX-1 will be faster, because it's now using the Volta GPUs, a generation ahead of Pascal):

2 x E5-2698 v3, 512GB memory, 4 x 2TB SSD, 100GB Infiniband, and 8 x P100 (or Volta).

$129,000.

https://www.nextplatform.com/2016/11/14/nvidias-saturn-v-dgx...
From another news source, this has knock on effects for VAT..

> As a supplier of a transport service, Uber may be liable for value-added-tax, or VAT, imposed on businesses that supply goods and services.

I can't imagine the stress, even if alot of it is self induced, that the company is under right now. You have to feel some level of empathy for the company's employees.

Most of them probably came from other well paying jobs and were already counting their option payouts int heir heads.

It's easily conceivable at this point that Uber could IPO well under its $50+ billion private valuation.

Top things I would do even though I'm wildly unqualified to give Travis advice..........

1) Drop self driving cars completely. YOu aren't getting there first, second, or anywhere close to third, just partner with a car company and call it a day.

2) Settle Google's lawsuit, hopefully 1 will help

3) Hire a new CEO, Sheryl Sandberg is almost certainly not available but someone who can show that change will and is happening internally.
hrm....so as it turns out burkas really are the new expression of freedom. whom would have guessed?
Well I ended up buying an ASUS router, because OpenWRT's support for IPv6 isn't full on (The 6RD support really needs improvement).

There are some other things I would like to see, which I see people have been making scripts for some of those things (Time based firewall rules for example).

I too paid for the 2GB upgrade. =)
I know people have trained AIs to do more sophisticated things than this, but something about watching from the drones perspective as it scans its environment and moves around really makes you feel like you're watching a real intelligence at work.
On the other hand, I hadn't heard of the Cray twins before. Each day we learn something new.
I also like the description of British Airways as a Pension Fund with a small airline attached.

A multi-billion pound deficit to be funded by a company with annual profits of a few hundred million iirc
http://deathcafe.com/deathcafes/

I've been meaning to attend a regularly scheduled Death Cafe here in Toronto but life events keep coming up. Looks like they take place in a lot of cities around the world.
Sound like you are dog-fooding your product:

https://getelapse.com: "An elegantly simple tool to help you focus on the tasks you need to get done."
> The study says doctors do die differently than the average American, but not when you account for education and income.

Correct me if my linga sciencia is a little rusty, but doesn't "something does X, but not if you account for [factors]" literally mean "something does not X"?
Great! Thanks for this.
iTunes is coming to the Windows Store
Self-compassion and compasion is generating the feeling of loving-kindness. The "best friend" advice was meant to be more relateable.
IIRC (that was a long time ago) I could use only 8 tracks on my A600 because I only had a meg of memory. A friend had extended his A600 memory to 2MB and I think he could get 6 tracks.
Ethereum is helping London’s homeless with smart contracts
Pretty horrible response if true. I understand why some disciplines prefer not to respond to such challenges, but persecuting the challenger is absolutely the wrong thing to do.
Introducing Xamarin Live Player
Fixed. Good thing I'm not published in IEEE.
Similar to the rc rally car that learns to drift by driving and crashing itself [1]. I'm collecting articles/videos where you can see machines teaching themselves things like flying/driving/video games [2].

[1] http://spectrum.ieee.org/cars-that-think/transportation/self...

[2] https://www.reddit.com/r/WatchMachinesLearn/
Amazon too:

https://aws.amazon.com/rekognition/

Sentiment analysis for everyone!
In Europe they are meant to check the name on the boarding pass against an id such as a passport.

I believe that the reader just shows your name.

I also think what the readers do is update the system to say that you are on that flight. This is for revenue reasons. Tickets can be issued by other airlines, and the revenue is not counted until you are on the flight.

Also in Europe the system matches you with your luggage. This is a security measure.
If you want to work on this the analog way, one thing that helped me is mantras. It's actually very simple - if you really want to hold on to something then boil it down to 5 words or so, and mentally repeat them until they feel like well-chewed gum. Repeat them every once in a while at completely random moments with no context, you're trying to generate a mental tic.

Eventually the thing you're trying to internalise becomes a mental habit, and starts to pop into your head all on its own at just those moments when you need it most.
My favorite popular quotes are the ones that are borrowed from Shakespeare but stripped of all context, so they're commonly read as meaning something completely different.

Read books, or essays, or at least the whole dang poem (the quoted "The Second Coming" is really short!). It's nearly impossible to pack any kind of meaningful insight into a couple sentences.
Or Westworld which is mindblowingly good!
Yeah, I'm not sure why I would compete with Nvidia on their own turf unless I could do something bigger/better, but Nvidia will always have the advantage of information.
Starry, Offering 5G Internet Speeds Seeks SW Eng, SW & SR SW QA Eng Boston
At the end of the day how will any amount of regulation successfully prevent someone from getting into someone else's car?

The business model that uber pioneered will always be possible, even if hitching a ride with a stranger via an app will be cracked down on as hard as purchasing heroin or AK-47's.

No amount of regulation can prevent people from getting in other people's cars. Not in 2017. It's just too easy. If regulators totally murder Uber, anyone else can fill its void.

What are you going to do, make it illegal to program?

In my opinion most regulation against Uber is done by the Taxi lobby, which in many countries has made Uber completely illegal. It's just a matter of time until underground alternatives pop up.

the main thing that prevented Uber from existing is mobile phone app infrastructure for coordinating all that. While Uber does enjoy economies of scale, at the end of the day others (such as Lyft) can fill that void.

There are a lot of places where the taxi lobbies attempt to make Uber and related apps illegal. I think over the next five years, the taxi industry will fail to achieve their goals in this respect, in every single market worldwide.

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EDIT: I replaced the word "fascism" with "regulation", though I think the first word choice is a good reflection of how invasive the state would have to be to successfully regulate people giving their friends or other people rides.
No, the important question there is whether or not doctors as a class die differently. If you don't account for education and income, you are just proving that doctors have different education and income than the average American, which is not very interesting.
he quotes one of my favorite poems, which is a good one to be reminded of (the whole poem, not just the quote) in these trying political times:

The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.

- Yeats, The Second Coming
Great post. Thanks for this
Just installed Visual Studio for Mac (I've been using VS Code for a while on Windows and Mac) and first blush I'd agree. But to be determined after actual usage.

Code is definitely targeted to be lightweight, and it shows. I also am a fan of Code's look, versus the Mac wrapper around VS for Mac.

I'll probably give VS for Mac a try via a .NET Core tutorial, but for day-to-day JS dev I'll probably be keeping with VS Code.
I suppose I'm also wondering if there's an authentication protocol where the challenger actually tells the prover what hash it has to match. Does a challenger ever effectively say "Please tell me the secret whose SHA256 is equal to fcdf324499312efa027b5033513b0c0968f74ae7ba81a271ae62b3dda2cd4143 in order to proceed"?

Maybe protocols where the attacker has access to a signature over some data, but doesn't get access to the signed data in plaintext? Then the attacker could try to brute-force values of the signed data using the hash that forms the basis of the signature?
From a cursory search it looks like there are no new design documents yet, just a site with a bunch of buzzwords for now http://fluent.microsoft.com/
AIUI it was often used in shorthand in commercial transactions in order books like "12 widgets @ $10"
nice software
are you planning to support mssql ?
What I learned playing “SteamProphet”
Nvidia gtx 1050, official drivers. Steam games are fine, and everything else seems to be fine, but Firefox scrolling looks like something from the Win95 era.
Multi GPU OpenCL pipeline with double buffering for throughput
New Distros Coming to Bash/WSL via Windows Store
Because the value added is in the brand and the software, both of which are created in the US -- as is demonstrated both in the pricing of equal competitor hardware at a third of what iDevices sell for.

And of course Apple doesn't pay corporate income taxes on most of its profits in China either[1], so the issue would remain even if you could convince anyone that the value creation and tax obligation took place in China.
Is this really about a "code-breaking computer", or just some big data collection and analysis cluster? A code-breaking machine would look like a Bitcoin mining farm - all ASICs, very little storage, not much I/O, no disks. An collection and analysis machine looks like an ordinary data center.

Is this maybe the Cyrogenic Computer Complexity Program? [1] That's an attempt to build a 10GHz machine running in liquid helium.

[1] https://www.fbo.gov/index?s=opportunity&mode=form&tab=core&i...
I think some of the challenges to keeping MVPs really MVPs is that the users being presented with an MVP often can't see past its bare bones nature.

If it's not pretty or the UX isn't as good as other apps they have used then that's all they get hung up on. On the other hand, you can't really expect an end user to find something useful unless they can actually use it with some level of comfort. I think that's where the more and move polished MVPs surface.
A strong ramp-up takes time to plan and implement. Especially in a large organization such as the TSA or U.S. Customs and Border Protection.
I paid off my mortgage by 44, and I don't have kids. Who is going to want my 78.94 year old organs?

My personal feeling is that if humans would quit wasting their time bullshitting on the Internet all day, and we figured out a way to collectively be more productive, we could cure cancer, create artificial organs, extend life by a few healthy decades, eliminate poverty, etc then die peacefully in our sleep around 120.

I have no idea how we could accomplish this, but I have notice over the years, that we seem to repeatedly have the same conversations, and they don't add anything to our understanding or advancement in any way.
Yeah I noticed this the other day. I couldn't believe the fonts looked so terrible. This is coming from a Fedora user where we typically put up with lots of complaints about fonts.
The problem with this is that today, individually, it may seem like a worthwile thing to do with your dying body. Fast-forward 20+ years, and it'll become expected part of life, and college funding will become conditioned on grandparents dying early enough.

You generally don't want to start going that road.
Somewhat misleading title. This is just a non-binding opinion; the court has yet to make a final (binding) ruling.

That said, there is a high chance that the court sides with the opinion. From the article:

> A final decision in the case is expected before the end of the year. While guidance from the Advocate General is not binding, the court typically rules in similar fashion.
1. That is another issue, the USPTO issuing patents that shouldn't be issued.

3. They don't seem to be against patents, just against non-practicing entities. Did you even read the article?
I know, total PITA. Why can't I run my iOS app on Windows?! Screw you M$!

...
If Uber weren't paying the drivers, then they would be neither employees nor contractors but just people using their site.

I wonder if it makes sense to charge the drivers a "listing fee" and somehow have the transaction happen directly between the rider and driver. It seems like they'd be further away from being a taxi company if they did that.

Their best bet is for the users to be the one breaking the law: If you fine a million people you'll just be voted out of office.

I wonder why they even need to "operate" in Europe at all. Local servers reduce latency, but aren't strictly necessary. I guess there's payment processing with a local bank, but foreign credit card transactions are a thing.
Wow? Why wouldn't it? Pandora bought them after all.
I would say around 5/6hours a week. Most of it on the weekend.
I am building https://iheartreading.co/. I have been working on it for a little bit than a year, with a big break last year (5/6 months without doing anything).

I try to spend maybe 15 min every day checking where I am at, and several hours per weekend, when possible, working on features etc.

Trying to work on it in the evening after my work day is challenging, as I have not a lot of energy/motivation.