skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Someone will buy it that has some really old hardware attached to a machine that they just cannot let go.
AIFF Tagging
To be fair, he did say a stationary camera.
Presumably at least five Chromium processes too?
I disagree with what she did, she probably made the world a much less safe place and caused thousands if not millions of deaths through wikileaks role in inciting the Arab spring. Still I'm convinced she did it with the best of intentions and the genuine belief that she would make the world more peaceful and open. I guess she was naive so I'm glad to see her released early.
Could you share what sort of model you're using? Something WaveNet inspired?
The induced demand argument applies to marginal increases in capacity on already-congested roads. If you make enough extra capacity, eventually you run into limits in how much demand can be created. For example, if you check out the city streets at 3 AM, you'll typically find that there's a lot more capacity than people are using.

These guys are quite ambitious in the scale of the tunneling they want to do.
Why not? We're talking about average lifetime medical costs, so who cares if one is preventable and one isn't?

From a public health perspective yes that absolutely matters, but all I'm saying is this narrow claim: You will not save money on medical costs if you get your population to act healthier and they die of unpreventable diseases instead of preventable ones.
I've been working with clustering algorithms to create a personal news aggregator from sitemaps and RSS feeds, using an NLP library (Stanford CoreNLP) to do feature extraction. [1] I'd like to extend it to classify articles into different categories so I could filter things like transcripts, opinion columns, web scrapes gone wrong, but I'm not sure how to set that up yet.

[1] Very rough prototype: https://confabulator.io/newsclustering/
Generally speaking you're spot on and I think the 'report' is unrealistic. The one wild card I could see accelerating EV in the heartland is wind power.

If you look at wind speed maps of America (http://apps2.eere.energy.gov/wind/windexchange/wind_maps.asp ) there is huge generating capacity going right through the Dakota's. With the decline in manufacturing jobs, politicians there may soon see investing in wind energy jobs as the future.

That doesn't solve the problem of making an electric truck that meets the needs of rural America, but it does put a lot of cheap energy in their backyard waiting to charge giant truck batteries.
I was profoundly shaken, but in the end, in the interest of discussion, I decided to accept the apology.
This feels a lot like the good old framework/library debate. Instead of providing everything for the learner in a framework-y way (user must adapt, we call you), it seems better to offer lego blocks instead. Well documented, componentized, reusable things which can act as parts of any new system.
He's right about the general direction things are going, but I don't think it'll go that fast, nowhere near that fast. Anyways, I like it. Cleaner air, and reduced maintenance costs. As for gas powered cars disappearing completely, it remains to be seen if electric cars can compete with gas powered cars on price - electric still has a lot of work to do in this area.

Sounds like someone shorted the oil industry and is hoping to make a killing.
Git Is Not Enough: Traditional Source Code Management Strategies
Realistically built-in would just be Forward Error Correction scheme, like erasure coding over several disks or even trucks.
You could probably build an entire law class around the question: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_obscenity_law

> The Supreme Court has ruled that obscenity is not protected by the First Amendment, but the courts still need to determine whether material in question in each case is in fact obscene.
UK Police Charge Activist for Refusing to Hand Over Passwords
Thanks for the clarification! Wasn't thinking pre-Twitter.
This is a remarkable load of hogwash. Wish it wasn't, though.
TL;DR

Keep your shit static. Patch often, and don't expose your terribly configured NGINX instance to 100% of the Internet
I've seen a number of articles about college educated women having trouble finding enough college educated men to meet the demand. Also consider the factor age can play in this, given that people tend to gain wealth throughout most of their life. If women married men who were a bit older than them, you would see a marry up effect and you would also have more widows at older age since their older husband has passed.
The grocery store I worked at as a teenager had an OS/2 frontend to an AS/400 that was hooked into all of the cashier stations and inventory management. I doubt that they've replaced it.
So they went from a subpar native application to an even more subpar application on Electron. I think I'll stick with SourceTree. At least that won't take 10 seconds to boot up.
It is mentioned on the front page that the payment processing is handled by PayPal, Stripe or Payoneer.
Hmmm. Just checking and it looks like the EC2 data rates are $0.09GB up to 10TB and even less thereafter..

So.. if I understand correctly, Firebase is 10x more expensive??

It seems like it might be worthwhile to roll my own then..
Definitely. HN probably doesn't think about it much, but go to high school hackathons or take a look at Github -- there are a bunch of teenagers around who have learned pretty incredible amounts of programming. Here's an example of one who learner C and wrote his own kernel, among other things: https://github.com/GruntTheDivine?tab=repositories
"NoDak" is a bad example - that state is fairly well off and organized. Years ago they got it their head that having 100% cell coverage was a good idea so they did it. New federal recommendations for shoulder width so they went and redid their roads. The /tiny/ ILEC that serves my family farm years ago ripped out all of their copper and only runs fiber.

If someone got it in their head that non-gas cars were what they should be doing in North Dakota, it would happen.

I think poorer states with more conflicted interest would have a harder time.

(Sorry for the OT NoDak rant)
Soil testing by drilling small vertical test holes with well-drilling equipment is routine. This would be essential in Los Angeles, which is a mountain range covered by sedimentary basin fill. Here and there the mountain range peeks above ground, which is why you see some rock outcroppings in mostly flat LA. The mountain range is still there, underground.

It is well-mapped. LA used to have an oil industry, with oil wells all over the city. So the underground has been explored and studied by the oil industry. UCLA has been studying Los Angeles area geology since the 1920s.

Exploring horizontally has been done for a few projects that lack vertical access. Eurotunnel drilled the service tunnel first. Some mountain tunnel projects in Japan did horizontal test bores. You can't do this directly ahead of the main TBM without interfering with the main dig.
Reducing your docker Node.js images by 50% using zeit pkg and multi-stage builds
All fair points and things we're working on.

We do often give credits to help in situations like this, though I can't speak to specifics publicly. We're working with this developer to try to resolve the issue, and we'll do so with other users who run into similar problems. This user did contact support, but we dropped the ball here. We'll be reviewing our support to find other devs we might have missed.
44 Steps to Valuing Your Convertible
Is it just me, or are the author's ears slightly pointed?
Linkedin to MS AZURE
Linkedin seems to be way slower than before the acquisition by MSFT? Did they migrate from Amazon to Azure or is this just bad luck ?
We should eliminate the things other agencies can do from discussions like this one. It's not about what other companies can do, it's about what they are doing. Sure, any major car manufacturer could produce a strong competitor to the Tesla, but they aren't.
When I was preparing to apply to grad school ~4 years out of undergrad I spent a lot of time working through the various Math modules on Khan Academy and found it very helpful for getting me back up to speed on the basics. They have some higher-level math content on there too now, I believe.
Do you seriously think that this half-measure is sufficient to call him out on it though?

It seems to me to be too little (clemency instead of a pardon) too late (she already spent a horrific amount of time under torturous conditions in prison).
And, presumably, most of the United States will starve to death?

Tractors? Semis? Diesel trains? How exactly will we electrify those? In 8 years?

My girlfriend drives a 20-year old ICE vehicle. I suppose everyone with a 5-year old ICE vehicle will just ditch theirs, and buy a brand-new, $35,000 EV by 2025?
Improving Internet Security Through Vulnerability Disclosure
Cornered rats fight hardest. Nuclear is already dead. No one can afford to build a plant, and voters are no longer ignorant enough to chip in. [0] The problem of course is that this particular industrial corpse will hang around stinking up the place for the rest of human existence. [1]

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14355072

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radioactive_waste#Management
Meanwhile, while the masses are distracted, Oscar Rivera is also released from house arrest today (and was released from US prisons on 2/9/2017).

Who is Oscar Rivera you ask?

>Oscar López Rivera (born January 6, 1943) is a Puerto Rican independence activist[1] who was one of the leaders of the FALN.

What was FALN you ask?

>The Fuerzas Armadas de Liberación Nacional (English: Armed Forces of National Liberation, FALN) was a Puerto Rican clandestine paramilitary organization that, through direct action, advocated complete independence for Puerto Rico. At the time of its dissolution, the FALN was responsible for more than 120 bomb attacks on United States targets between 1974 and 1983 that killed 5 people and injured several others

Thanks Obama, for freeing people responsible for killing Americans via actual terrorism. Oh, and the Clintons? Yeah, they started this by commuting the sentences of 16 FALN members simply to help Hillary get votes. And the best part? It wasn't the members of FALN asking for clemency, but rather the white house pushing it- for votes. And it worked.

http://archive.is/Al6jz

>Hillary Rodham Clinton was in the midst of her state-wide "listening tour" in anticipation of her run for the U.S. Senate in New York, a state which included 1.3 million Hispanics. Three members of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus -- Luis V. Gutierrez (D., Ill.), Jose E. Serrano, (D., N.Y.) and Nydia M. Velazquez, (D., N.Y.) -- along with local Hispanic politicians and leftist human-rights advocates, had been agitating for years on behalf of the FALN cases directly to the White House and first lady.

This is nothing more than a clever smoke screen by Obama to get you people to ignore the fact that him and the Clintons have dedicated themselves to freeing terrorists. LET THE DOWNVOTES BEGIN, HN

That's right, flag my posts because you dislike the truth. Keep it up, prove my point.
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Trying to predict horse racing
imagine a mobile app that parents can use to identify what their angry new born needs, brilliant :)
Follow up from previous HN submitted article: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14340137

Surprised more app developers are not creating solutions to this kind of thing - e.g. some form of multisig authorisation to access certain files or 2FA that relies on the second factor only being available at times access is genuinely needed.
There seem to be a lot of repositories taken down from Github.com [1] -- over 30 in the past week alone. I am not sure if they've removed repositories from local PCs ever, but presumably with control over the client they could, similar to what Amazon can do with the Kindle [2].

[1] https://github.com/github/dmca/tree/master/2017

[2] https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2009/07/amazon-sold-pirated-...
React Fiber: A Closer Look at the New Engine of React
Data point: avionics software has avoided that particular trap so far, not through open source licensing but rather through mandatory safety regulations.
Thanks for clarifying! I thought about population density, but of course there are lots of other variables!
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2010/dec/17/julian-assange...

To my knowledge, that ist what he is wanted for in Sweden. If there is a better way to express that, I would like to hear it.
I want to see Apple's bottom line being hit by the poor decision making.

In other words, you'd like validation for being mad at them? "If only they had listened to me..."? Poor decisions or not, those decisions don't affect you anymore as you've purchased another brand. Just let it go. Because most of what I'm reading says they're selling quite well.
Have you ever been to a dairy?
Almost anywhere outside of a major city will allow you to live on 55k a year comfortably. You would have to be diligent about budgeting, but this is doable. I lived in Saint Louis on 48k a year as a single guy, but i was also spending a lot on rent because i lived near the city center.

My brother lives in Saint Joseph, MO and is married and their combined income was close to the 50k mark. So this is doable.
Quadruple-Levered ETF? SEC Hits Pause on Its Approval of an Exotic Investment
Show HN: Android Unsplash API Client
Or perhaps you publish an article to influence the market and increase the profitability of your bet.
Counterpoint: The animals they are breeding in captivity would not have died in the wild.
Right-wing nutjob stalks and kills Manning (for Jesus) in 3..2..1....

(P.S. this is NOT an endorsement.)
3-D Mid-Air Acoustic Manipulation
Can you reveal which corporation?
Overseas competition? I'm not sure what you're on about now -
it's currently the hardest[1] time in history to get an H1-B with Cheeto man in the White House. Also I think that USA-born and educated developers are still significantly more sought after because of language barriers. If you've tried to get a job in tech recently you'll notice that... it's pretty damn easy.

Honestly it sounds like you're paranoid about your job security and externalizing it. "It's ML, no it's foreigners, no it's the aliens!" I'm a programmer, not a psychologist, though, so don't take my word for it. You can have a look at the sklearn docs though, good place to start on your ML quest.

http://scikit-learn.org/stable/

[1] Not intended to be a factual claim, just a point about the current political climate
Give it a try. Surprisingly it seems faster than than the .net version - perhaps because WPF and WinForms apps never feel fast. I'm impressed.

Feature wise it still seems kind of anemic - you couldn't use it exclusively. Hopefully they will be able to improve on that now that they have twice the manpower to work on one platform.

Stepping back and looking at the state of things as a whole, I find it mildly depressing that large companies like github, facebook, google, etc... can't seem to churn out native apps despite their deep pockets. How are the rest of us supposed to manage?
"Fitness" is simply the name we give to the likelihood that an organism will have multiple generations of descendants.

This value of likelihood is an emergent phenomenon given an environment and an organism.
Can anyone who has actually read NKS comment on the value of its contents?

I've seen a lot of criticism[0], most concerning being the lack of mathematical rigor in the work[1]. Seems damning considering the author's background in math.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_New_Kind_of_Science#Receptio...
[1]: http://crd-legacy.lbl.gov/~dhbailey/dhbpapers/dhb-wolfram.pd...
Why a real estate startup ditched stock photos
Hey, sounds interesting. Would you share the name of your company/ startup?
It used to be free for more than 5 users, I believe the limit was decreased gradually. I have one account with 20 free users and I vaguely recollect hearing about it being free for 50 users, possibly even 100's.

As recently as 3 years ago you could still sign up for 1 user. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4885538

> If you create a new Apps account going through the App Engine Admin Console you'll still be able to create a Standard Apps account for free but you'll only be able to get 1 user per account rather than the 10 you get today.

But per the referenced Google Groups discussion that has been shutdown sometime before January 2015.

> You'll now have to pay for a Google Apps account, there's no more freebie "1 user per account" provision.
Interactions between particles don't produce energy, but there is an uncertainty relation between energy and time that means that over a short-enough time period the energy of a system is uncertain, and this can be thought of as allowing for virtual particles to appear "out of nothing" for a brief time.

This uncertainty in energy over small time-scales provides a "floor" for the energy of empty space.
Google I/O conference opens, product announcements expected
> I'm no expert, but _attempting_ to prosecute and actually killing is probably a worthwhile distinction.

You're being too charitable. Both have the same intent. The more asymmetrically powerful the ruler is, the less lethal the threat needs to be to create a chilling effect.

For example, rival gang members (with power parity) must kill each-other because they lack other mechanisms of coercion and must play their only card in the moment.

Creating martyrs is always sub-optimal compared to catching and incarcerating "criminals" or forcing compliance by the threat of capture or alienation/ostracism.

As a thought experiment, which state has stronger control over its citizens, Russia or Singapore?
The same phenomenon (visual data conflicting with kinesthetic senses) causes vertigo; a common malady suffered by pilots flying through cloud banks.

It's a major hurdle to overcome.
I run a website called Hey Am I Fat. We've trained a classifier based off a simple softmax regression in TensorFlow that tries to detect whether people are fat or not. If you submit a picture of yourself to HeyAmIFat.com we can tell you if you're fat or not within minutes.
Just about the only application that people use on Windows that has a native menu bar is Notepad. The vast majority has a custom menu, either a ribbon like Office or something else.
They've been saying that about flying cars since the 1950's!
I don't care too much about RAM, I do care about the carnage it wrecks on my battery life.
I'm not seeing how this is a bad deal for India. India get's more factories setting up shop there to produce products; more jobs, more money staying in the country.
Andrew, Firebase is great, you did a great job and looks like you are continuing to do so by engaging directly like now. Having said that, it's time you, your team or even the entire google start looking seriously at automating your support workflow. How on earth can such a popular product ignore support requests, whether it's via email or any other medium?, especially for paying users. You should have a CRM/CSM tool that should automatically assign tickets based on the email received and if not resolved within a time period should escalate directly to senior person(s) until it's acted upon.
Google I/O 2017: Expect a clearer understanding of Google’s ‘AI first’ future
Hmm sad, I didn't find an explanation
Sometimes i think Electron is literally the worst thing that happened to desktop apps. Fuck these bloated, +10 seconds startup on a i7 + SSD , non native looking "desktop applications".
What to expect from Google I/O 2017
I know that bank of america offers this feature on all its personal credit cards. You can create a temporary card number (and related info) as well as how much can be charged in a given month and how many months the card number should be active for.

The only reason I don't use them for everything is because I get better cashback/points with other cards.
Unless they’re shipping those disks as a ready-to-go container DC[1], you need to account for the time to unload and install them. Actually, you need to account for it on both ends.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modular_data_center
Who even needs a kernel? First start learning to program on the bare metal, like us oldsters used to do. The Arduino environment is wonderful for this. Dirt cheap, easy to get started by copy/paste code, and the environment is full C++. I have thousands of lines of code running on Arduinos and none of it took skills that a 12 year old couldn't master.
I really hope there will not be cars flying around that some self proclaimed 1337 hacked in their spare time.
A day in the life of a TaxJar developer
Why assume that both positions are mutually exclusive?

There's nothing wrong hiring a mediocre developer (or anything) so long as they aren't tasked with doing something that needs more skill is fine: I've done it myself in the past and will do so in the future. When that something escalates into something that does require more, it can be sad or disappointing to see what the less skilled or less caring person did. Conversely, it can be wonderful to see someone that is a true accomplished craftsman at work, even on banal projects and they should be lauded... if that is snobbish, fine, count me in.

Finally here's a clown that is also a talented musician: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O3O1XojnTag
> I see too many non-technical people thinking in dangerous ways

Large IT organizations are just as bad. Instead of patching proactively, they prefer to delay patches indefinitely. Reddit /r/sysadmin and other public forums have been a mess of "which KB do I install to block WannaCry?" type questions for the past several days.