skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Same, this drives me nuts. I also should be able to interrupt it when sending a text, specifying a contact, or confirming -- I'm always ready to answer before it is ready. But like Maps, there seems to be a bizarre anti-UX in Google Now where the functionality has actually gotten worse over time.

Recall Google's 1-800 number and their SMS search service?? I used to point to those as examples of how user friendly I imagined interfaces would become. But we've headed in the other direction instead and of course those products are dead.
This looks really cool because it will be wireless, affordable, and built from the ground up to be a VR device.
That aspect of it is a big meh. Reverse osmosis uses a great deal less energy than hydrolysis, so if you have so much energy that you are using a meaningful amount of water you also have so much energy that you can just make clean water.
Ah you remind me of myself, fresh out of college. Back when I was smarter than everybody else.
I think humane meat production would be better for the environment. Less concentrated animal waste means less runoff pollution directly. And there are additional indirect benefits as well.

Less concentration also leads to less use of antibiotics, which isn't a traditionally environmental concern. But an unwanted side effect (like pollution) of mass antibiotic use is reduction in antibiotic efficacy.
Except nobody is being asked - we force a decision on them.

Another interesting hypothetical situation:
You are a stray cat, happily living on a street, feeding on garbage and screwing your cat-girlfriends in the free time. One day you are caught by humans and presented with the following choice:
1. Get euthanized.
2. Get your balls cut off and released back to freedom.
Pick one.
Trump elected by narrow margin

Lincoln assassinated by John Wilkes Booth

There's an implied "to be" verb, generally "was". This is very common in headlines.

The comma introduces a parenthetical phrase describing Apple, implying Apple is going to do something:

Apple, betrayed by its own law firm, countersues with gusto

Apple, ["who was"] betrayed by its own law firm, believes the best revenge is living well
>Voten is not trying to do the same.

No, but most people who seek a reddit alternative don't list its design as a grievance. The site will be made by its community, and it's a safe bet to make that Voten's community will not be very different from Voat's.
The perf profile is also similar to java.
There haven't been any orcas at the Vancouver Aquarium since 2001. Whatever experience you're basing your opinion on is hopelessly out of date.

The Vancouver Aquarium is a non-profit organization, and has much different goals and priorities than Seaworld.
No. Most self-hosted services have no bandwidth costs, at all.

Or they have bandwidth costs around a dollar per terabyte. Which, even when maxing your connections, would always be below your actual server costs.
Korean cars manufacturers created now mature brands from scratch. All it took was billions of dollars and a couple decades of time. Can a startup do it? No. Is the market locked up? No as well.
No nexus 6 support. Sad face.

The shelf life of phones is embarrassingly low. For no apparent reason.
Anyone know what some "bigger picture" uses of this would be? It seems significant, but I'm not a chemist. Energy sources, desalination, etc?
Former Marine Engineer here, I know there's​ at least one other HN users that's an ME. You might be able to automate navigation, but never maintenance. Something small that doesn't get fixed underway could cause a lot more damage than whatever crew costs would have been saved.

Things break and leak all the time, even on new ships. Automatic valves get stuck and things get clogged. I'm​ an air traffic controller now, and my break is over, but I'll try to expand more later.

Edit: I have a few minutes. A lot of people are talking about pirates only boarding ships to hold the crews hostage, and not to steal cargo. How about this: a pirate demands a crypto currency payment within X number of hours, or they sink the ship. It's very easy to sink a ship once you're inside.
I write Kotlin on the backend now mostly but I never really minded writing Java either. It's a boring and predictable language with great tooling.
I am really miffed at this quote:

"Hydrogen is the cleanest primary energy source we have on earth,” said Paul C. W. Chu, TLL Temple Chair of Science and founding director and chief scientist of the Texas Center for Superconductivity at UH.

This seems like sensationalism and poor science communication to me. Hydrogen isn't a primary energy source.
How is it misleading? Redditor is a common term for "Reddit user".
If you electrolyze salt water you will generate chlorine and hydrogen gas (instead of oxygen and hydrogen).

The water will also contain lye from the leftover sodium.
Yep. Watched the third Hobbit movie that way (because, after the first two, I was only watching it to satisfy morbid curiosity)

I think youtube-dl even supports some of them, which would avoid the malware issue. Mining its supported sites list might be fruitful.
Elasticsearch transfer tool for MongoDB database
This is weird: this tool says my laptop is vulnerable, although AMT is disabled. I also tried mjg59's mei-amt-check and it indicated that because my system is unprovisioned it was not vulnerable.
The subject of the hacking (aka copying docs to a CD in this case) was certainly hacker news.

The CNN mainstream news was that she is being released from prison and she wants to grow her hair. Okay. My opinion is that this isn't really hacker news... more pop-culture about someone who once was convicted of copying intelligence data to a CD and giving it to someone. The story of the hacking was a while ago.
Stellar's Global Payment Platform Lightyear.io Launches from Stealth
lol, what did you do to your cofounder to cause him to leave 2 weeks before launch?
Wouldn't that be a good thing in general though? If we use Hydrogen as our storage format, then you can do the following:

Sea Water (H2O + sea junk) -> H2

Then later when generating electricity:

2 * (H2) + O2 -> H2O (fresh) + energy

Naturally, the resultant H2O can be moved and recycled. I think a catalyst that splits water points towards a potential where we have more fresh water, not less.
As someone with a background in teaching CS at the high school and university level, I've had this sentiment for the last few years but have never articulated it as well as you've just done.

I went back to my old high school a few years ago to see the AP Computer Science class and the difference in the students was marked to say the least.
IIRC one "infrastructure-scale" battery idea is compressing hydrogen into salt domes. While I can't speak to the intersection of the article and this idea, people can clearly store hydrogen in massive amounts.
Human consumption of water is miniscule compared to other uses of water.

If you are worried about water shortages, the place to fight that is water intensive farming, on luxury crops.
[citation needed], since that's an extremely serious accusation -- particularly with search -- from a regulatory and antitrust perspective. That type of accusation should not be so carelessly thrown about, despite any opinions on Google as a whole. Search and business are almost religiously walled off from each other; apropos, they have, in the past, deindexed or penalized their own properties when they violate their own terms. This happened to the Chrome site in recent memory, and Danny Sullivan has written[0] about others.

If Google sites tend to float to the top for you, you're probably an avid Google user (don't forget search results are personalized) or searching for terms in which they rank highly. Extrapolating such an experience to Google taking advantage of their position to create a non-level playing field for search results is a biiiiiiig claim, given the implications. Back it up.

[0]: http://searchengineland.com/google-penalized-breaking-seo-ru...
Only NYt will be surprised at this but I am surprised they have not pointed out that Google uses roads that were built by Government.

Future building always happens through individuals and corporations who challenge status quo. In fact progress is faster when government is "not looking".
From simply reading the headline the first question that came to mind is who should be building the future? I personally don't see the government as a key player in building the future, I see it as a supporting body for whatever direction the future goes.

However, now I am questioning that perspective and wondering should the government be shaping our future and if so in what ways?
I guess NYTimes op-eds are allowed to praise corporations over government now that the Obama administration is out. Hard to imagine this one slipping through a year ago.
What is "proven" to you? I mean, the tech displayed today is basically unmatched by most humans. Curating the best shots in Google Photos, all the integration with Google Home, Lens that can identify almost any object in meat space... the list goes on and on. It is not going to regress somehow... I mean, it is probably exponentially increasing in power by the day.

There is no AI competition against a company that has Tensor Processing Units among the absolutely incomprehensible data store that Google has amassed.... Especially if you are not some world class mathematician or computer scientist. The best you can hope for is to be acquired if you are in the ML/AI space as a stand-alone entity. In most cases they can probably safely ignore the bulk of AI startups.
Yeah, this doesn't make sense. Also the problem isn't getting hydrogen, its to burn the hydrogen for energy efficiently and safely, which we currently have not found a way to do ... yet.
How many articles have we had on HN describing the deceptive practices of people / companies building junk products trying to pass them off as a brand name? I find it difficult to blame people who have been deceived.
You regenerate the water when H2 and O2 are recombined to produce electricity.

Dan Nocera ( http://nocera.harvard.edu ) is very prominent in the water splitting field and has done a calculation in which a volume of an olympic sized pool would need to be split every second to replace all power sources on earth ( https://poptech.org/blog/daniel_nocera_on_personalized_energ... ).

It seems like a lot, but it would presumably be decentralized across many many locations. Additionally, you don't need 24 * 60 * 60 * olympic pool volumes -- you can cycle the same amount of water into/out of a fuel cell in a closed system.
Android studio 3.0 canary 1 released today
I always make this mental distinction: to psychopaths, emotions are alien, including fear. That's why they _can_ be such remorseless killers, almost not caring about self-preservation. They'd look at a distressed human like we'd look at a twittering bird. Next to this are sociopaths, who actually have emotions, understand them in others, but only care for themselves and thus game the entire system of human interaction.

A psychopath would be able to stab a bystander `because he looked at me funny-like` whereas a sociopath would abhor this violence, but _would_ be okay with gaming his parents out of €50,000, use this to set up a fake investment company, con 20,000 people out of their retirement savings and then just disappear.

Is there any grounds to this distinction?
A lot of people have written about this over the years. I'll just let Yoshua Bengio go into it:

[1]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZHYXp3gJCaI
It said sources of clean energy, not a source of clean electricity for the power grid.
Hi Blackstone4 :-) I would definitely recommend you use Graphcool if you are just getting started with GraphQL. People in our slack are super friendly, so you can get help with questions around how to structure your data model, how to use the Apollo or Relay clients etc.

You should consider following one of our tutorials to get a jumpstart into GraphQL: https://www.graph.cool/freecom/
Months and dozens. No leverage, no shorts. It just goes long and reallocates every couple of weeks. So it hasn't really sustained a serious bear market, but its also never had a drawdown more than 0.5% less than that of the S&P500.
He also blogs for those interested - obviously geared more to the finance types:

https://www.aqr.com/cliffs-perspective
Why Kotlin?
Short term it doesn't matter.

Long term it makes it more viable to replace oil and other hydrocarbons used in industrial processes with energy, air and water.
Tesla isn't competing with Toyota... They are competing with Porsche and Rolls, etc. Further, they are a mess financially and have not proven to have staying power.
Thank you for replying!

The sub-mm scale would be to accurately model small things. When making a case for a raspi0, for example.
and yet her sentence was commuted where Snowden remains a fugitive.
Yup but propane is 20x denser than hydrogen, so even if you have 2x energy per weight, you have 0.1x energy per volume. Or something like that.
Sort of. You can burn it certainly, but it's extremely hard to ship - it leaks out of almost anything, and damages most metals.

For example you can transports natural gas in plastic pipelines - can't do that with hydrogen since it will leak right out.

Homes often have cast iron pipes for natural gas - can't put hydrogen in those because you will make the metal brittle.

There are metals that can handle it, but it would be unrealistic to replace everything.
With static analyzers and valgrind even C++ has a lot of memory safety. See Herb Sutter's talks.
it's uBlock Origin and they aren't supposed to do this as far as I know... hopefully their filter is just outdated.
where laws are made by diktats

Diktats implies the popular consent of the people isn't taken into the consideration by the CCP when forming policy. This is a very western-liberal-repulic centric view point and is flawed. The CCP actively considers _what_ is wanted and _how_ to achieve it. Simply because people do not vote doesn't mean they aren't considered.

Citation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass_line
If the ideas in question include abhorrence to free speech and opposing ideas to the point of silencing those that express them, is it still all right? Because T_D has regularly demonstrated that these are some of their core principles.

>FYI this is the behavior the brown shirts exhibited. We're not so far from those times again.

Top-quality Godwinning.
I can definitely do that. I only collect payments up front, so fork it over and I will have it for you tomorrow, likely even tonight.

I think what I said ("I don't understand what firebase does that is so killer or unique") is very different from what you are reading ("firebase is useless, firebase's engineers do stupid work, and google is full of student execs with money that pay millions of tech that can be build by one dev in an afternoon"). I think your characterization of my statement is more than a bit unfair.

I'm still at a loss for what firebase is beyond a key value store with web sockets. I think it would be a problem to scale a platform like this on ones own -- maybe that's why to use Firebase? I've used it in hackathon settings where I didn't want to roll my own backend, or to mock web-sockets pre Django 1.9 / Channels.

Still, if I had a business that depended on a key value store with web sockets I would definitely build it myself.
Everything Google announced at its 2017 I/O conference
Hey guys, how would I be able to add characters to an account for injustice and then disable the anti-cheat. I want to basically make it so that i cant get banned for using characters I added to my account.
True, but the president actually has the ability to grant pre-indictment pardons based on a supreme court ruling from 1867.

http://www.nytimes.com/1988/01/05/opinion/l-constitution-all...

"It extends to every offense known to the law, and may be exercised at any time after its commission, either before legal proceedings are taken, or during their pendency, or after conviction and judgment."
> Robotics is not a core problem for AI.

I respectfully, but firmly, disagree.

Robotics has always been at the center of the AI vision, for academics and in culture.

There's a movie called 'AI'. It's not about automatic labelling of YouTube videos or 2-sat.

Planning and reasoning more your kind of AI? Seminal AI tech STRIPS and A* were invented to drive Shakey the robot. Shakey also had very early computer vision.

Hardly anyone would claim that self-driving cars - robots with people inside - are not AI, and a pretty compelling bit of AI right now.
This is a little off topic, but does anyone have any good resources to help me wrap my head around pointers in C? Right now they are very confusing to me.
I do a bit of angel investing and I would run not walk from any deal with a background like this. When the only people with any deep understanding of the business disagree flashing red sign number 1. When the company has 33% dead weight equity flashing red sign number 2.
The iPhone 5s was released in 2013 and it should get iOS 11 this year. The iPhone 5, which came out in 2012, is currently supported. However, it might be dropped this year because it's not 64-bit.

Android users should push for longer support. I had an original Nexus 1 and I was quite disappointed when it could no longer be upgraded. It cost me $600.
You can buy an H2 Toyota.

https://ssl.toyota.com/mirai/fcv.html

There are also house scale fuel cells (that reform natural gas).
I don't think they need any space between them as long as they're on the same path. They're parked on centrally controlled carriages.

How fast they can fork and merge is more interesting, and I dare not have an opinion about that.
The fun thing is that OS/2 2.0 would have easily beat classic Mac OS if MS did not turn it into an entire fiasco.
Also, I suspect the more relevant number is the "Tensor" ops that Nvidia recently reported for Volta at 120 TFLOPS [1], which would be relative to Google's TPU a "mere" 1.5x speed up. Of course, this is pure speculation on my part.

1. https://devblogs.nvidia.com/parallelforall/inside-volta/
I think ihws2 was saying sharpening tools to mean filing bug reports and feature requests for tensorflow and the cloud service.
I assume by now his political hacks have fired everyone that has recommended that Trump not be around unsecured network devices. If Trump can't Tweet, you're fired.
I'm confused... I've gotten refunds from Steam on multiple occasions, with no trouble at all?

Steam has both pros and cons. For me, the benefits greatly outweigh the cons.
When a grown up man picks a fight with another grown up man, it is ok. But if a grown up man picks a fight with a child, this is just sick.

That is why some people are appalled by what is happening with humans vs other animals.
Sure thing. Discussion from 2013: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5806966.
> ... adding to it the potential of losing all your equity because you had a falling out with the CEO makes it almost not worth the trouble.

That's why you set up terms up front. If, when they decided on a 33/33/33 split, they also decided on a vesting schedule, they wouldn't have this problem. The OP would get some percentage value based on math, from contract terms they all agreed to when they started.
I was an early Parse engineer (4th engineer to join the company) and now am the SDK engineering lead for Firebase.

The experience of working on Firebase at Google is vastly different from Parse at Facebook, and it shows in Google’s continued commitment to building and expanding Firebase, integrating it with its Cloud Platform products, and otherwise pouring huge amounts of effort into making Firebase great for developers. Open sourcing our SDKs gives us even more ways to engage with the developer community and allows us to be more transparent with the progress we’re making.

This announcement is just a first step down the path toward more transparency with our SDKs, but we hope to foster community and build trust in the tools we’re developing, and welcome your contributions!
> EDIT: Your Tor automation solution seems pretty cool - do you use a VPN to authenticate things or are you relying on the privacy of your .onion names?

Thank you. Nope, no VPN. I run 2 types of onionsites. One side is for services like Moquitto and DB and Node-Red. The other side is an "onion with password", or HiddenServiceAuthorizeClient in the Torrc file. I use that for SSH backend. That means you need to know: onion site, key, username, password, root password; in order to escalate to gain control of the machine.

I'm also experimenting on things like GUN for types of databases that can live between them. Once I have a stable distributed database between my nodes, can start building webapps where the endpoints start and end in Tor.
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stopped reading after "JSON is simpler to read and write, and it’s less prone to bugs." ....
>> give you news or trivia related to those things to help you out.

Should the app be named CliffClavin?
One direct application would be more efficient ways to generate fuel for Hydrogen vehicles [0].

It would also be essential for mining fuel from asteroids or gas giant's moons as ice is not so rare, improving the sustainability of space operations. Hydrogen itself has a pretty big specific impulse, it's just not used more often than Kerosene for rockets due to safety issues.

If you could achieve Metallic Hydrogen [1][2] then you would have the perfect fuel for navigating the solar system.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydrogen_vehicle

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metallic_hydrogen

[2]: http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1742-6596/215/1/01...
Spreadsheets have function calls as well, and yet non-programmers can use them. We don't care about making a theoretically pure distinction, we care about making something that non-programmers can actually use.
not sure what your pathology is, but you might want to step back from coffee and caffeine in general as it might be a factor in some cases for triggering attacks (high sodium foods, chocolate and alcohol can be others)
If an animal is bred in captivity, such that said animal learns no wilderness survival skills by adulthood and thus would no longer be capable of surviving in the wild... then yes, I would call it "rescuing" the animal to give it as comfortable a non-wilderness home to live in as is possible. And I would definitely not call it "rescuing" (like PETA does) to release the animal into the wild, where it will immediately die.
Google quietly debuts Chatbase, a chatbot analytics platform
Makes sense, we will consider adding a few decimal points.
Maybe not build it, but how about funding it? Consider DARPA, NIH, or Space X for that matter, largely funded by government contracts.

(On the other hand, Space X versus the usual defense contractors is quite a contrast.)
Now I think about it, I haven't looked at them since Flash was a thing. Maybe they've improved in the interim.
A project to track CVEs in the upstream linux kernel
"It may even let people who wear corrective lenses comfortably use VR without their glasses."

If just for this, it's a move in the right direction.
I think a Raspberry Pi is a very suitable beginning device, and even runs Linux. A lot of documentation and projects and a lot of possibilities both hardware and software wise.

Just my opinion.
JetBrians is possibly the best company on the planet to implement syntax improvements to Java, which is basically what Kotlin is.

They have deep experience with the syntax of a bunch of different languages. They know what Java is missing because they've seen a ton of different things in diverse languages.

Looking at Kotlin myself, they got rid of almost all of the painful syntactical blunders in Java. I'm seriously considering picking it up for my next project just looking at their main page. It looks fantastic.