skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Which "other" efforts? Do you mean pesticides?
I would test them with smoke just to see how each behaved. Try with smoke from a candle just put out, a piece of paper just put out, and a plastic wire just put out.
It's likely that they use custom font not as a deterrence measure, but merely because it's specifically designed to simplify their recognition code.
More capable devices are a liability if you don't really need them. If your product can work with a low end 8 bit microcontroller instead of a full Linux stack on a SoC, that also minimizes attack surface and rewards for attackers. It won't have enough resources to mine cryptocoins or run the Mirai botnet code even if it could be subverted.
RegTech and Insurance Remain Hot with Seed-Stage VCs
Yes, because you're crushing up the cells and releasing the stuff our puny human guts can digest. Raw kale is mostly undigestible by humans unless you're willing to sit and chew on every leaf for a few minutes like a cow.

Unfortunately I'm having trouble finding the sources on this. All of this breathless superfood wankery is really polluting the search results.

http://healthyeating.sfgate.com/digestion-kale-11913.html

http://gi-north.com/kale-good-for-you-and-your-digestive-tra...
Wouldn't you want to use a salt instead?
Delaware is a good forum to litigate internal corporate affairs because forming and regulating corporate entities is a major industry and revenue driver for that state. The Chancery Court is specialized in an arcane and technical area of the law, which makes Delaware better than other states for this one purpose.

Outside of that niche, I think California has a rather good body of law. For example, it features strong protections for employee and consumer rights that (in my opinion) other states sorely need.

I don't know which "bunch of BS rules" you're referring to specifically, but it's true that California tends to require greater notice when a party is waiving important statutory rights in a written agreement. I doubt that the few bits of bold text or extra signature lines (which are already in every practitioner's standard templates) are what you're really complaining about.
That logo was the one that was voted on* to replace the old bash logo IIRC.
Supposedly cooking kale will destroy most of its nutritional value.
But they're still on the previous, non-Tokio release.

Personally I'm more tempted by something like Susanoo:
https://github.com/ubnt-intrepid/susanoo/
What an unfortunate headline.
Yes, but my understanding is it's just a study-and-pass type situation, fairly straightforward for those looking to take things commercial.
I was just recently looking at the state of web frameworks[1] in Rust, and it seems like the two most popular are this and Iron[2]. Can anyone comment on some of the differences between the two? Also, can anyone point out a few sites that were made using these frameworks?

[1] http://www.arewewebyet.org/

[2] https://github.com/iron/iron
Here's a video of Foster teaching a letter of Cicero:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ACJDtJ0UDzA
Women share their everyday public harassment experiences
It should still be pretty slow compared to just doing the neural net propagation as matrix operations
Cutting Edge Technology: Deep Learning for Speaker Verification in the Wild
I believe the point is that even before you can process the photo, the photographer has to see the potential in a scene and actually take the picture.
I don't think a poorly designed and engineered product, that happens to connect to the internet (and to be fair is marketed as "IoT") means that the entire concept of "connecting devices to the internet" is "bullshit."

I agree that there's a lot of marketing Bullshytt (to steal from neal stephenson) regarding IoT, but when we get to the root of what the words really mean (connecting stuff to the internet), I think it's the natural progression of technology. Why wouldn't you connect your field of oil pumps' valve readings to the internet (as well as having the manual needle-gauge backup) so you don't have to have a dude drive out every day to take readings? Why wouldn't you connect your thermostat to the internet so you can override the schedule when it turns out you need to stay late at work? Etc.

I don't get why everyone has to lump together the marketing bullshit that obviously is overstated with IoT, and then go "hence, IoT will fail and is crap."
I really enjoyed "Software and Mind", which I first read about on HN, though the discussion was short and people didn't seem to like the author's angle much. It's largely about how "mechanistic theories of software" hold us back, how programmers aren't getting to exercise their brains, and how most people are giving more and more control of their life up to others in order to avoid having to program. Avoiding programming becomes more of a goal than expanding the mind.

The author is very passionate about all this - and I think most people would find the intensity off-putting. He manages to fill ~800 pages. I am not sure I agree with everything. While it resonated strongly, I'm also not that bummed out about the ability to launch a website from scratch in 5 minutes. But, in much the same way I feel about the writing of Nassim Taleb, despite having many statements that are incendiary and possibly wrong, it approaches a topic from an angle that you probably haven't been getting elsewhere.

I immediately thought of this book when I read the question because I've never met anyone who has read it or who has any interest in reading it after hearing about it.
There is a huge difference between actively breaking into every network and accessing all password data, and downloading some public file somewhere, with everybody's passwords in it.

The NSA is going to avoid the former as much as it can, because there is a huge chance they get burned in some way. Anything that they can passively slurp is a huge win for them.
>What happens to the mom and pop coffee shop or the grocery store that charges more than Amazon Fresh?

Nothing. Amazon Fresh doesn't exist in most places.
There has to be way to much friction in the mechanics for that to happen. No?

Mitch. One of the greats. Uncopyable.
TIL and can now go to sleep
Well it is a fantastically controversial one so it's probably deliberately left out.

On a similar topic it irks me that in one breath people will talk of the power of future automation and in another support large scale migration.

Automation reduces demand for labour and its price falls.
Waterfox has a patch that disables GA tracking: https://github.com/MrAlex94/Waterfox/commit/d3e9b4534ab9069e...
It would be very easy to re-introduce the mosquitoes back into the wild if their absence cause problems
No, no relation.
I'm pretty sure wolbachia prevents viral replication, not reproduction of the mosquito.

The article confuses this too, talking about elimination of the mosquito from the area (or I'm just missing something).
There has been a separate research effort to develop mosquitoes that are genetically modified rather than bacteria-infected, with similar objectives, that so far has been stymied in the US by a combination of stronger regulatory hurdles (since it's regulated by a different agency) and NIMBYism. Oxitec is the company spearheading that research. See, e.g., http://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2016/11/20/50271725...
>whois -h whois.ripe.net DTAG-NIC

Wait, was that just a straight bash command? Is this installed on my computer?

>$ whois
usage: whois [-aAbdgiIlmQrR6] [-c country-code | -h hostname] [-p port] name ...

Holy shit lol, that's neat.
That's what bothers me about IoT projects - little consideration of failure modes. Nest thermostats have failed in modes that resulted in houses having no heat, and the user couldn't override it locally.[1]

Combine this with active attacks, and it looks really bad. Over three weeks after the attack, Maersk Lines is still struggling. Their big ports didn't achieve close to normal operation until about last Monday. Their big automated port in Rotterdam is running again, after being totally shut down for two weeks, but there's much more manual paperwork than usual, and billing is completely down, so they have zero revenue.[2] LA and Elizabeth NJ are finally back up. Some customer-facing functions were completely re-implemented with simpler web sites. Container tracking is still down. This is the world's largest shipping line, 24 days after the event.

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/14/fashion/nest-thermostat-g...
[2] http://www.maersk.com/~/media/20170629-operational-update/20...
> Only 51 percent of the graduates of the University of California Hastings College of the Law passed the state’s exam in July 2016.

As a former lawyer, I was shocked by this number. Hastings is a pretty good school, and I would have guessed that the rate would be around 70%.

But it makes sense in the current economic climate. After the bust of 2008, tons of people went to law school, thinking they'd ride out the recession. But that didn't work because (1) the recession lasted too long (in the legal field, at least); (2) many people had the same idea, so there was a glut of new lawyers; and (3) big legal clients realized they had been paying too much for young associate labor. The legal market has been permanently altered in a way that makes young associates much less attractive to firms (they were previously cash cows).

Add to this the fact that tuition has skyrocketed at the UC law schools, and it's no surprise they can't attract the same quality student as before. When I attended UCLA Law a decade ago, tuition was around $20k. It has doubled since then, and interest rates are much higher. As a fellow UC, Hastings has seen similarly sharp increases.

So while my knee-jerk reaction was that this was "too low" a pass rate for Hastings, it may be that in the current economic climate this is just the new normal for Hastings. They are, I believe, the lowest-rated UC law school, having been surpassed by the new UC Irvine.
So you're implying that Zeit has been working on this for less than that time? The idea of a universal deployment tool seems like common sense once your business already deals with deployments, and behind the scenes uses multiple providers.

Why the automatic assumption this idea was "stolen"?
I recall hearing when I was younger that mosquitoes were an outlier in the natural world. With most species, the balance of any food web would be pretty thoroughly disrupted by a major culling. As I heard it, this isn't the case for mosquitoes - if you could press a button and kill them all tomorrow, most ecosystems would be largely unimpacted.

Am I just making this up/misremembering it?

Edit: found a few sources.

Pro-mosquitocide:

http://www.nature.com/news/2010/100721/full/466432a.html

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2016/02/160207-mosquitoes...

Anti-mosquitocide:

http://io9.gizmodo.com/what-if-every-mosquito-on-earth-went-...
I doubt they have exploited every single password DB in existence.
No, by all means share the MD5 hash of your passwords. After all it's a one way hash. /S
Elsewhere in the thread Mz talked about showering daily without soap in the period in question. Let's drop this.
To add to that, the grammar (and thus the meaning) is sometimes driven by the meter, which is a concept pretty much entirely foreign to many familiar with English prose.
Why would he be concerned? He's going to ignore them anyway.
Part of me worries that "accused" seems like a very low standard, and part of me has little idea how to better address the very real problem.
Kleiner Perkins-Backed Startup BetterWorks Faces Harassment Suit
[As apparently people prefer hyping Google over questioning why a corporation has to do this in the first place, this comment has been deleted]
I disagree. The design intention of public keys is not that they should be published along with a mapping to the user's identity, without the user's consent. It's that they may be published, or eavesdropped, without breaking the cryptography itself. See here[0] for the privacy-violating consequences of publishing public keys and identities wholesale.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10004678
This is more than adequate. DOIs are simply redirects. It's up to the data owner to point the DOI at whatever resource contains the data. If a DOI is registered, it can be pointed to the quilt URL.

You can take it a step further and either integrate with a DOI provider or become one yourself and integrate the registration process within your api or create command line tools.
I can only confirm that I heard that as well, but have no idea how true it is.
arewewebyet hasn't been updated since March, and there's been some big developments since then.

Those probably are the two most popular, but there's a Cambrian Explosion going on right now, with new frameworks like Susanoo and Cargonauts appearing on the regular. Heck, I even have my own little half-baked one.
YC has, from what I've been told, been doing stuff like this for years. Not just for harassment, but also for all the other bad-actor stuff VCs do to startup founders (think: stuff like ruthless term sheet recision).

It's things like this that make it hard for me to be totally down on YC, despite disquieting things about its culture. It's hard to argue that it hasn't been an unalloyed good for founders.
Even SHA512 and bcrypt, totally uncrackable! /S
I hate using filler words, but i have trouble stopping myself. in my head i am thinking while talking:

dont use filler word

dont use filler word

filler word

#@#K!#@!

Its tough
Suh changed the deal and got confirmation that Barker accepted the changes. Suh asked, Barker said yes for an extra $50 and then Barker exploded on her when she got here. Barker is in no way the victim here. Sure maybe Suh was a high maintenance renter, but she didn't do anything wrong.

This is the third time I'm posting this excerpt:

"When Suh later asked if it was OK to bring two friends and two dogs along, Barker said it was fine but the group would need to pay an additional $50 a night, according to screenshots of their text messages." https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/jul/13/airbnb-ca...
this is not going to end well.
An Executive Departure at GitHub Reignites Employee Concerns Over Culture
"You don't understand. I didn't kill just one mosquito, or a hundred, or a thousand... I killed them all... all mosquito... everywhere."
This list has been updated more recently:
https://github.com/flosse/rust-web-framework-comparison
This should keep the lawyers busy for a while.
To be greeted as liberators.
California Today: A Spreading ‘Yimby’ Movement
I am assuming the access to this list will be tightly guarded. So the only way to protect the women of the valley from these VCs is by having a partner friend at YC who will look up the list for you and give yay/nay answers?
So basically a list of VC that want to be taken to a strip club to discuss funding?

Wouldn't a list of VC that behave professionally be better?
How Much Does Crime Affect Rent Prices?
"History doesn't repeat itself, but sometimes it rhymes"

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hollywood_blacklist
The challenge with modern consumer software is that:

1. Users expect their apps to work on their computers, tablets, and phones, which generally means you need to provide some ongoing service to keep your data synced between all of the devices. (For some simple apps you can get away with using a third-party service, e.g. Dropbox or iCloud, but many apps with complex data will need their own custom-built solutions.) Depending on the kind of data you are storing, this can get expensive.

2. Users expect perpetual upgrades for every new version of iOS/macOS/Android/Windows that comes out. This obviously requires development work, especially since iOS/macOS/Android are annual releases at this point.

These ongoing costs imply that some kind of recurring revenue is necessary to keep the software running and up to date, which is why the move to subscription revenue has become more popular lately.

Besides, I question the premise that "perpetual" licenses have ever truly been perpetual except in name only: eventually that software you bought will stop working on newer operating systems and devices and you'll have to buy a new version anyway.
Nope - Elevator failure in Hong Kong

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ADb57ysvCbU
More likely, since pretty much every VC in the valley needs access to the YC dealflow, becoming persona non grata with YC will force VC firms to make personnel changes.
It does create the framing but I just don't see how it is relevant to the conclusions drawn. There are entire companies that are remote and are obviously able to communicate problem domain expertise and execute effectively.
> Does making racist comments you don't believe make you a racist?

I'm under the impression that part of you actually does believe it if you say it. I don't see the mind as one homogeneous thing that requires all thoughts be polarized in the same direction.
No, "work factor" is a term that (roughly) describes how computationally expensive brute-forcing the digest will be. They're associated terms, but it would be more accurate to think of the work factor as the final result of the key stretching process.
> They absolutely can and should be considered.

Okay, and I would like someone to build and operate for me an exact Facebook clone for $5. Since I have made a real offer here, I should also be counted right?

You don't see the importance of taking price into consideration?

> You're assuming that the employers are acting perfectly rationally, which is a fallacy.

Demand is characterized by price, not people talking about what they want to do. If there is no transaction to be made, there is no demand. It makes absolutely no difference if the actors are acting rationally or not.

> Reasoning the way you are, you can hand wave away anything

These are generally accepted terms. Perhaps there is some other word that describes what you are talking about, but it certainly isn't demand. Desire, perhaps? I think it is fair to say that the farmer desires help on the farm, or that the airline desires pilots, or that I desire a developer to build a Facebook clone. That is not the same as demanding it.

> making it appear as if there not only is not a lack of labor, but a surplus

There is a surplus of labour with respect to the demand for that labour. We don't count the people looking for Facebook clones for $5 as demand. If you did, then yes, the demand would outstrip the supply by a huge margin. But I feel like this should be pretty obvious why these jobs don't count as demand.

> It is far, far more plausible that employers have become accustom to lower labor prices, and thus are hesitant to raise wages.

Then why are employees also hesitant to increase labour prices? Is it simply because they too have gotten used to lower labour prices and don't want more? That sounds a little difficult to believe. Everyone I know would be ecstatic to make more money. There is always too sides to the transaction, so you cannot pin this on one side.

The more logical explanation is that if one labourer tried to raise their price, another labourer would swoop in and do the job for less. This can only happen when supply exceeds demand, not when people are already a struggle to find.
The available capital far outstrips realizable capital. In other words money isn't a direct product of productivity but rather of trust in the ability to be able to realize the capital. There aren't enough things to buy from the available capital we are literally betting on not everyone realizing their capital at once if that was the case we would be failing completely.

So borrowing from the future is the best way to think about it we are betting on the ability to keep the system of realized capital much much lower than available. Money is not a thing it's a concept of trust.

All that would happen is prices would go up dramatically basically repeating germany in the 30's if not worse.
Ask HN: What is your first proper program in a new programming language?
Several programmers write 'test' programs while learning a new language (apart from 'Hello, World' of course). Do you have a favorite program to get your feet wet?
This is not exactly a "response", but as you point out, I failed to point this out in my comment: There is little actual value in (what are you doing here? go outside).

Obviously, I'll elaborate if necessary, but really... do you actually need other people to tell you how to live? (Ding, another achievement realized. No, not really, I just thought it would be funny.)

EDIT: For a more comprehensive treatment see the film "Scott Pilgrim ..."
JS to Golang; Abundant concurrency in Go
Wouldn't expect it in anything less than 3-6 months tbh... depends on how anxious MS is to git this into place.
What could possibly go wrong? (Eye roll)
An ancient cure for Alzheimers?
I think this is the most neutral and the best description so far of what's going on with Bitcoin.
No need to write an essay to explain basic banking.

> but suffice it to say, those questions don't refute this discussion.

You should address them -- you've completely avoided the point. There is no dispute about the mechanism; I'm interested in the cause / incentive that drove the results.

> The thing that changed was deregulation: the S&L debacle got people sent to prison, while the latest resurgence of liar's loans came in an era of notoriously ineffective banking oversight.

Perhaps you missed the part about unpredictable Federal Reserve price-setting... from Wikipedia: "In 1979, the Federal Reserve System of the United States raised the Discount Rate that it charged its member banks from 9.5% to 12% in an effort to reduce inflation. The building or savings and loans associations (S&Ls) had issued long-term loans at fixed interest rates that were lower than the interest rate at which they could borrow. In addition, the S&Ls had the liability of the deposits which paid higher interest rates than the rate at which they could borrow. When interest rates at which they could borrow increased, the S&Ls could not attract adequate capital, from deposits to savings accounts of members for instance, they became insolvent. Rather than admit to insolvency, lax regulatory oversight allowed some S&Ls to invest in highly speculative investment strategies."

Someone like you would probably blame everything on the last sentence, whereas I am more interested in the root cause.
Google, while you're at it, please find a way to eradicate ticks. They are getting more and more irritating and dangerous in Northern Europe!
A couple of years ago I had a 'failure mode' problem with my heating system. A winter storm knocked out power in my area. My heating system was a natural-gas-fired boiler that produced steam, which thanks to gravity would rise up through my radiators, condense to water, and flow back to the boiler. The power outage didn't stop the gas, so the only thing that kept my furnace from running was the electric thermostat that sent on/off signals to the electric device that controlled the gas valve and sparked an ignitor.

The thermostat itself had a battery backup, so it was trying to turn the heat on as my house cooled off. But the controller and ignitor had no backup. I couldn't even use a match to light the thing manually, because there was no way to open the gas valve.

I understand the safety implications of adding a manual valve and spark ignitor to a furnace, but letting my pipes freeze (and me too) also has safety implications. Besides, there's probably already a thermo-mechanical safety mechanism that would slam the valve shut if the furnace gets too hot.

Luckily, the power came back on in a few days, before my house got colder than light-jacket conditions. No frozen pipes.
So you're suggesting that harassing women is in the same category of innocence as being a communist?
There's also the fact that if more companies adopt this approach candidates could technically do a single open source challenge to apply to multiple companies :)
Smart PR move. The women will fall right for this.