skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Unless I'm misunderstanding how it works, some questions about this idea:

* Presumably, you have to fully empty and then fill your tank?
Over twice as long to refill as for gasoline/diesel. (Still:
not terrible.)

* How do you get refunded for your partially used "fuel"?
I generally refuel around a quarter of a tank. In this case,
that means I'm sending back 25% unused fuel.
(Pump it out, analyze the mixture, provide credit? Seems seriously game-able.)

* Is the power output constant regardless of charge? Can I get 20kW
of output at 25% charge?
> On August 4, in a hearing in Las Vegas, the prosecution said that Hutchins had admitted "that he was the author of the code that became the Kronos malware" when he spoke to FBI agents.
Supporting research is an excellent use of tax payer money. But paying monopoly rents to publish? Not so much, I think.
>> Light, like sound, follows the inverse square law.
• The signal is inversely proportional to the distance squared.
• A signal travels distance X and loses half of its intensity.

I thought light (at least photons) don't lose intensity? Is this through the medium that fiber optics are made of?
Neo Nazi website moves to Google after GoDaddy severs ties
I can't make heads or tails of your comment. What is "walk into an open pit" here?
Anti-trump, and a site soley dedicated to the disruptions of international talks are hardly the same thing. Highly misleading and editorialized title. Not that it its a whole lot better, but no need to drag this into political issues its not already mired in.
Mmm... I doubt they would set Bing or Yahoo as the default search engine and alienate all their users.

Every time I use those SE, I realize how good Google is.
What else is Apple going to use Bing?
I am sure that every single person who always stands on absolutist free-speech principles against the chilling effect of, say, calling for someone to be fired when it turns out they believe women are biologically inferior, will of course turn up to immediately oppose this on principle, and not adopt some sort of "let's wait and see, there may be nuances to this" approach.
This case is much more significant than that. The ruling will determine whether or not breaching the terms and agreements of a website constitutes a crime under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA). LinkedIn is arguing that since scraping is not defined by the company itself to be a permitted use, a federal felony is being committed by anyone using a script to access its website. The language used in the CFAA is "unauthorized access" and this case will set a legal precedent for the meaning of that term.
Boston Metrocab's app predates Uber by years. It just didn't have VCs subsidizing the cost of rides. Which, in fairness, isn't a business model innovation when it's not a sustainable price.

(Also why Uber went on a sustained binge of offering 5$ rides in Boston; they didn't have anything else to compete with BMC on).
But LinkedIn isn't the owner of that fiction.
As an American, I look down on the limits of speech in Europe with disdain.

Free speech isn't responsible for genocide; the electorate is.
You can have hundreds of years, if all you have is a piece of paper and 100m³ block of concrete, you still do not have enough time.
Although if there's a cash register or mailbox nearby, the farmers would of course prefer to get paid.

Typical prices in grocery stores for apples seem to be around a dollar a pound, but apparently farmers get roughly a third of that: http://www.agmrc.org/commodities-products/fruits/apples/comm... I'm sure they wouldn't mind you cutting out the middleman if it meant a little extra for them. But so far all the apple picking operations I've found are tourist attractions, and charge even higher prices than a grocery store.
I need the education but I already have a job. Two years ago, I would have jumped into this feet first.
Have you read said poem?
A social contract is codified neither in the US constitution, nor US law. Legal constructs preempt social moores.
Does that change anything?

Mr Boehmermann's lawyer said the ruling went against "artistic freedom".

"We believe that the court's decision in its concrete form is wrong, given that it deems those parts dealing with Erdogan's approach to freedom of expression to be acceptable," said Christian Schertz.

per one of the links in that article
> When a student fail a exam at a university level, the risk that they will switch program is several time higher if their gender is a minority in their class.

Belonging interventions can have a startlingly large impact this kind of failure mode.

Instilling "college is hard for people - they work hard, get help, and succeed" reframes difficulty from "I guess I don't belong here", affecting outcomes at scale. http://gregorywalton-stanford.weebly.com/uploads/4/9/4/4/494...

Two Brief Interventions to Mitigate a “Chilly Climate” Transform
Women’s Experience, Relationships, and Achievement in Engineering http://gregorywalton-stanford.weebly.com/uploads/4/9/4/4/494... is interesting - two different ways of improving outcomes, with very different secondary effects.

The many questions of belonging. (2017, book chapter) http://gregorywalton-stanford.weebly.com/uploads/4/9/4/4/494...

More on http://gregorywalton-stanford.weebly.com/research.html and http://gregorywalton-stanford.weebly.com/papers.html .
> This is only true for apartment dwellers (for now). People who live in houses typically charge at home.

In Germany, over 65% of people rent. So, the supermajority would be affected by this.

EDIT: I meant "live in rented apartments". "Miete" implies renting an apartment here, usually.
Hmm kudos. I’ll have to look into this.
Data you own is not public, by definition. This needs to be made abundantly clear. Something like "all rights reserved" on images.
Travis Kalanick Begins to Fight Back
> For instance, you can't stand on a street corner and try to recruit people to join ISIS. You can't threaten to hurt or kill someone. You can't show pornography to minors, or show anyone pornography that contains minors.

> These are all very popular restrictions on free speech.

A person can engage in any of the activities you describe. They will just be dealt with by those elected by the people under law established by the people.

Google, Facebook and many others are deciding what they feel you should see based on their own prejudices, identity politics, agenda-driven deals, control and manipulation of information and/or other factors.

It's a slippery slope indeed with no oversight, no means to defend yourself. A person, a domain... simply gets wiped from existence.

It's like AT&T monitoring phone calls (oh, wait...) and killing your phone service because of something you said in a group chat. Or an ISP monitoring your online activities (oh, wait...) and cutting service because you visited a controversial (but legal) site. Or a building owner tossing you out on the street because your politics don't align with his/hers.

We have laws. We also have agencies whose functions are to deal with those breaking those laws. If a domain is doing something illegal - let the law handle it and not your "well-meaning" Uncle Scrooge and his shotgun.

We also have laws against vigilantes. Are the Googles, Facebooks and others turning into information vigilantes?
> For comparison, 64-bit Chrome's minimum memory requirement is >= 4GB.

Not officially (there is no memory system requirement): https://support.google.com/chrome/a/answer/7100626?hl=en
Utter rubbish.

Even at it's most absurdly promising, it's a relatively minor change in how we move and transport people and goods. Maybe fewer people required, maybe cheaper.

To compare that to "the internet" -- a technology that eliminated and created entire classes of industries, fundamentally changed the way we interact at almost every level, how society operates, how economies are built and run? No. Not even close. Not even in the same order of magnitude of significance.
that one is iffy, http://www.nolo.com/legal-encyclopedia/types-databases-eligi...

I'd suspect LinkedIn could argue about the network they create is a creative work and would be covered, but the facts about each person might not be copyright-able.
3 examples are hardly indicative of a systemic 'white male discontent'. The author brings nothing new to the table that I can discern. But this issue sure gets the clicks these days.
Of course he's welcome to write about whatever he likes. It's his blog.

But I'm welcome to roll my eyes at it.
I've thought a bit about how you would structure something like this as a pro-bono service instead of a paid service. The thing I always struggle with is how to get people who currently lack the basic computer skills, math, and logic skills and get them to the point where they could benefit from a bootcamp. Most people I know who've made it through a bootcamp successfully already had some sort of exposure to coding before starting.

You'd almost need a skills camp before the bootcamp that would be less choosy and take the top 20-30% of those students into a further bootcamp... but at that point the economics start to break down (why it'd likely need to be pro-bono).

Anyway, that was a big tangent! I think what you're doing is interesting. Do you have a twitter account set up if we're interested in following along?
It's fairly easy to make parent comment's idea fit what you're saying. You just need one more level of indirection (like always!).

In this case, cloudflare or whatever, is exercising their free speech by saying "We care so much about free speech, we'll amplify these jerk's speech".

I agree that expecting someone to do this for you is indeed a privilege, not a right.

So I'd say the difference between your comments is more semantic than anything. Parent commentor doesn't really imply everyone has a right to this kind of amplification.
Admitted in what context?

Notice the "became the Kronos malware". It's entirely possible Kronos used MalwareTech's open source PoC's of rootkits and other things, he knew, and was asked about it and but without the guidance of a lawyer said: "Sure. I wrote TinyXPB." or similar.

Concerning for sure.
disclaimer: I work on google maps

> Several months after Apple Maps became the default, something like 2/3rds of all users switched away from Google Maps.

When Apple Maps 'became the default', what actually happened was it outright replaced the Google-powered Maps app entirely, and there was no replacement Google-written Maps app _for_ several months. People didn't 'switch away', they were switched, you could not stay on google maps if you wanted to.

Per your numbers, 1/3rd of a platform switching back (despite having to wait months and install a new app to do so) sounds like a pretty big return to me. But I don't think there's a lot we can infer about users' propensity to set search engine defaults vs propensity to install/use apps.
> Consider that should anything ever happen to the sites they scrape, suddenly they become super valuable to the rest of us.

That may well be true, but that value doesn't mean anyone should just be able to take that value from the company that put up the effort and investment to collect the data, and turn around an use it for their own profit. Nor does it mean that a company shouldn't be able to serve the data to whomever it wants and/or restrict access from whomever it wants. Value to the consumer is still not a reason to compel private companies to offer public services. It would be valuable to both of us if Google gave us free money, but no court is going to compel them to do so just because of the potential value to you and me.

It seems bad, btw, if we choose to rely on private companies to keep the only backups of our personal data. If a site going down has a negative effect on my life, and takes down data with it that I need, it might be an indication that I shouldn't have kept my data there.

Also true that decentralized information is not a bad thing, as a generic ideal or a data backup plan. But for a business, decentralization in this context means loss of profit, as well as possibly theft, cheating, and copyright violation.

Also, the increased value that comes from a company folding will be used against you by these private, for profit scrapers. They can and will hold their copy ransom for more money, if possible.

> Arguably, if they do a better job getting that information in results to people who need it in search, they may be performing a service there as well. (A lot of decently informative sites have absolutely awful search/visibility.)

What is the argument in favor of this being legal? It is currently not legal, and the law currently does not give any credit for 'doing it better'. Why should it?
I'm curious what I said that sounded to you like "his stated views on Trump aren't authentic."
You can certainly save a lot of money (depending on your location / usage pattern) by going carshare-only; but one thing I've found is that it can result in a sort of cognitive fallacy (not really a fallacy per se; rather a thought pattern that can be tricky to avoid) where every trip you make becomes subject to economic considerations, far more than it would have if you'd owned a car.

For example if you have a friend who lives 15 miles away - it becomes "do I want to spend $50 to visit my friend?". If you drive your own car, the economic calculation is invisible - it's about $2 of gas, a bit of depreciation that you don't even think about, and [huge already-paid upfront cost for vehicle/financing/insurance that you don't even think about] - "of course I'll pay $2 to visit my friend!"

One thing that helped was making a spreadsheet that showed how my total cost of transportation went from $8k/year to about $1200/year when I switched to Lyft/ZipCar and ditched my own vehicle. So even if I were to add in a weekly $50 friend-visit, I'm still paying less than half for my transportation than I previously was.
It dosen't fix the problem unfortunately, the JIT code in firefox is effectively 32bit, it can only operate on a 32bit contigious range.
Are You in Range of Kim Jung Un?
Ah, who took the "hacker" out of hacker news? Would you rather have the stormfront members speaking openly, or getting more educated about the dark web, where they'll be forced to go? I prefer they stay as unsophisticated as possible, openly hosted at godaddy. It's not a false dichotomy. Taking away their hosting is not going to end their site or community. Though it does allow, risk-free opportunity to virtue signal on your favorite platform.
Dublê morre durante as filmagens de Deadpool 2
Can you even get an iPhone for $700 anymore? When I got the 6S (not plus) with 128GB memory for myself and my wife they were $1100 each I think?
Agreed on the slack app... but I've been using VS Code very happily, especially since the integrated terminal was added, which is a feature I've wanted in my editor for a very long time... The terminal was pretty sluggish on some things at first, but works well... still not much of a fan of hyperterm, which shares the same terminal integration modules.

Most of the electron apps I've used I don't use much... except vs code, and for what interactions I have they aren't bad. However, most of my time is in one of several browser tabs, vs code, and a terminal window. I keep Goofy (fb mobile as electron app), and Spotify (electron iirc) open... that's about it.
A simple but wrong proof of "P = NP" is easier to write in some ways, since you "just" need to provide a single algorithm for one NP-hard problem, and show that it runs in polynomial time. It looks like many or most of the proof attempts in that list take this form.

A plausible proof of "P != NP" won't be quite as simple to express, since it needs to prove that all such algorithms do not run in polynomial time.
Fiskars makes a hand drill. I bought one on the spur of the moment when I thought I'd be helping a friend's kid with a "build your own toy" project. That didn't happen, and I haven't actually tried it, yet.

Happy with most of their other stuff, though (trimming tools, hand saw, ...). I should have a look for it -- somewhere around here.
Yes, but as others have said, professional advancement typically depends on publishing in the expensive journals. And that's no accident, in that predatory for-profit publishers have targeted prestigious journals for acquisition. It's the same game that drug makers play with top-selling drugs.

Eventually, authors will migrate to the not-for-profit open access journals and platforms. But that will take time. Top-ranked PIs must lead the way, given that their reputations are well established, and they have tenure.
Yes, no material is 100% reflective, and some of those photons will either be absorbed by the material or reflected in the wrong direction.

It's explained two pages prior on Page 14.
Your argument seems to boil down to "ban all ideas the left does not agree with" to me. Tolerance in your definition confuses me. It seems like you try to make it appear like it means tolerating other's speech (with the "Tolerate all speech..."), but your own comment is very clear about not tolerating the speech of all those groups of people (even if they would extend the right of tolerance to your speech -- obviously, literal Nazis might not, but someone like James Damore certainly would). With a close reading of your comment, it seems like you leave the definition of "tolerance" unopened. Does it mean the tolerance of lifestyles? Of speech? Of religion? What happens if someone's religion mandates intolerance?

I think that, while tolerance works well as a vague social value, trying to define it and draw a border around what it is or isn't will only result in destroying the rights of one's opposition. The word can be used in a variety of way in a variety of contexts; I would propose that any use of violence against someone for holding another idea is a form of intolerance, and from your comment it clearly seems that you disagree. The only "clear social contract of tolerance" is one that is tainted by everyone's political views. Where you would advocate for the removal of those who stand against LGBT rights, a religious Christian/Muslim/Jew would advocate for the removal of you for denying their right to speak their minds.
The demographics of revenue or ad generating snap users might be more telling, but he/she is suggesting that they should have released a male and female version or a gender neutral version. That way you're not missing a massive part of the market, a.k.a. 82 million daily active users if it's an even 50/50 male/female split.
For example there are both transsexual people and transgender people but they're different in kind.
Yes, it's about on the level of South Park as far as material goes.
> We also have laws against vigilantes. Are the Googles, Facebooks and others turning into information vigilantes?

No, they are the owners of major digital presses that other people would like to use. But they have the freedom to choose what to use them for.

You can say whatever you want; that is protected by free speech. Google can choose not to provide a venue and assistance to you in publicizing those views; that, too, is free speech.

Your freedom of speech does not entitle you to commandeer the resources of unwilling third parties to deliver your speech. If you want collaborators, you need to convince them.
It's hard to respond to that ranking site since I can't find what factors went into the rankings. If you could be more specific on why the US should rank below Western Europe in freedom of speech/press, I could look into the specific incidents of censorship you're referring to.

I can tell you that, in the US, it's extremely difficult to prevent a newspaper from publishing things the government doesn't want published (see New York Times v. United States), or for a private party to successfully sue them (see New York Times v. Sullivan). It has happened, but it's very rare and there is nothing analogous to Europe's sweeping "hate speech" laws that force newspapers to self-censor anything critical of migrants.
Ask HN: Should I buy Bitcoins or is it too late?
I tried buying Bitcoins from Italy when they were $300, and I couldn't figure out an easy way to do it.

Now I guess it's a lot easier to exchange traditional currencies with Bitcoins, but is it to late?

I believe there's a lot of speculation and we might see a huge fall soon, although Russia backing Bitcoin and possibly passing some kind of law to deal in Bitcoin might give it another spike.
What this apple-picking robot means for the future of farm workers
> not HN material

exactly
Perfect, Vanadium is only $28/kg[1]. 500W of solar cells is less than $1,000 these days. Saltwater and Methanol are also pretty cheap. Well you can charge it, so if the charge rate is .1C you hook your solar panels to 1000 cells that are charging ("charging" cells) and their electrolyte is then pumped into the 100 "load" cells for delivering load. But that only keeps you even, so 10,000 cells charging and filling the reservoir while 100 cells providing load. Damn the laws of thermodynamics!

Still I would love to read how Dr. Cushman sees it working out.

[1] http://www.reuters.com/article/metals-vanadium-prices-idUSL4...
Have a source for any of those claims? Project Veritas lies a lot. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_O%27Keefe
Grassman was another more recent example, though obviously we can't now find recent examples that will lie dormant for millennia...
Love the unit-less graph around abstract concepts.

https://xkcd.com/833/

That said, kudos for making this the default.
Weird, I didn't have it available on Ubuntu whatever I use at work either...
I'm rolling my eyes at your eye rolling! How deep can we go?!
If you want to understand his motivations, he gave a wide ranging interview to the ATP (Accidental Tech Podcast) guys at the time he jumped ship to Tesla.

Basically it seemed to boil down to him now being a people manager as much as he is an engineer - he really enjoys helping teams of people succeed at complex technical problems. This doesn't surprise me at all, given how the nature of work often changes as one climbs an org tree.

http://atp.fm/205-chris-lattner-interview-transcript/