skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When considering the fact it took close to two years to even constitute a bench to hear this case, it doesn't really sound alarmist to me. Plus, many Aadhaar related cases have been pending hearing for years now while the government blatantly ignored multiple directives from the Supreme Court to keep it optional and not deprive anyone of any benefit "until the matter is decided one way or another" (paraphrasing what the court said).

Aadhaar could still be a fait accompli for the government and continue, which would be sad in many ways. If you believe Aadhaar is the best thing since sliced bread and has no issues, please check Rethink Aadhaar [1] for the issues as well as the history of the cases and have a look at Scroll's Identity Project. [2]

[1]: https://rethinkaadhaar.in

[2]: https://scroll.in/topic/38792/identity-project
+1. For all the hype that Cuil (pronounced 'Cool') created, it was a spectacular failure :-(
High Quality 3D Object Reconstruction from a Single Color Image
Variety is the spice of life.
The best approach that I have found is to use the git commit timestamp (or epoch 1 as a fallback) instead of the current timestamp. After all if the build is reproducible, it doesn't matter when it was built, only what input it was given.

To fix that kind of thing, patching is required.
Holograms are just a terrible idea. I can see the use for AR in business, services, and education. But as far as we can throw it, it's pretty useless compared to video.
Obviously, given the nature of the article, we're not talking about easily provable, verifiable criminal conspiracies. "Criminals exist" is not a conspiracy theory.
There's one on reddit that does a great job.
This comment made me laugh so hard I got some weird looks from the person in the cube next to me.

On a more serious note, if you had never used a concrete trowel before and you weren't totally sure what it was, using it to make waffle batter would give you a better understanding of what it was and what it is good for.
It is impressive that despite not eating meat for 20 years you feel you are in a good position to talk about the realism of the meat product you have invested in.
> If everyone's wasteful there'd be way less incentive to nudge industries into changing.

Ah yes, "let's show them not to be wasteful". Ever heard of the activities of
making industries not to use child labour or improve working conditions of
factory workers? If they didn't work, why do you think this one would?

> Where would the change be coming from?

Certainly not from social movements. They rarely have enough power to make
a single company change, much less a whole industry.
Github, https://github.com/AdaCore/spark2014
Organic food? As opposed to what? Aluminium food?
That's the point. You nailed it.

Many theories are wrong due to lack of knowledge which is substituted with suspicions. That's the reason why conspiracy theorists are ridiculed so often. Some conspiracy theories however are true. If Pulitzer prize winners Woodward and Bernstein hadn't believed in conspiracies Watergate would never had been discovered.

I am amazed that there are actually people right here who stubbornly reject the reality of conspiracies at all. Conspirators want people who don't believe in conspiracies since deceiving such people couldn't be easier.
I'd say people should resist downvoting without commenting, unless the comment is very clearly vulgar or spammy.
What you build is infinitely more important than what you built it with. If someone writes a better Google the users won't care if it's using Javascript, Rust, or QBasic. They'd still be all over it.
How noisy tourists may be drowning out alien signals at worlds biggest telescope
> donate to my alma mater

I've heard of people doing this but why would you ever have donated your money to someone you have already paid? I wouldn't donate to my pizza place, my doctor, or my barber. Why would a college be different?
Surely it can't have "nothing to do" ? Many debian source packages specifies dependencies using >= , something has to account for performing a build using the same minor version of such a dependency.
OpenSolaris is effectively dead, but its successor is the illumos project -- which has multiple distributions such as SmartOS. So you could use SmartOS+ZFS.
Don't project your preferences on others.
Still a bigger fan of Yarn here. My personal tests have Yarn running a bit faster still, but I also like that Yarn's command syntax is easier. NPM seems content with making a million aliases of everything and it's annoying. I think they even added 'add' from Yarn.

Also, Yarn's run command can be used to run locally installed NPM binaries, not just NPM scripts. i.e., you can do `yarn run -- webpack` and it will run the local copy of Webpack. This is handy imo, and as far as I know NPM doesn't do it.
I agree. The OP raised the point that left-leaning submissions get flagged a lot, making it seem like this is unique to that end of the spectrum. My point is that it happens to the right as well.
Yes, pretty much everything in our current economy is extremely inefficient. In terms of waste, cryptocurrencies are peanuts.

- Facebook ad spending is a waste; do companies actually get a ROI on all the money they give to Facebook? They don't actually know! In the grand scheme of things it's a complete waste. If Facebook didn't exist, then companies wouldn't be forced to pay it money just to stay relevant; they could focus their funds on actually improving their products instead. Not to mention the enormous amount of otherwise productive human hours that Facebook is responsible for wasting every day. That's not even counting all the other social networks.

- Gambling; $240 billion per year; the money does nothing for society. The amount of money spent on gambling every year is MORE than the total market capitalization of all cryptocurrencies added up together. So even if you think that buying a cryptocurrency is gambling, your odds are much better (and improve as you do more research). If people stopped gambling on horses and lottery and started gambling with cryptocurrencies instead, the total market cap for cryptocurrencies would be much higher than it is now.

- Sports; the sport industry makes $75 billion per year. Yes it's entertainment. So is trading cryptocurrencies.

- Tobacco industry makes $35 billion in PROFITS per year. Doesn't add anything positive to society. I think that if you were to add up all fees (profits) ever charged for transferring cryptocurrencies, you wouldn't get anything close to $35 billion.
Mortage interest rates are 1% these days so that is not really much.
Your redefining the term. If someone survives a car crash they may have suffered massive trauma they are just not dead.

The odds of being alive 20 years after a cancer diagnosis are not nearly as bad is you might think. Around 2x as many people are diagnosed with cancer every year as die from it.
Both openSUSE and SLE use AppArmor by default. I believe we provide some support for SELinux if you want to use it, but AppArmor is the default LSM.
Uh thanks to this article I've seen that AppEngine know supports Java8, this is really really cool.
Teacher builds $50M a year business with learning materials
So we don't actually get a free market so that the banks can maximize their profit.
I would say the risk reward on these two are a little bit different. With using Docker on something you are just trying out you risk wasting some time and maybe some abuse from stephenr on hackernews.

Practicing shaving your bikini line with hedgeclippers you stand to lose... well a lot more.
They're beautiful, but I'd much rather use them as an icon font. Is there any way to do that?
I use apple maps in Sweden. Works flawless.
A few years ago it was totally useless.
> a syntax known to a lot of web developers

This is the key. And it reflects poorly on them for that. Syntax is the easiest part of a language to learn. The nuances of behavior is the hard part - and those nuances change as you move from the browser to the server; what makes good browser code will not make good server code.

In reality they shunned a ton of knowledge and community support to keep a particular (and particularly mediocre) syntax. Even today, years after Node has reached popularity and many lessons have been learned, developers with no experience outside the browser think they can write perfectly good server code, simply because they know the syntax. Never mind that all of the design patterns change. Never mind that the core libraries they use change. Never mind that they suddenly have to be cognizant of how much CPU time their code takes.
That's only my one card, i've got a handful of other cards that I'm mining with (most fulltime in my garage, one in my main desktop PC that mines only at night when the AC won't need to cool it).

My whole "setup" makes me about $200 in profit a month right now (down from roughly $500 in Ethereum's hayday)
I misunderstood the context in your replies. We were kind of talking about different topics.
Conspiracies can be entertaining, one's own living "thriller". Some conspiracies are true. Obsessing on them can be negative, one should be honest when assessing probability. They should not affect the psyche at lower than some pretty high threshold. I read a lot of Patterson, the plots seem pretty fantastical, then a private sub Captain cuts a reporter into pieces and buries her at sea...
> Assume that the value of these altcoins do not change

Assume a perfectly spherical cow, emitting milk equally in all directions...
Half of Bosses Paying for Open-Source Certifications
> rebalance to have 3-way mirroring across 3 drives (with one being out): this is currently not possible

I'm not sure this even has meaning. But anyways, it's probably pointless to try to kick off a rebalance when the FS is still trying to use a dead drive. Either use the device replace command (which isn't stable yet), or tell btrfs to delete the dead drive then add the replacement drive. If the problem drive is failing but not completely dead yet, then the device replace command is supposed to move data over with a minimum of excess changes to drives other than the ones being removed and added. But the device replace command doesn't properly handle drives with bad sectors yet, so the separate remove and add actions are more reliable albeit slower and put more work on the other drives in the array.
> Aadhaar is setup as a way of proof of identity and not proof of citizenship.

Yet, Aadhaar is officially accepted by the Ministry of External Affairs as proof of identity and proof of address to issue a passport (which is signed by the president of India and is a proof of citizenship). [1] So any resident in India who qualifies for Aadhaar can also get a passport. Aadhaar is sneaky and messy in more ways than one.

[1]: http://passportindia.gov.in/AppOnlineProject/docAdvisor/atta...
And yet the political threads are the ones that get censored (among so many others)...
PAN card and Drivers license already works, bank passbook all works as identitification document. You don't need passport for that.
Hey there, thanks for the nit. I am kind of a language nerd, so always appreciate a bit of analysis. I see your point "poaching" as a word has had a somewhat problematic historical context attached to it. I guess I used the term relating to it's sub-definition "take or acquire in an unfair or clandestine way."

I found the migration of experts from CMU to Uber fascinating — for two reasons: 1. The geographical proximity in which the acquisition occurred (i.e. a rust belt town with an awesome CS school and a well known Silicon Valley startup on location). 2. The moving from the academy to the private sector of said professors/researchers happened in a way I hadn't seen before. I mean lots of academics work within industry at some point, but this move seemed to carry more weight in the media — maybe because of the institution involved.

Anyway, with that said, lots of the articles and speculation I read about it, for better or worse, painted the acquisition of academics by Uber as a bit unfair. I.e. Uber could and did pay way more than CMU and provided super interesting problems maybe outside the realm of what a professor normally faces in their research, I don't know. It was the "unfair" element portrayed in articles/opinion pieces I based my wording off of. I am in no way suggesting these profs and researchers did anything wrong or did anything but make the right choice for themselves, something we all have to do.

I digress. Word choice noted, problematic history and other associations noted and hopefully I cleared up my choice a bit.
In philosophy terms it can be described as leaving the epistemological connection with the real world.

The way we think is by creating mental model of the world around us. This model allows us to separate noise from signal. For instance, your cat jumping on your head, is just cat jumping on your head, you don't take it as your cat is trying to kill you. Now of course, it's not impossible for you to believe that your cat is trying to kill you, but for that, you'd need to believe in a lot of other things, for instance, you must believe cognition and rational ability in your cat. Or at least begin with believing that cat hates you, or that there are humans who have learned to brainwash your cat.

When you drop the epistemic connection with the world, any noise can be signal. I remember once Alex Jones was releasing some 'documents' on his site, but his site kept on going down, so he started claiming that hackers are trying to bring his site down in order to attempt to stop releasing the documents.

Now, anyone who has launched a new server or trying to bring a site up, knows that it can easily be some glitches or noob web developer unable to bring the site up properly, but in the world Alex Jones lives, any noise can be interpreted as signal and any signal can be interpreted into the conspiracy signal.

Since anything which you can believe can be faked, it's not possible for anyone to convince you about anything other than what you already believe.
Seems like a good time to mention an absolutely awesome - https://icomoon.io/app

It allows cherry-picking icons from dozens of different SVG icon packs (including Feather) and packaging them into a custom (web)font. It can also be used to package your own SVG assets into a single font file and then use resulting .woff as an SVG sprite sheet.
https://matrix.org/blog/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/purism5.p...

Is this what the actual phone will look like? Some kind of context photo with a reference hand would be great, because the dimensions and shape otherwise suggest this would be comparable to holding a Kindle or Nexus 7 next to my head!
Great quote! Thank you for sharing.
Had Snowden been in Evo Morales plane nothing could have been done about it. That plane was extraterratorial.
> In some courses, like business administration, students’ capacity to think got worse for the first few years.

That's what I suspected for quite some time now :D
Are the trademarked icons (Github, Slack, maybe others) also covered by the MIT License?
First off-chain Bitcoin payment using SegWit via Twitter
Most people, I think, don't feel comfortable speaking to their phone when nobody is at the other side. Even if I, as an observer am not aware of that. I know I don't feel comfortable. Because I know nobody is there and i'm talking to a machine. Besides, can you imagine the background noise in the world if everybody started talking to their machines? Its enough their eyes are stuck on the screen all the time. If they equated that time to talking - it would mean constant chatter noise. nobody wants that...
In theory, but if the most profitable coins take a downturn, I could be left with a bill and a lot of very hot GPUs that would sell for a fraction of the price I bought them for.

I'm okay with my lower gains for less/no risk.
You misunderstand the issue.

Google search basically is a function where you input a search string and it returns a list of URL's matching the search criteria. That's all I need and want it to do. AMP breaks the core behaviour of Google Search, it no longer provides a list of URL's that match my criteria. Basically most search results aren't actual search results anymore.
Indian supreme court verdict on Right to privacy [pdf]]
So I believe the max bounty without a bonus for any Tor vuln through their bug bounty program is 4k. The max for the Tor Browser Bundle is 3k.
Show HN: Deploy Flask (Python) web apps to production with Docker easily
How much more % wise will your grocery bill be if you have it bought/delivered to you? 20%? 25%? 30%?

on a 500$/month grocery family budget you are looking at 100$ - 150$ more for convenience potentially. Its a lot of money for most.
> If you want to do it wrong, you start out with lane keeping...recognition of common objects...some machine learning....hope for the best

Thank you! Can I ask why the self-driving car programs like the 3-semester Udacity one deliberately focus on going about it the wrong way ? Why spend 1 whole semester on lane detection using trivia like OpenCV, 1 whole semester on object classification using CNNs with Keras, spending so much time on combining lidar & radar data using Kalman filters for moving object tracking .... surely all of these are peripheral issues and the wrong way to go about the business. Then why ? Is it all one big clueless scam ?

To be fair, I am enjoying the course very much as a student. But it's becoming clear from talking to colleagues in the autonomous car industry that what is being taught is not the real deal. This isn't what happens in production, so to speak.
why all the "designers" who talk about awesome holograms continue to draw their imagined devices like they can display something outside of the boundaries of their screens?

also, interestingengineering.com is a cancer, people who write/edit their articles have understanding of the world on level of three years old children.
There's value in explaining things in a different/more understandable way. Wikipedia articles and book chapters on statistics can be hard to understand.
The code that powers Voten, an open-source and real-time Reddit alternative
This Docker base image takes care of setting up and fine tuning Nginx and uWSGI to serve a Flask (Python) web app “ready for production”.

You only need to take care of your Flask code.

It has sensible defaults but you can also configure and adjust it further if you need to.

GitHub: https://github.com/tiangolo/uwsgi-nginx-flask-docker
Docker Hub: https://hub.docker.com/r/tiangolo/uwsgi-nginx-flask/
And it seems, his operating system allowing the browser process to take all the CPU.
Correct, you have software based load balancing under the covers.

My Google Load Balancers never move.. It is a single thing that points each node (physical machine) in the cluster, and distributes traffic between then.

Each node knows how to route traffic to each app. So when I deploy that app, the software load balancer at the node level will slowly move traffic over from old app to new app. Entire thing is MAGICAL. And 0 downtime, very very fast deploys.

Edit - But yes this explains iy. Changing the google load balancers is like a 5 minute ordeal. Total pain. Nice that with GKE you only need to touch them when your node count changes, which can be very rare (~monthly for me)
It's justified internally by the fact that Roy does not spend that money on himself, but rather on social projects. And as an employee you are made to feel bad if you suggest that you should be accumulating some of that wealth, rather than it going to more worthy people.
STM is not sold as a headline concurrency feature anymore, apparently people prefer more traditional ways.
Apart from the points @dullgiulio mentioned.

DDB -> NoSQL, No Automatic backups, No support for ad-hoc querying, eventual consistency (though you can set to get consistency with few tradeoffs)
Spanner DB -> RDBMS, Automatic backups, Enriched SQL, Strong consistency.

Let me if you still think its fair to compare these 2 databases.
not that this would actually help anyone in need of a transliterator, but probably of interest: mit press is publishing a book later this fall on how Chinese characters triumphed over the QWERTY keyboard and laid the foundation for China’s information technology successes. full disclosure: i used to work at the press. got to read some of the manuscript, and it was indeed fascinating: https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/chinese-typewriter
Notice I didn't say hedge cutters to shave.

I said cutting hedges. Vaguely related tasks (cutting something shorter) but vastly different tools, materials, scale, etc
The only benefit I see is the piece of paper I'm going to get from the university at the end of my wild ride.
I've seen replacement leather pads for 20$ or 40$
Serveraxis.com going, going, ?
serveraxis.com gained some notoriety last year when their Miami data center went down, with no customer data ever being recovered. Now multiple sites (but not all) in their Chicago data center are offline, including their own front page. The last copy of their front page indicated no issues, and there has been no contact with affected customers.
The US has already decided that the right to sue is fundamental: http://www.firstamendmentcenter.org/right-to-sue/

Such waivers limit this right. I struggle to imagine an ideology that thinks giving up a fundamental right is wrong, but limiting it is ok. Given how rarely arbitration courts rule against the one who selected them, the difference between limiting and forfeiting the right entirely is slim to none.
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GSV Capital pursues a similar thesis (top holdings are Palantir and Spotify http://gsvcap.com/top-10-investments/) but looking at their 5-year performance, the public interest has been rather tepid.
It happened with RIM in Waterloo,Canada. Of course the scale is not the same, but RIM was the largest employer and was taking other any available office building in the city.
When RIM tanked it was not that bad, numerous small startup were started by ex-employees that took over the office space. It's like a tree in a forest, it falls and rots giving nutrients and sun light to the younger trees that otherwise wouldn't be able to grow.
I received some feedback from a coworker about some of my writing to avoid the passive voice. I'm not sure where I developed my passive voice habit (maybe in my Chem 101 lab reports?) but it's been a hard one to break.

Is active voice always better?
Docker images built with the first-party toolchain aren't reproducible - if you run `docker build ...` on a Dockerfile, then delete the image and rerun it, you'll get a different set of image hashes. This is likely due to timestamp embedding.

There are other toolsets that supposedly create byte-identical Docker images generation (Bazel, some others), but I haven't tried them.
Jon, all I need to do to check if any internet ad campaign is effective is check analytics. Facebook Ads can be very effective.

Gambling pays for many social services through (heavy) taxation and government-run lotteries.

Sports promote fitness.

Cigarettes make me look cool (kidding).
While this is a cool research project to learn Tensorflow, it's no where near the competition. All Apple iOS / Microsoft Windows / Google Android's stock pinyin input methods has more or less an AI component to automatically predict the Chinese characters on the fly while you type - they work extremely well. There are a about close to a hundred other Chinese input method vendors in the market right now other than the top 3 tech companies' stock Chinese input methods. Leading the bunch is a company called iFlytek[1], which utilize voice recognition AI to improve input speed.

And yes I am a native speaker and use pinyin on a daily basis.

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