skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Did Donald Trump receive a National Security Letter?
Trump: "Will he show you his beautiful letter to me?"

Perhaps the only one who could defy an NSL is the President. That would be a breath of fresh air...and completely unprecedented. It would be a massive boon to tech companies who have received NSLs if the President himself is willing to defy NSA/FBI.

Source: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2017/08/24/trump-slams-mcconnell-ryan-clapper-fake-news-in-series-tweets.html
Fossil fuels are known as biogenic oils or the like.

It has been theorised, but neither proven nor disproven, that abiogenic oils might exist. (Earth is likely only the biogenic kind, but other planets may differ).

That is to say, petroleum compounds can be formed without the need for biological materials, but rather through pressure, heat, and bedrock.
I think the second/third/forth SaaS site won't take 200 hours once you get in the groove.
Why not credit the whole team then, by making them all authors?

Did you ever see the list of authors on publications of CERN? Or take this example: [1].

[1] https://www.nature.com/news/physics-paper-sets-record-with-m...
"Insane" is pretty strong for a temporary limitation that is just as severe with traditional RAID arrays. A sudden power failure or any other hardware problem cropping up during an array rebuild is a nightmare scenario.
You're underestimating the shock waves those engines produce. During launches you see camera footage from miles away shaking as the engines go to full power.

Of course there are solutions, but they're all expensive, and SpaceX has better things to spend money on. It's not like the footage doesn't exist - we're just not getting it live.
truck with engine is usually detachable from trailer/payload. instead of swapping batteries or loading/unloading cargo, you can simply attach the trailer to the fully recharged truck waiting for you
>It's as if police never stop to think about the purpose of their jobs. I guess they're like many other people that way...

This. If you're gonna take the guy to the station and have the vehicle towed then why not stick the guy in the cruiser, wait for the truck and conduct your search in the impound lot where you're not clogging up traffic and at risk of getting hit by someone on their phone.

The problem is that there isn't pressure from the top down to be efficient.
I doubt that is accurate, but if it is, it is irrelevant; those "C++ threads" are not available to you to use in your program the way you see fit.
Eastern Europe became some interesting version of a developer boot camp or farm system.

Locals can get a cheap education and a nice job at either a startup or BigCo engineering office, where a salary is very high compared to local averages.

But I see most of them leaving eventually after attaining some experience to a bigger tech hub in Europe(London, Amsterdam, etc).
I think the bigger savings will come in being able to precisely control stops, starts, and turning, which will both minimize damage to the road surface and lengthen tire life.

ISTR a case where a large open pit mine bought GPS-driven trucks and saved a great deal just from longer tire life (each tire was $20K).
Relevance Vector Machines by Tipping

or

Homomorphic Encryption over the Integers
Doing things right is hard and it often requires more time. My feeling is that the majority of software engineers are less interested in detail and doing things right and more interested in getting things done. And most environments encourage to get things done (time to market) with all the bad results (broken / insecure software, bad architecture). In pure functional languages doing what's right is often the only way to get things done. This is why there is a smaller audience to Clojure or Haskell.

It's dreadful to explain the average engineer (in my environment) basic principles of design and architecture over and over again (like what is an URI / URN / URL, or why should I use Strings as general identifiers rather than exposing the numeric value from the database to the outside) just to see them dismissing everything in the next second. Now, when I tell them to look into Clojure or Haskell just to learn something.... No I don't do that. Its sad.

But Kudos to Rich. I find it is more important that he is talking / lecturing about basic principles of software design and architecture and using Clojure as an example, despite Clojure's actual success.
OTOH, with less sophisticated tools available for parental control f consumption, and less convenient access to what quality content exists than there is now. Net? I think it's different now, but not worse or better, overall.
This merger would threaten food supplies around the world
One high answer uses Bayes' formula and requires estimating probabilities like the probability that a random car is blue. ... Following the metaphor, you'd have to ... estimate the probability that god exists first in order to decide what the poll means about the probability that god exists.

Another answer comes with a disclaimer that the problem only works out in a straight-forward way if blue cars aren't a super-rare unbelievable occurrence. I don't think a poll about gods lends itself to an obvious answer similarly.
The part licensed from Nuance is the speech recognition, not the voice.
Are you saying that you can sort strings in O(n log n + D) using a conventional sorting algorithm such as merge sort? If so, I don't understand why D would be an additive factor implying that each string is only involved in a constant number of comparisons.

(I wasn't, by the way, only considering strings when discussing variable sized keys -- the beauty of discrimination is that we essentially reduce all sorting problems to string sorting.)
Reports the news outlet owned by Jeff Bezos
"Your margin is my opportunity."

- Jeff Bezos

Seems like they are continuing to follow this ethos.
A New Way to Invest in CA – Announcing the Open Book Initiative
That's not the point, it's that it now becomes imperative for them to teach others how to access the dark web. Eventually, if you push enough groups to the dark web, the government will feel pressured to regulate the dark web. No, I don't know, but they will certainly try
"The default hypothesis is no usage."

Says who? I agree speculators are a big fraction of crypto users, but you are making the even bolder claim that "crypto currencies are not practically used". Consider that lots of hard & anecdotal evidence suggests otherwise: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15094514
I meditate. My goal is to be more at ease with my thoughts. I still get anxious and confused, but that doesn't make the effort any less worthwhile. Same thing with simplicity: it's a habit that you build into your work by degrees over time. We'll always come up short and have our blind spots, but that doesn't invalidate the worth of the effort.
If I understand you correctly: You whip up a bootstrap page that describes the product with a 'beta sign-up & pay' button, and if enough people sign up and pay, you build it?

- What sort of demo do you have on the website? Or is it just a basic description of the product and a list of features?

- Does this mean you get payment processing setup before development every time?

- How do you manage returning money if you decide not to do it?
I know the risks are astronomical (literally), but anything significant enough to alter Earth's mass would also alter the moons orbit.

I just think if we are talking about an extraterrestrial base for the sake of "backing up" the human race then it is prudent to pick a location that isn't in any way dependant on the master copy.

However I appreciate other concerns also take priority as well (cost, practicality, etc) but if the topic were strictly just about backing up humanity then my ideal candidates would be Mars plus some location outside of our solar system. But I'm venturing well into the realm of sci-fi now.
I'm more impressed they're able to do it with a rocket that can't hover.
I've been considering Iceland. I'd be interested in hearing about where you work and how you like Iceland. It's hard to find information about software developers in Iceland.
Hunger’s Children
Consider a middle ground. Check out uMatrix, it allows you to block third-party js by default while allowing js from same site as well as making it simple to permanently allow selected domains for one or all others.
how'd you do that?
Roaring racers sounds like a brilliant idea! Where can I play it??
Ask HN: Good mobile games to play with chemobrain?
My Mom was diagnosed with cancer back in January, and she is currently undergoing chemotherapy. One side-effect of chemotherapy is "chemobrain" whereby there is some cognitive impairment during and after treatment. I think games could help with this.

I'm looking for games with the following characteristics...

* brain engaging

* easy to play (she's not tech savvy at all but does have an iPad and iPhone and can sort of browse the web; doesn't know how to download apps, but I can make that happen)

* ideally single and two-player (so she can play solo and with me) and potentially multiplayer (so she could play with others)

* asynchronous (so I can easily play with her at the convenience of both of us) games for mobile (iOS specifically)

I've tweeted the American Cancer Society a couple of times but haven't received a response. Below are some of the resources I've run across and their downsides.

Lumosity / Elevate - single player only.

Words with Friends - fair

https://www.verywell.com/brain-game-apps-for-chemobrain-513911

Any help is appreciated, thanks!
Well, the way I read what he wrote was that he was suggesting that bloat is bloat wherever it happens so that it's all a wash.
I've got the new Hyundai Ioniq with adaptive cruise control and lane assist. Last weekend I drove 160 miles with both enabled for the first time. I just found it shifted my focus. I was much more aware of what was going on outside the car. Setting the max speed to 75 mph enabled it to follow the car in front very effectively and overcame the incline and corner speed issue. Only problem was having to intervene to prevent under-taking.
It amazes me the number of people saying that nobody should be worried, that this license is nothing and even that libraries that do not use this license are riskier.

They added this license for a reason and they will use this leverage as much as they can and if you don't see that you are in denial.

If you cant move away from it, then stick with it. If you can move away or are still building your product just pick another framework and move on.
what exactly would be deserving of a boycott?
Yeah, really seems terrible. Look at the data rather than theory crafting.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-01-19/tesla-s-a...
>the proper action is to always stop

It's not. But it's a reasonable first reaction which is why we end up doing it. (That or swerving.)

But as soon as we realize the thing that made us twitch is a squirrel or a plastic bag, our forebrain takes the foot off the brake or straightens the wheel.
You can actually detect the issue in Trusting Trust: https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2006/01/countering_tr...

If you have two compilers and one is open source (and you've read the source and happy that it's clean), you can compile that source with both compilers. The output will be different because the two compilers will make different optimizations. However, now you have two binaries of the same compiler and while they aren't the same, their output will be. So you can re-compile the source with both new binaries and you should get a bit-for-bit equivalent output.
I think their first foray into autonomous trucking will be "follow trucks", so you have 1 human driver, but 2 or 3 trucks that follow the leader, without a driver.
Will shoppers now refer to it as "partial wallet" instead of "whole wallet"?
Capital costs? If a truck can only operate 50% of the time because the other 50% is spent recharging, you'll need twice as many trucks to move the same load.

While those trucks are recharging you're still paying for them.
By your logic Mark Zuckerberg who became a billionaire before hiting 30 certainly doesn't deserve the bulk of his riches since there is no way he could have done by himself, all the work thousands of engineers were hired to do at Facebook.

I know you might want to say there is a fundamental difference between a privately held TW and FB which took VC money early on, but I'm fairly confident that if Zuck thought he could build FB without taking VC money, he'd have gone that route, instead he went with dual-class shares as a reasonable compromise to retaining control of his company.
sort of, but lyft's market share costs 50% more than uber's market share
Fair viewpoint. I agree with you that this looks like the longer term business plan. However, multiple rounds of investors disagree and have come to the table and bet their cash.

This will be interesting to watch unfold. To extend the runway will cost an increasing amount. However, as the investment from influential investors increases so does the ability of Uber to influence government policy and actually push through self-driving.
Beyond the secure boot, this is really cool

"...Titan cryptographically associates the log messages with successive values of a secure monotonic counter maintained by Titan, and signs these associations with its private key. This binding of log messages with secure monotonic counter values ensures that audit logs cannot be altered or deleted without detection, even by insiders with root access to the relevant machine."
Yeah, that's true at least where I live. Most times I drive I'll see someone do something stupid or inattentive (or even do something stupid myself!), but I see thousands of people driving normally, i.e. driving well.

Countless times I've seen pedestrians or cyclists throw themselves in front of traffic without warning, and every time the drivers have stopped without incident. A collision is by far the more exceptional case.
Dropping a trailer vs waiting for it to be unloaded? I dunno. I agree with what your saying. Just moving stuff is obviously faster than waiting around for loading and unloading. At what point does the idle electric truck start to cost less than a simple trailer.
As an amateur Musk watcher I actually think he will be interested in the moon or more likely some sort of permanent space station as I think he's only now realizing how difficult mars would be as a first goal (also he's very good at surprises)
Surely 'speed-adaptive cruise control' is an oxymoron?
You mean more than (stroke|fill)(Color|Opacity)?
Ng's ML course was one of the first ML MOOC courses. Right now you have hundreds if not thousands of excellent ML courses to choose from.
The person you replied to never used the word "offended". The word they used was "embarrassed"; I doubt the embarrassment would be substantially affected by whether or not the room actually smelled.
You're getting a lot of naysayers here who take one experience and extrapolate it to mean everyone. There are a lot of Tesla drivers out there who use it every day to and from work. I suggest you try using and evaluating the system yourself.
SpaceX have run the simulations and while Red Dragon is possible, there's no way they can adapt Dragon to land on the Moon without adding an extra stage. That difference is entirely down to Aerobraking. Even the thin atmosphere of Mars makes a huge difference.

Anyone who plays KSP can confirm this for you, especially using the Real Solar System mod, though the same lessson is apparent even in the stock game.
As far as I can tell, Node.JS actually does use multiple threads for I/O, both for for networking and filesystem operations. But this implementation detail is not something programmers using it needs to think about.
Tesla responded to Reuters questions with an email statement saying, "Tesla’s policy is to always decline to comment on speculation, whether true or untrue, as doing so would be silly. Silly!”'
It depends on what mode you set it to, but under some circumstances, it does.
> I would assume that the OS X TTS engine is the same as Siri's as it would be available in High Sierra.

Nope, macOS uses a different set of voices for TTS, which are named differently as well. They work offline and are nowhere as good as Siri.
DOOM: Behind the Music
The consensus I've seen from people in the publishing industry is that lots of books buy their way onto the NYT bestseller list, but this one is just being much less subtle about it.
Great question. We are working on it. LOAS is about server or device credentials that only will be issued if Titan will pass the validation of bios firmware.

re: Niels paper, out of my control.
It came out maybe a year after the App Store launched, and the 100 copies I sold never justified maintaining it. It's long gone. Only way to play it would be an old iPhone that still has it installed and I don't even have one of those.
This sort metrics-buying isn't unique to books:

The RIAA changed its rules so Jay-Z's 'Magna Carta Holy Grail' would go platinum instantly after Samsung bought one million copies to give away to its users: http://pitchfork.com/news/51392-riaa-changes-gold-and-platin...

A similar partnership with Sprint meant '4:44' also went platinum almost immediately, even though it was only distributed on TIDAL: https://www.forbes.com/sites/garysuarez/2017/07/05/jay-z-444...
From 2013:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/jeffbercovici/2013/02/22/heres-...

ResultSource, a San Diego-based marketing consultancy, specializes in getting books onto bestseller lists, according to The Wall Street Journal. For clients willing to pay enough, it will even guarantee a No. 1 spot. It does this by taking bulk sales and breaking them up into more organic-looking individual purchases, defeating safeguards that are supposed to make it impossible to "buy" bestseller status.

One of the methods they use is getting people who show up to talks to get a copy of the book, I guess because you can stuff the price of the book into the price of the ticket. (I have a book at home I got from attending a Pop-Up Magazine show, for which tickets were a bit pricier than I would have liked. I haven't opened it yet.)
About the direction of polymer
Your quip implies some conflict of interest or nefarious intent, however:

1. They disclose that like they do in every article that mentions Amazon.

2. Many other outlets are reporting this. (Another one is on the front page of HN as I write.)

3. Do people honestly believe that Jeff Bezos exerts much, if any, editorial control over The Post?
The problem Tesla has is that their system only has ~ 40 meters visibility to back or front.

That means if you're on the Autobahn, at say 130km/h in the right lane, and a Porsche is coming from behind at 300km/h, the Tesla will not be able to see it, and consider the lane free.
Politely, this is not a new problem. Nor is it untypical for the upper crust to have issues with their kids, if myths and tales from earlier times are to be believed.

I can confidently say that screen addiction is kind of a thing for many kids. They can't bear to be without it. I notice my baby stares at the glowing screens, the phones, the computers. He also stares at fires. Brightness is attractive, apparently.

But something my wife and I are very set about: Mr. Baby will have to be able to bear being without a phone. Not that we'll be hovering or super limiting, but we expect Mr. Baby to be able to psychologically handle not having a phone glued to himself at all waking hours, and we will adjust our own phone usage if it becomes apparent we have issues.

Most entertainment and many non-entertainment phone apps are designed to be attention-grabbing machines, and that's worrisome. Kids don't have that armor to be able to drop out into a focus world. It is a very hot media, by McLuhan's classification, and I think that's worrisome.

Anyway. Unexpected effects happen, we're spinning faster than we ever have, and we have to ride the wave.
During the article, I wondered what the writer's end goal was. Then I saw that she wants to portray the lead in a movie version, and I can only assume this will be some Neil Breen-level, awesomely-bad garbage.
> This simply is not true. There are plenty of videos out there showing one out of control person fighting off more than two cops.

Can you show me a video where two people (police or otherwise) show good sense and martial arts training and are still unable to restrain someone?

One of the most common things I see in these videos (and I've seen it in person, even with cops I respect) is stepping the wrong way through an armbar. Standing armbar is, without a doubt, the #1 go-to technique for police and bouncers who are trying to restrain someone without using a weapon.

If I see a video of stepping forward through an armbar instead of back, I instantly know that our system has failed that police officer in terms of understanding how their body works vis a vis restraining someone.

It's totally true that, occasionally, a single person can make themselves impossible to restrain even by two people. Even more rarely, the person in question can continue to harm other people or property.

In that scenario, as I said, I think it's better for society to commit more people to the situation rather than (what I think is the lazy and destructive inclination to) add less lethal weapons.
"I got rear-ended once in fine conditions" != "I pass 2-3 rear-ends on my commute every day"
I don't really know what the point you're trying to make is? All the price cut information is from a press release[1] that was reported on by NYT, CNN, MSNBC, WSJ, amongst others.

[1]: http://phx.corporate-ir.net/phoenix.zhtml?c=176060&p=irol-ne...
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A Data-Driven Approach to LaTeX Autocomplete
I don't want to hear about the first dollar you made. I want to hear about how you went from $40,000 to $80,000 MRR. That's the key area. This post is just an ego stroke for a guy who made $1.00 ($.96 after fees).
There was a cruise control ish system I heard about on a car (a Mercedes, iirc) in Germany when I was a kid: instead of a target speed, you set a maximum speed, such that pressing normally down on the gas allowed the car to accelerate up to that speed. It trims down the excess gas to avoid exceeding the maximum speed. If you released the gas, the car would coast; and if you pushed the pedal down close to the floor (i.e. "to the metal"), it would allow you to exceed the speed you'd set, for example to momentarily accelerate in order to pass.

I loved this system and have always wished for something like this on a car in the US. I've never liked the common cruise control in the US -- where you set a target and it applies the gas for you -- because I didn't like how removing my foot from the gas pedal moved my foot fractions of a second further from the brake in an emergency.
I usually just do believable screenshots and a call to action like, "Request a trial" or "Buy now" it depends on what it's for.

I never take any money I just log the actions people took on the site. If it's a buy button, then you can just say, "Thanks for your interest. We are launching soon."
Then take another time span, but the currency fluctuations are so large that it becomes the largest factor to how much you actually take home.

I definitely wouldn't want that.

(I misremembered which currency fell 30% against the Euro, it was the pound instead)
Maybe against php 4. PHP 7 is much faster
It's also reported by WSJ earlier in the day. Standard PR engine in action.
perhaps you've 'complected' this thread. :)
SVGs might work well on the web, but fonts may work better in other contexts. For instance, to display icons in a text editor using just the standard text rendering system.
I've used Quod Libet and Meld, both GTK+ 3 apps, on MacOS by downloading .app bundles, so it must be possible, and maybe desirable on non-Linux(/BSD) platforms.