skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Huh. Good to know. Thanks =).. Ok. For the record, I am not under 30 (it's probably very obvious), and I was always a dork, even when I was under 30, way long ago in the stone age before cool cars were electric with touch screens (I'm pretty jealous of that, though).
He said there was no mention of it in the contract, and no one from the dealership has disputed that.
Big Backblaze fan. You guys have saved me a couple critical times!

I'm curious if your guys' view on NAS options is evolving at all?

My interest is this:

Here at Pixar we have several folks who I'd call "lazy power users" at home. Folks like us are familiar with computers, and we want a strong home network, but want to spend as little time as possible sysadmin-ing the thing. That generally means powerful, easy to manage wifi, proper firewalls, etc.....and networked storage/sharing & backup of all the family computers, from personal machines to spouse and kid setups.

For the circles I run in, this is a fairly common case, and no single service seems to fit the bill.

Backblaze seems so close (especially WRT "it just works"). If it could offer a "Home backup solution" as a service...oh man, I know of at least a hundred people who would sign up in a heartbeat.
more vegetables, legumes, and beans to make up for it.
China has been playing a dangerous game in nurturing the Kim regime and allowing it to obtain nuclear weapons. China has benefitted over the years from the presence of a hedge on its border against the US and South Korea, and from the frustrations the Kims have caused for the US, South Korea, and Japan. But it's been keeping a wild animal as a pet in its own backyard, and now that animal's got claws and rabies.

Interestingly enough, I see the emergence of common ground between Washington and Beijing on this issue. Sooner or later, China is going to calculate that Kim Jong-Un is more trouble than he's worth. When that happens, I can see the US and China arranging an unwritten agreement to take out Kim in exchange for the US's acceptance of the legitimacy of the North Korean state.

That would be a bitter pill for the US and its allies to swallow. But it seems preferable to the current course and speed of events, which basically have Kim developing usable ICBMs within a decade or less. To assume that a growing nuclear arsenal will somehow make Kim less of a threat, or endow him with a newfound sense of global stewardship and responsibility, is to place a particularly strange bet.
YouTube’s makeover continues with redesigned mobile app, logo and more
What internet privacy?

I seemed to have it a dozen years ago, but I must have misplaced it because I haven't seen it in a long, long time.
> So if one needs to evolve AR hardware from phones to glasses, then putting it on the phones is a prudent next step, isn't it?

Time will tell, but if we are let's say 10 years away from good AR glasses what difference does it make if smartphones of today can display AR content?

Obviously Apple (and now Google) are fighting in the marketing space, not technical one.

In truth the problem is really hardware not software.
I'm slightly confused, what is the use case for this? It says "no npm, babel, etc" but then it goes and downloads the packages for you.
Can you recommend a good source of info about running a personal email server? I have heard that it is extremely difficult to get mainstream email providers to accept email from unrecognized sources, but if that is not the case, or if there is a good method for dealing with that madness, then I am very much interested in managing my own email.
Looks like those Seagates are still disappointingly failure-prone, while HGST remains the most reliable.
If it helps, $14,000 CAD is roughly $11,000 USD
Actually DTrace, Zones, ZFS all predate the Oracle acquisition of Sun.
I don't know if it's on purpose on not, but I agree with lack of a usable API.

API focused businesses don't own the customer.

https://www.accenture.com/us-en/insight-retail-customer-expe...
India shut off the internet in an attempt to maintain order
The article says it well. The GPS only benefits the dealers, and they demand that the customers pay the fees to install, maintain, and remove the devices. 60 years ago this kind of hostile, predatory bullshit would have been met with torches and pitchforks. Today people just have to eat it.
Further more based on the Apple event being on the 12th as expected it will be in production in under a month.
Android Studio/IntelliJ is an excellent IDE. Kotlin is a great language. There's Instant Run for quick builds.

I've only been doing Android for 9 years. I've seen the development tools evolve and improved the past few years.

But what do I know. You're probably the expert here.
I have a Node server that restarts once a day. On start it reads the state of the app (which is just one big JSON) from MongoDB into a JavaScript variable. When something changes it updates the variable in the Node process and fires an event to update the field in MongoDB. In other word it only ever reads from MongoDB on server start. This has worked very good so far but with all the negative comments I'm thinking there must be some kind of drawback or reason I should switch to Postgre JSON instead.

One problem I see is that I need to overwrite the whole thing when saving with Postgre when you can easily just set one field in MongoDB. If I need to overwrite I may as well just save the whole state to a file instead.

Forgot to add that it does the same for users. Users are one collection which reads the document on login and saves the same way as the global state does on every update. How would that work with Postgre?
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No this isn't colored coins; Its a first class asset on the WAVES network. The protocol itself supports user issued assets (aka cryptoassets). Colored coins is a hack for bitcoin-like protocols that don't support native assets.
If it can be done remotely, it can be hacked. So just waiting for shady dealers paying hackers to disable cars their competitors sold to drive them out of business.
Wow, what's the deal with Seagate's 4TB drives failing so often?
How are these GPS trackers installed? I'm assuming they're somehow plugged in through the OBDII port under the dash. If that is the case, can't he just pull out the tracker and continue driving?
Unfortunately lots of information is hostage to bad web design. I would really like to vote with my X button the web pages and apps of my uni, but instead I have to write scrapers to extract RSS feeds from their JS mess or else I can't know what's going on. Oh, the other option is to follow them on Facebook or Twitter. Also, the news sites often have hostile UIs, but one needs at least one of them.
Although WD bought HGST [1], it is interesting WD performs worse than them.

[1] https://www.wdc.com/about-wd/newsroom/announcements/wdc-acqu...
Why is that anytime something comes out from Google (or just about anything, for that matter), people have to find something to complain about? There are more engineers at Google than the ones that were working on this project. Just because they are developing this project doesn't mean they stopped development on all other Android related projects.

So why don't we actually discuss the product instead of finding a way to shoehorn in an unrelated topic to complain about?
Agreed. People with bad credit are pooled together and all charged more to make up for the ones within that pool who default. You can't simply put people with good credit in that pool because they will shop around for a better rate and they will find one.

As someone who has shared an apartment with a person with poor credit who is also a habitual liar and hides/blames others for their problems... I believe in giving people the opportunity to rebuild credit slowly, but have no problem whatsoever with limiting opportunities and charging those people more until they work to regain credibility.
Outliner Apps for iOS and macOS
Now what we need is something to reassemble tweet storms into a coherent block of text.
Western Digital continues buying spree by snapping up Tegile
Open source through grant funding. An interview with Karissa McKelvey
Long pressing the reload button ... wow ... yep it does that. I wonder: Is there some site that just lists all the different tricks for mobile safari in a list?

I feel like I am 8 again bombing random walls / burning random trees in Zelda looking for a super secret fabled (atleast in my grade school) green potion of unlimited refills when I'm using iOS safari half the time.

Also, I feel like double tapping the address bar used to scroll to the top of the page too but it seems like it doesn't do that anymore so showing what was ninja patched out would be useful too.
you don't have a degree if you got rid of your passport, no matter how many years of education you had. and you shouldn't be allowed to use those credentials if you came illegally.
Yes, money talks. Which is why free software that is guaranteed to stay free is a resilient solution if we can develop it.

Privacy violations exist so middle men can make money. Cutting out the middle men solves the privacy problem AND motivates people by saving them money.
Au contraire- that tape measure app is the killer application of AR
Also, being affixed to the car at the time the title was transferred, unless there was a specific mention of it in the purchase agreement, the immobilizer was transferred with the car. If the new owner had the expertise, he could have removed the device himself and destroyed it.

The dealer, by remotely accessing the device for which they no longer had authorization, is also technically guilty of criminal hacking.
Why Yale Owns a Forest
I use mine full time for systems eng and devOps type tasks. All GUI tasks are handled by chrome with the exception of my password safe which is an android app. I use crouton for a shell and ssh to local host with the ssh extension.

I love it, it's clean, lite, updated all the time. It's the reverse of my old workflow which was a browser on linux. Now I run linux on a browswer (same thing really) and google handles drivers, battery life, copy/paste, font rendering, graphics card management/ x11 configuration. . . . All the things that suck or take real work about using a linux laptop.

Super fast setup too. I can wipe it when I'm going somewhere and have it up and fully ready to use in 10-15 minutes. (mostly I don't, but there are times when that seems like the best option.)
Patent Free React Ecosystem Migration Plan
The people of North Korea suffer greatly in poverty, lack of food, lack of resource, lack of education. The greatest issue is not taking out the head of the snake, it's the millions of refugees that would go to South Korea, flooding one of the most tech-advanced countries with people needing help and livelihood. That's the big tsunami that nobody wants to look at.
Unified archives sound like an extension of flash archives, available since Solaris 9. Boot environments showed up in the post Solaris 10 open source effort, again, pre Oracle...
Would love to - couldn't find your email in your profile tho.

To keep the UI simple, I'd like to specify a URL and specify the IP range(s) that are allowed to access each. Bonus points if I can in addition to web UI submit and change the map programmatically. The first allows for greater security for admin pages and similar internal uses. The second allows us to provision for our enterprise users dynamically, who are at well known IPs.
That's a good point regarding the $29/month being a decoy price. By the way for anyone curious, that concept I think is known as anchor pricing or price anchoring, if you want to read up on it some more.
> So if you're wondering why it's slower, it's almost certainly that the hand-written assembly is actually poorly scheduled.

The assembly is slower because Go doesn't inline it. The overhead is obvious when calling one-op assembly blocks[1]. The proposal to inline assembly was rejected last year[2] by Russ Cox.

[1] https://lemire.me/blog/2016/12/21/performance-overhead-when-...

[2] https://github.com/golang/go/issues/17373
That assumes a lot of things which can't be assumed, information symmetry among them. There's nothing in market economics that insists on the theoretical impossibility of predatory subprime lending.
Personally I would prefer them to target the top devices with a great product instead of delivering a mediocre product that all devices can run.
The borrower claims the contract made no mention of the fee, and the dealer did not provide any comment for the article.

The dealer backed down quickly over the fee, but that doesn't mean they didn't have a right to request the sum.
Thanks for the reminder to appreciate the little things and not take anything for granted.

I wish you all the luck in your physical therapy.
Best Buy hiring in-home salespeople
How does this compare to apple`s ARKit?
What are the alternatives to Medium?
> I'm curious if your guys' view on NAS options is evolving at all?

Our Backblaze "B2" product line was designed so that you get the exact same cost of storage of the online backup product line but you were free to write ANY policy you like (such as backup NAS boxes). Developers can use these APIs: https://www.backblaze.com/b2/docs/ And if you are a "lazy power user" who wants something that just works, maybe check out one of these 3rd party tools: https://www.backblaze.com/b2/integrations.html
Cryptography is not magic, and it will become the standard. Privacy can either be provided, demanded, or created. Since nobody wants to demand it, and it is not being provided, there is only one option.
No, they are wired in to the car's ignition system, at least.
Sounds to me like the GP believes in minimally constrained competition, where monopolism is one of the many undesirable constraints on their way of life. They are correctly identifying large corporations as analogous to overbearing governments. That, to me, is a classic right-wing belief, and one that I can empathize with, as a staunch Decentralist Green.
1. Why wouldn't he go ahead and move there now to save on his presumedly decently sized income along the way?

2. Anyone know if that kind of 'tax arbitrage' often challenged from states that see people move away just before a major event?
I'm having a bear of a time trying to figure out what podcast it was. It might even have been a YouTube video. I've been going through different permutations of search terms to find it.

I'm worried it might have been .NET Rocks![1] They have a great podcast, but their episodes aren't indexed by Google because of their website structure.

I'm gonna keep looking, and even check my home computer's history when I get home tonight, but I wouldn't hold your breath. Someone a bit above linked to a book that I'm pretty sure was the impetus behind the podcast I listened to, so it might be worth giving that a read.

[1] https://dotnetrocks.com/

EDIT: HA! I found it! It was actually in the press section on the book's web page.

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1222261...
They are not plugged into the OBD-II port. They are hardwired. Example: http://i.imgur.com/G2HVLGI.jpg
Without confirming or denying anything, can you allude, vaguely, and super non-committally, that Oracle, who may or may not be your boss, cares about Solaris?
How a Crisis Almost Derailed the Original iPhone
It's quite plausible that payment of this fee was a condition of title being transferred.

Also, even once the title for the car is transferred, the tracker remains the property of the dealer and they will have some rights to recover it.
Ah, very nice. That's actually not a bad way to go on the long and beautiful path to Code Canvas
Google, for instance, has a ton of data about me. They don't sell that data directly to advertisers, because if they give up that data then it loses all value to Google because the advertisers would then be able to resell it. So instead they let advertisers target specific demographics of people, leveraging what they know about me. As long as I use an adblocker and individual information isn't sold to insurers for example, what's the harm to me?
> First, the idea of running a distributed ledger to keep track of burger points. This is the tech equivalent of using a bazooka to address an ant problem.

They aren't running it. They are using the Waves platform, which has very easy 1-click asset creation. Waves is also Proof of Stake, so there's no mining involved.

This gives the transparency benefits and distribution benefits, without any of the overhead.

Regarding distribution, waves platform has a culture of airdrops in it.

I find Waves fun. Between leasing, the decentralized exchanges, the airdrops, the dividends, and finding out about the assets that got airdropped or dividended to you, I find myself in the app quite often unintentionally. The airdropped assets are mostly worthless, but the descriptions of the assets are interesting. I would say the fun aspect is different than other cryptocurrencies. Its like finding random stuff in Skyrim, keeps me coming back.

For reference, I buy Waves and purchase Waves Community Tokens (WCT) on the decentralized exchange. Most airdrops go to WCT holders, they just take a record of the blockchain and send to all address with WCT balances.

I lease my remaining Waves to the pools FountainPerpetua and WavesGo. There are plenty of other pools to lease to.

Pools give payments in the form of Waves, because thats what they earn, but they also have the option of giving payments in other assets too, they just need to remain competitive.

So I typically earn Waves, Waves Community Tokens and Miners Rewards tokens.

The WavesGo pool gives WavesGo tokens which are actual shares and actual securities.

WavesGo pools distributes more of its own earnings to all WavesGo holders. You can buy and sell more WavesGo shares on the decentralized exchange.
ARKit seems like the near term future. It's useful and no longer requires as much expertise since is available in the OS and is well documented. For a software library it's surprisingly accurate.

The Tango model of using extra hardware is probably much better, but seems further ahead. The software model works today on existing devices and lets people see how this is useful. Once you have that convincing people it's with the money to have the hardware added to the phone becomes easier.

Given how many Android phones are lower cost than the flagship was Tango ever going to be very popular? Apple could have forced the issue (like Lightning or the headphone jack) but people could always switch Android OEMs to get something cheaper if they don't see the value.
I despise this software, but I think that it's intended for ESL users.
Hey Colin -> I'll echo what Brian said below (he's our CTO though didn't identify himself, I'll shame him later). Our B2 service is designed for that. Adding NAS support to our computer backup service would skew the math too much in the wrong direction, but we developed B2 to be flexible for the majority of use-cases and it's been integrated with a lot of popular NAS platforms as well.
Why do you think there isn't such advertising? For example, in B2B sales, you can and do show specific targeted ads to the IP ranges belonging to particular companies or social media accounts identified as their employees (to which you want to sell your product), you also do social media profiling of particular people before you're going to visit them, so that you can tailor sales pitches to their personalities.

It's just that this isn't done in a scalable way, but as a part of high-touch sales activity involving human salespeople.
Mongo is great for certain use cases. And if it ain't broke don't fix it.
From naught to exit: what I learned playing the startup game
Show HN: Anagram game in React
Or maybe we're seeing the silliest version of Snowcrash come to life.
I don't know about Random Forests specifically, but in trees (or forests), "depth" refers to the number of steps you need to take from the root to a specific node.

So the "minimal depth" of a variable would be the, well, minimal "depth" of any node in the tree that splits on that variable.

As I understand the article, this can be used to compare the importance of different variables, since a more important variable would allow better splits, and appear at a lower depth in the trees.
And Mike's Tyson's derivative: "Everyone has a plan until they get punched in the face." Make sure your plan is flexible!
OoO register renaming is a nearly orthogonal concept compared to SPARC style register windows. And I say nearly, mainly because if you try to implement both it increases the complexity more than you would think due to microarchitectual interactions between the two concepts.

Also, it's not really an x86 thing (for instance most Atoms don't have these extra registers), it's an in-order vs out-of-order thing. Most Power cores do have the larger bank and renaming.
Others to consider are SiteStacks (http://sitestacks.com) and Wappalyzer (http://wappalyzer.com)
Actually, it's actually a great use of blockchain.

That way, your customers can transfer points with eachother, etc -- then spend them at your restaurant. It does in fact decentralize trust -- the key here is that it's the restaurant trusting the customer, not the other way around.

Each point only gets spent once, and there's a built-in automated mechanism for "cashing in" those points.

I mean, I agree it's probably dumb for hamburger loyalty points. But it makes a ton of sense for hotel/airline points if you build the wallet into your mobile app and allow consumers to transfer points with each other offline. If it's transparent to the user, there's no reason it couldn't work.
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I think this would be really cool if you could take this text, tweet storm it out, then publish it as a blog post (on wp or someplace else).

Often, a tweet storm pulls me in, but twitter's functionality is always a bit wonky.
Thank you for the links. Here is FTC's ruling against Intel from 2010: https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/press-releases/2010/08/ftc-s...

Seems like they mention chipsets, but didn't go far enough given what happened to Nvidia chipsets vis-a-vis GPUs. They could do a little bit better as a regulator.

http://www.mercurynews.com/2010/02/13/nvidia-gains-ally-agai...
It's part of an entire industry that re-labels auto "rentals" as "sales":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4U2eDJnwz_s
> But what do I know. You're probably the expert here.

Was it really necessary?
> have a look
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Lots of places are Java™ shops, and adding new shiny stuff from the NodeJS ecosystem for frontend work can be difficult. I couple years ago I had to build a weird multi-step build bridge between babel and the Grails asset pipeline. A pure JVM implementation would probably make this sort of thing less painful for a lot of companies.
Its funny how the telegraph finds this particular science backed study OK to print and not critique, but balks at many Science backed studies on Climate Change. Its as if they apply politics to certain things that are not, and should not be political
Russian Government.
That's exactly it. I knew it was something based on a book. I've updated my comment below, if anyone is looking for the specific radio show about it.
Except the guy didn't eat it. They tried to make him, his representative disputed, and he didn't end up paying it.
> What makes them better than a real and accessible blog post?

The audience. You want people to read your stuff, put it where the eyeballs are. And while threads do have a bit of friction to them, it's quite a lot less friction than opening J. Random Link, especially on mobile.
> it’s tedious to plan and post Twitter threads

Maybe Twitter isn't the right tool for this then?
would it matter if they flag your vehicle as long as they can no longer track or shut it down?