skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Don't get me started on B&N. As ridiculous as it sounds, I want to support B&N because at least they employ people who are somewhat local vs. an Amazon fulfillment center X miles away. Plus with that story of fake/reprinted books on Amazon, I'd rather buy directly from the retailer instead of a commingled pile.

My ideal B&N experience: go to their site, find the book I like, purchase it for the same price as Amazon (usually the prices are the same), then go pick it up at the store. But no, I can't do that. If I want to pick it up in store, I have to pay the "in store" price (which is often at 10-20% higher). No thanks.
I was looking for clarification as to whether the neurons are implemented as analog circuits as well, especially with the reference to Dr. Carver Mead in the beginning of the article, who has a long history of working on analog neuron circuits, but I did not see any explicit references to whether the neurons were digital or analog.
A Rust HID Library for Interacting with U2F Security Keys
Creating Optimized Parallax Backgrounds for Mobile Games
Wow. This was fascinating, and terrifying both. Thank you for that link. To anyone else, I recommend listening to the whole 16 minutes actually - makes Mr. Shen's silence that much more stark.
This happens for just about every election. Obama spent money attempting to influence elections in Israel, France, all sorts of places. Look at what Clinton did to interfere in Russia's elections as lampooned in the Jeff Goldblum film Spinning Boris. Clinton just about ran Boris Yeltsin's campaign. You're on course for permanent outrage if you deeply research any particular election happening currently on this planet, I feel.
Do system calls put their return value on the calling threads stack or in a register?
well to get around that one well known campaign simply made sure the donations from "unknown" sources were sufficiently small and diversified in identifying data so they would not be reported/flagged.

the current political parties set up the donation game so they could work it to their advantage and eliminate possibility of a 3rd or more parties.
2 course / 3 course used to rely on fallow periods, IIRC, though it's been more than 20 years since I covered this in school :)

What's so significant about all this stuff is that this agrarian revolution lead to greater food productivity, increasing populations, and started to increase the labour pool available for other tasks. This stuff basically kick started the eventual industrial revolution. That's part of why it's so strange to see it coming around again
The interest in geopolitics is deeply imprinted in the Russian mindset from the Soviet era. Since the dawn of the USSR the Communists always thought in terms of geopolitics and influence expansion. It constantly translated through the state propaganda to the masses. Therefore, an average Soviet person would be more interested in the progress on "helping our friends / fighting our enemies abroad" rather than in having good schools and roads in his/her local community. The vast majority of the country were in ruins yet its people were immensely proud of advances in Korea/Afghanistan/Vietnam/Egypt and whatever other warzone the USSR was involved at that time. This mindset has successfully survived the collapse of the USSR and is now widespread in Putin's Russia. Only this time it's about Georgia/Ukraine/Syria as warzones in a traditional sense, and US/Europe as cyber-warzones.
Or to try making more sense of some libc implementation. The syscall stuff in glibc and musl both have a good bit of preprocessor voodoo to make syscalls feel more like function calls.
Is the SCOTUS ruling blocking Florida's statewide recount the bogus crisis you're referring to regarding Bush?
I'm happy to answer any questions anyone might have.

This is a web analytics platform that has been going since the beginning of 2013.

It focuses on what is happening right now and has built in error reporting which is useful to front-end developers.
He is answering the question that his parent post asked, which is how can a spiking network be more efficient than a non-spiking one. He provided the details to a specific case of spiking networks which are more efficient, and explanations as to why it is more efficient.
Until white people are comfortable living in a 80% minority neighborhood, self-segregation is potentially inevitable regardless of all other factors.

Play with the little simulation at the bottom here: http://nifty.stanford.edu/2014/mccown-schelling-model-segreg...

Notice how low the similarity percentage has to be to get anything that is remotely integrated.
> Border Patrol can't actually stop me and search my car, search my house, or anything like that - unless I'm going through the border.

The ACLU disagrees and says all the CPB needs is probable cause.

>8 U.S.C. § 1357(a)(3) addresses CBP officials’authority to stop and conduct searches on vessels, trains, aircraft, or other vehicles anywhere within “a reasonable distance from any external boundary of the United States.” Without further statutory guidance, regulations alone expansively define this “reasonable distance” as 100 air miles from any external boundary of the U.S., including coastal boundaries, unless an agency official sets a shorter distance.1CBP agentscan also even enter private property without a warrant (excepting dwellings) within 25 miles of any border. In this 100-mile zone, CBP has claimed certain extra-constitutional powers. For instance, Border Patrol claims the authority tooperate immigration checkpoints. Agents, nevertheless, cannot pull anyone over without "reasonable suspicion" of an immigration violation or crime (more than just a "hunch"). Similarly, courts have determined that outside of Ports of Entry Border Patrol cannot search vehicles in the 100-mile zone without a warrant or "probable cause" (a reasonable belief, based on the circumstances, that an immigration violation or crime has occurred). In practice, Border Patrol agents routinely ignore or misunderstand the limits of their legal authority, violating the constitutional rights of innocent people. Although the 100-mile border zone is not literally "Constitution-free," CBP frequently acts like it is.

https://www.aclu.org/other/aclu-factsheet-customs-and-border...
The mere fact that we are debating over the correctness of this table confirms the quality of the documentation of the OS we base our entire civilization upon is pretty poor.
> I'd argue that Google's products for photos, email, maps/navigation, video conferencing, and translation -- all blocked in China -- exceed that of any competitor, Chinese or otherwise

I'd be interested to hear why you think so. As far as I know none of these are better than their Chinese counterparts in any meaningful way. (Competition isn't the right word as these are different markets.)

Baidu Translate is at least as good as Google Translate, certainly better for translating to and from Chinese.

Google Maps is not relevant at all in the Chinese market because they don't have the data. Setting that aside, I am not aware of any technical edge they have over Baidu.

Chinese people generally don't use email, but there are mail providers that are comparable to what Google has.
Someone is randomly sending money(Wolk Token) to ether wallet. Possible hacking?
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There's room for software to help alot in these efforts.
Yeah the main weapon sound is from a poor copy of the Earthling Cruiser :)
It is so much cheaper to ship an item from China then from within the United States. Shipping is subsidized in China and then the US Post Office will take the item and deliver it the rest of the way for free. If I can wait 4 weeks for an item I try and buy direct from China.
Cheers, I've used it on WashPo and thought it was a great experience as an end-user.
I Wore the Jean Jacket of the Future
> for the latter half of that period...

First half...?
So far he/she made over 16K transaction and sent averagely 5-6 Wolk to 16K ether wallets through a smart contract.

1 ETH = 1777 Wolk at its ico. So he/she already spent about 7-8 K dollars? What is he/she planning to do?
I learned more about programming from Hacking: The Art of Exploitation than from many books solely dedicated to the subject. If you're going to purchase this bundle then I highly recommend you pay the 15, it's worth it.
Reminds me of a comparison someone made last week: "that's like saying 'we made a spaceship that can fly at warp speed. All we need to do now is build the warp drive'".
I was impressed to see how small a space Panasonic/PanaHome could build you a house or apartment tower in Japan. The apartment itself was made from nice material and pretty livable for being 50 ft^2. (Meanwhile in California, no way to escape beige carpet and 80F interiors with no A/C.)
What happens if you create a file called aux.c under a different OS, and then mount the drive on Windows?
In this post, I detail the process of creating seamless parallax background animations for mobile games using optimized assets, and also share the GLSL shader I wrote for Twiniwt.
Certainly it's possible for the script author to throttle. Not so much for the web site visitor.
Everything is client-server, client wins, except for one thing.

I had the polarity reversed. It's actually client-server, server wins.
The institution-teacher-student model, or the top-down approach, is based on two things: 1) a specific, predetermined set of knowledge each learner must know at each level and 2) tying those requirements with specific ages. This results in one of two problems for the individual learner. Either they are mastering the content faster than their peers, or they need more time than the specifications allow. And, at least here in the US, there isn't much room for the learner to choose their own path. I know I often was frustrated in the classroom as a kid, either repeating information I already had down or jumping ahead without mastering the fundamentals first.

Much of this stems from economic concerns with education. We simply can't afford to have one teacher per student all day long at a systematic level. We know from years of research that 1-on-1 tutoring is almost always going to be the most effective model (combined with some social and problem-based learning).

We live in an exciting time. Technology can help remove some of the economic barriers to individualizing learning. I've been thinking about this problem for several years. If anyone's interested to see what I've come up with... I don't have all the answers, but (shameless plug) https://sagefy.org

The article in the parent looks pretty great! I've scanned it but I've got it down in my TODO list to read through. Always interested in hearing about different thoughts about the problem.
The pirate scene occasionally hits this as well (copies of the film "Con Air" which would be named "Con.Air.<foo>" by convention were instead named "Con_.Air" or "Con_Air" etc. All thanks to the legacy CON device.
W3C does not have any real, legal entity
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It's more complicated than that, that's just the list of forbidden base names, but there is also a list of forbidden characters, and many other rules. This MSDN article has all the details: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/aa3...
I learned a bit of react some time ago, then recently came back and everyone seemed to have switched to using HoC matrioshkas which was driving me a little crazy... this presentation just nailed it for me.
I'm sorry for the delayed response but I've been pondering how to reply in a constructive and positive manner.

I came up with this:

I'm not sure how to accurately relay that to people such as the person I was responding to. For some reason, they have this really biased view of America. Don't get me wrong, America has its faults.

However, to say that justice, mercy, and freedom don't exist here? Then, they compound it by saying it's not hyperbole - meaning they really believe that?

I wish I were better at communicating. My verbosity indicates my inability. All of those things exist in America - I can see them daily. It's not like I'm a huge nationalist - and I've traveled across the globe.

I'm not sure how one gets to be that biased or what information they're using to draw those conclusions. I don't wish them ill, I feel sorry for them. They're obviously being fed propaganda - and they believe it as gospel. They remind me (and this isn't very nice) of a brainwashed cult member.

I have no solution, or even a path to find a solution. America has lots and lots of things wrong with it. But the three they listed certainly do exist and, while they could improve, to say there is none of any of them is just a sign that they're consuming some very biased media - or, perhaps, mentally ill. I'd like to think it's harmless, but I see those ideas crop up here and there. It's not frequent, but often enough to where I've noticed it.

Ah well... I'll mull it over some more.
Not to mention that not everywhere comes back (in said lifetime at least).

The same gamble that paid off in NYC or Boston likely didn't in Baltimore, Detroit, STL, etc. Playing the long game has given you zero or near zero returns for decades there.
https://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/241/...

"Act 14" on this This American Life episode tells the story of what happened when the Vienna Sausage Company moved production to a new, purpose-built facility. If you'd rather read than listen, scroll down to "Act Fourteen" here, https://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/241/...

It arguably exemplifies precisely what you're saying, except in a much more literal fashion.
At the end of the day, how is this an improved experience for the reader?
Don’t cry for me, this iPhone 8 battery life is fantastic several days in.
I'm not a lawyer, so my opinion is worth what you paid for it, but...

Without an authentication bypass, I don't think the CFAA applies (last I perused it).

The end user probably doesn't have standing under CFAA unless the website's ToS suggested they would not act this way. If you, as a web visitor, visit a website you are largely at the mercy of whatever plugins they load onto your browser during that session. In exchange for access to the content on the site, the website owner can steal your data (tracking + analytics), your bandwidth (autoplay advertising videos), and the processing resources associated with loading a webpage (or whatever else you can do in a webpage).

The website's owner might be able to bring a case against the person who injected it, perhaps (depending on who it was and who authorized it). The infraction may not be "breaking into" a computer as the CFAA requires if it was a CBS/Showtime employee/contractor who did it. It is almost certainly grounds for some sort of punitive employment / civil action if it wasn't a requested feature by CBS/Showtime.

The fun part about the law is that the gray areas aren't all defined ahead of time. Web visitors can sue or attempt to bring criminal charges and we get to watch how it unfolds in the courts.
To be clear, Rust does scope-based memory management and does allow copying pointers to immutable data.

Affine typing (plus the rest of Rust's system) on top of scoped memory management is needed to avoid problems like returning a pointers into something that is deallocated at the end of a function:

int &foo() {
std::vector<int> v = ...;
return v[0];
} // return value is dangling

And similarly, avoiding having pointers into things that are destroyed when their parent is modified:

std::vector<std::unique_ptr<int>> v = ...;
int &ref = *v[0];
v.clear();
// ref is dangling
A customer base of hundreds thousands doing streaming will cost you way more than $50k/day.
Everything is a violation of the CFAA. It's just a matter of who it is rocking the boat. They could just as easily make a ToS that would make it a violation of the CFAA to disable the monero miner.

I don't see any problem with crypto-miners on pages for revenue though. They're no more resource stealing or annoying that the typical JS 'web app' that pass for websites these days.
I'm sure Coinbase keeps a record. It's only a matter of time before the government gets ahold of their records.
Chelsea Manning says she has been barred from entering Canada
Microsoft and Facebook laid a 160-tps cable 4k miles across Atlantic
These aren't free streaming services, and there was no disclosure, let alone consent, about the mining.

edit: And CBS most likely never ordained the mining to begin with.
According to their government relations team they've already chosen a city, architect, and have everything planned. What the strategy here is really to force all of these cities to come to Amazon, hat in hand, so they can also lobby them on their major issues. It's pretty much a scam.
This is obvious if you've ever poked through a few random transactions on etherscan. The big exchanges use temporary accounts to move funds to users. It makes sense that would make up a majority of eth transactions because fiat is the only way to purchase ether.
You clearly don't know my in-laws or parents.

By the time the election was over they had bought into pizzagate.

They are the perfect demographic to target. No ad blockers, leaning towards Bernie but kind of didn't relate to Hillary.

You only needed to convince a fraction of the people to either not vote or vote for Trump.

The best part is you could target them by trying all sorts of ads until you found one that clicked then have it go viral.

I'm waiting for the Mueller probe but I fear the worst.
Quantum data takes a ride on sound waves
That seems likely to me too, but did the article say that? Or is there another source?
Hmm, is there a cheatsheet or crash course for it? Not particularly interested in reading a book just to get my editing game on. Just throw me in the deep water with the basics, and then I'll jump around to what I need.

Would consider using this instead of LaTeX for my thesis, but not so much if the time investment is too much.
there were credit cards in 70-ies?
Whataboutism.

Example:
Country A caught doing something bad.
"...but what about Country B?"

Whataboutism is quite popular in discussions WRT Russia.
Time for racial equality in pro sports
I like the idea though, I mean a smart home deal, making everyday boring objects cooler, assuming you also have Augmented reality.

I thought it was like a back light panel of a computer display pretty cool it's a projection if I read what you said right.

Yeah I wasn't 100% serious of what I said, it's like I don't know if this is a good analogy "yeah it's easy with the push of my foot, I can turn oil into 60 mph" with regard to a car.
You need to step back for a minute. Think about a scenario where Russia actually did influence our elections. Do you think the response would be this passive?

All of this Russia talk is a farce. If Russia actually interfered with US elections, the US response would be awe inspiring.
There's nothing from a readers perspective that you can accomplish with Pollen that couldn't be accomplished in some other way. But if it makes author's lives easier they'll publish more which improves the reader's experience.
Prepare for the daily prompt to update.
If anything, there's more dogs.
Siri and Spotlight will now use Google, not Bing, for Web searches
Sounds about right, 'dot' is about as old as the hills, so it probably wasn't an issue back in the day.
If someone is interested would be awesome to try and plug in as a parser for prettier.
You run into different, but similar, issues cloning Linux on macOS as well, since HFS+ is case-insensitive by default (and looks like the same is true of APFS), but the Linux source has filenames that differ only in case (don't ask me why).
My list said Wechat isn't used unless it is for something mainland china related. The same is true in Hong Kong and Taiwan.
Nigerian princes
I hope it's just a matter of time before browsers start to throttle sites...

Or maybe search rankings will be affected by CPU usage, and bandwidth.
Do the licensing conditions require taxi services to report contractor addresses, telephone numbers, and rider history immediately anytime there is any potential criminal dispute?

If so, then essentially your history is an open book to any UK police departments.

If not, then your ride history is safe under the Data Protection Act.

DPA isn't some black magic. Medical providers are required to report abuses as well, but they don't send patient history or tell who else an employee has worked with or on unless there's a formal request.

Regardless, I hope that Uber comes into compliance with the ULL shortly, and their future behavior is not merely in line with the standard but better than that of other smaller minicab companies.
Facebook is facing two age discrimination lawsuits
I think this advice is great, but the wording they use causes people to miss the point. Specifically the word "launch". You don't need to have a big marketing launch, you don't need to do ads, you just need to get it in front of customers and validate your business by whatever means you can (whether checking whether consumers come back or asking people to pay, or whatever).

The struggle is that people think "oh, this needs Slack-level design" or 'just another feature', but if they thought of it not as "launch" but instead "put this in front of customers now and get feedback", it would be more obvious that this was a good thing.
I found a typo: "copy written" should be "copyrighted".
Discussion from 3 years ago (at time of release?) (53 comments):
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7822057
It doesn't have to completely cover the costs, only offset it some and be used in conjunction with other income generation methods.

Personally, I don't mind it so long as it is both fully disclosed and the ramifications fully explained - both in an accessible manner to a layperson. So long as they do that, I'm okay with it. I'm more okay with it if they give the user a simple means to opt out in a meaningful fashion.

Now, chances are exactly none of those conditions will be met in the real world. But, in principle, I am okay with it.
I’ve been running a miner via coin-hive.com. The earnings are ridiculously low. With 5 ad slots, I make around $6 RPM. With coin-hive/monero, it's not even equivalent to $0.5. Unless you are a website with the page open for hours and you have millions of views, this does not even make sense.

Or maybe I am not doing this right.
Children's book printing
Practical Typography is gorgeous. I have a lot of respect for what Butterick's accomplished. He does great font work as well. I also admire his experiments (hopefully successful) in making this worth his while:

https://practicaltypography.com/how-to-pay-for-this-book.htm...
I played it, and to be honest I couldn't figure it out. I did read the instructions. I pressed shift and some yellow things went flying out of my ship. I don't know what they did. Could do that about 3 times, then it didn't happen when I pressed shift again. Tried pressing space bar to shoot, nothing happened. Got killed right away by a group of three ships. Played a couple of times, gave up.
You did say 1200 times per day. How did you arrive at this number and what tools did you use to find this out. I would like to verify this.
Looking to do something similar and was worried about compatibility for the disk enclosure. Mind sharing which one you went with that works with freebsd?