skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It violates (IANAL) the FAA Modernization and Reform Act of 2012, section 336 [1]: "... the Federal Aviation Administration
may not promulgate any rule or regulation regarding a model
aircraft ...".

The drone registration program was struck down in court in May [2].

I recommend this podcast with the plaintiff in the case: https://dronelawtoday.com/2017/06/05/the-taylor-case/

[1]: https://www.congress.gov/112/plaws/publ95/PLAW-112publ95.pdf

[2]: https://www.airspacemag.com/daily-planet/federal-court-strik...
> Through the Language Glass: Why the World Looks Different in Other Languages by Guy Deutscher.

Interesting to see Guy Deutscher's name come up in this context. I mostly know him as Alma Deutscher's father.
I agree that Show HN shouldn't be treated as an opportunity to market another product/project as an alternative. At the same time, being pointed to similar projects that interested users are telling you do something well is highly valuable feedback - in this example, it seems that a common theme of recommendations is the presentation of results. That seems like valuable for the creator.
Adding more layers doesn't necessarily add security. Jokes about ROT13'ing twice, or the meet-in-the-middle attacks on Double-DES are well-known examples of it.

What would your security policy be if only one of the signatures matches and the other one fails? More importantly, if you're setting your policy to be tolerant of as-of-yet unspecified algorithms, you run the risk of the attacker being able to screw you over in the weak protocol and corrupt the bits of the strong protocol to an unknown protocol.
Ask HN: What should I do with my side project that has 14,000 users?
I have around 14,000 users of a web app and chrome/firefox extension I wrote a few years back. Usually I see 300 users a month logging in, and approximately 1,300 active monthly users (you don't have to log in to use it).

It gets ~20+ users a week registering, mostly through direct / social referrals, as the service is built around sharing URLs. The number of chrome extension installations remains constant at 13-14,000.

I have maybe a couple of hours a week spare to work on it.

What should I do with it?

You can see it here: https://tab.bz/
>> I'm not even male.

> I sure do wish I could convince people of this, but getting "they" from folks has been impossible.

It could be that pronouns have no bearing on one's sex class.
How to Pick a Co-Founder
Whe you control the TLD AND the preload list what’s to stop you?
Or written by an AI designed to click bait maximization ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Archeologists have surmised that the Egyptian Pharoahs were in considerable pain from dental problems, from studying their mummies.
The batteries for a typical DSLR are around the 1800 mAh hour, not that different from a phone battery.

I used to get around a thousand shots out of my Canon 5D3 per battery; there's a lot of mechanical power and ~25GB of processed data going into that usage. That could be either over 2-3 hours (event coverage) or over days (landscapes). So DSLR battery life isn't really measured in hours.

I don't think the batteries need to be better, particularly since you can install a grip to let you have 2 in the camera at once, and it only takes a second to swap them.

That said, adding a separate Android subsystem (that doesn't always have an LTE radio on) shouldn't add too much drain. You could easily get 4-5 hours of screen-on time to use for photo editing and processing.
Given a random sample of cars in downtown SF, what percentage of them are Uber/Lyft drivers? Is it more than two-thirds? Without that information, this number is meaningless.
This doesn't seem to be a valid argument when discussing the police in the United States.

Without a warrant: No information taken from your phone by the police is admissible.

With a warrant: A judge can compel you to unlock any device with a biometric lock, regardless of what sort of biometric lock we are discussing. Fingerprint, iris scan, or face, it simply does not matter.
Make more gas.
Makes you wonder if this was what was being tested in Cuba that attacked the diplomats.
I'm enjoying The Diamond Age more than Snow Crash.
Actually, that's not where most attacks work.

Most attacks rely on people thinking that google.com.please.dont.read.this.part.of.the.domain.evil.com is really google.com.
100% discount they honored????! wutttttt
It’s barely cheaper than regular unleaded in my area. Like ten cents if that
Launtel launches gigabit-speed NBN in Hobart
This the same UK gov that wants to have quantum for themselves and ROT13 for the Great Unwatched? Such breathless hypocrisy. I was too cowardly to post this comment on the site. Now it goes to to Google and to Palantir. "We only ask for your email address so we know you're a real person" - the fuck else would be commenting? 'Nobody knows your a cat on teh internetz?' or maybe expecting government propaganda blogspam?
Gogoro’s electric scooters are coming to Japan
Clickbait title. Apps get access to photo locations if you grant them access to your photos.
Almost everyone with a professional job makes enough money to retire at fifty - the question is whether their expenses are low enough to do so. Save 35% of your salary and you can retire in 25 years. Save half your salary and you can retire in 17 years.
> But a man is not really convinced of a philosophic theory when he finds that something proves it. He is only really convinced when he finds that everything proves it. And the more converging reasons he finds pointing to this conviction, the more bewildered he is if asked suddenly to sum them up. Thus, if one asked an ordinary intelligent man, on the spur of the moment, "Why do you prefer civilisation to savagery?" he would look wildly round at object after object, and would only be able to answer vaguely, "Why, there is that bookcase ... and the coals in the coal-scuttle ... and pianos ... and policemen." The whole case for civilisation is that the case for it is complex. It has done so many things. But that very multiplicity of proof which ought to make reply overwhelming makes reply impossible.

- G. K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy
One problem is that supermassive BHs merge at very low frequencies; they merge before their orbits get fast.

LIGO's sensitivity range is in about the same range of frequencies as the human ear. NSNS mergers reach our sensitivity sweet spot for a few seconds; intermediate mass BHBH mergers get into the low end of our sweet spot. Supermassive black holes merge at very low frequencies outside of our sensitive band.

LISA is a planned space-based observatory that would be sensitive in those bands: https://lisa.nasa.gov/
The test questions and answers are public, so the simplest/cheapest thing is to just read through them all. Aside from that, I think the ARRL puts out some study guides that are a bit easier to digest.
Things to Learn from Uber’s Implosion
USB adapter here. Went on a family holiday to a tropical island recently. On the way home I downloaded all the photos and videos on our 'tough' camera. They had GPS data recorded, so they just slotted into my iOS photo library easily and got added in to the 'memories' auto-grouping.

30 minutes on the plane produced an awesome little 90 second clip I could show everyone without boring them to tears.
You mean the resolver does the verifying? That doesn't solve anything; anyone doing an MITM attack between the user and their resolver can flip the 'ad' (Authenticated Data) bit to '1' even if the verification failed, and if the user isn't verifying the signatures too, they will blindly trust the value of this bit.

Users need to run their own local /verifying/ resolvers for this to be secure (or have a trusted path between them and their remote resolver, e.g. IPsec-AH or DNScrypt).
Stupid question, but how did they control for the rats' sense of smell, odors from previous runs?
Source? I'm more familiar with this info [1].

[1] http://news.cornell.edu/stories/2001/08/ethanol-corn-faulted...
Right, but people are talking about replacing more of the fuel with Ethanol than would help as antiknock. I can understand this if you want race fuel, but it isn't an environmental endeavor in itself to operate vehicles on E85 (or simple denatured ethanol) vs. common gasoline with ethanol for antiknock.

I'd be for it if people were talking about it as an economic effort, because that's where it can shine.
It's not too different from the publish or perish culture in US academia, only with a solid cash reward for publishing in peer reviewed journals. I mean professors here are filtered for number of articles here too. Considering the amount of funding that goes to research groups in some universites with the same amount of quality research output as research groups in smaller universities with drastically lower funding, I don't even think it's economically wasteful.
They stopped asking the felon question for only a couple years, was basically an oversight, now its recent news that its coming back again.

http://www.arrl.org/news/revised-fcc-form-605-will-ask-appli...

The most famous felony-ham-license battle I can think of is the Kevin Mitnick incident from the turn of the century... the FCC lost and ended up renewing his license after all.

I vaguely remember some 80s guys getting felony convictions for interfering with police radios and then losing their ham radio license.

Of course the future does not necessarily rely on past events and policies.
§97.403 may be saying otherwise, but I could be reading it wrong. It does look pretty subjective, though that may be intentional.
The FAA's dual mandate was dropped with the Federal Aviation Administration Reauthorization Act of 1996 after the ValueJet 592 crash.

There is a federal aviation fuel tax that partially funds ATC, I pay a lot of landing fees out of pocket in the US, and there are fees added to airline tickets, some of which pay for regulatory items [though many of which are BS]. It's not all paid by the taxpayers.

I agree that the US is a flyer's paradise compared to Europe. I suspect there might be more general aviation flights on a given day in Florida than there are GA flights in all of Europe on that day.
The scientific method in layman's terms could be written "whatever works". All the things mentioned in the article were things that worked, and were refined over time to work even better.
> What happens to that energy, though? Energy is conserved, even with gravitational waves, correct?

Yup. It's like ocean waves carrying energy. The difference is that it's hard to interact with GWs, so instead of "riding" them and capturing their energy, you find them mostly passing through you. They have tons of energy, but very little of it is dissipated back into matter.
I think its possible that a lot of people are waiting to see what ITER brings to the table.
The problem is that the proofs that one finds in typical math papers are very different from the proofs for computer programs.

Proofs in math papers are "mostly right" about rather complicated facts. This means that what is shown is highly non-trivial, but when an error is found, it rather does not matter since it is rather easy to fix the hole in the proof. The reason seems to be (but this is my personal opinion) that the typical things mathematicians love to write proofs about have a high level of redundancy for this kind of error.

Proofs for computer programs rather prove statements that are rather trivial and obvious, but very subtle in the edge cases. Often the a non-formalized proof is "trivially correct" when a human skims it, but often is wrong for very, very subtle reasons. Thus there is typically no way around formalizing it - which with today's tools is very tedious and boring.
Geez. I prefer civilization because I can sit in my warm office and work on projects I like, I have good food to eat, etc.

Under savagery I'd be living mostly outside, shivering, wondering if I could get enough food to live through the winter, and would have little hope of living past 40.

I'd suffer from routine episodes of famine, backbreaking labor, and the tribe booting me out to die when I was no longer carrying my weight. I'd watch most of my children die young, and would fear all sorts of stupid mythical boogeymen.

I'd have to train with weapons constantly, and live in fear of the next tribe over attacking me and my family at any moment.

No thanks.
There are indigenous people who don't eat a "modern" diet. Why speculate about Egyptian Pharaohs? How about wild animals. Do they have dentists?
Need to add:

"when you grant access to photos"

to the title.

If you grant access to photos which include metadata like GPS coordinates, then you are, correct me if I'm wrong here, granting access to those photos and their metadata.
For a gentler introduction to LU factorization and how useful the decomposition is for efficiently re-solving the same system multiple times, I'd offer up the "Systems of Equations" section of the "Ultimate Electronics" book I've been working on: https://www.circuitlab.com/textbook/systems-of-equations/

I tried to go back and forth between the 5x+2y=3 style equations that most people are familiar with and the matrix forms.
I remember when I uploaded photos in early versions of IOS, there was no location data accessible to me when I looked at the files on our server. Not sure what changed or if we never had access back then.
It is required for adaptive bitrate streaming in browsers that do not support HLS (all browsers except Safari and Chrome on Android only).
Just watched this Vox video on a (potential) pattern behind color names last week, which also covers a bit about the research by Berlin and Kay:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gMqZR3pqMjg
Yes. Also, unwanted farming equipment is easy to sell.
The Pharaohs ruled an empire built on grain, and ate a diet almost as foreign to a hunter gatherer as ours. For purposes of that comparison it was a "modern" diet.
Amber Rudd is determined to hobble security, weaken encryption. This is just illiterate propaganda.
Thing is, prices for food never really shot back up massively, instead our govt ended up creating price floors for many commodities, insofar as they would give farmers money if what they produced was sold for less than a certain amount[1].

This led to consolidation, whereby family farmers became much fewer in number, and those that owned and operated larger farms ended up working a 2nd job to cover their living expenses. What used to take a whole family to farm is now nearly entirely automated, causing food prices to continue to decline.

1 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agricultural_subsidy#United_St...
> the other can carry 1000 but you are flying blind.

This is a bad analogy, because 'flying blind' in a plane means you can't use it effectively. Being able to see out of a plane isn't a 'bonus'; it can't be used without this feature. Whereas plenty of people can and do use a load-balancer without heavy monitoring. (not to mention that there are strong moves towards self-driving transportation at the moment)

The analogy also doesn't work because a loadbalancer that can handle 1000 units is going to have far fewer problems that are in need of diagnosis than one whose limit is 100 units; when the traffic level is between 100 and 1000. When the traffic is at 100, then yes, you're going to want monitoring on the 100-unit LB, because you're trying to squeeze extra performance out of it. Whereas the 1000-unit one isn't even sweating at that point.
I'm not sure what you're saying?

The Paleo diet is a modern creation. The paleolithic diet was probably whatever people could eat. I would think if 10% of human diet consisted of human meat then prion diseases would have been more prevalent.
The fact that this is identity theft - and that the person whose credentials were used is indeed a victim - has absolutely zero to do with the bank's behavior. It has everything to do with the fact that credentials were stolen and used to impersonate someone else.

So:

"then Google is the victim of cybercrime"

Google's credentials weren't stolen. The user's credentials were stolen. The user is therefore the victim of the theft of credentials - a.k.a. "cybercrime" or - in this case - identity theft.

Google is also arguably a victim of fraud (or some other related crime), sure, but that is entirely separate from the fact that credentials were stolen in the first place.

"behavior of the bank"

Again: the bank's actions are irrelevant to the fact that credentials were stolen in the first place. Sure, it's a pretty shitty credential system, but they are credentials nonetheless, and them being used to impersonate someone makes that someone a victim, plain and simple.

I'm really not sure how else to explain this. Seems pretty cut and dry to me.
The article presents a sort of naive assumption that if we stayed primitive we may have ended up in a more egalitarian, less brutally competitive world.

Problem is, in a less developed culture, there is still competition due to human nature and due to uncontrollable factors such as natural disasters. Pre-European-Contact Native Americans often fought against one another during periods such as drought.[1][2] Ironically one of the benefits of civilization is a stronger ability to handle situations of disaster and shortage that forces populations to go to war.

I'd also add that in a "civilized world" there are probably more avenues in life open to a person who isn't bound to the responsibility of food production (which constitutes 90% of a hunter-gatherer society). Science, history, the arts? Aside from oral traditions, all are outside the reach of a primitive society.

Oh, and at least in a modern civilization such as ours we have a small fighting chance against say, an incoming apocalyptic asteroid.

[1]https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/cross-check/thanksgivin...
[2]https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/25cvxm/were_...
You can ask Alexa for a map to their house (as a follow up question after calling them)?
>
My personal method is, every line of code that I write, I write for someone else. If it's internal, it's always for another developer (who may not exist) and, for the upper layers, a user (of the function/API/library) that may peek behind the scenes trying to debug some problem.

> If it's anything facing the "user", it's entirely written for that user, and I know they're not very good at reading or writing software.

In my opinion a very reliable way to get a deep hate on the respective person.
We predict that the speed of light and the speed of GWs is the same. One benefit of EM followup is that you can test this hypothesis (you should see roughly simultaneous GW and EM radiation); if it isn't true, then our understanding of general relativity is flawed.

Yes, if you have a long event, that smears out the time during which EM radiation might have been emitted. But for just observing the event, you expect a long-lived afterglow. It starts out hot and radiates gamma and x-rays, then cools through UV, visible, IR, etc. all the way to radio waves for weeks after the event. You can learn a lot about the event and the material that was ejected from it from a detailed analysis of this cooldown.
It's just growth hacking. You'd think here, at least, people would be used to it by now. /s
How fast do you find the WiFi, when it comes to browsing and transferring photos over to the phone? My camera (Oly OM-D E-M5) just predates all the cameras getting WiFi as standard. :(
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There is some dispute as to whether the necessity defense is available in federal criminal law (the Supreme Court has dodged a general decision on the point, but always ruled against it specifically being available in the circumstances before the Court in particular cases).
And yet, bread prices have jumped recently.
You also should "count" capital gains as well as dividends since dividends offset capital gains.
They do mention that order, kind of. I guess the problem is that right to left, top to bottom is a fairly maniacal order to put things in without a good reason.
I'm not advocating anarcho-capitalism, I'm just saying the drone registration program is illegal. And that's not a dig on the FAA. They felt that drones were a real problem so I think they did it even though they knew would get struck down, because they didn't have the time to get something through congress.

I would like more legal clarity in flying drones, and I personally take safety seriously. In fact, my drone still has my F number label attached :-)

I think they need something more robust, because as it stands now, anyone with a couple hundred dollars can walk out of a best buy with something that can do real harm. And for people like me who take safety seriously, it's hard to find places to fly because of the jumbled patchwork of rules in different states, cities and parks.
As a kid, I was taught in school that the world population was growing so fast that soon we wouldn't be able to grow enough food to feed everyone.

But, here this article says we're growing an endless bounty of corn.
That doesn't make you right, nor does it turn your impressions of Germany into something sensible about 'Europeans'.
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This is basically what the book Sapiens is about.

One thing that has constantly been on my mind since reading Sapiens is that no one has been able to definitively explain why men have dominated all of the positions of power in societies (up until a just a few years ago, at least). Civilizations that emerged completely independently from each other (whether in the fertile crescent, China, Mesoamerica or elsewhere), universally became patriarchies. Before the Neolithic era, and in some surviving hunter gatherer cultures today, matriarchy was not uncommon.

Women still tend to report being happier than men in survey data, and just going by the men and women I know, I think the men would prefer to abandon civilization before women. But I think if we want advance more women into positions of power in all tiers of society, then we need stop just trying to wrack it up to discrimination and sexism, stop trying to have the government regulate men and women's paycheck, and actually try to figure out why women have universally faired worse in societies.

For example (this is just a theory, I have no evidence whatsoever here), the men who tend to advance politically and in their careers are usually the ones with the best social skills. They're the ones who are the best at making advantageous alliances and forming strong relationships with those outside their family. Perhaps women are not as good at that? If that is the case, then it might be wise to try to encourage women to improve that subset of social skills. I may be way off here, but I think we need to start asking questions, coming up with theories, and testing those theories rather than settle on the one that's easiest but doesn't really get us anywhere.
The Technical Details (https://www.amazon.com/Amazon-MW46WB-Introducing-Echo-Spot/d...) indicates a "Front Facing Camera".
Ironically, someone like Chesterton couldn’t exist outside of civilization.
Paleo diet as in prehistoric hunter gatherer diet.

I didn't say 10% of diet. Up to 10% of protein. You don't eat only protein.

Also some people have genes resistant to prion diseases

https://youtu.be/SXjIzDexPoU
Twitter (is a white supremacist website)
I only use it for remote viewfinder control, but it's snappy.
I read the headline and my immediate guess was cryptocurrency. I clicked and, sure enough, there it was.

Maybe it's time to refine some of these ideas? While regular money does get stolen, maybe storing it online isn't the best method? Maybe requiring some human interaction is a good idea?

At this point, I can't really justify investing in any cryptocurrency. I'm absolutely unable to justify investing in any ICO.

If I opened a contract and my PayPal balance disappeared, I'd be pretty angry and might have some recourse. I'd absolutely have some options if it were with my credit/debit card or directly through my bank.

Good luck, folks. I'm still going to maintain the wait-and-see approach.