skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In today's world we need to call out people who do the job for these spy machines. Developers working for Google & Facebook should be ashamed of themselves. Money talks, I guess.
6 hours was just a ballpark to compensate for weak sunlight early/late in the day, bad weather, some panels getting damaged, loss due to dust, etc.

Not sure what the real rate of generation would be, and I'm happy if someone with actual solar experience can clarify my estimate.
Sounds interesting! Looks like Siri on a DB.
If they don't already, they will probably soon view the mobile app as "the main site" and then it's only a matter of time before the desktop site devolves as you fear.
Yeah, I don't think those are really HSMs. Just a very secure USB stick.

The whole idea behind an actual HSM is that you never trust any computer it is plugged into, it is designed to be impossible to retrieve the key stored in the device via any means. All signing operations are done internally in the device itself - you simply can't mess up and accidentally leak key information.
If democracy is threatened by a simple automated news feed then it's doomed to fail anyway.
I'm curious about this as well. I feel like there is a lack of context. Who is this? What does this have to do with web dev?. The company is LVGameDev LLC, but I can't find anything about them beside that they made this game. Is there a previous HN posting I should be reading as well?
You'll find that ex-anything engineers tend to find their former workplace degraded in quality and talent.
Nope, it just means that our estimate for the number of alien civilizations in the galaxy has to decrease, and we needa re-examine the Drake equation.

From the article:

> We can never prove that aliens are not out there, only that they are.
There are indexes[0] which categorise passports in what can be loosely defined as "powerful."

Some of these things may include not having to apply for a visa before entering a country (i.e visa-on-arrival or visa-free entry), cheaper visa costs or even free visas if they're required.

The New Zealand passport[1] is a good example (although not necessarily the best) of a "powerful" passport in this regard. Compare this to a Syrian passport[2] (extreme example) or a Colombian passport[3] (moderate example).

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henley_%26_Partners_Visa_Restr...

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

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visa_requirements_for_Syrian_c...

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visa_requirements_for_Colombia...
In my comment I am agreeing with you, it's smart planning. The fact that renewables are going to replace fossil fuels is so obvious that even fossil fuel producers, who you would expect to deny it, are instead acknowledging it.
Agreed. For certain use cases (session store, user profile store), the lower cost of memory and the relatively slow growth of data will mean that they will usually fit in memory. But, in my experience, there's a larger, and growing, class of use cases (ML, IOT, Fraud detection, Gaming data) where both the amount of raw data captured and the expectations for data retention are causing the total dataset to spiral into the dozens or hundreds of TB, with expectations for real-time SLAs on query. That's what I was talking about.
Real-Time Music Generation in the Browser with Performance RNN
Just bought it and am trying it out. Where are the instructions, though? I have no idea how to move the window around or activate the pass-through feature, and it is unclear where the settings are. I had to kill the window by bringing up activity monitor!

If you do have an instructional page, please put it somewhere highly visible on your website! I couldn't find it after a bit of scrolling. It might be there, but it should be obvious!
It's worth at least the "on sale" $5 (compared to Helium's 125 open issues) if that encourages you to slog along with customer support and to fix the inevitable OS-level breaking changes.
Interesting; made me think of the ATH-M50x headphones - they're just about everywhere! The reviews are a fair bit more favourable than for the NS10s though.
isn't groupthink/spoon feeding articles something that all feeds naturally do? e.g. reddit also suffers from similar problems, depending on what subreddits you follow. Does this mean we kill reddit?
Facebook's problems could only get worse, investor Roger McNamee says
I've been there.

I'm a marketer, and back when I was fairly junior in my career and working at ad agencies, the small agency I was at hit some rough times. I was let go, but they gave me two weeks notice and within that time I secured three other offers.

One of the offers was in Troy, MI at a very reputable agency on a big auto account. Somehow I had convinced them that I was at a Director level when I was like three years out of school, but it was the beginning days of digital media, and I knew more than most so was able to really sell myself.

Anyway, so the role would require I move from where I lived in Chicago at the time to somewhere near Troy. I had just started dating a wonderful woman and was incredibly torn. Do I go for an early career boost to salary and comp and end what seemed like the most promising relationship I'd been in at that point in my life (since she would not have relocated at that point in our relationship)? Or do I stay local and take less pay than the other opportunity (still a nice bump over what I had been at) and stay with her.

In the end I turned down that offer in MI to take the Chicago offer. As luck would have it, the auto account I was going to work on (Chrysler) went bankrupt two weeks later.

I got awesome experience at the agency I chose, and realized I would have been WAY out of my depth at the place in MI given my actual experience, and would probably have been setup for failure.

Shortly after, she and I moved in together. A few years and jobs later, I ended up marrying her and back in 2013 we both moved for work again (well, mostly because I was sick of Chicago winters) to the Bay Area where we've been ever since. While things are insanely expensive here, I love the weather and lifestyle I have here that I could never have in Chicago.

Here's the thing...soul mates are a bit harder to find than jobs, especially when you are in an in-demand field and are fending off recruiters with a stick. If you can get a job offer at your dream company, you can get a job offer at a slightly less dreamy company and make things work on the relationship side. Or your relationship might implode and you might be stuck regretting not making the jump. It worked out for me and I have zero regrets, but that's survivor bias.

Other options might include seeing if they'll let you work remotely or seeing if she'll agree to move temporarily and reassess at a given point.

I'm not clear how senior you are in your field, but relocation can be a bumpy ride depending on how much support you would have from them. Relocating while moving in together for the first time adds major stress and bumpiness. If you feel this could be the one, you should do everything you can to stay with them and make things work. If you are not sure or have doubts, you might need to do some real soul searching.
Guess you could say noise is pretty quiet xD

+1 for trying to eliminate complexity from developer error. This was one of the worst cows in the herd for OpenSSL.

That said, I think a bit of good design on the APIs part can go a long way. For Instance, I think Go's crypto/tls aint bad: Its pretty difficult to 'accidentally' configure it in a shocking configuration (suites have to be overridden, turning off verification requires you to set a field called InsecureNoVerify etc).
Presumably because they were a headlining launch app for the Apple Watch and were in the keynote.
Have I? If a White House official finds their personal device has been hacked or isn't working properly, what is the right next step?
Also, every country needs their own operating system; and in fact, also CPU and fab facilities.
I think you have a very Golden-Era-of-Sci-Fi space-opera conquering view of spacefaring.

Why do we need to expand? Our population growth is already levelling off.

Why do we need to send _our bodies_ rather than with AI, or with our consciouses uploaded into computers? (a la Charles Stross' Accelerando or Greg Egan's Diaspora)

If we're sending AI probes around, why do we need to take all resources to the extent that we prevent other species from developing?

Most of the fundamental science that we want to do can be done right here in our own solar system. There's just not a need to expand.
Tool-assisted speed run of GORILLAS.BAS
value of those 2 piglets is pretty much 0 dollars - especially given the piles of dead and dying piglets and pigs lying around on that farm. Many of the crimes with significant value of property stolen/damaged/etc. doesn't get any real attention from local, state police nor FBI just because of sheer volume of the crimes and limited LE resources. The LE resource were prioritized to this case because of political reasons as there is no other plausible reason here.

Speaking about political motivation - there is federal AETA law (Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animal_Enterprise_Terrorism_Ac...) which "prohibits any person from engaging in certain conduct "for the purpose of damaging or interfering with the operations of an animal enterprise."" What can be more political reason than "terrorism" ?!
Navicat is poor. Their buggy native linux app is horrible slow .net 2.0 app with wine loaded included, we felt scammed on that but managed to get our money back.
ReproNow: Chrome Extension captures Screen + Network. Export Both as Single MKV
Just keep rewriting C as Python. I still remember the day I switched from Numpy and CPython to array.array on PyPy for a 60x boost in benchmarks. (Only a 20x speedup on actual running code; this was for geometry generation in a networked video game server.)
Reading about 18c it sounds like the focus will be on applying ML to performance tuning the database, this is actually a pretty solid thing to pursue as performance tuning will usually have dramatic results and it's a knowledge area that is isolated and esoteric.
What's it called when a research event is always 20 years away?
but by thousands of twitter, disquss, and facebook troll accounts.

Actually no, that's not pretty clear.

For one, where's the evidence that spamming Twitter can affect anything politically at all, in any country? The entire belief that elections are decided by robo-Twitter accounts revolves around the idea that a lifetime of experiences, beliefs, news consumption and discussions with friends/family goes out the window the moment someone opens Twitter and reads 140 characters.

I don't think this is a real phenomenon. I don't believe in it because it's such an obvious and minor riff on a more general theme that is always so pervasive in politics; the idea that people who disagree with you politically aren't "really" disagreeing, they're just brainwashed and not thinking for themselves.

If you look at European politics, before the current wave of Russia hysteria the EU and its fans liked to explain Euroscepticism as something driven by tabloid newspapers. To quote Martin Schulz (head of the EU Parliament), "UK tabloids have performed mass brainwashing" which "force fed their readers with intolerance". In other words, stupid people read simplistic messages and automatically start to agree with them - that's why they don't vote for things the educated elites like.

That's an almost identical rationale to the idea that people didn't vote the right way in the USA because there was "mass brainwashing" that "force fed them intolerance", except now it's Twitter instead of newspapers and the evil Russians instead of tabloid journalists. But the premise is the same: bad people are brainwashing the ignorant masses.
I believe one antifa member who broke the head of some protester with a bike was identified by 4chan using various interesting and crazy methods. These threads are archived. Police actually admitted using that information and arrested a university teacher (!!!) thanks to that info.
I recently got the KEF Q150s (wirecutter-reviewed below) to replace some old JBL horn floor speakers and can attest that the Q150s sound really good.
The unifying motive in Russian propaganda efforts of the last several years is to destabilize other centers of power by exacerbating divisions between and within countries Russia considers less than friendly, particularly in NATO.

Their manipulation with regard to Brexit, Catalonia, and multiple and ideologically-opposed sides in the 2016 US Presidential campaign, among others, all fit this pattern.
Is this article meant to be serious? The newsfeed is Facebook's most profitable product. The argument here is Facebook must kill itself for the sake of democracy. That isn't a solution. Besides the fact that I don't think Zuck, FB employees, and their shareholders would like to see their multi-billion dollar product upended, It's like trying to put the formula for a nuclear bomb back in pandora's box. Are we to depend on a organizations moral code in order to protect society from the news feed highly potent propaganda machine?
The original comment was just making a point that if he wasn't using the phone he wouldn't have noticed it stopped working/updating. The second portion could have been written as: "Then how did he notice it stopped working/updating?" to avoid some of the confusion.
Show HN: Did I make (or break) a cryptocoin blockchain?
Did I make (or break) a cryptocoin blockchain?

https://github.com/allbinmani/js-blockchain
With some kind of "doc2vec" you can get improved results for "more like this" queries where the user supplies a document and the system finds more.

This leads to "relevance feedback" that really works.

I worked with a "doc2vec" system for patent search, it did a great job in the scenario that somebody writes a paragraph describing an invention. In the case of a short query we fell back on something closer to tf*idf.

Click on my HN profile link and I can tell you more.
Me and my partner are just long-time, avid HN readers...

Will respond to the parent post shortly as well, just want to make sure I take enough time to answer well/thoroughly. =)
VS Code rulz.
Yes, this this this.

If they can't just rule out an image board famous for trolling, why should I buy all these stories about ai, machine learning and all the buzzwords.
Did we learn from Therac-25?
Hah, same. I still haven't signed up for an account, but I've been getting a fair bit of my news there since around 1998, before people bragged about UIDs. As a child, I learned a lot about how the grownup world worked, by lurking in their threads.

What really amazes me more than anything though, is how willing some of us are to trust Microsoft all of a sudden. They did damage to the software and web communities that will take us decades to recover from, but with another round of "embrace", we are right back in the old loop. Reminding people of their history is now considered rude; our own communities have been co-opted by the MS PR machine.
What I'm saying is that I, as a human, can spot simple situations under which semantically-correct optimizations are available. I can also create queries where literally cutting and pasting IDs over and over again into a WHERE clause is quicker than joining or using an IN clause. These things are dumb.

I personally think there are massive opportunities for data description languages and query languages that make expressing a single set of semantics simpler. SQL is supposedly a declarative language, but almost always requires you to understand _all_ the underlying implementation details of a database to get good performance.

Beyond that, I'd be more than happy with ML that enhanced, heuristically, some parts of the query optimiser. Hell, I'd be happy with a query optimiser that just went away and optimised, 24 hours a day, or at least didn't just spend 19ms planning a query that is then going to run for 8 hours.
Some of this technology is new and awareness among the general public is quite low. Give it some more time and people will just ignore most of this stuff (and probably leave facebook also). Give it 2-5 years and my guess is that this fad of deriving news from social media will go away.
Manglement seems to have collectively forgotten that iOS app quality is dependent on macOS and tooling quality. Improve macOS, you put a lightness in devs' steps everywhere and iOS apps get even better.

It seems that macOS has gotten completely bogged down (like really, really bogged down) and mired in bureaucracy.

What I just described is a "little thing" that's very very hard to quantify to non-engineers, sadly.

(I recently learned (I have no exposure to Apple, I'd like to but their stuff is expensive!!) that you can't just "go ahead and upgrade Xcode", but that you have to do it in a very specific/esoteric way or you break absolutely everything, and that it's not unreasonable sometimes to just nuke macOS from orbit and green-field reinstall everything.)
> You’ve completely missed the point of this comment

Which is...?
70% of studios I have been in have Genelec's. Rest seem to be Neumann or Quested.

I don't know much about professional audio, why these are good speakers?
How often doe a program load an FP with a value at the absolute extreme of the range though? I mean, if my value is there, I probably already have a problem.
Stick with the girl. Use the offer in negotiations for a better local job. Love is way more important than career as long as you're not poor.

I chose the girl (dropped out of college and started working in my career at a low level to afford housing together) and ended up making waay more money in the long run thanks to her help.
OK, so Facebook kills the home feed tomorrow. What replaces this?

Human-curated news? Either it'll be fast enough that people get sloppy with facts, or it'll be slow enough that people move to faster sources. Clickbait wins.

Another site? Most other sites (Google News, Quora, whatever) use clicks as an important measure of interestingness. Clickbait wins.

Broadcast TV? Have you seen what the networks do when the facts are scarce and the topic is urgent?

Eventually this all gets sorted. In the moment, fake news always wins, especially if there are organizations that are invested in producing it. That's fine. The trick is to help real, verifiable news and level-headed analysis propagate as it comes out as well.

It's a solved problem via reputation, but we've collectively decided that reputation isn't that important in the last 15 years. It's an open but in-progress question for ML / AI. There are probably other models, but we'd first need to change the consumption norms to make them appealing.

Clickbait is always appealing, so it wins when people are trying to find new information before they start to sort through it.
I agree with the premise, but there's no way it will ever happen.

Most troublingly, “trending news” accelerates news in what is what is known a “feed forward” loop: i.e. the more we (and external bots and trolls) click, the more we will see an item. This reduces visibility of other news, resulting in “groupthink” that shrinks our perspective. Trending news algorithms can be adjusted but will always create “observational bias” in that we react most to what we see most.

This describes Reddit to a T. Definitely a feed forward loop if there ever was one.
What I really want is to be able to use vscode in a client server architecture. Kind of like a forwarded session, but with client code living on the client machine. Plugins, linters, etc, all living and running on the server. VNC is too slow on hires monitors.
The absurdity of the headline makes every following point impossible to take seriously. Saying dumb stuff has a cost.

It sounds like "facebook needs to start being about people you know, and stop being about everything else."

That's great advice IMO, but it's not what makes money, so... don't even try.
I think they're noting that he claimed that he wasn't using it. Then, how had he noticed it wasn't working properly if he wasn't using it?
"Russians" didn't. A woman did. It turned out she had nothing and the meeting was a waste of time. Very far from what the phrase "meeting with the Russians" implies - some sort of large, organised group engaged in official Russian state business.
> could be signs of bad RAM

Well, they can just open it up and cha-... I hope it's an older model.
A network where participants are only interested in profiting from its networking effects.

The Steemit frontpage has many self-referencing articles and self-serving, monochromatic content.

Similar to Herbalife which is mostly made up of entrepreneurs selling entrepreneurship to the unsuspecting. There is no product-market fit. When there's money being made and no market fit, suspect MLM.
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Sublime Text 3 now has font ligature support
They could do it in ASCII, on IRC.
Wine does not run Office 2016.
My first guess would be random malware, actually.

I'm pretty sure that when nation state actors compromise a high-level target's phone, they avoid breaking things in such obvious fashion.
> It usually includes updates (or myself by mistake? not sure) making my system so broken that I have to reinstall and start again from scratch.

I hear that a lot, but I always wonder what distro people are using or what they do to their machines or what hardware they have etc.

My current laptop at home has been getting every 6 monthly Ubuntu in-place upgrade since 13.04 and hasn't had an issue. Same with the kids second hand laptops. But I choose Thinkpads and make sure I always get Intel graphics and wifi chipsets for compatibility.

Based on my colleagues experiences though - I don't have anywhere as much upgrade confidence at work with my Macbook Pro though (still on El Capitan).
Never. I almost never work after sunset.
I have a pair of HS8's. They have provided me with a good and cheap starting set of listening gear for my amateur music endeavours. I know there is a lot of better gear out there but for starting out, Yamaha gear is usually pretty on point.

I wish I could test a pair of NS10's against the HS8's.
> Such nondeterminism is great for genuine dialogue, but not for maintaining an aura dialectic invincibility.

We were talking about the character, not the person the character was based on. That character is clearly not interrupting a topic to do a random walk through incisive questioning. His questions aren't low-effort questions. So he isn't a troll in any meaningful sense of the word.
Counterfeiting and limited supply.
It appears to me that mailcatcher linked by the parent is free and open source.
Personally I've started to view facebooks feed (and others) as being indistinguishable from tabloids, like the National Enquirer here in the states. Grandmother gives birth to triplets! Honeymooners abducted by aliens! What I read there is not to be trusted, it's not a reliable source. Same goes for yahoo, msn, etc. Local news is a little better, but still sensational and salacious. If I want news online I go to Bloomberg, bbc, etc.
Maybe the distinction lies in the filtering. Stackoverflow and Wikipedia have high quality because only people that really care about a subject (and thus usually know a lot) will invest time for free.

Once you start paying people, the much larger audience of 'people that want money' starts posting and the good people get drowned out.

Your friends who are employed were filtered by the hiring process. I imagine Google would be much worse if they hired everyone who applied.
I'd seriously doubt not recognizing China would lead them to war with them. So therefore there were still clearly able to continue on the previous line of thought.
They're fun to listen to music to, but still colour the sound a lot. Not "Beats" level coloring, but still pretty apparent.
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