skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That number is probably less than 1%, those stories about chefs being so inspired by ingredients and just wanting to share that vision with the world are written by marketers.
Skype Blocked in Qatar – WhatsApp, Viber, Duo, and Facetime Also Inaccessible
For anyone reading who has an apple tree, quick correction: cold and humid.

My crop easily lasts for 3 months in my storage fridge (and I don't take the time to sort them to properly eliminate bruised fruit, etc), but the key is cold and humid, not cold and dry.
Note that you can do this in old version of Python, too, using the "format-locals" idiom:

some_var = ...

"{some_var}".format(**locals())

Although this does have some limitations regarding variables to strictly being in the local scope, this is a fine idiom if you need to be compatible with older Python versions.
How hard would it be to add https://clickhouse.yandex/ to the benchmarks?
GameCredits Announces Future Release of SDK for Unity Developers
...and the version number is needed well before the release is made official.

Ubuntu developer here. No, the version number is not needed before the release. All our infrastructure only uses the codename until release, since the final version name is not known for certain in advance.

For example, Ubuntu 6.06 LTS (Dapper Drake) was released late.
This is not a dupe. The release had not happened yet when somebody linked to it 3 days ago, and they linked to an unfinished release announcement. This is different.
I regularly slam them about their reliability on Twitter, but I keep using them, because I love how integrated the product is. I really have no complaints about either gitlab.com or the EE version, which I pushed that we migrate to at work.

If they can reduce the service problems, it'll be a great service.
capitalism might actually ... work ... if it was untethered from government..and didn't manipulate governments. I.e. get rid of lobbying, and make it universally illegal to influence politicians even on the level of a Geneva war-crime.

Not that - that will ever happen.. Politics lately seems to just be legal Mafia.
Amazon's stated goal is to have no margins (Bezos 'your margin is my opportunity'). So yes if they are following their zero margin strategy they should be lower than WMT, whose only claim is low price. If something is cheaper elsewhere it is because Amazon has not figured out how to deliver that particular item to the consumer at cost yet. So for example if you find something cheaper at WMT it may be that WMT has a great distributor license and is an exclusive channel, something like that.
> Your companies are now solving “my-world problems” (food delivery, cold-pressed, on-demand juice versus the “real-world problems” you used to solve (getting affordable computers in the hands of everyone; inventing the Internet).

You can understand where these hapless doofuses are coming from, though: whatever you come up with has to have paying customers, and be something someone won't steal two weeks after release. In other words, some plausible return on investment.

Inventing the internet was fun hacking paid by cushy government grants. You're not easily gonna get that today, or not for just any old idea that pops into your head.

Affordable computers in the hands of everyone means optimizing existing commodity stuff down to razor-thin margins (if not indeed taking a loss) plus all the logistics of actually reaching everyone.
That is a really cool idea.

Make sure to do a Show HN on the Monday morning after you launch.
For U2F, there are two issues. First, communication doesn't use a smart card protocol, it uses a custom protocol over USB/HID. So to implement U2F using the TPM you would need to write a virtual USB device driver, which is a pain. Github wrote one for Mac, but there's nothing for Linux or Windows to my knowledge. Second, U2F calls for a physical presence check. With most existing hardware, there's no way for the TPM to verify physical presence, so it has to be done in the client software, which reduces the point somewhat. Newer hardware may address the second point, as I've seen some new laptops with TPMs hooked up to the fingerprint reader.

For other smartcard-y things: a lot of stuff gets called a "smart card", but any given application is going to involve a particular applet on a smartcard, and a particular client side implementation to use it. The Windows virtual smart card implements a PIV applet, I believe, whereas most of the Yubico stuff works using either non-standard applets or a PGP smartcard applet. So the client side would not be compatible with the Windows virtual smartcard.
That was not something I needed to know.
tech wasn't always this ... douchey. I don't know what happened. I've been a programming since the early 1990s. It used to be fun. Now I don't tell people what I do.
Or building a robotic uterus and robotic teachparents, sending a box full of frozen sperm and frozen ovules to mars at full 'delivering pizza velocity' and re-assembling humans directly when reaching destiny

Some interesting moral questions would arise, like how can you volunteer and agree to go to mars if nobody asked you before to send you to the space?
You can pair it with something that generates https certificates on the fly, like mitmproxy.
Cool! I created something similar for Twitch (and upcoming support for more platforms) @ https://www.unfollow.io.

I don't have a monetization model yet, but yours looks really fair.
It seems pretty clear you skimmed my post without reading it (since I bookended it start and finish with the central assertion that the data you presented is consistent with the use case I described.)

If you want to edit your comment to take it in a more fruitful direction, no one will hold it against you. You're not the first person to skim a long post.
You forgot the [cryptocoin portfolio tracker: coinfox.co](http://Coinfox.co)
Hopefully now they will realize that they should run on a colo rather than be wholly on the cloud... and hire for that expertise (their previous attempt to do so was a bit amateurish, which is understandable ).

Nothing blows money faster than unlimited storage and unlimited bandwidth when you're not charging for it...

And before you down vote me, realize that github, their main competitor, runs on a colo for this very same reason.

No matter how much revenue you get from paid accounts, and selling on-prem installs, the free service popularity which fuels the paid revenue will outpace it for the forseable future. Trying to reign in those cost, isn't a bad ( or hard ) thing.
My advice to those people: Git gud. There are lots of services and goods that can be created. If you want to help the homeless, or devote your life to the works of Bach there is plenty of meaning to be found doing that.
> People generally do love Silicon Valley and what it creates. It’s the media that doesn’t.

Don't blame the messenger. "The media" is a reflection of the people. Not only is it made up of, largely, ordinary people; it spends billions of dollars each year to find out what ordinary people think, want, and feel. It tracks their lives in ways that companies like Google could only dream of, and is sitting on almost a century of trend data.

Look at any failed enterprise from the former Iraqi government to Richard Nixon to movie stars of today and a hundred years ago. Blaming the media is a pretty good indication that you're on the wrong side of things, and would rather point a finger at a scapegoat than take responsibility for and fix your own failings.

People used to love cars made in Michigan. But we found out that we loved cars from Japan more. You're confusing feelings toward Silicon Valley with feelings toward the products it creates. Silicon Valley is replaceable.
Misleading title. FB seems to be taking a self-learning approach, whereas hobbyists are defining bot rules themselves. Hobbyists are winning at the moment with an approach that doesn't scale. Self-learning has a better chance of dominating the field.

Edit: HN mods updated title to be less click-baity (thanks). Earlier it said "FACEBOOK QUIETLY ENTERS STARCRAFT WAR FOR AI BOTS, AND LOSES". The "and loses" at the end was misleading.
> they charge their customers based-on willingness to pay related to market forces and the value they deliver.

So do I, that's why I don't work for a company that says "well you life in a low-cost area, so you need to charge us less".

Their policy is transparent, and it is take-it-or-leave-it. I think the salary gripes you're hearing from many commenters is that they are leaving it, when they'd very much like to work for Gitlab, as it's a company I personally like.

However, what they're doing will either get them developers in the most highly-paid areas (where their salaries are actually competitive) or lower-paid developers that are actually not the best their local market has to offer (because the best developers are already employed elsewhere for higher pay). So, in essence, what they're doing is limiting their top-tier prospects to people who live in high-cost areas.

As another commenter said at some point, living in the Valley has such high cost because there are benefits to it. Developers in SF can find a job more or less the minute they walk out of the door of one company, and that's something that's expensive. I don't have the same luxury, and Gitlab says "well, since you aren't paying for the privilege of job liquidity, we'll give you a lot less money".
Silicon Valley will eventually be seen as yet another textbook case of a new industry getting away with externalization of costs initially unrecognized as such.

Enjoy it while it lasts, I guess, but don’t expect to escape liability for the foreseeable consequences of the systems you build for all perpetuity.
I really don't like the reliance on the Ceremony to prevent counterfeiting, but it is the only way science has yet discovered for how to enable full-strength (encryption-based) privacy. Fortunately, science continues to advance and I hope we'll be able to upgrade to a trapdoor-free cryptographic proof system someday.
Pre-orders for the Tesla Model 3 could go unfulfilled for several years
It's also worth reading Kyle's blog post from last week. Cruise is doing some stuff that nobody else can do. Not even Waymo:

https://medium.com/kylevogt/why-testing-self-driving-cars-in...

GM right now is the most vertically integrated of all the companies making meaningful progress on Robotaxis. They have a dedicated assembly line set up building off the Chevy Bolt platform, and intend to have 'thousands' of them on the road before the end of 2018. They're building their own ride hailing app, called Cruise anywhere, currently only available to GM employees. They've got On-star, which provides in-house expertise with connected car and vehicle diagnostic services. GM's Maven subsidiary offers car sharing services.

But when Robotaxis really proliferate fleet management infrastructure will be very important. Apple and Waymo have made partnered with Hertz and Avis respectively, but General Motors can utilize the real estate and expertise of it's existing network of dealerships, which can save them from a great deal of capital investment as Robotaxis dissemintate.

Before last December there wasn't a whole lot to be known about Cruise's progress, but since then it's just been one reason after another to be getting excited about what they're doing.
he uses a BLU phone in a few of the pictures, they had factory installed malware if i remember correctly?
No, they mean the characters. Virtually every character on Seinfeld is a nihilist. Nobody on Seinfeld --- with the possible exception of Jerry's parents --- cares about anybody or anything. Susan dies from licking poisonous envelopes and they all go out for coffee before George tries to hit on Marissa Tomei. Jerry's girlfriend gets Jerry to care about things for half an episode, turns into an anti-Jerry; the episode resolves itself with Jerry being shocked back into normal Jerry by George temporarily revealing his own emotions. Or, just compare Kevin, "The Bizarro Jerry", to Jerry himself.

It's a profoundly nihilistic show, in a way that Rick and Morty doesn't even really touch.

Rick can travel between dimensions and meet infinite alternate Ricks and infinite alternate Mortys. The show informs us that he knows any one Morty or any one Beth doesn't actually matter. And Rick still occasionally cares about them. The subtext of Rick and Morty is almost anti-nihilist.

The nihilism in Seinfeld is presented realistically and non-fantastically and is so unsettling that people have a hard time even recognizing it for what it is.
try it, every application open instantaneously, no load times.
Nice! I'm also planning to add more platforms if users show interest, but for now I'm focused on twitter for a long time.
I spent a decade of my life in the valley and I do believe it's relevant to remember that what used to be a homebrew mixing of nerds, hippies, academics, researchers, teachers, makers, marketers, tinkerers and capitalists is now in large part skewed to marketers and capitalists. This is not necessarily good, bad, or romanticized it just is. So here are some tips:

Don't hustle.

Don't crush anything.

Try not to have to give a stage presentation with a mic at the corner of your mouth.

Your creation is not completely superlative or world changing yet, speak of it realistically.

The internet is not a substitute or replacement for you having to deal with humanity.

Be nice.

Follow your curiosities and interests. Have curiosities and interests.

Don't claim false passions. You're not passionate about "revolutionizing HR" or "remaking the way people buy nail polish".

Learn how tech relates to the world and how you relate to it, don't make tech its own world.

Maybe get a hobby.

Be kind.
> You also don't want to completely run out of fuel because your engine will probably explode.

Can anyone suggest keywords/links about this? Sounds interesting.
Typically for 90 days, which if I'm spending $160 on earbuds had better be a tiny fraction of their lifespan.

Obviously it's better to have 90 days of accidental damage protection than to have none, but my wired earbuds are a couple of years old and would cost maybe $20 to replace with another decent pair.
If middle America wants to blame someone for the changes that have hit rural life in the last 50 years, they'd do better than to look at Silicon Valley.

Uber isn't the reason Big Ag took over the family farm, and Google isn't the reason their daughter moved to Brooklyn and is now dating a girl.

But actually, I think the rural folk will be the first to adopt the "basic income" (scare quotes and all), because in a lot of ways, they're already doing it, just under a different name. SSDI, for example, is huge in rural West Virginia, whether you're disabled or no. Doctors there are in on it, as an act of compassion, because the work simply isn't there and there is no other safety net.

So, all middle America needs is appropriate framing. Call it the Real America Dividend instead of "basic income" and they'll line up for it.
Nothing wrong with it, if you know what you're doing. [0] and [1] are great articles on the topic

[0] https://randomascii.wordpress.com/2012/02/25/comparing-float...
[1] https://randomascii.wordpress.com/2017/06/19/sometimes-float...
> "The media" is a reflection of the people. Not only is it made up of, largely, ordinary people; it spends billions of dollars each year to find out what ordinary people think, want, and feel.

Looking at the last election as an obvious example, I don’t think media is a good barometer at all for how most people feel.
That was Apple's strategy. They built some really great Mac OS X apps when they were the underdog, and offered them for free with the hardware. They also built (and bought) some great Pro apps which attracted a ton of customers. The iLife suite and even the iWork suite to some extent (I loved Keynote in college) were essential to me making the switch.
You guys are freaking out about apples, but I'm excited for the application of (the concept of) silencing towards humans. I don't think* it quite works this way & I'm sure biologics are similar, but it would be amazing if you could do the same thing for humans. Imagine doing that for people who have psoriasis. Would be amazing if the body took to that & could continue producing cells that react properly.
Exactly this. Rich people privatize gains and socialize losses. Look at the financial crisis for an exact example. They aren't even playing with their own money! They are playing with investors' money, pension funds and mutual funds, and taking a huge management fee!
> "The media" is a reflection of the people.

No it isn't. Most of it is a magnifying glass on vocal minorities that have a narrative that can sell ads and set-off talking heads.

A true reflection of the people would be a very boring centrist and apathetic view-point.
For now. Some of the younger people aren't having any of that shit these days.
UK gov. is testing “Smart” intersections
Source?

The sources are quoted right on the Pew website. They get the inflow and outflow numbers from different sources with different methodologies for counting. Read them. Remember, Pew Hispanic is an advocacy group;

". There was net migration in legal immigration from Mexico to the US from 2010-2014 but amounted to less than 4,000 people."

Source? And methodology?
Initial Benchmarks of the AMD EPYC 7601 on Ubuntu Linux – Phoronix
Nah. Azure revenue is growing dramatically every year.
They stopped doing graphic design because one designer got 500 Nike stock shares?
"It works for me" has never been proof that a problem doesn't exist. I find it hard to take such comments seriously.

To be frank: You are wasting everyone's time with such comments.
You can't. Any network having strong anonymity needs to have zero negative effects on the real world by design. The Internet is not that. It is inextricably intertwined with huge areas of our 'real' world. So strong anonymity on the Internet will never happen, politically. At most there'll be some subnet like Tor or Freenet and even those aren't immune from legislation.
HA PostgreSQL Cluster with Docker Swarm
Show HN: Complimentr – Compliments as a Service
One of the great things that helps when building a crypto-anchor enabled infrastructure is to have Mutual TLS between all applications/containers. This allows you to authn/authz and only allow connections from specifically allowed apps/containers/microservices.

Mutual TLS can be a bit of work to get set up but leads to huge security wins over time as every RPC within your infrastructure is mediated by an authorization layer. We've helped out a bit with the SPIFFE project which is looking to make mutual TLS easy: https://spiffe.io/
The only thing I hear in articles like this is that our space programs are pitifully underfunded, and we'll probably be going to the stars in rotating ships...shit we knew 20 years ago.
One of the biggest failures of windows mobile was constant abandonment and reset,

+ all the mobile developers and users from the pre-iphone days were simply dropped with no path to wp7,

+ the earliest and devs of wp7 were all dropped in favour of wp8,

+ MS execs then approved of a slightly less damaging strategy with 8 to Wp10 but at this time it was already too late

Microsoft could not solve the app-gap problem because the problem was caused by a lack of trust.
The problem with sideloading is that it requires a lot of hops. So many hops nobody does this.

Usually "a hop" is represented by some required certificate, a special "container" the app needs to follow, a special API voodoo call you should make to sideload the app. It quickly decays from being a reliable reproducible computer science, and turns into the joke of marketing greed you would never trust.
The key word is "developing", as in, they don't have it yet. Microsoft has constantly been stuck behind developments that are waiting to be done. They obviously held out on Windows Mobile because they were gonna switch it to x86, until Intel abandoned their plans to support that, kicking the legs out from under that project. Now it's emulating x86 on ARM, a work in progress.

The problem is, they've strung along their mobile platform for years while trying to do all this, and left everyone on it without a paddle. With no devices and no point where they can conclusively say they're ready to try again, it makes sense for them to "kill it". And then launch as a new thing as some indeterminate point in the future where they actually have a product together.

As long as the Windows desktop (and particularly, Windows 10 S) development continues to push UWP, adding mobile support again later won't be particularly difficult.
The oyster example makes sense, although it is pretty exceptional given shellfish are basically harbor water filters. The Japan fish prohibition seems like overreacting. The effect from Fukushima on fishing from the pacific would not be measurable and dwarfed by other concerns such as plastic and mercury.

I have a hard time thinking of general reasons why you’d care of the meat was from, say, USA vs. New Zealand. Assuming you trust your local regulators that approved the meat for import.
LIGO's unsung heroes
In other words you posted a reply to austenallred's comment that had nothing to do with it in order to try to game the ordering system here. That's quite rude.
I'm talking about x86 Windows. Windows Phone is dead.

The fact that a viable mobile OS has to be restrictive about background operations is exactly what I was talking about when I said they can't fix it without breaking everything.
Habitat Builder Released
Another form of "crypto anchor" is Blind Hashing which uses a large pool of random data to defend the hashes. An attacker would need to exfiltrate over 90% of the data before they could run an offline attack on hashes blinded by the data pool. The bigger the data pool, the more data an attacker would have to steal, and the more hashes/sec you can run.

So while iterative/computational hashing is only secure if it is slow and if the password is strong, Blind Hashing prevents offline attacks even against weak passwords and actually runs faster as you increase the cost factor.

In this case it's more like an an actual anchor -- technically we call this Bounded Retrieval Model -- the idea that we size the network bandwidth to make it take 300 days at full line rate to steal the data over the network. So it's a physical limitation rather than trusting a black box to protect 256 bits like an HSM.

If you're interested here's an intro [0], a tech spec [1], and an academic paper [2] by Moses Liskov at MITRE.

Disclaimer: I'm Founder/CTO of BlindHash.com which is basicallly Data Pool as a Service -- we provide an API into a geo-replicated 16TB (and growing) data pool.

[0] - https://s3.amazonaws.com/blindhash/BlindHash+Architecture+Gu...

[1] - https://docs.wixstatic.com/ugd/005c1c_5996c661899e4d09a28b9a...

[2] - https://eprint.iacr.org/2017/917.pdf
Anyone have good resources on how to get into this? Would love to learn more about self-learning in regards to starcraft.
> "As evidenced by the major backlash over the recent launch of a company called Bodega — where the founders and investors genuinely didn’t understand why the name was problematic — you don’t always have the best handle on how your ideas will be received outside of the Silicon Valley bubble.""

I find it ironic that the article claims that people in the "SV bubble" don't understand why "Bodega" is a bad name... if you took a survey, I imagine an extremely small percentage of people would find anything wrong with that name (personally, I had to Google around a good bit to find why people had a problem with it). I think you'd have to be in an ultra-pedantic PC media bubble to extract outrage out of a name like "Bodega".
As someone who has implemented quite a few reinforcement learning techniques and seen their limitations, I would be surprised if RL could overcome handcrafting for SC any day soon.