skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It works, but only on that site - a similar site (http://studio68london.net/work/timetable/ fails). I want to be able to point something at an arbitrary URL and have it extract the tabular data. I'd write this myself, but I'd rather pay someone else to maintain it.
Bad Trip: Debunking the TSA’s “Behavior Detection” Program [pdf]
Early access to the Imagination Unleasher 3000 apparently...
What you need is http://www.lazarus-ide.org/ for cross, native app development.

Here is a list of programs built with Lazarus/FPC: http://wiki.freepascal.org/Lazarus_Application_Gallery
Most data protection laws just force ineffective bureaucratic processes on companies in the name of "doing something", usually in the form of outdated checklists. Meanwhile intelligence agencies, hackers, and ad companies are still consuming vast quantities of data uninhibited.

It really does largely just slow companies down and forces gov agencies, doctors, banks, and other critical industries to use old insecure software and inefficient corporate processes. RFP'ing a new system is suddenly 2x the cost.

I'm all for strong privacy and property rights at the consumer level, plenty of law in this area in most countries is very outdated and from another era. But the tendencies of european and modern US/UK/Canada/etc countries are to go well beyond the courts and intervene directly in company operations.

I've never heard anyone praise the fact they followed gov-mandated checklists as for why they prevented a hack.

It's always keeping up to date with the latest industry best practices and caring because there are real costs. Strengthened courts and a caring media will create real costs and incentivized best practices.
Xamarin and C# are great, I will use them for the next desktop + mobile project. I was looking at this option for a long time and the acquisition by Microsoft added enough confidence in the future of the stack.
US Bank account to a Canadian bank account. Sort of.

Because I'm an idiot, I'm still with RBC. They have a US subsidiary bank called "rbcbank" with no physical locations. Same terrible RBC service, but in America. They opened an account there for me. They offer very fast transfers between the US account and Canada account, but at the stupid rates they offer.

ALl my money transfers via TW now.
I'm not sure what you mean. I thought it was self-evident that if your interface is an abstract type then you can change the implementation without breaking consumers. If you don't think it's true then please can you explain how?
I thought the Clojure argument is not that types don't provide beneficial encapsulation, but that it's not worth paying the cost for them. Again if you know any different I'd be pleased to hear.
In the US West there's the saying that "water runs uphill towards money."

I know people dream big. There were grand plans to bring water from Alaska to California, in off-shore pipes. https://www.wired.com/2015/02/california-pipe-water-alaska/ . That doesn't mean the dreams will ever be realized.

I know nothing about the geography of the Tarim Basin. A search now says the lowest part of the Lop Desert is about 800 m (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lop_Desert ) which is in agreement with the color-coded topological map at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tarim_Basin .

Bring water up 800 m from the Arabian Sea is very expensive.
Bitcoin futures on CME, coming soon.
http://www.cmegroup.com/media-room/press-releases/2017/10/31...
Was amazed when I read

"Sign-up is simple and should only take about three minutes"

If a simple signup only takes three minutes, I can't imagine how long a complex one takes!
I thought most of self-driving car complexity comes from guessing the route and stop timings, not from following them?
As a dutch person: Amsterdam is, in my opinion, a scary place to ride your bike. It's far too busy and people seem to care more about overtaking you than about safety.

I can't imagine what other countries must be like if this is the pinnacle of cycling :P
For founders looking to exchange advice
Interesting. I'm giving it a shot.

I found the documentation somewhat confusing.

> Give the bucket a name and attach the sample policy from "My Billing Dashboard" > Preferences.

The first step in configuring the S3 bucket refers to something that's explained in more detail in the second step. Feels like the order of thing is off.

Using cross account access rewarded me with a validation error without helpful instructions. I followed the common issues without luck. I think that's a problem.

Key based access worked for me at the first attempt. However, it's not immediately clear you have to give PowerUser and ReadOnly rights like in the first section.

Good luck with the further development of your product!
I think FT8 is just one aspect, I don't think you're going to see CW/SSB die off because of it. FT8 has some pretty strict timing requirements for instance that make it hard to use as a portable station.

I think ham radio is split between the people who like the social/contest aspect of it and those of us who like to tinker(and a subset that covers people who like both). 97.1b pretty clearly lays out a mandate to advance the state of the art and I think it's pretty incredible to pick out a message -20db below the noise floor.
Someone go put a $100 gift card on their windshield.

Seriously, why cant there be an easy app with shameless reputation to allow anonymous tiny donations? Maybe they can pick up $$ at a Walmart
Amsterdam is too busy. Next time you visit spend some time in smaller cities. Cycling can be downright relaxing :P
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#mlm #btc #bitcoin #ethereum #cryptocurrency #network #profit #world #leaders #money #moneymaker #mining #gsmining #gs_mining #gsteam #gs_team #cyprus #greece #sweden #usa #russia
is this real? seems like a very elaborate joke
Ethereum is stagnant because it's no longer profitable to mine with a GPU as it was during the summer.

Bitcoin is rising because it's about to fork.
Design Thinking and Project Leadership
The style of the animal carvings is really interesting - they look somewhat symbolic as letters in a "visual language" instead of artistic... "artistic" drawings/sculptures seek either to be skeurmorphic, aka imitate nature, or intentionally simplistic but following some "universally aesthetically pleasing" style, relative as it may be. These have things like the number of legs correct, but nothing about the angles.

These look like neither... and that's damn weird! Almost like what a blind carver would make from listening to a description of a thing he never saw and carving it.

Probably the oldest cave paintings are like this, but those are like "simplest thing one can do" while these imply effort, but... somehow "skillfully retarted", like there was something "messed up" with the minds of the designers, or simply very different from our own.
Gothamist and DNA Info Shutdown
Could someone with the time to listen please provide a summary?
1900s ID Cards That Kept Trans People Safe from Harassment
I may be misunderstanding the methods involved then; I'm not a security expert and I no longer use Android so I am behind the curve.
I feel sorry for people that can't afford to live there and am greatly upset by the nimby attitude around the bay but I don't think living in RVs on public streets or for that matter tents in parks is acceptable. They need to pay property taxes and contribute. What about going to the bathroom, proper sewage treatment is a necessity for public health. The solution seems to be to stop letting selfish locals dictate policy. Maybe the RVs are the best option at the moment but I hope we don't consider it a permanent one.
This reminds me of Peter Thiel's point that the engineering proposals of the past were more frequently ambitious (and also taken more seriously) than they are today.
Having discussions in writing also means that the next person to join the team has the information available.
Apparently the writers/editors unionized a week earlier.
it is the other way round apple~next
If you re-read the comment I was responding to[1], you'll find that it is very much related (in fact I was providing an answer).

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15618507
Qt is pretty great.
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A good question to be asked might be why we are still conflating the certificate store used for software signing with the certificate store for domain validation. They're two entirely different problem domains using the same tool. Much like it doesn't make sense to use a drywall screw to join eyeglass frames together despite both attachment mechanisms requiring screws, it doesn't make sense to allow a system to validate a web domain as being trustworthy because an audio driver requires a certificate trust to validate itself as being legitimate.

Most of this separation is done on good-faith already, but it should be done in a more discrete manner.
I've concluded that the particular combination of direct democracy and NIMBYism has made california a living hell when it should be one of the finest places to live in aggregate for the whole population in the world.

There is the space and wealth to make it so, but it is so broken that there isn't even a decent public transporation system from San Francisco to Silicon Valley, resulting in the most horrendous and unpleasant traffic jams basically from 6am to 8pm every day.
Come on, that web site has to be a parody, even down to the dogs on the "Team" page.

If it's actually a real company, my best guess is they are a custom engineering software consultancy. Although on the other hand, they seem to have some sort of product you can download, but I can't tell what it does. It's all so confusing. Perfect example, whalesalad.
Finally, what about the nightmare scenario: Is CRISPR so easy to use that we need to worry about biohackers—either accidentally or intentionally—creating dangerous pathogens? Carroll and others think that the danger of putting CRISPR in the hands of the average person is relatively low. “People have imagined scenarios where scientists could use CRISPR to generate a virulent pathogen, ” he says. “How big is the risk? It’s not zero, but it’s fairly small.” Gersbach agrees. “Right now, it’s difficult to imagine how it’d be dangerous in a real way,” he explains

It's hard for "normal" people to imagine how sociopaths or those with destructive aims will behave when given flexible tools like this. It's kind of like how no one anticipated how social media networks whose ostensible purpose is to connect friends could be used to undermine elections, abet fraud, commit character assassination, and drive people to suicide.

And while the real-life example of using CRISPR to switch the limbs of tiny crustaceans sounds harmless, wait til someone mutates something bigger and more familiar for "better" attributes or capabilities that can cause direct harm or inadvertent effects. It's probably already happened ... but we may not understand the impact for years.
I think it's not really in the spirit of openness/freedom to say "you can replace Google's software, but ONLY with ours"
I've been either remote or bicycling distance for most of the past 10 years, and I really don't think I could ever go back to a daily car commute. It just isn't worth it.
Navy sub vet and almost licensed as a pilot:
The small aircraft case - one mind, one set of hands, to reduce the feedback loop to fractions of a second overall. Things other than throttle/ailerons/elevators get timeshared in when all else is stable momentarily.

Larger ship - water is never still, and any vessel's helm left untended results in drift, both in heading and real speed vs ordered. Depending on traffic and the reaction time of the hull, corrections need to be made immediately or even well ahead of time. So helmsman watching constant compass shifts and adjusting steering is a full attention task. As is monitoring speed made vs speed ordered. Still need more eyeballs to keep a full 360 visual watch, radar watch, and a quartermaster to plot position against nav hazards and boundaries and warn against the 'invisible' navigation issues.

If a destroyer could respond to control input like a plane, there would need to be a single person at the helm/throttle.
Not true. You are saying this only in theory, not because companies actually offer this as a choice to folks. Many companies in SV have a strong belief that colocation is key to productivity. Whether that's true or not, another discussion, but most folks do not have a choice wrt remote work.
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2017/jun/27/sir-philip-...

> it had found that “the main purpose of the sale of BHS was to postpone BHS’s insolvency to prevent a liability to the schemes falling due while it was part of the Taveta group of companies ultimately owned by the Green family, and/or that the effect of the sale was materially detrimental to the schemes.”

IE, Green underfunded the pension scheme in order to pay himself several hundred million pounds, and then sold the company off to escape liability for it. He "voluntarily" paid back £363 million in order to end an investigation that might have resulted in him being jailed.
Then don't get an Android phone?
There's a transcript on the bottom of the page (on mobile).
US Court: Google can ignore Canadian court order requiring deindexing worldwide
I also enjoy Tim Ferris, but other great alternatives are Mr Money Mustache and Cal Newport. Their particularly good as they concentrate on maximising money/happiness and time/concentration.
GAFFL: Find people and plan your next adventure in a group
Note I wasn't the one saying it would be trivial, just that it's the path Google can take if they want to keep their nose clean.
It’s great to have alternatives to AWS.
It's been a while since I've looked at Renjin. Last I looked, it was a worthy replacement for tasks that you'd do in base R, but the library story was incomplete.

Nowadays, my R usage has gone full tidyverse. Anyone know if dplyr and the gang work here? I know dplyr has a lot of C++ code, and don't know how well the "Renjin-specific" Rcpp interop story is.
I have no idea what the colours mean. It appears they are somewhat random, and your site/the documentation makes no attempt to describe the "colour coding", apart from that it's helpful, which it isn't.
Hey there,

Tor developer here. You are right there is no middle ground there.

I'm kind of on the run right now, so I can't write a big explanation here. However check this section of the proposal that presents some high-level improvements:
https://gitweb.torproject.org/torspec.git/tree/rend-spec-v3....

peace
TL;DR of that change is that they've moved from a truncated SHA1 hash to SHA3/ed25519/curve25519. For more detail, here's their own summary from the technical specification:

Here is a list of improvements of this proposal over the legacy hidden services:

a) Better crypto (replaced SHA1/DH/RSA1024 with SHA3/ed25519/curve25519)
b) Improved directory protocol leaking less to directory servers.
c) Improved directory protocol with smaller surface for targeted attacks.
d) Better onion address security against impersonation.
e) More extensible introduction/rendezvous protocol.
f) Offline keys for onion services
g) Advanced client authorization
In a similar vein, startups are somehow obsessed with reporting on their "startup-dom":
- That they were in pitch event X
- That they were featured in startup mag Y
- That they're attending startup fair Z

All inwards focussing, completely useless info to that/those which are most important: customers.
Easy way to launder $75,000,000 out of China by buying the canvas, transporting it out of China and then selling it.

That's why it's worth $75,000,000.
Thanks Seth! That's great stuff :)
Except 'grave robbing' implies a malice and questionable morality. There is great value in doing this and well documented/controlled excavation can minimize destruction to the very minimum.
When was the last time the US government held hearings about the "dangers" of rampant unchecked capitalism, and libertarianism?

When have they called in for testimony people to ask if they have ever owned or read "Das kapital" and ruined their careers for refusing to cooperate.

Yet that's exactly what happened with Communists and Communism.
Ask HN: What was the ~best~ moment of your life?
Could be when you won big at something, made an important decision, knew you wanted to spend the rest of your life with someone, a child was born, etc—I’m curious what is is/was and why.
Cross Platform TimeZone Handling for ASP.NET Core
In addition to the other negatives, there is also personal life considerations. Most people have a significant other who they want to live with long term, who also works. This throws a bunch of complications into the picture that I can't quite figure out.
After building up a mental image of a vomitorium, that wiki page is a real letdown.
The irony of American officials complaining about foreign interference really is amazingly delicious. STFU, hypocrites, and start looking in the mirror. There is half a century of global interference to look back on.

Given how e.g. reddit's news and political subs turned into a Hillary fort right as she was pumping millions into her own social media ops, I have zero sympathy for their crocodile tears. They don't hate the Russians for doing this, they hate them because their own attempts at it failed and backfired, and they need a scapegoat.
You don’t understand what objective means.

For example- everyone I know with one LOVES the new keyboard. Myself included: for me it’s the best laptop keyboard I’ve used, period.

That alone tears your point apart but it’s also telling that you picked 2015 (one of the peak sales years for Macs in the last decade). You either deliberately intended to mislead or you just don’t actually understand how market fluctuations work.
From what I can understand (barely) The paper tries to determine if some of the new(2003) SQL3 extensions were really needed.

From the answers here
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/900055/is-sql-or-even-ts...

It seems that SQL92 was not Turing complete but it became turing complete later on. Possibly by the same extensions added in SQL3.
FOSSology: open source license compliance toolkit
Each onion service does increase network load but not anything super intense.

The use case you suggested should be possible. Also check out ricochet which works with legacy onions for chat.
Paternal instinct, and women who like sex, exist too.
Voice not only has privacy issues, but could you imagine working in one of those god awful “open floor plan” offices with a bunch of people speaking in JavaScript all day?
Design a Search Engine – Part 1
Yes, they’re opposites, like the two other categorizations in that sentence (“liberal interventionists and radical terrorists, social justice activists and xenophobic nativists”). The author is saying that the rich cast of characters in Conrad’s novels has something for everyone.
The 120 Hz screen refresh on the latest iPad is a game changer. It has surprised me how noticeable to non-techies it has been when I let them play with it.

They don't know why they like the feel and they use different words to express it, but it's real.

Not to mention iOS multitasking not available on older iPads.
I use win10 mostly (90% of the time). The other 10% is Ubuntu. And it annoys me so much that the taskbar simply doesn't work for multiple monitors! Just giving a common usage scenario where win10 is way better than Ubuntu. I'm sure there are some opposite examples too. But I don't think most users will be amazed in a good way.
Let's not forget Mao, he sure killed quite a few people as well.
Why comment at all if you're simply going to ignore the article and advertise something else?
You are absolutely right - we are thinking along the same lines. The only reason why we are offering TXT/IMG as output formats next to PDF/HTML is the fact that some people will have their own composite document formats and they can build those out of TXT/IMG.
College Kids Doing What Twitter Won't
I don't think that vanilla SQL defined in older versions of the standard is actually Turing-complete. Most commercial releases included features that made it Turing complete, and my understanding is that the most recent standard includes enough from these features that it's now Turing-complete.
My ex-wife was getting her Geology BA when we got a new dog. We thought “Toba” would be a great name. It wasn’t, she tried and tried to live up to her namesake.
About large bodies of evidence that I find convincing, please see the AR5 synthesis report (http://www.ipcc.ch/report/ar5/syr/).

I'm not aware of a similarly convincing counterpart on the side that says nothing new is happening.
Open source projects work that way because we have to, not because we want to. Large projects have semi-regular meetups/sprints where they can all get together face to face. Small one muddle through and try to prevent the problems not meeting face to face causes.
The switch alternates between "Do anything && disconnect power to network interfaces" and "Lock state && enable power to network interfaces"
>a stupid bridge that has had every social engineering plot applied to it to no avail (HOV lanes with pay-to-use transponders being the latest fashion and cops to enforce the rules slowing everyone else down).

Too bad just paying poor people not to use the bridge isn't politically correct.

It would be a heck of a lot more efficient than combining a bunch of disincentives that affect the lower classes.
If you think that's bad, I've seen presentations to angel investors where the CEO repeats things like "we do big data analysis to help our customers synergise and analyze..."

Q: OK, that's nice, what do you do? What value do you offer the customer

A: Big data analysis! Synergise!

<sigh>

Bad emails are one thing. Bad presentations to investors just reeks of incompetence.
7 Reasons Worcester Is So Weird
Same here. I simply cannot work with i3. I think my brain stops working when I try tiling systems. Wish my childhood was not so completely immersed in windows.
I’ve been watching this actively, and have a few theories:

The last major forks (ETH:ETC, BTC:BCH) both created net positive value; that is, the total value held after the split was greater than the value of a single chain.

So, I think the so-called ‘smart’ money ahead of the fork has been to buy BTC, since history seems to show it will be worth more post-fork. Fork looks more likely -> more buying.

And of course the rising price creates its own momentum. There are three general outcomes from the fork: one or the other side ‘wins’, and there’s a shit-chain spawned, or they both coexist.

In the coexist world, we have a pretty interesting set of market moves ahead; if the debate is as divisive as it looks on twitter, then the whole crypto world will be holding ‘shit coins’, but not ones others think are shit, along with their preferred fork.

It seems possible that they may turn some of those into Ethereum, and it seems likely to me that some traders will ‘get back’ to Ethereum post-fork; all those would indicate some cautious optimism about ETH prices later this fall.

And of course if BTC just totally nukes itself, then I think you’d see a major flippening back to ETH.
For those who don't have a RV or car to sleep in, some of them use "Hotel 22", the only 24-hour bus line in the area as a shelter at night.

Short video documentary on the NYT:

https://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/28/opinion/hotel-22.html

They ride the bus back and forth throughout the night getting off at each end usually several times.
Zorin OS: From the Hobby Project of Two Teenagers to a Growing Startup
Why? AOSP doesn't talk to Google. All you need to do is not add shit to it.
Ask HN: What are the hacks to become a super-productive Software Engineer?
I think you could charge more for this or have a lower threshold for the free tier.