skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Russia confirms radioactive cloud over Ural mountains
/r/Bitcoins inside job
> Support for PKCS #11 Security Devices

This is nice, but I'd prefer if support for FIDO U2F would be here already. But it looks like something is happening with that too:

https://www.yubico.com/2017/09/firefox-nightly-enables-suppo...

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1065729
Hopefully (sort of), the monetary damage that follows from black-hat abuse of the vulnerabilities.
Even gangsters live in fear of Japan's gun laws – The Japan Times
Where is cloudflare?
i guess an analogy that could be appropriate here is to imagine there is a study that compares two interventions for treating cancer: chemotherapy as one intervention, and chemotherapy plus playing video games for several hours as another intervention. Let's say that both interventions provide the same benefit in terms of killing the tumor, helping patients live longer. Does this suggest that playing video games for several hours is an effective treatment for cancer?

The control in that study was specifically designed to "unpack" mbct into its components, and then test mindfulness + other components vs just the other components. When they did that, both arms looked equal

I meditate regularly and don't doubt it helps me, and I think if people actually committed to studying mindfulness rigorously they'd find great things, but it's a shame that most mindfulness research isn't that robust or rigorous
RIP net neutrality: FCC chair releases plan to deregulate ISPs
DIY always breaks down when you need to purchase an expensive tool that you only use once.
Inside.com year-end letter
Question:

If I want Android without google services, what options do I have? So far I know only cheap chinese phones and F-Droid app store.
One way that Trump helped is that the illegal migration rate dropped as soon as he came into office. He scared people out of even trying. You've also got his halt to the ever-expanding regulatory environment and his opposition to the TPP.
.. works just fine ...

Not really. You can't yank the url (yy) in Firefox, and the search is borked sometimes when there is no match on the page. After spending a few months with vimium, I found vim-vixen, which doesn't have these problems.
I was thinking more like having someone assess the job, point out potential tricky bits, advise on different approaches, etc before you start. Like I said, I have no idea if there's a profitable business there, I was just suggesting a way a plumber could actually work remotely.
> If competition is limited in the ISP space, that is due to over-regulation like granting monopolies. Instead of piling on more regulation, we should solve the root cause and do things that promote more competition. NN doesn't do that in the least.

Buying land for fiber lines, and building out all of the necessary infrastructure to make that happen is not something just anyone can do. Even Google backed out of that race! How much competition can there actually be with ISPs?
I was thinking of manufacturing, but didn’t say that before in my post. Added, thanks.
Ba-st/RenoirSt: A DSL enabling programmatic cascading style sheet generation
Having ridden with them in Germany I wish them the best. A fantastic service.
I will gladly believe this is a real problem, but this page does not demonstrate that (at least not convincingly); the metric used is simply too poor.

To quote:

> I used my own hacky measurement program written in C++ that sends a keypress to the application to be benchmarked. Then it waits until the character appears on screen. Virtual keypresses were sent with WinAPIs SendInput and pixels copied off screen with BitBlt.

So, this is measuring some rather artificial and fairly uninteresting time.

You really do need to measure the complete stack here, especially if your theory is that issues like vsync are at stake, because the level at which vsync happens can vary, and because there are interactions here that may matter. E.g. if there are 100 reasons to wait for vsync, and you remove one of them... you're still going to wait for vsync. It's not 100% clear that this measurement actually corresponds to anything real. Also, note that a compositor need not necessarily do anything on the CPU, so by trying read back the composited image, you may inadvertently be triggering some kind of unnecessary (or OS-dependent sync). E.g. it's conceivable that regardless of tearing on screen you want the read-back to work "transactionally", so you might imagine that a read requires additional synchronization that mere rendering might not.

And of course: all this is really complicated, there are many moving part's we're bound to overlook. It's just common sense to try to measure something that matters, to avoid whole classes of systemic error.

Ideally, you'd measure from real keypress upto visible light; but at the very least you'd want to measure from some software signal such as SendInput up to an hdmi output (...and using the same hardware and as similar as possible software). Because at the very least that captures the whole output stack, which he's interested in.

Another advantage of a whole-stack measurement is that it puts things into perspective: say the additional latency is 8ms; then it's probably relevant to know at least roughly how large the latency overall is.
Martonosi Sketches a Path for a New Type of Computing
As a counter anecdote, I'm removing FF from all my workstations today. I've been using FF for years. I gave quantum a chance until NoScript shipped. Now it's clear that this is not going to work for me anymore. Moving to Brave. Bye FF.

>I also like the redesign but the killer feature was the noticeable speed up.

FYI, it was faster when NoScript worked. Tabs didn't crash constantly either.
I wouldn't say it's inspiration that's lacking. It has more to do with the fact that vegetables are more expensive and harder to get than junk food, and the contents of said junk food, combined with factors like time and cultural trends, and of course education.
Is robotics currently limited mostly by money, i.e. with enough investment we could accelerate the robotic future significantly ? or is it mostly the need for new, better ideas?
This is a great summary. I have always liked the idea of GTD, it is just that it can be a bit overwhelming at times :(

Is there a GTD lite or something for beginners ?
At least with DV certs. Having worked at a legaltech company for a couple years with lawyers, I've gain some appreciation for the role of governance. I can still see EV certs having a place in this ecosystem.

DV certs though ... largely felt like a scam to me, back when I learned how they work in the early days of the web.
>the political causes of the 1 percent’s rise are directly under the control of citizens.

Patently false. The political causes are directly under the control of the US state and federal legislatures, which are populated by whom?
IBM hands greater data controls to clients ahead of looming GDPR deadline
Show HN: My Emacs init.el (a few 1000 commits)
How do Snowden and Greenwald feel about having collaborated with Wikileaks given that they seem totally discredited by the revelation of their correspondence w/the Trump campaign?
> the collective dumbing down is as well

Graduation rates are are higher than ever. Over 30% of people have Bachelors degrees or higher. Literacy rates are higher than they ever have been.

Our people aren't dumber, they just realize that when the business managers and owners are making millions while they don't get wage increases above inflation, they have no incentive to care.
When Megabus started I seem to recall that its advantage was (ahem) a less problematic quality of clientele than you get on Greyhound due to the fact that you needed to have an internet connection to actually buy a ticket.

But nowadays even the hobos have smartphones, so what's the Megabus clientele like nowadays?

I've always said that the biggest problem with public transport is the quality of the public.

edit: Oh fuck you HN, I've just found out I've been shadowbanned again.
I imagine that there is probably an issue with these workers making half of what software engineers make, but with higher expectation of no drug use. I'd imagine recreational drug use is even greater in lower-waged workers.

Culturally, recreational drug use isn't that big of a deal, at least to millennials. You can completely be responsible enough to enjoy some cannabis on personal time, while also doing your 40 hours productively.
Webhooks the Right Way
> Callbacks were advertised as the reason why one should use node. They're a foundation of JS.

Where can I see that advertisement?

I'm pretty sure that the main selling point of Node.js is and always has been that you can easily share code with the browser.
I tested company app whole night and fixed most bugs, I am such a hustler. I tended to garden whole day, my hands and back hurt from all that hustling.

Am I using it right since it simply means work hard?
First-Of-Its-Kind Bioengineered Robotic Hand to Sense Touch
http://zim-wiki.org/manual/Usage/Getting_Things_Done.html
Deploying WaveNet on Android Using TensorFlow
It sounds like their model of operation is not that different from existing players in the U.S. market, such as Bolt Bus.
It's often integrated into application specific software - for example, I worked on metal center management software which performed load and route planning for steel warehouse delivery trailers. To another poster's point, it's a twist on 3D bin packing with lots of custom heuristic possibilities as well as an obvious application for a genetic solver.
52 ESR will still be supported until mid-June. It is supported for two release cycles after the release of 59 ESR.
Huh, having played sports for over a decade, I don't perceive "hustle" to mean "work hard". I understand it to mean "hurry up" or "move quickly from A to B". Usually, I hear "work hard" referred to with "grinder" and "doing your job".

I think hustle is really doing whatever you can to get from A to B, and in the context of a startup, "hustlers" use their bullshit - whether that's pizazz and shiny things and empty or extreme promises - to move from objective to objective in pursuit of the goal.

I don't think you're wrong, just a slightly different perspective.
It's good odds, though. Obviously depending on the app, these would be non-logged-in users who don't get personalized content.
It is obviously very easy to evade cookies and IP tracking, so I'm not even sure why these are suggested.

However, if the https protocol itself is bugged at the TLS level, what can you do? What if the last few bytes of the ssl session number are always generated according to your unique hardware specs? What then?

I'm aware that this looks a lot like FUD, but it is rather a question, because I'm not peddling an alternative. Why implicitly trust any protocol?
He’s long been a minor celebrity with delusions of grandeur.

His blog stuff comes off as no better informed than a typical cable news watcher

But he makes comic strips that show how everyone else is the idiot so there’s that

So of course he’ll fit right in with the tech crowd
JWT Authorization in Flask
NATS is another option but I think your requirements would lead you to NATS Streaming:

https://nats.io/documentation/streaming/nats-streaming-intro...

It doesn't offer compression as far as I know (the FAQ suggests though that one is free of course to do compression/decompression above NATS).
If they're not being captured, they're just being perturbed by the sun a bit, not collected.
From their FAQ:

Q: Why preorders? Why can't I evaluate a production machine right now?

A: Although we have Talos™ II hardware in our labs, IBM has not yet released the POWER9 CPU to the general public. The POWER9 launch is scheduled for Q4 this year; we intend to make Talos™ II available to everyone shortly after POWER9 launch via our pre-order model. This model allows us to manage supply of the Talos™ II systems for Q4 shipment, and we intend to transition to a more standard ordering model once the POWER9 processor has reached general availablility (GA). Orders placed after our pre-order cutoff will not ship until 2018, and you would be missing out on the benefits of early market access to the POWER9 processor, so we strongly recommend that you place your pre-order as quickly as possible!
I was surprised by the amount of time I have spent doing this. Hence, the post.
Certain options should be hardware disable-able and this is one of them.
How to build recurring web spider jobs using Scrapy, ScrapingHub, and Amazon S3
No, they can still see the IP address of the site you visit.
Can Computers Be Creative?
And one problem is that no-one on the European continent learns that at school or hears that on TV. I got quite confused when I recently started to travel to the UK and Ireland a bit more often.
LineageOS, the successor to Cyanogenmod, runs on a lot of devices and doesn't have the Google services installed.

There's also a fork with replacements for some of the Google services: https://lineage.microg.org/
Maybe it's a timezone thing...
What happens if you have multiple monitors? i.e. a TN-panel for gaming and an IPS for graphic design?
It’s a common myth that denouncing needs to meaningfully affect latency. It does not. It will affect maximum repeat rate, but you can pretty much report an event the moment you see an edge.
IEEE – Explore AR/VR
> People behaving like traffic is a race still raises my blood pressure.

The same tricks from mindfulness and meditation can aid here: don't judge, have compassion, focus on breathing, acceptance (of thoughts and feelings including negative ones such as anger) and relaxation shall follow.

My favorite competition in traffic is to have the least amount of anger (or other negative emotions). If someone else is angry, don't let them influence you; stay calm and rational instead.

I also find a good way to reduce stress is making sure you don't resort to last minute stuff like having to rely on a green light, not taking into account regular traffic jams, having tight appointments or an overburdened agenda, or arriving at the train station 30 seconds before the train departs. Instead, one's schedule should take into account minor delays. If there's a massive traffic accident you might get delayed but that is both rare and reasonable. If everyone would follow this advice, we'd all have a much more pleasant traffic experience.
Smartphones suffer from input latency too, though I’m unsure of the underlying cause (curious how iOS handles window/view drawing). It only seems to be getting worse, though I haven’t done tests on this. While each new model undoubtedly has better tech specs, the interface responsiveness doesn’t seem to improve.
As far as I can tell it's _in_correct in every instance except the first:

À trois heures et demie = À trois heures et demie

Aller à deux heures et demie =\= 14 h 30 du soir [1]

A quatre heures et demie nous partons =\= À 14 h 30 [2]

A trois heures et demie nous allons au cinéma. =\= On va au cinéma à 14h30 [3]

[1] misses the "to go" part and also gets the time of day wrong- which is important because it uses 24-hour clock notation (and so it's obvious that it has no idea what 14h30 means).

[2] completely misses the action ("nous partons") and gets the time wrong ("quatre heures" is "four o'clock", not 14).

[3] Still gets the hour wrong (14h30 to "trois heures", i.e. three).

You'd certainly wouldn't want those translations to "help" you with your appointments in France, or Germany.
How to Research Target Accounts in ABM
Dear Sam: we need you to lead the fight for net neutrality
Dear Sam,

Eight months ago you wrote a blog post titled, "Keep the Internet Open" (http://blog.samaltman.com/keep-the-internet-open) where you wrote:

"We need to make our voices heard. We won this fight once before, and we can win it again. I really hope an activist or tech leader will step up and organize this fight (and I'm happy to help!). It's important for our future."

Well, the fight is here, and I don't see tech leaders stepping up in the same way they did when we won this fight before. What's going on? We need you, Sam. We need more than just your help. We need your leadership. We need you to show us with your actions how outraged and panicked we should be. We need you to put on hold whatever it is that you're doing and make this issue your primary focus. We need you to recruit every tech leader in your contact list to do the same.

Please, Sam. We really need you.
Maybe allow the user to set the timeframe and number of downloads?

How are files encrypted?

Any reason to use this over Firefox Send and other alternatives?
Nyriad Unveils GPU-Accelerated Storage Device for the Square Kilometer Array
Sure would have been nice to know tho. Ah well - why should we expect that basic level of transparency, right?
Irrelevant since both played no role in sharing a fraction of the misinformation output by Mockingbirds.
A General Neural Network Hardware Architecture on FPGA [pdf]
This has nothing to do with centralisation. Every (even decentralised) shops need to comply with local laws. You can debate the laws, but not the compliance of shops. It's the same reason you can't just buy weed from 7-Eleven.

If you care to read the article, Microsoft says they are working with the government and the app will soon get reinstated.
"After the massive amount of research we put into this, we believe that at least one moderator of /r/Bitcoin must have been either aware of the bot's plans (and allowed it to place blame on others), or have executed the attack themselves. This is most likely the moderator who immediately approved the [CU-1] comment. Other moderators may or may not have been involved. Meaning, yes, we believe that a moderator of /r/Bitcoin either directed or was complicit in the hacking of many of their own Bitcoin Reddit user accounts."
Multiplayer Video Games: Researchers Discover Link Between Skill, Intelligence
My go-to bad machine-learning translation is from Swedish "Män som hatar kvinnor" to "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo". The correct translation is "Men who hate women" the book's original title. We can deduce why it picked up the wrong translation in that case, harder to say here.
No, you didn't say anything about Linux.
Labeled RISC-V: A New Perspective on Software-Defined Architecture [pdf]
I haven't read the book, but I've read a few articles that lay out GTD's motivation and process. I'll add it to my kindle list.
Why are they discredited?
Ask HN: Whose going to AWS re:Invent?
Wanted to post this thread as a place where we could network on meeting fellow HN'ers.

If you are going, leave a comment on what tracks you are interested in or what AWS tech you want to learn more about.

Also if you want to connect let us know how to contact you.
If you want to worry about asteroids impacting the Earth, it's very inefficient to worry about it one interstellar object at a time. Here's a nicely organized list for you with some history, to let you efficiently worry at scale: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torino_scale#Objects_with_non-...
I've seen them ask how to restore execution permissions after `chmod a-x
/bin/chmod'. I usually answer to those smartasses that I my favourite way is
to run the very non-executable /bin/chmod without any file juggling. I'm yet
to meet anybody who wasn't surprised that it's possible.
One time run commands and dependent commands are difficult in docker init. So I have to fall back upon a startup manager like supervisord. I tried that last time , but it was very funky.

Docker VM are like short lived machines with no dependency management in init. But 70$ for 3 years is a cheap price to pay versus giving up docker , nginx (vs traefik), etc
'Game of Thrones' alleged hacker hit with charges in US
Contracting Triangles
The first thing that would come to mind is that people may feel threatened by what Snowden revealed, but not by Raines
60Hz is 16.7ms between each picture. However, that only gives you a lower bound on the latency. The actual time from GPU sending picture, to picture being on screen, can be a lot more. See the John Carmack answer above.
There are other strategies for getting a lock faster. Most of the slowness for a cold start with a modern receiver is receiving the ephemeris data (i.e. where the satellites are at the moment), which is transmitted at a whopping 50 bits per second, and so takes about 30 seconds to receive. Once you have that, the rest comes quickly. Older receivers with less computational power and less clever techniques could take a long time to work out your position after that, but modern ones can do it pretty much right away as long as the signal strength isn't crap.

That ephemeris data is good for 2-4 hours, so one simple technique to improve lock times is to save it, and then if you turn the receiver back on within that window, you can reacquire a lock almost instantly using the saved ephemeris data.

Another technique is to download the ephemeris data from a source that can provide it more quickly, such as the cell network. This skips that long transmission at 50bps from the satellites themselves. Pretty much any GPS chip in a cell phone these days will do this. This is called assisted GPS, or A-GPS. (This is not to be confused with another technique also called A-GPS, where the GPS chip captures the signal and sends it to the cell tower to offload the computation. This was a popular approach in older phones to comply with 911 reporting requirements, but doing the computations onboard is cheap now.)

Starting with a coarse guess of your location can also help shorten the time to initial lock, although it should be fairly short regardless. That guess can come from looking at cell signals along with known cell tower locations, and a rough altitude estimate can be made from the device's barometer.

All of which is to say, getting a dot almost instantly when you turn on location services doesn't necessarily mean too much here.
Tesla Model 3 Orders Opened to Regular Reservation Holders (non-employees)
I've done some research, as I have the same interest. I know that `neovim` allows clicks on non-tab elements -- I think something akin to `vim-wintabs` and `neovim` might get what you want.
As a react chart enthusiast, I love this.

Add a max-width and center the content of the demo page to avoid elongated charts on large screens.
Viertel zwei = a quarter of the second hour has passed, i.e., it's 1:15. It's a logical extension of the standard-language "halb zwei". But note that this is only used and understood in some German-speaking regions, not all!
And yet Elon Musk is going to build a colony?
Company raises $347K ICO, vanishes
English to Russian is also wrong

https://translate.google.com/#en/ru/Half%20past%20one

"Half past one" = 1:30

"Половина первого" ("half of the first") = 0:30
Even if it is done for votes, if they try to stop it after election...it may have the opposite effect.
Where in Austria does "viertel zwei" mean 2:15? My impression was that the places that don't use the Eastern ("Viennese", if you will) system always explicitly use "viertel vor" or "viertel nach" (or "viertel über"), leaving nothing optional/implicit.
Many of the custom images you can find on XDA Developers do not require that you install Google Play Services.

CopperheadOS is a good choice if security is a priority.

If you need proprietary apps without using Google, you can install and use Amazon's app store app, and download them from there instead.
Fast Video Downloader 3.0.0.12 Registration Key Working Free
LA Times published an article that indicates that these warehouse jobs are replacing retail jobs, and they pay better.

Even better, the warehouses are revitalizing parts of the country that have been blighted for decades.

For instance, I used to live in San Bernardino, and these warehouse jobs have created opportunities in that city that simply didn't exist a decade ago. Instead of spending two hours a day commuting to a retail job, people are actually working in the cities that they live in.
Much worse viewing angles is a pain.