skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm sure they can add an addendum to the Terms of Service that you have to comply with to continue to use the service so that the service can shut down. You know, fairness.

I've had issues with several apps that I've purchased from the Windows App Store disappearing for good. I've had to ask for a refund each time, but Microsoft will refund.

GameSpot used to have a online store akin to Steam. I've also obtained refunds from them. That was a difficult process akin to the bypass notices from H2G2, but it was worth it as I had a large library of games.

Companies are not going to go out of their way to give you your money back. But they know they owe it to you and will refund your money if pressured to do so.
I really hope some company is looking at this data and thinking can we do something disruptive here.
seems these API might work better if they took expected language as input :)
Which rebates?

Wife and I tried a Volt, but the rear leg room was horrid. I'm 6'5" and need to put the seat all the way back. Though for $21k by kids can suffer behind me.

Holding out for the Hyundai Ioniq plug-in hybrid. Looked at Prius Primes, but the Toyota dealers here in flyover country are all assholes (to deal with), and they won't stock any.

I have a Leaf, but my wife calls it a golf cart and refuses to drive it due to range anxiety. Thus she wants a plug in hybrid.
I'm sold on the whole UFO cover-up thing. If you peel back the social ridicule (very successfully induced by US government collaboration with Hollywood) and consider the huge number of circumstantial reports from across the military and non-military it seems pretty clear there's stuff in the skies of non-human origin. Historical art suggests they've been flying for centuries.

There's also the publicly acknowledged reports of NASA and various governments/military conducting investigations and spending millions of dollars in the process.

Historically it would have been politically difficult for governments to come out and admit this - and when they did (like after Roswell) it was quickly retracted.

Peel back the social conditioning and reconsider the likelihood of this given all the reports.
What? There's absolutely no need for such companies to view this as anything more dangerous than the past. Nothing in the GPL says you have to be provided with a copy of the source along with the program. It also doesn't say the program has to come with a link to an online repository for the code. The GPL says that the code has to be provided when requested. So go ahead, contact the company and request the code.

Always cracks me up how many people think the GPL means "I get everything I want, exactly how I want it".
Haxe is pretty interesting. I really wish strongly that it was more polished and had a larger ecosystem, because it feels like a nice development environment and is quite nice to code in.
Well, the process itself regardless of the data is interesting. Likewise, surely for archival purposes once the games are decommissioned and people want to preserve them it will be useful to have, no?

I find your response just a bit weird; it's a nice break down of niche and likely easily lost technology once Konami et. al. are done with it. It's a nice read, well written, serves those looking to archive these games in the future, and also is a great high level overview of the reverse engineering process.

Is the issue that it has no immediate benefit to you?
> How can you prevent EU users from using your service

The first step is disallowing EU-VAT-eligible folks from purchasing. The plugin I mention in the post is really good for that - it looks at a variety of factors including the user's billing address for their credit card, for example.

It's still totally possible that an EU citizen could be on Chinese soil, using an American's credit card, while using an Australian VPN. That means the next part of the registration will be a terms & conditions checkbox saying the GDPR doesn't apply to me. (We're working with our attorney on that language.)

At that point, if someone still registers, AND they later ask for the right to erasure, we'll still do our best to delete their data. But if they try to go to the EU and complain, we'll be on much better legal ground to say, "Look, they lied to us from the get-go, and we can prove it."

Nothing's certain - just trying to mitigate our risks as cheaply as possible.
I agree.

> "electrified" (whatever that means)

Turns out it means, "burns gas" sometimes. Weird.
Here is also a good and disturbing look at this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lHcTKWiZ8sI
Okay, then don't expect anybody to build one. Web browsers are incredibly complex, and nobody is going to build one for free nowadays.
From a weight perspective they still add range so it's not a bad idea. Further, being able to run some fans or even AC while in full sun is a significant benefit.

Car companies are not adding panels because the benefit is not huge, they add complexity and cost, and panels negatively impact styling. Still, you see a lot of campers with solar panels on the roof because a few kwh/day of extra power really does add up over time.
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Greetings,

Let's say you're leading a team and you're tasked to represent a monthly engineering report to the management. What should go in this report?

Really looking forward to insights from engineering-managers/team-leads of startups/medium/large-companies (e.g. MSFT, Google etc).

Thanks in advance.
I have been thinking on a "simple rule" that could mitigate gerrymandering:

1. No congressional district can span more than 1 partial city and/or county.

This will force districts to be drawn to cover whole cities/counties and would stop ridiculous districts such as the Texas 34th which covers parts of at least 8 counties from the gulf coast up to San Antonio
It takes him 12 paragraphs to define the acronym in the title.
This is outrage for the sake of outrage. What I don't understand is why people are going with it.

There is a clear, palpable difference between an update that adds "literally just an icon" and one that adds spyware. The former has literally zero things to do with privacy. The latter is spyware.
Yeah, pet peeve of mine. The word "possible" was added inappropriately. They are absolutely sure, already, that it's a UFO. Which isn't saying much, and deliberately so. It's the first and vaguest thing they call it. If they ever found out what it was, they would stop calling it a UFO. So a more accurate title, if you're optimistic about it being some particular (identified) thing, such as (I presume) alien spacecraft, would be "Possible Non-UFO Spotted by US Fighters."

Misspelled "Camera" also.

Edit: Well this comment is obsolete now that they updated the title. Good work!
Why would he necessarily know the complete inventory? Presumably there are top secret programs where it's all very much a need to know basis.
Entertaining, almost convincing. I want to believe.

However we know it is one of...

* A hoax, like hundreds of other videos of UFO sightings.

* One branch of the military testing a piece of equipment another branch is not able to identify.

* A video showing an actual space craft built by aliens from another planet.

Consider which of these is most likely and which is least likely. Consider also that extraordinary claims should be backed by extraordinary evidence.

I'm surprised BBC picked this up.
Agreed. Elsewhere I’ve seen a separate study recommending to artificially slow down the bar in the beginning in order to give it an opportunity to accelerate near the end.
What is SRA?
This article bugs me because they don't clearly identify the author. There is a Doug Pearson I used to work with at Activision. He was a stand up guy. But I really can't tell if that is who wrote this. What worries me is that companies push people in the game industry to write post-mortems promoting their technology.
Turns out that's the MQ-25, a unmanned refueling ship for fighters
Federal rebate is 7k, here in CT there's a 3k state rebate, some places get to stack municipality and power company rebates over that, bringing the final prices to incredibly low numbers.
The pilot was witnessing it too
As i sit here in the snow waiting for my car to warm up and my windows defog, as they close the road i need to drive today, im glad not to worry about charging stations. I have 130km of BC mountain driving ahead of me. I need heat+range, two things EVs dont do well.
> JS et. al. solved the problem of responsiveness and interaction ie. latency.

You mean "introduced", right? Back before the modern web, when we all expected software to run on our machines, there was no responsiveness and latency problems, because data didn't travel over the wire unless it absolutely had to.
Kafka Streams on Heroku
It's a new tanker drone

https://www.defensenews.com/air/2017/12/19/boeing-offers-sne...
As the page you linked explains, in Civil Law the consideration is not required.
https://insideevs.com/bmw-i3-rex-top-speed-depleted-battery-...

BMW i3 max speed on it's ICE is 70mph. Which sucks if you’re going on a road trip. I've only used my volts ICE when going on long road trips.

The Chevy volt had no issues going 80-90 on it's ICE.

To me the major difference is that the i3 is only a commuter car. And a good second car. Whereas the Chevy volt can be your only car.
No, they thought that the credit score system where every institution that I freely and voluntarily transact with gives me a score between 1 to 5, and is used to determine my employment, whether or not I am allowed to live in an apartment, how much I have to pay for bail, how long I am sentenced for if I commit a crime, whether or not I can buy a house... Is a good idea.
Oh I think I see what you mean. The specific scenario is:

1. External actor A1 sends a request t1 to Spanner

2. Spanner responds with a message m1 confirming t1 is committed

3. Based on receiving m1, A1 sends a private message to external actor A2

4. A2 then initiates a request t2, which affects a set of objects completely disjoint from the set affected by t1. t2 is committed.

Now Spanner guarantees that the timestamp for t2 > timestamp for t1. If the set of objects affected by t1 and t2 overlap then PT and Spanner provide the same guarantees (each object can only move 'forward' in PT). But if they affect disjoint sets of objects, then Spanner provides stronger guarantees. Is that correct?
This happens to many people in around the same timeframe, I'm pretty sure it's due to GABA rebound https://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/mind-read/alcohol_sleep...

From what I recall, alcohol binds to GABA receptors, GABA builds up in the body, eventually metabolizes to glutamate which takes a few hours depending on how much you drink, but seems to be around half a night's sleep. The glutamate wakes you up and gives you energy, hence the strange "feeling great after a night of drinking on no sleep" thing.
> Not knowing much about the biochemical effects of iodine: is it possible Western people need less iodine?

Since the identification of the widespread deficiency and it's effects which motivated iodization of salt was first in the West among Western people, probably not meaningfully. Unlike sunlight which is highly latitude dependent, iodine availability is much more location dependent, and the high availability places (places with access to fish, approximately—both saltwater and many freshwater locations) are also where pre-civilization human populations tended to be most concentrated.
You're a looney.
Or he knew them but didn't want to reveal anything about them.
It's one thing to have everyone chanting the same few words in unison. It's another to have an orchestra/band where every musician has a separate part but they all need to be played in sync.
FWIW: Crystal `HTTP::Server` can already use `SO_REUSEPORT`, allowing multiple web servers to run on a multi core machine. This is obviously only useful for web servers and is different from parallel processing.
Enigma 2018 Diversity Grant Application – USENIX
Anyone have a link to the paper?
Sadly it is a bit out of date (requires Flash), but there is a neat game/simulation where you can test out different redistricting strategies SimCity style: http://www.redistrictinggame.org/

There are no easy answers. I believe the game makers advocate for independent non-partisan commissions who are restricted in how they're allowed to create maps.
High Performance Computing in 2017: Hits and Misses – TOP500 Supercomputer Sites
https://electrek.co/2017/12/18/bmw-hq-giant-batteries-100000...

Probably the original source, it has more information, quotes from BMW chairman Harald Krüger (he uses the term "electrified cars", i.e. HEVs and PHEVs too). In the article, it is mentioned that 28040 units of i3-s were sold, which is the only full-electric car in BMW's line-up.
Even so, the rule should at least only apply to data that was solicited. If you intentionally send data that was never asked for, through a channel not meant for that data, you shouldn't expect it to be treated the same as data that was collected through normal means.
New planes go through extensive experimental phases. The F-35 took over a decade from first flight to being generally available and that’s not even considering the several competing aircraft that were weeded out before the F-35 was selected.

Not saying you are wrong, but a 13 year span doesn’t necessarily rule out the link OP posted.
Basic grid layout with fallbacks using feature queries
Hijacked sperm carry chemo drugs to cervical cancer cells
They intentionally degrade the quality of to avoid giving competitors data. I'm sure Congress has seen the original, and it's pretty startling that they still think the object is a legit UFO
I'm guessing it's either Superhuman Registration Act or Sexual Recovery Anonymous [0]

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SRA
I don't get why they bothered to create this. It just seems hostile to users and normalizes a behavior that could expose them to malware.
New EU privacy law has some rather more potent fines though: for intentionally violating some of the articles in the new regulations, the fine is 20m€ or 4% of revenue, whichever is the higher number.
I am not concerned with wishes, as much as inevitabilities.

Getting a car seems attractive because it gives you control over your movements. But with enough congestion, it becomes unattractive, because now your movements are constricted by the movements of other people on the same highway. Suddenly, taking a train becomes more attractive.

Or spread out, live and work in suburbs. Then you run into the Suburban Ponzi Scheme. The suburbs are becoming less safe, and physically declining, as the bills come due. http://www.businessinsider.com/strong-towns-growth-ponzi-sch...
> If I end up being banned from useful services because the costs of complying with the EU's very transparent attempts to bulk up their budget by repeatedly fining tech firms, I will not be happy.

Not a EU citizen (unfortunately!), but I would rather lose access to services that are violating data privacy laws. As always, vote with your feet and your dollars.

Apologies to PG, but it's time to "Regulate Things That Scale".
SRA?
Low-energy electrons may spark some space chemistry
Honda's Road to Robotics – IEEE Transmitter
Transferring Bitcoin to an internal customer wallet on the public blockchain would be extremely expensive. Transaction fees are still north of $10 last I checked! So most every exchange combines wallets, and I don't think this will change anytime soon.
If your car can make your daily commute without ever turning on it's gas engine, so you end up going thousands of miles without using gas, is there really an issue?

I have seen some cars abuse the term PHEV. To me a car that gets a best case of 13 mi of EV-only range isn't really helping things (cough Volvo cough). But in general PHEVs are pretty much EVs with range extenders at this point. You could take out their engines and sell them as EVs if charging infrastructure was where it should be. We're seeing numbers that earlier BEVs came with in PHEVs
It's been a while but it's federal and state rebates. Then dealer sticker + dealer list rebate. farmers guild rebate (500$ and it costs 50$ to register). Then we got 0 down 0% financing.

This was in Santa Clara, CA. At freemont Chevy. I believe they sell the most volts of any dealer in the world.
They have made big improvements in their iOS app.

One resolved issue that impacted usability was they used to send pics from the selector screen without confirmation, and this resulted in some funny/awkward situations in group chats.

Winning people's confidence back is not easy to do, but they have done a remarkable job.
The big companies, particularly google, already uses state of the art techniques. Additionally, OCR has long been a topic study in academia. I think it's unlikely that we'll see any major "disruption" in this industry. Improvements will likely continue to come from the usual suspects.
You really get nothing because the 2% doesn't make up for inflation. Heh, in fact you are probably losing money keeping it in a FDIC insured savings or checking account that pays interest.
I've been trying to make the point that I'm not just talking about the driving experience of a single car. I'm talking about the grander society we live in, with millions of these cars operating, and the huge factories that make these cars, the direction of the company making them, the decisions to not go full electric, but to market it like this, etc.

I'm sure the driving experience of these cars is similar. That's not the point. The cars themselves are extremely different in their technology and manufacture. Calling a hybrid an electric car is misleading and wrong. It's a hybrid.

Edit: I'm no longer allowed to post, HN is telling me to "slow down". So here is my response to the comment below.

I am not misunderstanding how these cars work. I am aware of how they work. They are manufactured with a gasoline engine. Whether or not it is used by the end consumer is irrelevant to the point I am making.

A car that is manufactured with a gasoline engine is not an electric car.
> One way to approach the latency problem is with more aggressive colocation. For example, an apartment complex could have its own AWS or Google servers for local computation or video streaming.

That would be great, if only we could make it not belong to Amazon or Google. Consider the same idea phrased like this: apartment complex have servers in their basement offering compute, and services you use work on those servers. The model of today is that companies own services, control where the compute happens, and ship your data to them, taking ownership over it in the process. The alternative model I dream of is your data under your control, your choice where the compute happens, and third-party code being shipped to that place.
True, but you don't get dings to your credit rating for insulting the current regime.

Yet.
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Average commuting distance by car is 8.5 miles in London. The batteries are already big enough and are only going to get bigger/lighter/cheaper.
Pragmatic approach, I like that and am willing to play with it. Combining it with https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Critical_path_method could yield interesting results.
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Because probably for most people UFO means flying saucer.
I don't think it is that small ecosystem. It may be used in gaming mostly but it has a very strong success record. I also have decided upon Haxe (Godot is still in the running) for educational activities I am building)

Some very strong Indie games have been made in Haxe already. EA and Zynga us it for their mobile games and OpenFL has many children web games made with Haxe.

https://haxe.org/use-cases/games/
I think this is unlikely. Part of the advantage of having built your own datapath is being able to change it on a whim; I don't see Google giving this up by agreeing to stick to some fixed specification.
No state rebates here in KS, though the Leaf rebates were $10k from the local power company + $7,500 federal.

Does the new federal tax bill preserve the EV credit? Last I heard it was chopped.
Amen. I’m hard of hearing, and traffic noise makes conversation impossible practically anywhere outside in any city. The idea that electric cars aren’t loud enough infuriates me.
Well I guess medias have taught people that UFO means extraterrestrial alien craft. I think the most optimal response to such new neologisms is to accept them once they attain a critical momentum ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
This apology from the CMO is only the start of what I hope to see.

What lesson they learn from this remains to be seen, based on what steps they take to prevent this happening again. The fact that any "lessons learned" from the Pocket debacle weren't enough to prevent this (IMO even more egregious) case doesn't speak very well to Mozilla managements ability to learn from their mistakes.

I hold Mozilla to a very high standard compared to pretty much any other tech organization, I care deeply about FireFox, Rust, Servo and the technical work Mozilla does, but they need to be held to account when they take actions that violate our shared values.
> on how personal data may be used even after it's voluntarily provided.

That feels wrong. The personal data was provided under a contract. Now, you can pretend you're Vader and change your deal, but people can still attack you for changing the contract to terms they have not agreed on.

And so far in court, long lengthy legalese Terms & Conditions haven't always held up to scrutiny, and nor has any contract that states "we can change these terms at any time". [0]

Just buying the database doesn't let you do anything with it - you just bought the responsibility of fulfilling the contract.

[0] One example: https://law.justia.com/cases/federal/appellate-courts/ca2/11...
Messiah is just good enough to make you think that the thrid book will be ok... it's is indeed ok. The third book is ok enough to make you think the fourth book will be ok. It's not. It's rotten.

My advice: Even though Dune 2 is a good book - it's best to stay off the slide downwards or you'll wind up like me reading all of them and wondering if I could get the time back.
Why not? It's obviously very fact based. #2 seems pretty likely. If the US (or some other government) has a drone that can move in ways not generally known about, it seems like news to me.
Are there really jobs popping up in the Blockchain space?
I remain skeptical about blockchains and their real-world applications in commercial software. However, I saw this article today: "Blockchain jobs continue to explode, offer salary premiums" [1]. I don't know anyone with a job involving working with blockchain. Does anyone here have a job/know someone with a job working on blockchain software?

[1] https://www.computerworld.com/article/3235972/it-careers/blockchain-jobs-continue-to-explode-offer-salary-premiums.html
Satchel is Microsoft's state management library for React
Thanks. We've reverted the title to the article's.
Because this is a HN circlejerk about WASM, since when does an argument ever have to be well thought out or reasonable?
Was this how the video was released? It seems edited specifically in a way to cause the most mystery. The video starts and ends with it in sight of the camera. There is obviously more to the encounter which raises the question, why was it edited out?
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Yes but: Not standard End-to-End and the E2E encryption that is in there is not as well tested. Also, the mobile phone-less use is great but it requires plain text messages to be stored on Telegram servers. I think Signal's (and WA's) solution is pretty elegant. For non-phone related use I'd go for Wire https://wire.com/en/ encryption wise.