skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In the news, I followed, it was said that one of the causes for the delay of the "False alarm, all clear" message had been the clearance of the particular wording with various authorities, because it hadn't been implemented before. This hints to a set of prefabricated message which are to be selected by this application. However, you may be right on that screen not being all of the selection process in its entirety.

Edit: Also, I guess, there's still some kind of message authenticator, which has to be entered in the process?
Did anybody bother to tell you that the Bible is, in fact, not a peer reviewed journal?
Anyone created shared access for their condo building? Our building is wired for xfinity cable and Fios gig Fiber, but I was thinking of having a building provided internet for a low price. I'm not sure if Verizon will give us a wholesale connection when they'd prefer everyone pay separately.
Indonesian Fishers Are Building a DIY Fish Database to Protect Their Industry
No, it's mobile first... ;-)
> Certainly you realize they may feel isolated because you are not sticking them with other women?

This is possible. I do not know.

> What is wrong with doing something like this until they generally feel less isolated, then moving on to something else?

What I'm afraid will happen by taking this route(though I do not know that this will happen) is that this will divert energy that would have gone into converting work cultures to improve the interaction between men and women and shift that energy into an external forum that doesn't affect their real employment conditions in the slightest.

I'm also afraid of the optics of a double standard. If women can have women-only groups while men can't socially get away with having men-only groups at the same time that the number of women grows in the field, then that may make seemingly displaced men very angry.

I could be wrong. If you see a reason why this doesn't make sense, please let me know.
Great work! I recently moved to a rural area. My options were dialup, satellite or WISP. I chose to sign up with the WISP and it has beat expectations so far.

It’s run by 2 older guys who do software dev in Boulder. They use all Ubiquiti gear, backhaul with microwave and then directional WiFi between the houses.

It’s quite impressive. We’re in a heavily mountainous area, handling ~2k vertical feet and ~20 miles back to a fiber line.

Now if only I could get symmetrical 20mbps. Currently at 5/2 and it is a bit slow. From what I understand they recently got licensed for some new spectrum. Fingers crossed!

Watching them has really made me want to either join them or work on my own WISP.
I have noticed this very strongly just in the last few weeks alone. Anytime a conversation begins that has to do with cars, a whole bunch of people immediately jump in to point how owning a car is immoral, how it destroys the environment, how it kills innocent children, how you should feel ashamed for owning one, etc. Maybe I've missed it before but with the recent spate of self-driving car stories it has become really stark how many people on HN have extremely narrow viewpoints.
This sounds interesting. I am in Seattle and also hate Comcast with a passion. My roommate has a similar hate of Comcast. If I could get 200 mbit at a similar cost to what I am paying now it would be an instant transition.
Would it be feasible to provide an alternate to fiber for intranet within an ISP over a city using FSOC (freespace optical communications)? I kind of doubt it is practical but it seems like having some amazing high bandwidth safe way to transmit data from private homes rooftops over significant distance would solve another one of the technical/logistical hurdles (digging streets and laying fiber) keeping monopolies in place.
> coding is no longer the most impactful thing you're doing

This is pretty bad sentiment for an engineering manager. The reason you do coding is not because you want to contribute in overall output but because you want to understand nitty-gritty details of what your team is doing and where are the bottlenecks. For example, I as an engineering manager quickly learned that our build system was too slow and too fragile. Or that talking to one of the external system was huge struggle. Or that there was lot of code duplication in many places for certain functionality. Many junior and less experienced engineers would usually tend to just accept these pains and rather focus on their immediate deliverables. An experienced engineer would immediately see this as opportunity to sacrifice little bit of short term goal for huge long term gain. You can't build a city by only supervising things from 30,000 ft.

At absolute minimum, an engineering manager should do code reviews very frequently spending at least 20% of their time. My litmus test for an effective engineering manager is if they can debug and fix a trivial bug that any of their junior developers easily can. There are "engineering managers" who can't even build their own product that they claimed to have lead. Those are usually a disaster-in-works.
Fish: Una shell alternativa – Fastbyte01
I dumped Thunderbird some years ago because I had accumulated 10 gb of email and it had slowed to a crawl. That, and the search wasn't very good.

My gmail interface has neither of those problems.

I would consider going back to Thunderbird because it pulls together multiple email account better than gmail does. But they've got to get a better underlying storage engine.
Great initiative! I would like to know what you think of Artemis Network's stuff? Is it legit?
Foxconn has a history of making large claims that they don't live up to (e.g. Pittsburgh and Brazil) [1]. It's hard to trust this deal is handled properly when we find it's actually costing 50% more in tax credits after the fact.

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/20/business/foxconn-trump-wi...
Looks like someone’s homepage on Angelfire 25 years ago lol
Banks are rapidly trying to adopt the use of blockchain.
Disappointment is inevitable no matter your hardware/software poison of choice.
GitLab Security Release: 10.3.4, 10.2.6, and 10.1.6
Developing countries, sure, and they run a huge risk of propping up an unsustainable economy. Especially when those incentives run out.

Just look at how Argentina's incentives for Blackberry panned out: https://www.npr.org/2017/02/23/516895101/when-argentina-elec...
I'm on the east side too. Seattle has many more providers than the east side. Where I am there is only Comcast and much slower dsl (20mb). DSL comes with a bandwidth cap. I have the standard comcast 1tb/month limit, but with an xbox, it's easy to use 100 gig just for a couple of giant games. I can see it wouldn't be too hard to use a terabyte.
People who are truly broken from reality, i.e. psychotic would have a hell of a time playing s video game for any length of time.

How much do you know about abnormal psychology? There are various degrees of disconnection from reality. People with Borderline Personality Disorder can be highly functional, even highly acclaimed in their field, yet have demonstrable, stark disconnects from reality. There's a lot of room between a nominal psychology and an extreme Schizophrenic.

Whatever Devin Moore had would certainly qualify. However, the waters are muddied by his court case. (The defense's claim is PTSD, but that might have more to do with defense tactics than accuracy of diagnosis.)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Devin_Moore
Indeed, hasn't this already been studied? Lyft & Uber have increased traffic, not reduced it, because the cars are driven a significant amount of the time without any passenger.
Which, IIRC, they decided to do of their own accord, after having won suits around discrimination (e.g., _Dale_) Whether the point is mooted or not is up for discussion, but whether they have the right to discriminate is settled, according to the Supreme Court. They clearly do.
I'm not sure you read my comment. I had already agreed with you in general.

I was asking for you to connect your comment to the one which you had replied. As it is it's just a completely out of the blue, like stating "many people enjoy French fries" or something.
Hi, I'm one of Luna founders, I'll be happy to answer any questions! :)
Sometimes I wonder if we should mark tests as "documentation", "internal" or similar. When I get a pile of unit tests I find it really hard to tell which ones are for the overall system vs. testing just a detail that may change.
The FCC has already explained why they believe they're not being arbitrary and capricious. They would repeat the same explanation in the courts.

It's up to the courts to decide whether or not they actually are being "arbitrary and capricious".
Or giving $4.5 Bn tax credits to SMBs across the whole state, instead of just one business in one town in the furthest corner of the state.
Sure, but a 1000% higher likelihood is close to meaningless if we’re talking about extremely tiny fractions in absolute terms. For example, a substance that increases your baseline risk of some type of cancer from 0.000003% to 0.00003% is basically imperceptible in a population of 300M people. That’s 90 incidents instead of 9 incidents out of the entire United States.

You don’t have to tell me exact figures for how many people you personally know in each category, but my point is that if both figures are sufficiently small in absolute terms then the example is meaningless.
- nyc has a huge park right in the middle of it and many large ones like prospect and forest park in brooklyn. Upstate new york has some of the greatest hiking in the country. Any number of stops 2 hours or less north of the city will take you to breathtaking natural sights

- I have been to nearly every state in the US. Amtrak and public transit.

- living in a major city means most of the events are here, not in surrounding isolated areas

>"You are a person who doesn't travel, and says they don't want to."

Like I said I've been all over the US and I definitely never said I don't want to travel. It takes a serious lack of imagination to believe you need a license to go places.

>"You are practically tied to your community."

Yup all 9 million of them in their diverse splendor.

BTW for the non driving curious it's very easy to do all of this touristy "I drive because I can go to national parks!!!!" stuff. While travelling around the US for 4 months (without a car) I found that almost every hostel I stayed at offered numerous daily vans for groups who wanted incursions to almost anywhere interesting in the area. Like I said many drivers don't even know these things exist because they're so tied to car culture.

In my experience with travel a car is for people with specific destinations. If you're more of a "the trip is the experience" type of person, you lose a lot of local color by just shutting yourself in your own world from point A to point B.

edit: in response to your edit, I think my original comment addressed your "on the road" suggestion well enough. Let me suggest one thing about your tone. If you find driving a car romantic in the vein of "On the Road" more power to you, I'm not gonna tell you what you know you understand and enjoy. But on the other hand I think you should step back for a minute and think about how much you REALLY know about public transit in the United States considering you willingly admit navigating public transit isn't really your cup of tea. Maybe rather than buying all of the "can you believe America doesn't have bullet trains!!!" hacker news echo chamber you should consider that living a perfectly fulfilling licenseless life is not just possible but actually preferable, yes, here in the "dire broken infrastructure" of the united states.
They always seem to find time for amending the copyright law, sometimes multiple times in the same year. A list of amendments is at https://www.copyright.gov/title17/92preface.html. I'm not sure what has happened since 2010 though, since there's only one change, in 2014.
Thelonius Monk, Bill Evans, and Herbie Hancock are all nearly household names. Yes, not as famous as Miles Davis, but up there.
we still don't have the computational power to do things atom-by-atom

That's what puzzles me about this discussion.

Of course we don't. The goal here is to model more atoms than we have atoms to model with. Until we get to quantum computers that can represent more information per atom, than information per atom we want to represent, it's simply a matter of objectively & obviously inadequate resources. You can't simulate wind shear on a plane when there's more atoms in that wind & plane than there are in the computer simulating them: every single atom being simulated contains the complete information about its state (information independent of any other atom), so simulating it will require at least one atom per atom simulated - if you don't have at least as many atoms to simulate as you are simulating, you can't achieve a complete simulation.
I live in Far North Dallas and work in Plano. My experience is the same as yours, just with Lyft instead of Uber.
Make alcohol illegal to sell and there's no reason to buy it. Got it!
Woah, please share. I'm really interested in seeing your research.
As other commenters have suggested I didn't believe copyright applied to the characters, and use of the characters themselves (and that this was a trademark or other IP issue)... However, it appears that it does (or might). This was an interesting read:

http://www.rightsofwriters.com/2011/04/copyright-in-fictiona...

But I'd be interested in better understanding WHY it applies, and a more legalistic description of what copyright actually mean in this context.
As much as I feel like USB-C has been a huge fiasco on my new Touchbar MBP (way more work than I expected), you're right about Magsafe. I tripped on it and flung my 2011 Air onto the floor. No damage, but it's getting pointless, and anyway, those magsafe2-1 converters are useless -- I've bought 5, they all fail.
Fiat currency is already programmable.
Why use HTTP for transport instead of Messagepack or ZMQ? Seems a bit overkill if you are whipping binary data back and forth between services. Protobuf + ZMQ seems a lot more efficient to me.
This is all based on the premise that the $2.85b in tax revenue automatically belongs to the state in the first place.

I understand that most people agree with the above view, and they have what they believe are good reasons to think that. (And no doubt many will reply with these reasons...)

But I don't agree. I don't think that any such forcible takings are justified. If people want (as I do) a government to protect them from a Hobbesian nightmare, let them choose to pay for it voluntarily. Such a government could publish lists of people who have paid, and how much they chose to pay, and maybe with a brief description or statement outlining why. People could then choose for themselves whether or not to have dealings on people on the basis of what they find in that list.

One benefit of this is that you could say, "not a dime from me because you're invading Iraq," or "none of my money may be used to fund executions, drug prosecutions..."
Wealth is not primarily held as currency, and currency has inflation.
Ask HN: Where can I find high-end stock images for a website?
In addition to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15602538, are there other sources folks recommend?
> It hasn't prevented a false alarm, which is why it hit the news...

That's because they forgot the lesson decades ago. It seems like the 1971 event is a forgotten piece of cold war history. I haven't seen any mention of it in the couple of news articles I read.

> it's interesting that there is a lot of hang up on false negative (false alarm) and very little discussion about a false positive (hitting the test button instead of the real alarm)

We haven't ever had a nuclear missile attack, and even if we had one, there's very little anyone could actually do to protect themselves. The alert seems more of a courtesy than a real actionable warning. The fear and panic of a false alarm are real, though. Also, if there are too many false alarms, they turn into crying wolf and will be ignored.
That's not what I called nonsense.

The nonsense part was you saying that the BTC community back the currency like a government. They can't, the currency doesn't work that way.
So, legally speaking, does Mozilla have any ground to stand on here?

I'm having trouble imagining what law might exist that would legally require the FCC to enforce NN rules. Especially given the rules the FCC overturned here were originally instituted only 3 years ago. Could Mozilla have successfully sued the FCC back then if they'd failed to create these rules in the first place?
tl;dr: several vulnerabilities, including a remote code execution which affects all GitLab versions since 8.9.0. Patches are available for 10.3, 10.2 and 10.1. There's also an alternative workaround which consists of disabling the "GitLab export" importer from the admin settings. Vulnerability details will be published on their blog approximately 30 days from now.
> Hobbes' bon sauvage

Rousseau’s
XSS (cross site scripting)
I'll miss the site. Can anybody recommend other sites that are like The Awl? I don't really know any alternatives.
>return x >= 'A'; already and only means ascii A.

See, here's where you are wrong.

ASCII_A = "A"

alphas = ["Α", "А", "Ꭺ", "ᗅ", "ꓮ", "Ａ", "𐊠", "A", "𝐀", "𝖠", "𝙰", "𝚨", "𝝖"]

for c in alphas:
print c == ASCII_A

Output?

False
False
False
False
False
False
False
True
False
False
False
False
False

Several of the numerous possible utf-8 alphas. Those are not A in different fonts -- they are different unicode characters that look like A. And depending on your font they could look absolutely the same as plain ascii a (of which only one towards the middle of the list is). And depending on your locale and keyboard language settings, one of them could be as easy to click as the regular english A in ASCII.
What would they legally sue for? Just suing for an environment that existed for only 2 years, because they feel it is right, is not the purpose of a lawsuit. That needs to come through legislation.
No, because that hardware company is also the exclusive beneficiary of the software company.

If it was just about hardware, I'd consider other options.
And it should be published on blockchain of course.
Yup, as volatility increases and prices fall more and more exchanges are going to halt transactions or just go offline because it's not worth it for them. It's going to get harder and harder to get dollars for bitcoins. And the transaction backlog is going to make people lose their minds. People will decide they want to get out and they'll try to sell, but that's just the start of a process Meanwhile, processing fees are going up and up and up because people who want to lock in their returns are going to pay a premium to get out as early as they can. And, of course, because the cash-dollar value of those processing fees will be in freefall and miners are going to "prefer to hold more of their wealth in dollars" as well. That's going to devolve into a really ugly feedback loop. People are going to be increasingly incentivized to get out early to avoid an even worse rush with higher fees later, and they are going to pay high fees for the same reason. It's going to be a mess.
I"m curious, whats the amount you are investing, what's the profit, and what's the risk? I've always been a little bit suspicious of day trading as a way of making money considering the type of ads I see, the fact that I'm an unsophisticated investing unable to access the advantages professionals have (like fast trade execution and much cheaper trading costs), and that slippage means I won't be able to set a hard limit on how much I am willing to risk. How do you deal with those things?
There's a lot wrong going on here.

Firstly, Japanese manhole cover t-shirts already exist, I found a bunch on Amazon. Why are these different? Why does this need a kickstarter?

The authors of the kickstarter say they are working closely with city officials to use their art, however there is no mention of artist attribution or whether cities will get a portion of the proceeds from selling their art. Is any of that happening at all?

Lastly, the HN poster created an account an hour ago specifically to advertise this Kickstarter project and nothing else. The same Reddit user has been spamming that platform with the project (https://www.reddit.com/user/aquintar).

To me, it just looks like two white guys are stealing Japanese art and putting it on t-shirts. Good for them, but leave HN out of it.
Nobody should intentionally write code like that. But being able to quickly identify code that unintentionally causes strange behavior (and being able to avoid it) is hugely valuable.
Am I the only person who thinks this whole approach to Net Neutrality is wrongly pursued through the FCC? Hear me out: if the networks don't access a physically limited resource like the RF spectrum and there isn't any censorship issue at stake, if the issue is truly differential access and usage due to oligopolistic limitation, isn't it for the FTC to intervene and bust up throttling and content blocks under restraint of trade doctrine?
Very cool! Can't wait to play with this.
Any such scheme you run into free rider problems. If I am low income I feel justified in not paying at all. Where something like half of the income tax revenue comes from people considered to be poor.
Yes! Those one-off errors used to be fixed by most autocorrect systems. Seems like whoever wrote the new AI-based systems didn't make a checklist of existing features and attempt at least parity before switching over. It's embarrassing.
Watching the Bitcoin fire from a safe distance – what just happened
> That's only true if you have little or no experience designing or even using interfaces.

I'm afraid the history of cockpit design in airplanes decisively shows otherwise.
I believe strongly that the word 'invest' should be used to distinguish one's activities from speculation, rather than be a superclass of it. Discourse is poisoned when people promote semantic overlap and create ambiguity, rather than using words to create meaningful distinctions.

Investing is what you do when you're not merely speculating on short-term returns, but are instead focused on long-term value creation. It is right to call it currency speculation, because instead of investing capital to create sustainable growth in something, you're just skimming the fluctuations using massive leverage.
I'd love to do something like this, but I'm too afraid of dealing with the police if someone uses my service to do anything illegal. If it's very small (e.g. a neighborhood), might they just accuse the operator (me) and I'd have to prove my innocence?
I like the change to USB-C charging. I found magsafe to be annoying because I'd constantly knock it out.
Honestly do not see a lot of native development happening on Windows any longer but far more wev interfaces of some kind. I really do not see native coming back in a big way.
I went there and was delighted with "Jared Kushner Wears The Wrong Socks". If that is what the better internet looks like, I think I'm fine with that I have right now for a while, thankyouverymuch.
Bitcoin isn’t a stock that has earnings. They are more like gold or silver. The usefulness + scarcity should determine its price. Right now people are buying because other people are buying, and a whole lot o hype
I think that's a pretty normal experience. If you look at HN threads about remote work, you'll always find a few people saying that they rented offices specifically because they need to be away from their partners to be productive.

I know that my partner tends to feel neglected if I'm there, in the room, concentrating on something, and now I get too anxious about this reaction to go into flow-state around her anyways. So I actually go to the office a lot more than when I was single.
Linux Foundation Shares Some Love Back for Microsoft Azure
Can't one fork Thunderbird and make it what they want? Or at the very least fix bugs for them? I'm not current on its development workflow.