skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Looks like machine learning is being used to find the optimal balance between security and usability. I've read that they also use machine learning to optimize and automate customer service and automate solutions. Between looking at the login fraud score, nature of trip taken by the user (or other actions taken in the app) and any subsequent contacts with customer service can all be used as signals to automate a solution that is satisfactory to the user.

If true, this makes sense because a legitimate login that is hampered by 2fa turned on every time for basic actions that generate revenue costs the company money. So long as customers' happiness and usage frequency keeps going up and to the right quickly, this is a non-story of a company trying to engineer an optimal solution to authentication.

I'm pretty sure similar machine learning solutions are used at Google, Facebook and Amazon, since I can only intermittently trigger 2fa with all these other companies as well. Only certain actions like managing security settings always require 2fa.
Funny, I've worked with multiple companies and their lawyers who were very serious about license compliance and what not. It took all of fifteen minutes to prepare a spreadsheet of our licenses (planned, anyway). Not a complaint from any of them, other than an "oh, that's more than I'm used to seeing."

The one sticking point was webpack 1; they had some dependencies with unlicensed dependencies. Fortunately, we were already leaning towards browserify anyway at the time. Webpack 2+ resolved those issues.
This story does.
A Key Evolutionary Step May Mean Intelligent Alien Life Doesn't Exist
Pretty fun. My favorite feature so far is bullets bouncing off metal buildings.

The server-side movement is unfortunate, but understandable.

At first I thought the brown crates were just barriers, but I learned pretty quickly.
Interest in the Ketogenic Diet Grows for Weight Loss and Type 2 Diabetes
This is an oversimplification as well. You can use the telephoto lens if the subject has no reasonable expectation of privacy. For example, imagine a privately-owned soccer field that is visible/accessible to everyone. You could stand on a neighboring (public) hill and use a telephoto lens to photograph the players. You could not stand on that same hill and use the telephoto to peer into someone's 5th floor window -- different expectation of privacy.
Do the huge corresponding drops in CO2 and temperature at 11pm and 9am mean that the "solution" was to open a window or door for ~15 minutes a couple times a day?

Seems like a simple solution, other than there's a good half-hour of sub-17 degree temperatures right at the start of the workday, which isn't exactly a great motivator to start working. Unless you are skilled at typing with winter gloves on, I guess.
Would you want to buy a piece of hardware that had been run at 100% of it's capacity for years, without any warranty?
Ask HN: Anyone in the SF willing to lend out their copy of TAOCP?
Apology in advance: I'm probably breaking the written/unwritten rules of 'ask HN' with this format of a question.

After researching a bunch, I found that many people have bought The Art of Computer Programming, and have either abandoned it or have read it and have it on their bookshelf to come back to it as a reference time and again.

In either case if you happen to have the first volume (2005) on your bookshelf, and wouldn't mind having it lent out for a duration of 2 months then do let me know. I would absolutely not mind if the pages of the book are plastered with handwritten notes.
Forcing the situation where this happens is the Republican's fault. Your "simple math" simply excludes how the situation arose in the first place. Placing blame on the Democrats for this situation makes no sense; if the Republicans had been remotely skilled at governing for the last year then there would be no stupid threat of a midnight shutdown.

The democrats are not to blame for this mess. The Republicans are. Also, the President already agreed with the Democrats plan. The problem is clear: the republicans cannot agree on anything inside their own party, the President is incapable of holding simple conversations or making reasoned arguments about policy, etc.

This is the Republicans fault 100% and there is no way around it. A functioning government would never let this situation occur due to the destabilizing nature it has. The only solution is for Republicans to become reasonable human beings.
I wonder how can half a planet be low-lying without reconsidering the zero of such measurements?

Same thing for high half. Maybe just agree that Mars is located one mile further, high half direction?
I liked your thoughts/suggestions. It’s possible to expand even further on the realism of FOV in 2D games, see this example [1]. It changes the gameplay mechanics significantly, of course.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SfG9MTFbEZ8
That's certainly true of other animals, and historically true for humans as well. See the population boom in Europe after introducing super foods from the Americas (potatoes, corn) which enabled calories grown per acre to double. However, in developed nations food is only one part of people's expenses. Food would be cheaper if there's more land available, but it won't get hugely cheaper, because it still has to sell for more than what it costs to grow it. Also much of the land used for livestock grazing is unsuitable for farming - too arid or poor soil. I don't think at the end of the day it would affect people's decisions about how many children to have in any material way. The other considerations around having children would dominate the decision making. Even unrealistically large changes to the cost of food would not likely factor into the top 3. The developing world is another story all together, but those countries are changing and will eventually more closely resemble the developed countries. Any affect on those countries would be short-lived (but still encompass multiple generations, which could have a huge effect on world population.)
The meaning of rollback transcends and precedes blockchains, and it use here is in that sense.
Ah, curious. Despite being a native Portuguese speaker, ever since I learned English well enough (which was before I started using Linux), I always search for stuff in English, so I never came across that guide.

That said, that guide doesn't seem to have the tricks from the top article, at least 1-4.
I would like to see the top10 or top20 coins plotted against each other
I am being treated with pembrolizumab for metastatic MSI-H CRC (I'm in my late 20s). Last year the cancer rapidly metastasized further, covering my abdomen in tumors. Prognosis was not good to say the least.

It took around 12 weeks for the treatment to "kick in", but at that point tumor regression became rapid. Every CT scan since has shown significant reduction in the abdominal tumors until my last one a few weeks ago; there is no longer any sign of cancer in my abdomen. Overall, it went from "countless" visible tumors ranging from a few mm to several cms each in size, to nothing visible on CT today. o_O

Who knows what the future will bring. I'm trying to be optimistic but I'm also realistic about the statistics here. However, going from my literal death bed where I was in horrible pain suffering for 24 hours a day to quasi-normalcy in a matter of several months blows my mind when I think about it. It did give me horrible colitis (yay for autoimmune side-effects!), but I'll take that over a painful death any day of the week. The colitis is bad enough that they had to discontinue the treatment for a while.

tldr; Science rules. Side effects suck. And a sincere thank you to anyone reading who is or was ever involved in cancer research.
Yes, but I don't think they require a low-level IR in that case (purity, no re-assignment, no loops). LLVM does not use trees at that level, for example, because they really need to use stuff like SSA, basic blocks, and so on.
Fellow Engineers: This is where your money comes from
Flagged article, headline is a lie and article is intentionally misleading.
10 Powerful Online Tools to Convert Websites and Blogs to Android Apps
Yes, if you're not using emacs you don't get much from the format itself. Which is why everyone talks about org-mode, not the file format. That said, available libraries matter when you're choosing a programming language, and interop and available integrations matter when you're choosing, say, a bug tracker; why wouldn't the available editing tools matter when you're choosing a calendar+agenda+literate-programming environment+note-taker+organizer?

I'd almost say that a "mode" for editing org-mode files almost doesn't deserve to be called "org-mode for X" if it doesn't do all the fancy stuff. It'd be like calling telnet a gmail client because you can theoretically negotiate an SSL handshake by hand - yes, but that's not the point. I think that people came into this thread hoping for a vscode extension that does everything that emacs org-mode does, but I don't think that that's something that'll happen, unfortunately, not unless vscode's architectural philosophy is very different from what I expect.
Great question. I think it stems from the origin of robotics itself. The desire to build a machine that is "alive" and get it to obey at all our commands. Sometimes I think that robots are slaves 2.0, and as such, they will have human traits.
Which part of the world as Democracy/Freedom fully developed? The Eiffel Tower and the US NY Port Authority have similar IP restraints.
Even better: https://github.com/nvbn/thefuck
The physics of Cloud expansion
You moved the goalposts with your question. I said that the set of companies which hires only men is large. You asked specifically about the hiring practices of large companies, which is a different question.

Recently, 88.6% of developers surveyed identified themselves as men[0]. That ratio alone suggests that the vast majority of teams and companies have zero female developers. In my experience, women developers often cluster at companies (usually large companies) so that they are not isolated, which might make the numbers even more extreme.

[0] https://insights.stackoverflow.com/survey/2017#demographics
Can we stop with the Big [insert capitalistic entity] already?

I'm a regular listener of Dr. Drew Pinsky's podcasts. Aside from his celebrity doctor status, he's an addiction medicine specialist and has treated addicts for decades. He knows a lot about opiod addiction and talks about it frequently; he's in the middle of making a documentary on it. One thing I've learned about the epidemic from him is that it is not primarily the result of a big pharma marketing push. The biggest factor was the right-to-be-pain-free movement of the 1990s. This was a movement initiated by lawsuits against doctors on the behalf of patients who wanted pain management via medication and happened back when it was very rare to get an opiod prescription. Doctors started getting sued for not providing their patients with enough pain relief and this resulted in a sea change in medicine. Pain management clinics emerged and the number of opiod prescriptions skyrocketed and the epidemic kicked off.

Sure, the pharmaceutical companies benefitted from this, but they didn't create this, attorneys did.
We use Zoom weekly for our meetings across the world and it has never failed us!

Occasionally I deal with clients who insist on Skype and it will consistently give me headaches... I can't wait till it dies!
Did you just assume parent's location in the world, after the OP and the parent both they strongly implied that it wasn't anywhere near Pittsburgh?
GoAccess: realtimeweb log analyzer and interactive viewer running terminal/browser
If a bomb causes a breach of the loop, what happens to the other cars? If cars are going rapidfire, what happens to the next car if one car stops faster than braking speed, or causes a deformity of the tunnel that obstructs it?
People don't use parser generator tools because you wind up doing more work than needed to integrate it with the rest of your compiler. The reason to use a parser generator is not for ease of use or rapid development (because they are harder to use and slower to develop with) but for performance and reliability.

The first one isn't such a big deal for most programming languages, the second one is. Throw in better error handling and tricks like sub-file incremental and/or heuristical compilation (for IDEs), and the generators don't make much sense anymore.
I find rehabs to be super dodgy and really only to be used in extreme situations for really short term timelines. of course they are better than literal prison but they are fraudulent and exploitative. I am in a quasi program currently and a drug test is billed to insurance at 595.00. I also failed a drug test for opiates even despite being sober. My councilor said it was possibly from eating a bagel although I doubt I even had a poppy bagel. The concentration of chemicals in my system was higher than it was when I really did fail because I took a half gram of heroin several hours before a test. This seems like a pretty big margin of error for a clinical laboratory, or they swapped samples or something. Either way I find rehab and drug counciling to prey on addicts worse than drug dealers and I find the industry disgusting.
I love stories like these.
I don't know why you're downvoted (HN circlejerk is like that for realism, I guess).

I'd say kids won't care, because they're not that interested in where their meat comes from today, anyway. Those who do will think "damn, thankfully we got over that".

Animal cruelty laws will probably extend to those previously used for food.

There will be a huge pushback from the agriculture industries because without them, those animals would've never lived in the first place. Not sure they actually like living in current conditions, though.

People eat meat, that's the gist of it. It's nearly impossible to give up your ordinary (and delicious) diet of meat, eggs, cheese and other animal products. Those who can do it are above the average human.

I can't give up meat, bread, eggs, cheese - I don't know why, I always come back to them because that's what I've been eating since childhood. I've gotten used to soy milk and cut down on meat, but not completely. I buy free range eggs, hoping those chickens are actually free range. The caged hens farms videos are just terrible, I don't want to participate in their suffering. I'd gladly eat lab grown meat, it all tastes about the same to me in the end.
Many Emacs users don't use a mouse much or at all, and the tab interface is primarily for people who do most navigation using their mouse. For those of us who find having to take a hand off the keyboard slow and irritating, tabs are a waste of valuable screen real estate.

Also bear in mind that an Emacs session for many users lasts for days or months (I just checked---the Emacs server session running on the machine I do most of my work on has been running since last November, and I currently have more than 50 buffers open). In that sort of use-case, tabs don't make any sense, but tools like Helm and Projectile make it quite efficient and easy to navigate among your files and buffers.

I don't have any great need or investment in convincing others to use Emacs. However, people might want to consider that, while new users often detest it, those who do spend the time to actually learn it---which, to be honest, probably requires an investment of time and focus few are willing to offer---then refuse to ever use anything else. Surely they're finding something of value that casual users aren't encountering.

Complaints about Emacs invariably seem to be some variant of "it's not like my favourite editor, which has feature x, so I won't use it". Which always sounds to me a lot like an experienced car driver refusing to try a helicopter because it doesn't have a steering wheel.
Is Bosnia a western nation?
> Part of this is due to the fact that many of these are drugs for refractory or late-stage cancer; this in turn may be due to regulatory or medical-ethics issues that make it hard to directly compare a new drug to the standard-of-care old drugs.

My best friend's younger brother is currently dying of sarcoma. I think it should be illegal to give therapies (and false hope) which are proven to extend agony and proven not to extend overall survival. Meanwhile, studies of new therapies must be performed on relapsed patients with hardened cancers. As long as this is true, the rate of discovery of effective therapies will remain staggeringly low, and the rate of human suffering from cancer staggeringly high.

It's easy to blame regulations, but in my opinion they are ultimately a consequence of our inability to speak honestly. People I've known all my life, through thick and thin... yet it seems impossible for us to acknowledge the truth of his treatment: progressively increasing suffering and death, at tremendous financial cost to his family and society.

I recently forced myself to break the ice a bit in a conversation with a mutual friend. It was harder than I imagined but went better than I thought it would. Paul Erdos had a way of talking extremely honestly about things... I tried to channel him a bit. I encourage everything to think hard about breaking the status quo of discourse about cancer.

I'm left wondering whether, if I get cancer, I will have the ability to choose experimental treatment in lieu of "protocols" which are proven to be unsafe and ineffective. (If anyone has advice on that, I'd like to start getting a plan together.)

Background: My parents were both pharmaceutical chemists. My father is named on over 40 patents. I invest in pharmaceutical and "biotech" companies with a focus on new cancer therapies.
Man this is really, really good. I've built a lot of these games with better graphics, maps and weapon variety etc, but the battle royale mechanic works awesome. It's a lot more fun than anything I've ever built, and one of the better 2d shooter experiences I've had in 1-2 decades. Well done!

Hope to see this evolve!
been banning mobile for most of my private life, and been using Wire for a couple of weeks now. It's much superior for audio/video quality than Skype. Also lean enough to run on a 5 year old phone.

Compared to Signal / WhatsApp gives me e2e encryption and I can run it also as a Desktop app on Linux (so I can still message my family/kids without having a phone switched on)
No shopping carts? Maybe for a convenience store that's ok. I shop at Costco without a car, and I bring two large carry bags. But I don't carry them around inside the store unless I'm just buying one or two things. I buy a lot of heavy things (oh god those watermelons, never again.) And I don't want my arms getting tired in the store. It's bad enough for the 1.5km I have to walk back to my place.
A more reputable source: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/28/world/asia/28intel.html?_r...

> Ahmed Wali Karzai, the brother of the Afghan president and a suspected player in the country’s booming illegal opium trade, gets regular payments from the Central Intelligence Agency, and has for much of the past eight years, according to current and former American officials.

...

> Now, with more American lives on the line, the relationship with Mr. Karzai is setting off anger and frustration among American military officers and other officials in the Obama administration. They say that Mr. Karzai’s suspected role in the drug trade, as well as what they describe as the mafialike way that he lords over southern Afghanistan, makes him a malevolent force.

> These military and political officials say the evidence, though largely circumstantial, suggests strongly that Mr. Karzai has enriched himself by helping the illegal trade in poppy and opium to flourish. The assessment of these military and senior officials in the Obama administration dovetails with that of senior officials in the Bush administration.
It's a Turing Complete wonderland, so there should be many.
The innovation in rethinking the convenience store is not only in the technology, but also the fact that they're likely going to not sell nasty gas station snacks.
GitLab Continuous Integration and Deployment
Related: the Changelog podcast did a really good interview with the developer[1]. It's pretty long but worth the listen IMO.

[1]: https://changelog.com/podcast/280
http://linuxfr.org/news/boite-a-outils-pour-gitlab-ci
Trump, Wolff and the Secret of the Russia Story (or How Wolff Hacked the WH)
GM/Cruise developer here. GM's self-driving tech is a joke compared to Waymo's. Don't be fooled by the advertising.
Can anyone recommend a solution that's both open source and works on Linux?
I don't understand what your question has to do with anything I wrote. Unless your intention is not an actual honest discussion, but to mislead - but surely that cannot be true.
The OP isn't making a claim about anyone involved in Redox, but rather the general perception of Rust, particularly among non systems programmers.

I tend to agree. I've shook hands with a lot of people that see Rust as a panacea rather than a mitigation strategy.
Ask HN: What happened to the batteries that charge in 2 minutes?
This article was written in 2011: https://www.technologyreview.com/s/423597/batteries-that-recharge-in-seconds/amp/

Where is this tech now?
The latter point isn't an innovation. My local grocery store (not a big franchise) doesn't sell nasty snacks, either. They've been in business a lot longer than Amazon.
"Amazon won’t say much about how the system works, other than to say it involves sophisticated computer vision and machine learning software." Why do I have the feeling this probably actually translates to humans staring at video feeds a lot of the time?
This law clearly would not be enforceable in the the US (you can’t start trying to enforce a trademark that you haven’t been defending and that is in wide use).

Having said that, there is recent precedent where FB differentially enforces foreign laws, apparently for their own political/financial reasons.

For example, Palestinian political speech about Israeal is subject to much harsher censorship rules than Israeli speech about Palestine.

So, this case really boils down to how much FB values its political/financial ties to the city of Sarajevo.
That's a great observation! I'm making a few assumptions that I think are pretty safe, namely that an HQ2 would not be distributed geographically around the city in many small buildings, and that the single campus would not be built in various areas of the city that are unlikely to meet the requirements.

Because of those assumptions, I'm not thinking of an influx of employees being mixed among the millions of existing residents. I think it's much more likely that the HQ2 would be built in a northern suburb of Dallas, like Frisco. There are roughly 160k people in Frisco right now[0], and it's already dramatically driven up property values, commute times, restaurant wait times, and construction delays.

I might be letting my skepticism of the entire concept of an "HQ2" color my impressions of the economic impact of an HQ2, but a history of sports stadium construction in this country, and the various incentives cities have paid for them combined with the never-quite-what-was-promised results suggests to me whichever city ends up giving away a pile of money for Amazon's HQ2 will likely someday regret it.

[0] http://www.friscotexas.gov/578/Population-Estimates-Projecti...