skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Trick a Journalist – The next “innovation” in email marketing
Bad analogy: Dylan Roof wasn't obsessed with shoes.

You are confusing me calling for a ban on a number (which I'm certainly not) with me suggesting AMD marketing consider not using a number associated with White Supremacy with their GPU whose name is already one letter away from the spelling of Nazi.

I'm not trying to overturn the First Amendment, I'm simply suggesting that a private company might want to avoid using a name and number combination that resonates with White Supremacists. But if you want to name your GPU "Hilter-666", go right ahead. It should be up to the market, not the government, to decide if it's profitable to do that.
Meet updated ODBC drivers with a number of new features and improvements
Would be better with a link to the specific article rather than the front page of the site.
Identity terms in term sheets by ericries
well "recurse" returns an object, "()" executes the returned object. As that execution returns an executeable object as well, you can just start to chain the "()"s ad infinitum.

its just abusing a core mechanic.
I was under the impression the 2400G is already heavily memory-bandwidth limited, so unless memory gets a whole lot faster I don't see them packing all that much more into an APU.
Does capitalism require growth? Moreover, is growth bad? Don't forget that GDP growth is not the same as growth in resource consumption. Eg. Amazon's kindle allowed far more books to be published while using far fewer natural resources.
Was it an accidental release in Australia? Because in New Zealand it was smuggled in by farmers and released without government approval, in an attempt to keep rabbit numbers down.

It did work, but it was no where near as effective as if it was released at the correct time. It was released shortly before mating season so the rabbit kits apparently gained immunity.
Has anyone used Yubikeys in conjunction with Ansible for deploying and maintaining cloud-based server fleets? I'd love some tips on handling the authentication; we'e had a brief foray into the matter, but never found a wholly ideal solution.
We went from $100 to $1000.
The first month, people were all angry. Within 3 months, we quadrupled our revenue. Some guys said, yea we looked at your product initially but we thought you guys weren't serious. Our design, sales pitch were not changed. So, how we started appearing more serious?
Modbus developing and communication test
Biowarfare is what's already going on with invasive non-native species wiping out the native ecosystem.
That seems to be pretty common, I even rented a Nissan Qashqai here in Sweden that had it, not a fancy car at all.
The "solution" has been tried before, with moderate success. There's no reason to believe it will be any different this time.
I'm not completely sure it's the same thing, but I remember a technique for picking using colour maps. It's described in this tutorial:

http://www.opengl-tutorial.org/miscellaneous/clicking-on-obj...
One Tap to Exchange Any Crypto. For Free
Just curious...how do they implement inflation? Do they just double everyone's wallet every 2 years, or do they introduce the new coins through mining?
Well, let's hope the virus does exactly and only what it should. It would be a shame for it to mutate and wipe out something else accidentally.
I think the key here is to think of this in obvious terms: can you (easily) recover the data? Are you trying to trick customers/regulators into thinking you got rid of the data, but really have a secret copy for later? Did you make a good-faith effort to comply with the law? If your answers are no, no, and yes, you’ve got nothing to worry about.

Law isn’t, despite what TV would have you believe, a game of pure technicalities (especially outside the US).
Ask HN: An alternative to mailing lists – a news feed inside your product?
The GDPR legislation coming into force in the EU in May has got me thinking about other ways to reach my users. My mailing list will be essentially worthless as every customer was opted-in by default rather than by choice. Emails typically have a 35% open rate — ok, but not great — making it likely that asking them all to opt in again would reduce my active email list to 10% or so.

My core products are desktop apps. One of the ideas I’m considering is introducing a News page into the products that hits my site for latest news every 5 days or so, and presents this to the user inside the app.

Visual Studio does this in the form of a “Developer News” section that I usually ignore, and a Notifications section that is more prominent and I always look at. I was thinking of following this model, showing important news like a new version prominently inside the apps, and lesser news such as new products or blog posts in a less prominent news section.

My feeling is that it would reach far more than the 35% that my email marketing currently reaches, and would mean my communication with my users would not put me on the wrong side of the GDPR legislation.

I’d add an option inside each product to not show the news page, so users who didn’t want to see it could opt out.

Has anyone tried this approach? Can you think of any downsides? It seems like a good answer to low email open rates and mailing lists that fall foul of GDPR.
Your comment is rediculous.

Rabbits are a non-native species what were recently introduced and are causing significant damage. It's very well understood what a NZ without rabbits would be like; it would be like the NZ that existed before rabbits. That's the point.

(And also like the smaller islands that are already rabbit free.)
The Curious Case of the Hangzhou House?
"the app of your uber/lyft driver will already have your destination."

So does modern taxis. It's strange that when topic comes to taxis vs Uber/Lyft here, it looks like taxis in US are very archaic. I live in Europe and taxis started using apps/GPS/SMS/time and price approximation etc. long before Uber, is it so different in other parts of the world?
How do you manage/keep the keys?
I second this. The longer I work in tech, the more I want to jump ship and work the land instead.
If you're saying the stereotype doesn't exist, there's about a billion results from a search engine that would prove you wrong. If you're claiming that Jim Crow laws didn't happen, or that people aren't regularly discriminated against because of their religion, sexual preference or skin color to this day, then you're just being willfully ignorant.
https://blog.lavrton.com/hit-region-detection-for-html5-canv...
It still baffles me that the official response from the IOTA foundation is that the vulnerability was inserted intentionally as copy-protection.

And even more baffling that their flagship partner Bosch does not seem to have problem with this practice.
Is death still frightening if you believe the self is an illusion?
Or, alternatively, evolution is what's going on and trying to maintain the status quo is unnatural.
Noticed this trending today, with twice as many stars as the next project in the list...
this has Black Swan written all over
Why are you hiding the prices page for after sign up AND for after importing everything, and then why the HELL are you hiding the credit card purchases behind a "Getting Started" button?

Possibly illegal in some countries (Germany comes to mind), the only thing "saving" you is that Stripe's purchase dialog says "Pay 29,00$".
There is no fair in a market. If you've survived in a market for over a year, you are already at the probabilistic impossibility.

You price your product by looking at the resources you consume. We did that initially too but it's a wrong way to price a product.

You are not taking into account that resources are available to everyone, you are simply not factoring the "luck". Don't devalue your luck, I attribute 99% of the prize we charge to luck.

Customers pay for the luck. We've made impossible possible, those who do not agree can choose a different supplier.
We've tried hunting for years.

You don't understand the sheer scale of the problem. Not only are the numbers of rabbits just astounding, they're spread over some of the most inaccessible terrain in the world, covered in dense forests and steep mountains.

To give you an idea of the scale. Over Easter, there is the Great Easter Bunny Hunt in Otago, a district at the bottom of the South Island. They shoot 10,000 rabbits over 24 hours.
republican governors, two of whom (nixon and regan) became US presidents

Nixon was never Governor.
Facebook Messenger bot for QR payments launched for Nigerian businesses
They've already claimed all the irrational numbers.
This is a bad news, we dont understand ecology enough to toy with it with viruses. Killing and Trapping is a much safer choice, we never know what mutations the virus might acquire and become a larger threat to ecology and us. This is why capitalism could be bad when a Biosecurity company backs such attempts. I am surprised who suggests such ideas to the government.
A huge problem they caused in the first place, but having the unsubtle mentality they are demonstrating right now with the release of the virus.

I predict that this second release will unwind even worst consequences that they will endure, while saying they couldn't have predicted it.
Google, Facebook, and Dropbox were all quite different from their competitors from very early on.

I agree their business model could a the key to success, but from a user’s point of view, what is the reason that would make me want to pay for this new service? At a glance, it is quite similar to other note apps
Microsoft CDAs on the Importance of Soft Skills (Zachary Deptawa and Bernd Verst)
HashPass, Fontanello, Grammarly
Cane toads are a terrible example because they were deliberately introduced as a biological control that backfired spectacularly.

Many Australian species are dying out because simply terrible at being animals. (It's not a matter of being overspecialized, because imported generalists like rats, mice and cats are outcompeting the native animals even in their specialized niches. They're just ineffective at surviving and reproducing.)
Wow! Speaking of trust, unsigned installers [1]?!?

[1] https://github.com/iotaledger/wallet/issues/1084
Also checkout peertube which is also federated but doesn't run on IPFS: https://github.com/Chocobozzz/PeerTube
It wasn't a very long time ago that California was red.

In Presidential voting, and only through 1988.

Even then, the Legislature was consistently Democrat-controlled (in recent years, Democrat supermajorities).
"Dylan Roof wasn't obsessed with shoes."

And if he was, would you propose Nike stop marketing their shoes? It's probably another US-centric thing I will never understand, like skipping 13th floor or plane seat number.

P.S. we have already derailed this discussion deep off-topic, so I will not continue any longer.
I'm afraid that's not really accurate. The most massive neutron star observed is just under 2 solar masses, which is difficult to explain if event horizons do not exist. Quark and strange stars are hypothetical objects intermediate in mass between neutron stars and black holes, not suggested replacements for the latter.

It is true we don't fully understand neutron stars and we certainly don't understand what happens inside the event horizon.
> But it's things from the outside that are falling in, and that make a black hole. Since they take an infinite amount of time to fall in, the black hole never forms in the first place.

See this excellent answer on Physics StackExchange: https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/5031/can-black-h.... In a nutshell (if I'm interpreting this correctly), yes, to an outside observer you never observe the black hole form since it would take an infinite amount of time for light signals from the newly formed black hole to reach you. However, to any observers that fell into the black hole (and so were in the same frame of reference), the black hole would form in finite time.
I was also a bit worried about the price change, but people have still been signing up! The service saves a lot of development time, so I think it's very affordable when compared to a developer's salary.
... fooling voice recognition systems, not humans. So more of a security result than an audio result I'd say.

Some time ago I read biometrics should be used as a username, not a password, which seems to make sense to me.
You're missing the point. He meant that the differences you see (what you call diversity) are superficial differences. When you look deeper past these differences (job, skin color, neighborhood, etc) you find that people in NY, professionals at least, are actually very similar.

I don't agree 100% with this sentiment, but I doubt the OP does either.

What I agree with is that "diverse" has become a stupid word. Diverse is used nowadays to indicate only superficial differences. If you see a black man, a lesbian, a asian woman, and a hispanic girl together in the same office, you have diversity. Yet they're all in the same office, have the same standard of education, are just about the same age, probably have the same political affiliations, grew up in roughly the same geographic area, etc. Is it really diverse?

Culturally, not so much. But NY is not so different from any other place. People near each other tend to be similar. I just wish we would stop regurgitating the word "diverse."
Humans tend to believe because they can see a system move and measure 1% of it's 1000000 variables they can master it.

Then they do something really stupid.

Then they pay the price, and make their neighbor and children pay the price, saying "who could have known ?".

This is not only very arrogant, but also extremely ignorant of our history.
Ask HN: What's your favourite datastore?
You are working on an MVP that might become a successful product someday, you want to use a datastore which is easy to scale and backup.
Which one do you use? Lately, I've been using cloud datastore and I love it. But I am not able to use it with Rails/Django apps which seem to need Postgres.

But Postgres isn't like cloud datastore which you can back up with 1 click.

Then migrations aren't easy with cloud datastore.

We had a lot of issues with Mongo's availability and lost data too, so we no longer touch it.
Is JavaScript Statically or Dynamically Scoped?
You mean there is no chance of it ever spreading outside New Zealand, or infecting similar species ?
Most likely, it will. But since it's decentralized, it would be hard to enforce copyright.
> For example, if you consider the milky way as a single object, then that's an object resisting the mass of billions of suns.
The mass is irrelevant, what matters is the density.

Uh, no. What's keeping the Milky Way from collapsing is the fact that it's rotating, not its density. Any cloud of matter that is initially non-rotating will eventually collapse due to gravity, no matter what its initial density was.
The Challenges of Opening a Data Center
At a certain size, using just one provider of any service is a liability and similarly internal services should also have regional fault tolerance. But none of that matters until you have that size a business to protect, or if your primary value is such availability (eg. archiving).
Interesting idea, but unfortunately (and as expected) full of antisemitic and „new world order“ conspiracy stuff by people that claim YouTube is censoring them.
I believe the "spew" that booleandilemma was referring to were the twin perpendicular "jets" that black holes often seem to eject, for which the explanation is probably some sort of angular momentum/near miss close to the event horizon sort of thing.
Is there no chance that Apple and/or the FBI have the list of phone serial numbers and matching AES key?

(If that sounds sarcastic it's not meant to, genuine question as I don't know much a about this stuff!).
The problem I have is that a site could tie acceptance with allowance.

e.g., I run a free, ads and promotion funded site, but I actually supplement revenue by selling the user's actions on the site to a third party. users can also have accumulated virtual currency as rewards, which can be used for premium sections of the site.

then along comes GDPR, and I tie acceptance of some virtual currency rewards with acceptance of the GDPR consent, with the threat of site access being cut off if they don't consent.
is that still legal?
Can confirm. I drove through eastern Oregon last summer. I also got killed. Twice. Then I took the CA plates off the car.

It's a horrible place; stay out.
Using Emacs and RTags with Autotools C++ Projects
Why is this a bad thing, let people post what they want to. Also if someone says YouTube is censoring them why wouldn't you believe it?
oh wow I wish I knew about r_ and c_ a few months ago! I'm still annoyed with numpy for being more clunky than Matlab for linear algebra, but resources like this are good for verifying that I'm doing stuff in a numpy-ic way. Thanks!

(Also numpy has some really nice features over Matlab, like [None,:] broadcasting and being able to index a parenthesized expression or function output without naming it. Ok, the latter is not really a feature, more of an example of how Matlab is broken as a language)
This seems to nail it:
http://highlysensitiveperson.net/episode2/
In that instance, I (personally, IANAL) wouldn't use consent as the legal basis. You could (esp with a legal team like Tesla could afford) pretty easily work that into either fulfilment of a contract, or legitimate interests.

AI and ML have to be careful [0], as you need to be explicit about the data's use and impact on the end-user. The most given example for this is ML algos that determine eligibility for financial products, but we could probably twist that Tesla example to fit a similar to be "my data is used to inform an algo that determines what the car does in a dangerous situation", so you might have to abide by rights to explanation and data editing.

[0] https://ico.org.uk/for-organisations/guide-to-the-general-da...
This. I was going to comment, but this says it better than I could have this morning.
There seems to be a lot of FUD about releasing calcivirus to kill rabbits.

Calcivirus has been released in the past to control rabbit numbers without any ill effects on the greater ecosystem in New Zealand. Rabbits should not be a part of the ecosystem in New Zealand, they are an introduced species with no natural predators (and very few introduced predators) that destroy the habitat for native birds and cause soil erosion problems.

RHDV1-K5 is not genetically engineered, it is a natural strain of the virus from Korea. Rabbits in New Zealand, having not been exposed to this strain before, have minimal immunity to the virus. The estimates for knockdown in Australia are up to 40%, they'll probably be more modest in New Zealand, due to the more varied terrain and isolated populations.

As cute as rabbits may look, they are a disaster for the environment in New Zealand, along with possums, stoats, ferrets, pigs, goats, wallabies, tahr, and to a lesser extent chamois and deer.
Flutter by Google: Build beautiful native apps in record time
Where is the code which exploits the supposed vulnerability in IOTA?

After all, there are code samples available today which demonstrate the SPECTRE and MELTDOWN attacks.
You can write a Google Authenticator script that works on your PC you know. It's about 20 lines of code. Also there are many freeware apps available for PCs.
Big fan of Reddit here and I find almost all crypto related discussion there is abysmal.
What do you think the difference is between "capital" and "resources"?
It is already outside New Zealand. It's a naturally occurring variant of the virus from Korea.

The only similar species in New Zealand that it could spread to would be hares. If that did happen, that would be an added bonus. Hares are also considered a pest animal in New Zealand.
Managing libraries with Nix
A quick scan through that list doesn't raise any red flags for me.

Of course they need to share data with payment providers (like a bank), or else they won't be able to get or deposit your money.

Of course they need to share data with auditing firms, or else they won't be able to do business in certain countries.

Of course they need to provide customer service.

Of course they need to check for fraud.

etc.

What do you expect Paypal to do in those cases?
It's seems brutal, but what introduced species have done to NZ's ecosystem is far far worse. Would anyone knowingly sit back and watch one species that shouldn't even be in an ecosystem wipe out many native species that exist no where else on the planet. The Takahē is holding on by a thread, at one point in a the 1980's it's population was down to 118, in a remote part of New Zealand (Fiordland). It was thought to be extinct, now conservationist have gone full send on the effort to protect them and set up sanctuaries on small remote islands that are pest free (you can never visit this island because they're rightly super paranoid). They were in a position of, if the hedgehogs weren't eating their Takahē's eggs, the Stoats were eating their chicks, or the Rabbits, Deer, and Goats were eating their food supply. This is just one case, since the introduction of man the vertebrate species native to NZ has halved, as in half the species are extinct, if anything they're still not doing enough. The Moa is just one of many species we'll never get to see, the Haast Eagle is another, they were starved to death. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haast%27s_eagle they also hunted Moa's which is pretty epic, largest bird of prey to have existed on earth.
I figure the correct way is that you build for "the cloud" aka someone else's computer. This means that don't use their proprietary offerings to do so unless absolutely necessary.
Don't you think some of that could be perpetrated by Google, to sabotage competition? Same thing plagued Vidme, but the thing is - you can find the same stuff on YouTube - it's just more diluted by other content.
> I think 88 would be a very unfortunate designation, Neo-Nazis use it as a code / abbreviation for “Heil Hitler” (8th letter twice).

IIRC 8 is a lucky number in chinese and asian cultures. Between catering to the billion-strong asia market and hurting the feelings of a hand-full of conspiracy nuts, I would prefer to go where the money goes.

People need to grow up.
They've done it in New Zealand before as well, illegally (or something similar at least). It worked a bit, in one region, then failed. The result was farmers wound up fighting a massive population growth of rose hip plants which took over as much as the rabbits did.

At least that's what some old guy told me when I was walking through the South Island on the TA.
New TechCrunch design
New Zealand ridding itself of sheep and people would be an interesting choice.
Just for curiosity, does it predate Mantle?
There is always Windows Phone ducks
Uh, oh Linux confuses Bleeping Computer again
Under the GDPR explicit conset is required, implicit consent is no longer sufficient. End of story.

As the operator of the website it becomes your duty to properly inform the user of what you are doing with their data and why.