skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think people have a closing window in time where such things will be an option. There's a line from the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire that goes something like "There is neither art nor skill at arms which will protect one man from one hundred of his fellows." In context, the author was trying to explain why emperors kept getting murdered. That basic idea has held for centuries, but as soon as security robots get good enough... AI, robotics, and guns might be the art that protects the rich elite of the near future from the displeasure of the near future's impoverished and exploited mob.
When people write obtusely, I simply read it obtusely and move on with my life.

In my imagination, this article is about some guy named Ray teaching Panda's how to run faster.
(Assuming you're a certain kind of believer; otherwise, this isn't so helpful) In 1st Corinthians 7, Paul says that remaining abstinent and unmarried is desirable, but that sex within marriage is acceptable to control lust. It doesn't directly mention children, but it seems to imply that it isn't sinful to avoid them.
One ot the best tools for load testing on ubuntu is yandex tank.
Iceland isn't very big and it's completely isolated. Did they plan to get those 600 computers off the island, or did they expect to keep them there and not get caught?
Its gotten really bad for me and a lot of my friends, lots of prime deliveries on little stuff take 4-5 days, and a lot of items say one day at checkout then a day later when i get the shipping notice, It’s ridiculous. Especially so since i live under 2 miles from an Amazon warehouse.
The answer was "NiCd batteries are way too expensive, lead acid batteries are way too heavy, and both have way too short a cycle life."
Them programming for “unexpected” situations is not quite what is being talked about though.

The above scenarios are great, but I like the one Mercedes got in a little trouble for “is the cars priority your saftey or is it other people’s? You bought the expensive car, it should protect you first”, gets into a trolley problem pretty quickly.
Indeed, absurd engine swaps are not too uncommon in the automotive hacking/hot-rodding world.

Here's one of the weirder ones - a 3-cylinder diesel into a 1970 muscle car: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Rxf2WZvEbc
Ever been outside on a sunny day?
These copyright laws are such a joke! Typical of nowadays germany. Nothing is working anymore, except you run an army of lawyers and "cash-into" the local government. Its such a joke, rly.
Yes, that is true, and unfortunate. However, under US copyright law, Project Gutenberg does have the right to host those books. And it's never prudent to compromise regarding illegal demands.
Disney is an interesting example for me, because I remember it wasn't that long ago that they were not HTML. At the least, they didn't work on my kid's raspberry pi computer. Thought it was that we didn't have flash installed at the time.

Regardless, glad to see that isn't the case, anymore. Huge thanks on correcting me here!
Suppose the shooter was shooting at public buses though. Would you still expect nothing to happen?

The key difference between your car and a bus is that with the bus the safety of thirty people is involved, plus the willingness of many more people to use buses which the city has an interest in. Your car is you and your family's safety which is a fraction of the importance.
History repeats itself. I mean, how many times does this have to happen? And in the end, the "elite rich" get their heads chopped off. Because when it comes down to it, it's a numbers game.

Russia, France, Spain, etc. etc.
I was overweight for most of this decade and lost 65 lbs in the last ~7 months.

I saw this and wanted to say based on that experience, don't feel bad for eating bacon and eggs frequently. One thing I realized is that eggs are like a crazy superfood. An egg is something like 70 calories. But when you eat just one or two, and you can feel quite full for quite a long time. It is still weird to me how that works. And bacon... I eat it in reasonable portions frequently. Same with Italian meats like pancetta or salami.

There is this attitude to vilify certain foods but in my recent experience it's counter productive. It's much better to pay attention to the big picture than to swear you will never eat a specific food again.
Of course it would be fair. Because EU citizens would be harmed.

That‘s the duty of a state. Protect its citizens.
Because there are lots more of those making $200k+ and they are competing for housing in more similar areas than poor people. The 100M CEO likely lives in a area that has been gentrified a very long time ago.
Not saying it's justified or good. In fact I'm a pro gentrification [edit: typo was @verification"] market urbanist. Just trying to make sense of it as well.
The Google employees being shot at almost certainly pay way more than that in income taxes.
That means, the bridge will be under British control!
Maybe I’m just skeptical of the SDC hype...

But I’ll take all of this a LOT more seriously if there was a serious effort in V2V / V2I (vehicle to vehicle/infrastructure) systems - AND - if semi trucks that take known and constant routes were being deployed.

It seems obvious to me for SDCs to be a Railroad v2 at first. Vehicle takes a long distance and known route back and forth. Seems far easier and immediately makes money.
You don‘t want to tell me that a US court would show any restraint if a non-US based person violated American copyright?
It says "ordered that access to certain items..." I don't see anything misleading, or any implication that the court ordered the whole site blocked. I think it is obvious that only a few items were ordered to be blocked but they decided to block the whole site
There was a dumb kid my age at a high-school party who thought he'd... I don't know what he thought.

But he shot a BB gun and it hit a girl in her eye, destroying the function in that organ and lodging itself in her brain, forcing her to have to relearn how to read and speak and other functions people take for granted.

I say this because even a BB gun can hurt someone in ways that are unanticipated.

Just like supporting an economic regime that hurts people in unanticipated ways. Better to be kind and generous to everyone so we can all flourish.
I was hoping they would talk more about what it took to get the drive electronics running. I half expected the motor controller to refuse to run without some kind of authentication module or something present.
Not quite the only, but almost.
Anecdata from my end is that when I last changed cameras, I really wanted an A7 but got an m43 kit instead, because quality lenses for the Sony were extremely limited and expensive compared to the Canon DSLR equivalents I'm used to.

The body seems killer but lenses are the other half of the equation. I am an early mirrorless believer (bought a Panasonic G1 new) and I've been excited about mirrorless full framers from Sony since they first came up.

The fact that despite having wanted that camera for so long I still failed to justify the purchase is bad news for Sony in my book.
It's true that there's no feature that directly corresponds to parshape. (This is what the ill-fated CSS Regions spec was for; the problem with it is that it was far too expressive to the point of becoming near-unimplementable.)

However, I believe you can simulate parshape by just stacking line-sized floats on top of one another and using clear to stack them vertically. This should give you just as much expressivity as parshape.

See this jsfiddle I threw together quickly (floats in blue to show how the technique works): https://jsfiddle.net/vve89j06/4/
Does the Google Cast SDK allow you to "set up" a new Chromecast device, as I explicitly stated in my comment?

Your employer's site seems to indicate not: https://www.google.com/chromecast/setup/
Pinch of salt. The data for electrical engineering is conspicuously missing. Furthermore, the article mentions two universities, Carnegie Mellon University and Johns Hopkins University. The CMU CS department was founded in 1988 [0] and JHU CS was founded in 1986 [1]. The article claims peak female ratio of enrollment in CS in 1984, before at least two prestigious CS departments were even founded.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carnegie_Mellon_School_of_Comp...

[1] https://www.facebook.com/pg/jhuengineering/about/

Edit. The NPR article [2] links to the raw NSF data [3].

EE gender data for 1984:
BS, M: 19,252 F: 2,289
MS, M: 5,081 F: 438
PhD, M: 579 F: 14

CS gender data for 1984:
BS, M: 20,369 F: 12,066
MS, M: 4,379 F: 1,811
PhD, M: 258 F: 37

EE BS male enrollment drops from 19k in 1984 to 10k in 2010, while CS BS male enrollment increases from 20k in 1984 to 32k in 2010, as if part of highly male dominated EE departments, about 10k, changed affiliation to CS.

We can also observe a decline in CS BS female enrollment, from 12k in 1984 [peaking at 15k in 1986, 2003, 2004] to 7k in 2010. Unclear what the causes are, but we can't dismiss the shifts in CS meaning itself that happens during this period. Alas, in the current climate, it is unlikely we can have an unbiased public analysis of this trend.

[2] https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2014/10/21/357629765/when...

[3] https://www.nsf.gov/statistics/nsf13327/content.cfm?pub_id=4...
And you might even be able to track them down by measuring the power usage. 600 computers surely pull a measurable amount of electricity, so if you graph the power usage across the entire country and look for anomalies you might be able to spot when and where they come online.

It would depend how much noise is in the graph, and how much energy 600 computers use relative to the total energy usage of various parts of the grid. If they went to a major city, probably not. But perhaps the usage in a smaller town would show up as a spike.

I'm really curious whether this would work. Kind of a creepy thought. Hard to escape the eyes of modern technology.

On the other hand, they thought about every aspect of this heist, so maybe they're going to power the computers with gasoline generators. It's hard to know what to be paranoid about when thinking deviously.
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http://backreaction.blogspot.de/2017/01/the-bullet-cluster-a...

it will be a fudge factor until we directly observe dark matter, which as far as I know, we haven't.
What i don't understand is why the mega rich don't realise that wealth inequality is hurting their quality of life too. Having a safer world benefits everyone.
Amazon does not commingle their inventory. You appear to be confusing 3p sellers and "fulfilled by amazon" with "sold by Amazon".
CCD Saturation and Blooming

http://hamamatsu.magnet.fsu.edu/articles/ccdsatandblooming.h...
Apt username. Is that you, Mr. B?
This is answered in the FAQ at the bottom of the article. Essentially because this sets a precedent that Germany believes it can sue over anything in the german language and other items in the library might potentially cause the same kind of lawsuit it's better to just block everything instead.
> So the court thinks that the presence of content in German means that courts in Germany have jurisdiction, regardless of the fact that PGLAF is entirely in the US?

I suspect that if the Brits started claiming jurisdiction — well, _everywhere_ - on this basis, then that would raise eyebrows
A Hyperloop-Inspired Pod May Help Reduce Denver’s Traffic
> You can very easily nerd out on this.

It's also a good money suck. Pretty easy to spend a year's pay on car mods that at best do not regress safety features nor increase your rate of speeding tickets. At worst you're looking at safety issues and additional tickets (cost).

Not judging — people have different hobbies and are free to spend their money how they see fit. If you're looking for frugal hobbies, though, this isn't it.

(Now, shadetree home car maintenance — that's a frugal hobby in a similar vein. It's a nice break from the keyboard and requires some of the same skills.)
>pro verification market urbanist

Um, if you wouldn’t mind...
Has Apple offered them an appropriate bug bounty?
I get his point. But in his rhetoric is he literally referring to the tactical situation of the Hamptons or not defensible as in economically?
Meditate to improve your ability to focus on the present and not have your thoughts wander or distract you.

Also, some form of fitness which I believe is also be considered a form of meditation (being present and focused).
Through college and my late 20s, I wasn't interested in having children. When I got married 5 years ago, I was happy just learning to live in marriage. About a year in, we started talking about what we saw in the future. Over many conversations, discussions of our financial situation, family medical histories, and feelings, we decided that we both saw our family growing beyond two people. It just felt like the natural next move.
Whole Foods was already abusing their position by setting strict quality standards for foods they carried, and reducing the requirements for their own 365 brand.
China has invested billions in constructing mammoth aqueducts to do just this:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South%E2%80%93North_Water_Tran...

https://www.gokunming.com/en/blog/item/4038/china_considerin...

Meanwhile in Western Canada, we steadfastly refuse to sell water into the US, despite all of our fresh water running into the Pacific Ocean anyway...
Assuming they're Antminer S9s they consume around 1 kW each, 600 kW is usually a non negligible amount of electricity to have available.

But, interestingly, Iceland also has a lot of artificially lit/heated greenhouses that can be seen from very far away. Those probably take a lot of power as well.

Electricity is insanely cheap there because of geothermal generation. Private generation is a thing there as well, IIRC.
I haven't read the link but I think perhaps he's using one as a metaphor for the other?
I had no idea that sixes were returned to play[0]. Thanks for that info as well as the rest of your comment :)

0: minus the occasional Chris Gayle blast out of reach of anyone, I imagine
As far as I know terrorists have no problem blowing themselves up.
Amazon chose not to implement chromecast on with their Prime Video. They have the power to implement it.
They literally don't live in the same reality the rest of us live in.

In the above talk[3], Blyth mentions how someone geolocated every mentioned location in the infamous Podesta emails released by WikiLeaks. The most frequent location mentioned across all the emails? "Martha" ['s vineyards]. The 2nd was "Hampton", followed by SF and NY. Everything[4] else was two standard deviations lower.

[4] I might be forgetting another city
Autonomous vehicles are just around the corner
they have webdriver support. Is that enough? I'm not sure what's the difference between headless and webdriver (if any) https://blogs.windows.com/msedgedev/2015/07/23/bringing-auto...
This seems really likely. The choice to literally put a Chrome logo on it is quite telling. Finding ways to drop your competitors' names without violating trademark is an art form. (I don't get how they haven't been delisted because of the logo.)
In Amazon India, sellers are ripped through FBA and Amazon policies:

1. When abusive buyers damage and return product, Amazon releases refund. We had one instance where one buyer was buying and returning same product for 3 times (2 times received in "customer damaged" condition) and irrespective of us escalating the issue, Amazon kept issuing refund. Also, it didn't reimburse for "customer damaged" as product was not under reimbursement category.

2. We have a strong feeling that few abusive buyers use FBA to create counterfeit absolutely free of cost.

3. Another nightmare is with Amazon seller support. Seems they are allocating good people for buyers, but seems to keep completely juniors who don't have any idea about seller concerns.

4. Their system is full of bugs. For instance, system will charge wrong fee and getting reimbursement is a tedious process. They will ask for certain details that we can't pull from seller central.

5. Even hiring dedicated account management from Amazon wouldn't help as they will only pitch and nag for ads
The known unknowns of plastic pollution
DMD 2.079.0 Released
Ask HN: Collaborative Diagramming
Does anyone know of a collaborative diagramming framework/software.

I can't seem to find anything out there.

Essentially I envision a visio/mind map style web page that allows for a modular wiki-style article entry. You could have each node/child have associated web pages, images, documents, text snippets or sub layers of diagrams.

Does anyone know of something like this that exists? I think it'd be great for collaboration!
Why do Google employees deserve to be shouted at?
For whom, the bell tolls
Split jackpots is why I never bother when Powerball or mega millions get huge because they are heavily played. Some of the state lotteries not so much... They take many months to grow because fewer people pay attention and play them.
A password “management” application
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/dyfynderx/id1345759526?mt=8
This is a secure hash based password generator. Password storage didn’t seem like an acceptable solution to me for most things. This instead stores some of the entropy needed to generate passwords, then generates passwords from that only when needed.

I’m realizing this is the techie’s equivalent of a late drunk text to his ex, so please let me down easy. (“It’s not you, it’s me...”)

I think I can invite whoever has interest to try with test flight, so if you ping me I can do that. I’d like to open source the basic algorithm, so if anyone is interested in that, let me know as well. And if you have a crypto background, I’d love your thoughts.
Really? I've used the ps4 YouTube app a bunch to watch videos, and movies purchased from the play store. My phone can cast to it as well. Seems to work as well as the Netflix app. I've had more issues with the ps4 store app honestly.
Recently a bunch of people got fake products sold by Amazon.com themselves. Amazon are commingling their own goods, or have some other significant problems in their supply chain.

People keep repeating this "not Amazon.com!" response but it hasn't been true for at least a year. Go look on /r/boardgames, /r/pcmasterrace, or that dude with the $5K camera that received a literal brick. These people post their invoices that clearly say sold by Amazon.com and people call them liars.
No recording/playback of a P51 engine start sounds like a P51 engine start. You have to be there.
3S Landing Pad 2018:Opportunity for global tech startups to enter the US market
Sorry, I should look more at what I'm writing when "typing" on a phone. That was supposed to be "gentrification".
I’d question it’s illegal. They have the right to host the books in the US, granted. But do they have the right to distribute them in germany? That’s where the court says no. And given the legal
situation in germany, I think the courts decision could be correct.

It’s also a bad decision in practical and strategic terms: either they appeal the decision, then they accepted jurisdiction and the legality of the injunction or they don’t - and what options do they have then? Keep up the block indefinitely or cave in at some point, showing that against a determined adversary, they’ll eventually back down? Imho, it’s good only for internet cookie points.
See levels are rising
Innovation and Entrepreneurship in Robotics and Automation Award 2018
I hope their Network effect plan (to get paying users) works - because a non-spying social network (even if it's not end to end encrypted) is really needed.

Are there even any other ways for them to make money? Any viable business models other than ads or subscriptions?
If you do a Google search for "Alexa" or "dot echo", the first hits will be Amazon's products.

As long as this is true, Google is acting a lot more objectively than Amazon and its anti-competitive behavior.
EV West makes kits you can drop into your old Karmann Ghia, Beetle, Porche and more. http://www.evwest.com/catalog/index.php?cPath=40&osCsid=63be...
Kerning is intra-word spacing, but LaTeX goes beyond that and (I think preferably) adjusts inter-word spacing, as well.
Tactical. It's obviously a metaphor for civil unrest in general, but he is serious about the danger of living in e.g. the Hamptons while pretending unrest isn't actually a problem. At some point people will come for your head.

In another recent interview[5], Blyth discusses this topic in more detail, including "plan B" for the super-rich that have realized the tactical disadvantages of the Hamptons: escape to a secure bunker in New Zealand[6]

[5] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e5iia9kdsuM

[6] https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/01/30/doomsday-prep-...
How does Steem and Nano solve this? They much have the same problems.
I've been tempted to change the EV audio in my hybrid from the "wooshing" sound to thematic music or video game bleeps, though canned engine noises would be more apropo.
What I say reflects my own personal opinion, but you already saw that when you looked at my profile and googled my username to dox me.

Again, Amazon has the power to add Chromecast support to the Fire OS. They chose not to, just as they chose to remove chromecast support from Twitch when they acquired it.
Your Amazon Deliveries Are Being Photographed
More bets for a 13-inch MacBook: KGI includes it in its predictions
After a decade of resisting, I finally bought a Kindle
Looks like a pedestrian would have to cross 4 segments of road to just get across the street instead of one? The vid. sort of yadda yadda'd that part.
German cars have the most to lose from a changing auto industry
One of the European companies, Bosch? Is developing a electric power train module. Far as I could tell, an electric trans-axle and associated power electronics.

Searched, it is Bosch.

https://electrek.co/2017/01/11/bosch-electrification-drive-u...
> If you're in a country where child pornography is legal, should all other countries just accept it?

No, they could try to convince the country to change it laws. Maybe if they think the issue is important enough blockade the country. Maybe even with help of other countries that have the same idea about the problem. But they can't prosecute a citizen of that country for doing anything legal in that country. It's possible to try to change the other countries laws using diplomacy.
For the API server, unfortunately we don't have better magic frameworks yet. Here I have listed pros and cons of couple of frameworks, and mentioned wishlist for an ideal API REST JSON server

https://github.com/RestyaPlatform/board/issues/1250
The developer docs you linked do not state a way to do initial configuration/setup on a Chromecast. How do you do it? How would Amazon implement it so that someone could buy a Google Chromecast and install and use it without a Google-approved device to set it up? How do you connect a Chromecast to your Wi-Fi network from a Kindle Fire?
I believe an express subway line can do a better job. Though the initial cost for building new infrastructure is high, it also have the other two benefits you mention: Bypass all ground traffic and being very predictable (in fact more predictable than flying cars as it won't be impacted by whether). Moreover it can carry much more people at much lower cost. The benefit of high capacity could probably compensate for the high initial cost.

If regular subway is not fast enough, maglev train like the one connecting PVG airport to Longyang Rd subway station can complete its 19 miles trip in 8 minutes, with a fare less than 10 US dollars, and it has been running for almost two decades.