skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'v read Facebook has long-term backups on Blueray discs where each record has the user id plus encrypted data. Each user has their own encryption key. When a user gets deleted they throw away the encryption key. I haven't seen an off-the-shelf solution for this yet.

That said purchase information might be covered by other regulation, e.g. tax law, which would overwrite GDPR. GDPR also doesn't set a fixed data expiry, you can document that records are deleted X months later (as long as it's not infinite).
The article was already long enough as-is (I think it ran in the print edition, too). The fact that we know Israel did something similar to Iran's centrifuges is a bit far afield, since they have no apparent beef with Saudi chemical refineries.

With several countries probably able and willing to kill people with cyber-attacks, it's probably not long before an attack succeeds, blurring the distinction between cyber and "real" war.
What you are seeing is simply a reflection of what is socially acceptable.
Among others, tptacek has seemed more inclined to attack critics than to condemn CTS themselves.
"Surely this will make VR mainstream!" - journalists since 2012
Is there a document spec out there that is more feature-full than Markdown, but isn't Latex?

Is it even possible to create such a spec and not end up re-creating Latex?
I think this is an excellent proposal. It will help American coders have an edge over their Europeon counterparts.
> By contrast, one of my old iPads is thinking about enrolling in a job retraining program to learn to be a trivet. This despite all of its components being in perfect working order.

I have an iPad Air 1, a device that is pushing ~5 years by now, that became abhorrently laggy with the transition from iOS 10 to iOS 11. Sliding up the multitask view or sliding down the cover sheet usually hovered around 5-20FPS, and sometimes came with a 1 second (!) delay. I don't know what magic the iOS devs worked with the upcoming iOS 11.3 (I run the beta) but both actions are fluid now, and the delay is gone. Besides that, my parents have an iPad 4, which is 'stuck' on iOS 10 but still is incredibly smooth and, so far, works perfectly well with iCloud.

I used to think that Apple didn't mind old devices being bogged down with big updates, since the unintended side effect would be people pushed to newer devices. However, with techniques like App Thinning, the way the 5S became smooth again going from iOS 9 to 10, and now the way they revived my iPad Air I'd say they seem to be reasonable in choosing when devices are too old and holding back iOS as a whole. Hell, with Apple your iOS device gets 4-6 years worth of big updates.. with Android, you're lucky if you get 2.
The Controversial Physics of Curling (video – 2014)
Not to mention, the $5B tax break isn't money lost, it's merely an opportunity cost. If HQ2 wasn't moving to this city/state, they'd still be out that money.
you can see it here in their demo

https://youtu.be/tXwVg2S9wuY?t=60

the "salient points" are called keypoints and their feature vectors are called descriptors

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scale-invariant_feature_transf...

you are correct that the challenge is collecting and indexing/retrieving but there have been techniques that do this for a while

https://web.eecs.umich.edu/~michjc/papers/p144-park.pdf

(they even tested against SIFT descriptors)

the real thing that i'm puzzled by with blue vision is how they're registering against ARKit descriptors (if they are at all) since apple doesn't expose them in the ARKit api (only the point cloud itself). ARCore used to expose them (https://stackoverflow.com/a/29012790) but i don't think it does anymore. they must be doing the registration because they only support devices that are running ARKit/ARCore (and without it they would just have built a SLAM system - albeit backed by an "arcloud" - that sits beside ARKit/ARCore and would most likely be inferior).
Ask HN: Apartment hunting in Mountain View
Recently, I asked about places to code, network and relax in Mountain View. I'm going to be looking at places to rent next month, and I wanted to see what areas I should consider?

Things I would consider a huge plus:

a) Living close to a supermarket and coffee shops
b) not far from the Caltrain

I enjoy living in a studio; so having around 600sq feet would work.

Thank you for sharing your thoughts.
What tidbit? His totally made up statistics?

Because I've noticed that the amount of posting on mainstream subreddit is maybe 5-7 gazillion times more than the porn ones so he's full of shit.
I switch my old old MBP for a HP Spectre x360 running Fedora.
http://store.hp.com/CanadaStore/Merch/Product.aspx?id=2SP85U...

Build quality is good for a PC, but doesnt match my old MBP (a bit less robust). Also Apple put an anti glare on the screen, I don't think HP ever heard of that. Even if there the screen can be brighter, end result is worst.

Everything works fine except the webcam.

But if you're a Mac OS power user, there is some things you'll greatly miss.

First, the keyboard shortcut. OS X uses emacs shortcuts all over the place, consistently. CTRL-K will do the same thing in the terminal, in your mail app or in your web app. Same thing for CTRL-E, CMD-[XCV], CMD-Arrow(s) etc... When you are use to this, it's quite powerful and convenient. Also you're Mac keyboard has less keys because it doesn't required them.

On linux, it's the same shortcut you'll find on Windows and its mostly inconsistent. To do the same action the shortcut changes depending on the running application. Emacs’ in terminal, windows’ in Mail. Sometime copy/paste is CTRL+[CP], sometime you need to add the Shift key. Same thing for all shortcuts. When you're used to Mac power and simplicity, this is quite frustrating.

Plus, if you write in multiple languages, on the Mac keyboard you can write letter like è, ñ, ... only by using the option key. On linux you have to switch the keyboard layout or remember the hex code.

After 8 months, I’m still more efficient on a mac keyboard.

One other thing to keep in mind is the trackpad. On linux it's painful. There is two software solutions, none works correctly. Palm rejection doesn't work well or it doesn't work at all. The only partially usable solution is to use disable the trackpad when the keyboard is in action. This is a Linux limitation, not a trackpad issue. Terrible! Simply terrible.

I don't know how much these details worth, but in the end I'm not sure I made the right decision to switch.
> Just take pride in [...] where you came from.

I think one problem is that everyone has a different definition of the word 'pride'. Over here in Europe a lot of people think of pride as something you feels when you actively achieve something.

Ran a marathon? You can be proud of this!

You were born white/black/asian/... in France/Turkey/Spain? There is not much to be proud of, at the end of the day it's just pure luck who your parents are and in which culture you are born.

Schopenhauer said it best:

"The cheapest sort of pride is national pride; for if a man is proud of his own nation, it argues that he has no qualities of his own of which he can be proud; otherwise he would not have recourse to those which he shares with so many millions of his fellowmen.

The man who is endowed with important personal qualities will be only too ready to see clearly in what respects his own nation falls short, since their failings will be constantly before his eyes.

But every miserable fool who has nothing at all of which he can be proud adopts, as a last resource, pride in the nation to which he belongs; he is ready and glad to defend all its faults and follies tooth and nail, thus reimbursing himself for his own inferiority."
Brain preservation is a step closer, but how could it ever be 'you'?
It will be fun telling the grandkids "back in day, cars used to be driven by people"...
> Every company, every person is entitled to decide what content they are willing to support. You are free to disagree with decisions that company makes, and take your business elsewhere.

Including Christian bakers? I don't really disagree with your free market approach, but that doesn't seem to be the way things stand.
That is extremely cool, but no, it's not the one I was thinking of ... this one was explicitly targeting the application of ferries in SF bay.
There's a followup article; Equifax appealed, and lawyers were allowed during the appeal: https://blog.legalist.com/i-fought-equifaxs-lawyer-in-court-....
Gnome 3.28: »Chongqing«
What lava lamps and vinaigrette can teach us about cell biology
Elizabeth Holmes – “We set ourselves on fire”
I would caution against broad statements that the state will receive a windfall of tax revenue. This is the same argument used to locate sports stadiums, paid for by the public, with the gains going to private owners (and local taxpayers left holding the bag).

Will tax revenues increase? Surely. Will infrastructure and housing be strained? Undoubtedly (Not everyone wants their local community turned into Seattle). Will there be a windfall? No one has proven that.

Amazon hasn't made the case its presence is a net benefit to the city it selects, and cities are arguably pragmatic for turning them away.
"Excessive" - maybe. On the other hand 'taking responsibility for yourself' leads very fast to the just-world fallacy when applied to others: People don't deserve help, if they worked harder they would have reached their goals.
iHeartRadio owner files for bankruptcy
It's ruffed grouse, not ruffled grouse!
maybe add that to the top post?

I was gonna suggest: http://www.dot.tk if you want your own domain.
Since 2014, where Martin Schulz and Jean-Claude Juncker as leaders od the largest factions in the parliament basically staged a coup, the parliament now also has the power to elect the commission, instead of, as previously, just having veto power over the commission the council chooses.

In 2014, Jean-Claude Juncker and his party had won parliament elections, and believed they had a reasonable reason to demand control of the committee, as would happen in a parliamentary democracy. The parliament threatened to veto every committee candidate and policy proposal unless the council would nominate the candidate that had "won" the elections. As a result, that happened, Juncker became committee president, and these new rules got later codified.

It took a lot of unconventional methods for the parliament and court to get the power they have today from the council, which used to hold it before.
Is insider guessing illegal?
Israel and SA are very allied now, in terms of ME politics.
agreed, they're most definitely not. I was just trying to express my frustration with this suggested policy.. I accept whatever punishment the internet sees fit for my careless violation of Poe's law
Despite the requisite HN cynicism, this is really, really cool.

This is a bland marketing demo of course they're not going to get to the really interesting parts. Oh, this combo of instruments didn't really sound that good...yeah, that's because they chose an arbitrary combination to demonstrate that they could, not because they're claiming that every new sound will be amazing. An important aspect of any new medium is the ability to make novel mistakes.

Music synthesis has been a thing for a long time now, so of course there are going to be sounds that you can get through some other technique. That doesn't mean there can be no surprises using a similar (but still novel) approach.

Andrew Huang did a video a while back about nsynth (just playing with the algorithm, before the nsynth super) and lo, despite nsynth's absolute dearth of musical merit, he actually manages to make something cool.

Edit: link to that video:

https://youtu.be/AaALLWQmCdI
> Even though we've all been thinking about self-driving cars for a long time, seeing videos of that steering wheel turning in the empty front seat is surprising. I upvoted this article just for those few seconds of video.

My biggest surprise was that they didn't remove the steering wheel entirely and let people sit at the front. That steering wheel moving on its own made me very uncomfortable.
Waymo's latest iteration can be remotely operated by a safety driver, instead of having one in the driver's seat. It feels more like a symbolic show of confidence in the existing technology rather than an actual technological leap forward.
JS doesn't have integer, but its Number is really just a double, which has a 52 bit mantissa, meaning it can hold any 8, 16 or 32 bit integer. Only 64 bit integers are unable to be stored in a double, which is why the WASM->JS interface doesn't allow them.
Most Olympic sports are fringe and unexciting. Really, who cares how fast somebody runs/bikes/rows X meters?
I still feel the same way about wireless printing. Partially because I'm on Linux and am still surprised it works so well.
I generally agree we are products of the environment/circumstance we are born into but it's left to your free-will and choice as to how to best persevere in that environment. I've always viewed talent as the tool that enables you to make the best of the environment you are placed in. Chance/opportunity is not a equally distributed resource but by working hard/efficiently you prepare yourself to make the best of the opportunities you are presented with in life. No one is immune to sheer bad luck but if you did everything you could to set yourself up for success, you shouldn't be derided for it.
That's not a fair summary of the problem. It's more accurately described as :

"Everyone's costs will increase, and since I don't own property, my costs will increase even higher than most others peoples costs rise"

It's totally rational to not want to take a paycut, and Amazon HQ2 will effectively be a massive pay cut to every non-Amazon person in whatever city Amazon uses for HQ2
The protesters point (as stated in the article) is that Amazon is going to pick the city that best meets their (physical, if you will) needs regardless of tax breaks. So for the winning city : without tax breaks you'll still win, but will also keep the extra tax revenue Amazon will generate (which you'll need because of the oversized burden they create).
My bad; I admit I missed that on first read. I was reacting more to prior discussions I'd had and simply seeing the Inc reference pushed me to comment.
As a consumer I expect a watch to last 5-10 years. As a developer working in the consumer space you need to get out of the mindset that everyone is replacing everything every 2-3 years.

The Apple Watch is only a watch incidentally, all indications seem to be that it's mostly a fitness tracker with a bit of notification monitoring thrown in. Yes, it does happen to tell time as well. I expect there to significant enhancements to the fitness/health tracking capabilities in the next 2-3 years (and then the 2-3 after that as well), some of us are fine with upgrading a fitness tracker every few years.
Because it doesn't fit the narrative that amazon is evil / rich people are evil / gentrification / government kick backs.

I would seriously doubt that any city would be offering this if they didn't believe that it would be net positive for their area. Between increases in property values (thereby increased taxes), number of high-income earners, and new spending from these people, they are likely to benefit from this arrangement in the longer term.

Amazon asking for competition between the various cities isn't hunger games because pillage Atlanta to increase their odds of being picked. It isn't this zero-sum game that these people want to make it out to be.
I'm more comfortable with a utilitarian idea of justice, where retribution and intuitive feelings about justice being satisfied come as side effects and not explicit goals. Deterrence, prevention, and rehabilitation are the goals. Punishment needs to be shaped by those.

I would certainly not say that all functions of punishment in society are legitimate. There was just a news article about someone whose exculpatory DNA evidence will not prevent them being executed. Assuming that sort of thing happens occasionally (regardless whether it's true as reported in this case) then it certainly serves a societal purpose to avoid admitting prosecutorial error, but it's not legitimate.
Is there anything like this for clojure, with all its tooling rolled into a self contained package? What about for clojurescript?
I'd support that if commercial OS vendors wouldn't keep ratcheting up the resources the OS requires with every release. My newer iPad is a horrible laggy mess since I upgraded it to iOS 11.
Similar story, I just bought old "white plastic macbook", the last revision from 2009, for 50 euro (to be used by my daughter).

Turned out that it runs OS X El Capitan (= gets security updates) and supports 8 GB of RAM. You can upgrade the 2.5" SATA HDD to SSD. Basically it's usable as a modern computer, only the 1280x800 display resolution being modest by today's standards.
Not emacs but Anaconda is a python distribution with an editor (spyder), a package manager (conda), ... out of the box

https://www.anaconda.com/distribution/
Yes, I believe that by being more precise in the ways we talk about gender identity and expression we affirm the experiences of those who do not fit in the gender binary and create space for all of us to engage more fluidly, openly, and playfully with gender.
This doesn't explain why you get the same amount of curl if the stone rotates twice during its run or twenty times.
I think you run into legal issues when you take the steering wheel out of the car (i.e. it probably is not legal to drive on public roads under the current laws).
>Why not also say that you cannot use the software to transmit for example child pornography?

Because that is illegal. They excluded legal use cases, and as far as I'm concerned excluding uses for military reasons is all right.
I had a fellow that wanted teach sales guys to use LATEX so they could keep documents versioned in GIT...

Kind of makes sense from developer perspective :) not much from sales perspective.
Are we taking bets on whether proprietary code includes all the relevant attribution?
> Presumably there are ways to estimate the economic effects of 50,000 jobs + tax breaks. Is there a reason they're not mentioned?

That assumes the promised benefits will actually materialize. I don't have any cites handy, but my understanding is that they usually don't. The company gets money from unsophisticated local leaders based on big promises, and the state or city is left holding the bag if those don't materialize.

Here's an example of another, similar deal that further along:

https://www.realclearmarkets.com/articles/2017/12/26/wiscons...

> The state legislative bureau estimated it would take 25 years – until 2043 – until the Wisconsin government received enough in additional tax revenues to match the initial $3 billion investment. At $4 billion-plus, the break-even point will recede even further into the future.

> The Foxconn giveaway already adds up to a lot of money – close to $1800 per Wisconsin household, even in parts of the state that won’t benefit directly from the plant.

> How many jobs will the deal actually create? The notion of 13,000 jobs is actually a goal, not a guarantee. The legislative bureau acknowledged that some estimates place the probable payroll as low as 3,000. The agency tasked with holding Foxconn accountable has a history of failing to verify job-creation claims and rewarding companies that fall short of quotas, according to state audits. How long will the jobs actually last? Foxconn has launched an extensive commitment to automation and robotics, eliminating tens of thousands of jobs in China with the introduction of specially-designed “Foxbots” – with the stated goal of eliminating almost their entire global workforce.
If you've read it in depth, did the paper look at causality at all?

There is evidence that poverty causes a drop in intelligence (http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/poverty-intelligen...) If this is the case then a correlation between intelligence and wealth is not necessarily indicating that intelligence causes wealth.
I use Office365 Business (Premium). I love having ActiveSync push emails to my phone (vs. Poll), and if I grow my family I can manage contacts and services.

Also gives me Word, Excel, PPT, OneNote,
This is Matt Levine’s “Money Stuff” column for this morning. He discusses two topics of recent interest to HN:

1. the insider trading case brought against an Equifax employee yesterday, and

2. the CTS Labs security disclosures that may have been involved in a short sell on AMD shares.

Just putting this comment down to kick off discussion; his writing on financial topics is generally well informed and interesting. In particular his commentary here discusses the legality of trading when you have an informed guess as an insider, but no explicitly material nonpublic information.
It isn't "merely an opportunity cost." Putting up with Amazon's HQ2 will significantly increase local infrastructural load and therefore costs. It is explicitly reducing their revenue while increasing expenses and there's no reason to assume--it's possible but the assumption is dangerous--that there will be sufficient compensatory side-effect revenues to be worth the transaction.
This article is kind of silly. It has a short description of an attack that has been attributed to North Korea, but there are serious doubts about whether they actually had any part in it and then includes a very vague description of a possible cyber attack. The title is attention-grabbing, but their only support for it is North Korea getting angry about something that is decidedly /not/ negotiations (sanctions).

Seems like someone just took the opportunity to fear-monger, which really isn't what we need.
Remotely controlled isn't the right term. Remotely monitored. The software does the driving, the human steps in if anything goes wrong. From Waymo's prior reports, I don't think the human actually has to step in very often (a few times a year?).
* distraction, being fully enclosed is boring

* mitigation of motion sickness

* mitigation of claustrophobia

* free lighting

* they're using a standard car body, or they could have not put the mechanical steering wheel in
Under the proposed-to-be-amended S.2383[0] "§ 2523 Executive agreements on access to data by foreign governments (b)(1)(B)":
[...]

>(B)the factors to be considered in making such a determination include whether the foreign government—

>“(iii) adheres to applicable international human rights obligations and commitments or demonstrates respect for international universal human rights, including—

>“(I) protection from arbitrary and unlawful interference with privacy;

>“(II) fair trial rights;

>“(III) freedom of expression, association, and peaceful assembly;

>“(IV) prohibitions on arbitrary arrest and detention; and

>“(V) prohibitions against torture and cruel, inhuman, or degrading treatment or punishment;

Can anyone comment on the strength of these types of clauses in the proposed legislation?

[0]https://www.congress.gov/bill/115th-congress/senate-bill/238...
Ask HN: As a dev, how did you learn UI design?
Smarter Every Day did a YouTube video on this (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7CUojMQgDpM) where he talks about the phenomenon and also talks to the exact same guys featured in this New Yorker article. I think he does a much better job than the New Yorker article, too.

Destin also notes that, countries that study curling tend to win olympic medals. He said that in 2014, and it's interesting to note that both Sweden and Canada won medals in curling in both 2014 and 2018. [Edit: Though I believe he did say it after the 2014 games.]
vi, too, uses touch-typing home-key navigation. I don't know if I'd trust a developer who claims that both emacs & vi are wrong.
A developer should have a default editor he's comfortable with. I appreciate that git runs $VISUAL just like everything else would.