skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
All I can tell you is that the Honda lanekeeping does everything I would expect or want, and its the only one I have a lot of experience with. The only thing that annoys me is that it requires you touch the wheel every now and then.

Can you elucidate on what tesla lanekeeping does that others don't?
The penalties in TCP for dropped packets are too great, and there's essentially nothing anyone can do about it. I'm editorializing a little, but to me it's always felt like TCP's main goal was "be a good Internet citizen" to the detriment of basically everything else.

In fairness that was probably a crucial component of the Internet's success, but you don't get the good w/o the bad.

But re: "this will result in bandwidth hogging", routers will just drop your packets if you oversaturate them, so that's not a worry in practice. Well, it is for developers but they use rate scaling algorithms in those cases.
How long does it take for the panel to produce the amount of energy it took to launch it into space?
I don't think it's because they don't understand or because they don't care, it's just overwhelming. Think about it, to have any basic grasp of understanding regarding the security infrastructure of the internet you need to have a basic understanding of network connections, how HTTPS works, how files are stored on your computer, how files are sent across computers, how your average database works etc...

Think about the last time you've tried tinkering with something you're a noob at. Maybe it's deciding that you would try fixing your car engine yourself even though you never were a mechanic. Maybe you decided to make a complicated cake and halfway through you realize that you overestimated your pastry skills. Try to remember the feeling of helplessness you felt at that moment, the "I have no idea what I'm doing and I wish I never had started that in the first place". In my experience that's how 90% of people feel like when trying to do something technical with a computer.

A few weeks ago a colleague from HR asked me if I could make a backup of a computer because it contained some critical stuff and she wanted to be able to restore it later if necessary. I say okay, boot up a debian live USB stick I had lying around and start dd'ing the drive to external storage. When I told her the copy was in progress she told me "but I didn't give you the password?". She was amazed when I told her that I didn't need the windows session password to access the data on the disc. I swear I'm not making it up when I say that she asked me if I was a "hacker".

That made me realize that there are probably many people out there who think their files are safe as long as their Windows password isn't compromised even if the disc is not encrypted. After all, they can't access the files, so surely nobody else can? If Facebook says my photo is deleted, then surely it must be? Why wouldn't it be?

I don't think it's fair to blame these people, we've designed so many strange patterns over the past decades in software that it's difficult to keep track. Maybe having "delete" not actually delete should be considered a dark pattern. Maybe it should even be illegal.
I wear noise cancelling closed ear headphones instead of earplugs, if that makes it more socially acceptable.
APFS was released in late September, 2016. Are you thinking of something else?
Fear of new information/data/methods with more definitive results is a good indicator of people who are afraid of the results.

To me, objections to genetic methods in Archaeology and Anthropology are a sign that they are more interested in presenting a specific interpretation of history rather than discovering the truth.
What are some good resources for learning C++?
Any good tutorials or video courses for learning C++!
Software developers tend to assume that any domain they create for is already so well-established that there’s a single web page on the internet that will explain how to do eveything.

For example, in physics it’s laws of physics. You can sometimes get away with reading an article on wikipedia and it’s probably going to tell you how things are today and a decade in the future.

For security it’s special cases. Being, for example: that certain hash functions will loose on their entropic properties if applied twice. This changes almost every year - and someone needs to keep their docs up to date so that you could know that.

The issue is that security is incredibly contemporary in nature; while laws of physics most developers deal with haven’t changed for at least half a century.
It might have been closer to $35, I'd have to dig a little. Remember, this is with the SFPs, not just the raw fiber (which is significantly cheaper on its own, even if you buy it terminated).
I really wish the media would distinctly separate media companies from technology companies. Facebook is not a technology company. They are a media company. They make money from eyeballs on advertising no differently than CNN or FoxNews. Google claims to be a diverse technology company but they make almost all their money, despite their various products and investments, from data micro auctions that populate paid listings and advertising on their search engine. Amazon is a general retail company.

In this vain almost every company in business is a technology company. Almost every company has software developers and writes software products. I work at a bank as a software developer to further the business of the bank. Wisely, my employer clearly claims to be a bank and not a technology company.

Examples of technology companies are companies that sell technology as their end product like NVIDIA, Intel, AMD, Apple, Micron, and so forth.
> "someone dies in a terrorist attack coordinated on our tools"

I can't believe how terribly the media is spinning this. Obviously it's not Facebook's fault or responsibility if that happens. I mean, should we just shut down the internet and have spies listen to every phone conversation and reading every (paper) letter sent, just so that we can be sure that there won't be any criminals using any communication tools? Live in a totalitarian distopia? Thanks, I'll take my dose of "terrorism" in exchange for freedom from tyranny.
I'm one of these postgrads who decided that if I were going to face the same politics in academia as I would in industry, I should be better paid.

Surprisingly, the politics are much less where I landed. Hard work, though.

The biggest issue I've both experienced and seen about 90%-95% of PhDs in industry I mentor is that crushing feeling of inadequacy at being the "expert" in the room. Imposter syndrome is real.

My primary bit of advice is to seek mentors that invest in you. This is true whether you are experiencing Imposter Syndrome or not.
The movie was made from the book of the same name. I haven't gotten to watching the movie, because of all the bad reviews it got, but I'm part way through the book and it's pretty good.
I have some tinnitus, but probably no more than the average person and it rarely bothers me.

No, I just really like my hearing. I resolved to always wear earplugs out of the house one day after a particularly nasty bus with squealing brakes made my ears ring. I ride my bike a lot so that just made sense. At home, I was putting in ear plugs when putting away dishes, because I want to just get that shit done, pulling handfuls out of the dishwasher and stacking them hard and fast, like you do if you're not a priss. Except the sound was making me act pretty damn prissy. I cook a lot and I'm impatient, so that just made sense too. Some other things like that caused me to just keep plugs on hand all the time.

But I realized I couldn't possibly predict all of the potentially damaging acoustic events in life. It also occurred to me that maybe the full 30+ dB earplug is overkill for most of these things, and I could use something like half of that full-time, and still be perfectly functional. I consider these "mild" earplugs similar to clothes, which I also wear most of the time even though they're not, strictly speaking, necessary.

EDIT: I also wear glasses at all times when I'm out of the house. Not for vision -- I have excellent vision -- but plano lenses for protection. I started doing this after one day in college when a fucking tree branch nearly went in my eye as I walked down the street. I just didn't see it. I think I was looking sort of downward, and then looked up just in time to catch a spear in my eye. The only thing that saved my cornea was the fact that I was wearing sunglasses. I've had several other instances of random shit flying or poking at my face, but that was the closest I've come to a serious eye injury.

Just normal fairly slender wire-framed glasses, with clear polycarbonate lenses that filter almost as much UV as sunglasses. Nothing fancy. Haven't had my eye poked out since, happy to say.
yes I should have mentioned that I am aware that this is a thing. I definitely dont want to only support Chrome. However I have no experience doing Firefox ports of stuff. I would welcome contributions for doing that and will add this to the README todo.

EDIT: someone sent in a PR for it!!
Why on earth would parents be personally taking their children to school? When I lived in a sprawling exurb, there was a school bus stop a couple blocks away supervised by another neighborhood parent. When I lived in a more compact suburb, everyone walked - again, in groups.

Something is catastrophically broken about your urban planning, school system, or community if every family is personally driving the kids to school. Maybe this meta-problem needs to be solved before addressing start times.
I remember being amazed by Prince of Persia's crazy fluid animations when it came out. Very impressive game and an impressive port as well.

I should point out though, where it has the Bitshifters logo multiple times on the loading screen... It's cut off in the middle one and the `f` looks more like a `t`.
I’d be more surprised if people working for a company like Facebook weren’t raging hypocrites. Other than stratospheric levels of cognitive dissonance, hypocrisy or just not giving a shit is the only way someone could work for them. In my experience far more people are hypocrites than truly callous and uncaring.

Peter Thiel though, seems like less of a hypocrite and more like someone who just says and does whatever he thinks is personally advantageous, and screw everyone who isn’t Peter a Thiel.
Or in reality a standard cypher had been researched by thousands of independent researchers and you know with a greater probability that the standard is not vulnerable.

Question is, do you believe more in the ability of “the agencies” to penetrate independent researchers, or do you believe otherwise?
As a compromise I’ve used PodSync[1] to feed specific channels into Pocket Casts so I can avoid having to go to YouTube.

[1]https://podsync.net/
>Unfortunately, expecting a non-tech-savvy person to understand how data moves around the Internet

Explain how data can be unreadable while it moves. Teach them to use secure communication options. You don't need to be an electric engineer to use a TV remote control.
Their customer portal / billing interface seems to be significantly improved on the new US OVH site. It seems like they plan on rolling that out globally eventually.
The link between acrylamide, coffee, and cancer
Trying to duplicate things like SQS, RDS, and Lambda on Kubernetes could easily crush you on operator costs.
You're welcome. If you were on the fence about emailing him, you can use this thread as an excuse :-).
Not a new idea, though. It’s basically the venerable Null Object pattern as documented by the Gang of Four book.
Thanks a lot for this. I just visited https://deeplearnjs.org and read that "deeplearn.js has become TensorFlow.js", so I guess that just about brings everything full circle :).
Fortune cookie:

Forgive and forget. Someone must do it and everyone else will not.

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2014/01/faceb...
Show-Stopper! for Windows NT and Microsoft.
And how would we do that? Every time I've tried to explain privacy issues to non tech individuals at best they consider me paranoid and at worse a fucking sociopath who doesn't have a FB profile because I can't correlate with other people. I can't carry this burden and I doubt many can.

There have been horror stories over the years about identity theft, even before the emergence of social media. Has this stopped anyone outside our community from posting details about their lives online? I hardly think this whole situation with FB will change anything in the end.

I don't feel I have any obligation/duty towards anyone. If they want my opinion or ask me about an issue I'll gladly inform them. But I won't start a crusade for a better informed society. Internet was supposed to do that and we ended up with videos of cats and wannabe celebrities posing seminude pics on Instagram. Fuck that shit.
(December 2017)

Original submittal, 740+ points: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15827369
Very nice work on the graphics, you almost forget the beeb only had 8 colours.

I hope it works on my B+ 128KB.
The Fastly "Purge API" by default does not require authentication. This is why you can clear the cache on Github pages directly [1].

From there you can force requests to hit the origin server by first purging the data from the cache and then requesting it.

Unrelated to DDoS I've also seen issues with the Fastly routing- it doesn't always pick the greatest end node to have a client connect to.

[1] https://stackoverflow.com/questions/26898052/how-to-force-im...
Theoretically, they could get away with just one: http://phoenixframework.org/blog/the-road-to-2-million-webso...

That said, it depends on the stack, the level of optimizations and how much each websocket requires...

I'd love to know too though (both the # of servers and the other details)
It's very pricey, but Apple sells an 18-Core 2.3GHz Intel Xeon W in an iMac with a 27" 5K display and a Vega 64 GPU, and up to 128GB of 2666MHz DDR4 ECC memory.

So while that is not a cheap option, Apple does sell powerful hardware. That's a decent AR dev machine, surely.
> Even in the "reasonable European countries" compliance with bans[0] are comically bad.

In Poland, country of 36 million citizens there are around 20-30 cases of homicide or attempted homicide with firearms per year and another 20-30 cases of causing bodily harm using firearm which might be shooting someone or just hitting him with a gun. So compliance must not be that bad.

> In case you weren't aware, there's a reason officers pledge to the Constitution and not the president.

And what's in the constitution about president and obeying him? Do? Do not? As you fancy?

> "Gun Nut drags liberal gun ban supporter into the street and executes him."

Sure. I just listed the sides that will be doing all the shooting, sniping, bombing, mortaring, drone-striking and gassing not all other collateral damage. You are right that it won't be nice or clean but it will be quick and remembered exactly the way US gov writes it down in history books.

> The government revoking that right will easily spark mass violence.

Did you notice how gov overreacted about occupy wall-street? Do you think how strong and fast or even preemptively will it react to possible armed movement that might want to oppose enacted law?

Best you can count on are small, split up pockets of resistance looking like crazies for the people outside.

> Well, you're entitled to your opinion.

As are you. I just have trouble understanding how can anyone think he can fight government of one of most advanced nation states with a gun.
Just to clarify, I am faculty. I just don't take students ;P
> the bursting into flame thing

I've always believed this is why people start a career in chemistry but alas as you point out, it's not why people pay anyone (except DARPA) to carry on.
First time I hear of this. Wow, what an interesting release!
edit: looks like settlement was confidential: https://www.quora.com/What-is-Profile-Engine-and-how-can-a-p...

edit: CNET article including PDF of complaint: https://www.cnet.com/news/facebook-unfriended-us-company-cla...
OpenTTD is an open source simulation game based upon the popular Microprose game "Transport Tycoon Deluxe", written by Chris Sawyer.
In Firefox, if you click the hamburger menu and select "Customize...", one of the things you can drag into either the menu or the button bar is an RSS feed indicator/subscribe button.
Out of 6 forms of abuse I mentioned five were carried on by adults.
Not shocking at all. One of the stunning things to me about my grad school friends' experiences is how many had stories of dealing with deranged, abusive faculty. Shit that would have me changing jobs in a heartbeat, but they couldn't really change PhD programs, and their departments would never do a thing beyond a pained look and a shrug of shoulders.

As an aside, if you want to be able to spot abusive behavior better, I strongly recommend this book:

https://www.amazon.com/Why-Does-He-That-Controlling/dp/04251...

It's the single most astute book I've ever read. The author spent years as a counselor for abusers, mostly there because a court ordered them there. It's clear that after listing to years of abuser bullshit he said, "I'm going to write it down." It's nominally target at women in abusive relationships with men, as that's what he dealt with most. But a lot of the lessons transcend the context. It helped me spot an abusive boss, for example. And the details on abuser motivations and how abuse cycles benefit the abuser have been very helpful to me in a work context as well.
While this may sound creepy for a foreigner, getting a decent apartment in the SF Bay Area is really expensive and the commutes are horrible. So in this context, that could be a good thing.
Click the “web” link on HN and then click the first Google link. Worked for me.

That being said, FT is worth subscribing to.
Show HN: A flat file CRUD API with just one PHP file
Your SSN is "dimensionality reduction" over your data. It's still your private data. Same for your race, sexiual orientation, hobbies, etc
For what it’s worth I think with custom VCL you could add your own shared key / password authentication to fix this by returning a synthetic 403 if the shared key isn’t present in a header.
That's an interesting perspective. My personal folk mythology of TCP is that once upon a time, there were terminals connected to mainframes by serial lines, then someone wanted to connect to a mainframe from their minicomputer, so invented a remote login program, which sort of emulated a serial line over the network, then when the ARPAnet came about, someone invented TCP to do remote logins over that. Then, because TCP existed and worked well, people invented millions of other application protocols that worked on TCP's emulated serial line, and got into the habit of thinking about protocols as things which work on emulated serial lines, and so there has never been much demand for anything else.
The loading screen is an homage to Acornsoft's loading screens:

https://i.imgur.com/SayhPeA.png

If you were loading from tape, the loading progress would go in the box inside the blue logo at the bottom.
It still has a learning curve, but it isn't too bad. You have Rook, OpenFAAS etc. and once you write your own recipes it is easy to spin up your own databases, queues etc.
His comments about the viability of PV are always to be understood to be about the insolation in the UK. Some people like to generalise from them to say PV can't work in Australia or North Africa.

His comments about scale are true, but also aren't entirely complete. You probably can't replace the entire economy we have with lower intensity sources of energy without also having to reduce energy consumption, is his key argument.

But, striking out the worst ones with the best ones we can invent is still interesting.

It's a good read, but it's not holy canon. Parts are contestable and parts are highly contextual and parts are conjecture. Actually.. that makes it quite like holy canon.
Okay, I was made aware of this website a few days ago and it was possible to search Facebook users by many criteria as location, gender, age and IQ.

So If I'm getting this right, now we are all can have the data that Cambridge Analytica was supposed to delete, right?
If you use Babel 7, you can install a plugin [0] to get the optional chaining syntax [1] that's currently a TC39 Stage 1 proposal!

[0] https://www.npmjs.com/package/babel-plugin-transform-optiona...

[1] https://github.com/tc39/proposal-optional-chaining
Well tbh Asian companies have done this to great success.
I think the opposite is more likely to be true. This sounds creepy because it is creepy and the only place it seems reasonable is in the increasingly disconnected culture of Silicon Valley.
Some states have it, some don't.
Under the Spotlight: Q and a with Indie Rock Band Percival Elliott
Your cheap OVH bandwidth is paid for by overcharging less intensive users. Since Amazon charges exactly what you use, it’s a great deal if you’re below average, and a bad deal if you’re above average.
It's not a very good one, is it? Nothing close to what iOS does.

Nice username BTW ;)
I'm of mixed race. I just got pulled over last week. I drive a modestly nice late model car in a modestly nice neighborhood. I politely asked the cop why I was stopped and he said "one of your license plate lamps is out" He took my driver license and registration and after 10 minutes or so handed them back and said "Be a little more careful..." and sent us on our way. Got home and my license plate lamps are both working.

My wife and I had just left a movie theater around 9:00pm, and to the best of our recollection violated no traffic laws. We were actually stopped two blocks from the theater.

I've definitely felt like I've been targeted before. However, in this instance it felt more like a fishing expedition. I wonder how much of any citation resulting in a fine ends up back in the local PD's coffers?
Procedural Worlds from Simple Tiles (2017)
How is Thiel’s Gawker funding in conflict with Palantir.

These seem like very different things. Palantir is a massive investigation software tool like many other BI/Analytics tools. Palantir doesn’t collect data, but use data others collect. It’s like complaining because Excel is used to analyze the Facebook data.
I have the balance problem, too. A hearing specialist suggested that one of the bones in my ear was made of a spongy material rather than bone, which can cause it.
Roche buying Flatiron Health for $1.9B, backed by Alphabet
Why do you think they should be classified as a media company? Is it to apply the relevant regulations?

In my eyes, Facebook is a company of software and hardware engineers. They produce software as a service. That sure sounds like a tech company.

If regulations are what you're after, new ones should be created for their specific business.
If pointers are useless, how do you create complex data structures. In a C++ program I have a struct that is nothing but 5 pointers (4 now since 2 can be stored as their XOR). I'm starting to wonder about this Rust thing that's been sounding so awesome...
Data doesn’t have to be PII to fall under the provisions of the GDPR. Personal Data doesn’t have to identify a person; relates to an identified or identifiable living individual is sufficient (https://ec.europa.eu/info/law/law-topic/data-protection/refo...)
Not excusing the system, but for 99% of the population rewarding, interesting work is an oxymoron
Someone should create a neural net that does this for you.
Mozilla's radical open-source move helped rewrite rules of tech
Unfortunately, it does not work on the 128K B+:

http://www.stardot.org.uk/forums/viewtopic.php?f=53&t=13079&...