skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’ve gone through the naturalization process myself, and it’s already offensively invasive, this doesn’t seem out of step with what they already do.
Craigslist Parking & Storage section.
I'm so impressed by the design of

https://www.magicleap.com/

It is so amazing and beautiful. I wonder what technologies they use to build the front end.
US ‘lacks evidence’ for forced tech transfers claim against China at WTO
Ask HN: I don’t trust welding
I see so much quick welding on TV shows these days (cars, motorcycle shows) but not being an engineer I just can't trust the weld to hold.

What's the math?
Not surprised. Right in line with Steam and others. Bitcoin failed.
Note this is from the place that said building your own computer is too tough.
It kind of straddles the worst line between easy and hard.

It's pretty straightforward and easy to do, so you don't get any bragging rights when you finish, but there also aren't a ton of safety nets in case you do something stupid to keep you from ruining an expensive component.

When I put together my computer, I dropped a CPU at an angle and bent one of the pins on the motherboard, then spent 3 hours flicking it with a needle to get it to realign.

It's like doing taxes - not really an accomplishment, so big whoop if you do it right, but just dangerous enough to mean you have to pay attention and take it seriously.
This article and this discussion is about this action, not all the other actions that everyone has ever taken. It's a distraction, often an intentional one, to start talking about all the others.
The iOS app has been pretty good (if a bit buggy and slow), but the desktop web interface is so bad to the point that I haven't used it in over a year -- and I use myfitnesspal daily.
"On March 25, 2018, we became aware that during February of this year an unauthorized party acquired data associated with MyFitnessPal user accounts" => highly likely they stole more than what MFP thinks they stole.. we don't know what we don't know. Sigh.
Cryptocurrencies are treated exactly the same as commodities, legally.

So it would be the same thing as if you shipped bars of gold and silver to someone.

It really isn't complicated.
Tesla issues its largest recall ever over faulty Model S steering
"Clever" and "dodge regulation" implies that they'd actually be able to do that.
Honestly that question itself is just trying to change the subject into a "who is worse A or B?" debate that I refuse to take part in. Both A and B are making the situation worse and neither A nor B are repealing this stuff. Debating who is making the situation worse faster is really besides the point.
The vast majority of use cases of Kodi would be covered by the 1st amendment.

In recent decades even the most frivolous copyright claims supersedes the 1st amendment in the eyes of both the courts and corporations. I imagine if they were invented today, the xerox, tape-recorder or printing-press would have a very hard time.

But you are right, consumers and technologist have near zero clout.
Most languages now have a length field, yes. Assembly could be done either way, of course.
After a decade doing embedded development for bleeding-edge SoCs and working with devkits with sockets for interchangeable chips... I was kinda shocked when I once again built a gaming PC two years ago...

These are antiquated connectors!

Then again, I hear the sockets we use for the BGA chips I work with cost in the thousands of dollars (because custom-desiged), so I can kind of understand that the razor-thin margins the custom PC industry works with stays with cheap old connectors.
Tesla recalls 123K Model S sedans for power steering problem
Somebody is about to come across 250 pictures of me in my boxers standing in front of a dirty mirror with my belly popping out. I only hope they don't judge me for the size of my belly not really changing over those 250 days...
http://www.logicalincrements.com/ is your friend even more in the "I didn't keep up" case than pcpartpicker
Is Shared iPad for home use, or does it require an enterprise MDM backend?
I was going to post a link to that video, too. Great talk!
That's both funny and true. ValueClick hired some celebrity nerds to write a new ad platform, and I hear it supported exactly 32 advertisers. :)
"Because I can help you make money". Anything else is irrelevant.

However, you next are going to have to be able to supply some detail on how you can help them make money...
Used to be daunting, but for my last few builds I have used some combination of PC Part Picker and the selections from the seasonal TechReport.com guides. Much easier than a couple decades ago when I was a teenager.

Should also be mentioned that the manuals that come with things like motherboards and cases are much more detailed than they used to be.
Tesla Recalls 123,000 Model S Cars Over Bolt Issue
Social media and privacy have always butted heads and I hope courts start to side with pro privacy advocates
It is new, based on what your comment. You reported answering different questions.
Tesla recalls 123,000 Model S cars over potential power-steering failure
It’s certainly the business of anyone hiring him, if only from a PR and liability perspective. As to our business, it would be hard to argue that submitting this question didn’t go some way to making it just that. Still, I respect your stance on the inscrutability of another’s thoughts, although I don’t understand what that has to do with anything.
Biggest mistake you will ever make in your career.
It's very usual for Bay Area people to pay 50%+ of their gross for housing, so new grads at FANG companies don't necessarily have a lot available after taxes, basic living expenses and debt repayment to save.

Also, FANG comp packages have significant equity components and IMO it would be foolish to rely on that portion of comp for anything important; you can treat vested RSUs as windfalls to add to the retirement savings but should not rely on RSU grants to meet your goal of x% savings rate. New grads will have nothing vested for a few years so their ability to save is especially limited during that time.
I'm like you two - the second job I applied to out of college, I got an offer for. Still there 7 years later, and in that time the our tech interviewers have occasionally told stories or shared some of the more absurd programming tests (with names removed). This:

> If your hiring, you aren't swamped with great candidates but with resumes.

is exactly the case for us. 90%+ of them fail a test where each question is only slightly more difficult than FizzBuzz. Some of them don't even attempt to answer all the questions.

I have little doubt they're the ones sending 200+ resumes out, hoping someone bites.
Deleting your social media account would probably be interpreted as you are hiding something rather than protesting privacy issues.
In that case, do you become even more suspicious if you don't have social media accounts because you deleted them?
Visa applications are a far broader class than people going through the naturalization process, and, while there may be an argument that the naturalization process is excessively invasive, an application for citizenship does justify more depth of scrutiny than a visa application.
You're awesome.

Edit: is there a reason why I can't download the torrent? Is it not available as a Torrent anymore?
Can confirm this is terrifying. Zero out of 5 stars.

I once pulled a bristle out from between my molars. Thought about it for 5 minutes...realized it was from the grill (was eating a salad made of leftover grilled chicken). Googled “wire grill brush swallow”. Read horror stories. Immediately freaked out. Even used a metal detector like you would use on a beach on my stomach to see if I swallowed more (didn’t work). Spent the week waiting for disaster to strike (it didnt). Immediately threw out all wire grill brushes forever.
Facebook was informed privacy breach app might sell user data
I use it to handle changes in props.

For example load something from network, which goes into redux, redux triggers a props update, so then I do something because for example now redux state has changed to say "loaded === true"

Is this not the correct function to handle changes in props?
Thermal shutdown was added fairly early in the P4 days. I recall a Tom's Hardware video showing removing the heatsink from a P4 while it was running Quake 3 and the framerate tanking but no crash, while the Athlon (XP?) next to it went up in smoke when the heatsink was removed.
I travel internationally frequently and have never had trouble with US Customs. I think Argentina was the one I've had the most trouble with, and that was minor.
The ultimate teardown of Stitch Fix's referral program
Fair, I also haven’t. I imagine barely anybody does.
Monopoly has never occurred in a free market.

https://mises.org/library/myth-natural-monopoly
How do we know what they are searching for?
A lot of my hobby programs are emulators or parsers for old file formats (think DOS-era games). Bitfields become important, and they're more convenient to express in hex than in decimal.

There are times where it feels convenient to express things in decimal and times where it seems better to use hex.
When you're poor, you often can't afford higher quality or multipurpose

Interesting, I have heard "Cheap is expensive, because you have to keep buying it" as well "We are not so rich we can afford cheap stuff."
Foods You Shouldn’t Keep in Your Freezer
I love the irony of them showing their best website of the day with marks set to "0.00", unless Javascript is enabled.
That is not really how it works. Yes, a camera has a fixed array of dots and to extract the maximum amount of information from that sensor, you have to maximize the number of pixels covered by your image.

A scanner essentially just moves a single pixel over the source material. The resolution is limited not by how much of the flatbed you cover, but by how small that single pixel is and how precisely it can be moved. (And even the size of the sensor is fungible, if you can move it precisely you can oversample.)

Scanners have their downsides, no doubt, but raw resolution is their upside. The downside is the time it takes for a scanner to make an image -- that is why we carry around ultra-expensive silicon wafers for photography, and not a single light-sensitive element that moves around under the lens's image circle.
This is close to what I am looking for but for server side issues. 400k subscribers is impressive. Mind telling how find these articles? Do you use a crawler of some sort? How well is the business doing? (if I may ask)
When I first tried it in I think 2011/2012 it was garbage on android. Absolutely unusable. I used "Lose It!" for nearly 5 years because it performed much better, until it started getting extraordinarily slow when doing food searches. So I tried out MFP again and lo and behold, the app had improved tremendously!

I still am annoyed it doesn't open on diary by default. The picture+weight feature is nice though. Wish it let me track bodyfat too. As told I've got about 4 apps I use for fitness now:

MFP for food/calorie, weight, and picture tracking

Google Fitness for cardio maps and timing, and total gym time tracking. Also fun that it automatically records my bike rides. Not fun that I have to manually change my motorcycle rides from bike rides into not bike rides (when was the last time somebody got a bicycle up to 90mph on 280? shrug). Also track weight in there because I'm convinced one day google will implement some badass machine learning and I want the data there for when it happens.

"FitNotes" for setting lift routines and tracking weight in lifts. Also used for tracking bodyweight and bodyfat (only app in my list that tracks bodyfat). I add my bodyweight in there because it's cool to compare graphs of bodyweight to lifted weights. I've had great email conversations with the developer, he has a fantastic, simple development philosophy, and he has kept his app free for years now, with no ads or other BS.

Newly added "goodtime" for just a simple timer that will vibrate after 2 minutes, my break time between lifts. It was remarkably hard to find an app that just did this, as my default android alarm timer was tied to my alarm tone, so i'd have to switch it to vibrate and back when working out. Missed a morning alarm once before I decided enough of that...
Look, it's not an article. It's a personal blog post on his personal website, that details his personal experience and thought process. He probably figured it would be useful to other people that might be thinking about similar things.

It was certainly useful to me.

That's it. We don't need to project out his intentions any further than that. You're allowed to share your experience and your thought process without it always being some altruistic "save the starving kids in Africa" type message.

The beautiful thing about the internet and the distribution it provides is that you can write content for your niche and actually reach those people fairly easily.

As an extreme example: do you go into Ferrari owner forums and criticize everyone there for being self-congratulatory and living in too much excess? I hope not. Leave them alone and let them have fun with their cars.
Wow- great job. I could think of literally hundreds of ways to use this!
5th amendment only applies in criminal cases: "nor shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself". Doesn't cover border crossings or visa applications.
It would appear the choice between deflationary and inflationary monetary systems was, at some point along the way, democratised.

And the majority chose inflationary monetary systems.

Each of us is free to offer to pay for goods and services with, say, for example, gold, and each of us is free to ask you trade your gold for legal tender and give us that instead - yeah, the one the tax agency accepts.

The only thing stopping deflationary currency from being used by most people is that most people are too busy surfing / skiing / rock climbing / recovering from a hang over / what have you to care much about how monetary value is exchanged. People, on the whole, only seem to really care about convenience. And more specifically, the more convenient it is to spend money, your own or credit, the better.
which people?
That, uh. That just might be reasonable grounds. This is an agenda that quite a few programmers might get behind.
My wife found a bristle in her burrito last year. Luckily, she noticed it before swallowing. The place kindly offered her a free burrito as a consolation :(
EU: Brexit will mean UK residents / entities cant' register or renew .eu domains
For us less technical user, what do y'all recommend for creating great landing pages?
Democrats at least have a large faction who are willing to complain about things like drone strikes and mass surveillance even when it is their guy doing it. Unfortunately that faction isn't yet large enough to get Democratic politicians to stop doing that kind of thing, but there is some hope that if that faction consistently shows up in primaries for a while they might eventually be able to get some change.

Republicans who are willing to keep complaining even when there is a Republican president are practically non-existent so there is little hope of change ever coming from Republicans.
Ugh. like how some DVDs would try and make you watch ads for the studios other shows.
I had this happen once at a Chinese rwstaurant. I should have complained more I guess =\
MFP is extremely limited when it comes to tracking micronutrients. If all you care about are very basic facts it's alright.

If you care about much more then Cronometer is commonly considered the best.
Streisand effect, anyone? I had not heard of Kodi before this.
It does absolutely nothing of the sort and you know it.
I think my comment in this link applies to your comment as well: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16711642

Is this person not allowed to put his own thoughts down on his own personal website? It's not like he's getting on CNN and preaching.
I have a desktop at the office, laptop and iPad at home and it's pretty amusing the way the messages between them do and don't overlap. SMS messages are the worst offender by far, but even the iMessages don't always end up on every device.

I've never noticed out of order messages on any device, even though it seems to be a pretty prevalent problem amongst the comments here.
If, as a novice, you wish to write assembly code:
- compile your code with "-O3 -S" and examine
- analyze it.

Assume that glibc for your architecture is going to be hand tuned (and exceptionally highly optimized)

Read and try to understand the native mem() and str() routines, as the folk who write these routings DEEPLY understand the micro-architecture and instruction set.

A counter example: all implementations of strlen() which evaluate a single character at a time are completely inept if the architecture has vector comparison capabilities.
Ah, I had an account here. Checked Lastpass, and, great!
They've got my six character don't-care-about-MyFitnessPal-security password. bcrypt will not save its secrecy in any way, but it hardly matters.
Really? Cause every place I've worked blacklists anyone who quits, two weeks notice or not.

The taboo of not giving two weeks notice is something that benefits the company only, the same as not discussing salary with other employees.

You can even put a number on it if your new position is getting a raise. Whatever your yearly rate/26 is, is how much money you are losing by being nice to an entity who will walk you out the door the moment they are done with you
I'm hoping that GR will have development kits out in the not-too-distant future.

The hardware is "cheap", in the sense that each leg has two motors and that's it. All feedback is via position and torque sensing on the motors themselves. The mechanicals for the legs are also relatively simple and cheap.

It is the software which really makes the system perform.
> and also enabling things like money laundering, drug trafficking, etc.

At this point, I don't worry about those; criminals would operate with or without Bitcoin and we have government agencies dealing with those; I'm more concern about suicide rate that will spike due to BTC/altcoins losing 80% of value.

I have too many acquaintances on my Twitter that last summer were showing me "this cool blue app that helps make 15% a day" and now they remain silent. I tried to contact two of them via cell and it goes nowhere.

Looking at BTC/ETH/altcoins charts, I can only image brain-halt it caused so many people that we putting second/third mortage on their house just to "invest in a blue iphone app" and many cashing out their 401k just to be lest with 5% of their money not even year later.
You're absolutely right about datasets being a constraint for any new entrant. The USDA SR28 is free and open but limited scope. OpenFoodFacts has a great dataset overall but ~~you can't download it (other than rate-limited scraping),~~ the license is ~~strict~~ share-alike; and there isn't an OFF personal consumption tracker.
> not all the other actions that everyone has ever taken

We're talking about this same question (list social media profiles) being added to a different immigration form two years earlier, seems disingenuous to conflate that with "other actions that everyone has ever taken."

I'd go as far as to call the change in 2016 a test case for making it mandatory in 2018. And I'd go so far as to predict that it will be mandatory for all tourists entrants at some point in the future (even visa waiver holders), no matter who is in power.

We need to be discussing how we stop sliding down this slippery slope, and blaming whoever happens to be in charge today isn't a constructive way to do that unless the other side has committed to stopping it (which neither side has, nor have they historically).
To defend open platforms, we need to defend Facebook
I'm OK with making spaces (instead of tabs) a visa requirement.
Also, the United States hasn't historically always given constitutional rights to non-citizens living in the United States.
Tou can clear application/web sites data.
You csn opt in to have original photos on iCloud and keep only lower res versions on the device.
You can enable apps offloading so the rarely used apps are removed until rewuested back.
If you refuse to answer, they just don't let you in. Someone who doesn't already have some kind of legal status in the US has no right to enter, so they can turn you away for any reason at all.
Modularization, encapsulation and DRY are good places to start learning to organize code.
Because their "opinion" is straight trolling. Not every opinion deserves respect.

And I notice you didn't ask about the opinion, but rather just started complaining about everyone else who wasn't in the mood for their bullshit.
The constitution protect non citizens too?
GitHub is explicitly listed as "social media" on the optional question that is on the ESTA [1] form since 2016. If I remember correctly, the wording is relatively broad, so I would guess that HN and Reddit count as well.

[1] https://www.evisaonline.com/en/usa/esta.html
You can do it with a pellet grill/bbq too; most of them can get a grate temperature well above 500 degrees, which will do the job. Not as good as propane of course, but easier than charcoal or wood.
Please don't bring these snarl words into HN discussion. They're shallow dismissals that violate the community comment guidelines.

https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Social_justice_warrior#.22Virt...
> Nah, citizens of most first world countries don't need a visa to enter the US if they're visiting for less than 90 days.

That's true, though the Trump Administration has tightened rules for the Visa Waiver Program last year, after floating the idea that they might seek to end it entirely.

So, I think it's perfectly valid to see this as part of a broad policy of making the US less welcome to visitors and immigrants in general, though that policy is also more intensely focussed on repelling immigrants and visitors from non-first-world (or, in the language of our President, “shithole”) countries.
> In France they didn't
The reason being it was already more expensive.

Nothing stops you getting cheap plan from Eastern Europe and use it in west (where cost of operations are higher).
Here are a few resources for you to check out:

https://hyperpixel.io
https://verynicesites.com
https://onepagelove.com

And once you’ve finished design and build of your landing page, submit to https://roastmy.site to get feedback :)
I’m a US citizen/resident and just wanted to say—despite what some people believe a lot of us are really happy to have you here! With people like you we wouldn’t have Silicon Valley, Google, Apple, etc. please stay :) if you like it here.
If I wire you some bitcoins for a suitcase full of cash, do you think that there may be some, ah, regulatory problems in this exchange?

What if I wire your bank account money in exchange for said suitcase of cash?

What if I'm a bank that credits your account, in exchange for said suitcase of cash, no questions asked?

(This is precisely what KYC laws exist to prevent.)
> So it's not particularly surprising that we come to confusion when we pretend that infinity is a quality of the world as we understand it, or the world as we can possibly understand it.

Infinity has no physical counterpart or phenomenon. Though the Universe is vast and rapidly expanding, it is still finite. I don’t think supertasks are thinly veiled examples of wordplay, though. I think they’re useful thought experiments that may be the theoretical underpinning of some future form of computation.
The current style of tech interviews makes it very difficult. A lot of places have a long interview that you end up burning a whole day on it and you only have so many vacation and sick days
Worst custom scrolling I've seen in a long time... Completely disabled the swipe-back feature on my MacBook.