skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
“For an ideal, perfectly elastic ball, there are an infinite number of bounces before the ball comes to a rest. Each bounce happens in less time than the previous. “

False. A perfectly elastic ball would bounce back to the same height indefinitely.
Brute Force Attacks Conducted by Cyber Actors
Enthusiastic apathy
I only realized how big this market really is when I found out that Berkshire Hathaway owns Fruit of the Loom, a Gildan competitor.
Thank you. This is really great. I think my wife will be very interested in the content they have.
That assumes a device can tell the difference between not hot and not there, which was the parent's question.
Top Facebook Executive Defended Data Collection In 2016 Memo
https://hyperpixel.io

http://pages.xyz
The power consumption is the most goofy part of the whole idea though.

It is the fatal flaw of POW. It is like just pretending that the power cost is not part of the cost of a transaction.
https://medium.com/@cdixon/why-decentralization-matters-5e3f...
It works like a charm for me, or wait, what's the opposite of a charm?
If the grates are removable, wouldn't the clean function (crazy high heat) of your oven clean them? Basically turns everything into easy to wash off ash.
Ah, I misunderstood your point. Yes, it's an editorial thing, and even as a personal fan of unfiltered results, I can't bring myself to ship horrific autocomplete suggestions.

Unfortunately the existence of an autocomplete filtering system does lead to increased pressure to use it for more than just racism and porn.
Yes. At worst, that may be the idea.

Making an overly broad questionnair to introduce arbitrariness by enabeling your executive branch to selectively invalidate a specific visa holders questionnaires consistency.
FOSTA: New Legislation May Not End Internet, but It’s Not Good Law
Looks OK but it does suffer from the same problem as a lot of other sites. It wants you to commit before telling you what you are committing to.

Tell me what you offer and give me a rational as to why I should be interested. That's all I'm asking yet no one seems interested in answering those questions on a landing page.
>The main reason is that we simply do not know how to sustain human life, in the long term, in less than 1 Earth gravity without deleterious effects, including the possible cessation of reproduction.

We do not know when the difficulty starts. Given our current knowledge, it is entirely possible that Martian gravity is sufficient for human health. We also know that even 0G is not acutely lethal (although the short term effects of returning to normal gravity are less then encouraging if we expect the people to be able to work as soon as they land on Mars).

This is just to say, we do not know how much of a problem Martian gravity is. There are still all of the difficulties we do know about.

It will probably be a long time (if ever) before we get a sustained "colony" on Mars, but humans setting foot on Mars is reasonably possible in the relatively near term. If we really wanted to, we could even make a "colony" simmilar to the ISS, where we have a permanantly staffed base, with a crew that stays for "short" (~year) time on Mars, combined with a year or two of total spaceflight.

I'm not remotely convinced this is worth doing. But it seems possible if we really wanted to do it.
"Add to Home Screen" isn't new, it's how links to web pages have been added as icons for a long time. That's why the <head>s of some sites links to icons just for display alongside iOS native apps.

Support for the technologies PWAs use will change what the sites can do.
JsLingua: a JavaScript toolkit to process languages [Showcase]
How to Build Trust While Working in a Corporate Environment
I'm old enough to remember COM, besides the word component, what's the similarity?
Looks pretty good, I'm looking forward to trying it out. The UI a bit more cluttered than I would like, but it's nice to see something like this more fleshed out than what I posted.
I can't, and that's sad.
The 2016 one was an optional request for people from 32 countries.

The new version is to be required and for people from all countries.

Going by the numbers from the article, that's a 2.4 orders of magnitude expansion.

Are you really equating the two?
Legit there was a tech bootcamp called hacker school that had to change their name because the FBI kept bothering them.
British citizen actually, living and working in the UK. Care to answer the question?
I would agree with this assessment, but also add confirmation before you were ever to dispatch any email sent to the address.

I work for an ISP/services company and we require confirmation for everything.

Personally though, I abhor companies that allow account creation without confirmation. I have a gmail address that is my id, minus the first r in it. Over the years, I've received oil change notifications from people's cars, trip/hotel/dinner reservations with click-through ability to alter without supplying anything, rental agreements, billing, dating profiles, etc. that I have total control over because people are idiots. There has to be some kind of railing in place to keep lemming from leaping off the precipice.
A couple of our use-cases include: good KV access (stored user data etc.) and listing blocks of data that has been pre-sorted on disk at insert time (leaderboard records, chat message history etc.). As well, the clustering technology is particularly useful at scale. We work in the games space with some very large games in production, which allows us to spread the load across multiple database nodes and offers us peace of mind regarding redundancy.
I played it on a NEC 286! Learned a lot about engines playing it.
You know the problem with the hotel room example? Until the last room's occupant has packed up and moved into the newly created +1 room, there is no open space for the newcomer.
There's a story floating around the internet of someone having done by stabbing through their thumbs with a 9V multimeter, and maybe it's possible, but I'm skeptical of the story's veracity. I can see those wacky stories for a lot of situations, but you'd think with somebody dying that there'd be some kind of incident report or other documentation.

But sure, it's probably best to not touch the car battery terminals when your hands are bleeding.
Besides all the other comments.

At least on PC/Amiga/Atari world, macro assemblers were quite powerful, so you could kind of invent your own "C" using their macros.
I'm from the school of thought that it's all none of our business, we shouldn't judge other people, and we should treat them with respect at all times. Also, my personal theory of Internet comments is that nothing is more ridiculous than speculating on the thoughts of people I know nothing about.
The Story Behind the Famous FedEx Logo, and Why It Works (2012)
> Swift 4.1 is a minor language release. It is source compatible with Swift 4.0.

Nothing should break?
You might want to try Linux. As long as you don't compile your system with options optimized for your CPU and stay away from binary graphics drivers, you can pretty much boot it on every desktop PC hardware you like without any need for a new installation.

Just don't expect everything to be perfect. Linux has its own set of weaknesses, but being picky about changing the hardware isn't one of them.
Can’t Get a Cab? NTT DoCoMo Uses Deep Learning to Help Taxis Get to You
SpaceX is certainly in the best position of any private organization I know of to get to Mars, from the infrastructure perspective. But in terms of financing, the parent comment is right, Musk may not be a whole lot better off than Mars One in the big picture. A single manned mission to Mars could cost north of $100B, and the entire value of SpaceX is only about $20B. SpaceX is private, but estimates are that if it's profitable on an operating basis at all, it's only marginally so. Throw in Tesla's likely cash needs for the foreseeable future, and Musk may have some tough times coming. Money is going to decide the outcome here, not technology. Unless SpaceX finds some hugely profitable business to start generating cash (maybe their planned satellite constellation?), Mars is speculation.
Honestly, it's mostly just detail-oriented. Some people might not pick it up easily, while others will. All the hardware-building forums and such make it easier than it used to be.
I didn't think MyFitnessPal was good enough either so I started working on a chatbot that you can just tell it what you ate in natural language and it will maintain a private web journal for you. I got a basic version to work and then discovered [Nutritionix][1] and lost motivation to compete. They seem to have nailed to web UI part. And they have an NLP input form you can use in the app. So it isn't the same as just texting a bot since you have to open the app, but the NLP is pretty good. And the UI for verifying what the NLP comes up with is also good. After researching every app I could find in this space Nutrionix stands as my favorite.

[1]: https://www.nutritionix.com/app
New York City is launching public cybersecurity tools
The biggest limitation seems to be getting the nutrient information itself. MyFitnessPal has a huge database of off the shelf food products built in (and restaurants) from all over the world. Much of that information provided to the company for free by its users.

MyFitnessPal has a similar advantage to Google, they have the most and richest data, and anyone else entering that market starts at a huge disadvantage. You could definitely make a FOSS app of the core tracking concept, it is just going to be super painful to use compared to MyFitnessPal.
Boz's response: https://twitter.com/boztank/status/979478961582325760

Mark Zuckerberg's response: https://twitter.com/JohnPaczkowski/status/979486163642630144
I think your reversing that, as the customers are out front. That's the mistake that keeps getting made by the NRA's opponents. The NRA is only effective because its people over industry. Industry-lead groups need a whole lot more funding to be effective.

Any software developer that is looking for leadership from the software industry is going to be very disappointed. Often, the industry doesn't really have the best instance of developers in mind.
5 Mistakes Startups Make While Buying and Managing AWS Computing Resources
Ask HN: What's your 'Why should i hire you?' response?
It's often asked during placement or job offering sessions at college.What are the responses that recruiter are looking for? ( For recruiters what's the best response you got? )
It seems not used much anymore. Follow that link (http://www.tpc.org/tpcc/results/tpcc_results.asp?print=false...) and sort by either score, or price performance. The vast majority of top results are a decade old or more. I couldnt find anything less than 5 years old without going to second/third pages.

And the top results are usually crazy high number of cores clusters. The Sun example was over 1700 cores.
How do you think they should signal users?
HOCs are widely used (and for good reason– they can be very useful). Hopefully forwardRef will make their usage more consistent and predictable.

If anything, I think the new context API (and even forwardRef itself) are endorsements of the render prop pattern more than of HOCs. :)
So he's combatting the wealthy paying too little in taxes by giving major tax breaks to the wealthy?
> While it is perfectly legal to give only 2 weeks notice

Where I live, it's perfectly legal to say "I quit" and leave immediately.
Explain to me where this is a valid use case. I think that’s where we disagree. I don’t see the need for anonymous electronic payments.
The NAND to Tetris textbook is a masterpiece. (The book is called The Elements of Computing Systems: Building a Modern Computer from First Principles. The authors are Nisan and Schocken).

I worked through the entire textbook by myself, doing all the projects, and having no previous knowledge of computer architecture or compilers. It was a challenging but smooth process. The difficulty level was just right and I didn't get frustrated.

The computer you build is designed brilliantly. It's as simple as it can be, while still being a real computer can be that can play video games.
In reality, the average person is going to buy pads or tampons in a way that is most convenient to them.

Only the subset of privacy concerned consumers who don't want anyone to know whether they prefer pads or tampons will go out of their way to visit a random drug store.
So what about the volume of the observable universe in cubic Planck lengths?

The whole point of having no upset bound on numbers is that this kind of game can be continued arbitrarily.
Asking such questions on a voluntary basis is usually just a phase to reduce opposition once it's finally mandatory.
"Joined a few months ago" "blown away by culture".

I don't work at MS but generalizing a companies culture by working for a few months is silly. I've worked for 3 years at a big 4 and have seen excellent culture and poor culture and something in the middle. Don't generalize a company by your departments poor culture, there could be shining stars elsewhere.
Canada is very aggressive about searching for "hate speech" at the border. This includes mandating that you turn over your phone and searching through your texts, emails and any linked accounts for keywords. This is personal experience.
A sufficiently large miner could, right now, create a block which created a million bitcoins from nowhere and gave those to them and it would - for a while at least - be the longest chain. No other clients would accept it, of course, but by your definition the chain where someone just made themselves a billionaire would be Bitcoin.
> sometimes these property guys get squeezed enough by periodic nuking of people at the local Bank of America/etc office that they actually need to do something with the property.

Can you please explain this further? I am not sure what "nuking" here refers to.
Go to the Apple developer page of sample code https://developer.apple.com/library/content/navigation/#sect... and see how much actually compiles, its not a lot.
I'm not sure I'm planning to visit the US ever again, but if I did, what would count as social media? Does HN count? Does my blog? IRC nickname? Github and Bitbucket accounts? I've never had a Facebook, Twitter, Snapchat, Instagram, Pinterest or LinkedIn account.

The only thing I guess unequivocally counts as social media is my Mastodon accounts.
Podcast version here: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/random-talkers/id1252899...
Are you sure 2.0 C cables are invalid? Can you back that up?
Yup being able to undo transactions is a feature not a bug of the modern financial system.

EDIT: it also protects you in cases where someone holds a gun to your head and forces you to make a transaction.
I don't think it's supposed to be impressive as much as just reassuring users who are uneducated about that kind of thing. I guarantee someone read this post and started being concerned that it had that information because they don't know how this stuff works.

EDIT: Plus, like someone pointed out below, Facebook collected a lot of data that it shouldn't and didn't declare as well.
Astro litter-picker launches to help clean up 7,600 tonnes of space junk
That's an extremely embarrassing response. Helps me understand how this data breach occurred if an organization is this uninformed about basic security.
When I built my PC, I learned about this beforehand, so when I heard the "crunch" I wasn't worried. Until the thing wouldn't boot.

I took the CPU out, and sure enough, I'd bent a few of the pins in one corner. Fuck. I then spent the next couple of hours with a tiny magnifying glass and tweezers, painstakingly trying to bend the pins to where it would boot again. 20 min of bending, stick the CPU back in, try to boot... nothing. Several times.

Finally it booted, miraculously. I'm never taking that CPU out again.
Is this by the same writer that started crying while trying to build an actual PC?
Yeah, agreed - those things never worked.
It took something like a decade before it got properly reliable.
I just wanted to say you did a great job of bundling up all those nerves, anxiety, and feelings about getting your own rig up and running. Great comment.
> every country

Mostly the US and the UK, it seems. For example the EU Blue Card system is generally quite reasonable: if you have high qualifications and can find a job, you get a work visa, which eventually turns into permanent residency.

US and UK immigration tends to be overcomplicated, draconian, and paranoid.
Except that you have the problem right off the bat:

https://pcpartpicker.com/products/cpu/

Which CPU family and which series? Once you finish THAT, everything gets a lot more straightforward.

That list is terrible. At least order the families/series chronologically.

If I'm a reasonably informed random, I know to click a handful of things with "lake" in the name and a handful of things with "zen" in the name and that's about it. Except you can't do that with the chooser as it gives you zero choices, since -zen is a series and -lake is a family and those are disjoint (I should be able to union those).

As a noob, I would miss any of the "gaming value" choices with that heuristic (Haswell/Broadwell that are quite nice).

I don't see any EPYC in that list, so I'm scratching my head (yes, I know it's a server but a random person won't) and I would miss the Threadripper choice (why doesn't it have Ryzen next to it).

The problem isn't assembling a PC. It's the fact that PC knowledge has a half-life of like 6 months, and you really can't trust review sites or web searches on this topic anymore.
odds are if you used it for such a short time they wouldnt know either. And it'd be odd if they say "You failed to disclose 555-555-5555" (ok... but you clearly know the number)
They don't need an MTL because they're not transmitting money to another party or holding the money, they're just transmitting the money back to the original party.

However, it does seem like they are running afoul of other parts of regulations, like KYC and money laundering.
After spending much of my childhood playing SimTower (aka Elevator Sim 1994), I'm not too surprised by the number!
> The users of the platform are not the people who include Coinhive on hacked websites.

They're apparently basement dwellers. Hint: basement dwellers don't pay their own electricity bill.
This won't catch sophisticated criminals.

But of course that isn't the goal; a global-scale chilling effect is what this policy creates.
They could be cutting under-performers, replacing engineers skilled in Talent A with Talent B where Talent B isn't necessarily easy to learn, or consolidating offices.

I'm seeing all of the above at my current place.
Came here to say the same thing. Frankly I didn't know a grill had to be cleaned…
Freeplane does this and many other cool things natively.

Freeplane: Gpl, multiplatform, icons, styles, images, links, connectors, foldable, clone-nodes, scriptable (groovy, jruby, jython, javascript), efficient even with huge maps

Just have a look
I agree - people lie, cheat and play the system to get what they want. Define the sorts of people you want to give visas to.

So which is it - the American government is super competent and tracks everything and everyone, or they're super incompetent and can't tell a social media account has been created for the purposes of getting a visa?
Agreed! I always like FatSecret's Calorie Counter app better. MFP always felt bloated and glitchy.
Wakandanomics: “Black Panther” resists one economic myth but perpetuates another
It's more a combination of scary and tedious, especially if you haven't done it before and need to research everything.
A lot of the comparisons I've read (and internally Leica's own tests) say otherwise.

https://petapixel.com/2014/12/18/comparing-image-quality-fil...
Affects Logitech Create Pro keyboad as well. Only some access points, which means that either wifi access point network/frames or the captive portal website can have side effects on the device keyboard. Many security implications, if so.

Here's the Apple forum thread with 19 pages of customer reports: https://discussions.apple.com/thread/8075772
My bet would be on someone like Expo taking up the reigns and putting in place a way for the community to keep it going.
It's hard to believe that not only are they this clueless, but they also are trying to justify their idiotic decisions. Jesus, how hard can it be to set up TLS? Let's Encrypt, anyone?
Pretty sure we have that in place already now, based on the leaked XKeyscore rules we saw.
"Someone" being all the suckers who have bought in on the hype since November. The whales and exchanges are laughing their asses off and doing just fine.
Isn't that an artifact of incrementalism? You do the thing on a small scale, and scale it over time. Its the trickle that turns into a stream which decides the path the river will eventually take. While a trickle isn't a river, we can surely agree that the Dem's from 08-16 did little and less to respect and bulwark the privacy of US citizens and the world at large.
> Both Democrats and Republics have been complicit

Everyone is complicit in everything, but this action is being taken by Trump; he is responsible.
Do you even do any of the hex math when writing actual code in assembly?

I understand when you use something along the lines of a disassembler that requires you to actually see the addresses of the values. But even these are sophisticated enough to give you symbolic values instead.
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. This includes western Europe, Australia, Japan, South Korea, the Baltic countries, etc. You can just get on a plane and fly over.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visa_Waiver_Program#/media/Fil...
Doesn't the 5th amendment make those questions impossible to answer? (If you plead the 5th on them, you're.. probably a terrorist...)
Sure, in theory. In practice, this is simply not true.

Nobody’s burning iOS or Chrome sandbox 0days to try to earn $50k USD ransoms.
Institutions that support health records on iPhone (beta)
Dupe of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16710891
Auto adapting Signal-desktop to day-night theme
Well researched and though out. Thanks.
why are you specifically worried about banks? They shouldn't exist in the first place. Its 2018.
This is going to be big for surveillance cams. Just put a fisheye lens on them and collect a hemisphere. There are already 4K fisheye surveillance cams. You do pan, tilt, and zoom later.

Next step is face popout in a GPU. Faces, license plates, and other items of interest can be saved at high resolution and the rest compressed to a lower level of detail.
No one claimed that they invented electric cars.

Their electric cars simply perform 50% better than the vast majority of other electric cars in every aspect, speed, acceleration, range (very important). Then you can also add design, driving comfort, software integration, where they beat any other electric car (manufacturer).

Thus, their technology is vastly superior.

Mastering manfucacturing isn't
easy for a young company, though, it simply takes time.

The other car companies had more than 100 years to figure it out, give Tesla a few more years to catch up
with them.
Is blockchain old, or is this a classic case of the trough of disillusionment?

https://www.google.com/search?q=trough+of+disillusionment&sa...
Legislation? Surely some of these intrusions are from national governments.
The $73B in Voluntary Taxes Consumers Pay Eagerly and with Great Excitement
Just a FYI regarding "Dr. Moench" or "Dr. Matthias Moench". Anyone can call themselves Dr. in Germany. Ie. it is a meaningless title in Germany.

As for his background story and the crimes he committed see [1].

[1] https://www.welt.de/wirtschaft/article135077209/Viagra-ist-f... (use something like Google Translate if you don't understand German)
LGA sockets are even more nerve-wracking, it's still easy to bend pins and unlike PGA it's difficult to bend them back properly.