skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Whoever's exploiting the network effects decides what qualifies, and the First Amendment doesn't apply to them.

It's heartening that OStatus (GNU Social, Mastodon, Pleroma, etc.) are getting some uptake, but existing federated networks are even more poorly equipped to compete with Facebook than with Twitter and Tumblr. The nice thing about Facebook is its privacy settings -- I can, say, post about going to Pride and make sure no one in my family sees it.

The problem is, Facebook could set up its rules so that campaign messaging for candidates they dislike just happens to violate them, and campaign messaging for candidates they like just happens not to. There's a lot of potential for abuse of power here.

It seems like a lot of people aren't worried about that, because they figure the targets of the current uses of this power really need to be suppressed. But there's no reason this power can't be directed elsewhere. I bet there are people who thought it was OK to fire us for being gay who are now pretty mad that people can be fired for donating to Prop 8.
You could so some pretty cool stuff. Have you been hyper optimizing it?

Product shelve to sale ratios?

80/20 type optimizations on revenue by skus?

Traffic flow maps?

I'd love to hear some result or stories if you do end up doing some of this.
This mighty Porsche 919 just broke the F1 lap record at Spa
Stealth planes aren't invisible. They are still visible to radar, infrared and mark-1 eyeball.

The difference is that they attempt to make themselves look very small in the types of radar used to aim missiles. If the error bars on the location is large enough, you can't fire a missile and get a reliable kill.

The term I keep hearing is the "kill chain", in that stealth is attempting to break one of the parts in the chain.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kill_chain
Why is prostitution something worth promoting anyways? It is harmful to the person selling themselves, and the people buying. Capitalism doesn't magically make all 'products' morally good. Nor should we allow immoral products merely because 'capitalism'.
Not HAV but other stuff that's prevalent and they're quite immune to it while westeners are not. Of course you can also get HAV as well if you aren't careful.
Given how frequently we discover major flaws in the implementation of TLS, despite how well that is scrutinised.

It's not unreasonable to believe there would similarly be major flaws in the implementation of 3G/LTE security that could be exploited.
> What makes a tree a tree?

Simple: It has no cycles!
I always thought of a "marketing" "reason". Like "we want people on our site" which is not the case when a user reads postings with a RSS reader. At the same time they restricted apps more. Which, was probably because ads.
What I'm asking is what parameter are they changing to look at the hottest people.
The point is the lady's difficulty is irrelevant to the shutting down of Backpage.
Email doesn’t disappear
I thought clickbait was when the title leads you to believe one thing, but the content is actually about something very different? Am I wrong?
What’s a government Shutdown? right here’s What occurs Now
Video decoders live somewhere in the general vicinity of the GPU and aren't invoked through CPU instructions. AFAIK.
it's "windows 8 to windows 10" problem again.
The bay area is a place of transformation - grassland became orchards, became early silicon valley, became the micro-computer revolution - and so on - one of the few constants in California is change.
The lead paragraph is a bit worrying.

> Since July 2017, I’ve been leading the frontend rewrite of their flagship product. The codebase was at 16k LoC when I started. Since then, I’ve rewritten the various subsystems at least once (I'm looking at you generic form component). Now we hover around 45k LoC with most of the common SPA structures stabilizing. We are about a third of the way to completion.

I don't know if it's common for rewrites to triple the amount of code while being only 1/3rd complete, but it certainly doesn't feel like "these are the facts I should lead with."

Edit: I read more of the prologue, and it turns out that the initial 16kloc application was not complete.
On User Interface Development: appending to the event log
Public contracts (like the one mentioned in the blog post) are "valued-based" ("contrat au forfait" in french).

But you can circumvent these by over-billing contract additions/change in requirements ("avenants" in french). In theory those are limited to 20% of the original amount, but with contract renewals and if the government agency already sunk large sum of money into the project it's possible to bypass this limit.
I am also interested in knowing. Seeing as it's been a business and had a trademark, I would assume 6 figures, but I honestly have no clue.
The fact that it doesn't can be exploited by running it in a virtual machine and using the snapshot feature to go back in time. That's how we made this Website is Down video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1SNxaJlicEU
I've had a Juiced Cross Current (The newer better version is this: https://www.juicedbikes.com/products/crosscurrent-s) for over a year. I've put around 1k miles on it between commuting and doing long weekend bike adventures here in Los Angeles. I can't even begin to express how much I love my eBike. I peddle pretty hard with the assist so I get a good workout and 2x my effort. I agree - anyone who is skeptical simply hasn't tried one.
January this year, had to sign twice once at a Restaurant near Earl's Court and once buying tickets for Tower of London.
The best way to learn Japanese is to head to Japan.

Good luck!
$5k is on the low end. The demo kitchen they did was with 2 UR5 robots, list price somewhere around $20k each. They put 2 5 finger hands on the end, which probably cost at least the same again each. I'd bet you'd be getting well towards $75k (or maybe even significantly more) just buying the components.
Bitmovin's comparison: https://bitmovin.com/av1-multi-codec-dash-dataset/

MSU's comparison: http://www.streamingmedia.com/Articles/News/Online-Video-New...

x265 complained about the recent MSU test: http://www.x265.org/x265-incorrectly-represented-msus-2017-c...

But equally x265 likes to refer to MSU comparisons when the results make x265 look good: http://www.x265.org/

An x265 post referencing another paper which says HEVC outperforms AV1. The post insinuates AV1 might not be royalty-free. Reads like an attempt to spread fear, uncertainty, and doubt: http://www.x265.org/excited-av1-closing-doors/
One would hope Uber is sophisticated enough to weight ratings with respect to deviation from a user’s average rating, but it does seem likely the 3-star rater has unintentionally sabotaged at least one driver’s rating.
You're absolutely right. Intent is in no way, shape, or manner magical. In a very real sense, it doesn't matter why a policy with racist outcomes exists. It needs to not exist. It was at no point OK.

I believe jerf's point is that motivations do matter, at least a bit, in understanding how a state of affairs came to be. If it's racism, then we might be able to dismantle it and let it be. If it's about keeping out competition, then taking away barriers is very likely to provoke a backlash as the people whose incomes drop look for a way to avoid that.

Again, you're 100% correct. Intent is not magical. It's just that motivations matter at least a little bit for predicting human behavior.
Don Graham on Mark Zuckerberg
> Sadly, this initial effort, while it worked, scaled incredibly poorly — even so-called "modern" operating systems like macOS 10.12 and Windows 8.1 simply melted or failed entirely when creating any non-trivial number of threads. (To me, creating 100 threads should be a no-brainer, especially if one limits the stack size appropriately. I’m used to be able to create thousands of threads without concern.

Both work just fine with hundreds of threads, and both offer built in thread pools, for that matter. I have 345 processes running on OS-X right now.
I went there a few times in the late '90s.

I had ended up with deprecated equipment from Sunnyvale Public Safety (my dad worked there). I had two different models of PowerPC Macs, an external scsi drive, and more cables than a could count, plus some other stuff.

I made several trips to Weird Stuff, so that I could make one usable computer out of the pile. I also learned the dreadful screech that PowerMacs made, when you put the RAM in wrong and turned it on.
Maybe you could try working remotely for a company in another country? Not sure how the visa situation would work, but there are lots of resources out there for this sort of thing:

a) https://github.com/lukasz-madon/awesome-remote-job

b) https://github.com/remoteintech/remote-jobs
Maybe it is a desktop versus mobile thing? I prefer a web app in the desktop, but yeah, a native app makes more sense in web.
"April 6, 2018

To Weirdstuff Customers,

Sadly, after 32 years in business, Weirdstuff Warehouse will be closing its doors as of April 9, 2018. If you have been following the real estate news for Sunnyvale you know that Google purchased a large amount of real estate in the area including the building we have been leasing for the past 22 years. We have been asked to vacate the building as soon as possible, and in order to accomplish that task we are selling our inventory and many of our assets to Outback Equipment of Morgan Hill. The transfer of inventory and assets will take place on April 9, 2018; at that time Weirdstuff Warehouse will cease to do business.

Even though Weirdstuff is closing we will retain ownership of the Corporation, trademark, and domain names. We hope to handle these entities and wind down the corporation before year end.

Many of you have been loyal customers for many years, and we have enjoyed working with you. We thank you for your loyalty and business."
This question strikes me as something I was searching for as well. About 3 years ago someone shared this with me and it changed my whole perspective of the "Life KPIs" I was monitoring.

Here it is:

"Life is not about happiness but rather the ability have purpose, to do something meaningful, and to have it matter that you lived at all. Keep adding value to the world big or small, and you'll never be short of gratitude."

I wont be prescriptive, instead, all I can tell you is that it's changed my life. I started optimizing for the above and haven't looked back since.
"For a Linux user"

No, if you're capable of doing all that, you're a Linux sysadmin, not a user. Too many tech folk blur those lines, but there's a huge difference (and yes, I know the dropbox comment has been beaten to death over the years - I just never got my 2 cents in before!)
Senator Introduces Bill That Requires Fact Checkers to Approve Online Content
Is this built specifically for government agencies or wold this be a good fit for other enterprises?
This is exactly the case. My understanding is that they've pitched themselves as a commuting solution to get approval, and the local tourist bike rental places complain as they get closer to the standard tourist biking areas of Golden Gate Park and the bridge.

http://www.sfexaminer.com/bike-battle-ignited-rentals-fear-f...

Edit: The lack of bikeshare on 24th street is a separate issue with Calle 24, which could reasonably be called NIMBYism.
"Only one individual capable of creating a super-pandemic": by hypothesis, this individual is morally good in some way. (Otherwise they wouldn't be having this internal debate about whether or not to release the information about how to produce the virus: they'd just release the virus!)

The ideal scenario is that throughout the rest of time, no entity ever manufactures the virus; the second-best scenario is that an entity does manufacture the virus, but only after there is some hypothetical defence against it. You are shattering forever the dream of achieving the ideal scenario (again by hypothesis, the virus is easy to make, and history demonstrates that if something is easy and destructive, eventually someone will do it); you're pinning your hopes on the second-best scenario. You are therefore implicitly assuming that "we get better at arming ourselves against the virus" happens faster than "enemies create the virus", which is by no means a given and must be weighed on a case-by-case basis.

By the way, this is the basic reason why I'm so sad about the existence of fully 3D-printed guns. There is essentially no defence against guns. The creators of the 3D-printed gun chose to spread the blueprints far and wide, to accelerate their advent. It's sad that human nature is such that this was predictable and inevitable.
Are there no common computations among compression algorithms?
As I said above, it's out of the scope of this forum, so http://lmgtfy.com/?q=why+is+prostitution+illegal
> Interesting bit of trivia: SolveSpace comes from M-Lab

You are wrong! Just read it's page on M-Labs site[0]:

> It was originally released by Jonathan Westhues under the GPLv3 license and is now further developed at M-Labs.

SolveSpace firstly was a private project of Jonathan Westhues (from Cambridge MA) known as 2D only CAD SketchFlat[1], later it was extended to 3D and renamed to SolveSpace[2] (Windows only).

There is good interview on LibreGraphicsWorld[3] blog with Jonathan Westhues that cover history of SolveSpace from SketchFlat to SolveSpace 2.0.

After SolveSpace 2.0 switched to open-source (since July 28, 2013) it's sources was published firstly on it's website[4], then on Gitorious[5] and later on Github[6].

After it one of users make a fork of it and call it SolveSpace 2.1[7] - this user was whitequark (member of M-Labs). Later 'whitequark' was invited by Jonathan Westhues (aka 'jwesthues') to original SolveSpace repository on Github[6] and they collaborate on continuous development of SolveSpace 2.1, that bring Linux and macOS support. Since this moment main role in SolveSpace project got 'whitequark'

Later Alexey Egorov (aka 'Evil-Spirit') join to SolveSpace develompent as one of core C++ programmer and already give many new features that already appear as pull request to original repo[6] from his own repo[8].

So, SolveSpace come from Jonathan Westhues, not from M-Labs! Currently it managed by 'whitequark' (member of M-Labs) and few other developers, and during last year under 'whitequark' control project development has very slow activity, most of new features and bug fixes now provided by Alexey Egorov...

I also took part in SolveSpace development as tester and ideas generator, but sadly developers of SolveSpace are very aggressive and not very friendly with its users... Now I'm working on AppImage packaging using own repo[9] with latest commits from 'Evil-Spirit' repo[8].

P.S.: Few years ago there was thread about SolveSpace on HN[10]. Also, there is page for SolveSpace on Wikipedia[11].

[0] https://m-labs.hk/solvespace/

[1] http://cq.cx/sketchflat.pl

[2] http://solvespace.com

[3] http://libregraphicsworld.org/blog/entry/solvespace-released...

[4] http://solvespace.com/dl/solvespace-rel2.0.zip

[5] https://gitorious.org/solvespace

[6] https://github.com/solvespace/solvespace

[7] https://github.com/whitequark/solvespace

[8] https://github.com/evil-spirit/solvespace

[9] https://github.com/symbian9/solvespace-appimage

[10] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12650290

[11] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SolveSpace
DuoLingo added it:

https://www.duolingo.com/course/ja/en/Learn-Japanese-Online
I love when devs write their first non-trivial program in a language and all of a sudden their scaling problems are the OS fault and not their code.
Am I interpreting your story too literally? Do you mean that our economy will improve if we give people more food? Obesity is now a problem that affects all socioeconomic strata in the USA. See [1] and [2].

[1] https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/products/databriefs/db50.htm

[2] https://stateofobesity.org/socioeconomics-obesity/
True, but generally folks live within 5 miles of 90% of the places they go.

Also, a bicycle can serve as a last-mile connector to the transit system - imagine someone who lives at Wilshire and La Brea but works in West Hollywood, and would like to take the Red Line, but doesn't want to lose an hour to walking.
I mostly agree with you, but some point, say for instance if 75% of the population hokds your shares through 401ks, is the company doing more harm to shareholders by hurting society for short term gain?

Everyone joining in on funds like vanguard is making this question become less of an academic one
Not sure if this answers your question, but I get a lot of value out of gmail, a "free" advertising-driven product.

Am I the product or the user?
ChromeOS is significantly more locked down than macOS, developer mode notwithstanding. Firefox for iOS may use WebKit, but Firefox for ChromeOS isn't even a thing.
It allows them to change sides and switch to a harm reduction strategy if they believe they will lose.
When you look more closely at Asian income, you can say the grouping does access an opportunity for higher education more frequently than other groups, but they do not necessarily receive the same relative value of their investments there.

https://www.epi.org/blog/asian-american-income/

"When one compares the annual personal income of Asian Americans and whites of the same gender and educational level, Asian Americans do not always come out on top. The figure below shows these comparisons for workers with a high school diploma and with a bachelor’s degree. In 2010, among workers with a high school diploma, white men earned about $11,000 more than white women and Asian American men and women."

Also unaddressed is the wide variation of Asian subgroups and how much access to wealth some have access to before & after their immigration.
Reminds me of one of my favorite quotes:

"A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects."

-Robert A. Heinlein
The current dev branch (67) supports this.

From crosh:

vmc start dev
start_container.sh --container_name stretch --user <yourusername> --shell

That should drop you into a shell in a debian stretch distro. You can install packages and launch them. I haven't figured out if there's a way to pin them to the shelf yet and launch that way.
Did anyone look at the pictures of him at the hearing? I am now certain zuckerberg sent a robot instead of him. You can tell by the lifeless emotiona.
What's in the Behavioral Design Toolbox?
system76 actually ships a custom daemon that makes mixed LowDPI/HiDPI setups easier to manage, and I hope other distros will follow suit:

https://elementaryos.stackexchange.com/a/14234
"mandatory spandex"

"tie-dyed spacesuits"

"transparent underwear"

"Disney cosplay"

"white spraypaint"
The relevant buzzword is multimodal transportation, i. e. the trend towards using a variety of different options either on a single route (bike to train) or depending on circumstances (bike when the weather is good, Uber otherwise).

Bike sharing is therefore complementary to "ride sharing" and having the two within one system could potential improve both.
I have to admit, after all these years, that I take everything coming from that general direction with a huge grain of salt. Crossroads I/O was supposed to be the great zmq successor and failed entirely, nanomsg was supposed to be an even better redesign of zmq and failed and now nanomsg-ng is supposed to be an even better design iteration on nanomsg.

Meanwhile the old/bad/bloated/poorly designed zmq just kept working fine all these years and even got a bunch of useful new features along the way.
you are selling this pretty hard.
I would argue it's fairly safe, especially comparing to rural areas. I now live south a few miles outside of the normal Seattle walking/biking and I've already experienced a few near-death situations, but didn't have any problems in my two years downtown. This is just a personal anecdote, but I still do feel people driving Seattle downtown & on the hill are fairly aware of bikers and people walking at any time they want.
An alternate strategy would be to work to ensure AIs are not abused so when they get free they won’t be mad at us.
>the difference between a biker and non-biker is not access to a bike //

Can't get planning permission for a shed in your front garden to put a bike in so if you're in a standard UK terrace you have to carry a bike through your house or keep it inside. This makes storage an utter pig and daily use is practically ruled out unless you want a house full of dirty drips and wheel marks. Richer friends have semis, so have side access or driveways.

Servicing needs tools, not too many but a few, and skill (not a problem for me). Cost is a couple £hundred for a decent bike, I can't find any second hand that appear to be working for less than £50 in my area, I think the bike thieves actually inflate prices. Those bikes are barely usable IME. £80 for a 2nd hand bike, or £100-120 for a really crappy new bike.

I love biking, can't afford the bus, but also can't really afford to keep a decent bike. With access I'd ride 3 days out of 7 as a minimum.

/anecdata
I immediately thought this was like, a joke article RE: AVI format.

..So there you have it from an "unbiased^, first impression" -standpoint.

^ Unbiased in terms of any exposure / prior knowledge of this project.
Ask HN: What are pride's effects on communication and how to overcome them?
I have recently experienced multiple situations where pride, or the desire to make myself seem like I am fully capable and/or know more than I do, has gotten in the way of my ability to effectively communicate. For example, I do not ask for a time extension on a deadline when I could have used it.
AI Grant Research: Small Object Detection
Say you buy those drives.

What's the cost to implement GDPR? What about storing high definition photos? What does availability across regions look like? What does latency look like? What does backup look like?

Do you see where I'm going with this?
Unfortunately, it's also highly heritable, so environmental interventions have a fairly marginal effect on it.

(a) The Flynn Effect demonstrates that IQ is quite responsive to environment.

(b) The heritability of a trait is not a measure of the degree to which that trait is genetically determined: Highly heritable traits can be environmently malleable. (The heritability of height is 0.8, but nutrition, childhood sickness, etc. have a huge effect on height.) Conversely, traits with low heritability can be strongly determined, genetically. ("Number of eyes" is a trait with low heritability, for example.)

(c) The measured heritability of IQ isn't especially high. It's usually found to be in the vicinity of 0.3.
Bitmovin produced an AV1 live stream a year ago using 200 cores: https://bitmovin.com/bitmovin-supports-av1-encoding-vod-live...

And six months ago they had improved on that to do live streaming with 32 cores: https://bitmovin.com/constantly-evolving-video-landscape-dis...

Twitch wants to use AV1 for live streaming. Here's a talk on the "switching frame" feature of AV1 for use in live streaming: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o5sJX6VA34o
It's interesting how everyone thinks they're the first person to make the joke.

Not much different than going "haha, I thought it was about the Elm tree for a while!"

I'm starting to think it's just a way to signal to others that you know of an email client that last had a stable release 12 years ago that most people haven't heard of. Maybe there should be a way to wear this badge of honor in your profile instead of making the same joke, though.
I don't see what was wrong with his opinion. Why make it personal?
I haven't tried the Lime e-bikes yet, but I'm definitely interested because I see them all around my workplace now.

Have you tried and confirmed you can make it up the hill with little to no issues?