skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Even in liberal Chicago we have a charter school boom and thus far the results aren't impressive especially when you consider they benefit from the 'cream of the crop' issue defined above.

The worst of the worst disruptive students have an outsized negative impact. If I were such a parent, I would want to have a choice of schools. You just want to sacrifice the choice of the economically disadvantaged for the sake of the existing school institution.

My tax dollars shouldn't be an entitlement to those with experimental and untested educational theories who can fill out an application to create a school.

Your tax dollars are already an entitlement. You're just restricting the degree of choice someone has about how it's spent -- especially economically disadvantaged people.

And yes, if charters can't deliver the goods and if they cannot deal with the worst students or improve them, then they have failed and shouldn't be subsidized by the taxpayer.

There should be schools that don't have to take all students. This puts market pressure on students to maintain a reputation which makes them eligible for charters, as well as market pressure on parents to influence their children to make them eligible for charters. If parents can get their kids into an environment away from disruptive students and more conducive to learning, and the parents are satisfied, then that should be enough.

There's a parallel here. If you aren't allowed to "fire" your politicians, then you can't expect good results from them. Likewise, if you aren't allowed to "fire" your educators, you can't expect good results from them either.
It's a welcome addition but all was not lost on a Windows install before. write.exe has managed to do this even if notepad.exe couldn't.
I would not consider it a bug. It was working as intended. This is a new feature.
Do you have a hiring page on the fairpixels site? I couldn't find one
Well, the iPhone has always been a locked down device. Every iteration of it has plugged up holes where access can get around safeguards.

1. It protects the store monopoly by guaranteeing the device will only ever load signed code from Apple. This is a huge financial incentive for Apple to invest engineering time into it.

2. Tim Cook has successfully recast the lockdown as a user privacy issue and is winning in the court of public opinion on the matter. Again, another huge financial incentive as it is something Android cannot deliver on.

3. There are real consequences to enabling the wishes of US law enforcement that I firmly believe the executives at Apple do not want to open that pandora's box. Our government may truly want to solve real crimes, and this may frustrate them, but there are governments who very concretely want that same power to lock up opposition voices and witch hunts.
If the bad guys with guns are coming and they want to decrypt your phone, they can beat it out of you - rubber hose decryption is remarkably effective.
Google News aims to fix journalism by offering an easy way to pay for it
Can we stop making the iPhone unlock scenarios involve guns? That's a super atypical case.

Snoopy spouse seems like a far more believable user of forced biometric unlocking (e.g. capturing your fingerprint for TouchID while you sleep).
Would you say the same thing if this tech was created by a small company?

Voice copying is nothing new, many methods exists so I don't see how Google doing this is somehow bad. It's uncanny to say the least, but laws against tech progress? Come on :)

Did you think that advancing AI will be not creepy especially when it's good?
Your argument about calling it "noon" instead of "PM" is just illogical. I'd always use PM instead of noon -- whenever I'm trying to be specific about something (appointments and such). I understand the argument you're trying to make but that wasn't enough.
First, there were thousands of them. Someone having thousands of books is not unreasonable, of course, but both the breadth and depth of this collection is such that it is extremely unlikely it is someone's personal library.

Sounds like my personal library actually.

Second, the PDFs aren't the actual books. They are just short blurbs describing the book and containing download deep links into bookfreenow.com. A couple examples [1] [2]. Clicking to create an account so you can start downloading redirects through some ad companies (and possibly some shady affiliate marketing companies), eventually reaching some download site (I think) that tells you no free slots are available and asks you to make an account.

Well that’s a lot harder to explain in charitable terms! So is this even piracy, or just some kind of scam based on the promise of piracy?
When "working as intended" means "doesn't work at all", I consider it a bug.

Take a look at the first screenshot on the announcement page and then tell me it's working as intended.
Ask HN: Suggestions on crafting vendor agreements with larger companies?
Our young, small startup has built a software prototype (digitized real estate assets, transacted on the Blockchain) and is now in talk with the first, potentially paying, customer.

We are working on a vendor agreement, in which we'd like to get some money in exchange for letting them use our service (mostly via APIs, or front-end).

Do you have any advice, suggestions, recommendations on the topic? I have dealt with vendor agreements in the past, but mostly between large IT giants. I'd like to shake on a fair agreement, but also avoid potential pitfalls down the road.

Thanks for any help!
Google only "refused" to do business in China because it was a minuscule part of their revenue.
I'd entertain an explanation of how the original behavior was a feature :)
literally effort. when you lower the attackers effort and cost to try an attack, the attempts generally go up.
I think they were agreeing. "Test out of" seems to be another way of saying "we tried getting rid of the spinners but people didn't like it"?
I've found a middle ground between micromanaging the team and giving them enough autonomy to work independently. It works best on definable tasks when the remote team's manager is technical enough to do their job on her/his own.

Instead of just a requirements document, give them a requirements document but also define a set of red/green tests to show whether the requirements were met. It's hard to do this with front end, where feel is often very important, but in my experience, it works well provided that the remote team's manager is qualified to make the types of architectural decisions necessary to pull this off.

You can even start tying compensation into passing red/green tests!
> Also if you Googled for my name before I removed the A record, that SSL subdomain was coming up which was competing with my actual site's content. Not good!

Maybe do 301 redirections from ssl.nickjanetakis.com to your homepage, it can help with SEO.
If the new idea is sound and you've got others that believe in it, then go for it! Don't waste any time following a path, when you rather want to go another. Talk with the board and say you want to pivot, if they don't like it, then consider starting a new company, take the loyal people with you and offer them some equity.
Ask HN: Why is Microsoft Build and Google I/O happening at the same time?
Yes, color for elevation and shading for slope.

Another use case that I've been searching for is a tile set not of images, but of just elevation data. So that I could implement something similar to google earth's lat/lng/elevation info wherever your mouse cursor is.
CVE-2018-8897: #DB exceptions [due to] MOV SS may cause unexpected behavior
Well I was agreeing, but now the self driving cars have been shown...
The Pentium FDIV bug aside, Excel has always been pretty good at maths. I wonder if there will be a new class of maths bugs as they integrate with the strange JS numbers model?
More crucially, they are winning over executives of medium-to-large internet businesses with superior sales and marketing.

Individual engineers at these places do not have the power to make decisions about which map software to use, which are often six- or seven-figure contracts. Mapbox offers a service that is comparable to Google Maps in terms of price, quality and flexibility. From a technical standpoint, there are pros and cons to both services; Mapbox's toolkit is more modern than Google, which means documentation is a pro for Mapbox but legacy browser support is a con (though it's just a minor annoyance).

Where they far outstrip Google is in sales and customer support. Google Maps won't bat an eye for you, even if you're paying them millions of dollars a year. The Mapbox team, in contrast, will devote developer time to answering your questions, respond to GitHub issues for you in a timely manner, and even create new plugins and repos if you have a legitimate need. That is their big advantage and that is what is driving adoption.

Source: I was employed at a medium-sized internet publisher, and tasked with evaluating Mapbox to replace Google Maps, was a primary developer working on the switch-over, and even wrote a blog post about the experience [0]. They even invited me to their office to work with them for a day (which, regrettably, I wasn't able to follow up on).

[0]: https://blog.rentpathcode.com/webpack-progressive-enhancemen...
What would you have in there?
My guess is operation procedure, a way of working, guidelines to follow.
Voight-Kampff test : PASS.
Yes. I'd have much rather they just used the release to fix all of the little quirky annoyances about Windows like this.
The company split, I think the German entity no longer exists. Seafile can now be found at: https://seafile.com
> This video is restricted. Try signing in with a Google Apps account.

Ughh.. I really hate this - why does Google put videos like this behind sign-in walls? Now I gotta go find my g-apps sign-in info, and rmember to purge it from my browser when I'm done again. GRRRR
Announcing the Launch of the Enterprise Support Edition of HDF5
That's how: https://www.reddit.com/r/ethereum/comments/87k9iz/presenting...
CVE-2018-1087: KVM Incorrectly Handles #DB Exceptions Deferred by MOV SS/POP SS
LoopBack 4 April 2018 Milestone Update
This reminds me my Nexus 5X is now two years old.

Because that’s all the updates I got. Yay. At least it was cheap.
RDF is a zombie format. It isn't entirely "dead" but after some wildly ambitious promises, it hasn't lived up to any of them, and it seems only a few "true believers" are still working with it. This being a world of seven billion people, a few "true believers" can still be a few thousand people, but it's just not a technology I can say is vibrant, alive, or worth spending much time with. The core problem is that it solves the easy problems, and not even terribly well (I more-or-less endorse titanix2's comment elsewhere in the thread), while leaving the hard problems mostly untouched. The excitement it generated 10-15 years ago mostly comes from confusing solving the easy problem for the hard problem. Everything that I've personally ever seen used RDF has ripped it back out again at some point. Whether that's the fate in store for the current users named in the article I can't say, but it certainly wouldn't be a bad guess.

If the space intrigues you, I would suggest starting with a graph database instead.
Disable that function.
Why poor if I may? Sounds actually absolutely excellent imho.
It is a red herring because:

Firstly, it assumes Volvo is not sharing the parameters of the system. It seems unlikely that Uber is installing an automated driving system into these cars without the cooperation of Volvo, especially with the agreement to ultimately get 24,000 autonomous-system-equipped cars from them.

Secondly, if Uber could instead determine what it wants to know about the parameters by testing, then the question is irrelevant, as are the semantics.

Thirdly, it is presumably safe for humans to be driving cars without knowing the exact parameters, and so should not present any particular problem for the autonomous system - if the emergency brakes are triggered, it is likely to be a situation in which it is the right thing to happen, and possibly a result of the autonomous system failing. Just as for human drivers, an autonomous system is expected to usually stay within the parameters of the emergency system, without reference to those parameters, just by driving correctly. For example, if the emergency brakes come on to stop the car from hitting a pedestrian because the autonomous system failed to correctly identify the danger, what difference would it have made if the system knew the exact parameters of the emergency braking system?

Lastly, the road is an environment with a lot of uncertainty and unpredictability. If the system is so fragile that the tiny amount of uncertainty of not knowing the exact parameters of the automatic braking system raises safety concerns, then it is nowhere near being a system with the flexibility to drive safely.

It is possible that a competent autonomous driving system might supplant the current emergency braking system, in which case the way to proceed is to demonstrate it in the way I outlined in the last paragraph of my previous post.
I find that even when I set my country to UK and my language settings say 'British English', I'm still getting various autocorrections to US English to the point where I'm maintaining a list of dictionary overrides for words that us Brits spell differently (or have a distinction for), and there are plenty of words that it claims don't exist when a cursory dictionary search elsewhere proves otherwise.

It's mostly manageable on a laptop because it's easy to go back and edit text and make your computer behave. On a phone it's ducking^Wducking^Wfucking infuriating because you can automatically get the same correction a good two or three times before you can get the word you want, and you are very actively fighting a tool that is trying too hard to help, to the point it will deliberately misinterpret your keypress if it thinks it has a better idea of what you wanted to type.
Google Maps will soon give you better recommendations
I meant, you could build a bot that calls. We have the technology already, and the people on the other end probably won't notice. Plus the "do it over the Internet" thing where screen scraping and scripting is super easy.
IANAL, but by a plain language reading, entering the intersection to prepare to turn left is not in conflict with the first point, so long as the destination roadway is clear.

The second point is irrelevant, as it pertains to stop/yield intersections, which are not being discussed here.
Epigenetics and the Poisoning of Michigan
The electronic musician Max Cooper used the Sacks Spiral in his live AV setup for his album Emergence. His lecture isn't the most concise but he touches on a lot of things that might be interesting to this crowd. He talks about the Sacks Spiral at about 3 minutes into this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VFjIk_CnRUM

He also sells a t-shirt with it for the music or math nerds interested: https://everpress.com/max-cooper
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17022695

Does this kill EasyMail (YC W18) ??

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16577650
Similar articles have been posted before. All of them are based on the book "The Long Way Home". I bought it for my 88 year old grandfather last Christmas. He power read through the thing in a couple of hours and handed it back to me, telling me to read it too.

Certainly an interesting read. But with a little more historical context, you will find that even as early as the 1930's, the US was worried about dominance in the Pacific. They used the consumer travel market and Pan Am as an excuse to built bases and refueling networks all across the Pacific. Quite good foresight that certainly helped out once WWII broke out. (there's another book with these details but I can't remember the name of it)
CCTV cameras and the data they collect are generally under the control of the people who purchase and run them (short of a court order) - Google-connected bits, not so much.
From your own site:

"Can I trust it to work?

It is alpha-level software, so no. It's not an official or even related to or certified by Google or Android. It's totally a hobby. But we hope you give it a try and have fun with it when it's safe to do so."

It's nowhere near the commercial applicability car manufacturers require. Nobody really cares about private users because thats not where the money is..
>Eggs - full with cholesterol and choline, illegal to advertise them as healthy or safe in the US.

Is this really true?
Motion Design handovers made easy
It's not just scaling, but also speed.

If you sequentially attack a subpopulation (e.g., employees at a company, senior citizens) the eventually news about your attack will spread throughout that network (internal security alert, evening news+daily newspapers+AARP+...). If you attack the entire subpopulation in rapid succession over the course of days or even hours, educational countermeasures become much less effective.
Why would anyone take that bet? We can't even do this to a mouse let alone a person. He's 70 years old, so maybe a decade or decade and a half left before he kicks the bucket. We're certainly not doing 'brain uploads' anytime soon, if ever.

Heck, we can't even replace most organs and essentially transhumanism boils down to a brain replacement. If we can't make a spleen or a liver, we aren't making brains.
So is everything on the Internet fake or about 60 percent fake?

Can we even take the Internet seriously re: anything that deals with commerce, politics and etc?
Yes, the time commitment of having one person pickup the phone and place 100+ phone calls (and the suspicion on the other end when you call back with a new name but the same voice).

You could write a screen scraper to book online through the various booking systems, but each booking system probably has its own restrictions on how many accounts you can have and how often they can book. You skip all of these protections when you phone your reservation in (arguably, the restaurant staff should be enforcing these protections when they pick up the phone, but restaurant staff are often overworked and apathetic).
It's still alive and well on LineageOS! I'm hoping it'll continue to get support when Android P hits AOSP/LineageOS.. At least until the Librem5 arrives!
Yes, that was the point of posting this show HN, to see if there is any market demand. I have a few other products in the pipeline and more ideas which are probably more promising.

If nothing else, we use bitbox.co as an internal file storage mechanism for our other upcoming products. We're currently using it in one that is yet to be announced / released.
On what do you base the assertion that "the human genome has been breaking down over time"?
I'm not sure how true your observation really is, but I sympathize with the sentiment. My personal fear is a future where the only freedoms left are to work and consume.
You can put a credit freeze on you file in major credit bureaus - this way their website would not be able to verify answers on security questions and deny login.

Brian Krebs did a good article on the process placing a freeze on your file [1]

[1] https://krebsonsecurity.com/2015/06/how-i-learned-to-stop-wo...
Similar to my experience with them: I had two accounts, one US and one German. After I moved back to Germany I asked them to remove my US account, as I didn't have a US debit card anymore. First they were able to do that, after several complaints and waiting. But then they also deleted my other account, probably by accident. A so-called double close, which is fatal on glibc, and in my case. Thankfully I've changed my mind about their services and am quite happy without any account.
Yes, I remember the debate over institutionalization. And I recall visiting a humongous facility on Long Island. It was almost a small city.

Also, I'm seriously into "live free or die fighting", so institutionalization is distasteful. I was technically homeless for several years, back in the day. I lived with friends, in group squats, in remote forest cabins, in tents and tipis, in vans, etc. But I was young and crazy, and it was fun and romantic. And it was entirely voluntary. Now, however, it wouldn't be so much fun.
Does this kill EasyMail (YC W18) ??

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16577650
We started switching to MapBox some weeks ago, really liking it so far. There are some quirks but one can see that a lot of things are happening at a fast pace.
I'm not a developer. I'm a writer.

I started to write a long-ish answer here, then decided to make it a blog post:

http://digitalmicroenterprise.blogspot.com/2018/05/starting-...

Best.
Can someone help me understand how this is different from the existing YubiKey products, which I've used?

* Passwordless single factor with AD integration (couldn't this already be done by storing your password on the key?)

* 2factor auth with the token as one of the factors.

From the article:

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Single Factor: This only requires possession of the Security Key to log in, allowing for a passwordless tap-and-go experience.

Second-Factor: In a two-factor authentication scenario, such as the current Google and Facebook FIDO U2F implementations, the Security Key by Yubico is used as a strong second factor along with a username and password.

Multi-Factor: This allows the use of the Security Key by Yubico with an additional factor such as a PIN (instead of a password), to meet the high-assurance requirements of operations like financial transactions, or submitting a prescription.
Google translate! I've seen more than one conversation between people that do not speak each others language through automated translators and even though the results are imperfect and sometimes humorous it does work to the point that it amazes me. It also gets it spectacularly wrong at times, but still. So far no intergalactic wars have broken out over this.
nvm got answer from support.
Anyone know the name of the consulting company featured in this article? I find this kind of stuff super fascinating -- the intersection of behavioral economics, lean manufacturing, queuing theory, and food.
Yep. It's easy to A/B test a narrow feature over a short timespan, but it's hard to test the multi-year effect of pollution -- by the time you learn the answer, you've already lost.
You're first comment suggested that I wanted to go back to some glorious past where credit reporting was better. I didn't say this and if you misinterpreted that from "Credit existed before reporting agencies", that's a shame.

It seems what you jumped to was that I think that it's better in the past, which I didn't say and don't mean.

What I meant is that it is possible to evaluate peoples credit one-by-one without having it all pre-gathered up front by a central reporting agency. This is more expensive, but I am fine with that.

The way it would work is similar to how it already works with underwriting. You submit a lot of paperwork on your account histories, rent payments, any leases or other contracts you are in now or recently, etc. These documents establish your creditworthiness.

For example, this is how I got a car loan. I had no credit score at all, but a bank was willing to give me a loan because they saw a bunch of docs saying I pay stuff on time and that I have a good job that pays enough to pay off the loan.

And also it wasn't what I focused on in my original comment anyways. I focused on the bad data, mis-categorization, and underreporting.

Edit:

Maybe this helps clarify things...

if credit agencies exist:
do better by...
- improving process for removing incorrect info
- stop encouraging people to use credit cards
- track rent, utilities and other good behavior better
else:
it's not a disaster because underwriting already requires all the docs needed to establish creditworthiness
Mediatek steps into Qualcomm’s shoes at ZTE