skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ron Paul is a politician, and the Mises Institute (which is not a think tank and not the most high profile Austrian/Austrian-inclusive organization) has largely disagreed, other than Gary North and Doug French, who are both about as low profile and unserious as you can get.

Also, Ron Paul usually doesn't predict hyperinflation, though I would agree that he's very hyperbolic.
It's better than vinyl, but these are pricey machines. Not to mention there's only one place in the world currently making tape and those aren't cheap either. The nostalgia just isn't worth it to me - and I'm someone who grew up with R2R. It'll be interesting to see if this ever takes hold.
> Hey the Internet rests on old POP servers etc. Bad ideas from the 90's

POP, even POP3, is from the 1980s. And I'd actually newer than a lot of the stuff the internet rests on.

Ideas, bad or otherwise, from the 1990s, aren't comparatively new,.as much as “the 90s” seems to often be used as a generic term for ancient history.
Bug, especially because the ends tend to burn and the oil tends to sear your mouth.

To say nothing of what happens 30 minutes AFTER you eat it...
RSS, anyone?
Rise and fall of the Windows Empire
There's not much else of note here
That only works if you have an iPhone X, and why should I destroy a phone permanently for this when bette software design and hardening could fix it.
"I like the idea" doesn't mean I will like any given implementation of the idea - I certainly agree that there's plenty of room to get the interface wrong.

I want the driver paying attention constantly, but I want them paying attention to the environment, not a meter. A periodic "things are unusually interesting, what's going on?" query seems like a way to motivate that. But any actual attempt at a solution should be validated in testing...
Which part of her response gives an impression different from what she actually meant? I assume she read the rules and plans to comply with them. She checked that none of her books violate the rules, so she doesn't have to delete any of them to live up to the statement.
> the willingness of regulators to enforce existing rules, or people being willing and able to sue in court...

Regulatory capture and mandatory arbitration agreements buried in the click-wrap.

Our "corporate overlords" have structured those factors to work in their favor.
Advanced Blockchain Concepts for Beginners: Plasma, Side Chains and More
It depends on your hobby project. Google's free tier gives unlimited map views, commercial or not. (Edit: On native apps.)

Mapbox's free tier only gives 50k map views, and only for non-commercial apps. If you're a paid app, you also have to pay $499 per month on top of your usage.
I mean, 'junk' DNA is just the noncoding regions. It contains everything that would look like a conditional jump to us CS folks, or a gate to EE folks. The coding regions are closer to .rodata; literally tables of the protein chains.

The relative lack of non coding DNA in other, simpler cells doesn't tell us that we don't need ours. It's equally possible that our DNA is just making significantly more dynamic decisions.
Functions don't alter anything. 20 is still 20 even after you evaluate f(20) to be 6.
I think it's as simple as: Apple's business is determined much more by end users than by government regulation. Unlike telecoms or increasingly, Google/Facebook. And this is amplified by Apple deciding that, as the others can't follow it, it's a good differentiator to invest in.
You seem to be saying that the principle of free speech should not include being able to say that some speech of others should be limited. I suspect GoDaddy would disagree.
They can. It will be a dumpster fire and will cost businesses massive amounts of money, but I think that's a good thing. You took an easy path that makes things worse not just for your users, but for people who never consented to using your system or doing business with you to begin with. Just pass a law that has an incrementing cost associated with use of SSNs. It can be done. That rich people who don't want it to be done because they like our the current setup to nonconsensually shift risk oppose it doesn't mean it can't be done.
Last I checked, MapBox's WebGL based vector tile renderer was a cut above the rest. For simple mapping, Google's stuff may cut it, but MapBox has the ability to draw complex vector polygons over a wide area that render/zoom/scroll fast and provide a nice experience. This is pretty important if you want to provide fine grained analysis of geographic areas.

If you wanted this on GMaps, you were stuck rendering all your vectors to image tiles, hugely increasing the size. MapBox's vector support made this very easy! It may be that Google/free options have caught up in this space, but I haven't re-evaluated in a few years.

I think MapBox could also be a winner in the GIS space as the GIS options have not made the most graceful move to the web.
Default Nginx and Apache configs serve all IPs. If you don't share your server IP, it's reasonable to think your content won't be indexed by Google.
Real-time webcam-driven HTML5 QR code scanner
Discover what your users want with the right persona tool
Or 8.
Hmm I wrote you an email. I am a dev only though. Let's see what we can do ;).
Migrating Struts2 webapp to Angular5/6
Hello All,

We have legacy front end built with Struts-2 and JSP's connecting to rest back end api. We are planning on migrating the front end to Angular.

It's a huge enterprise application with ongoing enhancements. We thought of rewriting it from scratch, but the amount of work it will take to rewrite and with current going enhancements, it will be too much to chew.

As Angular and struts have entirely different way of writing applications, is there a way or anyone ever tried gradually doing it by changing small pieces of functionality as components and can support both at the same time, till the app in a state to remove struts completely.

I mean one page built with angular and when we submit we should be able to redirect to struts actions with data preserved for next flow in the application.
They probably didn't even know that it was accessible via that domain. Their webserver responded to any request with the default site, and google decided to crawl ssl.nickjanetakis.com and found all the pdfs.
A huge amount of Mapbox's tech is open source, including the entirety of their WebGL rendering engine. They rely heavily on OpenStreetMap, which is all open data.
Because "GrayKey" is using USB which won't work if USB is ... turned off.
So less like 1984 and more like the movie Brazil? It was not too long ago that Amazon used to be known for amazing, human, customer service.
The true state of the art: lots of marketing and nothing really useful.
> replace Excel for business users

Not likely. Given the depth and breadth of its penetration, all the man-millenia that have been spent encoding business rules in Excel, I suspect that in the end Excel will outlive Windows itself, just as COBOL has outlived the mainframe era.

I'd love to see a principled approach to extending Excel, and maybe MS have already done it. There are a lot of ways to extend Excel, and given the MS practice of keeping backwards compatibility alive for decades, none of them is going away any time soon. Could be one of them is actually good. I just today learned about Power Query M, which looks promising.
7 isn't really that late for reading. Lot's of well respected schoolin systems don't even attempt to teach reading until 7.
To those considering doing this, please keep in mind that if you do this, you will not be able to "unbrick" or receive authorized repairs for your phone. That's probably exactly what's desired, but as "wireless charging" models are nearly a thousand dollars, epoxyer beware.
How often does a large company really get brought down by screwing over some small subset of their customers?
Hair color is changeable. And society hasn't felt that ginger mistreatment has yet become an issue to tackle. There's no major organization lobbying for the rights of redheads (AFAIK). Maybe it's a problem but it sounds like it's isolated and not systemic - apologies if I'm minimizing the suffering of someone who's redheaded and has suffered.

Physical fitness, good hygiene, and dressing well can take most people within a standard deviation of being considered attractive. And in any case "beauty" is far more subjective than race or national origin.

Height is a trickier one but outside of discrimination against people with dwarfism (disability) I'm not sure there's been a pervasive, ongoing, systemic discrimination against tall people or short people. Correct me if I'm wrong about that. I've read occasional research studies about tall people getting more leadership jobs, but I don't know how rigorous those are.

Intelligence - hiring is about capability to do the job, not "intelligence" whatever that means. Employers can use whatever means they want to judge ability with the following conditions:

"...it is unlawful to use a test or selection
procedure that creates adverse impact, unless justified. Adverse impact occurs when there is a
substantially different rate of selection in hiring, promotion, or other employment decisions that
work to the disadvantage of members of a race, sex, or ethnic group."

If an adverse impact occurs the employer can only continue to use that selection procedure

"...if the procedure is job-related and valid
for selecting better workers, and there is no equally effective procedure available that has less
adverse impact."[1]

That second one is (I believe) what makes it legal to put out casting notices asking for actors of a specific sex, age range, or sometimes race. But if an employer can't show that an IQ or aptitude test is job-related, and the test is found to have a disproportionate adverse impact, it can't be used.

1. https://www.onetcenter.org/dl_files/empTestAsse.pdf
It boils down to intent -- are the censorship czars engaging in social constructivism where they try to "steer" society in a certain direction (some kind of Utopian ideal) or are they simply enforcing accuracy in content?
Absolutely, but the issue here is that religion is a protected class under the law. The key point here is that a 'creator' generally cannot be forced to use their talents to create something that they do not want to. However can people 'override' this and force people to create things they normally would not, if the thing being requested falls under the domain of a protected class? For instance 'satanists' are now requesting the same baker create cakes celebrating the birth of Lucifer with upside down crosses and associated imagery, arguing that it's an expression of their religion, implicitly with threats to sue if the baker doesn't abide.
The consequence is that you have to start thinking of your entire digital life as disposable. I hope a company will rise to solve this problem and fill this need.
That's a fine hypothesis, but proving it is near impossible.
Unfortunately it's all too common with Amazon to not give a great reason as to why where and how you violated their terms/expectations (IMO 3rd party sellers have to go down a support rabbit hole in the hopes of finding the one support person that can "guess" what's causing the suspension). Can you imagine how painful it would be to that third party Amazon seller whose whole income is from their (recently) suspended account?

Am relieved to hear that Amazon was not the author's only source of income...note the similarities to uber/lyft drivers being suspended.
Reading Google's statement perhaps rather too charitably, perhaps this might be what they meant to emphasize?

> including through opaque financing offers that can keep people in debt for months or years.

This would be a way to make their logic not horrible.
Now that you mention it, I wonder whether the security thing plays into the reason why I need to remove and add apps I compile myself every n days? This limit is pretty much my only gripe against Apple at this point but if it is for privacy/security, I don't know what a good balance would be...

Sorry if I sound like a broken record [1]. I don't own an iOS device at the moment. I would love to get an iPad but it kind of sucks that I can't compile and run my own apps.

[1] Previously on HN https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16993157
As many I'm afraid of a future (and present) where big platforms like amazon, google, facebook are essentially without alternative, and laws governing competition and thelike become a farce in the face of "rule by terms and conditions".

In Germany though, we recently had a nice case about a nation-wide football (soccer...) arena ban, in which the constitutional court ruled that this constituted a significant obstacle to taking part in regular social life.
They pretty explicitely stated that this is not limited to football arenas, but can in principle apply to facebook and thelike. According to this ruling, they'd have to come up with a good reason for banning a user and there would be potential recourse.
Very encouraging, really, since the ruling just admits what many already claim: the big platforms are an essential part of private/professional life, really they're more infrastructure than a choice made by the user.
A determined individual can remove epoxy without damaging the electronics.
I don't see it as a question of whether the research uses AI, but rather what the subject of the research is. Putting all research under the 'AI' banner because it happens to use that technique in some of its data processing seems like a miscategorization.
> Also I'm astounded the Koch brothers are involved in this, and I'm curious what their profit motive is as I don't believe they have a single bit of altruism in them.

The Koch brothers have a vested interest in pointing out examples (and this is one of them), where liberal feel-good policies make the lives of actual poor people worse.
Native advertising.
This is a decent reminder to get rid of DNS entries to IP addresses you no longer control.

That said ...

> A few months ago I started to receive an absurd amount of notifications, but I ignored them.

Really? I find it pretty amazing that he chalked it up to “Google is probably on drugs”, without even investigating at all!
I think it's similar to hiring customer success personnel vs. sales.
> Yah and that proof-of-concept shows that you need insane amounts of power per transaction, killing the idea completely and making it unusable.

Why? There are many Proof of Stake coins out there too, for instance Dash and NEO (and many more coming).

I mean let me put it this way, how can you even claim that a blockchain requires more energy than a Visa transaction? Isn't the price of a transaction an indicator of the amount of energy needed for it, for ordinal comparison?

For instance, if Visa charges $0.3 per transaction, and another network (Whether it's cryptocurrencies or Gnomes carrying gold from you to the other person) charges $0.2 per tx, then as long as the two compete freely, you can say that the energy required by the latter is lower than the energy required by the former.

Keep in mind, I said 'compete' and 'freely'. Visa may have a higher profit margin because the alternate payment system isn't popular enough yet, so Visa's power expenditure could be much lower than reflected by their tx fee.
The article speculates that this breaks GreyKey. Presumably that was the direct motivation for the change.
Firefox was amazing tech that changed how many of us used the web. Competition is good for the web. Hopefully they take back market share.
Can anyone compare this to the AI announcements Microsoft made yesterday?
Don't they use Google Cloud for ICloud storage?
Maybe it's that they don't care. Last transmission I rebuilt (following.factory service manual) had a Phillips fastener with threadlock on it that required destructive removal after careful use of a manual impact driver. Replaced it with a threadlocked Allen fastener.
My posts aren't meant to be rude. I feel very sorry if I hurt you or others feelings.
I'm not making a point on your general credibility and technical statements - quite the opposite - but some your answers today just seemed to be ignorant for me (and probably some others). If you're giving a simple statement without background (just based on your opinion) and you're friendly asked for your information, then imo you should either don't answer or give back more information, but not just continuing giving answers without background. That's all, and that's not meant to be rude. Just my opinion on your way of posting today, as others have giving me today.
>If your page consist solely on a dynamically generated graph

You can put data for the graph into a table, then use a script to render that table as a graph. If people cared enough, graph libraries could expect heir data in table format.
Is there any security reason someone would purchase a security-focused Android phone (Blackphone, Blackberry) over an iPhone?
All media is bought and paid for PR. The only question is who's paying for it and why. That's not necessarily a bad thing, either. It's just the way it is.
> You would need to figure out how to get the key

I mean, that's the $10M question.

Literally. There's probably $10M in it for you if you can answer that (and have the right connections to build a company around it)
There are people who feel good about sharing non-free materials with others. Perhaps this approach is for users where torrenting isn't an option.
Not at all. The case is where the teacher can work and wants to work. In the context of the story, his statement expands to, "If I can't work, I won't eat." It's about his right to participate fully in the community.

Zen also has a long tradition of mendicants monks. E.g.: https://tricycle.org/magazine/zen-and-art-begging/

The Buddha himself spent time living as a beggar: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gautama_Buddha#Renunciation_an...

And of course there's a long tradition of charity and caring in Zen that runs to this day. For example, San Francisco's Zen Hospice: https://www.zenhospice.org/about/our-values
Ganguli's papers are at the more "math-y" end of the spectrum when it comes to DL papers. So don't worry if you're finding them a bit unapproachable.

In part 2 of the course I provide quite a bit of advice about how to approach papers in general, and you'll get plenty of practice in reading and implementing papers - but we don't cover the specific math in this particular papers.

My view is the best approach to the math in papers is to generally learn what you need as you get there. It's nearly impossible to know all the math that covers every paper you'll come across, but if you learn the meta-skill of how to learn it on demand, then you'll be just fine! :)
Will this cause warrants to be rushed through and much more often? Just to get the phone unlocked in case something is in there, even if there may be no burden of proof. Better to overnight it to a facility with a tool to unlock it and sign off on a quick warrant.
If only we could build some type of automated system that teaches itself to correctly categorize for the over use of the term AI in data processing then we'd truly be on easy street.
How a mispronounced bird could crush a university’s reputation
The filesystem is encrypted and the key is in the secure enclave. So pulling the chips and reading them directly no longer works.

I think this is how the FBI got into the bombers iPhone after losing the court case to try and force them into releasing an iOS version that allows unlimited pin tries.
Operator and Function Overloading in Custom Python Classes
I lived just east of SM for a few years, in the Sawtelle. As such I voted in LA, not SM, so I may be a bit off base.

One thing to remember is that LA is not very 'votey'. When the mayoral elections were going on, I actually did vote. When I looked up the percentages later, my single vote for the mayor was effectively the voice of 60,000 Los Angelenos. The participation rate in LA City is very low.

Something to factor in.
Kanban board built with Rust and Elm (using WebView instead of Electron)
The Koch brothers are probably true believers in libertarianism. Sure, it's often advantageous to their business interests. But it also produces things like this.
Which counts for absolutely nothing. A CEO running around the floor of the business telling programmers what jokes belong in what docs is a shit CEO no matter what he didn’t years past.
Mapzen, a now sadly defunct mapping startup, released all of its software open-source, including WebGL mobile and browser SDKs, map tile rendering, search and routing. Take a look at:

https://github.com/tangrams/

https://github.com/tilezen/

https://github.com/valhalla/

https://github.com/pelias/

(Full disclosure: used to work at Mapzen)
Weather isn't just latitude. Much of the population of Oregon lives on the coast where the temperature is mediated by the ocean.
> Indeed, [bail bonds] are a necessary service for the legal system to function.

This is untrue. While bail bonds are a major feature of the U.S. legal system, removing the whole bail bond system would be an improvement.
This highlights the ultimate irony in the modern convention of referring to those with a career in marketing as "creatives".
A reading list for Linux and open source fans
The PIN or any other user secret can't decrypt the contents of the flash chip. So turning the device off and removing the flash just makes it infinitely more difficult.
Every business decision carries risk. The question is whether or not the risk is acceptable.

If you don't want to serve any customers making under $10M, then other companies serving those customers are not your competition. At least not today. Is there a risk they might take their broader customer base and use it to compete with you upmarket some day? Yes. But that's why you do things like build a brand, relationships, technologies, and other competitive advantages within your niche.

Fancy steakhouses generally don't worry about McDonald's. (Not that this is a perfect analogy to Google vs MapBox. Just speaking generally here in response to your general point.)
It's called Jupyter
Yeah, I am really confused at who this name is aimed at, investors?
if the device time is synced from elsewhere maybe one could spoof a ntpd server and provide a time in the past?
I believe so but that’s an implementation detail. They could switch to AWS or Azure.
Neat. I wondered why the TV panel menus are so prevalent.
They heavily use AWS, Google Cloud, and Azure.
Bringing CoreOS Tech to Red Hat OpenShift to Deliver an Automated Kubernetes
Evolution functions on a model of "punctuated equilibrium". Lots of time doing nothing, with sporadic bursts of change. So there is more than enough time for evolution to occur, even on a drastically shortened earth timeline.

Most of the time, life is just maintaining the status-quo, until outside factors tilt fitness in one direction and the system readjusts.
That section reminded me of how constants are implemented via functions in Perl e.g.

use constant PI => 4 * atan2(1, 1);

under the hood becomes

sub PI () { 4 * atan2 1, 1 }

http://perldoc.perl.org/constant.html#TECHNICAL-NOTES
One test I would carry out and well within the remit of geeks and enforcement - would be a femtocell/base station with a time update (which mobiles accept blindly if you let them). Forever keep connected devices in a Groundhog day.

That would certainly be the go to test for many I suspect, a tried and tested hack from days of old, brought into modern times.
I thought that was energy production.
You're severely underestimating how much it takes to melt gold. I'd be surprised if you could do it with a burning house.