skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You could just lie. Only the contact email really matters, and those are anonymously-routable already.
Considering it's nigh impossible to get police departments to be accountable (who watches the watchmen?), I'm siding with Bloomberg that if we want to solve this problem, we'll have to change the laws first (and hopefully accountability will follow).
This strongly reminds me of Cathode (http://www.secretgeometry.com/apps/cathode/).
This is essentially what shrinkwrap does. Apparently it has issues, but it's designed to be the lock file for your package.json.
Bitcoin mining chipmaker Canaan is gearing up for $1B IPO
This was a very timely article for me, as I just yesterday finished the epic and excellent History of Rome podcast (http://thehistoryofrome.typepad.com/). I found it extremely informative, and it really shed some light on the origins of many aspects of European history, that otherwise just seem peculiar.
Ask HN: Why REST?
RESTful APIs are dominant currently. However, it seems to me that elements of the REST "style" are constricting for no reason.

I see how conforming to the original intention of the HTTP methods may be elegant or in some way natural, but I can't summon any kind of compelling justification for a restriction to only GET, PUT, POST, DELETE - aside from their analogy with CRUD I guess. Using GET forces parameters to be placed in the URL; wouldn't it be nice to deal with only POST requests with JSON bodies? APIs could still be CRUD-like if they only used the POST method.

I know that the original conception of HTTP was centered around resources and their relationships, transfer, etc. - but the most natural kind of interface, to me, is one that simply exposes functions/methods - like RPC. Web APIs are almost always accessed programmatically anyway.

Could anyone please enlighten me?
> Here's your problem. The fact that many people do something does not make it right

I didn't once say it was right. In fact, I alluded to me being against it.

However, that doesn't change the fact that if you are tasked with protecting a state, it's the effective (but morally wrong) choice to monitor them.

My comment was simply that, like it or not, if you truly had 100% vision over the population you'd be able to protect them. In the same way a dictator could be far more effective than a democracy. Again, since ya'll will love to jump on me over this, I'm not supporting this.

I'm saying it's simply complicated. If the NSA is a good actor (I already said I don't believe them to be), then they are being asked to "protect" the country while flying blind. At least, that's what some people want.

.. again, I'm not defending them. I am in full support of all things crypto, and do not want any rights on any civilian to be trampled on.

Ya'll are touchy.

edit:

> Is it really so hard to believe that many people are wrong? Why does quantity equal quality?

I don't know, perhaps you should ask someone who said that? Ie, not me, because I didn't say that. Again.
Do you really believe this or are you just casually throwing it out there to see the response?
Google, fb, et al most certainly do manipulate and discriminate against everyone. By design they give you the information you already know, believe and want because this increases engagement and usage. They're not giving you "news" as by definition journalism is intended to be balanced and unbiased. The existing platforms don't want to give you a wide cross section where everyone will disagree with certain components; that would be bad for business.
I wholeheartedly agree. The behavior itself should NOT be condoned but it is arguably understandable. Given the increasing pickiness of employers, candidate screening based on keyword and credential filtering, focus on who you know over what you know, and opaque/arbitrary hiring processes, I’m surprised we don’t see more of this. It’s no longer enough to be a good candidate. One needs to check every checkbox, AND be a star showman/orator under pressure in order to get past the multitude of gates blocking one from gainful employment.
> Different professional wine tasters will rate a given wine extremely differently.

In my country winetasters gather and rate wines individually. Then they reach a consensus. One of the wines gets an award. Of course the process is subjective, but then so are literature or film awards.
Nextdoor is awful. The only thing it's good for is learning just how many of your neighbors will report "suspicious activity" when they see a black man walking his dog. If that's the future of journalism, just let it die.
An Anecdote, when I was younger, me and a few colleagues got into whiskey and had somewhat regular meetings. One time I had 2 bottles I got for Christmas. Same distillery, one 12yo, the other 24yo. We all liked both of them, but also all had the feeling that the 24yo offered more than we could actually get out of it. When I had it again a few years later, I could appreciate it much more.
Price controls always make things scarcer. Is that really what Californians want?
Here’s why people are eating an ingredient in face creams–and why they shouldn’t
“Yanny” or “Laurel”: the audio clip that’s tearing the internet apart
Working for Amazon in India is almost like working for an entirely different company and is not a great comparison to working for Amazon in the US.

Cultural norms in the US apply in the US; cultural norms in India apply in India. I've generally found Indian managers and developers to approach the work entirely differently than their US counterparts. Not a negative--just an observation.

There does seem to be a pervasive undercurrent of "if I do good work on my team here in India, I can get out of here and go to the US as soon as my promo goes through". This sentiment naturally comes out in behaviour on teams and around coworkers.
Good on those employees. While I am personally in favor of the US military making whatever advancements they possibly can, these employees are staying true to their core beliefs, and that should never be faulted
Excessive false positives

I think that is a misuse of the phrase. First, you can have gmail (or whatever mail you use) setup a filter and not notify you. Second, when I'm shopping and get the ding, that's a reassuring sound, not an irritating one.

I was able to get a transaction for airline tickets canceled seconds after it was completed, because of the notifications I get. And this was a $2,500+ transaction, too. Not that I would have been on the hook, but my CC company made me jump through many fewer hoops because of how quickly I told them "hey, I'm not in Paris right now, that is fraud"...
> I'm tracking order positions with an in memory orderbook.

Yes, but you still didn't address the question of what are you basing your claim of being the fastest off of.
So... it seems like Netflix Sans plus more open apertures (angled terminals) on letters like "e" and "a"

Was Netflix Sans the determined starting point?
Sure. I've learned that I really dislike bringing my DSLR with me on vacation. Unfortunately, for me at least, the X series is too expensive to justify buying into as I've already sunk a bunch of money into the Nikon ecosystem.

And, yeah, there were plenty of rangefinders (even Nikon and Canon made them)... but I referenced Leica because Fuji is targeting an enthusiast market with the X series that Canikon are largely ignoring (counterpoint: the Nikon Df).
Why do you presume to say what AirBnB "should not" do? You get to run your business according to your priorities, as does AirBnB's CEO.

> Plenty of successful companies managed to create a distinct brand identity using helvetica.

You could use this logic to criticize basically any company expenditure as frivolous. Plenty of companies do things that probably aren't strictly necessary for their survival. I for one am grateful to live in a world where companies sometimes do interesting and creative things, even if it isn't an obvious and immediate win on the balance sheet.
> Most newspapers are filled with regurgitated press releases. When I noticed this, I stopped my subs. I grew up reading newspapers that had investigative journalists out in the field. Gov't was much more accountable.

That's a strategy that will get you more regurgitated press releases.

I still subscribe to a newspaper, but at this point I think of it like a donation to a nonprofit. Journalism is important, and I think the people who value it need to concentrate their resources to maintain and support the organizations who will still do it.

However, now I'm going to have to make sure my money's not going to a private equity vulture like this guy.
> (2) when two steps before a chess mate, the about-to-lose guy has three minutes to beat out all the smart from the opponent.

LMAO... I hadn't thought of that angle... This may have single-handedly convinced me that this the best spectator sport ever
> "Violence is already endless. It’s just a matter of moral vanity whether or not you feel better about not being personally involved."

Nonsense. Violence is still limited, in time and extent, by economic and political forces, and by the fact that soldiers still have some respect for life of other people, because they are in the field, risking their own life and seeing the injustices of war. But put them in control of a violent video game, and that may change.

> We’ve tried non-intervention before, and places like Czechoslovakia, Poland, China, and Rwanda have paid the price.

You've tried intervention, and places like Korea, Vietnam, Iran, Iraq, Syria also have paid and are paying the price.

Perhaps it is not about the intervention/non-intervention, but about how you engage in the world.

> The only counter to that is precision warfare.

Only if you already decided on the warfare part. An alternative is to stop killing unknown people abroad and in so helping create new terrorists, and instead doing something about cooperation between the governments to stop the violence.
> If anyone inside US borders is off limits, wouldn't it be a great place for terrorists to set up shop? Completely no surveillance in US borders, win win!

The idea isn’t that you can’t surveil within the US. The idea is routine traffic snooping is off limits. A warrant and a fair bit of effort should be required. The less effort required to wiretap, the closer we get to a surveillance state. Which is why trying to nurf IOT encryption is deeply wrong. It weakens freedom within the country, and makes a country week to outside attacks. Lose-lose.
> If a more objective, standardized review process (as implied by the article title) could be created, even if it was only applied at the meta-review level, I think this could provide some benefits.

I'm on board with this.

My subfield in particular could use some basic standardization in terms of sanity checks on claimed results. It's always irritating to invest time to read a paper, only to later realize the authors make a false claim that could have been caught with a simple counterexample. These sorts of errors can easily be caught and it would save everyone time if they were caught at review rather than later.

(There's one case in particular that I have in mind. The result seemed plausible on its face, but one can generate multiple counterexamples. The actual error was subtle in the original paper. I'm half convinced it wasn't caught because the original paper was written in a way that obscured the error, certainly unintentionally. I'm currently waiting for my paper addressing this error to be reviewed.)
It's not obvious to everyone that Google has close ties to intelligence agencies already?

I don't see why their promises mean something, and I don't see why some people never learn that there are no good corporations. They all exist to make money. Except the non profits. And there is tons of money in war, as you know.

Building tech that kills people is therefore playing dumb or not caring.
2 videos up on the rust channel from this and hopefully more in future - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCaYhcUwRBNscFNUKTjgPFiA/vid...
White House eliminates top cyber adviser post
Do you have NICs/FPGAs that this code could target or would those filters run on a CPU?
It is possible to get rid of the coil whine. You can use a long paper roll like from a kitchen roll to locate it. I once saw in a forum a guy flooding a whole PSU in epoxy, to get rid of it.
This sounds like something I would definitely be interested in trying, but I don't have fb/google. Hopefully you can post again when there is some kind of option for email-based logins.
Microsoft Announces Surface Hub 2
We probably need 8k monitors for that to make sense.
I don't have to ask, and I can't afford it.

Taking google results for the surface hub 1:
$9,172.99 · Insight
$6,499.99 · www.widgetree.comFree shipping, no tax
$8,999.00 · Mobile AdvanceFree shipping
$10,815.43 · Aztek ComputersFree shipping

Average = 8871
Give them 35% premium for the new one (simple numbers guess based on the fact that the new one will cost somewhat more) = 11976
Multiple by 4

$47904 for a 4x display of Surface Hub 2s.

Doesn't mean I can afford it. :)
So for aquatic life, some of these worlds could potentially already be terraformed?
CCP Games holds an event every year in Iceland called Fanfest where they invite players for EVE Online out to hangout with devs, drink, party, learn about upcoming EVE Online changes, etc.

I bring this up because most years they do something crazy for one of the nights. Back in 2011 they did a chessboxing match.

Here was there promo/announcement video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YaBWBmYfqVQ

And the actual match: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TJy2kIWtyvQ

It was pretty crazy. It's one thing to know whats going to happen, but when blood actually started being drawn it just went to a whole new level.
> It seems to me the "Military is Bad" idea goes back to 60's and is more about "the status quo U.S. foreign interference system is bad" than the myopic "the Military is Bad in principle" you seem to suggest.

You may be right, but that's an issue with the white house administration and those telling the military what to do, not with the military itself. It has always seemed to me that if you never liked what the military was doing, it was a political disgreement, not an issue with the military itself.

> I think the general opposition to drones killing people is directed at all countries, not just the U.S.A., so your response is no argument.

> The history of technology and military also shows that Russia and China creating new dangerous ways of killing and destruction is closely linked to U.S. technology lead.

It seems to me that wanting military superiority (or equality in some cases) is enough of a reason to pursue new weapon systems, and that will happen regardless of whether or not the US has the technology.

Einstein sent a letter to the US president in 1939, and then two more in 1940 to warn the US of upcoming technological advances and urged the US to start a nuclear weapons program. I mention this, because we developed nuclear weapons out of fear that someone else would do it, and we needed a deterrent. And that was obvious to people like Einstein.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Einstein%E2%80%93Szil%C3%A1rd_...

> The only working way to prevent those technologies from being used on people is to desist developing them, guard the existing ones and agree on not using them - treaties, like for nukes, bioweapons, etc.

That was a good approach 30 years ago, when we were fighting nation states. Now we're fighting large terrorist organizations that exist without a geographical border -- the types of people that would never sign a treaty.
Una-Al-día – Hispasec: Una Al Mes: Mayo. Lavado de Cara Y Novedades
AI-powered tech and crypto news aggregator
> The opposite is true: Less personalized ads -> Lower revenue per user -> An even smaller budget for journalism.

I read an article recently that made a good point: personalized ads aren't advertising; it's really direct marketing, just like junk mail, spam, and telemarketing.

"Personalized advertisers" are also very mercenary, and no quality publication can rely on revenue from them. They'll use your content to profile your audience, then abandon you and target them on cheaper websites your users also frequent.

Edit: here's the article: http://blogs.harvard.edu/doc/2018/05/12/gdpr/
Man, what did fastly do to you?
I'm not sure how replies work on Hacker News and if you'll get a notification of my reply further down in the stack, but here's my uneducated napkin math on how I get to ~$50k

I don't have to ask, and I can't afford it.
Taking google results for the surface hub 1: $9,172.99 · Insight $6,499.99 · www.widgetree.comFree shipping, no tax $8,999.00 · Mobile AdvanceFree shipping $10,815.43 · Aztek ComputersFree shipping

Average = 8871 Give them 35% premium for the new one (simple numbers guess based on the fact that the new one will cost somewhat more) = 11976 Multiple by 4

$47904 for a 4x display of Surface Hub 2s.

Doesn't mean I can afford it. :)
They just have a different opinion on eating babies. People can hold opinions different than your and you can withhold judgement.

See again, you add morality in the equation, talking about black and white. But morality is arbitrary. You can draw the line anywhere, one inch to left or the right, and so on, indefinitely.

So that's not what I said.

What I said was "I can't understand".

Not "it should not be" or "it's impossible" or "they are bad people".

Apparently, you have difficulty to understand that somebody can't understand.
Suspect Identified in C.I.A. Leak Was Charged, but Not for the Breach
Deciding not to have a trial is not giving up your right to a trial any more than deciding not to vote in an election is giving up your right to vote. Choosing not to exercise a right is not giving up your right.
Lime is reportedly trying to squeeze up to $500M out of VCs
Via is not safe to remove and Fastly know this as well as Akamai, Cloudflare and others.

A very cheap attack is to chain CDNs into a nice circle. This is what Via protects against: https://blog.cloudflare.com/preventing-malicious-request-loo...

Just because a browser doesn't use a header does not make the header superfluous.
They have to not screw the new investors in the new fund while providing a fair return for the investors in the old fund. This is seems like there could be serious concerns about a conflict of interest depending on who the investors are. I'm curious to know if there's much overlap in the investor pool.
No you are not. With a docking station and windows phone you could have a really solid portable computer.
I‘m not at all a font expert or even geek, so forgive me if that’s dumb: Do all those new product fonts look like Circular [1]? It’s always struck me as a very unique font, but it’s becoming less unique every day it seems.

1: https://lineto.com/The+Fonts/Font+Categories/Text+Fonts/Circ...
I love this idea! I'm sending it to some Cisco engineers I know.
Con: If you are in the US, you'll probably go to jail.
"“I’ve gotten a lot of flak for using a mono-spaced font (Courier New) in the study,” said Johnson."

The whole damn point of "use one space after periods" was "...because we're using proportional fonts now"
Why Traffic-Choked Nashville Said 'No Thanks' to Public Transit
Your privacy is my privacy

We talk at the phone, we chat, we take pictures together

If you don't mind about your privacy you're probably hurting someone else's
But interestingly, they deem `x-ua-compatible` "useful" even though AFAIK that's also only needed for backwards compatibility with IE.
I can see how you can interpret that sentence in isolation as talking about websites in general. In fact, I'm not sure why I didn't interpret it that way first, too, but I interpreted it as talking about particular websites. In other words, it's not about HTTP vs FTP or IRC, but e.g. Facebook vs Twitter or StackOverflow or allrecipes.com.

I probably read it like that because of his following paragraph, which talks about how particular websites have this "walled garden" feel and how some people don't move much away from them to the point that they consider these particular websites to be the whole internet. Since the topic of this subthread is about how people of the internet have less in common now that it's become mainstream, that interpretation seemed to contribute better by raising the point that, to many people whose interpretation of the internet is a "walled garden" like Facebook, their "internet" has not become mainstream, or at least not on the level of the "internet data connection" or the real internet.
> By raising prices and lowering quality, a stagnant business can rely on its most loyal customers to continue to buy the product, allowing it to squeeze and squeeze and squeeze its customers as they croak. This slow liquidation of an asset’s value, destroying even its reputation in the process, kills the product

I can't help but feel a tiny analogy to Apple with this statement.
An excellent application for trip planning already exists called 'Furkot' - I've been using it for years - I assume this works slightly differently though and actually suggests interesting places? (didn't try it yet because it asked me to log in before I know what it does)
While I sympathize with your sentiment – and share the mindset during my day job – I believe that this type of "what practical applications does this have"-thinking is making us short-sighted and preventing us from being able to move past our current local maxima, to cross the adaptive valley[1].

I'm not expecting the whole engineering field to start exploring the question of what pure mathematics (and not some watered down for-engineers version) can do to fundamentally transform the the way programmers think and talk about what it is they do. But the fact that there are almost zero people from the geometric side of pure mathematics (though again, there are plenty of logicians) working together with everyday programmers, that's what I wish I saw more of every time I see one of these explanations of functional programming that seem almost always to be pedagogically colored by logicians hands.

[1] https://www.edge.org/response-detail/23879
http://fanlessfan.com/

Massive heat sink you say?

This is cpu and gpu fully passive. Amazing. But $1000.
Galton Board
Better to have usage stats always visible like iStat Menus: https://bjango.com/mac/istatmenus/

Fans don't tell the whole story. Network traffic is super useful to see as well. Also, if your computer never gets hot enough, it can be doing plenty of unwanted background work without setting off the fans.
Clearly a work of passion and I appreciate OP sharing.

I enjoyed earlier days of "Silent PC" building, ten or fifteen years ago. For example, building a silent tower or desktop for a DAW or softsynth back then in a recording/studio environment required some ingenuity. SSD? Not on a hobbiest budget. I recall one build, not mine, fully immersed in a bucket of oil (mineral?) for passive heat dispersion.

Today, as a new reference point, any MacBook Pro within the last few years may qualify as truly silent for many people's everyday usage. It does for me. And when I do heat up the CPU/GPU with heavy tasks, the fans spin up but then they go away completely as soon as the hard work is done. Back to silent.

No more spinning platters or crappy fan bearings or poorly engineering airflow nowadays. :-)

There's no hacker pride in buying off-the-shelf, so the performance bar for DIY is higher. Progress!
Those are public records

Of course they're public
The model of the helmet for use in concussion studies is only as good as your model for the (more complex) system of human skin, skull, and brain suspended in cerebrospinal fluid.
2 vs 3 is not a small change. and tools for helping you do things (like a 3+2 compatibility lib) get installed with pip... which is horrifyingly fragile. `pip install your-lib` -> you have no idea if you have the dependencies you require, because pip doesn't behave rationally. it often Just Works™, but when it doesn't there's no help and a massive minefield of potential problems.