skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> "We can be sure of the source because the vertebrae are not fused into a rod or pygostyle as in modern birds and their closest relatives," he explained.

For non-experts (like me) I think it comes as a surprise to learn just how rudimentary these people's techniques are.
My line of reasoning was "it must have been within acceptable ranges of risk because otherwise the species would be extinct or doing something differently," not a pure appeal to tradition. The statistics back this up, hence my mentioning them first.
> An argument can be made the rental is worth it for the ability to tell them "if I can't get x speed off this Ethernet port, it's your fault, hands down, so fix it". Whether or not it's worth $10-15 a month depends on how much you loathe arguing with Comcast on the phone.

You can still make that argument by plugging a computer directly into the modem. It's not a good idea for long term use as there is no NAT so your computer will directly receive all traffic for your public IP but it's fine for the initial setup when you're verifying that your supposed “up to X MB/s" is really "barely Y MB/s".
If I’m authenticating with “something I have” then why not use the iPhone itself which also happens to add a layer of “something I am” (FaceID) as well as easily supporting entry of something I know (PIN or password).

Using a hardware token to authenticate to an app on an iPhone makes about as much sense as.... sorry, it makes absolutely no sense at all.

I trust the secure element on the iPhone a lot more than I trust the hardware on the Yubikey.

The days are numbered for this whole idea of a separate piece of hardware USB/NFC to do authentication. If I’m adding a “something I have” factor to my authentication flow (or even making it the only factor) it’s going to be the phone hardware itself, not an extra dongle thing I have to carry around.

FIDO’s upcoming CTAP unfortunately is going about it the wrong way, IMO. I don’t want to have to establish NFC or Bluetooth from my iPhone to my desktop to enable me to use my iPhone to authenticate on my desktop. It’s entirely unnecessary since both devices are already online. They are designing for a corner case which makes the primary case too complicated.
I don't know, I'm not a lisper. But it looks a lot like:

def example ():
assert 1 + 1 is 2
assert 1 + 1 is not zero
...
assert 1 + 1 in (1, 2, 3)
assert 0 in (1, 2, 3)
assert math.pi not in (foo, bar, zot, pi)
...
Bixi made a 3 or 4 year go of it in Toronto before exiting the market. So it could be that all their locations (except Montreal) are profitable because they exit markets where they are losing money (except Montreal).

If that's true it raises the interesting question about why it works in some cities and not in others, since presumably the operations by Bixi are equally competent in the various places they open.
You say that, but the same can be said about cars - you can still drive a car from the 50's, even if it no longer meets current-day safety standards (notably, rollover protection and environmental standards). Older vehicles, be it cars or planes, will retire naturally because maintenance eventually becomes prohibitively expensive.
I agree with a lot of what you say. people waste money on dumb shit, for no good reason, and that's a terrible habit.

But:

>> I see some people had depression, yet they didn't get a dog as a companion because they knew they couldn't afford a dog.

This isn't entitlement. People do deserve some things in life. A dog for a depressed person in a isolated society seems like below basics, i would say.

And if the economic system can't even provide those basics, especially given all the tools technology have given it, maybe the problem is in that economic system?
Yeah I doubt it would be organized as stated. Probably more along the lines of various restrictive immigration policies and sanctions which, perhaps inadvertently, lead to famine and war.
you are a /very/ wealthy individual

This is correct. None of these "experiences" have any relevance to your average American (or world citizen)
Talking about "the left" as a group never works as an argument for someone on the Left, because there's no "the left". Denying that other groups are really left-wing is the favorite past-time of the Left.

(I say this as a sympathizer and voter of left-wing movements and parties.)
Everything is perfect with the absence of conflict. Throw conflict in the mix and it falls apart quite quickly.
Enjoy that work around while you can. It won’t be long before Apple adds to the guidelines that the only way you can ask for a review is by using the official SKStoreReviewController.
Six hours?

The Xiaomi M365 that is used as a base for many of these e-scooters has a real-life range of around 20km and a top speed of 25km/h (a 280Wh battery and a 250W motor with 500W peak performance).

So the battery can be drained in one hour if you're moving quickly.
>"I am asking about situation where person B can, with reason, and on their own will, ignore the pleading of person A for violence. Or what if there is no person B? Should we punish person A regardless?"

That is ideally for the courts to decide, whether A's utterances and calls for action can reasonably be said to have incited B's actions. Obviously B bears the primary responsibility, but A can also be culpable, especially if they have knowledge that their words are very likely to spur people like B into action.

>"The act of speech must be without consequence, if it's to be free."

No. Even in the US ("LAND OF THE FREE RAH RAH RAH HOME OF THE BRAVE U S A U S A U S A"), freedom of speech is not absolute. There are laws against libel and slander, for good reason.

If you walk up to your employer and call them a fascist limp-dicked low-paying money-grubbing shitstain, what do you think will happen? Do you think you'll just keep your job, keep working as if nothing happened? Do you think they'll just ignore that and act as if nothing had happened?

What if you do the same thing by posting it publicly on the internet or in a newspaper? Do you expect there to be no consequences?

In other words, freedom of speech means that you are free to express yourself, with no threat of censorship. It does not absolve you from responsibility for what you said. Stand by what you say, take responsibility.
6 hours is inaccurate. It's more like 1-1.5hours of actual use.
I see where you are coming from but the idea does not resonate with me. A CTE is a CTE, recursive or not. Sometimes you do not care as long as it generates correct data.

I can see an analogue though: some languages differ Sub from Function although they are basically the same idea.

On the other hand, Postgres seems to be the only RDBMS that makes the RECURSIVE keyword mandatory for recursive CTEs.
Ask HN: What do you look for in a Designer?
As someone involved in training people for development roles, I've always been curious how people assess candidates for Designer positions (UI/UX/Web/Mobile).
You can become CEO at 20 or 40, what matters is how you deal with it, what you make of it. If you can maintain a calm head, get your priorities right, age is not a hindrance.
>The point is that people of my age are set back economically compared to generations prior at the same stage in life.

That is what I was trying to tease out: Some of the problems are serious because of the relatively high cost of living. I think that's true for land, housing, health care, education. But part of it is the programmed "lifestyle," for example, eating out, depending on credit cards, buying new cars, living paycheck to paycheck. Those are not what the baby boomers did.

Food is clearly cheaper, yet you hear complaints about food being expensive. Moving around is cheaper, yet you hear complaints about transportation being expensive. Communication is cheaper, yet you hear complaints about cell phone bills being expensive. In a sense, I even dare to argue that education is generally cheaper (if you factor in how much you can learn online), yet people complain about it being expensive: It is if the only solution to education is to go to expensive colleges.

Part of your financial stability is because you drive a 15-year-old car. How many people do you think who make less than you who drive a shinier much more expensive car and would be terrorized because they need $500 tomorrow and they can't come up with it [1]? Do you think that's entirely because they aren't paid enough? If so, how much do you think a person should be paid to have $500 in their savings account?

1: http://money.cnn.com/2017/01/12/pf/americans-lack-of-savings...
There are some relatively clear 'bands' where we expect life to be possible. Anywhere from -273 right up to 1,000 degrees Celcius. That's a 'narrow range' by the range available within the solar system but lower you won't go and higher has some interesting problems associated with stability of the vast majority of materials that could be your building blocks. Gravity and pressure are less of a consideration though those would 'shape' life much as life on earth has adapted to the pressure gradients available. Gravity is even less of a concern. Chemical makeup is important, it determines the available building blocks which is one reason we are concentrating on second generation stars because they have enough complex building materials lying around. First generation star systems are chemically too simple to support life as we can imagine it.

So if survival of those life-forms depends on gravity, pressure or chemistry then we definitely should not rule out places where those are different than on earth, in fact that is to be expected. But temperature is a very important factor and the make-up of the star itself is also very important.

So it makes sense to check the likely places first before spending time and effort on much more unlikely places.
Norway has a relatively low level of crime, it's probably a factor in their successful prison system
Their actual range is around 20km (12.5 miles).
That was kinda creepy. I'm not sure I want my phone to awaken and have eyes looking at me.
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The platform itself was kinda cool but does it charge my phone while it's moving it around.
I hate it too, but I guess

- low barriers: easier than setting up a blog, as easy as FB

- reach: Twitter is a good platform to reach a lot of relevant people outside your own network
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One way to enforce this is to never do manual releases. There's a package / standard out there called Conventional Changelog, which enforces a certain style for commits (notably, putting the type of code change in the commit), and which allows a script to automatically change the (semantic) version of a package - if there is any commit with a backwards incompatible change, it'll make it a major release.

Of course, this still depends on humans to type the correct commit message. Especially with Node libs, and I can imagine the same is true for go libs, there's no four eyes requirement, little to no review before a version is released.
This is precisely why the guidelines [1] include this line: “please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait. Don't editorialize” :)

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Google and Microsoft disclose new CPU flaw, and the fix can slow machines down
This is a very negative way of looking at it. Choosing to be a leader meant I had to give up being an individual contributor. I wasn’t “giving up my inner self” or some other bullshit; I was giving up something I loved for something I loved more.

There are all sorts of places in our lives where we make these trade offs. We give up being single to enter a relationship; we don’t “give up our inner self”.
How does he cope with the obvious evolution of antibiotic resistance through natural selection of bacteria?

Or is he one of those 'micro-evolution' exists, but not 'macro-evolution'.?
The Xiaomi M365 costs around 330€ ($390) in Europe when on sale.

I don't think there's a large profit margin in that price given the price of a 280Wh battery and the other components.

These companies also have to add some parts to the scooters such as GPS.
I think it is though. There was a discussion recently on HN about an article that said that the average founder age of the most successful startups was 42...

(btw: yes, 42!!!!)
You are absolutely and perfectly allowed to speak out in public against such people. But you must be prepared to take responsibility if your speech is worded to spur people into violent action and to incite hateful action.

The court of public opinion is notoriously fickle. Rousing hate in the masses is not a reliable tactic, and often backfires.
In Montreal, restaurants rent curb side parking slots and convert them to a terrace. Very popular.
In Mr Stross's case, "international audience" means "outside of Scotland".
I subscribed to this idea for years ... until I had "Internet" issues at my office. Called Comcast, tech visited and blamed my old router. I called them on their bluff (it wasn't) and had them install a Comcast combo router/modem - problem solved, didn't need to buy a new router. I can now call Comcast whenever anything slows, or breaks at my office. They're responsible for it all, I don't have to worry about managing my own router and never have the situation where my hardware can be blamed.

I value my time (which = money) greater than my "geek" needs to have a separate router. I don't get paid to fart around with router reboots, firmware upgrades or hardware updates.

Edit: Spelling/grammar.
New loans get posted periodically. Some countries have more active microlending communities than others.
YubiKey now works with iPhone NFC
That is an extremely odd and disturbing bizarro world you seem to live in.
This isn't Microsoft putting that junk on your computer.

In a stock install of Windows you will have Windows Store installs of Candy Crush and some other junk, but none of it is running when the machine boots. It's also very simple to delete, but it is annoying it is there in the first place.
Would a factory be able to achieve this? Keep a reference to everything it had constructed?
Maybe you like what Wikileaks has done, but if a group solicits and then publishes huge troves of your nation's secrets, it's kind of hard to distinguish the group's actions from those of a hostile foreign power. I used to be a fan myself, but nowadays I can't figure out why Americans don't all consider Assange to be either a malicious spy or a malicious insurgency. They're definitely not on the USA government's side, and it's not clear to me that they're on my side, either, but they're definitely on some side, and they are on the attack.
Cherenkov glow, not Bremsstrahlung. ;)
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Interesting. I know some Android apps do it multiple times.
Just complain on Twitter. Works every time, even if you didn't want help and were just venting.
I'm referring to Adobe purchasing it.
Why does it cost you more if people are competing? I think you only pay the successful one.
You can, what do you see on your report that you want to stop?
Nature doesn't use arbitrary random sequences of base pairs, any more than we use random sequences of English letters. We can make them, of course, but that's as meaningful as 'bthdkekd'.

I am not sure we know enough about the correlation structure of the DNA code to do the calculation you propose.
I believe uBlock Origin blocks all analytics scripts, no?

For context, Mixpanel is a big player on the Analytics field. Their service is pretty good IMO. I believe they were the first big company to aggregate demographics in a way that allowed clients to construct a view of their audience based on cross app use - eg "30% car enthusiasts".

They also publish a lot of their data publicly, so you know, day, the percentage of public iOS 11 penetration with a good degree of confidence.
I'd second this for dates. Every data warehouse I've been involved in building has always had a date table for ~100 years depending on the industry use case.
Extremists are usually unpredictable.
it sounds like ISO standardisation was a mistake?
Seems like a printed-money-fueled bubble to me.
Pentagon developing authentication system based on behavioral biometrics
I'm not a biologist, but I'd be surprised that genetic reproduction would be as stable 3 billion years ago than now. I would not be surprised that monocellular beings, which don't need DNA replication to survive, had a more defective cloning system, thus more subject to whichever DNA replication bug.

Plus, life took about 1 billion years to emerge. This is huge. The solar system took about the same time to form. Also, life may be extremely slow to appear, but once it's there, progression is quicker. Since the beginning of phanerozoic eon (and Cambrian explosion), a geologic period (Pleistocene, Jurassic, Cambrian...) only lasts a few tens of millions years. I find it very plausible that at the beginning of Cambrian era, a critical step in evolution was reached, allowing a better and faster evolution.
I doubt it truly is profitable for Bird, which most likely is paying out from VC cash not from their own revenue cash.

This model is an inversion of tool or car rental, where the renter returns the device or pays a late fee. Here, Bird chases after you to get their devices back. When scooters are difficult to recover, Bird pays more to the finder for recovering them.

Bird almost certainly plans to sell themselves at some point through some sort of offering in the future. Renting scooters today is just an incidental.
It's a picture of a woman. How do you know it's Merkel? How do you know it's even a Stasi agent?

Where is your credible proof? This is all idle speculation.
My guess is that the hype is over and nobody cares about blockchain anymore.
I’m an armchair transit specialist, and I do not know specifically, but generally, it would seem the cost for each additional passenger on a transit system follows a step function such that n + 1 < $0.01 until you hit ‘capacity’, a loosely defined term at which point the next passenger causes losses (congestion and delay boarding and disembarking). In a properly running system, the fixed costs dramatically outweigh the additional burden of each passenger, in the same way that the bus engine hardly noticed the additional weight of another 170 lb passenger relative to the 40,000 lb bus. Even with consumables like ticketing, the whole revenue system far outweighs the increment.
> Grabbing source code is problematic. There is more than one repo -- in an org this size there are probably millions.

Google is using a monorepo.
Hmm, I hadn't thought about foreign travel. Food for thought, thanks!
I had to make that distinction fairly early on wether PouchDB would be an edge client or a full node and I decided full node, tradeoffs either way but pros of being a full node:

1. Additional (p2p) use cases, honestly I dont use CouchDB much these days, I use express-pouchdb-server so I can embed pouchdb into my server easier than any other database, there is also pouchdb-server and p2p projects like Thali (http://thaliproject.org/)

2. CouchDB existed, sync is super hard, writing an edge client would have meant designing it myself, writing a couchdb clone meant I needed to make a lot less decisions about how it worked while being very confident it would work, The test suite runs the same tests against pouchdb/couchdb to ensure compatibility (and replication via each configuration)
which they should, don't you think?
sometimes being disruptive is the only way to go.
...and now it's gone from the front page. Wouldn't want to burst that filter-bubble!
Right. Sexist. Okay. I'll bite.

Since I'm clearly in the wrong here, I'll let you explain to minorities, women, and non-gendered people why there aren't any people in the engineering limelight that look like them.

While you're at it, please figure out how to break into their subconscious to make them believe that they're capable while the rest of the world shows no clues of that.

I'll be waiting.
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I honestly believe that no matter what you do, if you think about it, you're going to regret it.

No startup? "Maan, I wished I would have done more with my youth!"
Startuping? "Maan, I wished I would have done more with my youth!"
:) i try
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Citation needed.

I haven't seen this on WhatsApp.
Before OPA existed, what policy engine did you use and why weren't you happy with what you had? If you didn't use a policy engine, why did you decide to create one rather than use an existing one?
It's orbiting the wrong way around, so you need to lose all of your orbital momentum and add it all back again. This is an extremely expensive maneuver to do in the inner solar system (i.e. from an Earth launch). The easiest way to do this is to achieve near escape velocity and adjust your orbit on the cheap at the edge of the solar system, but now you're talking about a mission which would span several decades.
>No widgets
Widgets suck and slow down android. Apple stores them in a swipe so they dont refresh constantly.
>constant reminders to sign-in
Never had this problem
>constant reminders to update
Constant? You mean, they tell you when they have an update.
>no double tap/settings seem harder to find
Because it's force touch.
>Finger print scanner sucks so bad.
Laughable as Apple makes the best one on the market, you should just move your finger more or enter it twice.
>Little annoyances like the animations to change screen take 0.5 seconds too long.
This is 100% why I hate Android, weird lag in every device.
>I'm not sure what I'm supposed to be enjoying on my iphone
Maybe that Apple isn't selling your privacy for money.
> look which experiment shows inteference and which doesn't

This is also a kind of measurement, and one you can't meaningfully perform before the other. By the time you know the interference pattern, it's already too late to decide whether you want to measure the intermediate position.

You might try to measure without looking at the results, but that doesn't change anything about the fact that the interaction happened. (Superpositions do not collapse by being observed by a human, they collapse by interacting with the rest of the world.)
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Are your twenties the “best time of your life” though? It seems to me that you can find happiness and satisfaction at almost any time in your life, if the circumstances are right. I acknowledge that in your twenties you’re more able to stay out all night and have crazy adventures.

At any rate I’ve noticed a funny thing where peers who aren’t doing startups in many cases end up working just as hard. They’re young and out there to prove themselves at FAANG or other places and they make up for their lack of experience but putting in long hours. Same with investment banking, law firms, medicine and many other careers where the path to success is paved with very hard work.
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Bitcoin's stupendous power waste is green: bad excuses for Proof-of-Work
Open source firmware - nice! POWER9, supported by Linux - great! Not sure what the actual target customer base is, but the geek in me says I want it.