skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've seen "Show HN: HyperApp" type of submissions at least 5 times earlier. Congrats, you made a 1Kb JS library. Please stop spamming HN though.

https://hn.algolia.com/?query=hyperapp&sort=byPopularity&pre...
Does Amazon's Rekognition TOS allow them to keep your uploaded images as training data?

If so, there is some serious moral hazard around using this service - you are making anyone in your dataset more identifiable in the future.
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I feel you. I tried to make it easy to toggle on and off in case you needed to check something in color, but it's a bit of a double edged sword in that it can be too easy to turn it off and leave it off.

That's a big part of why I added the saved/excluded sites functionality, so you could add it for sites that are usually time wasters like reddit or facebook, or exclude sites from being gray that you need for work.
Report: California North Coast telecommunications crippled during 2017 wildfires
Right, but doesn't it remove the notion that the authoritarian, intimate-surveillance features are necessarily bad things?

To stay in dystopian sci-fi: The computers on the Enterprise (TNG at least) were aware of crewmember's positions and health situation at all times as long as they were aboard ship. Do we imagine they felt spied upon? It seems instead being born into a world where surveillance is ubiquitous and benign-to-benevolent, they were fine with it.

Maybe we can build that world instead of assuming the end-result is 1984 every time.
If you're working with new stuff at work, documenting edge cases is always interesting. For example my blog was the only resource on the web for a lot of Oracle point-in-time recovery techniques when they rolled out that technology. I was just implementing it for a customer and documenting DR scenarios and testing them. I wasn't even really doing it to blog, more like advanced note taking in case I needed it in the future, also the knowledge that an audience would be looking makes you take care, not make assumptions about pre-existing knowledge. In other words it improves your technical writing skills.
I don’t think so. The moon’s smaller gravitational acceleration helps, but on earth, you can cheat by juggling objects that have a low terminal velocity and/or that are only just heavier than the air they displace (as long as they are small and light enough so that you can push them upwards reasonably fast, the fact that they won’t go high once you let them go doesn’t matter much)
It all has to do with education. Educated people are naturally more skeptical of their media and what the sources are.

Before social media, it was admitted a lot harder for unreliable sources to get an audience, so that skepticism was less critical.

But I think it will come back. Education is the antidote to social media news. Deity willing, the next government will see that and push for better education.
Not sure what your problem with React is, is it the configuration?
"I don't feel ok about going to a high end violin store and playing their instruments all afternoon."

As a musician who is struggling with weather or not I want to go meet with my former wife today, a wife who owns a $12K violin, let me say:

do it. That's how they sell instruments, and that's what the point of owning that kind of inventory is.

Just go play some. It will teach you a lot.
That's exactly what the person who wrote the title was hoping for.
The same could be said for any cult leader.
Many prisons have blanket surveillance systems. I suggest you ask the prisoners how beneficial they find it, and extrapolate.
"Results show that in the 3-county area, 66% of residents lost landline services, 74% of residents lost cellular services, and 66% of residents lost Internet services..The 3-county average of service loss for these combined technologies is 71%"

... personally - above was the case for ~3 days until Verizon had towers back up. Total information blackout aside from AM radio.

Full PDF of report:
http://www.mendocinobroadband.org/wp-content/uploads/1.-NBNC...
“Speculative Store Bypass” Vulnerability Mitigations for AMD Platforms
There's an entire period of time where Earth was continuously hit: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Late_Heavy_Bombardment
hyperhtml - which this is based on, similar API - can be found at the left end of the table.
> If couple has kids and those kids find someone in a local tribe then both tribes and lone families would have worked.

You're attacking a straw man. Of course a couple can reproduce if they are in proximity to a tribe. But that still requires a tribe. It is a couple in isolation that is not viable.
At that point, I got a bit scared, too.

This feels way too much against the rule of thumb that code consuming untrusted input should never be able to modify or control it's own configuration or binaries (or, more generally, trusted input). In this case, the attacker can hijack 50% - 100% of the configuration of the weighting algorithm. For bitcoin, you can control around 4% at most without risking immediate attention. Unless mining speed increases by a factor of 40 or 50 suddenly.
Sorry, if you remove donations to their own churches, the unchurched do better.

http://www.patheos.com/blogs/friendlyatheist/2013/11/28/are-...
Why is this even a story?

When has agressive sales tactics gone well for a company?
Potentially there's power savings on a mobile device by restricting the color palette to grayscale?
If so this could be incorporated into one's phone's battery saver mode.
As is getting dentures, but it's more fun turning back the clock that way than not getting dentures (if those teeth are gone.) I vote for fun and discovery. And corn on the cob.
Where do you go to complain about twitter being down when twitter is down?

To HN, apparently!
This is a good point. On the phone it was all or nothing. Here I can choose. So maybe I will give it another try!
Ask HN: How to protect against scraping?
I own a website with lots of financial information in another country and from time to time I see a huge spike in traffic from certain IP addresses. I'm guessing they're trying to scrape the information I provide. I then go and block these IP addresses manually by updating my nginx config to deny requests from those addresses. This works fairly okay, but requires manual intervention.

The website runs on Node and nginx sits in front of the Express app. Are there good Node packages, nginx best practices that can protect against scraping automatically?

Thanks in advance!
We've moved most comments to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17127930.
The terrifying surveillance case of Brandon Mayfield (2014)
This comment violates both the site guidelines ("Please don't post shallow dismissals, especially of other people's work.") and the Show HN guidelines: see "In Comments" in
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> 1) I'm going to guess that what my grandparents meant by "lonely" isn't quite what my generation or yours, means. I think we use this as a relative term - "less connected than other people" to at least some extent. So that might skew longitudinal statistics. If you only had two friends to talk to (almost every day) in the village back then, you were lonely, and probably being ostracized to boot.

As I understand it, „loneliness” in the article is understood as the feeling of loneliness, not a measure of how sociable you are. You can be lonely while continually being around people which you have relationships with which look warm on the surface, but don’t give you much of a satisfaction. I think it is the case with a lot of people suffering from depression.
The PowerVR guys have had some path tracing extensions to OpenGL and Vulkan that look really similar to Nvidia's solution.
Character is a theme (and title!) of many of his writings. Ending an avowed life-time commitment in the circumstances around the way he did it brings that into question. We should all be questioning it, even if we're free to come to different conclusions.
Experimental Security Assessment of BMW Cars: A Summary Report [pdf]
Previous HN discussion (also from 2014): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7204988
"Eudora was specifically designed with the idea that standards are a key to successful adoption.
Indeed, the rapid acceptance of the Internet is largely due to the standardization process.
Published standards are what allow applications from multiple sources to cooperate with each
other. Without standards organizations would only be able to use their own applications
together, and not those from outside. Also, by allowing diversity of implementations you
achieve a much more robust software ecosystem."

- From the "Windows Eudora Architecture.pdf" in the distribution
My advice is to always use an ORM with SQL if you possibly can, or if not an ORM per se, at least an abstraction library like the sqlalchemy "core". It sounds ironic to say but "SQL" is the worst part of SQL. That shouldn't stop you loving SQL though.
"Prison has X, therefore X is bad" isn't a very compelling argument.
There's nothing wrong with starting the paths from the eye; the laws of physics are completely time-symmetric, so you can get equivalent results either way.
The closest I've come across is Kim Stanley Robinson's Blue Mars, which has a city on Mercury that rolls on rails along the terminator, pushed along by the thermal expansion of the rails behind it.
It's important to note that Pixar wasn't moving away from a ray tracer, but from a rasterization-based renderer.
That's what happens when you create an article out of a couple of tweets.
How did a $9m ARR company fail to receive a Series A? Disagreement over terms?
The onus is on the one making the claims.
If someone presents themselves as a moral authority, as Brooks does, then their actions in private life are relevant.
Humans have many traits that seem to support survival at the tribal level, and having a spectrum of homosexual and heterosexual individuals could well have supported child rearing or reduced divisive competition. Just look at bonobos.
If you're using postgres, take a look at the generate_series() set-returning function for this purpose. It might be a lot cheaper.

EDIT: Looks like someone already suggested this, down-thread.
A tad too late to be sorry, Mark.
Are you sure that majority of grandparents generation in United States lived in close knit rural villages where having two friends surely means you are ostracized?

Grandparents generation lived through world war, end of great migration of blacks, were adult through civil rights fights and had TV. American men went over the sea and even Easter European existing close knit village were destroyed by fighting, hunger, repressions, just to be later disrupt by communism.
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The app store itself should prompt for the reviews, on a reasonable schedule after purchase/download.

Maybe 3 days after purchase for a thumbs-up, thumbs-down initial impression. Two weeks after purchase for an N/5 star review. Two months after purchase for a star rating update and descriptive text review for other potential customers. Six months after purchase, and yearly thereafter, for a star rating update and descriptive feedback aimed at the vendor, such as pain points and enhancement requests. Each time, allow the user to opt-out of review request nagging.

This would also allow a chart of user satisfaction over time, filtering reviews by length of ownership, and trends in user satisfaction, especially in response to version updates. I am far more likely to trust a reviewer that has gone from a three-star rating to a five-star rating, over four years of owning the app, and has reviewed other apps from different vendors, than someone who gives it five-stars after a week, has never reviewed anything else, and then vanishes forever.

One would think that the company that developed PageRank could do something similar for review rankings, to weed out review-bots, astroturfers, and straw-purchasers.
The US is running out of bombs – and it may soon struggle to make more
The Midwest Produces Fewer but Mightier Startup Exits
What are the units those prices are for? The green beans I buy are in the range of $7-14US per Kg.
iPhone X is incredibly slow at deleting characters in a textarea, it's shocking!
Anker's wirefree security cam raised over $2M on Kickstarter
> I believe that the success of the company is incidental to who ran it

This is usually not true for successful companies, but it's especially not true in facebook's case. Mark Zuckerberg has kept incredibly strong control of facebook, holding more than 50% of voting control even as it's grown to a half trillion dollar company - so he definitely deserves credit for what his company has become.

Also, he has made some strong, unintuitive decisions along the way (no advertising in the first several years, real name policy, dropping out of college, moving to silicon valley, hiring experienced tech executives, buying a dead-simple photo filter app for 1 billion dollars) that can directly be attributed to facebook's success today. It's hard to remember today, but in the first ~5 years of Facebook it was very far from obvious that facebook would dominate the social space.
The huge number of downvotes should probably indicate to you that what you stated as a matter of fact is incorrect[1].

It's not necessarily that HNers think they know, even though I'm sure we do! :), it's that it's pretty clear that you didn't know but made a statement as if you did know, with no substantiation. Sadly, as it turns out here, it was based on "some guy somewhere said", which is a much-maligned standard of knowledge on HN.

BTW, I suspect the downvotes for this comment are for the combination of basically admitting that you're relying on hearsay and that, attempting to research the matter further, you were shocked (shocked!) that there were people arguing on the Internet and that was the end of the matter for you.

[1] or a matter of opinion, but this is an engineering topic, which, on HN, is generally pretty comfortably treated as fact.
Building Mice Mazes and Growing to $100k/month
Or use hooktube.com, which strips out all Google-related tracking stuff from video links on YouTube. There are even greasemonkey scripts to rewrite YouTube.com URLs to hooktube.com automatically.
Yes, check the definitions of the author's theoretical max ball calculation on the first page gravitational acceleration determines the 'hang time' of a ball for a given value of hand acceleration. So holding everything else the same the same person with the same ability to throw 9 balls at g=-9.8m/s^2 would throw the balls higher on the moon giving them more room in their pattern for more balls.
I came from physics into bio. I was one of those arrogant physicists that though the bio majors were just not 'smart' enough and couldn't hack it in math, so they fell into bio. Maybe that was true of some of my fellow students, but as a field, bio is just insane. I was terribly wrong to think those things.

Bio is crazy complex. We've been poking the brain for a century now, and we have basically gotten no-where. At least we know that now. Take astrocytes/glia as a tiny example. These are the 'glue' cells in a brain that hold and feed the neurons. Sure, they do that, but a lot of new research is saying that they help modulate the synapse as well, the fundamental thing that makes thinking happen. Maybe. We basically have no idea now. We can't even say how many astrocytes there are in a typical brain. Is it 50%, is it 10%? Each new study overturns the last. It's chaos. What even is a synapse? We have no idea. Multiply this over every tissue in a body. And then that's only humans, let alone turtles and birds and bacteria and viruses etc.

One must always remember that bio was 'designed' by a very drunk, very horny, illiterate schizophrenic over 4.5 billion years with an average design cycle of about 22 minutes (~10E14 total cycles). It makes no sense because it never did.
Well, if it's time better spent on other things, or if the mentor gives bad advice (or worse, actively undermines you), then it's a bad idea. I don't see any evidence that a positive outcome is any more likely than a negative one, but we tend to only hear about the positive ones.
Deleting characters in a textarea on an HTML page with more than a few thousand characters is incredibly slow on an iPhone X device.

STEPS:
1. Visit https://missiveapp.com/iphone_x_test_case with an iPhone X
2. Focus the textarea
3. Touch the backspace key to delete characters

Boom! The iPhone X UI will hang for a few seconds! every time the word suggestion bubble appears.

This slowness only affects iPhone X, other models will delete characters with no sluggishness.

I post this here to raise awareness at Apple... it has been the case for the last 6 months.
If you imagine finding some big stash of amber with, say, 1 million different dinosaur fragments preserved, you could imagine using some statistical techniques combined with knowledge of extant related species to put something together.
Frog legs quite literally taste like chicken. Less fatty, best when fried, and you can eat the bones.

Escargot is a little earthy, but definitely edible-- especially with garlic butter. They remind me of mushrooms.
> Apparently, Obama only got a smartphone after 8 years in office

Closer to 7.

After 8 years, he wasn't in office any more.
It should now be starting to click that the extant markets for vulnerabilities don't value "severity" (or any other abstract scale message board nerds want to apply to vulnerabilities), but merely utility.

The hypothesis I like to come back to --- I'm pretty sure it's true --- is that vulnerabilities have value on the black market only if they fit into an existing business model, such that they can be dropped in and immediately be used to make money. People have to already be using some other vulnerability to do the exact same thing, and reliably making money with it.

People on HN like to tell stories about how a master criminal could make money with everything from Facebook CSRFs to serverside RCEs. But none of those kinds of exploits support current ongoing business concerns; they're all one-of-a-kind. Nobody buys a vulnerability speculatively to see if they might make a go of it --- they especially don't do that for a vulnerability that could be extinguished universally in moments by Google or Facebook's security team.
I did not learn propositional logic until I was in college.
Are Lamport and vector clock mechanisms robust in the presence of nodes controlled by bad actors, who may be colluding through a hidden network?
That's right, although what position you take on the market also depends on what you're after. To go all-in on Tesla, you have to believe that LIDAR is a crutch and that Level 4 autonomy is possible with primarily visual sensors.

Or maybe you're not so sure and want something safer / lower return. In that case, you'd buy into both of them, say 50-50. If one goes bust, but the other goes 5x, you're still good.

In reality, you can't buy into Uber, so it's largely theoretical. Also, Waymo and GM are vying for the same market and they all have different strategies - ie Alphanet will finance Waymo's fleet with Google's earnings, while Tesla will finance theirs with their customer's money (and share the profits). Hard to say what will happen.
Seems so https://codepen.io/anon/pen/yjrydY?editors=0010
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DAFs let you get a nice fat tax break with your startup windfall that you can then promise to the college of your child's choice.

This is not charity.
One of my favorite creatures in all the world is the lowly Trichoplax:

> Trichoplax adhaerens is the only extant representative of phylum Placozoa, which is a basal group of multicellular animals (metazoa). Trichoplax are very flat organisms around a millimetre in diameter, lacking any organs or internal structures. They have two cellular layers: the top epitheloid layer is made of ciliated "cover cells" flattened toward the outside of the organism, and the bottom layer is made up of cylinder cells that possess cilia used in locomotion, and gland cells that lack cilia. Between these layers is the fibre syncytium, a liquid-filled cavity strutted open by star-like fibres.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trichoplax

I like these creatures because they are on the cusp of multicellularity: you can force them through a sieve that separates their cells which will then crawl around independently and try to reform the organism. You can dye two trichoplax different colors, force them through the sieve, and the cells will mix and form piebald organisms. So, they're like tribes of cells (IMHO.)
Name one that buys vulnerabilities like these.
I have always claimed that DRMed works should be exempt from copyright. I don't know how it should be implemented, and I don't know how enforcement should look (you probably see just as many obstacles as I), but DRM is in many ways (especially considering fair use and public domain) against the spirit of fair use and public domain, two of the things copyright law now has come to protect.
> Further away from the equator would be cold, which could be useful for heavy industry (particularly exothermic processes)

Bitcoin mines!

I wonder how much benefit, if any, data centers get from operating in colder regions.
Relevant excerpt from the book:

> ED WAS WORKING late one evening when Elizabeth came by his workspace. She was frustrated with the pace of their progress and wanted to run the engineering department twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week, to accelerate development. Ed thought that was a terrible idea. His team was working long hours as it was...

> Ed pushed back against Elizabeth’s proposal. Even if he instituted shifts, a round-the-clock schedule would make his engineers burn out, he told her. “I don’t care. We can change people in and out,” she responded. “The company is all that matters.”

Carreyrou, John. Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup (p. 28). Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group. Kindle Edition.
Show HN: Real Time Ray-Tracing for iPhones
With all the excitement with what Nvidia is doing, I thought I'd share this app I wrote a couple years ago.

This is a real time ray tracer for iPhones. Complete with global illumination, multiple material effects, and ability to customize and reposition the scene, all running real time at 30 FPS.

iTunes Download Link: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/real-time-path-tracer/id1090...

Source is here: https://github.com/drewying/PathTracer-iOS
Why would you assume there'd be animals at all?
It is a real theory, and people have done the simulations to demonstrate its effects: https://www.space.com/31577-earth-life-jupiter-saturn-giant-...
The working definition of "excuse" is "a reason I don't agree with".
As you acknowledge, C is a third party, and therefore outside of the scope of the quote.
The blog post was crappy and seems the bulk of the context was shitting on the shitty journalist, rather than debunking thoroughly and straight-forwardly the claim at hand. I find the claim on loniness as more aparent on a global scale and demogralhically varying than in one single nation and a single demograph, so the post seems not only obnoxious but narrow too.
It was a wordpress website that I ran 5-10 years ago, and I just got tired of maintaining it. I've been looking at spinning up something similar using Jekyll and github pages.
Also curious.. Wwat would you miss from React if you only used hyperapp?
There's a glimmer of hope in my heart, but I stopped caring about these hearings because nothing seems to ever come from them.