skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
At least 10 years ago, a friend forgot where he parked his car in the Airport parking lot after a long trip. When he went to the booth embarrassed to tell them this, they said it was no big deal and did a quick tap-tap-tap on the keyboard using his license plate number to determine its exact location. They apparently scanned all the license plates in all their lots twice a day.
We evaluated Lastpass about a year ago and the UI was borderline unusable. Doesn't matter so much for technical teams, but it does in broader use cases.
Could someone add (2015) to the story linked below? It seems to have been overlooked, and the title is otherwise misleading about an alarming topic. Thanks.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17112746
The _whole_ thing? It's 54 TB, how do you plan on receiving it?
URL belatedly changed from https://www.snip.today/post/sweden-ends-contract-with-scienc.... I'm sorry we missed this earlier.

All: it's helpful to email hn@ycombinator.com in cases like this because then we see it, and can act, quickly.
How much do you think it should be? I personally believe if elsevier et al only profited 25% from publishing, prices would be much lower than they are now.
EME has been used like this as well.
In most states you don't actually receive the vehicle title on a new car until you finish paying off the loan. Lenders hold on to the title so that buyers can't resell or export the car.
Smallrx: Amateur radio receiver in less than 100 lines of code
What’s in a food truck?
GDPR does allow you to record IP addresses in access logs and whatnot. And I'm not so sure people can actually ask you to remove their IP addresses; they'd have to demonstrate use of that IP over the relevant time interval, which is beyond most people. So I think while GDPR requires you to have a good reason to collect IP addresses, it doesn't meaningfully impose an obligation to be able to expunge them in removal requests.
Getting Google to ban our entire company
Yes, you're right, an already-dead company can't die a second time in this highly-hypothethical scenario. They're still dead.
Discussed a couple days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17097561.
Alternative title: Today I realised why going all-in on Google's platform is maybe not a great business decision.

Also note: this isn't me personally.
Thank you.

I will work on incorporating your suggestions into the site.
It's a complete misnomer. It's such a bad fit, it has to be marketing.
CouchDB. It's rare that a piece of software is bad enough to give its language and runtime a bad name, but it's actually that bad.
That’s not scihub, that’s libgen. Different data sets.
They're not employees; they're independent contractors.
I agree with that easy statement. But you have to make decisions, even when there is no science at all.

What is your estimate of the right control group size should be, for such a study?

I am learning from that study that, on 494 patients, they found no clear cut link between exercise and dementia evolution. Are you saying there is a clear cut one?

Maybe there is a link, but if it was very significant, hopefully the study would have detected a correlation.

My bottom-line for my life: don't focus on pushing physical exercise if your loved one has dementia, there is no clear cut link detected today. It is interesting as for some, their "intuition" may make them believe there is one.

Please correct which part of my reasoning is wrong here. I am talking about real life, not a conversation at a bar.
They almost certainly do due to their population of 19 year old customers with more money than they’ve ever had before. It’s a cliche joke at this point...

*not a joke the military death rate on motorcycles...
`gt` will still be slow because you're using the same finger for both keys.
Until the cops kick your door in on copyright infringement charges to "make an example" of someone. Don't think it can't happen.
Encrypted Email and Security Nihilism
My understanding is that only federal student loans are insured & guaranteed by the government, and that private student loans, while they benefit from the whole “can’t be defaulted on” thing, can still go bad.
Sure! But that's neither here nor there.

1) I don't have a choice, since everyone does it; 2) many types of marketing are just fine; 3) if everyone stopped doing this kind of tracking, it's not like the businesses would fail.
Indialantic, FL

This is a 4-bedroom house, supposedly for $275,000 but likely to go cheaper:

https://www.trulia.com/p/fl/indialantic/421-e-riviera-blvd-i...

There are a couple smaller places, a tad cheaper, on neighboring streets.

One can work for Raytheon, Northrop Grummen, Harris, Lockheed Martin, Thales, GE (trains), and several cybersecurity startups. All of those are doing well. Doing less well I think, there is also: Intersil (a wireless chip company), DRS (a military optics company), NASA contractors, etc.

I don't believe this place is particularly special. All across America, there are smallish cities in which the finances work out for tech professionals.
It's nothing compared to the despicable ways "car dealerships" (really finance scams) steal from poor people.

https://youtu.be/4U2eDJnwz_s

Or how the National Association of Mortgage Financers or whatever it's called defaulted in their mortgage.

Or how companies declare bankruptcy.

Default is a part of finance. Good faith bankruptcy is not ethically challenged. Both parties to a contract are responsible for counterparty risk.
Just a personal experience: I had bought several ~$20AU iPhone 4S batteries from eBay from different sellers, and while they started off okay their capacity dramatically decreased after a few weeks.

Also I'm unsure on how a device determines battery charge, but I forever had issues with the phone turning off while reporting the battery had ~30% left.

Maybe I didn't treat the batteries correctly, but I can't recall as this was several years ago.
I wonder if they can actually properly emulate that mode in UAE?
I've added it. But please don't post off-topic comments to get our attention. Email hn@ycombinator.com instead. This is in the guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.
I never claimed he was a genius. You, on the other hand, are making claims that he is a fraud. Proof would be nice.
I meant on Hacker News.
Thanks for sharing that book--just purchased. I moved to the Bay Area three years ago and just had a realization that I've barely explored the surrounding landscape.
Noted. I'm sure they do it on Hacker News as well.
You're forgetting the most important selling point of lectures: Anyone can give them with little to no preparation if they know the material.

Lectures are basically the "default" teaching method, you take something you already know and explain it piece by piece. putting knowledge down in any form of media is almost inherently harder and more expensive than just explaining it in person or on camera.

Back in university, every time I had to find an explanation for something online on YouTube, recorded lectures were usually the worst choice, if I had a choice, because there was often no produced video explaining something, but there were always lectures recorded from somewhere. Because lectures are easy.

I did actually find one place where lectures were better than directly reading the material, and it was mathematics lectures, just because amount of symbols and obscure language that often goes into putting something mathematical down in text over just explaining it can be ridiculous to someone like me who has never managed to learn the latin and greek alphabets however many times I tried.
I became a startup millionaire by age 35 and lost it all. Here’s my story
If I understand correctly, the reactive part is the fact the user gets output after providing input
They, as in Psygnosis, completely milked the Lemmings IP over the years. The 3d episodes were pretty bad and that was the end of it if I recall correctly.
What I find more amazing than the fact that some people have been so neighbourly as to share such a volume of information, is that this is still just a tiny fraction of all human knowledge. Scientific journals are certainly an important collection, but still miniscule in comparison to all the other books out there. I have collected ~20GB of automotive service manuals and related data, and that's a tiny amount too. To speak nothing of the many terabytes of entertainment others have...
Because they are able too, one of many reasons why we should go back to approving corporate charters only when they aren't detrimental to the public good.

Related essay:

https://www.context.org/iclib/ic41/rowe/
The more you drive, the less intelligent you are.
On Amiga the game slowed down significantly when you had many moving lemmings on screen so these pixel perfect collisions were probably quite expensive cycle wise.
You wouldn't be fined. You'd be arrested and charged criminally, and likely spend the rest of your life in jail. The public does not understand and would happily hang you for being one of those evil hackers. The person who tells them you belong there would be a $1000/hour professional witness.

Infinite-term copyright builds dynasties. They do not take kindly to competition. Stay safe.
Vim buffers are great. For me the best thing is that you can go to any buffer by ":b some-unique-part-of-the-file-path". If I'm switching between a ruby file and its spec file (tests), usually I'll just have to type ":b spec" to get there. Usually I'll have 2 open windows and will just be jumping to specific buffers all the time.

I like this kind of workflow because I have poor vision and selecting from a list of files, or a list of buffers is a really painful operation for me. Instead, I'm just thinking "What do I want to work on?" and type in part of the file name/path. If I forget, I can look at the list of open buffers, but it almost never happens.

One other thing I make great use of is ctags and vimgrep (just remember to use noautocmd with vimgrep so that it doesn't take a million years to parse all the files). Once I've got my working set up buffers for a problem, then it's just bouncing around inside them.
Having fun is different from learning. If fun learning is ineffective, it's not good learning.
Deep Depth Completion of a Single RGB-D Image
Great example, rocket science, let’s throw a bunch of 15 year olds who say they want to be a rocket scientist into nasa. What could go wrong? The mit engineering grad has proven for a few more years that he’s less likely to screw things up. The system sucks but it’s not an easy problem to solve
Lemmings Revolution was particularly silly as it's basically the 2D game but superimposed onto a 3D cylinder. Luckily games have moved away in recent years from the "everything must be 3D just because" era of the late 90s.
In most political regions the max data rate for HF transmissions is very, very low.
Why fascism is so tempting – and how your data could power it
Introduction to Ricardian Contracts
What is the Script language in Bitcoin?
The article gives some examples, motly experiential engagement.

"Tell me and I forget. Show me and I remember. Involve me and I understand."
Thanks, Google PR.
I have some connections to schools, and "learning styles" is not a major concept at all. "Teaching modalities" (lecture, reading, labs) seems similar at a glance, but it's quite different. It's not that each person has a preferred modality, it's that different modalities have different benefits in a relative non-student-specific way.

It's a weird contrarisn fad on HN to constantly rehash old debunkings of research no one in the real world cares about.
In 2001 my car was towed from LAX parking lot because they checked the plate (they told me they scan all plates daily) and it came back as registered to a different make.

Turns out the dealer made a single-letter mistake in VIN when registering the car with DMV, and there is no check digit to reject invalid VINs.
Good time to point out that all cars entering or exiting New York City via a bridge or tunnel are scanned.
If you are in the United States, and are truly a contractor rather than an employee [1], and there is nothing in your contract that specifically says you are making a "work for hire", then you almost certainly do own the copyrights.

If you author a work, copyright only goes to whoever paid you if either (1) you are an employee and work is created within the scope of your employment, or (2) you are not an employee but it is a "work for hire".

For a work to be a work for hire, there are three requirements that all must be satisfied.

1. The work must be specially ordered or commissioned.

2. There must be a written contract that states it is a work for hire.

3. It must fall into one of nine categories:

• a contribution to a collective work

• a translation

• a part of a motion picture or other audiovisual work

• a supplementary work (e.g., foreword, illustration, editorial notes)

• a compilation

• an instructional text

• a test

• answer material for a test

• an atlas

A bit of Googling turns up a few articles from IP and business law firms saying that most software does not fall under any of these categories and so cannot be a work for hire [2]. On the other hand, there are at least four district court cases that have concluded that software can fall under compilations and under contributions to collective works [3] and so can be works for hire. (But remember, even if in a particular case your software does fall under one of those categories, without the contract saying in writing that it is a work for hire it isn't, and so you retain the copyright).

Probably the best approach, if you want your client to own the copyright, is to include in the contract that you assign the copyright to the client. There is some sample language for a contract copyright assignment in [2].

[1] Whether you are an employee or a contractor for purposes of copyright law is determined by the common law of agency rather than by what your employment contract says. A court would look at how much control the employer has over how the work is done, where it is done, the equipment used to do the work, the scheduling, what other work you can do at the same time, and similar factors.

[2] http://ccbjournal.com/articles/9954/work-hire-doctrine-almos...

[3] https://www.lexology.com/library/detail.aspx?g=59a4a8c4-c446...
I ran 'vimtutor' twice and felt comfortable enough to switch. I think the only reason people think it's so difficult is they maybe try to go too deep too fast?
Data Migration on the Cloud – Alibaba Cloud RDS PostgreSQL Best Practices
I really think you're stretching.

One of America's diseases right now is the entitlement of those who think they that they're obligated comfortable success if they check the right boxes without ever stopping to think or do the math. And when they dig a hole, I do not feel sorry for them. (And I don't think it's remotely like rape.) If her article was about how she was stupid, and how somebody could avoid making the same mistakes, and how she'd learned, I might be sympathetic. But it's not.

I fail to see how making bad, but clearly demarcated, decisions, is remotely like rape. (So on some level, yes, I don't see her as a victim.) (And yes, I do have a chip on my shoulder because I could see this kind of thing coming and so turned down the University of Chicago to go to a state school for less than half the money - my best guess is I'd have graduated with something over $120k in debt had I accepted, from the state school I graduated with almost zero.)
I think tape would probably be the best choice --- a single LTO-7 tape cartridge holds 6TB and costs <$100USD. Of course the drive is quite expensive, but HDDs are less reliable and more expensive per GB.
Numpy is declarative in the sense that it is vectorized.
I honestly don’t get why anyone goes in to debt to buy a car in this day and age. You can buy a car (or truck) for $3000 that will last several years without requiring any huge mechanic bills or exotic maintenance - heck, I’ve done it. I would much rather take the bus/bike/walk and save up $500/mo for 6 months to be a free man than buy or lease a car for $500/mo and be a space to my creditors.

Besides, hoopties can be charming :-)
> AWS and similar tends to force a lot of ceremony

Oh if that isn’t a perfect description of AWS I don’t know what is. Every time I look at AWS, that’s what I discover.
An in-depth look at nested classes in Java
Omi === Preact and Scoped CSS and Store and Native Support in 3kb JavaScript
What are you talking about? "I'll show up with hard drives and whatever I have to do. I'll rent the damn Amazon snowball truck if I have to."
General relativity is classical, so there is plenty of determinism to save.
Designing a Workplace Beyond Gender
I've tried to use it. I hadn't realized it was erlang based, but now I respect erlang less
> At any rate, your software vendor has no legal responsibility to provide you with security updates. Maybe they should. But you’ll pay for that anyways.

Yes, those costs will ultimately be embedded in product pricing and borne by the customer, but that's good. It gives vendors a financial incentive to develop more secure software and reduce their security update costs (and earn more profit). (Nothing is perfectly secure, but a culture change and following certain practices can help. Think Microsoft pre-trustworthy computing memo and Microsoft today.)
> I don’t think the productivity gap is as large as the performance gap anymore.

It's impossible to make a general statement like this. Every project has a different performance budget.
Why we use Redux design pattern across all platforms
Framing a specific complaint you have indirectly, as though it were a general issue with contracts, and waiting for them to tease your complaint out of you, looks passive aggressive. You yourself thought it was aggressive, based on your "I'm going to get fired" reaction when they read it. And had been passive about it for a year without asking anybody.

I mean, I get it, I thought my boss said he could do the raise I asked for and went three months before saying "Hey, it didn't show up in my paycheck." Extremely uncomfortable, and I'm procrastinating asking for a promotion because I don't want to talk about money again. It's just a warning sign, you don't come off as an all around bad person.
> Gaussian always looks fuzzy, even if you are careful about it.

Yeah, I agree, and it even looks fuzzy to me, I’ve just grown accustomed to it, and I rationalize / theorize that I’m not losing detail even if it looks soft.

What I really want is to not be able to see any sign of pixels at all; to be completely unable to tell how large a pixel is, or tell whether the image is high res and soft or sharper but low res.

> many available tools do a crappy job

Lol, you could say that again.
It depends. If your app can work within the sandbox and it's a one and done like a game, maybe. The Mac platform changes so slowly you don't have to worry as much about incompatibility with s new OS as you do iOS.

But if you ever want paid upgrades or you are already a well known app -no.

For instance it wouldn't make any sense for MS or Adobe to be in the Mac App Store.
This one goes to west palm beach and eventually to Orlando. I think it is faster too but not sure.
>and little to no mention of successful third-party mirroring efforts

That's probably because space requirements are huge (tens of terabytes of storage) and it's probably not legal in most jurisdictions (probably none of them). Those two would probably stop most people who are thinking about this.

But let's say you managed to download and host it all and don't give a damn about law (maybe a Tor node?), you'd still have to grapple with bandwidth requirements for hosting such a huge collection of documents (including anti-DDoS provisions). Finally, I don't think the database itself is offered by anyone so you'd have to scrape the DOI data and create the front-end for the website.

So unless you're rich and are willing to throw lots of money at this, I don't think anyone is willing to do it for no financial benefit whatsoever (and a massive downside if you get caught by the long arm of the US DOJ/FBI).
Bitcoin's energy use studied, you libertarian nerds look even worse than usual
At this point, I'm not upset about this as I previously subscribed, but I'm at the point now where I'm thinking of bolting because it has become a pain. At this point, I just need to find something that is secure, portable, can be backed up, and cross platform.

The syncing experience since at least 6 has been spotty between my Windows client, my iPhone, and my iPad. I can't tell you how many times I've had to reset a password because the device I was on didn't have the current gibberish password. Maybe I'm holding it wrong, but using the create login -> password generation bit does not sync at all. There's also the issue that every time I shutdown my Windows PC, I am greeted with an alert that AgileBits.1Password (there's another dot-separated part in the name as well, not sure what or specifically where) there was some issue in it that I have to close to shutdown.

With all that being said, I don't think Agile Bits is a bad company or that the subscription model is evil or anything of that nature. I think they're pretty decent people that are trying to keep the company profitable and alive. Paying for updates for password managers probably isn't the sexiest business model on either side of the equation. I would prefer that once I pay for it, it could function at that level (with maybe bug fixes) leveraging DropBox, iCloud, OneDrive, whatever, but I also understand they felt the need to cut it off and keep it relatively simple. It just isn't for me anymore.
This _is_ a data structure. For scalable graph queries.
The loan she talks about in the article isn't a subsidized one, it's a variable rate private student loan.
When I am moved to meditate, I have the perfect focus point: a beautiful biologic focal point, my navel.
> DRN sells the information to insurance companies, private investigators ...

I wonder if anyone in the insurance industry could comment on how this data is used by them.
Water shortages to be key environmental challenge of the century, Nasa warns
I had purchased a bundle for Win/OSX/Android a while ago, several years, bu somewhere around 2ish years ago, I jumped into the subscription model to support it going forward. Worth every penny to me.
Check out csounds.com , csound runs everywhere and can do forms of synthesis that no hardware synth can match
The idea that one dude on his phone can torch your entire company with no apparent recourse is borderline insane. The fact that an issue with Google service x can cause you to lose access to Google services y and z is absolutely obscene.

I don't understand why anyone could possibly take this sort of risk with their company. As long as Google remains the irresponsible company that it is, they simply cannot be engaged with for any business purpose whatsoever.

It's possible, of course, this guy isn't actually what triggered the lockout, but it really wouldn't change the issue: That 150 Google accounts can get banned, including both personal and work accounts, and that Google can refuse to explain why.

The OP's bosses should be looking for a good law firm, because there's money in this case.
The problems with tech conferences and how to make them more inclusive
Algorithms are hacking our thoughts
This is a sadly dishonest sounding comparison...

"The train runs at a top speed of 79 miles per hour on the leg between Miami and Fort Lauderdale compared to an average speed of about 34 miles per hour for cars"
I don’t currently use blogspot so I don’t know about that bug, or if they support multiple CNAME records.

It’s not obvious but, using the same mechanism that allowed you redirect to blogspot will allow you to redirect the bare “@“ record (pocketputer.com) to www.pocketputer.com