skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The accuracy and timing requirements are terrible and still use some combination of radio location and raw cellular data. Some extracts from the article you linked:

> Wireless network operators must provide the latitude and longitude of callers within 300 meters, within six minutes of a request by a PSAP.

> Code division multiple access (CDMA) networks tend to use handset-based radiolocation technologies, which are technically more similar to radionavigation.

> Mobile phone users may also have a selection to permit location information to be sent to non-emergency phone numbers or data networks, so that it can help people who are simply lost or want other location-based services.

Presumably Apple is going to share their Wifi-assisted data instead of raw GPS signal or radiolocation data.

Looking at my location in a dense urban zone, 300m would narrow my location down to roughly 300 houses. Good enough to get emergency services on the way, not nearly good enough to render assistance if the caller can't speak/doesn't know where they are.
How to Determine Your Rates as a Freelancer or Consultant
more pictures need to spread out from this atrocity, the public outrage will put a stop to this barbarism.
Show HN: Par, a statically-typed, functional language focused on usability
We released a C/C++ computer vision library (Python binding to follow) earlier this month which let you perform face recognition at Real-time from IoT or Raspberry PI devices.
The library is dependency free, cross platform and should compile fine on most modern architectures with a C compiler.

https://github.com/symisc/sod
What would it mean for Portugal if Spain decided to change its name to Iberia?

This is exactly what is happening here. They want to be named after a geographical region which is way bigger than their borders.
Also, operators can request (yearly) authorization to apply limited surcharges in case the roaming rules would cause "unreasonable losses", example: https://www.viestintavirasto.fi/en/ficora/news/2017/fouroper...
This is interesting because normally I'd assume this would just follow population density (Europe, the NA, Japan, see xkcd.com/1138) but India and China barely have any airports relative to their populations. That's a lot of traveling just to get to an airport.
A lot of apps allow location services at all times.
Because without the call center support, their marketing of it as a feature in iOS 12 is a moot point.

“Look at this awesome life saving feature that only works in wealthy parts of the US!”
Look at Japan, their economy has been stagnant since the 80s, propped up by government market manipulation. They are almost completely irrelevant. Which innovative companies does China have that aren’t complete rip offs of American ones? Where is the penetration by those companies into the USA?
> There's no such thing as an anonymous cellphone call. Period.

I think that depends on which country you're in. In some places it's possible to buy a phone and SIM card with cash while wearing a baseball cap and hoody, and if you're prepared to pay huge pre-pay roaming charges you could use that phone in countries where it's not so easy to obtain a phone anonymously. Authorities will get a log of approximately where the phone was whenever it was switched on, so you'd only switch it on while calling from a crowded place. It's not perfect, but is it worse than restricting yourself to public telephones?
I remember going on vacation with my parents and all I had was the Diablo game manual, because I got the game 1 hour before we left. I read the manual about 100 times in the car... good memories
Agreed, though you probably spend a bit of time in your home and at work. Driving past wifi the signal strength will vary wildly and won't likely be as strong as the one you are sleeping around. It certainly won't be as powerful as cell sites.
So, naming is important, then?

Would never have guessed that.
Terrific, I can't wait for what will happen with the forced content filter that will be voted on in the european parliament on june 20th. what could go wrong...

https://act1.openmedia.org/savethelink
> software as a service (aka: data ransom)

Isn't it understood that that's what that potentially could be? I have my photos in the Google Cloud knowing that they'll stay there only as long as I can pay for the service. I trust they won't raise their prices like that, but I have no control over it, and if they do, yeah, that's something unethical going on. What is the alternative to SaaS though? SaaS is not only the software, it's also the cloud, and I have a real hard time arguing that charging someone to use the hardware is some sort of physical malware.
Well there's a lot of caveats to this depending on how you're defining "posh people" to the previous ideas of aristocracy and nobility of the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

I mean one of the big ones is that WWI was atrocious for infantry because the tactics were 19th century, but the weapons were 20th century. IE generals were fighting the war like there weren't machines guns, chemical weapons and a laundry list of revolutionary developments that made outdated tactics just devastating.

A lot of wars have been fought since then and our tactics have adjusted quite a bit. Which means we're generally not sending wave after wave of men into entrenched enemy fortifications and railing about their cowardice when those assaults fail or saluting their "heroism" when those units are wiped out to the man.

We've got better protection and better medical care leading to higher survivability. We're not in a state of total war, and we're not anywhere near close to talking about lost generations from current conflicts.

Probably most of the posh people you know came back whole. Well that didn't always happen and amount of risk certainly tempers many peoples decisions about whether to serve in the military if they have options.

And frankly given a choice between serving in the darkest days of WW1 and a current conflict wouldn't be a tough choice for many soldiers.
Yep. Just started playing it. It's like Diablo 2 with materia from FF7. Perfection.
What happens when the reports on true information are misinformation?
You should note that the PETM CO2 increase was over multiple orders of magnitude (appr. 20,000 year vs 100) and theoretical rate of emission was 1-2 orders of magnitude less than the current rate.
I can tell the other replies are from folks running honest businesses!

There is actually another business that leverages it's transaction flow to work with scammers / counterfeit product resellers.

Basically, you buy storefronts at high risk of charge-back or who on their own might have a 10% charge-back rate and can't hold a merchant account. For example, someone sells counterfeit apple chargers. Believe it or not, even though some people might realize it's bogus, maybe only 10% actually charge back. The rest either don't catch on or can't be bothered to charge back. That still is too high. But someone who can mix that in to their own account / high volume account less likely to be shut down - it's a business opportunity.

Exact same issues going on in the ACH space actually which is often used for bogus ongoing / recurring billing.
So is an "Influencer" simply just another word for a YouTuber?
> On the same lines, do you think your European counterparts would be doing the same things you do?

Chemical sedation of agitated patients is used in the prehospital setting in Europe, yes.
> not controlling the environment and the users may be distracted by outside factors

So probably how they will be when actually using your app? I do agree though in a reproduce-ability/data-integrity standpoint.
The coverage itself is acceptable. It’s the way the headlines are written to subtly nudge tone in ways that alter perception of the front page (ie clickbait headlines) and the opinion section (most of those people I don’t give a damn about and I actively resent their continued employment.... anywhere. Get a damn blog.). In my understanding, both of these thing fall into the category of editorializing.
It is a gateway rather than just a normal modem. I understand the charge. Their default router is a Cisco DPC3939 with the voice option which already retails at a high price. They buy it in bulk, but it's still likely in the upper double-digit range on a year-long contract. They probably don't make an actual profit until you're 75% through your initial contract then it's just cash.

Overall, I think a lot of people go far as to look at the prices then balk and back out or just don't even want to deal with it. Comcast also have a strict list of modems and gateways they will approve to use their network.
Apple's gotten away with inexplicable mental gymnastics on locking down the app store. For those who don't remember, prior to the iPhone, one didn't need the blessing of the hardware maker to run the software of your choice on the computer.

But Apple turned that fundamental tenet if freedom on it's head.
A sentence of X is a sentence of X regardless of what charge you're convicted on.

Dig up a massive amount of dirt and sift through it until you find something that has the kind of sentence you're looking for and you can easily make a conviction on (regardless of whether or not it has anything to do with the crime at hand) is prosecuting crimes 101.

Martha Stewart, Bill Clinton, Al Capone, etc, etc.

Now, this is a crappy solution because it basically relies on the proliferation of criminal law and catch-all laws (both of which are bad IMO) and the fact that given any random thirteen people you can convince twelve of them that the thirteenth is a criminal if you have enough information about the 13th. Ideally charges would be related to the crime but that's not a practical strategy for prosecuting well connected defendants at present.
Show HN: Roll for ID, HTTP service to get random identifiers in scripts
I often need random identifiers, e.g. for naming Google Compute instances. Especially in provisioning scripts. Usually I just hack some shell commands together to grab a random string, but I thought random phrases would be more interesting. So instead of "rwlofh8fbvfkeu31fgfo" I wanted "gibraltar-salad-painting".

So, I built a script to do that, and to make things super convenient I turned it into an HTTP service. You can just `curl https://roll-for-id.appspot.com/id` in an automated script whenever you need an identifier.

Yes, it's a little silly. You can get a poor man's version with Unix's words file and `shuf`. But I actually ended up liking the conveneince of just curling a URL. Especially since it automatically handles minimum entropy calculation, when needed (https://roll-for-id.appspot.com/id?entropy=128).
Kids now sketch more women when asked to 'draw a scientist'
Yes, but how much of that can you attribute to direct internet sales?

> HBO’s direct-to-consumer subscriptions, which include HBO Now sign-ups through internet-based distributors like Amazon and DirecTV Now, have topped five million in the U.S.

> 5,000,000 * 12mo * $15

> $900,000,000

I'm sure not saying that is a sign they are not successful, but unless I'm missing something, $7.5B of those revenue are probably not related to their direct-to-customer subscriptions or internet streaming products. (I'm not sure what kind of gatekeeping I am engaging in here, but it would be interesting to know what HBO's actual sales numbers are wrt every particular mode of distribution channel.)

Yeah they're getting something from every Comcast subscriber that ostensibly pays $10 for the cheapest TV package or better that bundles HBO, I just know that I'm not using my cable TV service at all, or HBO Go enough to warrant paying ${netflix_subscription} many dollars direct to them and I'd probably cancel it today, if it wouldn't ultimately end up costing me something for the trouble in the long run.
You are correct, however with new sequencing technologies like the MinION[1] we have access to real-time sequencing in something roughly the size of a cell phone.

They are still in development and there are some technical hurdles, but before too long cheap, fast, and accurate strain typing should be ubiquitous. The next issue is then creating the specific phages, but the first stage is pretty close at hand.

[1] https://nanoporetech.com/products/minion
>We have this well established thing called a credit score which is handled by the credit card agency and resolves trust issues for the merchant entirely.

We have this well established phenomenon called 'data breaches' which has compromised nearly everyone's credit/personal data.

Your info is on the dark web. Lots of databases that can be cross correlated. Banks increasingly don't know who they're dealing with, fraud is increasing.
Hi to fellow KW/Guelph YC news reader :)
Hey dying person, whats your PIN code?
With CRT monitors, it was possible to swap buffer in the middle of the frame, to display different buffers in different areas of the screen. It was used on 16bit systems for fast scrolling and to display status line.
Hitler's concept of the “big lie”
We should clone this repository before Github gets sent a DMCA takedown notice.
Oakland needs this help so badly. Call 911 on a cell in Oakland, and you're going to wait on hold for 30 minutes, most of which will be you being transfered to the wrong departments over and over. You start at a call center somewhere in middle America with a person who does not know where Oakland is. They pass you to CA CHP, who don't know Oakland either, because their dispatcher on the line is out of Sacramento. Finally, you get dumped to the local 911, which is overwhelmed, has long hold times, and sometimes even hangs up on you.

Just FYI, if you are ever in Oakland and have trouble, DO NOT CALL 911. Call the police directly at 510-777-3333

This Oakland 911 problem is, I think, the biggest single technical problem with Oakland as a whole, and it's been this way for 20 years...
The Pity of War by Niall Ferguson is an in-depth study of the economics of WW1. It covers where the billions went. The industrialists did very well, to the point that Eisenhower in his farewell address cautioned against them.
This article is from January. Perhaps he assumed that Trump is going to, you know, keep his promise to “end Obamas eras policies”. Now hes learning hard lesson this Chief-in-Snakesoil-Pitch was actually lying (im not using this word loosely - he is on a week long tour claiming its Democrats fault and he cannot do nothing anout it [altho senators from the same party say it woudl he a matter of “one phonecall”])
So this technology is probably currently in use to help massive human rights violations go better for the people perpetrating them.
> interrupted by Frank's sudden death

That would seem to me to be the inevitable result of such an endeavor given the relative scales of Ulysses and a typical human life span. Even just trying to read Ulysses carries a certain non-negligible risk in this regard. I myself narrowly escaped a brush with catastrophe when assigned to read Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man when I was myself a young man (in high school). I thank God daily that I lived to warn others.

;-)
Damn, that circular screen reminds me of the computer on the old Star Trek episode "Assignment: Earth".

This is where the Enterprise goes back in time to a 1960's Apollo launch. They then encounter a man from the distant future, "Gary Seven", who also traveled back in time.

Gary Seven had a computer that looked like DEC 340 (https://www.pinterest.com/will5967/sci-fi-star-trek-tos-s02e...).

This episode also has a very young Teri Garr as his secretary and a cat that turns into a woman with cat ears.
Same thing happened to me with Diablo 2. It came out while my family was visiting my aunt on the other side of the country. My parents bought it for me, but my aunt and uncle didn't have a computer that could play it, so I spent the week looking through the manual.
Nice, do you have any summary of what process you take to back up channels? I've considered the same in the past, but found that there are a lot of crappy/sketchy plugins, and not too many legit/decent ones that actually get the highest quality copy of the content.
What is a "good programmer"? What would you like to accomplish by soliciting the feedback? Without agreeing to a common definition and measurement, it's not a well-founded question.

I don't think of myself as a "good programmer" because "good" is too blunt a qualitative measure to be productive. It's a disagreeable and poorly specified measurement. I haven't seriously thought about whether or not I'm a good programmer, just as I haven't thought about whether or not I'm a good person. In fact I consciously disengage from assessment like that.

I validate my achievements on a case by case basis, and I validate them according to how close I came to maximal efficiency and minimal time in accomplishing a task. It would be deceptively attractive to use those two heuristics as a rhetorical scaffolding for the meaning of "good", except that I don't compare achievements; they're mostly orthogonal.

The question of whether or not I'm "good" has no meaning for me, because I only evaluate performance within the confines of discrete tasks and sets of related tasks. Further I personally don't have enough insight into the difficulty of all possible tasks, so I refuse to generalize my performance on any particular subset of them to how well I'd do on a majority of them. And to the extent that there are only so many tasks and skills are transferrable: any given task may have differing dimensions of deadline, efficiency or implementation requirements. To get a useful measurement, you'd have to draw arbitrary lines in the sand across each of these dimensions and convince everyone else in discussion that these lines are the sensible ones.

This probably isn't a satisfying answer. But it's not intended to be. The idea of a "good programmer" is conceptually attractive but practically meaningless.
> Probably a combination of all three. The US and China have the benefit of a comparatively gargantuan native population that all speak the same language

As odd as it sounds, my understanding is that China's Han population doesn't all speak the same language, but they (for the most part) read/write the same language. They call the variations in spoken language "dialects," but many of them are mutually unintelligible. I think the situation is the similar to a hypothetical one where the Romance countries (e.g. France, Spain, Italy, etc.) speak their respective modern languages, but continue to write exclusively in Latin.

Just a small unimportant quibble that doesn't negate your larger point.
Some people develop good coding techniques, like Donald Knuth. If you're new, you set out on your own or read up on what they've done or get lucky and work with a good programmer. That's how you pick it up. But, it's all pedal to the metal. Knuth's entire work is for C.

Nowadays, everything is done at a high level using some kind of pre-existing framework and the type of code being written is cookie-cutter so none of this applies. Swift belongs to this new age trend in coding,
Insurance is all about pricing risk accurately, so yes, of course, these ideas will be used to price the risk more accurately.

The problem isn't that insurers are horrible people, it's that insurance is a bad fit for healthcare.
Oh, so they've had time to get it in place and start trying it out. Maybe they can let us know how it's working. I wonder if that facial recognition has helped them catch any dangerous toddlers who tried to escape?
Pyimagesearch is great. I'm just a tinkerer / hobbyist in the computer vision space, but this is a site I come to time and again to get up to speed on topics that just seem harder elsewhere.
youtube-dl is great for this, you can run it periodically against a channel and only download new videos. See the --download-archive option. Using "-f best" will fetch the highest quality format, but you can be more specific with filters like "-f best[filesize<50M]".
Beijing Wants to Remake the Internet
Ruby on Rails: Paginate Stateful Tabs with Pagy
Verifying identity in Venezuela through the TPL
I hate to say it, but demonizing ICE seems like the wrong thing. It's the executive administration that direct ICE and Congress that tells ICE the laws to enforce.

That's not to say they are blameless but we could point fingers at pretty much every federal agency. ICE is just in the crosshairs at the moment.
> They want to be named after a geographical region which is way bigger than their borders

Ancient Athens once controlled the Aegean and its borders. Does this mean Anatolians should require Athens be re-named?
They have an emergency mode for a reason...
Receiving, owning and spending money anonymously. Remember when extortionists had to be paid with a suitcase full of banknotes?

Most cryptocurrency isnt anonymous, and certainly Bitcoin isn’t. In fact it’s arguable that the public ledger nature makes it far less anonymous than almost anything else. What it is, is easier to launder, hence the extortionist wet dreams. Why is it a feature of a currency to have the most utility for thieves and other criminals?

Receiving money without being exposed to the danger of fraud.

Depends on the currency. There was a recent 51% attack, and the many many fraudulent ICO’s, exist scams, and exchange “robberies” to provide counterexamples. As a bonus, no insurance! Hooray...

Receiving money via Credit Card is surprisingly risky for the merchant.

It really isn’t.

Transferring money internationally without additional costs.

Transaction fees exist for crypto actually.

Let’s also remember that all of this “utility” comes at the low low cost of an ungodly amount of wasted energy.
The was a good book the title I forgot about, how IBM almost went bankrupt before thriving because of political contracts with Nazi party to design and deliver system to clasify prisoners in concentration camps during Hitler’s era. Seriously this is not a poor-taste joke!!
The movie stylized version of this has 911 able to trace your location in near realtime.

The reality version involves multiple calls or working with a provider and can take up to an hour to get a "Stage 2" (accurate) location. It doesn't happen in real time. "Stage 1" data gives Dispatch a lat/long, with a confidence percentage.
SF 911 hold times are ridiculous. On two occasions (out of about four ever) I abandoned the call after being on hold for 5+ minutes.
Investment Vehicle Vehicle – Financials of a Tesla Model 3 as an Autonomous Uber