skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"You can't use the data for commercial purposes, which is harsh enough on its own -- it means the data should only be interesting to people who plan to be academics permanently, or who don't plan to succeed at anything they do with it."

It'd also be useful for someone farting around with machine learning who isn't anywhere close to being at a point of shipping anything to anyone else.

What you can benefit from is what you learn while using the data. Then you start a new project using what you've learned, and using different data.
>I’d probably have plenty of time to evacuate

I agree. You'd have enough time to figure out your contingency and evacuation given your location. Hawaii would certainly be hit first thereby giving folks living in Japan like yourself plenty of forewarning.
That's an interesting choice of analogy; there's some evidence that's not necessarily the best approach: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Propaedeutic_value_of_Esperant...
Despite shadiness and crackdowns, the ICO boom is bigger than ever
> With the exception of Russia and Georgia, it's said that no two nations that have McDonald's have ever gone to war.

> A lot of people with no understanding of history laughed when it was brought up that opening a McDonald's in North Korea was an important part of the Trump-Kim summit. But diplomats saw it as a watershed moment.

That's the first time I hear that correlation, and it's amazing. I could see that opening a McDonald's in NK would be symbolic, but not at that one-layer-deeper level.
It's the kind of freakonomics insight I'll be able to drop at conversations for a long time!
> Data on the second-by-second action — exactly when a goal is scored, where it landed in the net, who had the assist — creates manifold betting opportunities.

Will there be high-frequency sports betting, like HFT on financial markets? Why not?
Designed in China, Assembled in California
Thanks for sharing Topicbox, that hadn't come across my radar. I've been pleased with Fastmail.

I can see why it would be helpful for onboarding employees. That's an important use case. Having jumped on multiple teams mid-project, it's tough trying to review a Slack channel history to get context.
I haven't worked for Sony Pictures since 2005, but I think that the suggestions of some sort of nefarious marketing plan and the expected safeguards against accidental content distribution are hilarious.

I can absolutely believe that this happened accidentally.

Films and trailers are uploaded rarely, and it wouldn't surprise me in the slightest to discover that it's still a manual process.
Thanks for your reply. I like what you said. :)
OpenNLP 1.9.0 released
What a quick read..
I can't find it right now, but I've read a study that showed that teaching Python and then another language yields better understanding then just jumping into the harder language.

I was able to find the article "What About a Simple Language? Analyzing the Difficulties in Learning to Program" by Mannila, et al., which found that first time programmers found it easier to write bug-free programs in Python than Java and subsequently had a lot less trouble with the details of Java after learning Python, as they did not have to use the mental bandwidth to learn the most basic concepts of programming while also learning static typing and the incantations required to use Java.
You're right! That sounds like an amazing experience, going to a different part of your country and finding a deeply different culture. Where accent and vocabulary and daily life are all different. Where there's a sense of place, and a distinct local identity and history.

It's perhaps possible that you and I are so wonderfully blessed as to already live in such a place!

I've had the experience of struggling to understand the local dialect. To work to absorb the local diction and vocabulary, to come to grips with local history and understand the local identity.

It's easy to see a Taco Bell, a Starbucks, and a cookie-cutter diner and decide every place is the same. To be sure, those very much are. Yet, it's perhaps possible that this is just a patina. What you and I and others seek and love is there, today, still. It lives and breathes and thrives. It just requires a token effort to look for.
What country, at least specify in US or out of US. I can't even speculate. Tear down the idea of giving green cards, you mean that people out of the us with ms/phd are not so good. Support the idea of giving green cards, the existing ones in the us are good, the bad ones left? Sorry, can't parse it. :-)
Firefox, Chrome Ban Stylish Extn Because It Logs Browsing History, Credentials
Forcing any commit to be a PR merged by another dev would have solved it
Last thing an ISP wants is for all it's users to move to a slower internet connection because a good QoS lets them avoid the lag/stutter of VOIP, video calls, gaming, etc.

Consumers shop for routers and ISPs based on things besides QoS.
What was your area? You got a green card from previous us work or your spouse got one I suppose.
I'm not gonna mention "The Interview" from 2014 then...
Show HN: Mindset 2 – Hack your subconscious using a science-backed hypnosis app
> Where do we decide that pixels on a video feed are more special than other parts of the content?

It comes from the Copyright Act: 17 USC 102 states that copyright protects "original works of authorship fixed in any tangible medium of expression." It also states that in "no case does copyright protection for an original work of authorship extend to any idea, procedure, process, system, method of operation, concept, principle, or discovery, regardless of the form in which it is described, explained, illustrated, or embodied in such work."

The way this has been interpreted is as a dichotomy between ideas/facts and expression. You might use very expensive equipment to, for example, map the ocean floor. That data cannot be copyrighted. But a video visualization of that data could be copyrighted.

The result is, as you point out, somewhat unintuitive in that case, since generating the data is the hard part, not creating the visualization. But that's where Congress chose to draw the line in order to circumscribe the scope of copyright.
Hey everyone,

We're super excited to share what we’ve been working on and get your feedback. A quick thank you to all our users who have helped contribute to Mindset and this version, without you this wouldn’t have happened!

Mindset is a hypnosis app for skeptics. Hypnosis effectively lets you speak directly to your subconscious, retraining the attitudes and beliefs that control how you think, feel and act but are normally out of reach.

This new version has been redesigned from scratch, looking and feeling better than ever before. Aside from some beautiful visual changes, the new Mindset includes more courses, daily challenges and brand new instant hypnosis sessions which can energize you, relax you and help you fall asleep in less than 10 minutes.

If you would like to see some of the science that the app is based on you can have a look here: http://www.themindsetapp.com/science. As a small team, we're basing our science from studies done on hypnosis itself but we're currently raising to help research app-based delivery of hypnosis specifically through Mindset.

We hope you enjoy the new version and please let us know if you have any questions, feedback or suggestions!

Coming soon: Android and Apple Watch versions, as well as new features and content every month.

Cheers,

Alex
Investopedia's list of business mentions numerous concers.

Cash handling isn't among them, though embezzlement controls are.

https://www.investopedia.com/articles/financial-theory/09/ri...
The meme of infected usb sticks in the parking lot is so old and known by everybody and their grandma, that only a prankster would really do it, with a parody screensaver virus.

A serious secret service would use more up to date methods.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17447816
The Perfect Way to Explore Modern Kansas City? A Streetcar, Believe It or Not
>Why is that a problem?

It's not if you an American.

>Any other country could also open its border to "brains" if they wanted too. The world would probably be better off if smart people (or really any one) could easily migrate to where they can be happiest.

And perhaps we could dispose of the not-so-smart left behind while at it...
As an advanced user you can disable a lot of "helpful" features. Including safe browsing. Its in about:config

Browser.safebrowsing.malware.enabled

Just set it to false IF you consider yourself a poweruser.
From a software archeological perspective, bash and tcsh and MIT X windows are the root agents which propagated the Emacs keybinding world wide. It's what x11 did, in x applications and subsequently in the first web browsers and by extension pretty much everything.
Maybe the key here is that strength ratio != odds, under most intuitive definitions of strength. If someone is twice as strong as you, they're arguably much more than twice as likely to defeat you. If someone has twice the number of units as you, they're also more than twice as likely to defeat you.
It just sounds like all of the self-hosted services you were using were crap to be honest. They still are more or less.

IRC and photos should have a one-click button to set up encrypted backups to a location of your choosing, local, remote, cloud. Ideally, of course, you’d configure this location once and then all apps would automatically use it.

As for physical games, this is not a comparable example (physical self-managed vs virtual self-managed). In this case, you’d virtually back up the disk, and if you can’t because of DRM or something, then you don’t really own it.

Your comment on self-hosted + paid-hosted I especially agree with and is one that I’ve quite recently also came to the conclusion of.
Thanks.

Empathy is a powerful emotion, but not a good way to get to sound policy. It's rarely difficult to find a way to evoke empathy on any side of any given issue.
Nice work. Happy to see a competitor in the space.

For a fully-managed option with desktop clients and integrations with VSCode, Atom and Sublime, check out Cacher: https://www.cacher.io
Just for the sake of curiosity, wouldn't it be possible to embed some sort of self-contained microdevice inside the motor? A USB "rubber-ducky" type device is kind of expected, piggybacking something else off the USB would be kind of interesting. Cheap throwaways like this wouldn't make sense target-wise, but it's fun to think about.
I think important to remember when comparing against custom ROMs is that people using these are known to be more tech savvy, and to be interested in greater privacy. With android, google assumes many users are don't want to configure privacy settings, and if they encounter them by mistake, might break something. It is better to leave these hidden. This obviously has unfortunate implications, but from the article's description it doesn't sound so bad.
Did you look at the picture? The lines are not connected at all.
This "advice" is even written on the report itself:

The attack was loud; removing all developers caused everyone to get emailed.
Given the credential taken, its likely a quieter attack would have provided a
longer opportunity window.
Nice, an analysis from the future :)

Jokes aside. My guess would be that it is highly unlikely a half decent secret service would use such a method to spread a virus or a trojan. On the other hand, I would also guess that no serious journalist will contemplate using a free device provided by a rogue nation just in case.
Was thinking that when I was writing that. yeah, you can't always know, and sometimes, you actually do know that there will be pesticides/chemicals/etc that you can't avoid (even if you grow your own stuff, there's crap in the air/soil/water beyond our direct control). In some sense, that's, at very best, no worse than getting food from anywhere else, but it's problematic.
These retros are surprising. I tried RN for one day and realized the massive limitations and eventual need for native libraries and tools. It seems so obvious.
Ha, great analogy :)
I don't know what you are even trying to say.

I live in a third-world country and every single ms/phd I have met were nothing but incompetent.

Edit: I don't know why you are downvoting this but in this country most degrees are bought with money and the ones earned without bribery are earned in an environment where expectations from students are a lot lower than, say, in US.
I'm referring to the ones that provide power to the fan, not the data lines.
> I want to visit an America where I can't understand what they're saying even though it's allegedly English, where you need to work at it, absorb the local dialect.

It may be more interesting to visit such an America, but it would be a lot harder to democratically govern such an America.
>Hanlon's Razor simply captures the fact that stupidity is much easier to come by than malice //

Within the context of movie marketing is stupidity more usually the reason for a media megacorps release of media or is marketing more usually the reason? Surely then the probability lies firmly with marketing until evidence shifts that assumption.

Razors are not truth generating though they are often treated as if they were.
You could fit an entire array of mics, sensors and radios inside the fan that are powered by the USB port. No need to connect to the laptop to record and broadcast info.

Pretty unlikely though.
CLR is really earning its name with this one.
> My long winded point is that maybe it's time to "pick winners" in financial markets, subsidizing or penalising certain types of capital markets over others.

Who gets to pick the winners? Why should those people benefit and others lose? How do you prevent the massive corruption? And why is it time now, not 10 or 50 years ago or 10 years in the future?
That’s fair! I disagree with the reasons presented in the comment, but I agree that carefully qualified, elaborate writing, as well as florid descriptive writing, are all acceptable, and frequently desirable. I just thought the irony in the comment’s style was funny, and maintain that it is stylistically terse overall.
The previous owner's migratory patterns likely made international roaming non-optional in this case.
Can you expand on this please? What do you mean by profile?
As the sibling comment says, there is work on this, but the key question becomes "how do you define novelty?" You could say new rooms are novel, but this is basically just the engineering approach of defining a new reward, and isn't really an interesting solution since it's not really applicable to other RL use cases, or even other games.
So, wild speculation, then.
Hollywood’s Weird “Twin Film” Habit
You're probably doing it right
1. I reviewed the app. I didn't attribute any of the issues to React Native itself, did I?

2. The Airbnb and UberEats apps were written by expert native developers (I happen to know a few of them), using some React Native.

You see, expert native engineers can deliver quality apps using native frameworks. And surely, if they look into React Native, most of the time they can manipulate it from the JS side to get the desired outcome on the native side. The middleware is a hinderance for them as it gets in their way of implementing what they want in the first place.

It's like building those ship models in a bottle: if you know how to build the ship, you just have to learn how to do it through the neck of the bottle. If you don't know how to build it in the first place, well... that's a different story.
Yes, that's why one should donate to them.
How's the performance of OCaml, and what's its concurrency story?

I feel like on paper, at least, OCaml ticks all the boxes on my programming language wishlist: non-nullability, ADTs, type inference, compiles to binary. A lot like rust but a little higher level. But I've never really had a go at it. I'm sort of reluctant to sink time in it if there's not a future, but it seems to be kind of chugging along, not really gaining or losing ground, AFAICT.
I started this project many years ago, and later abandoned it. Fortunately the project found another gentle and capable father that developed it for years and put it into a useful niche: embedded systems. However Jim Tcl is still, for me, a milestone of my programming life. It was the first time that, inspired by the Tcl internals, I started to realize how to write clean C code using better abstractions. It's awesome to see the project still alive, thank you Steve.
Especially when used with control flow like for loops and if/else. It's incredible how much cleaner it makes the code.
Baidu will launch its autonomous buses in Japan next year
Naw, it's fine. "Leftist," used as an insult, was invented by actual bolsheviks to insult left-coms, mostly anarchists. It's a term many of us wear with pride.
What? Confidence intervals are used to assign a confidence to a measure of a larger population.
People are mixing up % of vote with likelihood of victory.

If she was polling at 70% that would be an almost 100% chance of winning because a 20% swing is unlikely. However a 70% chance of victory is much much closer.
It also conflated Elasticsearches new native SQL feature too, which is also query only and sits atop a non-relational engine.

Doesn't change how much I love Elastic.
3 Byte Integers
Yeah, I've done that drill myself. It's not fun, but you just have to keep reminding yourself that the rifle would be rusted to hell without the cosmoline.
or the various data breaches of both the PSN and the employees.
Isn't that the point of anonnyj? I.e. you don't know which % of sales are made without even registering a single achievement.
Github supports two factor authentication, maybe make it mandatory for all admins?
Sweet tea is an interesting example actually, in that McDonalds made it available nationally 10 years ago.

There is a certain amount of culinary darwinism at play here, where the strongest regional foods have gone national over the last couple of decades. See also, Chipotle scaling the Mission burrito to thousands of stores.
Good security should not depend on obscurity, but it does not mean that security through obscurity never works. It's still better than complete transparency.
What if there are chips and wires inside PCB?
That would be ideal in my case. It's data only and I'd be happy to leave the GSM module off 99% of the time if that made things cheaper.
That's a big question. I mainly use email as one of my todo lists. I get notifications from tools like Jira, Trello, and Basecamp, depending on my client. Basecamp introduced me to reply-by-email notifications. :)

The experience of a Slack workspace varies greatly between teams. Slack itself is just a tool. If it works for you, keep rolling with it.
I disagree.

In this case "evidence collected suggests a password scheme where disclosure on one site made it easy to guess passwords for unrelated webpages" (emphasis mine), however it is trivially easy to create formula-based passwords that are not immediately obviously related to the site for which they were created.

Take some combination of:

Number of characters in the URL
Number of syllables in the URL
Number of characters in the first / last syllable
Index in the alphabet of the Nth character of the first / last syllable
Nth character in the URL
Character offset in the URL according number of syllables
Nth symbol on the number key row according to number of characters in the URL
Alt-key symbol for the URL character in the URL
Etc, etc, etc.

Interspersed memorable seeds.

It would take serious effort to even detect the presence of a formulaic password from a single leaked unhashed / unsalted password, never mind to determine what the formula might be.
The Computer and the Brain: Book by John von Neumann
Funny, I was just complaining about how I find pro baseball dull because they play with such skill and training that it basically is scripted. And on the other hand, I've seen documentaries about serendipitous happenings making movie scenes work. So it would seem that perhaps sports is theater and film-making is luck.

Maybe Marc Edelman thinks we've got this copyright thing all backwards.
Like rogue USB-charging ports in airplanes?
Great, then how about they make a regulation to treat all packets the same rather than classifying internet as a utility and putting it under complete federal control.

Calling something net neutrality does not make it net neutrality. Bullet dodged.
Wow - our experiences are completely different! I consider the God-tier to be exclusively Excession, The Player of Games, and Use of Weapons, and most of the rest are simply "good" (but, as a later commenter points out, still enjoyable because you get to experience The Culture) - and I thought Matter was particularly weak. I'm looking forward to going back to Matter and The Hydrogen Sonata to see what I missed in them! Thank you!
Are you really getting what you’re paying for on Google Cloud? Well…
There is a popular belief that cloud vendors often overcommit on their capacity and putting too many instances on physical hosts to improve their bottom line. I’ve decided to put this belief to a test with Google Cloud. The results are really surprising!

It would be great to get everyones opinion on this:

https://blog.doit-intl.com/are-you-really-getting-what-youre-paying-for-on-google-cloud-well-7b43373320d2
To me, it looked like the plastic molding was oversized for the circuitry inside, which makes me think there may be variants of these fans. This was the `NOP` variant while perhaps others have `malware drop`, `GPS beacon`, `audio capture` or some other capabilities added inside the same chassis with maximum ease.

Of course all of this is entirely speculative. Maybe this design was cheaper to produce or simply shown to be sturdier compared to a smaller alternative.

It could even be that they had an earlier circuitry design that was slightly larger and then they realized it could be simplified but at that point that had ordered the chassis.
The web is becoming more and more fragmented. I wonder where this will lead to. Europe seems to fall behind the US at an accelerating pace.
During the last two decades, Europe already failed to take part in building the internet. Now Europeans all use US services. Amazon, Ebay, Facebook, Google, Dropbox, AirBnB, Uber...

This was due to the culture of Europes entrepreneurs which is often "bureaucracy first, product later".

Now lawmakers seem busy putting another burden on top of that. Laws that put Europe behind the rest of the world in how easy it is to build online services.

Where will Europe be in 20 years? Will it become a developing continent of the digital area? Or will German Engineers somehow make up for innovation via assiduous execution? I find it hard to see how that could work.

Politicians might think 'Now that we have the web, lets regulate it'. But I wonder: Now that we lost the web, how will we avoid the same with AI? AI will have orders of magnitude more impact on our lives then the web. How will we avoid losing crypto? In the age of crypto, people might freely chose what currency to use. Do we want the worlds currency to be owned by a US company? How will we avoid losing biotech? Will the same happen to our bodies that happened to our data? Will they be owned by a handful of US companies?
Meanwhile video indistinguishable from decapitation does big numbers on HBO, complete with behind-the-scenes closeups.
Since that user didn't specify them, what would you view as these warts?
There are isomorphisms between any place of that vast world of mathematics and logic too.

Math is also constrained by fitness, not perfection. Just take a look on the number of unproved conjectures we keep around. It's just that the Math community generally places more value on proofs than the programming, but it is a continuous, and there are more tolerant subcomunities of mathematicians and very intolerant ones of programmers too.