skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Number of fatalities per million miles driven is only one of the metrics. Hours spent per lifetime driving is arguably a more important metric. I can't wait for everything (cities, highways etc.) to be redesigned for self-driving cars but looks like its not going happen in my life time :(
> every decent journalist would respect that parts of a tour would be off-the-record without the need for a legally binding document

Then they shouldn't have a problem agreeing to that in writing.
Their motivation is they are far far behind #1 AWS and need to try wild and crazy things to win market share, including acting like they are the more developer-friendly platforms because they don't lock you in.
Show HN: YouDupe – Mark YouTube Videos as Duplicate
> he has apparently said that he regrets saying it

What's the difference between this and taking it back?
An important aspect in any research arrangement is PROTECT THE STUDENTS. Academic research is likely to have many student assistants. The students should be able to publish their results in a timely manner. Students will benefit from exposure to researchers and resources in industry. And potentially lucrative internships.
My alma mater Stanford had a bumpy ride in the 1980s: over clingy patent policy, faculty startups not allowing publications. Lawsuits ensued. Ut by the time dot.com began the next decade it was much smoother, e.g. the Yahoos and Googles.
And this not just comp-sci, but biotech, oil&gas, aero engineering too.
The claim you make (that the speed of light) is the main limiting factor is incredibly undersubstantiated. Firstly, it is incredibly likely that the same query within you tube is handled by as many computers as it would have been in your DHT.

The difference between youtube and your DHT is that youtube doesn't need to do constant connection re-establishment. In a DHT -- especially one used for short-lived queries such as these -- the establishing of short connections can add a lot of overhead. This is a challenge mainly because of the protocol stocks in common usage on the network, not really a property of distributed systems in and of themselves.
Why? To me, it is presented as a long page of posts in chronological order, like a blog post divided into sections.
Quoting Charmeau from the article,

"I think we are in different worlds,” he said. “In the US, they think and they speak like this. Our mission is different. Our culture is different.”

Yes. Yes we do.

As a fun analogy, I'd love to think what would have happened if AT&T had kept their operators and not put in electronic switches.

Commerce would still be back in the 1950's, and everyone would work for AT&T. We'd be making nowhere near as many calls, and business would operate much slower than today, meaning innovation & collaboration would be much slower than today.

But that's the choice
I know they should have more world class security like us in the US. Something as significant as the leaking of millions of people's information, that is unheard of in the west.
Yes, there definitely are other problems.

For spam, you can have centralized blocklists that people can subscribe to. The iOS version of whatever would need it anyway to follow the App Store guidelines. If you feel you're being censored, unsubscribe from the list. Alternatively (or in addition to that), have everyone publicly publish who they blocked, and then trust what your friends or friend of friends blocked.

Network wide search is a problem, yes, but for chat (which I really want to be decentralized :( ) it doesn't matter too much.

Monetization for content creators also doesn't matter for chat.

So maybe I should rephrase my initial comment: Lack of NAT/Firewall bypass is the largest (and maybe only) problem needed to be solved for decentralized chat.
Apple does not even allow the competitive browsers on iOS to have the same capabilities, being fair to competitiors is a distant dream. e.g No other browser can JIT code on iOS but Safari.
Amazon Dark Patterns
I’ve a small side project I’m working on. I am writing the backend in Clojure and then deploy with Jenkins using the Groovy DSL — it’s useful that everything runs on the JVM. The Jenkins code calls Terraform to set up the servers, drawing on optimized AMIs I set up with Packer. I avoid Docker for all the reasons I’ve written about elsewhere (you can Google if you’re interested). Packer does everything that people would otherwise use Docker for. For now the frontend is plain HTML and jQuery. I haven’t done the mobile app yet so no need for Angular/Cordova or React.
Right, yes, line of sight from one site to another. Oops.
Fukushima’s Nuclear Imprint Is Found in California Wine (Drinkers, Don’t Panic)
Thanks, that's a million times better
Senate IoT security bill could mandate IoT field certificate provisioning
Source? I have deep interest in ancient history.
The Wrong Abstraction (2016)
If you have to sell self driving cars as "more people will die but some people will have more free time" it's not going to be as easy as if they are unarguably safer for everyone.
News flash! Some journalists are lazy, just parroting press releases! Video at 11!

Still, the Columbia Journalism Review is right about the need to rethink how news outlets cover "tech." Too much tech journalism fills space and time with breathless playback of the founding myths of companies, or breathless coverage of scandals.

The big Sili Valley companies are big enough to deserve the same kind of journalist scrutiny as outfits like GM, Proctor&Gamble, and Cargill. Some business journalists specialize in finance, while others specialize in product, distribution, employment, regulatory, and the like. It certainly makes sense for some to specialize in software and telecom, but those fields apply to Cargill just as much as they apply to Google or the stealth startup in the incubator.

It's common for business journalists to accept embargos on stories, holding off publication until a certain, and near, date. This is quid pro quo for early access. But the moment they accept long term confidential disclosure agreements is the moment they stop being journalists. If we don't want our trade secrets in the media, we should not show them to journalists.
You won't have to pay for using Oracle JDK 8u181 in prod, and you won't have to pay for using OpenJDK 11 and higher in prod.

You will have to pay for using Oracle JDK 11 and higher in prod, which is built from the exact same codebase as OpenJDK 11 but offers commercial support and long-term support (LTS) releases.

https://adoptopenjdk.net plans to ship LTS releases of OpenJDK for free.
https://projectunspeakable.com/conspiracy-theory-invention-o...

Titled “Countering Criticism of the Warren Commission Report,” the dispatch played a definitive role in making the “conspiracy theory” term a weapon to be wielded against almost any individual or group calling the government’s increasingly clandestine programs and activities into question.
> Most people want to take a break after 4-5 hours of driving anyway

I realize I'm not most people (I love to drive), but this seems like it's bordering on extraordinary-claim territory. I don't actually expect evidence, since this would be the kind that's particularly difficult to gather (you could ask people, but what people say doesn't necessarily translate to what they do).

Regardless, it seems unlikely to me that anyone would want to be forced to take a break at the 4 hour mark rather than waiting for their destination at the 5 hours mark (e.g. SJ-LA).

I realize, of course, that it's just a matter of (not that great a) degree between 20 minutes every 300 miles for charging versus 10 minutes every 400 miles for fueling. However, because we're not even there yet for a comparably-priced/affordable electric car, it may be premature to think that way.
The flow of coal analysis and animated infographic are really interesting
Gamers are very, very active on the internet and social media. So you get a lot more talk about the problems in journalism related to their field than you may for say, the problems in fishing or gardening journalism, where the audience is perhaps less active online.

It also (like most entertainment media) has a large audience, hence the amount of discussions. And that's what gets people discussing it.

It's the same reason sports journalism is so big online compared to its real world impact. Lots of people are interested in the field, regardless of how it affects 'more important' things.
It doesn't need a use when two superpowers are using it as a proxy for war. What "use" did the Space Race have?

> Lofting all of that mass to lunar orbit would have added considerably to the cost.

Sure, but when you have to do it to keep up with a Space Race, you have 5% of your country's output being used to apply brains to the problem.
All people are irrational about some things, which vary from person to person.
As a city person, I have to disagree about the lack of alternatives. Walking to the grocery store, or if it's really far, cycling to the grocery store, will do wonders for the gas bill.

Yes, that may mean relocating to a part of town where the next grocery store is not 10 miles away.
Seems like you could estimate fatality rate from crash rate? From your source, about 1 in 200 crashes are fatal.
Right. You build the rocket for the 10 guaranteed launches, then you move right on to building the next rocket, because you'll need another in case you lose the first. Then you build another after that, and that one can put up some payloads that were not-so-guaranteed. Then you build another after that, and by then, some of the labor that used to go completely into construction is now reconditioning and inspecting the reusable hardware instead. Eventually, your construction crews are building at the replacement rate for whatever sized fleet of reusable rockets you need to put up the payloads you can cram into your launch pipeline.

As it is, that pipeline is fixed at 10 launches per year. If the pipeline were fatter, they could fit more launches into it. If they can do more launches, they can court more customers.

If cost to orbit is cheap enough, you can do things like launch a big, dumb tank of water, xenon, hydrazine, liquid fuel, food supplies, oxygen candles, or anything else useful only in quantity, and requiring no life support. With those up there, you can do rendezvous-and-go missions, and it costs less money to get to wherever you're going. If you can do more launches, you can spread more missions out across multiple launches.
If you want to scare yourself some time, watch the shingle sawyers do this with power tools.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bDKYGoIoukg
Yes, they are literally piping the AAC-encoded bitstream as it appears in the iTunes files with no manipulation. Why would they decode it only to re-encode it?
I'm surprised this hasn't gotten more traction here, but that's likely due to the issue joekrill already pointed out - a tweet stream is annoying and painful. It's too bad, there's a lot of interesting detail here.
It seems very a very different perspective from other sports like Formula1. Nobody would bat an eye if someone created a better engine to win F1 races.
> I can't imagine these poor video streams are useful inputs for the algorithm...

Store a rolling last X minutes of full sensor data into memory, then dump it to disk if the supervising driver hits the "that was a fuck-up" button.
Royalties from a book or patent or software?
> wtf is a normed division algebra??

An "algebra" is a set of thingies that have binary operations defined on them (i.e., operations that take two thingies as input and output another thingie). The thingies are usually referred to as "elements" of the algebra. Any algebra will at least have the "add" and "multiply" operations, but might also have others.

A "division algebra" is an algebra where the operations are add, subtract, multiply, and divide, and all of them work basically the same as they do with ordinary numbers (but they won't have all of the same properties--see below).

A "normed division algebra" is a division algebra with one additional operation called "norm", that takes as input any element of the algebra and outputs a real number, the "norm" of that element. On the ordinary real numbers, the norm is just the absolute value.

The "over the real numbers" part means that you can construct the normed division algebra by starting with real numbers; or, to put it another way, all of the elements of the algebra are "made of" real numbers. The simplest way of viewing this is as a repeated operation of pairing: complex numbers are made of pairs of real numbers, quaternions are made of pairs of complex numbers (hence sets of four real numbers, hence "quater"), and octonions are made of pairs of quaternions (hence sets of eight real numbers, hence "octo"). But each step in this series loses a key property. The reals are totally ordered; the complexes are not. The complexes are commutative under multiplication; the quaternions are not. The quaternions are associative under multiplication; the octonions are not.

> Is there any place that explains mathematical concepts in ... different ways?

Not really, because the only way people have found to really understand mathematical concepts is to build them up out of simpler mathematical concepts. That means you can't just encounter a complicated mathematical concept and expect to understand it if you don't understand all the simpler concepts it is built from. There are no shortcuts.
Funny guy, everyone understood that I meant The X Window System™.
I immediately thought of the "Hated in the Nation" episode of Black Mirror.
i think at a competitive level we have already crossed this threshold, as we have barred j-blade runners from competing against full-legged humans at the highest level.

i think it's totally justified, but i don't think it will have any effect on the advancement of prosthetics, which pave the way to performance augmentations.
* DNS visible

* HTTP visible

* SMTP visible

* POP3 visible

* Traffic timing/volume analysis

* Ports you’re connecting to identify the service you’re using

And so on ...

Not a problem with a VPN.
You are right

http://www.sherekhudahazratali.com/2018/07/hai-chati-aaj-khw...
My experience is that it's bullshit. I had a backup (damn I still have one) with Backblaze, when attempting to restore it, maybe 30% of the files survived restore. The rest are lost in smoke.

They don't have any way to detect corruption in the data or if they have, the backup clients are oblivious to it.

I lost about a 150GB of family photos and videos.
"Unfortunately, our website is currently unavailable in most European countries."

Here's an archived copy that works:

https://archive.is/PaAIm
Thanks for the correction. I'm sure I've heard biographers (Jessica Goldestein perhaps?) describe his faith as having had a strong influence, but I must have misconstrued it quite a bit as memory faded. You're right, he was raised Lutheran. But his father was Catholic.
Liberté Égalité Overcrowded, Underfunded Universities
> That's a bit ridiculous. No one is ever gonna pay you for that.

There is a p2p network that does exactly that using cryptocurrency tokens. https://substratum.net/
yes, which is also a way of saying that the whole market is ALWAYS a bubble, and there is absolutely no way to tell when it is going to deflate again.

Markets are made to inflate and deflate. Predicting that a deflation will happen doesn't make you a genius. Using the above quote to cover your back is basically saying that we always live in a bubble.
Microsoft Releases PowerShell Core for Linux as a Snap Package
For my recent projects, I've used Go + DynamoDB for a GraphQL backend, and Next.JS with SSR on the frontend. Deploying both to lambda with Apex Up. Stripe for billing, SendGrid for transactional email.
I wasn't arguing that there isn't significant drag in water, and to be able to win swimming competitions you need to care about that to.
But I have a hard time accepting that swimming shorts, is to swimming as shoes are to running.
I'd be surprised if the exact same codebase (as of Java 11) was 4x slower just because it's called OpenJDK.
Dear Telegram. Where is the open source code
I am not the only one who is confused and want to decide on how this goes on or ends.

Four years ago you launched the Telegram messenger with a promise of a new and improved, privacy aware messaging application. You called to action the open source community and asked for their help and promised that you will be slowly rolling out your code base to the public starting with the client.

Even after four years, you have not moved an inch forward in open sourcing the cryptic server engine (allowing self hosting) or properly documented the so called military crypto you guys have created.

You seem to have purposefully invited in, taken help from the community and very maliciously violated that trust.

As for me, I am out.
The aggressive opinion on regulating these shoes seems over the top to me, the next best shoes, the relatively unheralded Nike Streak, provided a 3% performance improvement, and more runners achieved a personal best with those shoes. And improvements with the vapor fly 4% were smaller for faster runners. Also many runners choose shoes based on injury prevention and comfort - if a shoe gets you to the starting line uninjured with plenty of training miles that's an infinite time improvement over pulling out of the race injured.

Wired did a good analysis on this too https://www.wired.com/story/do-nike-zoom-vaporfly-make-you-r...
> I believe Germany makes you renounce your old citizenship in most (not all) cases to gain German citizenship, but you have it listed as allowing it?

Same for The Netherlands[1]

[1] https://www.government.nl/topics/dutch-nationality/dual-nati...
The point is that it did, with more than 20 years experience in production to fine tune its security.

WASM still needs to prove itself in similar scenarios.
I don't use swiper, but Emacs + Elfeed is indeed a great experience; especially so if you tag all your RSS feeds when adding them. Also, if you have EMMS, you can play podcasts right away pressing P in the * elfeed-show * buffer.
The Healing Buzz of “Drunk History”
Okay, but we did evolve to run on dirt and rock, neither of which are particularly soft. Equally important, studies indicate that impact does not decrease when running on softer surfaces. Runner instinctively step harder on soft surfaces and more softer on hard surfaces, to get the same feedback from their feet and legs.
That's GNU GPL 2 https://github.com/oracle/graal/blob/master/LICENSE
I never use iTunes.

Agree with other commenter. Finding shows is not hard, many apps will take feed links various ways and have catalogs.
My advice would be a mixture of:

A: A good captcha, which doesn't rely on the typical 'distorted image' setup. Some good questions can work there, as can an anti spam honeypot question and a script to measure how quickly a user fills in the form (to block those who do this inhumanly fast).

B: Integration with an spam blacklisting service. Stuff like Stop Forum Spam or what not used to work pretty well for me in the past, though there were a few false positives.

Either way, the key is that your sign up process should be as 'unique' as possible, since the majority of spammers are either robots or sweatshop type mass submission setups, and they don't want to put in effort to crack 'bespoke' solutions here.
The only thing that I see more and more, is that it has been now 10 years since the 2008 crisis and the longer it has been, the longer people start to realize that something is going to happen eventually (Thanks captain obvious).

Beside that, there is no way to exactly know when or why it is going to happen. If you knew, it means that you got information that the market doesn't have (since it didn't adjust to it).
I believe it should work with any executable in your PATH but I've never tried it with anything beyond cmd.exe to be honest.
Obviously due to potential confusion with the zero-dimensional numbering system, "0nions".
I mean, it is already hard enough to redesign infrastructure for trains, trolleys, buses, etc...
Yes, I was being sarcastic. I don't like the homeless problem here either, but it gets slightly better once you move out of SLU to a residential area with $1M houses. We still get things like car break ins though, my neighbor had one just this Tuesday. I'm also thinking about moving some quieter nicer place, but knowing myself, I probably won't.

There's Gilman Playground in Ballard with baseball park. It also has tennis courts. There's another baseball park at NW 63rd St and 20th Ave NW, and another one at 60th and 26th. There are more baseball parks in Woodland Park, and they also have soccer fields. Ballard High School has a football stadium, though I don't know how easily accessible it is to non-students. There's another baseball park/football/soccer stadium at Local Heights Playfield.

But yeah, if you're into basketball, you're probably out of luck if you're looking for any outside basketball place, it's not really that popular here.
As an HNer, I find what Waymo (and other autonomous vehicle companies) are doing is simply fabulous. Technology improvement is a big impetus for human progress. Looking back over the past century, inventions like transistor, rockets, internet, satellites, nuclear power and aviation significantly improved our quality of life.

Autonomous vehicles belong to the same league. I am very happy that a non trivial amount of resources are devoted to them and it's not just a next SV fad like some ICO / Juicero / photo sharing app. Rooting for the success of this technology.
It is okay to make your own call on the general economic outlook and to share your reasons why. You don't have to wait for the crash to modify your behaviour.

Closely tied with the general economy is how the climate is doing. We kind of know that soon there is going to be some crash in this with people having to modify many aspects of their lives. The rest of the world might still be going about spending ridiculous amount of time in aeroplanes and eating food dredged from the furthest ocean but that does not mean that you have to be enjoying these 'good times' too. We have been at 'peak planet trashing' for a long time, 'peak oil' came and went during this time, proven wrong.

The economy, your decisions to borrow and the type of work that you do can be informed by your own internal thought process, there is no need to go along with the herd. From this lady's niche she sees it as a time to tone down the irrational exuberance. There are other people who may have the same thinking, for different reasons not visible to you.

For instance, in the UK, if you are going to lose with whatever is decided regarding Brexit then you just might be thinking along the lines of the article. In your part of Little Britain you might not be able to sell your house, that is a very powerful indicator that something is up and no amount of stock market or unemployment figures are going to change your personal perspective based on the realities you know. That said, you might think that others should see the writing is on the wall. Others may scoff at you and point to the solid government statistics published in the newspapers as a bit more definitive than your personal hearsay.

Nobody imagined a few rubbish mortgages sliced and diced into investment products could bring down the whole of global capitalism, but that was pretty much the situation in 2008.

Right now, sitting by your pool in sunny LA, it could be hard to imagine that a 'bad Brexit' a continent away could mean you having to foreclose your home next year and put the shutters down at your business, with all cars in the garage having to be sold. It could happen. It probably won't but still it could be prudent to downsize to a house that is only as big as you need, put some savings by and get a more sensible vehicle.