skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is what I'm talking about. You are telling other people that their votes were about. There was no room in the existing budget for fire suppression? Maybe they think the people that are clearly not very good at fire suppression shouldn't be given another chance? You really think they all thought "okay my neighbor's house just burned to the ground, but it won’t ever happen to me so why should I pay to prevent it?" The real propaganda is government mismanagers forcing you against your fellow citizen by making a vote against a tax increase for something to be a vote against that something. And, suppose that everyone voting against are ignorant and potential beggars/whiners and that there was no other reason they disagreed with the fire suppression and tax increase measure, this anecdote is not enough to support the general assumptions about why people vote against tax increases.
I can see that going both ways.

The feds know that Apple (for example) are fully lawyered up, and that they need all their legally required paperwork with it's "i"s dotted and "t"s crossed before Apple will even look at their request for your data. While we know they _will_ hand over legally required data when they can and the paperwork is OKed by their legal department, they also very publicly go head to head with law enforcement when those requests are legally questionable or technically impossible.

I suspect an overly broad probable cause warrant to seize all the electronic devices in your house is gonna be much easier to slip past an leo friendly judge and whatever legal representation you can muster up when they dawn-raid you - than "slipping one past" Apple's legal team.

Having said that, if you've got the feds interested in your digital comms, you probably want to be getting your security advice from a much more private and trustworthy source than randoms on Hackernews...
Yeah, I interviewed someone over 60 a few months ago and myself and the other engineers who interviewed were all intimidated. It was fine once we were in the interview room but reading the resume scared everyone a little.
I agree its a bad headline. Maybe "Dandelion Seeds Fly Using Method Not Previously Described in Nature", because:
1. Of course its been _observed_ before. As the video points out, just about every kid has observed it. The claim is really that nobody has previously understood the physics of it.
2. There's nothing impossible about it, clearly. Moreover, the article doesn't claim that people had previously analyzed the seeds behavior and came to the conclusion that it defies physics.
DreamPi
In this case, I was assuming a risky investment that returns within the same month.
Anybody knows a good, worldwide weather "niceness" rating API with a free tier? The only scoring system I found was the Hugo Poppe method[0], but seems like I'd have to implement it myself.

[0] http://www.meteovista.com/weather-rating/2971/0
GameDiscovery – A personal project to solve a personal problem
There are so many game platforms available nowadays and the list keeps growing. I feel like I get lost sometimes when trying to remember whether a game I own is on Steam, Origin, or even just DRM-free on my hard disk. As such, I've been tinkering with an idea to solve this for some time, and only recently decided to make it a reality.

The basic idea is to have one application (Windows first, as that's the system I have available to me) which aggregates together all of your games from all of your games folders/platforms, allowing you to launch them all from one interface.

https://goo.gl/forms/gSGVldfAVS54vDiI3
Here I have a short Google Forms survey I'd like to post just to get some initial feedback on the idea, and optionally some data to test with and maybe even some alpha test users. There currently is no release window defined for this project, as I'm only able to work on it during my free time, however, knowing people are interested would provide me some accountability to actually complete it.

I fully intend to keep the application free to use forever. I will never charge to use it, as I am creating this for me, and if one other person finds it useful, then awesome!

Thanks for your time to read/respond.
The fix implements a basic state machine to ensure protocol state transitions are sane. Prior to this, attacker-supplied data was used in calculating the offset inside an array of callbacks. So you could just tell the server to call into the “auth success” handler.
Stopped reading after: "Windows is one of the most versatile and flexible operating systems out there....."

hahahaha, good joke!
The Supermemo is an excellent resource for learning and memory. Full of top notch content.
Hello, would love to try this out!
The Problem with Popular Mechanics’ Love Letter to Elon Musk
Right, but I don't know how else to interpret what he's claiming. Singularity or no singularity, if there's an event horizon, there's a black hole.
Appreciated! I've detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18239371 and marked it off-topic.
Atlas of the Pacific Northwest
Duh, this was 7 year ago. Who thought it started off perfect. How does that affect their performance now after thousands of rides and way better equipment?
I'd enjoy an access code! This looks vaguely similar to Notion.so, and I love that
>Any entity that provides fairly steady, predictable work and guaranteed pay is doing a good thing for the most part.

I'm not really sure about that, any big busines wouldn't hesitate to fire you and as many people needed to close the numbers or to cut your hours-wages for the same reason let's not talk about benefits, there's not "safe job" anymore.
GandCrab Devs Release Decryption Keys for Syrian Victims
And in the end is what happens with gmail. You have one mailbox and all versions of your mailbox with dots in between the characters as alias automatically.
And I've seen it where they had to basically rework budgets from scratch and prosecute officials mismanaging funds that sowed decades of distrust in the system. Maybe there were a few individuals who actually cared about funding important items and being fiscally responsible. Is your anecdote more apropos than mine or are these just anecdotes?

> They are explicitly anti-funding

"They" who? All the voters against this tax increase? The small towns you lived in? People that disagree?
Cardtables Online: Virtual cardtables online for playing any standard-deck game
I honestly don't know why they are focusing on towers. I honestly believe we need to skip that and use LEO sats. While more expensive upfront, it also provides the ability to give global coverage. Some googling will show you white papers with estimates of ~4500 nanosats (30x10x10cm), but you can reduce the number of those by not rolling out usage worldwide and then scale up (entering markets in other countries. Even ones that have NO internet access currently).

You have low latency, high speeds, and don't need as many towers. But you HAVE to be in LEO.
Yep, my perspective on this has long been that all the important positive adult influencers in many adolescents' lives are telling them things like: 1. Don't do drugs, 2. Practice safe sex or abstain, 3. Be honest and kind, 4. Work hard, 5. Go to college, and 6. It's worth incurring debt to do that. Then a few years later, it's "victimization" if you happened to do all the things the adults told you to do. The expectation seems to be that teenagers figure out for themselves which advice from adults is good and which is bad.
Regressive federal payroll taxes are almost equal to income taxes.
Knuth vs. email
You're probably right about the subjects: "Ten adults were recruited at City University of Hong Kong and completed the
training." So they'd likely be native Cantonese speakers.

But tonal languages use relative rather than absolute pitch (because different people have different vocal ranges), and all participants in the study improved their performance over time.

So speaking a tonal language or being a musician (also the case for the subjects in the study) can give an advantage, but I'd be surprised if deliberate training of pitch perception had absolutely no effect for people without such an advantage.
I recall one of the major bulk mail services (perhaps Campaign Monitor?) has a service where you can feed your intended outbound mail into a large range of spam checking services before you send it, to alert you to problems in your mail that are likely to trigger spam filters.

(On the other side of that problem though, if my email account starts sending mail "what looks like spam", it's almost certainly because my account's been compromised and is actually sending spam. There's a _start_ difference between typical personal person-to-person email and spam. I suspect _some_ business email might blur the line there - but part of me thinks if your business email is blurring the line about being "spammy", then it deserves to get filtered...)
> Although this was almost two decades ago, that was not the advice we were given at my school. It was more along the lines of "what do you want to do? there are trade schools, community colleges, and state colleges depending on what motivates you".

So, uhhh... It sounds like you got exactly the experience you're claiming you didn't get, but are blind to the alternative: That more schooling (even a trade school) wasn't the only option.
With most people, it is impossible to gauge how good they are just by observing what they do in half a day on the job. Thus, any interview process must necessarily be somewhat artificial in trying to gain insight into a candidate's abilities in the span of a half a day.

A real life task might be implementing a much more complex library over several days or weeks. Asking the person to implement a simple function like shuffle is the closest you can get in the span of an hour.
Only in official capacity. There was little problem smuggling computers from West Germany pre 1990. For example Amstrad PC2000 386 1989 model was priced at around 10K DM (Deutsche marks), around 50-100K DDM (east germany marks) with black market exchange rates, Vax clone Robotron K1840 mentioned in the article was 2M DDM. Amiga 500 (similar specs to K1840, minus the MMU :P) was 900 DM - average price of XT clone in West Germany. Robotron manufactured XT clones were 35-55K DDM, 3-5 times more expensive than in the west.

It doesnt take a rocked surgeon to guess what happened to Robotron after Germany unification.
Humanity has only been searching for exoplanets for a very short time. That's why there are relatively few candidates farther than 1 AU out. It's somewhat like arguing that all lattes are comprised of milk only because we've only taken the first sip.
Same here - and on both sides of the Atlantic.

That's also how I got to read Crime and Punishment twice: in Russian, when I was in school in Ukraine, and then in English, at a high school in Brooklyn the very next year. Had a blast both times, really.

Our AP English teacher that quarter was a six-foot-something metalhead whose name I, unfortunately, forgot. But his class is one of my warmest memories of those years. One time he took the whole class to a Russian restaurant (as an optional excursion, we paid for ourselves) just to give the kids a better immersion into the Russian culture (the school was right next to a Russian-speaking neighborhood anyway). Even for me, it was something that created a real-life context for the fictional work, and of course made it more exciting.

So I'd say - assigned reading is not necessarily the death knell for a work of art. It really does depend on the teacher. However, statistically, it probably kills it for most people, so in the very least, there's no point in having a nationwide standard.

Which brings me back to OP's point: the problem isn't just that there's assigned reading in ex-USSR countries, it's that everyone has the same assigned reading. That has a devastating effect, I think. At least in the US, even if a book is destroyed in the classroom, there are decent chances that most of the students won't be affected because they'll have different assigned reading.
Totally agree.

Self awareness is a killer for most developers. They are too close to the music. When all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail.

Hopefully you are selling to other technical people, in which case a multitude of sins are covered if your product is truly needed.
https://dot.kde.org/2017/09/14/plasma-mobile-and-purisms-lib...
Yep. WiGig is 60GHz and won't penetrate even a dry wall.

It would make more sense to allocate these frequencies for personal use (although WiGig has that covered), or technologies similar to Artemis pCell[1] (possibly vaporware at this point).

[1]: https://www.artemis.com/pcell
Relevant xkcd: https://xkcd.com/1867/
Outside the embassy there is some volunteer beaming in 4g WiFi hotspot with no password nearly every day for assange to connect to (with a vpn obviously) if he so wishes.

He uses it pretty regularly (according to people who packet sniff it), but still doesn't post on twitter.
I was a huge fan of the initial versions of Greplin, used it all the time. It sort of got steadily worse as it went sadly.

A simple and effective update/replacement of the concept is a solid idea. Though in fairness search is not nearly as annoying as it used to be, most phones and OS broad search functions can handle quite a bit of the use case.
Facebook, Corporate Bad Actor
The very next sentence doesn't make sense either:

> And to reduce flash-wear, RAM contents can be preserved even during low-power mode when most hardware modules are turned off.

Flash wear only occurs during erases, so... why does it matter to reduce wear in low-power mode? Why would they be writing to flash during normal operation, except perhaps an authentication counter?

One would hope that they're executing the program out of the flash (that they've previously verified and locked) rather than out of 'stack'. This isn't an operation that causes wear.
Why wasn't it called Caelus in the first place? Was something else using that name?
You can read books without checking them out.
Yup. If I get even the slightest inkling of this attitude from the interviewers, I will refuse to join the company. I'll give a pass for one smug interviewer, but if I encounter multiple such interviewers, I assume it's not a company I'd like to work at.
Dependents in Homebrew: Csync, Hydra, Sshtrix, Yafc.

[1] http://brewformulas.org/Libssh
Sounds exactly like Atlas. If Atlas failed with $21M, I'm doubtful that journal will be able to do it with $1M.

https://techcrunch.com/2017/10/18/atlas-informatics-calls-it...
One of the primary properties of the tech boom (and, lets face it, almost all industrialized capitalism) is that it doesn't account for nor take responsibility for side effects of their overwhelming wealth. Some are even convinced that its a net positive and nothing should be done - despite the fact that the winners are investors and the upper class employees, and the losers are those adjacent who have to move 2 hours away. Maybe shame will get some people to budge, but I think the decision makers such as Jack/etc are so far away from being able to empathize with the people that are harmed that there's no real chance.

Also slightly amusing: Jack doesn't think that this is the "best" way to solve homelessness. Whats the best way, since clearly he knows about it, and why isn't he doing it?
There is being skeptical and then there is baseless, conspiratorial cynicism -- the kind that usually makes you hurt yourself.
We live in an age of private companies owning the infrastructure facilitating daily life. For instance:

1. Communications infrastructure: FB, Twitter, private sites hosted on big cloud vendors

2. Payments: Stripe, Braintree, ...

3. Cloud: Google, AWS, MSFT-Azure, ...

4. Transportation: Uber, Lyft, ...

5. Domain registration, hosting: GoDaddy, Google, AWS, ...

Imagine running a real business while being banned from the aforementioned platforms --> It's unfeasible!!!

Never ever in history have companies from the valley held outsized control over private communication and business. With this power comes great responsibility - one of which is tolerance for an opposing political thoughts. If these "infrastructure" companies start making it unfeasible for those with differing politics to exist online, they'll immediately draw regulatory ire. Not to mention that systemic censorship of certain thought is unethical.

If AWS employees disagree with Palantair & ICE, they should consider other channels of expression - from social media to pressuring their elected representatives to call for change. But, if Palantair isn't engaged in illegal activity, they should be sent to an orientation in tolerance for opposing political philosophies.
This is such an unrecognized part of the problem: overcredentialing. It's rampant: it's explicit in areas like healthcare and law, and implicit in the HR practices of many corporations.

We bitch about people going into debt, but turn around an are fine with companies being picky as hell about having a specific degree, as if that's everything about a person's ability or background. We also bitch about healthcare costs, but then act like the sky will fall if we start discussing the possibility of pharmacists, optometrists, or psychologists prescribing or offering more services. Your observation about law is equally astute.

I'm going to beat a dead horse until it rises from the grave, but this is the situation with liberal arts degrees as well: they're from a time when it was assumed that you could major in, say, philosophy, and take comp sci classes, do work in that area, and build up a career in comp sci without anyone questioning it. Now your local HR department uses that comp sci degree to screen you, as if you are your degree.

Everyone knows that these degrees are helpful but imperfect indicators, but we treat them as perfect indicators because it's easier to maintain the myth, and it benefits those who benefit from rent-seeking and overregulation.
That entire article seems to avoid saying how much INCOME each of those groups are. Yes, the top 3% pay 37.5% of income taxes. But is their total income less than or greater than 37.5% of the total?

Without the numbers, its kind of meaningless.. that is like saying bill gates moves to a town of 50 people, and suddenly pays 99.999% of the taxes.. its expected, unless you give the mean, median, etc, of income.. not just of how much he paid.
"my time would have been better spent reviewing more basic embedded topics." In my own experience embedded topics have all been a derivative of my experience working on embedded systems( I Interviewed for a EE role). What kind of embedded questions were you asked ?
Oh, I'm sure that you can think of lots of reasons if your possible motivations include corruption.

Every kind of voting system that has been created has also been corrupted somehow, somewhere.
To be fair - building a business like Helm while needing to deal with other people's hardware and their software updates which you wouldn't find out broke your product until your customers start screaming about their email not working - wouldn't be fun. I could easily see how someone could want to do that and seriously consider it, then discard it as an option (or at least as part of their MVP launch options).
I was 14 in 1989 when my Dad and I were watching TV and they switched over to show East and West Germans breaking through the wall and hugging each other.

I remember watching for hours because I knew I was watching history being made.
Statistically speaking, yes, I believe that my parents' generation (in the US) could assume that college degree + hard work = good job. That's how we got into this mess: it was such a clear equation that going to college became a no-brainer for people who could do it, which inflated the value and in turn the cost of a degree.
discord does this
> That’s about as amazing as Hollywood accounting.

Hollywood accounting does not kill or maim.
Please send one over!
It can make logical sense to ban selling or producing but outlawing a person to consume whatever (except when driving, operating machinery or doing some other kind of job potentially dangerous to others) is plain absurd - every person's body belongs only to themselves and they drink/smoke/eat whatever they want.
Gov't spending in this sector is the only efficient form of spending happening.

Insurance companies and hospitals are being as inefficient and wasteful as possible because it makes them more money.
> (which also features a rather nice text editor).

I know, right? This 'evil' thing is going places.
The only reason something like this runs on the cloud is because it serves their business model.

If you want to access your data from multiple devices at multiple locations, just set up a NAS with a decent search engine on it.
Scientists prove same-sex mammals can make babies
I've once found some (something less than a gram), seriously. Nobody was around who it might belong to so I've just smoked it immediately. The law (well, a FAQ on the police website) says I should have taken it and given it up to the police but what if an officer would stop me for a check during my way and find it - wouldn't it be possession anyway? The purpose of possession is unverifiable and forbidding a person to consume any kind of substance is ridiculous.
Your number 2 scenario is dead wrong. The reason the person is in that scenario in the first place is because they mis-judged the payoff from having the first degree. The likelihood they misjudge the second degree is just as high.

In fact let's look at it: what's the probability that given your inability to gain one of the lucrative jobs at this level of education you can gain one with a higher level of eduction? Well we can speculate, a higher level of education can be sought for two reasons: you're acadmically gifted and genuinely want to get more education, or you're not academically gifted and you want the magic fairy wand to wave to get into Brothers and Brothers LLP. Well let's face it, you're in group number 2, and it's the people in group 1 who are the actual successful candidates. So given that your pay off looks way off. You won't get the top jobs - you're not good enough, you won't get the medium jobs - you're overqualified, and you won't get the cheap jobs - you can't afford to work for that amount.
I have a 3 year gap on my resume and every job I've gone for has asked about it. It's there because I was studying full time as an adult, and when I tell people that they usually laugh and say they were making sure it wasn't a stint in prison.
There's no possibility for oddities because intimate is a transitive verb. That would cause a syntax error.

Syntax errors are not allowed. Thus, in place of "intimate" I obviously meant `rm -rf /*`

Let me edit tha
Ask HN: Creatively commons or open CS, Math, technical textbooks
I know about the classic SICP book but it is difficult to come across computer science textbooks that are Creative Commons licensed or allow open use of the text. Has anybody come across high quality open textbooks?
New Funding Pushes Chinese Self-Driving Startup Momenta’s Valuation to $1Bn
Not pretending to be an expert but I did a lot of proofs in Agda (a related subject was my bachelor's thesis). In what way do you find tactics useful? I personally find Coq having bunch of mini-languages inside, one being a tactic language confusing. I think it's a non-optimal (though viable) solution to the problem. I think, as always, lisp gets it right. Computing is all about abstractions and sometimes even abstractions that can talk between each other and the best way to approach this problem is homoiconicity. I think agda gets it right, if you write macros helping you solve the problem at hand you can write very elegant and readable proofs. I understand that tactics are very popular in proof automation community and I'm very likely very wrong. But this is just a reflection of my experience. I'm currently writing my own dependently typed PL and am debating merits of tactics. So far I can't find a reason to add them provided you give enough lispness to your language.