skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You're totally free to refer to other people however you want; no one's debating that. But everyone else has the same right to free speech, and many people will use it to call out the act of ignoring someone's preferred pronouns. It's a two-way street.

Free speech aside, I'm confused as to why you're pushing back so hard on this. You've used "they" as a singular third-person gender-neutral pronoun multiple times in ancestor posts ("Someone referred to you with the wrong gender because they mistook you for a girl") so clearly this isn't a principle in which you're particularly invested.
Woah, looks like PostgreSQL and MS SQL Server has same ancestor and started at the same time :)
Ask HN: What are the best practices for submitting tech talks?
I want to get started doing talks at tech conferences. I have several (hopefully) decent topics which are a cross between security and AI/machine learning. My plan is to build up experience with smaller, local opportunities like meetups and small regional conferences. (I am not a complete speaking noob -- I do internal corporate talks frequently and have done a bunch of college seminars).

I have a few questions, though:

1) Will doing the talk at a small conference/meetups disqualify me or hurt my chances to get accepted at a bigger talk?

My goal is to do talks at the 'big' conferences but, if I have a particularly good topic to talk about, I wouldn't want to "waste" it at a smaller venue.

2) Is it okay to submit multiple talks per conference?

3) Is earlier always better for submission, or does the submission time (early in the CFP period vs late) matter at all?

4) How 'complete' is your talk when you submit? Is it a vague outline that you don't start working on until accepted, or is it mostly ready-to-go when you submit?

Any other thoughts and advice for a beginning speaker greatly appreciated.
Big question for me: does it work on Heroku postgres?
It wasn't that the web pioneers did not consider layout important. They came from a background where layout was "external". The important thing was the content. Style was something that was added and/or defined by someone else. Such as with LaTeX.

The first web pages I wrote had no style information at all. And the first browsers I used allowed (and expected) you to define the default colours and fonts for pages to your own taste.

I am still a fan of minimal styling. It would save me a lot of time to write "style = article" on my pages and be done with it... but most people want their pages to look unique and exactly as they think it should.
And if you need the index:

for idx, genre in enumerate (list_of_genres)
Yes, it's down for me. Their status page shows all systems green https://status.bitbucket.org/ but that's probably a mistake. On Twitter they was saying about some issues 9 hour ago but it's quiet now https://twitter.com/BitbucketStatus That's a shame that virtually every time when any of the big sites is down their status pages seems to be the least reliable source of information.
Cathay Pacific Breach: Are You One of the 9.4M Passengers Whose Data Was Hacked?
I would love an answer to this too - Arabic always sounds beautiful to me and I would love to learn at least a little bit. It seems like learning both MSA and a dialect (perhaps Egyptian) might be the way to go, at least from what I can infer from this thread, the article, and conversations I've had with people in the past, but it's probably not as simple as that. It would perhaps be an easier question to answer if there were a specific region you were interested in living in / communicating with people in (but at least in my case, my only goal is "learn some Arabic because it sounds lovely", not "move to Syria and be able to communicate with people there").
I'm sure the budget for this new experiment will be given straight away, no questions asked.

Though of course, there's a difference between "drug A doesn't work for condition B but seems to work slightly for C" and "drug A doesn't work for condition B but 10 of 12 individuals with condition C have shown significant improvement"
Yes but at the end of the day all they can do is use that money to try to convince other voters to choose to vote their way.

The power to convince is different from the power to flatly override the wishes of others.

If you start trying to equalize the power to convince, now you're upending the entire media/journalistic system (where reporters and filmmakers and celebrities have far more influence than normal people) as well as the economy.
After recommending Blokada to someone, I realized the version on the Play Store can only change your DNS. The full version is on F-Droid.
A bit off-topic, but as somebody living in Europe, I found it interesting to discover from the comments here that lawn mower robots are not popular in the US. Some of the readers don't even seem to know they exist.

What is the reason for this? I know that estates are bigger in the US than in Europe on average, but there must be still millions of families with lawns smaller than 10,000 sqft? (which is the maximum lawn size for most robots below $1500)

(Of course, there could be some bias here; many HN readers probably live in big cities)
Pushing gives me the following error

Unexpected error. If you contact support, include this error ID: a8f6983ce4dd41f7ae7cdc5c158898e6
fatal: Could not read from remote repository.
I'm using mine exclusive for music, timer, weather and my lightswitches.

And those basic functions are so useful that I use it daily and miss it outside of my home.

I also own 4 of them.
The Javascript equivalent of byte code would be web assembly and that is still a long way from being ready for primetime.
Given that customers themselves had access to the beta, if that were true it would have been pretty easy for someone else with access to a GrayKey to refute that.
Is Quantum Computing Really a Threat to IT Security?
Wasn't sure to post original pay-walled paper (which I did) or one of the news coverage links. Here is coverage on motherboard:

https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/evw3w7/driverless...
I just tried again, works fine. Here's a screenshot:

https://image.ibb.co/dfTm3A/Screenshot-2018-10-25-10-07-23.p...
Whilst this is really great and I hope Psilocybin can live up to the hype and be a viable treatment for depression, I don't think the cure to the current depression epidemic should necessarily lie in altering something as delicate as our brain chemistry. I think it is more important to identify and "fix" the causes:

o The move away from tribalism/communities/families toward living independently in big cities and the consequent loss of human contact

o The move toward online/machine interfaces for purchases/transactions/operations and the consequent loss of human contact

o Advertising/Social Media and the false illusions these create(other people are happier and lead more successful lives than us)

o Sedentary Lifestyle and unhealthy diet

o Any others?
>> But if you tweak the hypothesis just a little, the data suddenly confirm it

This is 'data mining' right? And I've occasionally wondered about this, since I don't work in a scientific field but did once make use of the scientific method for some research I did. And yes the findings weren't especially conclusive but I'm not sure I could've tweaked the hypothesis to make it work.

So, had I found something really interesting that didn't fit the hypothesis, is the 'right way' to conduct a new experiment from scratch? So say I did that, and used the 'tweaked' hypothesis, of course I'd find something interesting, because it's already there.

In this new 'pre-registration' framework, how can I correct the problem and pursue the interesting idea but keep the science in-tact? Because, if I used some sort of cross-validation at the outset and I have all the data available I presumably can't change the sample, so the hypothesis presumably has to change.
I think everyone here knows about sci-hub, so I'd always post the original pay-walled paper.
At least it is phonetic though.
Except most sites use a CDN to serve static content, so this will block a lot of files

And it's "its own domain"
haha only on HN. And thank you!
> GrayKey, which counts an ex-Apple security engineer among its founders

How is it possible for someone to start a business built on breaking the security systems they had a role in implementing? It seems like a huge ethical breach, and I'm surprised there would not be contractual considerations to prevent this in the security field.
I get "Internal Server Error" when I try to access it.
My country has no Tesla's registered. More anecdotes anyone?
> I'm sure the budget for this new experiment will be given straight away, no questions asked.

Most of the cases: yes, although your example of clinical trials is slightly different, and in that case, I do think the data should be publicly available to other researchers even in the case of a null.
I think this is brilliant!!

This gives political clout back to the normal people.

Cleaners and trash disposal workers on strike for 2 months?? Country comes to a standstill.

Investment bankers on strike for 2 years? Nobody noticed except for retirees that get more pension benefits.
Secure key handling using the TPM
Safari caches favicons, I believe, so it shouldn't be making a request for all of them every time it starts up.
I remember some wit commenting that the strangest aliens in science fiction were the human characters in a Robert Forward novel...
Hard to disentangle two possible mechanisms: (1) null findings that would normally get tossed are being submitted and accepted at higher rates (i.e. preregistration increases acceptability of null findings), (2) null findings that would normally get p-hacked into positive findings and published are not (preregistration working as intended). Both good.
Ostensibly I do agree with you however that is the reason I phrased it "browser vendors working together" rather than "a new spec being written".

However, as you said, the chances of that happening are remote. Even putting personal agendas aside (eg Google wanting to control content via AMP), the web in it's current form is "good enough" that there's no real drive to reinvent the wheel for something with such deep market penetration already.
I thought about it before. I'm just waiting to spend between 5-15k for a robot who cleans the kitchen and does laundry.

After the autonomous car phase will become boring people will spend more in robotic.
That's interesting. It's down for everyone at my company also. I've even tried connecting from different countries over VPN but to no avail..

Edit: If you go to the homepage without previous cookies, it works. However if you try to log in you'll see errors only.
Top 8 Nordic tech startups received funding
Bad idea. Bad
I don't agree that we should make companies pay for open source or contribute towards it or whatever.

(I'll put the "open source" vs. "free" thing to one side for a minute, but I will assume you mean anything on Github (etc.) with a permissive license and is free of charge.)

Also there is no reason individuals should produce open source code for free. If you want to, then that is fine, but remember you don't have to.

It would be a lot better for developers if fewer people created open source software. Paid software (perhaps with exceptions for destitute people) would be better and more developers could make a living in such a way. The stuff that is good to have open source is the frameworks and toolchains like React and NPM, which big companies can bankroll for PR purposes.
Running functions on top of the transaction log(in transaction order) is a really powerful thing.
When you add Decentraleyes and add its ruleset to uMatrix, a lot of things start working.

Context: Decentraleyes is an extension that bundles a lot of those CDN-served JS frameworks and serves the locally stored version when it intercepts a matching HTTP request to fetch from those CDNs.
Render pipeline work appears to be 75% engineering and 25% intuition based on analyzing the output. The sheer number of files in this one scene makes the benefit of multiple threads really clear.
New study claims data harvesting among Android apps is “out of control”
What doesn't make any sense to me though that even if you avoid the police and any inspections, doing this to a car would 100% invalidate any insurance you have on it - making it an extraordinarily stupid idea to drive on any sort of public road, because if you get into an accident any insurance company will just refuse to pay out a single penny since the vehicle has been heavily modified past the factory specs - unless you declare all modifications to your insurer, which I am assuming you don't, since you also mention avoiding a full engineering inspection.
I too speak four languages (one of them very poorly).

Each of them has its own infuriating challenges, but they all share one big characteristic: Native children learn to speak them well around the age of seven. After that age, most children just add advanced vocabulary. Each of the four languages is by far the worst in some regard, but in a real, practical sense all four exhibit the same overall difficulty for a comparable group of learners.

I've heard that the age is the same for most languages, not just "my" four. For Arabic too, or is it one of the exceptions?
what's the name of the module that takes screenshots?
NO it's way worse than driving in general, because once the car has been modified, its behaviour on the road and that of the guy in the driver seat are completely decorrelated.

Ergo, the guy can be much more alert than most people on the road and STILL crash into others without any sort of warning, simply due to a software bug.

For various reasons, in regular cars, this should not happen.
It doesn’t have to pay for itself every year, which helps. (Still too much though, maybe...)
It's possible I'm seeing a copy saved by their CDN, and you're hitting the origin.
tbh, ive moved away from Wordpress, I find it too bloated for my needs. I been experimenting with Jekyll, and think eventually ill move over to Hugo.
How about production cars from consciencious companies like Waymo?
They've updated it to Major Outage and posted on twitter, albeit 17 minutes after the fact.
Air and Motivation
It's not exactly the same situation as Mandarin, the French dialects have generally not much to do with each other, it's not really a family of languages like Chinese.
> i am aware of their "ratings", which i find hard to believe.

Is this common among the anti-Tesla crowd? I think you're the first crash rating conspiracy theorist I've come across. If anything I'd assume that the organisations doing the testing would be deeply connected with traditional car manufacturers and that Tesla (as a newcomer) would actually be at a disadvantage.

Perhaps you know something we don't?
I think I need some explaining! What is the image trying to show? What is Metcalfe's law? What is Beckstrom's Law?
Bitbucket Down
> The biggest culprits are news apps and those aimed at children, both of which tend to have the most third-party trackers associated with them.

I'm not sure which is worse. In a democracy it's not anyone's business what news I read.
Or if all the roads you drive down had roadside billboard advertising, like an early way to pretend the windshield is a display. :|

7-speed automatic but gears 4,5,6,7 are DLC.
It's down, status has been updated: https://status.bitbucket.org/

"Investigating - Bitbucket is currently unavailable. We are investigating with urgency."

Update 08:28 UTC:
"Monitoring - Bitbucket services are back online. We are closely monitoring services as they recover."
I think you are getting downvoted because you are just wrong - it's not illegal, but you have to tell your insurer about it, as long as they approve it it's absolutely fine to drive. Some modifications(engine swaps for example) require the car to be re-certified by the official authority, but it's not an impossible process, just takes a few weeks and some money.
Ask HN: Online DAG editor of mathematical functions for statistical analysis
Hello HN,
I once came across a online tool in one of your posts or comments, which I am now unable to find for the life of me.

Tool in question is an online editor which allowed for creation of graphs (I assume directed and acyclic). Each node could be given a name and function. Depending on a function more data could be entered or defaults were used.

IE One could examine expected savings. You would start with static input of ones wage, direct it into sub node that would have expenses as input. Expenses would consist of a baseline, ie house rent cost and normal distribution of expected monthly spendings (from to value, with most likely value in the middle but which could be shifted to either side). Aggregate all that, and multiply by 12 in following node to get expected projection for a money saved during a year.

From memory, this tool was more like a bonus in that particular site then a selling point. Without login, one was able to browse public graphs and create its own public graph. Some examples rent vs buy graph, us budget distribution etc

Does this description ring any bells? I would be grateful for even similar tools, failing that I will have to write one myself...

Thank you for your time.
Refining an experiment is not wrong. What is wrong, like you say, is going on a fishing expedition until you find a result you like.

There are methods to account for follow-up experiments. Bonfaroni correction [1], for instance, requires you to increase your significance level with each new test.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bonferroni_correction
>: I also wanted to mention that written Arabic differs from spoken Arabic, and the dialect factor multiplies this problem.

This is true only for English. When it comes to eastern European languages: written arabic is the same as spoken arabic.

Arab people can read Polish, Slovakian, Belarusan language without any problems whatsoever with perfect pronunciation.

English is an exception - its very rare case of language in which you write differently then you speak.
We are implementing a similar concept using VR. To us http://stirlinglabs.com the choice between AR & VR is simply if the object of the discussion fits into the room or not. For our customers creating massive structures such as ships, hospitals or airports, a tiny scale model sitting on a desk using AR isn’t particularly useful or interesting. They are more interested in switching their existing room for a space in their new structure.
Ha ha, ironically that is much nicer to use than most "real" 2018 websites. For example: news.com.au / dailymail.co.uk I dare you to try those naked with no ad blocker. Or dare I say reddit.com on mobile.
Yes, but as I said, it's very easy to add those via umatrix. And you only have to do it the first time you visit a new site.

Example: You go to meetup.com for the first time. You click on the umatrix icon. You click on meetupstatic.com. You click on the save symbol. Done.
Green tea supplements ruined my liver
Something like that, yes. When you visit any URL on the site, we use javascript to rewrite the URL in the location bar with a shortened, unique, trackable URL. So we know both what URL you came in through, and the new URL that we then assigned to you. With this we can track every click all the way back up through the tree to the initial click, even if you just copy/paste the URL or hit the button on your phone to text the page to a given contact. Where possible, we also track any link preview engines that visit the URL, so we can usually tell not just that you shared, but how you shared (skype, telegram, iMessage, gmail, facebook, twitter, etc.).

I initially wrote this system so that I could retarget through Facebook ads people that had previously shared viral news articles, but now we have found great applications for it in ecommerce and lead gen as well.
> Not updating the os does not make a phone work less well, it simply prevents you from using new features, which is fine.

Speak for yourself. I expect my devices to be updated and enhanced by new features, which don't require new hardware. If that requirement comes with slight and reasonable performance penalties I'm fine with it.
I'm with Shannons and have all modifications declared. The engineering side of things is primarily for standard road/vehicle registration and checks that you're compliant with ADR (Australian Design Rules). i.e. my rollcage is CAMS (Confederation of Australian Motor Sport) compliant, however for it to be ADR compliant I would need it inspected by an engineer, while Shannons still happily covers it.

But yeah my insurer knows everything right down to the brand of main bearings I bought.
Yeah. In areas where we know so little that it's hard to make informed hypotheses, there's probably a substantial component of discovery science.

It's a bit of a yin-yang situation IMO: discovery science often leads to testable hypotheses for future work, and things we learn from hypothesis-testing can open up new avenues for discovery
I feel this app should have a limited free mode, like "10" results or something. I'd love to try it, but just trying for $24 seems like a gamble, as I am not sure I'd like it or not.
which IDL do you use? which codegen tools and for which languages?

also i think i'm missing something:

>which you don’t really need with json+REST anyways

why don't you need server stubs for json+REST?
We build sites with complex data structures on WordPress using CMB2 for custom fields. I think Gutenberg has its place, but if you want to build anything of any real size you're going to need data structures (i.e. content types with defined relationships), and Gutenberg doesn't allow that. It's an odd kind of structured layout tool that I think will confuse a lot of people.

For all their faults (which are less and less as it develops), WYSIWYG fields using TinyMCE have the massive advantage that they look like the word processors that most people are familiar with. Beyond small personal blogs I just don't think Gutenberg adds any value, and if anything muddies the water for site editors if you're using structured data and Gutenberg.

We've taken the decision to disable Gutenberg entirely and just use custom fields so we can maintain stable data structures, rather than trying to crowbar that into Gutenberg somehow. All you need to do is only use custom post types without the "editor" capability, hide the Posts menu item, and define everything through CMB2 custom fields.
I'll second what others have said. Please consider a hobby plan. I have many proof-of-concept applications that don't require many resources at all but have the potential to suddenly get a lot bigger. Having a single stop shop where both types of projects are reasonably priced would be a godsend.
I actually had a VPS before for several years. The problem was that I never got to enjoy hardware upgrades / lower service costs. The price always stayed the same and I was not able to easily upgrade to a new machine. After I think 8 years, I finally made that switch away. Now I'm more flexible and at a lower cost.

But true that, I won't be able to do 3d rendering on that :)
This is a very interesting step, considering that Apple's interface guidelines prefer that application "content" remain regularly styled (e.g. as Pages does). This seems to show that Safari's web view has been changed from being merely content to being part of the user interface, as it would in say web applications. Presumably document creation websites e.g. Google Docs would be encouraged to maintain a light-themed document while darkening the interface.

Another interesting point is this might lead to yet more fingerprinting surface area. But overall, I think I'll take that over blinding myself at night.
Subconsciously, if I am researching a topic to gather an opinion on something, my trust weighting for a site decreases by 80% as soon as I get an email popup box.
Did you drive this car at the speed limit?