skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Most photogenic"... Really??

EDIT: And here come the downvotes, so let me clarify my stance. I haven't a clue what Snappr does, or what their definition of 'photogenic' is. But here is the dictionary definition of 'photogenic':

(adjective) (especially of a person) looking attractive in photographs or on film.

So my impression was that this metric was to do with how attractive perhaps the founders were. The overall impression here is YC somehow rates the aesthetic qualities of people in order to select who is 'in'. That sort of impression can do untold damage to their brand, and I am surprised that they let this be a thing.
Yeah, so much for openness and connecting people.

Funny that the committee ended up being the open ones.
I agree that providing toolchains is very important.

The only non-system package manager that provides Python and its own toolchains - for Linux and macOS presently - which are used to compile every C, C++ and Fortran package, including Python itself is conda and the Anaconda Distribution.

Not doing this leads to static linking and that's inefficient and insecure.

Disclaimer: I work for Anaconda Inc.
As a point of clarification, the Guardian article referenced above reports a request from Thailand to extradite Thai nationals living overseas. Thailand's lèse-majesté law was broken by Thais, as opposed to this case where a foreign national broke a US law and was present in an extradition-friendly country (to note, the sanctions are also law in Canada).
Unless you change state yourself in the mean time.

`deactivate` changes `$PATH` back to what it was when you ran `activate` for example, which isn’t likely to be what you want if you’ve changed it since. At least with a subshell you can know what state you’re returning to with <C-d>.

That is part of the problem with the `virtualenv` story in my eyes. It offers the illusion of isolation, but falls down in quite a few ways which are annoying when they do pop up.
> a pile of disks in an array to a pile of solid state storage

It doesn't even need to be a pile of disks. Even for a PC the differences are big.

My computer has a 1 TB SSD which is a decent size for an SSD. It's still a bit tight for me, so I complement with a spinny rust NAS. If I had an HDD instead it would have been like 8 TB and I wouldn't necessarily need the NAS. I think that's what GP is hinting at when he says "me SSD needs". I think he's also complementing with HDD somewhere for bulk storage (be it external drive, NAS or even cloud storage)
supergloo is a great first step for understanding any of the current service mesh solutions. try it out if you're weighing your service mesh options right now, or even if you're already settled on a single solution.
What a genius way to get someone you hate thrown into prison!

Just put @omarforgotpwd's name/number/server/doxx into the code and release it really clumsily.
I would love to talk to you about your firm, just to get some questions of my own answered. Got time to chat?
So ban them, at least in most cases. That's what we do in California.
Here's how a random invite looks like for me:

https://imgur.com/a/I9NlO4X
Do whatever it takes first off to get some self-achieved result, modding an open source project, cobbling together stuff without regard to IP. Get SOMETHING running, anything. Once you do, you will feel you made real progress. You need to get this sense of "traction" early on, when you know you can make stuff that can run, then you can really get down to learning, testing, and playing around.

For quite a while, it's not going to be pretty, or something you can sell, but it will get you started. Keep building on what you learned. as you get better with just "making things that work," then work on making them better. Read, read, read, play, read. Don't worry if it looks bad, you need to conquer logic and data and achieving expected results before bothering with style.

...So now you think you can write stuff, next, look to see if it is secure. Could you hack your own stuff (probably easily early on), start looking for tips on how to tighten your work (start with anything affecting your stuff externally, data, calls, URLs, etc.) and make it safe for others to use, research common vulnerabilities, make sure you have them covered, etc. Also try to get some coding aesthetics in there, clean up code; name your functions, fields, variables sensibly, etc. Start constructing your project structure: configuration, code, library folders, sub-folders, etc.

Now look at end-user aesthetics (there's so many elements to developing, don't overwhelm yourself by doing them all at once). Act as if you are "the user", enter the data, play the game load, save - role-play as if it were one of your parents/grandparents, is it understandable?, easy?, fail-proof? (or is that "fool"proof?)

Enhance - now you can make some nice stuff. But from your perspective is it cool? Now you can work on getting in your style, new features, cut some edges...

Keep working it.
Hey.

The crux of the argument I'm making is that both Chrome and Safari are quite secure. Maybe Chrome is slightly more, maybe it's not, but it's disingenuous to present WebKit as completely broken and Blink as the only engine with good security engineers.

> He could stick with WebKit and implement a sandbox of his own.

I think this would be the best solution. Running WebKit without a sandbox is stupid, but I think your responses did not help jmercouris take your comments seriously because, to be honest, you do kind of look like a Blink shill.
> that it never left the pocket of the person who was granted access to it and they knew it.

How do they (you) know that? How hard would it be for Huawei or Blackberry to exfiltrate that data?

What that and other incidents show is that Facebook had a widespread pattern of sharing data and trying to control the reach of that data through contracts and legal power rather than actually controlling it. This strategy makes leaks inevitable.
> No, employees don't get paid for "goodwill value"

The passage you quoted and replied to wasn't about employees, it was one of two examples GP raised to argue that that non-competes can make sense outside of an employment context.

> Thus, even states like California, which basically ban the use of non-competes in an employment context, will fully enforce them in the situations noted above.
All the thief does is amplify. Good luck!
Adventures in Video Conferencing Part 2: Fun with FaceTime
Gr8 b8
Current electric aircraft like the Pipistrel Alpha Electro (https://www.pipistrel.si/plane/alpha-electro/overview) have swappable battery packs. I can't see why this wouldn't be an option here.
Works great with beer. Leave it out of the fridge so you literally have to ice it.

Make it a rule to never put more than one in the fridge at a time.
She herself was instrumental in setting up the shell company used to try to do the deal, and was at a minimum, on it's board of directors at the time.
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There are many incentives available to prevent the seller of a company (and the employees) to not run out and start a competitor. You can give them shares that vest over time. You can offer them employment in the new company. You can make various offers contingent on the performance of the sold company.
I miss Sparrow so much :'(
YC's portfolio is staggering. Whatever they use to pick who to fund, they're doing it right.
The speed of light shouldn't be too fast if the fob is just returning a ping. The car can almost certainly wake up the fob, ping it, then compute the distance. Unless my brief calculations [1] are too simplistic, a 2Ghz processor would have a resolution of increments of 15cm. That should be plenty of resolution to decide if the key is in a certain spot.

[1] https://www.google.com/search#q=speed+of+light+%2F+2+ghz
Yes, what you may call ten hits. But this was a long time ago, and I was buying LSD by the gram, for reselling. So it wasn't such a big deal. Maybe $10 worth. And yes, $10 was worth a lot more then. On the other hand, it was arguably a business expense, in that megadosing is a good way to check for purity. I was the quality-control partner :) Also, I didn't take that much of a lot before testing smaller doses, progressively.
A shell company was setup to do the deal, and she helped setup the shell company and was on the board of directors of the shell company, and was the shell company's corporate secretary.
>I’m curious what voltage the pack runs at and how long it would take to charge. Many of these types of aircraft operate in FAR Part 135 on-demand operations. Aircraft and crew utilization are crucial for the business model.

This is the number one question I had as well, for the same reasons. Porsche has a 1000V system in their new Taycan EV, so I'd assume they're at least at that level. At 900kWh, a system like that could charge from 10% (assumed minimum reserve) to 95% (Batteries are never really charged to 100%) in under 2 hours @ 400KW, which is about the power level of the beefiest EV chargers being developed right now.

More likely they will have swappable batteries, which makes a lot more sense from a thermal management point of view as well. You can either load up the pack with all kinds of cooling and deal with the added weight, or just make it passive air-cooled and swap it out between flights before it gets too hot.
Clojure has two tools.. designed to be used as the single tool though.

Boot, and Lein. I'm partial to boot lately.
You are going to say all that without pointing out that the US and Canada are fighting espionage, and China will look for an innocent business person in response and that's just totally ok with everyone here?
`ping`. They were granted a patent for ping. That seems ridiculous.
Though it's not. There is a property management company out of Hong Kong/China that owns 30 condos in my unit and rents it out to tenants. I work near One Bloor and if you see the demographic over there it's all non-english speaking Asian people. Heck the Nordstorm rack in that Condo accepts WePay. Where else have you seen that in Toronto?
Would there be any benefit of using Global Accelerator and Route53 together?

When a Global Accelerator "instance" is created, it seems like it creates 2 new Public IP addresses per Region ( and then those are then BGP Anycast'ed from the Av.Zones and Edge Locations around that Region). Does this mean that:

GlobalAcceleratorInstance1

Region1:

PublicIPAddress1

PublicIPAddress2

Region2:

PublicIPAddress3

PublicIPAddress4

Region3:

PublicIPAddress5

PublicIPAddress6

?

And will Route53 then allow me to create a record that points to a magic geo/lbr Alias record type to resolve these to some great additional benefit?

Or would the idea be to just create one pair of them in one region near my "origin" IP - and BGP Anycast takes care of the rest and basic DNS A records as usual?
>Negative masses are a hypothetical form of matter that would have a type of negative gravity – repelling all other material around them. Unlike familiar positive mass matter, if a negative mass was pushed, it would accelerate towards you rather than away from you.

Pretty sure the author means both.

A continuously accelerating system seems "unphysical", but we have an example already: the accelerating expansion of the universe.
It's not, and I never said that it was; quite the opposite actually.

I said that it's odd that these things are written in law seems as we already have laws that cover this more broadly. Attempting to maintain in written law explicit definitions of every food that humans can fathom, and how they are presently produced, is clearly untenable.
The US arrests and harasses innocent business people from China/Iran? Source?
That's only screwing the other sites that integrate with google maps. Not so much the end user that is using google maps directly.
Why not triangulate the signal?

I don't hear much about the speed of light being used for security, but it's applications are innumerable.
DeNA starts “Taxi for FREE”
Resurrect wave and rule them all
Even as a home user, expanding a RAID on a consumer NAS with a 10 TB harddisk takes days due to the size. It would take weeks with a 100 TB drive! (then again, that's not something you'd need to do often with 100 TB to play with :)
Just a conplete mess.
I would imagine that planes could have much higher battery cell per battery pack utilization, because the protective shell for the battery packs is less necessary.

Some back of the envelope math for the Model 3 battery: it has 4416 2170 cells, 66g each, is 291.5 kg, and the total battery pack weight is 478 kg. So only 60% of the battery pack weight is the actual battery cells.
No. The negative mass matter clusters around galaxies because it accelerates towards positive mass and away from other negative mass. The area between galaxies becomes largely empty in the simulations.
I think you’re not understanding the attack. It could be a unique, unpredictable signal every single time and the relay attack would work just fine. The devices intend to use distance to prevent this, with distance determined by strength of signal. The relay captures the challenge, passes it to the fob and then passes the response back to the car, boosting the signal if necessary. The timing on this is fast enough that it is within the tolerance of the system. As long as these devices are acting as proximity sensors and your fob isn’t electromagnetically isolated, this attack will work. No amount of key rotation will help.
The sooner they replace hangouts with something that is fast and more reliable the better.

getting tired of the inconsistencies experienced with hangouts.
Now thats a moral argument. In a realpolitikal world, X aggresses against Y because its in X's self interest, not because Y have been bad. Under this model, China _is_ suffering from aggressions just not from Apple/etc.
Paradise Rebuilt: thought experiment for a new city?
It has to hurt somewhere inside Google to kill Allo but not Duo. I honestly expected the opposite given the original push behind these apps. The problem with all these messaging experiences is that none of them work well on both dekstop and mobile. They seem to be optimized one way or the other.

If Google had a Telegram like experience (my favorite messaging app by far) along with their meetings app, their messaging woes would be over. I'm not sure what prevents them from creating something like that ? They seem to be driven by internal priorities/politics and lack a basic ability to see things from consumers' perspective.
My photo library is 400 GB alone. And I don't even own a camera, that's all photos taken with my phone! No RAW or anything fancy like that, the worst thing in there are short clips of highly-compressed 4K HEVC. And it's ever-growing as I have a kid, a second one on the way...
Or jam the signal with pseudo-random-noise. Afterwards you can remove the noise again and have the clear signal.
The electronics for the self-driving are apparently in the trunk (the cars have a sticker on the back that says rear storage is not available) so a rear entry is not likely to happen.
"In Great Britain, courts generally endorsed NCAs so long as they remained “reasonable” -- a quality that was very much in the eye of the beholder."

Legally speaking, reasonable refers to "The man on the Clapham omnibus" and is a standard test in many jurisdictions. It is NOT the same thing as the general use of the term in the English language. AT least in Great Britain and most Commonwealth countries.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reasonable_person
My goodness, thats like a PSA to never try pipenv at all if your running on a debian system, thanks for the heads up!
I am comparing the attention that two stories got on HN.

One that China is locking up thousands of Uyghur people for indefinite periods [1]

This one.

Well, I guess its closer to home when American businessman may face the same fate of being locked up in a Chinese prison.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18351568
The attack uses 2 antennas. One next to the keys and one next to the car. It transmits the signal from both sides. The car thinks the key is inside/near.

Triangulating it won’t help. It thinks it’s there.
Could it be that hospitals make a hefty profit for every hour you spend on one of their beds? Less sleep means slower recovery, means more .
Privacy cryptos like Monero?
An internal application can exist in one specific universe. Most of the time.

The "library" workflow works for applications too. Put your direct dependencies in setup.py. Build wheels of everything and upload them to an internal PyPI server. Pin everything in requirements.txt.
Packing Machine Suppliers, Packaging Machine Exporters,Sealing Machine
From the original comment

> So too if you exit a professional practice and get bought out. Same principle. You get paid for the goodwill value and you should not be able to capitalize on the payment and simultaneously raid the goodwill of your former practice by competing against it. Fair and reasonable even though it restricts you in your livelihood.

Unless "professional practice" specifically refers to something like being the partner of a law firm it does sound like it's saying that the spirit of non-competes should apply between employee-employer relationships.

Even then it seems like a bad thing you advocate. If I am at a law firm and I think I would be better served to go form my own practice, I shouldn't refrain from doing so out of some sense of goodwill on part of my previous practice. Sure, it may be a bad idea to burn bridges - but that's done out of a desire to maintain good relations and reputation, not because it's immoral to compete withy past employer.
Disagreeing by downvoting proves you can't defend your arguments, you know.
How Facebook Employees Are Responding to the Company's Latest Crises
In my post I never said there were going to be no consequences to US behavior. I never said anything attempting to justify US behavior. I never said the US would remain the sole superpower. I never said China wouldn't eventually rise to the same level of global power that the US now has, or even beyond that.

What I said non-the-less is true. It's unpopular to state it, to say why things are the way they are in actuality. Sometimes reality is unpopular.
Its not just US vs China. Its US vs Market. Its the hand of market that US need to watch out for. Everytime a powerful entity acts like a madman, it gets weaker. Soon or later it will receive 1000th cut which may be one too many.

Today US became less reliable.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interleaving_(disk_storage) for the curious
This only works one way though. No one arrested Ronald Regan for selling guns to the contras to fund the revolution in Iran. The US gets to do this because might makes right.
Does Google have another video calling solution similar to Duo to replace it with?
The airframe of airplanes is surprisingly lightweight. Engine(s) can easily be around 25% of the (empty) weight, and on anything with decent range, the fuel dominates. Both necessitates a lot of supporting infrastructure.

The airplane can probably pack battery cells much denser than Tesla. Tesla uses active, liquid-based cooling; an airplane could employ the airstream for that. Plus I expect a lot less of battery heating; while the capacity is 9x of Model 3, the engine power (thus electrical drain) is around just 3x of Model 3. [1]
Also the metal shield under the battery can probably be done away with.

As others pointed out, electric engines are much different beast than any hydrocarbon burning ones. You need less support structure (for starters, less vibrations) and also much less auxiliary gear; think of all the cooling systems (either liquid cooling or flaps & openings & shrouds to direct air around); fuel tankage, pipes, valves, pumps & booster pumps; electric generator & possibly hydraulic pumps, and lots and lots of wires to both send electricity and control signals. As electric engines are essentially low-maintenance, you'd save a bunch of weight on monitoring instrumentation & servicing access panels. Maybe i'm reading too much into the renders, but the engine- and prop cowls seem to be very tight fit; both lessening drag and also simply being smaller, lighter parts.

Lastly, electric engines can typically be over-loaded way over their continuous power for well understood short stretches of time, facilitating extra power for prompt & safe take-off. Not so with piston or jet engines; the take-off power is typically maybe a dozen percent more than the rated continuous power, and that's about it. You end up carrying through the whole flight engines over-sized (and thus over-weight) just for the sake of take-off power.

Small weights savings all over the airframe add up.

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[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tesla_Model_3#Specifications - 258 kW for Model 3 AWD, vs 3x260kW for the airplane.
Maybe they're getting for what they can prove rather than what they suspect.

Like Capote for tax fraud.
Try sending them physical documents? Maybe they have a fax machine.
Open Source Is Not About You
Telegram is a horrible UI experience. It lacks a useful buddy list, is bandwidth-intensive, and one of its biggest selling points, encryption, almost nobody uses because it is resource-intensive junk and can even slow a computer down enough that 1990s DOOM has issues keeping a solid framerate.
They find Neanderthal DNA in people, is it so far fetched?
If you pay off your house, shouldnt you also set aside ~10 years of annual property tax + X%/year for upgrades/fix/whatever - such that you literally do not have to think of a house expense for a decade.

Add in a lump sum for the monthly utilities for a decade and make a house account. Have the house account pay all these other incidentals from that account which you otherwise ignore.

Then, anytime you look at your bank account, the future costs of living in that home are never reflected in the balance you see in your daily account(s)
Alright question for all you genius physicists- what makes you visit this forum which is primarily a discussion board for news and startups (primarily)in the field of Information Technology? I'm curious because I don't know you're your domain intersects with this forum's.
An earnest product is one that succeeds after a year or two, and the non-earnest are the ones that fail, duh!
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