skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My yubikey is state. A stateless password manager cannot rely on it to secure the actual passwords or else it is no longer stateless.

If the yubikey is only used to secure the master passphrase that derives the other deterministic passwords, then relatively little has been gained because the actual derivation of the passwords happens separately and the original concerns are still largely present.

Even if the master password is secured with a yubikey, many of the other flaws are still present, and if you need a yubikey to access your passwords anyway, you might as well encrypt the passwords directly rather than going through this awkward extra step that reduces security.
Amazing! I had a similar idea, which was to simulate lottery tickets by selling shares of far-out-of-the-money options. They would rarely pay out, but when they do, it would be a lot.
Do you know of any comparison between use of Discord and Slack for these kind of community management use cases? Is either one used more and what are the relevant feature differences?
I had such a weird relationship with this game.

My godfather got me a pirated disk (5 1/4"!) from Malaysia when I was about 9 or 10, which included the full manual. The disk was completely corrupted - I was able to get it to play just the intro and then the game would crash.

I devoured that manual though - the full future history of Earth and the Ur-Quan War story had me totally hooked.

Fast forward 15-years or so to when I discover the whole game is open-source now as the Ur-Quan Masters story, and I was giddy to finally be playing it (and getting to listen to the glorious Hyperspace music scores), while my kitten at the time had to be distracted from clawing my monitor because he wanted to chase the blue-spaceship across the screen.

It's an amazing game, that just goes all the places you want it to.
That's not a primary source and wrong. A prime is most simply: it has no factors other than itself and 1. "Not being even" is a corollary, and would be redundant if included in the definition of primality.
If your fiber network could heat the match hotter than the moon, why wouldn't the match heat the moon instead?
How do you cram all the ends of those fibers (with total surface area equal to the moon) into a target smaller than the moon? Fiber optics aren't lasers.
What kind of pervert mixes imperial and metric units like that. Velocity is expressed in ft/s while peak acceleration is expressed in m\s²...
> For the impatient, click on the screenshot below to try the demo yourself.

You should add a link to the demo in the word "demo" for the people like me that can't follow instructions :). I tried to drag the points in the screenshot instead of clicking it.
But that's not the same thing. You don't have to switch all the projects you work on over to Go modules at the same time, only the projects you want to upgrade. It's entirely possible to migrate incrementally.
of course we can. i thought it was funny.
Nice. Reminds me I saw something similar in Melbourne once, when the pollen count was through the roof. But the wind was intensely strong, making it an all round horrible experience lol. I was obviously not in the right mindset to appreciate it.
> synced through my free Dropbox account

I was always a bit paranoid about this, even though I did it myself.
Majority of the people in India are too busy making ends meet to know or care. This may change as the relatively more educated/affluent younger generations replace the older ones, but for now there are other bigger problems on everyone's minds. Of course govts all over the world use precisely this strategy to push through draconian laws... if the people aren't too stressed out/distracted to care, the evergreen excuses of terrorism and national security are trotted out.

We have general elections next year and the main deciding factors will probably be stuff like demonetisation, rising prices/taxes, perceived arrogance/authoritarianism etc. This issue will go almost unnoticed except by the techically aware minority, just as the wholesale decimation of India's environment by the current govt is also going unnoticed except by the small 'green' minority.
Mattis resignation triggered by phone call between Trump and Erdoğan
Mobile networks are two-way systems. If you have perfect reception of the mobile network - let's say full bars! - then that doesn't mean the mobile network also has reception of your mobile device.

Most of the time, your phone is in RX-only mode to save battery. It listenes for incoming data every millisecond or two, but no more. But as soon as you actively use the network, things change. The basestation must receive your signals as well. This may suddenly and dramatically change the perception of "signal quality". Before it's RX quality only, then it's RX+TX quality.

With incoming or outgoing calls, your phone may switch to another technology. While it may be idling in 4G, large parts of the world rely on 2G for voice calls. As soon as the call starts, the phone switched to 2G and naturally shows 2G reception.
There is more oversight because a) 5 eyes are all democracies and b) there are elected bodies that have direct oversight of these activities. For example, in the US, there are both House and Senate committees which have oversight into various bodies and operations which are highly secretive. Example [1]

Finally, c) there is an open and free press, and quite a number of whistle blowers and informants to the press, which have legal protection.

That's very different from an authoritarian entity that answers to no-one, and does what they please.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Senate_Select_Co...
As a layperson, I visited the Star Sonata web site and there doesn't seem to be a page telling me about the game. I guess a screenshot tells a thousand words, but I always look for words before trying out a game. As a newcomer I don't necessarily look for news and that seems to be the main thrust of the home page.
The thing is, aside from it’s store, which is just a month old or so, everything about Discord is better than Steam.

I would happily pay for it, but so far it hasn’t been necessary.
While a license like MIT gives you the most possible freedoms, it also gives the freedom to derivative works to remove all those freedoms. A copyleft license doesn't grant those kind of freedoms so it can try and protect and keep the four essential freedoms[0] in derivatives. I do agree that it is more difficult to commercialize copyleft software. In an ideal world, we would be paying for copyleft software, not giving it away for free.

[0]: https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html
When I was in middle/high school in the mid-late 90s, I was addicted to the precursors of today MMORPGs (back when everything was text-based), and my career plan consisted of founding a gaming company. My mother successfully (for a time) dissuaded me, saying "Who has time to play games? Once you have money to pay for games, you'll be working at a job for most of your waking hours."

A couple years out of college, I actually did start a casual game company. Ended up giving up on it because by then I didn't really keep up with or care much about the gaming industry, but not before launching a website that hosted ~100 or so games, and getting some initial users. Most of our traffic came from the Northeast Corridor of the U.S. during the hours of 9 AM - 6 PM EST weekdays.

I recently took a glance around the gaming world. It's amazing how much it's changed. There are more AAA titles than you could possible know about. There are massively-multiplayer F2P games that people spend hundreds of dollars on. People will actually pay to watch other people play games, and there are folks who make full-time livings streaming games on Twitch.

It's different than it was in the 80s. Almost all the kids I grew up with had Nintendos or PCs, but it was a kids thing. Those kids are adults now, and they have disposable income (though not necessarily a lot of it), and the idea of climbing the corporate ladder is becoming less and less attractive to many people because corporations have made a habit of pulling the ladder out from under you just as you're halfway up. So people put the minimum amount of effort needed to not get fired into their jobs, and they spend their competitive energies in one of thousands of different games on their nights, weekends, and occasionally (if server logs are to be believed) workdays.

It's probably bad for the competitiveness of the American economy, but it's been great for the gaming industry.
All US companies doing business internationally are impacted by US trade laws (eg; sanctions, trade embargoes), I believe.

Eg; you're not allowed to sell stuff to Iran, or certain individuals.
Thank you! I found that some of the forks also have the more detailed README files for example: https://github.com/19ai/wav2letter
Five Eyes operate under political oversight (various committees of elected officials), the rule of law and an independent judiciary, there is a free press with protected informants, whistle blowers etc. etc.. Quite different than an authoritarian system.
Cooperation is always possible. Copyleft licenses make cooperation mandatory.
Wow. I can't believe having to explain curosity or that other people have uses for things that some people don't understand. Smh.
Their windows app definitely needs some love. Actually kinda wish it was a direct port, UI and all.
Because reversing the system isnt straitforwards. Fiber tends to bend light back towards the middle of the fiber. Shining light back down the middle doesnt mean it will reappear at the same point, which is important for many types of lasers.

Archers see this. Many archery sights use fiber to make nice illuminated dots, without batteries or leds. The light appearing out the end of the fiber is brighter than the skin, a rare practical use of "naked" optical fibers.

https://www.nanoptics.com/service/replacement-bowsight-fiber...

The above are junk fiber (little internal lensing) but you can see the effect.
"Appeal to authority" is a fallacious rhetorical tactic only in an extraordinarily rigorous epistemological context, in which all truths need to be established from first principles. In practice, especially given the information asymmetry between the people that have devoted rigorous study to a thing and the people that think they know about it because making computers do things means they're smart (which is an intellectual pathology that I think ought to bother anyone who cares about the process of modeling physical phenomena accurately and honestly, even if it doesn't bother you), an argument like "physicists uniformly agree on this physical property" is a perfectly adequate assertion in favor of the claims made in the article. It would for sure be bolstered by the inclusion of sources, but you have to admit that you're throwing away a lot of relevant information towards the end of supporting your intuitive sense about how the optics here work. It's not impossible, in the absence of an argument from first principles to counter, that you're correct and that people who have formally studied physics and/or are familiar with the literature are wrong or misguided, but it sure isn't the most likely case by a wide margin. In that context, your certainty ("I don't think the details of his argument can be [correct]") seems much less well-founded.
No,stating opinions based on factual information on the present Indian govt.
How does it work in practice?

I am dumping some amount of low-energy photons onto a target, the target is heated up and radiating out the same amount of energy it receives. As I increase the number of photons hitting the target its temperature raises and it radiates more heat outwards, shedding excess heat.

Then as I keep increasing the number of photons, the temperature stops increasing at some point having reached the temperature of the photon source. I increase the number of photons a million times of the previous level, yet the object remains the same temperature.

Where does the excess energy go? Is it not absorbed by the target? Is it reflected? Is it re-radiated?
It depends on what you're studying for. For my Ruby on Rails position, I revised my Ruby with two books I can't recall right now, but then I spent so much time on codewars.com, because I knew I was going to get tested.

Could you share doctrine specifics about your interview? What stack do you work with?
The angular concentration of the light.

The moon is diffuse, so an incoming ray of sunshine is spread by the optically rough surface of the moon from an incident solid angle of 6 * 10^-5 steradians out into 2 pi steradians of the night sky, or a reduction in angular concentration by a factor of about 100,000 (totaling ~1 million after the albedo is accounted for).

It is like you are looking at the sun through a mirror so rough that the image of the sun is blurred over literally half the sky. Because this process does not create new photons, the blurred image must be far, far dimmer. This circumstance corresponds to the "most we could do" with lenses and mirrors focusing the moon, which is to fill the sky with an image of the moon/"blurred sun".

Unconcentrated moonlight corresponds to the same picture, except we only see a "cutout" disk of this blurred sun-image which is the size of the moon in the sky. Our crappy moon-mirror does not fill our vision, it is a porthole letting through only a tiny fraction of the blurry sun-image.

And of course if you imagine yourself as the ant under the magnifying glass, with your entire sky filled with moon, there is no way you could spontaneously become hotter than your moon-y surroundings.
The overlays totally ruin this site. Help!
I only find https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18712038 that has 2 points and no comments. From the FAQ https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html

> Are reposts ok?

> If a story has had significant attention in the last year or so, we kill reposts as duplicates. If not, a small number of reposts is ok.
California lets self-driving startup Zoox offer autonomous rides
Done, thanks for the suggestion.
How did they not block based on nationality when they literally blocked a nation?
This. I remember my biochemistry professor in college grinding up a bowl of cereal into a fine powder and then using a magnet to yank all the iron out. Fine iron powder like the kind present in cereals is nowhere near as bioavailable as iron complexed with proteins (e.g. from red meat). You basically just poop most of it out. Ask anyone who has had an iron deficiency. It is ferociously difficult to take enough supplements and change your diet enough to correct a severe form of it.
Yeah because the real purpose of these laws is to control the citizens, as ever more unrest in future is a given, for just about any country. Nothing except physically shackling every human being is going to stop crazy terrorists from ploughing through a crowd in a vehicle, but mark my words, you'll find western 'democracies' employing technology in literally every sphere of life to ostensibly control these 'terrorists' although the end result will be a dystopia of totally controlled citizenry that will find it impossible to break their chains unless they're prepared to die.
I still have the stepped bar graph for some reason.
I certainly expect children to stop being born. Looking at how expensive it is to raise even one, I quickly see it become an upper class thing to be able to afford a child.
Were finishing a HipChat migration to Slack in January. HipChat doesn’t even have inline code or any syntax highlighting so I’ll be very glad to make the transition.
No, I do not store any energy. My solar panels outputs are wired directly to the input of an arc welder. Powered from the sun light (surface temperature 6,000C) this system can easily give me an arc of 10,000 C.
Amazon bought Twitch for $1B I believe, not $2B. How accurate are the the other figures you cited? If possible, please do provide links for figures you cite- it’s incredibly useful.
Microsoft should provide an R environment in Excel (and buy RStudio to help)
Nah, I'm old or at least in tech years I'm old. I've worked with projects before containerization I have been a former user of both products. I didn't imagine Corel had the capital to move out of bargain-bins.
That ranking of vegetables matches about what I’d expect if they had rough dollar/nutrition parity. I love water cress but its massively more expensive than kale by weight. In this sense ranking “healthiest” as if it were a choice between infinite amounts of each doesn’t make sense when fresh vegetables are actually pretty expensive.
The universe is likely a simulation, so a soul maybe a prime primary key and so use a Mersenne prime to save space as a form of compression because only n needs to be stored, not the full bitstring. The real question is: does the universe have microcode opcodes to operate on Mersenne primes natively without expanding them?

PS: Atheist ;)
I guess in a situation like that you'd just choose the base URL you'd remember best.
Because supernatural is by definition super-natural.

If it was real and explainable by science, we won't call them supernatural
Sure, but I see it more about the medium than the actual content produced. Look at the glut of superficial top-level comments right here from people who didn't seem to even read the article and instead write out the same talking points that always get voted up. Hackernews is much better than most, but even freely accessible forums have the same issues.
I think the most important sentence in this article is:

> The most frequently cited tasks that an expert should be good at were designing software architecture, writing source code, and analysing and understanding requirements.

But I think this is also missing verification of the requirements, which is writing tests and being able to ship reliable code. Step 1 is to make sure you understand the requirements, step 2 is writing good code, step 3 is shipping the code after verifying that all the requirements are met, and the quality of the product is good
Yeah, the "standard" markdown syntax. Facebook Messenger also supports it. Telegram also doesn't.
Correlation != Causation

These types of studies are excellent for drawing a hypothesis not a conclusion like "obesetiy makes you dumber"

My theory -- people eat more and excercise less due to some sort of stress. Stress that prevents engagement in activities that promote cognitive capacity or possibly even cause neural damage. But again,only guesses.

The less we have publications containing only correlative conclusions,the better(imho)
A password manager that is only usable in a web browser may be annoying to use for non-web-related tasks, but presumably you can just switch to your web browser, open up the password manager, and then search for what you need within it. It's not like the password manager is restricted to only giving you access to the passwords for the current site.
Is this composed by the poultry lobby?
In the US, government hasn't really gotten into this in a big way. Too many governmental units with their own local authority. China, though, or the UK, where the central government has total authority...

I used to think that China's central government would say "jump" and everyone else would ask "how high?" But after several years of reading about central government initiatives being hobbled by provincial/local officials[1], I'm not so sure. It could be that the central government is just better about preventing knowledge of their relatively weak control circulate abroad (limited press freedom, plus language barriers that prevent most Westerners from reading what ordinary Chinese people might be writing about.)

[1] Like the central government trying to reduce air pollution while local officials try to keep as many coal workers as busy as possible.
iOS 11 switched back to bars (four years after iOS 7 switched to dots).
i am an american national and i go to canada. my access to netflix changes for reasons that have nothing to do with my nationality (what passport i have), and everything to do with what nation i’m in.
A remarkably large number of US consumers definitely want fake information: as two brief examples, consider the way weather data in the US is reported (customers get angry if it rains on a “90 percent chance if clear skies” day and customers get angry if their car runs out if fuel when the guage hits “empty”

Interestingly, German consumers want to inow the exact level of petroleum spirits in a tank and will get irritated if they are lied to.
They don't care about the nationality of the person, just the location of the IP address.
This is groundwork for the future when tech will control the groupthink of people more and more. And it also enables the shutdown of key dissenting voices in the short-term and did you not read about the arrests of certain activists recently? Previously they had to gather meatspace intelligence but now they can monitor anything that flagged people do digitally and that can be used at a convenient time to shut them down. Tomorrow you could easily become that 'flagged' person too.
I think they meant nationality as in the person's nationality, they were blocking solely based on an IP based location.
A proper apology. These seem to have gone out of style.
They were blocking everyone in that nation, regardless of nationality.
You're basically describing Openshift.
> "Mainstream" as in something that you could have a reasonable expectation of having a coherent conversation about with any/every human being on the planet. (For example, "baseball" is relatively mainstream. "The Beatles", or "Elvis", slightly moreso.)

This doesn't strike me as a useful definition of mainstream.

I live in Vietnam and I guarantee you that no one here could tell you a single thing about baseball, The Beatles, or Elvis.

Hell, just go to Australia/UK and no one will be able to explain baseball to you. Just like you can go to the US and no one understands cricket even though nearly 1 billion people (albeit primarily in the ex-British Commonwealth) do.

In any case, your claims about the video game market 15 years ago (in 2003) aren't accurate. In 2003 videogames in the US sold 240 million units. 54% of American households bought a new videogame -- that's far from "mostly something upper-middle-class children owned".

15 years ago 32% of households were already playing video games on a mobile device (phone, PDA, handheld game system). 35% of parents said they played video games. 69% of households said they played computer & video games.

15 years ago 2/3rd of Americans played video games. It was already mainstream. Sure, it has gotten MORE popular since then. But that doesn't mean it wasn't mainstream.
The difference is that one is verified by trusting the peer while the other is verified by trusting a 3rd party. So trust is me-3rd party-them. As opposed to end to end where it is me-them.
In my opinion, anything far away from Stanford and Berkeley is good enough.
At retail prices but I’ve never known anyone besides rich people or rich grandparents that can afford to spend $2500+ (video cards are well above $600 for high end and the other components at retail tend to get inflated similar to how Apple pads their SKUs around) so a teen can mess around playing games (mostly looking at it from the lens of how I was raised and the attitudes of my elders as well as my non-nerd friends). The usual ignorant gift giver would have bought a console or something towards the console like games or an online subscription.

The areas usually where margins come from are:

1. Skimping on PSU quality
2. Reduced motherboard features
3. Adding LEDs as a “value add” (why earlier this year RAM with LEDs we’re going on sale ahead of the non-LED RAM)
Some experiments with Noise as the QUIC encryption mechanism have recently been published:

https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=3284854

Pluggable encryption has been scoped out of QUIC v1, but will likely make a return soon after (and Noise seems one of the more likely candidates).