skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've heard calcium in milk blocks iron absorption so only a tiny part of iron contained in cereals is actually absorbed in your body if you eat it with milk. Can anybody tell how true or false this is?
Anyone know what primality test they use? Miller-Rabin for testing then something deterministic for verification?
This is yet another good reason to prefer decentralized networks. When Slack or Facebook or whomever agrees to block someone there is no resolution other than appealing to a company with a closed decision making process, something I don't think any of us really want.
Thanks a lot. I guess I won't play it anytime soon—too many other great games to play in too little time. I may very well play through the "enhanced" original though... It's my favorite game of all time but I somehow only played it once more than 10 years ago.
It can’t be a rogue project if the CEO had full knowledge of it.
Eh? South Africa was in the British Commonwealth in WW2. I don’t understand your conclusion, please elaborate.
I see it as a technically true statement: they blocked users who looked like they were connecting from within an embargoed nation, regardless of these users' actual nationality.
At least you admit you're advocating for the Devil!

We could hope a cell phone company would be so honest as to make sure their signal indicators show possibly lower values.
> HSTS won't protect the initial connection, but will protect from future downgrade attacks by telling the browser to not accept insecure connections from the domain.

But HSTS preload [1] is meant to protect even the initial connection, right? If a site serves HSTS headers, it could (potentially) choose to be added to the preload list that’s used by many browsers.

[1]: https://hstspreload.org
Mmm, I think you were at least kinda serious
What does Slack propose to do about access through a VPN so your real IP is hidden?

Of course in the long term this is just incentive for countries to support balkanisation of the Internet.
How does one use public key cryptography without some kind of key?
They should apologize for the cowardice displayed in adopting the discriminatory policies foist upon them by bad actors.
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If you're pinning keys/certs,who needs a CA? If you don't need a CA,who needs the complicated TLS. I'd think wide adoption of TLS is the motivation,even then...DNS over QUIC?

Either way,I'm all for it,just don't think the "end to end" label is warranted.
Yep. Going to go ahead and throw Matrix/Riot out there as a great alternative.
I'm confused as to what the security issue is here.

> Limiting the access of unencrypted passwords to only properly setup 1PW applications would seem to eliminate the possible (probable?) web based attack vector to a 1password.com account.

This doesn't make sense. What's a "properly setup 1PW application"? Presumably that's an instance of 1Password that has been given both the master password and account key for the account. But when you use the web-based portal, you have to give it, yep, the master password and account key.

Anyone who is able to access the passwords using the web portal can already set up a local instance of the 1PW application that syncs with the same account.

Ultimately, asking to "disable browser access" is basically the same thing as asking to "disable the syncing API", which would obviously defeat the entire point of having the family account.
Interesting to hear, because what you've said really reflects my short contact with Star Sonata. I found it through ads at about 2007, because at the time, my way of finding games was through ads. I played a bit, joined a team, had fun with base building, and stopped because it wasn't really my thing. Fast forward... Nowadays my go-to places for games are basically: Steam and web games. With both, you literally just navigate to the game and hit play. I think that's a big thing: if I have to download and install executables myself it feels less sleek, less secure and trustworthy even. I can't imagine finding games through ads anymore.

Not to be harsh, but suppose I was a new player and I knew that Star Sonata 2 was a thing. (I do now because I Googled it.) I still probably will not take the effort to download it, simply because of the work and trust investment it represents today, an investment which I would not have thought twice about ten years back.
Sorry, this is wrong. Please don't "explain" your misunderstanding as if you know the answer; ask questions instead.

If we imagine a full sphere of inward-pointing fibers, each one "looking" at the moon, then we see moon-surface in all directions from within this contraption. We are in a thermal bath of moon-temperature. We will not get hotter than the moon.

And fibers are not needed to create this circumstance. The same situation ("moon visible in all directions") could be created with a few lenses and mirrors.
Thank you. I really wish articles got to the point a little quicker sometimes.
Games Workshop Hires Fan Director to Make a 40K Animated Series
> if they heat up efficiency goes down

So you're saying I should cool them with water and use the steam to move turbines, then I'm golden!

\($ ∇ $ )/
Note that when a phone on AT&T shows “4G”, that means HSPA+, i.e. actually 3G. When on LTE, it shows “LTE”.

In other words, AT&T did the exact same scam during the 3G->4G transition and the effects still show...
Your figure for the energy from the Moon seems overstated. https://education.seattlepi.com/moonlight-strong-enough-powe... quotes a ratio of 2.3 million to one.

However the key point is this. The Moon is in reality 400 times smaller than the Sun. Which means that an optimally placed lens can actually make the image of the Moon 400 times smaller, for 160,000 times as little area. If the lens is big enough that this target area is mostly losing heat through black body radiation, again it should wind up over half the temperature of the surface of the Sun. Which is more than hot enough to start a fire.
This article is mostly political, and not very technical. I don't think it is appropriate on HN. But as that is not my call...

The Data & Society report by Rebecca Lewis (quoted in this article as a source) is very poorly done. It brands people who are clearly on the left as "alt-right" because they have either once spoken to an alt-right person, or even (in one case) simply been at the same event (not an alt-right event) with an alt-right person (Tim Pool, evidence in his YouTube videos on the subject).

I'm defending the 4/5 people who have been labelled "alt-right" by groups like Data & Society and by articles like this one, who believe in equal opportunity, legal immigration, individualism, and principles of the enlightenment. Most of them are progressives and several of them are jews. Lumping them in with "fascists," "racists", "nazis", or people who yelled "Jews will not replace us!" is factually wrong, morally wrong, and has done real-world damage to them. This includes people such as Jordan Peterson, Tim Pool, Eric Weinstein, Dave Rubin, James Damore, Ben Shapiro, Joe Rogan, and yes even Carl Benjamin (Sargon of Akkad).

I am NOT defending Richard Spencer, Stephan Molyneux or Milo Yiannopoulos. I've listened to them, I disagree with them, and I think "alt-right" is an appropriate for them.

There seems to be a mass delusion going on here. Folks on the left talk about the boogy-man "alt-right" and label people at whim, and then everyone is scared to actually go and fact-check lest they be discovered watching "alt-right" material. The predictable result? The set of people labelled "alt-right" just gets bigger and bigger.
They are getting faked info. You run out there and tell them, see how many switch.
It’s dynamically-typed and it doesn’t have real arrays. It can sometimes be frustratingly slow to do things that imperative languages do easily, but that’s the price of entry for functional languages. Luckily you can drop down into Rust or C if you need high performance.

Otherwise, it’s a great language. I’m consistently happy with the decisions that the Erlang and Elixir core teams make, and it’s my go-to language for web development.
Brings a whole new take to Descarte's "Evil Daemon"
Who cares if it was fake, it was awesome and it was better entertainment than 99.99% of the crap on the internet.

Make more stuff NASA dude!!
Not the most useful bot. CTRL/Cmd + F “analys”
Article seems to imply that since a highly inefficient monopoly, on which thousands were forced to rely on and pay handsomely for, is simply going to turn off service for a year and a half, that's when you'll find out how wonderful it really is. Traveling to other places with better, working systems won't do it. Having our system simply fail to function, though, will.
Reading between the lines, I think that's what they're suggesting.
Do the Japanese do anything to making having children easier? Free daycare?
As much as I want something like discord to succeed, it throws all cautions to the wind with user data. There is rentention in two databases of every chat message sent. If somebody ever gets access they could crawl all their info and learn most of their private life through it.

Steam on the other hand will not retain more than 5ish of the last messages.

I'd say it's fine aslong as users could set a duration for their messages automatically, but Discord doesn't even have a mass deletion option. Their API has been Incapable of mass deletion further than 2 weeks.

I have no doubt there will be some major leaks in the future that ruin someone's life.
IMHO, the TIMIT corpus should no longer be used in most application-driven speech recogniton research, as it’s small and completely unrealistic for any real world application. Furthermore, nobody cares about phone error rates, as recognizing phones is not the ultimate goal.

There have been much better, larger datasets available for a long time, for example the Fisher English conversational telephone speech corpus was released in 2004 and contains ~1950h of transcribed speech. There are tons of other datasets in various languages and for various applications (conversational speech, broadcast transcription, etc.).
Games became mainstream within the last 20 years or so.

It wasnt mainstream in the 90’ies which is where i predicted that one say you would be able to score girls by being a famous gamer.
Unbundling Wordpress
The challenges are:

0. Megacorps exploiting FOSS and not volunteering enough (a) money or (b) code back overall.

1. The limitations brought on everyone who's not a megacorp by authors trying to acheive 0a &| 0b.

As such, there are some difficult &| uncool ways around this:

i. A name-and-shame web app that everyone know about that impacts a company's sales and reputation if it cheats FOSS.

ii. Going micropayment commercial with intrusive license auditing to verify compliance.

iii. Begging harder from big
companies that are known to abuse FOSS.

PS: Before OSS was popular, shareware/freeware with code hidden like it was some sort of arcane secret magic much as scientists did before the modern era.
> The name "Commons Clause" appears to intentionally invite confusion with "Creative Commons." Plus the idea that you can jam a rider onto an arbitrary Open Source license and end up with something coherent is woefully misguided.

Seriously. Trust takes ages to build and seconds to destroy. That and good will. I think Redis Lab's wouldn't have gotten quite the push back it did if it wasn't for the perceived shadyness.
so: he can't also act surprised and say he didn't know.
I’m not sure they are “tracking individual user behavior”, what do you mean by that?

Usually when you train a model you extract features for each event and then you apply your model at prediction time. There is no step in which you have the user’s entire history set aside in an easy to query fashion. Instead the model learns aggregate user behavior.

Out of curiosity do you work with analytics scale data? Nothing in their statements seemed odd to me, it would easily take a few months at my current company for those reasons.

For analogy it would be like if fb said “oh we support IE 7 to 11 but it’s taking us longer to support IE6”, and people said “it’s just one lower than 7 how hard can it be? Facebook is clearly hiding something, I write for IE7 all the time”. And I’m not quite sure how to convey the fact that IE6 is a different beast altogether.
In my experience, two bars perfectly indicate the threshold of ”there's service, but no service at all might've been better—at least there wouldn't be false hope.”
Because that's how embargoes work? They impact not only goods, but also services. The US has one on Iran. And as Slack is a US company (or rather, a company which has an interest of maintaining operations in the US, regardless of where it is based), it complies, thereby blocking service to any entities (e.g. people) in Iran.
Slack charges per person, not per business.

At least, they do for the plans I'm familiar with. I don't know what Slack's giant enterprise agreements are like, but I imagine they're still getting paid plenty per-user.
don t desdub me
Supply and demand are related.
Also, Bloomberg.
They likely blocked by whether you ever signed in from a blocked nation. That's not necessarily the same as blocking any users who would qualify as exporting software to a blocked nation, which is also not the same as blocking everyone whose nationality matches said nation.
Solving murder with Prolog
C. 1996 I was about 17, I remember interviewing for a job at Accolade in the old former Apple HQ black triangular building off I-280. SC3 just came out.

PS: That triangular building is somewhat "cursed" in that it can't seem to keep tenants. Is the space too expensive, is it too unusable by being shaped as such or do risky ventures pick it?
Ask HN: If anyone can code, why does hardly anyone pass interviews?
Hey HN slow down let me chime in here, i used to work in the lying profession and i just need you to know that lying is not ok, and that lying is not the same thing as lying
Yes, plenty of use cases -- that's what makes compression so interesting!

In my back-of-the-envelope financial analysis, the highest economic impact is when I can reduce people's need to wait for data to arrive. There we often use relatively slow compression even when it is for one use only. Computers are quite a lot (~1000x) cheaper than people's time.
I think Destin Sandlin, of the youtube channel SmarterEveryDay does a good job of having firearms related physics videos (in addition to other science, physics and space videos) that are non-political.
What changed recently that hadn't been the case for past years that made them add these new measures? A true, earnest apology would at least touch on the justifications for the changes more than just "become legal". But I understand that, sadly, that kind of transparency is a bit much to ask of any company these days. Still curious though if it was just an internal decision or spurred via government/legal threat/request.
You can downvote me all you want. All it takes is a little time and Wells Fargo will be back to fleecing people and acting like criminals.
Not the system i was talking about. None of the fibers would "look at the moon". Fiber isnt the same as lenses.

Note too that i said match. Getting tiny bit of a matchhead hot enough to decompose isnt the same as burning an ant. A matchhead on the surface of the moon would probably ignite just fine (150*+o2).
That depends a great deal on the part, and—again—what is "high" relative to other products. nVidia's Quadro cards have much higher margins than the models targeting gamers.
Is it ok? Sure, in the sense that most people understand that foreigners are going to have different mannerisms. But that doesn't mean that they'll take your actions in the way you intend. It is still going to be a little stressful for even the most understanding of local people, and as visitors it is our job to do our best.

That being said, putting forth even a moderate amount of visible effort into doing things the local way will earn you social capital that you will need when you inevitably make a mistake that is more severe than you'd expect. If you can get to the point where you can laugh at yourself to smooth over any misunderstandings, then carry on, you'll be fine most anywhere.
> entered the mainstream less than 10 years ago.

Erm, Ever heard of the Sony Playstation? That was more than 20 years ago. You better recheck your timeline.
Joyent Triton

https://www.joyent.com/triton/compute

A few years ago (when I last checked} their container startup times were a lot slower than hyper.sh's
It's impossible to aim the source at a smaller target because the source dissipates in all directions, unless you make something like a laser.
I wrote this blog post a while ago for my now-defunct startup. https://medium.com/ardentunited/why-we-use-discord-and-not-s...

(I think the blog post is more popular than the startup by now!)
Boxer on Mac, a wrapper for DosBox, is a great way to play DOS games. http://boxerapp.com
Speaking as someone who's never touched splines before, this looks pretty nice. I was able to very quickly reproduce the "a" from your screenshot using your demo.
Creative commons has an NC version. All the video game art I made in my younger days was NC/SA because the freedom to inspect all software you run does not mean you get to sell the software to other people.
Unfortunately we only branch on release. We don’t have separate branches. Consider it as everyone working on master, and no merges m, just code reviews.
>That's not a primary source

Heh.
Yes - definitely more bandwidth, although IIRC the hardware on my 4S didn’t get full advantage, but the latency and time to reestablish a session were so much worse.
GP was talking about how it’s commonly consumed, not how it’s made. I was clarifying on the actual way it’s commonly used.
Thanks, that's music to my ears! A major focus of this work was making a primitive that would be intuitive and that you could build a good UX around. Considering the nontrivial learning curve for Béziers, I think your report is significant.
You are getting very close to the only idea I think makes sense. A license that is only to be granted to human beings. You can use, distribute, copy, modify and sell my software to your hearts content as long as you are doing it on the behalf of a single human being.

If you are doing it for a legal entity of any description, you need to start paying license fees.
Three or four years ago I helped investigate application usage from embargoed countries as part of an acquisition. The acquirer was performing due diligence, and this was a liability they needed to assess.

So, to answer your question, I doubt anything serious changed outside of Slack. Inside, however, maybe they got a new legal team that flagged this as a liability, or they're getting serious about compliance, or they're preparing for an IPO[1], or whatever...

[1] https://www.cnbc.com/2018/12/07/slack-has-hired-goldman-sach...
For context, one of the original reports of this was from (I believe) an Iranian-American with US Citizenship living in the US:

https://twitter.com/aaomidi/status/1075621119028314112

You might read that and infer that Slack is somehow tracking the national origin, ethnicity, or race of all of its users, which would be much fishier behavior than IP-based blocking. They're explicitly saying that they don't do that and that they don't have that information.
MiniKeePass for iOS works with Keypass/X and Keypass/XC files
You're not wrong, but that doesn't change the definition of mainstream. It's just a location-sensitive comparison.

For a preview of what video games being "mainstream" looks like: South Korea. It's not unthinkable we could get there in the west.
This looks really awesome.

I'm curious, because I haven't seen much work built on top of Knuth and Hobby's "Most Pleasing Curve" as defined by Mathematical Typography [0] and Hobby's follow-up papers [1] [2] [3]. Has anybody investigated these? As far as I know they're just not very convenient to rasterize.

[0] http://www.math.lsa.umich.edu/~millerpd/docs/501_Winter13/Kn...
[1] http://i.stanford.edu/pub/cstr/reports/cs/tr/85/1047/CS-TR-8...
[2] http://ect.bell-labs.com/who/hobby/thesis.pdf
[3] http://ect.bell-labs.com/who/hobby/87_2-04.pdf
> We will soon begin blocking access to our service from IP addresses associated with an embargoed country. Users who travel to a sanctioned country may not be able to access Slack while they remain in that country.

Is Slack legally required to do this? As long as they aren't knowingly accepting payment from these countries, shouldn't they be in the clear?

How are other tech companies dealing with this? Does Google block access from embargoed countries? Does Windows refuse to work?
everyone smoking bud is smoking cbd. are you dense?
He may be, and while he's a great investor, he's pretty easily duped when they're selling something he wants to be true.

> I think a lot of the voters who vote for Trump take Trump seriously but not literally. And so when they hear things like the Muslim comment or the wall comment or things like that, the question is not ‘Are you going to build a wall like the Great Wall of China?’ or, you know, ‘How exactly are you going to enforce these tests?’ What they hear is ‘We’re going to have a saner, more sensible immigration policy. -- Peter Thiel, October 2016
LLVM only exists because companies can't steal from gcc. The second gcc disappears LLVM will be forked a dozen times with no one seeing any source code again.
Gatwick Incident Raises Questions Over Race to Commercialize Drones
Set Clear Expectations
You are describing a parabolic concentrator.
I've used Discord for a long time and my previous startup was even part of the Hypesquad program. However, I'm really concerned with their views around E2E encryption. We've asked many times for an end-to-end encryption service. This became the #3 most upvoted request (https://support.discordapp.com/hc/en-us/community/posts/3600...). Unfortunately, their "rejection" and user comments were deleted after they switched feature request systems.

It was something along the lines of "we take security seriously but we won't do this." IMO, it's pretty important for them to actually consider implementing this.
No it only does Google do it themselves but if you host at GCP then they automatically do it for you as well.