skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hi Zenexer,

I just get aware of the existence of this thread.

I still don't know if our "GreenLionSoft" account is going to be reinstantiated but I've got more info from the review team.

Our company account hasn't violated any policy but it was "associated" with my personal account that hadn't violated any policy but was "associated" to a third account from which I had console access in the past and that was terminated due "IP violation and Trademark" months before personal mine. The owner of this account appealed denying any IP violation but was ignored and the termination cascaded from one account to another.

The point here is not whether this first termination was fair or not, the point is that now anybody that shares wifi, hardware or console access with anybody that suffers a termination will be terminated too.

It is quite usual that developers working for a start-up, have also their own personal GP account just for publishing their pet projects or just testing new API's or features. If any of your employees while or before working for you have their account terminated the company account risks to be terminated too.

I have now sent back to the review team extra info to demonstrate that my personal account and company accounts were not created to impersonate this terminated account, nor republish any suspended app.

Still waiting an answer...
Of course this corruption of a science conference is a serious concern but what BBC is doing with its misleading headline is to painting all “India” scientists with a broad brush when they (as well as HN readers) should be supporting the real scientists who are aghast at what is going on.

There are indeed lots of parallels between the two men.
Android facial recognition implementations are a poor joke. There was an article on here a few weeks ago where someone tricked all(?) of them using a 3d-printed head: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18693738. Apparently the OnePlus implementation can still be fooled with a printed selfie.
Shouldn't there be some sort of "lagrange-like" point where the sun's gravitational pull balances out the push of the solar wind?
They already carry strategic nuclear missiles (ICBMs); this provides more situational flexibility.
I have mixed feelings about using Elixir (or Erlang); as far as I understand the platform, it is about building fault tolerant systems/high availability, specially in the presence of hardware failure. I think those are handled well by cloud service providers; they didn't exist during the 80s.

I think performance is better compared to Ruby and Python, but then again my experience with web applications is that the domains are best modeled using classes.

For writing networking code and protocols, the binary pattern matching is amazing, though. The Plug libraries are a pleasure to use also.
I've wondered if there was a way to do this forever. Was just trying to come up with a good solution for trusting my self-signed certs on my machines.
Omitting the obvious (ie electric impedance), there seems to be no specs for "Acoustic Impedance" for headphones. I have big ears, so it difficult to find in-ear headphones that would match voluminous ear canals. They sound better if I press them very deep into the canal, as the volume is more close to "normal human ear" and impedance matching better.
Agreed, I don't see the practical benefit here either, it's mostly interesting to me from an academic point of view. But we are after all in a thread about something with even less crowded practical value, hiding messages in constructed chess games.
Have you ever tried reading the economist? Lots of sites have stupid amounts of banners.

Having more vertical space also makes it easier to scan my emails or akik an article. It is absolutely worth it.
35C3 ...

https://wallet.fail/
> E.g., your idea about games is provably false since at least IL-2 Sturmovik of 2001 which was written almost entirely in Java.

Oh, really?

That's interesting. Do you have details? Was the main I/O loop in Java?
Facebook is launching their own satellites to beam down high-speed internet. (See https://www.theverge.com/2018/7/21/17598418/facebook-athena-... ) Why isn't Apple doing that? More than anyone else Apple needs it.
Letsencrypt has dramatically helped increase the amount of websites that are secured with SSL. Theyyre important, but not even close to being the sole certificate authority.

Besides: their stack is open and available. If monopoly would ever be a concern in the future, other CAs could spin up using the same software. But that doesn't seem something worth being concerned about right now.
Everything use a feature provided by NTFS file system, so the `updatedb` part is incredibly fast, i haven't found anything that can even come close on macos/linux.
I've used the camera to check if UTP cable plugs were attached correctly.
Ask HN: Who do you follow, and why?
and you can also try fd https://github.com/sharkdp/fd (it works without index)
> Everyone wants to buy the cheapest cellphone plan, then they complain when it doesn't work in buildings. Your location matters here, but at least in the more enclosed bars in san jose, AT&T and T-mobile are super unreliable; Verizon works fine.

In the UK we have one set of physical lines, owned and run by BT. BT has to, by law, lease the lines out to sub providers at it's own "internal" costing rate so that there is competition in telephone providers.

It remains bemusing to me that Mobile Towers weren't treated in the same way, with every provider using the same network of towers and sharing. We do it for emergency calls (999 will route the nearest/strongest tower irrespective of owner), and frankly you'd have fewer towers over-saturating the high population areas for the 4-5 networks.
Your at Amazon, right? You should be aware that many other Seattleites in tech despise those who are part of FAANG, vast data mining (FANG) & extreme internal secrecy (Apple, Amazon) have created an environment where ethics are ignored, and only bootlickers are promoted.

This has come back to haunt some of these companies already, but fixing the structural rot is unlikely to happen anytime soon.
Wow, this document is fascinating.
The Pixel Night Mode begs to differ.
All these languages beg to differ.

- Mesa/Cedar at Xerox PARC

- Algol 68 at UK Navy computing center

- Modula-2+ at Olivetti DEC

- Modula-3 at Olivetti DEC/Compaq/HP and University of Washington

- Oberon, Oberon-2, Active Oberon, Oberon-07 at ETHZ

- Oberon-07 at Astrobe

- Component Pascal at Oberon microsystems AG

- Sing#, Dafny and System C# (M#) at Microsoft Research

- Java when running AOT compiled on bare metal embedded systems like PTC Perc and Aicas Jamaica

- D by Digital Mars

- Go at Google (Fuchsia) and MIT (Biscuit)

If we don't have a mainstream OS written in one, it is mostly a consequence of politics and willingness to push it forward, instead of doing yet another UNIX clone.
Unlike the majority of startups in crypto space, the team is actually dedicated to bring the value to this ecosystem.

Ethereum roller-coaster forced a constant change of plans, but, as far as I know, no one ditched gived promises and just moved forward.
Accoustic mirrors could actually be rather effective - a large mirror could perhaps hear a plane in good conditions up to 75 miles away, well over the horizon.

Early radar only had about the same range, but the advantage was it could work in nearly all conditions, rather than just windless sunny days.

They also weren't used by the Germans, so perhaps the accoustic mirrors were as much of a secret as radar.
I wonder if this will accelerate Chinese Investment in EU Startups?
> Lisp use at first was restricted only to Academics

Lisp was spreading in the 60s to everyone who had a mainframe or mini computer. In the 70s first applications were built and companies like BBN, Xerox, IBM started to use Lisp. In the 80s Common Lisp was standardized upon a DARPA initiative to have a single Lisp language for the applications they were prototyping or deploying in the military. The military got huge applications for battle management, battle simulation&training (like SIMNET), planning, design & construction developed by contractors.

> it was so inefficient that you even required a very special(and expensive) purpose computer to run it

Lisp developers required a personal workstation and thus they co-invented them in the 70s. Machines with 1 Megabyte or more RAM for a single user. Machines where one could develop and work with programs like Macsyma, an early computer algebra system widely used in maths and physics.

> creating compilation pathways and so on

efficient execution of Lisp on non-special-purpose hardware was available in the 70s for example with Maclisp and in the 80s with Common Lisp.
Mozilla DeepSpeech is pretty active considering the holidays: https://github.com/mozilla/DeepSpeech/pulse

Looks like they'll be having their v0.4 release sometime this month?
Completely agree about BBC's bias. Hopefully articles such as these will create enough outrage and some good will come out of it. I doubt it though.

Its important to expose these guys and make people uncomfortable enough, have their ego hurt enough so that they feel compelled to respond. So in a backhanded way BBC is doing a good thing.

There is also the question of how the headline is read. Is it read as 'all Indian' scientists or Some whose nationality happen to be Indian. Given that its being broadcast from a forum called the "Indian Science Congress" I cannot honestly complain because that platform is intended to speak for India and its scientists.
The mirrors focus sound to a different point depending where it originated from. With a movable microphone, an operator can pinpoint to within a fraction of a degree the direction the sound came from, and if it can be heard on two sound mirrors, that gives an exact location.
No official support, but things may change in the upcoming year.
I have built my first wood houses since few years, European class A+, short answer is yes however less than concrete houses.

Long answer structure is from lower flat and upper is:

- fibrous plaster + finishing with it's support structure

- mineral wood 100mm think between wood beams (250mmx100mm)

- OSB panel on top of beams, 30mm

- sandwich panel composed of wood wool (20mm) and fibrous plaster (30mm)

- thin (4/5mm) wood wool panel

- laminated floor

If I walk normally I do not hear too much downstairs, otherwise well... Noise passes, far more than classic concrete + rubber coat + background and floor tiles... Also when I move I hear "casual noise" from laminated floor friction. Not much but a bit yes...

IMO sound propagation is due to the fact that wood structures are lighter and elastic than concrete so vibration passes far easier and it's hard to stop them...
Complicated question - it's called climate change for a reason. Unfortunately I found it difficult to turn up easy to read climate maps for different historical periods, but I did manage to find a couple.

First our baseline - check out this very detailed present day biome map.[1]

For an idea of what things probably looked like during the Pliocene, check out this biome map.[2] Note that a portion of the central US (our bread basket, so to speak) was desert. But then, also notice that a large swath of Texas was actually grassland and that temperate forest extended down to approximately LA.

As for the Eocene, things actually look pretty good in the US crop wise. From figure 6 of this paper [3], it looks like the west coast was warm temperate forest while almost the entire rest of the US was tropical forest.

That being said, don't get the wrong idea. Just because you can still grow crops doesn't mean you can grow the same crops, or in the same places; things will probably not be going so well. In a best case scenario climate change still presumably causes massive disruptions to our societies as well as large scale economic damage simply by rapidly changing things.

[1] https://www.nrcs.usda.gov/wps/portal/nrcs/detail/soils/use/w...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pliocene_climate#/media/File:P...

[3] https://www.geosci-model-dev.net/7/2077/2014/gmd-7-2077-2014...
Didnt know what blocks are , it seems it's an apple extension.
Ok so if they don't understand cause and effect why would they be able to relate the spanking with their "wrong" action?
The populace is not more divided now. They just don't remember how it used to be.

> “People have completely forgotten that in 1972 we had over nineteen hundred domestic bombings in the United States.” — Max Noel, FBI (ret.)

https://status451.com/2017/01/20/days-of-rage/
I see now that this term was introduced in a 1986 paper about versioned, immutable data structures (Making Data Structures Persistent, Driscoll, Tarjan et al).

I'm well aware of the techniques, just not the word.

Interestingly, they were aware of the connection between their work and Lisp:

"The node-copying method
of
Section 2
can
be
modified
so
that
it is write-once
except for
access
pointers. The main
modification
is to
handle
inverse
pointers
as
discussed
in
Section
3.
The
write-once
property
is
important
for
certain kinds
of
memory technology.
Also,
it implies
that
any
data
structure
of
constant
bounded
in-degree
that
can
be
built
using
the augmented
LISP
primitives
cons,
cdr,
replaca,
and
replacd
can
be
simulated in linear
time using only
the pure
LISP
primitives
cons,
car,
and
cdr.
Thus
the result sheds light
on
the
power
of
purely
applicative
programming
languages."

Or, rather, it seems they were made aware by a reviewer:

"We
thank
Nick
Pippenger
for
noting
the
connection
between
write-once data
structures
and
the
power
of
pure
LISP."

(Good old Nick didn't go as far as to point out that rplaca and rplacd can introduce cycles, which cannot be constructed with cons over existing structure.)

Sadly, no reviewer similarly piped up about "persistent" being taken already for durable storage.
There is xfs.org and the XFS mailing list. You can just send an email there. Maybe you were sending HTML emails or something that made the message bounce?
How can corporal punishment be a necessity in a life or death situation? I think you mean in preventing the recurrence of that situation. Screams and tears of fear and other emotions will suffice. One day my 3 yr old decided to bike away in a park near a pond. I cried when helpful bystanders found him about 1km away. (Don't search in concentric circles! Go for the playground.) We all share that memory even though a lot of other memories of preschoolers fade. No corporal punishment necessary.
And if you use Cloudflare in front of NFSN, the costs would be even lower.
How to Setup Ethical Hacking LAB
A history of soap
Ask HN: Best place to learn GO?
What has been the best resource you have found when learning GO?
It's also clothing. I bet you don't wear a thick long-sleeved shirt, a helmet and a headset digging into your ear while you're hiking.

You do just get used to it quite quickly. 10kg is a light load for going for a run in the military community.
How effective do you really think a democratically run business could be?

Such companies would be very limited in size and capacity to produce output.

If you had a hypothetical Anarchist country with an Anarchist economy where all the companies were run this way, they would all be outcompeted by the capatilist companies of other nations and the local economy would collapse.
VPN apps are not allowed in the Chinese Apple App Store. They also require a custom entitlement that "free" Xcode developers can not apply to a program, so to the extent to which you can use signing services to subvert the protections it is a game of certificate whack-a-mole where they occasionally get yanked from your phone.
The Red Language has always described itself as functional imperative. I used to point out to people that functional programming can be imperative and nobody (I do mean nobody I spoke to about this) would believe me on this. Then I would point out to people Red Language as an example and they would scratch their heads in confusion.

Even the Wikipedia article gets this wrong: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Functional_programming

Functional imperative is the idea of using functions to define the shape of an application, which is to say the nesting of functions defines both the stacked structure and the resulting control flow opposed to describing units of logic or any sort of reflection.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Function_model#Functional_deco...
Perhaps there is the option of transpiling from a different language to Dart?
VPN apps are not allowed in the Chinese Apple App Store.
Best Communication Practices We Use to Keep Our Clients Happy (And in the Loop)
There is a (at least one more) newer version: (from 2017 August)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vT1JzLTH4G4&list=PLC1qU-LWwr...
One major stumble block in GTK backend development is a monstrocious string-oriented API for setting widget properties. There's a more low-level one, but it's depricated.

FYI, development of backend happens as we speak [1].

[1]: https://gitter.im/red/GTK
I was referring to the big US tech companies, not sure about Asia. Microsoft is as I understand organized by products too: there’s an Office division, a Windows division, SQL division, Xbox, etc instead of Software, OS, and Web.
Virtualization benefits: Making the switch to a virtual environment
The wheeled mules I'm talking about are not noisy though. From the article:

> Although quadruped robots like BigDog from Boston Dynamics is no longer in the running (it turned out to be a bit too noisy), there are numerous wheeled alternatives.

Regarding your second point the article seems to come to a different conclusion:

> A British army study, called Project Payne, found that far too much of what is carried is “just in case” and that the amount of ammunition carried by troops is excessive.
Passive wireless sensors for IoT-applications
Do you really want a valid certificate for localhost?

I can get a valid certificate for development by simply getting a valid certificate for localhost.example.com on my server through let's encrypt and then making localhost.example.com resolve to 127.0.0.1 in my /etc/hosts file.

Some code can behave slightly differently on localhost than on localhost.example.com, for example in deciding whether to keep cookies on a third level domain, so tests are more reliable that way.
You're probably right!

I agree with the long term argument, I still love my X and it was my reasoning behind paying the price. I do appreciate the fact that Apple still pays attention to things that are important to users like me, like the whole privacy aspect, keeping as much data on-device as possible. It's great and I try to keep that in perspective. It's hard to deny that for the last few years, they've been making gaffe after gaffe after gaffe. Delayed launches, increased prices, good products being discontinued instead of updated, announced products not making an appearance. It would've been unacceptable before Cook, now it seems like it's just part of how they do business nowadays.
So the teacher, grandparent, and father never bothered asking why he's licking his hands, and his mother only after a lot of drama, including spanking(!!)

I get that being a parent is hard and try to hold off my judgements on stuff like this over the internet, but ... I am not wildly impressed by this teacher or their parenting.

I'm glad that at least the mother came to her senses later on and decided to treat her child like a human being.
You might be confusing "smart" with "knowledgeable". There's no way to be smart about concepts you haven't yet learned.
And the ELI5 idea is cool - just need to find a business model :)
AWS ACM is not for general use like LetsEncypt.

>>You cannot install public ACM certificates directly on your website or application. You must install your certificate by using one of the services integrated with ACM and ACM PCA.

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/acm/latest/userguide/acm-overvie...
>So how else can they differentiate? Making a small phone won't really fly - while I'd love an SE-sized XS, the Chinese market they need to win back wants its phones big.

Do you remember, back in the day, when the smallest IBM thinkpads were way more expensive than the less-small IBM thinkpads?

I understand big phones are king if you only have one device. If I wasn't carrying like five devices all the time, I'd also want a giant phone-tablet, and I guess these days, most people don't have computers, and if I didn't have a computer, I'd want a really giant phone. But I am carrying five devices all the time, and I do have desktops everywhere I spend significant time, so I want my phone to be small and easy to operate with one hand.

As far as I can tell, there's a pretty big correlation between having a good income and having multiple devices. What I'm saying is that giant phones can be seen as... kind of the low end of the market.

And it's not like apple needs to stop making giant phones; they just need to make a small phone for the high end. That, or they need to upgrade functionality on the watch to the point where I can just use the watch for everything, but as far as I can tell, app developers are moving in the other direction (Last time I dropped off my phone for repair, I found that lyft had disabled it's watch app, and the uber watch app doesn't work reliably without the phone nearby. I mean, I got the uber watch app working once I got my phone back, but it's just not designed to function as the backup for your transportation app that I wanted. It was kind of annoying; I ended up calling a friend on the watch, 'cause txt messages weren't working, either. Walking around shouting into my watch like I thought i was dick tracy)

Personally, I'm actually pretty happy paying apple prices for a new phone every two years or so, but you've gotta give me a reason. I mean, if you came out with a really nice small phone, I'd even be willing to pay big phone prices for it; I'm not really that price sensitive when it comes to things like my cellphone, but I really don't have a lot of desire to buy the new phones, just 'cause they are all so big, and as far as I can tell, they don't do anything I want any better than my iphone 7. (I don't hate face ID, but as far as I am concerned, it's not any better than the fingerprint)

If Apple came out with a 3d-touch capable iphone SE sized phone with lots of memory and really good cell reception/networking features? Yeah, I could see me paying a grand for it.
Care to write about why you prefer Wizfile over Everything?

Between Wiztree and Windirstat it's obvious as Windirstat is extremely slow.
> If Google can do that ( https://fi.google.com ) why can't Apple?

I think Apple planned (still is?) to become a carrier as part of their eSIM rollout, but the carriers who sell a lot of their phones are not so welcoming to carrying a competing carriers products.

If Apple can move iDevice sales to their own stores to a higher degree this is more likely to happen.
I laughed so hard at that.

Yeah, I'm reading Black Swan now, and then have Antifragile and Skin in the Game... I get the impression it'll be a journey through the man's ever-inflating ego. Signal/Noise was great though (not that I didn't thoroughly enjoy NNT's Fooled by Randomness), I'd love to read more of Nate Silver's stuff. Also open to recommendations of similar material?
This presents wrong view of innovation: Apple has money and smart people, just throw more money and innovate more.

Major part of innovation for tech giants like Apple is buying out small companies with big innovations and developing them into products.

Big companies can usually develop true innovations faster than small companies but they rarely produce breakthroughs.