skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have no doubt Jason can facilitate the extraction from whatever media you have.
>I don't expect everyone to pay attention to history but the Stasi was the _EAST_ German _COMMUNIST_ state secret police. They came after the Nazis.

The parent was calling the people being voted for or against in the US "facists" even though the NSA is the secret police of a constitutional republic. East German communists were closer to fascism than the US today by a long shot, "everything is the state" and all that.

>By now if you work for Facebook you must all ready know that they are in the surveillance business.

I'm not trying to absolve Facebook, I'm pointing out that some Facebook employees may be using their position to push back against Facebook's evil, or to slow it down. So, you can't pick up your torches and pitchforks against everyone who works there, because some good people might get pitchforked.
Personally, I find his talks fantastic. However, to be fair I also normally have problems determining what his actual points are and what is a joke and I rarely see what his main point is (sometimes I'm pretty sure it's just a bunch of stuff randomly thrown together).

That being said, his talks are a great example of how to make an otherwise dry topic very interesting and consumable by laymen. And he typically takes a skeptical approach to technology just working. Combine those two things and you get something that we as an industry desperately need. A skeptical and conservative view towards emerging technology that arbitrary people can consume (especially technology inept decision makers).

Currently, the best presentations to decision makers about new technologies are all made by evangelists, wide eyed early adapters, and snake oil sales men. These presentations encourage those with power to make poor decisions (they don't want to be left behind for the next big thing, they already thought the internet wasn't going to work).

James Mickens provides a much needed splash of cold water. And it's in a form that is easy to listen to when you don't understand technology. The typical approach for why a new technology is a bad idea is a boring technical digression where a bunch of people say a bunch of words that nobody understands. James Mickens makes it interesting and compelling without getting bogged down. Somebody does need to get into the details at some point, but if we don't have a way to signal that some new things are in fact a bad idea then nobody is going to get the chance and we'll be stuck implementing the next bad idea yet again.
And they are computationally impossible to any degree of certainty, based on only a cursory examination of quantum physics, chaos, theory of computation, and complexity theory.
No, collecting UDIDs and using (multiple) standard developer accounts.
You'll want 2 copies there --- 100 blu-ray rips will take some time to rebuild if that drive dies.
I had to google to see what M. Gell-Mann had to do with this ... and it turns out he has nothing to do with it. Crichton just used his name to name an effect.

Is there a better name for this though? from behavioral sciences or psychology?
Kind of? But this is so far off from being anywhere Apple's fault, that I can only theoretically agree.

Facebook really shot themselves in the foot.
why was a human life more valuable than Harambe?
This is mostly a millenials thing. I don't know why young people are fixated with the Zuckerbers and Bezos of the world. Did I miss something the past 15 years?. I'm in my 40s
It might not be the same, but this sounds similar to what happened in Eden, North Carolina recently.

The gambling parlor next door were using jammers to keep "fish table" players from cheating. This was affecting key fobs, car starts, etc. in a pretty big radius around the location.

https://www.greensboro.com/rockingham_now/business/customers...

https://www.greensboro.com/news/local_news/after-complaints-...
Depends on the movie and if its 1080p or 4K, but generally I anticipate a ripped Bluray to be around 60gb.

Re-encoding them is a PITA as well. Even on a HEDT gaming desktop with a brand new CPU, the process only proceeds at 8-10fps, if that, so at least 2x movie runtime. Maybe there are some ways to involve the video card which can speed it up, but I haven't tried it.

And even if you want to and can keep the originals, you'll want to re-encode it and keep both; most Plex clients (think: Apple TV, shitty laptop, etc) simply can't handle raw 4K bluray playback.
Nicotine is quite toxic at moderately high doses, ask any farmer who works with nicotinoid pesticides, or any ER attending. Nicotine is a potent neurotoxin, it’s just that typical use from smoking and food falls below the threshold for poisoning your nAChRs receptors. However with vaping, that’s no longer the case, especially when people spill their vaping liquid on clothing or skin.
It's been a few years, and technology moves fast.
ZeroSpeech 2019 challenge for InterSpeech 2019
People like native apps. This isn't just Facebook; other companies in the valley do the same thing.
Cloud Firestore supports HIPAA compliance, we are working to update the documentation here: https://cloud.google.com/security/compliance/hipaa/#covered-...
LimeSDR, BladeRF, AirSpy...
The first two are capable of emulating base stations - quite incredible. AirSpy is RX only but has incredible bandwidth and a very clean signal
nobody likes paying more for the same service.
Then explain how these things work instead of just giving a glib "you're wrong. Why? Because I said so. "
I foresee the Amazon/Google slogan ‘Always Charged. Always Connected.’
Ask HN: What’s your go-to investment for protecting cash from inflation?
I am curious what investments, and why, you all invest in to mitigate cash depreciation. Bonds, CD’s, etc.
I had the exact same reaction to it. Some enormous fraction of all non-fiction is an essay-length idea stretched out into a book length. It's disrespectful to the reader, but it's what they need to do to make a sale. No one wants to buy a pamphlet
This type of predatory behavior has been happening for a long time. When I was about 9 years old, my brother and I bought Link's Awakening on Gameboy. On the back of the booklet that comes with the game was a line that read, "Need Help? Call this number" with an 900 phone number listed.

We had access to the home phone and wanted to beat the game. So of course, we called the number a few times to get hints on how to beat hards parts of the game. This was before the internet where you could just lookup a walkthrough online.

You can imagine my mother's shock when she received a $200+ charge on her phone bill for a phone number she had never heard of. Apparently the cost of the call was about $5/minute.

We got yelled at and we weren't allowed to call the number anymore after that. I'm proud to say we still beat the game though.
Slow CI: real problem or easy excuse for developers?
"More features coming soon. We're working on adding some of the most requested features to Cloud Firestore from our developer community, such as querying for documents across collections"

Looking forward to it. If this comes in, pretty much it removes the need for creating top level collections or am I missing anything?
Anyone with inside knowledge of Firestore care to comment on the ETA of more advanced query functionality?

We have played with Firestore quite a bit, but rely heavily on the ability to do aggregate queries. Reading all of the documents and performing this on the client side is nowhere near good enough. Nor is triggering functions to update a "count" or "sum" property on a doc.

Edit: Looks like a PM answered on another thread...

"It's a point of internal discussion on scalable ways to achieve this, but nothing we can promise. We definitely see the need for it."
> You are entitled to your opinion but nothing I or my coworkers do is evil and we would never engage in anything unethical.

This is somewhat of a pet peeve of mine, but there are relatively few cases where there is near-universal agreement of what is or is not ethical (i.e. "ethical" is a value judgment); that's why ethics courses teach methods and structures to argue one way or the other.

Your particular case is, I am fairly sure, not one of those "universal agreement" cases. I don't know what exactly you do at Facebook, but a number of people conclude that some or large parts of Facebooks operation are unethical.

Additionally, individual conduct in a larger system is generally not pertinent to the outcome of said larger system. An usual example is people in the Manhattan project not knowing that they are working towards offensive nuclear weapons, and of course various examples related to Nazis, but that may not be the best example when you (the recipient) seem to be trapped in a world of absolute ethics.
For wireless debugging we use an older tool called the wi-spy dbx. We also have a USRP B200 and LimeSDR mini which have been helpful tracking down interference.

Here's a plot from when we discovered LED motion sensing lights use a radar signal on the upper end of 5Ghz. Every vertical line is another light. You can imagine a hallway filled with 20+.

https://i.imgur.com/4XKIaN2.png
The whole EU is inevitably diminished by the UK's departure, firstly due to the loss of prestige, and secondly by the loss of budget contributions. The funny thing is that truly the EU's options are strictly limited, because it will suffer massively if it punishes the UK, and thus it cannot afford to do it. British politicians just need to remind Brussels that they are not dealing with Greece.
Depends on which features matter to you. If you want an immersive content library like Plex, it's harder to find substitutes.

If you just want a way to stream music and movies from your own server or home computer, with on-the-fly re-encoding to adjust to available bandwidth, I would recommend airsonic. https://github.com/airsonic/airsonic
File sizes, basically. The marginal benefits of streaming music over downloading it are small. Consumers are willing to pay for streamed video over downloads.
The way the headline is worded, along with the fact that it's a headline in the first place, implies that it's an unprecedented thing, even if the article doesn't go out and state it.

Had they wanted to, they could have come up with a much less linkbait-y way to talk about how track maintenance works in the winter.
Yep, look no further than Sheryl Sandberg still doubling down on defending this practice: https://www.cnbc.com/2019/01/30/facebooks-sheryl-sandberg-de...

Like you said, rotten from the top-down.

They think they can keep using an apology tour to dismiss all past misdeeds ("we have work to do"). It looks silly at this point and completely incompetent.
Maybe someone can bring this same technology to San Francisco and other crowded urban areas. It's endlessly annoying that every car lock/unlock these days has to be accompanied by a HONK.
When my kids were little and basically destroyed anything they touched, I started ripping their DVDs. Now there's over 200 of them on my media center PC. I had to upgrade from a 1GB to a 3GB disk at one point, but there's still plenty of room for more.
I've seen it time and time again. An employee wants a 10% raise but management says no and the employee quits. Then after a long search a new hire comes in at 10% more. Why not just give the existing employee that 10%?

I think the reason is that big raises are not sustainable over time. If you keep giving your employees 10% raises every year, eventually you can't afford it. So you keep raises to 2-3% as long as possible and only give larger raises along with promotions, or when hiring a new employee.

I was fortunate to find out this pattern early in my career, and I was able to average 18% raises for over a decade by switching jobs nearly every year.
My summary: The Atlantic, rather than arguing for government regulation, argues for Apple to be the regulator. The argument is that Apple only enforced the contractual agreement, and did not enforce as a part of their privacy stance (which, to my knowledge, is not part of a canonical, enforceable document).

"Crucially, Apple didn’t ban Facebook from the App Store or the iPhone platform: You can still download and use Messenger."

AFAICT, Apple has no legal leg to stand on were they to do so. There is nothing in their contract with FB (assuming it is at least similar to the one us little folk get) that says FB has committed an app-banning offense. IANAL, etc., but this strikes me as the magazine's attempt at "but Apple's just as bad!" click-bait.
Adding in to your point, it's really easy to get familiar with a codebase and be confident that there are no regressions when you make changes if there are comprehensive tests.

Similarly, tests can serve as a device for asserting contributions are acceptable pre/post-merge as well as evaluating that your dependencies work as expected.
>There's companies that are researching or selling very precise indirect fire weapons. Basically, they're like the smart naval turret guns scaled down to around 20 or 30mm. You can fire a shell through a window and tell it to explode just inside.

These exist and are slowly becoming more mature. There was one that was tested in the early phases of what became the XM8 program in the early 2000s. So far the weapons that fire them seem to always wind up being too bulky/clunky/finicky for adoption by any military.
Correlation is not causation. As another poster pointed out, wages are stagnant even though GDP has skyrocketed.
I didn't submit this link and I didn't jump to any kind of conclusion here.

It may well be bullshit, but I can think of quite a few instances where claims were made that were cast as bullshit by many so called "experts" that turned out to be true ("Sunscreen" comes to mind) so I won't jump to that conclusion with all of those who love to make those leaps to crap on something or someone without knowing anymore than I do about it.

On the other hand, I've seen claims made that everyone "in the know" stood behind that turned out to be complete bullshit (see anyone zooming to work on Segway today?).

I think it's pretty telling though that I was down voted for expressing "hope" here even while stating I didn't know enough to substantiate the claim as fact.
And once again rather than spending two minutes to find the data and report it here, you instead chose to act smug about how much smarter you are than the article author. Please stop doing that. Provide insight instead of just criticism. Right from a linked chart in the article [1], you can see that the total number of persons over 65 imprisoned has quadrupled from roughly 600 in 1997 to 2500 in 2016. Repeat convictions is a side statistic that has little bearing on the total numbers here.

[1] http://hakusyo1.moj.go.jp/en/66/image/image/h004008002001e.j...
Because of their relative file sizes, downloading audio became fast and easy to do much sooner than video. It created a problem for the music industry pretty abruptly. They didn't have streaming technology (and business structure) ready to go at the time to counter Napster et al. So they went with downloads.

By the time it became easier to pirate video, streaming was further along and the video industry went straight there because it's more friendly to them than the download option.
It’s just a magic line. 17? No consequences. 18? Full adult.

Complete fiction. Minors being tried as adults happens all the time. It all depends on how heinous the crime is.
Could you please stop being a sexist & racist?
As late as 2010, when I was involved in the OIF transition to "New Dawn," Sadr City was still basically a no mans land, and was the bulk of where the "bad shit" would happen when it came to IED makers, smugglers, planners and other AQI activity.

Some absolute horrors in what is effectively a tiny square Suburb.
Easy SSH and SFTP for Java
It's probably better said that Cloud Firestore and Cloud Spanner share common infrastructure.

For example, Cloud Firestore uses TrueTime to provide similarly strong consistency guarantees to Cloud Spanner (see https://cloud.google.com/spanner/docs/true-time-external-con...)

I'm not aware of any whitepapers describing the listen feature that provides real-time updates.
Result of a lack of community, friends and local family support system. Work has become Church, the CEO head of the flock, your role becoming your identity, bowing at the alter of RSUs and total comp.
Please don't post political or nationalistic flamebait.

Also, could you please stop posting rude comments?

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I have heard of loose electric pole hardware vibrating in the wind and causing interference in the 400mhz range.

Basically they were looking to see if it was the source, and the guy banged the pole with a hammer, and the banging showed up on the listening station some 20 miles away.
Having not lived through it but having heard many, many stories about it, I'm not sure your characterization of the East side is entirely correct.

While many things were ostensibly highly guarded (i.e. guards were stationed,) and the rules were strict, and penalties for breaking them very harsh, it was common knowledge that if you lucked out and got yourself in a position where you had access to any kind of goods, you would be a fool not to try to spirit something away on the side. Many, many people engaged in what would now be deemed outright theft, and everyone covered for everyone else - it all had to look good on paper, not so much in reality. When a new government building or a housing block was built, no one batted an eye when afterwards the foreman somehow also had built a dacha (summer house) for himself, and his subordinates had built a garage or an extension to their homes, or just suddenly had spare money on hand to buy a car (which is another story in itself, with the 10-year waitlists, etc.) They had comedy movies about industrial theft even back in the 60s[1].

Now, the rules would be more strict in a military installation but there was more than likely plenty of lax behavior even there. As long as you didn't commit the egregious error of having discrepancies be noticed and documented, greased the right hands, knew people in the right places, and shared in your luck, you could get away with an awful lot of things.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Y_and_Shurik%27s_Oth...
I like to think of smartphones as the "devil's gadget", alluding to the original conceptualization of Satan: the being of natural tendency.
I generally agree but a couple times in the last few weeks I have had friends and family make comments about ditching facebook, and neither is at all technically inclined. It's possible that the message is making it to regular people, and once that ship sails there is no bringing it back into the dock.
I actually enjoyed it; although usually I'd agree. It was like reading a fictional book where the author's purpose is to entertain rather than to inform. I saw it as a story following a reporter around and the allusions to the mysterious nature of everything were like how a movie would play a mysterious sounding background track while the main character followed a new lead.
Funny how Google tends to end services we like almost overnight but this Google+ piece of crap still lingers.
Do technologists truly operate in a free market? There are rampant anti-competitive practices across tech, I think it's a SV libertarian fantasy that they are in a free market, a fantasy they tell themselves to paper over their squashing of rivals.
When my father-in-law was a college student he was using a table saw to cut aluminum stock to make a 2" cube. He had the fence on. As he finished the cut, the 2" cube turned between the blade and the fence and launched at him, hitting him right on the lens of his safety glasses. He never saw the cube--it went out a window after bouncing off his glasses. His safety glasses were crushed, and he had pretty deep cuts and bruises around his eye.

He tells that story when he thinks people aren't having enough respect for power tools. He could have been much more severely injured. If he hadn't been wearing safety glasses he definitely would have lost his eye and could have had brain damage as well.

Human strength and reaction times are so insignificant compared to these machines. It's purely an illusion that we are in control of them, and there's no reason not to use all of the safety measures and precautions available to us.
An ironic critique from Crichton, really.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_of_Fear#Criticism_from_s...

> Several scientists whose research had been referenced in the novel stated that Crichton had distorted it in the novel.
> We are going to keep buying the boogeyman as long as the media and politicians sells it to us.

That's the saddest part. The media is the one entity theoretically equipped to shine light on these things. And it's just fallen down hill in a race to the bottom the last two decades.

And for that we must also place some blame on ourselves. We're less and less likely to support good journalism and gravitate to fluff and fake(-able) news ("Who needs newspapers? I get my news from Twitter").

We cannot shift blame exclusively outwards. We are not discerning consumers of information.
Isn't his push block already broken @ 4:19? He was suggesting it got cut because of the the actions shown in the video but it appears to already have been mangled...
After two years of the clown show that is the Trump government, the USA's reputation in the EU has already suffered massively. The US is simply no longer seen as the reliable partner it once was. If you think that six more years of that don't have long-lasting effects on the US's role and influence in the world, then maybe you are the one who is thinking wishfully.
Will there ever be support for aggregate queries? Or queries for non-existent values?

I have a rather large dataset that's tough to scan over and I find the functions/transactions to build my own aggregates not entirely accurate enough since a document has rate limits for writes.
The few 'new idea' type books I've found to be useful are rather thin, printed on cheap paper, and have rather large text.

Even they are padded out, but at least a bit less so.

The problem is, I don't think people will pay $30 for a 50 page book, even if the ideas inside it are worth the money.
"Serverless", hey?
Isn't free travel within the EU just as 'radical'? And haven't western democracies already accepted many millions of migrants? The US alone accepts one million immigrants per year.
Hardly a novel material. Molybdenum disulfide is one of the most common tool lubricants in the world.
Awhile back when no texting laws were just starting out I remember thinking it was so stupid because my state (Michigan) already had a no distracted driving law.

I don't see how it's any different than eating, smoking, reading, or whatever else people do in their car that makes it harder to drive.
It might be worth noting in another context, but tech worker salaries don't determine London rents.
I don't really come up with ideas, they just appear day to day and if they seem interesting enough to me I try to jot them down. There is no shortage of great ideas out there so it just becomes a matter of picking the stuff I think sounds most interesting to me.
There was a guy last year trying to post a video like this and he used a high speed camera.

When he went to edit the footage, he discovered to his horror that when the board kicked, it nearly sucked his fingers into the blade. Missed by less than an inch. The final edit ended up being mostly a message of "learn from my mistakes". Basically I learned that there's never a good time to have a kickback, even if you're trying to make an educational video.
Tracking WPEngine's Growth Now at $132M ARR
OTOH, snake can be played without much effort, where as it requires much patience and effort to play Fortnight. This is something that most of the critical discussion on games seems to be missing. Most computer games require lot of effort and time investment to play, they aren't actually an avenue for instant gratification.
Absolutely and I wouldn't want to imply so.