skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What about that dude who they put in jail for open sourcing software he developed in a personal side project while under
contract with them?

Didn't they like completely throw the book at him by charging him under that completely insane law the Computer Fraud Act?
http://fredericiana.com/2012/11/04/html5-blink-tag/

Blink is easily implemented in pure CSS these days if you still want it. You can even customize its behavior!
Georgia Tech Data Breach Exposes Info for 1.3M People
I'm annoyed this was posted while I'm away from my home computer because I actually have pastebin dumps of the internal communications between 4chan moderators leaked during the 2014 chaos that could provide an interesting contrast between the moderation strategies of the public squares of the internet and the sewage systems of the internet.

Edit: I'm going to see if I can find the original pastebins on fireden and post them before my edit window closes
Nope. It’s now also a paid enterprise product (at consumer prices) so it probably pays for itself. I’ve been a customer since day 1 and think the $7/month or so it costs is ridiculously low. Also see this critically important comment regarding use of your own domain: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19566056
Anecdata: A couple of years ago, I was at one of the very first (not sure if not the only one) FB connect meetings here in Dallas.

A couple of local startups were talking about how to leverage the "login with facebook" button. It was a big thing...

Most people I talked to, told me: "The very first thing I do is to save all the email of their friends" or stuff like that.

So yeah, this was years ago. I'm failing to see how this is a surprise at all.
You can draw a scenario. Natural gas has to be distributed, either as gas in pipes or as power down lines. Solar can, theoretically, be generated closer to source. Play with the geography enough and you can say that solar is the cheaper option.

Another common way to game the number is to compare the price of installed solar per watt using only generic land prices. A natural gas generator can be installed anywhere. A solar panel needs a southern view, preferably on a south-facing slope, to maximize exposure to direct sun. In my area (BC, Canada) our combination of higher latitudes and mountains mean that solar's land requirements are very specific/expensive in comparison to natural gas generators. Also weather.
Boeing's flying test-flights to test software fixes etc out of their Seattle facility
Quite ironically, that is how many people in America feel about Silicon Valley, especially when they hear about the offices filled with arcade games and pinball machines and meditation rooms and on-site concierge chefs...

Marketing is a skill. Just because it doesn't appear valuable to you doesn't mean it's not valuable to someone. For examples on the importance of marketing, see the histories of Tesla, Tinder, most big-budget movies, nearly all triple-A games, Wool, Harry Potter, Twilight Saga, nearly all restaurants, most tangible goods purchased in a store, cars and trucks, airlines... The point is that just making a good product isn't enough anymore; there are plenty of good products. Marketing is what makes people aware that your product exists and/or makes it the preferred option the next time they are in need of that type of product.
Most buildings aren't new. They're old. My house is over 100 years old, and it could still be standing in another 100 years. The neighborhood is mostly these old houses, and lots of the people living here are retirees or young couples who simply don't have the money to do massive renovations on their homes. And frankly, there's an upper limit to the energy efficiency of a drafty old bungalow.
No, the working theory I've heard is that the hand-crank trim wheels may have been overwhelmed by the air load on the stabilizer given its "nose down" configuration, probable full "nose up" pull on the elevators, and the very high speed they were flying. Speculation is they may have turned the electric trim back on to use the manual trim switches to trim up. By that time possibly too late or even the electric trim was overwhelmed by the load, and of course this would have brought MCAS back into play also.
A caveat to this, which doesn't diminish your point but is interesting to consider, is that we prove the papers based on quite a lot of assumptions. For example, we may have 100% correct proofs that a given symmetrical encryption primitive is secure, but it's only secure under the common assumptions that A) the attackers are polynomial time, and B) that we don't care about any information the attacker may already have.

A is fairly obvious; we don't consider attackers who can perform infinite computation per second, because that's not practical. B is more subtly interesting. Most encryption systems reveal the length of the plaintext that's been encrypted, or at least some information about the length. But we don't consider that relevant in most of our proofs, because it's assumed to be information the attacker has a priori.

Of course in practice leaking length of the plaintext has sometimes made attacks on the overall system possible (encrypted VOIP calls can be partially decrypted because their packet lengths leak information about the speech being encoded).

We just ignore those problems in most of our proofs because building encryption primitives that don't leak that information is much, much harder and it's not _usually_ a problem.

Again, none of this detracts from the thrust of the arguments in this thread: formally verified code is objectively better than non-formally verified code; approaching the limits of our abilities today. The problems these assumptions may or may not introduce are universal to all implementations.
IBM Proposes Quantum-Enhanced Feature Space for ML
reading this with a mental fog in an afternoon... I feel a tear is coming or maybe just dry eyes from the hot air and high CO2 balance...
Hey now, I enjoyed it.
Those instructions are for a 12" Macbook (not a 13-15" Macbook Pro).

My commentary was only directed at the MBP's, I forget the 12" models exist with how rarely I see anyone actually using one.

Taking apart a 12" MB is a pretty unpleasant experience. The 13-15" MBP's require some non-standard screwdrivers and is very tedious, but not overly complex.
> When enough people lose enough money, people stop lending their money so freely and the business cycle starts the contraction phase.

But the business cycle is not a bad thing. One important feature of the cycle is that as investment seeks new opportunities nobody knows with certainty what will succeed and what will fail in advance. The down part of the cycle clears out the losing investments.

If the free market business cycle has any strengths, surely this is one of them: allowing big money to be both smart and stupid, allowing the wealthy to take dumb risks and lose to those who are more nimble, more insightful, more industrious.
Such an archive could come in handy when training a DL network to recognize ads and block them.
I just found out the guy who made that also made the kinda-famous "Calm" smartphone app!
Traditionally this is done by having a separate safety, QA or compliance organization (depending on industry) that has the power to overrule the bean counters and guys with white teeth.
> The lowest level managing directors typically have several additional managing directors between them and the C level executives.

Often called SMD (Senior) or EMD (Executive)
Again, instead of relying on speculation, we should wait to get more information.
Unfortunately a lot of old TV shows were still lost. It can be similarly difficult to find old youtube videos that aren't there anymore. It can take some archeology on archive.org to find a working copy of a video.
Fair point, I stand corrected then: let's consider beating a boy because he is fat?
What if you never needed to buy anything? A Subscription platform
Please let me know if something like this would interest you guys?

www.maypoye.com
Could very well be.
That's more like the typical engineering school format. I went to a Liberal Arts university, nearly half my classes were general humanities and sciences. The rest were in my major (also required an additional 18-21 credits for the ABET accredited degree option).
Nope. It seems to be just you. My website works https://adityar.me
The cost of printing and shipping the book is only part of the cost. There are additional costs as part of the initial storage, such as the administrative function of issuing the LCCN, cataloging, and shelving the book. Once shelved, the book continues to incur the cost of shelf space in a climate controlled building.

The cost of just keeping a book in a library is great enough that all but the richest academic libraries have an ongoing process of identifying and selling or destroying books with no circulation over a period of time. Usually they do so after checking whether they can borrow a copy from another library in their network should one of their patrons ask for it.
Unfortunately, Facebook had a fundamental misunderstanding of how privacy has to work, and their users will be paying for their error for years.

If it's earth-shatteringly bad for your users if their private data is leaked by a third-party, you cannot exfiltrate that data to a thrid-party. Full stop. No amount of policy un-leaks data, and "You cannot continue to operate as a Facebook service" is an empty threat the moment it becomes more valuable for the third-party to violate the agreement than to continue to operate as a Facebook service.

The takeaway: if you are responsible for user privacy, you must do the computations on the user's data. Have partners ship you the computations they wish to do, vet them, and then ship them results compliant with your users' expectations. Don't hand third-parties a subset of the keys to the kingdom and expect an honor system to preserve user privacy.
And are you including subsidies when you plot your cost of solar?
It's nice that they've built a tool that understands specific application contexts and can do the right things to build an efficient image. But imo that does not make the dockerfile a leaky abstraction.
Terrific article!! Looking forward to the alarm clock sequel ;) It would be also really really cool a post with Arduino + TensorFlow lite.
7zip compresses textual content extremely well (and it and other algorithms are always getting better... although I think we're close to the Shannon limit already), and hard drive space is always getting cheaper.
there were a lot of years between the introduction of TV, and betamax.
I am not an expert, but did you checked your domain authoritative DNS servers?
One option would be to set up a micro VM at AWS, or Digital Ocean, etc. to host your mail server, with something like Squirrel Mail. Then set up your gmail account to allow forwarding for your other email address ("send mail as" in Settings / Accounts and Import), so that outbound mail from your private server can be forwarded through Google's servers (so you don't get blocked by everyone else).

This way, if Google mail goes away, you can pick up another free email provider to relay mail through in the future (assuming everyone else also allows "send mail as").
I wonder how much easier it would be if you narrow down the likely set of pieces for each square. There are obviously some positions for some pieces that are invalid (bishop on the wrong colored square), but there are probably a lot of other positions that are so uncommon that they could be discounted.
Lol no. Heroku is way too much magic for my taste.
This, to me, highlights a deeper issue. The fear of legal ramifications shouldn't get in the way of creating better, safer products. If Boeing is avoiding taking the heat by withholding a fix it may cost more people their lives.
Hydro is an option, albeit limited by location
Outlook!!
Feels fresh and works well. Also categorises mails into Focus and Others depending.
Find it really useful on phone. Prefer default Gmail website on Desktop.
yup, that's why I carry a notepad and take notes down with a serious face and occasional frown... I doodle well too
Toffee is the world’s first dating app for people who were privately educated
Back then most APIs (that I used) were in XML. It definitely seemed XML related.
As stated, it's not all my sites hosted on github. Just that one. But it's configured exactly the same as the others.
While using Mathematica, you don't need to go out to fetch some random 3rd party tools, because most components are already built into it. What makes it better is that combining those components is well streamlined, and there's little need for costly plumbing.

Paywall does suck, but someone gotta curate all those shits. Mathematica is a good platform not only because of some advanced algorithms built into it, but also because of the curation from Wolfram. Curating software component is one of the least fun job in the world, and any entities who do it properly should be paid for the sake longevity of their roles.
I agree that lower duty cycles increase the per-MWh generation costs; I just think that there's going to be room for recently built plants to operate even with those higher costs.

The sunk costs of already-built plants don't affect whether they will operate going forward. It's even possible that plants would be mothballed for some years and then revived when the economics support at least part-time operation, as I expect to happen with the currently idled Irsching units in Germany.

New combined cycle gas plants are not terribly capital-intensive. Overnight capital cost is about $1/watt:

https://atb.nrel.gov/electricity/2017/index.html?t=cg

Since they can also be built quickly, overnight capital costs are relatively representative of true capital costs for gas plants.

I wish that the LCOE chart in the link above had included a scenario for "Gas combined cycle - low capacity factor" in the LCOE chart, because I think that's going to be how a fair number of plants end up operating: high CF in the peak demand season, but low annualized CF.
"tl;dr: Building new solar, wind, and storage is about to be cheaper than operating existing coal and gas power plants. That will change everything."

Yeah, right Ramez.

Galactic-Scale Energy
https://dothemath.ucsd.edu/2011/07/galactic-scale-energy
Basically zero. Most sites I use I have accounts on, so I don't get captchas there. And those I don't... well my Gmail account basically means I skip the captcha altogether (at the cost of being tracked by Google).
Agreed. Hard not to speculate though. I personally find this stuff fascinating from a technical and human factors perspective -- the deaths are tragic of course.
I've logged into my DNS provider and confirmed everything is set up the same as my other github pages which are working fine. Is that what you're asking?
That sounds exactly like the Rails + Vue setup we are using on our current project. Its basically 90% of a standard admin style interface which we had up and running in lightning speed using the great, but boring activeAdmin. For the couple of pages that are very interaction heavy we serve a per-page Vue app. It really does feel like the perfect combo.
Within the past few years, solar+batteries is starting to win bids against new natural gas generation in many common peak-related situations (not all yet, but increasingly so). The expectation is that solar+storage will win most peak-related bids by 2025 and then win most baseload bids by 2035.

https://www.woodmac.com/press-releases/batteries-renewables-...

After that, it will likely start to displace existing natural gas similar to what it's doing for coal now.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/energyinnovation/2018/12/03/plu...
Great idea. I should look around to see if there's any good articles / tutorials with Arduino and TFLite. Additionally, I really do think that a computer vision app for recognizing electronics components (especially resistors) would be super useful for tinkerers of all ages.
Show HN: F1standings.com – A simple website for F1 driver and team standings
Georgia House Republicans File Bill to Create State Journalism Ethics Board
I always wondered. What happened to the team behind start.com ? At the time I thought it could have been a golden brand and the realization was slick, I remember reading they had a lot of freedom to experiment.
I would expect using scihub to be more convenient than any other option except direct google scholar PDF results. I have access to my uni's resources and journal subscriptions, yet I don't know how to use them (and frankly I don't see the point). It's extremely likely that circumventing a DNS block is less of a hassle than the procedure to access paywalled articles in a large majority of institutions.
You have a citation? The only case I know about is a programmer who ftp'd a whole bunch of internal code to a site in Germany before his last day of work.
Learn a functional programming language to change your thinking about programming. Clojure is a good place to start.

Started learning it in January and has radically changed my OOP mind. Previously did work with Python, Java, and .NET.
Whatever trump is, he is not a physical military invasion force from Russia.
A meta issue here...

> Nancy and I and our three daughters are all doing well. Our eldest, Zoe, who was 11 when Marc and I started Red Hat, is expecting her second child—meaning I'm a grandparent.

First off, I don’t give a damn about the interviewer’s family, Red Hat founder or not. Not sure why it’s included in the article. But you know who does? Identity thieves. I feel like Young should be more aware of the issues this kind of thing can pose. He’s a high net worth guy and it seems reckless to publish anywhere, much less an unprotected article like this one.
This isn't rumor mongering. This is straight out of Boeing's own documentation on the 737: https://www.satcom.guru/2019/04/stabilizer-trim-loads-and-ra...

When the stabilizer is extended and is being counteracted by elevator inputs, the forces on the control column make manually trimming stabilizers difficult or impossible. Boeing instructs that elevator input on the stick must be eased back in order to manually adjust the stabilizers.
Buy domain, Setup VPS, Configure DNS, Install mailinabox, Setup letsencrypt

I pay ~$12 month which I have complete access and control over. My $0.02.....
I cared about the future a lot when I was a teenager/early 20's, and was a bit of a digital hoarder. When I was a freshman in college a million years ago (2001) it was common to meet people and trade binders of burned Divx's. I had hundreds, because I might want to watch them someday. My Mp3 collection, tiny by some standards, was still tens or hundreds of gb - and this in an age when a 20GB hard drive was a decent size. I saved every photo I took and curated the folders of them.

Then three things happened
1) Almost everything became easily available (or reasonably easily)
2) Of the things that aren't easily available (personal photos), I realized I never look at it, with very little exception.
3) I realized I am going to die someday, and at the rate I consume media I will _never_ get to even a sizeable fraction of it.

So I try to print the pictures I care about, I have a folder of just a few photos and videos I really care about (mostly my kid), and that's about it really.

Media used to be somewhat scarce, but now basically everything is available everywhere all the time (rights issues notwithstanding). We take a thousand photos on a vacation, not a few rolls of film (72-108 images) It's overwhelming.
I should've also pointed out there is also obviously a huge difference between not going to see a movie someone made and beating someone. Also, it's still out of the kid's control, depending on age (parents supply the food) so it's not a great example.
They gave one docker tradeoff/alternative. Didnt come to the article to learn about heroku, came for docker tips, and tricks.

Assuming most people arnt going to change thier whole platform because they didnt bother rtfm, or googling.

Yes docker doesnt handle this well, but there is a lot more nuance to that example.
I had the Impossible Burger in a few places.

About six months ago I had it in a vegan place near Cape Canaveral, and I was in disbelief it wasn't a meat burger. I asked the waiter twice.

It's been 15+ years since I last ate meat (and even more, red meat), and I hate the taste.

For anyone vegan or vegetarian who hates the taste of meat and is afraid to try it, I recommend giving a try even though it's supposed to taste like meat as it might feel different. I believe the preparation makes it very different because all other times (10+?) I had it (both 1.0 and 2.0), I enjoyed (specially at Umami Burger in Anaheim). The only reason I haven't had it more is that I don't live in the U.S., and I prefer the Portobello mushroom patty at Umami.
Analyze video to detect players, teams, and who attempted the basket
Goldman Sachs does nothing that fails to profit Goldman Sachs.

This might be just PR, in which case the code could be useful for some. However, they may be doing this is because they found something that they can exploit if other people are using this code. It might be nothing particularly bad for a given user, but if a big block of investors begin using code Goldman Sachs knows intimately, the market may suddenly start doing stuff that just happens to fall to Goldman Sach's advantage.
> The concern being voiced is that monetary policy is diverting resources away from people who are known to make good long term decisions and towards people who have access to loans from the central bank.

A very interesting statement. I'd like to understand this cash path. Can anyone describe the flow of cash from the central bank to Silicon Valley VC firm? How exactly does this work?

Also do low central bank rates guarantee the kind of money losing VC investments we're seeing? Are their other central banks outside the US with low rates but no accompanying flurry of money-losing investments?
It's a relief to see that the top-voted comments already disagree with this article. I disagree so much however that I need to voice it, I can't just upvote others. So, here it goes:

Nope, nope nope nope. Personal data property is a bad idea. And it probably does not come from people who actually care about privacy. It is an ideological push towards more and more privatization and "free market" economy.

Think of it for a minute. If personal data protection is based on private property that you can sell or rent, it means that rich people get a right to privacy, while others will necessarily rent or sell their data so they can pay for rent or feed their kids. It means power over personal data belongs with money. That's not what anyone actually fighting for the right to privacy actually wants.

Now, people should have control over their personal data, that's a fact. But control means rights, it does not mean that a notion of property is necessary (or maybe a loosely derived notion, like something resembling moral rights [1], in addition to control). It also means regulation of data controllers and data processors. The fight for actual privacy is not the fight for ownership, it's the fight for control.

For those who, rightly, think that "control" is a vague term: it was, but it has been properly defined [2], and more recently formally modeled [3] (disclaimer: I'm one of the author of the latter article).

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moral_rights

[2] https://script-ed.org/article/control-over-personal-data-tru...

[3] https://pablo.rauzy.name/research/publications/lemetayer2018...
will be nice if chess.com (and others) could tell you that your opponent is "chessvisioning".
Well, right now (April 3, 2019), USCIS is accepting applications for 2020. Just decrement by 1 to get the calendar year.
A Practical Guide to Hyperparameter Optimization
The Alibaba-Yahoo Saga Is Ending
There's a weird meta tag on that page, Googling it leads to more "hacked" pages:

<meta content="http://www ratiss org/ioport5.htm" property="og:url"> (spaces added to prevent it from linking)