skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's how they perpetuate "Made in China"===(Fake|Crap)

I was wondering why is obscure, crappy apps in apple store get so many positive reviews.

Apple/AMZN need to up their game in reviews/ratings domains.
Scanning a venmo code is a daily occurence for younger people these days. Same with the snapchat codes. Its quick and easy, especially for drunk people. QR codes rock, but yeah, they need to be adopted as standard by google and apple.
> A deal that gives billions of dollars to the worlds largest supporter of terrorism is not a good deal.

No kidding. We should really be charging Saudi Arabia billions of dollars instead of giving them anything.
Wow this is really something. You realize that, for example, Puerto Rico has mass protests going on, which are helped to organize with social media? To cite one example.

https://beta.washingtonpost.com/national/puerto-rico-has-tur...
> so you're saying that the character of the Roman empire in the 5th Century AD was not Western, given their state-level rejection and criminalisation of paganism

In that respect, no, they weren't. "Western" isn't a binary category. But I do think it's a meaningful one. You appear to think it isn't, so I guess we'll just have to disagree about that.
America is not a dictatorship, the chance of changing the goverment (and that includes its intel agencies) for the best by politics still exist so I don't even see the equivalence you are trying to make here, if anything developers and everyone else should _use those platforms_ (Google, Facebook, etc) to promote saner politics.
Wouldn’t a public company like Exxon need to disclose any massive short position on it’s quarterly public statements?

I think someone would have noticed if Exxon’s balance sheet said something like “Derivative securities - $2.8B”.
UTC != Unix time. UTC is a standard by which time is measured, independent of any particular representation. Unix time is one way of representing or encoding a given point in time.
I have had very similar experiences to the author when doing a magazine translation job from Japanese to English. Very regularly the editor would take issue with me writing an English translation that sounded natural but didn't use a word with the exact same meaning and part of speech as the original.

Having worked in translation for a little while, bad and awkward translations really do stand out a mile. "How nostalgic!" is such a common way to translate "懐かしい” but I've never heard anyone say that in English.

The distance between the languages will always leave the translator with a sizable challenge. It's a real shame to hear the Kojima was not on board with this style of translation.
One Giant Leap: The Apollo 11 Moon Landing, 50 Years On
Google wants some of that action:
https://developers.google.com/gmail/ampemail/
Can We Use Special Sails to Bring Old Satellites Back Down to Earth?
> I got a formal software job years ago, and have since held a few positions, including senior engineering positions, at some small- and mid-size Bay Area tech companies.

You're golden. If you've done it on the job, most people don't care what your formal education is. (Some do care. Ignore them.)
Far as I know Kenya's oil and gas production is nil. The curse if anything is the continual need to import both. Building out solar and wind and transport electrification would make sense for them.

All the money they spend now for oil and gas could be used instead to pay for consumer and industrial goods. Example a friend of mine that spent 2 months traveling in Southern Africa said that imported building materials appear to very dear.
There is a lot more to tracking these groups than ip addresses. To impersonate any of the known groups you will need a lot of knowledge about the tools and infra that they use.
Yeah, but you force me to stare at blank spaces while your webfont downloads [0]. I guess I should be thankful you’re not using that font for the body text, too (most sites do!).

[0]: https://imgur.com/a/FAX6BDW
It's a pity that a country needs a Nazi holocaust to realize that mass surveillance is a bad thing.

The US will learn, as will the UK and Australia.
...also known as "directional navigation" — widely used by screen readers and browsers on Android TV or some Android Auto devices.
1. Playola

2. Most people don't have good taste

3. A bewildering abundance of platforms, delivery methods, genres and performers

As nonprofit stations go, KCSM 91.1 FM ain't bad.
I haven't seen any bias. Do you have specific examples of them reporting false or distorted news about Tesla?
I just got back from the NYT event, and it was phenomenal. The video doesn't capture the beauty of the live event, but worth watching anyway.

From the page:

The performers who are bringing these historic moments to life include: Lauren Ambrose, Jeff Daniels, LaTanya Richardson Jackson, Samuel L. Jackson, Dakin Matthews, Arian Moayed, Kristine Nielsen and JoAnna Rhinehart, with special guests Rosdely Ciprian and Thursday Williams. Directed by Tony winner (and nine-time nominee) Bartlett Sher and produced by Cambra Overend.

Following the reading, Michael Barbaro of “The Daily” hosts an onstage conversation with Michael Collins, command module pilot on Apollo 11; Peggy Whitson, the first female commander of the International Space Station; and Poppy Northcutt, the first female engineer to work in NASA’s Mission Control, starting with Apollo 8.
This is cool! I can buy a $30 Black & Decker toaster oven and turn it into a reflow oven.

There are a few worrisome steps, like this section:

> Ceramic fibers are very fine and sharp. They don't penetrate though thick skin, but can irritate thin tissue like eyes, nostrils and lungs. If you exercise precautions you won't have any problems. The blanket has amazing insulating properties, and the top of your oven will be barely warm during a reflow.

> Things to keep in mind:

• Unwrap the ceramic fiber blanket just before you use it - not earlier.

• Clean up your workspace immediately after applying the blanket and closing the oven

• If possible, wear a face mask (we recommend using N95 masks)

• Wear shoes. Our preference is flip-flops that we can easily wash afterwards

• Take care not to touch your eyes, lips or ears

• Keep the area free of drinks, and use the restroom (toilet) before starting

• Work in a draft-free environment. Don't use fans

• Make slow movements to minimize dust

• Make sure you have all your tools and parts close by (you need to close up the oven too)

• Make sure pets, kids and neglected spouses don't come into your work area

• Immediately after working with the blanket you should take a shower and wash your clothing

> Scared? Don't be. Ceramic fiber is easy to work with as long as you take a few precautions.

OK! I am not scared at all.

I do have to wonder about the cost effectiveness, at least for myself. It sounds like a solid couple of days work to make this thing.

Suppose I were looking for a ready-to-go reflow oven at some kind of reasonable price. Where would I start? Any recommendations?
Not my code, not my repo.
Good luck calling out 14 states and 3 countries with contradicting laws and terminology.
It's a little odd to characterize these volunteers as 'Canadians,' and Cook should know it. The majority of the recruits were first-generation immigrants from the British Isles. Few native-born Canadians volunteered. So whatever was going on over there was the product of that recent immigrant experience. That's interesting in itself, but puts a different gloss on this than we might get from those who would like to say something about Canadians, the Canadian mentality, and Canadian nationality from this.

Most Canadians stayed home during WWI. Most recently-arrived Brits went to Europe to fight for their country.
Hey man, I'm just trying to feed my family. I have kids so that means I can behave however I want so long as it benefits my kids. And rather than trust some reviews on a platform anyone can sign up for, how about you do some reading on the app developer and their ToS and Privacy Policy.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Das_U-Boot

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_booting

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Firmware
If you want to see the correct way to deal with a short seller, look up what HerbalLife did against Pershing capital’s massive short.

They basically continued to grow and show positive financials. Eventually Pershing exited his position.

It’s not worth playing a PR game. You’re just asking to get called out on some statement you made.

The proof is in the pudding. Sell lots of cars. Don’t claim your going to sell 500,000 vehicles this year, then come back and say “oh, I meant if you annualized our peak month”.
http://archive.is/xJnkK
It seems entirely likely that two things are simultaneously true: Hubble contacts are more likely to have complications than the big manufacturers' lenses, and the big manufacturers engage in anticompetitive behavior.

Sounds like a great arena for some pro-consumer regulation or legislation.
Since office 2007 they use word to render HTML mail. Probably mostly because of security reasons because at the time their other option was IE which lead to many previous security flaws.

Word isn't much safer but at least it is under the Office team's control plus it's less widely deployed than IE was at the time. It also has way fewer features with regards to HTML rendering which helps reducing the attack surface.

On the other hand, as it's neither browser nor HTML editor, its HTML rendering capabilities are never improved because it's no priority.

And thus HTML mail is stuck at tables, font tags and spacer gifs for the rest of eternity. Thank you Microsoft.

(OTOH, whatever helps discourage HTML mails and encourage plain text is a good thing in my book. And now, get off my lawn)
Kids being kidnapped is not the first thought of Dutch (and Belgium?) parents.

Example:
We were at the Zoo with friends from the US and one of their small kids was out of sight for minute at the very large playground.

My first thought: Will show up, but is there any water nearby? Their thought: he's kidnapped!

(kid did show up few seconds later)

I guess you're far more likely to drown than to get kidnapped in The Netherlands... (Most children learn to swim before they are 6 years old here)

Droppings were really cool by the way and in the eighties when I grew up we only got a compass or nothing at all (no gps or cell phone). I was no boy scout, it also happens at school trips and birthdays.
Modern music has no memory, therefore there's no nostalgia. I look at it not as a problem of elitism, ranking or "good ol days" of genres, which would be comparing apples and oranges, but a matter of having good taste applies equally to every genre. Sentimentality is one thing, religious "purity" of certain artists, songs or genres is meaningless fetishization.
IIRC, Turbolinks work by loading pages in the background in response to a mouseover event - by the time a click has registered, the remote content has already been downloaded and just needs to be injected into the page. The speed-up comes from anticipating clicks, not from JavaScript tomfoolery.
So, a few really cool things but 95% weird porn?
> Or is it on their best interest to keep it broken?

I get the impression that most mail is currently sent using Outlook and read using Gmail, so there is kind of a detente where everything is just frozen.
I think a less accurate translation can sometimes result in a better product, but the translator needs to be very good to pull it off. The most notable example I can think of is Vagrant Story, which was widely praised for its localization.

Example from The GIA's review[0]:

"Lines as bland in the original Japanese as

"It is because you acknowledge things like freedom of belief. There can be only one God. This sort of incident occurs because you let heretics like them out of your control. That, and our parliament is impotent..."

become:

"All because of this religious freedom! Too much freedom, too many gods. Let those cultist cur-dogs run loose, and they will bite you. Gods! While our Parliament cowers...""

But if a bad writer tries this then you get Working Designs' localization style, where they "improved" the originals with unfunny 4th-wall-breaking jokes and references.

[0] https://web.archive.org/web/20010608201912/http://www.thegia...
>They're getting ready to negotiate, hence the UK tanker intercepts etc. Weak negotiating position, need bargaining chips.

You do realize that the UK grabbed a tanker first?
As a non CS hobbyist who tries to learn compiler theory but feels swarmed, this looks Interesting.
30 seconds googling yields....Amazon (https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/machine-learning/amazons-own-ma...), Apple (https://opensource.apple.com/, https://github.com/apple/turicreate)
Could it be something like a classifier having success at telling if someone is a professional NBA player vs a club basketball player, or is there something more to it?
Whistleblowing by definition means reporting something that (someone thinks) is unsavory. You can argue whether a given set of whistleblowers are misguided, but otherwise you don't call them whistleblowers.
In your example, Apple would not be absolutely fine. Key employees are compensated largely in stock and many would start looking for other jobs if their trailing four years of RSU grants suddenly became nearly worthless. Now Apple could step up and issue additional RSUs to employees to keep them onboard, but that has consequences too. So you can see how a tanking stock price is extremely disruptive, even if you don't need to raise capital.
Seems like it would be physically quite similar to asbestos. I wonder if it's comparable.
Oxygen spectral lines are mostly distinct from the non-life planet ones, so I would be greatly surprised if we couldn't measure it and if astronomers didn't do that for each planet they observed by transition.
In fact, chinese government excludes most of tech companies and university from GFW. Any company/institution can apply VPN usage if there is a need
Real-Time Driver State Monitoring Using a CNN Based Spatio-Temporal Approach
When HTML was hand written, it was largely awful. Just like anything people make. Bespoke HTML is now usually nice because the people who care to make it are the type of people who care about that sort of thing.
Very hard to detect a fake click when it’s actually done by a person manually.
Perhaps an alternative is to split into guilds - many of them - and pose an Epic Quest; game moves are contributions to a dialogue (conversation) map which, first, responds to the quest (a deep question) with position/answer statements to be followed by evidence fields the guilds collect to support their position. Other guilds can come in and gain game points by adding support to the game moves of others, or, for that matter, challenging them with evidence to the contrary. Game moves include Questions, as well as answers and pro and con arguments. Thus, this is not a simple Pro-Con ecosystem, but, instead, a conversational one. This, in theory, can be viewed through several lenses, two of which are "debate" and "learning conversation". To the extent that the epic quest is one which, effectively, crowd sources the world views expressed by guilds, and to the extent that rules of engagement mean that the pugnacious arguments remain inside the guilds and what comes out forms valuable contributions to the conversation which is the quest, then "all boats rise". John Seely Brown did a 6 minute Youtube with the opening sentence: "I would rather hire a high-level World of Warcraft player than an MBA from Harvard", and that point is evidence to support the model I'm suggesting here, something like "World of Warcraft meets Global Sensemaking". JSB's point is that guilds perform magic on humans; less tendency to argue, more tendency to find ways to remain on truth seeking missions rather than "selling" personal versions of truth.
One of the comments on that video claims that the guy makes $5.9k-$93.7k per year on that one 18-second video. Does that sound plausible and consistent with what YouTube pays? Is there any way to check if he has actually monetized his video?
That is just a minor point in my comment, may be it was just a racist soldier. The OP asked why US is targeting Iran, and the major point of the comment was that Iran is modern colonizer, who has sort of colonized 3 other countries. and waiting to do the same to Israel and Saudi. They are already lobbing rockets into Israel and Saudi. To compare this, the 1991 Iraq war was because Saddam overtly captured Kuwait and look at the flak Russia is getting for taking control of Crimea, and people normally justify the Sanctions on Russia because of its actions. But Iran has covertly taken over 3 other nations, and control most of their oil fields, and still people are wondering why Iran is being treated as such. The point of the video is, for close to a decade Iran has been exporting Shia Jihadis into Syria, and Assad is just a puppet.
Exsanguination? Hold on a minute. 1000 ticks x how much blood can a tick hold? Maybe 1 cc, say 2 cc giant bloated tick. Thats 2 L of blood extracted over a week or so.

I’m sure that would lay me low, but how much blood is in a cow?

Something doesn’t add up.
The photo in the article appears to show a Garmin GPS60, which is a solid if dated GPS receiver that might be considered primitive to the extent that it can't show you a map of where you are.
Short answer: Yes. Absolutely yes.

Long answer: I have Keratoconus, which means my cornea has uneven thickness across its surface, which causes bubbles in my cornea, creating a very uneven prescription across my eye. The contacts I use are called “scleral” lenses, which use a liquid-filled void to nullify my actual cornea shape, creating a new cornea. They are expensive, require specialized training to adjust, and nailing down a prescription involves doing adjustments with them in, and working backwards to figure out the proper prescription.

My optometrist worked on my prescription for around 6 months solid, going through around 12 pairs of $250 (per lens) contacts on their dime.

So, yeah. A good optometrist is fantastic, and does a ton for you.
"Luxurious"? I'm not sure what you intend to say. Do you perhaps mean "unnecessary" or "essential" or "very strong" or "very weak" or "well-thought-out"?

As I read it, he's pointing out that since the diodes and resistors can't do things like XOR, because it's not monotonic, it's necessary for "[e]ach input variable" to be "presented in duplicate".

Another example that is in some sense more fundamental than XOR is the MUX function b if a else c. If at some point b = 0 and c = 1, the output is the negation of A, which diodes and resistors alone cannot achieve.
This is fantastic. I'm going to 3d print the code and make a placard for the guest WiFi at my place :)
I just got back from visiting a friend in Amsterdam, and it was a delight to see how much everybody just assumed kids would be safe on their own.

I'm pretty sure the US had the same attitude when I was growing up; I know I spent the bulk of my summer days roving the neighborhood. It's weird to me how much that has changed. Especially given that kids can be constantly tracked and contacted via cellphones, you'd think that they'd be roving farther!
> has anyone had the optometrist try multiple lenses and work to get a fit?

Yes. Most good ones do this. Just as there are good and bad doctors, there are good and bad optometrists.

IMO, Hubble is straight up dangerous. Getting glasses online is relatively risk free. But when something is physically touching your eye, precautions need to be taken.
This reminds me of firefox's telemetry for people who turn off telemetry [1]. None of the big three browsers respect your privacy enough to not track you in any way. Not a single one.

Here's to hoping that a browser that truly respects its users appears soon.

[1] https://www.ghacks.net/2018/09/21/mozilla-wants-to-estimate-...
When I was a student, pretty much every student organization that did PCBs had one of these (FSAE Electric, Robotics clubs, etc.)

This + boards from OSHPark or Advanced Circuits' 33/66 each deal were a great way to cheaply get started with PCB design.
Show HN: Sell your unused domains for free
This is so different to bitcoin. It's a centralized service. There's no reason for them to not just use an SQL database instead of a completely neutered blockchain. The whole point of bitcoin was to avoid that centralization.

I know you probably know that, but we need to nip in the bud any suggestion of anonymity because cryptocoin.

"At the core, we believe that a network that helps move more cash transactions — where a lot of illicit activities happen — to a digital network that features regulated on and off ramps with proper know-your-customer (KYC) practices, combined with the ability for law enforcement and regulators to conduct their own analysis of on-chain activity, will be a big opportunity to increase the efficacy of financial crimes monitoring and enforcement"
UK CO₂ Emissions Are Lowest Since 1888 Due to Government Intervention
I started working in a kind of non-technical department, and someone had developed a procedure for making some database updates which used to be done manually through a web page, and the procedure for this "automated" method went through like 50 pages. After doing it two or three times I'd memorized it. But if I was documenting it, I would be like "here's 5 bullet points" and they would be prompts to fill in the details. It depends on the audience, but the way I prefer to write documentation is I think of how I discovered all the stuff that was not obvious and try to provide starting points to each area of knowledge.

In some environments, people will write so much documentation that you can't see the structure, and when you see repetitive sections, you can't tell what the difference is without actually diffing it.

There is an enormous amount of formulaic documentation that is 90% boilerplate and almost completely fails to focus on what people need to know. So many tools have been developed to easily produce stuff that looks like documentation but doesn't have any content and then using them is compulsory, but substance is not. I've been unimpressed with the Microsoft online documentation I've had to look up recently.
Yup, almost everything in I have ever worked with in Japanese to English translation has been shackled by the need to produce English translations optimized for English speaking Japanese readers.
It's partially (not entirely) a myth about US politics.

The majority of political donations come from individuals.

Obama for example raised $1.23 billion from individual contributions over his political career. Out of about $1.5 billion total.

For Trump, about 60% of his campaign's funding came from individual donations (about $220m), his money included. Trump gave about $66m to his own campaign, or around 20% of all the funding. Supporting PACs spent around $100 million.

Hillary Clinton got about 71% of her campaign funds from individual contributions (around $405m). Her supporting PACs spent around $210m.

For the prominent Ted Cruz vs Beto O'Rourke Texas Senate battle, Cruz got 77% of his funding from individual contributions.

From there you'd have to look into the share of the PAC money that comes from individuals versus companies etc. PACs commonly derive a large share of their funding from individual contributions. For some of that you can get good figures, some of it is shadowy.