skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They have long range iris identification. It stands to reason that soon that will also be enough to gather a replica without the target knowing.

https://www.cylab.cmu.edu/research/projects/2012/long-range-...

In fact my research lab recently received a donation of high power telescopes after being used for testing extremely long range iris identification technology. I'm not sure if the project was scrapped or if they are planning on continuing development.
And some of those are sockpuppet or throwaway accounts, so the actual number of users is bound to be slightly lower than the number of accounts, or even unique IPs.
I would imagine if they were timed properly and coordinated using software they could be extremely dense.
Is it? What does it achieve? I think anyone browsing HN knows the opinion of the average HN user on scrolljacking. If they're still doing it it's because either they don't read HN or they have data that proves it works.
Nanna isn't suggesting smuggling contraband. As a journalist, they have a responsibility to maintain the privacy of their sources. They shouldn't be letting customs officials go through their emails and identifying people they have contact with, or photos or whatever.

No matter what is on the device, border security shouldn't be able to access it without probable cause for a search, and knowing what they are looking for.
I bet you give that very organization thousand of dollars a year.
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Aha, that makes more sense. I interpret a type like `List[_ <: Number]` as a list with any kind of elements, whereas `List[T] forSome {type T <: Number}` makes sense to be a list with a specific kind of elements, with the type of the elements constrained (of course, assuming that List is invariant).
Motor assemblies and the hub likely take the brunt of the stress and would require the most maintenance. Servicing them in the long term is a problem in that there simply not enough qualified people to do that job. Figure part electrician, part mechanic, and more, just to be able to work on one. Then throw in that candidates for this work must be very physically fit and mentally agile to be able to do the two hundred foot or more climbs.

So besides the material costs of building and maintaining we may run up against one that isn't fixable as quickly, getting the people to do the work.
The author is never bound by the license, and it would basically become a eye-for-a-eye license. If you sue, you get sued.

It would of course not provide the benefits of GPL which has requirements on distributors to provide source code. It would be a completely different license, and if I made it, likely based on MIT just so it would be the least company friendly permissive license ever. I only bring it up as an example of a license requirement whose intent would align with many who uses GPL in order to prevent copyright abuse.

Contrubutions would be quite messy however.
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It's not necessarily a requirement, but I find it very helpful. Any dedicated server package will include one, so it's not to much of a worry.
People walk around with checks? I cringe on the rare occasions I have to write one to the local water utility (they refuse to provide any recurring payment solution - I suspect because low margins, and they like the late payment fees).
I can't shake the feeling that it's an answer to the problem "I like the idea of commuting in a shared vehicle, but the bus is dirty and sometimes homeless people ride it."
If the regulated, unionized public transportation service actually answered to the residents, services such as Leap could not exist. They'd be unnecessary and unused.
> But I wouldn't need to and the result is a single codepoint again..

Doesn't have to be though, it'd be perfectly correct for an IME to generate multiple codepoints. IIRC, that's what you'd get if you typed those in a filename on OSX then asked for the native file path, as HFS+ stores filenames in NFD. Meanwhile Safari does (used to do?) the opposite, text is automatically NFC'd before sending. Things get interesting when you don't expect it and don't do unicode-equivalent comparisons.
>A proprietary copyright license is a explicit statement of intent

Considering that copyright applies to your work automatically unless you take positive action otherwise, it is no such thing. Someone's work belongs to them, under whatever terms they wish, until they wish to modify those terms.
What did you find better? Thanks!
Well, they have codepoints, but not unique ones (since they can be written both using combining characters or using the compatibility pre-combined form). Software libraries dealing with unicode strings needs to handle both versions, by applying unicode normalization before doing comparisons.

The reason they have two representations is for backwards compatibility with previous character encoding standards, but the unicode standard is more complex because of this (it needs to specify more equivalences for normalization). I guess for languages which were not previously covered by any standards, the unicode consortium tries to represent things "as uniquely as possible".
You don't think we did ? That's just silly to even think that employees who are more emotionally vested in a startup will forget to ask what their equity is. They don't tell you. That's the norm. Consider yourself lucky if you are told what your equity is worth. And it will be diluted to nothing regardless.
A large number of the Java CVEs you're thinking of are bugs in the Oracle JVM, meaning they are bugs in C++ code, which is not in a memory-safe language.
I used to text while driving when I was a young man. My Nokia 2110 had no T9 and nice big buttons, so I could do this without the phone ever having to leave my coat pocket. I would even properly punctuate, too!
I don't think that's the case. A public bus that's more full generates more revenue. They just also have subsidies that enable them to run services at a loss.

I suppose on a per-rider basis this generates more revenue - because it costs a lot more.
Should probably mention it's SF-only at the start.
Been trying to do this with ubuntu on a desktop, but couldn't get a juniper VPN with remote desktop working. I couldn't get the cert installed to log in through the web interface.

I'll give it another shot.
No genetic affinities is what is meant there. Viet, Korean, and Japanese all borrow up to 60% of their vocabulary from Chinese. But none of them have a strong relationship with Chinese or each other. As far as we can tell, so far, Japanese languages are isolates.
I don't particularly like cars. If I never had to drive again, I'd be ecstatic. But there isn't much of a choice there. I either have to drive or become a hermit, and that is an even less attractive option. What I guess you'd say I'm defensive of is my ability to lead a normal life.
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Not sure if Uber is already working on this, but I would love an Uber app for Android Wear/Apple watch. Would be pretty convenient to just tap twice and get a ride.
A MILLION pounds (which really should be said in a "Dr Evil" voice :-)) is 500 tons.

A rail car carries 120 tons of coal.

A typical 2 GWe thermal plant burns a rail car of coal every ~20 minutes (coal has ~30 MJ/kg, and there are ~1000 kg/ton, so 120100030E6 = 3.6E12 J/rail car, and 2 GWe ~ 4 GWth, which over 1000 seconds = 4E12 J)

So by your figures, a windmill's yearly output is equivalent to a little over an hour's operation of a typical coal-fired plant.

EDIT: 1 kWhr = 3.6 MJ, so a pound of coal produces closer to 10 kWhr than 1 (~20 kWhr thermal => 10 kWhr electric after efficiency correction), but the argument still stands. 9000 changed to 900 below.

Windmills are great, and tech like this that increases load factor, lowers costs and extends their reach into more marginal areas is good, but it'll take almost 900 windmills to replace one coal plant, plus oodles of energy storage for when the wind isn't blowing.

One coal plant, on the other hand, can be replaced by one nuclear plant, or a dozen-odd small nuclear plants of modern, modular, passively-safe design.

People who believe anthropogenic climate change has a very significant chance of ending civilization should be pushing as hard as they possibly can in favour of nuclear power for this reason. If we had invested heavily in nuclear in the 70's and 80's we wouldn't be in this mess now.

Nuclear is not without its costs, of course, but all industrial-scale power sources have costs, and no one is seriously proposing we end industrial civilization, so we need to decide which tradeoffs are acceptable. Solar capacity and wind both have roles to play, but it is very hard to escape a role for nuclear in replacing base-load coal.
I have a 2nd gen. X1, (the one without the dedicated function keys) and run Arch on it. It's my Dev and play machine, no problems whatsoever and the 2560x1440 screen is addicting. Can't imagine going back to something with less DPI.
Trivia is a great activity. I like it when you have a ton of mini-rounds of 2-3 questions under some category- you can leave plenty of time in-between questions so people can come up with an answer and then still have time to chat and get to know each other. For your goal specifically, I would just try to avoid topics that are kinda gendered and stick to stuff that isn't. Biology, history, music, pop culture, literature are all great topics. Throw in some oddball questions, and keep a really broad scope so you can learn which of your new teammates is really into Bill Murray and knows what language he learned, what instrument he learned to play and what art form he practiced in Groundhog Day, or what is the common name for Amorphophallus titanum, the Sumatran flower that is the largest flower in the world and arguably the smelliest.

Trivia is cool because it gets your brain going in a lot of different directions in a short period of time, it can spur some ideas for the rest of your hacking. It is also competitive while still being fun, and unlike a tournament, you get to play the whole time whether you're in first place or last. If you have a Final Jeopardy style final question, you can totally come up from behind and win if you're the only team that knows it, so it's never pointless to keep going. Giving out prizes for various special rounds is great for that too, like a round where you have to identify songs based on a 15 second clip, or brands or celebrities based on a picture. Think about how you want teams to form, and what size works best for your group.

Rock on with being mindful about the culture you're creating. Lots of devs love competition and violence like that, and lots of devs don't.
I have a secret. I want to share this secret with only my best friend. I do this by telling the secret to everybody I meet, whether they look like my friend or not. Eventually I meet my friend, and tell them too.

This is confidentiality without authenticity. It is an incoherent idea.
Guys.

It costs 3x as much, and it's a hassle to get on without a smartphone. That's how it competes.

It's a bus that tries to price out the poorer people (and doesn't serve their neighborhoods. And is most convenient with a smartphone). Their bet is that you won't miss the $4 per ride surcharge if you can avoid dealing with poor people.
Anyone know Leap's arragement with their drivers? Their TOS makes it seem like the Uber for buses.

From Terms of service - "LEAP DOES NOT PROVIDE TRANSPORTATION SERVICES, AND LEAP IS NOT A TRANSPORTATION CARRIER. IT IS UP TO THE DRIVER OR VEHICLE OPERATOR TO OFFER TRANSPORTATION SERVICES WHICH MAY BE ARRANGED THROUGH USE OF THE SERVICES"
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Privately run, regularly scheduled bus services open to the public, called "jitneys," are already illegal in San Francisco.[1] Leap and similar services seem to be ignoring this law. They were banned in the 1970s as Muni's service degraded, to shield it from competition.

[1] http://missionlocal.org/2014/06/up-until-the-1970s-muni-had-...
FYI: bird deaths via wind turbines are trivial.

Collisions with wind turbines account for about one-tenth of one percent of all "unnatural" bird deaths in the United States each year.

http://science.howstuffworks.com/environmental/green-science...
Ä and Æ are more different from eachother than the characters in Chinese and Japanese which have been merged. They are used for the same thing, they share etymology, but they are not the same letter.

By the way, Unicode is about scripts, not languages. If we started distinguishing by language, we might need to start remembering that china doesn't have a single language. Duplicating all those characters again to cover Mandarin and Cantonese and Wu and Hakka and Hokkien?

Should we have a different letter for Æ in Bokmål and Nynorsk? How about Riskmål?

The equivalent of Æ and Ä in Han scripts have not been unified. The equivalent of a in Futura and a in Verdana have. There's tons of chinese characters, so a few of them are bound to be borderline and maybe contentious. But overall, Han unification was unavoidable for a project like Unicode.
It's less about where Python 2.7 is going and more about where the libraries themselves are going. If you use a library which is considered deprecated by a large part of the python community, don't be surprised not to aspire new contributors.

No one expects 2.7 to go away, that doesn't mean contributors want to deal with Python 2 when 3 is available elsewhere.
oakland to sf would be huge. compete with the increasingly overcrowded BART, especially on the pitt/bay point line, and the unreliable transbay buses. there's already a huge "casual carpool" culture you could eat into.
> ch, ll, ñ, and rr are all considered separate letters

In Spanish "rr" has never been considered as a single letter. "Ch" and "ll" used to be, but not anymore. Ñ is, of course.
You could try something like this, but (a) you can't get it yet, (b) even when you can, somebody will be building it for you, and (c) its thumbkeys may prove insufficiently avant garde: https://ultimatehackingkeyboard.com/

Me? I'm waiting for one that doesn't have half its keys missing :(
How does this affect birds? How does it affect planes flying in that airspace?
I agree, the scrolling experience made me exit that page quicker than I should have. This is also a good time to remind folks of Mike Bostock's excellent writeup on scrolling: http://bost.ocks.org/mike/scroll/
I followed the sources there and cherry picked one actual study (in the sense that I didn't even try to look at more than 1).

The wikipedia citation cites this meta analysis for the number:

http://www.soest.hawaii.edu/GG/FACULTY/ITO/GG410/Wind/Kubisz...

I then only looked at the first study from there that I found, linked here:

https://www.google.com/search?q=energy+performance+and+life+...

They estimated the lifetime of the farm they studied, and estimated the maintenance and decommissioning costs. Those estimates are probably going to be reasonable, but they are estimates.
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Great points in why things are complex, and why so often complex=expensive.

While each of the items you mention are totally relevant, we've also found that it's possible to mitigate a lot of these risks and costs with careful strategy.

For example, we're building devices that don't require animal or human clinical trials. That saves a tremendous amount of time and money in development costs -- but there are still large, lucrative markets to tackle.

IP is hugely interesting, and our approach to developing simpler technologies means we're not neck deep in the kinds of cutting-edge technology that comes out of research labs. That affects our IP exposure.

The regulatory hurdles are absolutely there, and for a long time we found them daunting -- almost paralyzing. But once we dove in, especially with a great expert on our side -- it became manageable.

This is all to say, you're right: it's hard, and it's complex, and it can be expensive. But we're really enjoying figuring out where the spaces are in between all these hard things and finding new ways to make things happen.
In your example... I wouldn't really care how it is stored, as long as it looks right on the display, and I don't have to go through contortions to enter it on an input device... for example, I don't care that 'a' maps to \x61 ... it's a value behind the scenes... it's the interface to that value.

As long as the typeface/font used can display the character/combination reasonably, and I can input reasonably it doesn't matter so much how it's used...

Now, having to type in 2-3 characters to get there, that's a different story, and one that should involve better input devices in most cases.
today it's "contained enough", tomorrow it's "huge as hell". Code grows, complexity increases.

Servo use C++ libraries, so it's far from safe code. Try to use Servo - you will see failures in first minute, I've tried.
Things like this exist in New York, although they're significantly more... informal. Two dollars, cash.

http://projects.newyorker.com/story/nyc-dollar-vans/

Leap can be faster because they cut a lot of things that the SFMTA buses provides. A big delay on the public buses is letting people with wheelchairs on and off, if they are using the same design as the video it looks like they don't support that. They can also cream skim the most popular routes - SMFTA is sort of obliged to offer at least some route going near most places, regardless of whether that gets them anywhere quickly.
Without authentication your connection is susceptible to undetectable man-in-the-middle attacks that DHE does nothing to prevent. That they're separable is superficially true, but not interesting, as encryption alone doesn't stop people from reading your traffic, which is the whole point.
HN runs on a single, not so beefy server:

FreeBSD 10.1
Nginx 1.7.10
Racket 6.1.1 with some HN and FreeBSD specific patches.

2x 3GHz Intel Xeon-IvyBridge (E5-2690-V2-DecaCore)
8x16GB Kingston 16GB DDR3 2Rx4
SuperMicro X9DRI-LN4F+_R1.2A
Adaptec 71605
9x 1000GB Western Digital WD RE4
2x 200GB Smart XceedIOPS SSD
Yup, let's not let perfect become the enemy of good.

SSH works basically this way, certs are autogenerated, the client records the key, and lets you know if it changes.

And doesn't everyone recommend SSH over Telnet, despite certs mostly (never?) not being signed?
As to scripting in D: I don't write a lot of D code anymore, but thanks to snappy compile speeds and the 'rdmd' compiler driver (which automatically tracks dependencies), it really does have a sweet spot for writing little programs where you'd like the benefits of 'scripting languages' (no makefile hassle, short edit-run cycles) but need just a bit more runtime performance.
I'm probably a "power user" as well, but I literally cannot navigate the site. It's like 1/3 of my scrolls don't even register.

This isn't "design for the masses," it's just plain broken.

Edit: I don't know why I'm being downvoted, it must be working for some people. Here is a video of me trying to scroll (in Chrome) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ulAw0P2geRE
Metallurgical coal is going to be the very hardest thing to get away from. Improvements in the coking process (carbon capture) are plausible, but the chemistry basically demands burning a butt-load of carbon.

Thermal coal is replaceable by conservation, nuclear power, and to some extent wind/solar plus storage, and if I were in charge I'd be pushing to ban new thermal coal development. But metallurgical coal is going to be almost physically (or chemically) impossible to replace.
Depends on the difficulty in connecting to the classified system.

The entire selling point of email is its instantaneous nature and its immediacy. If connecting up to retrieve your emails becomes too arduous it stops being a useful tool and other things take its place. Such as printing documents, secure phone calls or video conferencing...
Google is in the position to have done exactly this kind of analysis, and apparently the majority likes this crap. I'm glad I am not alone in hating it though.
given the variable heights I'd imagine an enormous amount.
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There's something about their favicon being the default green lock ( https://https.cio.gov/assets/favicon.ico ) that unsettles me. It feels like a social engineering trick.
nihonjinron along the lines of The Chrysanthemum and the Sword ... supporting a false ethnic nationalism
For a second a tried to imagine a satellite view of the earth with many of these flying. It'd look mesmerizing. I really applaud Google for funding research on affordable renewable energy. It's unfortunate that the scrolling doesn't work, but hey the prototype does!
Just spoke with the rep on the phone. She is claiming Lenovo isn't offering a refund for Windows and one has to contact legal department for any further questions.

Is there a phone for calling the Canadian store?
It's incoherent at a high level, and it stays incoherent as you delve deeper into the theory. For instance, systems that lack authentication tend to lose confidentiality to error oracles.
A million pounds of coal isn't as much as it might sound like. That's about 5 railroad cars worth.

US coal production was over a billion tons - 2 trillion pounds.
> And as for what was compromised... almost everything of value?

If the attacker has been in your "IT systems" for 9 months, you'd have to assume _everything_ has been compromised. All the data those systems stored, all passwords that've been used to log into those machines, everything.
Versioning binary files is a wasteful, but people still frequently need to do it (or at least put a static, unchanging PDF into a repository). For example, I might get set of feature requirements in PDF form and include that in my repository just so anyone who clones it can have the same requirements file that I do.

In cases where you have to include a PDF, it's very helpful to have it be viewable inline on a page.
One of the best unboxing experiences I had with a device was the Amazon Kindle.

Simple, minimal waste (a big factor for me), and already preprogrammed to my Amazon account.
I (bank at B of A) just did this with my wife (Wells-Fargo). No transaction fees that I see.
That was also my reaction to reading the quiz.
Not sure about other products
You say that as though disliking a ride on a filthy bus while sitting next to a homeless guy who smells like urine and stale vomit and is leering saliciously at every woman on the bus while murmuring obscenities and rubbing his groin is some sort of illegitimate and invalid reason that only a precious bourgeois person would dare to think.
I don't understand why I would take this for $5 a ride over LyftLine or UberPool ($5/$7 without Surge) which offers presumably much quicker service and no walking to/from stops.

That being said, I would be pumped to see something like this between SF and Palo Alto
Airbnb might be a bit presumptuous.
Surely that's more than a coincidence?

29th Jan, the "cyberattack"wording, Mandiant...
It comes out of your bank account, that sounds awful. In that they don't have the security requirements of banks, or the fraud protection of credit cards. So Venmo gets hacked, and everyone's (non-refundable) money gets transferred to Russia. Great.
I was once a flashlight nerd. My (American-made except for LED) HDS with it's high-CRI Cree LED is my best flashlight ($200). Not as bright as a non-high-CRI LED, but in the forest the better color rendering gives me better depth perception (lots of browns and reds). The official HDS website has some great papers written by the guy who runs HDS. It was a one-man operation the last time I checked.
Yep, we don't even think about this in Australia. All the banks have web/mobile apps with solid transfer tools.
Same bank transfers are instant and to other banks are 1-2 business days.
What a horribly designed page. It could have fit all on one page.
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