jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
The article says the magnetic field is detected by a bracelet which in turn communicates via Bluetooth to the phone.

...which begs the question, why not just control the phone via the bracelet directly if the user needs some kind of remote control facility?
Common sense tells me that if he cared about the average USA programmer he would promote a more specific policy that would help prevent companies from abusing the H1B Visa program.
I agree, he's very keen to clean his name and promote a shining knight image.
For some reason, I always thought this phenomenon was imported from Europe. I lived in a European tourist mecca for a few years, and whenever I would thank a European for something, they wouldn't say "you're welcome" or even an "mm-hmm". Usually they just smiled and nodded.

I can see how it might appear a little brusque though. Americans, particularly here out west, tend to put on an air of stoicism, so our "mm-hmm" probably comes without a smile or even a glance in your direction. But I've interpreted that to mean that I am being helped as a matter of course, not for the sake of propriety or some sense of obligation.
The Civil Rights act wasn't even 50 years ago. Exactly how does this surprise you?

Incidentally: you want to see that correlation in Europe? Go for a walk in the Paris suburbs.
I didn't go to MIT, but at Cornell (~20 years ago), at most, dorms had a microwave in the common area, but even that wasn't that common.
I do not see this happens with https://github.com/WebReflection/uhtml/blob/master/DOCUMENTA... family. They are around for quite awhile, and their philosophy is clear from start, do one thing well, small and no tooling.
Honestly surprised there isn't a religion that revolves around the belief that we are transported to an alternate reality/parallel universe when we dream. Certainly a much more fun belief than any of the other major religions out there now.
"What these girls need is a union" --Officer Beatrice Russell, The Wire
Copyright law prohibits vampire attacks on creative works.
I might be the weirdo, but I never fully bought into the mobile gaming market. It's very rare that I'm not close to a computer and I have the opportunity/inclination to play video games.
While you are correct about the shared accent, I want to point another shared property: being poor, but knowing English.

In another video of his[1], a scammer decide to talk and share some really interesting facts:

- He gets a monthly salary of 400$. And cents for each scam, even if the scam was of much greater sum (His example: 100$ for 20K$).

- Most of the money goes to his bosses and the owner of the call center.

- He actively thinking about turning them in. But since knowing English is all he can do... he won't find another job (He didn't explain, but maybe because, IT require real tech knowledge)

After hearing that, I became a little bit more sympathetic towards them. They know about their wrongdoing, but keep doing it because of the economic pressure. So, While I agree we have to stop scammers.. I wish we could target the triggers who caused the humans to go there, and not the humans who got dragged into it.

[1] https://youtu.be/wtjHelNSDss?t=1243 (Starts at 20:43)
It would also help for situations where there is a lot of noise, or you have been injured such that you can't talk.
If you have access to Google, you have access Wolfram Alpha. However, the point of math courses is not to demonstrate that you know how to punch buttons, but that you know the methods and algorithms behind those tools.
> Except he'll probably get a surprise $10k fine (civil lawsuit) a few months from now.

It's actually $11k apparently and I hope someone with the money, time and energy does get brought into one of these suits. I hope it happens soon so it can gain the media attention that this whole thing is getting right now.

But considering this man was escorted out of the airport and told he is free to go, I can't see how they could possibly get away with it in this case.
So I should host this outside of the US?
The reason why I think they rejected you is because you are a single founder. That means if you get hit by a bus they're fucked. Whereas, if you had a team or a co-founder the company can still go on without you.
What's wrong with the Webapp framework? I like it quite a bit -- it's light, fast, and simple, almost like Sinatra but with a bit less syntactic elegance.
yes. Saw it on engadget when it was released, realized it fit what I was looking for, said what the hell, and bought it.

I'm quite taken with it, so far. Adding the app market is a snap, and makes it even better. I'll be quite happy when it updates to 2.2, though. I've gotten used to it on my nexus one, and it's a pain going back.
Some background: http://dustincurtis.com/you_should_follow_me_on_twitter.html
Hopefully it'll be spent on making cars that don't need constant servicing.
> Since cars do not have rights, nor do the plates, the reasoning is they are not violating your personal privacy.

Is that really the justification, though? The only justification I've heard is that you have no reasonable expectation of privacy when driving down a public road. It has nothing to do with you v. your property or the fact that your license plate does not have constitutional rights.

The courts have agreed that you can't mindlessly swap out a police officer for a computer, save all the data and keep going as you were, but that doesn't change the fact that you do not have any reasonable expectation of privacy in public.
It's a right too.
Seconded. He was playing with fire and decided to out the flaw via the media without protecting himself (the source).
/facepalm

The network has to send you coordinates about where you and every other player are in relation to each other so your view of the gameworld is synchronized. Had you actually read what I wrote you would have understood my meaning.
"The only way to program a computer to do this type of mathematical reasoning might be to do precisely what Ferrucci doesn’t want to do -- sit down and slowly teach it about the world, one fact at a time."

I'm wondering what the resistance to this is. Each and every one of us has been through exactly that process. Do we really think that we can create a knowledgeable mind out of whole cloth?

It seems what we need to do is teach an artificial-mind everything we know, slowly, once, and then it can teach all the artificial minds everything it knows in the blink of an eye.
Sometimes I think nerds aren't very intelligent at all. They're just technology fetishists with a large vocabulary who've learned to ape some of intelligent people's behavior.

+1 for banning DF links, because the comments here when a link to DF is posted are really depressingly stupid, and they make me suspicious of the quality of thinking behind everything else that's said on HN. Little else makes the fundamental defectiveness of the nerd mentality as clear as the reactions to John Gruber's writing.

This is like being in a room full of Rob Malda. The last time it was this obvious to me how defective nerd thinking is was Malda's reaction to the iPod: "No wireless. Less space than a Nomad. Lame."
i don't see how this has anything to do with law, beyond the mechanics of setting up an account of this kind. BP could have refused

if popular opinion wasn't so strongly against BP, the president's demands would have been meaningless, so this isn't about the president and his "powers," but about the kinds of things you have to do when everyone is rightfully pissed at your company
Lots of comments here assume you have to have two images. (And how to we reduce the flickering, etc.)

Nope. Nothing to do with stereo here; it is all about simulating a moving viewpoint within a 3-D scene. Three cues help the brain figure out 3-D: stereovision, focusing, and the effect of movement on a scene.

This is doing the last one above. Now, the simplest thing to do is move rapidly back & forth between 2 viewpoints, but there are other things one could do. For example, move the viewpoint smoothly from one point to another and then back. Or you could move the view point smoothly in a small circle. Etc. Want to reduce flicker? Then do one of those. Of course, they require more than 2 frames.

BTW, my favorite example of the "movement helps with 3-D" effect is the map room scene in Star Trek Generations. (Probably on YouTube, but I can't find it.) If you watch it, notice how the scene being viewed continually moves around, even when it doesn't really need to.
Scala is finally giving Java programmers a grown up language.

Java is the "oh this is explicit, I just wrote a program the size of the federal register!" language. It is overly simplistic in several areas thereby causing complex workarounds to be implemented to solve real world issues.
Home is C-a (hold control, hit a), End is C-e. Delete-forward is C-d. Delete-line is C-k. C-o inserts a newline after your cursor without moving it.

To help start using these, go into your keyboard options to remap "caps lock" to "ctrl", your pinky will thank you.
The situation the author describes is one of the reasons why we cannot (yet) get rid of Elsevier and the other scientific publishers. They are no longer needed for the dissemination of new research. But they are the keeper of the archive.

We don‘t know which works are going to be important for future generations. And just putting out a „PDF on the net“ will be gone in 20 years if there is no publishing house maintaining the original copy.

Arxiv could also take on that role.
But not for the last 300 years of existing research in the publishers archives.
This was already public knowledge. See this article about Apple dropping Skyhook for its own thing:

http://www.fool.com/investing/general/2010/08/04/apple-drops...

"Apple apparently has its own Wi-Fi location information, presumably culled from the daily movements of iPhones around the country, that it thinks is good enough for its own devices."

That sounds exactly like what is described in the press release.
I think within the context of globalization you may want to do http://www.netmba.com/strategy/pest/
OK, you made me google it myself because this all sounded very suspicious.

When I googled the dredge stuff the first link was from RedState, a hyper-partisan republican blog, so that made me more suspicious. I found some info such as this, http://www.nola.com/news/gulf-oil-spill/index.ssf/2010/05/co..., where the Corps of Engineers has approved one such project to test the idea. And I found info about BP pushing back on paying for these projects. But I definitely did not find anything about an "Obama pocket veto". Except for Republican propaganda sites.

The Dutch refusal stuff, after wading through all the republican propaganda blogs, apparently has to do with some law I didn't understand.
It could be one of many problems, but I checked a similar thread reporting the same issue; only this time the issue was addressed under Gmail (still Google)

http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/gmail/thread?tid=35602...
There are lots of ways to make money that would ultimately harm the market that have been made illegal or have been banned by exchanges. Nobody has a problem with people getting rich from providing value, but there's a long history of patching the system when it looks like someone's starting abuse an advantage that doesn't return any value to the market.
The problem is the enterprise not the software.
If you must do this, use # so the browser can cache the script across clients.
I think he means duplicate keys, as in '?id=4&color=8&id=6'
You'd normally use this script when you were in full control of the parameters you are passing, so its fairly easy to avoid this situation.
I was seeking to avoid the same thing recently. Instead of adding more JavaScript, I decided to use PHP. While we're using Rails, it's very inefficient to fire up the whole engine to do something as simple as outputting a script with a few interpolated variables. A simple PHP script can put out 2-3 times as many requests per second as Rails/Django for a task like that.
Follow your intuition.
I challenge anyone to provide a platform as simple, powerful, and resilient for deploying a web application as Heroku. Starting from a properly built 12-factor application, after a decade, I still do not know of any platform that can compare. It just works. All that for $7/mo for the cheapest paid option.
GUI is a superset of TUI, in theory it's inherently better, they're often bad because it's a lot easier to mess up and designers are bad. Use GUI or not completely depends on the case, you don't need GUI if you want a list of file names under a directory, but you'll really want one if you're doing video / image / audio editing (cases where there's no well defined or multiple "input" and "output"). It's nice to have a compiled list of commands but the thumbs down is a little condescending.
It's telling that many of the folks who are pushing the "we don't need no education" meme are programmers by trade, since programming is one of the very few skills that you can learn effectively on your own by reading books.

I would say that programming is one of the few high-paying professions that many can break into without certification. There are a lot of skills that can be learned via self-study if one is willing to go beyond books, but the problem is one of certification.

Living in Beijing, I regularly meet people studying Chinese on their own as well as those with 4 year degrees in Chinese, often from prestigious schools. Most of the best speakers I've known have been hobbyists who are interested, rather than people who simply followed an academic track at an institution. However, with no certification, it's a bit tough for some fully bilingual self-taught people to get the nice translation jobs. I won't name any names, but I've seen some high profile work done very poorly by a PHD who had credentials to get it.

Other than foreign languages, writing in one's own tongue is also not largely linked to an expensive 4 year university. Neither are business, popular music or theater. I would also say that math is largely vulnerable to self-study. I've made considerable progress in the visual arts just from my own efforts and youtube.

Other than extremely expensive research sciences what else requires a university to learn effectively?
> that's exactly what a pick-up has always been. A big ugly thing

As a former truck owner I have to disagree. I like modern trucks and with a few exceptions think they've looked great since they were invented. The truck shown by Tesla does not appeal to me.

Frankly I think it's odd how one-sided the upvotes are going in this thread. I really don't think Tesla would bother astroturfing on HN so I dunno... I guess HN folks really like the design. Personally I just don't see it having wide appeal, especially among truck owners.

A Ford F150 for example, looks 'masculine'. The Tesla truck looks... sterile? It's like comparing a sledgehammer to a scalpel.
It's not so much how you screw up - the sheer complexity of all this makes errors practically inevitable -, it's how you live up to it and act the day after. So let's see; these are good indications, but let's see how they deliver next.
>I don't want to trust my phone!

That's an interesting threat model that I don't hear very often. Can you expand on what threats you're trying to protect against? If you ever sign in to Twitter on your phone, you're trusting your phone with your Twitter account at least to some degree.

The main thing security keys protect against that TOTP doesn't is phishing.
Probably cameras instead.
Looks like “you cannot automate every decision”, which is rather true and a very relevant problem imho: I teach at a school of Engineering and it looks like everything now boils down to “let the computer do it”.
Doesn't really make sense to speak of wavelengths at these energies any more. For all intents and purposes, these are particles.

The energies we detect go into the hundreds of TeVs and charged cosmic rays have been detected to much, much higher energies.
So form a partnership with US firm, extract IP and know-how, launch a clone in China, and part ways. Sounds like a standard approach.
I agree, it looks like a stealth bomber fucked a Prius.
Modelling has its limitations but those are well understood by the people building the models, which is why they predict a range of outcomes and uncertainty rises with time. Most of the uncertainty in current models has to do with the complexities of cloud formation.

We've had usefully predictive models for over 50 years now. The first real paper model from 1967 successfully predicted warming up to the current day.
Or even international interventions like:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1954_Guatemalan_coup_d%27%C3%A...

Where USA destabilized 3rd world government for profit of fruit company.

USA was never a "good guy", they were, and still are, just a lesser evil - especially if compared to soviet union, or now - china.
Correct. For a more OOP model, I'd look at microservice architectures or something like the Erlang VM.
Hi, from a quick glance there seems to be a few problems
that should be easy to fix:

* You should enable -Wall and -Wextra, there are a few
other flags that are usually useful as well which I forget.

* You should pass the -std=c99 flag to the compiler, it
fails otherwise on my setup (Debian 7.x)

Despite warnings not being enabled, I get many. Implicit declarations of strlen, asprintf, getpassn. This seems to partialy be caused by including strings.h and not string.h.
This is just so awesome.
Insightful post!
>Institutionalized and organized torture programs are a monstrous offense, so by implication you're saying it's immoral to enforce laws against all lesser offenses,

it is immoral to enforce laws against one group of people while systematically ignoring violations of laws [especially of the laws of the same or greater severity] by another group of people [especially when the latter group is "closer" to the enforcers]. Such immoral system of selective law enforcement constitutes oppression.

>It's a miscarriage of justice.

Systematic miscarriage of justice is just an absence of justice.
> to digest React+Flux and are releasing a complete MVC package that incorporates all the lessons learnt

I'd reduce this to "some lessons learnt".

While some people build frameworks based on React+Flux, other poeple still think these frameworks are larger than they should be, and provide even more lightweight alternatives, such as Riot.js.

Nevertheless, I agree that this is still in progress. There are phases of trying entirely new designs, pushing them to their limits, reducing them to their essence, using them as building blocks for new designs, and so on.
if you have a mostly working product and starting to scale up, $750 is okay-ish. eg you have a saas that's already starting to grow or whatever.

if you are still figuring out what you are building, it's too little. it will be very hard to raise again.

all except for one startup i invested in at a lower total raise ($500k) has died; they had even less runway to figure things out.
I'm using nameko and Django in a project, and haven't seen any issues with nameko just calling django.setup() and then the models and managers.
I don’t care if someone leaks my fake DOB in a Dropbox hack and then tries to reset my Netflix password.

Websites that use my real DOB are usually linked to my identity, so I’m much more concerned with protecting them from, eg social engineering attacks [0].

[0]: https://gizmodo.com/how-i-lost-my-50-000-twitter-username-15...
Richard Stallman has changed his views on the matter with a very sincere newer note. I am not ok with adults having sex with children by the way and I never was.

Now, at what age do you think that a child is capable of giving consent to undergo hormone therapy and gender altering treatments or operations in general? Is 8 good? I think there has been some, you know, discussion about this as well.

All of these "taboo" matters have to be discussed at some point. Scientists discuss them and society discusses them every now and then, and they will be rediscussed sometime in the future, maybe in 10 years, maybe in 50, maybe in 200. It is kind of natural to discuss things.
also, just to add. The Stock Transfer Tax started in 1909. They were paying until the 80s when the state started rebating it at 100%. Its is a 0.5% sales tax on the value of stock trades, 0.1% on debt and 0.005% on derivatives. The NYSE was doing fine when everyone was paying it.
> 1. China has a massive massive population and the majority is still relatively poor. This is still lots of untapped labour available at low cost.

Well, at low cost compared to western labour, but at high cost compared to recent Chinese past.

(We would need to introduce some actual numbers in the discussion to say anything more precise.)

> They are capturing more of the profits because of this.

Just to clarify: things are still becoming cheaper for consumers around the world.

Overall the pie has grown. China might be getting relatively more of the pie, but the rest of the world also got more in absolute terms.

> 3. And at the same time, countries with even cheaper labour are competing with Chinese producers on the low end. You see this particularly with things like clothes and shoes which are labour intensive but relatively low tech.

Yes. But yet, Chinese wages are going up.
The best coding interview task I’ve ever seen was from “x-team” people - when I applied I was automatically sent a zip with a generated coding challenge consisting of a small express app that needed some bugfixes, some really obvious, some not so much and some subtle ones. After I finished I had some tests to tell me how well I’ve done and some hashes generated to prove I’ve actually done what needed doing.

It was amazing - no contact with the people required, they know upfront that I am able to code “something” and we can now continue the interview in a more traditional setting.

There was _some_ time pressure but nothing scary, and I could use my own hardware and software to solve the problem. Awesome. Only thing missing as a signal for them was for teamwork, but it nailed the coding part for me.
Please please don't take away from this that there are "memory cells" that "encode memories." The article is so badly written it seems to imply that. Memory is a whole brain phenomenon, and memory formation involves connections being formed and lost constantly between all types of neurons everywhere in the brain. One small aspect of memory (episodic memory) relies more heavily on hippocampal neurons during consolidation, and a small portion of that process is what is being discussed here.
As far as I remember these guys declared never to pay the fines. So no, the fines themselves will not cover anything.
Trying to improve some scanned forms I have, I got an average of 5 characters per page recognized. Also form formatting recognized as "1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1".

I may not rely entirely on google docs for my OCR needs in future ;)
Is there an API by any chance?
google translated version - http://translate.google.co.uk/translate?js=n&prev=_t&...
Perhaps if somebody dies during open heart surgery in India their family doesn't sue the doctor for malpractice?

It was good to see the article mentioning that the quality/success rate is as good as the US.
Seems a little fishy that the name server used by ICE was registered yesterday...

http://network-tools.com/default.asp?prog=whois&host=sei...

http://network-tools.com/default.asp?prog=whois&host=tor...
Yes. Rather, I meant, which libraries were available. I figured that it'd at least have the core stdlib; that was just my first step exploring. It's a bad sign that the first statement I tried didn't work, though.
I found http://wordoid.com funny and useful for finding names.