skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
New generation of minimalist wallets: slim and stylish, RFID blocking JK wallet
Use dedicated functions to clear private data
Except the article doesn't say that. It says that the "typical high-end camera shoots about 60 photos per second."

Typical high-end is not exactly state of the art, and the distinction is quite clear.
You can find that here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=goWNDC8sdrw
How the Internet Causes Depression
No, improved lithography certainly can reduce the area that is not collecting the photons, I argue that the changes in lithography (nanomenters) are orders of magnitude smaller than the size needed for very high sensitivity (micrometers). I gave the links, and to make this discussion useful, I'd appreciate the links that support different conclusions.
Because I have exactly zero interest in deviating from what I should be focusing on (my business, my product, my clients, my revenue stream) to go dork around with a text/code editor.

Doing so, in the context of a real working business with clients, projects, timelines, deadlines and deliverables would be irresponsible if you can simply pay a company for which that product IS their product and business to deliver what you need and support it.

I can see messing around with FOSS as a hobby but unless you are a huge company that can afford to lose clock cycles to your devs playing with FOSS or a medium size company for whom FOSS is a a business it just doesn't make sense.

The vast majority of software developers across all disciplines (there's a huge world outside of Silicon Valley, Web Dev and Mobile) have exactly zero need or interest in deviating from their mission to go fix their tools.

This is the same reason the vast majority of software developers (again, think outside web folk) have exactly zero interest in vim. It is an utter waste of time compared to point-click-go-go-go.
Prions are scary, for the reason that "all known prion diseases...are untreatable and fatal." How do you stop a prion? For that matter, how do you stop anything in the brain (without cutting it out)?
Half the reason I haven't updated is that JetBrains hasn't been polishing. I'd pay for that, happily, but bugs sit unfixed for years while JetBrains rolls out entirely new (and similarly buggy) IDEs.
"We're not sure this will work, but if it does we'll do it from now on."

I don't believe this has now been "done from now on" I don't think?
Poor farmers in this context means subsistence farmers (people who literally live hand to mouth). They don't make the same sort of money even a cash crop farmer would make even at the best of times in the same country.
Ten million people working together for ten minutes
I bought a Nokia 640 for $99

It's great. I love it. It's not quite as nice as my old phone, but it's 90% of the value, for 15% of the price.

And in some ways, it's better than my old phone (lighter, more damage resistant, better battery life, better cellular reception)
It's like getting caught stealing and you only have to payback the money you stole. Zero incentive to stop stealing.
Islamic State reveals it has smuggled thousands of extremists into Europe
My move toward freelancing is a way for me to work on different projects to find what sort of job I want.
How falling birthrates threaten world prosperity [pdf]
Wow, I pasted the wrong sentence. But you're still obviously lying or completely missing my point. And who are you trying to convince here? People can easily read what you wrote, there really wasn't much there.

My point is that it has nothing to do with incompetence, web-design or other. People do bad things for money.

You, OTOH clearly are addressing competence and web-design competence when you said "If a designer (or whoever decides) chooses to have custom fonts, client-side scripting or custom style sheets, it's because he weighted the downsides of said choice and still opted for it. If he did not, or he is not aware of the downsides, then it's a matter of incompetence, not web design."

It's OK to be completely wrong and off-point, but honestly - don't turn around and try to lie about it because someone called you out and you're embarrassed.

(Maybe the reason you're depressed at 30, the prime of your life, is that you're a high-strung prick who tends to take a simple misunderstanding and turn it into a shit-storm. C'est la vie. You put out crap and it comes right back to you ;)
(Actually, Scheme doesn't quite get this right: decimals are inexact by default and only rationals expressed as divisions of integers are exact, though it is less cumbersome to specify an exact decimal than in most popular language -- its a literal modifier, not a function call.)

e.g.:

0.2

is inexact, while

#e0.2

is exact.
Doesn't help you when visibility is poor, though. Of course, humans are no better in those conditions, but a big selling point of autonomous cars is that they can (in theory) be perfectly safe even in dense fog, snow, etc.
Yeah, Eclipse has the Linux GUI curse.

Linux users expect the GUI to be unusable so they split into the camps who (i) think Eclipse is the bee's knees or (ii) use vi.

The difference between IntelliJ and Eclipse is like night and day -- Eclipse fans think the plug-in feature is great but install one too many plugins and your Eclipse will get sick with pluginitis.
So what happens when a few years from now a technology is developed that guarantees that your child will be a 160+ IQ genius but said procedure is only available to a very small percentage of the population?

I think that's what everybody is secretly fearing, honestly.

And maybe, not even money would allow you in on said technology. Why wouldn't for example, the country that developed it keep the technology restricted to its own citizens so that they will, in one generation, gain an advantage over the rest of the world?
The best part of that article is the end:

See also: Artificial Scarcity
That's only semi true. The rushing water would carry even things that float.

If it didn't the entire hole would be full of branches and trees, but it's not.
no $119 would buy him one year of updates, and he could choose not to update in the future if he didn't want to. If he chose to update on a regular basis, then he would still need to pay $119 every year
More like "announcing a future article about how to align activities with business goals".

Great clickbait, though.
Interesting. The fundamental goal seemed a noble one, but it was badly implemented. Any lessons to take away?

One immediate idea is some kind of vesting, i.e. you can't actually sell your vouchers for X years (or stages, being able to sell certain percentages after a certain number of years).

A second idea is to encourage the formation of public interest associations to manage the ownership. There are already some non-traditional funds run with some social goals in addition to the goal of making money, perhaps that would help. (But I'm really just brainstorming right now.)
I still to this day think Guybrush Threepwood is the greatest character name.
How a Boeing Sales Flop Became the World's Hottest Secondhand Jetliner
> I'd guess the IDE have now reached this "fully featured" milestone where most developers don't care to upgrade. So IntelliJ has to switch to a subscription model to survive.

Sorry but this doesn't make any sense to me and I doubt IntelliJ's sales are putting the company in any danger.

Even if they couldn't come up with new features, the programming languages and frameworks keep evolving and the tooling needs to catch up with that. But I can come up with a hundred things to improve from the top of my head, so I'm sure they can too.
I have to agree. I owned a One Touch Idol 3 for a couple months and found it wasn't what I wanted. It was serviceable but it just didn't seem to be something that felt good to use when I did use it. Build quality is the only reason why I switched over to the iPhone (I think the software is horrible).
500 Startups Closes Its Newest Fund with $85M
As a weekend project, some colleagues and I built a computer-vision pool-ball tracker a few years back.

https://gocardless.com/blog/hacking-on-side-projects-the-poo...

Would be awesome to use a high-framerate camera for this.
So leasing a car for 1000$ per year is the same as buying a car for $1000?
What flaws in the language does Resharper overcome? Does a language exist that causes you to never need to refactor code?
Names are comments:)

let thisIsAString = 1

But I agree with your overall point.
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a7s goes up to 409600 ISO, and some would say the results at 80000 ISO are pretty damn usable [http://philipbloom.net/blog/a7s/]!
The Making of Rocket League
This has nothing to do with YC. The math just doesnt agree with your argument.
Thank you, that makes sense and why TDD is so worthwhile for me to start with.

For external services (I rarely write code that doesn't rely on at least one SOAP endpoint) is there any alternative to mocking the service and the response data? And then should your tests also verify that the remote service works according to its contract?

As it would affect data in the live system, I cannot think of a way to safely do it, but 3rd party systems have 'changed' their behaviours before now, and that's a horrible bug to track down.
Ah yes, the predictable downvotes which only validate my comment.
I would recommend doing it if you already have a lot of white space on your resume. If you don't, then I wouldn't bother, as personal projects have more value than online classes.
It seems there is a simple solution. You pay the subscription monthly, until after 1 year you own the current version. If you stop the subscription at that point you don't get rolling updates or SLA support.
> Past a certain income level, $540 savings for years of daily annoyance isn't really a compelling saving.

I think the whole point of this discussion is we've reached a tipping point where the "low end" phones aren't annoying anymore. For many users, they're perfectly acceptable
Ok, so here's a question I've been struggling with: is there such a thing as "too much" weed?

I have had issues with depression and anxiety for a long time. I have tried CBT, talk therapy, medication, meditation, group therapy, and combinations of those for about two decades.

Looking back, I often self medicated - with food, and later, with alcohol. Now I have a medical marijauna card, and in the evenings, I generally relax by smoking some weed and watching netflix, browsing HN/Reddit, or just jumping around on Wikipedia.

In the grand scheme of things, is that bad? You could make the argument I'm "abusing" it, but if there are no negative effects, what does it matter?

What I have to ask is this: If I'm happy in my life, ding
Don’t let the door hit your comments on the ass on their way out
There is no disagreement. You obviously have much more experience in creating billion dollar companies. So Sorry.
One of the things I love about Guybrush's name is that it he was supposedly named accidentally.

From Wikipedia:

The origin of the name "Guybrush" comes in part from Deluxe Paint,
the tool used by the artists to create the character sprite. Since
the character had no name at this point, the file was simply called
'Guy'.
When the file was saved, Steve Purcell, the artist responsible
for the sprite, added 'brush' to the filename, indicating that it was
the Deluxe Paint "brush file" for the "Guy" sprite. The file name was
then "guybrush.bbm", so the developers eventually just started referring
to this unnamed 'Guy' as "Guybrush".
> In the Perl 6 repl, I can't use my up/down arrows, or ^p/^n to get at previous lines I typed, nor ^a/^e and alt-B/alt-F to navigate on the line.

Really? In they version I have access to arrow keys and ^p/^n/^a/^e all function.

I've just been informed that what you need is "panda install Linenoise" to install the Linenoise module to get this functionality.

I agree documentation in the language would be nice. A module could handle that nicely.
So your license price jumps from $89 to $120/yr and now you're no longer a customer? Do you not think their tools probably make up for that $120/yr in terms of your productivity?

If you struggle with Netbeans or Eclipse for an hour or two with something IntelliJ does easily, you've already paid for your license.

I don't understand arguing about peanuts; pay it the trivial increase and get on with the show of making real money. No wonder why so many startups fail.
To be honest I don't even think about making billions. I play the hand I'm dealt to the best of my abilities. And it works just fine.
Ask HN: Sad because I don't have a mentor or anyone
I'm 24 and come from an uneducated family I'll be the first to graduate from a real university. I have been thinking about how I should negotiate my hourly rate for my second internship this summer. I thought how great it must be to have resources like family members that have been in my position before and that could offer useful advice. I don't. It makes me sad that I don't have resources or even anyone to go to for guidance on college and career questions, etc. Has anyone been in my shoes before? Thanks HN.
The other issue is anxiety: pure sativas can exaserbate it.

I've found hybrids like Blue Dream are useful. Not too sedating but a very relaxed sort of focus.
Tenn. judge refuses to grant straight couple a divorce because … gay marriage
This was a helpful article for me because I am more familiar with Scheme than I am ML, which most monad articles use.

For those that want to see a Scheme monad implementation that is being used for real work on a regular basis, check out the (guix monads) module in GNU Guix:

http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guix.git/tree/guix/monads.s...
Ask HN: How to build a trillion dollar company in next 5-10 years?
Apple could hit the trillion dollar market cap sometime soon, so I guess it isn't too wild to dream of building a trillion dollar company in next 5 to 10 years. IMO, Apple has been able to do that by being able to dominate in multiple product lines applicable for both consumer and enterprise buyers.
So perhaps the next trillion dollar companies should be able to do the same at faster pace in markets where such demand could arise. So shortlisting potential areas:
1. Robotics: Consumer: household help; Enterprise: semi-skilled worker bots (12 sigma quality assurances anyone???); Govt: public transport drivers (no strikes, 24 hour service!)
2. Bio-engineering: Consumer demand- genetic target drugs, enhanced food (super healthy fries maybe...); Enterprise: super-workers, ; Govt: Super-soldiers; Universal demand: organ/limb replacement.
3. Space-tech: Consumer demand from-travel, tourism & settlement; Enterprise: Raw materials mining, commercial factories, real-estate dev for space colonies. (Heard Elon and Bezos are both trying some hacks there already I guess).
Need help in listing more areas/ideas/plans...

Why even dream this? Because hey:
"Billion dollars ain't cool, you know what's cool???? A Trillion dollar!"- Some version of Sean Parker
And possibly some dev of humanity as well, you know to "Make the world a better place!"... but my way ;)
I can't picture a day Google decides make money directly out of Android. It gets them tons of users to their services which gets them tons of money. And all companies building Android phones are doing the selling hard part instead of Google.
Far more likely is an ever greater interaction between Android, online services and chrome OS until they all mix undistinguished or one takes over the others.
They're measured in cents for flagship phones, so ...
The author probably shouldn't have listed those as requirements - it's not really needed to understand the article.

Classification (in context of the tutorial) is determining whether the data corresponds to a 'male' or 'female' (where 'male' and 'female' are the 'class labels')

The purpose of 'Regularization' is to coax the network away from simply fitting an exact match to the training data (this wouldn't be useful because it would do poorly at any new data). In the context of the tutorial, they add the L1 norm to the 'penalty function', so the network penalizes larger weights.

The pictures do a pretty good job of explaining everything else.
I'd read it that I would lose my "update" model and I'd have to go back to paying the full outright price again if I decided to skip an update.
$20m startup builds app that organizes all your files, for you
and he could choose not to update in the future if he didn't want to

Yes, that's what I mean by downgrade. This choice was taken away from him.
It's often underplayed how helpful it was that Zuckerberg was at Harvard when he stole Facebook. FTFY.
Stroke ( ischemic or hemorrhagic) can be fixed with mini invasive surgery. Neuro surgeons insert "tools" through your vascular system (inside the leg or neck) and get some feedback with X ray imaging. For plumbing issues, it works great in the first few hours.
This is a psychological issue for me.

I gladly entered JetBrain's "cattle pen", and pay yearly for the privilege of being "trapped" there. Whether I might want to leave doesn't cross my mind, because I like it there.

Now they're adding security at the gate. I still don't want to leave, but now it's obvious that I'm trapped. It just feels different, and I don't like it.
Guess you'll have to suck it up and fly first class.
Razer launches OSVR content platform, confirms HDK pre-order date
The moto e is the best 'cheap phone' and service in the United States: https://republicwireless.com/phones/

The phone is absolutely sufficient and you can't beat the plan.
> In the Perl 6 repl, I can't use my up/down arrows, or ^p/^n to get at previous lines I typed, nor ^a/^e and alt-B/alt-F to navigate on the line.

Try:

panda install Linenoise

If that doesn't work, post the response to `perl6 -v` and `perl6 -e '$*DISTRO.perl.say'`.
>> Hydrogeologists use a variety of dyes or other water additives that are better suited for this, and it doesn't seem to have worked yet.

The one thing the article failed to mentioned is the possibility they have no idea where to look for the dye to be coming out. It's easy to do this on an island (such as the famous Oak Island), not so easy at Kettle Falls where this waterfall is quite a ways inland and the only logical outlet would either be the Brule River, or a deep cavern that leads to the coastline of Lake Superior.

Add in the fact in some areas the lake can be as deep as 1,300 feet, and you've got one hell of a hard time trying to find out where the water goes.
Wow, I love that not only are they providing the game, they have an interesting history available. I"ll be keeping an eye on this site in the future.
IntelliJ community threatens to quit on JetBrains over new SaaS model
That's a very interesting analogy. Thanks
There are not much info about the service on the site but this doesn't looks like VPS to me. The "P" in VPS stands for Private. This looks like a very limited shared hosting with a Cpanel manager, not a VPS with SSH and full control other the virtual server.

And you are forced to register or transfert a domain name to use with the hosting which are both (?) priced at $17 for a .com. That plus 12 x 97c and you are at the same price as a cheap "real" shared or vps hosting from many other hosting services + registar.
> I somehow fail to see why would anyone say that.

can you really not even comprehend how there's one person out there that would make a choice different than you?
Depends on the class. There's a series of excellent Coursera Scala courses taught by the creator of the language, those will stay on my resume for a while.
My knee-jerk reaction is that these people got bit because they weren't educated on the matter, so free education would've been helpful. Incidentally, I feel like that would help with the original problem as well.

I am really starting to think that government should reduce the cost of education as a public good.
Alternately, it can be entertaining and mentally stimulating to brainstorm ideas and then pick apart why they wouldn't work.

It would be one thing if it was a funding pitch based on uninformed proposals but as a forum conversation on a Friday afternoon, it doesn't seem too awful.
In a typically-HN thread full of armchair experts brainstorming obvious "why don't they try" ideas [1], this is a truly interesting idea that I bet the experts haven't considered. Also some good potential in the area of espionage, if it already isn't being done.

1. See also the Malaysian Airlines disappearance thread.
The Rise of the Working Poor and the Non-Working Rich
Radioisotope Thermoelectric Generator
I'm reminded being scoffed at: "It's not contagious."

I don't mean to be part of a panic, but there's been a lot of "it isn't" based not on science but on, frankly, opinion.

Nowadays they think that they can link something like 25 - 30 % of cancers to viral infections. (I seem to recall 25 being more current, with 30 being expected soon.)

In a broader context, sooner or later we will have to re-evaluate things like OCD. (I'm thinking of the hand washing and "cleanliness" aspects, currently.) They may not be "merely" a disease or disfunction, but rather an extremity on yet another "spectrum", one that may in some circumstances actually provide an advantage. Perhaps explaining its continued occurrence.

Prions are new to our understanding. Except, as we continue to look at long-standing human behaviors, now with knowledge of them, we may find that, indirectly, they are not entirely new to our understanding and behaviors.

(Nonetheless, I agree with others here and in general: Scary stuff.)

P.S. I wonder whether/when we will discover any advantageous aspects to some of them, or at least benign.
I am sitting here rolling my eyes as I read this article. Really what it comes down to is that state's in general want tech because tech industries tend to bring in greater wealth and with economic wealth you have lower unemployment.

However, as a person born and raise in the Detroit suburb's, it's hard to imagine that Detroit or the surrounding region's would ever be a location for tech innovation.

You have a VERY large percentage of the labor force with no skill's beyond manufacturing (auto industry), heavy small business tax, a youth population that is migrating out to southern and western locations of the country, a non-premium climate (winter 8 out of 12 months), heavy labor unions, and no serious push from state officials to move internal perception towards an industry/economy of technology.

Until the state as a whole begins actively pushing for industry reform and SERIOUS incentives, Michigan will continue to follow it's current course which is very little tech talent, very few tech oriented companies, high small business tax, and very low incentive to start any type of innovation.

It is what it is.
Response to #iLookLikeAnEngineer
Nope. H1 maternal haplotype has the highest density in the now sunken area of Doggerland. It's explained more in the link.