skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The Michael Larson story is absolutely fascinating. The Game Show Network produced a made-for-TV documentary about this called Big Bucks: The Press Your Luck Scandal that I highly recommend watching. If I remember correctly, they brought in Long and Litras to play a re-created Press Your Luck game, who were both successfully taught how to time the board the way that Larson did. If one knew the board as well as Larson did, it'd be easier to beat than any arcade timing game.

If you're interested in game show cheating scandals, I also highly recommend Major Fraud, a documentary about a cheater on Who Wants To Be A Millionaire. The summary of that one is an audience signal via coughing.
The most recent two sitting US presidents used cocaine. They certainly wanted illicit drugs and drug use -- and harder drugs than marijuana, which an overwhelming majority of Americans have tried -- in their communities at some point in their lives though they may or may not want that now. I think your statement is very, very far from correct (even if you don't include the enormous proportion of Americans who illegally abuse prescription drugs which are generally much 'harder' than the drugs you get on the street) and just the wishful thinking of a small number of social conservatives for whom drugs have been turned into a convenient bogeyman to blame when anything in society goes wrong.
"Eating quiche" used to be slang for a sexual act. It's when the joke is most funny that we need to recognize mechanisms of exclusion.
(a-bx) is not zero, x is a variable. when x=pi, a-bx is zero, otherwise not. a-bx=0 is an equation whose solution is x=pi. The function f(x) is not identically zero, it is however zero when evaluated at x=pi: f(pi)=0.
a-bx is only 0 when x=π.
Oh, I get it. "Fermat's library," because we're writing on the margin, which, for once, is large enough to contain our marginalia.

Cute.

Btw, this is the same proof that is in Spivak's Calculus, but Niven explains it a little less than Spivak does.
My favorite was from a pen test that I heard of back in the 1990s. Most people don't realize that Postscript is a full-featured programming language, and high end printer/fax machines used an operating system written in Postscript. To "print" a document you actually executed a program that resulted in a printed document.

Well, "print" the wrong document and your printer/fax machine just turned into a router for anyone who knows how to call up and send the right message...
Twenty-Five German Prisoners Escaped from a Phoenix POW Camp During World War II
I agree that the way the American government focuses on terrorism is more then likely hurtful to Americans.
I saw nothing other than a PNG image with the proof. Nothing in the margins, no buttons, nada.

Could it have anything to do with installing AdBLock yesterday?
Ouch, please let's not go off topic like this. Whimsical asides are one thing, but tangents of indignation are coal to Newcastle.
If you want the exact same app on both platforms, you can do that on React Native too. The Facebook apps don't do that because we believe it gives a worse user experience.
Twitter Down
It's more a matter of originals vs. copies. The original may take 10x the time to make as the copy, but most of society doesn't value the original at 10x the copy.
The siege of Herbalife
Our society simply does not value art sufficiently
to pay a living wage for it [...] so 2-5 days work
to paint a canvas at a decent rate

Let's say it takes 5 working days for the artist to do a painting. Now assume the gallery markup is the same again (to cover framing, transport costs, unsold work, returns, payment processing, sales tax, and so on), so the price needs to be about 10 working days' income. Now assume 75% of my income goes on taxes and bills [1], giving me 25% for discretionary spending.

For an artist to have the same household income as an art buyer, the buyer would be spending 1.8 months' discretionary income.

I buy original paintings occasionally - but that stuff's expensive and it's difficult to see how it could be any other way.

[1] https://www.experian.com/assets/simmons-research/white-paper... assuming $52000 median household income.
Andy Grove and Michael J Fox suffer from Parkinson's. I've donated here before:

https://www.michaeljfox.org
This works amazingly well! I had accidentally left a black sharpie inside a pants pocket of mine, when it hit the dryer it burst from the heat and managed to be fairly evenly distributed inside the white dryer. Using a dry-erase marker it all came off! (I would not suggest trying it on anything that isn't a "shiny" surface ie: un-treated wood, cloth, etc.)
(Hi Stripe Engineer here)

Relay is a way for merchants to route products to channels. We certainly don't want to replace Shopify (with whom we're pretty close) but just give merchants an easy way to expose product information to apps and accepts orders directly from there. In particular, Relay will not provide you with store front, or complex shipping and taxes calculations and integrations.

Ideally Relay should work seamlessly with Shopify, and Shopify users should be able to start selling on Twitter and other apps directly from Shopify through Relay without even necessarily hearing the name Relay (as it is ~the case with their payments currently processed by us)
Can someone post a non-paywall link?
NAR President Testifies Before Judiciary Subcommittee in Support OfDrone Use
As a hardware investor (founder of Root Ventures, mentioned in the article), I'd be careful to differentiate between funds raised from investment vs kickstarter or crowdfunding. At the most basic level, $'s raised via kickstarter should sit on your balance sheet as a liability. There is an expectation that you will deliver product equaling the amount you raised. Of course there are margins baked into the product price, but VC money is truly there for business development. We have invested in several very successful companies who have had millions of dollars in successful campaigns on kickstarter. Each and every time, the KS money is earmarked for delivering the promised product (tooling, Mfg, shipping), while the VC money is used to build a company (recruiting, office space, salaries, travel).
NAR President Remembers Ebby Halliday
I'm not a lawyer, but you might have missed this clause in the patent grant:

> Notwithstanding the foregoing, if Facebook or any of its subsidiaries or corporate affiliates files a lawsuit alleging patent infringement against you in the first instance, and you respond by filing a patent infringement counterclaim in that lawsuit against that party that is unrelated to the Software, the license granted hereunder will not terminate under section (i) of this paragraph due to such counterclaim.

Also consider that most open-source licenses make no mention of patents at all, so you have no assurance that the company won't come after you for patents in their software.
AngularJS by Example – Building a Bitcoin Investment Calc (Angular 1.4.5 and D3)
No hard feelings here. We mean it when we say we're big fans of Patrick, John, Stripe. It's unfortunate that we have to compete, we would have loved to work with them.

Our approach is completely different than theirs: light integrations vs deep integrations. We believe their approach will do more harm than good for the industry causing retailers/platforms to invest millions of dollars in building infrastructure that's not going to be ROI positive. Retailers will end up paying to build/maintain that infrastructure part, they will pay the merchant fees, and they will have to pay Twitter/any partner promoting them.
> Are there any "unicorn" apps that are Android only and intend to stay that way?

Chrome? Also Gmail, Google Now, and Facebook Messenger on iOS are garbage compared to Android.
I use uBlock, yes, but that shouldn't automatically add margins, a header bar, etc, around a PDF. That makes absolutely no sense.
The Military’s Abandoned Quest for Smart Underwear
https://h4labs.wordpress.com/2015/09/14/hacker-news-faq-1-ho...
GNU Emacs also abuses its dominant position in the editor market by shipping all this bundled Lisp code.

Over twenty years ago I was a making killing, hand over fist, selling a Usenet news reading add-on for Emacs. Then those anti-trust bastards included some Lisp code which does that, and I went down the tubes.

I mean, what gave them the right, you know?

It's as if not only did they disrespect my sense of entitlement, but it's like they didn't even see it, in spite of its monstrous size.
Ios+8.4.1+jailbreak
Amazing watches
You can play a lot of the old Infocom text adventures here:

http://pot.home.xs4all.nl/infocom/

I highly recommend Planetfall.

(warning: Requires a somewhat-sketchy-seeming-but-harmless-i-think Java applet. Chrome gives you a hard time about it, but if you create an exception for the site in the java control panel (on OS X: settings->Java->security), then you can play it in Safari)
Twitter is down
Using Cordova, you will always be behind any and all Mobile Safari WebKit et al bugs. This not a big deal when pushing layout around a webpage, but it can be crippling for app development as the app grows in complexity and you crave native-quality interactions. Mobile Safari's Webkit implementation has a staggering list of severe bugs. Developing under it can become a nightmare of hacks and backpedaling. Been working on Cordova nearly full time for two years now. So much wasted time. React Native is a big deal, and is very different.
Ask HN: Is Twitter down for you?
Twitter keeps returning errors everywhere for me, but there's nothing on status.twitter.com indicating an outage. Anyone else seeing this?
I am getting this error - 'Failed to load document'. Anybody else having same problem?
Obamanet Is Hurting Broadband
Do you have any sources for that?
There’s Something about Pentagons
Game developers do it all the time with C++ using things like Marmalade.
I also cart a "real" camera around with me when I go on vacation. My phone camera is pretty awesome for what it is, but nothing compares to a dedicated camera.

Bokeh is important. Low-light performance is important. RAW capture is important. High burst rate is important (I'm often taking pictures of kids--my "real" cameras take 5-6 FPS in burst mode, all at full RAW resolution). Real optical zoom and stabilization is important. Being able to control ISO, aperture, and exposure time is important. Having a flash you can bounce off the ceiling is important (and no, a phone flash isn't NEARLY strong enough). Time to first shot is important (my camera can take a picture within about 600ms of turning it on in programmed-auto mode).

I have RAW capture on my phone if I use the right app, and some control over exposure, but none of the other options.

If I want to document something and I don't have a real camera handy, sure I'll pull out my phone.

Android 5 gets the time between pulling the phone out of my pocket to first shot down to 7 seconds, which still isn't nearly fast enough. My old Canon 10D took 3 seconds to first shot, and I often missed shots as a result.

When traveling I usually carry around a micro-four-thirds camera with a couple of lenses; very small, very fast, and great low-light performance (as well as all the other features listed above).
It's the 'blogpost' link in this page, http://facebook.github.io/react/blog/2015/03/30/community-ro...
The storage can't do the scheduling itself, but apps can do it on top of dumb storages.
If it were software, this would definitely have merited a bug report.
More accurately: with Cordova, you will always be behind on iOS.
Renewable Energy’s Potential May Be Understated
Chinese Internet infrastructure is so backwards it's kind of funny.
really excited to dig into this, though i don't know much javascript or React. I'm curious to see how material design comes across in these types of apps and how easily it will be to tell apart a native app and the "react" version.
Sworkit was supposed to be an example of a complex app for ionic, not sure what else is out there. I've used that app and can say it seems pretty solid (no crashing, locking up my phone, etc.)

http://blog.ionic.io/built-with-ionic-sworkit/

I did a pet project using the vibration feature and it worked pretty well, but haven't tried on an iphone.

I can't speak for pushing the limits of the hardware though.
No Free Lunch Theorem for Public Cloud
With the manual modes coming into Android and IOS recently, the weird "processing" delay will be gone and there isn't really anything to justify showing off your Leica in public.
Here's a tool that let's you try the transform interactively: http://www.ejectamenta.com/Imaging-Experiments/fourierimagef...
Show HN: Brick & mortar price comparison app for Canadians
I imagine C++ doesn't allow FAMs because it wouldn't know how to call the destructors/constructors on the members of the array (or how many to call).
I'm just saying that at some point you need to accept a fundamental level of insecurity. Being mad at the TSA for copying the model everyone already uses is sort of pointless until we start to provide better alternatives.
So basically a B-grade movie got cannibalized by low-budget horror director.

That's very far away from your original claim.
this is something mathcad had done very well imo. it provided you with a blank page where you could write anywhere and the equations nearly looked like they had been written with latex. even better, all changes to variables were live and you could tweak things anywhere to see how it effected your numbers. miss it a lot. calca is similar to it now on the mac, but not nearly as pretty and you still end up with lines of text and no equations.
have you try photo-stacking? Even star trace can be done beautifully.
That's not categorically true.

For example, I believe that both the navigator components for React Native in iOS currently suffer from either bugs or performance issues. The more native one has an open issue related to UI flicker, and the JavaScript-based one drops frames when subviews are complex.

That statement might not be true tomorrow or next week, because the ecosystem is developing quickly. Generally I am very happy with React Native.
Lets start with those polynomials, then those integral coefficients.
The reference is pretty clearly to "Real Men Don't Eat Quiche" (1982), which was itself a satire of exclusionary masculinity.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Real_Men_Don%27t_Eat_Quiche
PyDev of the Week: Christopher Clarke
What developers need 2 know about watchOS 2, iPad Pro, Apple TV, and the iPhone 6s
Simple solution: Travel around until you get your luggage inspected, copy the notification paper they place in your luggage, place copy in any luggage you surreptitiously open, boom: TSA did it, not you.
Fair point, and constructive as well. My thinking, re: splitting into Step 1 and 2 in this case, alludes to wanting IP protection first and foremost, then conducting research and running numbers and models to establish the financial and production metrics that might be appealing. From there, present the full business case and protected IP to potential investors.

The Patent Attorney said something like what you said as well - the purpose is generally to make money, not have a fancy thing to hang on the wall - so taking the time, effort and cash to invest in it personally should be a serious venture...not like throwing good money after bad, but as an affirmation that it's worth pursuing for my own purposes, and in theory, to make a nice pile of money in recognition of coming up with something of merit to customers. I hope this reasoning makes some sense, and I do very much appreciate your postulation.
Your OS sucks
It is truly shocking the quotient going to fees, taxes, and duties. Almost any flight I take between SFO and Western Europe ends up being >50% fees, taxes, duties.

It makes one wonder what marginal meetings are _not_ taking place because the 50% taxation (the fault of both port operating companies, state governments, the U.S. federal government, and their equivalents on the European side) makes it infeasible for those who are ever so slightly less fortunate.

Imagine the cost of travel -- and of interpersonal connection -- being halved because these taxes went away. Who's to say it's better to hire another Social Security Administration Vice President than it is to enable a CRISPR researcher at Stanford to meet a pharma exec in London?

(You might think that government would grind to a halt. . . but of course government only spends a paltry percentage of its winnings on things like transportation.[1])

[1] http://solomonkahn.com/us_budget/#
To my experience if all your apps do is showing tables of information and forms to put the information back in (classic WinForms app) any of the cross-platform stuff will work for you. Obviously React is rendering in native and I would prefer it.

But if your app is more advanced like a drawing app you should not use these cross platform stuff.
Can I work on React Native Android apps on Linux?
Thanks-- my code isn't the cleanest either! I still have a lot of cleanup to do. I will certainly check it out though!
I just bought that book and will be starting it tomorrow. I am finishing up The Eye of the World - Robert Jordan today. My wife loved it (she reads a lot faster than me).
Thanks-- I will certainly look into those instructions
Sorry, I was being facetious. In hindsight, that was not at all clear. But nice post!
The Flying Railroad between London and Paris that almost happened
Do you have any reason to believe it was posted with permission?

I worked in Hollywood and cashed checks from Warner Bros. If you think an illustrator retained rights to anything done for them in the 80s -- again, I'd love to live in your world.

My points are simple:

1) him posting it wholesale in its entirety isn't brilliant 2) posting it on Facebook as part of a business page is even less brilliant and 3) somebody else linking to it prominently from HN isn't brilliant either.

These are all "shades of grey" arguments/observations around how copyright plays out in the current culture. It's always demoralizing being the grownup in the room around IP issues but that doesn't mean I'm going to stop gently ringing the bell.
AI Teaches Itself Chess in 72 Hours, Plays at International Master Level
How Much Longer Will Apple Drive Earnings Growth for the S&P 500 Tech Sector?
Let's All Go to Mars: Books about the Wright Brothers and Elon Musk
How to Advertise on Facebook the Smart Way
Since you cannot know in advance whether you are a suspect, the idea is that in order to be safe one must assume that the police always consider you to be a suspect and limit your interactions with them accordingly.
Apple TV Needs Core Bluetooth. Here’s a Core Bluetooth Tutorial
Twitter down in Europe
Has Apple ever chosen a non-native app for its annual design awards?
Note: Not a mathematician, by any means

I'm not a fan of how the proof is explained, specifically why are we doing x or y.

I would prefer this --

Let pi be a rational number thus ( * by the definition of rational numbers) pi = a/b, the quotient of positive integers. We will show no such a and b can exist, therefore pi cannot be rational.

( * is not completely necessary, since the definition of rationals is so elementary)

<Next Paragraph, and so on>

I suspect a lot of mathematicians prefer the format given because it is more obtuse...
Or is it just me?
I've even found that to be the case before digitization. Everyone else switched to white(dry erease)boards. Mathematicians just love chalk.
> China is so backwards it's kind of funny.

It breaks the HN guidelines to make slurs against anyone's country here. Please don't do that again.
Ahh the rehypothecation system. Talk about playing with fire.
What to Expect During Your In-Store Apple iPhone Upgrade Experience
There is no technical reason it shouldn't work but we haven't focused on it yet. Pull requests are more than welcome if you see any issue :)
Sure; the 500 mile email comes to mind (it gets reposted here periodically):

http://www.ibiblio.org/harris/500milemail.html
The Icarus Syndrome: Should we pay any price to avoid global warming?
uk too
Down in the UK for me.
Run-Command – small, portable alternative to standard Windows Run-Dialog
See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10212770 .
Cornerstone was a great tool, sigh.
Is there such a device that you can put in your luggage that video records the contents and and towards where the person opening it would be standing?

Is it illegal to record someone going through your stuff? I mean, if they are just looking through it to ensure the safety of everyone, why can't I ensure the safety of my stuff?
Not exactly. We raised a seed round of $1.8m a little less than 1 year before the Kickstarter. We probably could have built and shipped the product off of the crowdfunding proceeds, but we couldn't have had such a successful crowdfunding campaign without spending some of that money to design the product and market it well.
You're not irrational, you're just quantum probabilistic
Greatly improved predictions across very diverse cognitive psychology experiments. For the actual papers see (http://www.thedocc.com/publications-2/).
The Semiotics of “Rose Gold”
If the annotations are not working right when you expand them, particularly the second one, and you are using Safari, try reading in Chrome or Firefox. Those appear to work fine.

In Safari, it looks like when the height of the expanded annotation display region is calculated for dealing with scrolling, it is including the area under the sign up doohickey. It thinks you can see more than you can. This means the scrolling limits are set too small, and so you cannot scroll the bottom of the annotation up into view.

If your window size and text size make it so that the second annotation fits in the visible region, this won't matter.
The animations on this page were not well tested. They run at about 0.5 fps in Firefox, but are completely smooth in Chrome.
Although it's meant to be sarcastic, I believe it nicely exposes typical things developers used to argue about back then, not that different from modern arguments about JS vs compiled-to-js, elixir vs erlang, GC vs manual memory management, etc.

Anybody knows some more serious piece from those times that would show the actual arguments of, say, PASCAL opponents?
The article also seems to indicate that their repository strategy is not properly set up for something like this.

Most people, I think, would initially set up a separate repository for iOS and for Android, given that they are different codebases, and you wouldn't want commit history pollution. But if you're planning on reusing a lot, like in this project, it might make sense to have them both in one repo. Or have a third for shared code, and include that in each individual one?
> I suspect a lot of mathematicians prefer the format given because it is more obtuse...

No, because as you say, defining what a rational number is seems pretty pointless here, as why would you be reading the proof of something whose definition you don't even know? And you also want an explanation of what a proof by contradiction is, which also seems to be way too elementary. Proof by contradiction is one of the most basic techniques.

Spivak's version of this proof explains it a bit more, but still requires work from the reader. Any proof does. Mathematics cannot be a spectator sport.