skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ooh, this is such a good point that I hadn't thought about. You would want everyone related to you to do this, too. And of course, no matter how hard you work, you won't be able to catch dad's secret attic family, or your surprise second cousin.

I'd like to impute more health and longevity goals to 23andme than just imagine it's a giant government DNA-gathering corporation. But, I bet you're right -- it's just not tenable to hide enough information about myself AND all my family members that I couldn't be ID'ed by a junior data scientist / low-end neural network.
Unions aside, there was the same butt-hurt regarding blue-collar oil field workers making 100k+. The New York Times ran endless articles complaining about the shale oil boom.

Non-elite flyover whites making good money seems to really upset a certain segment of the population. How dare they make a better living them me doing physical labor!

Most people have been taught to look down on blue-collar manual labor. Seeing them makes good money upsets them. Even the OP expressed his distaste for the oil-field workers.
The cat situation is so bad in some areas one guy made an automated cat deterrent:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uIbkLjjlMV8
That's interesting! It was Bright and Ashifi and a former colleague of mine on the initial patent filing, but much of the tech transfer help came from Dartmouth folks, whether formally or informally, I don't recall. I hadn't heard of these folks. It's such a simple and useful idea, I'm not surprised that there are multiple attempts to deploy it.
Sandboxing and App Stores do not prevent powerful software tools being developed. You can have first-class video editors, painting and photo manipulation, and coding environments.

You might not be able to do absolutely everything you could with unfettered access, but that hardly leads to "mostly toys." The nature of mobile apps stems far more from the use case of the devices (user attention measured in seconds, rather than minutes) than limitations of the software development platforms.
So this is picking u the pieces from Open Pandora. While I like the idea of open source hardware in general I am somewhat skeptical on why it might work this time. Nevertheless I hope they are successful.
That is an incredible essay. Thanks for posting
Good luck squeezing blood out of a turnip
While I wouldn't consider this very active, it's certainly not collecting dust.

https://github.com/yahoo/end-to-end/commit/8bf5dca239bb1df3f...
Cats are everybody's problem. The scale of the carnage (there is no other word) is breathtaking. There is quite a bit of scientific literature available, however the popular press, though more sensationalist, gives a decent picture on how significant the problem is:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/outdo...

http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/9-leading-causes-of-bird-dea...
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Yes, I 100% understand that point. But I repeat what I'm saying, this isn't a concern for most developers and most software companies. They don't care how a page table is written. They don't care about optimizing that.

Every standard or abstraction can be unbundled into multiple standards or abstractions. But at the end of the day, what wins is something that's simplest to the operator
Holyshit I wrote something almost identical to this for an embedded C++ project in around 2010.
I assume you are talking about System Integrity Protection. You can turn this off, so do you consider the fact that Ubuntu doesn't have a root user by default (and requires you to run everything through sudo) an imposition on your freedom as well? Or is it only barriers which require a restart to disable?

In addition, no Intel Macs have any means of operating system lock-in. You can run Windows, Linux, or anything else that can handle standard x86 hardware. So you seem to have full control over the hardware at least (except maybe the SMC, which is not easily modifiable on standard PC hardware either). And given the fact that the Darwin kernel is open source[1], you are free to patch out SIP entirely and run that instead.

[1]: https://github.com/opensource-apple/xnu
As I understand it, there are sects for whom the supremacy of the KJV is actually a matter of doctrine. If so, then it becomes the truth relative to that particular sect.
It is collecting dust for 99.99% of users. You've linked me to a commit of a merged pull request. That is not an indication that any of Yahoo's users are using this code (unless you count the developers). Maybe Yahoo will actually make their end of year deadline for "all users" [1], we'll see. They have less than two months left to do so. My knowledge of Google's end-to-end attempt leaves me skeptical, and not because this is any sort of a technical challenge, but because it's a political challenge.

[1] http://yahoo.tumblr.com/post/113708033335/user-focused-secur...
I often skip all that and use native packages with pyinstall, dh_python, and dh_virtualenv (from spotify)

For me its much cleaner and controlled than distutils plus the knowledge is largely transferable to other stacks. I wrap our node, java, and ruby applications using the same tooling as well as any services we depend on. (kafka, kibana, spark, etc) After that I can pass off making images, containers, installing, managing stuff, whatever onto anybody in IT or operations that knows linux.

Obviously that wouldn't work well for everybody but it sure beats trying to manage 20 different ways to do everything in my case.
Neat, it looks like the spiritual successor to the Atari Portfolio.
I have some experience with admissions at elite universities, and I can say that they generally weight candidates who have proven they can get "A" grades at their university or an equivalent much more favorably than unknown candidates.

In fact, with most even Ivy League Universities, if you don't get in, but can move into town, and arrange to take a hard class or two, and ace them, you would find your next application would be much more favorably received.

MIT is laying out a different path for these graduate students; essentially: "Let's not have to take you at your word for how successful you can be...Show me you can pass this degree program upfront by doing half of it."

I don't think it's in MIT's interests to dilute their brand by issuing shitty substandard degrees; instead, it seems much more likely that they are looking for ways to on-board many more quality students and keep their recruitment / admissions cost-to-successful-graduate ratio as low as possible. Hence the "We have 40 grads a year, industry wants thousands" quote.
It also makes it more likely that their employers will foot the bill. Saying "I did the first half, here are my grades, please send me for the second" is a pretty compelling pitch.
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They have to have tags attached to their collar to show they're registered.
I feel compelled to add the link to the hilarious King James Programming site: http://kingjamesprogramming.tumblr.com/
Interesting naming. The WYSIWYG rich text editor in Google Docs is named Kix. The engine behind Google Sheets is named Trix.
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I currently use Pass and two things I prefer with it over Steel are:

- Steel uses a SQLite db while Pass uses a directory of .gpg files for each password, which is easier to backup using git and simple file sync systems

- Pass uses GPG to encrypt files which is reliable and preferable over rolling your own crypto
Flipboard used to scrape it before Facebook. So this is not new
I tend to think of systems which don't sandbox each process effectively as 'toys' since I can't meaningfully trust them to run code I haven't audited.
Whoa, that's gonna be useful for FreeNAS.
This program is aimed at MIT's supply chain management degree, a pretty technical thing to know how to do, and one that can cost your company many millions of dollars very quickly if you mess up; it's the kind of thing that I would guess even a pretty wild entrepreneur would want some training at in many circumstances.

Michael Dell almost folded Dell early days over a supply chain problem in fact; he was pre-buying inventory for his computers, and got bitten by a technology change leaving him holding enough worthless inventory that it could have easily ended the company.

At any rate, if you're Dell, you want people thoroughly trained in this before they get to go muck up your new laptop deployment schedule; even a small screw up in a small part could mean major revenue problems.

MOST startup developer screwups aren't on that scale, which is one reason it can work well to just jump in like you are planning on doing.
But significant for literary reasons, at least. The KJV is deeply interwoven into much of English literature.
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The video is promoted social media mainly. Website traffic is still low for platform influence.

Do you think it might be obnoxious having 'PLGRM presents' in the title to attract a wider audience who has no connection, or hometown interest in the small network?
Desktop browsers on the other hand has always had this feature blocked by default. Apps on a phone came after the internet and after web browsers and should hence have learned by all the mistakes we did when writing desktop OSs and programs. There is no reason why every program should have automatic access to the clipboard, if you want your download manager to work then give it explicit permission.
Can it do ECMP?
Why didn't you include dividends? In that case, the parameters you entered would give a RoR of 9.9970%?
Nothing sad about it. Just because it isn't $your_favourite_language doesn't mean it's sad.
Well, Why do we care of showing degrees off and that gets counted in? "I have a board which says 'Alas, I graduated MBA from 'bla bla'"

I would say, if we are able to show what we have built, or talk and convince intellectually as to what we are capable to build should matter more than any piece of paper.
I do agree, there would be a problem of filtering the right ones for a job in lieu of a "paper degree", but I hope there comes a better way in the world to judge and educate people to be more innovative and building real incremental things rather than just getting 'paper degrees'"
The videos are targeted at Millenials (18-34) as a response to the inherent and ironic 'disconnection' the digital age has presented to people.

What is it that specifically does not interest you? Is it the genre or style in the way the stories are told?
I think the mistake (at least in today's world) is that un-sandboxed is the default. Even as a power user, I would like if most of the GUI programs on my computer (web browser, word processor, etc.) were sandboxed, so I can focus most of my scrutiny on my IDE, toolchains, etc.

The other aspect is that programs are traditionally really bad at being conscientious about your system, even when not being malicious. Windows programs have a tendency to put files wherever they feel like, although UAC has helped this to some degree. Plus, every program and its brother has its own update system that absolutely must run in the background constantly, even when I'm not using it.
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You're not really contradicting anything, you're just making an argument from personal incredulity. People do care, you may not. Else the Linux kernel would have had a fraction of its manpower and no one would want to introduce userspace page fault handling (just recently userfaultfd(2) went in from a KVM optimization effort) or use userland TCP/IP.
That is good feedback.

Do you feel like a call to action is a must if the topic is of a socially conscious nature?
I won't claim to have the final answer on this issue, but the study you are citing has been subject to a brief statistical analysis which I think reveals it as highly suspect, at the least.

http://www.alleycat.org/document.doc?id=633

http://www.npr.org/sections/13.7/2013/02/03/170851048/do-we-...
ESV is a good version. It does well at being accessibly but remaining true to the meaning of the OG script as much as possible.
When I pay yearly dog registration my local council supplies numbered plastic ties (used to be disks) which must be attached to the dog's collar. They aren't attached to the dog itself so more like soldier dog tags than cattle tags.
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As does the Pinner app (for Pinboard) to make it convenient to add bookmarks via copying the current URL.
Steel is not rolling it's own crypto. It uses AES in cfb mode as implemented by libmcrypt.
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Sandboxing doesn't necessarily mean that you can't share files/data between programs. I think it's easy to mix these up because ios hides the file system for you. I would very much like both visual studio and notepad++ to be able to edit the same .cs file but i don't want notepad++ to have internet or GPS access because it has absolutely no reason to.
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Introducing React Native: Building Apps with JavaScript
Ask HN: Is there some database/shop for recipes and pictures of the results?
I'm working on an application related to food. I guess I could scrape one of the billion food websites but I would like to make it legit.

So what I need is recipes with related images for purchase. Where would I be able to get this?
Older people are more likely to pay for Apple Music
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At least 1Password on iOS can fill logins directly into Safari. It is (somewhat confusingly) listed as an action when you click the "share" icon.
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I like Sundays on Hacker News. A lot of interesting but non-tech posts that would otherwise get buried manage to make it to the front page.
You don't 'rehome' a feral cat. You do TNR. Safe, humane, and effective. <http://www.neighborhoodcats.org/HOW_TO_WHAT_IS_TNR>
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Also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7544855.
>> danger is devaluing the MIT brand

If more people have access to quality education, and they are eventually given a degree based on how they perform in the course, we should not be bothered about brand value. Educational institutions should cater to as many students as possible without compromising on quality.
Sincerity does a better job than sarcasm but offensiveness and insults are best of all? I even made sure in my response that personal pronouns like "you" were not present so that it was a criticism of HN rather than you.
Oops, you're right, I overlooked that. So it would be 520 million after 100 years (22 million after accounting for inflation).
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Interesting but not very useful given that the patent situation at the moment makes HEVC unusable for many users.

For those who are unaware, there are currently two HEVC license pools (HEVC Advance and MPEG LA). HEVC Advance is particularly problematic as it contains necessary patents that MPEG LA lacks and it charges a fee for _distribution_ of HEVC content, not just encoders/decoders like MPEG LA did in the past. Many potential HEVC users are quite put off by that and it's a main motivator for the Alliance for Open Media.
I run a custom DNS server with the domains blacklisted on there so any device on my home network is covered.

My set up is dnsmasq, which can issue DNS rules based upon the servers /etc/hosts file, and then Someone Who Cares hosts file[1] which has trackers and many other unwanted web nasties added to the loopback address.

And as its just hosts files, the thing is trivial to fully automate so once a week I pull the latest list of banned domains.

There are also other services like Someone Who Cares, some tailored more specifically towards Windows and some tailored more specifically to blocking ads, or malware, etc.

[1] http://someonewhocares.org/hosts/
The authors went on to implement a couple systems that handle that problem rather nicely. Applications (really, the libraries they use) do know about disk sectors, but the kernel's disk driver sorts their requests to optimizes seeks and exposes which sectors are loaded, to allow a kind of cooperative disk cache.

Even more interesting, they let applications share file systems by taking a bytecode-based representation of FS metadata from userspace, and using that to enforce correct usage of the actual disk blocks. This lets applications control where on the disk to allocate, when to read which blocks, etc. without losing any of the security and cooperation of a typical file system.
If your going to Pocket, it's likely that pasting from your clipboard is what you want to do. Not as true for Facebook- would you say you post a link from your clipboard as often as you launch Facebook to read your timeline or post a picture?
As I see from http://mentat.za.net/supreme/, this is an implementation of wholly another method, neither single-image nor self-similarity–based.
The sandboxing of mobile apps - at least on iOS - was always sold as a feature that respected this handheld computer was also a phone, and needed the voice chat reliability of a pre-smartphone.

If you have any suspicion that installing an app will cause your phone call with your grandmother to be interrupted, you will really scrutinize what you install.

Early Android devices tended to have more problems than iOS devices when it came to phone calls getting interrupted, so whether this was marketing making an excuse for something Apple wanted on s technical level, it seems sandboxing was with the use case of "keep the phone working" firmly in mind.
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If the intent is simply "emphasis", why are there different ways of expressing it?
Photocopiers use Mixed Raster Content (MRC) with JBIG compression, which is indeed able to confuse symbols at the same scale, but across-the-scales substitution is beyond the current MRC capabilities afaik.
"Project" here means the boilerplate on the market. But not the project on the GitHub.
Presumably you don't have to serve _any_ licenses - the license should be in the Javascript file itself?

(disclaimer: I didn't check)
This doesn't support images as far as I can tell
Really cool to see another library using the Consul library I wrote! Thanks for posting this.
Looks like you got two wishes left. Use them wisely...
Whilst happily an atheist, this is still fascinating.

Now does the draft contain the famous "Thou shalt commit adultery"? I bet they just blamed the typesetter but really ...
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Why are text editors so popular a project? My apologies if that sounds anything less than a legitimate question. I'm genuinely curious.

It seems very common to me, over the last several years, to see $NEW_SHINY_EDITOR, and I wonder why.

Are the alternatives that bad? Or is it just a matter of another dev wanting to scratch their own itch?
Having no cleartext to hand over in individual cases is one form of plausable deniability. Cleverly, it also appears to offer plausable deniability of your service's "primary purpose", since there are few conclusions that can be drawn from the encrypted data in aggregate. So some protection, yes, but there are certainly other ways to get yourself indicted, or your customers blocked, under such general tests.

The example in the article shows the decryption key as a URL fragment, which never hits the wire. A subpoena on Mega's own servers is one thing, but a court compelling them to collect keys from client machines? I would hope not.
Finally an editor which can replace existing form elements without extra JavaScript! ContentEditable is wow and all but it doesn't replace textarea, this does.
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How many people go to university in Denmark? In the UK when degrees were free about 10% of people went to university. Today, when a degree costs about $50,000, approximately 50% of people go to university.

Free higher education is a good idea, but the cost is prohibitive. There's a difficult balance to strike between keeping the amount of money required affordable and opening up as many places as possible.
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Ask HN: Why is Mac OS X/iOS not called a flavor of Unix?
OSX and iOS are built on linux why aren't they called flavor of linux?
This is a "WYSIWYG" style rich text editor to embed in a webpage/CMS - its not a desktop "text editor" that a developer might use to write code with.
Similar research has been done in the UK (I believe by the Mammal Society, sorry cannot find a reference) and the estimated number of bird deaths per year was 300 million.

This is a tough problem to quantify - typically the studies follow a number of cats closely and then extrapolate based on the estimated number of cats. Clearly this is close to an educated guess however the important part is that we are getting some idea of the scale of the problem. Given all the pressures on wildlife, this one is probably one of the more solvable problems.
Nice to see this particular bit of info high up in the README (though "as seen in Basecamp 3" would fit well in the Github repo description line):

> Trix is an open-source project from Basecamp, the creators of Ruby on Rails. Millions of people trust their text to Basecamp, and we built Trix to give them the best possible editing experience. See Trix in action in the all-new Basecamp 3.

Nothing gets me more interested in trying out a JavaScript library than seeing that it's used in a mainstream production product, especially a money-making/critical product by very same the company that created/maintains it...it's a bit of guarantee that the API is relatively mature/won't-go-crazy and that someone has a vested interest in keeping the library up to date with changes in the Web. That was why React was so much more appealing to me than Angular, relative to their respective public release dates...React was already in production at Instagram and parts of Facebook, whereas I don't think Angular was in any of Google's main public facing products (i.e. search, YouTube, Maps)
Sandboxing and App Stores do not prevent powerful software tools being developed. You can have first-class video editors, painting and photo manipulation, and coding environments

I don't doubt that - but the problem is that everything you do with one app must almost always stay within that one. It's only when you want to exchange data between apps that all the power of the traditional full-access model really shines, and the reason why people have resorted to some horribly inefficient workarounds (e.g. upload to some server on the Internet from one app, then download the data in another) to do this.
You can't trust sandboxed systems either, and honestly, who ever audits the code they run? "Auditing code" is a smart-sounding phrase that is meaningless to 99% of users. Also, have you audited your sandbox's code yet?

I consider mobile apps toys because they're designed to contain and own your data, and that impares both the ergonomy of work and limits your capability for doing things to whatever is available in the MVP some startup released. Most apps don't evolve past the point of MVP.
Can anyone explain how any possible patent could cover distribution?
Because it is wrong, they are not build on Linux. The roots go back to a BSD, so it's a Unix.
I found the redundancy of having the same number stored on both also unnecessary, and a scheme that just reorganized where the bracelets are seems better. The "friendship" component of having identical bracelets is lost, but information density is certainly improved. Instead of considering this as one's complement, just give the right bracelet sum to one person and all the rest of the bracelets to the other.