skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In which case, I don't think it's racist, though I can see how a white person would be sensitive and worried that it is racist.
Uber and London
RONJA (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RONJA) is one such homebrew free-space optical (FSO) link.
IP over Avian Carriers
> carbohydrates [...] ARE sugar

Sucrose (table sugar) breaks down into fructose and glucose (as does corn syrup). On the other hand starch breaks down, after a couple of steps, into just glucose. Glucose is your basic fuel that is used by the muscles, etc, directly. Fructose has to be metabolized by the liver first, with some bad side effects if you have too much. The study that the (currently) top post links to is specifically about "fructose restriction". So we're not talking about carbohydrates in general.

Bananas and apples do have fructose, but it's not "added" sugar. However, if you take apple juice (or as I see on labels a lot, pear juice) and use it as an ingredient, that would be added sugar.
Please Do Not Steal My Code, Mock My Analysis, and Present My Ideas as Your Own
What's interesting is that the author talks only about impact on children. I was under the impression that a large part of the argument for universal preK (and universal day-care, like Head Start) was that it evens out how easy it is for parents to work when they have small kids. If that's the case, then it's not a huge problem that the academic results aren't great over time for the kids themselves if it means that overall family well-being is improved.

As a side note, Head Start is also interesting in that it, when it's done using blended classrooms, it also lets kids from diverse background interact with each other before they've learned a lot of prejudicial behaviors.
New sonic tractor beam levitates objects using only sound waves
author here, if anyone has q's
There have been many, many other threads on Hacker News where this has been discussed. Consider this not extrapolating from a single data point, but using one data point to illustrate a larger trend that we see over and over again here.
Well, the point is the deflation-is-dangerous theory says it must be avoided at all costs because it leads to a downward spiral that ends in depression. But Japan is a counter-example that shows this theory cannot be true.

There's no One True Solution to Japan's problems. Skilled immigration can help, by bringing outside experience and ideas into the mix. Look at how many successful American companies were either founded or are now run by immigrants (e.g. Google, Microsoft). But Japan barely even has that.

Your last sentences are a bit puzzling to me: you seem to agree that deflation has not led to depression and that Japan's economic issues are more structural than currency related. But then you just repeat the claim that deflation is not a good thing and point to Japan as an example!

The way I see it is any sudden change in the money supply is bad news because business likes predictability. The ideal monetary policy therefore would in fact target price stability (0% inflation) or mild deflation (as progress should mean things get cheaper over time). But you can't just say "deflation is bad" and then point to one country as an example, given that this entire thread is about the counterexample of Switzerland!
It also doesn't help that a lot of internet commentators can't distinguish between someone criticizing something they like and personal attacks.

It also doesn't help that a lot of critics can't make a criticism along the lines of "I don't like this because X" without injecting an overt or covert "People who like this are X". The former is criticism, the latter is always a personal attack.
To be fair, the parent's Pentium-60 was also struggling with playing an MP3 file during that time as well.

It wasn't Doom that convinced me to switch from the Amiga to Wintel, it was MP3. My P100 was adequate but you weren't doing a lot of other things during playback.
Designing the Perfect Online Shopping Experience
its not the first time a developer has preferred to remain anonymous from apple
Flying has got to be more efficient than traveling through a forest.

As a person who spends a lot of time in the forest, there's a ton of impassable obstacles. Cliff faces, streams, briar patches, downed logs, etc.

The robot on the ground would spend more energy in the forest than the robot in the sky.

I think being in the sky also helps keep them from being a target for looting.
My guess would be that they wrote anything they could think of into the application so that they can play around without doing another one.

Given their scale, a few million spent on this or that doesn't say much about what they will actually end up doing.
> If it were possible, one of the payday lenders would do it and corner the market.

The market is efficient; therefore the market is efficient.
As others have mentioned there's the risk of outlier cases consuming any potential savings on the happy path. But what I think is more important is a potential pitfall involving the company's mission. Saving money is not a core business operation, making money is. Thus the disruption of changing processes and laying people off is often not worth the opportunity cost of creating new products or refining pricing models. Using the $4 million in wages per year conjectured elsewhere, that's rounding error compared to a percentage point improvement in returns when many billions of dollars of assets are under management [as is typical for a big insurance agency].

There's also a role for queueing theory. The 'slack' staffing in normal times can be redeployed in outlier events such as a natural catastrophe that spikes claims and invokes fine print policy terms. Experienced claims reviewers might be considered an in-house form of re-insurance. And insurance companies only survive over the long term because there is re-insurance to pool outlying risks.

Good luck.
author here...I don't have any services. what's so ad-driven about it? It was meant to be a statement about why I'm so passionate about the space right now :)
Indeed. Even ignoring the total impracticality of them, you can also look at just energy issues.

In order for drones to be cost effective, they need to stay in the air for minimum the full trip out and back from the home, but if you look at the location of most big warehouses (e.g. Amazon, Walmart) they're built outside of big cities for cost reasons, so now you have to fly twice as far to deliver packages onto the opposite side of the city.

So either the FAA will need to allow liquid fuel drones (gas, diesel, etc) which have their own safety issues, or they'll need to be extremely large to hold enough batteries. Plus the recharge time of batteries will also be an issue.

I think weather and safety are their biggest detractors, but I think energy problems are next on that list. All these companies keep doing is pumping out press releases but without any specific details about how far their drones can travel, under what conditions, etc.

I'd short sell anyone who announced they're going to invest in making this work. It is fine as a pet project and to get some publicity, but if they start throwing millions behind it, I'm betting against them and it.
The reality of android soldiers and why laws for robots are doomed to failure
>I'm just saying that it's wrong to dismiss it simply because he is not interested in reviewing Prison Architect's gameplay.

No I dismiss it because it is a pretentious circlejerk of an article.

Someone needs to confiscate his thesaurus.

>I don't think Super Mario Bros' subject matter is comparable to Prison Architect's

There are plenty of tropes and power dynamics to analyze in Super Mario Brothers, but that doesn't mean we will derive any value from such analysis.

To make something meaningful out of this kind of literary critique you need to consider more than just a single game.
After receiving online harassment, SXSW cancels panel about online harassment
>Be civil. Don't say things you wouldn't say in a face-to-face conversation. Avoid gratuitous negativity.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Mobile phones: Data roaming charges will be abolished
How to avoid mobile app failure
Author of the article here – totally agree. D3 has totally changed the game.
I know. But I'm saying that everyone can flame on it as much as anyone wants, but in the end everyone will end up coming back to it.
Researchers Decrypt a WhatsApp Call (But Don’t Worry About It)
You should always consider the bias of the author of a paper when evaluating it. THe author has a vested interest in seeing an outcome. Many authors permit their bias to allow themselves to overanalyze a poorly designed study. Lustig has a history of doing this, for example he published papers previously where the evidence led to a different conclusion; in particular, he selectively analyzed his data to support his conclusion, but direct analysis showed the opposite.
But only the non-paying corporations have an incentive to encrypt. The ones that pay will either not encrypt, or they'll attach some kind of tag to the ISP saying where the packet comes from. ISPs can safely assign all encrypted, non-tagged packets to the slow lane.
Amazing job! Thanks for going through the process in detail.
If Evernote integrated Markdown into its mobile, web, and native editors, I would be much closer to an ideal. It's early, but Classeur shows potential to fill this gap.

I tried http://Marxi.co, the so-called "missing Markdown editor for Evernote," but had enough syncing issues during the brief ten-day trial to put me off purchasing a subscription.

There's also a Sublime plugin that offers two-way Markdown conversion into Evernote, but I only have Sublime as a native app, not on mobile or web. https://github.com/timlockridge/SublimeEvernote

Perhaps with Evernote's renewed focus on core product, they'll take a look at improving the experience of the text editor.
Did John Brennan suck as a contractor? The CIA thinks so
ya, the one where placebo (sugar pill) is documented to work in many times in lieu of actual narcotics.
Russian Strikes in Syria
A test track for Hyperloop will begin construction in 'two to three weeks'
Well, hams are doing their thing on their bands, and if somebody comes in and stomps all over the bands (cough WINLINK cough) it's kind of a dick move. Luckily, most of the ham bands are so low in frequency that they're not really suitable for general Internet access.

2m could get you dialup speeds over a pretty wide radius with some cheap equipment. Get a directional antenna and a hilltop repeater and you'd be in even better shape. The FCC absolutely could shave off a small chunk of the 2m band for encryption-OK Internet links (say, as a way to link up smaller wifi nets), but you're right, most hams would kick and scream even though they all just sit idle on whatever local repeater. And I'd have a hard time blaming them (I'm a ham myself) because they do not want to set a precedent of losing any band space.

High-power wifi is allowed with an amateur radio license, but because you're operating as an amateur licensee you're not allowed to use encryption, so you can't use it to e.g. bring Internet access to a remote RV park.
"the findings add to the argument that all calories are not created equal."
Well pardon my french but no fcking sht. Anyone person/system who strictly counts calories and completely looks over the fact that there are literally millions of other organisms involved in the digestive/energy process gets no love from me. Unfortunately its not as simple as calories in/calories out.
That's not how it works. Amendments to the proposed law are voted individually, there was never any danger of having to reject the whole law.

There were amendments to close each of the problematic loopholes regarding net neutrality, but they didn't pass the vote.
What about for-profit Pre-K, Montessori, etc? What about for-profit elementary, middle, high?

Everything for-profit, i.e, people don't want to use governments for their own collective good, is a downhill path for any civilization.
those are the same bastards eating my pumpkins!
When I can get a product faster by ordering online than driving to a store it will be a game changer.

Imagine: saving the 30 minute to 1 hour round trip to a store, or waiting half the time for a driver to wade through traffic at peak hours.
> I can't believe that there are people in the USG that want to cut funding for this kind of research. Really? And spend it on what? Missiles to kill people?

They aren't trying to cut earth sciences in order to fund other things. They are trying to cut earth sciences because earth sciences keep finding out facts that they don't like.
VR Lan Party
The currently prefered clickbait title on HN would be "x86 is the new goto"
I think Google's experiments with drone delivery have been with fixed wing for that reason. Quadcopters' range is just too bad.
Kula Ring
The problem is that in the US you get trapped in fees

One solution to this problem would be a legal requirement to have cost-free basic bank accounts. This could be a necessary requirement to getting a banking license.
Cocoa and Foundation run nearly all Apple technologies and are pretty replete in their capabilities.
Great article, very in-depth. However, pretty sure this is an Apple-only problem, in that they lock down the entire user experience as much as possible. Expendable storage could easily remedy this.

Still, the whole architecture behind it sounds pretty cool. Remains to be seen if other settop boxes follow this. Really interested in what the data cost will be. Right now, not knowing that cost, I would never want an algorithm to determine what to store/what not to store with something as trivial as games/media. Then again I'm not the target user for something like this. Someone's mom shouldn't have to see the "You only have 0.1GB left, please delete some stuff" message; the ideal UX would indeed be for the system to handle it for them.
Apple doesn't have the authority to execute a warrant.
Regarding your first premise, specifically the poor. If I live in a city, and work, but my work only pays enough for me to be poor, you are saying I should be shipped out to the country and given a farm?

Under Austrian economics, how would your plan pan out? If the city removed all the poor people, who would do the work they were doing? Does Austrian economics believe that suddenly the wealthy, or rather the people who can afford to live in the city will suddenly pay increased wages to people wash dished, clean streets, do people's laundry etc.?

I could see it might work if as you say, its illegal to stay in the city unless you make a certain amount, therefore making it illegal to pay less than a living wage. Is 'minimum wage' covered under Austrian economics? Would it be set higher for more expensive cities? Or would the wealthy just keep the status quo by busing in people from the mandatory farms and still paying them shitty wages?

Also, do you think that people would be able to learn enough from public libraries to become a 'producer' as you say? Not everyone is an autodidact.

Lastly, what would you do about someone like me? I was homeless and jobless in Hawaii for 6 months because of bureaucratic reasons (I am a US citizen who lived abroad for all my life, and when I moved to the US I had no Social Security Number, therefore couldn't work legally until one had been assigned to me) I have been homeless a few times, but I have never once had to claim welfare of any type.

Would your system have me picked up by the cops for breaking the law and shipped to 40 acres with a mule to til the earth until I have learned the error of my ways, and good work ethics?

Or would a system that tried to treat the root causes of poverty instead of symptoms be more effective?

Instead of small farms and deportation of the poor how about livable minimum wages? Instead of good libraries, how about free university education? Instead of making producers of every human being, what about addressing the people who benefit off the production of tens of thousands of people, yet give little back to the system that allows them to do this?

I ask this straight forwardly, as I do not know Austrian economics. But while I wait your reply, I shall look it up online and see what it is all about.
He may also be trying to distract the attack dogs.
Amazing. Any good options for vim?
It's not about the audience not having access.

It's that the reporter is getting access without having ever paid for it. (Pirating, reading from another article, etc)
Like when people start running and they have all these wonderful side effects
— more energy, better sleep, mood improvements

I can definitely vouch for that but I would not generalize it by saying everyone will feel the same way. The changes in me are remarkably stark when I do exercise/jog as compared to when I don't at all. I would like to counter the possible argument that I go for an exercise when I'm in better mood or feeling high energy by stating that I've had the mis/fortune of trying it out during various states of my being.

I think there may be an evolutionary aspect to it as we started of as nomads and the lifestyle that we live currently is the result of the industrial revolution and hence quite recent.
Report Claims 'Star Citizen' Is Almost Out of Cash
Often the issue occured with searching technical things, like, I copy-pasted a python exception, and Google would tell me where to download python and which python books to get and that python is a type of snakes.

It’s incredibly frustrating, but if I, by accident, use Google again and see the issue, I’ll tell you.
The New Data Engineering Ecosystem: Trends and Rising Stars
FullContact for Android
Adding sugar reduces the water activity, which inhibits microbial growth.
Caddy is great, some other nice plugins I came across while testing it:

- A built-in static site generator https://caddyserver.com/docs/templates
and integration with Hugo https://caddyserver.com/docs/hugo

- "Caddy can pipe stdin and stdout from any program to WebSocket clients." https://caddyserver.com/docs/websocket

- Site search engine which indexes your html/markdown files https://caddyserver.com/docs/search
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This seems ideal for simple static sites such as for an OSS project website or blog.
People in my village get corrupt information from watching TV, browsing the web, and most importantly from chatting with others, from rumors.
They talked about rumors about 100+ billion yuan involved in Zhou Yongkang's corruption. They talked the affairs between previous President Jiang Zemin and singer Song Zuying. They talked about the former propaganda head Li Changchun directed the murder of a policewoman. You see, we can get many knowlege from chattng with each other.

From the daily newspapers,we can get the impression that people in NPC are super riches. But members of NPC are puppet, we don't care that much of their wealth than the wealth of the officials of real powers.

People also get information from blogs and BBS.

Our grandparents went through the great famine, the cultural revolution. If we are curious, they have many stories to tell us. I get many information about that period from grandpa.
See Eli Schiff's excellent blog-post "Fear of Apple" (http://www.elischiff.com/blog/2015/3/24/fear-of-apple)
Applying GitHub's Parallel Code Paths Using Node.js in Auth0
The PSP is still a processor with elevated privileges, but it doesn't seem to have the ability to drive the network interface.

But she's right insofar as that x86 vendors are either in on this (mostly to satisfy the DRM-hungry Hollywood connection - most of these features have "DRM" written all over them, not "user security") or irrelevant (Via still ships its 20 slow x86 CPU samples per year that nobody wants, probably to avoid losing their x86 license).
On the street most of the time, and occasionally he'd crash at a friend's house. He'd lock his valuable possessions (laptop, etc) in the locker room.
Designing websites for children
There's a very revealing and entertaining documentation about the rise of sugar in our lives, drawing parallels between the tobacco lobby and the sugar lobby: Sugar Coated (2015). Highly recommended. It was streaming on tvo, but somehow the stream does not work anymore. I only found a german version on arte.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt4425138/

http://www.arte.tv/guide/de/054774-000/die-grosse-zuckerlueg...

http://tvo.org/video/documentaries/sugar-coated (not working)

In some ways, sugar is even harder to control than tobacco. Smoking is a choice, but sugar is essential for living. It plays a big role in our society. Remember the last birthday party/christmas/anything without sugar overdose?... Me neither.. And its hard to prove that over-consumption is unhealthy.
Backend engineer at Sherpany (https://sherpany.com) and my side project is called numbers.today (https://numbers.today), a quantified-self platform.
How to Design a Mobile App for Maximum Growth
Design of a digital republic
THE+MUSLIM+RAPE+OF+EUROPE+-+YouTube
The Prince of Counterterrorism: Washington's Favorite Saudi
This is more accurate. Taking the Amazon example, there is literally zero financial reason that Wal-Mart could not compete with Amazon. None. Yet,so far, they have not even come close. The reality is execution, not deep pockets.

And that execution comes from the talent powering the company, at least in the right positions.
My statement was neither something I wouldn't say face-to-face, nor gratuitously negative.
Let's talk about product management
This is trivial. It's also borderline inhumane.
Author of the Medium post here...

This point comes up a lot...there's a tension in making the data say something interesting that will get traffic/spread, which might undermine the rigor that goes into real data-analysis/data science/academic work.

IMO, as long as we disclose the source and preface the biases/problems, I'm ok with data that isn't perfect (after all, there's no such thing as a perfect data set).

The lyrical analysis that I did for rappers would never work in academia...the data set wasn't strong enough. But, it was good enough for the Internet as a side-project, and I think that most readers understood the integrity issues with the data (which I also highlighted in the narrative).

But yea, really good points about journalistic standards for coders who write journalism-esque content.
To Get Better Wi-Fi on Google's New Router, Just Wave
The app thinning itself is nice, but the 200MB max initial load is probably the most significant consequence to the end user. If you buy a 10GB game, and have to wait for all 10GB to download before you can use it, you'll be pissed. But if you can use it just as soon as it gets the first 200MB, you'll be able to play a lot sooner and have a much better experience.

Just like streaming video overtook non-streaming video—and streaming audio overtook non-streaming audio, I imagine this is going to be pretty universal very soon.
Perhaps we should put them in a rheometer too?
Reading this, I'm reminded of the Google employee who lives in his van.
Your contact info isn't in your profile; if you're in the New England area, I'd be happy to introduce you to my tax preparer, who is an enrolled agent (though not ex-IRS). No connection, other than extremely satisfied and trusting client.
Facebook’s AI Can Caption Photos for the Blind on Its Own
There are many reasons to use a representation that is "similar" in some way to the real thing. These include sharing inference mechanisms to predict characteristics like physical movement, affordance, etc among a number of entities when they are represented consistently. (e.g., snakes are represented with an elongated shape; eggs, circular.)

In theory, it could be possible to devise a system of representations that have such desired properties despite their differences from reality. But I suspect that in practice the most efficient choice would be to mimic certain essential features of reality.
That's a lot of fish. 'Your own salmon' hopefully doesn't refer to your own consumption ;-)