skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Another option is EZCOD: all the features of Open Location Codes, plus error detection and correction using Reed-Solomon FEC (forward error correction), in C++, Javascript or Python:

https://github.com/pjkundert/ezpwd-reed-solomon

A reference implementation is online at http://ezcod.com

More details at http://hardconsulting.com/products/13-reed-solomon

TL;DR

Friends don't let friends use geolocation codes without error detection! You'll end up in the wrong hemisphere...

A code like "R3U 1JU QUY.0" gets you within +/- 3 meters of the coordinates 53.655832,-113.625433 -- with the ability to recover from 1 lost symbol, or a certainty of P(.969) that the presented code is correct.

Optionally, 15 symbols gets you within +/- 20 millimeters of any location on the planet with P(.99997) certainty of correctness, or recovery from up to 3 missing symbols, or 1 erroneous symbol while retaining P(.969) certainty of correctness!
What, ahem, political climate would that be?

Y'all think this state is full of idiots. Y'all are only half-wrong, and it's still probably better than your state.
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If the FIDO U2F standard takes off, we may just see this happen. U2F keys do not include the functionality to hold OpenPGP keys, but they could help in having people understand the notion of a keychain for security.
Thats exactly what upsets me, not what BO is doing, but that they're so obviously trying to take advantage of the SpaceX hype and appear to be ahead of them.
The USA credit score system is completely crazy. When I was in the USA on sabbatical a few years ago even opening a bank account was a nightmare. In the end I was only able to do so because I had a Citibank credit card here in Australia and Citibank USA recognised me. It still took the poor banker a few hours and about a dozen phone calls to various parts of Citibank to open the account.
This isn't correct - there's a whole "DIY Soylent" movement which is basically about making your own meal replacement shakes from ingredients.
BO is making it a competition by clearly trying to one up SpaceX with the timing of their marketing releases etc.
What does a ban do exactly? Looks like the account was still able to post a response to you...
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Oh god another Soylent post. Not a single vegetable eaten. This guy might want to read this study:

http://www.bmj.com/content/349/bmj.g4490

Title: "Fruit and vegetable consumption and mortality from all causes, cardiovascular disease, and cancer: systematic review and dose-response meta-analysis of prospective cohort studies"
Leonardo DiCaprio Behind the Scenes of the Revenant
"And then there are fizzy drinks."

The rat chow for inducing obesity has lots of both sugar and fat. In my experience, at all you-can-eat churrascaria restaurants it's hard to stuff down a lot of fatty cuts, but eating a few bites of the fried banana seems to make some room to eat more.
Twilight just doesn't feel the same. Unlike f.lux and redshift, which actually seem like they change the color of the screen, Twilight just seems to overlay a red filter. I can't tell you why, but the result is much less satisfactory.
Hover States: Inspirational digital design and development
I bought a mac mini, the cheapest one, just to try it. I am not impressed with it. I can see some good points to UI, but I would not buy a Macbook for my web development work. Actually I recently bought another dell laptop.
basically its the old Microsoft adage that Apple somehow co-opted, embrace - extend etc etc.
Apple implemented a feature for the next release of osx that does what f.lux does, knowingly.
This above... To add to what he/she said, to maximize your scores, you need at least 3 credit cards reporting. For a newbie, you should be able to generate a score within six months. BOA, Capital One and CUs are are good place to start. Also if someone can add you as an authorized user on their cards also helps a lot. Stay way from predatory lenders like First Premier and Credit One. Once you get it, always pay your balance before statement cuts and let only 1%-9% of the balance report to the bureaus. Do this and in six months you will be qualified for unsecured cards...
Make a list of things of the things on your backburner, so you can walk away from them guilt-free. The walking through a doorway effect ;)
Still have to finish reading his Just Enough System's Analysis book. Hope it's still relevant enough. His methods are still in use in some places. Tenix's EAL7 Data Diode used Yourdon Method in development.
Is VC the Right Money for Fintech?
No, I don't believe there is, but something like that would be fantastic. I believe some universities in the UK publish reading lists in XML format, but I don't know of any US universities that do that.

It would certainly make this kind of citation analysis much easier and more accurate. Syllabi are tricky to work with because there's basically no standardization in how texts are referenced / assigned. Sometimes there's a full, structured bibliographic citation, but more often it's just a title / author pair, and the formatting can vary widely. It's an interesting information extraction problem.
Sidelined by whom, exactly? Page & Sergey still own controlling shares in Alphabet
Systemic incompetence isn't enough. Incompetence will get you wrong answers, but it won't get everyone the same wrong answer.
CFIUS reviews M&A deals for any potential national security issues. During the proceeding it needs to balance the legal right of capital to freely enter and depart the country with maintaining secure supplies and critical know-how.

For all we know, Lumileds may be a key supplier for a tier one DOD project, their know how may be exploited to infiltrate US military systems, or foreign ownership may potentially reduce strategic strengths of the US economy in the event of a conflict with the owner's native jurisdiction. (These are possible reasons, I don't know anything specific about Lumileds operations) Since we don't know why they actually got the deal denied, the best we can do is speculate.

Because the deal concerns assets located in the US, CFIUS gets automatic jurisdiction on the transfer of those assets. As for the legality of blocking the transfer on national security grounds, our laws leave open many loopholes for the government to use.
In my mind (has a hobbyist EE geek) I see the value that some of the things can provide. But just like you implied, the value is in spot use cases. 'Smart' TVs and fridges are a great example- sure the crap you bundled in to my TV MIGHT work okay now, but what about in a year when the APIs they use change? How are the updates provided?

There is real value in the home automation side, but then there are the security concerns. Perfect examples are the HVAC and monitoring. When we're away it's nice to shut down the heat and AC but if it's January and we're coming back from the holidays that house needs to warm up before we get home. It's also nice to get an alert and video when motion is detected in the house while you're away- you can call the cops and respond with evidence immediately, or even possibly prevent your house from burning down. So yeah, there's a lot of value in conserving energy and protecting (or at least actively) monitoring the safety of your household.

My Amazon Echo gets used at least 50 times a day. Timers for timeouts for the kiddos, alarms for when it's time to go to bed, the weather report as I'm making my coffee, adding things to my shopping list. It genuinely makes life just a little bit easier.

That's just from a consumer prospective- if your company ran multiple properties or warehouses, shipped freight, etc. there are so many other fantastic possibilities as well.

I don't need a fridge connected to my google calendar, I don't need a TV connected to my Dropbox to show family pictures as a screensaver. I don't need a freaking Barbie doll that is recording every conversation my children send around it. These are generally bad ideas and poor implementations, and people are starting to see it.

We're in the hype cycle of IoT- we'll get to the valley of disillusionment after enough of the crappy devices piss people off, then we'll get a stable stream of meaningful product. IoT in principle isn't going away, there is actual value in some of these things. We just need the cream to rise to the top.
Not denying the increased attack surface, but that bypass was immediately fixed and verified by Cure53 (so no known vulnerabilities exist); furthermore, as you'll see in both our foreword to that report and the linked reddit comment, the current version of WebSign actually no longer has that general flaw.

Breaking WebSign would require defeating TLS public key pinning (which is a security feature), thanks to the technique that an email I just received so perfectly referred to as "HPKP suicide".
Great platitudes! This is either slightly better than a buzzfeed listicle or worse by polluting the collective human consciousness understanding of what life is like.

It shows lack of perspective to try describe existence and life in terms of a game. Read some god damn existentialist or absurdist literature you half-baked philosophical caveman.

I welcome any repartee from the filthy plutocrat lapdogs!
Life in Afghanistan Before the Taliban in the 1960’s
True. Been there, seen that. More startups should realize this, instead of carrying on with all their hype and self-glorification.
Frozen Jeans in Minnesota
As far as I can remember a lot of Google folk used Git on top of the 'mega-trunk'. Not sure though if this was or was not the majority.
Maybe it's a legal position if the numbers spiral out from the center.

Or, more precisely, I'd be okay with any sort of "nice" arrangement of digits which made it work.
Marcel, the french Docker – Marcel, le docker français
> Unlike Stroustrup, he acknowledged the existence of Rust but said the lifetime annotations are too verbose.

As far as I can tell, this was an incorrect claim. The ISO Core C++ lifetime elision rules aren't meaningfully more aggressive than Rust's. We could easily add more elision to Rust if it turned out to be necessary, but the cases in which ISO Core C++ has extra lifetime elision rules that Rust doesn't don't come up often enough to make a difference.

Lifetime elision is a double-edged sword anyway. It's somewhat controversial in the Rust community, because it's not reading the lifetime annotations that causes the cognitive overhead: it's the semantics and what the compiler will enforce. Having fewer lifetime annotations can actually make the code a lot more confusing. Based on experience, I would caution C++ to not go overboard with it: being able to show pretty code on slides is not worth confused and frustrated users.
Why canola oil? Peanut butter is nearly as cheap and packs additional macros.

I would add more soluble/insoluble fiber. Psyllium husk alone isn't sufficient.
Almost on keto isn't keto. If they drink a sugary drink with their meal it will completely defeat the point.
That's not what that expression meant: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace,_extend_and_extinguish
The Feynman Lectures on Physics Now Completely Online (2014)
That is one of the reasons why Facebook Data Center is in Ft.Worth, easier access to Wind power.
He had a lot of influence on software in India too, from the early years.

RIP Ed.
Is it OK to have kids?
>You can innovate from a safe job(tm) as well

To some extent, but big companies are likely to be much more conservative towards new ideas. If they weren't, there would be little benefit to being an entrepreneur.
That is a story from a week ago. But news about flux pop on hacker news for as long as I read hacker news.
And about that apple feature, I did not get that also, so what if they implemented it (and did not allow 3rd party apps to do it)? It`s not like they have to check if there is an app for something that they like to put in the OS (and there is an app for almost everything now).. Btw, I use Android primarily because of customization options, there was not one thing I could not do on Android which I needed and there were some really advanced stuff that I wanted from a phone :)
I am not suggesting that you don't do the right thing by the employee, and making sure their employment is end in the right legal way is important, just that you should try to avoid euphemisms when faced with difficult situations.

Here in Australia we call laying someone off as being made redundant. I have often thought this is an anti-euphemism - you are not only unemployed, but you are redundant.
My mom can beat your mom, at words with friends, using math
> cook them

But how much time and effort does it cost you?

I am like old you, constantly eating out. I'm also constantly tired of work (yes, it's usual developer crunchtime story, and no, I'm not being taken advantage of, I'm doing it out of my free will for certain reasons), and use the remaining energy to either work on my hobby project, write music, take piano lessons or just spend time with my wife — often, eating out. And while my salary allows me to, I'd rather save time and energy on cooking and spend it on things I'm really passionate about.
That's neither here nor there: the article had none.
This is f#$%ing ironic:

https://tctechcrunch2011.files.wordpress.com/2016/01/lendup_...

At only 392.38% APR, we "won't screw you over" in any other way.
Indeed. The Delta IV Heavy is priced out at above $1 billion per launch, and a regular Delta IV launch is probably about 2-3x as costly as an Atlas V, which itself is about 2x as costly as a Falcon 9.
It's a pity the author didn't think to confer with you before writing the article.
What does this have to do with ios?
Twitter beyond 140 characters
I could not get into Witcher 1 OR 2.

Witcher 3 is as different from 1 and 2 as Assassins' Creed 2 was different from Assassins' Creed 1. I recommend it
Pop some fruit and fresh green veg in there and you have a winner. Stir fry cuts the time down as well. Mushrooms and cabbage cut small, 3 or 4 mins, served with a dash of soy sauce with rice done in a rice cooker.

Porridge for breakfast. Fruit/cheese for lunch.
1st: Judges say so. http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/sep/11/uber-drive...

2nd: It is worrisome that my previous comment got a -1 when it is respectful and it shows a point of view in accordance with the law. First time ever that I got a negative on any of my comments. And is for criticizing Uber.

Sorry, but I see Uber business model as an abuse of employees rights. It is a shift on all responsibility to the individual workers while the company gets the money.
That's 42% of electricity only, though.

In 2013 (the last year for which the table in Wikipedia has data) they consumed ~30 TWh of electricity --- but 200 TWh of fossil fuels. This'll be heating and transport.

Heating and transport always dominates energy consumption. Yes, generating that much electricity via renewables is a very good thing. But electricity is just a small slice of a much larger pie.
Randall Munroe explains this very nicely in his piece on Orbital Speed[1]:

> But getting to space is easy. The problem is staying there.

> To avoid falling back into the atmosphere, you have to go sideways really, really fast…The speed you need to stay in orbit is about 8 kilometers per second. Only a fraction of a rocket's energy is used to lift up out of the atmosphere; the vast majority of it is used to gain orbital (sideways) speed.

Highly recommended.

1: https://what-if.xkcd.com/58/
Try to find out if your employer or your university has a partnership with a local bank.

I was able to open an account and get a credit card with a $10k spending limit with only my passport, less than 24h after landing in the U.S. for the first time.
You'd be right if I said all young people feel that way and all parents above a certain age felt my way. But I didn't say that, and I don't believe that. To rephrase: it is alarming the rate at which young, childless, and well-off do not support family-centric public policy.

Do you make a distinction between "projecting" and simply having an opinion? I do.
He was jailed, forbidden from using the internet, subjected to a multi-year legal nightmare, left with a six-figure legal fee, and made a target of aggression for rabid feminists worldwide.
Gillian Anderson: I Was Offered Half Duchovny’s Pay for ‘The X-Files’ Revival
I think physics and art are nearly the perfect potential sources of a good programmer
I'm a huge fan of Eddie Bauer's medium-tall shirts. They usually don't sell them in store, but you can get one online if you are looking for an option to try out.

It took me forever to find a fairly athletic fit (slim but not skin tight) in my height (6'2" with a long torso) that also doesn't have logos or random graphics (solid colors and maybe a pocket is all I want).

If you have a favorite choice it'd be great to know it and have more options.

*Full disclosure: I worked at an Eddie Bauer in college.
Another good reason to stop eating meat altogether. Since I've been vegetarian, and now vegan, I've lost weight, gained energy, and feel so much better. I feel as if my mind is much sharper than it used to be when I ate meat.

This would not only be much healthier for these people (and all people) but it would also be cheaper. Examine the logic from any angle you choose, and the solution is quite apparent.

P.S. Yes, I expected the downvotes. But it's still worth speaking up when there is an obvious solution to these kinds of problems...
This seems like a win-win to me, I can misplace my wallet/CCs a lot and would be very grateful for a way to lock down my cards temporarily. If used correctly by consumers this would massively reduce fraud done with the stolen plastic, I'd be interested to know how much of fraud is done with the actual card.
Apple is implementing its core features in iOS days after the developer figured out a way to side load the app.

Not sure about the angst. Maybe the people behind it are annoyed, or its just good fodder with the Apple connection.
I could have done with reading this article a week earlier.

I just built a converter to allow earphones to be used in aircraft audio panel outputs which are typically 150-350 Ohms. Another bizarre thing I learnt is that 1/2" and 1/4" stereo jacks are wired opposite ways.
FYI: you can already find smart TVs connected to the Internet. Here is a search query for Vizio TVs:

https://www.shodan.io/search?query=port%3A8099+unknown+messa...
Using BigQuery to analyze Reddit data
Interesting. I generally start to get really sleepy as soon as the red shifting kicks in. I like it, really need to sleep more, but I wouldn't say it's the recipe for increased productivity.
She needs her own show called "resident skeptic"
Well I'm of the camp when starting out to get your hands dirty whatever the means, I suggest is getting a free typeface editor and start by modifying an already made free/open source font (A good exercise is: take one you think is in some way horrible and can be done better, then see what it takes to fix it). As you experience you will learn, research, and connect to find solutions/show progress.

Secondly here is an interview with a notable type designer - Ray Larabie, https://www.myfonts.com/newsletters/cc/200905.html Which might be an inspirational.

Hope that helps.
They also do fee based bank like services.

I don't care about that at all, it's just that Walmart doesn't bother to do things like have more staff available.
There's this weird thing where doctors and health articles all champion the benefits of oatmeal (and oat flour / oat protein), with benefits such as decreasing indigestion and heartburn, while at the same time I see plenty of reports online (myself included) of people experiencing worsening indigestion symptoms after eating oat stuff. I had to stop drinking soylent for exactly that reason - crazy heartburn symptoms, only now starting to normalize after going back to eating what I normally eat. I suppose it might just be as simple as an oat allergy, but it's weird that the only negative symptom is indigestion.
Yeah. Thanks so much for not leaving well enough alone and contributing to that conversation. :(
Certainly not with the tower density and limited spectrum we have today, but thats not the point. GSM tech is capable of providing last-mile wireless access at broadband speeds and would be much cheaper than infrastructure fiber.
I am one of the people who love the idea of f.lux. I use it and it makes my eyes feel a lot better and makes me feel sleepy at the right times.

But the app itself is terribly broken, at least on El Capitan. Whenever I switch modes, the screen flashes the original blue colors---my impression is that even a few seconds of blue light can mess up melatonin production, so this is unacceptable, especially from an app that is pushing the idea of color temperature mattering. Also, "movie mode" results in pulses of blue light every few seconds. Sometimes I select "disable for an hour" and nothing is disabled. "Disable for current app" is also spotty.

For this concept to work, and if the ideas about the effects of color temperature are true, then the implementation has to be completely solid. So I'm glad that Apple is duplicating the functionality of f.lux rather than supporting f.lux itself on iOS. I've also been looking into alternatives on OSX.

It's time that we move on to an implementation that actually works.
As somebody with children, I HATE remote controls.

I can no longer push buttons on the device itself, I have to spend 10 or 15 minutes a day, if I'm lucky, trying to find the "labor saving device", just so I can change the channel or pause a show.

At least some devices (e.g. - Roku) let you use your phone or tablet as the remotes (plural!), which I guess finally is actual progress.
Awesome work. Small nit: wish the average values were shown as colored dashed vertical lines.
Awesome work. Small nit: wish the average values were shown as colored dashed vertical lines.

What rationale is there for companies not standardizing on sizes? Is the motive just vanity sizing?
but... there already is a 4chan...
This goes both ways. The cost of making failure painless is that people don't try as hard to avoid it. If the relative difference in utility between success and failure goes down, the incentive to achieve that difference goes down.
Oh, by in-tree, I mean "In the Gentoo Portage package tree.". Getting the work merged into Bluez proper would be nice, but I really don't care about that. :)
What kind of stuff?
I would certainly think so.
Walmart. Thats how.
Agreed 100%. IT'S A NATIONAL SECURITY ISSUE.

There's no grey area here. Get this wrong and there's potential for foreign state or terrorist attacks that are as destructive - in their own way - as 9/11.

Currently IOT has the makings of the next Pearl Harbour. It would be good if that didn't happen.
I found a video of a vendor setting up their first campaign via FB Canvas here:

https://youtu.be/iw5zLa2FmoI?t=4