skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Excellent article. I tried to develop on GitLab once but the sheer amount of gems it pulls in (~100 directly declared, 350+ including dependencies if I remember correctly) with a bunch of installation problems made me decide it was not worth the hassle.
Open Sourcing Software Development for Drones and Other Unmanned Aerial Vehicles
This article resonates with me -- anecdotally I think it's fairly well-understood among educated people that in modern times, variations within a population exceed variations between populations, rendering broad-scale generalizations like the ones disparaged by this article to merit all the pejoratives cited.

This article I think is part of a greater trend -- in a historical context, the very concept of identity is undergoing a shift, from the sort of old-world understanding where who you are is determined by your age, race, gender, nationality, sexual orientation, class indicators, and various other easily condensible physical characteristics, to a more mature understanding of identity based on choices, desires, connections with other human beings, aptitude, and opportunities -- particularly how we spend our time and money. More and more, life is becoming about freedom of choice -- no more arranged marriages, mandatory lifelong religious indoctrination, army service, etc. with most of the remaining limitations resulting from what I see as the final hurdle -- a lack of class mobility. If anyone knows any academics who have covered this idea of the shift towards complex, multifaceted identity, I'd be grateful for a reference.

In fact I would go so far as to say that our current cultural and journalistic inclination towards these kinds of generalizations based on generational, racial, and gender-based lines, is quite toxic and serves to implicitly reinforce these tribalistic distinctions and impede social progress at scale.

In fact this unintended consequence is one of my primary complaints about the cultural adoption of logical positivism, and why I've been gravitating more and more towards a philosophical platform based on existentialism as expounded by Frankl. Watching election coverage in the US, with their constant Nielsen-style characterizations of Black voters this and Millenials that, detracts and distracts from the objective values and platforms of the candidates. I definitely agree with the article's point about confirming preconceived prejudices, and look forward to the point where we can focus as a society more on objective, aspirational values rather than subjective generalizations and the status quo. I'm reminded of David Foster Wallace's quote -- "Sometimes words that seem to express really invoke."
It's the person who works in the "cage" in a casino, i.e. exchanges money for chips and vice versa.
Making sure Grandma actually has the life and health insurance products you claimed to sell her (or, more likely, told her where the right products for her), is a lot more than keeping "some lobby" profitable.
Does gravity move at the speed of light?
soundcloud charges musicians around $150 for an annual pro subscription and then sends the consumers to bandcamp to buy the music and merch.

doesn't sound like the right monetization approach
They're very much risk-adverse (for good reason). In exceptional circumstances, they will take on other assets, though. See - the US Treasury's stake in General Motors.
> Having worked mostly with C# in the last months, I remembered how cool it is to have a statically typed language

Really? I used to work with Java. I sometimes miss type checking, but I don't miss the Java type system - is C# a lot better?
Why I don't use ggplot2
Couldn't find the reference but I have a fuzzy recollection of a discussion explaining that the first letter is always capitalized.
I feel like I relearn this lesson at least once a month.
Google removes from Play Store over 200 apps infected with ad fraud
i think you are forgetting youtube
This is live now: https://www.theguardian.com/science/across-the-universe/live...
I'm intrigued by the idea/necessity of some "non-omniscience" factor in weighing 4th amendment cases moving forward.

The argument is always that they're only tracking the "same views enjoyed by passersby on public roads", attempting to create a false equivalence between a camera and a human.

This has always been a pet peeve of mine, because there are factors that nullify the projected equivalence: each of these 'passersby' on the public road can only be in one place at one time. They are not omniscient. Further, there is an assumed limit to the amount of data they can collect (what can one person see from that street corner) and an assumed cost to the collection of that data (and therefore: even a government is limited in the scope of collection; they can't place an agent infront of every house on every street). These were the assumptions present in the time of the writing of the amendment. These assumptions only apply to the economics of humans, not cameras, and materially changes the effect of the law in the present day.

Courts will need a mechanism to articulate that a camera is not equivalent to a passerby. It's not a question of function, it's a question of scope. Much like anti-trust laws or regulations against cornering economic markets don't differentiate based on function, but the scope of the function. When it comes to privacy - the kind that the Fourth Amendment was written to protect - yes, placing agents on corners is substantially different than placing cameras on corners.
I like the graph and small box for typing a filter. Works great for me.
Yep, Craig here with Global EIR. As the other commenter says, research universities use cap exempt H-1Bs for their full-time faculty and also lab technical staff.

Now that all of these universities have entrepreneurship centers, certain options opened up for founders.
Most Americans Want to Live to 100: Survey
Impressive. Can you point to some references regarding the breathing technique?
http://physics.aps.org/assets/0e3ca952-a3d3-49f2-bbc2-259c0a...

Lower two graphs are predicted waveform in event of binary system coalescence. Upper waveform left and right are observed events at each LIGO facility.

Consider furthermore that the event was observed at each facility with the appropriate lightspeed time offset, and that the wave directionality of the event was lateral and not radial from the center of the earth or some other point as would be expected from a "geophysical" cause.

Furthermore I find it highly unlikely that multiple theoretical and applied physicists would come to apparently total agreement on the significance of these findings and simply overlook the gaping logical fallacy you imply.
How is that silly? It could be that commitment and sex have become inverted in order as the preferences of the scarce "resource".
Most of those very subtle gravitational waves are also rather insignificant. Normally their effects would be swamped by other forces and interactions. At least as far as we know, we are the first agents in the universe to build structures that isolate and amplify those effects in a way that allows them to be perceived and appreciated. That seems pretty significant. We may also be the only means the universe has to feel proud of this little accomplishment.
I imagine you have to be similarly crunchy and "free-spirited". So things like "raft guide" or "ski instructor" probably do well.
Logical fallacy, yes. But fairly accepted anyway.

Someone comes up with a theory that's mathematically simple, beautiful, and consistent. That's great, but we don't consider it "correct" until it actually predicts something novel and we verify the prediction holds experimentally.

That's your "Y, therefore X".
Why is this a facepalm? Privacy advocacy is about giving people the option to decide what they share, not preventing them from sharing. I don't have a problem at all if someone voluntarily decides to share their private information with Google. Why does it matter to you what he does with his data?
? The whole company = the enterprise value of the company. Maybe you didn't understand what buying all of twitter meant. My point is if you bought twitter for $1 and with their XBN revenue, all you'd have to do to earn a 100% return on capital is make sure you get back a $2 after tax dividend. This illustrates why price matters in investing. But I'd suggest reading Seth Klarman and Buffett for further reading on the relationship between price and value.

Another way to think of it is, forget about speculating and expected price changes. Think about at what price you would be comfortable buying the whole company and taking it private and harvesting cash flows from it. At $1 for an XBN revenue company that's a no brainer. I'd earn a 1000% return in a year just by cutting some costs and making sure capital is allocated in a manner that generates a return.
Ask HN: Is it feasible to observe an LCD with a camera and verify UI elements?
I thought maybe somebody here has experience witt his.

We do a lot of testing of devices that have LCD screens. Right now the testing is done mainly manually. To automate the tests basically two things have to be done:

- Press buttons. I think that can be done with a 3D printed fixture and something like Lego Robotics.

- Read the screen with a camera: Are there libraries that allow understanding of screen content (buttons, text boxes and so on) even under variable lighting conditions? We have tried screenshots but for that the device had to be in a totally dark enclosure and the brightness couldn't change. I am also interested in screen transitions like progress screens or splash screens that change quickly)
Probably due to using words like endogamous.
> Remember, this is a simple personal project, I mostly wanted to have fun, so my mind was set to zero-tolerance mode. As soon as something annoyed me I went away looking for something else to smoothen my experience

...

> Javascript mixed with HTML seems ugly after having tried React

I think these highlight the real problem. Because we are constantly bombarded by such cool tech, it is easy to notice that some aspect of something could be done in a better way. The key to success is to ignore those minor papercuts and just focus persisting on your own project.
Can you call it open-source if it has no explicit license and the README contains this?

PST function is developed in Jalali Lab at University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). PST is a spin-off from research on the photonic time stretch technique in Jalali lab at UCLA. More information about the technique can be found in our group website: http://www.photonics.ucla.edu This function is provided for research purposes only. A license must be obtained from the University of California, Los Angeles for any commercial applications. The software is protected under a US patent.
Awesome, was able to play the tile game Taipei :)
There are plenty of teachers on those apps.
Building Rocky.js with Emscripten
Cool.

Looks like bitbucket links don't work though. It runs the report card correctly, but the generated links back to the source all 404.
Systemd – CHANGES WITH 229
But it was also the case that he camera here was installed by a member of the public. It wasn't an officer climbing that pole but a "utility worker". Had the pole required some sort of trespass, or had the camera been mounted without permission of the pole owner, then the case may have turned.
It seems odd that there are enough of them to warrant their own classification as opposed to a general gambling or even recreation classification.
I have not - once the pain subsided I decided to take a break from all the medical reading and research for a while. Still, I'd definitely be interested in checking those out when I have a bit more free time.
This is absolutely brutal to use. I'd like to search for something specific but can't ctrl-f, and visually searching is useless. Very cool in concept
I don't see how that changes anything.

Post the single with a "Available to buy on <some date>" notice. When it's officially released, take down the notice and put up "Buy now" buttons. And there's no reason they have to make every song available for sale or every song that's for sale available for streaming.
You can use Vagrant and Ansible, I think it's a killer combo, ansible provisions your vagrant/virtualbox machine for the dev.
Russia to American rednecks: "We bring it from the dirt to icy lakes. Your move."

Seeing it get on a lake with thin ice I was thinking "Oh shit..." Then, seeing it tackle said ice like a boss I was thinking "OOHH SHIIIIT!!!"
As a private citizen, can I go around nailing up cameras on utility poles?

I assume the federal government does not own the pole, so it would require the permission of the pole owner and/or the municipality, no?
Is backend/db/migrate/ empty on purpose?

Rake initialize crashes at db:seed.
Tangential question. With blackholes merging, can more and more merge some time in future, creating a net gravitational pull to slow down the expansion of the universe and then may be eventually cause the universe to collapse into that continually merging mega black hole.
We banned michaelochurch because of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10017538 after a long history of abusing this site and countless requests to stop. Since then he's made up all kinds of things, such as the comment upthread.
Hah! They must marry their customers.
The coolest thing about this app is its diverse and fun community around the world! Really great people in Brazil, Portugal, The Netherlands, France... and to name but a few!
Yeah, I’ve taken mushrooms, and my memories of being a young child are in retrospect very psychedelic, minus the visuals. (I imagine visuals are present at very young ages, say 0–1 years, before you learn how to fully separate your senses.) You take things at face value, it’s easy to lose context and permanence, you draw connections between things, and you feel insightful.

For example, I remember being about 3 years old, and realising that other people couldn’t hear my thoughts, and that I couldn’t hear theirs—it was mind-blowing. Of course, you tend to come to slightly more complex realisations while taking psychedelics as an adult, and therein lies the value: it’s a kind of renewal of your personality.
Python Partials
Good read. Thanks.
NYC Police Has Used Cellphone Tracking Devs Since 2008: Civil Liberties Group
These are all valid reasons against using C for anything at all, but they apply to many other languages that people use for web apps too.

It's worth noting that another web framework I wrote a couple of years later was written in OCaml[1].

[1] https://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/modcaml - also dead upstream, and there are now much better choices for OCaml web apps.
*Polynomially more objects.

The volume of a constant-thickness spherical shell is O(r^2).
Yeah it is, and the player seems to work fine as well. For DJ stuff on PC I tend to use Traktor Pro and I can even upload the track list file (.NML I think) and it adds tags to the tracks. 90% of what I've used was purchased from Beatport, with the other minor amount being rips from CD purchases over the years.

It really does seem to be the proper platform for DJ mixes.
So where's that decentralized SoundCloud?
Was just about to post the same thing. Probably not worth even clicking this link or following through to the Github if you really do need a good algorithm but aren't comfortable with doing a clean room implementation.
Most probably got the joke, but that doesn't necessarily mean most thought the joke was helpful to the conversation.
I use Soundcloud for hours every day, and would GLADLY pay a Spotify type premium for it. As others have noted, it has an incredible amount of music that exists nowhere else (including a lot of non-EDM), but it is a great listening platform for many other reasons. The biggest, for me, is that SoundCloud has far and away the best discovery mechanisms. The 'play related tracks' feature is the most effective radio I've found (better than Pandora, light years better than Spotify) and my feed is always full of new songs that I enjoy.

But SoundCloud has one big problem holding it back, in my opinion:

Getting a great SoundCloud experience requires a lot of upfront work. To have a good feed, you need to find and follow a bunch of artists and/or 'like' a bunch of tracks (from when I first started: the default feed, or low-data feed, gets stale quickly, and had many songs that did not align with my preferences). This sounds simple, but it's not, as SoundCloud is designed for discovery rather than building/organizing your music library. For example, there is no library-like simple list view, and you can't filter/sort your 'likes' as you can in Spotify/iTunes. Also, the radio-like features are not immediately apparent, making it hard to bootstrap your SoundCloud preferences by passively listening/liking tracks as you go.

Looking to the alluded future monetization: The ads are infrequent, and not at all annoying. Unless they ramp up the ads, it will not be a big incentive to pay for premium.

There is really nothing like SoundCloud if you like EDM or EDM-influenced indie music (think Miike Snow).
Wow, are you me?

I suspect that if I were even a little dumber (and mind you: I'm bright, but not that bright, ya know?) I'd probably be homeless instead of doing pretty damn well as a developer. Then again, maybe I'd be better motivated if couldn't achieve 7-8/10 results on a 5/10 level of effort. Only trouble is when I need to hit 9 or 10 on a deadline...

Weird thing is, I have a phenomenal work ethic on projects that involve physical labor, and not just the purely mindless kind, provided I'm not the only one working on the project—if it's solely up to me to start it and follow through on my own, it won't happen until I have one of my "I feel like I can conquer the world!" days when I inexplicably feel full of energy and confidence and motivation, and I only get those a handful of times a year. Anyway, point is, that tells me it's not some pervasive defect in my very being. I can have a great work ethic, without even trying, really, under the right circumstances, and I feel good when I do—I don't work grudgingly in those cases.

Curious if you've observed similar things in yourself.

As for modifying my behavior and fighting laziness: I've found I've gotten a bit better at this naturally as I've grown older (now early 30s) and sometimes actually win the battle of wills with myself, but my main insight has been that if I'm serious about something I must engineer my environment for success. Sorry to say it, but if other things are taking up time you want to spend on something else, your best solution may be to mercilessly eliminate distractions as you find them while also making it easier to choose to do the things you wish you would do by putting the tools and materials you need (if any) somewhere convenient. Like, sell-your-gaming-computer/consoles—pretty extreme. Or at least put them somewhere really out of the way. Maybe find some way to unplug it all and stick it in a closet, and always put it back when you're done.

It's tough, but it works.

Given this discovery, I dream of a world where I can live in one house engineered for learning and productivity most of the time and another with all the distractions I enjoy the rest of the time. If only houses weren't so expensive, heh.

Short of that, you can commit to only engaging in your distractions in the best possible way. "I can watch movies or TV or play video games, but only ones of high artistic merit or great significance". "If I want to switch windows away from work and read crap on my laptop, that 'crap' must be a classic from Project Gutenberg." "If I pull out my phone for no immediate purpose, the only thing I can do is run through flash cards, or Duolingo". That kind of thing. It's usually harder (though far from impossible) to over indulge with restrictions like that in place, provided you can stick to it—such media is chewier, less addictive. Doesn't make you feel as bad afterward. Steak and asparagus versus cotton candy.

For my part, HN will probably have to go soon, and I may start unplugging my Internet a few days a week. I'll have to experiment with the latter, we'll see how it goes.
Would it also be possible to post a reply to the email as a comment? Does the HN API allow for something like that to be built (with proper authentication)?
I've been using Evernote's Scannable for receipts and single pages. I had been using a scanner w/ ADF, but it was slow I never automated it.

Scannable works really fast and Evernote indexes PDFs.

If only Evernote's editor didn't make me want to switch away every time I use it...
Themes are not working properly.
Could someone explain what possible applications this might produce?
This is pretty useless.

We still don't really know what his tax plan is.

I heard him in an interview that the upper federal tax bracket will be 55%. This combined with state and local taxes means it will be closer to 75% (not including sales tax and countless other taxes that are paid).

It's just like in Norway and Sweden (the countries he wants to emulate). On paper, it looks like a small amount. But when it actually comes down to it, it makes it nearly impossible for even things like startups to thrive.

I also heard him say that the money will only come from 'greedy wallstreet executives' (I got a flyer in the mail saying exactly this).

I think many people will be in for a rude awakening when the middle class has to foot the bill for all of this and the system is substandard compared to the rest of the world.
On the downside, if you want more information than "these two things are spatially close to one another", the Hilbert curve makes it difficult. Unless you have a map of the curve in your head, could you tell where in the file something in (say) the upper-right quadrant is?

If folks are interested in Hilbert curve visualizations applied to live memory, this is something I implemented in PANDA a couple years ago and demoed at RECON:

https://youtu.be/YGVnpWXtlF4?t=2919

My conclusion was that I had no idea how I'd actually use such a thing, but it sure is pretty to watch values in memory changing on the Hilbert curve!
‘You don’t add a bit of value, do you?’: Texas judge berates government lawyers
The big question is how much of the energy would get transferred in practice.

I agree that 3 solar masses worth of electromagnetic radiation at 1 light year distance would feel like a nuke going off. What I don't know is to what extent the energy of the equivalent gravitational waves (which _would_ have a lot of energy I agree) would actually get transferred to things we care about, like the atmosphere and us. If it's a few percent, say, we'd clearly be in trouble. If it's more like what neutrinos do, it would probably be detectable but probably not by unaided human senses.

I tried doing some quick looking around for estimates of gravitational wave coupling and energy transfer and didn't find anything so far...
But no licence given on the github page. Seems like a trap to later sue someone for patent infringement.
Its really weird but it does seem like most of my peers either married other people in software development or teachers. No idea why.
On my mac using Chrome, if I pinch zoom I can see the text and scroll around for what I want, then pinch zoom out and don't move the pointer.
Why is Java a dynamic language? Isn't Java statically typed?