skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The point of this is being missed because of holiness spiral signalling noise. Yes yes, you need to show off your superior ethics because that's a competitive market, you've done so, now get out of the way of the "real" discussion.

The story at the end of the contact page (just click on 'contact') is the actual gold for HN. In summary, the life story of this "startup" begins with No demand, no money, no market. Post videos, one of which gets 6M views per day. Now the market is maybe 300 requests, and the artist claims most of the 300 are not responding and paying up when he's got shippable product. Its quite possible world demand for the product is only the 30 or so produced.

So there are startup lessons here. At least some of them:

1) Really cool videos and gets 6M daily views and tons of press can mean as few as a couple dozen sales. Conversion rate matters.

2) Artist thinks he's in the business of making art pieces, but no body is buying them such that he's offering to give them to science museums. Artist is actually in the monetizing viral videos business where he makes videos 6M people per day watch, while someone is selling those viewers cars and diet sodas or whatever is advertised. All the money is being made in his online videos, not his product.

3) Production rate is critical. Artist claims the interest he's got, weak as it is, is none the less so far in advance of production speed that it would take years to catch up. Scaling does matter!

4) Don't market something you can't ship for years. Maybe his conversion rate would be higher if he shipped when it was a "thing" not months to years later.

To some extent if you read the contact page this is a stereotypical startup failure story that we see every day on HN, its just this startup was doing strange things with liquid aluminum instead of wrapping someone else's project in bootstrap or writing copycat CRUD frontends or whatever is momentarily trendy for the entitled. There is at least some commonality in startup failure across the business world. This story was an interesting read. Go ahead, click "contact" and read it!
If buying those products in person really provides more utility than buying them through the internet, sure, those stores will stick around. Most things aren't that way, however, and it is only going to get worse as one and same-day delivery becomes more widespread. Particularly since brick-and-mortar stores have cut inventory to the bone, so you never know if they'll actually have what you need at any time.

I'm down to only going in a store for perishable groceries and the occasional hardware store purchase when I run out of something in the middle of a project. Everything (and I'm not kidding) else, it's more efficient and less aggravating to grab on Amazon and use Prime two-day shipping. If VR finally becomes a real thing, in 5-10 years appliance and furniture showroom stores might well be obsolete.
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> Every government slides into tyranny.. It is inevitable.

That's why the constitutional framework on which a government was formed upon is very essential. And the strange thing is that America has the needed provisions in the constitution to prevent such tyrannical abuse in future. The Fourth Amendment[1] clearly states that:

> Amendment IV to the United States Constitution prohibits unreasonable searches and seizures and requires any warrant to be judicially sanctioned and supported by probable cause.

So you see, the government is blatantly violating the fourth amendment by invading its citizens' privacy, but the point is that the constitution doesn't allow it and nor is it common for governments to do this thing.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourth_Amendment_to_the_United...
I can understand why a publishing house would find the DOI to be useful. I can understand why a publishing house would want to encourage people to use a DOI.

I do not understand why there are rules against citing DOI-less content, as that would seem to place the needs of the publishing house far above the needs for good scholarship.

Elsewhere in this discussion I gave an example of a citation without a DOI from http://trafficways.org/ascii/ascii.pdf :

> Thomas E. Kurtz, letter to Secretary, X3, December 21, 1965, Calvin N. Mooers Papers (CBI 81), Charles Babbage Institute, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, box 20, folder 1.

That paper has dozens of DOI-less references, like meeting minutes and memos, which are stored in archives like the CBI or the Smithsonian.

How does a paper like that get published in a journal which has rules against citing DOI-less content?
Three-Armed Cyborg Plays the Drums Like No Human Can
Do you believe the ux of a spreadsheet used as a program is the same as the ux of writing a similar program textually?

Lamdu is partially about bringing the benefits of spreadsheets to general purpose programming.
Are those programmers Java or C# programmers?

I'm not an OOP expert, but I get the impression that type classes are similar to interfaces in Java and C#, which are used all the time in those languages. If you told a C# programmer that IEnumerable was an example of bad architecture, I think you may get a somewhat different response.
Venmo API disappears with no explanation
This is awesome. I'm affiliated with a project that documents stone monuments [1](photos only)... Any suggestions for a cheap, portable 3D scanner?

I saw the structure.io scanner mentioned here, anybody have any other suggestions?

[1] ubi-erat-lupa.org
Sure they changed - just not for the better. If they'd simply stayed the same as they were 25 years ago, they wouldn't necessarily be thriving, but they'd be in much better shape than they are today.
Perhaps, but do plants? Bacteria? Insects? Where do you draw the line? Is there a line?
I feel like JetBrain's MPS should be included in the 'Similar Efforts' section:

https://www.jetbrains.com/mps/
The whole article is about undefined "consciousness". As the article itself says, it is "loosely defined as an ability to experience thoughts and emotions".

I wonder why HN would discuss "mind", "consciousness", "being an observer", etc. All these terms are no different from religious "soul", philosophical "qualia", they are equally undefined.

At this point of progress in AI and computing I would expect hackers to study how intelligence invents these terms [2], not falling for this mistake themselves. It was suggested that AI would become "confused and as stubborn as are men in their convictions about mind-matter, consciousness, free will, and the like" at the beginning of AI development [3]. I would be more interested in study of how AI or more intelligent animals, such as monkeys, develop religion and "mind"-like terms.

The article itself [4] is about stress-induced hyperthermia (SIH). It proves that fish increases temperature and moves to more warm water in response to stress. It is not too interesting for HN. Instead, synonym "emotional fever" is used for SIH and the conclusion is made that fish is capable of emotion and everyone happily discusses meaningless "emotions", "consciousness" and the like.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qualia

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evolutionary_origin_of_religio...

[3] https://groups.csail.mit.edu/medg/people/doyle/gallery/minsk...

[4] http://rspb.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/282/1819/2015...
After doing research on how to improve CSS I settled on css-modules. They are the mid-term solution and improvement I've seen so far.

https://medium.com/front-end-developers/css-modules-solving-...

https://github.com/css-modules/css-modules
Last 'Angola 3' Inmate Freed After Decades in Solitary
> former imam

A refutation of Kalbani: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T2wD5KSN-zI
If you want a nice BLE button, I can recommend these:

http://www.alibaba.com/product-detail/Bluetooth-key-finder-n...

Alibaba is confusing and shit as always, but they're manufactured by Shenzhen Minew Technologies Co., Ltd. - minewtech.com and the model number is "F1".

Inside it is an nRF51822, a button, an LED and a buzzer (which isn't very loud sadly). The key thing is that the nRF51822 is fully documented (so you can make your own radio protocols if you want - it also supports BLE), and is supported by mBed so it is really easy to program.
"The default for passcodes on your Touch ID–enabled iPhone and iPad is now six digits instead of four." ~ http://www.apple.com/ios/whats-new/
https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachm...

The first section referenced in OP says:

>A relevant telecommunications provider who has been required under this
Part to provide assistance in giving effect to a targeted equipment interference
warrant, and any person employed for the purposes of the business of the
relevant telecommunications provider, may not, without reasonable excuse,
disclose to any person—
(a) the existence and contents of the warrant

>(2) For the purposes of subsection (1), it is, in particular, a reasonable excuse if the
disclosure is made with the permission of the person who imposed the
requirement.

So the fact that the FBI made it public is a reasonable excuse to talk about it.

The second section says:

>A person to whom a relevant notice is given, or any person employed or
engaged for the purposes of that person’s business, must not disclose the
existence and contents of the notice to any other person.

We have

>In this section “relevant notice” means—
(a) a national security notice under section 188, or
(b) a technical capability notice under section 189

while

> But a national security notice may not require the taking of any steps the main
purpose of which is to do something for which a warrant or authorisation is
required under this Act.

So the first category couldn't have included this, which required a warrant. The second category seems like it could apply (although there's some ambiguity over whether it applies to entities outside the UK which I haven't dug through), but it's for general "maintain ability to comply".

>The only steps that may be specified in a technical capability notice given to a
person are steps which the Secretary of State considers to be necessary for
securing that the person has the practical capability of providing any assistance
which the person may be required to provide in relation to any relevant
authorisation

So a specific warrant would not fall under that.

I don't see how any section that the OP refers to would apply.
Apple is repeating Microsoft’s Mistakes
Most people I know poison the ants when they are in the house.
Linear vs. Binary search
I've done that redirect-to-github thing in the past. Usually, the intention is that the redirect is intended to be a temporary placeholder until I can create a "real" site at the domain.
I think the Snowden revelations (and those of subsequent leakers) has shown that the reality is often far more radical than even the craziest of conspiracy theorists has dreamt up.
Fixed link:

https://www.technologyreview.com/s/600819/the-missing-link-o...
Crazy, I'd always considered monad transformers a sore thumb on, well, all that stuff. The fact that monads weren't enough but then you had to go reproduce all that stuff in monad transformers as well. The whole thing just reeked of code duplication and bad smells so I didn't really look into it further.

Now looking at the Scalaz impl, the transformers are actually the core thing, and monads themselves are just transformers over Identity. So it all fits and isn't redundant. Certainly changes a lot of perspective.
> In fact Safari has often been the best mobile browser

There are no other browsers on iOS. When you are using Chrome it is using UIWebView (in other words, it is forced to be a crippled Safari due to anti-competitive policy). Although recent Chrome will be using WKWebView which means at least it's same as Safari. The UI around the browser is not the browser.

> Few users cares for logging into some website from mobile Safari just to get a subpar experience over a native app (or a hybrid app),

Few users could tell any difference between native app and web app running in a browser that has modern appy capabilities, provided there is same quality of implementation. The only thing that can make the experience subpar is precisely the lack of capabilities.
I am very much pro-Russia. You got a problem with that?
You're assuming that "reasonable excuse" means what you and I might think it means - "reasonable" has a very specific meaning in UK tort law, and it doesn't mean reasonable - it means whatever a judge decides to be reasonable when put to several specific tests - so in practice that specifically means little.
Spoken like a true bureaucrat.
Apple Inc. Reveals San Bernardino’s Big Terrorist iPhone Blunder
LG's G5 is a radical reinvention of the flagship Android smartphone
The Accountability Project
No one is talking about ordering events.
I've been working on aspects of this one for years, first on the TTS side of things: https://www.twilio.com/blog/2013/08/the-pronunciation-challe...

And then on the ASR side of things:
http://clarify.io/how-clarify-works/

I'd love to hear what you're thinking along these lines.. it's always useful to get outside perspectives. Feel free to drop me a note. :)
I find Twitter fairly pointless, as I am sure many do. I am sure the fact it is easy to data mine trends is the only reason it does get so much media attention.
John Marshall has made his decision; now let him enforce it!
> So just as we as individuals need to adjust to a world where our love affairs are known to our telcos and smartphones before our spouses

Wait, what? Why should we simply accept mass, indiscriminate surveillance that has an incredible potential for misuse now and in the future?!
You can find the torrent here: http://nefertitihack.alloversky.com/

(I haven't the slightest idea how to verify what you mentioned, sorry!)
Everyone also forgets the twin towers were already successfully attacked several years earlier by a huge bomb in the basement.

Anything about the world trade center should have lit up intelligence reports like a christmas tree.
Origins of cloud computing
The issue here isn't whether or not to kill ants (we're killing them anyway), it's whether it's immoral to make art out of their nests.
The executive crisis at the Wikimedia Foundation
Perhaps also my effort which I like to pimp out on these threads occasionally: http://sediment.io
yeah, yeah, no true Scotsman

This. From the outside, it looks like a conflict within Salafism.

It's hardly the only movement such things have happened to (eg revolutionary socialism vs reformist socialism).
The Hadza and the Honeyguide Bird
Yes I couldn't agree more. I've used both Flask and Django, and with Flask you just recreate everything in Django. Plus the Django community is more vibrant and the Django docs are super good.
The media love it for the lazy journalism it allows them to produce based on twitter storms or whatever is trending.
Medical professionals too are imported, mostly from Europe with English skills. Which means that as far as documenting things in Arabic, only the legal names of people and their relations would need such electronic support. Maybe a few others, but not much.

I am not sure what ramifications this has for patients.
The HTC Vive Costs $799 and Ships April First
Other typeface fact! The title text in 2001 uses capital O's instead of zeroes. [1] The zeroes in Gill Sans are thinner than the O's, so part of me thinks Kubrick wanted the logo to look more futuristic.

[1] https://i.ytimg.com/vi/e-QFj59PON4/maxresdefault.jpg
The relative merits of US GAAP vs Irish GAAP are comparatively irrelevant. Choose one and stick to it
Kill the twin.
This company says it's ready to build a real flying car – here's how it works
Pretty sure messages are ordered events in this scenario, no?
Yeah, so there has to be a pony under all that horsesh*t somewhere, so keep digging as the joke goes.

Why again is all email public record but telephone calls are not?

I'd sure like to see all the emails from all the senators of this country analyzed.
I want to give you an alternate perspective. Sometimes it's far more liberating to accept and move on. There is this book called "Dip" by Seth Godin. I recommend that you read it (it's just 70 odd pages). In that book, Seth talks about how, when you are in a dip, it's important to realize whether to persist and succeed, or to quit. When things just drag on there is an opportunity cost associated with that. Unfortunately, only you are the best person to decide whether you should ride through this trough or to move on.

My first 3-4 side projects were abject, miserable failures. It took me 5+ years of waking up to failures before I had something going that really gained traction. If I had just stuck with my first project, I am sure I would have gotten nowhere. So, have the guts to pull the plug on the project if you think it's the end of the road. It's okay - take a break, and you will bounce back even stronger.
It explicitly includes if the disclosure is made with permission of the person who issued it. I think if that's included, it stands to reason that the order being public would count as well. (They're obviously fine with it being disclosed, implicit permission.)

Do you have a link to the specific tests?
Elon Musk finally gets tesla.com from Stu G
I've been using "no-referrer" rather than "none" as per https://w3c.github.io/webappsec-referrer-policy/ which is linked to from the "caniuse.com" link you quoted above. Am I wrong?
Show HN: Tech Industry, Tech Startups, and Digital Books
Hello Hackernews!

So today I was experimenting with the Product Hunt books section, found here: https://www.producthunt.com/books

It's a great place to discover interesting reads, especially related to technology, tech startups, and the digital space.

Here's the books I submitted to PH:

The $100 Startup -
Fire Your Boss, Do What You Love and Work Better To Live More

http://amzn.decenturl.com/100

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Breached! -
A Cautionary Tale of Cybersecurity and Intrigue

http://amzn.decenturl.com/breached

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The Industries of the Future -
In the next ten years, change will happen even faster

http://amzn.decenturl.com/future

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Elon Musk -
How the Billionaire CEO of SpaceX and Tesla is shaping our Future

http://amzn.decenturl.com/musk

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Superforecasting -
The Art and Science of Prediction

http://amzn.decenturl.com/forecasting

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So You've Been Publicly Shamed -
Our world's most underappreciated forces: shame

http://amzn.decenturl.com/shamed

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Abundance -
The Future Is Better Than You Think

http://amzn.decenturl.com/abundance

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The Everything Store -
Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon

http://amzn.decenturl.com/jeff

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Note: yes they are shortened for tracking purposes, and yes, they have a referral code in them, so I get a small 'advertising fee' if you buy a book through Amazon. I hope you learn something from them if you decide to grab a copy :)
A bit of background info. The request to (officially) transfer the domain was denied back in 2005: http://www.adrforum.com/domaindecisions/547889.htm
Yes, but why mention MD5 by default? Most machines that have md5sum installed also have sha1sum/sha256sum.
> unlikely that your data is even being seen by an analyst

Of course not. Did you forget all of the automated analysis methods that are featured most days right here on HN? The analyst only gets involved at the end of the process.

This meme about the likelihood of being a target is shockingly naive; do you really believe the FVEY intelligence agencies somehow missed the rise of "Big Data"?
How are hash conflicts/collisions handled?
Healthy life Ebooks collection for free
7 Indicators of Employee to Entrepreneur Potential
A Lot of Security at Apple (2009)
I like this attitude!!!
I also wonder how this will impact the real estate market in a distant future.
> I find this notion laughable, that a "moral compass" prevents individuals from attempting to lower their tax burden as much as corporations.

Correct, I'd argue a functioning moral compass would keep a person from seeing it as a "burden" to begin with. Paying for what I take out and for the less fortunate (until it's my turn to be struck by misfortune) is not a burden, just like waiting in a queue until it's my turn is not an inconvenience. Being aware of the randomness of my own birth and having empathy doesn't require a moral compass, it requires intelligence; it leads to having a moral compass.

That you can find that "laughable" you owe to the fact that you were born and cared for as a baby, creating a lot of costs and work for a lot of people, none of which with anything but their moral compass humming gently as a compensation.
What's the ratio of new roads to drone strikes that kill civilians? Cost of pervasive surveillance versus cost of quality schools? Etc, etc. My opinion is that, given the vast and expanding evil of an already huge and highly immoral government, advocating paying more taxes makes one also highly immoral.
I can only trust you'll be so considerate to a nest of termites that infests your house.
Arch Linux has HTTPS mirrors and provide their GPG signature on HTTPS site.
So pay someone to stalk you? I have seen every startup idea now!
The WebRTC spec (as it currently stands) exposes your local IP address. So I hope Apple thinks about the privacy implications of that.

(Right now Tor Browser keeps it click to activate, IIRC)
Want to take videos on a Mac? Screenflow? Use this app
Just read the abstract of the article [1]: "It has been suggested that the capacity for emotional fever evolved only in amniotes (mammals, birds and reptiles), in association with the evolution of consciousness in these groups. According to this view, lack of emotional fever in fishes reflects a lack of consciousness."

The article is about "emotional fever", defined as "a transient rise in body temperature shown in response to a variety of stressors". Article shows that fish can show this behaviour. On the other hand, the "lack of consciousness" or its existence, is not proven. It is just a hypothesis, based on some "view", expressed in [2].

[1] http://rspb.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/282/1819/2015...

[2] http://dx.doi.org/10.2170/jjphysiol.49.1
Seems too specific. Or perhaps it is just me that don't have a use for it.
>I don't think the Saudis are any more corrupt than Western economies.

Not.even.close. This level of hyperbole is just annoying.

Saudi Arabia, and the corresponding billions (trillions?) dollars of oil wealth is comoletely controlled by one unelected, corrupt, family. There is nothing anaologous to this in the modern world.
Linux Mint et ses images ISO sont infectés
More likely, they had taps but did not know what they were talking about. It was widely reported that, pre-9/11, Arabic translators were scarce in most Western intelligence services including the US, since their traditional focus were Russian, Eastern-European languages, and Chinese. You just need basic informal codes for most logistic purposes (which would be mostly "I've done this, I've done that" to confirm timings and prepare the next steps, rather than "I will hijack a plane and crash it into NYC" which would have been agreed beforehand) to make it very difficult for people who might not know all the intricacies and slang of regional Arabic varieties.

So the NSA might have known these people were learning to fly and maybe even preparing a hijack, but until 9/11 this was not dramatic -- if and when the hijack happened, they would have been expected to fly to Cuba or something and then dealt with. Pre-9/11, airplane hijacks had become rare since their '80s and '70s heydays, maybe there was some complacency (as in "yeah these guys will never manage it, and even if they do, we'll likely get most passengers back safely anyway, let them play"). Or at least that's what a sharp Occam's razor would suggest.