skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> You think it's more civilized, I think it's barbaric to forcefully take something from someone.

Nothing described in the post to which you replied is being forcefully taken from anyone. You live in a society. That society has a social contract, accepted in aggregate by its citizens and periodically subject to shifts--some of them that you may prefer, others that you may not. You cannot unilaterally renegotiate this contract, but you can choose to leave if you don't want to uphold your end of the social contract--literally nobody is stopping you from doing so! If you're an American, renouncing your citizenship is a very easy act that can be done at, IIRC, any consulate. You need not be under the onerous burden of that social contract and its (frankly, meager) expectations of you if you choose not to be.

But, statistically, it's almost certain that you won't choose not to be. Because even the very, very rich benefit from statefulness and membership in a functioning society.
The backdoor is the fact that Apple has the ability to push updates without a user's permission, as multiple other users have pointed out.
One thing I don't understand about drug patents: how does evergreening work? Doesn't the original patent still expire, allowing anyone who wants to make the old version?
Definitely the norm in my code.
Man that is beautiful
There was a good talk about these at LinuxConf AU: http://mirror.linux.org.au/linux.conf.au/2016/05_Friday/Wool...

... they're a very exciting device and incredibly cheap, and the supplied SDK libs look very nice, even though they aren't quite fully open source.

The NodeMCU boards are very useful even if you're not interested in Lua, they add power, USB and breadboard friendly headers in a smallish package.

I've started messing around with different ways to program them for educational purposes: http://nick.zoic.org/etc/flobot-graphical-dataflow-language-...
If AR, VR, and IoT kick off simultaneously, I wonder what the malicious exploit, microtransaction heavy crapware, and indie game scenes are going to be like.
IIRC you don't need to spend billions to get it trough FDA. That is the whole point of the generic. That the molecule is already approved and tested.
Of course, shareholder equity is just assets - liabilities.

Granted, it's probably significantly smaller than the $2B figure you cited.
Nice, but... Privacy policy?
And congress isn't overpowered because it just makes laws and authorizes spending?
I could see this being an issue for a highly complex vector shape. But most shapes only consume a few bytes. Compared to an external image or another request for the font files.
Well the line between traders and quants has always been blurry to the point of no differential at Jane Street, D.E Shaw, and Citadel since inception. Traders have always had quant background, but have focused on more execution-oriented analysis whereas quants are a bit more idea-oriented.

Any sell-side investment bank still has clear lines between traders and quants. In fact, while they blurred more pre-2007 I'd argue they've become more clearly defined.

Source: work at a prominent investment bank.
If the OP allegation that just three companies control the insulin market is correct, then it doesn't seem appropriate to use the term "efficient" to describe the equilibrium condition that exists without the monopsony. Of course, we'd all probably be better off with a well functioning market free from monopolies or monopsonies.
His cons need some clarification.

> Good luck finding a case that offers non-trivial protection.

They exist, but the phone is already big enough.

> You likely cant walk into your carrier's store and buy one which means you have to buy it directly from Google and without an upgrade 'subsidy'.

That's million times a "pro" and not a "con" to me. Main reason I ditched Verizon was their locked down subsidized phones.

> If you want more than a paltry 16GiB of internal storage you'll be paying out the nose for it

Nexus 6p starts at 32GB, there is no 16GB version. Also, it's only $50 more for 64GB. Only Nexus phone to have an sdcard was the Nexus One (which really really needed it with 500GB internal storage).

> The battery isn't removable or user replaceable.

I don't like that either, but sadly most phones have gone to doing this, especially higher end ones.

> Since you bought the phone from Google you get to deal with Google's legendary customer support.

I called them once (yes, you can call them for phone issues) and they were native English speakers. Overall, they were quite easy to deal with.

Motorola on the other hand was horrible to deal with and outsources their call centers. Would never buy another Moto phone again after dealing with their broken customer service (this was after the acquisition by Lenovo). Moto's customer service lied to me and told me my phone was shipped when it hadn't even left the warehouse yet. That was just small issue to some others I had with Moto though.

> Rooting the phone is trivial but requires a complete wipe of the device

That's a security feature and a good thing. Always been that way with all Nexus phones or any phone that allows root without an exploit (exploits that can be used maliciously as well).

> disables the use of Android Pay

Yeah, Android pay won't work unfortunately with a rooted device. There's a hacky workaround for it, but it's a pain in the ass to do on every purchase: http://www.xda-developers.com/android-pay-no-longer-working-...
Show HN: Windows 98 in browser
Curious if they have any fallback for the very few browsers that can't render inline svg.
You sure do sound like an american who think the american way is the only way.

Those poor corporation threatened by the greed of the diabetes people who blatantly try to take advantage of their hard effort to make a buck.

Off course that's the fault of those hairy fat bastards of diabetic people, bunch of peasant who can not control their urge for sugary thing, yeah we should make them pay big time for their incurable auto-immune disease, and if they can not pay let them just die in their own filth.

Please tattoo "sold for profit" on your forehead.
Don't have time to go through the docs just yet, but great to see mentions of cashless exercise included. A more generous post-termination exercise window would have been a nicer default, but I get that's still the norm in many YC companies.

Over time I suspect that will change as more and more people learn the questions they should ask when evaluating an offer, i.e., as they transition from naive price takers to more sophisticated price setters. This link was circulated on HN a few weeks(?) ago, but it's worth reposting: https://github.com/jlevy/og-equity-compensation.

And here are some companies that offer >90 days: https://github.com/holman/extended-exercise-windows (e.g., Coinbase and Pinterest with 7 years, Quora and Asana with 10 years, etc.). Interesting to see two companies in the list founded by early Facebook employees -- well, cofounder and CTO -- do longer periods. Wonder if people got burned there by the standard period?
Yes, this morning. Video replay is available here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-bdX8A_6v20
Anyone else think its kinda sketchy that they're just saying "sub-1Ghz" frequencies? There aren't a ton of options there, and they aren't secret information. This sounds like they're either heavy on the vaporware side of things and haven't figured out what they're doing, which doesn't bode well for them shipping anytime soon, or they are trying to do something which the FCC isn't going to approve, which again doesn't bode well for us getting this thing on pre-order

Anyone know if they're encrypted? I'm not seeing any mention of that, I think I might grab a goTenna if only for that reason
Yeah, I nearly dropped it once while switching hands. That was the end of running with it for me.
Update: Actually under rare circumstances we'll validate the checksum on the host side, realize it's wrong, pass it to the guest as CHECKSUM_NEEDED and the guest will happily fail to checksum it and mark it as already validated. So, GCE/GKE is not currently completely immune to this unfortunately :(

Practically speaking any traffic from the internet would not be affected as we require a valid checksum before doing the internet->guest NAT (see the GCE docs for what I mean here if this is unclear), but inter-VM traffic can potentially be impacted. On the other hand, inter-VM traffic has other verification applied to it that's stronger than a TCP checksum. Basically: if you try to trigger this by sending bad packets you might succeed (although even there it's not 100% guaranteed, but the details of what will/won't trigger it delve into implementation arcana that I'm not comfortable sharing).
You're definitely right, but I think government should be taking more risk.. It's hard to fight off the 'Solyndra!' shouts when something goes wrong, and costs are hard to quantify when things go right (what's the $ return of all the USGov's investments in the early internet?) but braver politicians could pull it off and we'd all be better for it.
I think Gaia is coming out with an integration with goTenna soon via their SDK, so that would be awesome!
CloudFlare will launch its own high security domain registrar
I believe A is legal in many states. Not sure about B, C, D - menacing behavior like that would be disturbing the peace or terrorism as you say.

What decent gun owner would walk around "waving his shotgun"? That sounds crazy, who would do that? Gun owners are people. Like, normal good people - neighbors I would probably trust. Does your view of gun owners differ?
> I fear that with a double whammy of low oil prices and low commodity prices, it will spark a long period of economic stagnation in the near future, as more jobs disappear

So if commodity prices go up, it's bad because Europe can't afford those commodities. But then if they go down it's also but because...?

Heck, it's not a double whammy, it's good news for most countries in the world. A different story might be why are these commodities going down (because China's demand has been drying up), and that might actually be bad news, but it's another argument.
I expect that gzip would make the over the wire price for repeated icons insignificant.
Interesting. Teasing apart the many factors that play a role in the extinction of the Neanderthals is exceedingly difficult. Decades ago, it was assumed that the Neanderthals were intellectually and technologically inferior to modern humans, and simply could not compete. However, recent discoveries demonstrated that the Neanderthals had art, tools, and shelters. They probably had language. Their brains were larger than that of modern humans. They were much stronger.

Some scientists speculate that the Neanderthals could not adapt to the changing climate as the ice age receded, whereas modern humans from Africa were are better adapted to warmer climates.

I doubt that. The Neanderthals spent 200,000 years in Northern Europe, Southern Europe, the Middle East, and parts of Asia; surely they were quite adaptable, to have survived that long.

I suspect that the reason the Neanderthals died out is that modern humans were more aggressive, more murderous, more apt to kill the other. Modern humans developed in the brutal savannas and jungles of Africa, and when they came north, they brought their brutal ways with them. When they encountered Neanderthals, they probably killed the men and enslaved some of the women. Eventually, the Neanderthal population dropped so low that it was no longer sustainable as a separate species.
Every time I hear about algorithmic trading, I keep thinking back about Enron.
Yup, self-hosted for now but we're working to bring support for hosted soon.
Same here, in both JavaScript and Ruby. I guess single quotes are easier to type on standard keyboard setups, but I have never been a fan for some reason.
> And sqrt is called only once before the loop starts.

Umm.. it should be evaluated at the top of the loop each time.
But then wouldn't you be relying on the same thing? The only real way to disrupt it is through government.
Stacks burn, but not as energetically as a single sheet with a high surface area to volume ratio. The stack might just smolder for 229 years, because the flame resistant treatment turned out to only be flame retardant. Something something Alien and Sedition Acts... this metaphor cannot be tortured any further.
So if I'm understanding this correctly, CloudFlare offer free CDN and DDoS protection services to websites on the (unmentioned) condition that they make those sites essentially unusable over Tor? Wow. No wonder the Tor developers consider this an attempt to enable mass surveillance.
Whenever you feel lucky, don't assume you are... ;)
It clearly is still necessary since HN still has it's libertarian extremists who can't believe that healthcare works vastly better under government run systems.
Bit late now. ;)
Lol, I don't think that's a coincidence. I'll give my points to the guys who came out first, are already in market, and seem to have proven themselves with pretty good real-world reviews
...."Knowing how to market software, which I’m convinced is some kind of freaky black art..."
The insurance system is itself a racket. Putting even more people into the insurance system only makes insurance companies richer, doesn't do much for the average American.
I've made an ansible role for deploying many sites from one nginx instance with automatic issuing and renewal of let's encrypt certificates.

It would be accompanied by a blog post to explain how things work but got busy on other fronts.

If anyone's interested, it's at https://github.com/Landoop/ansible
It depends. When are you expecting to go out of business?

Disclaimer: I'm not affiliated with them, I'm just annoyed by what you're insinuating. Dude. This is not a life altering business proposition. If your business is torpedoed because you suddenly forgot how to cut and paste, you've got other problems.
I wonder if their recruiting tactics are as aggressive as some of the firms I've seen portreyed in film..

MARCY DAWSON: I admit we've been too aggressive. But all I ask is that you give me five minutes. As a token, accept this.

MAX: I don't want your money

MARCY DAWSON: The suitcase isn't filled with dollars, or gold, or diamonds. Just silicon. A Ming Mecca chip.

MAX: Ming Mecca? They're not even de-classified yet.

MARCY DAWSON: You're right, they're not. But Lancet-Percy has many friends. Beautiful, isn't it? Do you know how rare these are?

MAX: What do you...?

MARCY DAWSON: Mr Cohen?

MAX RUNS DOWN INTO A SUBWAY

(taken from π screenplay by Darren Aronofsky)
It used to be that the candidate was simply chosen by the party, with no open election at all.

Delegates are used to distribute influence, which is by party membership rather than population or simple voter representation. Super-delegates were introduced after the first two Democratic nominees picked by a purely popular process were a disaster (McGovern, who won only two states, and Carter, who was a wonderful person and a terrible president who paved the way for Reagan.)

Sanders supporters are correct that superdelegates exist to potentially keep people like him from getting nominated. They are wrong that that is a bad thing. When Obama ran, his ability to win over superdelegates was a strong sign of his capabilities to bring together the party and win in the general. If Sanders can't do that, he's not going to be effective in office even if he could get there.
Most Americans back FBI over Apple in iPhone unlocking fight
Yeah actually the csound manual not only has all this and more but csound is open source and free all the examples run right there in the browser thanks to asm.js and can be run locally, but this seems like a nice intro for synth beginners who may only have a hardware synth for reference.
How does this constant velocity / "massless motion" affect the parasitic inductance of the material ( if at all) ?
>A utopic city is supposed to be /better/ than rural lifestyle because of increased opportunity of all types.

I've got nothing against cities and have lived in them (and drive in currently for various events). There's also nothing wrong with living on a number of acres that give you a degree of privacy and separation that you don't get in a city.

Personally, I'm not a fan of classic suburbs but cities aren't a utopia for everyone either.
This industry irks me.

What's the point of doing engineering anywhere if you don't get paid as much as these guys to shift money around?
The 10 Worst Macs Ever (2007)
It also helps to have a real or soft synth in front of you so you can tweak knobs and play around as you go
If you don't have anything, my recommendation is ZynAddSubFX. It is an amazing free synth with enough knobs to do almost anything
Indeed, I agree. I realized long after I wrote my reply that it was toned more aggressively than I had intended. In my mind, I was adding to your comment rather than arguing.
Patents aren't free market, since they require the government to play a role (enforcement) in favour of patent holders. A free market wouldn't be able to protect the IP, it would use DRM and peer-to-peer contracts, and as soon as the receipe gets out, they'd be in for ther investment. A socialist government would define a type a company that is allowed to conduct medical research and fix the bounds within which the company can invest or the sale prices.
Is this cheatsheet, and similar ones for other languages, somehow dynamically generated by DDG, or are they just producing and maintaining this content themselves? If the former, bravo! If the latter I fail to see how this is a scaleable approach for a search engine?
A bit off topic but the first thing I thought of when reading parent's comment was "What about Gaia GPS?". Thank you for that app/service! I really dig it. I've used it in Berkeley and all over the South Island of New Zealand and its been invaluable.
I'm currently enrolled in a MSc program with a thesis on portfolio optimization using statistical learning. It might even lead to a publication! But now, the question is, should I go onto a PhD in stats or CS or just settle with it. I know I probably have the chops to complete it, it's just that 4 or 5 five more years in school is somewhat risky. Sometimes it's hard to assert your worth on such a competitive market.

On a side note: omg janestreet is such my dream job. Writing functional code, working on immensely interesting problems (what is the market distribution?) and being paid for it.
> Not a crime

Afaik most jurisdictions would consider that "in control" of the motor vehicle and thus operating it under the influence of alcohol, and thus a crime.

In Australia I don't think the engine even has to be running, I think keys in the ignition are enough to show "control" and thus charge you.
It's reported that he leased a new Mercedes every 6 months so that he didn't have to put plates on the car at all.

http://gizmodo.com/5853927/the-real-reason-steve-jobs-benz-d...

I don't know if there was anything about parking fines involved; I doubt the guy was particularly concerned about them.
A smarter kind of password manager
Is that a monopsony though?

The market for drug companies is global. If you were talking about doctors or some type of medical provider that was limited to providing goods and services within a single jurisdiction, you might have a point.
Will there be a possibility to use an apex domain ? Looking to switch from GH Pages.
The Knife Rack Goes High-End (2011)
The value of x doesn't change so calling sqrt once and re-using that value is a quicker approach I would think.
That's because about 0.1% of Americans have anything remotely resembling the necessary context and expertise to even have a vaguely useful opinion or position on this issue.

When I'm facing a particularly vexing convergence problem for distributed data conflicts there are many, many very good reasons why I don't poll people in a random bar or cafe for what I should do. But the most important reason is because... they would absolutely, definitely give me terrible advice.

The good news for the government in this case though is that apparently in the absence useful context and expertise, and even when related to a company with an extremely favorable brand, the default position for the American people is to trend toward authoritarian oversight. That's a big social-psychological win for the government.
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As I'm sure you're aware, restless leg is an odd "itch" that can only be "scratched" by movement (for lack of any good words to describe it). The movement isn't compulsory, but the discomfort becomes overwhelming without it. I suspect the sensation is there all the time and not just at night, but there are enough other stimuli during the day to drown it out. The brain.fm music seems to have been effective for the same reason, providing a welcome distraction from the sensation.

Restless leg is supposedly a mineral deficiency, but my blood work comes out normal, and supplements haven't been helpful. Up until now, the only remedy I've found is working out in the middle of the night, which replaces the restless sensation with a tired-from-exercise sensation. This only works if I can fall asleep before the exercise wears off. The brain.fm effect is less powerful than exercise, but doesn't have a time limit for falling asleep. I wonder if this is unique to brain.fm, or if it would work with any other type of music.

Besides distracting from restless leg syndrome, the brain.fm music was quite relaxing (more so than ambient or nature music normally would be). I did notice the 3D effect, and wondered what that was about. There is clearly something going on here, but I don't have the knowledge or tools to say what. It sounds like your EEG sleep studies have done just that, so thanks for mentioning those. I had no idea it was so measurable.

This would be worthwhile it if the results are as good as you say they are. I've gone ahead and purchased the headphones - for science! Thanks for the offer, and for your epically-long reply. This type of thing is fascinating to me.
One of the many problems with the way the FBI is asking for Apple to get into the phone is they are asking for a tool (an instrument) to be built, not for Apple to just give them the data.

The FBI could have filed for Apple to get them the data by brute forcing the pin code. They didn't ask for that, they asked for Apple to make a tool that could be used by the FBI to brute force the pin code themselves. This is a huge difference when you are talking about the legal system.

Jonathan A. Zdziarski, who has a little bit of experience with forensic tools and expert testimony, has written a post about this specific issue: http://www.zdziarski.com/blog/?p=5645

In the end, forcing Apple to build a tool to be used at trial, it would end up forcing them to release the code to many different people for 3rd party verification that the tool works properly for forensic purposes.

This lawsuit (using a law from the late 1700's, remember we became a country in 1776) is completely political and absolutely has nothing to do with getting into this specific device. It is about forcing a legal precedent and to force Apple into doing something they want without going through Congress.
On the growing, intentional uselessness of Google search results