skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I know, but the crux of the article seems to be that you shouldn't be able to see underwater even if you can keep your eyes open. I could/can see underwater just fine but only if I can keep my eyes open of course. I cannot keep my eyes open in salt water, but that might be a lack of acclimatization is what I'm saying.
Isn't the merit of an author the sum of the merit of that author's books? (or something like that)
There are hidden picture books which look like random noise until you manage to focus your eyes 'behind' the book. I could never do that but others could. So I would say yes, you can with some effort.
Be Amazed by This Marvelous Music Machine, Powered by 2,000 Marbles
The birth of lifestyle marketing in the late 70s
Also if you are prone to developing a psychotic disorder (prevalence of psychotic disorders is ~3%), pot consumption before the age of 20 increases the chances of it happening.
Another important note is how Sid Meier was involved with the newest XCOM games as a co-designer and mentor to Jake Solomon. The marketing and promo for the games are centered a lot around Solomon as the figurehead for the game to the point that people commonly complain about the numerous (not game-breaking normally) bugs with "Jake, fix your game." Nobody really ever had that attitude with the Alpha Centauri, Civilization, etc. games to my memory.
TEAM NEW ERA – Guestbook
In the last link, Dr. Shapiro calls Linus wrong, is he still alive, even?
If the serivcis provided by the manufacturer, they ought to roll it into the purchase, $X + $Y/yr maintenance subscription
How will the ethereum contract program know that the worker's terms are met? If someone contracts me to build a program, and I get paid when it's done, how do you define done, which is even hard in real life. Programmatically, I could assign them ownership of a domain, or maybe a github repository? I don't see how in a world where finished is ambiguous, this can work. If this was an advertising or marketing contract, and I paid part of it as we go, how could a computer program contract know when milestones are reached? The only feasible way I see if the buyer has to say "milestone x reached" electronically. But if that's the triggering mechanism, then what happens if the buyer never does that? It seems no better or worse than regular contracting.
Well, I sort of agree. I work with several fibromyalgia groups, and it's a simple fact that pain management in america is abysmal. The regulation of prescription opiates so onerus, it makes it extremely difficult for patients to get, and doctors to prescribe, the medication that would have a massive difference in their quality of life.

It is because of this that they find alternatives/substitutes, which range from alcohol to heroin to suicide. Two people I know have killed themselves because they could not deal with the pain and the medical system failed them.
actually, looking at this graph from the article, it appears that families with kids are not majority - http://static.nautil.us/8546_2f4059ce1227f021edc5d9c6f0f17dc...
Presumably most of those children will be productive members of society whose contributions support your retirement... And let's not forget the benefit you [if born or raised in G20] would have received as a child. So, in essence you are as a single, paying back the benefits you enjoyed as a youth, presuming averages.
I get this sense that America's war with Iran is over how it treats its billionaires. If only they didn't treat them so badly, we could just both get along?
IMHO strcpy() is perfectly fine if you know the length of the source, and ensure the destination is always big enough. strcpy() will always write strlen(src)+1 bytes, nothing more and nothing less. That said, code should be written so those facts are obvious, and documentation is a preferred way to show that. (Being explicit about whether null-terminators are included or not in length specifications is one thing that seems to be often overlooked, for example.)

Microsoft's _s functions don't help if you don't know what the lengths should be, and if you do, they just make it more confusing.
I claim that paying its workers a living wage is part of minimum wage employers' OPEX on the basis that, if we withdrew the welfare system, Wal-Mart could not retain workers at its current wages and would have to pay them a great deal more.

You're saying that welfare produces downward pressure on wages. But I believe it's the opposite: If someone paid you $1,000,000/year whether you were working or not, if you're rational you'd never take a job that paid less than the marginal value of your leisure time. The latter is substantially improved by having $1,000,000/year of unconditional income, of course!

Welfare dollars (at least the unconditional sort, unlike, say, EITC, which is deliberately a wage subsidy) are in competition with employers for their potential employees' time and effort, not a subsidy.
Debian isn't the only system on the block, and apt isn't the only package manager. OpenSUSE has zypper (which IMO has a much better interface and supports patches to packages). Arch has pacman (which has less features, but is great for normal use on your local machine, I wouldn't recommend it for administrating a server -- not just because it's rolling release). apt has a very janky interface overall, there are better alternatives IMO.
But by having more people, you also have more people having more problems. In other word, the person who die early might not even exist at that year if the population was less. Instead of having an x population over y time span, you have an x/n population that span n*y period.

My point was that you need to have some kind of metric (suffering per human per year?), or otherwise the "quality of life" across different population size and time span doesn't make sense.
I almost wish we'd hold criminal executives in the US accountable to a similar level. Many have destroyed and indirectly ended far more lives through malice than any direct murderer ever will.
Which is probably just a consequence of other complications.
The getline case (boolean and possible value) really wants a type like Haskell's "Maybe" or Rust's Option: a type that either contains nothing or a value.
- The APIs exposed to Mac App Store apps are more limited (because the OS X sandbox is not completely comprehensive in what it provides). This limits the types of apps that can be sold on the store.

- There's no means of providing paid upgrades. E.g. for a major version bump, which a lot of developers rely on to keep their business afloat.

- The store interface and navigation are also much slower than the iOS counterpart.

- Recently some certificate issues rendered users unable to open their apps.

- Not 100% sure on this one: You can't download older app versions if your OS is no longer supported.
Are you talking about "Magic Eye" pictures like this: http://mentalfloss.com/article/29771/why-cant-some-people-se... ?

If so, this isn't really what I mean.

I mean with just one eye, being able to consciously refocus that eye.
For example, looking at this writing on your screen able to make that go in and out of focus.
It costs money to pay people to do those things.

Maybe we can say "without advertising or promotions"?
How? AFAIK people get to be paid for the time they work, and they raise the youth in the remaining time. Yes this is a generalisation, but most often nobody gets paid in order to merely procreate and raise their kids.
Is their vision better than using goggles?
You can see underwater, but you don't see as well as they do:

> The kids had to dive underwater and place their heads onto a panel. From there they could see a card displaying either vertical or horizontal lines. Once they had stared at the card, they came back to the surface to report which direction the lines travelled. Each time they dived down, the lines would get thinner, making the task harder. It turned out that the Moken children were able to see twice as well as European children who performed the same experiment at a later date.
That's a good point and worth including, I'm totally out of time for today but I'll make a note and update the text at some point later tomorrow. Thank you.
It's more about a controlled growing environment. Outdoors there's a 100% higher chance of pollination, which means seeds and spindly buds. Indoors it's much easier to separate male and female plants, and also much more likely to have consistent watering etc which leads to more lush growth
The Frontiers of Management, and The Practice of Management, both by Drucker, are excellent and inspiring. Especially the former.
Could Memes Be the Only Thing Between Bernie Sanders and the White House?
previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11049067
(808 points, 973 comments)
In my experience, these platforms with non-8-bit-bytes or non-byte-adressable memory are things like DSPs and other niche processors, and if you want to port/write software for them, there are plenty of other quirks than the size of a char.
Fucking with stats has always a key aspect of law enforcement.
The Microsoft/IE8 approach was fundamentally flawed and lead to XSS attacks in otherwise-safe sites [1]. The approach in this article only ever prevents execution without otherwise changing behaviour (modulo noted bugs and slowdown), improving security.

However, developers may start accidentally depending on this security feature and hence make sites less secure in browsers lacking the feature. If the taint is hit, there should instead be a big red warning, akin to safe browsing or https warnings.

[1] http://www.zdnet.com/article/security-gone-awry-ie-8-xss-fil...
> Replace court judges with peer reviewers.

So...a jury?
For a little balance to this sordid, lurid, and sensationalistic account of psychedelic therapy, I'd recommend reading "The Secret Chief Revealed"[1] and Cary Grant's own accounts of his LSD experiences.[2]

An excerpt from the latter:

"I learned may things in the quiet of that small room. I learned to
accept the responsibility for my own actions, and to blame myself
and no one else for circumstances of my own creating. I learned that
no one else was keeping me unhappy but me"

[1] - https://www.amazon.com/Secret-Chief-Revealed-Myron-Stolaroff...

[2] - https://spectregroup.wordpress.com/2008/02/10/cary-grants-th...
> Can someone describe how other models of phones can become bricks?

iPhone's have a fully DRM'd trust chain, starting with the bootloader, which is itself on-die and immutable.

Installing a new OS image requires online activation with Apple's servers, which return public-key signed installation permission.

Unless there's a vulnerability that allows jailbreak, you're not installing non-Apple-approved software on that device.

That's the future of the fully centralized/cloud-based 'software iteration business model ... making inroads into the hardware market'
Won't someone think of the billionaires?!
mmmm, I love those no-reply disagreement downvotes.
And now I know for certain I will never purchase a Tesla. What a shame.
H. Ross Perot warned us about NAFTA and other foreign trade deals.

He said the giant sucking sound you hear will be jobs leaving the USA. It really happened just like he said.
> Make crashing your car into people illegal and punish that. No reason to ban driving.

Except that people don't crash their cars deliberately, it's unintentional and unavoidable.

There's no point making it illegal to do something that only happens accidentally. People will still do it accidentally.

The only thing you can do is mandate changes to the system which remove the possibility that those mistakes will be made. Driverless cars are one possible change that we could make.
Yeah, you're right...

But it's kind of a specific example of producing something that has fixed costs but can be "consumed" by infinitely many people. For example software, movies, music or even jokes.
Absolutely, unfortunately it is their customers that will end up with the fall-out.
Ask HN: What percentage do you take up front for contract work?
Here's how I look at it: it's a trade-off like any other. There are people with unsustainable work practices in every job. It could be long hours, little sleep, performance enhancing drugs, etc. If it makes them deliver better work, they'll get rewarded for it in their career, but they're most certainly suffering consequences elsewhere. Family strain, health problems, emotional drain, loneliness.

The temptation is strong to ban other people from making different trade-offs than us, because it keeps them from besting us in competition and challenging our value systems. But what right do we have to dictate what other people should value and what trade-offs they're allowed to make with their own lives? My sweat, blood, and tears are mine and mine alone to give and withhold.
Two-Factor Authenticator for Mac
It's their fear. "When I'm rich, I don't want to be killed for doing terrible things." After all, this is a rich man's site.
I'm wary of it, but looking forward to it at the same time. I'm hoping for something like the XCom revival, but...

On the other hand, I recently started playing MOO2 again and it's just as fantastic as ever. Brilliantly balanced, quick to play, lots of different strategies, etc. I haven't found a 4X game since that really quite got all of the things right.
Photo caption: "An Oxitec worker puts her hand in a cage full of genetically modified male mosquitoes to show that they do not bite."

This a sad reflection of the author's/editors' scientific diligence. Male mosquitoes do not bite, period.
Also, apparently one of them isn't a "prominent cryptographer".

Wonder which one of the five they don't include.

(Or is it a typo and supposed to be 5 instead of 4?)
My comment is not a personal attack. I've been told twice that it's so, but without a because part.
Did you mean who is he or where is he? Shapiro and his people cranked out one exemplar piece of work after another: security kernel for Scheme LISP; capability-secure OS (EROS); trusted networking stack; secure, partitioned GUI; persistent apps; verifiable ML-like system language in prototype form. Was revising that language and EROS successor (Coyotos) when Microsoft poached him. Now he's a professor but Im not sure if he's still active or why he quit if not.

Many, myself included, reduced industry and FOSS activities in high assurance because of virtually no demand plus unwillingness of majority to leverage proven techniques. Snowden leaks later confirmed work like his (and mine) would've stopped many of their attacks.

So, still worth looking at his publications and reading his essays if you're learning strong, security engineering.
Aha he is married to Fran Drescher (The Nanny!
So, an up-to-date DOMinator for Chrome but with no source code available?

I quite liked the discussion of issues with current XSS auditor in Chrome although I felt it was pressing the point a bit to call it "state of the art".
The death penalty does not dissuade future offenders from committing crimes. It does not teach us about why those crimes are committed, either. With the death penalty, you create a society of anger, hatred, revenge, and violence. You improve nothing.

Its only purpose is revenge, and that has no place in our legal system.

Instead, this criminal should be removed from society so he no longer does harm (jail), and it should be studied why he committed those crimes, and we should attempt to rehabilitate to learn more about how to build a better society.
No, google could run their search engine just fine on just adsense, we know that because they did. All that other stuff came later.
LightSwitch: A lightweight HTML5 single-page website with jQuery templating
Ah, I understand what you are saying now. Technically, not being able to install new software isn't bricked since you can still run the old. I only run the browser on my old phones so I didn't notice this.
Why do people who make a significant amount of money in countries like Russia, Turkey, China, etc, stay in their home countries?
Apple VP: The FBI wants to roll back safeguards that keep us ahead of criminals
Apache Cassandra 2.2 – 5 things you need to know
This can't be good for people that have JavaScript disabled.
The sun comes up and goes down on its own schedule. Indoor lights can be turned on and off as needed to change how and when the plants mature.
Amiga Workbench v1.x Mouse Pointers for Windows
Posted by one of the researchers that discovered the malware...

"#Transmission just pushed 2.92 update that includes code to > detect and to remove the #KeRanger ransomware. Update it before Monday 11:00am."

https://twitter.com/claud_xiao/status/706579264036950016
Because they are able to make significantly more money if they stay?
I can do this very easily, and I’ve been able to as long as I can remember. I always assumed everyone could.

Then again, I have weird eyes in general. One has almost perfect vision, the other is really bad (don’t remember the exact prescription, but the big “E” on the vision chart is just a dark blur when I don’t have my single contact in).
Simple booing, without further context, is one of the things I hate about this site.

It'd be nice if someone would add context to the downvotes, by commenting with a matching opinion.
Ancient Athens, at its peak, had a total population of less than 300,000 people. They represented the urban elite of an empire of a few million people at best. I think it would be difficult to find any comparably-sized contemporary population with a remotely similar genius per capita ratio.
How to Write Beautiful Code with Pythonic Idioms – Unpacking
It could be a hash operation, yes. But would it really be necessary to make it a cryptographic hash? It would explain the performance issues, yes. But who uses cryptographically-secure hashing for use-cases where the answer is "MD5"?
Apache mynewt:modular OS for constrained, embedded environments
The death penalty can have two purposes:

1) First, fear is a motive to not commit those crimes.
2) Second, it's purpose can be to completely get rid of the evil that he or she was. If you kill the person, there's no more of his evil. Wealthy or powerful evil people can have devastating and evil effects on so many people, and so it might not be worth keeping them alive.
At least their product page doesn't have some marketing wank about their security.
In fact it has no mention of security whatsoever, which is apt because it doesn't seem to have any!
Ask HN: How to double money?
Serious question might sound silly but how do you flip or double $3500?
Lots of people who you would think should know better drive under the influence of alcohol. I think part of the reason is that alcohol impairs judgment. Having never smoked weed, I'm curious about whether there is that same effect. Are you more able to tell yourself "I'm high, I shouldn't drive" than you are "I'm drunk, I shouldn't drive"?
I can do that, focusing outward is easier than inward though. Unless I hold a finger in between the screen and my eye, then it's the opposite.
Russion site using Neural Nets to combine two images
Open source 3D software has made massive leaps forward in recent years. Specifically, the 3D modeling tools in Blender are on par with, if not better than, anything Maya or 3ds Max has to offer. I don't see SaaS working out for Autodesk unless they can find new ways to differentiate themselves from open source offerings.
StandUnited+|+Petition+|+It's+Time+to+Hold+Hillary+Accountable
This is reckless for the manufactures and operators involved, the manor this information was released was also reckless. Poor show all round.
Actually, I tried to email that address but got this:

Google tried to deliver your message, but it was rejected by the server for the recipient domain openhunt.co by mx1.improvmx.com. [192.241.186.150].

The error that the other server returned was:
550 relay not permitted
Thanks for the link. My use of "borders" was a poor choice of words. The term means something different from what I was describing.
FWIW, your new wording still gave me the impression it was a quote from Feynman. Just one that you copied from the article :)
besides the cheap analogy, your argument is... ?
That wager might go pretty bad for you - there is a real lot of independent shops which aren't dealers and they have a lot of business. Moreover, these shops are often significantly cheaper than dealers with same or higher speed and reliability. I've seen dealer trying to change me several times more for the same job than independent shop - dealers seem have their set prices and enough business "by default" not to care about openly overcharging me. And I don't have particularly bad dealer - they are generally fine, except for being prone to quoting outrageous prices for some things.

Of course, there are also crooks out there, so challenge is finding good shop, but once you did, there's absolutely no reason to not do business with them except for things like recalls.

And, of course, for older out-of-warranty cars - which is the vehicle of choice for a real lot of "non-enthusiasts" who just don't have money to buy a shiny new car that loses 20% of value right after driving off the dealer parking lot - there's absolutely no reason to prefer dealers if you have a competent independent shop.
This website shows what it's like to read when you have dyslexia
My whole family brings ur cars to a single shop. We trust them and the prices are good. My wife and I go there even for oil changes, even after we moved two towns over. They are also the highest-rated shop in the region, so we're not the only ones who trust them.
Contracts and Chaos: Uber's Customer Service Struggles
Just to clarify, do you mean that all of their mobile apps are on react-native now? Or just their web apps?
Interesting but...

Packet integrity error (4144 bytes remaining) at ../channels.c:2421
Disconnecting: Packet integrity error.

There is another problem with Gnome Terminal. The page is flushed on each frame. I see the previous drawings if I scroll but I can't play.

BTW I like that!

A suggestion for next week-end: same stuff with pixels in VNC ;-)
There's std::optional that's still in the works:

http://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/experimental/optional
sure, that doesn't really help the low skill domestic labor pool (and the lack of a social security net makes it worse in the US), but in some cases, it might help the economy overall (at the expense of the low skilled domestic workers) e.g. in your example, by reducing the inflationary pressure of the minimum wage.
How did you club Turkey in there?
That's a matter of tax reform, not social ethics.
I remember American McGee from the release of "American McGee's Alice"... fitting, really, that someone with such a surreal name should leave their stamp on Alice in Wonderland.
site discussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11218677
And a NLP interface there? Or I'd have to remember which magic incantation makes it colder and pronounce it with the right accent (woe is me if I'm not native English speaker)? Voice interfaces suck for these things, if all you need is to do a small movement by you hand, and instead you have to get into a conversation with a dumb robot.
I have no problem paying for apps but for people who have paid for SandboxIE, do you think you've got your money's worth out of it?
So how does anything in this article add to my knowledge of c? I've been getting along just fine with the definition of pointers as agreed and employed by compilers and developers for a long time. This article appears part wrong, part obvious and part pointless.
I was an intern at what was formerly Discreet in Montreal during some layoffs in the mid-2000s. While profitable, we weren't hitting the magic 10% profit number and Autodesk decided that wasn't good enough.

People's lives were turned upside-down and dehumanized so that we could be a better part of a global 'portfolio' of these mid-sized acquisitions turned divisions. Transfers to other divisions or retraining weren't offered.

After that, I didn't want to go back. I went to work on Apple's video stack instead. Simply put, Autodesk is inhuman, and not in a malicious sense, they just don't consider human factors.