skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wonder if it's technically feasible for the TV to filter these kinds of inaudible beacons out, without severely degrading the sound quality?
Interesting data. I think we'll get very interesting data from Facebook if they keep it up, considering they're one of companies who have the most data on people.
The Jepsen test is of a very old version. Since then ES has had work done to the clustering, as well as adding an fsynced transaction log.
The one in my teardown was also purchased on Amazon, but from a different seller. The buyer got a refund from Amazon, so you might want to try that. The build quality of yours looks a bit worse. If you're going to throw it out, want to break it open first and let me know what's inside?
This checklist was designed for corporate-to-corporate and corporate-to-military sites which host data deemed valuable. If you are designing consumer websites where the user data is not particularly sensitive, then this advice is not appropriate.

In my applications, it was the customers who demanded that account recovery flows be removed, which I imagine is far from your own experience.

I will make a note about the intended customer group in the page . . .
This is your brain on Donald Trump
Closer to 7d amateur! http://www.gokgs.com/gameArchives.jsp?user=Zen19X&year=2016&...
Yes, the file access part of this product is exactly what I wrote too. They even made it with just the same codebase, inside the bundle "HandsOff.kext" is where all the action is. It's commendable that these guys have made it & kept it going and have it running as a product. It is so much more difficult than it initially appears. One of the first things that you come up against is you find out that at the kernel level, there are thousands of open()'s occurring system wide a second. Managing that in linked lists in the kernel without creating a speed or memory hit is the initial challenge. Then the other thing you come up against, which is a much greater challenge, is avoiding deadlocks by blocking open()'s to the wrong process.

However, if a technical user is using the product, it makes security 100% solid. You can literally intentionally download and run any virus, with full confidence that you can easily stop it from doing anything you dont want it to. Since a dialog box is created before it can read or write to any file, there is literally nothing it can do without your permission.

It's also useful for monitoring what an installer or app is doing to your filesystem, exactly what files it is touching as it goes along, and also how to thoroughly uninstall it if you want to.

I have been meaning to make a cut down version just for the filesystem monitoring and as an uninstaller that works 100%. You can even make an uninstaller that not only uninstalls all files that were created alongside the file you choose, but also any files that were created by any of those files (by logging the paths of the open()'s with O_CREATE by any of those files)
Reminds me of the central conflict in the Japanese animation series, Gundam Seed.
>>If you consider technology to be like evolution, which it surely is, then infrequent advances in short periods is only natural.

What you are describing is basically Thomas Kuhn's notion of the nature of scientific revolutions.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Structure_of_Scientific_...
Anything simillar for Scheme?
The front garden tableau (in a publicly accessible area): https://www.facebook.com/BerlinWriters/posts/978227365587788

The headline sounds like there are many of them, but these are the only two.
Perhaps training those who are already stationed (forest/park rangers, etc.) would be a more efficient path. I think the point of accessible trained staff as opposed to a mushroom club is to target those who would otherwise not take the effort to investigate what they gathered, and end up consuming harmful species.
The Curse of Reading and Forgetting
One other thing I've learned about counterfeiters is that there is almost no product too cheap to counterfeit. If there is a suitable demand for the product, there will be counterfeits. You can see this in the cheap USB AC adapters above, but also in items like the Casio F-91W[1], a cheap retro watch that has made a comeback in recent years.

Search on eBay and you'll find tons of them, mostly for really cheap prices, i.e. < $10 or even < $5. It's virtually impossible to identify a fake on the auction site, and even when you first have it it's difficult to tell. (Here[2] is one test, and a teardown comparison between fake vs. real) So, just assume anything super-cheap is fake, and you won't be let down.

However, there are some real differences. You'll notice that the band might look/feel slightly cheaper, and most importantly, the thing doesn't keep time. I have a legit F-91W, and for the most part, the watch doesn't gain/lose more than maybe 1-3 minutes per year. The fake ones, however, are fast/slow by 10-20 minutes per month. This is likely where they are saving money, i.e. the quartz oscillator thingy is either cheap or doesn't have calibration or whatever. The battery life is also likely far worse than most Casios, (though I have not confirmed this) which are generally excellent in this respect.

This is a watch that is regularly available on Amazon for a legit price of < $15. (Right now, it's ~$10) And there are tons of fakes out there.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casio_F-91W

2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lk_-_Phiklc
Have been using Where have I been for the past year and it works flawlessly. Most important is that I can export all locations as CSV which I convert to KML and all is good.

Will give OwnTracks a try but privacy wise Where Have I Been also is phone only.
Thanks, bovermyer!
Here is a definition of False Positive from wikipedia: "In medical testing, and more generally in binary classification, a false positive is an error in data reporting in which a test result improperly indicates presence of a condition, such as a disease (the result is positive), when in reality it is not"

I don't see anything here that definitively clarifies which of the 2 scenarios above it can exclusively be applied to.
Samsung, Sony, Motorola Mobility....
I don't want to mess with cheap Chinese electronics, especially with a toddler around. But I'm happy to send it to you instead of the New York landfill. Email me your address if you feel like cracking open another one: me@artur.co
They often ship these directly from HK. They also create many different temporary companies to stay one step ahead of law enforcement, plus the Chinese government is less invested in stopping it to begin with.
Show HN: Implement Posixish threads one bite at a time
Healthcare providers and insurers have received much of the gains, it's not just a class issue. Since 2001, employers' benefit costs have risen 60%, which is almost twice the rate salary increased. Perhaps salary increases would've outpaced inflation, leading to the real wage gains everyone's missing, if that money weren't being diverted into the employer's share of health insurance premiums.
What is the best way to understand something well? For me, it's always been trying to build something similar from scratch. This project is my attempt to learn what it takes to implement pthreads on x86_64 Linux. I've learned quite a bit doing it, and it may be useful to other people. I am also interested in your feedback, especially concerning the synchronization routines. PRIO_INHERIT mutexes seem to be a particularly demanding beast. In the limited time I've had for this project, I was not able to decipher what glibc does to implement them.
While its an amazing aircraft I wonder if we have enough Helium for all the ones they want to build.
I agree it's an old version, and I agree they've made incremental improvements since them. But ES is fundamentally clustered Lucene indexes. You can't bolt on partition safety like a feature; it kinda has to be part of the design from the beginning.
Firewatch: One Month Later
Public perception and available resources have changed dramatically over the last 25 years. As recently as the mid-80s, nobody even knew about autism. Not even doctors. Depending upon where you lived, you might have to visit a dozen different specialists before you could find someone familiar with autism and get that diagnosis. Once you had the diagnosis, all the normal people you'd encounter in life would regard it as some made-up condition ("Hey, I'm artistic too, lol."). It was difficult to explain, which made it difficult to get special services at school, etc. Early childhood intervention was not widely available the way it is today.

The people who are now dying early and contributing to these statistics got little of the help and awareness that benefits newer generations of those on the spectrum. I have hope that these numbers will improve over time as autism becomes more widely understood.
Did they really introduce a new bogus metric without even defining it, much less justify its use? Never heard of "spending inequality" until this article came along.
>Apple's apparent lack of control over their supply chain and brand

In this case it's Amazon's lack of vetting third-party sellers that's causing this. Anything that actually comes from Apple will be good. Also, it won't be > 50% off, which should be a huge red flag that this is a counterfeit.
ok. Elegant, future system, not tested in real world, seen only in youtube video.
P.S. I'm actually looking forward seeing it. Pardon my scepticism.
A couple of things:

- This wouldn't work for larger payloads. AVs flag binary looking data that is larger than a certain size and that is later processed or assigned to a variable.

- Their veil project has some problems. Py2EXE gets marked as malware by some AVs in many cases just because it is Py2EXE. Same thing with non-commonly used obfuscators. Basically, they just pick up on the fact that something is obfuscated. If that obfuscator is not commonly used in goodware programs, it is marked as malware. This is kind of a dumb strategy on the part of AV engines, but it works okay.

You're not going to catch new malware with static (or dynamic for that matter) analysis anyway. Thing is, the problem is ill-defined.

What is malware?

Is it a program that does something a user doesn't want? If users knew what regular programs do, they wouldn't be okay with most of it either.

Is it a program that does some obfuscating tricks and exploits undocumented functionality in the system? Plenty of legit programs including a lot of AV engines do that as well.

The only usable definition in my opinion is that it is a program that makes the user unhappy with no easily accessible way of removing it completely.

This is why the only solution seems to be to only allow installation from a trusted repository. I am still not sure why Windows/Apple OSX haven't adopted such a strategy (with a developer mode override option for some advanced users).
SSL labs is the gold standard:

https://www.ssllabs.com/ssltest/

But I don't see a way to automate a test for the integrity of (say) a password recovery flow or that one user cannot access another user's data.
Ask HN: How many of you feel underemployed?
Looking at unemployment numbers, things seem to be not too bad. Whereas when I talk to people it seems like the emerging issue is underemployment rather than unemployment.

More people are taking up roles that are not utilising their full potential. Satisfaction level with salaries seems to be going down. A lot seems to depend on how well you present yourself and how confidently you can lie about your skillset.

Being from Australia, I was wondering if this is something happening across the globe or are we special?
You're right that the page says "Sold by Mayday Dealz and Fulfilled by Amazon." I definitely missed that when purchasing, because the very top says

Apple 45W MagSafe 2 Power Adapter for MacBook Air
*by Apple*

Amazon probably allows this to be misleading, because I bet it increases sales. Ideally they would make it a lot clearer when you're dealing with a third party seller. I realize it only takes a moment to glance at the reviews and see a red flag, but I don't remember them being so negative back when I purchased it about a year ago.
For those of us using Privacy Badger to block stuff, can someone repaste the article?
Not to be an asshole but, unless you replace the first candy after taking it out, your formula's wrong.

If you start w/ 50 red candies and 50 non-red candies, the chance of the first one red is 1/2 (from 50/100) but the chance the second one is red after first drawing a red candy is now 49/99. After removing one red candy, there are now 49 red candies and 99 total candies.

So, P(red) * P(red | removed 1 red) = 49/198
Seems like Amazon's fault, not Apple's. Note:

> Sold by Airstrip1 and Fulfilled by Amazon.

Also, check out on /r/surface. Microsoft's Q&A is a total clusterfuck. Lenovo is pretty bad these days too. I've had three T450s laptops in my possession at one time or the other, and all have had terrible backlight bleed.
yes it will.
that's why no ad company has ever sued people blocking ads.
it would be a very bad advertising...
To be fair, the Amazon page is extremely misleading with regard to this.

https://www.amazon.ca/ORIGINAL-MACBOOK-Magsafe-ADAPTER-CHARG...

ORIGINAL OEM APPLE MACBOOK PRO 60W Magsafe 2 [...] by Apple-Computers

But it's not really by Apple, it's by cable_connexion and is a generic. Amazon does a really lousy job of policing what's put into the "From" field on their site - I'm surprised it hasn't gotten them sued yet.
I played around with the software and printed some magnets about a year ago. Never came up with a production use beyond hanging pictures on my wall though.
How long do they last? Do they weaken over time?
Clojure is easier in that sense because it leans on the JVM, but it is missing a few very important things from CL like readabe stack traces. Somebody could repackage Sketch to make it user-friendly. Overtone runs on top of, or uses SuperCollider; you can't make your own ugens AFAIK. Extempore is a scheme-based audio\visual environment that is much more powerful than Overtone or Sonic Pi.
You're right, I should have price checked against Apple.com. But Amazon shouldn't claim that it's "by Apple" while burying the fact that it's actually sold by a third party several lines down.
> I have used it in London, Paris, NYC and they were no cheaper than a taxi.

I used Uber extensively in London this January. I actually found that for long distances, taxis were about 3-4x the price of an UberX (with Pool). London taxis are very expensive.

In NYC, Uber had a long-standing $5-for-anywhere-in-Manhattan offer. I lived there for a few months, and found Uber and Lyft to generally be significantly cheaper than taxi+tip, even disregarding promotions.

Finally, there was a good article on this topic by BusinessInsider at http://www.businessinsider.com/uber-vs-taxi-pricing-by-city-.... It indicates that Uber is generally cheaper than taxi, but that's as of 2014. With UberPool, prices have dropped significantly further yet.

I conclude that UberX/UberPool is generally significantly cheaper than a taxi, and more convenient except in areas where you can easily hail a cab off the street. Looking at the history of consumer goods and transportation, I think that those factors significantly trump comfort.
Does the billion dollars include indemnification against all patent and copyright lawsuits?
Thanks for the excellent summary. I do feel I'm good at presenting ideas, hence this may be a role for me. I've mostly been at large corporations with boring stability and so wouldn't mind the pressure for a change. If it gets to be too much to handle, I could always switch back to being a developer.
The reviews are murderous on that item.
As if to emphasize, Ghostery reports that this one page hits twenty-one external advertising/metrics sites.
First thing I thought of, too! If it helps, 'Empties' were renamed 'Springs' in the game STALKER.
Snowdrift is certainly an interesting approach and agree, similar things are needed.

In an abstract sense, as i see it, we need to find a way to direct funding, in an accessible way, towards people just wanting to work on generally useful stuff, without being entirely reliant on capitalism and market economies.

I do fear that most schemes for selecting what to fund, grants, or capitalistic markets tend to promote the wrong things for the wrong reasons. Once serious money gets involved it gets ugly quickly and all sorts of gaming and failures take over.

I guess one failure mode of Snowdrift would be that high visibility projects, with a direct user facing component, will get loads of funds. But infrastructure kind of things, will be forgotten and be underfunded.

Perhaps not a real problem though, the funds going the user facing project might ripple down, so to speak, into the infrastructure.

In any case, the problem of selecting who should get money is hard, and you probably just have to accept that its a gamble with low odds of success. Maybe most of the things not worth doing, is worth doing precisely to find out how not worth doing they are!
I think Microsoft in a number of cases has made the cross licensing so lucrative that companies end up ahead by licensing the patents. They would do this, of course, to establish the precedent that they can then use to go on an leverage against smaller players. It would not surprise me at all if Samsung was in this situtation.
Try 200+
Damn dude. This looks way nicer than my page (and has links to hipper tools) . . . I need to take a course in web design . . .
This is one of those situations where over-fetishization of rigorous scientific data can harm your quality of living.

Scientific testing of hypotheses is great, but it isn't the only way to know things. If you are 25 today and you wait for scientists to settle this issue, you could be retired by the time you have an answer.

Meanwhile you will have spent decades sitting at crappy regular desk and missing out on the benefits of a sit-stand desk.

Or, you could try it; your own n-1 experiment is actually all you need to find out if a sit-stand desk is better for you.

A few years ago I tried a standing (only) desk. It was kind of interesting, but I didn't really like standing all day long. But I liked it enough that I splurged on a GeekDesk, with a push-button motorized lift unit that remembers my height for standing and sitting.

Boom! Literally one of the best purchases I've ever made. I feel better every day. Sometimes I sit, sometimes I stand. I never get any discomfort in my back. Some of the hours I sort of bounce around on my feet and it seems that keeps my blood flowing and oxygenated and makes me more energetic. Even if that is a placebo effect, who cares? Still worth it.

Motorized sit/stand desks don't have to reduce my risk of heart disease and anus cancer to be awesome. If they make you feel noticeably better when using a desk over extended periods, that is enough.

And since the benefits are something you can feel with your own body, you don't have to wait for science; you can just try one for a week and find out.
Aquameta Chapter 3 – PostgreSQL Event System
Here's some previous discussions:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11197592
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11284912
>like Apple's discontinued magnetic charger plug

While MagSafe is not featured in the new MacBook, MacBook Pros and MacbookAirs still have them and I believe they'll have them for the time to come. New MacBook is an exercise in minimalism but it does not appeal to most of the people who still have tons of pluggable devices lying around. So MagSafe is not discontinued at all.
I'm actually thinking about the reseller and where the customer stand.

And I'd appreciate if you leave out the condescending tone.
The framing of this put a bad taste in my mouth. A few weeks ago, Amazon sent out notifications that basically said "you must run this binary blob on your device or you'll no longer be able to use it with our service" without providing any information about the content.

It reinforces the feeling that you don't buy Amazon devices — you buy the privilege to use them on Amazon's terms.
My Shot: A Tribute to Flint, MI
What makes this teardown so dangerous inside? And why would someone make a counterfeit teardown... mostly to get notoriety?
Hacking the Human OS
Guess some don't like being reminded that the world isn't a meritocracy after all.

The circumstances you're born into still correlate highly with life outcomes, no matter how much we try to convince ourselves otherwise.
That's not Apple's fault; it's Amazon. A counterfeit maker sells though Amazon's Seller Central and opts for Prime shipping by sending it to Amazon's warehouse. When purchasing, Amazon chooses the cheapest seller (which is most likely a counterfeit). Amazon is at fault for allowing someone to sell a counterfeit as a genuine product.

When you go to a brick-and-mortar store and accidentally purchase a counterfeit cable for your phone, it's not Apple's fault; it's the store's for opting to sell you the counterfeit.
Implementations will do that, e.g. https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/pull/1513 .
I hope they come up with all sorts of interesting applications for this...

But I just want a floating table. Sometimes making the world a cooler place is good too :D
I really loved that atmosphere. Can you recommend another game that captures the same kind of feel and atmosphere? The dark, brooding mythology, idk how to even describe it.
Ad blockers have been sued before. http://www.theguardian.com/media/2015/may/27/german-broadcas...

That was in Europe, and for "non competition", not breach of contract as I'm suggesting.

Also, "nobody will sue me" does not mean you're doing the legal or moral thing.
> Manufacturers of garbage don't care about patents

That doesn't mean I don't think it's interesting to know.
And very rudimentary message passing was made using signal fires.

There's smoke signals and messenger birds (eg pigeons) but I don't know whether/when/how they were used historically.

Edit: Just thought, maybe signal mirrors too?
This is a pretty awesome teardown, the fake ones really are crap and they don't do the magsafe protocol (also on Ken's blog: http://www.righto.com/2013/06/teardown-and-exploration-of-ma...)
Twitter CEO Says 140 Characters Are Staying, Doesn’t Rule Out Longer Tweets
There's an issue on GitHub for this: https://github.com/jkbrzt/httpie/issues/325

// author here
We do. Natural gas fields produce several billion scf of helium per year as a byproduct. The US National Helium Reserve (which serves 40% of domestic demand for helium right now) could fill up thousands of these blimps on its own, too.
They are required courses for those degrees, so you might have a bad sample of people, or the field is simply bad at it entirely.
In the Southern California market, we have two big NPR stations (KPCC and KCRW). Both stations actually produce a lot of their own radio shows, and supplement some nationally syndicated content.

When I visited Oregon, I noticed most of the shows were nationally syndicated, and I suspect that might have to do with how much money they can get from their local regions.
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Many years, and yes.

All magnets will slowly demagnetize but it is so slow that no matter what your application you'll be fine as long as you don't repeatedly impact the magnet and you don't heat it above a certain temperature.
FedEx operates in Alaska without any legal requirement to do so. That doesn't count as mail service?
It has happened before. It will happen again. And it can happen here
The 'always' was a typo, thanks for the catch.
Both my fork:
https://github.com/huggsboson/docker-compose-kubernetes

And vyshane's rename of this for 1.2 are compatible:
https://github.com/vyshane/kid

I'm gonna work with him to get us merged.