skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One possible thing to do could be pointing out that the shorter stick can still be long enough. E.g. i can perfectly sustain my lifestyle without getting "smart" with my taxes and more expensive toys would not outweigh the loss in honesty.

Unfortunately, even this has an inequality hidden inside: for the shorter stick to be sufficiently long, a certain level of privilege might be required and then privilege multiplies itself when people egoistically think along the lines of "i don't know if any of those guys are honest, but i'll go with that privileged one, he looks like he could at least afford to be".

Thinking of it, this might actually be the reason why we still suffer from this stupid tendency to trust the salesperson in the flashy BMW more than the one in the skimpy Honda, even if we consciously suspect that he paid for it with money he got for screwing his previous customers.
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Ah, yet another site that needs JS just to read text.

This is not the progress I was looking for.
One particular problem (or opportunity) with political summaries are ideological leanings. I'd be interested in summaries from different viewpoints, e.g. a social democratic reading of the WaPo Sanders article would be significantly less favorable.

I guess that might look like a browser extensions where individual users give their own short summaries of an article, you can see the various summaries of a given article, and you can see what other people are reading and have summarized. Sounds a lot like Twitter in my mind, but with the additional cross-referencing by article URL.
ah the PS2, what a sturdy built console, a department store nearby kept selling those for years (like pancakes)
It sounds like these two strategies are dual of each other.
citrus cloud?
The LDAP/AD setup is what I'm most looking forward to trying out. Do you know of any examples of where it's being used currently?
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1. NYC wealth dwarfs the rest of the US. You're right in that it's a good pool, but there isn't the aggressive experimentation in tech that SF has. I attribute that to culture, bringing me to point #2.

2. The Puget Sound region is 2 million, roughly. Seattle is 650K, roughly. These are not huge by any global scale, even in the American scale. As I am reminded by the Seattle Times, the PI, and the Stranger (particularly), techies are not really welcome by the True Seattlite, and we aren't Welcome - (this is even true on reddit r/Seattle, which is the techiest of the techy). The grandiosity and merchantilism that characterizes NYC and SF isn't here. It's more about getting up at 6, working out, working hard 8-5, then going home or the bar, turning in at 11. Not doing whack experiments in a coffeeshop all night long to turn into a company. Generalizations, I know, but it's a constant drumbeat; it's the way the city is.
Yeah, that got eh moderately fast.

But I like the word! Disruption that's malicious, or creates more issues than it solves.

Then again, not sure I know of any actual misruption - closest I can think of is the lack of career for Uber/Lyft drivers, and that Oculus will cause eye issues in kids and the VR industry learned that in the 80s.
I wish I could get a feature phone that just had Maps (and maybe Lyft). Being able to get a map of where I am, anywhere, is a pretty amazing thing. On the other hand, I wish I could get all of those notifications out of my pocket asap.
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I am obsessed with big clive, mostly with his teardowns of very dangerous and dodgy electronics.
It's important to note that they are specifically talking about H1B labor. And H1Bs are not technically immigrants. The H1B visa is a temporary guest-worker program.

Now, the question is, why are tech companies asking for an expansion of the H1B program rather than simply asking for more green cards? The answer, of course, is that H1Bs are easier to abuse and underpay.

This isn't a simple case of "immigrants stealing our jobs." The H1B program does a lot to suppress tech wages, and I'd like to see the path to citizenship eased. I don't see any reason companies should be able to keep guest workers in the country for more than a couple years before sponsoring them for a full green card.
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How Information Graphics Reveal Your Brain’s Blind Spots
AP has its biases, in particular they are seen as anti-Israel with the whole saga of changing a headline from "Israeli police shoot man in east Jerusalem." to finally "Palestinian kills baby at Jerusalem station." being one of the better know headlines. The original headline remained on many sites.
I have lived and worked in both Seattle and SV, am currently a founder living in Seattle, and am at this moment writing this from Coupa Cafe in Palo Alto. The business culture in the valley is more aggressive and the community knowledge about the informal processes at successful startups is stronger. In Seattle the community is more insular and there's a noticeable "us vs SV" complex. Having said that Seattle is a good place to build a company, just know that as a founder you are likely to spend a bunch of time in the Bay area.
What's super weird to me is that this invention reduced sanitary pads from 4 rupees to 2.5 rupees and is a huge success.

Either the real innovation is the female run businesses, or the whole thing is being subsidized by NGOs. Maybe both.
I think if the Angel was restricted to move top and right, it could not escape.

Conceptually, the devil will start constructing both traps at the same time at half speed, and decide which one to put more work in as the angel approaches.
Read the NIST 800 series identity materials.

If you're worried about infrastructure being online, issue certificates and trust certificates signed by your CA.
Somewhat before (but not completely before) the crazy 24/7 internet-news-cycle started, I was interviewed by the Wall Street Journal about an activity I participated in.

For about two days after it was published, I got calls from various lesser-known news outlets, and in the end, I did two more interviews, one with a local television station, and one with a very small radio talk show.

I didn't feel that any of the three organizations got the nuances and details right in their final stories. The WSJ got the big picture mostly right, but made it look like I took a different angle than I did; the local news station intentionally omitted important facts to drive some humor. The radio program was a live interview, but moved on to the next question so quickly that I didn't have a chance to give much detail.

I don't think any of this was avoiding fact-checking, or misrepresenting the truth of my story. But accurate reporting is very hard, and no news outlet gets it right.

Ever since then, I take every story I see with a grain of salt. The main point might be what the subject thinks, but at the very least it is missing details and nuance.

This leads me to treat the subject of any news story with a lot more compassion than it may seem like they deserve on the surface.
In California miles, Cambridge, MA is just outside of NYC.
State of Sway – April 2016
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> If it were true we would see sharp changes in the observed speed of light at wavelengths depending on the absorption spectrum of the material in question.

Uh, we do. The imaginary portion of the index of refraction near a resonance generally looks roughly like a gaussian, and the real portion does have jumps that look a bit like tanh.
Ask HN: Current state of programming embedded devices?
Hi,

I recently switched to a hardware company and we are working on a medical device. We need a nice, touch-based user interface on a 5"-10" inch display. Some math calculations in the background, but no realtime stuff. I am an experienced developer on different platforms but I never programmed an embedded device.

What is the mainstream OS on embedded devices right now? Linux, Android, Win 7 Embedded? What about Windows 10 IOT?

What is a good setup? Rasberry Pi + official touch screen? Are there medical grade devices out there (doesn't matter if it is expensive)?

What about developer tools? Okay, Visual Studio for windows? But what about the other platforms? Still C?

You see, I'm pretty clueless, so any help is much appreciated!

Thanks.
Those two articles don't seem to contradict each other. They are both using legalization and decriminalization in the same way (i'm pretty sure).

The globalnews article talks a bit about how the Liberals tried decriminalizing it in the past and failed. And Justin Trudeau saying why they won't decriminalize before they legalize it. But the focus is on the legalization/regulation of it next year. It is not using those two interchangeably.
Nice.

Some feedback: I had some problems with the auto-complete on the front page search. I typed and hit enter expecting to go to a search results page, but instead it must've selected the top result in the autocomplete and took me to that page instead.

When i got to a results page (Jasper Fforde in this case) and selected one of the books it too me to a "finding prices" page, but the page title is Page Not Found. Back button didn't seem to work after getting there either... had to manually go back to search results

The search results page didn't seem to be in any particular order. Again, looking at Jasper Fforde, was hard to know if there is a new book available here especially as there are a couple of different series he's written.

When i did find a book, was surprised there was only a listing from book depository, and then a message saying "oops ebay error". No amazon?

In all it's a nice interface/app, but I'm not entirely sure why I wouldn't just use goodreads (which you seem to be leveraging anyway).

Happy to have a chat if you want to catch up at some point, it's been a while :)
While some points this raises are valid, there is a lot h1b fear mongering. Also, this site seems to be basically for americans and non-americans are explicitly unwelcome.
Ah, yes Derek Sivers is a wonderful inspiration. I'll have to listen to that interview you're referring to. Thanks so much for sharing.
Consumers don't buy based on lifetime value because that's not the choice presented to them.

Most likely the consumer store they go to doesn't even carry the commercial lines, and even if they do, the fact that they last longer isn't made obvious. There's no incentive for stores make that information readily available to consumers, because they benefit just as much from planned obsolescence as the manufacturer. When all people can see is the sticker price, is it any wonder that that's what drives their decisions?

If there were a big sticker saying that the one that costs 50% more last 10 years instead of 2, I think consumers would happily buy the more expensive one. They're cheap, but they're not stupid.
I also disagree. HN has a system in place to decide if these comments are worthy/useful/fair.

If this kind of summary is getting upvotes it is both proof of concept and promotion of the Apply HN. I see no problem with that. What is the problem in trying to influence people to upvote his application? It seems to me that this kind of influence is a feature, not a bug of this kind of application that YC chose to test.
Fun fact: Cherenkov light is emitted when particles move faster than the speed of light in a given medium. It can be seen in nuclear reactors in blue. Tho is of course, in line with current theory, only possible because the speed of light in a medium is lower than the speed of light in vacuum, which particles cannot reach.
It's neat how many pins are available, too. TX/RX (for serial), the SPI pins, an IRQ, and pins 8-10, 12, 16.

This would be a great way to prototype a simple wearable project that doesn't use wireless radios.
Shifted to NLP :)
This is the end weapon, you can always beat it by replacing js on a site specific basis and that's what this does.
Non-competes suck. You have a few options when leaving a company:

* Get the blessing of the old employer to work at the new company.

* Work around the restrictions (geographic area, industry, list of companies, ...)

* Fight it.

* Ignore it, ensure the new company will too, and hope for the best.

Anecdotally, I've heard of companies sending out cease and desist letters. The letters were ignored by the new employer/employee and it went no further.

Compare that to this:
http://www.cnet.com/news/calif-supreme-court-finds-noncompet...
Study: Americans are ditching home internet for mobile
At first I wasn't impressed, because Arduinos are all bloat, an AVR can run directly off a battery. Then I realized they've found a clever way to use reuse a battery holder as an enclosure!
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>They are not responsible for that, and honestly, nobody is. Recently, I read the description of some machine learning algorithm that was filled with buzzwords and dubious physics analogies to a point that I thought it was a clever Sokal, but after some reading all of it was genuine. That's just how jargon works, you assume that the one who using it understands what he is saying, as long as he's using it seemingly properly, but you can't know unless you have a sufficiently good grasp of the semantics.

I don't think machine learning was a good place to pick an example from. A lot of so-called explanations of ML algorithms basically are Sokal hoaxes, and the fact is that the writer doesn't understand what the algorithm does and how.
End of unlimited fixed broadband draws near in Brazil
With mosquitos extinct (good riddance) other insects would take their niche.

Their impact as a food source would be negligible.

Before they were introduced by sailing ships, its not like the bug-eating animals did not have enough bugs to eat.
Seems like Kloster devised a mathematical proof for a kiting - a game strategy that involves staying just out of the effective range of an opponent while they chase you.
> "do things that don't scale"

Indeed.

What exactly do you need to build that isn't already available?

Somebody else is going to start emailing me summaries for $100 a month while you're messing around with whatever it is you think you need to build first. :)
> Big tech's dangerous and irresponsible promotion of artificial intelligence (AI), autonomous vehicles, consumer drones, virtual reality, robotics, digital 'implants' and many other emerging technologies now borders on the obscene.

I see this initiative is run by luddites.
Nick Bostrom: What happens when our computers get smarter than we are? (2015)
Actors are free game because they're public personas aren't 'real' people to begin with.

Reduced to childhood terms, they're the kids on a playground playing doctor. Yet, as adults we treat people who play doctor with equal or higher regard than those who actually are doctors.

It's pretty idiotic but we all tend to attribute image as a viable replacement for substance.

South Park just points out the ridiculousness of it all by poking fun at those who take their image too seriously or make a mockery out of their status as a public figure.
Extensive discussion two days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11523644
I eventually found a strategy of basically trying to fill every "even" space around the edge, and then only filling in the odd ones when the cat was 1 space away from entering the edge-ring. This would allow me enough time to enclose the entire board, after which trapping the cat into a single space is just a matter of time
Milner is a billionaire. He could easily pay for a full-size satellite lofted up by one of Musk's $5M reusable Falcon 9 boosters in a couple of years... Double that number to build the satellite if you have to and he could still find the change in his pockets...

EDIT: and once I convince Milner to finance this boondoggle can I sign you up to be my lead satellite engineer?
That's a massive wall of text there. Can you summarize the above?
Given that when the rich get caught they just pay a fine that was a percentage of what they made by doing whatever they got caught for then I don't see this changing.

Unfortunately, you're correct on this and it seems that unless someone commits a violent crime, they just end up getting fined unless they can't afford it (middle class) in which case they get the book thrown at them.

You get the very rare notable case of a rich person going to prison for this shit (notable because they actually go to prison) of which they serve a fraction of their sentence in club fed.

I'm not sure where you read this but it isn't accurate. Federal prisoners serve almost 90% of their sentenced time whereas state prisoners are eligible for parole after serving as little as 25% of their sentence.
Me too, to be honest, but I'd also prefer them not to go to jail for it.
I'm a big political hack currently, I've been watching CNN's Race for the White House and taking a lot of more political history courses (HSTAA 212 U.S. Military History, etc).

I certainly don't agree with the direction a lot of these guy's moral compasses were pointing in, but boy did sure did get things done (most of the time).

I hold Teddy and Eisenhower in high esteem, but need to read up more about Monroe.
Apache SINGA (incubating) 0.3.0 release – distributed deep learning platform
It also isn't secure as a few of us have noted, since it suffers from a Cross-site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability:
https://github.com/TailorDev/monod/issues/122
> Amount of material recovered for reuse through take-back initiatives in 2015

> Gold 2204 [lbs] [0]

[0]: http://images.apple.com/au/environment/pdf/Apple_Environment...

So is the Vice story trying to claim that "take back initiatives" aren't run by Apple? This
I have nothing against the summaries but HN puts new comments on top for short duration and it's really annoying to sift through the summary because I have already read the article.

Because of that, these summaries are just comment spam.
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Back when "grit" was still a buzzword
The article uses Clayton Christensen's theory of disruption to explain why Intel missed the mobile phone market and gave it away to ARM. I would just add that I think the same is happening in the Internet of Things.
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USA is a country of Americans so don't act surprised when some Americans think that needs of fellow Americans need to be catered first. That's normal.

You can't help others when you, firstly, don't help yourself.

Non-American here.
DDT and the like are too chemically stable.
Pittsburg
I think the ISP bit is an unnecessary and distracting part, but the general idea is good, I think, for everyone to pay a fixed amount to get access to all content, and then the creators' slice of the payments is determined by what people are actually actually looking at. That way, no one has to think about whether a given article is worth it, nor sign up for every service individually.

Jaron Lanier promoted that same basic scheme in You Are Not a Machine (2010).

It would also eliminate much of the incentive to bypassing paywalls.
I don't really understand how there's 120V at the tip when it's plugged into the Apple USB powers supply. Isn't there a gap between the AC and DC electronics?
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Do you ever notice how the news media will pick someone totally at random to represent how a whole nation feels about a problem? For example: "One <Inhabitant of Area Experiencing Controversial Situation> said....". Except, it's not totally at random, it's whatever interpretation of events that they want to push. Do you think they just print whatever the first person they talked to said?

Same goes for what news stories they cover. It has to align with the narrative that the editors are trying to push.

It's arguably a necessary part of the news media because they have to choose which stories to put in front of you and which people to quote given limited space. Pretending that we can experience everything that goes on in the world from reading a paragraph or two on a situation involving hundreds if not more is not entirely realistic.
The mainstream OS choices are:
Wind River VxWorks, Green Hills Integrity, BlackBerry QNX, Linux, Android, and (god forbid) some variant of Windows.

A great deal of embedded software is still done in C/C++. (Embedded is not a good environment for dynamic languages.)
What in the world would be the point of really going off the nets? I honestly can't see the point. It's so easy to pick and choose how you want to interact with the online world. A few years ago, not having a Facebook was like living in a cave in the woods. Now? All my friends are on Facebook, but very few of them participate. It's been relegated to mere entertainment. I can go days without checking it.

A reporter asked a Girl Scout whether the cookies they were selling were healthy. She just said, "Don't eat the whole box."

Technology is like relationships, they get better after you develop good boundaries. If you can't trust yourself with cookies, don't keep cookies in the house. But really, you should just work on not being a slave to food. Or Facebook.

Nothing about technology actually keeps you from interacting more deeply with others. You do that to yourself. You can't blame food for making you fat.
Or to connect to a raspberry pi through serial.
You need clean water every time you empty this, which can be anything from every 2 hours to every 8. It's not really suitable when you are not sure if you are a) privacy and b) clean water. Pads should be biodegradable and tampons should ONLY use biodegradable plastic - that's the main issue these days. Same for men using disposable razors: if you won't use a straight blade, would you lobby for the plastic to be biodegradable?
That guy had a genius idea, bet many people are gonna use this for wearable projects in the future.

Kinda wish I was better at stuff like this, maybe I should begin playing around with my Arduino again.
SMS in Rwanda
Is there a platform that can send SMS to mobile phones in Rwanda? Can I send multiple texts at once to multiple people to their basic mobile phones? Cost? Please let me know.
Its more about brand recognition than anything else. Now they are at parity pricing and they still dont close the gap.
Right. Just for contrast, Christopher Reeve (most famous "Superman"actor) died in 2004 of complications of a _bed sore_ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Reeve
If you quit the app with the menu button then it is quit completely. Essentially, the "home" functionality works just like on iOS or Android. You're right that it is not always intuitive in situations when an app is hanging/frozen, but I'm not sure why you have to open other apps to get it to quit - I've never had that problem.

Disclosure: I used to work on the Xbox Live team at MSFT but no longer do.
It might be uncharitable to say but it's always been my opinion that their lab and token inventions are cover for their patent trolling activities. Actual inventions from their people are few and far between.
Wouldn't it be nice if someone could set up a "next Silicon Valley" somewhere that doesn't already have an outrageous cost of living?
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An interesting read but basically boils down to "how many primitive opcodes are there" rather than instructions on the whole. It also doesn't take into account the use of prefixes: for example nop1 and nop2 are technically two instructions (0x90 and 0x66 0x90) but just counting opcodes isn't going to see that.

However if you are interested in assembly this is a well written post and talks about the problem of overloaded opcodes (eg mov, add) and gives different ways of coming up with the answers, which are between 900 and 2500 depending on what you count ...
Python has a great tool called Tox for testing on multiple python versions: https://tox.readthedocs.org/en/latest/