skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Trim a video, save as original, and then you "lose it" until you go back home and then back to photos
Most if not all phones have the ability to dial emergency numbers without unlocking them. How many false-positives will this physical "emergency button" result in?

I'd much rather see the market address these concerns without being coerced into doing so. If consumers want a big "emergency" button on their phone, by all means offer a product with one, but forcing said "feature" on every single person who purchases a phone should be frowned upon.
Even Tesla has a significant environmental impact with its massive Lithium footprint
If folks like Rust and want questions answered, check out the vibrant http://reddit.com/r/rust
I was refactoring some legacy academic code recently. It came with a GUI which, if the user did something wrong, fail with the message "Error N" (N being some number) without any further information or logging. The only way to figure out what happened was to grep the source code to see precisely what triggered the alert box.

There's also the bizarre policy university has about passwords. Your password is reset every six months (fine), it can't be similar to your old one (fine) and it's truncated to 8 characters (what?).
We haven't given up, there is simply not enough financial incentive to make the software any better. See 'We Could Write Nearly Perfect Software but We Choose Not to' https://blog.inf.ed.ac.uk/sapm/2014/03/14/we-could-write-nea... "The simple truth is that bug–free on-time software is just more expensive than we (or our clients) are prepared to pay."
I stumbled upon the Palace of Fine Arts during my visit to SF and was incredibly impressed. The surrounding neighborhood is really nice to see was well. The beach is right across the street with a good view of Alcatraz and the Golden Gate. Overall, it is a good use of time.
Node.js version manager for fish-shell 1.0 released
Right, I currently drive a very small car, but I am getting tired of not being able to see around every other larger car on the road. So I am tempted to buy something taller next time.
I don't think there's any reason to be judgy about the other commenter. I understand you wanted a rigorous definition but there are better ways to ask for it than making unilateral demands and using negative terms like "disappointing" and "annoying". You may be well versed in these subjects but it is possible to be technically correct and gracious at the same time. I think you're capable of doing so and you would probably find more fruitful discussions by taking that path.
Selecting one of 84 characters purely randomly gives you 6.3923174227787602763 bits of entropy.

Selecting one of 84 characters by using modulus on a 32 bit random number gives you 6.3923174227787602889 bits of entropy.

It is a bug, but it is absolutely a non-problem. The difference you would get from using 83 or 85 characters is many orders of magnitude larger; this is not something that needs such an enormous level of precision.
And I honestly can't figure out how people can tolerate connection flakiness, quality issues, and battery drain for a set of headphones. I have tried many BT audio solutions and this is not wanna-be-audiophile pickiness, but the experience is universally substandard as far as I can tell.
City put traffic lights in sidewalks so smartphone users don’t have to look up
Or a case of Selective Perception: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selective_perception

When my friend was talking about buying a Prius, he saw Priuses everywhere for a few weeks. It's not that the Priuses weren't there before: it's just that he didn't notice them as much before.
gedit has to be the slowest piece of software on Linux, which is insane since it's supposed to be gnome's notepad counterpart. Starting up geany it's way faster and geany it's basically an IDE. Ridiculous.
Not at all. Most code doesn't suffer from this problem. It's a pathological case.
Hi all! Founder here. The reason we are building this is simple – web design is far from solved, still. I know there are tools out there that help. Starting from very rigid template-based tools ending with fully customizable frameworks. Our goal is to bring designers and developers closer together. At the end we are speaking the same language of HTML/CSS. Froont aims to communicate the ideas better. Thanks!
Unusual facial asymmetry https://vk.com/wall66559_67051 and luck for Mima. There's no evidence the photographer was actually finding the people corresponding to his photos.
A Small Tool to Launch Windows Programs from WSL (Bash on Ubuntu on Windows)
I had one - great phone for the price but I found the 1GB mem to be a real limitation - websites would reload if I switched to a dif app then back. I now have an Asus with 4GB - great phone too and also relatively cheap (about a yr old now)
Robot monk to spread Buddhist wisdom to the digital generation
I intended for my shoe story to be a rebuttal against the speaker's pants story, as the scenarios are essentially identical if you substitute "shoes" for "pants". Perhaps the argument would have been more valid had I skipped that and just directly addressed the long-term results of his pants encounter instead.
Interesting. Probably a good call not to tell them what OS it is; I've been in that situation before and if you can avoid it, it's definitely better to do so. Thanks for the insight.
There's a lot of that that's not novel. Ttr for example is largely a (retinol binding protein)-carrier in the bloodstream, but it's function in the brain is...?? Maybe a protein that flushes small molecules accumulated in the brain? The knockout mouse has an very very subtle behavioral change.
I am quite sure a much larger number of rapes in India go unreported. Women are discouraged from reporting such cases, specially in rural areas. Most of India is rural. The few which do get reported are probably the ones affecting mid-to-upper class people in cities, or the few brave women who dared.
From http://paulgraham.com/int15.html

I'm not involved with selecting startups for Y Combinator anymore, but that is certainly what they are trying to find.
Swift development began in 2010.
OK, but that doesn't change the fact that a lot of people do choose a color they want.
Life on Pseudo-Mars: Designing a Space Drill to Thrive on the Red Planet
Agree, generally speaking, people do try to help, though I do believe there's room for improvement.
As someone who basically looked at this as confirming what I believed about the iPhone 6/+ (ie: that it is too big and no one likes it and Apple's sales are going to fall), thanks for this post. Changed my view.
Sounds risky. What if (I mean, when) there's another critical vuln, you need to update, but unstable has moved on so the libssl/openssl package deps are unsatisfiable on stable (for example, depending on unstable-only libc6?). Or the ABI breaks all reverse dependencies. You might have to end up upgrading to unstable to get a consistent system, but then you might have broken your own (web-)apps with a too new/different base system... Not to mention you're on unstable, which have had fun bugs in the past like accepting empty passwords for pam/ssh logins(!)
I forget that 3D Touch exists because I own an iPad, which does not have it. After using the iPad for a while, I stopped trying to use 3D Touch on my phone, because I got conditioned to the idea that it isn't there.
Yes, actually. In an interview from jail[0], one of the men who participated in the 2012 gang rape and murder of Jyoti Singh blamed the victim for the attack[1]!

[0] http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/india/1144346...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2012_Delhi_gang_rape#Incident
I don't think you can have privilege without oppression of some sort, whether it's an extreme level of oppression like legalized slavery in America, or a more subdued kind like the economic inequality we have in America today.

Never the less, even in Sunni areas, I dont think it
would be helpful to describe the issue suffered by say
Shias as Sunni privilege.

I'd tentatively agree. The value, if any, of "_____ privilege" terminology is get ______ to examine their own privileges, consider how they might benefit from and/or contribute to inequality, and consider how other groups don't share those same privileges.

So in an area where, say, Shia are openly and brutally oppressed by Sunnis there's probably no value to talking about "Sunni privilege" because (I'm assuming) the Sunnis in power are not in denial about the situation.

Contrast w/ America where the inequality is present but typically not as severe nor brutal, but a lot of whites are completely in denial of the fact that there is any systemic inequality at all.
There are plenty of efficient second-hand cars available. Alternatively, you could just drive less.
Show HN: Chrome Extensions Archive
The frustration was that support kept greeting with the random name despite being asked not to. I'm sure that's just a "Hello $NAME" template, but it's still lazy.
It is wonderful how altruistic people become against the poor if the subject are gas prices. Most do not care about health care, good education or equality of opportunities for the poor. But as soon as we talk about gas prices the poor are the number concern even for most neoliberal.
It is likely they have broken rules for far longer (25 years perhaps? [1]). And after we (as in, we the tax payers, who pay for all the health bills) have asked scientifically grounded questions, strict rules were put in place. Rules that deal with life and death... Rules that reflect the severe impact on us, our surroundings, our planet. It can be expected of an academic executive that the basis of these rules lie in extending our (healthy) life span. It can be expected thusly, that the decision of knowingly breaking these rules by 10- to 40-fold, will have cost the lives of thousands world wide [2]. This is not a victimless crime.

[1] http://money.cnn.com/2016/04/26/news/companies/mitsubishi-ch...
[2] http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-vw-pollution-footprint...
Cut prices on their ageing cash cow, or start flogging that faltering horse?

Smart money's on the latter. Kinda painful to re-watch the Apple II moment while android ambles off into the sunset with all the users....
Your not kidding, I've had iPhones since they came to Australia (Gen 2, Gen 1 iPhones were imported but not properly available via local channels) and I heavily use the iMessage app since my plan has had "unlimited" SMS pretty much the whole time I've had an iPhone... And I NEVER saw this until I tried it 60 seconds ago.
millions of lives ARE lost as result of ordinary industrial activity. Also Billions of lives are possible. It's a tradeoff.
Too bad I thought it had finally gathered the ability to manufacture itself. Turns out the owners suck, too bad.
It might be cliche, but... wine tasting? We drove up to a winery overlooking a valley just outside of the city. The drive through the redwoods was really beautiful. I wish I had the name of the place, but I don't. We went in the middle of the day during the week so we had the place almost all to ourselves and had a good bit of conversation with the person pouring the drinks.

Half Moon Bay was another place we went to that paid of well. The beach is a really good long walk and is really beautiful on a sunny day.
Probably weighs hundreds of pounds and is bottom heavy. I doubt even tipping it would be easy.
The password generator gets 32 bit random values and then does modulus 84 to pick characters. There is a bias, but it has as much entropy as a perfect generator choosing out of 83.999999999999999 characters.

Edit: The question in my mind is whether it was oversight or intentional simplicity. The first is a bad sign, the second isn't a big deal.
That garage door solution sounds interesting if not overly complex. I automated the garage door using a MIMOLite[1] Z-Wave dry contact bridge wired to an extra remote control.

[1]: http://amzn.com/B00B6RZ7MM
That just leaves the field to the incompetents. They are not going to stop inflicting this crappy code on the world just because you quit.
Inn the abstract is seems OK for researchers to simply sit on vulns they have found, but is that what really happens? Why do that? Do they get sold eventually? Are there a lot of cases where the developer is hostile to fixing them? How OK this is depends on the eventual disposition.

The other one seems clearer: "Disclosing vulnerabilities to vendors kills exploits." Well, yes. The problem is that, in the present situation, endpoint security is terrible. It seems unlikely that our government has made it possible for themselves to break endpoint security, but not the Chinese or any other nation, organized crime group, or other non-state actor with some software smarts. It may take some catastrophic infrastructure penetration or super-Snowden leak to show why this is unwise.
Hi, thanks for sharing your implementation. Am I totally misusing (py)unum?

Using pyunum, repeatedly rotate the point (1,0) by 45 degrees. Print out the X coordinate every 8 rotations. Mathematically, the value printed each time should be exactly 1. Unfortunately, after just 79 iterations, the unum covers the range (-27352064, 27352064)! This includes the correct result but is useless.

A similar program using Python floats (i.e., platform doubles) prints 0.9999999999999937 at step 79 and runs in 1/540 of the time on my oldish core2 notebook. (or 0.9999999999371962 at step 799999 in less than 1/10 of the time of the 79 unum steps)

from unum import *

a = divideu(x2u(1), sqrtu(x2u(2)))

x, y = x2u(1), x2u(0)
for i in range(80):
x, y = timesu(minusu(x, y), a), timesu(plusu(x, y), a)
if i % 8 == 7: print i, view(x)
Discrimination is alive and well I see.
This level of criminality requires some kind of response, or really, lets just drop the idea of crime as a concept and just monetize "justice". At least we could dispense with some of the more galling hypocrisy, without changing how the system works one iota.
Dropbox has same sign up non-validation mentioned in the article. I mentioned it to them when I got a phantom sign-up notice. Reset password and found an account with my email and uploaded content! You can fully use DB w/o validating your email. Hello anonymous dead-drops!
I'm archiving the chrome extensions, app and themes for multiple purposes:

- being able to go back to a previous version

- auditing version history (eg: somebody adding a malware)

- making my own extensions store with manual crowdsourced auditing before each update

- exposing the interesting data behind the chrome webstore marketplace

For now, only the archiving is here. What do you think ? Is it useful for you ?
Why would I want a digital headphone jack? Headphones are analog devices, so you're just going to have to cram a DAC into the headphones anyway, making them heavier, more expensive, and DRM-encumbered.
The Arctic is melting – and scientists just lost a key tool to observe it
I don't have a horse in the race. I just think you're not reading these documents carefully or considering the evidence carefully.

For example, that case you cite above, the $6k copay. OK. Read the memo closely. A Walgreens exec is emailing a Turing exec citing a patient's problem with Turing's bureaucracy.

How was the problem resolved? Did Turing pay? You say that CLEARLY Turing didn't end up paying in this particular case, because you hate Turing, but the document doesn't say. And you have no idea. Neither do I, but I'm not pretending.

Generally: Turing says, for goodwill, they give away 60% of the drug for a dollar.

Do you know of even one case where someone - verifiably - fell through the cracks and Turing refused to EVER pay?

Are you opposed to the idea of pharmaceutical companies selling orphan drugs at high prices ($100k, $300k, or more)? Or are you only opposed to Turing's purchase of Daraprim and raising the price? Would you still oppose them if, in 10 years, it turned out Turing's profits had, e.g., produced a PKAN drug? Do you know a better way than high drug prices to incentivize the creation of drugs for serious rare diseases?
is that why all governments seem to want to have them?
The DateField hypothesis :

For any given reasonable estimate for an item of software, add 2^N days to that estimate, where N = the number of date/datetime fields involved on that form or database table.

eg - You have a complex data entry screen to add to a webpage, and you KNOW for certain that you can complete it thoroughly in 2-3 days tops, testing every possible edge case. Good stuff.

However, if that screen has 2 date fields involved, then its going to take 2^2 or 4 extra days over and above the reasonable estimate to get it done properly, and handle NULL dates, timezone differences, comparison of dates for equality, parsing date inputs, converting internal representations between front end / backend / storage ... and every other unexpected abomination.
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I had an iPhone 3GS with the puffy battery issue, I replaced the battery and the replacement did the same thing. It puffs up almost like a bag of microwave popcorn. Very odd.
I think the overlap in features demonstrates popular appeal for such features in our tools. I think the details of how they're implemented are pretty important to users too so there's space for innovation even if the feature set is the same on the surface.

Another feature mentioned in the introduction is this:

* Developer friendliness. It should be easy to customize xi editor, whether by adding plug-ins or hacking on the core.

I'm vaguely familiar with NeoVIM, is the core "hackable"? This is really subjective territory but I'm guessing the author is implying that the xi core code is also optimized for human understandability and extensibility and that new code is judged by those criteria as well as the other stuff.
I don't understand: If there is a spec that says, hey, this prefixed stuff will get removed sooner or later, use the non prefixed variant along with the prefixed so that it does not hurt you, and some people use only the prefixed variants, why would the browser vendors be bothered to not break their code, and keep stuff that needs to be removed, around?
Judge Grants U.S. Gov't Torture Victims Their First Chance to Pursue Justice
Cpustat: high frequency performance measurements for Linux
It's nice to see WebKit adopt this approach too. Chrome and Firefox have already had a policy against new CSS properties with vendor prefixes for over three years, so with Safari onboard too now it's becoming easier to imagine a future where web developers won't have to worry about writing code with prefixes anymore. The only potential reason to use them will be compatibility with older browser versions.
Is it any more common in India? The country has 1.3 billion people - no matter what you do you'll get some horrific behavior.
You can't DRM standard analog output (and still be compatible with normal analog headphones), which is why I mentioned the DRM concern.

Most of your current digital audio output ports already support DRM. S/PDIF, HDMI, DisplayPort, etc. all support DRM for digital audio.
Pretty much every 20 year old codebase is a mix of terrible stuff. The exceptions are rare and usually involve a strong handed dictator who is willing to make cleanups from time to time.

You're lucky it isn't Fortran and a homegrown (crappy) macro language.... You can't fairly judge Scheme or C from a legacy codebase unless you judge every other language that way too.
I would love a standard that doesn't produce a loud pop when you plug it in to amplified speakers.
Tim mentioned on the earnings call today that the SE is supply constrained because the SE is selling far better than they projected that it would.
Out of curiosity, in what way do you feel TouchID makes your phone more secure than just a password? Someone could steal a glass you've touched along with your phone and unlock it with a bit of effort. From a technical standpoint, the only thing TouchID adds in terms of security is preventing someone from peering over your shoulder at a passcode as you enter it, but a would-be thief is more probably far more concerned with selling the hardware than ransoming your data. And if they want your data, iCloud and other services are the real weakpoint.
Yes, but you cannot simply compare the results of industrial activity with the results of breaking rules governing industrial activity. The rules were the trade-off and breaking them breaks the trade-off.
> Apple's watch is a dud.

Why do certain people say this? The watch is a $6.5 billion business in its first year. That is a huge success. Nothing compares to that.
This is cool. On a related topics, I'm still waiting for a sqlite for graphs to emerge.
Anne Frank Died in 1945, and yet 70 years later her diary is copyright protected to enable profiting by publishers. (Copyright extends till 2051)

And then Studios/publishers/Record Labels/Academic Publishers complain when people resort to piracy
Singapore is a city state. The entire country is a single city, with a population density comparable to New York City (18,645/sq mi vs 26,403/sq mi; and unlike NYC, large slabs of Singapore are used for heavy industry or military purposes).
There are much simpler solutions to fighting the robots in the article. One could also score a sensor kill by draping a big plastic garbage bag over it. If one uses a space blanket or something that absorbs RF, one would disable it too. The robots in the article can only handle flat terrain. So putting down rocks and debris will severely limit their mobility. Entanglement is also a nice option to limit mobility. Simply tipping the robot over will pretty much disable it.

A lasso is a particularly entertaining option in the last two regards. One could lasso up said robot and pull it over.

Now if one really wants to get high tech we can do stuff like jam the lidars(flashing some LEDs) and sonar(making some noise). Without obstacle sensors like these, said robots are gonna be much harder to teleoperate.
New Story, which builds houses for homeless people. They had this huge project in Haiti. I believe they were S15, but I'm not sure.
This tool tells you the gender distribution of any name in U.S
Because the users would complain that Apple or Google broke all these websites with the latest update.

Backwards compatibility is tricky.
It's the reason I don't (seriously) use it. I have 3 bitcoins or so floating about somewhere.
>They are preserving the network part of the address, which probably gives them the AS number.

Yep, it is guaranteed to reveal your ASN because the smallest IP prefix on the internet is /24.

The last 8 bits are not dependent on the network address.
The rules have always been for the benefit of industry, not to save lives. The government explicitly shields corporations from liability.
Sprints aren't sprints.

Except when they are. And just using that term encourages people to treat them like actual sprints, instead of just metaphorical sprints. This is why I advocate for use of the term "iteration" instead. But even then, I think it's important to include "slack" iterations that are for random bug fixes, miscellaneous refactoring, etc., that is developer driven, not business user driven.
Hmm don't really follow your argument. The only extra thing I need to write are checks to exclude code that should not be executed server side. Thats a long way from effort required to implement same thing in 2 languages.
> expensive wireless bluetooth headphones will make use of their own good DAC all the time.

Thank god. Otherwise you'd miss out on the subtle nuance and coloration from the compression artifacts that you can't enjoy with 19th century headphone technology.
Go to Yosemite or Lake Tahoe for a week. Just be a tourist or camp in a tent.
I've gotten about half my wardrobe from AliExpress, and I look like a million bucks.

The stigma is for the uneducated. Cheap knockoffs will be cheap. But if you know how to spend and where to spend it in China — regardless of industry — you will get amazing quality for the price.