skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I find Atom to be preferable in many ways, however, more often than not tend to use SublimeText3 instead.

I find Sublime to be cumbersome to customize, however it is definitely significantly less detrimental on either Windows, Linux or Mac in terms of battery/memory and CPU needs.

My only complaint about Atom is I cannot seem to get text wrapping to work the way I have it working in Sublime. This is my primary reason to not use Atom more often.
I wasn't high enough to invest money in them and I would not have invested money without doing DD (not that I would be let anywhere near that project anyway).

The main point is that I (and many with me) are quite shocked that this amount of investment was done without anybody knowledgeable in the field apparently doing DD on the company. That there is a mechanism that explains this is what makes it interesting, especially given the size of the various investments.

There are a few more cases like this that are - in my opinion at least - more interesting still because they are closer to fields that I know more about than about bloodworks. And that's one of the main take-aways for me, investors should invest in things that they understand or they should hire their own independent experts to verify that the technology is real, but in practice even if they know this they do not always do it, even at the level of Theranos (hard to imagine, but there is pretty solid proof by now).

That Theranos is - at this point this seems likely - a lemon is a very good and extremely expensive lesson for anybody that wishes to invest looking at the bona-fides of the other investors already on board. That should count for exactly nothing. Good luck convincing the world of that but that is my conclusion.

The way I read the Theranos story is that the dream didn't work out, that - rather than welcome inquiry and fixing of the tech. They chose to become super defensive and play silly games rather than to open up which suggests that there is a level of self deception going on. And this is where it becomes very hard to distinguish a scam from an accident and a fraud from simply one of many failed investments.

If anything the level rather than the principles here are what attracts attention, you see this situation in the investment world with great regularity at lower levels of investment and usually these take much less time to play out.

I wonder if at some level Theranos and its executives still believe they can 'fix' the technology or if they have actually given up on that. This will be the harder part for them, to acknowledge defeat and to own it.

It's a sad story, nothing to be gleeful about but at least for me there are some very valuable lessons here. Social proof is no proof at all and each and every investor that lost (or stands to lose) money in this whole saga will have paid a very dear price to learn that lesson.

Next up: uBeam.
A bit scary but I understand ubuntu probably don't have the resource to watch all those packages all the time for verifying/backporting/testing etc.

As far as security goes, Ubuntu really should work together with Debian to leverage each other to better the situation. My sites run either LTS or Debian and now I'm more worried.
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this is a question for those using freepascal, how would you compare it to modern languages like scala, go, rust
There was a defcon talk where the speaker did set his BTS to the same frequency as was allowed for ham radio or somesuch, which might be legal...but I very much doubt that :D

Think it was this one

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xKihq1fClQg
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I'm a newbie at radio (though starting to get into it). What would be the main use-case for this GSM BTS? I mean, does it act like a femto and provide increased signal strength in/around your home? Or is this the kind of thing that is merely fun to build (though unlikely to operate to due fcc-related restrictions)??
Agreed. The hotels I stay in are generally very similar in terms of room-structure, amenities, etc. I suspect that my subconscious doesn't register a new hotel room as a new experience, but rather as an old, familiar, and safe one.

I bet that someone's very first experience sleeping in a hotel would yield a poorer quality than their 100th one.
I find myself doing that when very tired or under significant social stress, but you're right, the structure of the brain can't support that interpretation directly.

I imagine that your brain could easily be experiencing it as a cue for self-trained rest states, so I don't want to misunderstand your experience as identical to my own, especially if you're doing it for 2-4 hours a stretch. My own interpretation of what is going on when I do it has been that it simply reduces (a) cognitive load (maybe) and (b) unnoticed eyestrain (more likely) by eliminating any attempt at depth perception.
Because this one is superior. Why do we have cars if we can all walk just fine?
I find Sublime better than Atom, but honestly VS Code is really starting to win me over. The price and licensing difference and between the two also makes it easier for me to recommend VS Code to people.
The article is about Type 2 diabetes. Type 1 diabetics are unable to manufacture insulin. No amount of green tea and yoga change that.
I'm pretty sure I have sleep apnea as well, and I've done something similar. I will often let my right eye stay closed while I'm getting ready for work, or going places that aren't work, and that seems to satisfy part of my brain that demands sleep otherwise.

It actually takes some effort to keep my left eye closed, but for some reason its super easy to keep my right eye closed and takes pretty much no effort at all. So it might be a biological thing. I also struggled to keep my left eye open enough to put contacts in it back when I bothered using contacts.
> They are profit machines and are required by law to be that way.

People say this all the time, but it's not true. In the US managers at public companies do have an obligation to act in the best interest of the shareholders, but no court has ever said that means maximizing profit. On the contrary, managers had very broad rights to run a company as they see fit. In fact public companies forgo short-term profit all the time in favor of long-term goals such as improving their reputation with customers, politicians or regulators. Shareholders don't get any say in business decisions such as how to handle emissions regulations.

There are some exceptions. You can't explicitly screw over the shareholders, such as by selling the company for cheap in a deal that guarantees big bonuses for management. That doesn't apply here. Craigslist got in trouble and the details of the case are kind of interesting, but it was an extreme and unusual case that also doesn't apply to VW.

I'd assume the rules are similar in Germany. It wouldn't make sense to have a rule that corporations must maximize short-term profit all the time. No one could run a big business that way.
Those people are bullies so it's fair to insult them.

Ladies and gentlemen, this is why we can't have nice things (as a species).
One use case is the GSM network ran on Chaos Communication Congress hacker conference in Hamburg. They created an internal network for the attendees to - among other reasons - communicate for free:

https://events.ccc.de/congress/2015/wiki/Static%3AGSM
Looks like we are not that far from the dolphins.
Would have loved to see some data on what requests were easily handled by the bot and/or what questions could truly be answered by a fully automated bot.
> Things like destructuring, are still 10x slower in Node 5.8 than through Babel, for example (and even 100x slower in Firefox). The spread parameter is similar.

That's interesting. I had no idea there was such a drop in performance - orders of magnitude in some engines!
Well I suppose that's unintended comedy in the naming then.
Maybe not organized, but usually specialized. To steal a bike, you need a set of tools (like a modified car jack http://www.citylab.com/navigator/2014/10/your-u-lock-is-basi...) and knowledge of where to sell the parts.
Fairwaves: Mobile networks reinvented
Previous discussion about this link: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11557166
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Every time I try to use LibreOffice (and OpenOffice before that), I end up terribly disappointed by the software quality compared to 'equivalent' Microsoft or Apple products. Have things improved lately?
There was something on HN a year or two ago that said that gladiators tended to be on the fat side. On the other hand, given the distances marched, I doubt the hoplites and legionaries had much excess fat.
Seems like we haven't progressed much beyond Clippy, the old MS Office "bot" from 1997. So perhaps we shouldn't be holding our breath. (Though AlphaGo just came out of nowhere so....)
123-reg accidentally deletes hundreds of websites and backups
Completely off-topic!

Should be submitted as it's own article.
They do with reasonable success in many parts of the world, so I'm not sure what GP was trying to claim.
It's estimated that 60% of type-2 diabetics would no longer be affected if they simply lost weight and got down to a healthy BMI.

Obese Type-2s should really be called "Type F" because it's not fair to people who didn't self-inflict their condition.
A baby is for life but maybe when it's new and our responsibility, then our brain changes or starts (or does not turn off) certain mechanisms too.

I was thinking more about "my room", I've moved because job reasons 3 times in my life, and I always start renting a room in the new place.

First day is always the same, clean up (just in case) and try to make it feel like my room, personally.

Always sleep well, but with the time, sleep better when certain "things" are fixed to my taste in the room.

I think this maybe even hard-coded in our ADN. Because to be here, our ancestors did search and modify many caves.
> Good thing I have Clojurescript...

which depends on the JVM ...

ES6 has nothing to do with either C++ or Scala. It takes most of its new syntax from Python.
It's not a correct way to submit a link on HN. Plus to this, don't ask your friends to upvote your link.
Now I know how my wife feels when she asks what I'm up to...
Helium raises $20M for smart industrial sensors
Ask HN: Which personal investing tools do you use?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11387384
Oh, really? What if I am trekking in Nepal for 20 days, each time sleeping in a new place, at different altitude?
Maybe because hotels are usually "standard" and therefore fall in the bucket of "sleep as usual" ?
For companies like this, do a chargeback through the credit card company. It will cost them with higher transaction fees over time.
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Could anyone who has the previous version comment on light response?

I went out and bought a random webcam model from a local store for 7GBP as a proof of concept so that I could start hacking on the code. 640x480, but that doesn't matter too much for testing. It is completely unusable in most lighting conditions. I wanted to point it out of the window to track wildlife. Sunlight just overloads the sensor and you get white, low light and it's fully black.

Is this something that requires higher cost equipment? I can't see how it could be useful as an ipcam if outdoor lighting destroys it.
UberXL is my most frequent use by far. It's easy to get a large SUV that can seat 6 passengers with room for luggage.
>Why do you think it's important that they implement import/export?

For compatibility. Everyone is moving toward ES6 modules, so if you write your app in CommonJS now, you'll likely have to re-factor it into ES6 modules in the future.

Not a deal-breaker, but it's certainly needed (and it sounds like Node devs are well aware of this).
I do love APL's syntax. It's part of the appeal for me.

That said, Red looks like a godsend. I was looking for something I can use without much setup and learning costs, that is small, elegant, efficient, fast, gets the job done, and is long-term maintainable. Red seems to fit the bill. I'm still evaluating it and it still looks good.
As there's already automatic(?) tracking for unfixed CVEs in "universe" at https://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/universe.h..., it would be a short step to a local tool that disables and/or warns users about running the programs when there are remote vulnerabilities.

All in all it's pretty irresponsible to allow the current situation in the first place. Don't ship vulnerability-prone internet-facing C apps that you can't patch.

I wonder what the patch situation in practice is with CentOS installs that enable EPEL?
Nothing strange about that - if there is a limit that is hard to meet (which there should be) then manufacturers will make a car that exactly meets the standard.

And just like advertised fuel consumption figures, it will meet the standard under very controlled circumstances. In case of fuel consumption the manufacturers can reach the figure by taping shut door seams, using overinflated tyres, throwing out interior to reduce weight etc. Those aren't "real world conditions" but apparently they are real-world enough to use in advertising. Presumably the same conditions can and are used when testing emissions.

The only conclusion we can draw is that emissions tests aren't used to make manufacturers build cars that emit at most X in real world conditions. That would be both unfair and expensive - it's better to say "use whatever extreme conditions you want and the emissions should be at most Y".

In that case authorities can make Y < X and the whole thing is simpler and easier for everyone. If cars emit too much in real-world conditions? Then tighten the limits.

This of course only works so long as no one cheats and designs workarounds specifically for the test conditions (which is what VW did).
Gradientzoo: pre-trained neural network models
Is there an overview of this thing that doesn't require me to watch a video?

("A photo tells a thousand words", but I can read at 300-400 words/minute while a video typically conveys roughly 100 wpm. I don't like wasting my time and bandwidth.)
European startup raises $72M build the ‘Rolls Royce of smartphones’
Or a 30 year old container ship
Found it through this blog post - https://medium.com/@ericflo/why-i-made-an-open-source-model-...
Yes, I've met many people who "just want to network." Based on past evidence, less than five percent of the people I met from meetups became longer lasting friends. (Those are probably great odds when compared to my friendship rates in school and college).

I remember going home from some meetups feeling the night was a bust. In retrospect, I would have been less disappointed if I thought of it like dating or job hunting. My goal isn't a 100% match rate. My goal is to find matches that leave me happy.
It's not as much about ES6 constructs being slower, it's just that they're newer so haven't been optimised as much yet.
I've done vastly less debugging after adopting TDD; does K/Q have a not so good testing facility? (It's of course not very hard to erect your own.)
You are oversimplifying things. You can't just read a byte or read a length, not at all. You have to check whether you have 8 bytes in a buffer for that length field or how many bytes your spec specifies, then you have to decode that length, is it in a big-endian or in a little-endian, decide where do you need to shift each byte, then you have to check whether you have that much bytes in a buffer to read the data and so on. It's even harder, than manual parsing of texts, because you have to deal with different encodings and cannot just skip anything til whitespace, no, you have to parse everything and not make a mistake interpreting every little thing from the spec. But you know, it's kind of stupid to parse texts manually, you do it with a regular expression or a parser generator and write rules like "'FOO' whitespace number CR? LF", so they are still way easier to deal with.
Thank you for this comment. I think it's really hard to pin down.

I don't agree that it's about people 'drifting apart', or 'finding different interests'.

In some sense those are being taken as tautologies, when I don't think they are. Why can't people with different interests hang out?

There's loads to talk about. Our interests are a tiny microscopic portion of the human experience.

In the UK people go out and get stone drunk and then anything becomes a fun topic of discussion. We call it disinhibition. But why are we 'inhibited' to begin with?

This is why I call it 'ego'. I don't think I'm using the term accurately. It's just this idea of pleasing one's self, efficiently, rather than trying to be part of some whole, or just swimming, letting life happen.
Node's module system has numerous drawbacks. It's a clever hack but having a native module system with proper imports and exports, and which is amenable to static analysis is a huge improvement. It's probably been the biggest productivity boon for me of any of the ES6 features.
http://fontfamous.com/

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11247567

FYI I found it by Googling "site:news.ycombinator.com font logos"
It's worth highlighting that the parent post refers to the Sex Pistols song rather than the rather more acceptable national anthem of the same name.
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thanks, it's fixed.. my english is rusty
In what way is it superior?
There's something to be said about an industry where the bar for "good" is the service employee just not talking to you at all for an extended period of time.
Thank you. I did the search and googled, I'll step up my search game.
I think you're mistaken, CommonJS is not going away, Node is not going to deprecate CommonJS modules, there is too much code that depends on it.
actually this worked for me, I had high blood sugar and high blood pressure and I solved both with low carbs diet and eating healthy. It's like the article say, eating healthy will help no matter what but yeah it's hard to stop eating junk.
An interesting insight. Reading it made me think that the other side of the information asymmetry is equally relevant: the client knows more about their strategic and tactical goals as well as their economic capacity to pay for work.
Maybe it's possible to have a filtering lens or film to clamp the dynamic range ?
You'd be better off getting a USB webcam for that, I don't imagine CSI (Camera Serial Interface Type 2, the connection the camera modules use) works well over long distances.
Wow very good read in the link.

I like the chimp that hid stones to throw at visitors that annoy him later haha
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With the most recent taxi I took, the driver didn't know how to program his GPS, so he handed it to me to program and then ignored it, so I had to also program my phone, which he also ignored, so I had to call out every turn several times, which he also ignored, backtracking, extending the route, and asking where we were, to one of the main streets in the city.

Next I tried Uber twice, and the drivers showed up immediately, were friendly, and offered a tour of interesting spots in the city as we went and made suggestions about favorite places to visit around town. Also, the same trip was 1/10th the price. If that's even sometimes typical, I don't see how Uber can lose. I do hope the company can act responsibly and keep up that kind of service.
What would make it more "databasey"?
On the other hand, I very much identified with the article. For the first night or so in a new place, I commonly don't sleep well even if there aren't obvious travel-related factors (jet lag, shifted sleep hours, etc.) I adjust pretty quickly for the most part, but it commonly takes a day or two.
This is not the simplified abstraction I'm looking for. Give me an ML library that exposes the API using metaphors I can understand a relate to and I'm all over it. Leaf is still using terms and concepts I don't understand.
I used to work in the field and it's a great book. Highly recommend. Another one I like to recommend is Reverend Bill Blunden's The Rootkit Arsenal.

Don't overlook having a deep knowledge of Windows Internals either. That book series is almost criminally overlooked by people who work on supporting it.

Also the IDA Pro book. Damn, I wish I could afford the software. :( Really should learn radare one of these days.
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But then I could make the same point about the vast majority of humanities academics. Most work isnt paradigm shifting, it's just building on top of currently accepted theories.

And that's my actual point. When it comes to rejecting or accepting new models, there is much dogma in physics as there is in sociology, because the underlying problem is human beings not the subject of study. Even Einstein dogmatically said "God does not play dice", rejecting QM based on his intuition about how the universe works rather than being cold and only looking at observation.

Personally, I don't think there is anything inherently wrong with dogma, it helps your research become an overdamped system otherwise you'd be wasting all your time following ultimately fruitless leads. The important thing is to use this inherent quality of humans to your advantage.
You could use something like Greasemonkey and set up rules for that domain, though it'd be nice if this was automated from the action of deleting an element.
This is an attitude I see from many of my friends and I fundamentally disagree because I think so many of those 'other places' are stifling and non-inclusive.

A restaurant is a place where speaking more loudly than a certain amount will earn you ire from others. You're surrounded by other groups that aren't your group. There's a prescribed format. It's a ritual, you know? There's a sandbox out there, and the format is 'let's go and do X, for X hours, and that's it'.

I hate restaurants, and cinemas, and cafes, and stuff. Just give me a roof and we'll make the fun. But the roof doesn't exist, because as a society, we decided that capitalism and the building of private castles is how it's going to work. Railing against that as an individual is terribly hard.

The problem with it, is that if we decide as a society that these paid, gated experiences are how we're going to socialise, then everyone who doesn't work hard enough is excluded. That's how we get things like socio-economic groups. If you socialise in restaurants, then your friend circle reduces to the people who can afford to socialise in restaurants.

If it's non-deliberate, then it's sad. If it is deliberate, then it's the 'ego thing' that I tried to speak of in the first post - it's about us not realising that we are humanity, we don't need to battle each other and assert dominance, we can just be, you know? Individual, yes, but one, too.

We need public spaces and gatherings because otherwise the ultimate endgame is that people retreat into ever-smaller niche groups until we just sit on our own.
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I've put my answer a bit higher in the thread: because the competition and customer experience are currently so much worse. (Lyft hasn't arrived in my city yet.) Some of the competitors here have used shady tactics against Uber as well, I've had taxi drivers pull up pretending to be my Uber driver.

If a competitor can match or exceed Uber's service, I'd consider switching. The convenience of travelling interstate / overseas & using the same service I use at home is quite compelling though.
Original blog post before Wired picked it up and added tweets to make it real journalism: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11330297