skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Apple knew best with iMessage and decides it should invisibly merge sms and their own messaging.

Point taken, though I'll point out that iMessage makes it clear the distinction between iMessages (blue) and SMS (green), and provides an easy 'send as SMS' option.

Google's message integration, on the other hand, merged SMS and GTalk, with the result that I have several friends who would try to text someone to say 'hey where are you at', and it would send them a GTalk message to their laptop, which was turned on and signed in at home, rather than an SMS to their phone. Worse, I know one friend who couldn't figure out if there was any way to tell which one it sent, or how to force it to do one or the other.

In other words, Google did the same thing, but even worse.

> Result? A dozen times a day it would hang for 10 minutes or so trying to connect to data-unreachable imessage servers. Just send a damn SMS, which is what I wanted in the first place.

I haven't had this specific issue frequently, except when I had extremely unreliable data services (i.e. if I had a data connection but my network was broken, if I was on Wifi but my internet connection was down, or if I was in San Francisco), but I understand that there are definitely people who experience one of those issues very frequently.
I found so funny that ruby is as always slow. Also this makes me sad as I'm a ruby fun :)
You are being paranoid. There are over 13,000 FBI agents but probably 5x that number are needed to deal with organized crime, white collar crime, national security threats, public corruption, background investigations and other cases within their jurisdiction. You can bet there were/are a few agents shaking their heads in irritation over what appears to be a waste of resources.
The scope is broader than an attack.

Also, what I'm talking about (MITM proxy on a private network), it's not sneaky -- you will get unsigned cert warnings. If you are using an employers device, you won't see warnings, but can examine the SSL certificate. You should also assume that you are being monitored.
Why the downvotes? Did you all read the entirety of my post? As someone who almost never receives downvotes on HN, this is frustrating. Please provide constructive criticism rather than leaving me in the dark.
Sometimes I dream of leaving engineering to research plants or rocks. I don't think I'd like being university professor with all the responsibilities that entails, but it's nice to imagine exploring the wilderness, looking at each rock and tree for what you might find. Something I think about while coding in a windowless office.
Personal experience that validates your life's work near the end of your life. Sir, if self actualization were a competition you would win.
I started to believe we're severely underestimating how much progress of technology drives the society. There are convincing arguments that all the things we call social progress - enlightenment, democracy, civil rights, etc. - are results of changing technology landscape. That landscape creates some "stable states" into which the society ends up falling, and those states change with the available technology.
Facebook Messenger is also extremely similar to iOS's built-in messaging app, which is nice. In fact, a fair amount of the design improves upon Messages' already pretty-solid design.
revenge?
Long distance relationship, infidelity breakup, family illness, and bedbugs all in a year? Yikes, glad they already had a therapist to speak with.
This is not really a grey area, remixes are samples, and samples are using a previous performance.
In his utopian novel "Island" - Aldous Huxley proposed rock climbing as a suitable alternative to the desire for domination over others.

Instead of sating this desire by building power over (or commuting violence against) others, you exercise domination over yourself.

As a sometimes climber, it's a nice - if incredible - thought.
Yes, print flyers on your home printer that you purchased with a credit card in your own name and had shipped to your home address. Handle all the pieces of paper with your bare hands, too. What could possibly go wrong?*

*https://www.eff.org/issues/printers
Closing APIs and the public scrutiny of very large online platforms
I have a beard and cry also. I'm a sap for funny, kid videos and things that remind me of my kids.

I can tear up over facebook posts, thinking about one of my kids leaving home, running out of wine (okay so I just go get some more, but I could, no I don't drive after I drink wine or anything).

I'm lucky my wife does not make fun of me.
You do realize how this case got to the court it's in, right?

So yes, it most definitely isn't about copying code.
Noncommutative geometry and particle physics
Overview of Model-Fitting in Machine Learning – Closed-Form vs. Gradient Descent
Which "fresh PC titles" are you referring to?
In that case, the statement is misleading.
Top video, 0:48, lower right corner.
To my knowledge cover songs have a statutory right, while remixes do not. This article is failing to highlight how important a distinction this is.

You have the legal right to record a cover song, and the royalty is set by law. The artist can only block it later by arguing some change you inflicted in the composition and recording resulted in a derivative work ... which I would imagine is how the Cars example came to be.

Remixes you must secure permission, as there is zero statutory right to use even a millisecond of someone else's recording for any purpose whatsoever.
I've been using Telegram for my cross-platform messaging and it works quite well. On OS X, it feels like a Mac app with embellishments, on Windows it feels modern and clean like a Windows 10 app should, unlike most apps on Windows 10 (including Microsoft's). On iOS it behaves like an iOS app, and who knows about Android but I would guess it's the same.

And yet, they also all behave the same. There's a consistency across all of the apps that makes it clear they're the exact same app, but there's also a consistency with the platform that makes them feel like native apps everywhere.
Because people who try to diagnose other people with disorders out of the DSM over the Internet after a brief interaction with their life are generally considered to be in a state of arrogance.
The video does have a very weird, uncomfortable aesthetic. It also fails to make the game look at all interesting to me, which I think is related to that.
'Swipe randomly in random directions from random screens until you see something you didn't know was there' is the new 'simple and direct'.
Initially really excited by the concept because I love pinball, what a letdown. Pinball is fun to play because people spend hundreds of hours carefully laying out a playfield of good shots and effective flow. These one-off doodle tables simply don't look like they would be fun to play.
I cry too but only if something sad happens to someone else. Whenever something bad happens to myself, I just feel numb and try to block out all emotions. But if I read about some injustice or tragedy somewhere in the world, I get all weepy.
Ok, I'm sorry, I was wrong.

Now I am confused as well.
> But given the choice between the two (and they clearly had this choice)

That's less clear than it might seem; the information Patterson gave them may have been sufficient basis for probable cause against Shafer, but it was probably shaded (at least by omission) in a way that it did not do so against Patterson.

Now, obviously, one would hope that the FBI would do some meaningful additional investigation before conducting a raid, but there were very few people beside the person they'd been handed as a subject who would have been able to provide information which would have flipped this to something where Patterson would be the offending party (and even there, its for something which the FBI is neither the usual first investigating agency nor an agency that is particularly expert.)
As a separate issue: why the "shock and awe" response to what is (even allegedly) a non-violent crime? Why the assault rifles? Why could he not have been arrested by just a couple agents walking upto the door, knocking, serving the search warrant, and then maybe having the techs step in to conduct the search and seizure?

Why does US Law Enforcement so dramatically escalate every contact with a citizen? Everytime they do this, they risk accidental injury to the people, kids, pets.

What in this particular situation necessitated a SWAT-level treatment?

Maybe the law should be fixed such that warrants have to specifically include firearm authorizations.
Will autonomous robots than can "feel pain" (even merely emulated) be easier or harder to control? I could see arguments either way.
People treat economic systems like static things. They're not. Personally, I think capitalism was good, but is not good anymore. It has driven us to the era of plenty, of advanced technology, but its incentive system seems to be increasingly misaligned with the shared values of humanity - hence e.g. the misallocation you refer to. So, for instance, competing on merit was working for a long time - but it no longer does, hence great rise of marketing that exists to game the market into profits.

Capitalism served us well, but it's time to move on.
> You could search PGP keyservers for email addresses/domains of the local media where that retirement fund is located

Best case among the likely outcomes of that is: "Can you re-send that e-mail? It's all garbled or something."
Well said.

I like programming, I like different languages. Just few days ago I was once again lurking on other languages' sites and forums just to find something new. I realized when looking at other languages that JS has come a far way and now offers so much that I really like JS. I got spoiled and the urge to try, find and need something better has faded.

The language itself made huge leaps with ES6 and the ecosystem is just incredible. I see that fast pace as something positive and the 'JS churn' is relative or rather exaggerated. Node itself is very stable and new versions do not break old stuff in general. Grunt and Gulp got replaced by Webpack, React + Redux redefine UI. That's it, these are the typical examples in mind when people talk about 'churn', not really a lot to be worried about. And these changes didn't happen over night but over years, e.g. the first React version was introduced two or three years ago.

A counter example to churn: Express is still the to-go web app server for many years (5?), it's doesn't have the most modern foundation and other stuff (e.g. http2 is problematic) . I wish that new web app servers like Koa, Express' successor, would gain more traction but that happens only slowly.
I almost never cry. Some of my friends joke that I cry once a decade, but honestly that is pretty close to the truth. I'm not ashamed to cry, and I don't try to not cry, or anything like that, I just almost never want to cry...
Yea, this is what I recommended to my coworker who ended up taking the marketing manager job. Ask to be paid for the work in exchange for Uber receiving exclusive use of it. Not sure if she ended up asking for it though. They still save money on this, and they should be well aware of the benefits of non-employees performing work.
Bitcoin Mining Firm KnCMiner Declares Bankruptcy
The author of [2] has a great blog:

http://evolutionarypsychiatry.blogspot.com/
The FBI seems to have lost it's way (Same with most of the other 3-letter governmental entities and other law enforcement). How do we change the system so that they are held accountable for these sort of things?

This is getting ridiculous. I can't predict the general public's opinions on things like this but it seems so clearly "wrong".

I have hope for a peaceful fix but I am skeptical that we aren't well on our way to a much more traditional violent revolution.

Everything I've read on the subject suggests that the early signs of revolution are a sufficiently large disparity between the rich and the poor such that the poor can no longer provide for themselves. It seems like this is well on its way and likely speeding up.

I'd love to see some statistics on situations like the 2014 Ferguson Missouri situation. I'm curious if there's a rise in situations where the government sufficiently crosses the line that the public backlash manifests violently. I expect that we're still in a stage where these situations are still largely centered around poor minorities [1] but situations like this suggest that incidents are starting to expand into demographics that might get the "middle class" [2] to finally pay attention.

I hope we can find a way to unite as a single voice to change things. I hope it doesn't end up being violent. The following things encourage me.

* Decreased relevance of the "mass media". This is a double edged sword. On one hand it allows for news that might be ignored by a major network to still be disseminated widely. On the other hand, the "public" has a really poor track record of consuming news that isn't also entertainment and many of these issues seem to fall entirely outside of people's interests.

* The ability to aggregate these sort of events to establish a clear pattern of behavior. It's getting harder to hide things.

Also these disclaimers:

1. I say poor minorities because based on my knowledge of the law enforcement overstepping it's typically in situations involving people who are poor and black.

2. The "middle class" is used here to reference a predominantly "white" demographic that most mass media caters to. I've struggled to find the appropriate language here, fearing I'll be labeled racists somehow. Hoping that my message reads as intended.
It takes time, money and permission to convert new customers. Small business usually doesn't have enough time or money, Facebook users don't give permission unless they've searched for something specific. Small Biz is better off using Facebook for free to engage interested existing customers.
I agree it's a fallacy that a ROI is earned just by laser targeting, it's more complex, in which case FB ads tend to be overvalued
This happens to me all the time. Mostly with emotional moments in movies or animated films. However, more interestingly with things like Google's commercials. They do very well with blending their technology and emotional connections.
What would the law say, and how would it prevent publishers from demanding money to publish now that their other sources of income have been cut off?
The Cost of Free Doughnuts: 70 Years of Regret (2012)
Show HN: Shep – Social support chatbot on Messenger
No.

That would be him using technique on himself.
Ahahahahaha.

First of all: Researchers won't avoid public funds, because there's never enough money.

Second of all: Most researchers HATE academic publishers and being forced to sign over their copyright to a paywall in exchange for nothing. But institutional evaluation criteria force you to do so.

EU banning non-open publications will force publishers to allow open access OR force universities to revise their criteria to accommodate the inability to publish publicly funded work in non-open journals.

I think all of my colleagues think this is a great thing. As do I. Elsevier can go blow a goat with their copyright assignment BS.
> The Edison phonograph cost $20 at the end of the 19th century; an iPod Nano costs about $145 today.

It's also worth remembering that an edison phonograph would have probably been useable for about 60-80 years if kept in good condition. Good luck getting 5 out of the Nano. But yeah, collecting a billion prices and forgetting about each after a pairwise collection is a brilliant choice.
Hi all, this is Vic one of the developers.

We made Shep so that you can share your problems with the world and let others support you in prayer.

Life’s problems are more manageable when you have a group of people supporting you, so we think this will have positive impact on people’s lives.

It’s the first social chatbot on Messenger where you interact with others, so feel free to give us feedback and recommendations for things you’d like to see.

I’ll be lurking this thread and answering any questions people have
This, while quite interesting, also feels like a member of a nascent genre: "XKCD What-If? citation trolling."
It really depends on the person, the culture and family they grew up in, their physiology, etc. For me, one of my primary reactions to anxiety and stress (or especially the feeling of release once a stressor event is over) is crying, so that's at least a couple of times a month. Some people just get overwhelmed with emotion (not necessarily sadness, any type will do) or have found crying to be a useful physical reaction because of the hormones that get released and the often cathartic feeling of being able to express your emotional state, even in private to yourself.
Diffusion of responsibility
Research done on unfunded projects as part of a hard money position is super-tricky, which is why for a lot of things the restriction is funded research projects.

For example, if your position is at a public university, but funded by an endowment from a private foundation, is it covered?
A lifetime of dedication and training?
Has it been stated anywhere that they won't allow a temporary embargo after publishing? Like how some funding agencies allow papers to be behind a paywall for 12 months and only then require that it be open access?
I downvoted because this is an armchair diagnosis by a non-professional, based on data that wouldn't be enough for a professional to make a diagnosis.
Maybe OT but I found this blog post by VirnetX while reading further into this issue:

https://www.virnetx.com/patent-trolls-ask-jason-bourne/
It's honestly pretty difficult to take an Oracle lawyer's word on what would be good or bad for open source or free software.
Nathan Myhrvold claims NASA scientists asteroid calculations are all wrong
Am i right in thinking that the client end talks to the server via dbus only?

Because that brings to mind a recent project i learned about that plans to stream video via dbus...
"God put me in the seat next to you." Did God also make you choke in the first place?
How this happens right now with NIH funding is yes, the government basically forces publishers to make things freely accessible - the paper is going in a public repository. Journals that publish lots of NIH funded stuff handle this for the author, while journals that don't tend to make it the author's problem.

And yes, if an author doesn't comply, it can be a problem for future funding.
If you want a robot to "feel" the pain like we do, you'll have to code things like:

- low-level reactions that get triggered by pain and override high-level directions

- the pain cannot be filtered out and constantly consumes computational resources

- enough of pain overwhelms the high-level processing completely

And now, if the "high-level" processing gets advanced enough (i.e. AI-like), you could say that the robots do feel pain.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diffusion_of_responsibility
In case you missed it: Take a close look at the last photo, the one near the text "control of lightning strikes".
This is not recent, part of the compulsory licensing for covers is that the cover does not substantially alter the original song. This boils down to substantial alterations of the melody or (possibly) lyrics.
That's your source of security? Performance limitations?

I'm not even convinced it would have performance limitations. Let's say Alice and Bob are communicating and Eve has the BlueCoat device in the middle. Alice sends the initial connection request to Bob, but Eve gets it instead. Eve then sends a new initial request to Bob AND a request to the BlueCoat server to get the fake cert in parallel. As long as the BlueCoat server responds with similar latency to Bob, Alice won't see any significant difference in latency as compared to Eve simply forwarding the requests.
Copyright Doesn't Mean Unlimited Control
I think I'd probably say it's possible rather than easily done. But why force young couples to ante up such a huge buy-in just for the opportunity to work at all the local companies? Even the YC partners are starting to point out, correctly I think, that expensive housing is becoming a significant headwind to Silicon Valley's future.
I have never, in my entire life, avoided funding that would also make my work more accessible to a broader audience. I don't know any other academics who would do so either.
Adana travesti
^ Accurate.
Agreed. Drupal has been working on the product end of things since then, for this exact reason. Drupal 8 is a big improvement on that score and is worth looking at again if you've choked on it in the past.
My eyes tear up really easily, and it's just strong emotion, even just nostalgia. It's very difficult to control, and the sensation is often rather nice. But my girlfriend is from Asia, where there's a serious taboo against a man crying, so it's a problem. She can't understand that I'm not sad or fearful, I'm just feeling strong emotions, often pleasant emotions.

It's a strange thing. I'm so embarrassed about it I had to use a throwaway account.
> as there is zero statutory right to use even a millisecond of someone else's recording for any purpose whatsoever.

Just to be clear, by "any purpose whatsoever" you mean for a remix, right? In other words, fair use still applies to songs.
This is already very similar to the requirements imposed by the largest U.S. funder of scientific research.
That's the most '90s-Microsoft comment I've seen. Google aspires to have such a pervasive monopoly that its design paradigm should be treated as universal.
As someone who lives just off Highway 1 on the Santa Cruz west side (closer to the University of California, Santa Cruz), at least our household has looked forward to this with excitement, for some time now. : o )

Currently using local ISP Cruzio's Velocity Internet + Phone ADSL (Residential)[1], which, due to distance from the nearest telephone exchange, delivers ~1.0 Mb/s. Note: those closest to the telephone exchanges get speeds up to 75 Mb/s; first world problems, for sure.

We chose to support the local ISP, rather than throw money at Comcast/AT&T, so we've accepted the performance. Note: Comcast[2] and AT&T[3] seem to have their own troubles/past performance issues, in the area.

In 2015, Cruzio began surveying existing customers, regarding prioritizing fiber buildout plans[4]. It seems you can still view results/vote and even help champion your local area, online.[5]

[1] http://cruzio.com/services/broadband/economy/

[2] http://downdetector.com/status/comcast-xfinity/santa-cruz

[3] http://downdetector.com/status/att/santa-cruz

[4] http://cruzio.com/santa-cruz-fiber/

[5] https://cruzio.servicezones.net/santacruz
Not necessarily. The key problem is that primary sources are either in non-searchable hardcopy format (books, etc.) or inaccessible behind paywalls, making it impractical to do wide-ranging research outside of the academic libraries maintained by by large universities.

It would take quite a major revision to copyright law but it's not impossible to imagine some future version of a library where one can search digitized versions of all known works and correlate between them.
Yeah and why would anyone bother?
And with any non-trivial amount of optimization, it would lead to horridly looking HLL code. Compilation is a very "lossy" process when optimizations are turned on.
How does this work with something like Disqus/Facebook comments or other third party embedded plugins? Iframes only?
The Story of My $462/month Side Project
You don't have to leave engineering to research plants or rocks. You just have to leave some urban center. Remote work is difficult to negotiate at times, but for some of us it is worth it.

You might also like this book.

A Review of Jeff Schmidt’s Disciplined Minds: A Critical Look at Salaried Professionals and the Soul-Battering System That Shapes Their Lives

http://disciplinedminds.tripod.com/business-and-society-revi...
http://disciplinedminds.tripod.com/
I think that's a gopher server
He's also kinda a crackpot: http://knowledgenuts.com/2014/09/22/the-strange-story-of-hen...