skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not quite as old and cool as an aircooled 22 window DIY EV like the electric samba, just a digijet Vanagon Westy water-boxer plankton-burner. If/when I had 12 grand, I'm ripping the gas motor out and going EV because there's so many free/cheap charging places available now. Plus, climate change and jihaadis.

PS: CA, NJ and others plz vote today. I did yesterday. If you want change, you gotta be counted.
I think this marks why Hacker News is biased against Electron. I really appreciate your eager to develop desktop applications, but Electron apps are _not_ native. It brings web technologies to the desktop. This is clearly an advantage for web developers, as it, as you just said, lowers the barrier to entry. Custom UIs are in my opinion also much easier to develop using Electron - this is exactly what HTML/CSS/JS were designed for. But these apps don't fit into the operating system. They use few of the available APIs, they are restricted to a common layer of abstraction, which means they can only use features available on Windows/OS X/Linux and none of the platform specific features, they are always "statically linked" (what I mean is every Electron app ships it's own libraries and the whole framework itself), etc.

As you said, Electron clearly has its advantages. But I appreciate the effort when a developer creates an application using the target platform's native language, frameworks and usage patterns (in this case, Swift, AppKit and the Cocoa APIs). The result is, in my opinion, clearly worth the effort and a wonderful piece of software to use.
Similar forces in effect for school districts. I remember Cupertino being against additional medium density development because of concern over overcrowding of schools. Given that background I'm modestly surprised that the new Vallco redevelopment got approved.
Do most banks not have an API? If you use software (e.g. something from Intuit) that accesses your banking info, is it likely screen-scraping?
Perhaps I'm a solipsist, I generally agree with most of what's on the wiki description. I define consciousness as my feelings, perceptions, thoughts. We imagine other people have consciousness because they act like us. We could define consciousness in a non-solipsistic, objective way, but it would be a fundamentally different thing. Maybe one reason why the hard problem of consciousness is hard is because people hate that solipsism is part of the answer.

By the way, one important argument I forgot to mention that leads to a possible way to define the "third-party" / objective consciousness (in the last point):

- Consciousness is not physical.

- Physical brain can obviously affect the state of consciousness.

- Can consciousness affect the physical brain though? I believe yes, because otherwise we would not be talking about this, I would not write here about consciousness not being physical. However, I'm less convinced about this than the above.

- The consequence is that we should be able to observe something fishy going on in the brain, for example supposedly random quantum processes not being random, which would "break" current physical laws.

- Brains with this fishy behavior are conscious. A fun theory - most likely wrong though - is that you can "tune" / connect physical systems to a consciosness by arranging them in specific way or whatever. And during evolution, the brain has learned to do that, because it was evolutionary advantageous.
Serious question- Would this have been possible if Google had put in their contract that all parties waive their right to a class action? Many companies do this now- Microsoft's xbox live, for example not only forces you to forfeit any class action lawsuits, but at the time I stopped using their services, I believe they also required meditation with a mediator to be chosen by Microsoft. I sold my xbox 360 and never looked back.

edit- I also remember specifically Microsoft releasing a TOU update just days after, if not the day of, the ruling allowing companies to do this came down.
If a shell was necessary, a better-secured one (e.g. requiring a signed command) would have been a good approach.
> I'd argue that the functional part of all APIs is nearly identical and that the creative part is what differentiates them.

You misunderstand.

It's not that functional things are covered by patents, "creative" things are covered by copyright. First, functional things can of course be creative; that's in the very definition of invention. Second, copyright is limited by law to the expression of an idea, not the idea itself.

US law is very clear about this:

> In no case does copyright protection for an original work of authorship extend to any idea, procedure, process, system, method of operation, concept, principle, or discovery, regardless of the form in which it is described, explained, illustrated, or embodied in such work.

Source code is indisputably copyrightable, but the question of law is if the functional aspect of an API, the way you interoperate with it, is protected by copyright. I believe Judge Alsup decided correctly that an API is a "system or method of operation", avoiding "the danger of conferring a monopoly by copyright over what Congress expressly warned should be conferred only by patent". I'm hopeful that the other circuit courts will agree.
Thought that the article was going to go in a totally different direction before reading it. Instead of solely trying to block screenscrapers, Wells Fargo is actually providing a better alternative. If only everything worked that way
The Impact of Refrigeration
I think compared to most FFI API's the NIF interface is extremely clean and straight forward.
I'm not ignoring it, you're claiming a right you don't have. You do not have a right of free speech/expression outside of not having the government trample on it. Non state actors don't have to break the law to censor you, they have the legal right to do it on their own property. If someone is oppressing you illegally call the cops or sue them, the state already protects you against illegal activities. You're complaining about individual acts of corruption and calling them state support, this is incorrect.

The UN Article 19 does not disagree with me, it's also about non government intervention.

Local police corruption is not the same thing as government support. Those incidents are examples of local corruption, not government sanctioned oppression, and they are being addressed and that will take years to play out to see how the state responds.
This product allows a person that knows nothing about farming to be a farmer. How much space does the average person have in their back yard? Sitting idle, wasted. Not doing anything but providing a bit of aesthetic appeal.

If the price point gets low enough, if construction is easy enough, and if enough people latch onto the movement this could be a game changer. Even if 10% of a family's food comes from Farmbot, that's 10% of food that doesn't need to be shipped across country for their consumption.

This is essentially a 3D printer for food.
> fear of legal and procedural hassles

FUD = _fear_, uncertainty, doubt

> unnecessary detention at hospitals

hospital has no power to detain you, unless they are committing you to the psychiatry ward. You stay for the same reason you bring that person to the hospital (to help).

I understand that people in india are afraid. But my point is that it is a fear based on uncertainty and doubt due to ignorance of the law and other reasons (economic) mis attributed to "legal formalities". Its a polite term to use when the real reason is you have better things to do (your own problems to deal with).

> guidelines on how to treat Good-Samaritans.

they sound reasonable and within expected legal procedure to begin with... the reason they might have been issued is because of the FUD, not because the law already doesn't say the same thing...
Even with increased density, the bay area's freeways and transit systems are already jammed up. All those people would have a hard time getting anywhere.
> don't use mongo, it's just hype

I'm kind of curious as to where this hype is. I've almost never heard anybody say anything positive about mongodb. All I ever see is people saying it's terrible / hilarious for various reasons.
> It [C++] can't. You have to follow explicit conventions in order for it to do that, and an untrusted shared library can completely subvert the model.

Point taken.

> BS. Java's type system gives you an ability to know the type of a given parameter with a high degree of confidence. For the majority of cases, you only have one possible type, and Java does a great job of validating those cases.

If that's the entire point, why have complicated features like wildcards and F-bound polymorphism? ML and Haskell (no GHC extensions) give you stronger guarantees than that, with far less complicated type systems: in fact, their type systems are simple enough that global type inference is decidable!

> Sure it's a simple thing, but I'd rather have a tool that at least does the simple things for me, rather than one that doesn't.

Well, for me, everything is ultimately subject to a benefit/cost analysis. Ceteris paribus, more static guarantees is better, but marginally more static guarantees than Python in exchange for a lot of additional ceremony isn't a tradeoff I find attractive enough.

> If nothing else, IDE developers have demonstrated that a lot of value can be unlocked from these simple assurances.

By heroically overcoming expressiveness limitations that shouldn't be there in the first place?

> Maybe in your type model, it has a maybe referee, but you're artificially throwing in the notion of None as a crucial bit of the type system

It's not artificial if it reflects what's actually going on. An incomplete league schedule doesn't always contain a `Referee` in every referee slot, and I have to model this fact.

> Java's type system basically makes all reference variable types "maybe" types.

This isn't true. `Maybe`s compose. You can have a `Maybe (Maybe Foo)`, which isn't the same thing as a `Maybe Foo`, and the type checker will require you to be very aware. OTOH, `null` can't be layered in this way, and that's why, for example, `TreeMap.get()` returns `null` in two qualitatively different circumstances.

> Python's type system basically makes all variables "maybe" for any type.

Again, this isn't true. Python has a single static type: the type of every Python expression.

> Amazingly, if you look at Java code, the vast majority of the time, programmers are able to find more specific types to tag their variables, and rarely need to use instanceof or the visitor pattern.

At the price of never knowing whether their case analyses are exhaustive.

> That's great, and I'm sure from your vantage point all that matters is arithmetic, but it turns out a lot of other programs and programmers write code that largely has nothing to do with arithmetic.

What matters to me, as I've made explicit above, is accurate modeling. Sometimes it involves arithmetic, other times it doesn't. Sometimes it doesn't even involve types! But, when types don't help, I prefer them to get out of the way.
The people who bought their houses 30+ years ago I really feel for. The change the area is experiencing is brutal, and imagine if everyone just kept asking you why you don't sell and move away from the very place you built?

It's futile for them to fight things, and honestly it ruins a lot of people's lives that they do. However I completely understand why they would push back on density, most people don't have to deal with growth at these types of numbers over their lifetime.
This is beautiful. Thanks for making it.
You know whats also funny? Clubbing. Like seals except you club pranksters. Its soul satisfying.
A compromise solution is to give people fully-paid relocation / temporary housing (e.g., putting them up in a hotel room), then guaranteeing them an apartment in the new housing development at their old price. Very small price to pay for a potentially massive number of units.
Hasn't been true for ages - at least as long as I've lived in the US (since 1990). Hospitals are required to give emergency medical service regardless of insurance or proof of ability to pay if you show up in the ER. An unintended side-effect of that is that it's sadly not at all uncommon for people to show up to the ER for non-emergency services, then stick the public or the hospital with their bill if they can't pay it.
Regarding the crime issue, high density of people paying $3000/mo for an apartment attracts crime from outside the immediate vicinity. You've basically put a good amount of wealth in one place, and added more people. That makes crime more likely to be lucrative, identification harder, and escape easier.

Also, I know construction in my area has significantly impacted traffic. I leave for work before 7 AM, so I don't see it as badly, but when I leave at 8 AM, my typically 15 minute ride to the BART station can take over an hour. Most of the traffic is spillover from parents dropping kids off at school. I shudder to think of what it'll be like next week after school is out.
> The author obviously hasn't spent much time coding.

I take it that you didn't look through his list of projects. There are some impressive things listed.
It's a knitting machine, so it's nothing like a sewing machine.

It's not a new concept; I have a manually-operated Brother machine from the mid-60's intended for home use, and industrial knitting machines for socks, etc. have been around for decades. Hobbyist computer control, is of course, the significance here.

https://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5491/2393/320/tn_DSCF003...
IIRC, there exist things for GPS called "null steering antennas" that allow a receiver point a "null" at a jamming source to block it. I believe they're considered controlled munitions by the US government.
> Cities are dynamic, constantly changing organisms. Try to keep a city from changing over decades is like forcing a 9-year-old kid to wear diapers and sleep in a crib because you liked the way it was as a baby and you never want it to change.

Well, except that cities, even if viewed as "organisms", aren't people, they serve people, and its quite natural for people to want them kept in the state that they feel best serves their interests.
Inertial navigation systems are used a lot by submarines, since there's no GPS down there. I think it's pretty accurate, particularly if you combine it with other sensor data like gravitational field strength maps.
You'd think at some point salaries would climb high enough -- driven by housing costs -- that it stopped making sense to hire people in SV. But that hasn't happened yet, at least not for programmers.
Speaking as a "technie" myself, I feel no one really addresses the undercurrent of entitlement to live in the city. Maybe I'm wrong, but I get the sense that a lot of the housing discussion in the tech community boils down to "but... I really want to live in SF for cheap". From what I understand, it's very common for programmers to live in the (very expensive) city and commute down to the South Bay for work. That's not a pattern borne out of necessity.
Why would this need to be restricted to A-z 0-9? Isn't it safe to assume that nobody will be typing in passwords from their land line?
Military aircraft mostly use GPS and INS for navigation. Cruise missiles the same, as well as TERCOM [1], as you alluded to.

I recently spoke to old aircrew guys I worked with and apparently they stopped teaching manual celestial nav in the late 90s finally. Automated celestrial nav was, per my understanding, never too common although SR-71 aircrews commonly used its system.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TERCOM
If you are in the UK http://stakeholders.ofcom.org.uk/spectrum/gps-jamming-exerci...
You're missing some of the things that have been done before the Bush Administration. Operation Northwoods is alarming as it is, and that's back in the early 60's.
any creation of voting districts is a Gerrymander. What method do you favor, and how is yours better?
Old 747s had a window on the ceiling of the cockpit for using celestial navigation.[0]

Also with the reliance on GPS and its inherent fragility has caused the US Navy to restart training in celestial navigation. In order to reboot the training regimen, the Navy is relying on Coast Guard instructors, since the USCG never stopped.[1]

[0] http://www.airliners.net/aviation-forums/tech_ops/read.main/...
[1] http://www.militarytimes.com/story/military/tech/2015/11/01/...
This looks like a pretty substantive article with an unfortunately infantilized presentation. Let's try to stick to the important content if we can.
A more informative title for the article probably would have been "Wells Fargo to publish API". It's about damn time too. Government, take note.
GPS Jamming Exercises
Huh? Which NCC consultant would that be? Neither Bruce Leidl nor David Mirza have ever worked with NCC, or, for that matter, iSEC or Matasano or Intrepidus.
Although it's only a major tax on the commuters, those that live in the area that needs more housing don't have any reason to change their behaviour.
In my limited experience pair programming it usually went like, "How about if we combined these and frobbed before...aww, let me drive and I'll show you." Who had the keyboard might stay the same for hours, or might switch every 15 minutes, depending.
Eyeballing the chart in the article, and assuming kWh/car to have remained constant: by a factor of about 6.

The article also mentions 70% growth in the last year. Assuming equal growth in the other years, It would be about a factor of 5.
If you start poking at it tho:

FALSE == TRUE & FALSE ==> 0 & 1 == 0 ==> TRUE
That's exactly what the article is about.
Quite simple, really--allow grandma to take full advantage of rising property values by adding apartment units to her existing house.
I don't think it's safe to compare every internet site to Google. Google is notorious for not having good support, but many other companies take customer feedback very seriously.
Pantone is essentially a system of pigments. The idea is generally that the printer uses a mixture of the correct Pantone pigments in the correct proportions, and get exactly the same colour as on the swatch.
What software is this "simple encrypted tunnel"?
> Regardless, I interpret government inaction on non-state actors that actively suppress by illegal activities a person's rights to free expression (or speech, whichever makes people happy) as a form of government oppression.

The above sentence is essentially lacking entirely of meaning. As your right of speech/expression can only be invoked when suppressed by a state entity, I assert that a non-state actor cannot possibly violate said right.

Please give me one example of a non-state entity violating your right to not have your speech oppressed by the state?
Indeed: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11837459 begins with Milton Friedman.
This was exactly the problem in the Airbus crash shown above; reconciling the inputs is hard. One pilot kept holding one stick back, unbeknownst to the other. This plane averages them by default, and therefore the plane stalled. That couldn't happen on a Boeing because the yokes are yokes (inputs on one are easily visible to both pilots) and physically linked.

(Supposedly the plane is supposed to loudly complain if the inputs diverge. I'm not sure if this happened.)
It's not doing anything to stop brute-force attempts! SSH keys already stop that attack cold!
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11749742
That same first amendment also contains the ostensible provision for businesses to bar African Americans via freedom of association. But as country we (rightly) decided that that's bullshit and enacted laws to stop that practice. It's not inherently unreasonable for someone to suggest that we need to similarly rein in platforms acting against the intellectual discourse values this country was founded upon.
Feeling of pain is a type of feeling, a state of mind.

Negative reward (that's an oxymoron lol, let's call it punishment) is an action that leads to an unpleasant feeling such as pain, fear, hunger, etc.
bgfx sounds like what you're looking for: https://github.com/bkaradzic/bgfx
Is there an e10s_okay extension or should I just run ff dev ed. and see what happens?

I'm running:

Lastpass
uBlock
Zotero

I have others but I'd ditch them. I'm not keen at all on giving up the three above.
I just don't understand the threat model that gives attackers the most valuable RCE vulnerability in a decade, but denies them an ability attackers have had since 1996.
Yeah we are. But phones are more powerful, with bigger screens and power hungry electronics. Plus consumers want smaller, lighter phones, so with the higher density they make the batteries smaller. It's a balance.
I'm surprised this hasn't become the standard. We would then have more checks and balances in this regard at the very least.
Have suspected this for a while. Its amazingly brittle if so (coming from someone that has done ALOT of scraping). I suppose Bank UIs change slower than the likes of amazon or retail but still. Pretty pathetic
Wells Fargo to publish API for private use for Xero customers

It's not an API that anyone can hook into, just Xero.
Whats the tool that you have to use but dislike the most? Why?
I felt this would be a great Q&A to identify some bad tools. To start with, really have been disliking hipchat a lot. Have to use it as a company stickiness to Altassian.
So were are only talking about numbers they are hoping for, not currently in production? GMs numbers are current, what are Tesla's current battery costs? Just because they want 100 by 2020 doesn't mean they are leading the charge, simply leading the wish list.

Still waiting on density improvements because frankly 400kg for 200 odd miles of range is not good. Of course with higher density means better charging and hopefully standards are ready for it
How could this be modified to make something more complex like knitted gloves? Although there are machined knitted gloves they really don't look handmade. In my opinion handmade look increases value.
Can't wait to buy the plastic battery holder grids for Tesla-sized cells. My first 18650 pack is made from 4 laptop batteries and is capable of about 63 A at 0.2C.
Actually, no - a hospital emergency room in the US has to provide you any needed medical care - full stop.
The whonix setup has tor and your browser on different VMs, whereas tails relies on linux' firewall to funnel traffic through tor. Tails is "just" one kernel exploit away from deanonymization.

More importantly, qubes is far superior to anything else for day to day security. You can do your banking in one isolated domain, your "let's download a thousand unverified dependencies from strangers" development on another, your internet browsing in a third, you can create domains with no internet connectivity to store your private files, and it's a lot easier than trying to juggle VMs yourself. A side benefit for the people who never close tabs is that qubes never becomes unresponsive due to running low on memory.
> [T]he impact of adding a second evil ESP8266 is much greater than the first one. One possible cause is the exponentially increased probability of having the channel jammed due to simultaneous transmissions on the same channel.

The reason is that TCP connections increase their speed linearly (aka the the first derivative of packet transfer is increasing) until they experience packet loss. If many packets are lost, or if the network is congested, the speed will not increase
Oh that's too funny.

So instead of having fingerprints of all drivers, now they don't even have verified names, but simply completely anonymous people.

Great going lawmakers!

Some things you just can't legislate.