skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Would you agree that there is no science without good philosophy?
One variant I ask is 'estimate the number of delivery drivers needed to start a same day delivery service in a city'. Do you think this is a brain teaser or not? This is clearly not a statistics product...

I find PMs need the ability to break down problems into manageable pieces to calculate, and estimate things with lots of ambiguity. How else do figure out whether an idea is viable or not, and worth spending more time on going deeper on?

And I meant to say fermi problems, not drake's equation.
The New App Store: Subscription Pricing, Faster Approvals, and Search Ads
The "it works for most people so we won't bother acknowledging or fixing it" defense is indeed Apple's position on this, but when you have a significant number of people experiencing this for multiple years (at least 5) on multiple OS versions on a multi-thousand dollar machine, it brings to question the quality of said machine. The problem is so bad, there's software out there to compensate for it (http://smoothmouse.com/) which obviously is a band aid that only works for some.

So no, it's not a defensible position as it renders the $3000 machine useless, similarly to how a $3000 car whose steering wheel steers randomly would render it useless.
Suing the state to stop patent lawsuits is not going to work. Hiring an army of lobbyists and giving campaign donations liberally might work though.
Thank you, that was an excellent summary!

On a somewhat related note, it seems clear that AI research and breakthroughs are occurring at breakneck speed. I wish there was a place where you could see expert commentary like your in layman terms on interesting or important papers that stand out.
Oh huh! I had no idea.
I don't think that everything he touches "is shit or turns to shit quickly". The Apple Online Store, iTunes Music Store, iCloud services, Apple Pay are all great products/servives. He took command over Maps when it was at a terrible stake, and it has improved a lot since.

However, I think iTunes, Apple Music and Siri all have weaknesses. But we can only guess who's fault that is - certainly not Cue's alone.

Also, he is employed by Apple since 1989. He must be doing something right.
It's an ad for the guy's startup.

And why is he capitalizing like it's 1390 AD?
This is interesting but it's still far from how a human would learn how to play the game. Humans don't have inbuilt rewards for Montezuma's Revenge, they acquire them culturally. How much of what was learned (by the machine, not the researchers) in playing Montezuma's Revenge could be applied to a game like Zelda? A human would instantly notice many of the connections between the two games: enemies that follow simple patterns and harm the player on contact, rooms that connect to one another laid out on a grid pattern, single use consumable keys that open doors, valuable gems to collect. Is the machine able to make any of these connections on its own?
> Your comment about "the black community needs to address" black culture, while perhaps well-intentioned, is the sort of argument historically commonly used by powerful whites to justify a "not my problem" philosophy toward black poverty and living conditions that create a negative culture.

This is a terrible argument. Statements are not automatically false because awful people agree with them. If Hitler thinks 2+2=4, decent people are not forced to choose 3 or 5.

It seems to me that only black people can change black culture. Who else would do it? How?
New artificial intelligence app helps put back time in developers’ days
Watch Dogs 2 Video Game, set in San Francisco
Thanks for the added context!
>> "Things that would make me buy MORE apps"

Why do you need MORE apps? I'm a developer and heavy iPhone user and it rare for me to download apps these days. I browse the store regularly just to check out what's going on but most new apps provide little use. They let me make my face look phone. Share emojis created by reality stars. etc. I think this move will lead to higher quality apps. Developers will be able to invest more in updates and developing their product instead of abandoning it once sales drop.
Scientists discover remains of a new 'hobbit' ancestor
Perhaps this could have been made cleaner by relying on the package manager for download counts only, and then demonstrating the code execution scenario on research machines only. If you wanted to avoid actually downloading anything to the user's machine (after all, they expect a 404 in this case, not a package even be it a harmless one) you'd perhaps need the cooperation of the repo admins to a greater extent.

Anyway, this is all part of why I always try to build inside a container, or at least in a virtualenv where I don't need to sudo the install.
> coroutines are almost always bound to the thread on which they're created

Can you provide a cite for this? I'm not saying you're wrong, just that I've never heard this assertion before (and I have been doing really stupid stuff with coroutines for way too long). My understanding of a coroutine is just that it's just a cooperatively yielding function where a yield returns a continuation for later resumption.
This just redirects to http://rainyscope.com/ Very cool though!
I think this is neat, but it really bothers me that the large drops are out of focus while the really small ones are super-crisp. It looks almost like there's multiple panes of glass and there's mist getting between them, while the large drops fall on the outside.

EDIT: Also, for winter... Very liquid rain when there's snow on boughs of the distant trees? That strikes me as not-right as well.
Is this a subscription?

No. Once your license has expired you can still use the app for as long as you want. We will not force you to pay again to use it. You don’t have to renew your license if you don’t want to.
Not in this case. The police legally can't pull you over and force you to unlock your phone via password. They'd have to go through a court process, and that's precisely where any attempt at theft will fall apart (more specifically, as the law stands today the police won't even attempt this line of approach because they know it'd fall apart in the court system before they're able to steal the money).
> it's OS X that can't handle bluetooth

This is laughable wrong. You clearly have either a) issues with your peripherals or b) an incredibly saturated wireless signal environment.

OSX is practically the gold standard of BT integration - it's seamless for almost every application.
This is a lot of thinking and work to replace an auto-incremented integer, which is simple and works fine in most cases, though.
At least I'd hope for their integrity.
I think the mindset change that needs to happen is this:

Apps are a service.

I would actually prefer to pay developers of apps that are truly useful to me a monthly amount so I know they can continue to update and improve the app. If an app saves me $1000/yr in headache, I'd prefer to spend $30/yr on a subscription rather than lose the app entirely because the developers can't keep the lights on.
Also for apps which use non-trivial resources elsewhere (weather apps like Dark Sky, or compute-intensive services) that can't be funded indefinitely via initial purchase price.
Scala! Great language, huge ecosystem, good tooling, many platforms supported.
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There is nothing magical about a "connection". It is not some kind of secure tunnel. There are only packets. The attacker can take part in the accepted connection that the legitimate host initiated and the server accepted, and pretend to be the server to the client and pretend to be the client to the server, as long as he has the sequence numbers, which he gets from passive sniffing.
A lawsuit might not be appropriate, but there is a separate 'right to petition the government' for that.
I love this but the focus issue messes with my brain. Also snow on the ground and rain on the glass. Should be snow flakes stuck to the window. But I'm being picky now.
I guess they don't care enough. Especially since HTC had live photos before iOS and Google just ignored the whole feature.
I would do something like this, but I can't seem to find any cheap VDSL2 cards that would work with Centurylink's DSL.
So a highway patrol officer can ask to see my license, and I'm supposed to show it.

Now they're asking to see my entire wallet?! I'm assuming we're all well within our rights to refuse to hand over our wallets?
The interesting point is that immigrated blacks - Africans and Caribbeans - do about as well as other immigrant groups.

This is very damaging to the skin color discrimination theory of poverty, especially since these groups are considerably darker on average than native born US blacks.
One interesting side effect of this might be that reasonably priced single-payment apps might seem desirable again. If a lot of apps switch to a $0.99/month subscription, then even a $4.99 one time payment might seem ok, whereas right now it would considered expensive by most users.
Hm... If you made this argument for e.g. black Americans (something something more likely to be criminals), most people would scream stuff much worse than just "discrimination". Yet both of these are based on math.
If I had to guess..?

Live Photos requires good UI design to make it useful and easy to use and you can bet that Apple has patented the existing (novel) UI for Live Photos on iOS.

So Google has to a) come up with a just as good way of doing it b) do it in a non-infringing way and c) do it in a way that doesn't feel just like a copy-cat and damage their brand.

Google is not great at UI/UX (they're not bad, just not great, they're solid but it's not really their focus) so I can imagine this presents a compound and complex problem for them with all the other factors added.
Thanks, I'm glad you like it!
epic bias
Most people don't have a moral backbone nearly as string as they think they do. There was an article last week, posted here IIRC, about a an adware company in the northeast that was apparently a pretty good employer other than morally and ethically repugnant nature of the product being created. Several of the employees interviewed talked about the mental hoops they jumped through to justify working there.
I was toying with doing that. Even got a domain name. Might be a bit of a hassle though. Dunno. Thoughts anyone? Would it help? Would I get sued?
Not speed but cost of which time is definitely a factor.

Getting to the merits is the point but the point is often lost in the game of the process. True statement?
Lock you at home? Get an automatic waterer and feeder, throw in some feed and go on vacation. I've got 25 hens and a rooster and they are good for a week or two on their own. Only problem is if nobody gathers eggs you'll have some broody hens.

Don't lay? I get a dozen eggs/day. Use lay crumbles not lay pellets; doing so doubles the output.

Enclosure? I used a horse stall for boxes/roosts and have big outside enclosure. Works great.

Your comments make sense for a pet like a dog, those do tie you down, but they make no sense for chickens in my experience.
But you do end up with amusing case names like "United States v. $124,700 in U.S. Currency" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._$124,700_in_U...).

The currency is defined as the defendant in the case.
I would assume risk of theft might be an issue too when one family/person has significantly more chickens/wealth than others.
You are obviously wrong.

While attacking a single package would be possible, covering any interesting amount of "typo"-space would require registering huge amounts of namespaces.

If package manager developers are smart, the allocation of namespaces is also handled externally and associated with some cost (e. g. domain names).

Therefore these kinds of attacks become impractical.
I prefer:

http://yes-www.org

http://www.no-www.org
At least we can reuse that debaitified title.
In a technical sense? They are no different.

In a UX sense? A lot different. In a emotive sense? Also a lot different.

Live Photos are different to most users rather than being different on a pure functionality level.
Lets keep in mind that bluetooth, unlike wifi, has made use of channel hopping from day one.

Ubertooth had to be custom built to sniff bluetooth traffic, while just about any old dongle will do for wifi.

And IMO, a big advantage with bluetooth is that it has profiles for common usage scenarios. Meaning that you have defined standards for how to do things like file transfers over bluetooth, while it is wild west when it comes to wifi.
Exactly. I have not seen a new thing in many years. All the so called "new" things are simply rebranded decades old ideas.
Heifer generally does not perform a 1-to-1 action with your donations.

That is, donating a flock of chickens through Heifer is actually making a monetary donation to the entire organization. It is unlikely that your donation will be directly linked to a specific flock donation to a particular family (if it results in any animal donation at all).

According to the latest filing I have seen, less than half of a donation to Heifer will make it into a grant, or other assistance to an external entity (my guess is that salaries and benefits at these legally separate entities will consume a good chunk of those grants).
Then they charge you for obstruction (or whatever it's called in oklahoma, in french it's called "entrave à un agent de la paix")
Your comment illustrates a complete misunderstanding of the burden of proof in these cases.

In the situation you describe a simple bank statement from "2 years ago" would be more than enough to meet the "preponderance of evidence" standard for these cases.
> You are extremely confused at which level it is beneficial to merge projects.

Not really, since if you read my comments I suggested they could have been merged into cURL three years ago (after starting four years ago). It wouldn't even be a new project, it would simply be an add-on tool. And that's the point.
> one of the first things the rules would have you do is to file a motion to dismiss arguing exactly those points.

Great! How much would getting to that point typically cost a defendant in the case of a fairly obvious bullshit patent?
> by most of the intellectuals (mostly humanities professors) in USA who are very keen on criticizing USA for whatever perceived/projected censorship and violation of human rights in USA.

Because they are U.S. citizens, they live here, pay taxes here, etc. The Chinese government is not under their power, like the USA is by being citizens of it.
Demos are getting a bit redundant when we're trending towards being able to autonomously refund apps/games we don't like.

Google Play purchases have a 2 hour window to refund any app you buy, Valve give refunds no questions asked in some circumstances, after the EU and AU asked a lot of questions. AU recently ruled it illegal to refuse refunds with requirements like trying to fix crashing games or not refunding functioning titles.
Wanna be a good manager? Have you worked for one?
Am I the only one exhausted by "apps"? I've gone as far as to limit myself to only two pages worth on my phone, without folders. I feel like most apps could just be the mobile/responsive versions of the existing site. Maintaining separate interfaces always leads to inconsistencies.
This is at least in part an editorial choice. Woman throwing grain to flock of chickens running around her feet is a much more interesting visual that chickens walking around foraging...
Cool. Attacker-defender race is on!

As attacker, my next strategy is create a bunch of agents (<10K should be enough) to download my typo packages.

Your move, defender ;)

But seriously, my point has less to do with the particular tactics of the adversaries and more to do with how the proposed strategy of automatically detecting potential typos invites gaming.
I had a similar reaction--the arguments about whether or not the patent have value seem silly, because if they didn't the government wouldn't issue the secrecy order to begin with, to say the least of defending the secrecy order. If they have no value, the secrecy order should be rescinded.

The freedom of speech issue seems to supercede other concerns in my mind, and I also have problems with the idea of IP in general (and in that respect disagree with you). However, ignoring all of that, there are other fundamental flaws with the government's arguments.
I find the same thing. My neighbors and I have chickens on ~5000 sq ft fenced lots and you barely notice them, especially when compared with the local bird and insect population. My neighbor has a rooster and even that isn't a large bother.
How many submissions of this story are we going to get?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11861188

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11861255

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11861273

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11861329

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11861473

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11861553 (1 comment)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11861656 (2 comments)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11862255

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11862687

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11863487

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11864219 (this one)
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Not disagreeing with you but that quote is specifically about standard CAF, nothing to do with this new card process.
It might make the world a better place overall but likely cause problems for the beater.
Radley Balko talks about this article and has links to more details of past asset forfeiture abuses in Oklahoma:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-watch/wp/2016/06/08/...
The tracking capability of Bluetooth is nothing next to GPS and cellular triangulation though. In an Orwellian sense, Bluetooth is not the largest threat in a mobile device.
But it's web scale! </sarcasm>
The insurance would cost more than the expected cost of the litigation which is of course how insurance works. They key with the patent system is that you have to pay millions to defend yourself, but it's exceptionally rare to be able to recover attorney's fees even if you win.

So in the end it's a choice between capitulating and paying some amount (and perhaps unleashing more trolls in the future) or wasting millions and many many hours of your time over years of your life defending yourself.

There's no way to win, which is why this is now a big industry.
> Actually, there is, it's called inline assembly. But any decent compiler has an intrinsic anyways.

Which is a language extension and not a C feature.

Nothing prevents an Haskell compiler to provide similar extensions.

> So, I have this type data Vector3 = Vector3 Float Float Float. Can I change its layout without having to change the rest of the code? The only way I know is compiler-specific unboxing and even that has little predictable effect, as we don't even know if this type is going to hold boxed values to begin with.

Yeah, with my limited Haskell knowledge I would say you would need to make use of Data.Vector.Unboxed or use unboxed values as compiler extension like on JHC.

Still, there are ways to improve performance on Haskell applications, even if they require new ways of thinking.

Back in the day higher level languages (including C) were quite bad at generating code on home computers, and we had to use Assembly if we cared about performance.

So like C compiler quality and tooling has improved in these last decades due to high industry use, Haskell tools can also improve if its acceptance in the industry keeps increasing.

And then we can probably enjoy such tools for Haskell as well.
More than a misunderstanding: an intentional abuse.
What was the price of the most expensive music app you've purchased and how did you decide to gamble that much?

For most people and most apps, paying once up front is a huge gamble. Most app consumers have no idea how to get a refund. Many aren't even aware that it's an option. So, they don't buy. It's not worth risking even 99c up front. Especially because the vast majority of consumers are not interested in doing thorough research on apps ahead of time. They just want to try a bunch and see what they like.
A whole lot is wrong. I was born here and love the country, but increasingly fear for my safety and well-being: our employer pays nearly $20,000 per year for NHS-equivalent health insurance (two adults, no children), basic prescriptions cause multi-month fights due to claim denials on drugs my doctor instructed me to take, patent trolling is endemic and a real threat to small bootstrapped companies, a pathological liar is one step away from the White House and lending legitimacy to anti-first-amendment and white supremacist groups, literal highway robbery is real, and as best as I can tell money has come to be held above life itself.

I'm profoundly disillusioned, and not sure where to go from here.
can't say unfortunately!
think decentralized. you don't need to produce that amount of corn in one area. if you have 10k households, you could produce the same level of food without the same environmental impact and less costs (subsidies aren't free) while having better food quality and diversity.
Johnny: OK Billy, lets play Cops and Robbers

Billy: SURE! I get to be the Cop and the Robber, you play the innocent citizen and I'll take all your money after pulling you over for speeding!

Johnny & Billy simultaneously: YAAAYYYYYYYYY
$0.49/month is $6/year. If I thought an app was worth $2, I'm absolutely not willing to pay that much for it.

If you're talking about an app that's a major part of your workflow for something, maybe this makes sense. But most of the apps that I've paid $2-$5 on are things that I'm only likely to fire up occasionally when I need them. Monthly fee to mark up photos or scan papers with the camera? I'll pass.
It is obstruction of justice and it's very unpleasant.

If they're so inclined they can take your things by force and you will have no reasonable means of recourse.
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This is a good question and I like a non-IANAL response. As far as I can tell police officers assume any resistance to request as proof of guilt. This kind of thinking has happened historically in the past and there's no reason to believe it's not happening now.
HTTPS for GitHub Pages
Possibly quite a bit, if you want it done well. And that's a problem. But that has little to do with the point I was making.
I think a better question is "why isn't it a website as well?" IMO the form factor of a phone is ideal for the UX that Tinder is offering. It presents dating like a game: a time waster. It just so happens our smart phones are designed to support just such interactions.
> Apps are a service.

We used to call that webpages.
The basic problem with 2, is that until nfc became commonplace doing pairing was either by pin not at all. So many devices still accept 0000 or 1234 because they have so way to input a pin, and is too old to use nfc pairing.
Wow. The SFBARFers/sf redditors are in the bag for AirBNB (you self identified by using NIMBY indiscriminately)

This law should actually help your cause. Up to 75% of the local Airbnb listings aren't in compliance. The additional housing will surely help, no?

In seriousness this is a good regulation that one wonders why it took so long to make. All it does is require compliance with the existing law and helps local enforcement
I hope it doesn't come to this. IMO the people cheering on Trump as a way of "getting the nightmare out of the way and moving on" need to study and understand the human cost incurred the last time that happened.
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Erik Finman: Bitcoin is the future of currency and of mankind
If you have good double-glazed windows, the snow doesn't usually stick. It'll build up in the corners, though... Or of there are screens over the windows it can stick to the screen.

(This focus effect is almost as if there is a screen, where the large drops run down the screen and the spattered mist is on the glass, and the edge of the depth of field is between the two...)