skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I appreciate your follow-up, although you're still conflating data tracking under your control vs data tracking under Apple's control.

* https://www.wired.com/2015/11/how-to-get-rid-of-the-iphone-m...

Wired is pointing out that the phone keeps a history of locations. Not Apple. Again, very different from Google's practices.

* http://www.wired.co.uk/article/apple-spies-on-yosemite-searc...

This one was disappointing, and as the comments indicate, contrary to Apple's customary sensitivity around privacy. Also trivially disabled, again, unlike the location tracking the Register is describing here which cannot be turned off.

* https://pando.com/2014/07/28/apple-hit-with-class-action-sui...

Sounds more like a lawsuit driving by misinformation. Show me facts, please.

* http://arstechnica.com/apple/2011/04/how-apple-tracks-your-l...

Again, purely data stored on the phone.

* http://www.cultofmac.com/132610/it-took-apple-3-years-to-fix...

Embarrassing, undoubtedly. Again, not Apple data collection.
So you think that people should stock up on meds before they get sick?

It's not an invalid argument to say you think markets are great excwpt where the preconditions for a well functioning market are not met. Many people think they are not met when it comes to healthcare, hence most of the developed world having socialised medical systems. The US is a weird outlier in that respect.
The problem is that people would have a lot of trouble swallowing some of the consequences of a true free market on medical care. From "patient dumping" cases (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1305897/) to the very real possibility that a medication with horrible consequences will be put on the market (ala a Thalidomide -- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thalidomide), it is clear that some regulations are needed for moral and practical reasons in health care that would run against the spirit of free markets.

Part of that is that there is a very significant barrier in obtaining the knowledge needed in order for a consumer to be truly "informed", as medicine and chemistry etc. are hard subjects. Another problem is that a sick patient in need of medical emergency by definition is not going to be in the best place to make an informed decision -- and it's not like you always can chose things beforehand (example: what if you have a medical emergency while traveling?). So I don't think the gun / food comparisons are directly comparable, personally.

That being said, it is entirely possible to design a system that introduces plenty of competitive opportunities while keeping the above in mind. Personally, I think many single payer systems in the world are actually more free-market-friendly than the United States, in that there's provisions for competition from either/or private insurance and private health care facilities! Capitalism / free markets lose many of their advantages if they turn into monopolies that are able to strong-arm competition away with legislation... this pretty much is the situation with American pharmaceuticals, I'm afraid.
> are we for the legalization of drugs today or against?

Nobody in their right mind wants to legalize heroin.
I think the problem with the blockchain is that it is relatively immutable, while the internet is anything but. Also, the cost for making a Namecoin change is inexpensive now, but if it were to take over full operations for even one TLD, that would not remain the case.
I don't understand. Switching lanes is something that even AutoPilot can do. Is Uber deploying a lane-keeping system and calling it an autonomous vehicle?
Hi there,
both the Community Edition and the Cloud Edition WebIDE provide English Language support, you can give it a try;)
Liked this - no easy answer, but guess it's important for your company to understand the value of your projects to them - not just in $£ but in your personal development and training
you're absolutely wrong.

if you think finding out which molecule fights cancer cells vs kills you outright and how to produce it in controlled fashion is trivial, you're a moron.

if you think creating genetically enginnered bacteria to produce insulin is trivial, you're an utter moron. lest you like injecting harvested
insulin from pigs or dead
humans.

HN likes to pride itself on techie knowledge, but the cluelessness around actual hard tech is staggering. modern medicine is up there with rocket science, worthy of nobel prizes.

they just CURED hep C for FUCKS SAKE. but yeah, no reward for that, but sharing catpics - here, have billions.
why are you asking here?
We can look for if lattice QCD was used in the big bang simulation by searching for anomalies magnified during expansion into the cosmic microwave background.
I tend to try to think of time as I think of space. If I clutter my space with a bunch of small things, I find that I think myself to be cluttered, and the disorder causes me unease. But if all the small things have their own places, and I keep putting them back when I take them out, it feels orderly, and there is no unease. It's really the same for me with time. If I clutter my time with a bunch of small, meaningless tasks (check facebook, check email, read that article that takes maybe 2 minutes, ..., loop), I find that that, too, causes me unease. But if I set aside time for those things, and only those things, there is no problem. I build things into a routine, as much as possible, and for the rest, I try to schedule the time I think I'll need, so that I can say "I don't need to think about X right now, because I will have time for it later."

I even try to schedule in periods where I do allow myself shallow work, like checking a bunch of things, or sating the information addiction that you and I most certainly share. Right now, I have maybe 50 tabs open between a bunch of aggregated tech/science news sites, and I'll spend maybe 1 minute at most on each one. If I did that just any time of day that I had a period of empty time, it would be just like if I left clutter anywhere that I had empty space. But since I've devoted this time to this task, it's kind of like putting everything you need for a project out on a table, then packing it up neatly when you're done with the project for the day. I know an end to the clutter is in sight, so it doesn't bother me so much.

The hardest part is always trying not to fill empty time meaninglessly. That takes skill, but it can be learned. I find I'm better at it when I've been keeping up with daily meditation in the morning and evening. But even if meditation isn't your thing, you can practice in other ways. For instance, when you are eating dinner, try to only be eating dinner. It seems awkward at first, to sit in silence (especially with a partner present) and just eat, but that fairly quickly goes away. Or, in the mornings, if you have coffee or tea, just drink coffee or tea and sit in silence. I tend to keep a notebook handy, and if something particularly strikes me during the silence, I write it down and let myself come back to it after I've finished my coffee.

I don't think it was any different before the popularity and ease of access of the internet. People assume that others were focusing on longer sessions of focus, but I don't think that's the entire truth. I think as a species, we've always struggled with this anxious itch to move on to the next thing, mere moments after starting the current thing. I think that's why (as you note) a lot of the older generations are turning to using the internet in much the same way as the younger generations.
No maintenance required really. Once a name goes on a list it never comes off. Weekly backups are probably a good idea though.
Another one would be having Optional finally being a value type and do away with the whole issue of Optional being null when APIs play dirty.
With great difficulty.
Nolo has a some decent advice about negotiations: http://www.nolo.com/legal-encyclopedia/contract-negotiation-...
I cringe when I see someone's phone and they have GPS turned on. I can't understand why anyone has it on 99% of the time. It's another service to drain the battery and offer questionable value in exchange for tracking.

Maybe once a month I turn it on for a few minutes to get my bearings if I'm walking in an unfamiliar part of the city.
It can be deactivated.

remove_action( 'wp_head', 'wp_generator' );

We include it in our themes as a best practice.
UNIQUE WEDDING MANDAP DECORATIONS FOR AN ENTICING WEDDING DECOR
> The final consumer of food is not in position to bargain prices when he is hungry, which is a pre-requisite for free market to function.

You are ignoring the fact that consumers can pick from a plethora of food options. When you have sickness A the ONLY option you have is medicine X (take this medicine or you die), where is the market force to drive down the price? That isn't free market
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to be more precise, they can be sold but then need to be labeled. Prob used in animal feedstock, but not attractive to market for human use in that form. I presume animal feed's still a significant market, but unsure if there's significant GMO market penetration there.

Only one GMO (a bt corn I think) could be planted in the EU, and used mostly in Spain, though there's some hope the new rules will enable pro-GMO countries to plant many more in the future (approval process was generally stuck in the Council because enough countries opposed GMOs; now they can just ban them on their own territory w/o preventing pro-GMO countries from using it, and avoiding a conflict is politically attractive).

I personally see it as an ecological gain, due to productivity and so landuse improvements, something europe has basically stagnated at since these bans.

Sad to hear not much chance of improvements in the political sphere on that front..
How does Credit Karma make money?
The argument against government single-payer is to imagine the politicians you dislike the most in charge of your health care. Would Democrats still favor single-payer if they knew that Republicans would get to make all the policy decisions about what is covered?
> CPUs, networking, and storage are not Evernote's money makers.

Evernote's money-maker is the sum of those parts.

> No one says companies are putting their money maker in other's hands because they use public grid electricity (or sewage, or water supply, etc.).

Yeah, because that's generally not the product. Those are typically by-products. They happen after the product is produced.
T'was back in December 2008, I applied for a university sideways move to a job analysing the data from the yet to be launched Gaia probe. Turns out I was over-qualified (which was their way of saying that the university was already paying me more than they were willing to pay for that position), and they recommended I apply for a position analysing data for the Planck probe instead. Went to that interview too, where I was told I was underqualified. Every time either of those two probes turns up in the news is a nice trip down memory lane. The engineering involved in building them was quite remarkable, and sifting through the data would have been fun.
Government planning fails yet another time
Seems to be fixed:

https://www.reddit.com/r/bugs/comments/52q4mv/thumbsredditme... (flair: "fixed!")
It's pretty shitty to throw the term "tinfoil hat" in an argument, especially so when discussing Snowden. It's also pretty silly to make the assumption that there hasn't been some sort of secret equivalent of conviction given everything we've learned about how opaque our government is.
Another historical anecdote: When the Soviet-minded (i.e. repressive) Estonian SSR party head Karl Vaino was replaced by more liberal Vaino Väljas in 1988, people came up with signs something like "Elagu Vaino Väljas!"

This had two meanings: ostensibly "Hurrah Vaino Väljas!", but also "Hurrah, (Karl) Vaino is out!"

(Vaino is a name that can be either a first or last name in Estonian, but in Finnish it means "persecution". Karl Vaino's grandson Anton Vaino was recently nominated the Chief of Staff of the Presidential Executive Office of Russia.)
Click "web" under the article link. Click first link in Google results.
Cool, but how can I sign up? -> https://coding.net/register (I don't understand a thing)
Show HN: Text-based histograms in PostgreSQL
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True, but nothing prevents them to have an ImprovedHashMap<any MyRefClass>.
What the title should read is "couldn't afford a lifestyle I felt was befitting someone making six figures in the bay area"
But overweight is not.
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> For what it's worth, the motive to have children at all is entirely selfish and that should be fine.

I don't think "that should be fine". In the third world people are poor and produce children. Simply stopping doing so would be a fast way to reduce poverty (in my opinion even a necessity).
There's also Mordechai Richler's 'Solomon Gursky Was Here', which recounts its eponymous protagonist's grim experience as a member of the expedition. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solomon_Gursky_Was_Here)
What platforms will you use for your example clients?
Thanks for the reply, I'm just seeing this. I'd agree with you that anyone who knows what they're doing and is looking to deliver a professional product will find the Arduino, it's price, it's libraries, unsuitable.

Think of it like physics problem sets though. You don't get to Physics 503 by just reading the first three text books, you have to actually do the problem sets and struggle with them. In our first problem here, assume there is no friction, even though any experimental physicists will tell you that's crazy, that never happens. Once you've mastered the exercises, then you criticize their clunkiness and move into a framework with more realistic assumptions.

And for me, the refusal to fix sub-optimal design is pretty appreciated as it doesn't subtly break some aspect of already written books, tutorials, shields, etc. Beginners will often look to copy very literally an already known solution, which may be on someone's blog from 2011. Little changes, which happen often with RasPi, result in hundreds of comments like 'This doesn't work, please help!'
How do you know this guy (and the whole set of characters and institutions that he legitimizes -- Greenwald, Omidyar & co, Washington Post, Guardian, the Intercept, the 'blessed' crypto, etc.) -- are on the up and up?

Everything about this story, its central "hero", and the cast of characters of the show, smells imo.
I mean if a company (Monsanto or anyone else) actually does develop a perfect strain for medical use they certainly deserve the profit, don't they? I'm no fan of Monsanto but it doesn't mean that they're not entitled to the things any other company is entitled to in a capitalist society.

I could certainly see how the drug war could change following this in both good and bad ways, though I'm not sure they're connected enough that it should impact a potential merger?
but like this morning I was sitting on the couch with nothing to do and I had to go get my phone which I've probably wasted 20 minutes on.

It's amazing how fast the time can slip by.
Ask HN: Dropbox down / DNS resolution issue?
Can't access dropbox due to a DNS error, is it just me?

$ dig +short www.dropbox.com @8.8.8.8
www.g1.dropbox.com.
$ dig +short www.g1.dropbox.com @8.8.8.8
%

Reproduced from servers in a few regions.
To prevent existential dread creeping in if you get a chance to contemplate the hamster wheel?
Jethro: "Your herbicide is too deadly, how can I drink my beer and aim the sprayer at the same time without getting this shit all over my crops and killin em?"

Sales Rep: "Oh, you mean you'd use more if it didn't do that... well I mean, I suppose... we could genetically engineer new crops so you could spray as much as you wanted without harming them"

Jethro: "We farmers are simple folk and we are environmentalist - so - I appreciate such a simple solution. We also need more gopher poison when you get a chance"
They are evil geniuses. They disguise by famously placing their football team at second place every time, so nobody fears them [0].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2001%E2%80%9302_Bayer_04_Lever...
If you're not signed in, the connection may not be explicit. But with a minimal amount of effort, they could easily connect the two. If you've ever used your phone on your home's WiFi, at a minimum they'll have a high degree of correlation via the IPs.

I'm of the opinion that if they can extrapolate your age, ethnicity, gender, location, health, and "interests", then they can easily join two "disconnected" profiles.
It took someone from the outside to explain what the deja vu meant though, as there was no way of knowing from the inside that the glitches where a result of a broken simulation of the internal reality.
There are several groups that have already done this and there are several tools similar to OpenAI gym. Why is only one company mentioned when it comes to this? You do understand that a large chunk of OpenAI gym are open source software packages like physics engines, box2d?

Here's what you need to make an Ai Gym :

> Physics engine (pick your open source package)

> Simulator (pick your open source package)

> Write a thin wrapper around it

It can be done and has been done by many individuals in less than a week or two of dedicated work.
Ask HN: How can I find a full time job?
I am a recent Computer Science graduate of Northwestern University, and am struggling to find a full time job. Landing interviews seems to be the most challenging thing ever, and I'm at my wits end about what to do. I'm getting extremely stressed about how to move forward, and will greatly appreciate any advice or opportunities that can come my way. Thank you!
my lovely android phone tends to get it turned on by... wait for it... google play services, just out of blue. it even warms me that shutting it down may cause instability. pfff

there were days when google was not this passive evil company. i guess over time and with such a growth, one cannot fully avoid it. more reasons to support smaller companies!
This one - because it's now a meta aggregator of favorite links. Thanks!
One thing I never understood about Swift and that I don't think is addressed in Swift 3 is the widespread inconsistency with simple 'if' statements. There are at least three incompatible ways to think about 'if' syntax in Swift:

if foo == 1 && bar ==2
//normal, from other languages

if let somevar = foo, let anothervar = bar
//note, must use a comma rather than &&

if case .someEnum = foobar
//cannot use == !

That latter would be much easier to think about like foobar == .someEnum but it gets mucked up.

I don't understand why these can't be streamlined into something like this:

if let a = b && let d == f && foobar == .someEnum
//you can't do any of this

Instead, you have to use "where" and commas rather than && in some places, the whole thing is a much greater cognitive overload than it should be for such a fundamental task in any language.
Does anyone have any recommendations for a high sample rate microphone? Something that can do 120,000 samples per second or more? I don't need USB, really just the high sample rate.
Your app has this one weird non-standard feature
All New Amazon Echo Dot
> The A380’s size has become its disadvantage as airlines prefer relatively smaller planes such as the Airbus A350 and rival Boeing Co.’s 787 Dreamliner that can fly nonstop to their ultimate destinations, bypassing major hubs such as London Heathrow and Singapore’s Changi Airport.

(Range seems odd to me as a factor, as Wikipedia thinks the Dreamliner and the A380 have the same max range.)
"The domesticated foxes had floppier, drooping ears, which are found in other domestic animals such as dogs, cats, pigs, horses and goats."

I happened to recall the Origin of Species mentioning this: "Not a single domestic animal can be named which has not in some country drooping ears."
Me too.

Websphere is such a pain to use, yet it still is everywhere on enterprise projects.
Sure.

There are a number reasons. None of which individually, are huge or significant but as a combination are enough to make us consider something else.

1. Tableau has more polish as a product. The company has been around longer and has more time to refine its craft. Microsoft's product on the other hand while very impressive given how little time they've had in this area is a little clunky in comparison. Also the final visuals just seem to look better and the dashboard has better organisation which makes for a better end user experience.

2. Tableau Talent. There seem to be many more people that know about and have worked with Tableau in comparison to MS Power Bi. Much easier to outsource the work for Tableau than for the Microsoft product

3. Knowledge Base. It constantly seems to be much easier to find answers to common questions with Tableau than with Power BI. Microsoft have taken their typical Microsoft approach with things and it's quite fragmented, as are all their products.

4. Connectors. Not as a big a deal by any means but Tableau generally tends to have more connectors. Microsoft Power BI only just got an Amazon Redshift connector, whereas Tableau has had it for ages.

5. No Mac Client for Microsoft Power BI

Hope that helps.
Not anytime soon. And not with their current sensor suite.
Top-level await in JavaScript is a footgun
The AWS command line tool will be used primarily (as well as the web UI), but I'll be using some Bash and Python examples as well.
I also wonder how we manage to stay busy given that most home tasks (dishwashing, laundry, cleaning (roombas) and even cooking - see multicooker devices) are already automated, with "doing laundry" meaning merely loading and unloading the washing machine.

I think you have a good point about idle time being gadgeted away.

Also I think there is a tremendous potential in automation of physical labor (including remaining daily tasks). I wonder how much more free time we would have, if only 10% of workforce that currently does web/mobile/game apps (including myself) would apply their skills to automating their daily life with simple robots.

Also, imagine relatively cheap mass-produced robots that have embedded computer vision and motion planning accessible via DOM-like API (with javascript, of course), and what would millions of web developers do with that, with their current javascript/DOM skills directly applicable to manipulating the physical world. Does it sound too good to be true? I don't know.
Reading "Soft Skills" is great advice. Very good book, I learnt a ton from it.

> remember they aren’t asking about what are you beeing paid for, they are asking what do you love to work in, and if you can code an app for nothng in return just passion and if it works

I tend to disagree with this statement. All companies care about is indeed not what you are being paid for, but what you can do for them. They care about the value you can create for them if they pay you. Now, having your own projects to show is a great way to showcase that :)
To add to parent, this is repurposed tech because it's part of Google+.
https://googleblog.blogspot.de/2015/11/introducing-new-googl...
I would be absolutely floored if it wasn't the same tech behind the scenes. In that sense, they've taken something that was actually working with G+ [highlighted in blog post above] and are taking a shot at leveraging that. I really like that they were able to push this internally using a 'white label' process [speculation]. In big corps everyone has the disease that their name and (internal) brand has to be on everything.
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Snowden didn't directly release anything; he relied upon the Media to apply filters to what should and shouldn't be public. And they've done a reasonable job at that.

> I can't name one good thing that has come from his whistleblowing.

You think there is absolutely no value whatsoever in awareness that particular mechanisms were going against your rights to privacy?