skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The app to help you understand "cause and effect in your life."

https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/zenta-stress-emotion-mana...

It seems geared toward helping users become more aware of the impact their habits have on their well-being & emotions. The description in the article makes it easy to dismiss, but speaking from the standpoint of someone who's been emotionally disconnected for 20 years through information addiction (yep...it's a thing, complete with withdrawal symptoms) until earlier this year, there's a huge market.

I'm only just starting to learn how to recognize my emotions in the moment. Anxiety was so pervasive, it was my norm. Now, my struggle is to identify when I'm getting anxious because it's a vital signal from my body telling me there's a need of mine that I'm overlooking (another thing I'm just starting to learn).

It's why I'm considering getting a Microsoft Band 2 to help monitor my heart rate & sleeping habits.
I'd like one point clarified: is this app entirely local or does it make use of any kind of cloud backend?

I've already seen apps that upload photos away for processing without making it obvious (for example http://prisma-ai.com, if I'm not mistaken). I really shouldn't have to ask if only iOS had a permission for network access.
My favorite is not a bug workaround but for a limitation in the GUI library used.

I worked on an enterprise job scheduler that was initially outsourced to an Indian company but the project started failing and so we took back development. The software was required to be able to schedule tasks with a delay of up to a hundred or so hours but the GUI library only had a control for time of day up to 24 hours. The code we received had an interesting solution - they changed the format string to place the milliseconds part first and then some code in the data access layer that swapped hours and milliseconds back and forth on reads and writes. And there you have it, delays up to 999 hours.
A large glass of OJ can contain 5 oranges and I can down it in 2 minutes and not feel full.

Eating 5 oranges would take me a while. I eat oranges a lot and usually after one it's taken a while so my body can register I'm full.
Yup Brother is the way to go. I have one of their MFP units and it's been rock solid. My parents have been using a printer unit for about a decade now.

I wish I had a color laser but it's at least $300 more for an equivalent unit and I just don't care that much anymore. Most of what we'd print are photos and it's cheaper to just go to the supermarket and have them run on a Kodak machine. A couple cents per print = oh well. An inkjet system would probably end up costing us more anyway once you factor in wastage like ink lost to head cleaning.

Inkjets are really only economical for people who are using them for color photo prints on a daily basis, and those people are moving to bulk-ink/inktank systems and getting bigtime savings. For everyone else, B+W laser is by far the best solution for "occasional printing" and has really nice bleed/smear resistance, and the Brothers are best-in-class.
Ah, Microsoft. Will they ever figure out that the Microsoft name is a liability for consumer app adoption? There's a reason it's not called "Facebook Instagram", and Facebook, deservedly or not, still has a much less tarnished image than MS.
What motivated your transition from Dev to Product manager? I am looking to make a similar switch, would it be okay to reach out to you for guidance? Advice on the transition would be incredibly useful!

Cheers!
It's pretty rare that people set out with something other than "hiring the best person" as their conscious aim. I'm not making any comment on your workplace, but if this worked as a general strategy, there wouldn't be a diversity problem in tech.
If you where fat as a child, you'll have more fat cells than normal. Those cells stay with you basically forever. So while eating less food makes you lose weight, those extra fat cells will keep messing with your hormones.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18454136?otool=karolib&t...
I work in the building design industry and this is a huge problem. Building codes are developed and maintained by private associations of industry professionals (this is a good thing) and then released under copyright (this is a bad thing).

A full set of all applicable building codes for any given structure can easily cost in excess of $1000. These are codes that have been adopted into law by the jurisdiction, but they are not made publicly available as all laws should be.

Many people have noticed this and complained. The NFPA (National Fire Protection Association which maintains, among many others codes, the National Electrical Code) did somewhat acquiesce by release a "free" version of their codes through a crippled Java application intended to disallow any copying. It sort of worked a little, but at some point something changed (Java updated, probably) and I could never get the security settings right to allow it to run again.

The amount of time that could be saved by having an HTML, hyperlinked (practically every section of any code references another section, or a word with a very specific, non-intuitive definition) edition of every building code publicly available would be enormous.
On https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12483698 I wrote a better idea how this might be implemented without causing this problem. Nevertheless even if we use my first, worse interface this should not be a problem: Spawn a thread that does the lowlevel stuff, sync it and after that run the JITted code.
We know it can be done unsafely, to the tune of 30,000 deaths on American highways every year. We want cars to have super human sensor capability, otherwise, there's no point.
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>>It's a printer, what more innovation do you need?

Yeah, a lot of people also said that about cellphones and then the iPhone came out. :)
prefer + perfect = prefect?
D:
Cryptography Pitfalls by John Downey [video]
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Yes. The dynamics of the situation would have caused the moons to merge (or crash into the Earth).
> I just wonder what makes us (in the broad use of "us" here, to mean anyone who builds technology for a living) that we get tasked with fixing the world?

Because:

-- we are the ones who have the intellectual abilities to do it,

-- we are the ones who received an education allowing us to do it,

-- our companies and a fair number of us pretend to do it and yell it everywhere,

-- an insane amount of money is poured in companies and projects we work for, and most of these companies and projects are either useless or harmful.

This set makes a big difference with people who are just in charge of making the world go round day after day, and who just do it well. Those do not disappoint. Those do not deceive.
It might be attractive to people who want to loop an image, I suppose.
could you point me to some resources about the "virtual machine" you mentioned? sounds very interesting.
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But then isn't the public funding angle totally irrelevant? Or are you saying that under your hypothetical, where lawmakers required search engines to use Google's algorithm, whether the algorithm should be open depends on whether Google relied on any publicly funded research in developing it? I think the answer is "no"--incorporating it into the law is what justifies requiring it to be open, not the fact it relied on publicly-funded research.

The post I responded to stated:

> Congress already funds the development of the standards, these bodies just continue to profit from them until they are superseded, entirely due to these practices.

Basically, the original poster accused standards organizations of double dipping. I asked for proof, and all I got was a link to an NIST article stating that standards organizations used some of its research in formulating standards. My point is that everybody relies on government research--that doesn't mean the standards were "funded by Congress" in the first place.

I'm being pedantic here, but I think it's important to call out. It's very common in HN for posters to insert random snipes like this without any factual backing, and for people to take such assertions at face value.
I don't understand why people say javascript is such an awful language.

Frankly, because from a language design perspective, it is - or at least used to be: Bad scoping rules (implicit global declarations by default, function instead of lexical block scope if var is present), weird implicit conversions, no good story for code reuse/object extension so everyone doing anything complex had to cook up their own version, ...

Nevertheless, I actually enjoy programming in Javascript ;)
I agree with you. I suspect people think you're being sexist? I am a woman and if my husband drank so much soda I would lay down the law.

I find it surprising and alarming in other people's relationships (in America, anyway -- I noticed this was very different when I lived abroad) how little each partner seems involved in the other's fitness and health. I've heard "oh, but they would get offended!" or something. Like yes, that's certainly true with friends and strangers. But you have a major stake in your spouse's health. It's you who will take care of them when they are sick, you who will pay their way if they cannot work.

I exercise with my husband, I eat well with my husband. We tell each other when we are getting extra pudge. I wouldn't have it any other way.
Quite the opposite for me. I'm much more likely to try a cool new app from Microsoft than I am from some random startup I've never heard of. Lots of cool technology innovation going on at Microsoft (yes, really).

One of many examples: http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/redmond/projects/hype... (according to another comment here, this is also included in the app)
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Very true. People don't realize how popular waze is, in other countries. In some countries, no on uses Google Maps, only waze.
OK I'll make you a deal, as soon as I've mastered every feature in Vim I'll move on to Emacs. :)

Which reminds me, I must reread that stackoverflow post about grokking vi again.

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1218390/what-is-your-most...
One way to learn to program is the urge to teach the machine some principle you might find nice to be realised by a machine. Some things are opposed to entropy, some things are there to create order (always with a net gain in entropy, but nonetheless). Therefore, the machines and us seem to be on the same side of nature. Even the whole ecosystem of the planet is a miraculous emergence of high level structure.
So you learn to program, if you want to program some. Print that on the next calendar.
But are they collecting the right data? Google's cars are collecting hyper-accurate road data, their radar has longer range, and LIDAR coverage is 360 degrees. If you look at the sensor map of the Model S, it has gaps in its field of view. Is a Model S making a left turn at a crowded intersection with limited field of view, going to see the pedestrian behind the bushes that's about to step out?
Multiple dispatch would be a cleaner approach for languages that support multiple versions of doStuff.
I felt the same way; I was amused because I consistently preferred the originals.
That's a closed loop. Mining asteroids is extremely valuable because getting stuff into space is very hard. Making it cheaper to put more raw materials into space will have the effect of... Making it cheaper to put more raw materials into space.

How do we profit off of this? Manufacturing?

I understand why you would want to build a widget factory in China, but what possible goods could we produce on Mars, that wouldn't be easier to produce on Earth?

I understand the situation of rare-metal shortage, but many of them are rare because extracting them requires uneconomical amounts of energy. Mining them from space (And good luck finding an asteroid with more then traces of Gallium) would still require uneconomical amounts of energy.
And here I assumed this was about PIX (the DirectX SDK tool.)
NK doesn't have to tell their citizen they are purposely impeding the food deliveries to make the US look bad. They can lie and say it's typical American incompetence.
I'd wager that most of the students you went to school with didn't self teach themselves programming before they went to University and probably didn't have a Computer Science class in high school.

It is difficult to understand the usefulness of a VCS when the longest project you have worked on amounted to 5 lines of code and you can't produce a fizzbuzz program, let alone understand the difference between a class and an object.

If you were self taught, or have been away from the newbies for too long, you don't always remember what it was like when everything was new. Wrapping your head around how to construct a program that does what you want it to do (or even figuring out what you want a program to do in the first place) is a difficult hurdle to jump. The more extra hurdles you throw in front of them (git, debuggers, and even the compile step) make it harder.

The earlier you require those hurdles to be jumped, the earlier you will filter out students. I believe most people can wrap their head around computational thinking and computer science and I would hate to lose them because of the tools.

You don't need a VCS to understand classes & objects. You don't need a VCS to understand Big-O, you don't need a VCS to understand Trees or Graphs or Maps or Stacks or Queues. You don't need a VCS to understand Computer Science.

And once you know what a Tree is... then I can explain to you how git works.
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At a concept level they existed, but the artwork was new.

I mean, everyone at Blizzard knows what an "Orc Warrior" should look like. Green skin, muscles, some type of weapon. But someone had to actually create new drawings of it for the game.

This means that the main challenge behind coming up with a new franchise is to come up with a consistent, compelling concept for its various elements.
This article is full of personal bias and seems to have been written by a person who doesn't understand how technology progresses.

I know there is some truth to the criticism of current tech-startup scene in SV. Most startups are without much potential or without much creative juice (e.g. "we will fill your car's tank for you" type). But there are some which have very large disruptive and creative potential. Elon Musk comes to my mind, to begin with. Boston Dynamics is another.

This article also reminds me a personality trait that makes some people always complain with "whatever happened to good old days". Seems that people like this article author, want us to prepare our meals the way you see a person is seen doing in this video [1].

(Disclaimer: I have no disrespect to the person in that video [1], I just want to point out that I don't want to live like that and I wish to point out a fallacy in the article.)

Such people always seem to complain: Whatever happened to the good old days and good old ways of doing things? All the while, seemingly unaware of the fact that they themselves have become so much used to the technology.

Of course, it is apparent that she doesn't realize that without the very technology and the very technology creators she is so happy to criticize, she would not have been able to put her photo along with the article she has written/typed.

Since when and why has the ability to publish our photos along with articles become so critical for us? and for such writers? So much for the person criticizing the technology creators from self-assumed higher moral ground.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mvQttEjfYtM
Everything looks perfect. Every face looks plastic.

I think I prefer the imperfect photos. But that's just me.
I agree with you. However, I do think it _is_ possible to have it sooner. However, not without a massive investment and effort from many different players working together. Government involvement, etc.
Classilla do better than SSLv3 these days. It even supports SHA2 certificates now.
All of those compounds interact via chemical pathways, and our knowledge of biochemistry is undoubtedly incomplete. However, we know the effect that EM spectrum has on molecules. At the wavelengths in question, it is not possible to break bonds. Thus the only plausible effects would be a result of different vibrational modes or the indirect effect of localized heating. That makes any risk from those technologies very low.
It's not. It's not resistant against hash-flooding attacks, and it's the slowest hash function which is used in the wild.
It has some good hash function qualities, but none of its qualities would qualify it as a good hash table function.
the authors only compare the speed against secure hash functions like MD5 and SHA*, but then are talking about hash tables and compare it against FNV, Murmur and City. (City was replaced by Farm btw. some years ago already)

Below some guys quote my smhasher README, where I tried to get some common sense out.

There are secure hash functions and there are secure hash tables. The topic we are talking here, starting with Robin Hood. But those two topics are mostly orthogonal. A 32-64bit hash function can never be called secure, it's trivial to brute force it. A secure hash function is not usable in a hash table with 32bit, for which 7-15bits are needed for attacks.
Get over it and use proper hash tables, and esp. not linked lists. We are not in the eighties anymore.
It doesn't make a difference to the amount of energy required. The scale of the problem is the integral of all human energy consumption over all time. We need to reverse it, and the reverse process will require much more energy than was released by the forward process, and we need to do in a few years what was done over 200 years. Whether we put it into the ground or into carbon ingots is immaterial.
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We're from the Microsoft Pix team, and we are interested in your feedback. Happy to answer questions.
> I "know" this but often forget. When I look through iMessage history at pictures I've sent and received, there are often stray bits of overheard conversation that the sender wouldn't necessarily want or intend to include.

I was surprised with this too. This should be really made more clear.
IIRC, they used something like the Arabic 'miswak', a twig with a sort of shredded end. Is that about right?
>What are whole fruits and why do you feel fruits of any kind are healthy? The levels of sugars in them are unnatural.

I am slightly skeptical. Don't get me wrong, I'm 100% on the no added sugar train. But I regularly go and pick wild blackberries from a thicket that has been there for about 100 years and they are like pure sugar. Easily sweeter than any storebought berry.
> Whatever they are, they're complicated. They've each got syntax, enormous sets of tags/keywords to learn, and quirks coming out of their ears. There are even people down-thread pointing out that HTML+CSS is Turing complete.

Just like with C++ you don't have to use all of those fancy features. You can use CSS as simply properties on many web applications. They can be as complex or as simple as need be.

> With respect, almost everyone else in this thread seems to disagree with you. I'd challenge you to find a major public-facing web app written with - let's be charitable - fewer than two of the frameworks on that list.

I actually work on one during my day job that is used by millions of people :). Though in fairness we're transitioning to a single framework rather than the hand rolled one.

Frameworks have their use cases. Native also has its. For whatever reason people today are taught they have to use at least one otherwise they're throwing their time away or they can't interoperate with others which are both not true.

I'm beginning to think I need to work on a web series around creating web applications without frameworks.

> I do tend to agree with you on the merits of SQL, though. We built a very simple database for Anvil, that doesn't do anything except store and retrieve tuples of data, and for anything more complicated, we say "great, SQL is over there" :-P

This seems to be the exact type of scenario I've seen played out countless times in my career but the easy start of ORMs sucks people in every time (though I honestly think starting without an ORM is also super simple but I think many of them abstract away schemas which, if you just want to jump into something, can seemingly get in the way.
Thanks dbg31415, I have pushed that fix. That is an excellent feature suggestion.
The EFF also supports that bill: https://act.eff.org/action/noglobalwarrants-petition
So impressed with the progress.

When I was a lad I spent 2 and a half days without sleep debugging an intermittent logic problem in an IBM 3033, a machine the size of a room with massive looms of trilead cables running between the frames. I remember the terror of having to do some bodgy fix like the one described when the guys file the notch out of the extender card, while an angry data processing manager a few decades my senior cursed and glowered behind me and the bank's check processing center stood idle. Perhaps the scariest experience of my life.

Hats off to anyone who fixes old computer hardware.
I've never had a salary negotiation with a future direct manager. And I've worked/interviewed in quite a few game companies as well as some non-gamie ones like Google and Microsoft.
As a matter of fact, yes. It was malfunctioning (genetics, not gallstones), then it was removed.
FastText and Gensim word embeddings
> with Facebook you can choose who is allowed to view what you post

Well that's their kool aid, which many people have been drinking.

I still follow the rule that you only post stuff online that you're comfortable sharing with the world: it's not a matter of if the databases will be leaked, but when.
When we bake from American recipes we often reduce the sugar by 1/2, sometimes even to 1/3.
Pix includes the full implementation of Hyperlapse Mobile, which shipped on Windows Phone and Android last year.
That's pretty much the case that's being made of a widespread grid failure.
As a vi/vim addict, I'm more concerned about the future of the esc key...
Companies that produce cigarettes also optimize the tobacco blend and chemical treatment to make it as addictive as possible, which is why vaping nicotine doesn't have the same addictive effect as smoking cigarettes.
This is all true, but a small company isn't necessarily a start-up. They might have an equally established stack, which can be a blessing in disguise. I made a lot of money before university rewriting VB6 apps into C#, and making the UI better. Some of the most gratifying work I've done, because they gave me pretty much complete freedom.
Not sure if this is worse than the redirect hell on the rest of their website...
I have always told the same about India. We need to make everything accessible WITHOUT the need of a Right to Information query. Almost every query that is made via RTI should be accessible within a few clicks.
Exactly. Firefox's Awesomebar is aptly named.
Internet kill switch
Vrapper (http://vrapper.sourceforge.net/home/)

Its a very non-intrusive vim plugin for Eclipse, just does vim emulation and nothing else.

I've found it to be very pleasant to work with.
Another vote for YNAB! I've been using it for a few years now without regrets. It works internationally as well :). I used mint for a while but found it limited and buggy - it served mostly as an aggregate feed of my various accounts in the U.S.
Pix runs all the image processing on your phone - we do not use the cloud for any of this.
Ford to offer employees autonomous car service in 2018
Who's to say that Netscape wouldn't have been just as good, or even better, if they'd devoted all that time to working on it instead?