skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've had Apple base stations. I don't anymore. Not because I don't like the Apple base stations, but because I just don't care. I almost never interact with my wireless router (the only time I've done it in the past year was to accomplish something that the Airport Express can't even do). I didn't find my current wireless router to be any more difficult to set up than the Airport was.

Also: don't most people get their wireless service from their cable router now?

I don't think Apple has a comparative advantage in providing wireless routers. That's not to say that there's no advantage to be found in producing excellent wireless routers: there are companies trying to do this today, but Apple isn't one of them.
Google’s DeepMind AI can lip-read TV shows better than a pro
Far more important is who will trigger the first robot rampage.

Contrary to what tech philosophers have been spouting from their ivory towers, there will be no positronic brain, nor will the 3 laws help one iota once a robot has been hacked.

All it takes is one deranged soul with a little know-how and a desire to see the world burn. Tweak the AI a bit, and now you have a robot that looks for signs of breathing, and then beats, shoots, stabs, and smothers until it stops breathing. Recharge, repeat.
Looking for the Goldilocks of Web Frameworks
I think this is a pretty reasonable request if they only want Americans who traded bitcoin.

The IRS and SEC have the power to compel brokerages to turn over trading records for people who bought/sold stocks on the stock market so the precedent is not only set but well established long, long, long ago.

I mean if you traded bitcoin but didn't claim the income on your taxes, then you just blatantly and almost certainly knowingly/intentionally lied on your taxes.

I'm not certain what there is to argue about or push back on here.

It's not like you can create something new like bitcoin and then with a straight face claim that its not an equity or currency so the law doesn't apply to you.

Capital gains are taxable, full stop, unless there is a specific law to override that, like selling your primary residence.

Can someone make the case that this isn't just a cut and dry issue?
> The data tells you that a black person is more likely to be a criminal than a white person. There are two possible reasons for this:

I'd like to add a third possible reason for your consideration. Since "criminality" i.e. guilt of committing a crime is determined after a process engaging the law enforcement and justice systems, we have to examine whether there are inherent biases in those systems that result in skewed statistics. For instance, do police officers selectively target blacks for monitoring and investigation? Are blacks discriminated against in the courtroom as a result of procedure or human nature?
Browsers have supported this for almost a decade.
I'm less bothered by an exit from routers than monitors and the other changes. That said they were nicely implemented and reliable.

All of the current changes are taking away.

Aesthetics were and are a huge part of the appeal of an Apple filled desk. Not a one of the other makes gets close yet Apple haven't even asked LG to make their 5k screen look nice or even complementary.

After the underwhelming MBP with rubbish travel-free keyboard, and not having a monitor to sit alongside my iMac, they seem incoherent. Where's the new Mini, Pro, 34" curved Cinema screen or iMac?

We just need someone else to discover aesthetics and they have a real problem to contend with. I care what the overall look is of things in my home.
Here is my guess: Your average iPhone user probably have never heard about the airport router.
This was just a matter of time. Welcome to the reality of being involved in the money business in the USA. Coinbase is concerned with the breadth of the request. That is actually kind of cute considering that your bank has to report any transaction over $10000 to the US Dept of Treasury and people are actively prosecuted on suspicion of making transactions under this threshold to avoid reporting requirements [1].

Whenever I hear someone talk about the dream of anonymous currency. I kind of laugh to myself because I know how far the government currently goes to monitor every little piece of your financial life to make sure you are paying what you owe in taxes.

[1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-watch/wp/2014/03/24/...
What's next, the iMac? =(
Startup.ML AI fellowship in a nutshell
Oh come on now HN, it's a short week for many of us, lets come up with some ourselves! I'll start:

Not Enough Whimsy

Independence Without Declarations

Farmer's Walk

Wine and Cheese Night Ended Well

Any others?
I don't know that people are getting better at it, rather it seems to be because routers are coming with randomized passwords printed on a sticker on the unit itself. And it's anecdotal but my neighborhood is littered with base Comcast & AT&T SSIDs.
Who cares? Who uses these? You're provider gives you a free router when you sign up and you plug it in, type in your password on your devices and boom you never think or worry about it again.

There is no need for Apple to be in this market, there is no problem to be solved for 99.9% of people.
Third-party routers have gotten a lot better in reliability since I got my first AirPort (when getting a consumer router that would do 100 MBit NAT routing was nearly impossible, and my parents had one of those lamp timers on their ADSL router to reboot it every day at 3 AM).

I felt this coming as long as Apple never added iOS backup support to the Time Capsule. The APFS migration seemed like it would be the final bullet.

Had to ditch my latest-model Time Capsule when I got fiber since Apple doesn't let you change the MTU (required for my PPPoE over fiber), and getting faster Time Machine backups than Apple's anemic CPU could muster was just a plus. I was hoping to reuse it as an 802.11ac bridge to my TV/Media center, but, nope, Apple removed wireless bridging as a feature a couple years ago.

Good riddance.

edit: just got reminded they spent a bunch of money developing special paper and ink for a $300 book instead of this. OK, yeah, no there's logic here.
Who cares? Who uses these? Your provided gives you a free router when you sign up and you plug it in, type in your password on your devices and boom you never think or worry about it again.

There is no need for Apple to be in this market, there is no problem to be solved for 99.9% of people.
On a related note, I've noticed that when running Zerotier (virtual LAN over the Internet, free and nifty) my MBP sees the two servers I'm using as Time Machine destinations whenever it's connected to the Internet and performs backups to them remotely.

Not necessarily a good thing when I'm tethering, but neat other times :P
Tiny homes are about simplifying your life. You don't accumulate junk, and you tend to really enjoy the things you do own. If you keep a bunch of stuff in storage you're missing the point of the exercise.

Tiny homes are also a statement of individuality. For it to work you have to select or create a design that fits how you live. People frequently build aesthetic fixtures and storage into their tiny homes as well. Thus the space reflects you much more than a trailer/mobile home.

Finally, a large part of it is a desire not to be shackled in debt. Not having long term financial obligations is very freeing; on the other hand a mortgage is a hassle.

Tiny homes are definitely only a good choice for active people who like the outdoors or being publicly social. You should avoid pre-built or spec tiny homes if possible - for it to work the space needs to feel like an extension of you.
I also highly recommend the ASUS routers. They cost more but if you need stronger signal these things are rock solid. I haven't had to restart it in over 3 years.
Yeah, it's no different from what happened in that video, other than, you know, the complete lack of any violence or harm done to you.

There's no double standard here. Unsubstantive, funny comments have always been allowed as long as they're not disruptive and are actually funny.

If you don't like being made fun of for bringing up completely unsubstantiated claims as if they were in any way relevant, then don't bring them up. Problem solved.
Nasa's 'impossible' EmDrive could work, study says
thats why on some level it is better to run your own wallet.
Google Opens Montreal AI Lab to Snag Scarce Global Talent
dupe

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12965589
Beauty of the changing seasons (WebGL experiment)
I think the set up has become a bit more consumer friendly and appliance like, which may in part lead to better security. Most of the major vendors are even pretty good about disabling commonly exploited functions of older firmwares; there are fewer and fewer routers that are vulnerable to reaver by default now because the WPS function is either disabled or removed completely. This of course doesn't address lesser known more threatening holes, but still it's a start.

But I do concur - I will miss the ease of the Airport tech (not so much the most recent prices though).
It's impossible to please everyone with rotary controls. If I read you correctly, you're asking for them to be controlled by actual rotary movement of the mouse. Many people dislike that (and I'm one of them) because it's hard to make circular motions smoothly. Meanwhile, the rest of the people dislike linearly-mapped rotary controls because the motion doesn't match the visual form of the control.

I would have suggested making them respond linearly, but to both x and y motion. That is, the effective position change is the maximum of the mouse x and y axis displacements from the click position.

My view is that rotary motion is not useful in an on-screen GUI (unless you have a MS Surface Dial perhaps?); rotary-looking controls only exist to save space and provide a friendly appearance. The way they actually behave should be whatever is most efficient to drive, regardless of their shape.
First, I'm pretty sure he's not.

Second, there's no political orientation I can think of that is entirely comfortable with the status quo. Conservatives believe themselves to be discriminated against, just in a different set of circumstances. The underlying problem with ML is conceptual, not political.
The Trees Have Ears
The paper appears to be https://arxiv.org/abs/1611.05358
Can ethereum be used that way, such that a secret only becomes available after a set period of time, but the release can be aborted?

If all the code and data is public what stops anyone from executing the code early?

(Note this is more a question about Ethereum than the specific business model under discussion, which is why I use the generic term "secret". It's generally relevant to decrypting things after a certain period of time.)
Me too, pluviophile
Is that more important than to have an entire generation be slaves to debt?
Oracle Buys Dyn
Wow, so no more simple Time Machine backup product, and no more to stream music to (maybe they couldn't accept that they had a headphone jack?). This sounds like it's actually quite the departure from their previous strategy to have a digital hub with numerous features about the home.

I honestly think they have become myopic. They aren't seeing the big picture of what some of the less profitable products and features are accomplishing. They just aren't making enough income.
Don't forget about Douglas Adams!
Why is the Cyrillic "o" even a separate glyph/charcode, even though it looks like a regular "o"?
I agree 100%, but they don't have an AP + CloudKey + Security Gateway in one unit. That is what many people effectively want for home use.
This is also true of email.
Great info. I'm especially eager to see the national identities diminishing greatly. They're as bad as religion.
That page only shows white text on white background for me.
Comparing vendoring tooling for Go and C in C's favor seems odd.

Personally I think Go actually makes a pretty bold statement about dependency management: people don't know what they want. I also have a sneaking suspicion Git and Github's interface in no small part to blame.

Golang for me made me come to one important realization: if I can't build a project by just cloning the git repository, then why the hell not?
I have been unsing https://freedns.afraid.org for 3 years.
Seems to be a good service.
Yup, my ASUS-AC66U can do 600-700Mbit/s over air which is pretty impresssive and a bit better than what airport extreme could.
On-site retargeting: How to supercharge customer acquisition funnels
That's certainly what happened in my country - people started getting pre-configured wireless routers with their ISP contract. Nowadays a good third of them even have Fonera enabled, which is nice.
Awful! Just finished evaluating them and went with DNSMadeEasy instead. Doubly glad of that decision now...
There is a open source alternative:
https://www.nsupdate.info
You can roll your own or just use the one they setup.
https://github.com/nsupdate-info/nsupdate.info

The project is well maintained and they focus on security.
see: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13005242
If you've ever listened to Rush Limbaugh with your conservative father, you can't go more than 15 minutes without hearing an ad for LifeLock. Their audience seems to be paranoid older people who don't understand technology and are looking for piece of mind.

Side note: Here's another kind of ridiculous service that I hear advertised on conservative talk radio: https://www.reagan.com/
> You're provider gives you a free router when you sign up and you plug it in

Time Warner charges $10/month for theirs, and they're awful.
Oracle acquires DNS provider Dyn
Serious question, will all celebrity (aka tabloid) news be considered fake news? For example, Pop star Jane Doe in relationship with Actor John Smith? Stuff at the supermarket counters.

Side note.. what ever happened to bat-boy?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bat_Boy_(character)
Point in time restore for Amazon S3
Your description is accurate, but the most important part to know is that the random values on the lattice are used as the derivatives of the noise function. The noise function itself is then an itegral of those derivates. By putting the derivatives at the lattice points, the grid structure underneath becomes far less visible. If you used the random values directly, and just interpolated those using a spline, you get a 0-value derivative at exactly every lattice point, and you end up seeing the grid structure in the result, it becomes glaringly apparent. Using Perlin noise, the minima and maxima are offset randomly from the grid, making the overall function feel much more natural.

It's useful any time you need some natural looking randomness in a texture. Perlin noise is standard in pretty much all 3d rendering software for films, and it's becoming quite common for games.

The turbulence part of this is when you take a whole stack of Perlin noises at different frequencies, i.e., different grid sizes, and sum them. It's more expensive of course, but this is how to get extremely realistic feeling noise, it gives you medium and high frequencies. And it further hides any grid artifacts.

I used Perlin noise as a wind function to animate bushes & trees in the animated movie Madagascar. Perlin actually works really well for windy looking motion because of the way it's derviatives work. I tried a whole bunch of other noise functions, and Perlin was the only one that worked well.
Nope. The browser is behaving sensibly, since you can't register that domain. It's applying the same rules that the registrars do.

ICANN require that registries follow RFC3491 and related RFCs for name prep before allowing a name to be registered https://www.icann.org/resources/unthemed-pages/idn-guideline... . What that one does is (among other things) NFKC normalization and case-folding:

irb(main):016:0> "\ufeff\uff30\uff21\uff39\uff30\uff21\uff2c"
=> "﻿ＰＡＹＰＡＬ"
irb(main):017:0> "\ufeff\uff30\uff21\uff39\uff30\uff21\uff2c".unicode_normalize(:nfkc).downcase
=> "﻿paypal"
If you want a good router, and have a bit of time to spare, I think the best route is to buy a low power machine [1], or assemble one yourself and run BSD or Linux.

Hopefully, in the near future we can have this done with libre hardware. Cheap POWER stuff would be great.

[1] http://www.fit-pc.com/web/products/fitlet/
Conservative trolls are attacking publishers' App Store ratings
What are some good alternatives? I have the last "tower" version.
I'm typically thinking about what I have to do at work, or complaining about what processes is horrible and how I can propose to make it better. If I charged for those brainstorming hours during driving I would have a very nice car every year but I feel it makes me better at work and I've come up with some of my best ideas while stuck in traffic.
There is also http://openfoodfacts.org/
Maybe browser should have a security option to whitelist characters in URL. When a URL uses another character, there would be popups with explanations and choices.
"sharpen the company’s focus on consumer products that generate the bulk of its revenue"

I'm sure Apple of all companies knows this, but revenue of a particular product doesn't necessarily show the whole picture when some of your brand's appeal is that customers can buy all Apple products and be fairly confident they work well together.

Separately, I'm very happy with Ubiquiti products, but I'm also a power user.
That's a very important point. I have a number of friends who pull out their phones the moment it pings them, and nine out of ten times it's not important. And, usually, the tenth time where they say 'I have to answer this call/message' it's not in the least time-sensitive enough that they can't wait 10-15 minutes.

I'm still not sure how to deal with this, because everyone does it so I'm the weird one for finding it rude and disruptive to the conversation. The only thing I've come up with is to politely ask the people I interact with regularly and the people close to me to not check their phone during a conversation we're having.

(interestingly enough this usually sparks a conversation where they also express a dislike of constant interruption...)
How to Run Your Company Through Slack
[Bitcoin BOT] Earn Bitcoins While You Sleep – Automated
Ideally, only results should matter. But 'Zzz' somehow reinforces the default assumption that a remote worker will try to be paid for slacking off. Now, I am going back to bed.
What percent of Oracle acquisitions don't end in either purposefully shutdown or shutdown due to management failure?
So, tit for tat?!

That aside... So, does that mean once your picture is released, you don't need to pay back? If so, I see some people would probably get rich :/
I use a combination of DNS Made Easy and Route 53. Both have worked well for me.
I made a whole $50 on Coinbase. I expected some tax form to arrive, and it never came. Honestly I completely forgot about it until I saw this.

I wonder if that $50 will end up being hundreds owed in some kind of late fees/etc.
> Are you judging him on his money capacity so you can justify blocking ads on his page ? I might be mistaken but it looks like it.

No, that's to point out that good content doesn't NECESSARILY need an ad-revenue stream to exist. I'm old, and I still aggregate a lot of blogs via RSS. To me, that's still the best content on the internet. Reading those posts in an aggregator removes almost all of the advertising anyway, and certainly all the "bad" adverts.

That reminds me... it was a good article. I should add him to my roll, and see what else he has to say...
Wells Fargo stock appears to be back up to where it was a few months ago
Random question, how is a regression like a 'no method error' possible? Don't the creators of these languages write extremely exhaustive tests? I don't know much about this, just wondering...
if you think about it - they've abandoned monitors, routers, Mac minis, MacBook airs, iPods, what the hell are all those people who worked on these products are doing now? I can understand if they had some other great products in the works but Mac Pro has not been updated for a while, iPhone and MacBook updates are pathetic, looks like Apple is now focused more on marketing and social buzz than creating actual products...
It sounds like we're in a similar situation. My background is actually infrastructure but I've been doing DevOps for the last 5 Years or so. I write a lot of PHP and Ruby and I think enough to write a small SaaS product with the help of frameworks etc. I can write to a decent level but not the same level as a full time developer.

The chances are I'll take some time off and do nothing. I'm just hoping that after a week or two of being off I'll get some sort of spark to write some code and bring one of my projects alive. I would like to monetize them but for now I would just be happy to complete one of them! Whatever the case I'm keen to ensure I don't do nothing whilst having time off!
InterSystems Developer Community – Localization Manager or I11N in Caché
I disagree with this. I think that Apple's time capsule is not well suited to an offsite backup solution, and it probably shouldn't even be the primary.

But if you're in the Apple ecosystem anyway, I think it's really convenient to take complete disk images for a full system restore. I think it's cool to use a 3-2-1 backup chain with a backup system image.

Granted, this is coming from someone who uses Tarsnap, Arq and Crashplan; but I've used Apple time capsules and I really admire their usability. In a restore scenario I don't have to choose particular files or folders, I just have to choose a date and the entire system is back. This is not without its downsides (no granularity in restore), but it's super convenient if it's what you need.

If I were in a decision making position, I'd get rid of the Apple routers like they are doing and double down on time capsules by providing an integrated offsite solution, perhaps marketed with end to end encryption as a nod to privacy advocates.
Interesting to see all the love for AirPorts here. In my experience, they've been pretty garbage, and it was a great relief when we finally ditched them and bought some TP-Link equipment instead, and now we have far less trouble with the office wifi.
2016 keeps on delivering.
I understand: you don't see the ad as intrusive or unethical. I concede both points.

My argument is rather this: troyhunt.com is in the business of attracting users. These users do not wish to see the some content troyhunt.com has selected, so they've filtered it out by means of a third party. Now troyhunt.com (the business entity, not the individual, who I'm sure is a good person) is lashing out (albeit quite politely) against the means through which its clientele has expressed their expectations/desires. This is a case of shooting the messenger. It's bad business.
Do you think a startup could legally implement this idea by acting as the trusted third-party to hold the photographs? Maybe the person uploading the photos could agree to a legal contract beforehand stating that the website can publish the photos if they default on the terms of the contract. There must be quite similar terms in the porn industry and I don't see a problem if they're over 18 (I'm not a lawyer obviously - would love to hear from anyone if they are.)

Do you think this could all be done legally?
SQL Server on Linux Runs inside Microsoft's Drawbridge Sandbox
When Steve Jobs came back, he killed off a bunch of accessories - printers, cameras, Newton, etc etc. Apple isn't in dire straits as they were them, but just like how back then their printers and cameras weren't innovative, neither are their routers now

Killing off accessories is fine. But if they're not focusing on that anymore, and no new Macs in ages, what the hell ARE they focusing on?