skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In the UK, power is regulated by a complicated system of price controls, profit caps and requirements to supply downstram rivals. I don't fully understand it orhow it works in the US.

I'm sympathetic to your sentiment that Telcos seem too powerful and it could be socially optimal to constrain them. They could well be a natural monopoly, where price controls (or government provision) improves welfare.

I don't like your idea of splitting upstream and downstream though. An economist called Ronald Coase once said 'whats worse than a monopoly? A chain of monopolies..'

The idea of double marginalisation is not obvious but totally fundamental to the topic of vertical restraints/mergers and why they are so much less clear cut than horizontal agreements/mergers. This video is good.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=2NElV61MUDE
And yet, where does the food and water come from?
An open letter to Pebble
Are there SDRs where you "remote" the receiver and antenna? Or antenna and low-noise amplifier?

I found another site that reviews some units, and mentions the issues you noted: http://www.rtl-sdr.com/tag/sensitivity/
This is a good argument to be used against the creditcardization (war on cash[1]) of the world some governments are promoting.

[1]: https://www.google.com.br/search?q=war+on+cash
There exists a phenomenal paper comparing ropes, gap buffers, and piece chains I cannot recall.

There is a lua editor called Vis that uses piece chains which the paper suggests is best.
The current project I am working on has been developing an offline-first, messaging/calling app that started as a webapp but was decided to also have native apps for Android/iOS. But because the web app came first, the web-centered architecture was kept, and the javascript developers have chosen PouchDB/CouchDB as the single data storage/sync mechanism.

I was peripherally involved in the part of the services that dealt with user data - basically, massaging data from the address book and call history, dealing with the backend.

This is a collection of things I believe I can say after working on this for almost two years:

- PouchDB + CouchDB works well, as long as you are already used to model your application in terms of CouchApps. No SQL, no E-R representation of your data, etc. If you are not comfortable with the couchDB model and don't know your way around views, you are not going to have a good time.

- This is not an issue with PouchDB, but it if you are planning on having native apps, I'd strongly advise against. All of our native app developers struggled with the change in mindset and the not so mature state of couchbase for Android/iOS. And because they can use SQLite, forcing them to adopt couchbase was not but pain in our team.

- You need to figure out security and authentication: if you take the direct approach of using one couchdb per user and just replicate that, you need to figure out on your own how to secure access. CouchDB only supports OAuth 1 out of the box. We are using oAuth 2 for our services, and I basically had to implement a proxy server that checked oauth tokens before passing requests to our couchdb server.

- CouchDB that does not allow cross-database views, so if you take the "one-database-per-user" approach and you need to check anything that spans more than one database, you are on your own to create more databases/replicate/index/aggregate the data.

- The solution for sync helps, and continuous replication makes for a good demo, but it is not magic. Imagine if you have already accumulated some good amount of data in your database. The moment you start your application on a different browser, PouchDB will start desperately to sync everything you have. You need to know how filtered replication works.

- Very resource intensive, more so if you keep continuous replication. Constant usage of CPU and network I/O can make your app feel sluggish.
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A Python Data Science Workflow Using Remote Servers
>Federal statues also supersede state law, under the supremacy clause of the constitution.

How does that mesh with the states legalizing marijuana?
Similar experience but I know this exists. Some people going through their teens get pretty cruel.

Definitely a minority
In prose, without quotation marks. I found it jarring the first time I got corrected for casually using quotation marks on HN (many years ago --- I think by Paul Graham!) and felt for sometime afterwards that it was evidence about how needlessly prickly the site is. But I'm now glad to have left the habit of using question marks rhetorically behind in pretty much all of my writing.

You can still use quotes if you really want to; you just have to write clearly that you aren't making a literal quotation --- to be clear that you're not putting words in someone else's mouth. But I find that it's rarely worth the effort to do so.
Sometimes, they are "cruel" in response to having been subtly (or not so subtly) treated cruelly themselves.
Kogan charge your card a slightly lower random amount than the transaction total and ask you to verify the exact figure before they will fulfill the order. Simple and clever.
And or get yelled at if you suggest that intentionally walking into single parenthood without excellent circumstances is not a great idea.
The odds are exceedingly high that you will die. Maybe we'll figure out some form of immortality, but it's overwhelmingly likely that we'll do no more than delay the inevitable. It is absolutely certain that you will experience disease and suffering.

The transhumanistic attitude of "let's look for solutions to death rather than accepting it" is a form of avoidant coping, little different to religious beliefs about the afterlife. Maybe you'll live forever in the singularity, but you'll almost certainly suffer and die and rot. It's better to contemplate that probability now, rather than on your death bed.
Few examples: USICS/CBP/DHS (not sure who among them maintains finger print db) in the USA. UIDAI in India.
They don't need to steal a card at all to do this. They're just guessing random numbers — everything after the issuer/cardtype numbers (first 5 or 6). So there's nothing to convert, and they only try a particular card number a few times.
Show HN: Speck, a WebGL molecule renderer
> Being angry is an emotion kids need to learn about. This means (IMO) it's OK for a parent to be visibly angry sometimes, as long as you are able to remain a good role model while angry.

Very true. The thing is, if you are somehow able to bottle up your negative emotions in front of your kids all the time, you're either superhuman, or you're letting them fester in some other way... Kids should learn that they have an impact on their parents' lives too, and they need to see examples of how we deal with it.

Some parents get pouty and act just like a toddler until they cave and give the kid something the kid wants. Other parents get angry, maybe even raise their voice, but then take control of their emotion and apologize to the kid, but still don't cave to whatever the kid (often irrationally) desires.

Physical punishment (outside of restraint, e.g. When one kid hurts another) is a different conversation entirely, of course.
This is my pet peeve you are arguing into. Beware. :)

Here's my point: People can build amazing programs with just Vectors or Hashes. People can build amazing programs without understanding recursion, evaluation, macros, or metalinguistic abstraction. And, in fact, before memory became cheap (roughly 1995) recursion was a negative, not a positive.

So, guess which things Lisp taught and which it didn't? Yeah, they got it precisely BACKWARDS and then wondered why Lisp wasn't more popular.

Go back, and look at Lisp books prior to the web--call it 1995-1996.

I 1987, I had a version of Touretzky's "Common LISP: A Gentle Introduction to Symbolic Computation". I do not remember any discussion of Hashes, Vectors, etc., but I see that even the 1990 version confines them to the next to the last chapter and the discussion qualifies as cursory, at best.

SICP doesn't even mention it. Nor does Little Schemer (nee Little Lisper).

"On Lisp" (1993) just drops hashes and vectors in your lap as it expects you to already know about them. "ANSI Common Lisp" by Graham doesn't appear until 1995.

CLtL and R4RS are references. You sure aren't going to learn Lisp/Scheme from those.

Sure, once Perl taught the universe how useful hash tables were, everybody started going "Hey, we have those too...", but prior to that is a big hole.
> If the goal of the parent is "get child to grandmas"
> while the child's goal is "I want to continue to watch cartoons"
> who's goals are more important?

At what point/age is it OK to control someone, and when/why does that stop?

As an adult, if I want to spend the day on the sofa watching cartoons, who has the right to stop me, and drag me off somewhere else?
First, it hasn't been 30 years. The Tesla is the first sort-of-viable alternative to most cars that hit the market. And... I say "sort-of-viable" because you can't tow a horse trailer or throw hay bales off the back of a Tesla. So... see my previous comment, it's not a viable alternative.

The oil pipeline represents the kind of economic engine that allows the people of North Dakota to be able to afford Teslas. Look at the state... it's filled with industrious people (very very low unemployment rate), who make not a lot of money (very very low average wage). Besides, nobody is talking about NOT having a pipeline, they're just talking about moving it. One way or the other a pipeline is getting built, it's just a matter of 10-15 miles one way or the other.

If I'm hearing you right, you'd rather ship oil from over seas (the amount of carbon released is staggering), or ship it via truck, because building a pipeline is wrong and bad and evil. Because... why exactly? It'll be a generation or more before we're off petroleum, won't happen over night. Does it make sense to be less efficient, and make it harder for the people in that state to earn money, while we wait?

The pipeline will function for the rest of our lives... we aren't getting off fossil fuels that quickly. Think about not only cars, but pickups, tractors, construction equipment... on our ranch we had a 50+ year-old bulldozer that we still used. Those sorts of big-engine items won't be replaced by solar power for a lifetime or more. Not like we could have afforded to buy a new bulldozer... fossil fuels... plan on them being here for our lifetimes. I understand climate change, I don't think it's a great thing, but it's just the world we live in.
Technical director is one too: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technical_director#Film_.26_Ga...

I was a TD for a number of years before going moving into creative full time. It was a great path and a learning experience which gave me an edge later on.

TD is a great position if you're both into programming and art, because it blends the two. Some of the best TDs I've seen and had pleasure to work with could be described as demo coders with significant resources behind them!
Author here. You can try it live at http://wwwtyro.github.io/speck/
I should have made it more clear.

What I was talking about is the sale of substances that are 1) advertised specifically for consumption, and 2) have known highly harmful effects when consumed as advertised. This is similar to regulating poisonous food. You can still buy poison and food separately, and combine them if you really want to. So this is not about possession.

For possession, I can think of only two reasons why it should ever be regulated. One is when the substance requires special handling to store safely, and can e.g. leak into the environment and affect others if handled improperly. I'm not sure if there are any drugs that are in this category. Presumably, at least some of them could be in sufficient quantities. But even then, this would be regulating safe storage, not possession per se.

The other reason is when a substance, when consumed, is likely to make the person highly dangerous to others - a hypothetical example would be a drug that reliably induces violent rage, and that has no other legitimate use (e.g. not a beneficial drug in smaller doses).
While not SDR, there are some cheaper alternatives if you're just looking to mix code and radio transmitting.

[1] https://www.adafruit.com/products/3076
[2] http://www.ebay.com/itm/162086931088
I don't buy the idea that punishment and reward are just different sides of the same coin.

Reward works well for building a healthy rapport and relationship. I don't think punishment is entirely ineffective, but if it isn't rare and judicious it may well end up causing more harm than help. The problem is that the response to punishment is visible immediately while the downsides may only appear many years later.
To be honest, I am actually not.
Or they are parents, but they're not me.

I've got two kids, both teenagers now. In my view it's not just that kids are different, but that parents are different too. My impression is that most parenting advice assumes that the parents themselves have unlimited self discipline, organization, and emotional stamina.
I meant the first sentence of OP's comment lol.
"not visible on mobile"
Yeah that's a good point I've got a module which uses http://www.silabs.com/products/wireless/EZRadioPRO/Pages/si4...

The chip itself covers 119–1050 MHz, but the modules I have, have filters on to allow only narrower ranges.
Without knowledge of the finer points of copyright law (IANAL), is this (the final effect) even copyrightable?
Contract rates in London are really rather good, at least in my particular little world (ops/"devops")...

Really, we're talking minimum 500gbp/day and there is so much work you can quit a contract and have another within hours....
He could also be _working_ in a VM, when his host OS supports it but he's not using the host at the time.
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My dad and I are very casual. We enjoy fighting (wrestling), pushing each other into strangers, tampering with food, turning car seat heaters on sneakily on a hot day. Very normal for us to call each other names when these things occur. I don't think there is anything I could say to him that he'd even blink at.
Turns out most of our concept of being "busy" or "a workaholic" is an illusion. If you sit down and track how you use your time, you'll probably find you don't work anywhere near as much as you think and you use a lot of spare time very inefficiently.

I have an infant. I spend a lot of time with him. During the week I probably take care of him more than my wife does, because she goes to work very early. I also work in a VR startup, scrambling to get projects done. Somehow, I still find time to cook dinner with my wife, watch the latest episode of whatever one TV show we are following, get a few house chores done, and waste time on HN and Twitter. The only times it feels like I'm too busy to get everything done is when I'm wasting too much time on HN and Twitter.
Those are services. I can't really go back to the sweets shop arounds the corner of ten years ago.
I've been wondering the same. What would the alternative be? Sync between two pouchdb instances (one client and one server) and then sync the server-side pouchdb to couchdb?
Codatlas team here, sorry that our feedback module is not stable and would you mind shooting us an email (lambdalab@lambdalab.io) instead? Would love to hear any feedback you may have for us:)
DOJ is not widely enforcing federal drug laws against citizens complying with state laws - at the direction of the current administration - but they could do so in the future.
I can't recommend those videos enough, great stuff!
Debugging would be my first guess.
There was a TV programme in the UK called The 3 Day Nanny, about a super nanny who would come in and sort out problem children and parents in 3 days. It ran for a few seasons.

Fast forward till she had her own child, and I saw an interview with her. She was completely shattered. Like a wreck. She had her own difficult child, and coupled with little available help from others, she couldn't cope. She looked and sounded defeated and expressed that she felt guilty that, of all people, she was not coping.

There is a reason some parents "get it right" and, I'm sorry to say, but thats just as likely down to the kid.
I'm personally really a fan of this syntax mostly because I like how it reads when you chain them together.

db.replicate
.from('http://example.com/mydb1')
.to('http://example.com/mydb2')
.on('complete', function() {

})
.on('error', function() {

})
.then(function() {

});
Thanks for this! Strangely, I had tried fx 6/7, but I was putting them over the existing chords, which was as ugly as it sounds! Guess I should RTFM :D
> At what point/age is it OK to control someone, and when/why does that stop?

When they have not established an ability to control their life or take care of themselves? See how long the infant or toddler lasts without supervision. See the teenager make the best choices for their lives without the ability to earn a living(although technically I moved out at 17).

When they can afford their own self determination as defined by the society they live in?

Parental control is more of a gradient that should ease as the child gets closer to adulthood. The goal of the parent should be to make a self-sufficient independent individual. That's not always their goal though.

>As an adult, if I want to spend the day on the sofa watching cartoons, who has the right to stop me, and drag me off somewhere else?

Your landlord, mortgage company, local tax auditor would have the legal right to evict you if you failed to make good on earlier promises to pay rent, mortgage, taxes. If you're living with someone else who is paying for your ability to watch cartoons then they could probably kick you out whenever they felt like it.
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An issue that recently hit us: if you're going to be testing mail, then use the SES test addresses. Don't use your own or fake addresses. If SES get x% bounces on any outbound address, it will cut off your SES access across the board, and it doesn't come back on quickly.

We had a test address that was purposefully undeliverable. A test script sent out thousands of mails when it shouldn't have, and those undeliverable mails got treated as bounces. So, we got our SES cut off for two days, despite our clearly test/undeliverable mail being the cause. Regular AWS support can't do anything, only a special email unlock team can (they protect the 'deliverability' of AWS mail), and they're not exactly responsive.

http://docs.aws.amazon.com/ses/latest/DeveloperGuide/mailbox...
Moroccan TV shows how to cover domestic violence with makeup
the comments to this article are gold!
How is this a vote against EU and euro? Does this indicate Italy's exit from the EU or eurozone?
> Regarding font - Courier 12pt is standard monospace used. People have (and do, but not often) use different monotypes. Using a monotype with certain margins and along with several other rules yields you a consistent overview of the script where the result of using all of that is approximately 1 minute of screen time per one page of script. That's why it's used. Non-mono font wouldn't yield same results.

I'm certain that an automated word count could easily provide a more accurate heuristic and free up the graphical presentation to be more readable. This heuristic is exactly the kind of narrow-minded unwillingness to consider modern solutions that is so appalling. And the conventions were obviously not constructed for this purpose; they're relics of long-gone technological limitations and the 1 minute per page rule of thumb was probably not formulated based on a thorough measurement.
The paper:

Ali, Mohammed Aamir and Arief, Budi and Emms, Martin and van Moorsel, Aad (2016)

Does The Online Card Payment Landscape Unwittingly Facilitate Fraud?

IEEE Security & Privacy

http://eprint.ncl.ac.uk/file_store/production/230123/1918024...
My Top Apps for 2017
> Is uifaces broken?

"Hi friends, I recieved a note from Amazon this week "EC2 has detected degradation of the underlying hardware hosting your Amazon EC2 instance [uifaces]. Due to this degradation, your instance could already be unreachable." I've set up this temporary version of UIFaces while I rebuild!"

http://uifaces.com/about
I'll add some other software recommendations along the more visual route. For those on Windows, SDR# [1] is pretty great. On Linux and Mac, I really enjoy using GQRX [2]. And finally, when you're digging deep down into a received signal, inspectrum [3] can't be beat.

[1] http://airspy.com/download/
[2] http://gqrx.dk/
[3] https://github.com/miek/inspectrum
For the lazy, it's chanceme.info, a data-driven college admission prediction project - that is really neat. Unfortunately, I'm getting a "Error: HTTP error 404." on the result.
I'm not sure of the wisdom of doing this without realsense cameras.
It looks like the subdivisions of the UK also have their own criminal law (e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scottish_criminal_law )
Off topic for HN, see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13100936.
> Aha! So this mysteriously-named /usr/sbin/eis3920 program is responsible for the decryption. eis3920 is an ARM binary, but running strings on it came up with some items of interest:

...
/sys/devices/platform/omap/omap_i2c.2/i2c-2/2-0057/eeprom
%s%s%s%s%s
/home/root
.ecryptfs
sig-cache.txt
ecryptfs_fnek_sig=
%s%s%s%s%s%s%s%s%s%s%s%s
mount -t ecryptfs

I'm at a bit of a loss here. What does he mean by "running strings on it"?
Syrian girl Bana, 7, won hearts by tweeting in aleppo, disappears from Twitter
Wow. Add The Atlantic to the growing list of sites I'll never visit anymore, thanks to what must be the world's most obnoxious ad-begging landing/redirect page I've seen in my entire life. Totally objectionable.
New Zealand Prime Minister John Key Resigns
The best part is the linked article's Conclusion section. It includes such gems as "zero and one values represent a lower and higher voltage in the cable and in the sender or receiver. This is actually an analogue signal when we look at it on a scope. We audiophiles agree that cables sound different with analogue signals, so why not with Ethernet data?" and "Next, any interface for Ethernet has a correction circuit for errors. With many errors this interface has to work hard, that will result in a greater need for current from the power supply and the processor heating up."
>_<
Yeah. Bounces are bounces, and the mail reputation score probably won't care that you're testing things when it penalizes Amazon for its IPs sending bogus mail.
Deep Learning in the Stock Market
Isolated Audio card & PPT signal + HT can probably be done for less than $100 if you go with one of the cheaper HTs.

Heck you can pick up a Mobilinkd[1] for ~$60 if you just want to stick with KISS/AX.25 over Bluetooth. They're really awesome little devices for what they do.

[1] - http://www.mobilinkd.com/
I got excited there for a second, I thought you linked the Si468x, which I have been thinking about tinkering around with. It is just a receiver, but it does HD radio which interests me for some reason (it certainly isn't the audio quality :))