skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The Apple watch and its health application which gamifies trying to close some rings has led to me losing 3 pant sizes (46 -> 40), and almost 40 lbs. I've put on a lot of extra muscle mass and spend a lot more time being healthy.

Is that worth $250? It absolutely is to me, and I wear it on a daily basis. The extra features are nice to have, I use Apple Pay on my watch quite a bit, and the notifications are nice to remind me of meetings.
I like building things, not just code. I think it's a sense of personal satisfaction from creating something where there was nothing and sharing it with others. Most of the time nobody cares, so it's always nice when somebody else likes it.

Lately I've been mixing relaxation music that's really just royalty free recordings of nature and royalty free piano music.
What encryption are you using? I was under the impression that FV2 (or any other full disk encryption solution) does not work on a Hackintosh
The valid question is actually would you prefer to be healthier today. Aging affects everyone's health (perhaps after a certain age) whether they currently realize they have some acute condition (such as cancer or imminent death) or not.
Teasing is a social thing. And like other social things the reasons are not necessarily concrete and "rational". Why do you smile and say hello to a person you pass in the hall? You don't intend to start a conversion- there's no reason to say hello. There's no "reason" to be friendly at all.

If you look at the social and emotional things happening, maybe it starts to make some sense. Smiling says, "Hi, I recognize you and you are an acquaintance/friend."

Teasing is a way of interacting- of making bonds, of feeling people out. By teasing, you are finding out about someone: How much do they care about the subject of teasing? What kind of person are they? And you are saying, "I know you so I can playfully poke at things you care about." And maybe eventually, "I know you so well, I can poke at you in a sensitive area but not go too far. We can do that to each other because we trust each other's intent and we know how to poke in a way that doesn't go too far." Strangers don't have that kind of bond and trust.

Besides that, teasing is joking. It can be simply harmless and funny and lightens the mood or improve the morale of a group.

So, yes, there are reasons.
The X.org developers decided. The person who started Wayland was an X.org developer, and IIUC many who joined the effort are/were X.org developers, etc.

> I am sure that if you poke around you will find someone still relying on those features being present daily.

Not really. Many of these things have been broken in X.org for years and years... because nobody used them! (Again, see the talk.)

There's also the whole abysmal security record of X11[1], due in large part to the huge API and the fact that all serialization/deserialization of requests is hand-coded (by necessity).

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2l7ixRE3OCw
He works for Microsoft, on Xamarin. And seems happy doing it. Hence the statement that he won't be working on GNOME again.
I agree with you that people should upgrade to Windows 10 as soon as they can. But I'm curious about what you mean by misapplications of the Windows UI.
Ideally, you shouldn't even upload the sources to the OBS manually at all!
Just provide a so called "service" file with an instruction hour to fetch the sources (tarball or git), and everything after that will be handled by BuildService.
Funnily enough, I watched the Breaking Bad series finale with him at his house. I also confronted him about his spending 9 months before he was arrested, but he lied to me and I bought it because his story made more sense than "my friend is running the Silk Road".

In the time since he was arrested, I've moved from coding to fraud investigations, and my time with him is a constant reminder to trust my observations over anything I am told.

I disagree that he was more hateable than Ulbricht. He never tried to have people tortured/murdered.
Quick, which company makes M134, M240, or Thompson SMG?

I had to look up two of the three, even though I think I'm reasonably well-versed in guns. So if it is a long game, it's a really long one.
Dylan.
Ferrari 458 italia
Darpa funds 30KW engine that is 90 times lighter than a regular diesel generator
Like most ideas, you can read about it in science fiction! Not so practical, though.

https://www.dezeen.com/2013/09/24/science-fiction-author-pro...
"The men who ran the Mega sites passed around customers' e-mails with reactions, complaints, and compliments, many of them mentioning obviously copyrighted content. For instance, in May 2009, Batato sent an e-mail to Ortmann with a customer note reading: "We watched Taken successfuly [sic] and then tried to watch the Alphabet Killer a day later and got the message to upgrade if we wanted to continue watching."

Another user in 2010 e-mailed Batato asking, "where can we see full movies?" Batato answered, “You need to go to our referrer sites. Such as www.thepiratecity.org or www.ovguide.com[.] There are the movie and series links. You cannot find them by searching on MV directly. That would cause us a lot of trouble ;-).”

In 2008, a user wrote directly to Dotcom complaining about video problems. "I’ve been trying to watch Dexter episodes, but... the sound doesn’t match up with the visual," he wrote. "I didn’t choose to use your site, you seem to dominate episodes 6 and 7 of Dexter on alluc[.org, a linking site]."

Dotcom forwarded the e-mail to Ortmann, writing: "on many forums people complain that our video / sound are not in sync... We need to solve this asap!”

from http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2013/12/us-unveils-the-ca...
It's faulting one theory for making up terms to fit one source of data and then those same terms failing on 6+ other experiments. Dark matter's predictions are consistent across totally different experiments with fewer sets of parameters.
Um, no. I don't think children works. Tossing out possibilities (that probably all suck):

Chattel property?
Loved ones?
Lovers?
Spouses?

(But thanks! I never am sure how to hit the right conversational note on hn.)
> On the one hand this is better than the security free-for-all which is X. On the other hand it breaks a number of useful tools, and at the same time I've never (provably) seen an X exploit in the wild.

The fact that keyloggers exist on Linux is because of X11's security model.
Incumbents almost always win their elections. Who knows where we'll be in 4 years, but in general, an assumption that a new President-elect will serve two terms is reasonably safe.
This is widely known as the "trilemma"; you can have at most 2 of:

- Fixed exchange rate

- Free movement of capital

- Ability to conduct your own monetary policy

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impossible_trinity
But what if the Honda now costs more or has less features?
If people are overworked 10% and underworked 10% (or any other similar number) that's an "project management smell". I wouldn't want to work there.

Unless they offer tons of vacation. :-)
I guess a cynical view (and probably that espoused by the article, which I haven't yet read) is that they're trying to normalize the presence of weaponry in popular fiction as well as in everyday social discourse. If you're in the gun business, you don't want the only people talking about guns to be your critics.

The military also has a stake in glamorizing weaponry and warfighting, and they definitely have a symbiotic relationship with Hollywood in that respect.
Interesting. I guess it depends on your acceptable risk/reward profile. I translate your model as:

Junior developer at unknown startup [Medium risk, low reward]
Intermediate/senior developer at that startup or another one [Medium risk, medium reward]
Software Dev at Fancy Company [Low risk, high reward]
Start company with colleagues OR high-paid, remote consulting gigs [High risk, high reward]

I'd characterize the last one as a step backwards IF you consider "low risk, high reward" to be the best possible situation.
The idea that Facebook and other services may allow the proliferation of erroneous doppelgänger profiles more attractive to advertisers than the real versions is very interesting. How would this be tested? By seeing if there is any bias in ad-targeting misfires?
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I was looking for a watch for running a few months ago. I waited for the new Apple Watch 2. After looking at it, I decided to go with Garmin. It is a lot cheaper and does exactly the things I want: tracking time, distance, steps, heart rate etc. I can see the value of smartwatches as fitness trackers. For other things, a smartphone does it better.
At the risk of sounding like an apologist for ageism -- why?

There's no magic button you can push in your brain that says 'don't form conditional expectations based on protected categories'. If you're a recruiter and older candidates keep blowing you off, would you really continue to put in the same amount of effort to try to recruit them, even if you consciously attempted to?
Can someone explain in layman's terms what really is dark matter and why there's so much obsession around it? If we can't observe it and we are only relying on inferences to explain it's effects, that seems like pretty weak set of legs.

Obviously I'm missing the academic discipline to appreciate this topic but nevertheless, I'm curious about our understanding of the very fabric and mechanisms of our reality and the universe.
Powershell is cool. I mean, what's wrong with it? It's the most un-windows-y part of windows. It's a modern shell, I wish bash was that nice to you (quick example: command option completion).
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I have mixed feelings about the article, partly because of Gizmodo (which loves clickbaity titles to an extreme) and because I find my Apple watch actually useful in daily life - meeting reminders, discrete messaging, street directions and the ability to dictate replies - much easier than unlocking the phone and typing them out when on the go.

(It can actually cope with both languages I speak/write daily, and got me using Siri and dictation more, with very reasonable accuracy).

I had a Pebble and a Sony Smartwatch previously, and it was an exponential improvement
- although my ideal smartwatch would be something like the Pebble Round with full Apple integration and fitness features.

They're not for everyone, they're expensive (all of mine were eBay or discount purchases) and they might not make for a sizable business volume, but they are useful - but, again, not for everyone.
Find a few job posts you really like: can be building website, frontend/backend, mobile app or C++ QT App - instead of just sending them resume. Convert those job post to a project you LOVE to do personally, try also make it part of class/school/open source project.

Spend a few weeks/months work on that. Publish it on github, show it on HN, ask for feedbacks, improve it and put that/them on your resume.
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I'm motivated by all aspects of my life:

1. I want to explore the world: hear people's stories, learn new ideas, experience all the diversity and craziness there is in the world, have moments of childlike wonder.

2. I want to help people: victims of war, families in poverty, people who did not get a childhood or a fulfilling education, people who are not able to achieve their full potential.

3. I want to see myself grow. I'm curious as to how my abilities, my personality, and my outlook on life will change in the next decades.

4. I look forward to meeting the love of my life, raising a family, and participating in a close-knit, medium-sized community.

I may not achieve all of these things, and I will likely be have regrets and dissatisfactions, but on the whole, life has been a worthwhile journey, and I expect the future will be worthwhile as well.
You keep projecting positions about equality onto me which I don't hold. Please stop it.
The idiotic, reductionist viewpoint that "I have intel ME on my machine so anything and everything that you could ever do is worthless and pointless and moot, trust me on that" is so utterly backwards, such an insane state of denial -- I can't even comprehend it. Until I realize it almost exclusively, in my experience, comes from people who eat tinfoil and have never worked in security.

Honestly, I consider it lucky that the people who typically promote this nonsensical bullshit are probably not actually security engineers or researchers, or allowed to do security related work in any way -- because they would be terrible at it with a position like that. Actual security engineers understand that there are things called "threat models" and "tradeoffs" and you can, in fact, measurably improve security in meaningful ways for many systems.

You might as well just starve yourself to death because -- hey -- eating is pointless when you could get hit by a bus at any moment.

Why prevent your application from having SQL injections? Why not just dump all your customer records and private keys on pastebin? After all, the NSA can just steal those secrets from your computer with some Unicorn Magic, so clearly securing anything is actually pointless.
My criterion: Are its little girls being educated?
And what's going to power this wonderful world of edge computing??

Miracle power cells??
This might work well with bitbar. https://getbitbar.com
It wouldn't look so different than the system we have now. The justice system assumes a lot of good faith by participants (not limited to copyright law). It's somewhat slow to react to bad actors because first assumption is that they aren't bad.
Ask HN: How to receive payments from India for an international company?
Our B2B business has been getting a bit of traction in the Indian market of late (through no effort of mine), but it appears to be very hard for our Indian customers to actual pay us. We are based in Australia and have no Indian subsidiary. So far all I have found is wire transfers (which are a huge pain for smallish amount). It seems that almost all Indian credit cards can’t be used for international payments.

Has anyone else run into this problem and has anyone found any workable solution?
I've got a year on you and I think I'd agree that OO is snake oil. The worst code bases I've ever seen (and I've seen some horrors) have been from over used inheritance and mixing logic and data. Provided you avoid global state (also a problem with OO) I think a c program would be more understandable than a lot of java/c# ones.

Not to say there aren't useful features, that would go well with a language like c, like interfaces, but I'd love to get rid of inheritance, encapsulation and mixing data and code.
The sarcasm flew right over your head...
I ordered a Pebble Time 2 on Kickstarter and a Core hoping to find the perfect smartwatch and run tracking combo. When the Apple Watch 2 came out, I figured I'd hedge my bets and get one of those, then keep whichever one I ended up liking more. Well, the Pebble + Core is never arriving (thanks for the quick refund!) - and I've really become found of the Apple Watch.

Built in GPS for run tracking is awesome, and with wireless airpods, I'll be able to run and listen to music/podcast with minimal extra weight.

A few other minor things I've liked about the Apple Watch 2:

- Setting a timer with Siri (use multiple times a day now)
- Weather on the watchface
- Check banking balances from watch
- PagerDuty notifications on watch vs. phone (my wife very much appreciates this!) - phone now stays out of the bedroom

I'm sad there isn't a good open source watch OS out there (with any decent looking hardware) - but until then, the Apple Watch 2 has been a pleasant surprise. I did have pretty low expectations going in, so that could be part of it.
If that was true, then how can people still see screen tearing?
He never actually owned the mansion it was a rental and it's sold recently so I don't think he lives there anymore.
I guess I'm weird as I don't have my phone on me 24/7. For people like me, smart watches have a lot of utility.
For the past two weeks, I've starting developing/discovering a testable theory for how the mind/body/brain work together by viewing the brain as a neural-network-based machine that can rewire itself, the mind as a VM that runs programs in a well-typed functional language w/effects & coeffects. All 3 are inputs/outputs and the body is the only one able to carry out effects on the external environment.

I've been able to dramatically reduce my daily anxiety without medication in a matter of minutes. I'm finding the model directly implies things we already know, such as why first impressions are important & how to overcome bad ones, as well as aspects of how bad first impressions are related to trauma in some ways. Using the model, I came up with a technique to drastically improve the rigid action in my left pinky for 30 mins to the point that it moved almost as smoothly as my right pinky. 10 years of playing piano and/or sax when growing up didn't help it at all, but 2-3 mins of a simple exercise practically cured the issue.

I'm currently looking for experts to help me flesh out what I believe to be a new approach to mental health that's more effective & can more easily be specifically tuned for individual problems. What I need are category/type theorists to help w/the mathematical model, neuroscientists for the brain stuff, and anyone else willing to explore/play with the ideas. I could also use help figuring out a way to develop an open source science experiment that anyone can participate in & that produces scientifically legit data.
During the last year, I've solved tearing from movie playback on three different systems (nVidia discrete, AMD integrated, Intel integrated) by using the "TearFree" Xorg Driver option.

I'm not sure if this also affects the desktop environment (looks like it does from the machine I'm using). If so, this mean s that there is a working solution.

Tearing in games is an entirely different beast, as other factors come into play (most notably, latency) - besides, games have specific option[s] for that.
Yes, definitely! I'd love to remove the manual metadata step for the photos. I looked at writing the exif XMP data but had trouble sorting it out -- your code looks great, thanks for the lead!
Post your stuff and link away. The world is moving away from isolated information silos and that's ok!
Microsoft rebooted ! Windows home license ? $100 . Sure , rebooted...
The latest Freakonomics podcast addressed this issue as well: http://freakonomics.com/podcast/bad-medicine-part-3-death-di...
I read through the release notes, and I didn't see any mention of this issue at all. The fix must have been a EFI firmware update (my Mac did restart multiple times during the update, so this sounds plausible), but nothing is mentioned about this anywhere.
> "the web"

Okay, but that's sort of technological shift is rare. Nothing else in my lifetime has come close.

>"home broadband"

Just a refinement of the web.

>"Linux"

Linux is based on designs from the 70s, it was old before it was first released.

>"smartphones"

I hope you realise smartphones did not start with the iPhone. The smartphone has gone through a long period of iterative design improvements.

If you're looking for a product that emerges out of a vacuum, you won't find it, all products build upon their predecessors, even the web (which made use of existing telecommunications infrastructure and existing work in the field of computing).

What you will find are new forms that build upon the past. For example, quantum computing is a relatively new field, but has roots in the existing fields of computer science, physics and electrical engineering.

Would quantum computing count as 'truly innovative' to you? If so...

https://stationq.microsoft.com/
The Apple Pay is fantastic when you are on a motorcycle and pull up to the pump. Quick responses to texts and heart rate tracking making a smart watch a pretty good but yes expensive gadget.
So many will find it useless but many find a lot of extra features on smart phones useless as well.
Sounds like he was told that's where the data was coming from, but his tool could have been used to visualize totally different data. I don't see anything in the design he posted that would limit it's usefulness to sensor data.
That is Intranet of Things, IoT's lesser known cousin.
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I have asked this before in various contexts but never got a good answer - why are smart watches so smart (but in return clumsy, expensive, power hungry etc)?

I don't need another smartphone I might need a companion device. It should just display a few things from my phone, e.g display navigation, notifications. My phone already has a big arm CPU and a GPS receiver, I don't want to carry another one!

It should cost peanuts and have weeks of battery.

Do these exist? If not, why? Because they can't be made? Because no one apart from me wants one?
That's just Occam's razor, though. The phrasing made it sound like they had a quantitative argument for why fewer free parameters made it "perform" better.
You can make assumptions about what's probably more efficient, but you can't confirm them without knowing how much gas you've consumed, and that takes several hours to justify stopping to refill the tank. Empty/full gas gauges have a pretty bad margin of error for this, compared to the ECU knowing how much gas has been pumped from the tank and/or injected into the cylinders.
> Any cure for aging would obviously include the cure for mental deterioration.

I respectfully disagree. Also, the article in question, and my comment, are really pointing to prolonging life, not a cure for ageing--that may be very far off. In either case, it is not at all obvious why prolonging or curing the ageing process in life would necessarily maintain optimal neurological function.

There's also problem's outside the scientific challenge itself. One being that genius is almost always only genius after the fact, raising interesting hypothetical questions about who exactly is preserved in their genius state - a promising 20-something, or a proven 40-something?
As a former journalist and PR guy, and now a thought leader offering differentiated insights ;), the best advice I can give, which is not mentioned in this piece, is to cut the crap.

Speak in plain language. Speak in a way an intelligent outsider would understand. Constantly find ways to express or explain jargon in short, everyday words. Thought exercise: Pretend you are writing a page for Thing Explainer.

When you speak in plain language, you have a better chance of avoiding pretension. You yourself will come across as more authentic to readers, because your words are closer to their experience. And that will make you stand out, because most people in tech and business, even very smart people, have trouble expressing themselves clearly to strangers and outsiders.

In every industry, some things don't work. Be the first to admit it. In every industry, there is hype and bullshit. Own it, debunk it, and then talk about the way things really are.

And then explain why that matters. Readers and journalists always want to hear about the "so what?" They don't want to decipher arcane statements. Walk them to the finish line.