skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That article is where I found the link to this one, actually. The FPGA one is more sophisticated for sure but the article doesn't explain how the GPS signals work quite as well, while the older one does a good job of putting GPS into context.

I think my favorite part of GPS is that it uses CDMA to set all of the transmissions on top of each other on the same frequency channel. It's incredible that this technique can recover signals under the termal noise floor.
But send google data that is encrypted with your keys. You encrypt the message, and then encrypt it AGAIN with google certs. So all google sees are encrypted messages.
today all work nice!
I want to become a living god
> Not with app engine's default cert that matches *.google.com

The actual messages are encrypted by Signal's crypto, not just SSL. Signal is just using Google as a dumb transport layer. Tor has a similar censorship circumvention mode which uses its own crypto over an SSL connection to App Engine

I'm not a fan of Google, but you're just spreading FUD.
What I love about this analysis how it tries to deal with conflicting information. The author is very explicit with the problems of the Worms study, but still trusts it. This is real life decisonmaking.

There are few easy answers, especially in complex systems. The best we can do is put the evidence out there and make our best guess.
are you a doctor?
Does anyone have a mirror including http://lea.hamradio.si/~s53mv/navsats/software.zip ?
This is an OK article for someone using this product but there isn't anything interesting here unless you haven't considered partitioning a dataset to be spatially local to the users.
> Not having a viable USB-C -> HDMI adapter
> Many users of MBP's…toss some code up on a projector

Your projectors support HDMI?! I wish!

Joking aside, my "presentation" adapter is Thunderbolt(2) -> VGA, because VGA is the only thing I can be fairly certain that almost every projector will support.

That said, I've ended up with a bunch of adapters, as a fallback in case that doesn't work. I'm definitely not expecting to plug into a projector with USB-C any time soon!
The ‘app of choice’ for jihadists
Somehow the potential repercussions for this feel worse - your information could be used to guide actual missiles against people. I know you can make similar arguments with encryption but at least that can't deliver explosive payloads by itself
It's very useful for people with followers to promote an out group. This is just as true of high school politics as presidential elections. "It's them damn foreigners!" Tends to quickly move into racial or ethnic lines.
Instead you have 4 identical ports that all do the same things poorly.
This does not seem like a serious objection to me. Hedge funds track, keep track of far more complicated financial arrangements. Just valuing options to see when they are in the money is orders of magnitude more complicated. What the op suggests can be done using nothing more complicated than a spreadsheet. "It just proves unworkable for a fund with hundreds of investors to track everyone's benchmarks separately" - huh? Maybe 300 years ago when you had nothing but pen & paper. This is like saying it would be impossible for a mortgage issuer to keep track of each lenders current (adjustable) rate
7 “Must-Haves” Before You Launch a Product or Startup in 2017
Unfortunately, the "command queue" abstraction does not work very well with access control. Imagine that one day the requirements w.r.t. security change. What do you do when some parts of the state may not be viewed by all users? And what if that logic depends on the state itself?
Not OP but the Indian Central Bank estimates there are ~$239 billion in outstanding currency [0], and the national wealth of India is estimated at $3 trillion [1].

Rich people have a much lower cash:wealth ratio than poor or middle class people so I highly doubt many rich people, no matter how corrupt, are losing more than 10% of their wealth with this move.

[0] https://rbi.org.in/Scripts/BS_PressReleaseDisplay.aspx?prid=...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_wealth
Not a snark - it is also possible that over time interactions with a few individuals could change you enough to ostracize entire groups - unless you explicitly guard against that.
This is absolutely spot on. It really helps articulate how even "real" news is tilted in order to enhance virality and click throughs.
There's actually a good number of very weirdly wired serial cables out there (incorrect pin mapping on one side), and if you use a standard cable your device won't work.
You've pretty much nailed it for me; I'm a tall guy (6'4" or 193cm), I'm mildly claustrophobic, and I get stressed on any public transit. I only get two weeks of leave per year, which I have to spend about 40% on certain days like our wedding anniversary and the few camping trips we take every year. We don't make a lot of money and we're trying to pay off old debt and the house, so there's not much left over for traveling outside the Southeast (we live just outside Atlanta, Georgia).

All of that said, it's not that I'm not interested in traveling, it's just that it's not feasible right now, and I fear that once it becomes so, the US will be so isolationist that it will be much more difficult to enter and leave.
> These are basically the same rules for any distributed application

And we've been doing those for like 50 years now. So why is this still so hard? Because new developer were, for all intents and purposes, born yesterday.
I think doing this kind of fact checking is useful. I'd encourage you to include the best of the references you found in your comment. Would you share those with us here?
Is every parallelogram a rectangle?
Because our justice system is inconsistent and very far from perfect. But probably better than nothing, or vigilante justice. Probably.

Want to fix this? Vote for higher taxes to help fund both public defenders (at 10x or more the current level) and social services (that keep people out of trouble in the first place.)
The later part of the article claims that the 2-and-20 prices have indeed come down pretty significantly. Supply and demand works.
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Seen that, with conference speakers stressing out minutes before their talk, about why the laptop > projector adapter isn't working.

It's the worst-case scenario: adapters/connectors that appear identical, but behave differently.
Writing web applications using only the Go Standard Library
Is it possible to see animals from space?
It's not idiotic. I think there's a little more nuance. When someone is convicted, they're done. The law has spoken. That, in and of itself is fairly reasonable. Especially before all this fancy technology we have now.

But, consider, when DNA evidence appeared as a viable technology, 5% of death row inmates were set free. The most difficult cases, where you want the system to work perfectly - no one wants to execute an innocent person - failed 1 in 20 times. Something like 270 people were set free. Millions are spent on both sides of these cases, with round after round of appeals.

So, when you get down to lesser crimes, say assault and battery, I'd bet a good fraction of the people in prison really are innocent. In the best case 5% are innocent.

There's no real way to treat the unknown innocents differently than the actual criminals. That's just how the world is.

Perhaps we should offer some paths to redemption. Not that i have any specific love for muggers, it's more that a good fraction of "muggers in the eyes of the law" aren't actually muggers. Anyone convicted now days is pretty much fucked. I can think of a few notable exceptions, but unless you're some sort of military officer with national news attention, you are pretty much done.

We really only know that at it's absolute best best, death row cases, the legal system's false positive rate is 5%. I find that number terrifying.
you are right. In the process we might saving thousands of lives every year.

New research estimates that if all physicians were female, 32,000 fewer Americans would die every year. https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2016/12/female-do...
A game developer's story of perseverance
really impressive programmer went thru and made this page https://knowitall-9a92e.firebaseapp.com super fast for both mobile and desktop and found a lot of interesting benchmarks in the process.
The problem I have with this approach is that you don't encode the intention with each change. You just encode the data itself. This makes it a bit of a hack, unfortunately. You can end up in conflict-resolution cases which you cannot always predict beforehand.

Yes, from this viewpoint, Git (and every similar version control system) is a hack. But it works well in practice because humans are running it, not machines.
Actually, studies already show that females make better doctors: http://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamainternalmedicine/fullart...
Not just that, but the government has leaked millions of database records on everything from top-secret clearance holders to medical records to you name it. Their security posture is insulting.
MBP 13" doesn't either.
Ahh cool. I ask because Seveneves has a much rosier (overly so in my opinion) end game, in terms of world powers cooperating and most of humanity also doing so, despite knowing for certain that almost everyone will die.
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Considering how hard it is to be 'up' when the entire market is 'down' this doesn't seem so bad. Considering the average hedge fund performances in a down market, it definitely looks like a win to me.
Teechan: Payment Channels Using Trusted Execution Environments [pdf]
These movements do not 'changing culture' they create ideological bubbles where radical views get promoted and push the in-group ideology furtherer and further away from tolerance of other people with different views.

One of the points in the article was that Democrats are more willing to self segregate from people they have disagreements with on social media. Its not clear if this is a trend that is increasing or not. My guess is that it is. The left has wrapped these bubbles movements like safe spaces in a positive language that makes it acceptable for those in the bubble.
Just check Wikipedia. McCain 2008 got 59,948,323 votes; Romney 2012 got 60,933,504 votes; and Trump 2016 got 62,979,636 votes.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_presidential_ele...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_presidential_ele...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_presidential_ele...
Is there a conservation law associated with Lorentz symmetry, the way there are conservation laws associated with other symmetries in physics (conservation of energy from symmetry under translation in time, conservation of angular momentum from symmetry under rotation, conservation of linear momentum from conservation under translation in space, and so on)?
What color theme is that which is used in the code samples?
In Russia, Roskomnadzor does not care. The number of blocked CloudFlare IPs in Russia keeps growing and about one third of blocked IPs belong to CloudFlare: https://rublacklist.net/13108/ It is still a small percentage of CloudFlare IPs, but if you use free CloudFlare service for your website you are extremely likely to get IP that is already blocked.

Actually, Roskomnadzor officially asked not to use CloudFlare sites: http://rkn.gov.ru/news/rsoc/news24880.htm
The message is don't hide behind CloudFlare or your sites will get blocked by IP without reason.

China blocks Google fonts, it breaks half the internet by making all fonts requests timeout, but still the government does not care.

When government starts blocking CDNs, most commercial websites aiming at users within the government will rapidly move off the CDN instead of freedom fighting, sadly.
Personally, I believe a flexible work schedule is a privilege. I think it's a great thing and I think that it's totally fine to work non-standard hours, but I also think that if you are going to make the choice to not be in the office during core hours (I'd consider 9-5 "core" but I think companies should define this) then it's also your responsibility to be available during those core hours when it's necessary. If a meeting needs to be held at 3 (which is a completely reasonable meeting time within core hours) and you need to be at that meeting then I think it's on you to make accommodations for that by having someone else pick up your kids that day or making some other arrangements since it's your choice to work a nonstandard schedule. Same goes for a 9am meeting and someone who comes in at 11am. In a work environment where employees can make their own schedule I think having "core hours" where every employee is expected to be available at least sometimes is totally reasonable since otherwise your personal schedule is going to be negatively affecting your job performance, and that's a personal responsibility issue, not a job issue.
I don't think I'm an outlier. I have a late 2013 Macbook Pro issued from my employer. I also have a personal Macbook Pro. My wife has a new Macbook. I also have an old 2012 Macbook Air. So between two people there are 4 apple computers in a single household. Add in 2 iPads, 2 iPhones, and an Apple watch and this whole adapter situation starts to become a major issue.
With the amount of variation in support/standardisation of USB-C, drivers are last on the list of potential issues.

Sure, if there's no driver, the user will be out of luck, no matter what. But that's at least a clearer, separate problem, from incompatible adapters or cables, and whether they correctly support the device.
Your last paragraph struck home for me. I had a very similar experience, except it was rural central Africa and suburban America. The only friends I have in America are from college where (guess what?) there were a lot of people my age living within walking/biking distances.
> Autotools is a lot easier[2] to use that its reputation suggests. Way too many configure.ac scripts are a cargo cult mess

While also utterly horrible, I find CMake to be marginally less utterly horrible than Autotools, and most new projects seem to use CMake over Autotools.
Well, if I stand corrected, I stand corrected.
I'm not hiring you for my marketing department!
cool. yeah ive tried the oristand and at 40 bucks its a relatively cheap option.

i found having slippers helped too
Perhaps that study looks at wages because I specifically looked for another study that also measured IQ-wage correlation. There are studies measuring other things, I was just looking for something to compare to the study the article mentions.

And I would argue that personal autonomy is just another proxy. If you're trying to measure if IQ is helpful, perhaps what you really want to look at is life satisfaction.
Very straightforward and educational post. Thank you! I made a choice years ago, but recently started to waiver. You set me straight, and for that I am grateful.

I will stick to cats.
http://youtu.be/OgzdDp5qfdI

"To learn the moves, I watch the videos over and over and over... I've probably watched like, millions..." -- 12-year old girl learning to dance to dub step
As I said, the website had nothing like that. It was about 40 static pages of product info/business info, using Drupal.

Completely boring nothing-special website.
I was thinking something along the same lines using Google Drawings. Just the local to cloud clipboard, and smart image/text alignments makes local image editing software (Paint etc) go extinct.
I think it's strange that it doesn't efficiently handle patches of strings.

By the way, I'm still looking for a 3-way merge algorithm for any datatype in Javascript.
Well, the four-year-old didn't go out and buy a tablet or phone for themselves. They're watching videos on Moms device, while she's signed in to her Google account, hence all that activity shows up in the "Women 30-40" bucket.
a wise choice :)
I doubt that's going to be a vector compared to driving a truck into a Christmas market.

Encryption is far more dangerous than precision positioning, but it should still be freely available.
"Presumably the people who invest in hedge funds are intelligent, knowledgeable people who can understand these fees." You would be surprised. Many of these investors are large institutional funds like state pensions funds. They have a large sum of money that needs to be put somewhere, preferably with minimum due diligence, and 100s of mediocre indistinguishable funds to chose from. People are more apt to pay attention when they are managing their own money
> Wickedly Prime is the first brand since the debut of Amazon Elements two years ago to make its affiliation with Amazon known.
is 2016 or 2017?

Depends on where one is. It takes 24 hours for the New Year to propagate. The maximum error during propagation is < 0.00115741%

Assuming that .getUTCFullYear() is accurate, the maximum error for a leap second is:

1 / (365 * 24 * 3600)
= 3.1709791983764586e-8

The duration of that error is one second. Curious about the nature of the application.
Unless you're talking about the Nuremberg Rallies, you've got your history screwed up: "just following orders" is NOT a defense against war crime accusations, and punishing those who commit war crimes "trying to get by as best they can" is completely appropriate, was the conclusion of the Nuremberg Trials.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuremberg_Principles#Principle...
Okay people have been very literally minded in reading my comment and did not read the thread context. I probably should assume that is going to happen.

To be clear: this is not my opinion of how things should be, but it is the view of gulf states governments.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legal_system_of_the_United_Ara...

Also, lest someone take this as an anti-islam attack, let me be clear that this is about the authoritarian/theocratic oligopoly system over there. The normal people are lovely.
In bed by 9pm, asleep by 10, and wake up around 6-7am. I've found that a full night of rest enables great productivity. And things are a lot less crowded and traffic-y early in the morning!
And yet, Microsoft's releases are done under APL2, not GPL. I'd argue that that the FSF is culturally irrelevant - the hacker mindset (and so the sharing one) would exist with or without RMS.
> To explain the discrepancy, the researchers point to past studies that have shown female physicians are more likely to provide preventive care and psychosocial counseling. Female doctors are also more likely to adhere to clinical guidelines.

It doesn't seem like it'd be too difficult to teach men the importance of these things, though it might be a systemic thing (i.e. boys and girls getting taught different things about interacting with others from an early age, leading to different ways of thinking later in life). I'd like to know why men are less likely to do these things - an assumption that it's something intrinsic to male biology would be a huge leap.
Some typos:

"Full Integration with you (sic) HN Account"

same section, last sentence: "Your (sic) welcome."
Not cool.

First, that's why people like Signal: it just works (TM) encryption with no user gotchas.

Second, any communication is only as encrypted / safe as the minimum of the people with access to it. So if someone ignores warnings and enters that chatroom, he or she puts everyone at risk. Because sometimes she/he really is being MITM or surveilled by someone/oppressive government du jour.
I don't have windows. I will google for "systemwide profilers". Thank you.

I doubt this will change anything, (because the compilation time decreased as CPU time was added) but the information could be helpful in other situations.
What do you mean by globals?
It gets better, I know being in that zone you can't imagine what "normal" life is like but trust me it gets better.

Right after my son was born when I was on paternity leave, I slept in two shifts, for about 2-3 hours if I was lucky. I pulled the night shift and got to sleep around 5am when my partner and in-laws woke up to relieve me. Then I'd get another 2-3 hour cat nap in the late afternoon.

While doing the overnight shift, in the rare moments when all the baby's needs were met I took to studying bash. I wrote some really crazy cryptic bash scripts! Of course I totally forgot everything I learned but for awhile I felt like a zen master of bash.
I've had the same issues navigating their documentation. About 10 months ago I attempted to write a reddit scraper using Racket. I started out reading their "net/http-client" library and had to turn to the /r/racket subreddit to find out that the "net/url" library was what I wanted. I'd love to see some simple directory that relates development intention with a library: "Web Scraping, JSON parsing => net/url".
With collaboration tools like webex, meeting rooms with common ports and skype/slack I haven't touched a coworker's keyboard in 10+ years.

Given how germ-infested those things are, I generally don't want to, either.
I believe the concept is a little different than what you stated. It starts with the assumption that the Universe is actually in or very close to a maximal entropy state, which is orders and orders of magnitudes more likely than the low entropy state we perceive. The idea of a Boltzmann brain is that a downward fluctuation in entropy from this maximum entropy state could result in forming a consciousness with our associated memories and experiences and this is more likely, statistically speaking, than the alternative possibility: that we actually live in an extremely low entropy state of the Universe.
I don't know about that. Ask a random American how they feel about their dead great-grandfather, and you'd probably get an answer like "indifferent".

Of course, I know it's different in many non-Western cultures.
One thing I have noticed in this thread in general is that the web devs are extremely defensive. No, a web app is not inherently bad. No one is saying this.

But cherry picking questions to prove a point is silly. However, to show it's not a gangup on web apps here we go:

Speed of the install process? Probably slower than loading a web page for serious applications

How does the update system work? Depends if you're releasing as a single statically compiled program or using shared libs that can be updated. Also if you have a db to sync this will affect things.

How quickly can you release them to all platforms? As long as it takes to compile to all compatible targets.

Can they be easily customized and modified by the user? in what regard? if you mean configuration then yes. If you mean being able to manually tweak the style of the application like when fiddling around in the element inspector, then no unless you are using a theme parser that lets them adjust the themes.

Can they be easily shared? yes

What's the permission model like? Depends what granularity you want to have. Permissions can be restricted to the action level, user level, group level, machine level, global level, etc. Whatever logic you want to implement really.

How much can that application access? access in terms of what?
"Does Joe do anything at all if he rolls almost anything other than a 1, or does he just lie in bed? If the very large die is only rolled once, and all non-1s are very boring, then it is remarkable that we're here."

That's a very interesting point you raised, and I was thinking about this as well. If the universe only "exists once", and life is very unlikely but it still came to be, then it does seem remarkable.

However, this is based on the presumption that life is non-boring, and all other potential universes devoid of life are boring. This seems like a very subjective presumption. Clearly we are biased towards thinking that our own existence, or the similar existence of "life" is special. But a skeptic would claim that from a purely scientific perspective, there's no reason to believe that a universe without life is any more boring than our universe.
How about business's right to protect against fake reviews? Maybe thats already in the law?