skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sounds like a minefield for security vulnerabilities! Maybe pursuing this route will encourage Apple to prioritize this a bit higher on the fix list.
There is lots of deja vu for me. I spent my days in 97-00 hosting Eggdrops on IRC (mainly IRCNet but some others as well).

Spent my days deep in TCL, accidentally discovering probably the single deadliest bug in Eggdrop with an accidental copy and paste (would cause all bots in the botnet to go into an infinite loop)

For the last two years I've been working on similar problems but for Messaging networks (Messenger, SMS, Intercom, Slack etc) in $currentstartup

If anyone has questions around bots, conversation management, integrations, NLP etc etc, feel free to ask.
That is an interesting note. I remember reading that the lower bound on multiplications was lower due to swapping a lot of them for additions. Knuth indicated that this did not matter in practice, since few people are multiplying large matrices.

My interest here is really just if that is still a good assumption. With the multiplications that happen in "deep" fields, I'm curious if there are now reasons to look to these algorithms.
In defense of corn, the world's most important food crop (2015)
"a test plot [in Ethiopia] for Farm From a Box had to be cancelled, due to ethnic protests there"

There's a sentence that asks more questions than it answers.
Yeah farming is by far one of the hardest businesses in developed economy. It's a good idea for schools and the like, you know just to get the community spirit going and get in touch with nature, and other hippie stuff like that. But the reality is this is going to make not an iota of difference in the world. What is needed are better policies and laws on ethical farming, and holding up corporate conglomerates up to those laws.
AMD’s Recent Struggles in Market May Be Ending Soon with Vega and Zen Releases
It seems odd to me that this is a for-profit company.
I won't pretend to offer literary or historical criticism - all I can tell you is that when The Tin Drum movie arrived stateside, it traumatized a lot of people, myself included.

Movies generally do little justice to the books upon which they are based, and probably in the case of The Tin Drum, that might have been a plus.

Nevertheless, when I have a chance to watch a German language movie - and to be fair, it's stuff you find on Netflix - The Tin Drum sets the standard.
More data from PCPartPicker showing the recent struggles of AMD versus Nvidia. The last post generated a great conversation. What do you all think about the information presented here and will Zen and Vega releases change anything for AMD?
Interesting-- I was not aware of that!

That's the same bandwidth as TB2, which will add another 10% performance penalty versus a native 16-lane PCIe gen3 slot, for a total of 20% performance lost. Still completely workable.
> Because the article makes the point that these basic fares are simply a way to increase prices.

That's not inherently a bad thing. Companies are allowed to raise prices. If the prices are noncompetitive, then people will choose other carriers.

Flight is not a right, nor is flight at a given price point. If there is room for cheaper airlines to capture fares at $300 while AA/DL/etc are charging $350, they will do so.
1st Attempt at Testing an Autopilot for an RC Blimp with Raspberry Pi[video]
The Imbalance of Culture Fit
My anecdata from 30 years in the city is that commuters only take cabs if work pays for it, or they have phone calls to make. I don't know anyone who takes one daily, except in the case of a recent job change and they haven't had a chance to move apartments to a more convenient commute.
datatables is fantastic, almost always a better solution than native html tables for any non-trivial information display
Google Bangladesh Hacked Again
> All of those things affect the ultimate price of the box, and that’s why we have a range from about $50,000 to $60,000. If you were to a la carte all the different components that we put into this kit, it would end up costing you more than what we’re charging.

I seriously doubt that. $50k for what appears to basically be 2 acres of irrigation equipment and a solar-powered raspberry pi is absurd.

It also looks like they've so far deployed exactly 1 of these setups in the real world and haven't even really started producing units for sale. Right now this venture is a complete pipe dream and feels awfully out of touch.
Dave Barry's Year in Review
Create your first Bot using Node.js 6.9 and Bot Framework 3
How are you populating your spreadsheet? Importing a .csv from each of your bank accounts? Let's say I have 3 different accounts, logging in and getting updated transactions is now a 15 minute process.

Mint absolutely blows (slow, barely works, poor categorization, poor projections), but I haven't found an easier way to view multiple accounts in one place.
>government doesn't have capital to cover the shortfall (not even actual social security obligations it seems)...

If we eliminated the cap on how much salary is taxable for Social Security payroll contributions, all projected obligations and shortfalls would be covered. Social Security is being choked to death for ideological reasons, not starving naturally.
> Defining products by the spreadsheet: A big percentage of complaints over the new MacBook Pro devices is that they ignore the needs of the “power” user. The problem? This group is fairly small and have needs living well towards the end of the bell curve.

The problem with ignoring this niche is because these users are either developers or big influencers. They help with the ongoing success of the App Store as well as with free marketing.

This is also a big reason why Apple needs to release either an iMac without a screen or a more affordable Mac Pro. The Mac Mini has never really cut it for anything but personal use.

For the 1st time in years, I'm thinking of switching back to Windows since Docker makes development easier now. I'll still get a cheap Mac for personal stuff like Photos, but it'll just be relegated for that.
Sadly most bots today are solutions looking for a problem.

Our customers (thankfully) are typically looking for ways to engage with their existing customer base better, and/or deliver their existing commercial services in a better way.
The Distorted News Epidemic and Bridgewater's Recent Experience With The WSJ
Except we spy on our allies too.

I do think someone was "looking the other way", but I don't think it was our spy agencies.
Anecdotally, the times I see taxis most crowded/unavailable in New York is in the East Village / Lower East Side on weekend nights, headed towards the bridge; my guess is that most of the passengers are drunk and trying to get home, and I don't particularly want to share a normal-sized car with three drunk strangers. (Enhancing subway coverage between that area of town and Brooklyn would help; if someone vomits on a subway, it's easy enough to move to the end of the car or to the next car.)

Also it's not clear to me if this research assumes that every cab is carrying a single person. That's often not true, especially for the going-home-from-a-night-out crowd.
Japan is also one of the few countries with a shrinking population.
It is always interesting to see just how valuable a "tiny bit" can be, though.

Granted, I confess most is almost always navel gazing. Increases in the "best" sorting/map algorithm have probably not lead to any noticeable improvements in modern codebases. Usually, those benefit more from being the low hanging fruit, not most computationally complex. (That is, I'm sure in these large matrix problems, there are other low hanging fruit that will yield better improvements.)
On the other hand, a union that's run by people depending on uber as a full time source of income has a significant interest in reducing the number of people driving for a "fling" or part time - more surge pricing, more guarantee minimum income from uber, less risk of low ratings leading to punitive action, since uber can't just replace them easily.

My point is that while unions benefit some workers, they don't benefit all workers. It's not a black and white situation.
serious question, why do you hate crypto (bitcoin, ethereum, etc..) so much? I see your username in a lot of places, from hacker news to wikipedia, always doing your best to criticize or stop these sort of technologies. I don't understand this obsession. I don't like say... angular.. but I don't go around trying to sabotage or bad mouth the project as I prefer to spend time on more productive things.
Foldable paper bike helmet for bike share riders wins James Dyson Award
Most Z170 motherboards don't have a TB3 port either, as it's an added cost that most people frankly don't give a fig about. In PC motherboards, USB-C has almost total market penetration; TB3 almost zero.

TB3 is much more prevalent on PC laptops, but still nowhere near common.
So THATS why all videos appear to freeze up for me? Been driving me crazy trying to figure out why.
The difference is only selection of stories to print. NYT/Post/Breitbart won't publish stories that go against their worldview and select stories that do. You aren't allowed to just make up stories in any of those orgs you mentioned but you can select what not to publish and what to sensationalize, and play political newspeak with copy such as rebels VS insurgents VS terrorists ect.
Or, you could use Google instead of guessing and using your wrong guesses to justify a straw man argument.

Here's a good place to start: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basic_income_pilots
I think it's very anti-humanistic to say that someone born tall should be required to pay for seats that are 10x the price of people that require slightly less space, or simply not travel long distances.
This is not the only point of the patent system: you seem to think that any good patents could have been kept as trade secrets.

But that's not the case. Sometimes there would be no way to use a patent as a trade secret, because, for example, it's simply given to the consumer and they can see how it works, easily.

So another important point is to allow people to research and innovate and make it to market under a state-granted monopoly, in exchange for and to encourage doing so.

As an example, suppose there existed a configuration of plastic that easily enabled xyz - but nobody has 'invented' or researched this configuration. If there really is no prior art, then someone could take the time to invent and patent it, and then sell it at a price that both recoups the cost of their invention, and also acts as an incentive for them to have done so in the first place.

This is not theoretical. The cable tie is a great invention. Here's what Wikipedia has to say about it:

>The idea of the cable tie came to Logan while touring a Boeing aircraft manufacturing facility in 1956. Aircraft wiring was a cumbersome and detailed undertaking, involving thousands of feet of wire organized on sheets of 50-foot long plywood and held in place with knotted, waxcoated, braided nylon cord. Each knot had to be pulled tight by wrapping the cord around one's finger which sometimes cut the operator's fingers until they developed thick calluses or "hamburger hands." Logan was convinced there had to be an easier, more forgiving, way to accomplish this critical task.

>For the next couple of years, Logan experimented with various tools and materials. On June 24, 1958, a patent for the Ty-Rap cable tie was submitted.

In other words (if I'm reading it right) from 1958 until 1978 he had a monopoly on making those cheap plastic things. Then it was over.

Today, (and for the past 45 years) everyone could make that piece of plastic easily and cheaply.

Bu the KEY thing is "For the next couple of years, Logan experimented with various tools and materials. " -- THAT'S what the patent system enables.

He would have had zero incentive to do so if he had not had a patent on the invention, for the next few years. People might have "hamburger hands", to this day. Trade secret has nothing to do with it.
Yes, it might do so. Depends on how expensive the services are and how easy the process is. But what annoys me is the attitude of "I prefer that Service X and Service Y be bundled together, therefore it should be mandatory that they are." Sure, there are arguments for bundling, and for unbundling. I don't see that just because some people prefer one or the other that it should be required.
There is a plenty of work that is hard to be done and is not economically viable. For me, any kind of unemployment should have a cap (let's say 6 months) after which person is forced to do free work (simple jobs like cleaning forests, planting trees etc.) and attend some courses that will help them to find a way to quit unemployment. 16 hours work and 4 hours education a week would be enough and would not interfere with searching for a job. People that get money without any requirement of work get lazy. They will not be incentivized to change their situation.
Here is a list, with links to a lot of the documentation: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basic_income_pilots
It happens in all sorts of industries.

Going back a bit, this one

http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/12093375.display/
Why are you posting this here? Go ask in Upwork forums.
Wrote a static code generator that used a database schema as input. (this was a big design up front project, and other generators existed at the time the company did not want to purchase)
Meanwhile, anyone flying in economy / coach is being heavily subsidized by those who paid for business / first. (Of course, a lot of those seats go to free upgrades now...)
There's a gardeners society here (Les Jardiniers de France) which sells a set of packets of seeds which are said to be able to grow on 200m2 and feed a family of 4 people.
That's the problem with most american cities- grossly inefficient land use policy. Fix land use and effective transportation becomes an afterthought.
I'd rather have a faster horse than a skinny, old horse with a touch bar.
But this type of thing has been happening routinely since the industrial revolution.

Secretary used to be the biggest job in America and now it's virtually gone because of technological progress.

Do you know how many clerks were automated away when the database was created?

Maybe this time is different, but you can't assume it will be.
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> When the President of the U.S. says everyone needs to go to college, all he is really saying is that the high schools have failed and college is the only way you will learn to think at all. When he says “everyone needs to learn to code” I start to wonder. Can Mr Obama code? Why does he care?

This line really resonates with my experience. I went to college because I didn't know what else to do. The degree is a rather expensive piece of paper.
> When they took the floppy disks from the Macs I assume people were more than happy to see they go.

There were a lot of complaints, even more than you're seeing now.[1][2] At the time it was still the main way people transferred files.

[1]http://www.wsj.com/articles/SB901747560996300000
[2]http://articles.latimes.com/1998/may/11/business/fi-48540
Sounds like a toilet version of a riser chair such as [0], which I could see being really useful for people.

[0] - http://stairlift-suppliers.co.uk/mobility-aids/riser-recline... (no association with them whatsoever, just first site I found)
It's not just price. Most consumers don't want to waste time travelling to multiple different specialty food stores. It's not worth the hassle for a marginal improvement in quality.
Show HN: Buleen – a webservice to design single question websites
A literal challenge (i.e. competition) you may choose to face, is of course the Loebner prize. Held in Bletchley Park due to its history with Alan Turing.

If your chatbot can be more convincing than three other finalist chatbots over four half hour dual-conversations (a human judge conversing simultaneously with one chatbot and one confederate human, but is not told which is which) then you stand to win a solid bronze medal and $4000 ($1500, $1000 and $500 to the runners-up).

A silver medal and $25,000 goes to any chatbot which fools half the judges.

To get $100,000 and a solid gold silver medal, you'll need to make a chatbot that is indistinguisable from a human over video chat, now that's a proper challenge!
After reading that, will I be able to write a hello world in Haskell?
And LA was built largely with cars in mind, with sprawling suburbs and big highways splicing the city, was it not?
This is really awesome! One of my "life mantras" is "Don't Poll", and this is exactly the kind of thing I have in mind when I think that.

The eye candy is super cool, too.
Push and reliability
With 5-6 hours of flight time I'm often lucky if it is only an 8-hour day. I almost never have access to a direct flight cross country, so tack on at least another hour plus taxiing, running to catch a connection, then waiting for the connection to depart. If you let airline algorithms/travel agents select cheapest available flights, the connection is quite possible entirely in the wrong direction, too, adding a bonus hour or two to flight times.

I've had companies crazy enough to ask if they could interview me on a cross-country flight day to save themselves a hotel night (after they were already planning to schedule the cheapest flights they could find), and I can only imagine those people have never traveled cross-country much.
>> The endless updates, reboots, and god knows what it's doing in the background which consumes resources...

Really? Windows has its share of hair pulling annoyances to be sure, but endless might be overstating it.

In my experience since switching, I find that resource consumption is comparable to OSX. I get that this is anecdotal, but I leave my main machines on 24-7, and I basically only reboot when an update forces me to, which sometimes is once a week (when there are frequent updates), but most of the time it is for stretches longer than two weeks.
MHealth apps risking data security
Developers, yes. Big influencers to other developers? Yes.

But big influencers to Joe Q Common Public? No. They will buy what meets their (generally meagre) needs from someone they trust.
I'm a programmer like you and used to believe in the idea that you should design in the medium which is HTML and CSS, and not in a tool like Photoshop or Sketch. But I've completely reversed my stance after working with a lot of designers who create beautiful sites that goes very well with the grain of the web.

The reason is direct manipulation. You're not thinking in terms of the DOM's static flow when trying to create a design. Instead you want a medium where you can quickly transfer the idea in your head to a tangible form and try out different layouts, typography, colors, and visuals.

But there still exist the problem of converting that design into code, and that is a wasteful exercise. You might have found Protoship UIPad, a tool I'm developing (in early alpha), useful there. It can convert Sketch designs into code - HTML/CSS and even React. Sketch has been incredible for that sort of stuff. It is a vector design tool and its design elements are fully expressible through CSS and SVG, unlike say Photoshop which is a raster tool.
The Fake and Distorted News Epidemic
The reply by "whiddershins" is spot on, but I will elaborate a bit. The first point is that you are very quick to label all paid services as "luxury". Sure, champagne is a luxury, but what the companies are doing is taking what used to be a "normal" service, stripping it of anything they can think of and declaring it the new "normal" and all those stripped thing a "luxury". I don't think being able to sit without discomfort or choose a seat is really a "luxury".

Regarding the example he gave - I am not sure how the IPhone applies, but I think another example would be the healthcare. When everyone pays for his own healthcare through a system of private insurers you get the horror that is American healthcare. When people just pay taxes, which collectively pay for medical expenses you get Western European system.
I have troubles in computing the BOM (Bill Of Materials) of such a thing.

1) a container

2) a tin shed leaning on it on one side

3) a small plastic? nursery/seeding house on the other side

4) a 3 Kwh solar plant (including batteries, etc.)

5) a bunch of pumps (and I presume pipes) for drip irrigation

6) web connectivity

7) possibly a bunch of hand farming tools

do not sum up to costs that justify the US$ 50,000/60,000 sell price, maybe I am missing something very relevant?

And - though admittedly I am not an agriculture expert - the 150 people feeding out of 1 hectare sounds like an extremely tall story to me, I would think more at around 10/15 people per acre (in a proper, fertile piece of land with good climate).
I really enjoyed learning about the so-called "combinatorial species" [1]. It is another good example of what you are describing. And this idea of differentiation as putting a hole, it just blows my mind every time i think about it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Combinatorial_species
I have also been disappointed with the Bash-On-Ubuntu-On-Windows thing from MS. It seems like they fixed a lot of the frustrating issues recently but it's gonna take a few months for it to get to stable so it's still a non-option for me as well.

But i've had extremely good results by using the terminal and "GNU-ish tools" provided by "git for windows" which has worked fantastically. I can interop with the windows system perfectly, I get all my favorite tools like git, cat, sed, grep, awk, all the bash shell stuff, and ssh and more, and it looks a lot nicer than the default cmd.

Until the interop with the "host" windows system is better, and they push the fixes to the missing features like inotify and some others, I'm gonna stick with that.
Well figure out a way to make them attractive! That's kind of the job of a designer, you don't get to redesign the appearance of an airplane to remove the wings because you don't like how they look.
I hate to be that guy but considering the subject of the site.. perhaps tampering? Might be worth collecting some info to understand the problem.
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Can you give some examples of this? I'm most familiar with California's public employee unions, which are admittedly an extreme sample, but nearly every attempt to do performance measurement is fought tooth and nail.
I notice a moderate effect on my cognitive ability due to weekly or monthly alcohol consumption (longer term than the hangover cycle). There have been a few times in my life (such as when studying for my PhD comprehensive exams) that I quit drinking completely for over a month and I was quite surprised at how much more clarity of thought and memory I had. Not enough to make me abstain from drinking altogether, but enough that it's helped me drink substantially less.
Thought I might get a more objective answer from people who actually employ lots of programmers and who would have a better perspective on the security aspect of this. But perhaps you're right. Certainly lack of response suggests I'm in the wrong room.
The very optimistic 150 * 1700 * 365 metric above means that you need 93 Million / 15 Million = ~6.2 acres.
Ah no worries I didn't mean to assume :)

I'm interested in reading, but most of the newsletters I have signed up for stopped sending - I'd be fine with an RSS sort of setup as well.
I think you are exaggerating a tad. I have my W10 set to the fast-lane for preview updates and I still do not get updates very often.
First experimental proof of a 70 year old physics theory