skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"CudaText” can’t be opened because it is from an unidentified developer."

Now, I realize that I can just right-click open it, but I'm wondering - how hard is it to sign executables on OS X these days? Do people not do it because they have to pay for a developer account? I run all the usual suspects on my laptop (Little Snitch, Little Flocker, Block Block) - but it would be nice to have the (admittedly small) extra layer of protection from a signed binary. Particularly one that is downloaded from SourceForge....
Ask HN: Collect events from other countries
Personally, I have a feeling that this world is still so isolated although we have the internet. For example, do you know what's the hot news many people discuss today in China? vice versa, most Chinese don't know the Super Bowl.

I know there are many apps that collect the news feed from many sources and use AI to filter your interests, but it mostly focus on the events happened in your own country.
So my idea is to collect the hottest news from different countries and translate to the reader's own language, even without knowing the foreign language, you still be able to know what happens all over the world.
Are there some tools do this thing? or do you think it is a worthy idea?
In 2014 the Obama administration provided a "tax receipt" so you can see how much you paid and what you got for it. Cool idea. https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/2014-taxreceipt
When TV was the main mass communication system you needed a single antenna or a single satellite to project to unlimited people in the projected area. While that was one-way and the internet is two-way, the internet introduced the requirement for the projector to have the infrastructure to support millions of users individually. That means the main technological reason Google and Facebook took over was that you need money to take over the internet, you can't just do it for free, and those like Wikipedia that did it in a less profitable way had to be very proficient in collecting donations.
Why is it asking for the _write_ access to one's Twitter account?
they are both horrible, payoneer failed to reactivate my account or even answer to my request plus they have very steep fees also if you have their card with some balance they ask insane 30$ yearly fee

PayPal is similarly bad, takes around 5% of my received income, but sadly 2 of my vendors don't accept any other payment solution and i can't afford to lose that income
If your friends need a car for their daily commutes then they probably don't live in what I would consider a "city".
If not for the cost, they wouldn't be able to afford further research.
The fact that taxes are complex is the government's fault.

The fact that companies can manipulate the government into keeping the taxes complex is also the government's fault.
You point to an stornlgy anty civil-forfeiture article by a stalwart conservative publication, which denounces one particular republican sentator. And this is your evidence that the party as a whole is for it?
I'm interested in knowing more about your chips. If smart sensors are one of the next steps for DL, as it seems from the high demand I get for embedded DL into cameras, etc... the existing offer by Nvidia (TK and TX) is not enough still. We have had conversations with FPGA DL startup, some others based on Nvidia chips, so I'd be interested in yours if you can share here. Otherwise PM is at deepdetect. Exciting times :)
ZFS is probably one of your better options if you want portability. It works on most Unix like operating systems, and due to its zfs send/recv capability you can send your data all over the place - and can trust that it will actually end up the same on the other end. If that's not portability I don't know what is.

If what you're saying is it's not portable to Windows then sure, but compared to most filesystems it's extremely portable.
Shia LaBeouf is an performance artist. To call this political speech is pushing it.

4Chans actions is a form of art.

And I think there's a form of implied consent going on here.

Shia was interacting with the world and it interacted with him. In many ways this is what I see as his aim.
I would guess that you can be top 1% of the general population in most things (and probably even like 5% of the field) just by trying really hard.

I mean, you're likely in top 6-7% of football players just by being on your high school's team. (1mil football players in HS, 15mil students; random Google numbers)

I would guess with effort, and I mean a lot of effort, pretty much anyone could make top 20% of a high school team. That puts you in 1% land.

The NFL has an average career length between 3 and 6 years, and has under 2000 players. So it's only 0.2% of high school players, or 0.01% of the population. (I just pretended average career length was 4 years, so it lines up with a translated HS cohort.)

This sort of makes sense: you can make 5% relatively easily, and 1% with serious effort. But top of the top professionals are 1 in 10,000, and to be that good you have to make it your life's work (plus it helps to be genetically predisposed).

Ed: Just wanted to add, to be top 1% of the NFL means, literally, you're one-in-a-million.
Disallowing autofill I could understand to prevent people from accidentally saving credentials on public devices.

Maybe disallowing pasting is a (bad) attempt to disallow automated password guessing.
> North Face Will Start Selling Parkas Made from Fake Spider Silk for $1,000 [1]

...a bit pricey at this point. Maybe spider-silk-enhanced fabrics would be more reasonable.

[1] http://fortune.com/2016/05/11/north-face-fake-spider-silk/
The bad is there is an opportunity cost of dollars spent. And the US could likely still dominate global firepower rankings at half the current spend, meanwhile this saving could significantly improve the education or health system with that money. Or reduce the tax burden on people. Or simply bank it to reduce the debt and burden of repayment for future years. Lots you could do with hundreds of billions.
You're right (and nitpicking nitpicks seems appropriate to me :P).

But, I'm pretty sure the assumptions of logistic regression are even stronger than just that. The inputs are assumed to be independent given the output class, and the log odds of the output vary as a linear function of each input. The first one is essentially the naive Bayes assumption, and the second one is completely unreasonable for almost any problem ever (roughly equivalent to assuming every dataset has a multivariate normal distribution). If they are both correct, though, you get a perfectly good Bayesian posterior probability of each output class.

I think the lesson is that gradient descent will build a decent function approximation out of pretty much anything powerful enough, which is why neural networks still work even when probability theory has been thrown completely out the window.
What private information about the user was shared?
Note that in PilBox you can also directly call the standard Android API, and use
the REPL of course.

Taking a picture, for example, needs only

(android~takePicture (tmp "img")
'((Intent)
(... do something with the image) ) )

The function 'takePicture' is in "lib/android.l":

(de takePicture (Dst Fun)
(startActivityForResult Fun
"android.media.action.IMAGE_CAPTURE"
"output" (fileUri Dst) ) )
I think people argue not with having the largest military, but with having military expenses which are 3 times those of China and 10 times those of Russia, and with the rest of the big countries being US allies.
Stop focusing on long-term goals (outcomes) and focus on daily habits (process). For example, rather than focusing on learning French, do 15 minutes of Duolingo every day.
Ask HN: Should we discontinue our Android and iOS SDK?
I'm Nawaz and I work at CloudBoost.io. We're a Serverless + Backend as a Service company. Most of our customers use our JavaScript SDK to build React, ReactNative, Angular, NodeJS, Ionic apps and we see less and less traction on our Android and iOS side of things since JavaScript apps can run on mobile too (with Ionic and React Native). Do you think that traction of Java / Swift on phones will decline as JavaScript gains native performance on phones.

It takes quite a lot of investment to maintain those side of things and we're at a point where investing in Java / Swift SDK's is not viable.

Let me know what you think?
We are - we have had state issues as a result of ngrx/store & doing some dirty manual resetting at times to work around it, confirming my distrust of redux being essentially a global store...but that is a whole other discussion.
To this I would like to draw attention to the mention of context in this example, which I think is important and often looked over when naming variables.

The context given for maxphysaddr is that of a global variable. Pike also mentions loop indices, which have very local scope. A loop variable can be very short because you know everything about it simply by reading the few lines around it. A global must encode much more information in its name, because its context is spread globally. If the name is not good, the developer has to spend extra time looking for appropriate context, and aside from the added frustration, time is money.

In some ways one could suggest that variable name length should be proportional to its scope. This isn't quite true, however, because we should then find that MaximumPhysicalAddress should provide greater value than maxphysaddr. Instead, we find that MaximumPhysicalAddress is a worse name due to its length. They are however both unambiguous and provide the same semantic information. This suggests that perhaps a rule of thumb should be that the name unambiguously encode the necessary semantic information proportional to its context, and no more.

Naming is however hard, in general. It seems picking good examples is equally difficult.
It is this turn in the culture that has made me turn toward esotericism. If I believe myself in possession of a truth, and it's not a popular truth, I will publicize it by laying down puzzles to mislead people with truth values flipped the other way - puzzles which can give the opposite conclusion if solved from a more doubting stance. In the process I get to refine my own thinking on these matters, too. Then if history judges me well, I can look like a misunderstood, ahead-of-my-time genius, instead of a bully or a pariah.

Actually participating in the front-line reconstruction of truth is too messy and dangerous for me, I'm afraid.
You'll find sketchy things in any country. "Be careful" is quite the exaggeration in my opinion. Not going to the worst neighbourhoods during Friday nights applies to anywhere.
I'd say Snap is more likely if they expand beyond their app.
yeah, lifting my limits work further verification was online ordeal for like 2 or more weeks since apparently my ID card with address and full name issued months ago is not good enough, my printed bank record from internet banking is not enough, in the end had to send them two other bank records from different bank to have my bank account back to regular

also don't get me started they steal 5% of my income and don't have live chat service to resolve issues and their FAQ is referring to website layout from years ago with most of the steps wrong

sadly still two of my vendors don't offer to me other payment solutions (well one does wire transfer but only for large amounts i can collect in months) so i still have to use this horrible service to not lose income
It must, because I'd feel different if the actual likelihood of him dying were that high. I haven't watched the movie in a while, but was it hyperbole and were they using statistics as a figure of speech? With intellectual laziness being the defining characteristic of the movie's society, exaggerating risks as post hoc justifications of biases against "in-valids" seems possible.

DNA makes more sense than, let's say, blood type or astrological sign for hiring decisions, since there is a conceivable mechanism for determining future job performance. However, I wonder if the permission society that they lived in was capable of doing good analysis.

How would they cope with the relative weight of environment or even gut flora when DNA practically part of a civic religion with people being randomly tested on the street? Given a situation like the declining accuracy of Google Flu Trends over time, would they insist that the predictions were right, and the indicators of inaccuracy were wrong?
I don't think anywhere near half the country wants to be lumped into a generalization with the people yelling into that camera. Check out some of the footage on youtube.. I'm pretty sure Shia was arrested for assaulting someone who was 'memeing' the camera as well; setting the maturity bar high... It's those same people on that camera who are the ones terrorizing the streets, tearing down/burning free speech signs and assaulting those with differing views. Anyone who actually thinks that those folks are the ones denying free speech are entirely deluded. Commence down-voting.
Unless you're making some point that taxes = paying (which is true) -- Sweden.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13850516
Could it be that US antitrust regulation policies and authorities, or lack thereof, are part of the problem?

Edit: not saying it is, but what about the WA deal?
Ahh how could I forget the "systems based" approach.

Relevant: http://blog.dilbert.com/post/102964992706/goals-vs-systems

I think aligning daily habits with long term goals could be beneficial
I would eat my own hat before I let a "guild council" dictate anything that could impact my code style or the way I do things.

The lack of centralized control is a good thing. In other industries you can be barred from even working in the field if the "council" doesn't like you.

Things like the lawyers' bar are complete bullshit as a concept in themselves.
That was used as confirmation, they found the general area before.
There's also terryma/vim-multiple-cursors if you really want to edit all locations simultaneously.
If a hypothesis is untestable by definition, then it's irrelevant. It doesn't matter if it's true or not because there's no way to distinguish any effect.

So sure, maybe our infinite soul communicates with our body from the future. But until you can show that that makes any sort of noticeable difference in reality, it's magical nonsense.
I'm currently studying python so this is going to come in handy, awesome.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13845657
> we're at a point where investing in Java / Swift SDK's is not viable

Isn't that your answer right there?
I don't know, and the UK may not even take a dominant role here (as the commercial research infrastructure is very likely to be different). We'd also have to account for the fact that a lot of drug development goes into drugs that do not provide any novel treatments, but merely exist because somebody wants a share out of a big market (e.g., Viagra alternatives) or to find a replacement drug that can be patented to sell in lieu of a drug where patent protection is running out (which doesn't work too well in countries with reference pricing, but reference pricing is still uncommon in the US, and the US practice of prescription drug advertising doesn't help, either).

In any event, if you want to make such a claim, it's up to you to support it. I was merely pointing out that your argument is fairly incomplete as it stands. It doesn't even address the question whether it may be due to economic clustering effects or a superior bioscience infrastructure in America; after all, if selling drugs in the US were so profitable and that was the cause of research, that would also spark research in other countries.
For those wondering how it works, it's basically just a wrapper around gdb which calls the internal C exec implementation in the Python interpreter (which then executes some other script file which you specify). Pretty cool.
Ask HN: Anyone using 'Anydesk' software? Does it run automatically on boot?
I installed anydesk few weeks ago. When I booted into Ubuntu system today, I saw anydesk directory on /tmp:

/tmp$ cd anydesk/
/tmp/anydesk$ ls -ltr
total 0
prwxrwxr-x 1 laks laks 0 Mar 13 11:58 ad_system_evt_subevt_laks_0
prwxrwxr-x 1 laks laks 0 Mar 13 11:58 ad_connect_queue_1853_0_evt_subevt_laks_0

Not sure, what to make out of this. I uninstalled it as safety measure. Does anydesk runs as daemon process? Anyone here can confirm whats happening here?
In case anyone else is wondering, this is the original Slashdot discussion: https://ask.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=10352645&cid=540224...

I don't think it was linked in the post.
The idea of suburban areas being less about owning is horrible. Of course if I don't buy my living space and instead rent it, someone ELSE has to buy it first. They become not less about owning, but more about being owned by big companies instead of individual owners.

And the reason people don't own as much as years before is because we realize that we can't afford to. If you give me a mansion for $10 (without any zeros behind it) I'll gladly prefer it over my apartment.

What will be the next article in the series? Children in Jemen prefer to eat less food than their bodies require?
Doesn't AWS offer HIPPA-Compliant servers? If I can trust a service with my medical records I don't see why they can't store banking data.

A lot of financial institutions use the cloud already: http://fortune.com/2016/02/25/yes-banks-do-use-aws/
Ask HN: Any upcoming battery technology advancement(s)?
that are actually practical?
40-45% combined rate here. I'm thrilled to be privileged enough to be in this tax rate, and while I disagree on some of where my taxes go to, I'm upset with that distribution more than I am the rate. I do not want my taxes to be lowered.
The Economist? You clearly don't read it. It's strongly in favour of action against climate change. They sometimes disagree about the best actions to take, and mostly oppose subsidies for renewables, but they certainly don't say it's not important.
Not sure if this will help but one way I have helped map my todos with my long term goal is:
- Get a large white board or sheet of paper, the key here is a lot of space to write/draw.
- Draw a circle and write one of your goals.
- Now think of everything you need to do to accomplish that goal and create circles with those things written in then and draw a line to the main goal.
- Now repeat the same process for each of the smaller circles and keep going till you have a feeling that everything is in bite sized chunks. (These are essentially your todos)
- Now create a timeline and add milestones (eg: Monthly milestones) figure out how many circles you need to get done before each milestone.
- Now you should have a good idea of what you need to have done and by when to be on track.

it doesn't work very well for goals that are hard to measure but it can be applied in a lot of situations. Good luck tackling all your goals :)
The fact is merely using these services is enough to grant them a wealth of information that would have required stasi-like organisation not 30years back.
Google calendar and an hour each morning to move actions related to long-term goals into your short term todo list (notebook in your case).

However, bear in mind that plans are rarely followed to execution perfectly. You may meet someone who wants you to stay, or you may get a really good offer. You might experience financial hardship and need to settle down for a while.

When I go on a hike, I spend a good hour or two studying maps (topographical, orthophoto, etc) before picking a trail. It means that I can decide on a whim to follow another trail halfway through if conditions call for it (mud, rain, wild animals, etc). Planning is about mapping out all possible outcomes, and not so much about following one plan to the letter.
Ask HN: How would you set up national certification for software engineers?
> even ones more complicated than 1040ez.

Could you list any of these websites or PM me please?
Gladwell never claimed that we're all given equal potential though. Most of the book is focused on the gains from deliberate practice amongst those who already are genetically set up to succeed. In fact, a central point is about how practice helps to amplify those initial advantages not diminish them.
Uber is forcing drivers in Seattle to listen to anti-union propaganda
Just had a brief look over this and have to say I am not a fan. The comments are largely redundant, e.g:

// Get a reference to the canvas
canvas = document.getElementById("canvas");

// Set the canvas size
canvas.width = 512;
canvas.height = 512;

And then missing when they could be useful (or a more clear data structure should have been used, e.g. an object with colors as keys):

var colorMap = [
255,0 ,0 , // Initial symbol color
0 ,0 ,0 , // Black
255,255,255, // White
0 ,255,0 , // Green
0 ,0 ,255, // Blue
255,255,0 ,
0 ,255,255,
255,0 ,255,
];
Unfortunately, it's just bad design that's very typical of the 'modern web' these days.

My site didn't even top 5% of its resources when it was on the front page of HN, Reddit, Kotaku, Destructoid, Eurogamer, The Informer, Slashdot, etc all at the same time. (Well okay, Slashdot four days later.)

You don't need Node, Ruby on Rails, PHP, Apache, PostgreSQL, Wordpress, etc to serve up a simple text blog that you post on once a week. If you put all of that on a $5/mo VPS, it's not going to handle any kind of serious load.

We're mostly all developers here. It's not even a weekend project to set up a simple blog from scratch.

Host your site on nginx, don't include a bunch of massive Javascript libraries, serve your content statically or without using a dynamic scripting language, and you'll be fine.
Five things you need to know in Australian tech today
I disagree with this sentiment, I think it's the same in-group elitist mentality that drives so many people away from the industry. Luckily focused study in college can level these two groups you describe, and non-"hackers" can get very good.

(I also think there's a huge spectrum of people between these two "types" of developers)

"Because of this, it's very hard to tell as people get older which camp they came from."

I agree, and I think that's a great thing. Being a hacker at a young age is awesome, and should be encouraged, but there are a lot of people who don't know what they're good at (or love) until later in life. In my experience people newer to the industry (at least on the level of "hacker at 13" vs college or later) often have less ego on them, and are more down to Earth about what they do.
I agree with you completely. There are so many unknown benefits that we gain with having such a large military that its very hard to calculate. Also, one of the worst things that could ever possibly happen in a war is being evenly matched. If one country (or group) isn't completely superior in every way, the war becomes a meat grinder and lasts longer than it should have.
Haskell Programming from First Principles
DNS66 (https://github.com/julian-klode/dns66) doesn't require root. It uses the Android VPN system to capture DNS requests and forwards everything else.
Apple to Treat Cobalt Mined in DR. Congo as a Conflict Mineral
In 2006 the linux desktop was about the same as it is now, the Windows one was better. In 2006 I didn't have a smartphone yet. And in 2016, I don't have one any more.

(Actually I have one from work, but I only seem to use it as a wireless hotspot.)
from the parent's link:

> Always Free Products

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