skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
True enough. But while that's the meaning he put into the bull. I would say the bull was the strength of the American people in the face of a market that said otherwise. The girl was put there by an advertising firm --and some people have interpreted it as a native form of women's strength in the face of male dominance (which requires the bull transform from representing America to only representing men and the girl not representing a marketing campaign but all women facing patriarchal oppression). As the article mentions, the bull without the girl retains its strength, the girl without the bull becomes "really confident girl".
> I wonder after the colours just switched, what they think

That colors are oppressive, and exist to control women.
Chinese websites have a penchant for a very busy design that's really odd. I don't get why this sort of setup is desirable:

A large insurance company in China: http://pingan.com/

Similar, a large bank: https://www.dahsing.com/html/tc/index.html

China Postal Office: http://www.chinapost.com.cn/
People are perfectly entitled to disagree with the principle of copyright and to advocate for change. Heck, I'm a content creator in several different contexts and I have aggressively lobbied my representatives for changes towards a more reasonable and balanced copyright regime over many years.

But the fact remains that copyright is the law today, and encouraging users to break that law is apparently a consequence of what Google did. It's not unreasonable to debate the actual legal situation, not the legal situation that people who don't like copyright would prefer to exist.
Everyone knows that physical media is a thing of the past.
Negatively-anticipatory subjective analysis of the effort and difficulty of a task that needs to be done and which the brain has not "task-switched" into actually doing yet. (What's this canonically described as?)

Something we all do, and which I'm personally very guilty of.

In this case it was exacerbated by "99% of PGP-encrypted security reports being bogus" (to paraphrase).

I can clearly see both sides of this coin though (security!), and I'm not at all discounting what you're saying.

It's both ridiculous and horrendous that PGP remains an operational holy grail after how many decades?
There's a difference between "very safe" and being reasonably safe in smaller doses over a short term.
Developer loses $15,498 from his account
I would think the main benefit of an electric truck is that the motor achieves its peak torque at 0 RPM. Very useful for accelerating
References a Science article titled "With this new system, scientists never have to write a grant application again" ...

> In Bollen’s system, scientists no longer have to apply; instead, they all receive an equal share of the funding budget annually—some €30,000 in the Netherlands, and $100,000 in the United States—but they have to donate a fixed percentage to other scientists whose work they respect and find important. “Our system is not based on committees’ judgments, but on the wisdom of the crowd,” Scheffer told the meeting.

> Bollen and his colleagues have tested their idea in computer simulations. If scientists allocated 50% of their money to colleagues they cite in their papers, research funds would roughly be distributed the way funding agencies currently do, they showed in a paper last year—but at much lower overhead costs.

http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2017/04/new-system-scientists...
Thanks! I got a bit confused by the amount of content in the repo.
> "however, it is not tax efficient to do this by simply paying dividends with profits. By offshoring the money they can minimize taxes, and still pay stock holders by taking massive loans with the cash hoard as security, effectively repatriating the money without paying taxes."

Assuming that there's no tax holiday, the above is a losing strategy over the long term. The ROI that Apple is getting on its cash hoard, which is mostly getting invested in treasuries and other ultra-safe investments, is lower than the interest rate that Apple is paying on its debt. Which means that by borrowing money at 3.5% interest and investing it at a lower ROI, Apple is bleeding money every single year.

Yes, they avoid having to pay taxes for now, but they are just pushing this off to a later date. If they adopt a strategy of keeping the money offshore forever, their interest debt will keep ballooning, and the amount of money they lose on interest debt over the long-term will overshadow any one-time tax payments.

Apple's strategy only makes sense if they are anticipating a tax holiday in the short/medium term, at which point they can repatriate all their money at a lower tax rate. I hope to hell they don't get it, because if they do, every single company is going to start doing the exact same thing. It will become yet another gigantic tax loophole, and a drag on the economy to boot.
shrug When I look at Haskell code I see overly terse expressions and nothing resembling the concept of self-documentation.
1975: Newsweek Predicted a New Ice Age, We’re Still Living with the Consequences
There's also & which used to be taught as the final letter of the alphabet.
They have both the bull and the bear at Frankfurt-am-Main stock exchange. [1]

[1] https://www.frankfurt-tourismus.de/en/Media/Attractions/Bull...
>Allocating money on the condition that some must be given to other researchers would create several downstream benefits. Scientists who maximize the ability of other scientists to produce their own new and useful results would have a big advantage in this system. Jerks would be punished appropriately.

Feels too naive to me - jerks in powerful posts will be rewarded by this system. If I know you sit on the committee to decide on thing X I'm very interested in (let's say, access to a new computation cluster), I'll contact you and hint how favorable inclusion of myself will result in more of my 'share' towards yuo. Jerks tend to thrive in such a system since they look for opportunities where they can control the lever, any lever. It doesn't create a more friendly environment, it amps up science's political game, where people look friendly but stab you in the back, without your knowledge.
Ask HN: Anyone Got Shipment from Next Thing Co?
I placed an order for $635 on 02 Feb 2017. On 24 Feb 2017, received shipping email. But till now, there is no shipment and the DHL website says the tracking number is not found.

No reply to my last few emails sent to ahoyahoy@nextthing.co

Anyone had similar experience? If yes, how did you get them to ship or give you a refund?

I see that their forum has recent activities. So some people received their shipment? (May be not a scam?)
> exercise. The best natural anti-depressant and life-extension technique

To put it better: Physical Activity.

Exercise is a subset of physical activity. You could be building something, say a fence, or working on a farm, without particularly exerting yourself, and I bet it would have the same anti-depressant and life-extension benefits as rigorous exercise.

In fact, I suspect that we might be able leave out "physical" — that even sufficient mental stimulation without physical exertion, say working on a computer program, or a close match of Chess or Go with a good friend, may have the same benefits, as long as you don't let your physical aspects suffer; maintain good posture, keep a healthy diet, and take regular breaks.

So I think the best anti-depressant is basically to be involved in something that you believe is improving your self, in something you see as progress, without neglecting your physical health.

Exercise just happens to check off most of those boxes.
An unmonetized blog on the Internet? Oh, the humanity.
Mastodon/GNUSocial seems to be the counter-argument to most of your points.
That's exactly what "time shifting" means.

Technically, you might be entitled to retain that copy only for long enough to watch the programme at a different time, after which keeping it would be an infringement. I haven't checked whether US law follows that pattern, but it's essentially what a lot of jurisdictions seem to have settled on for that particular case.

Yes, tools can be used in improper ways.

Yes, and doing so may be illegal, and Google's actions here actively invited people to do so. Do you see the problem now?

You can assume my comments are limited to US jurisdiction.

OK, but even in the US it's not clear that Google's actions here were legal.
Here's a similar "hack", but it is not limited to gnu make:

printvar:
@echo $(VAR)

You can execute it like this:

make printvar VAR='$(PWD)'
Hypothermia: The brink of death
The law in reference is the colloquially named "server law" or "personal data localization law".

LinkeIn for example ran afoul accoring to: https://www.rt.com/news/379720-linkedin-russia-law-blocked/

As well Google moved some servers to Russian data centers to comply with the law: https://www.wsj.com/articles/google-moves-some-servers-to-ru...
Long-term pharmacological treatment of ADHD reduces adult height, not symptoms
I don't know about Germany, but in the UK I believe it's possible to fiddle the system by going back to work for 2 days every 6 weeks (or whatever the max is, it's something like that), and then getting signed off again. This resets the clock.

The company I work for has paid people on sick leave for 1Y plus at times. I know of one case in which they actually paid off a sick employee to resign from the company.
There are some great Czech films. Check out Jan Švankmajer!
Why trust is the next step in the future of AI
Just have a long sequence of hex codes printed so we can type it at home
It could just count the number of logins and do a transaction at the end of the day|week|month
I think there's a difference but I don't think it matters. Do you like the work? Does it get people talking? Is it iconic? Does it elicit political change? I don't think the answers change if we follow the money (except, sure, drop the plaque).
Either you have searched you doctor, or your doctor has searched you.
You could have it accumulate a wallet and send over when it reaches sufficient magnitude. Or have it tally the number of times it would have done it, and then ping you when you've used it a sufficient amount, for whatever definition that is for you. Think Sublime Text save dialogs for the non-paid version.
Deep Learning GPUs: Experience Selecting and Using GPUs for Deep Learning
It certainly wouldn't be, though in this particular case it could be argued that corporate sponsorship renders the work tasteless.
GPG would not guarantee Forward Secrecy. OMEMO [0] is better if XMPP would be considered.

[0]: https://conversations.im/omemo/
So my idea would be to build a private cloud for your house. The idea goes something like this:

Sell a "box" (think something that looks like a apple airport extreme). The device will have a nfc / bluetooth / wireless / rj45 and internal storage. To link your device to the private cloud box, you use the app on your device and sync public encryption keys. Now there would be two ways of syncing photos / data between the cloud box and your device:

1. Local Wifi sync - when the device detects that is on its home network it will sync any changes.

2. Remote Sync - Use a public server, upload encrypted data using the public encryption keys, and the home cloud will download them.

For sharing with others, im thinking of of web / circle of trust, where you can share your public keys with your friends / family. There would be privacy levels: 1 - Me & wife / 2 - Close family / 3 - Close friends etc...

Anyway, this is just an idea i have been thinking about for some time now. There is still a lot of details to work out but I do believe that we need to try moving away from the public cloud.
Show HN: Build React Apps with Basic Build Configs of Webpack, Babel, ESLint,Jest
I had something similar happen with an odd friend. I discovered that I shared my address book with the messenger app. With gmail auto-adding contacts, you might have been linked that way.
This is very much achievable using KVM virtualization. Shoot us an email if you have any questions - admin@blueleafhosting(dot)com
And yet there's still no sane way to move data from my laptop to my desktop without physical media.

As long as it is easier to send the data round trip to a datacentre in Kansas and back than it is to send it within my own lan, physical media will always be "a thing of the present"
Here’s the Biggest List of Hidden iPhone Tricks to Learn from – Onenaija Blog
The Awe of Mathematical Beauty
I've used Raspberry Pis for this, but they tended to be bulky and overkill - the "Banana Pi Zero" is what I've been using lately. Combined with a PoE splitter (some have micro-usb, you can plug directly into the board), this works great - no more coax losses!

I use one for SDR playing, and one for receiving OTA ATSC and streaming to Kodi. I suppose I could have also installed a USB hub and run them both (or more) from one board.
Umm, compilers? That's what the post was about. Compilers need to be able to represent integer literals up to machine precision.
Android-based e-ink typewriter and slates from 6" - 13":

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14123060
May be cultural differences due to different writing systems.
Interesting. I thought that Germany was the last holdout of analog unencrypted cop radio - we switched to TETRA (digital and especially encrypted) some years ago.

Brings back some fun memories...
From an economic point of view it is kind of sitting their doing nothing. It would be better used if it was spent on something so it could creating jobs or something more than just sitting there. I think the government needs to make some incentive for them to give it to share holders or in someway use it.
Companies are still going to use drm even if it's not in the standard, and then the standards they do use will become even more fractured.

I doubt Tim likes drm; I believe he views standardization as a greater good than exclusion from the protocol.

(Note: As I understand it, "Tim" is how he prefers to be called; I don't know him)
Python Pandas in Data Analysis – The Series
Odd thought: does their alphabet contribute to that feeling too? On average, each character looks considerably busier with more lines and curves than letters of the Latin alphabet.
>so blatantly self-serving without being upfront about it

Is advertising actually self-serving if it isn't upfront about what it being advertised?

This statue is not like a traditional billboard emblazoned with a brand name - the only mention of SHE appears to be on the placard at the foot of the statue. Even then, the mention is ambiguous, as how many people will recognize 'SHE' as a stock tracker rather than just a word with emphasis?

I broadly agree with your sentiment, and I understand there is something discomforting about its origin. However I believe the statue would come across as far more tasteless if SHE were upfront with their branding.
What Dick Fosbury can teach us about Progress
>> No, that's impossible.

Sorry, but that's complete BS.
I had a surgical procedure done at the beginning of the year. I hadn't explicitly shared this information at any point online or visited any websites related to the surgery. A few days after visiting the hospital for some tests, Google AdSense was showing me ads for surgeons at that specific hospital.

I'm not sure who I was most disappointed in. The hospital for purchasing the ad, Google for tracking my hospital visits, or myself for trading privacy for the convenience of services like Google Now.
Net Neutrality: Who Is Pushing Back on the Ajit Pai Regulatory Compromise?
There's no PAM on OpenBSD.
Hi, right now you seem to have a downtime (500 for DPAD_all.png and timeouts for /sp/current). The app however does not display that an error has occurred.
How many other people in their recommendations list do you either not know at all, or only know of them, but have never met? Whatever algorithms they use to produce these recommendations (your social graph, IP addresses in common, etc) will of course wind up surfacing a broad range of people, including some back you actually know.
Banana Pi Zero? What board is that? (I've been experimenting with various board for a project, so genuinely interested if this isn't a typo)
Wov. How can one person find time for all that?
Why the University of California Is Appealing the CRISPR Patent Decision
Cached: https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:-I98fR...
Unfortunately, I wasn't able to find a nice generic way to make it easy to configure the PFBs. There is a good thread on it here, with some sample code: https://github.com/robotastic/trunk-recorder/issues/76
If I can get a block of free time I am going to try and take another tilt at it.

I did switch to FFT based filters and that helped a lot. CPU requirements are a lot less. Using RTLs with 2M sample size, instead of SDR more bandwidth also helps. It is a poor mans version of HW-based channelization.
It's a bad investment if the goal is an artistic statement. But spending $360K (in 1989 dollars) to advertise your art to the richest people on the planet - not to mention the entire world? Seems like pretty cheap marketing - and that's assuming he really did spend that much.

Side note: this was the third time Di Modica tried the tactic of dropping off gift sculptures. So, if he had that kind of money to burn on "artistic statements", I'd say he was doing a-ok without investing in the market.
This entire comment thread, more or less, imagines a much clearer distinction between advertising and art, and for that matter between the commercial world and art, than exists or has ever existed.
I imagine quite a few came from the HN thread [1] where he originally made the bet that he could do it. That's how I found the site. It was 95% blank and I just decided to draw a bit. Later I came back several times to see how my drawing had lasted and fixed some minor vandalism. Also had to completely redraw at one point due to the Merkel bot. [2] Finally, after the blog post discussing how he built it started to get traction the vandalism rate got so high that I decided to write a bot to maintain the art for me.

--

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14109158

[2] https://twitter.com/josephgentle/status/853312152223965184
I can't shake the thinking that a properly stored CD or DVD will outlast any HDD or flash device.
John Carmack reviews VR app “Just Relax”
Inheritance may be a theoretical superset of ADTs, but it is not as convenient due to the complexity of subtyping and problems with its inference. Scala is the proof of this.

Both extensible records and open recursion can be achieved with ADTs, so why do we need inheritance with all its problems? You still haven't explained this.

I lumped inheritance and OOP together as this is what is typically packaged and available for us to use.

It is true that more principled traversals (e.g. catamorphisms) only match one level deep, but pattern matching is still a convenient and high-level syntax in such cases. Pattern matching would also complement e.g. attribute grammars.
>4. Has anyone ever built a useful and successful decentralized service.

It does seem like "incentive" is the missing piece. The two somewhat successful, somewhat decentralized things I can think of are Bitcoin and TOR. Both provide some compelling incentive to either join as a user or to subsidize infrastructure.
no, they shouldn't. That's just your opinion.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/baldwin/2012/03/19/steve-jobs-w...
The article somewhat misrepresents the Lilienfeld transistor, IMHO. He was awarded a patent for a device that would operate essentially like a MOSFET. But he did not have a handle on the theory behind how such a device would work (no one did yet), and critically he never actually managed to build one (as far as anyone can tell).

FETs are very simple devices to explain, they're very complicated devices to model from first principles, and even harder to manufacture. Simply drawing some pictures of one and filing a patent doesn't really count for much in my book. Though maybe that's not surprising given that the source is a rag called "ipwatchdog"...
A Prayer’s Chance: The Scandal of Mental Health in West Africa
Struggling with this one a bit.

"The outcome of Gallup’s study clearly shows the strong correlation between employee engagement and business performance. "

Good, the author says it's a correlation.

But the supporting graphic is titled:

"Employee engagement affects key business outcomes"

Which implies causality.

I can easily image a company that runs through early success, growth and profitability and the sense of prestige that would bring to the employees. Absenteeism, accidents, defects could be low because employees are engaged: They are winning in the market, everyone's getting bonuses, their acquaintances say, 'oh, wow!' when they mention where they are working.

Then, turn that company down, with the same employees, and you'd have the opposite effect. A scandal such as a LendingClub, Uber, Theranos, that changes the fortune suddenly, over night, with the same employee base, and I'd not be surprised if absenteeism, accidents and defects surged.

In that scenario, it's business performance affecting employee engagement.
There is also this Rust based P25 decoder that I have been wanting to give a try: https://github.com/kchmck/p25rx
It is a ground up re-write that doesn't need Gnuradio, so it could be pretty efficient.
Donation-based software is a recipe for constantly having not enough money.

OpenBSD should provide an enterprise license for kilobucks. Not even call it a "support" program, just a license for enterprise use. It could even be the same terms as the BSD license, just name it and give it a price that can easily go on a corporate budget as a line item. It sounds stupid, but enterprise users would rather spend money than not spend money.
The book https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Innovators_(book) is worth reading for all the drama and boudoir and history of the invention
That's easy to detect. A car with cut brake lines can choose not to drive. A car doesn't know when its neural net is being fooled.
If you want to pull together a bunch of money for a large experiment, you're still going to have to write documentation to argue your case, and spend lots of time arguing that case.

Continued funding will require perennial marketing to your peers.

It democratizes science funding, but as in pure democracy, it forces each citizen to spend much of her day at the forum.

My related pet hack: Give researchers a shareholding ability for existing grants, letting them go long and short each project, should they choose to do so, perhaps in an imaginary currency. At the end of each cycle, allow researchers to re-allocate their "capital". The key difference from the article's proposal is that the researchers can retain their "capital" for future use.

It is the shorts I'm most interested in -- people who can accurately predict which experiments won't work in their proposed timelines are the people who I want evaluating grant applications.
But Arabic is, obviously, also not a native script.
It seems to be this one here... Auto Track III

http://www.raytheon.com/capabilities/products/autotrac/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QB4Qy6mNYWY
Hm.

At an optimistic 5kB per second (via something like the protocol used on 56kb modems), and given a single side of vinyl can be pushed to about 30 minutes, that gives you ~10MB per side.

Have you thought about VHS instead? You can fit about 2GB on an E180 tape using the right piece of cutting edge technology: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ArVid

OTOH, I have just put together a Minix 1.7 distribution which would fit on that vinyl disk, so if downgrading's an option...
It's not e-ink but we have a pretty cool (imho) "alternative" display that might be worth a look for one of your projects: https://breakfastny.com/flip-disc/