skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Apple now seems to care more about maximizing profit and cutting costs in every possible area than providing a good customer experience.

Isn't maximizing profit the entire point of a company? Providing a good customer experience is just one way to maximize profit. Apple doesn't care about you, they never did.
Yep, cats fight brutally all the time. My wife's old cat was a fighter and had the scars to prove it. No doubt he had killed many cats, and then he eventually succumbed to an infection from a nasty neck wound acquired in a fight.
i have traveled back in time to warn you that in the future we have too many caterpillars
Here's filter #1. [1]

Filter #2 was custom-made. Not sure if that's orderable in small quantities outside of academia. But you could try to find a filter that fit their "naive approach", which would be simple bandstop (aka "reject" or "notch") filter that blocks approx 450-510nm. Just looking around the same retailer, maybe something between these two ([2] & [3]) might suffice for experimenting? Ideally it would fit that range precisely AND have a rather absolute cutoff. I have no idea if that kind of arbitrary range selection is available to one-off buyers, I'm just a fan of color theory. :P

The issue with the naive approach is that it skews the white balance of the results a bit by affecting the M&L cone stimulus as well, but that's a lesser issue for playing around with the idea.

[1] - http://www.omegafilters.com/450lp-rapidedge.html

[2] -
http://www.omegafilters.com/products/filters/500rb.html

[3] - http://www.omegafilters.com/products/filters/460-od-0-4-notc...
Preach it! I now own four and have addicted my son to RPN.
Ah I see. I was considering reviews only in the context of a purchaser on the App Store writing a review on the App Store.
College Affordability: Regulated Purchase, Unregulated Price
Today I was asked for the 10th damn time to build something that could expose a small amount of HIPAA data. The last 9 times I explained how building this feature would, at the least, require a security audit, but nobody understood why I was making such a big deal.

Today, I almost said "Fuck it, if you want to make a blatantly negligent mistake then just reply to this email detailing once more how stupid this is and I'll just build it." If I get asked once more, I still might.

Does that make me an unethical money chasing individual? I dunno, maybe. And maybe I'm wrong and it's not a big deal -- I honestly don't know if that feature is a HIPAA violation or not. But most of all, I just want to keep my job and keep feeding my family.

I wouldn't be too quick to condemn the people that wrote this for Uber.
Was going to say, I posted this awhile ago. And now I see that date of almost 3 years.. time flies! Glad it's still going strong. I still make sure to check out the new postings each week.

A few of my favorites from the past couple years:

Concerto for 4 Harpsichords: http://allofbach.com/en/bwv/bwv-1065/

Orchestral Suite #2: http://allofbach.com/en/bwv/bwv-1067/

Passacaglia in Cm: http://allofbach.com/en/bwv/bwv-582/

Viola da Gamba Sonata #2: http://allofbach.com/en/bwv/bwv-1028/

St Matthew Passion: http://allofbach.com/en/bwv/bwv-244/
If I have to choose one of these:

* almonds

* plastic bags

* bees

RIP the planet.
> That thing is so over-engineered it is almost as if it was a joke.

Maybe different people use that term differently but I wouldn't call that 'over-engineered'. I'd just call it 'poorly engineered'. Mismatched components doing a poor job despite being far more expensive than necessary. If they'd put a well designed hydraulic press in there, I'd call it over-engineered. :)
Why the Hulk is the best superhero
Well, adrenaline certainly isn't under patent. But I believe that the delivery tech is.

And yes, Mylan has gone over the top in market manipulation. They're among the worst. It's rather like they've applied "Big Coal" corporate philosophy applied to drugs.
They won't be able to provide, because it turns out the differences basically evaporate when you control for the financial stability of the households. It's just that one-parent households (especially in the US) tend to be a hell of a lot less financially stable than two-parent households.
I think you may be badly misinformed. Perhaps with a small enough dose, what you say is true.

I used to trip regularly. Lsd effects can definitely inude hallucinations!

As a matter of fact, not having strong hallucinations was often a reason to drop another tab lol.

A lot of us used to drop acid in college.... Almost everyone tripped balls.

Vitamin C, for whatever reason, seem to intensify some visual aspects. (maybe placebo)

Even if you are an experienced psychonaut, you can get yourself into a bad trip, especially by being paranoid about having a bad trip lol.

That said, Lsd was a very useful thing to have experienced. I learned from mushrooms as well, but by far my deepest experiences have been Salvia divornium. It's so deep, it's not really a recreational drug.... You have to invest, and it can be violently dissociative.

I have (obviously false) recollections of an entire different life from my experiences with Salvia.... But I got insights from those experiences that I would have been unlikely in the extreme to have had without the drug.... And those insights have served me very, very well.
> it certainly isn't because they have the best track record for working with third party peripherals like chargers

What track record? USB-C is their first officially supported open charging standard.
I must have ready ZMM at least seven times (so far) in my life. Back when I was taking an undergraduate, I read it the first time and was inspired to take as many English courses as I could. I wanted to be a technical writer. After a series of co-op work-terms in the field (the companies loved a tech writer who could also program), I landed a full-time job as a technical writer in a large telecommunications company. I would read ZMM on the bus to work for inspiration. Pirsig could write with such clarity that I tried to emulate him in my writing (as I'm sure all poor writers do). I eventually returned to programming as it was my first love. The job as a tech writer definitely improved my writing skills, and reading ZMM definitely improved my life.
That's really an interesting observation, and I can't help but apply it to my own time as a musician that spanned 17 years. In a short period of time it just went away. Maybe I was fueled by the idea of being a musician rather than making music.
For me the main benefit is tasty consumption of vegetables that I would otherwise probably not eat in their raw state, or in the quantity I'd like e.g. a fave is carrot, apple, ginger, spinach and broccoli.

If you believe the numerous health claims that vegetables in their raw state are good for you, this is a much easier way to consume them. If you don't believe it, then yeah, you could spend the time to cook it up - you're not in the target demo...

Criticisms such at TFA linked to above, speak of sweetened smoothies, mostly fruit drinks (who would buy a cold press to squeeze oranges? what a strawman). While the arguments are valid, they typically miss the main use-cases of core cold-press-juicer demo.
>It still puzzles me how many posters on HN (a forum of creators, engineers, and inventors) disregard its technological achievement. Perhaps the idea that "real money" doesn't have to come from some authority figure is simply too offensive?

It's not a novel concept. Bitcoin is a linear web of trust, applied to transactions instead of identities. Webs of trust are as old as PGP. Block C is valid against Block B is valid against Block A, which we both trust.

Bitcoin is respectable primarily for its ambition, the way it applied existing technology to accomplish a goal that its creators cared about and which many people would've thought was too daunting to undertake.

Believing that people only criticize bitcoin because their minds are too small to accept the concept of decentralized money is blatantly closed-minded.
I have to disagree, the ads haven't been pushed as badly as say Google Search Ads. I quite enjoy finding a random relevant app once in a blue moon via the App Store ads, and they're clearly marked. To each their own I guess.

EDIT: It just doesn't bother me: https://imgur.com/a/FHMSy
"LSD should never separate in solution. It should always stay evenly distributed..."

LSD might not, but some toxins or impurities might, and those are the ones you most want to pick up in your test. So if you test just an unmixed portion, you might miss the impurities that are nonetheless there.
This is incredibly misogynist and unfortunately par for the course around here.
https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/17/117

"(a)Making of Additional Copy or Adaptation by Owner of Copy.—Notwithstanding the provisions of section 106, it is not an infringement for the owner of a copy of a computer program to make or authorize the making of another copy or adaptation of that computer program provided:
(1) that such a new copy or adaptation is created as an essential step in the utilization of the computer program in conjunction with a machine and that it is used in no other manner, or
(2) that such new copy or adaptation is for archival purposes only and that all archival copies are destroyed in the event that continued possession of the computer program should cease to be rightful."

Where does it say that the copy must come from your original? If two people own the program, one may make a copy of his/her original for the other because the others original may have been destroyed. Remember, this law was written in the days of cds, records, etc.

It is clear that you can lend an original copy but not an archival copy. If you lend the original copy, you physically cannot be using it(needless to say, you cannot legally use your archival copy while you are lending you original copy).
Goodreads mobile application sends oauth token in plaintext over http
You can get Maxwell House instant coffee which is packaged in tea bags so making a cup of coffee is as easy as a cup of tea. And it's as good as Keurig coffee.
Show HN: The Jungle Book
True, it doesn't account for Mylan's price. That mostly reflects anticompetitive behavior. But even the least expensive versions cost much more than multidose bottles and syringes.
Nespresso seems to be doing well. I bet they sold it as "Nespresso for juice".
Both are perfectly fine, within limits, within laws, and certain moral guidance and generally accepted social principles.

An example:

In American football, it's perfectly fine to take down the other guys hard if you cannot catch up.

That said, rules such as "don't kick other racer's ankles" are generally for the overall good -- we don't want a wild west approach and end up with wounded and hurt players all over the place and hence, the game gets less fun. Notice: there is a balance here between absolute ruthlessness and let's have some rules so we don't all end up with no functioning legs.

However, at the goal line, if touchdown is about to take place, I can guarantee you a player will go for other guy's ankle hard even if it would mean suspension, penalty, etc. Why? Because in that moment, the primary overriding priority is to prevent the touch down. That said, it is possible to cross the line in "kicking the other guy's ankle".
> virulent pest

Humans are also by any measure really.
I'm giving you the benefit of the doubt.
From what I remember a lot of them don't even use the flash to speed up writes, throwing away a lot of the potential performance gains.
Indian IT firms get less than 20% of H1B visas granted
> (If multiple teams are avoiding rollers, there may be some non-obvious disadvantage with that configuration.)

It's just product differentiation. And remember, their target market are the kind of people who want to feel special by one-upping the other #rawvegan #fitspiration #healthnuts on social media.
Swallow LSD = you get high. Swallow nbomes = you don't get high.
Well it's 51 minutes later, and I got to the third bullet point :D

EDIT: I tried to focus on readability here. Things could be quite a bit more concise but that requires firmer grasp of interactions between >>=, <$>, and point-free functions.

Here's what I have so far:

{-# LANGUAGE OverloadedStrings #-}
module Main where

import Prelude hiding (appendFile)
import Data.Monoid ((<>))
import Network.Wreq
import Control.Lens
import Control.Concurrent.Async
import Data.ByteString.Lazy (ByteString, appendFile)

main = do
urls <- promptUserURLs
responses <- mapConcurrently get urls
let responseBodys = fmap (view responseBody) responses
responseInfos = fmap (\(url,body) -> (take 5 url, body)) (zip urls responseBodys)
httpUrls = filter (\(url,_) -> url == "http:") responseInfos
httpsUrls = filter (\(url,_) -> url == "https") responseInfos
mapM_ (appendFile "output1.txt") httpUrls
exampleSiteResponses <- mapConcurrently get httpUrls
let exampleSiteResponses' = fmap (view responseBody) exampleSiteResponses
mapM_ (appendFile "output2.txt") exampleSiteResponses

promptUserURLs :: IO [String]
promptUserURLs = go []
where go :: [String] -> IO [String]
go urls = do
line <- getLine
if line == ("q" :: String)
then return urls
else go (urls <> [line]) -- lol, this is a very bad way to snoc
The Secret Cycle (2009)
“And what is good, Phaedrus,

And what is not good—

Need we ask anyone to tell us these things?”
Bulk Export Slack Emoji – quick and (very) dirty
Here are a few players in this market (location:firm:product):

* Germany: E-volo: Volocopter

* Germany: Lilium Aviation: Lilium Jet

* Slovakia: AeroMobil 3.0

* EU/Silicon Valley: Airbus Urban Mobility: Vahana

* Israel: Urban Aeronautics: Cormorant

* China: eHang: eHang 184

* USA: zee.aero

* USA: Joby Aviation: S2

* USA: Kitty Hawk

* USA: Terrafugium (“legacy”): TF-X

* USA: Icon (“legacy”)

* USA: PAL-V (actual flying car)
You are definitely crossing a line when you provide burner phones to sabotage your competition. This article[1] on Verge even has screenshots of the app that Uber used internally to generate phone numbers that Lyft couldn't trace and that Uber people could use to create fake Lyft accounts. If you are part of the development team that wrote that internal app, you seriously miss a moral compass.

[1] http://www.theverge.com/2014/8/26/6067663/this-is-ubers-play...
It's probably better to avoid the fruit entirely. Modern fruit has been bred to increase sugar content far above what was natural. If you can fine real wild berries those are probably OK but they will taste sour if you're used to supermarket fruit.
Yes, my understanding is that criminal prosecutions under the CFAA are relatively rare. It's primarily wielded in civil cases. It seems very unlikely that Kalanick et al would be brought up on criminal charges for this. I'm not a lawyer.
Sure, they are good at killing flies and you don't have to feel sorry killing flies yourself. Win-win.
I'll often say something like "I don't know off the top of my head, but if you want I can get back to you with an estimate."

Once it's clear that I'm going to spend some non-trivial amount of time working on the estimate, the answer is often, "No, don't bother."

On the other hand, if person asking does want me to get back to them, I now have the time to do a good estimate—research the problem, break down the parts of the solution, think about the unknowns. Even a "good" estimate is still squishy, but it does tend to be based on explicit assumptions, and often flushes out hidden design or spec issues.
Uber might become the Napster of our times. Although I wish it doesn't happen.
Here in China, gov't has evolved to a whole new level, they don't manipulate media with fake news, but with selected truth.
Nvidia identifies the top 5 AI startups for social impact
I spent two hours with a mobile video genius and learned 26 useful things
New Snowden leaks reveal secret deals between Japan and NSA
Isn't there some trick where you don't consume the usual type of vitamin A but instead only consume one of the other three types of vitamin A? The one that's slightly different and somehow you get night vision?

Actually I don't think it was night vision I think maybe it was to see UV light.

Maybe I only dreamed this not read about it I tend to do that sometimes.

edit: It was vitamin A2 and it was for night vision actual IR not to see in the dark but to see IR light. http://www.popsci.com/article/diy/can-we-hack-our-vision-see...
how are you supposed to compete if you can't see what your competitor is doing?

Well, that's the issue, isn't it? I had your mindset going into this, but Uber is getting sued for exactly that, and public opinion is (apparently) strongly against the idea that you should use your competitor's API's at all. So how do you look objectively at this and conclude "Well, even though a popular company is now being sued for this, and all of my friends would think less of me for doing this, I should go ahead and do it anyway"?

I'm genuinely curious since you hit on exactly what I've been struggling to figure out.

I tried to say "It's hard to believe Lyft isn't doing exactly the same thing" at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14104646 and the reply was "No, it's actually really easy to believe that Lyft isn't tricking Uber's computer systems into giving Lyft real-time info on Uber's drivers and fare prices. Please stop trying to make excuses for Uber's shitty behavior." And that's probably a fair reply. So how do you figure out whether you're doing something shitty, or just "breaking rules in a sporting way?" Is it just a coin toss? Is there an objective way to navigate these questions? It feels important to figure out answers to this kind of thing.
Wow. What a terrible start. I'd expect something a little more robust given the obvious attention it would attract.
I've used those at past workplaces that had Keurig machines, while it works it is a mess to clean, and essentially requires a sink to clean. Comparatively, drip coffee grounds are self contained in a paper filter.
Imagine somebody that wants to get the features of EC2 and the features of BigQuery or some of Googles ML stuff.
The amount of Forth code you could put in a small space is amazing. One of reasons a 128k Mac had Forth show up on it relatively quickly.

I remember back in the day someone was working on a Forth version of OpenStep. Weird, but there were some funky Forths then too. I so wish they had succeeded.
Well sure immaturity exists in every axis. I've seen "performance zealots" seriously suggesting moving a perfectly functional internal flask based API into some obnoxious, bloated Java Spring something or other to squeeze performance out of it. The thing served approximately 1 (internal) user at a time at a rate of less than 1 request per minute on average and was a read-only API. Flask was just fine for the purpose.

I've also been guilty of this in my younger days, where I was very much "C++ all the things because performance." But that's kind of my point: it's immaturity at work, here.
Inter-network?
True. Occam's Razor was an attempt at proving God exists. Hardly the most common usage now, however.
Ping the clients and average out data from clients near the lat/long sent with the request and compare to the client in question.

Apply a max threshold to check if a client is reasonably close to potential "co-located" clients.

You can't shrink physical distance. Pinging a server in a nearby US city is 13ms. Hong Kong is 232ms.
Anyone know why this is an independent project instead of being part the Wikimedia foundation?
Validating a startup idea in 3 days
Does Cold Calling Work?
You're not alone, Hitler was a failed artist too.
I think this is a good example of why the Keurig method of hardware sales[1] works so well. People would be okay with buying marked-up juice pouches because that's the real product. The juicer is just a means to an end.

[1] https://blog.bolt.io/keurig-accidentally-created-the-perfect...
I volunteered overseas in a developing country as an IT consultant. I was responsible for building a new website for a school, looking at their IT costs (I was able to stop 50% of costs by removing unused services) and training of staff.

It was an amazing experience which allowed me to learn a lot. I grew a lot as a person, but I noticed two areas professionally/semi-professionally grow. One was that I noticed was outgoingness, I become a lot more outgoing because of my experience and better at socializing. The other area was being in an environment with severe limitations on bandwidth and availability, taught me to take a lot of problems like page size, etc. seriously.
"Facts can be presented with bias, taken out of context and most recently a lot of facts are just plain…made-up. Supporting Wikitribune means ensuring that that journalists only write articles based on facts that they can verify."

Honourable aims for this project, however once you are literally only reporting the presented facts (without bias - aka opinion) surely you are just a Wire Service?
This is interesting:

http://www.ohler.com/oj/doc/file.Security.html
Then they are marketing, a modulation of propaganda.
SWAG means what in your example?
I just watched the Ehang video and was confused because the footage looked like they flew over Hetch Hetchy (00:16s in the video, recognizable valley/reservoir in Yosemite National Park), considering I can't bring any motorized vehicles onto the lake my dog isn't even allowed there I was surprised they could do this. Further investigation reveals most of the footage is fake https://www.forbes.com/sites/ryanmac/2016/01/08/as-drones-ta...
Hakuna Matata Ransomware: Protect your home network and safeguard data
If life on Earth would only consist of bacteria you would have a point, but there's quite a bit more variety to it.
It's also a reason putting things on the cloud is a fools errand. If you can be held hostage by a provider, you made a business mistake by going there in the first place.
The great sadness to me is that incentives in architecture almost encourage this... Hardware is cheap and good designers are few. So when guys like you can come in and squash down the complexity,, company thinks it won twice (first time for delivery.. Wow look how fast it is!; second time for efficiency)
It still sounds better. I feel that "fair and objective" media does that anyway.
we need more "just a wire service" please
A Newcomer to the Fediverse
So what's your solution to make the kid stop skipping classes?
McCarthy's novel "Blood Meridian" [1] is one of my all time favorite novels and continues to be a source of inspiration. Its almost biblical in its prose and unrelating in its pace and violence. I even wrote a song based off it (shameless plug) [2]. The villain of the story, Judge Holden is up there with the Joker for me in sheer evil. I would love to see a movie adaptation of it although I doubt it will ever happen. Too bloody. Too violent. I highly recommend it if you aren't easily put off by its dark tone.

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Blood-Meridian-Evening-Redness-West/d...

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=45jPip11_j8
Fake news is injected externally. Selected truth comes from the inside.
I made this single page app (responsive) of this awesome book by Rudyard Kipling -- The Jungle Book. It's a great read for children.

The repo is available on Github[1]--under MIT license--for anyone to fork and republish with an alternative take/ newer illustrations. Hope you like it! :-)

[1] https://github.com/marvindanig/the-jungle-book
absolutely. it is just that WikiTribune is not presenting itself that way at all
I got quite a few as a nerdy middle school kid who frequented RadioShack. I always thought I'd come up with something interesting you do with them too. Never did...