skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Allowing a medical device that can kill or harm someone to be connected to the internet would be a dramatic failure of both the company that produced it and the government. Monitoring is one thing but it better be a one way street or air gapped. No one should be able to do anything to a medical device over the internet besides read information. Or even over a LAN. Even if it is much less convenient or practical.
It's probably around 70-80% nutrition and 20-30% exercise/activity.
> Look up usufruct and Jefferson's views on the topic. He believed that when a person dies their property should become community owned.

That's an oversimplification; he thought that there was no right to inheritance, and that any inheritance allowed ought to be viewed as a privilege granted at the discretion of the public (by way of their elected government), with whatever conditions and limitations s the public chose to impose.

It wasn't that the property should become community owned as that the deceased owner had no rights to direct it's disposition after their death.

(He had fairly similar views on laws, including Constitutions: that, as the dead had no right to rule over the living, laws, however fundamental, ought to expire each generation unless positive action was taken to renew them, so that—within the limits of practicality—the living were governed by rules they participated in forming, not by the hand of the dead.
I use fzf [1] to achieve something similar. I have a file with commonly used commands and a key binding to select one using fuzzy search and paste it to stdin. Here's a demonstration: https://asciinema.org/a/8xkwh9579ry3u3t8a9nnsa7o9

I can link my dotfiles if you're interested.

[1]: https://github.com/junegunn/fzf
Then what's your suggestion for person who is working on 17 years old tech.?
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I don't think so. I am of the opinion that people find a compromise between what they enjoy doing and something that allows them to live the lifestyle they want. From my experience the folks you mentioned all seem to have in common an interest in solving difficult problems. So being a physicist/engineer/mathematician can be a means to this end.

In fact, doing something for so long in college can make you realize that it's not something you want to be doing, so you look for other problem solving outlets instead (which might pay more).
Apple and Google are startups now? Only in the sense that pretty much every company in existence was a startup (in the broadest sense of the word) once.
Please consider trying to respect the privacy of people, even when the internet doesn't.
US ISP Goes Down as Two Malware Families Go to War Over Its Modems
Can somebody add "brickerbot author" to the title to have at least a bit of information.
The point is that one doesn't usually purposefully keep our cameras directly pointed at us when we're changing clothes. Cellphones in particular are usually pointed at the table directly under them. Laptops are often more risky, which is why these exist: https://supporters.eff.org/shop/laptop-camera-cover-set
Hazelcast Benchmark: Hazelcast IMDG Faster Than Redis and Extending Its Lead
Unless I misunderstood him, he's not complaining that people can make their own decisions with their money, aka that anyone can use this service even if they're not well versed in that field, he's complaining that Robinhood entire business model is based on pushing the very users who don't know how to use it in a sane way, to do it anyway. That will be the company's lifeline, as its way to make money.

I can see the benefit in making it easier for people to get access to things that are often hidden behind layer of complexity and "need an in", but I can also see the perversity of building a business where your money making system is "put debt on people who don't quite know what they're getting into". The point is not that they allow it, it's that they have a direct incentive to make it happen as much as possible.
What's wild to me is that last year, it was: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i4l6TwhVAHo
I've often considered that I should consign my mortal remains to become a fossil, but I would carry with me some object that proved I was a member of a technological society, something like a wooden abacus that would fossilize along with the rest of my corpse.
The redpill community is not an embarrassment because it's unacceptable in principle that some men prefer submissive women or some women prefer to be submissive. People can want what they want and it's not my business.

What makes redpill an embarrassment is the tone, the stuff like pretending than men are the real victims in our society, the worldview that partitions men into alphas and betas. The need to see men vs. women as a zero sum game, or fundamentally adversarial.

Stuff like this from the glossary:

> CC, or Cock Carousel – The period of time in a woman's life where she successfully exploits her sexual value and maximizes her hypergamous tendencies by having sex with as many alphas as possible. Usually happens between ages 18 - 27. Often ends when the woman hits the wall.

> Feminism – ”A doctrine built on the pre-supposition of victimhood of women by men as a foundation of female identity.

This view of the world says more about the men than the women they're trying to describe. It's not that there isn't any reality to any of these concepts. But it's poisonous to view the world with cynicism and reduction to these concepts as the ones that primarily motivate people. Rather than seeing people as complex individuals who struggle with these concepts but work towards overcoming them, or aren't primarily defined by them.

It's like how the_donald is the cringiest bullshit, but not because I tend to disagree with Republican policy positions. I don't even necessarily disagree with all of them.

And I'll definitely say that liberals sometimes have extreme views and tactics worthy of ridicule as well. It can be easier for me to find common ground with a Republican who rejects Trump's bullshit than some extremist liberals.
I had an MBP for a little over a year, and after it was stolen I switched back to Linux - Xubuntu to be precise, I never liked unity, and I tend to go for a more minimal desktop on any system and XFCE has more than enough customization for my needs.

The 2 major issues for me with osX were:

1: Selecting icons to copy. I don't know if this has been fixed, but if you have a file browser window open and you want to click then shift-click to select a range of files, it would always just make a rectangle (graphically) between the 2 click points, not run left to right through the window and select everything in-between, (I don't know if I am explaining this clearly)

To select the range you wanted you would have to either switch to list view or cmd click any files which got left out. I really though it was a bug until I found this forum post https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/shift-doesnt-select-ran... where they defend the behavior.

2: And kind of a silly one, but when you plug in an hdmi monitor, you can only control the volume on the monitor itself. And as with the previous issue, I was surprised at the responses I found in the forums. Complete finger-in-ears-lalalalala "It's better this way, and impossible the way you say even though linux and windows can do it that way"

Anyway, for my personal use case, linux trumps both Windows and Apple, and, in opposition to most comments I see on this thread, I run Win7 and osX in VMs if I need specific software (SketchUp on Win and nothing really on osX, I just have the VM set up in case I need something)
Fragmentation is rather annoying, snapshots and copy-on-write would be nice to have.
I don't think so, the Mac Pro's firmware doesn't understand NVME, you'd need to use an ACHI based M2 SSD with the PCIe card. (so many acronyms!)
Except it's credit, not their own money, so your naiive "how people spend their money has no consequences" attitude, doesn't hold water. That's the whole point.
Wishful thinking?
Blunt. As Fuck
I just started listening to the Startup podcast, which features Chris in the first episode. He seems to be a very intelligent and talented guy while still remaining grounded. I wish him well with his future endeavors.

Also, ten minutes after reading the article, I just realized the pun in the name "Lowercase Capital."
"As fate would have it, Jay's status appears to be at an all-time high, perfect time to say goodbye."

https://genius.com/Jay-z-encore-lyrics
That's true. I was more saying that it's not usually pointed in my direction when I'm changing. I have a cover over my webcam and my phone is usually looking at the ceiling or whatever surface it's on.
Are you including TVM in that calculation?
It's consensual or whatever, but I think the bigger factor is that people are not really aware of how much information can be gleaned from the photos and don't consider the implications of Amazon storing them forever.
#1 is largely because of #4
My editor thought it might be too extreme, but I was sure that careful readers would latch on to the tongue-in-cheek intentions. Maybe I was wrong. I still stand by the statement.
Anecdotally I don't have anything pointing at me while I change, regardless of who's watching it.

My phone at rest is either looking at the inside of my pocket or the ceiling/floor.
You can't both cast a double* to an int* and then dereference the int* , expecting to read an int-sized chunk of the double. It's called strict aliasing and there are defined scenarios where it is allowed (one is that char* is an alias for all pointers).
Please don't do that, this is not Reddit, I'm sure you'll figure a way out to contact PAX Team.
Add in indieweb functionality to the codebase, such as microformats stuff, and I think this could really catch on. See https://indieweb.org/comments#How_to_markup
I think it was probably the choice of words in the last sentence (before edit) in particular that bothered people.
E.g. the nuclear waste problem: With the right shielding you'll get to radioactive waste that is much easier to handle and usually decaying enough in a 60 year time span. As opposed to the millennia from fission products. So yeah it is a problem, but manageable.

Or the parasitic power consumption problem. Yes, fusion reactors require a lot of energy to power that magnetic field, the cooling for the magnets, but the whole point of fusion research is to get an order of magnitude out of the energy put in, i.e. a G-factor which is > 1. Right now we don't have a fusion reactor that manages G >1, but Iter has the potential to operate around G = 5, and before long some smart kid will figure out a design that gives you G > 10.

The tritium breeding problem. There are indeed some smart solutions like a FLiBe salt blanket fill. Which also is great at absorbing the neutron "waste".

The nuclear proliferation problem. This is more of a theoretical problem, as there are way easier pathways to a bomb. E.g. the thorium fuel cycle to breed a U-233 based bomb is doable even with tech from the 1960'ies.
Just making a joke about his distinct style. I should've put his name in the title but most of HN seems to be catching on.
Text files are for the most part readable. The registry can be ugly to work with, if you have to. (which seems to be less and less these days)
Tachy.Tools – A collection of tacky tools built using Tachyons and Unsplash
I'm not 100% positive that this is the right video, but I think it is. As part of the "overthrow a nation" plan, he talks specifically about destroying critical infrastructure, like electricity.

The solution for taking out high voltage powerlines? A pair of Skilsaws hanging under a quadcopter. Drop down onto it and... something bad's going to happen!

edit: I also missed the link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m1lhGqNCZlA

edit 2: I scrolled around a bit and it's near the 30 minute mark.
I'd like to see some hardware that implements records in, well, hardware. collections of fields with counts and sizes. it'd be nice to do away with the idea that we're haphazardly (and implicitly) overlaying things like structs onto an untyped one-dimensional array of bytes (or in some cases, machine words).

that to me is more important than straight bounds checking for arrays, because it implies something a little stronger.
MG4J – A free full-text search engine for large document collections
Almost all of our service endpoints were designed API-first with JSON Schema and AJV validation. I could see this being useful for us to get TS models generated quickly for the UI team rather than hand-coding them for all of our existing schemas during our move to using TS/Angular.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2724439/
https://www.theguardian.com/news/datablog/2013/may/13/speed-...
http://www.livescience.com/33202-higher-speed-limits-cause-m...
http://www.jsonline.com/story/news/2016/09/23/crashes-spike-...
http://www.iihs.org/iihs/news/desktopnews/speed-limit-increa...
Trading is how brokers make money. It shouldn't surprise you that this is Robinhood's business model.

I totally agree with your investment strategy, and you can do that on Robinhood, by the way.
Yeah, that's probably true. My bad.

I am not insecure (I think !?!?) but it would be nifty to have Alexa tell me that "harshaw, those jeans you are wearing have a giant stain and you should get a clean pair out of the drawer".
Basically all civilian fixed wing aircraft have an order of magnitude less thrust than what they'd need for flying straight up. Wings are an awesome piece of tech!
> Wouldn't want to enable people to make their own decisions with their money, would we?

As a blanket statement? No, we don't. Two reasons why:

1. "Make their own decision" is an extremely inaccurate phrasing. Unsophisticated investors do not have enough information to properly evaluate a decision, and are therefore unduly influenced by companies wanting to take advantage of them.

2. There's a cost to society from people who take risks that have negative expected value and then expect society to help them. Of course, society could just refuse to help them, but find that society works better when certain support structures (e.g., the ability to discharge debts in bankruptcy) exist, and it's very hard to distinguish people who "really" need the support structure and those whose petard is their own. If social pressure or regulation can deter people from taking these risks, that's slightly unfortunate for the person who would have won the gamble, but very advantageous to the health of society as a whole.

Both reasons are also why outright gambling is regulated, why publicly-traded companies are subject to financial regulation, why we don't let people "make their own decisions" about raw milk, untested drugs, aircraft, etc. - there are strong incentives for the people selling you that product to lie to you by omission in the hope of influencing your decision to be profitable to them.
The other half value of Disqus is to provide comments to static sites. Back in the days, most sites used dynamic content, and had comments as part of the CMS system they used. Today, lots of sites have no back-end database, and unfortunately, lots of such sites use Disqus simply for convenience. Convenience that hurt the sites, and their visitors (slow load time, unacceptable tracking & spying). Any alternative should be welcomed.

If the sites that use Disqus today were willing to pay for an alternative, I would personally offer hosting of such, with fast load times and no tracking. However, I don't believe such willingness exists, and people are getting conditioned to accept sluggish load times and tracking. Too bad. Self hosted Open Source solutions are the second best alternative - management gets the illusion that the thing is free, and you actually get fast load times and no tracking.
Did you miss the part about stealing billions from state coffers?

How would you not feel disgusted by that?
Reviving Old Industrial Robot to Make ART
I don't understand why the OP considers sneaky Pu239 production a proliferation problem, but doesn't consider unaccounted for tritium in the fuel cycle and the general availability of Li6 to bread more tritium a proliferation problem. Anyone?
Just FYI you have a small mistake here: "So why did the Janit0r result to destruction". Should be "resort" I think.
Learning cobol (or any language) isn't the hard part - its understanding a massive legacy codebase and business practices that's the hard part.
Missed opportunity to call it 'narziss'.
These days XDG spec and most apps put things in ~/.config/, either as a single file or in their own subdirectory. It's easy to navigate and search, and apps can use whatever config format they want.

I'd argue that's preferable to a complicated hierarchy of obscurely named keys.
I'm well aware of all these techniques. However, I'm looking for more flexibility, like the type I mentioned in my comment.

Something like auto focus stacking. The camera need not do the stacking - just automatically focus on various portions of the scene and take pictures. I can then stack on my computer. Currently I have to focus at one spot, take the picture, then focus on another, take the picture, etc. What I'd like to do is to specify the five focus points, and have it then do the rest of the work.

The in-built bracketing capability in cameras is really minimal.

I was looking at Magic Lantern, and it has a time lapse that essentially maintains a constant brightness - so when the day transitions into night, the camera auto-adjusts the exposure to make sure the subject does not become darker.

Lots of possibilities.
Don't be too alarmed there are 3/4 classes of device all with differing risk profiles. Patient safety include things like protecting patient information so even systems used to transfer medical records can be regarded as a medical device. Not sure I'd want a pace maker updating online though...
What makes you so sure?

I think there are some pretty compelling arguments for this device selling like hotcakes in this thread, and my experience with people very into clothes (e.g. not myself) would lead me to believe there are a ton of people that'd love any reason to make their morning/evening routines longer, and even more people that couldn't care less about a camera/internet-enabled device set up in the bedroom.

I imagine it will take off a reasonable amount at $200, and then really start selling when it comes down to $100, a la the standard Echo path.
I feel like a lot of times they're out to game the situation.

And I feel disrespected that they aren't being honest with me about what they want. Someone comes up and says, "Oh we have to do X before Y... because it's the right thing to do!" And I just feel like they're trying to play me. I have no confidence that they won't come back tomorrow with, "Y is better than X!"

Someone comes and says, "My bonus depends on X, and not Y..." and even though I'm doing the same work, it's not stressful because I know why I'm doing it and I'm not worried the ground is going to come out from under me while I'm doing it -- if that makes sense. Having people change direction once they give me a goal is something that always causes me stress.
Recently finished reviving an ancient SCARA robot, adding a modern control software, giving it a paintbrush and with the help of comrades python-ing it into painting with a paintbrush.

Its a bit heavy on the robot mechanical and electrical side, but there's a github repo of image processing to synthesize the brush paths and I thought you folks might be interested.

The robot documentation is here: http://transistor-man.com/bluebot_revival.html

A quick video demo: https://vimeo.com/213723506

This is also an entry into the robotart competition, there's a login to vote for art that interests you.

https://robotart.org/

Our team didn't have access to a brand new robot, so we revived a scrapped one
How do I know my smart phone isn't shooting a video of me when I'm dressing? It isn't pointed at me. It doesn't sit on a stand with a view of the room. Sure the microphone might catch something interesting in the bedroom, but setting up an internet connected camera with a view is very different than than one that is pointed in a safe direction.

Firearms: never point it at something you don't want to destroy.
Internet connected cameras: never point them at something you don't want the world to see.
I think the headline reads as personal, and therefore a lighter endorsement than something like "This Hacker is Our new Hero" or "This Hacker is a Hero".
Building SASS and SCSS in Sublime Text
I'm guessing that's just a copy/paste from somewhere else.

It does make me wonder what the owners of the top Google results for JSON and XML prettifiers do with that data. The amount of passwords and other private info that gets pasted into those is probably pretty high.
As soon as I read a brief description I was checking and double-checking the calendar.
Palantir settles US charges that it discriminated against Asian engineers
The home isn't a castle anymore. It's a SCIF.
I don't bring my phone with me when I'm going to shower or change clothes. If I do, I can place it face down and even place something on top of the rear camera if I'm afraid of capturing something other than my ceiling.

This Amazon device either needs to be left alone to capture/not capture whatever it is going to or it serves no purpose at all. I'm not going to turn it around or cover it every time I enter my bedroom. If I did, then the value proposition falls significantly.
I don't think engineers are the target market for this product. There's a reason the models in the ad are all women.
Seems pretty clear to me that this is just an intitial step. Echo Look as is may end up being very popular in its own right, but the end goal is probably to move beyond evaluating your existing wardrobe, and eventually making recommendations for clothing sold thru Amazon that you can try on virtually right at home. We've had that for glasses for a while, and believe some startups have already tried this for clothing.

Retail stores are shuttering at an increasing rate as things move online. But buying clothes online requires supporting lots of returns. Imagine you work at Amazon. You have an insane amount of computing power and very capable big data teams. You are tasked with building up clothing sales and minimizing returns. AR is on the horizon but not here yet.

So what could you release today to move towards your goals?
The Brain Zoo – Basics of Meditation
> 99% of the PGP-encrypted emails we get to security@golang.org are bogus security reports. Whereas “cleartext” security reports are only about 5-10% bogus.

This indicates a failing of the person who reads golang security emails. This person should be using mutt or something with similarly good support for PGP. Reading encrypted emails with a correctly configured setup is only marginally more difficult than reading cleartext emails (that is, you have to enter the key's password).

You can make arguments all day about PGP usability for the average person, but not for the person reading security emails for a programming langauge maintained by Google.
Echo Look –  Amazon’s new $200 camera will judge how you look
You've probably thought of this & just haven't got around to it yet, but you might want to localize the screenshots on the English & Spanish pages, not just the text. Though it's also really cool to see a French startup.

The page headline should probably be "Simplify video project management", ie drop the 's' in projects. "Projects management" sounds awkward to me.

That front page image/cartoon is awesome. It makes me want to signup regardless of what it is!
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