skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sktcho.draw with fingers social network
http://sktcho.com is a drawing web app for smartphones where you can draw and publish your art and also you can comment and communicate with others.. it is a social network but for drawing..

to make a good drawing on your smartphone you need a stylus (like the S-Pen of the note type of smartphones )
but in sktcho we give you a virtual stylus and unique way of drawing for any smartphone,which strengthen the accuracy and efficiency in the way of drawing with fingers

sktcho is based on wordpress and html canvas
It is 1.4B for 2017, not per census cycle. On the actual year of the census it will be even more.
Not the "Apple" / "Robot" / "Jobs" headline I was hoping for
Might be costly to emulate x86 - negating the power-saving benefits of ARM, however as it'll be using an SOC, they would have a lower physical presence.

Imagine the motherboard on your phone, but in your laptop. The rest of the space would be used for batteries.
Nearly all biometrics, except for physically invasive ones, are easily stolen.

All are forgeable.

Biometrics can never be revoked once compromised.

They're like the social security number of logins. Completely useless.

Using biometrics for security or identity violates practically every rule for secure credentials. They exchange convenience for extremely minimal security.

Perhaps the oft-cited username, not a password?

No, not even useful for that: for a mobile phone, a username isn't even needed in most cases because there's usually only one user on the device. It lends no additional security -- merely an extra step.

For a phone, a fingerprint is probably less secure than a swipe pattern.

It's security theater. Why do we keep equating biometrics with security?
I have been approached to develop mass surveillance software and turned it down. I have been approached multiple times to work for casinos (online and offline) and have always turned them down. I will not work for technology primarily contributing to military systems.
I think many people would argue that ethically/morally it's somewhat questionable - he's taken donations, not investment, and as such lacks any of the oversight/due diligence external investment usually attracts. Similarly, I doubt even a majority of backers actually understand the business/charity model they are putting money into - that we are now at 9 figures certainly suggests these are not "sophisticated investors".

Was keeping a large amount of the cash for himself a stated goal? probably not, hence my curiosity. His business occupies a grey area between business endeavor and charity. Me in his shoes, I'd sure as hell feel bad taking a chunk of the donations. I'd have no issue with him pocketing the profits of traditional sales, should he ever reach that point - no one who donated was under the illusion a return would occur, but they should perhaps quite rightly expect that their donation at least pay for development, not lining Robert's pockets.

I think it's also debatable the extent to which backers have "bought" anything, let alone received a discount.
You're right, unfortunately for my use case and taste iOS just doesn't work.
Me too. On my Pixel, messages will randomly appear either in:

* Allo

* Hangouts

* Messenger (Android)

* Messenger (Facebook)

* WhatsApp

It's like SMS-Roulette.
> I was told in science classes that all of a person's cells shared the same DNA. Now I learn, nobody ever actually tested to see if that was true.

Actually, we've known that was wrong for a very long time, but also a useful approximation of the truth. Which is why very low level science classes tend to include it.

It's kind of like Newtonian mechanics, which you were probably also taught in science classes, and is also not true.
But wasn't it with hardware emulation?
I believe the cococa touch API is exposed like for like in xamarin.
Or, in many cases, tested and conclusively demonstrated not to be real.
There are all sorts of reasons fingerprints are not a highly secure authentication mechanism. Just as there are all sorts of reasons passwords and other techniques are imperfect. Password entry can be observed. Chosen passwords are frequently insecure, particularly on smartphones where brevity is so important.

Fingerprints are an excellent mechanism for almost all threat vectors for your average consumer smartphone. Your friends, enemies, and criminals would have to go through enormous, expensive, and clearly unethical efforts to access your phone. Given the convenience and security of this, I'm entirely happy with the security of my thumbprint-encrypted iPhone.

It's important for people who are dissidents or engaging in criminal activity to be aware that their brain is more secure than their fingerprint, although that seems entirely obvious to anyone capable of maintaining a high security lifestyle.
Feels like the conversation got pretty off topic. If a game is entertaining is a matter of personal preference of course.

It's another thing entirely to call a game a scam.

Looking at the subreddit https://www.reddit.com/r/NoMansSkyTheGame/ it looks like there is a healthy community playing a lot and game updates are released regularly.

My initial point was to give a different view and to try to stop the negative feedback loop this game always gets.
Microsoft appears to have apps that are native to ARM, but the real value of the Windows ecosystem is all the Win32 apps that have been built over the last 2 decades. The emulation layer addresses that so that "it just works" with old apps.

I assume they will be releasing a build configuration for native ARM software deployment on Windows.
Am I the only one who thinks that 97% accuracy (1/30 chance of an error) is very bad in medical diagnosis?

At least I'd expect something like 99.9% accuracy (1/1000 chance of an error) when someone gives me my own heart diagnosis.
RMNP has to cull elk because we lost the natural top predator in the ecosystem (the wolf). With this comes the chronic wasting disease (which has now spread across the west).

We don't have wolves because of the rancher and hunter lobby. The majority of the public in Colorado supports wolf reintroduction.

Fortunately, this is going to change, whether they want it or not: the wolves travel large distances and have already appeared in Colorado. I would not be surprised if somebody would actually transfer or release some sanctuary animals. The Wind Rivers has wolves, then it's 100-150 miles to Snowy Range and then the Front Range is right there. Just give it time and protection.
Alan is saying that in baseball there is a distinction between "failures" and "errors".

In the non-baseball use of the terms, a "failure" would be interpreted as a bad outcome, but in baseball as in research, "failure" is inherent to the game and should not be seen as an embarrassment or a negative outcome. A very good baseball player gets on base only 33% of the time. A very good researcher may fail dozens of times for any eventual success.

Conversely an "error" is when you fail to do something that is technically feasible but you fail to achieve it because of a personal mistake. In baseball an "error" would be an outfielder who misses catching a fly ball. Fly balls are caught 98-99% of the time by professional players, and it's expected that they can catch one anywhere in their area of coverage. A researcher should be able to achieve any outcome which is "technically feasible", such as creating a new software language, creating a new operating system, or creating a new hardware integrated circuit if necessary.

To sum up his statements; Failures in research should be expected, embraced, and motivating. Errors are the real problem, and point to an inability to achieve outcomes which are feasible. And if you are achieving ALL your research goals without any failures then your goals are not big and challenging enough.
Thank you. I tried it too, and it installed great, but in the process of tweaking one of the two, I changed some setting for appearance and now Unity has a weird theme.

I think I liked LXDE more than XFCE, though. I will play with them some more and see, thank you.
This is understandable, but there are people who have spent hundreds, or even thousands of dollars buying various virtual goods in the yet-to-be-released game. I'm not so sure they will feel equally satisfied if (or, at this rate, when) the game goes kaput.
How Platforms Are Poisoning Conversations
As far as I know, storing personal data - including photo, name, email and sometimes even IP address - without explicit and clear consent is strictly forbidden in most countries, at least in EU.
> People trust science.

Very large numbers do not.

> If they don't they are morons.

Perhaps, but that doesn't mean they don't exist.
Yeah, the O2 and Octane looked great, but their cases felt like cheap plastic up close. I remember being very unimpressed with my first exposure to an SGI workstation because of this. Actually working on it was great... it was just that the cheap plastic of the case ruined the entire effect.
<quote>You know the rest of the world isn't as racist as the USA</quote>
Unless perhaps, you are a Turk in Germany or a Roma just about anywhere in Europe.
Keeping Apple History Alive at MacPaw
Blackbird's founders both came from large (>1000 employee firms), and likely know all the tricks.
Cloudflare mentions "outside patent counsel"

https://www.cloudflare.com/priorartsearch/

Any idea who are the Cloudfare outside attorneys?
Although this is difficult to avoid because of its pervasiveness, I'm trying to avoid working in projects whose value proposition imply consistently distracting people from doing focused work.

Also, I'd not like to work in companies that use information that I consider BS in their publicity. I can cite RedBull in this case, with their publicity about turning you into the greatest multitasker of the office, when it's pretty obvious to me that multitasking has never worked and that it's totally delusional. See http://mywings.redbull.com/in-en/need-to-focus .
"- Apps? Ha! They don't even have GPS, and no, they don't know "the whole city", good luck getting to a smaller street just by the address."

I usually use night tram (living in northern part of Poznań is quite nice) when I drink, but when I use taxi they usually have GPS. At least for a few years.
There were close calls in our hunting range before they came off the list, panicked hikers running and just encouraging them to be chased. They got more and more aggressive every year. Even though less than 10% of the hunters I know are actually going after wolves, that stalking behavior has ceased since the delisting and they keep a very healthy distance.
> Not at the scale of Boeing.

Yes, at the scale of Boeing. I am familiar with the industry, and it is anything but "safe". Boeing took an incredible risk with the 747. And if Boeing screws up today, Airbus will have them for breakfast.
Turned down a job for a yc startup doing genetic tests on cows to maximise meat yield
Hey your opinion is cool and all. But there are a lot of people who put a lot of hard work into this project, because we're developers too, and we think the idea of being able to run a full linux userland on top of the NT kernel is fucking cool.

This project has never been about EEE. It's not about controlling the user. It's the complete opposite. It's all about choice. I like a linux style development environment more than I like Windows style. In my free time I mostly write python applications and do webdev-y stuff, and WSL makes it really easy for me to do that.

But then again, that's just my opinion.
ActFramework's performance in TechEmpower benchmark R14
Holy moly that's a lot of money
WSDownloader – WhatsApp Status Downloader
What if you could save/download whatsapp status media from your friends in a friendlier way instead of digging through your file manager to find it?
https://goo.gl/lQ1Ayl
Contributions and integration of other social media statuses are not welcomed, they are highly needed.
Advanced? Since the earliest AI research, it's hard to think of a time when games,
puzzles, and toys were not front and center. Whether writing a chess AI would or a humorous chat bot, a focus on "silly" applications has always been the norm.

I'm not against such applications and share your opinion that they are great. But it's not new. The field has always been this way.
something has to matter :-) after making commas, braces, brackets, and quotes optional linebreaks were what's left...
I think it depends on how you define "intelligence". And to be honest, I don't really think we have a good definition for the various things that encompass what it means to be "intelligent".
I did a wget -r -l3 in WSL just yesterday to download xconq documentation, worked perfectly.
Facebook Spaces Opts to Keep Social VR Simple
I never advocated for reintroduction, but I don't think ranchers should be able to do what they please. Why does it matter how long someone has been using a public good? I don't think it should.
... Perhaps the icon should correlated directly with the distro that you're running?
Artist rebuilds almost dead flowers with paper and paint
So - do they get bought or crushed? I feel like it's a 50-50, but that's more on my gut than out of any particular insight.
I continue to see comments on HN hypercritical of Apple's cash position but I have yet to see any rational or deep thoughts about why it's NOT a good idea for a company or individual's for that matter to have such savings.

You never know what's going to come along in the future, and having a sizeable cash position allows them to act and perhaps hedge against any unforeseen situations. It is really just being financially responsible. Hypothetically what if Apple is planning something huge, something in the healthcare space or transportation... We as outsiders have no idea.
Depends on what the scientists say. But if they deemed it was appropriate to balance the other herds, sure, and I'd pay a pretty penny for a lotto drawing on that tag. That's a lot of stew and sausage from one animal, it would feed a lot of families throughout the year.
Not a virtual reality company. Cool tech though.
Many lawyers will have this and be happy to give it to you for a fairly reasonable fee. Mine charged me $150 (30 min of work).

Asking people to share something they paid for is irritating. Trying to use someone else's legal work, which may have been customized for their business or their state, is risky.

And, finally, though I'm not a lawyer, it's my understanding that legal contracts can be copyrighted. Sharing them might be copyright infringement, I suppose. I'm not sure, though.
Do they actually get data from 300m people?
This seems to be universal with anything involving radioactivity.

The local media (aka, seattle) seems to have gotten the level of actual danger correct.. it was a 30 second blurb on NPR with a statement indicating no radioactivity had been released.
That's not why people don't trust science.

Science has become a pawn in the cultural conflict that seems to go on in America these days; the classic battlefield of "evolution vs. creation" has expanded to a World War 1 - style trench warfare going through all parts of society, with various major battles around things like "vaccination vs. autism" flaring up all the time.

This will doubtless hurt science. While a neutral science can trivially correct old theories when new evidence shows up, ideologically entrenched science can't easily give up ground. Saying two neurons don't share DNA might be harmless as it touches no sensitive spot in society - who cares? But what if multiple vaccinations (i.e. significant stress for the body to fight a disease) for for young kids actually turned out to be problematic in some circumstances? This won't be pretty on social media.
You are not the only one. I've actually felt that Windows 2000 was probably the highest quality least bullshit product they ever released.
>If we waited until we were absolutely sure of something we wouldn't be saying much ever would we?

Parent ask for those things to merely be tested. Not to have absolutely certain conclusions from those tests.
Most professional racing will require the driver to be handling the controls without assistance (to a degree; I believe many, maybe even most, allow for things like power steering) so I think that takes care of the AI case.

Now in the future maybe they want to add the ability for AI drivers? It would sure make things interesting! Or boring depending on how good the AI does.
I would say that Chris Roberts has always had a very good idea of the game he _wanted_ to build, but but the original plan was to only build part of what he really wanted. When the crowdfunding kept coming in, it enabled him to go straight for building the game as he envisioned it, rather than iterating after release.

It's also worth noting that CIG only hit 400 employees fairly recently. I know some of their major presentations have included employee counts over time, so you could dig up the exact numbers if you wanted to. I _think_ they had roughly 50 at the end of 2013, and maybe 150-ish at the end of 2014?
clean energy is very hard to use for base load generation, you still need something for base load, nuclear energy fits that.
Yes, nuclear accidents increase mutation rate and with it the occurrence of various forms of cancer, but it seems those mutations aren't passed on to next generations (layman's explanation: if it doesn't kill you, it's unlikely to have an effect on your children. If it _does_ kill you, you aren't likely to have children) http://www.rerf.jp/radefx/genetics_e/birthdef.html:

"No statistically significant increase in major birth defects or other untoward pregnancy outcomes was seen among children of survivors. Monitoring of nearly all pregnancies in Hiroshima and Nagasaki began in 1948 and continued for six years.
[...]
In addition, a clinical health study of about 12,000 individuals was conducted between 2002 and 2006 with a focus on lifestyle diseases, based on the idea that adulthood is when disorders from radiation effects may develop. In this study, possible relationships between parental exposure and a combination of six multifactorial diseases (e.g., diabetes and hypertension) were analyzed, taking into consideration such lifestyle habits as drinking and smoking. The results showed no evidence at this time of increased risk of these multifactorial diseases among the target individuals. However, given that the subjects were still young at the time of the health examinations, with an average age of 48.6, it would be desirable to continue the clinical health study of this fixed cohort."

However, https://www.nap.edu/read/1800/chapter/3:

"WHETHER THE ATOMIC BOMBS dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki will have detectable genetic effects on the Japanese is a question of widespread interest. The purpose of the present note is to show briefly that (1) many difficulties beset any attempt to obtain a valid answer to this question and (2) even after a long-term study, such as that outlined below, it still may not be possible to determine just how much genetic damage was done at Hiroshima and Nagasaki."
I refuse to work with companies who store sensitive data (financial, medical, etc.) and fail to take it deadly seriously. If the company won't hire a third-party security firm to audit and provide guidance, I won't work for that company.
Yes. I think he meant

"We wish to understand mechanism through "

should have been

"We wish to understand the mechanism through "

I had to pause on that spot too because it felt stilted when reading over it, though after reading it again I got what you were talking about and it read fine.
The article currently linked here is not the same one originally linked. It was changed after I made my post.

That said, the headline still explicitly calls out smartphones.
> being able to run a full linux userland on top of the NT kernel is fucking cool.

I could do that before with virtualbox. What kind of benefits besides slight speed increases would we see using the posix WSL?

>It's not about controlling the user. It's the complete opposite. It's all about choice.

If I create a prison for you, but then let you choose your cell, do you consider that a valid choice? That's what this is, and I know what you mean but the reality is that windows is a walled garden prison for the user.

>I like a linux style development environment more than I like Windows style.

Then why not dev on GNU+linux?

Also, notice the emphasis on GNU.
Yeah, very fair point on this. Are private secondary markets just by default eternal bull markets? What's the price correction mechanism? Devaluation due to massive supply/demand imbalances?

Interesting space to get involved in, for sure.
> Reading this stuff is always eye opening for me. but actually making it a part of your thinking and perspective is a whole other ball of wax.

I think this is a good description of the effect of LSD.

A lot of the concepts that come up in your mind are things you have probably herd before, but in that moment you feel like you not only have understood their meaning, but also internalized it - attached an emotion to it so to say.

That's why I think it has such potential in psychotherapy: There might be a lot of useful concepts that you might have rationally understood, but actually 'discarded' them on an emotional level.
Stomach ulcers (formerly thought to be caused by stress) and chronic fatigue syndrome (formerly thought by many to be psychological) have both been linked to infections in recent years. Now strokes, and I think I've seen something about heart problems as well.

I wonder how many other diseases will wind up having bacterial or viral causes.
any chance of getting this added to the F-Droid project? I'd like to be able to get the APK without having to install gapps first.
If only they'd add GPU passthrough on non server Windows editions...

At the very least make it a pro feature.
>People don't trust "science" because people are not taught logic, critical thinking and the idea behind the scientific principle.

Well, science is not the idea of "logic, critical thinking and the scientific principle" -- it's its realization in practice.

And from private interests to careerism and ego, that practice is quite far from the idea.
Maybe because the headline is: That Fingerprint Sensor on Your Phone Is Not as Safe as You Think

when in fact, probably they are
Being in my 20s, I've learned that it's not a good idea to ask that among my peers at parties, since so many are in service industry jobs (if they have jobs at all) that they hate and don't want to talk about. Even if they do have salaried careers, it seems most people would rather talk about something besides work.

Tech parties are a different culture since many of us are fortunate to be employed in self-actualizing roles in high-growth companies, or at the very least enjoy their jobs better than most. However since I live in the Midwest, engineers aren't as plentiful as in the Bay area.

At any rate, I usually just ask "how do you spend your time?" instead if Im fishing for conversation material. It's a bit more open ended
Or a diet rich in resistant starches? Higher levels of butyrate et al might help keep these B. fragilis communities in check. Or maybe not. That's sort of the kicker with gut bacteria, it's such a complex system and so hard to measure that getting at causality can be tough.
I'm no expert but I have heard this explained. You can explain it without needing cells to have different DNA. Differentiated cells express different genes from the same genome.
What is wrong with this ?
What I find interesting is that methylation of cytosine, one common epigenetic modification, increases local mutation rates. Methylation typically reduces expression levels of nearby genes. A concomitant increase in local mutation rate may further disrupt transcription factor binding sites, also reducing expression. Thus, multi-generation methylation at a locus could increase the odds of genetically encoding the epigenetic information (assuming that the new selection pressure remains constant).

I've glossed over some details (e.g., somatic vs germ-line methylation patterns).