skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Poor people taking more risks to come out of poverty is very natural

Poor people don't take more risks to come out of poverty... Poor people take risks because they have no choice and they remain in poverty.

> Why do you think I left my homeland, left my parents, friends and Gods to come to Silicon Valley ?

That's not the type of risk we are talking about. We are talking about things like coal miners.
Except that you were also denied much of the existing API and can only install software if you have a developer key from MS. I use my RT device for media playback in the car, but the windows-RT version of VLC hasn't been updated in years, and is somewhat buggy.
Embeddinator-4000 by mono
Trolling with assembly
> by 2050 a new class of people might emerge – the useless class. People who are not just unemployed, but unemployable.

We, I am one, already exist

Side note.. the tagline from a favorite movie of mine: withnail and i;

> Two unemployed and unemployable actors mistakenly vacation in the English countryside

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Withnail_and_I
> create-react-app has built-in support for Flow but not TypeScript

This is no longer a downside, as of a few days ago: https://github.com/Microsoft/TypeScript-React-Starter
Yeah, these days it's easy to use an online service to submit to the App Store. Buddybuild (buddybuild.com) is really helpful for this. It acts as a CI system, and it can deploy builds to iTunes Connect with one click.
For a while I was kind of on the "Ai is scary" train, but as I read into accelerationism more I've grown to accept that maybe it's ok if humans eventually become obsolete. It almost seems right.
I would suggest working out (lift weights) if you aren't already doing it. I lost 50+lbs a few years ago with fasting and light cardio activity, and still don't have the body to show for it.
I think this is newsworthy:

Andrew "Bunnie" Huang: "My guess is this thing, compared to the TOP500 supercomputers at the time (and probably even today) pretty much wipes the floor with them for anything crypto-related."

We've always guessed the NSA has some incredible resources, but to get a peek like this into what they had 3 years ago is definitely newsworthy. It makes the whole supercomputing race kind of a joke if governments have massively more powerful machines hidden from public view.
This was the case for the Win7/8 Nokia phones, so the signs are good.

(Although I'm in the UK, where the carriers are less abusive)
Yep convenient ommissions = marketing
Electronic Junk Mail Teardown
Send that to your grandma.
I'd highly recommend Jon Ronson's book "So You've Been Publicly Shamed" for more on this sort of thing. He discusses online lynch mobs and speaks to some of those at the receiving end of the internet's outrage.
It's unfortunate that the article did not speak of the Right to Die movement.

I recently had a close family member choose to exercise this right. Instead of wasting away from inoperable cancer, she chose precisely the time and place she wanted to die. It's a tough subject, but for a non-trivial number of people, having control over their destiny provides a more satisfying end of life care.

It's time for more states and countries to pass more holistic and comprehensive legislation around this right. I'm Canadian, so here's the Supreme Court judgement that established this right for Canadians[0]. The arguments are very well justified in my opinion.

[0] https://scc-csc.lexum.com/scc-csc/scc-csc/en/item/14637/inde...
You might have seen this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gEDaCIDvj6I

It's basically the same thing (in Japan) and has been making the rounds on and off for the past several years
Not so sure about it. When you are compassionate you often understand how things had to be the way they happened, that everything was determined - at least to some extent.
When you see the power of cause and effect there's no place for blame, just compassion.
> So why would anyone buy in before they get a letter,

Plenty of people have already gotten a letter; if they all pooled their resources they'd have a decent defense fund already.

> , or maintain their membership once they're no longer in court?

This one, I agree, is harder. Best I can propose is a minimum 5 year membership once you've been sued. Or tweak it some other way so that membership is slightly cheaper, or about as much as, settling.
Well, yes. I did mention that I don't believe in the premise.
A big reason to buy a Cray is the experience they have. There's not a ton of people who've run large systems as long as they have. The technology may originate from Nvidia but Nvidia doesn't have a 40+ years experience building and supporting massive machines.
That's just silly. There are guaranteed ways for company to fail and not vice versa.
Smartphones can be fooled by fake, digitally composed fingerprints
I tend to google "bash windows reddit" when I want to visit as I can never remember the name :D
Are there any examples of solid, stable, cross-platform apps developed with Xamarin? I tried looking at their website, but it doesn't seem possible to tell the difference between apps being tested using Xamarin Test Cloud, and apps developed using the Xamarin Platform.
Two words: Javascript frameworks.

Now that's accelerationism.
Sticks and stones – Exploring the ancient precursors to cryptocurrency
There is not a single person who practices Tai Chi who has anywhere close to the breadth of martial arts mastery that someone like Demetrious Johnson has.

To be fair most MMA champions don't even have the breadth of martial arts mastery that someone like Demetrious Johnson has.
People are free to spend on what they want, within the bounds of the law. I think you fail to see how badly society is doing when selling organs to pay for education seems reasonable. Education is a public good. A startup is not. Education is something that reasonable societies provide for its citizens.

We've gone so far away from proper notions of the purpose and meaning of a society that people are talking about selling organs to pay for public goods. I'm not talking about your proposal to sell organs. It's your proposal to do something so drastic to pay for something so basic.
No, i mean removing or gutting the TSA by removing the human part would help everyone (but TSA agents, of which I know a couple—just another instance of automating away painful inefficiency, unfortunately, as they agree they're not doing shit to actually stop people compared to the machines).
I spent a couple of years running the I/O system on the Blue Gene in that photograph (Intrepid). The pictures really don't do it justice, although all the doors are off in that photo, so that wasn't even really what it looked like. It was a big, beautiful, $100m black box.

ANL's new system, Mira has a big mural painted on it, and I think it completely ruins the aesthetic.

I don't miss working in that room, though. The box is very pretty, but the fans are astoundingly loud. As an aside, it's pretty amazing how much heat they need to dissipate. Once a year we had to do a cooling failure test where we all sat in the room by our respective subsystems while Facilities turned off the A/C just to make sure everything would notice the temperature rise and power itself off. When the A/C got cut, you felt the room start to heat up quite quickly almost instantly, within a few seconds.
Society would collectively decide to fund drug development because it betters all of humanity. There are ways to innovate without fucking over everyone for the sake of profit, you know.
> CSDD’s finding, a bellwether figure in the drug industry, is based on an average out-of-pocket cost of $1.4 billion and an estimate of $1.2 billion in returns that investors forego on that money during the 10-plus years a drug candidate spends in development.

the estimate includes money that investors could have made if they invested elsewhere?
You are not alone, buddy. You are not alone.
Daily dose of cannabis extract could reverse brain's decline in old age
How is Xamarin not native? It's compiled right, not some web view hybrid?
WhatsApp’s update of Siri for iPhone
America 'will ban carry-on laptops on flights from UK, Europe to US'
I think this is more or less correct, but I think the more important take-away from the article is how this kind of thinking ends up getting wrapped up in NRx and inevitably, the alt-right. Viewed from 1,000 ft, it is very easy to
coldly construe our weird political landscape as a fulfillment of this hyper-rationalist dream: the irrationalities of the poor and uneducated are something to be corraled by the cold and calculating. It's the sort of thinking popular with plutocrats, since it rationalizes their actions.

Accelerationism is interesting to me insofar as it is transparent about the fact that technology is an a-human (not in-human) force. Blind faith in the liberational potential of technology does nothing to actually fulfill this potential, but instead just furthers it's a-human qualities. The reference to the California ideology is apt.
What happened at Canonical
Amazing initiative.
No, I am not willfully abusing but thank you anyways.

Programs must be written for people to read, and only incidentally for machines to execute.

Literate programming is not there to entertain you. It's there to be understood. Beware the programmer who disdains comprehension of their programs.

Programs are pieces of engineering. As such they are meant to be used. Beware the programmer who admires their programming too much. If they have elegantly solved a problem that will come out in their solution's use and not in its literate form.
Windows 10 Mobile gets OS updates directly from Microsoft. Verizon does not support Windows 10 Mobile at all, but my four year old Verizon Lumia Icon got Windows 10 version 14393.1198, which released yesterday, yesterday.

Microsoft has chosen to drop a lot of older models from the Creator's Update, but is still providing cumulative/security updates to the Anniversary Update right now, which is supported on all phones which run Windows 10 Mobile.

At least, at present, if you have a Windows 10 Mobile device, you have recent security updates, regardless of make or model.
> is that we need to collectively figure out a way to capture the wasted time of millions of people.

This is the topic worth discussing. The time I spent on HN e.g. today, bitching about Uber, would not likely contribute anything to curing cancer if I were doing anything else with it. It would be great to have more ways to capture little amounts of unskilled effort from many people and channel them into something good. But besides working more to give more to charity, I'm out of ideas.
These are the best techniques I read so far. Amazing.. Keep going..
Just did, it worked pretty well. It reminds me a lot of Nintendo's thing where they automatically make a Mii based off a picture of your face, except better. If you don't like the sticker pack that was outputted, you can fix your hair or whatever and try again. Took about 10-20 seconds for the first try, only 1-2 seconds for the second try, so there's probably some caching going on. My only complaint is that it's not super intuitive how to actually get to this feature. You have to be in a chat, go to stickers, go to the add stickers section, and then it'll be in that menu.
How much it is cost to build an app
You miss my point. The U.S. is a wealthy nation. Our notions of society, shared burdens, shared responsibilities has degraded so far that people are talking about harvesting their organs to pay for the education of their progeny. Reasonable societies that are wealthy provide education to their citizens. The concept of selling your organs to pay your child's education ought to be derided and unthinkable in a nation as wealthy as the U.S. Public goods should be paid for by the public (generally speaking).

My point has nothing to do with organ harvesting. It has to do with the U.S. being dysfunctional as a society that organ harvesting for something as basic as education is being talked about.
I'm sure that tease was no accident
Much of the discussion here is about software useful to Internet businesses. These companies are likely to pay to support Open-Source that they depend on. Yet, this focus misses vast areas of valuable software.

For the last 6 years I've been working on an Open-Source CNC simulator called CAMotics. See http://CAMotics.org/ With 100k+ users, I've struggled to get more than a few hundred dollars in donations per year. CAMotics is a mature software that my users rave about.

Gaining corporate sponsorship is difficult for software that is not geared to benefit corporations even when creating tons of value for users world wide.

It is important to recognize that there may not be a one size fits all solution to funding Open-Source software. Still, if we could find generalized solutions, with the right incentives, the world would reap massive benefits. An army of independent developers working on projects they love, full-time, would completely change the software landscape.
Anti-humanism is a very interesting strain of thought these days. Homo-Deus by Harari is my favorite example.

The problem, of course, is that if we got where we are now by being humans, then how do we know we're far enough along to 'quit' being humans without going backwards? How do you know that 'giving up' isn't the same sort of intellectual trick that that Nazis played on themselves? How do you give up without giving up?
Hi! Can you file the issue with more details about problem? I'll try to fix :)
I don't mean to demonize just be realistic.

Changes that are obvious and massive to the CEO of a company which owns ski resorts around the world may seem meaningless to people living at those same locations. I like most people don't recall the date of each snowfall over the last 50 years, because it has little real impact on me, but keeping accurate track of those same storms can be of vital importance for some people who see these trends as both obvious and critical.
Just for what it's worth, I think that essay did more damage to discussions on HN than pretty much anything else he's written:

https://hn.algolia.com/?query=http:%2F%2Fwww.paulgraham.com%...

In the overwhelming majority of the cases it's cited, it's used mostly to suck the oxygen out of a discussion, so that rather than discussing the merits of an argument, we're instead required to first resolve the motives of the people making the argument.

I think you should keep declaring your interests in controversies! That's a good thing. I try to do that too. But I'm sure you've seen instances on HN of people litigating this issue and it making for stupid, angry, pointless flame wars. Even if you're very careful about when you deploy this challenge, the rules have to work for the median HN commenter, not just the super careful ones.

Shortly afterwards:

I also think Dan is letting the perfect be the enemy of the good by not updating the guidelines to say this directly and announcing the change --- I know that's because they have bigger plans for the guidelines, but it would save everyone some time to make this incremental change anyways.
From the article:

"Accelerationism, therefore, goes against conservatism, traditional socialism, social democracy, environmentalism, protectionism, populism, nationalism, localism and all the other ideologies that have sought to moderate or reverse the already hugely disruptive, seemingly runaway pace of change in the modern world."

My notion of accelerationism before this article was "communists, disappointed after communism failed at taking over the west, advocating that more capitalism will inevitably show its failures and lead to communism". This notion persists after reading the article.
What you're (more or less) describing is a combination of defensive patent infringement insurance and a patent pool. Both are things that exist, but patent infringement insurance is crazy expensive, and patent pools are hard for small companies to enter into.
Sure, but the EU or any country can make these terms unenforceable in their airports. Sign a law stating that circumventing such a ban cannot be punished for example.

You can also play a negotiation game. Ban something ridiculous in return. Then say "we lift our ban if you lift your ban, and reduce import tariffs on X by 2%". Then the other party says "we'll reduce it by 1%, and you agree to this line in this treaty, and we'll only ban laptops over 1.5 kg"... and you have a deal. That's how bilateral negotiations go. And I think many commenters believe that this laptop ban has at least partially economic motivations.

I wish the EU had more balls and self confidence when it came to such negotiations. This is very tangential, but I think Germany in the EU, the EU in the western world, and the west (North America+Europe) in the rest of the world don't realize how well off they are, and how much power they still have.
Depends on what the results end up being, but there could be a lot of HN users happy to have this as a second/third device, especially those of us who still cling to desktops as our daily drivers.
Anger wasn't supposed to be surprising, hence parent's use of punctuation. Awe was supposed to be the surprising one.
Hijacking my own thread:

I don't suppose anyone knows how to make a Windows NTP server permit queries? Googling does not seem to reveal anything insightful. I know how to do this for ntpd but am stuck with dealing with a Windows NTP server right now.
Where does this gentleman fall on your serious Tai Chi practitioner scale:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5l_t70EG8E0
They already shown LoL and Photoshop running on ARM a few months ago in a demo video. Google it :)
I focus on eating nutritionally dense foods. That has led to me shrinking multiple dress sizes, even though losing weight was not a goal.

I also walk a LOT. (I gave up my car years ago. Walking is basic transportation for me.)
This is the IEEE paper referenced in the article:

http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/7893784/?reload=true

PDF version:

http://www.cse.msu.edu/~rossarun/pubs/RoyMemonRossMasterPrin...

Abstract:

This paper investigates the security of partial fingerprint-based authentication systems, especially when mul- tiple fingerprints of a user are enrolled. A number of con- sumer electronic devices, such as smartphones, are beginning to incorporate fingerprint sensors for user authentication. The sensors embedded in these devices are generally small and the resulting images are, therefore, limited in size. To compensate for the limited size, these devices often acquire multiple partial impressions of a single finger during enrollment to ensure that at least one of them will successfully match
That's a very different attack than I was looking for; you've described a second preimage attack, which would be considered a fundamental weakness of the hash. I was looking for a protocol where a comparatively small amount of signed data (let's say less than 90 bits) is kept secret, but can potentially be brute-forced on an appropriate supercomputer.
FSF's Stallman Applauds Conservancy's Linux Enforcement
As far as i understand it, this needs an 64bit ARM SoC?
Can anyone clarify the baseball analogy about errors? (It’s at 38:00.) I’m a bit confused.
The Ocean Cleanup Announces Pacific Cleanup to Start in 2018
In many ways this "theory"/theme corresponds to the behaviour observed in clinical narcissism. It's generally not healthy, though, IMO, to think with the vampire metaphor.
I often do this. Both forward and back. But I also have a slightly warped sense of Self and what consciousness is.

I often will consider my past and future as a separate entity or person than myself today in the present. And acknowledge things theyve done good or bad. Or to be kind to your future self as if you are doing a favor for a close friend.
One thing Microsoft does well is Long term support and backwards compatibility. I guess this applies to their mobile OS as well.
I get this sentiment, but man, there are some really great, high quality (cinematography, acting, sound, creativity) tv shows being made today, albeit most on streaming/premium services. I've experienced tv that has moved me as much, if not more than many books I've read. To think that this medium is mindless or unnecessary completely undermines so much of the art and thought that goes into crafting some of these shows. I think the issue is drawing the line between film made as art, and the sort of vapid shows that this quote is most likely referring to.
Oh no, I'm not expecting it to go away.

Frankly, i don't mind google ads; i mind wasting 20 seconds to load a page with about two paragraphs of content and 3mb worth of ads. But this is all ignorig the broader point: why are we basing our revenue off of patterns many realize for being toxic, consumerist, negative-value? People AT GOOGLE will happily admit this while working to build it.

I do my own part by supporting Ad Nauseum[0] and actively punishing sites that serve ads, particularly facebook and google. It's also decent for a (very shallow, for now) layer of noise for your ad profiles. Offer me a flat fee and convince me to spend; don't trick me into viewing ads.

0: https://adnauseam.io
This excites me. I work with a lot of geospatial industry tools, many mobile tools are still based on old window CE/pocket PC/windows mobile platforms; I hope to see these snapdragon devices overtake this area.

Mobile data collection tools on iOS and android devices are rather poor (at least open source ones), hopefully this will help solve this problem—we'll just be able to use windows applications that work and are better developed. The windows ecosystem still seems easier to me than iOS / Android, perhaps that's just my bias or that I see more development options.

This could be a huge turning point for Microsoft's mobile divisions.

x86 drivers are still something I'm curious about here...

[edit: I should also mention, the reason why geospatial tools comes into play here is because the snapdragon CPUs have integrated GSM and GNSS (GPS) on the die. Currently, x86 based tablets have to use a separate component, and many don't come with it or even provide GNSS as an option]
Keybase is out for iPhone, Android
iPhone: https://keybase.io/_/download/keybase-for-ios

Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=io.keybase.ossifrage
Until relatively recently, unavailability of large stockpiles of consumer data (at least, stockpiles at the scale now possible) was a significant impediment to a large and probably mostly-undiscovered class of potentially unethical behavior. Do you not suppose the removal of that impediment, with no other equally powerful compensatory regulations or oversight, to at least potentially be a serious problem now or at any time in the future?
Wyoming's War on Wolves
Let’s focus on privacy and get rid of the clutter
* written in C#.
Do you understand that people are sceptical of such claims when, despite being made repeatedly, no one is ever willing to offer any shred of evidence?
That's why I switched to a Chromebook. ;)
Ah, I hadn't heard of the retcon :) It was oirignally Yet Another Markup Language http://yaml.org/spec/history/2001-12-10.html That's why it's YAML, not AAML, BAML, CAML, etc.

In any case, yaml.org currently describes it as "human friendly data serialization".

I don't think YAML is a bad choice, but HOCON's explicit focus on configuration yields some nice benefits.
I'm not convinced that risk as used in this context contributes to price significantly in the residential real estate market. People in this market don't (typically) view transactions as investments and they don't view the home as assets. Lenders do, so the availability of mortgage funds may be linked to price and liquidity but I suspect that relationship is tenuous at best.
Apparently the context suggests this particular machine had not been built and delivered at the time the documents were written, so it doesn't show that NSA had this exact machine at that time (though maybe they had other computers that were this fancy or fancier).