skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
- brain of Britain (halfway between Jeopardy and trivial pursuit)
- econtalk: where else can you hear about someone who hypothesized that sweatshops were good and then proved himself wrong?
- changelog
- the Bernie Sanders show
- on being
- waking up with Sam Harris. Strongly disagree with Harris programmatically, but damn if he's not a good philosopher. "What is technology doing to us" is very good. But his islamophobic rants can be difficult to stomach.
The Bikeshed

Radiolab

World Cafe

Mountain Stage

Snap Judgement
That's a rather judgmental response, for someone who talks about learning to "largely abandon judgment".

> STEM is gender-biased because we live in a world where societies are gender-biased.

Really? STEM in practice is of course gender-biased. Because, as you say, "societies are gender-biased". But what about the subjects themselves? It seems unlikely that science, technology, engineering and mathematics are inherently incomprehensible to women.
I've been enjoying 1A from NPR lately.

I haven't really found any tech podcasts I like yet, they mostly talk about things at a very surface level, which doesn't teach me a lot.
Let's say I pick one of these recommendations. What happens next? Where do I start?

Should I listen to all episodes in chronological order? Should I only listen to new episodes? Should I cherry pick episodes based on their description?
just drag the image on top of the other with your mouse
It’s usually analysed as having both normal prosody and a pitch accent (similar to a stress accent) that varies somewhat by region. I’ve read that broadcasters are expected to use a standard (Tokyo?) pitch accent when speaking.
>> the average consumer doesn't know that Trader Joe's hasn't decided to open a store in Canada.

Honestly, the average consumer in Canada doesn't even know what Trader Joe's is (well they probably do now, since the Pirate Joe's story has made national news here).

I get all of your points about the legal stuff, but I don't think anybody walking into P/Irate Joe's didn't know what was going on. The owner was very transparent about it, and most of the publicity P/Irate Joe's got in the news was about what the store's premise was.

I look at it very simply. You have a super enthusiastic fan in another country who wants people to have access to your products. You can look at it as an opportunity (to find an amicable solution) or as a threat (to be addressed with lawyers).

One approach generates positive goodwill and the other one generates negative goodwill.

Obviously, it's Trader Joe's prerogative to choose which way they wanted to go, but I personally think they missed out on a marketing opportunity to expand their reach.
How do you think the government will access end-to-end encrypted data without making use of a backdoor? (Or alerting the user.)

Brandis said warrants should be "sufficiently strong to require companies, if need be, to assist in response to a warrant to assist law enforcement or intelligence to decrypt a communication". A company which makes end-to-end encryption will not be able to assist law enforcement in this way unless they make a backdoor.

Conclusion: Brandis either doesn't know what a backdoor is, or he does know but realises that "backdoor" has negative connotations so he is pretending that that's not what it is. Both possibilities are pretty reprehensible in my opinion.
The difference, as it pertains to the patent issue, is nothing technical - it's simply that Intel feels threatened by Microsoft's emulator and not by qemu. (Though if Intel has ever redistributed qemu, there may be an additional GPL wrinkle...)
I understand that, but suggesting it as a tool for prototyping and easily sharing apps with others (which was the concern I was responding to) does not warrant multiple down votes, unless the readers here are absolute assholes?
The parent has a good point actually, because "mov eax,1" automatically zero-extends in 64-bit mode.

It's still one byte longer than the equivalent AArch64 instruction, though.
It seems controversial.

It's an efficient way to teach girls and boys differently.

But it also facilitates gender bias.
Yes but the rentier class (our overlords) don’t like LVT.
I haven't read through the comments here yet but my initial impression of the article is 'ha, I was literally thinking this today'; because I was. AMP is a little heavy handed for my tasteS. Another instance of HN being on the same wave length I guess.
I can't, my understanding of category theory and universal algebra is only enough to sniff at it. Joseph Goguen's work is a good direction to look to if you are equipped with those tools. He cites Parnas's work which is the easier to grasp analysis of modular abstraction. Here is a representative paper:

A hidden agenda
Joseph Goguena, Grant Malcolmb
http://ac.els-cdn.com/S0304397599002753/1-s2.0-S030439759900...
The weeds. It's a podcast about public policy and politics. Very technical which I like.

FiveThirtyEight politics for politics.

Voices of vr. Excellent podcast about VR news often with interviews the developers working on the cutting edge.
Cuck
Are hybrid artist-engineers poised to take over tech?
does this count? :)
https://giphy.com/gifs/matthew-broderick-ferris-buellers-day...
Why? The average person doesn't need to know about TCP/IP to use current centralized networks
None. I don't listen to podcasts. Not really sure why. I do watch talks etc. on YouTube.
I'll second FiveThirtyEight. I was a little skeptical about this mag that seemed to come out from nowhere. It always has very interesting content.
Ask HN: How can I promote my open-source project?
We just launched the beta about a month ago and we've been struggling to get any sort of traction - we want people to use it and give feedback.

https://github.com/service-bot/servicebot
Bingrep: Like grep, but for binaries
Well, that's exactly it. It has gone to trial before and emulator devs win every time. The precedent has already been set. That's what spawned my comment, because I don't understand the differences between x86 emulation and, say, Cell processor emulation, from a legal standpoint.
Mine is kind of an odd mix (most is strictly for entertainment:

- Criminal

- Eaten by a Grue

- Freakonomics Radio

- Geek's Guide to the Galaxy

- Liar City

- S-Town (just one season)

- Seeking Wisdom

- Serial

- Startup School

- Startups for the Rest of Us

- Tank Riot

- Techzilla

- The Dollop

- The Memory Palace

- The Truth

- Thimbleweed Park

- This American Life

- This Week in Tech

- ycombinator
Because you can play Breath of the wild in CEMU :-)
It isn't. I fully agree with the article that it should be optional, but it's hilarious how the only reason the author can give is that it "doesn't feel right".

They state "I just automatically go to the main url" without giving any real reason for it. They also mention how all studies show that it's a huge positive for users. And it is. It's much faster and easier way to browse content. You can try to shit on Google, but the reality is that people sucked at making fast content, so someone had to step in and no one was.
I really wish ezra and Sam Harris would do a podcast and resolve this "feud"
This is why I read HN.
Because websites loading 10mb of useless Javascript is "good" internet?
I was really thinking more about the modern, active emulation scene. See my other comments to your sister posts.
While botw plays in cemu, certain game elements was broken last I tried, like the camera, and photo book
Lol yep I denied that internally.
while we're at it, Nate's book The Signal and the Noise is a pretty easy and fun read if you're into statistics, polling and politics
How else can I ask you to enable push notifications the first time I see you, then ask if you want to sign up for my newsletter when your mouse moves up off the page?
Talking Machines : A podcast where they outline new developments in Machine Learning and interview people in the field. Has a good balance of summarizing the important points without leaving out technical details.

http://www.thetalkingmachines.com
Here's a fun one: next time you get a new phone number (USA), ask for it to end in "9999".
It's possible, but not without social engineering (or influence?).
You're being downvoted but you're absolutely right, this article is just weak and it's only popular because it voices a popular opinion, but does a very bad job at justifying it.

I fully agree that it should be optional and people who dislike it should be allowed to disable it. But as you mention, the author provide absolutely no real argument other than "it feels wrong".

All user studies so far show that it's a net positive, and I'd rather stick to real data than feelings or anectodes.

I personally love it, but I also agree that those who don't should be allowed to disable it.
It kinda will https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_average...

Some countries in Europe like Denmark and the Netherlands will not exist after a 200ft rise in sea level.
This is a great one: https://scratch.mit.edu
Video Will Comprise 82% of All Net Traffic in 5 Years, Says Cisco
I genuinely don't really care about things like this. I mean sure It'd be a little odd if my neighbour would stare at me but I generally don't mind, as you said no harm done
-a16z podcast is my #1 podcast these days

-Tim Ferris Show is a little hit or miss but has some excellent content

-Linear Digressions is a fun little podcast to stay caught up on ML trends

-How I Built This is a more general audience oriented podcast that talks about how companies got started
Shouldn't it have incorporated some random bits or a counter?
This is so true. When I worked for one, we needed 2000 (maybe 1000 I can't remember), but not a lot for a small workflow system to support an application. The purchasing department came back and said we had to use the "official" workflow system, which would have cost us close 1 million dollars to implement, and none of us understood. We spent probably 9 months arguing with them about getting an exception which we did for another system that was closer to what we wanted and was only something like 250k. They bought the licenses and then canceled the project because the business decided they wanted something else by that time.
I'm not sure I understand what you're saying, but it's also not clear to me that we really disagree.

Abstractions are often leaky, yes; sometimes unavoidably so, and then those leakages have to be taken into account in the design of the system; but when leakage is avoidable, do you not agree that it's important to avoid it?

I do agree that there's such a thing as over-abstraction, and over-engineering in general. I recall a discussion here on HN, oh, probably 2 or 3 years ago if not more, where somebody said they had written an app and then hired a programmer to maintain it, and the programmer started by "enterprisifying" it, adding lots of dependency injection and factory-factories and suchlike, rendering the code almost unrecognizable to the initial developer. Without having seen the code in both "before" and "after" states, I can't form a firm opinion about whether this was really an improvement, but I could easily believe that it was not. Certainly if I were the initial developer, I would want to know specifically what the benefit of each of these changes was expected to be.
At the core, IT people are usually seen as cost centers and not revenue generators. Not that I disagree with the business owners a lot of the time because IT is usually not the thing that makes a lot of companies money.
> How does apple not expect that annoying developers ... isn't going to eventually drive [them] away from it?

Apple can dump on developers all they want. As long as they have a consumer base who is more loose with their app spending money than Android users, and a more consistent platform to develop on, developers will stick with iOS just as much as they have. The devs may complain more, but Apple's market is simply more profitable to be in.
Make the parser RFC compliant. Use a separate tool for normalizing the broken cave files to RFC compliant.
Hey HN!

Several of my side projects involves in processing images in a complex way(Composing text, formatting, transparent, bounding box, compression, ...). I always end up with bash scripts w/imagemagick as there's few solutions fill the gap.

I created this experimental service to demo the concept brining these bash utilities to web directly, and maybe grow it to an viable API solution.

I'm grateful to hear any suggestions & feature requests!
There's no shortage of vpn services. How would you get customers? Next to legal issues, that would be my primary concern.
Just What Is 'Size on Disk'?
Of course it's a coding problem, but the one efficient solution I could find right now requires tools that clearly fall in the category of "number theory" (even if it hasn't been teached as such), I wouldn't trust on them being part of high-school maths for everyone, and they're going to extremely seldom come up in practice for the vast majority of programmers. And inefficient solutions are going to be way to slow.
If you copy the pictbook folder from your extracted game files into the appropriate memory card folder and make it read-only, when you snap pictures of objects it will register the default image for the item.

The only thing really broken, besides little graphical things and certain ambient shaders, is that you can't zoom in on the photographs of the memories. Not really an issue when you can just put your face closer to the TV. Oh, and yeah you can't take custom photographs yet. And, of course, FMV only works when you download a third-party plugin because x264 decoding isn't high on the CEMU dev's list right now.

But in general it runs almost flawlessly, as far as being able to complete the game is concerned. Some people report predictable crashes after encountering Ganon or any of the Blight creatures, but I have not had this problem. Just occasional crashes here and there.
Here's my playlist. First the good ones that are actively in my queue (in general order of recommendation):

- The Memory Palace: http://thememorypalace.us/ (these are stunningly good historical stories)

- On the Media: http://www.wnyc.org/shows/otm/

- Reply All: https://gimletmedia.com/reply-all/ (this is the one I expected to see on every list at hackernews, and don't)

- The Gist: http://www.slate.com/articles/podcasts/gist.html

- The Daily: https://www.nytimes.com/column/the-daily

- 99% Invisible: http://99percentinvisible.org/

- Economist Radio: https://radio.economist.com/

- New Yorker Radio Hour: http://www.wnyc.org/shows/tnyradiohour/

- Planet Money: http://www.npr.org/sections/money/ (not the juggernaut of content they once were)

- This American Life: https://www.thisamericanlife.org/

Shorter series (or just defunct or really rarely updated) that I can recommend to this crowd:

- Zachtronics Podcast: http://www.zachtronics.com/podcast/

- Revisionist History: http://revisionisthistory.com/ (should be starting a new season soon)

- Mystery Show: https://gimletmedia.com/mystery-show/

- A Life Well Wasted: http://alifewellwasted.com/ (great videogamey series)

- Containers: https://www.flexport.com/blog/alexis-madrigal-containers-pod...

- S-Town: https://stownpodcast.org/

Listening at 1.8x for most of these shows forces me to pay attention, and let's me consume more content. The exception is for The Memory Palace which deserves to be heard exactly as Nate makes it (1x).
Yes, and often diving into the code works for me, which is why I'm in the habit of doing it, but in this case two or three days of whiteboarding and analysis might have saved me a couple of weeks of going down a dead end.
>Google is taking the content and serving it themselves.

How is Google taking the content? Isn't it the creator that is publishing their content using AMP?
If you get into an accident or get food poisoning, do you want your doctor treating you like this?
Why?

To add to it, did you hell-ban me? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14525098

That had 3 points.
What was their reasoning "listing of rooms"? I'm somewhat familiar with the developer guidelines and not familiar with that one.
You're absolutely right :)

While thanks to the sandboxing provided by Cloud Functions / AWS Lambda, executing an external shell command(including ImageMagick) is not a nightmare any more! Safety burden transferred to these cloud container services.
I'm not an expert, but this stuff is on the periphery of my work, so I try to understand most of what's happening in the space.

LXD is sort of a user interface and network API overlay for LXC. Basically, LXD is built on top of LXC to add higher level tools for managing containers.

Compared to Docker, LXC has a history of being used for full-system containers (e.g., a "virtual server" that you could log into as a user and do stuff with it like run a full web hosting system on with databases and other crap), while Docker has a history of being service-oriented (one service per container and you don't log into it as a user, except maybe for troubleshooting). Both use the same kernel features and either could be used for the other use case...but history didn't play out that way.

LXD, as I understand it, bridges that gap somewhat and people are using it for service-oriented containers too, but retains its use case of providing a full-system container. It also integrates with OpenStack in ways that I don't think were plausible with LXC.

It's written in Go (as most current container tools are), whereas LXC was written in C (as most Linux systems-level development was at the time).

There's a bunch of container management tools out there and a bunch of container APIs. This is one of them. They all do things a little differently and have different common use cases, but they all make use of namespaces and cgroups and other kernel features to provide a "contained" environment for stuff to happen in, by some definition of "contained".
Well this is the internet, where we all have no way of sussing out subtle cultural differences between ourselves off a username. I say let the questions be asked, it causes no harm here.
There are few 20 year olds with the imagination to recognize "But a man who procrastinates in his CHOOSING will inevitably have his choice made for him by circumstance."
Just because it's in your operating system rather than your apps doesn't mean it's any less of a backdoor.
Counter anecodote: I got a (Mac, not iOS) app refunded within 2 days because it didn't function as well as I thought it would (email client). No hassle.
I went through the ampproject.org homepage and reached this docs/tutorial link: https://www.ampproject.org/docs/tutorials/create

Seems like the link you found is outdated.
Lessons learned while Simulating Millions of IoT endpoints
That's the the only thing that was detached, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14519547 was. It had 20 points.

Are you sure you wanted to detach that thread, and not just https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14520585?

I learned to program for free, and got paid for it, in fact. I think my perspective is valuable and balances the conversation.
Dang only in socal?
Usual rant .. I think paywalled articles don't have a place on Google search results and also HN. I suppose someone will reply telling me to change my user-agent or something else.

Edit: actually .. scratch that .. I should have an option on HN to not see paywalled links. Can someone on the dev team make that happen?
>Google Now Launcher (now the default launcher on Android)

This is not the default launcher on Android. Each OEM has their own launcher. It's also not even the default launcher in AOSP for obvious reasons.
I am a strong proponent of E2E encryption and the right for people to be able to communicate privately, however I thing Brandis is saying generally positive things. If Australia thinks someone is a criminal, and there is an agreed process to obtain a warrant (hopefully from a judge), I think that's fine. The NSA mass-surveiling Americans is entirely different, as are other similar tactics to spy on presumably innocent people. Warrants are good, especially with people actively making calls.
NAND refers to NAND gates right -- does this course start from Hardware?
You might be interested in this challenge: https://multimediaeval.github.io/2017-AcousticBrainz-Genre-T...

(not affiliated)
So, that second link was so crazy to me that I started looking things up, and it seems like there is evidence in all directions:

Physics is biased against women: https://www.aps.org/publications/apsnews/201604/grading.cfm

Elementary school teachers are biased against boys who do not socialize well: http://ideas.time.com/2013/02/06/do-teachers-really-discrimi...

Indian teachers are biased against lower caste students: http://scholar.harvard.edu/files/remahanna/files/discriminat...

In fact the paper the NPR article talks about actually says "We show that there is large variation within schools in this measure, and that it has a significant effect on the academic achievements of both genders during middle school and high school in math, science and language and also on the choice of the level of math and science study programs in high school" it also has this line "Math teachers' assessment in primary school, on the other hand, is on average gender neutral (0.01). However, these means hide quite a large heterogeneity among teachers."

They also say "In terms of effect size, these estimates indicate that increasing the average stereotypical bias against girls from zero to its maximal value of one will reduce girls' outcomes by 0.317 of a standard deviation"; which doesn't sound huge (given that's with the most amount of bias), but I guess it all adds up.

The physics one is perhaps the most interesting since it says that male German teachers had no bias, and hypothesized that anti-bias training worked there, which if true is a positive sign.

I'm sort of rambling without a point, I guess I was just surprised how directly you could measure this effect. I had always assumed it was much more indirect.
Pretty sure that's part of the first course (https://www.coursera.org/learn/build-a-computer), and this one starts above the hardware.
Use bing?
There's a lot of complaint about Google AMP and Facebook Instant Articles, e.g. walled garden, anti-open-web and whatnot.

Here's something simpler from a non-developer, average-consumer point of view. I recently began taking BART to work daily (new job). For those who don't know, BART is Bay Area's subway system, and (at least on the east bay side) cell reception is notoriously spotty.

When I'm on the train, which includes 2 hours of my day everyday (unfortunately), I'd be browsing on say Facebook, and look at links that my friends post. Instant articles almost always load successfully (and quickly) and external links to actual sites almost always fails to load or loads insanely slowly.

Yes, when you're at home or in the city with good mobile reception, these things make no sense and you'd rather hit the original site directly. Give them their ad revenue, etc. to support them, right. But for the average consumers who actually have problems like slow internet (like the average joe who rides public transportation and wants to read on their phone), things like AMP and Instant Articles actually help. I can only imagine outside of silicon valley (where I live), how much more significant of a problem slow internet/slow mobile data actually is.

P.S. I don't work at Google or Facebook, and I know this sounds like propaganda, not to mention this is exactly what they would like to tell you as the "selling points" of these features, in order to continue building their walled garden empires. Fully aware of it, but I did want to bring up why they exist and why I even actually like them.
Doing the Math on Tesla's Solar Roof (Again)
Tried it for like 3 hours and got angry about how bad it is.