skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A big problem with all those talking speakers - "IOT Hubs" or how they call them is that people have very little incentive to use them over their phones.

The current wave of smart home devices like Google Home or Echo are nothing new, similar devices were available from OEMs for years, and no big brand was willing to sell them for that obvious reason.

Samsung made the right bet to glue all of their smart home offerings to their smartphones. Google's idea with nest was a miss because nobody was ready to buy it just to play with specially locked down "Made for Nest" webcams and other appliances, when everybody can buy a 10$ Chinese webcam that works just fine by itself.

Same with HomeKit fiasco, nobody really needs overcomplicated platform-lockdowned appliances that do not work without cloud connectivity and enforced DRM verification every 24 hours, when "Uncle Liao Electronics" provides what is a superior alternative in eyes of an average consumer
It's easy to imagine changes being made by folks who don't truly understand what's going on, being made on top of changes that were made by folks who didn't truly understand what's going on.
I'am an ex ChaosGroup employee and I can tell you that if there's one thing I learned while working there, it's that all these constraints are in your mind. You can find talent here. You can create a product here and sell it worldwide and be successful. You can be competetive or better than your western competition. In some ways, doing this is even easier than in the west. My view is that in order to be greatly successful, you need 3 things, no matter in what part of the world you happen to be:

1. Great idea.

2. Great timing.

3. Lots of work.

(besides the companies you listed, I could also mention coherent-labs.com, which are also global leaders in their market).
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/08/technology/verizon-yahoo-...

Tumblr is a goner, make no mistake about it. Glad the founders could get free money from Marissa as she didn't know what to do with yahoo's.
Ask HN: Is InspiroBot a real AI?
This site: http://inspirobot.me/

I was wondering whether it's a real AI (neural network trained with sample motivational posters) or whether they're just joking around and it's random solutions inserted into templates?
Thankfully that did not originate there. Tumblr is notorious for being left-leaning (and may I add, sometimes it's excessive)

(except for the part where it's filled with scantly-clad people)
Canonical, the Microsoft of Linux. ;)

(for anyone wondering, that's a comment on ethics)
Maybe, maybe not. It would more depend on circumstances - friendly encounter might not go so badly. Just because we haven't solved some things doesn't mean we shouldn't try others or open other doors. Even if we do it despite the fact that racism is still a problem.
In Bavaria, I've seen beer carts going along factory production lines at noon time, handing out a couple lagers with lunch. Didn't seem to affect quality, safety, or output.
perhaps, but the notes about using unused args to avoid var declarations was a neat hack.

for more on async loading techniques, this is a great blog post.

http://blog.errorception.com/2011/08/reliable-high-performan...
It still baffles me why people choose Ubuntu for a server.

Canonical has a history of doing weird things: how many times have they diverged from upstream with some in-house solution that never quite works out.

The 6 monthly releases aren't realistic for business, who use LTS, at which point you may as well use Debian and back ports/vendor repos for software you need more updated versions of.
Giving the authors zero prior notice - that's rude!

As a long-term buyer of lots of O'Reilly ebooks - it's disappointing, but it's their prerogative if they want to exit the market. It's not like we entered into some lifetime contract where they agreed to sell me ebooks forever.

From O'Reilly 's point of view, this looks rational though.

Joel Spolsky [1] and Jeff Attwood [2] called it in 2008:

>What is stackoverflow.com?

>Nothing, yet.

>But here’s the concept:

>Programmers seem to have stopped reading books. The market for books on programming topics is miniscule compared to the number of working programmers.

Then they made doubly sure by making SO a huge success!

In music publishing, most of the money in the mainstream has moved from music sales to live performances, with streaming subscriptions bring up the rear.

Isn't the same thing likely happening here with O'Reilly's conference business probably dwarfing everything else?

[1] https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2008/04/16/stackoverflowcom/

[2]
https://blog.codinghorror.com/programmers-dont-read-books-bu...
Stop talking about the #petya #PetrWrap. Go patch your systemd and DNS instead
> It seems like a and m are optional arguments.
> Now those unused parameters a and m come in handy. No writing var in this script.

Precisely. A trick to reduce the character count, nothing more. Love doing this kind of thing (http://gabrielgambetta.com/tiny_raytracer.html).

> Making a.async truthy ensures

"Truthy"???
> If intelligent life got as far to have the technology to be able to visit us they at least did not kill themselves off which already reduces the chance of them being aggressive against others.

I have heard this line of reasoning often, but it's not clear to me that the logic is correct. I don't think an entity's treatment of itself necessarily implies much about the way it will treat others.
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List maintainter here.

As the description says, you are invited to contribute!

One question - do you prefer it Markdown way, or YAML + some searchable features, with screenshots? (Inspiration: http://ndres.me/kaggle-past-solutions/.)

And thank you mettamage (vide https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14661821)! :)
Rackspace load balancer outage
If you just want to watch spots put up an OTA antenna and you will get as many games as you see on ESPN. What ESPN specializes in is sports commentary, which is often worthless.
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Rendered unreadable on mobile by a huge sticky header and a floating "open in app" button
Truthy means that if(<truthy value>) evaluates to `true`, but that the value is not literally `true`.
I'd argue the dark underside comes from your puritanical attitude towards drinking.

I went to Uni here in the UK with a lot of Americans. What always stood out was how stupidly drunk they got and how proud they were of it, as if they were 14/15. Most of them matured out of it after a year or two.

The reason for this as far as I can see is that the US doesn't have a culture of sociable drinking. Drinking is something you do to party or on a date. The concept of social drinking doesn't exist in the US like it does in the EU. No one goes to the pub (you don't even really have pubs or cafes - bars are not the same thing) for a drink or two with friends or colleagues. So young people have no examples of what moderate drinking looks like. People either don't drink or get proper wasted, thus re-enforcing the BS slippery slope argument, thus people drink moderately even less, and a vicious cycle continues.
They could always buy it back for a few bucks after Verizon has utterly destroyed it due to incompetence.
Why would anyone spend an enormous amount of energy and time to reach us, a miniature rock that has nothing to offer to a space faring race?

Folks spend lifetimes thinking of philosophy or working on a single science problem. In addition, we are still exploring oceans, depths of volcanos, and we explore space as much as we can without actually travelling to the places ourselves. We research animals and our own bodies. Some folks spend a lifetime making music. Not all of these has a payback outside of satisfying curiosity or enjoyment, at least not upfront.

Considering this, why would it seem odd that a race would explore what there is to explore?
Mind-blowing.

I wonder if they can do the same thing to a monkey that's sleeping and thus capture what faces a monkey sees in dreams?
If there is interest, I could analyze that. (I'm not the author of the article.)
O'Reilly moves to a subscription model for eBooks
This didn't use to be the case, I remember a single line of Django orm causing several hundred db requests, but maybe they improved it.
After re-reading your comment, I also never disagreed that decentralizing certain systems has value or not - it certainly does, especially if it's truly decentralized; a central platform that is well-governed can work just as well, though of course is more open to hostile takeover and the such.
I find medium is my new FB.
related link, Commander Keen 4 play in your browser

https://classicreload.com/commander-keen-4-secret-of-the-ora...

though personally I prefer Crystal caves, have fond memories of playing it on computer in father's work
https://classicreload.com/crystal-caves.html
Once there were three tribes. The Optimists, whose patron saints were Drake and Sagan, believed in a universe crawling with gentle intelligence. Surely, said the Optimists, space travel implies enlightenment, for it requires the control of great destructive energies. Any race that can't rise above its own brutal instincts will wipe itself out long before it learns to bridge the interstellar gulf.

Across from the Optimists sat the Pessimists, who genuflected before graven images of St. Fermi and a host of lesser lightweights. The Pessimists envisioned a lonely universe full of dead rocks and prokaryotic slime. The odds are just too low, they insisted. Too many rogues, too much radiation, too much eccentricity in too many orbits. If the galaxy were alive with intelligence, wouldn't it be here by now?

Equidistant from the two tribes sat the Historians. They didn't have many thoughts on the probable prevalence of intelligent, spacefaring extraterrestrials. But if there are any, they said, they're not just going to be smart. They're going to be mean. The reason wasn't merely Human history, the ongoing succession of greater technologies griding lesser ones beneath their boots. No, the real issue was what tools are for. To the Historians, tools existed for only one reason: to force the universe into unnatural shapes. They treated nature as an enemy, they were by definition a rebellion against the way things were.

Technology is a stunted thing in benign environments, it never thrived in any culture gripped by belief in natural harmony. Why invent fusion reactors if your climate is comfortable, if your food is abundant? Why build fortresses if you have no enemies? Why force change upon a world that poses no threat?

Human civilization had a lot of branches, not so long ago. Even into the twenty-first century, a few isolated branches had barely developed stone tools. Some settled down with agriculture. Others weren't content until they had ended nature itself. Still others had built cities in space. We all rested eventually, though. Each new technology trampled lesser ones, climbed to some complacent asymptote, and stopped. But history never said that everyone had to stop where we did. There could be other, more hellish worlds where the best Human technology would crumble, where the environment was still the enemy.

The threats contained in those environments would not be simple ones. Harsh weather and natural disasters either kill you or they don't, and once conquered — or adapted to — they lose their relevance. No, the only environmental factors that continued to matter were those that fought back, that countered strategies with newer ones, that forced their enemies to scale ever-greater heights just to stay alive. Ultimately, the only enemy that mattered was an intelligent one.

And if the best toys do end up in the hands of those who've never forgotten that life itself is an act of war against intelligent opponents, what does that say about a race whose machines travel between the stars?

- Peter Watts, Blindsight, via http://akkartik.name/post/2012-11-21-07-09-03-soc
If they are local, they may not want to go abroad. The mindset here is that you begin to accumulate large amount of cash savings early in life (20s-30s), which is a huge boon. This gives you a number of benefits compared to your peers in less hot industries: you can buy an apartment and save on rent long term; you can start your own business; you sleep better not worrying about the future; you can negotiate better work conditions because you are not afraid you'll lose a job.

The fact that you would not have the same position abroad (i.e. your cash savings are large locally but small if you lived in a rich country) is not a loss of any kind, it's just a fact that has no bearing on daily life.
What were they doing differently? And why were the other workers not trained to do the same?
On a related note, there is an open source Google Analytics alternative in the works:

https://github.com/vesparny/fair-analytics

Hope it comes along; there is surprisingly not much else in the way of Node/JS based open source web stats/analytics solutions.
Truthy on MDN: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Glossary/Truthy
Good for them. Ubuntu does lots of good work that benefit the whole community, and if this allows them to stay in business, and pay people well to write open-source software, I'm not complaining.

Considering the example shown (which I also get logging in) is about HBO's use of Tensorflow, this also happens to be the best-targeted ad I've seen in a while. At that level, advertising actually does become something that's valuable/interesting for the recipient.

And if not, it takes about 10 seconds to disable.
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When the question is, "Are you saying X?", "Strawman" is a nonsensical answer. I wasn't asking rhetorical questions, I was asking questions because I didn't understand what argument you were making and I wanted clarification. That's pretty much the opposite of a strawman argument right there.

Furthermore, I don't know how to make heads nor tails of the statement that the "concept of value itself" has been "perverted". Such a vague and sentimental notion could mean many different things.

The criticism that our economic system aggregates wealth in the hands of a few is valid, but at least the dollar isn't suffering from deflation and extreme volatility, which is what makes it viable as a unit of account (unlike bitcoin). I wasn't considering bitcoins or dollars as stores of value, just as units for measuring value and devices for transmitting it. Maybe at some point bitcoin will overcome these problems, but for now, I'm rather glad a graph of the dollar's value looks nothing like the graph shown in the original comment.
Why didn't the fundraise work? Maybe because your business model doesn't appear to be working at your current scale, you're not scaling fast enough to make it work any time soon, and you didn't seem to have any clear plan to change this.

I don't mean to be harsh, it sounds like you gave it a shot and it went pretty right. But you got caught up in the unicorn-chaser Silicon Valley mindset:

1) Do something that only works if you're huge
2) Raise lots of capital based on the idea that you will one day be huge
3) Use that capital to become huge enough that your thing actually works

Sure, planning for your startup to be a unicorn is great if it works, but "big or bust" almost always ends up in "bust".
I suspect a lot of authors care about making their work available without DRM. They are creative, tech savvy, and desire to share their knowledge (they are writing a book after all); it seems they would care about DRM issues. Guess those who do won't publish with OReilly anymore.
Seems dead
I think most mathematicians feel the same. (Although as the article points out, Scholze did write a 'for Dummies' version of Harris & Taylor's local Langlands paper.)

For perfectoid spaces, the most accessible thing I know of is Jared Weinstein's article in the Bulletin of the AMS.

http://www.ams.org/journals/bull/2016-53-01/S0273-0979-2015-...
And they share a CPU, too. Please come back with an actual point (like a link describing a attack on encryption using that shared cache), as I don't have time to make one for you.
Teaching robots to learn about the world through touch
he said page tables were corrupted which should not be possible from usermode so this is presumably a security issue for cloud providers.
Codeigniter is still great. I was always Symfony guy but last year I've ended up in a company that had software build on CI and I really like it. Of course it's totally different than Symfony but it's simple, allows for a lot of customisation (we introduced Laravel Blade templating system). Of course you should always thing about your project requirements and future development. Think also about how easy it is to learn in case you will want to extend your team.
Not really - DNS, DHCP, NTP, etc, all respond from the source port the service is bound to.
The cult of and preference for private and premium health care services in Central/Eastern Europe are going to backslash terribly in couple of decades. Everything works well as long as the only contributors and users of it are young, healthy, employed people. Then those private health providers and insurers will simply disappear or bankrupt, and people will end up with disintegrated public healthcare if only they will be eligible for it at all.
CEP (home routers)
> I think most mathematicians feel the same

About this in particular, or advanced mathematics?

If the latter, why don't those mathematicians do it one they understand!?
I just finished the trilogy. I enjoyed the first book well enough. The other two have some interesting world-building but I found the plot too slow moving. They're also depressing in a way I can't get into, not just the Dark Forest theory but the prevalence of the "if I can't survive, no one should" attitude. I wonder if the latter actually is more prevalent in Chinese culture or if it's just coming from the author. I did like how things wrapped up at the end of Death's End.

Much of Seveneves was depressing too but it all seemed very plausible. It was in what came next that seemed off.
Because contrary to common belief, in capitalism it's not the best solution that wins, but the meanest shark.
This is not true for the vast majority of basketball games, Monday/Thursday NFL games, most soccer games of interest, or hockey. But if all you're interested in is local baseball, the NBA/NHL finals, or Sunday NFL then go for it.

I'm saying this as an NBA/MLS junkie that's cut the cord.
I used to use Debian, and Gentoo before that. I still remember spending days trying to get a somewhat recent version of php to compile on these systems.

Around the time I tried Ubuntu, I started encountering problems less and less. Maybe I got better, maybe all distributions got better, or maybe Ubuntu is more robust. I just don't feel any pain that would motivate me to try other distributions. Ubuntu also seems to be the de-facto standard, and anything with install instructions will first cover Ubuntu.
In JavaScript, "falsy" is null, undefined, 0, '', or false. Everything else is truthy, including empty objects, strings with only whitespace.

Many bugs have been caused by incorrect uses of truthy and falsy.
Neither the title of this item (currently "A cell phone powered by ambient light") nor the article's ("This Cell Phone Can Make Calls Even Without a Battery") is really accurate.

Because the phone relies on those signals for its energy harvesting, it has a range of just 15 meters from the basestation.

This is neither a cellphone nor solar-powered. It's an RF-powered cordless phone. Interesting nonetheless.
> only one intelligent species on Earth

Dolphins are pretty smart! Mean like us, too. If we and they didn't inhabit incompatible environments, I suspect we'd have had some complicated history with them, and probably now speak of them in the past tense - or they'd speak so of us.
I nap for 20 minutes every day at work (at my previous company, for 4 years or so and now since I'm working remotely). Here are my steps for taking a nap:

1. Find a good place to nap. Use the same place every day. I used to nap under my desk on a lazy bag at my last job.

2. Quickly find a comfortable position. Quickly fix everything that bothers you (like watch on your wrist or anything else that's making you uncomfortable).

3. Start breathing from your stomach - not your upper torso. Your stomach should raise up and down, not your upper torso.

4. Relax your whole body. In the beginning, start by relaxing one by one region. First your toes. Then your lower leg, then your upper leg. Then the other leg... Until you relax your whole body. It should feel as your mind is separate from your body. Like it could go out of it. Your body should be completely numb. Later, as you progress, you will be able to relax your whole body with a few breaths. As if some force flows from your stomach and removes spasm from your body as you breath out.

5. Start removing thoughts from your brain. As you start thinking about something, just stop. Another thought comes in. Kill it. Just kill thoughts. You can think only about your breathing. Nothing else.

That's it. With these steps, I'm able to feel a sleep in just a few moments. I use that all the time.

Bonus: I have a special position that I "developed" that mitigates office sounds. I nap on my back, slightly turned on left side. I put my left ear on the pillow or a lazy bag. I put my right hand over my right ear and over my head. That way, a pillow isolates my left ear, while my right biceps isolates my right ear from sounds. I found this to be very effective.

Good luck napping.
1. Opportunities are often global, and location doesn't matter as much if you can sell something via the internet.

2. One big advantage of Bulgaria which is often overlooked, if you do make it: the corporate tax rate is 10%. Meaning you get to keep most of your profits.

> Most of the rich make money through corruption and criminal activities

Is this the case? Could you give an example?
Fight of Titans or Comparison of Big Data Frameworks: Spark vs. Hadoop
Despite Exposés Hundreds of Judges Preside in New York Without Law Degrees
Boaty McBoatface returns home with unprecedented data
Well I guess it all comes down to proximity then. Perhaps we are better discovering other life far enough way that based on our knowledge of FTL that they won't get to us any time soon.

favorite quote about the possibility concerning all of this
Arthur C. Clarke — 'Two possibilities exist: either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying.'
Hello OReilly author. May I ask: did you consider DRM issues when choosing to publish with OReilly and would you choose to publish with them again after this change?
U.S. to expand laptop ban to all flights that flunk safeguards
> Even without using amplification, with IP spoofing it's possible to launch a direct attack, which will be untraceable.

A long time ago, there was a proposal (itrace, its latest draft was https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-itrace-04; see also http://ccr.sigcomm.org/archive/2001/jul01/ccr-200107-paxson....) to make these attacks easier to trace, by having routers probabilistically emit ICMP packets towards the supposed target or source of a packet. From what I recall, as DDoS attacks moved from IP spoofing to zombies using their real IP address, the working group sort of lost its purpose and died.
I've noticed several minified JavaScripts that have the variables spell words like the i s o g r a m here. Haven't bookmarked any so I can't find an immediate example. I thought it was just a curiosity, but I think the frequency is increasing. I wonder why. Just for giggles? Or is there any particular reason?
Also `NaN`.
Who leaves the default motd in place after an install?
The battle over encryption and what it means for our privacy
It's trivial to remove the DRM from Amazon books and save a copy.
Why developers would rather have an outage than miss a deadline