skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You can run any code you want on your iPhone through XCode for free as long as you have a Mac, which is much more expensive than the app store license.
The TSA has stopped zero terrorists. It's security theater. It's just dumb. No other country requires people to take off their shoes. No other country will feel you up if you fail the millimeter wave scan. Their false positive rate is so high it's pretty much random chance.

Sure security is bad in other countries. I've had to remove everything from my bag in several airports, but America is still somehow the worst in spite of that. Fuck the TSA. When I do leave the US, I take a train to Canada and fly from there. Their security is mostly the same, but at least I feel like I can't complain since it's not my country.
The guy in front of me had 4 cans of soda which he had to throw out. My sardines just had to be scanned for explosives or whatever the scanner thing is, but it seemed like they were fine to bring.

At least they didn't see the supplement powder I packed in their own separate plastic baggies :)
Encrypting strings in Android: Let's make better mistakes – Tozny
I've hired/mentored and worked with a ton of writers at varying experience levels. So, I have a note of caution - often, your results will be better if you optimize for research skills and the ability to write professionally. Subject matter experts often suck with deadlines and they're hellish to edit!!

That said, if I was looking for robotics/AI writers, I'd go to my local University and talk to the Computer Science/Software Engineering/Electrical Engineering student associations.

Good luck!
Andrew Ng: Elon Musk's Worry about Evil AI Is Like Mars Overpopulation [video]
I remember the day they turned it off. Then for awhile on my device the request desktop site move used to fix mobile chat, without changing anything else (still served mobile site I mean) which was fine. Then they took that away too. Still haven't downloaded the app.
I definitely agree with your point, though I'd recast it slightly away from "twitchy"/"speedrun"/map memorization and towards the thrill of things being fast and disorienting. [1] Sonic involved lots of bright lights, fast animation, and noises. It was fun because everything ran out of control sometimes, or at least seemed to, and I think this, aside from considerations of wanting to optimize for efficiency of solution, was a large part of its joy. (I say "seemed to" because I remember elements of levels that blasted you through loops and walls at dizzying speed, but in practice served as just a rail that took you from point A to B.)

I didn't realize before I read this article that the design of Sonic (even excluding Sonic Spinball) was driven by pinball, though it makes tons of sense in retrospect. Pinball's got the same thrills; you're constantly in an unstable state, not really learning a puzzle so much as trying to manage a high-degree of chaos before you inevitably get thrown off the horse. It's a different brand of fun than the article's "correct" game design, less/more appealing to different people and less/more appealing when you're in the wrong/right mood.

[1] "Ilinx" in the taxonomy of Roger Callois's "Man, Play, and Games," though a personal caveat that I didn't really enjoy that book.
I may misremember the details, but the gist of it is that the blocker broke some invariant, so a state which should not be possible during the animation did occur and broke stuff hard :)
. . . a study showing 99% of NFL players had chronic brain issues (Cte)"

This is not exactly true. The study required volunteers, and from what I understand, the families who volunteered already suspected brain damage, so it's not really a representative study. It's still very alarming, though.
Go + PostgreSQL.

I'm still finding that making the actual HTML part in Go is a bit frustrating. Template funcs have not become widely shared and people seem to deeply entangle them with their own project, and there's a lack of i18n and l10n too.

But... most of what I write lives with little to no maintenance, and this is a productive path to a very stable and easy to maintain code base that with locally vendored dependencies checked-in will continue to be stable over very many years.

I wrote a Go API some 5 years ago that has required virtually no changes in all that time (I've rebuilt it with every version of Go and only the 1.0 to 1.1 had a few dependency changes - which were trivial updates).

The benefits for me, hugely outweigh the negatives of not having more tooling for the web side (the API stuff is wonderful already).
'It's digital colonialism': why Facebook's free internet service is failing
Trying to watch NFL reminds me of the moment in "Django Unchained" when we meet diCaprio's character sitting in a chair watching to slaves beat each other to death.

That moment of that movie comes to me every time the TV producers cut to the team owner sitting in their fancy box in their fancy chair paying lots of African American men to beat each other up for our entertainment and profit.
https://twitter.com/sAbakumoff/status/832883131413884929
The animation speed is determined by a timer, this should make it run the same in all the browsers. Is the simulation nice and smooth all the time?

Friction is a biggie that I need to add ASAP!
Oh how I love Rails, the framework and language (Ruby) of developer happiness. But now working in AI, it's a Python game. This is maybe embarrassing to admit but I prefer having the Python pipeline, TensorFlow, numpy, etc. living on its own box, exposing inference as an api, so I can keep developing in Rails and its supporting ecosystem (background processing, push notifications, etc.) as the main app handling everything else.
Have you seen our product page (https://www.nuclino.com/product)? There are screenshots and a video tour :)

We started about one and a half years ago, but just recently released a major update introducing the board view and other essential features: https://blog.nuclino.com/the-new-nuclino
> a study showing 99% of NFL players had chronic brain issues (Cte)

Just to quibble but I understood that the study revealed that 99% of the group inspected had CTE. The group was not intended to be cross-section of the general population of NFL players. Not to trivialize the results but I think you extended them beyond what they said.
Right now it seems that my $1/month shared hosting has less downtime than AWS this year.
Oh I understood you as if you where claiming we are currently in a tech bubble that will burst soon. That's why I asked when this would happen.
Many of the Sandisk models can have their firmware replaced by Rockbox if that's your thing.
I'm puzzled by this as news because, at least on the east coast where I do most of my traveling, I've had to put laptops in separate bins for several years. I used to have to put the iPad in a separate bin also until they said it could stay in the bag. Now I guess it is back into a bin.

I generally travel with my CPAP machine also so it is quite an ordeal to get through security:

• work laptop
• personal laptop
• iPad
• CPAP machine (outside of carrying case)
• CPAP carrying case
• shoes and jacket
• backpack
• and often my carry-on luggage
> everyone who's getting their PhD is a genius

No but anyone with a PhD has a brain worth preserving.
It's intern season
Ask HN: What tech your team uses? What is obsolete and what is the replacement
Disappointing but expected as these devices haven't been updated in forever.

It's clear that Apple wants the Watch to be the new small scale iPod for fitness use, but I really don't need all that fancy tech and the corresponding high price of the Watch.
Whatever on backend + rendering all views there, plus unpolyjs for animations https://unpoly.com/ . This way the website should work without javascript!
The first Grand Nagus gave the rules of Acquisition. Every Ferengi business transaction strictly followed all 285 rules.
Decentralised, consistent, fast. Pick two.
I was skeptical at first, but after reading through how it works and why it was done, I love it. In fact, it would have made quite a few bugs much easier to track down.
Like kyyd mentioned, fiio [1] is one of the best (if not the best) manufacturer of portable players.

I've heard really good things about a Korean brand called Cowon [2] too. Have my eyes on their Plenue line ATM. Pricey, but it's what I'd expect from high-end audio devices.

[1] http://fiio.net/en/

[2] http://www.cowonglobal.com
That's not true. Someone who buys and uses bitcoin is giving it value as a currency. As the network effect rises, the prices rises, which increases the reward that miners get.

The CPU and bandwidth resources are trivial. Torrent traffic from a decade ago is many orders of magnitude more bandwidth than what bitcoin or even all currencies combined are. It is literally a non-issue.
> I always thought that was a weak argument. There are currently 8403 nodes online if I believe https://bitnodes.21.co/, that's not exactly impressive. If a big miner wanted to take over the majority of the nodes they could probably afford to just spawn spawn 10 thousand nodes.

Simply spawning 10 thousand nodes would not allow someone to take over the network in any sense.
Um, I thought the Statue of Anne was considered the first copyright, in 1700 and something?

I'm not sure from a cursory look that the Word-Pirate is anything other than a "hack"?
UpCodes makes researching building regulations less exhausting for architects
Thank you for a good laugh to start my day haha
This comes up semi-regularly when Twitter is mentioned on HN, but I've moved all my Twitter attention over to Nuzzel and have enjoyed the change. Twitter started to feel like such a poor return on my time due to the format- having an aggregator makes a huge difference. It partially solves the clutter problem of having hundreds of Twitter followees, and partially solves the problem of not wanting to check Twitter perpetually.

What I don't understand is why Twitter hasn't implemented more direct methods to see the generally/statistically good content. Anyone remember 'Texts from last night' and 'Fuck my life' and the like? They had this _incredible_ feature that allowed you to sort by top posts of the week, or even, can you believe it- the month! Nuzzel provides this as well, but it doesn't have much effect unless you follow enough people to decimate your normal Twitter experience.
Gold Mining for Profit and Paleontology
You think the developers of Twitter use Twitter?
I don't think there was anything about the "original idealistic" vision of bitcoin that was explicitly against secure off-chain tx. Rolling back segwit is shooting yourself in the foot because your enemy told you that it was a bad idea.

Who would want tx malleability?
The LessWrong crowd has been called cultish more than once.
Yes, large distributed groups where people can drop in/drop out is IRC's niche, and why it will never die. I prefer IRC for large open-source projects to Slack, but the usability is awful for a company environment. At my school, we use Slack for research groups, study groups, and student project teams, and it's excellent for that.
- going back to a 'reproducible timeline', I want to see each tweet by each person I'm following, in the right order

- I don't want to see tweets by persons I'm not following, unless they are retweeded or part of a thread

- navigating the time line is a mess, sometimes the timeline scrolls to the top, and it's generally very hard to continue where you left

- better thread visualization

- clear distinction between tweets I've already seen vs 'unread tweets'

- some sort of bookmarking or 'read later' for tweets

- let me add tags to tweets and persons (I mainly want to add company or topic tags to people, for instance 'this is the WebGL guy at Apple')

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It sounds like you're considering it more than your post indicated. To give you perspective, they are tough to raise, and I found it tough to be an entrepreneur when they are under 4. It totally changes your cash requirements, especially if you do something like buy a house.

Entrepreneurship is like having a baby, and might be fulfilling in some similar ways (not love, though!). For me, while they were young, it was easier to work for someone. Now that they sleep, I've saved up and will probably make another run at entrepreneurship. But in terms of success at my day job, I don't feel like they really stopped me, or that any trade off to optimize day job success would have been worth considering.
Install Piwik?
Collusion Between Germany's Biggest Carmakers
For your own sake PLEASE consult a lawyer familiar with securities law before making declarations that your token is obviously not a security and sufficiently avoids at least one prong of the Howey Test. The SEC is starting to crack down on these activities, so the consequences can be enormously bad for you if you aren't careful.
I can get the "there were US customers" - but why not Europe? Or Japan? Or Russia? Or Australia? I'm sure BTC-e had customers from all over the world (and money laundry is pretty much a crime everywhere).

So, when does it become "you have broken the US law and you are under arrest"?. Does it work the other way around too? If you start a gay social network in US, can Russia come in (the first time you are flying in one of the Russia's partners territories) and say "you are breaking Russian gay laws, you are under arrest"?

The best way to think about this is in terms of the laws of the country you are in.

We might be a outraged that Otto Warmbier was treated so harshly (killed really) by North Korea for allegedly stealing a propaganda poster, but at the end of the day we understand that he went to North Korea and in North Korea, North Korean laws apply.

The next step is to ask about actions that took place outside the country you are in but are illegal under that countries laws. So if, for example, Seth Rogen who famously made a movie making fun of Kim Jung-Un were to travel to North Korea we would not at all be surprised if we were arrested and sentenced to a very harsh punishment.

Finally, consider that extradition laws are just like any other domestic laws. The treaty between Greece and the United States means that for the purpose of a lot of criminal laws, physically entering Greece is the same as physically entering the United States.

In this case it was ultimately Greece that decided that what Vinnik did was sufficient to take away his freedom. He subjected himself Greece's judgment by going to Greece. If he had stayed in Russia he probably would not have been extradited.

Going to another country is something many of us take lightly, but it can be a really big deal.
(100% OT of linked article: "a historic", not "an historic", unless you pronounce the word "istoric".)

https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/usage/a-historic-event-or-...
Dropbox + Libreoffice is similar, yes. Also dropbox is way faster, runs on linux, and easy to script against. Oh, and onedrive consistently crashes on my win 10. But yeah, feature-list-wise, onedrive isn't bad if you're a MS fanboy.
Half and half.

Yes JS is a chore to keep up with because everyone can just push crap online willy nilly.

But the uptick in other languages is likely more because they are new and therefore there they have a virgin land advantage. Thus everyone and their dog jumps in to play with and stake their claim on fame and fortune.

Soon enough those languages will again be bogged down in half measures and fallen behind code.

This because while developers wants to play with new ideas and new code, users value stability and predictability.
Erm, no offense but:

a) physics programs are supposed to offer interactivity. Else whats the point?

b) the physics look unearthly
LOL. I had two TSA agents hone in on me and ask tons of questions because I had 2 laptops of the same model! That was like 10 years ago though; so many people carry around so much equipment now I doubt it would be of concern any more.
It’s going to be removed in Watch OS 4: https://twitter.com/OvercastFM/status/890236178238230533
fiios are OK. They don't support large sized micro sd and the ui sucks.
What is the evidence that recursion is unique to human language?
> That is an interesting point, but in terms of the Russian Oligarchs I think part of the distinction is they are (and have been) attempting to export that wealth and diversify it so that if they do lose power they will still be insanely wealthy.

I don't see how that's an actual distinction because the same thing applies just as well to the house of Saud and Saudi Arabia in general. Do you honestly think the house of Saud didn't put a bit of wealth aside for the unlikely event they might be removed from power?

For whatever reason, it's become acceptable to just assume that certain countries are "ultra corrupt" while others are supposedly "corruption free". In reality, none of this applies because, in reality, the practices of corruption just differ from country to country depending on the local laws.

Corruption always finds a loophole and in many places established forms of corruption are not even recognized as such. Case in point: Germany

How many people would think Germany is a country ripe with corruption? The super punctual, super correct, super bureaucratic Germans could never be corrupt, right?

Well, Germany was among the last countries who ratified the UN convention against corruption, as a matter of fact, it was the last EU country to ratify it. It took German parliament 11 years [0] to ratify that UN convention against a lot of opposition. High profile German politicians publicly complained that if the UN convention was ratified it would be impossible for them to keep working like they've been working.

That's quite long and vehement opposition against something that would usually just be regarded as the sensible thing to do, I'll leave the reasons for that strong opposition up to your imagination.

[0] https://www.transparency.org/news/pressrelease/11_years_afte...
"Some adblocker" might not be one of the blockers that you are familiar with.
messenger.com supports chat!
I will take a conservative approach with Symfony + PostgreSQL. Just getting started with Symfony framework, and I love the documentation.
ECL: A web-based life sciences lab, developed by scientists for scientists
8MB blocks is only about 33GB/month.
I can see it in your engagement on this thread. Like someone said, if you throw a rock into a pack of wild dogs the one you hit will always holler.
While the benchmarks shows AMD is doing well, I wonder How much disadvantage are AMD Zen getting with the current compiler and software optimizes for Intel?

I am still eagerly waiting for Zen + Vega APU.
We already have a clear division in health along socioeconomic lines, but delivberately encoding our inequalities into our DNA is a future I could skip.
They've been crazy prices when I've looked before, but I might resort to that when my current classic gives up the ghost.
I thought this was a pun on the headline (implying that Urschel was not only a Ravens OL, but the author of a study.)

He's actually a math Ph.D at MIT! Crazy.
I have applied to 50 companies and have received zero interview calls.
They are missing an iGPU, especially in that price segment.
Getting Paid $95k to Learn to Code
:D you are welcome to add objects, make the chain longer or change gravity...

Having always the same animation helps debugging. But yeah I should have added the option to add a mouse!
I love my Sony NW-A20. It has 64gb internal + 200gb microsd.
I'm going to do most of my logic in Cobol. I'll make the front end with ActionScript & Adobe Flash. I will then call myself an expert & charge around $500/hr for migrating software services.
I'm a scientific programmer who just wants to have a few tools available across my devices, mobile as well as desktop.

PWAs are a great idea for me. Getting an Apple developer license is not.
People who buy Fiio don't buy them for the UI. The audio quality that comes out of a Fiio player is phenomenal.
Canadian here with NEXUS (which bundles TSA PreCheck in);

Absolutely worth it -- albeit both the US and Canadian governments basically now know every single detail of my life, including biometrics of fingerprints and rental scans.

For someone that essentially travels by air every few months for work (and sometimes pleasure) the ability to spend 1 minute in security means I get to spend my time on things that matter.

And its nice when I go back to Canada to just go through a machine; I don't see why I need to talk to anyone when I'm going home to my country of citizenship.

On the other side of the border, going to immigration into the States, the border people will usually be much more friendly and relaxed so thats also a plus.
It is also a perk of a number of credit cards. For example, Amex Platinum = $100 Global Entry credit + $200 airline credit + (up to) $180 Uber Credit + xx,000 signup points > $550 fee (if you travel)
Aurelia.js (data binding / SPA)

The philosophy behind the project's choices resonate with mine.
Why? What is the return that he will make on his efforts to eradicate polio and malaria?

You could perhaps argue that his work in education will lead to a more capable tech workforce in the future, but even then, the returns won't go to him.
These are the kinds of firsthand accounts that are worth sharing with anyone promoting socialism as that term is commonly used. Focusing only on present human needs Results in the accumulation of technical debt. Here we have a country that traded its future for the present, and once the future becomes the present they have collectively have a lower quality of life.

One Could argue that capitalism in contrast is just longitudinal socialism in the sense that the needs of the people in the future are far better addressed. For example a system that provides healthcare for all today equally loses the longitudinal benefits of market competition over time. Market competition produces a far greater diversity of goods and services that are faster, cheaper and better. This means that human lives in the future receive far better healthcare in future for less with a market driven system.

Cuba traded its future for the present.
Because JS drives the cloud, and cloud is the hype.
I know people who used to play varsity sports in high school and college, and, even at that level, moving past those years was difficult. They had come to really enjoy being in stadiums full of people cheering.

I can only imagine how much more difficult it is when you're a pro, the stadiums are bigger, and you are on TV.
Flash has very little to offer as a tool, but as a platform with thousands of hours of beautiful, creative content made for it (Homestar Runner, games, interactive art, etc), it will be tragic to lose all that art and history.

If we open-source Flash, at least museums will have an option to preserve that content for future generations to learn from and enjoy.
It's really good for sub-communities.

Following the NBA on twitter is actually an awesome experience.

I wish they would stop comparing twitter to other social media networks + focus on what is good about it (live, sports, entertainment) and double down on that & figure out how to make money by offering more services in that space.
i don't want to live in the woods, i want a world in which people who make iphones don't kill themselves
Ah, I missed it. Thanks.
It doesn't have to be as complex as the ICE/STUN/TURN stack but that's not really my point.

Building blocks and programmability are better for a long lived platform like the web than giant inflexible monoliths. UDP and web assembly lets you implement the stack you describe and anything else that comes down the pike.
Developing Ubuntu using git
> is that gene editing will cause human genomes to converge to a single gold standard.

I think reading plays a more important role than writing.
Your MVP isn’t supposed to be a product 一 it’s a process
The primary difference, of course, is that NFL players often make more money than God.