skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The iPod Shuffle is the perfect form factor for my specific use case: I plug a second generation model into the gym's sound system (I work out at 3 am, I'm the only one there at the time), leaving my phone to run the fitness app and heart rate monitor. It recharges as fast as my bike blinkies when I get back, and because I listen to the exact same workout playlist every time, I don't have to fidget with the tracks on it.

There are still scads of these units on eBay after a quick check, so I'll probably scoop up a couple, because the Apple UI to load the simple playlist is what I use for all my other music devices, so switching to a different UI would just be more overhead for me at this point.

With some re-branding, these could be re-positioned as children's first music devices. They can be priced cheap enough to give to really young children without stressing over losing them, say $30 USD. It would still suck, but not in the same way as if a child lost an iPhone 7. And it gets children into Apple's ecosystem early, and the children can even use the UI themselves because the constrained environment makes drastically simplifying the UI possible. I think Apple is giving up an opportunity here to create an advertising platform for their ecosystem that is paid by their own customers.
My current slack app session is using 27MB of ram.
Laravel.
Why the Global Financial System Is About to Collapse (2006)
It really is not as big of a deal as everyone acts like it is. Take your stuff out, take off your shoes, and your belt. Walk through, get on your plane. Enjoy the US. This place is HUGE.
Foxconn is an OEM, nobody buys LCDs from them on the retail market.
"NFL Mathematics Expert"

That's pretty amazing. He scored 43/50 on the Wonderlic (highest in 2014).

Ryan Fitzpatrick scored a 49/50, though it was in the older format.
I'm being a bit pedantic, but ES6 is vanilla JS.
Jeff Bezos beats out Bill Gates to become world’s richest person
Pocket had a great integration with Firefox when it was an extension. Then they decided to integrate it into the browser and ironically it end up being a piece of shit that was not more functional than a bookmarklet. Not only that but they also removed the original extension from add-ons site so you have had to use the half assed built-in implementation.
I haven't used Facebook for messages since they turned it off in the mobile browser.

In the beginning it was annoying but people quickly started texting me instead.

Now if people would only start organizing events somewhere else then I could abandon Facebook completely.
Another important consideration is NFL carriers are also much shorter now, the average is less than 3 years which should make a rather dramatic difference.

Jackie Slater for comparison was a lineman for 20 seasons (1976-1995). And George Blanda had 26 seasons as a kicker and quarterback.
You can't just leave and live in the woods like a hunter gatherer because there aren't enough people doing that to form an actual tribe.
Well, you still get through, it just takes you longer and is less comfortable.
I really enjoy boxing and specifically sparring, and did an advanced degree at a Harvard-esque university. It's fun. But you do get to a point where you realize you're no longer invincible, which is why I stopped playing rugby at the end of high school.
using your head to hit the ball, and/or getting kicked in the head. ;)

FWIW, though, I've not heard that point either.
They agreed to that when they released the code under CDDL without specifying that it was restricted to version 1.0. Look at how Wikipedia was relicensed from GFDL to CC-BY-SA for an example of this.
If the difference between "best case" and "worst case" ranges from 5--15, then that's the average best-worst difference. So the range is (x-2.5, x+2.5) to (x-7.5, x+7.5). Given it's a "lottery," the average person would expect x and could improve to x+2.5--x+7.5.

But I'm certainly not a psychologist.
AUTOMATION TESTING PART 2: API TESTING USING REST-ASSURED
Sails.js [0] is very nice, although I personally haven't been convinced to abandon Django+DRF in its favor yet. For one, its docs suggest ES6 classes aren't supported yet.

Meteor+React [1] is also very interesting, but my understanding is Meteor doesn't support relational databases out of the box.

[0] http://sailsjs.com/
[1] https://www.meteor.com/tutorials/react/creating-an-app
Illumos may stagnate further with OmniOS development ceasing. https://lists.omniti.com/pipermail/omnios-discuss/2017-April...
Calculation: Kids differ by 5 to 15 IQ points on average. Assuming a symmetric distribution, that means that the smartest kid would be 2.5 to 7.5 IQ points smarter than the average kid, while the dumbest would be the same amount dumber than the average.

Actually, I'm not sure whether "5 to 15" isn't meant to describe the standard deviation, in which case screening lots of embryos might even produce much higher gains.
One would think it would be since we hear and see in log scale.
(Gattaca is a fictional movie, not a realistic outcome. What anyone thinks about it is irrelevant because it has not, will not, and could not happen, any more than Brave New World.) As far as making use of these techniques, certainly. Transhumanists, socialists, and 'liberal eugenicists' have always advocated 'seizing the means of reproduction', so to speak, but it's mostly been theoretical; modern behavioral genetics has fill in so many of the blanks that concrete discussions and analyses can be done, IVF embryo selection can be done right now, CRISPR can also be done now if you can find anything useful to do with it besides fixing rare genetic diseases, and IES and genome synthesis will be possible within the next 20 years.
SendGrid’s Expanded Relationship with AWS
Add 'Trump' to your blocked words. That removes most political bullshit. Then take every account that can't handle responsible retweeting and remove retweets from that account (which is now possible while still following the account).

I did this and twitter is now useful again.
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In addition to the factors mentioned in the sibling comment, empathy can often lead one to make the wrong decision. (Where by "wrong" I mean any decision other than the one best supported by one's rational analysis.)
just flew last week and yes it did include cameras.
You don't need to do any of this to secure the network though, it's all about "witnessing" what is the valid blockchain. You could write a dumb node that doesn't deal with unconfirmed transactions and only receive new blocks without relaying them at all. You'd still be able to detect a fork. You could even save some storage by only keeping unspent outputs from old blocks once verified.

Anyway, that's not even my main point. I just thing that I think this particular problem is overblown and used as a bogeyman by the opposing party. Not that "big blockers" are without blame, there are insane conspiracy theories on both side and even in between.

Hacker news is basically one of the only places where I've seen people being able to discuss these issues on a technical level without going full "the illuminati freemason bankers are trying to destroy bitcoin".
I never knew that existed. It's first time I used Facebook on an old machine without the fan coming on. Thanks for that!
>Boxing, MMA

The biggest difference is that most parents don't sign their kids up for Boxing in kindergarten.

I was a big kid (I'm 6'5" now), and I live in the south, so of course my parents signed me up to play football at 6.

In other sports where kids start very young, like soccer, the contact injuries are usually a result of accidents. You aren't trying to slam into people at full speed.
As long as I can take the laptop / camera on the plane and don't have to fret over it being stolen by the baggage handlers who look in bags.
Why should lightning fees be high if there is an open market for hubs and they compete on fees?
You remember the president of the USA disclosing code-word level classified intelligence, gathered by Israeli agents in Egypt, about ISIS planning laptop bombs, to the Russian foreign minister and ambassador, without going through the necessary internal approval channels or getting permission from Israel.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2017/05/17/pres...
Zen+Vega APUs will probably come early next year and I've seen anecdotal reports suggesting to hold off for Zen+Navi in late 2018/early 2019.
Crystal - though been waiting patiently for it to reach 1.0 stable.
Take your stuff out, take your shoes off, get in line for the machine of dubious quality, watch your items disappear into the X-ray checker, go through machine of dubious quality, realize that two of your items are not on the belt along with your others, realize that they were taken aside for additional checking; wait for someone to bark at you to come watch your stuff get tested.

I'm not saying that people should skip coming to the US because of all of this, but it is a ridiculous process, especially the separation from your belongings. I once thought a man took my backpack - it was an identical model - and I yelled for about 30 seconds until I saw my bag come out of the machine. Nobody paid attention.
in today's economic environment, intelligence is a desirable trait.

but, are there other imaginable economic environments in which intelligence becomes unimportant?

i'm reminded of the saying "China has two words for foreigner: barbarian and master"

China's legendary, long standing emphasis on education and intelligence has served it well for much of its history, but perhaps not all of it.
Does anyone know of a game engine that uses CoreCLR instead of Mono (like in Unity)?
Reznor is clearly a smart guy. I always love reading interviews with him. I don't agree with all his positions but it's refreshing to read about a thoughtful musician.
Hrm... weighing the alternatives... it will get rid of this summer cold I have though.
Putting a device on its own tray means that an algorithm can apply heuristics to it to determine if it should receive a wipe test or additional human screening.

By placing the items onto a tray, the orientation of the device is more likely to be consistent and not obscured by other objects in the line of sight of the scanner, making algorithmic object recognition easier when a 2D scanner is used or if the bag contained items that make the data harder to process.

Imagine if your goal was to get a weapon through security, what would you do?

- Enclose it in a fluid or gel-filled case that appeared similar to a rechargeable battery pack on the scanner.

- Enclose it in an appropriately sized shielded sub-enclosure of a common device, so that it appeared similar to the unaltered device on the scanner.

For some reason laptops were identified as a likely device for this sort of use-case, hence the ban on laptops for flights originating from some places.

So after the ban the adversaries likely decided to try using a boombox or a SLR camera to house a weapon, and maybe even tried an electronic drum pad or other less common device.

Consider what kind of information the scanner obtains about the objects being scanned. Some is 2D but newer ones area increasingly 3D. So you have a 3D capture of the various relative densities and thicknesses of materials used to construct a device. Chances are machine learning algorithms are very good at determining which scan is an unaltered electronic device and which has been altered (additional wires, components, materials included).

It's also necessary to train the system, so asking travelers to place their digicams, drum pads, etc., in a separate bin allows the scans to be used as training data for unaltered device characteristics, and help officials learn how to train the algorithms to detect subtle modification or alteration of devices.

Chances are the same kind of highly advanced machine learning is being applied to the live video of passengers lining up for screening, with face, vital sign, and body carriage recognition algorithms designed to detect anxiety, deception, etc. For example, if you are rocking back and forth with a clenched chin and elevated heart rate that might be a small data point which (if combined with a laptop that has a >10% probability of having been altered) might result in a human screening and pat down.

When filmed at high frame rate, heart beats are detectable via blood vessel coloration changes. Animals (like humans) are very easy to analyze this way with the right hardware and algorithms.
By Zeus, this displeases Thor!
> I wouldn't be a bit surprised should a serious religion spring up that worships the concept of a GAI, and in fact may as a part of that worship, work toward implementing it.

The LessWrong crowd is exactly that. They've got their own saints, demons, eschatological prophecies, and, of course, a money basket where you're encouraged to tithe generously (https://intelligence.org/donate/)
> What does he mean "appeared that Putin's answer was"?

Well, clearly, he wasn't in the room for the meetings and it's not like there are published minutes, so the answer must be inferred from external evidence. So the claim is that the visible behavior f actors and flows of business suggest that Putin has been granted control, if not on-paper ownership, of half the business of the various Russian oligarchs as payoff for not destroying them each individually.
It's not true. They're both bad, but football has higher rates of concussion. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2140075/
You have any examples? I was planning to use 2to3 in a project, can you explain in which case it doesn't work? Thanks!
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Having worked on enterprise APs using BCM and Atheros chipsets:

The driver is not deeply protected IP. They will hand out full copies to any device manufacturer that uses they're chipset, so that they can integrate it with their systems. The secret sauce, the bit that they won't share with anyone even if it's necessary for debugging, is the on-chip firmware. That's the stuff they take seriously. The driver itself is just a lawyer thing.
The seeming "idolization" is probably to make up for what he wrote about Bezos (and Amazon) in his famous "accidentally public" post that preceded it: https://plus.google.com/+RipRowan/posts/eVeouesvaVX
Exactly. To make an analogy, consider what would happen if the president/congress appointed an incompetent fool as the chair of the Federal Reserve. The whole world would lose confidence in the dollar, and another currency would take over.

This is why I agree with Mike Hearn that the "Bitcoin experiment has failed"[0]. In fact it already did so in late 2015.

He makes technical arguments there which you could debate (some of his technical arguments have been shown to be misleading[1]).

But I think where he hits the nail on the head is that Bitcoin is now simply a circus. Unless the community can be united again, it won't last.

The Reddit censorship, DoS attacks, "scaling" conferences where solutions are not allowed to be proposed. It's childish, and almost shocking that people have stood behind their ridiculous behavior for so long, when they are on the verge of changing the world economy.

[0] https://blog.plan99.net/the-resolution-of-the-bitcoin-experi...

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14833567
I feel the same sense of unwelcome, except I have lived & contributed to the US economy for almost 10 years now. I'm planning on leaving in < 18 months or so (could leave right away, but there's a number of things I need to wrap up).

I have many foreign friends (and a few americans) who have either left already, or are planning to. This is all highly educated, skilled people - academics, inventors, potential company founders, etc - the kind that the US probably should aspire to keep.

I don't think the US tourism industry or economy will fall apart just because of you or I. That being said, it feels like at this rate, US hegemony might look very different a decade or two from now. Fewer brilliant grad students and company founders coming to the US in 2017 will probably be felt in 2027.
Have you tried Elixir and Phoenix? I came from C# but i know a lot of people come from Ruby and say Phoenix is similar enough to Rails.
I bet a screen showing their behaviour is more effective than reporting them to the police.
> Big U.S. players like Intel Corp. and Micron Technology Inc. find themselves in a bind—eager to expand in China but wary of losing out to state-sponsored rivals.

China has done this to many companies, Google, Uber, Facebook, General Electric. Hard to see it doesn't go the same way...
My recollection is the book Friday Night Lights lays out the racism and classism at the core of high school football and that's just in Texas and James Michener brought up these sorts of issues of societal opportunity cost/health cost/monetary benefit of the worship of football/basketball (from childhood to the 99% that don't make in pro or even college sports) in "Sports in America" decades ago.
Slaves come in all races shapes, sizes and genders. It still applies.
> The agents are just trying to do their jobs. The fact that the system is fubar is not their fault.

At many airports, they're not trying very hard - every time I ask for an opt out, they roll their eyes and drag their feet getting me checked out. Sometimes they give me verbal shit for it - which is part of the fubar-ness of the system, and is exactly their fault.

Having said that, I just try to get through with a minimum of interaction.
That anyone believes that this effort at extrapolation will produce anything but monstrosity is unbelievable
Yes, however the NYT mentioned yesterday, even if the brains are the only cases of CTE, then the incidence rate among players would still be vastly higher than in the general population.
Me. In general, the less intelligent people are, the less they contribute to society. I'd rather live in an engineered society with engineered people.

The primary problem to solve is discrimination against non-engineered people. That problem was the only reason Gattaca was so dystopian. As long as there are controls in place that make it difficult, it should be possible to move forward with engineering humans in a productive way.
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Or to use your height comparison the richest billionaires would be over 6,000,000 feet tall.
To flesh out a large range of implications will take at least an effort worthy of a PhD dissertation.

With successful embryo selection, at least we can keep up with the increasingly higher minimum IQ needed to function well in advanced society and avoid a large underclass of unemployable people.

Jordan Peterson - IQ and The Job Market
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fjs2gPa5sD0
Facebook employees living in a garage
They are going to be the people that brought them. It's still their decision.

That said, we have governments for a reason.
Ask HN: Recommendation on external monitoring service provider
Can you please recommend and share experiences on monitoring service provider? I am looking to monitor different ips and ports over the internet with flexible schedule and alerting. One I am considering is UptimeRobot , but would like to hear other recommendations as well... Thanks a lot!
Any long term (5-10 years) stock market conclusions we can draw from this? I would love for there to be an all-country ETF focused on genetic engineering, but I haven't found one.
I hope this never happens. I despise Javascript.
I wasn't worried about that, I was worried they would think it was drugs, since I had three snack bags full of white powder.
I seem to remember reading that NASA would use short sacrificial extension cables so that ground tests would certify the jacks they'd be flying but not wear them out.
I think I saw someone else try a similar thing with an oculus rift or vive. How do you think it went with your relative.?
Swift + Vapor
One thing which I find Troy constantly misses to advertise and which I personally think is a much better solution than using password managers and each individual system having to develop their own login + verification and security system is to use 3rd parties to authenticate.

I am a big fan of password managers, but I don't think there is a need for them, because WE ALREADY HAVE ALL OUR EGGS IN ONE BASKET: email.

If someone gets access to your email address then they have effectively access to every single service you signed up with that email. Therefore every single service might as well just use Google/Hotmail/Microsoft/etc. to authenticate their users instead of building their own login system and asking people to come up with a new password which forces them effectively to use a password manager and yet another place to store all eggs in one basket.

The password to your email account == the password to your password manager.

If we would all just rely on Google/Hotmail/Microsoft/Facebook logins then we would be even more secure then everyone having to use a password manager, and it would be a much better user experience. Also I am pretty sure that Google + Microsoft + Facebook have a lot more talent + resources to secure their accounts then every new service which pops up every day. Let them do the security and you focus on your actual business value...
As with a lot of these things, we can look at western Europe as a historical example.

Norway banned professional boxing over thirty five years ago for this reason, and it only returned very recently when a more conservative PM took power, and it happened amid plenty of controversy: https://www.thelocal.no/20161004/how-a-boxing-match-turned-i...
One could say that we're professional learners, and that learning things doesn't actually progress us in our career paths, but that our ability to learn -- the efficiency and rate at which we learn -- is the thing we get paid for.
You know, fuck Snopes. They still have so much misleaing content on their website. They should just give everything to archive.org and quit.

Their article on Adkins death is totally wrong.
Specifically the percentage breakdown was 99% NFL players, 26% of high school players. It is a significant risk in high school, but clearly there is either a cumulative effect (very likely) and/or as you graduate to more competitive levels of the sport the character changes sufficiently to be more of a risk (also very likely).

I was raised in Texas and was more the thin runner body than the football build, so I never played, though lots of people do play high school football there. It's interesting imagining that 1/4 of them could be walking around with CTE.

Of course, keep in mind the study is biased by the fact that these brains were specifically donated for evaluation for CTE. It seems probable that CTE findings would be lower in the general population.
What you're actually doing is creating the kind of discourse you claim to be deriding.
Obligatory: https://xkcd.com/980/
>How is that completely out of the employee's control?

Employers often ask too much of their employees. It's why unions exist.
No single top 100 app (except those made by Google or Apple) uses the default system UI components. Google does not follow its own UX guidelines.

Everybody by now knows what a hamburger button, tabs, and toggle switches do.
Personally I tend to feel less respect for people who are noticeably dumber than I am. I think that's basic human nature, or at least my nature.

Tyrants know this. You see it when they feel threatened and start purging their subordinates. If they don't respect you they can fear you instead.
I'm using Lua whenever possible for side projects. It's familiar enough syntax-wise that it's easy to transition to it and get something done but weird enough that I don't feel like I'm still at work. I even kind of like the infamous array indexing and nonsensical length function because they don't behave quite like I'm used to.
Tutorials are always going to be toy problems. If you want to work on real world problems, make something real.
I appreciate your comment. There's a difference between predicting people will be divisive and actually being divisive yourself.