skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>But I highly doubt that's the case.

No, I stopped doing that kind of stuff around my second year of college after some economics and ethics classes. I objectively evaluated these types of actions and realized in nearly every case where I hand-waved away with "nobody will notice because its trivial", I was basically justifying theft of small amounts of resources by claiming it was negligible.

>Meanwhile I'll be the monster over here creating a terrible society by using some free wifi and a place to charge my laptop to get some work done halfway through a long trip.

I can tell you're trying to be sarcastic, but when people behave like you it does make it miserable for everyone else. You increase the costs for honest people or at a minimum deprive them of some of the value they would have received if you weren't there (more seating, shorter bathroom queues, more available outlets, less congested wifi).

Also, in most clubs it's not free wifi, it's wifi provided for people legitimately allowed access to the club. You are just stealing it.
This is complete nonsense.

Maybe there is a case that buying malware is a reasonable thing to do in some circumstances.

Selling your own malware is a different thing. That seems a pretty clear boundary.
There is a source of heat -- the sunlit Earth.

It sounds like the basic idea is to get that hot air off the surface where it can radiate energy to space with less reabsorption.

I agree that extracting work for power generation would limit the amount of air that's moved, so there's a tradeoff you'd have to make.
A better option is to create a government testing and patching standard, fips-1024 let's say, and only buy devices that comply. The private industry usually follows and innovates around said standards, whereas the forceful regulatory approach seems to fail quite often.
Like reading a book or watching a video? The point of a lot of "flip the classroom" strategies (roughly a superset of the "active learning" ones) is precisely that there are many ways other than lecture of acquiring background knowledge. That's certainly how we pick things up if we aren't in a classroom. So why waste classroom time on lectures if you can find other means of acquiring background knowledge?

tl;dr:

> Without that foundation, the students would have been forced to find other means to acquire background knowledge.

You say that like it's a bad thing.
The thing about the law is that it largely exists as a deterrent for bad behavior, particularly behavior that causes systemic issues when it becomes widespread. Just because in this instance the parties being misled didn't lose their investments doesn't mean that the next time someone like Shkreli attempts this kind of scheme it won't end in disaster for the people he defrauds.

It's kind-of like a speed limit. Sure, maybe you didn't get in an accident doing 100 in a 50 but you sure as hell deserve a ticket because if everyone did it the roads would become totally unsafe.
Both of those are lectures, though. One is just presented in an interesting format. It reminds me of studies on the efficacy of highlighting your textbook as read it: it only works when you just start out, but once the novelty wears off, so does its effectiveness.
He didn't say encapsulation is not useful. He said it's not that useful. In other words, blindly encapsulating everything because that's supposed to be the right way is overkill.

Unless you're building an API.
Both. There are a lot of chains and mid-grade restaurants where you will pay an arm and a leg for mediocre food.

However, there are also some of the best buffets in the world there (if you're into that). There are also some awesome high-end restaurants: https://www.tripsavvy.com/michelin-guide-rated-restaurants-l...

Because Vegas is a massive tourist destination where you are guaranteed to have a deep market of people eating out every day of the week, it attracts tons of restaurants so you do need to do a little research. Picking a random one will likely get you overpriced 'meh'.
There could have been one black Celt, no? People did get around.
Within that "fragmented hyperspecialization", might there not be good examples of the psuedo-monopoly ("comfortable lock") of the type SwellJoe describes?
But isn't the idea that you would end the column well before the air in it reaches equilibrium, and that way you would have a major temperature pressure gradient from the exit into the surrounding atmosphere, which would create a continuous flow?
I might just have misunderstood you because I thought we were talking about how Apple chose not to make their devices easy to repair?

I don't see how making their devices easier to repair would have at all made them get more market share. I really don't think it affected it a statistically significant amount. If anything I'd argue their focus on making the phones more "stylish", at the expense of repairability, probably was beneficial for their market share.

Also market share doesn't tell the whole picture since iOS users are known to be more willing to spend money so don't forget to factor that in. I do see how it might be good for them to consider making less in hardware if they are going to be more profitable by selling more services, but it's not as though iPhones are more expensive than Android phones as far as I know.

I work for Google but opinions are my own.
Please don't post unsubstantively like this on Hacker News.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
FWIW, Emirates has free Alcohol on their flights for economy passengers. Don't know about the selection as I tend to sleep most of the flight, but they have at least red & white wine and Jack Daniels.
If OpenOffice cannot get security fixes in a timely manner and the site is still getting a substantial number of monthly downloads, wouldn't you agree that the ethical move would be to display a prominent link to an actively maintained open source alternative to the software on the Apache OpenOffice frontpage?
One of these days, I'm going to read an article like this, and it is going to say something like, "the people that work for them" or "the organization".
Your back button is broken? The only behavior I see is that a different page creates a new history entry. Is that not expected behavior?
Here's a link to benchmarks of different languages including Elixir.
https://github.com/kostya/benchmarks
Yeah. Fusion will happen in the year of the linux desktop.
That isn't a great example. He managed to get his conviction overturned because of the lack of criminal intent, but what he did was pretty stupid.

Rather ill-advisedly, the Perl-programming guru (who's written several books on the subject) tried to prove his worth by running a password cracking package after he'd left in order to produce evidence that security practices had deteriorated since his departure. Instead of re-hiring Schwartz, as he hoped, Intel called in the police and he was charged with hacking offences.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/03/05/intel_hacker_charges...
Yes, there are challenges. That isn't to say now is when everything will happen but there is rapid progress being made toward that point, and pilot programs are moving forward.

Most municipalities have digital records available. It ought to take less time to translate those to blockchain records than the time it took for paper documents to be digitized.

As for the selection of blockchain, that's part of where the current speculative wave in the technology comes in. Competition will persist until there are only a handful of well-defined players, at which point it will be reasonable for governments to tie records to them. All it takes is time.
Security researcher who neutralized WCry to be released on $30,000 bond
Previous discussion on HN - 3 years ago (1) and even earlier (2).

(1) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8778569

(2) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2958108
at which point, wouldn't it be better to use the solar energy more efficiently as either a source of power (thus eliminating CO2), or use it to grow plants to absorb CO2 (as a sink)?
Websites should just respect the HTTP Accept-Language header sent in requests. There's no need to try detecting the language by location, just trust the browser.
where is the outside energy source? If it's ambient solar light, then it hit (mostly) evenly, so can't possibily be an energy source for this chimney!
Nail on the head. Cut H1b admission in half and older software engineers will be in demand again.
I think you are dead on that about the similarity between these different things. But such temptations are not easy to overcome. Or at least just about everyone will have a weakeness for some such thing, and if yours happens to be resentment -- then it will be hard to get over.

But you rinsight is still valuable: if you have difficulty getting over something, then remind yourself that you are being a like a drunk.
For Windows, you can literally just type `now` in the Releases directory. No micro server needed. Great project though, sorry all those years ago I couldn't convince the Squirrel.Mac folx to do it my way.
A simple and quick text parsing tutorial using Haskell
Ivy League school graduates make up much less than 8% of the working age population, so it over represents.
> The FBI isn't a bunch of complete incompetents.

The FBI is human and therefor make mistakes, and they are a large organization and therefor have an structural inertia that occasionally directs a lot of power and effort at the wrong target.

Also, the price of democracy is eternal vigilance. Citizens have a duty to check the government's use of power. We should be worrying every time the government acts against a citizen until we also see proper due process including any necessary evidence.

> He could be found innocent

He is innocent until proven otherwise.

> what makes this case different

The government hasn't yet shown that they can handle this kind of case properly. That is partly due to the novel nature of situations involving new technology, but it is also from the government's own history of bad behavior. Their reputation means they do not get the benefit of the doubt, and until we see actual evidence that this case (regardless of the outcome) is being handled properly, it's prudent to worry that this might be an overreaching prosecutor (or worse).
Garry Kasparov – The Brain's Last Stand
This sounds like an amazing idea for a Black Mirror episode
I honestly struggle to understand how a traditional ternary like this isn't obvious. The bit before the question mark is the condition (er, like a question, which ends with a question mark), then the other two bits are for true and false in the order you would expect.

I will freely admit I try and avoid nested ternaries, which I personally find hard to read.
Ruby did/does have a nice OOP approach. I remember when Python and Ruby were first kind of being touted as alternatives to Perl, and Ruby always seemed more well-thought out to me--the Python 2-3 split was something I sort of saw coming.

I wouldn't say I'm a functional purist (at least so far), but inheritance in particular has caused me some headaches in the past. I like Rust's approach to all of that, but it's much lower level.

Honestly, if Crystal ended up taking over the programming world, I wouldn't mind. Its a very nice language with a lot of advantages over what people are using now.
One suggestion: can you provide a night mode toggle? Thanks.
Accusations can be based on bad extrapolation of facts.
Unpacking that a bit, training costs are to do with interface complexity (in the sense of "necessary" complexity) due to integration with other systems, and other information. i.e. it's not 100% automated; you can't just press a button. It's more "amplification", where you must be trained and practised to use it effectively - a tool for skilled labour. If you're super-successful, yours becomes a de facto standard, which others copy (usually, you still command a premium; but for the life-style idea here, we'd want to avoid that).

This might be included as "installation" costs, along with and engineering integration with other information systems, Related is the organizational purchasing process, expensive for larger transactions: determining requirements, evaluating alternative vendors and solutions, sign-off from legal and upper management, and so on. Change itself is disruptive, there'll be teething problems, other systems will have to adapt, and other knock-on effects apart from training itself. These are one-off costs that you'd prefer not to incur again, unless there's a very large benefit (your example of 10x is worth it, but not (11/10)x).

All are switching costs.
> and also unambiguous to future-me. Ex: "Your worst encounter with bees occurred in what place?"

Optimistically assuming your worst-bee-encountering days are behind you, of course.
I'm one of the testers, and yes it is awesome. They severely underestimated the development time required for it, but considering where they're at, I'd expect it to be released first quarter of 2018.
Whatever it is, it doesn't affect every chip the same way

If it is marginal timing in some part of the chip, that combined with statistical process and environment variations, and the increasingly tiny geometries (which serve to amplify the variation) mean the problem could really occur quite randomly. Modern CPUs are pushing the limits in more ways than one, and IMHO this is what happens when they go too far.
Isn't the goal of a CEO to survive?
"Martin Shkreli is found innocent of 5/8 security fraud charges."
Looks solid. Did you use any existing frameworks for building a chat platform, or did you write it from scratch?
Along those lines, any idea where I might find some good, minimal examples of category theoretic models implemented in a mainstream language? I have no doubt that strictly typed functional languages have a more convenient syntax for these concepts, and that translating those into Python, or even Java, would be difficult. But not impossible, and it might even help to illustrate why Haskell and ML are appealing choices to someone wanting to use these models in production.
I'm sure he can modify the design slightly. Maybe even improve it a bit. That would easily get around the patents.
Sure you would want to, but there aren't any solutions to the equations where those conditions are met.

Think if it in terms of energy in versus energy out. Where does the energy come from? Well the author is attempting to use the latent heat in the air. So you have to ask how much energy is there? You can start with Carnot and his principles of heat engines, but you also have to consider the ideal gas law, the temperature of the air goes down with a decrease in pressure. How much? Well if you look at the typical math the loss in temperature from the decrease in pressure between the top and the bottom of the chimney is exactly equal to the temperature difference measured at the top and bottom of the chimney. That situation is true because there is no net input of energy to raise the temperature of the air. So this relationship holds from altitude 0 to the bottom of the stratosphere. At the start of the stratosphere the atmosphere gets hotter as you go up[1].

Solar energy due to ground warming is contributed evenly for a first approximation across solid ground (note that cities are hotter than vegetation etc). There is no way to 'preferentially capture' just the warm air at the base of the chimney (see Maxwell's Demon[2])

At the end of the day, there is no "excess energy" to harvest there.

[1] "Within the stratosphere temperatures increase with altitude (see temperature inversion); the top of the stratosphere has a temperature of about 270 K (−3°C or 26.6°F).[5] This vertical stratification, with warmer layers above and cooler layers below, makes the stratosphere dynamically stable: there is no regular convection and associated turbulence in this part of the atmosphere." -- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stratosphere

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maxwell%27s_demon
Its crazy to me that it is legal for there to be a regular fee for viewing a website per view.
On a very superficial test, the date picker is not touch friendly. I also tried the button and it has an obvious flaw of selectable text.
Financial decisions influenced by intensity of light
If you're a pro, you take Deer Antler spray
The trouble with that is that now you can never relate your amusing/horrifying story about the bees. Also consider the worrying possibility that you may have another, even worse encounter with bees.

I had a similar recent experience (not with bees, with security questions) whilst joining the Apple Developer programme. All the questions on offer assumed a conventional middle-class American upbringing and referenced experiences and institutions that I have simply never encountered. This is not unusual. Fortunately my password manager generates all the fake cats & cars & prom dates I never had.
Because of this — http://webaim.org/blog/user-agent-string-history/
The declination of the horizon is a couple degrees at altitudes that commercial flights fly at. It can be measured with standard carpentry tools.
The way you'd want to do this, I think, is take a selection of people and follow up to see who was the most successful. If it was a 10 year study, they could have easily done it. And the traits seem to be derived from little more than subjective assessment. It's hitting my business school BS detector red flags: an arbitrary enumeration of things that has a weird focus on the exact number of them; vague buzzword laden categories; a lack of reference to related studies and papers; pointless citations to tangentially related information; vague implied promises for success, a "call to action," and other techniques used in marketing; and of course if you follow the link to where their "research" is you get a free personality quiz to determine if you have CEO thetans or whatever, and you can learn more about it by giving them money.

You know, I think the most valuable thing I got from my business degree is being able to precisely identify the exact flavors of bullshit getting passed around in the business world.
Every browser vendor I suppose, not every client.
Hmmm. What are the legitimate uses for firearms again?
The Scandal That Matters
"Golang drops GOPATH" - I am waiting for this headline.

The biggest hurdle with Golang and working on different unrelated projects that are in their own GIT repo. Golang forces you to have one single path were all the code should reside - GOPATH. Name me one other language that has such a restrictive requirement. Why not offer a config?? Beside that I like everything else about Go a lot.
Legendary. Huge thanks to all of the engineers behind segwit.
Self-driving vesicles penetrate blood-brain barrier
On the Effect of Semantically Enriched Context Models on Software Modularization
> my iPhone says "Designed by Apple in California", not "Made in USA".

"Made in China"
The latest iPhone rumours might upset expectant fans
It is basically "we are winning but you are evil for even trying to compete with us" ideology.
https://nodesource.com/products/nsolid

https://nodesource.com/products/certified-modules
Peter Jackson’s Wingnut AR’s first augmented reality demo [video]
No! I was going to buy threadripper for this very reason.
One of the more concrete remarks there is that successful CEOs spent about 50% of their time on long-term issues. Less successful CEOs spent much less. One of the traps of management is being driven by incoming problems.
That's part of management, but it's not the biggest part, especially as you move up.

There's also the fact that if you spend most of your time dealing with problems, you spend too much time talking to the screwups in your organization. Spending time with the people who aren't having problems is important. They're the ones that can move things forward.
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Still, in your personal experience, there would/could be examples of things it "does better" than gemini. I was wondering what those were.
> Use email / phone numbers to identify users

This isn't always good advice. Not everyone has a unique email address, and not everyone has a phone number.

If you're dealing with technology-savvy adults, sure, go ahead.

But demanding a unique email address or phone number is actually a high barrier for many people. Case in point, my services is used by families. It's common for them to share an email address, or for the youngest and oldest members not to possess a personal phone. They also frequently lose access to email accounts e.g. when changing ISP, which makes account recovery a painful manual process.

So we use a domain-specific identifier combining a generated membership number and the family name, and this works out well.

Bottom line, consider your user base when establishing an identity scheme. Don't blindly accept prescriptions for your data model.
Can someone explain how old Bitcoin works post-fork? Can you sell the same old Bitcoin twice now? Is this already priced in somehow and still going up?
Not saying the alternative (fiat) is a substantially better alternative, but this is what happens when markets aren't regulated.

My prediction: There are going to be a lot of naive poor folks who are going to become poorer, maybe even dirt poor, and some very savvy wealthy people who are going to be even more wealthy when this is all said and done.
Between the FDA and patent lawsuits, good luck doing this in the US. Several major drug companies have already failed miserably and Adrenaclick isn't anywhere near the huge success you apparently think it would be.

http://slatestarcodex.com/2016/08/29/reverse-voxsplaining-dr...
Good to see he definitely violated US law. If I had created “Kronos” I sure as fuck would not head to defcon, but then I’m too paranoid to even download Tor, let alone put myself on the radar of the FBI.

His arrest proves my thoughts for a while; the US is not a safe place to travel to - the legal system will destroy you should you be accused of any crime, and as a foreign person you have even fewer rights than a US citizen.

Finally even if “perfect” digital information exists, all of that can be faked perfectly and it’s certainly something I would think about doing (having a patsy) if I were in the position of creating something like this.
Eye tracking - mouse and keyboard control using eyes. Microsoft has already started working on this.

I read a novel published in 1999 which predicted how VR headsets would be followed by eye tracking eye boards,etc. which would then be followed by control directly via the brain using electrodes,etc.
> importing uneducated people because they breed like rabbits

Since you're posting like this after we just asked you to stop using HN for political and ideological battle, I've banned this account.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

https://news.ycombinator.com/newswelcome.html
Bitcoin works the same as it always did. However, anyone who had N Bitcoin on a particular time on August 1 also has N "Bitcoin Cash" using the same private keys, and can go spend that separately on the forked blockchain, without in any way affecting their existing Bitcoin. Both have their own price and market, and they don't interconvert beyond that one-time thing except by selling/buying/trading between them.
You don't have to get around the patents, you have to get around the lawsuits. Being right doesn't stop you from going broke defending yourself.
I switched to Ting for a couple months. Not sure if the pricing is still the same, but I still talk with people on the phone, and paying by-the-minute felt restrictive. First month my bill was <$40 -- that was great. Next month it was $80 because I'd had some long phone calls. I've been much happier with a $40/month prepaid Verizon plan. Unlimited calling and 3gb of data, and then I don't have to think about the cost of making or accepting a call.
Conjecture Regarding the Precise Details of the iPhone D22 Display Resolution