skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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The most common expert opinion seems to be that photographing the Sun with a smartphone camera won't damage it. Here's a NASA document on this: [1]

A Chicago Tribune story [2] cited the WSJ [3] saying that Apple said that eclipse photography would not hurt an iPhone.

Forbes says that recent generations of iPhone have sensors and lenses just big enough to cause damage if you point them at the Sun for more than a couple seconds, but that selfies that include the Sun are fine because the front camera and sensor are small [4].

[1] https://eclipse2017.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/Photographi...

[2] http://www.chicagotribune.com/bluesky/originals/ct-bsi-eclip...

[3] https://www.wsj.com/articles/yes-your-iphone-can-photograph-...

[4] https://www.forbes.com/sites/anthonykarcz/2017/08/18/dont-le...
What kind of shitty encryption revealed that information?
The one book that has reconfigured some aspects of how I deal with people and has helped me in day-to-day life is "Yes!: 50 Scientifically Proven Ways to Be Persuasive" (http://a.co/0QoTla6).
Only if you use the same keys.
Woah! Did not expect this to be here. I'm the 13-year-old who tweeted this out, and I really love programming. I like experimenting and creating open source projects. I'm interested in the web, servers, systems, and AI. Some of my most recent projects are:

Moon - UI library

Wing - CSS framework

Wade - 1kb JS Search Library

Slash - hash function in Assembly

You can find them on my Github[1]. I usually don't like stating my age as I love the feedback I get if you treat me as if I was an adult. People usually just compliment me after they see my age, but I'd honestly rather have some nice feedback and criticism.

I'd be glad to answer any questions :)

[1] https://github.com/kbrsh
And they need help in collecting theoretically anonymous data: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15071492
Binary systems radiate out gravitational waves. Google image search for "binary system gravitational waves" and you will pretty easily identify the canonical graphical representation. While there are lots of problems with the "sheet" analogy for general relativity, there is still value in considering gravitational radiation to be waves in the sheet. From a layman perspective, the analogy is irresistible.

The mental picture of the spiraling-in process is pretty easy to grasp, but the process of gravitational capture is a little more difficult. Gravitational radiation is extremely dependent on the distance of the mutual orbit, so the inward spiral progresses rapidly at short distances, but can take a very long time at greater distances. So I imagine the research comes down to the general statistics of the formation of binary systems, how often they will involve a neutron star with a black hole, and how often they form at distances close enough to create the collision.
> People get confused because they don't remember that JSX is just a tree of nested React.createElement function calls, so they decide that they should mix looping logic into a block of JSX because that's what they'd do in PHP even though you'd obviously not do that when looking at raw code.

Basically what I'm saying is, if you were just writing React.createElement function calls, it'd be more obvious that the items.map should kept out of the rendering code, e.g.

const MyComponent = function MyComponent(props) {
return React.createElement(
"div",
null,
React.createElement(
"h1",
null,
"List of items"
),
React.createElement("br", null),
props.itemData.map(function (itemData) {
return React.createElement(Item, { data: itemData });
});
);
};

Of course, this is a simplified example, but the more complex the template (i.e. the deeper the nesting) the more the code benefits from having loops and other control structures extracted from the final template.
Python - a tie between metaprogramming features and comprehensions.
Probably due to usage of polyfills for Shadow DOM.
Average looking guys on Tinder match once in 115 swipes (on average)
Why did they change the name from the Trans Canada Trail? I liked it better.
I have noticed myself to be more mentally sharp if I go a couple weeks without drinking.

So it's not just me. I've never been a heavy drinker (maybe twice a year I'll have a couple of beers/wine).. but a few years ago, I was working on a difficult bit of code (for several months), and I noticed after one night of a moderate amount of alcohol I couldnt work on the code the next day... like I couldnt hold all of it in my head. It improved somewhat over a few days, but I wasn't 100% until a couple of weeks had passed (based on my ability to work on this code).

When I say moderate, I mean a couple of glasses of wine.. I've never been drunk, so I definitely don't mean anything close to that.

After I noticed this, I tried again a few times (months apart) with the same result; always an improvement at the 2 week mark.. so I stopped consuming alcohol entirely.

I felt like this particular code was unworkable unless I was able to hold it's entirety in my head, which I already found difficult without alcohol. In the past, I never noticed this effect, but most of the time, I was probably working on easier code. So YMMV.. but it made me question whether any amount of alcohol was a good thing when you make your living with your mind.
I really don't like UBS, but my friends there all make +/- 120k CHF (might be that my conception is wrong though and that is average). In addition to that they get to "buy" up to two weeks of vacation which means they can go away for 7 weeks a year (plus whatever overtime they can compensate).
TG?
FYI, this is apparently what used to be referred to as the Trans-Canada Trail. I have a poster I picked up ages ago; it was probably around the time that the trail was first being promoted.

Note that "connected" is somewhat euphemistic (and controversial). [1] A lot of the trail is unsegregated shoulders of highways.

[1] http://www.cbc.ca/radio/the180/the-not-so-great-trans-canada...
Have been reading and researching for my postgrad and in some cases "Perspective" & "Mental models" are used interchangeably.

However i like to think of it in this way:

Perspective: The point of view from which something is looked at

Mental Model: A mechanism or thought pattern to make sense of something or understand something about some situation

You can never break out of your perspective of looking at the world. So a mental model is always confined within a specific perspective.

Example:

Supply&Demand is a model that helps you understand pricing in markets. The point of view/perspective is that of an economics/economist perspective. You could just as easily look at the same situation from a different perspective such as sociology or even psychology.

In other words, mental models are like a short cut to look at situations, solve problems and understand the world from different perspectives.
I'm sure it's not the whole 50% but it is a significant number, I've even seen it on my own family and it isn't very nice. This part of Brexit worries me more than the economic issues.
This might be a better link. It explains how we might get to IA. TL;DR It is a mix of machine learning with different parameters and inputs/outputs and language translation into programs with the economy acting as the force to guide this evolving set of programs.

https://improvingautonomy.wordpress.com/2017/08/22/a-possibl...
I believe we'll see more interesting solutions in industrial IOT when 5G becomes more widespread and industries can start touching problems that lower latency and higher bandwidth wireless can tackle.
The amusing bit is at the end, where the author tacitly admits that their add-on camera insurance is somewhat crap. Someone who damaged a rental camera by pointing it at the eclipse would, ironically, have been better off if they then proceeded to "accidentally" drop the camera from a height onto concrete:

Unfortunately, these types of damage are considered neglect, as warnings were given out to customers before the solar eclipse. Our LensCap insurance plan, which can be added to rentals for a small nominal fee, does not protect from neglect but is an excellent tool for those who are worried about their rental and want to protect themselves from any accidental damage.

(but perhaps not really - there are enough wiggle words in that policy that I wonder if they ever pay out on expensive damage at all: https://help.lensrentals.com/26475-damage-lenscap-protection... )
That would be really cool to see! /u/tzs posted some links, so it looks like people a somewhat unsure. I'm guessing that if the sun is well tracked in the center for long enough that it would damage the lens. I guess we don't have a ton of hard data for it.
Graph rewriting turns out to be a rather difficult problem, and many optimizations are better recast in other frameworks. For example, instruction scheduling (on superscalar processors) is pretty much a textbook example of the job scheduling problem. Loop optimizations can be most easily expressed in the polyhedral loop optimization model. Decisions like inlining can be framed as high-dimension, highly non-linear, multi-goal optimization (in the mathematics sense) problems.
Also has a great list of other blogs, most of which are my favorites now too.

https://jvns.ca/blog/2016/04/09/some-of-my-favorite-blogs/

here's a copy+pastable list:
https://rachelbythebay.com/w/
http://danluu.com/
https://aphyr.com/
http://www.elidedbranches.com/
http://composition.al/blog/2015/03/31/what-isnt-a-key-value-...
https://www.harihareswara.net/sumana/2016/03/29/0
http://blog.plover.com/aliens/dd/intro.html
http://blog.jessitron.com/2015/06/ultratestable-coding-style...
http://akaptur.com/blog/2014/08/03/getting-started-with-pyth...
http://accidentallyquadratic.tumblr.com/post/142387131042/no...
http://embedded.fm/blog/takingaparttoys
http://gigasquidsoftware.com/blog/2012/09/20/7-john-mccarthy...
https://mathbabe.org/2016/03/30/apple-vs-fbi-nobody-won/
So a JVM language? I'm asking because the site won't load for me.
> Regulating at the state level does not necessarily internalize pollution on the balance sheet of polluting firms. It merely motivates firms to move to states with weaker regulations.

But how does it motivate states to have weaker environmental regulations?

Suppose it saves a company $10M to not have to comply with environmental regulations, but as a result $25M in damage is done to the state.

A state has no rational incentive to do that. They are paying $25M in costs to give the company a $10M incentive. They could give them $10M in tax credits instead and be ahead by $15M.

Irrational or corrupt states may do it anyway, but in that case the problem isn't competitive pressure, it's stupidity or corruption. And then the next state over can out-compete them by offering environmental regulations with a $12M tax credit which the dumb state can't afford because it lost those resources to pollution.

> This is true for positive externalities as well, such as education and public health. Firms can simply move to the states that invest the least in public services and have healthy, educated adult workers provided by other states move there. Tax competition undermines the mechanism of internalizing the taxpayer-funded cost of their education and health.

No it doesn't. A state doesn't provide good schools because it's trying to please school children, it does it to satisfy the parents. You can't stock up on healthcare and once you've accumulated 20 years of it, go move somewhere without it and not need it anymore.

Workers are not going to leave a place with good schools and government subsidized healthcare for a place without them unless the company pays them enough to afford private schools for their children and private healthcare. Which, if the government was providing efficient schools and heathcare, will cost as much as the difference in taxes.

Even things with positive externalities are not inherently problematic. If Massachusetts spends $10M on scientific research and the result is $25M in benefits for Massachusetts and $500M in benefits for the rest of the world, they have no incentive to stop doing it because they're still coming out ahead by $15M.

There may be other programs that yield the same benefits and cost $50M instead of $10M, but a state that yields the $25M partial benefit will never have the incentive to fund those. For that you need federal grants in the same way you need federal environmental regulations for interstate pollution.
Depends on the news you're looking for, but I've found Foreign Affairs to be pretty unbiased. It's more of an academic look into current problems in international relations.
This is well written and accessible article. Thanks for the link. One of the best short lay descriptions of light that I have come across: "Light is a form of electromagnetic energy. Electromagnetic radiation has a dual wave-particle nature. When light is absorbed by a photoreceptor, its particle nature is important."
ASP.NET Core 2.0: Action Discovery
It's appalling how so many nutrition experts have gotten this so wrong for so long.
I'm afraid you're right!
I will try to find the best way to use less dependencies.
Remembering Princess Diana
Well I state it like a fact because that is not part of the current argument. In this case the judge made that determination, and challenging that is a whole other argument where a jury might or might not come into play.
If they're going to do that, they might as well just leave the pictures unencrypted. I don't see how encrypting it and then going through all these gymnastics in court helps them; in fact doing that seems like a good way to draw unnecessary attention to the frame job.
Isn't this the type of thinking that led to the replication crisis?
Marc: the two links to Fire and Water in your post link back to the post's own URL, rather than to [Fire] and [Water].

Fire. http://www.elementscompiler.com/elements/fire/

Water. http://www.elementscompiler.com/elements/water/
Wyoming vs. Iowa Live Stream [pdf]
How does that happen? Technically I mean? This isn't full disk encryption? What terrible software leaked the hashes of what it was encrypting? This seems highly relevant to the discussion.
I presume you wanted to remove the EU's influence over British law.

This position was widely discussed in the British media [1]. Suggesting otherwise is bananas :-D

[1] A Google search for "Brexit sovereignty" gives plenty of articles, from across all newspapers.
What do you think the best way of attacking these problems is? It seems to me that we aren't even at the point where technology can do much to help us (in terms of recreating what we know about the brain) and we just need to understand the brain better.
But that does not mean he downloaded them if someone else has access to his computer nor does that mean they are still there.

I read the article to mean that the police have proof that hashes of known child pornography were downloaded and are not on the computer so they are assuming that they were downloaded to the external hard drive. How can they see what files are sitting on a password protected encrypted drive? Who is to say that it is this external hard drive these files were download onto?

I just believe that more is needed to meet the "foregone conclusion" threshold.
For a lot of industrial IoT 4G is more than adequate, the issue is cost per GiB of data and the amount of savings generated.

For most IoT applications all the processing can happen near the edge, with messages going up to the cloud about certain events.
I am That by Nisargdatta Maharaj. Shifted my perception of who/what I am.

Not a book but Marshall Rosenberg's many lectures, audiobooks and workshops on nonviolent communication. I am now able to set boundaries in a peaceful way, and see myself and everyone, no matter what their actions, through eyes of effortless compassion.
I will warn you that reading Neuropath left me feeling depressed for a couple weeks. It's a great book, but the conclusions it might lead you to may not make you happy.
> Let's face it: Nobody loves working in Android Studio, Eclipse, or NetBeans – the IDEs are bloated, clunky and unintuitive.

Uh... I don't agree for IntelliJ/Android Studio, and I'm sure some people love to work with NetBeans and Eclipse.
SQLite: FMDB-compatible bindings to GRDB.swift
If you have a specific system at hand you can say if it contains IoT or not because in the sum all IoT systems have some commonalities. But you cannot build a platform for it because the parts are so very different. The most common thing is that there are some programs that send data over a network which then is collected and analysed. The general purpose platform for that already exists and is called "internet". But as you might've guessed: we already have that.
Apple's Core ML software suggests AI chip coming to iPhone
You can torch your sensor in seconds:

https://youtu.be/2TO_yZDxryQ
Why not? I'd be more inclined to give my money to a company too, if I knew they were playing nicely in the community, and contributing positively to the ecosystem of one of my own personal pet projects.

It's not a standard that most people will use to decide, but most people don't love software... but if you do love your software and it's not leading-edge anymore (or even if it is, I don't know much about modern Perl development and I assume that is because it's unfashionable...) you want companies that also love that software to do well, and keep putting their improvements back into the upstreams.
It’s a superset of Java with some additional features
There is a general cure for cancer.

Look up interdiction of telomere lengthening. Different groups are looking into how to sabotage telomerase and ALT mechanisms. If both can be achieved, then any cancer can be shut down. Those are the only ways to lengthen telomeres, and cancers cannot live without them.

Finding an ALT drug candidate is as simple as running assays on the drug libraries; the assay hasn't existed for long, which is why this hasn't been done yet in any major way. The SENS Research Foundation raised $70k last year to run a preliminary scan of a few thousand compounds. That's about what it costs these days.

So not quite garage science yet, but getting close.
As a favor for a friend, I wrote a mini-"compiler" that translated detailed specs for story game scenes into code. I had never done anything similar (my background is more on the Math/Stats side) but I figured hey, what the hell.

There were only a few types of possible scenes, so my first approach was to create a data structure for each type of scene that had a method converting it to code. However, this broke badly with conditional/branching paths that could potentially have arbitrary levels of nesting.

So my next approach was to create multiple passes using some simple recursive data structures "Parseables" where conditional branches could contain other Parseables (including other conditional branches) as well as multiple passes (Text -> Parseable -> Printable -> Code instead of Text -> Screen -> Code.) This worked quite nicely.

Had I realized this was a compiler, I could have probably read some tutorials and not had to do everything from scratch. This would probably have resulted in better engineering, but been a lot less fun.

My amateurish code, if anyone is curious: https://github.com/Satvik/spec-compiler
Why is it then, then when you see an outspoken communist on the Internet they freely use Soviet symbolism like hammer and sickle. I take that as an affirmation of the fact that these people don't really think that Soviet Union was a bad implementation of communism. Like, there exist far-righters who avoid using swastika because they don't want to be associated with Nazi Germany. Why do most communists want to be associated with Soviet Union specifically by adopting its symbolism?
Very impressive that they've made this at such a young age. I also hope they're developing strong friendships and doing "regular kid stuff" too, though. You'll never get that time back sadly.
That's a good point. I imagine in my case that could mean that my rate is even worse than it would have been during their terms. I guess it's pretty near impossible to determine an accurate measure without polling my current coworkers and bosses. haha
How to spot a psychopath
Not quite. Investigators said they had found he had downloaded thousands of files whose hash values matched known child pornography [1]. The files were not found on his computer so they wanted to decrypt his external drive to see if they were there...

Which makes more sense to me...I believe it is unlikely that hash values would remain intact through encryption.

[1] https://arstechnica.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/rawlsopin...
Your article about ML [1] seems pretty good so far. Any plans on finishing it?

[1]: https://www.reddit.com/r/Drugs/comments/6xi2jj/whats_your_dr...
Kabir, you've instilled some instincts about design in 13 years that some people never figure out. How did you do that? How old were you when you started programming, what did you do? Just fascinated in how you've done it.

Oh, and don't forget to enjoy being young. You only get to be a teenager once! You've got a long time to be able to wow people, don't owe anything to anyone.
Intentionally using gear inappropriately in ways that are highly likely to result in damage isn't what insurance is for. Reasonable guidelines around what insurance will cover keeps it cheaper for everyone.
It's appalling how so many nutrition experts have gotten this so wrong for so long.

Follow the money. Farming subsidies, etc.
It's funny that after hearing dozens of warnings about how looking at the sun will permanently hurt your eyesight, people GO and actually LOOK at the sun without protection. I suppose stupidity has no limits?
The product design challenges of AR on smartphones
What's the gist of the premise? 370 pages for a list of six items seems a bit inflated (forgive my judgment but am a slow reader and love efficiency)
To be honest I never had to actively look for a job so I don't know where to look. I grew up, studied and worked there until I moved to London so I was always approached for jobs.

If you have an income of 120k you can deduct something like 10k so you'll be taxed on 110k which would lead to 20k taxes (in Zurich... other places have lower/higher taxes) Mind you, health insurance is not included and will be another 3k-4k (for a young male). If you have kids taxes will be lower. (all in CHF)
Thank you for the correction. This is indeed the case.

Are the "Other Bets" still subsidiaries to Google or are they owned directly by XXVI?
Show me the study. I don't believe they did an actual clinical study of "135,000 people in 18 countries".
Show HN: Bot that tweets multiple web service status accounts
Wow I love Wade ! Can't wait to share with the world how I used iy in a side project.
My favourite thing has demonstrating to people how complicated it is for me (non-EU/UK) to go just about anywhere from the UK as a base (brexit makes no difference to this).

I originally wanted to live/work here, to the extent of job hunting and getting offered a job - I decided not to go ahead because I would have to go through hell every time I wanted to take a break/vacation and go somewhere.

Living/working in the schengen zone means I can just hop on a plane/train and go to a variety of places. Why wouldn't I do that?