skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>> "When are you separated from your iPhone? When you’re exercising. What do you miss most when you’re away from your phone? Messages and phone calls."

Anecdotal, but personally, this is one of the most refreshing and cherished qualities about my exercise time: it's ME time. No messages, no phone calls. Phone goes on airplane mode, and I'm in my own zone for those 60-90 minutes.

After reading My Year with a Distraction Free iPhone* I took steps to drastically reduce notifications and social media apps from my phone (not as drastic as the article, but way quieter than before), and I feel happier for it.

Maybe it's just me, but MORE notifications, messages, and calls to my wrist sounds like exactly what I don't want.

* https://medium.com/time-dorks/my-year-with-a-distraction-fre...
Assuming they can... otherwise this mutation would have died out quickly enough ?
I think it's worth remembering that Bitcoin is not a real currency or commodity yet and has little real value. The only value number we can put on it is the number that the hardcore loyalist place on it.

If the only people dealing with Bitcoin are the people trying to prop up Bitcoin then it makes sense why the price isn't affected much in the long run. The loyalist have no plans to dump their Bitcoin (and realistically couldn't if they wanted to) and there are not really any normal traders in the system who would buy and sell things like this based on actual value.
My wife ordered one, upgrading from her first gen model. The single biggest reason is GPS tracking while running without being forced to carry her iPhone 6S Plus. And the (much) improved battery life over her first gen model.

She ordered the Series 3 with cellular, just in case it becomes affordable. But boy do we both agree that this red dot looks ugly. As Gruber mentions, we also worry that it won't work well with the otherwise really nice watch bands.

Can't have it all...
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Parent's original point is just that libraries/frameworks are a much safer way of writing programs that handle untrusted input in security-critical settings.

Nothing you've said contradicts this original point (and I think it's a correct assessment). A compelling counter-argument, IMO, would be a demonstration of how to incorporate tried-and-trusted security checks into a bash script.

>> I would struggle to justify the work I'd need to do to write the equivalent in C (or python, where it would be slower) for one command that's only run in the release process.

The original article lists the CVEs that justify the extra work. You may say "that doesn't matter because any input to the release process must come from a trusted source anyways", but:

1) missing input validation can cause accidental catastrophic bugs just as easily as it can cause intentional catastrophic vulnerabilities, and

2) the whole point of defense in depth is that you shouldn't go around punching preventable holes in your defenses. IMO it shouldn't be possible to escalate from "request a build of the branch named 'X'" to "owning the release server".
All of my .io DNS records have a TTL of 24 hours and 3600 (refresh-time) 900 (retry-time) 1814400 (expire-time) 60 (negative caching TTL). My PagerDuty is going bat nuts.
Apple cuts cookies but there is more to come in the online advertising arms race
Interesting. In the SciFi series (and books) The Expanse the rail gun projectiles were tungsten. I thought it was just due to the heat resistance of tungsten but it might have been chosen by the authors for the additional property of density. I wonder if the electrical properties make it suitable for the mechanisms used for rail gun propulsion.
Sufficiently capable devices don't yet exist, and are even more expensive.

Also, you're not thinking about this broadly enough. Sidewalks in bad condition or lacking curb cuts affect way more than just people who use wheelchairs. They affect the blind, the elderly, and even just your every day normal person who trips on uneven sidewalk and injures themselves.

Is it really too much to expect of our government that we have sidewalks that are repaired more often than every century, that are flat, and that have curb cuts at appropriate intervals?
Maybe Bitcoin would be worth $500 more without the split, though.
Is any other company having more success at 10 nm or smaller?
Well, I wonder about that. Maybe it's more like all children wanted to behave like "the boys" but girls were discouraged and put in dresses, etc. I wonder if the "normal" girls also didn't feel that way-- wanting to go play with the boys.
I have to say that I might be fooled into believing something like the rock island video was actual HD camera footage. At least when I'm watching it on my phone. The only thing that have it away was the rapid shadow movement, which of course was on purpose.
Only roughly half of them become men at the age of 12 years, the remainder are normal females.
It's just this generation's search for identity and being different from the generation preceding it. For one generation it's edgy outfits, for another it's long hair and rock music, and I'm sure there will be a future one that will shock 'our' generation (idk what your generation is) even more, especially if it's our own kids who a few years ago were still just like us.
What did your lawyers say?
There is definitely a culture of contrarianism on HN; there is a tendency for some users here to play devil's advocate or just argue against the logic of any article for the sake of feeling superior or clever. I'll probably get downvoted for this comment, but doesn't change the reality. And most of us are probably guilty of blending in with that culture here occasionally, while others seem to thrive on it.
I've never used React Native, but I've had negative experiences with Xamarin at my current company. It's buggy as heck and the development experience isn't great.

Most teams are committing to native development after trying Xamarin.
Time to buy black nail polish... It sure is ugly.
> What's interesting to me is that these boys are raised as girls but feel like boys, which means that there's something physical that makes us "feel our gender".

Transgenders are real, is what you are concluding. That's not really news.
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>since no one could supply that money if anyone asked for it

What does this mean? BCH can be sold for USD, and there are people willing to buy BCH. Therefore BCH created $8B in new value.
Isn't it obvious that it has to split a few more times? Unless it does it's major investors would not be able to cash out.

The way I see it, Bitcoin works exactly like a classic pyramid schema. Only interesting part of value IMHO is the Blockchain technology itself.
Our team and clients are pretty happy with the decision to adopt React Native.

I'm part of a JavaScript-only consultancy, we've now built RN apps for three companies in the Fortune 500: a retail, healthcare, and data storage company. Performance-wise, all three applications performed to our clients' standards. However, we also encountered issues concerning debugging, new releases, and other limitations.

That being said, the biggest advantage the RN has (which is why our clients decided to take the plunge) is that it significantly decreases the development time when you want to scale for various platforms. At the end of the day - your decision should be based on you and your team's willingness to play with JavaScript.
I'm pretty confident that if you asked laypeople to mark which was real and which was fake they couldn't reliably tell.
Coinbase initially stated they weren't going to implement support for Bitcoin Cash, then backpedaled when enough people complained.

https://blog.coinbase.com/update-on-bitcoin-cash-8a67a7e8dbd...

As both Bitcoin and Bitcoin Cash have done well post-fork, there's a serious incentive for more forks, and forks of other coin types... and Coinbase's compromising makes it much less tenable to say "no" next time.
There's also the rumour that the exchanges are fractional reserve to a huge extent. I suspect that plays a role.
Obvious XKCD is obvious: https://xkcd.com/927/

I really admire the goals here, and I read through the FAQ ... but I feel like this just adds to the noise.

As much as a respect Jeremy, I'd be a little cautious about using this text written by a non-lawyer.
That's not how government debt works. There is no ceiling on the amount of debt you can have except in extreme cases like 2-3x debt to GDP ratio which China is nowhere near. Government debt is really just a record keeping system for funding and not really debt like you and me have. Look up US debt and how it works to fund the economy.
Your comment isn't particularly relevant to the discussion at hand, because at a very minimum we could have accessible sidewalks going everywhere the roads go.

The woman in the article simply wants to be able to go to various buildings in her city. She's not demanding an accessible sidewalk paved deep into the wilderness. So I don't understand where you're coming from in making a slippery slope argument about sidewalk construction.
Reminds me that i should pester them about touch screen support on Windows tablets. And perhaps also a option for making the tab close button persistent.
Many cities in the US formerly had light rail systems, but these were purchased and dismantled by companies involved in the automotive industry[0]. These companies also created a "car culture" which may rival Sam Colt's creation of "gun culture" in its deleterious effects on society. The younger generations seem to be rejecting this culture, so perhaps in some few decades we may have a culture where the political will exists to improve public transportation. I'm not going to hold my breath.

As an aside, Brasilia probably holds a special place in pedestrian hell.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Motors_streetcar_consp...
It's not all sovereign debt. The amount of debt owed by Chinese companies has also been exploding over the last few years. It's possible they're taking out all that debt to make productive investments, but the analyses I've seen suggest that there's way too much debt for that to be the case.

Now maybe the argument is that in a crisis this would all become sovereign debt (i.e. the government would bail the companies out and assume their debts). But that has its own issues, including the need for higher taxation to service the debt.
what's the company name?
And the economic situation of our parents is the yardstick we all use for assessing our own capability of providing for an adequate upbringing. A mailman's son will likely feel more at ease starting a family when he is a mailman himself than a lawyers's son when his father was a partner in a successful firm while he himself is only on a lowly salaried career (yet far above that mailman). Sorry for the gender stereotypes, but they share too much with those mechanisms to be cut out.

To make things worse, that yardstick is based on us seeing later stages of our parents' careers, while we apply it to. In times of widespread growth this does not make much difference, but in times of stagnation or worse it can be crushing. A part of the puzzle the article is marveling at might be current teens not feeling very much in a pipeline towards house and kids.
A camera is the one thing I miss when I leave my iPhone at home and go for a run. I have no idea how a camera could work ergonomically on a watch. Maybe it’s just not feasible. But it is mildly frustrating when I’m out on a run and see something interesting that I’d like to photograph.

Why can't you just enjoy that something interesting there and then? Do we really need to capture everything and share it with everyone?

EDIT: slightly tongue in cheek but curious nonetheless.
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Same issue here. Does NIC.io have a status page for their root servers somewhere?
How's that? Bitcoin's hard forks just tend to fizzle out into nothing. Ethereum's chain has been switched out with via hard fork several times already and people still love it.
For Apple, Apple should just go ahead and ship Macs with their ARM chips. Their 10nm A11 chip is already as fast as their current generation MacBook Pros, and that's with a 2 Watt cell phone power budget. Give it a 5 Watt tablet power budget or a 15-35 Watt Laptop power budget and it would wreck anything Intel could produce.

I'm not even sure what the issue is holding them back on switching their Macs to ARM cores? They're already forcing devs to ship byte code to the App store.
I think they initially were going to ignore the alt-coin but ceded to complaints and distributed the child currency. It could be argued to set a poor precedent, but seems safer for them legally; I don't think exchanges had predicted altcoins initialized to Bitcoin balances when writing their T&C.
Setup a desktop environment under OpenBSD with XFCE
Alternatively, drink too much right away, get really sick for a day and vow "never again!"

Then do it again anyway because you forgot the hangovers.
> Sex trafficking != prostitution and involves forced sexual exploitation of unwilling or underage victims

There is a substantial political movement, that crosses the feminist left to the paternalistic right, that holds that all prostitution is in some manner coerced and is a subset of sex trafficking, and this group is part of the core if support for every anti-sex-trafficking law, and even moreso for laws like the proposed one that strip well-established protection and target people who aren't sex traffickers for some conduct several steps removed from trafficking.

While trafficking is a real problem that needs to be combatted, it's also the new banner under which the movement seeking ever more radical legislation to combat the existence of sex work is marching.
Having a nonstandard licence on your code basically ensures that no corporation will use your project. Internal clearing processes become a lot more expensive if it's not one of the approved licences.
A lot of it comes from radio ham enthusiasts. They had clubs and magazines set up to talk about hobbyist electronic tinkering for radio, and that expanded to include general electronics, and then computing.

Here's a 1973 example of a "tv typewriter": http://www.swtpc.com/mholley/RadioElectronics/TV_Typewriter....
I think some of this is just compression over time. I'm at exactly 20 years experience, and I currently make 500% what I made in my first year. That's more of a statement about salaries in 1997 than salaries now, though. I think the low-end has moved dramatically upwards, while the top-end hasn't increased as quickly.
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Interesting that you bring up the UI, switching to Fastmail's UI made me start checking/managing my personal email like a responsible adult again.

I could never get over the way using GMail felt like fighting with a sluggish toy version of email compared to desktop outlook (and I'm not really a fan of outlook, either). I just assumed that GMail's interface was the best a webapp could offer: it was the best I'd seen so far and had a no-longer-deserved "who could beat gmail at webmail?" bug in my mind.

I'm kinda surprised fastmail hasn't made larger inroads among the kind of techies that will occasionally bemoan giving their lives over to google.
I do really hope nobody is reading that article thinking about prediction. It's completely full of weak proxies that will lose any predictive power as soon as they are used.

(And that's also why you care about causation even if you are only looking for prediction, because you don't want your proxies to change their meaning as soon as you act on them.)

It is indeed full of correlation that can unmask interesting facts if studied further. And the GP complaint is meaningless if viewed from that angle, so I do really think he was talkinga bout causation.
Yes, it does. But outside regular work hours, it's hard to get a meaningful return on those hours - something as costly, yet relatively easy (if laborious & monotonous) as installing solar panels/shingles, makes for an attractive DIY.
"Laptop vendors are reported to be preparing to skip Cannon Lake and move to its planned successor Ice Lake."

How does that work? Wouldn't the successor also be on a 10nm process? Or at least facing similar delays?
But it looks like they really aren't girls. This seems to be the delayed development of biological structures in a classic xy male. In an animal population this might be an advantage, hiding potential future rivals from older dominate males. We dont call girls a third sex simply because thier breasts dont develop until puberty. We call that normal. But perhaps all children are the "third sex" until they show all the classic structures.
The 75% performance ratio represents system losses not module efficiency. So a system rated at 1kW(peak) which may be 5-6 square meters in size, and which is exposed to annual sunlight of 1200 kWh/m2 might only produce 900 kWh of usable power.

So efficiency has to do with the rated power per surface area and the performance ratio reflects all the system electrical and environmental factors that reduce the amount of usable power below what would be expected based upon module ratings and annual sunlight exposure.
Yes. The A11 Bionic CPU Apple is shipping in the newly announced iPhones is on a 10nm min-feature-size process built by TSMC. They announced revenue from the process this summer.

Samsung is ahead of TSMC by a few more months; they've been shipping wafers since March of this year.
>How do things like blogs and rss feeds not fill this gap?

Things like a standard WordPress/Geocities blog or RSS feed do not have an address book or shared group calendar.

Also, think about the "record locator" for a WordPress site or RSS: it's a _url_. In contrast, the "record locator" for Facebook friends is a [person's real name] or [phone number] or [email address].

It should be obvious that the ramifications of those differences are profound.

E.g. a new user signs up for Facebook, then uploads her contact listing, and then instantly sees suggested contacts including family members, coworkers, old high school & college buddies.

Yes, the sign up steps for Facebook is easier than WordPress but beyond that, the social dynamics of discovering other accounts and sharing are more optimized for the typical ~2 billion users.
What I mean is that the idea that reinforcement learning is a 'low level dual' of the problem of consciousness is also a theory about the problem of consciousness. It's part and parcel of philosophical topics that one can't get out of the game...
> My favorite example: What does it mean to multiply a light's RGB color by a diffuse texture's RGB value? Nothing! It's a completely meaningless operation which happens to approximate reality quite well.

You're still stuck on this idea? Your example is wrong, and you really should let it go. I explained this before: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14655828

Multiplying colors is modeling absorption, and it's a provably physically correct and accurate way to model absorption. You are simply dead wrong on this point. You can get more correct graphics by using more channels, and by modeling scattering. But even when you model scattering, you still multiply colors at every step to model absorption.

> All of this effort, and it looks nothing like real camcorder footage.

What do you think about this video? http://vimeo.com/15630517

Would you know it's CG if they didn't use intentionally fake physics?
They also have their own crawler: https://duckduckgo.com/duckduckbot
Does "stop using patent infringing software" really protect you from damages? Isn't the fact that you infringed at some point enough?
Create a better life
I've built an online application (idealweek.net) which helps people to better manage goals and time. Can you please let me know your thoughts on:
- Is it usable?
- Is it worth to pay 5$/month for my app?
- Any other suggestions
That's not the legal definition in England, which includes people who travel willingly to take part in sex work.
How am I supposed to enjoy something if I can't share it with someone else!?
But that atmosphere was also here during and after WW2 up to the late 80's (the cold war and impending global thermonuclear war), the 60's / 70's (Vietnam war and being drafted). And yet there was the sexual revolution during that era. I don't think it's global fear because I think that used to be worse.
TrueCar is the company behind Gluestick.
It's incredibly puzzling that these men felt like boys in their early youth despite never receiving the typical flood of testosterone in the womb.

Sexual dimorphism is weird. There must more to it than sex hormones.
Matt Levine wrote a great article about the side effects of the split and how various exchanges handled it: https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2017-08-02/bitcoin-e...
https://idealweek.net
> There are millions of miles of sidewalks to fix and hundreds of thousands of people responsible for them.

Again, I don't think you read the article. The sidewalks are in the best condition in cities like Boston, where they are the responsibility of the city. Cities are already responsible for constructing and maintaining roads; is it really so crazy that they do the same for the sidewalks that are built adjacent to roads? In what way does it make sense having hundreds of thousands of individual owners of patches of sidewalk 20 m long? You're throwing away all economies of scale there.

Good sidewalks benefit everyone. I've almost injured myself from tripping over a particularly uneven patch of sidewalk, and many people have actually injured themselves. The elderly and the blind who walk won't benefit from better wheelchairs, but they certainly will benefit from better, flatter sidewalks. Everyone benefits.
He doesn’t really need a watch either then? If you concede it’s a gadget review for something you don’t strictly need, why not indulge him?
Bitcoin: "I'm going to create $8B out of thin air"

Fed: "Hold my beer..."
I've never once heard Atlanta referred to as "Tree City USA". Atlanta also is not listed in the Arbor Day Foundation's "Tree Cities USA" list.

I believe you're thinking of "city in a forest". Atlanta does have about ~10% more tree coverage than average for US cities (36% compared to 27%).

More details: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlanta_tree_canopy
Lately I've been wanting a VR tool that does interactive 3D projections of 4D geometry. It's already so counterintuitive, I'm curious if the additional information available when projecting to 3D rather than 2D would allow better intuition for 4D transforms, volume-as-surface, etc. For some reason 4D geometry has always been an annoying obsession for me, like an itch that I can't scratch.
Why not CC0?
There are two schools:

* make your cipher complicated, so that analysis and attacks are hard

* make your cipher easier to analyze and attack

The second one usually brings more confidence in the strength of the algorithm after a long period of peer review and cryptanalysis.

PS: not sure but I think I remember reading that Ketje was designed specifically to make theoretical attacks and analysis easier: https://keccak.team/ketje_contest.html
The team-building rituals that companies love can actually tear workers apart
Agreed. No contradiction. keccak.team does not say ARX is broken, only harder to analyze (and slow in HW, and getting obsoleted).
A year or so ago I saw that the Apple Watch is a stealth product category.

When Siri was capable enough to answer the things a Safari search would have provided me and when the watch got a cellular radio I might actually ditch my phone and just wear a watch.

One down.
It really seems a hard limit is being reached w.r.t current processes and technologies
TrueCar
Good to know, but for 99% of personal open-source projects on GitHub I think that really shouldn't matter.
I mean, it was definitely a tad macbook derivative.