skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The question would then be how many organisations check the stolen document database when looking at a passport id.
Can anyone comment on whether or not Nix is 100% reproducible? To the best of my limited understanding, it is not.
Could you share the name of that comment word wrap extension? I use proportional fonts for all my code editing, but I would like a way to be able to switch a block of code within a file to monospaced - like you mentioned for ASCII art, or for matrices (the one place where I still would use column alignment).

This doesn't sound exactly like what that extension does, but it might be something good to look at to get some ideas. (Hopefully it's open source!)

Thanks!
We are footing the bill for them to live there already. Rural areas are subsidized an incredible amount to our severe detriment. There is almost no decent forested area I can get to in the Midwest and it is only getting worse. Pollution is getting worse as people move further out. People are trapped and either have to get an expensive car or deal with riding poorly set up transit for hours a day. It is ridiculous.
That's not really fair to Transport for London, the government system they built (Oyster) is fast, simple, useful and profitable. And still the only one in the world to work with a normal contactless card (or phone).
The Washington Post's robot reporter has published 850 articles in the past year
Indeed, I had constant neck and back pain (probably because I'm sitting all day long). 3-6 months of Yoga 3-4 times a week healed me. It was also very good to fight stress.
It may not work for everybody or every issues.
You can turn off the filters in your adblocker and just enable a few select filters, like this one. This would be silly of you, since ads are a popular vector for spyware and malware, but hey, you can do it.

Extensions are also vectors for adware and malware so it's better to trust established extensions, and questioning an extension whose behvior could be trivially accomplished without is a reasonable concern to raise.
When did male-only conscription start in the US?

For a very long time most countries, including the USA, had laws that forced men to go into wars and die. In the roman empire, voting was a privilege only for those that made the sacrifice to serve in the military.

The US stopped forcing men into war in 1973, 54 years after women got the right to vote. I can't think of many things more oppressive then being force to go to a war and fight against your will. What would you pick between forced conscription during war time (before 1919, so consider medical care and death rate during world war 1) or no right to vote? I know what I would prefer in 1917.
Show HN: (fxml) Describe HTML/XML patterns using python functions
I own a tango phone and it sucks outdoors. Last time I tried was a few months ago though
Were there no patent problems? I'm glad about it, of course, but it just somewhat surprised me that so many companies can use the same basic principle and there didn't seem to be too much hassle with people suing each other. Then again, I might just not have heard of any high-profile cases.

The basic working principle is probably also basic enough to have lots of prior art I guess.
The idea that resolving conflicts in a merge commit is better than in individual rebased commits is very very wrong. It might be more expedient, but it is also more likely to do introduce a difficult-to-bisect error than considering each commit as if written in the current state of the world.
Well, then, owners, admins and mods just need to be anonymous and untraceable. Users too, of course. So yeah, Tor or something stronger :)
AKA "Seinfeld Is Unfunny" http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/SeinfeldIsUnfunny
> It's a visionary hypertext project that doesn't really work yet, but the people behind it are happy to dispense snarky quotes about the how the web we all use is a poor substitute because it's a “bizarre structure created by arbitrary initiatives of varied people and it has a terrible programming language”.

This is a bit like describing Galileo as "the jackass who wouldn't shut up about heliocentrism despite having no answer to the stellar parallax objection". By no means has he ever been right about everything, and he has been his own worst enemy in several ways, but ...
cue RichardStallmanism, we need a stable open hardware effort to provide valueable technology to humans that actually need it.
Would not be first time. Antenna Gate, Bend Gate...
Looks like a remake of Haxball (haxball.com) that doesn't require Flash.
Linux Foundation head proclaims year of Linux desktop – from a Mac
There is a button to select the input keys when logging in.
Joyful people don't spend much money because they're already satisfied. When people dish out for large homes, expensive cars and whatever else, they do it because they're insecure about something.

If you subtract the cost of our insecurities and fears from the cost of living, life is actually really cheap.
This is quite a list. There are so many "Module x is not functional. Workaround: None." its amazing. How did they manage screw up the VBAT pin?
For me the low DPI vs. high DPI displays didn't make a difference. I've been using proportional fonts ever since the days of very low DPI displays and still like them now that I only use high DPI displays.

The key to using proportional fonts is to stop using column alignment and use only indentation instead. There's an illustration of this in the rustfmt code I posted elsewhere in this thread.

And you're right, once you abandon column alignment, there's no longer any reason to prefer spaces over tabs, so you can take advantage of the other benefits of tabs.
I used to work on Wall St, and nearly every hedge fund was a client of our company. This is absolutely true.
> I am being pressured by my significant other to give up my two grandfathered lines since it works out to $60/line + $80 for the plan every month, and they now offer other "unlimited" options.

Can I ask why you're not giving it up? That price sounds really high.
I'd say it's your unfamiliarity with C, and perhaps with history too. You're talking about a release version of malloc() in Unix, this code was run by many many people on many platforms and sat underneath nearly all software running on Unix v7. How many computer systems globally ran successfully using this version of malloc? You can maybe say something bad about it if you can find a bug in it, but "really terrible" is just wrong, it doesn't make any common sense to say that.

There's a legendary comment by @arcfide regarding coding styles that discusses how people get on their high horses about patterns and styles they don't understand. I like to re-read it now and then, and reflect on how the things we want to think are "common sense" are mostly fads that will pass. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13571159
Apple hates Sun. That's why they built their OS on BSD....

/s
How we got top spot on Product Hunt
What do you do when your queue is full?
AI writing AI.
Hey, any chance your hardware developer friend could spare a few minutes to talk about his/her work? I'm a freelance hardware+software developer and there's not many of us out there it seems. It would be great to get some feedback on some long-term business goals. You can reach me at contact5m4t@peakdata.io
Thanks!
Are you using tpb in your phone? I don't see why that would be an issue then

Though I agree this monetization tactic doesn't work on mobile
>> because our current theories already account for ALL of the phenomena that are easily accessible here on earth.

I'm not so sure of this. Have you heard of Edward Leedskalnin, or his "Perpetual Motion Holder"? The textbooks that I have discussing magnetism do not explain this effect, which you can see an example of here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eWSAcMoxITw

If you can explain this effect with our "current theories", I would love to hear it!
better than ads and trackers, i agree. but shortly we'll be getting all three.
As with everything in computing, what I want is more capability that runs on my own devices—my own compute servers, my workstation, my laptop, or my mobile device. Every application or service that has to interact with third-party servers ("the cloud") to provide its functionality is, to my mind, defective or at least deficient of the ideal.

AI is no exception. I have swarms of CPU cores in my life, the totality of which could easily accomplish all of the "AI" functions of any value that I've observed in my life and far more. Today's AI that works for me (rather than against me) provides things like voice recognition, calendar management, reminders, to-do list management, and route planning. None of these functions requires even a small fraction of my personal CPU core armada, which are idle for 99% of their clock cycles.

Today's all-too-popular refrain of leveraging the cloud to provide sufficient compute capacity for these tasks is disingenuous and is too often accepted as truth when it's just cover for data exfiltration.
a|b would be the obvious choice, because it already works for set:

{1,2}|{2,3} == {1,2,3}

I guess the reason they went for the weird {∗∗a, ∗∗b} syntax is that it is not a commutative operation.
The last time I went to pick up a product (AirPods) it required government issued photo ID (Australian driver's license), even though I had the Apple Store app which made the purchase installed on my phone.
Can the Pirate Bay Replace Ads with a Bitcoin Miner?
The problem is software complexity. You can't really own anything you don't understand, and you can't be free in a world you don't understand. And we don't understand software.

Imagine a naive young king who doesn't understand how to do anything for himself. He will easily be controlled by those around him that do understand the world.

Of course, nobody before ever understood everything about the world. But different people understood different aspects in depth, and education gave literacy so people could share expertise.

Software is so complex that nobody really understands it. Nobody understands how a car works, nobody understands how a phone works, because they are both controlled by hopelessly complex software. Governments can't regulate emissions because the software changes the emissions controls based on arbitrary unknown factors. Security problems are just a small subset of the surprising ways complex software behaves -- surprising even to the software engineers who build it.

And the key is that this is all new complexity that didn't exist before. Physics and biology were developed to understand pre-existing complexity, so we always made forward progress. But we are moving backwards now because we are introducing complexity faster than we are understanding it -- much faster.

Therefore this is actually worse than the naive king mentioned above. In that example, it's just an asymmetry of information, and that can be resolved through education. Software is so complex education can't hope to keep up.
What is really strange about this is that Rob Pike prefers proportional fonts, but gofmt mandates a column-aligned format that only works well with monospaced fonts.

This is one reason I don't use Go today. I am never going back to a column-aligned format that is hard to read in a proportional font, so I would have to avoid the use of gofmt, which would make me an outcast in the Go community.
It would be nice if there was some way to integrate charging status into this. I would be fine donating a few seconds of CPU/GPU time for an ad-free experience, but I would only want to do it if whatever device I was on was running off of wall power and not it's battery.
What does this have to do with the "next big advance in AI"?
> I have mined and sold data to hedge funds

Are you able to tell more about what types of data this was? I'd be interested in hearing more. I love the story of hedge funds using satellite imagery of parking lots to predict retail store strength
These laws are starting to appear now because for the first time AI and machine learning are making censorship at this scale economically feasible.
What game is that? I want to be sure to avoid it if you are planning such scummy tactics.
Oh you're right! I searched for something after the login screen but I missed this before. Thank you.
https://www.newbiehack.com/MicrocontrollerTutorial.aspx is an ok (not great but not bad either) way to learn about micro controllers. We used this site in a course I took.

YMMV though. People in my class who lacked the experience I had with C and C++ from before had to struggle quite a lot.
There are a couple of known mechanisms by which non-ionizing electromagnetic radiation can be dangerous to biological systems.

One is by heating of tissue caused by absorption of EM radiation. This one can probably be safely ignored in almost all normal situations.

Another is by inducing currents and fields in parts of the organism which could disrupt normal operation.

For example, DNA is conductive, and its shape makes it act like a fractal antenna which is good at allowing a wide range of EM radiation to induce currents in it [1].

Damage and errors in the DNA can change the conductivity, and there are some researchers who think that the cell may use this as part of the mechanism that detects and deals with such damage. Induced currents from an external EM wave could cause such a mechanism to miss some damage, and so fail to detect and kill a cell that normally would have been eliminated.

Here's an article that talks briefly about some of this [2].

As far as I know it is still just speculation that the cell uses changes in conduction to detect damage. It's a plausible mechanism, but that doesn't mean it is the only possible mechanism or the one nature actually uses.

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21457072

[2] https://www.caltech.edu/news/caltech-chemist-jacqueline-bart...
Along the same lines, I want the voice recognition in my car / gps to be able to have a conversation (within the domain of travel, of course) without relying on a big AI model in the sky.
What sort of return per user-hour would you be looking at with one of those?
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To some extent, technology is making "in the field" spies redundant. Instead of paying someone to break into a secure facility and steal paperwork, you can pay a hacker sitting in their home country to hack your opponent's data.
https://blog.priceplow.com/dmaa-supplements/geranium/ikhlas-...

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Well as far as his outlook is concerned I wouldn't call it healthy simply due to his bitterness. While he may have fallen short of towering objectives, the vast majority of people go through life never achieving his level of influence. I would think he should be more grateful for the role he was able to play. It may not have been the part he wanted but at least he got to be on the stage.

As for why he has a fanbase, having never heard of Ted Nelson before this video I'd say it's because whether he was the absolute "first" or not he was clearly very early to the party and his intuition correctly led him to many of the technical paradigms we now use daily. For someone to track so closely to the march of progress implies there's something worth listening to. Perhaps some pattern to his beliefs or behavior that might help point toward where things are going.

Speaking of patterns, I can't help but notice that his repeating problem is one afflicting many academics: lack of practicality. He mentions this to a degree in his retrospective where he admits he "stuck to his guns" instead of jumping on the next big thing because he thought, sometimes rightfully, that his designs were "better". The problem there is he was using his definition of "better", not the market's. For someone who wanted his own company he seems to have made little study of the act of actually running one.

He also mentions his desire from an early age to be a "generalist great intellectual", and looked down on his friends/colleagues for specializing after college. Even at the end of the video he mentions he's "not a programmer, but a director/producer of programmers". He's also clearly a zealous idealist. All of this reflects a mind perfectly geared to creating great new systems and paradigms that are truly revolutionary.. and absolutely horrible at fitting them into existing systems, or of convincing the unenlightened to adopt them.

Why do many systems of the internet emulate paper when they are capable of so much more? (A notion he brings up and sneers at in disgust) Because people who never used the internet and knew crap about technology knew paper. That was their bridge, conscious or subconscious, to understanding the internet. He seems to greatly overestimate the intellectual rigor present in the average person. For all his foresight, I wonder if he foresaw people leaving voicemail to let their coworkers know they had just send them email. That was actually a thing in the 90s...
Good question! Somebody took over running the technical side of that some years back, so I haven't followed it closely. I'll ask.

But if anybody has a bet they'd like to get registered, just email me and/or them.
The atmosphere is literally changing the food we eat, for the worse
Hardware-wise, they are top! Privacy-wise, they've done plenty, but there is significant improvemens to be made!

I appreciate the alert when an app tries to grab my contacts/calendar/location.

On the other hand I DO NOT appreciate, when an app (e.g. British Airways) always informs Facebook, Google Analytics, tens of other trackers, that I am using the app, and I am left in the no-mercy of those folks, and Apple is not helping me to protect my privacy.

This is why an iPhone is only good when it's jailbroken (replace hosts file, install ProtectMyPrivacy, install Firewall IP -yes it works on 10.2-)
You can call it bait and switch, but the reality is simple and not nearly as nefarious, it's just about trying to find a sustainable business model. It's either that or go out of business. There's no grand cabal running a conspiracy that forces players like PLOS and PeerJ to raise their prices. They're just trying to stay alive, and they price their product to do so, just like literally every other corporation in the world.
Thanks - We are just starting so we don't have many subscribers yet. We are from now on going to focus more on the Enterprise customers and add more features for them. I think that could work - we will help them set up the alerts and find new interesting leads/searches that benefit their business.
It seems that people don't know how to create alerts that matter. Most people just add in their brand name or add in a phrase that is too generic.
When you could:
- add a search for a topic that is related your business - like people asking for help with something that your business needs.
- get alerts for topics that have more than X likes or X retweets.
- get alerts for topics where the Twitter user has more than X followers.
- collect some data and export all those Twitter users and use that list for the retargeting campaign on Twitter.

So there are so many alerts you can create for your business other than just the brand name.
Question to VCs on HN: Is AI declining? Not that it is dying down but my feeling is that the general investment activity in AI slowed down but maybe I am wrong.

1. Do you get still that much AI deals in your inbox?

2. Do you close this quarter as much deals as one year ago?
Isn't IBM's Watson trying to do the same
I'm looking forward to seeing the movement of software from our computers to the third dimension in our daily lives, especially with robots in the workplace. Computer Vision used to be the limiting factor, and now it's not. Especially for things like science (eg. opentrons), the concept of brute force and massively parallel experimentation & data collection will be a huge game changer for discovery. There are areas in chemistry and materials science alone where modest improvements to existing processes would have such massive impacts to our society, we probably couldn't even estimate the resulting benefits to their fullest extent.
Sorry for the late reply!

I'm going to continue to think outloud here for you, just my thoughts :)

I think if the addressable market is only 54mm then an accelerator might not be too interested. You would also need a cofounder in their mind, someone who does the business stuff I guess, and success is not easily screenable there.

It sounds like your product is quite niche and requires high touch enterprise sales? If your product is in maintenance mode only, then you could probably handle this yourself, even without many connections.

If you have a multi billion dollar market to <<disrupt>> and a small team of people to do demos, contracts, support, etc, then you are a strong candidate for an accelerator I think, since in their mind it's all about growing or dying.

But if not, then you can run a lifestyle business with a few dozen customers :)

I currently am working on a b2c product and I'm doing everything myself after most investors panned the idea, despite decent user count :)
But a guy in /r/conspiracy did....
For the record, I guessed wrong. I enabled the feature and checked the certificate: it's based on Let's Encrypt ;-)
Not sure if it will happen, but I'd love to see life after back propagation (1). In particular, I'd love to see advances in unsupervised learning, since the amount of labeled data is a huge limit on what AI can currently do.

https://www.axios.com/ai-pioneer-advocates-starting-over-248...
What difference does it make whether they know or not? AFAIK TSA knows of at least 3 independent studies done by different Universities of harmful radiation from backscatter machines; yet it didn't stop them from using those and making pat downs more invasive so even less people opt out.

Unless some technology is capable of killing more than few percent of population, government is the last to worry about statistics.
Some states are 70mph, and most cops won't pull people over unless they're doing 10-15mph over.

Unless you are just really unlucky XD
"left lane" is colloquial for the passing lane. It means the left-most lane in a group of equivalent lanes, not the HOV/reserved lane
There's a research paper published recently (ironically, by Google) on this topic, which additionally describes how you could improve the model locally on the device without revealing the training data to the model's owner.

https://research.googleblog.com/2017/04/federated-learning-c...

Previous HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14055655

IMHO this is gonna be huge, but probably not gonna be huge for a decade. The technical challenges seem large and it'll take a lot of experimentation by entrepreneurs before they find a use-case where people are not currently willing to use some big corp's solution.
It's worth noting that science is just one side of the coin. The other side is something that every great scientist, artist, inventor, writer, and leader has explored too. Great innovations in every discipline are found where the rational and intuitive overlap.

I'm aware that there is a lot of quackery out there but there are a lot of mysteries about the nature of existence, of consciousness, of the beginning and end of the Cosmos still.
What do you mean? The vast majority of transit cards I've experienced work contactless
Those are volume prices.
Every region says their drivers are the worst.
That is true as well. I will buy something at Costco and I will see ads related to that. Book a hotel and see ads on Facebook (let alone Google). Problem is not the fact that I am looking for these things but the amount of information they steal without my consent.
GRV ncurses interface for viewing Git repositories
Memory allocation for the curious
That's because changing lanes is excited and camping is boring. This can be easily fixed by playing a game on your phone while camping.