skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The worried part of me thinks this is the build up for just another example of "In which cryptocurrencies discover that banking and securities regulations were created for a reason".
What do they use for actually recording the GPS tracks? As we can probably agree the built-in workout app sucks for the serious runner.

And I never saw any good assessments of the GPS quality of the watch even though I've looked, do you know of any online?

Now that watchOS 4 can connect directly to Bluetooth sensors, I'd be very interested in a GPS app that derived pace and distance from a BT footpod, much like you can do with a Garmin to get better accuracy.
As someone who stove to be "rational" in everything I did, and dismissed the power of emotions in human decision making, coming face to face with the effectiveness of persuasion made me realize that winning friends and influencing people was about speaking a language that resonated with actual humans. The way people behave and respond has been studied for generations - and the best salespeople in all realms either intuitively or deliberately have discovered what makes people lean one way or another. It's a huge mistake to dismiss the biases that define us, but rather we should embrace and understand their impact.
I opened an issue. They answered it.

4 out of 5 open issues have comments from core members working with the issue opener.

Seems ok?
If your journaling your life as a thief, you could lose your freedom, if you're journaling your life as a spy, you may die. But sure, you haven't lost your ability to use your journal!

Though to be fair, I'd lose my freedom or life because of what I did, not because of the thief.

More importantly, if you have spent your time, effort, and savings do develop a new valuable process, and I steal it, sure you can still use it, but you LOSE the ability to use all of the profits that MY company now gains by selling products made of that same process. You lose your market advantage, you lose sales, you lose income.

I'm well aware of the cost, though it's unclear whether society is strictly worse off. I imagine a lot of IP theft is Pareto superior - that shouldn't affect the calculus of whether or not we prosecute it, and I'm simply arguing about what could be.

So, NO, your justifications that 'they can still use the thing that they had/have' are, to put it bluntly, merely bullshit justification for theft.

Under my system, it wouldn't be theft. It'd be business as usual. It might even be better than the current status quo that asks rights holders to perform a lot of work to get their rights catalogued but doesn't do a ton for rights holders when their work is infringed upon. How much does a patent cost? Too much. How much does it cost to get an injunction at the WTO? If you have to ask, you can't afford it.

And it seems that you just said it was OK to take and publish your code under my name? Care to publish your IP addr and credentials so we can freely access your journals and code to publish for ourselves (presuming that you produce something of value)

If turn about is fair play. You can publish my code under your name if you permit others to do the same.

The status quo is that IP laws exist and there are mechanisms to enforce it - those mechanism seem underutilized. If I had any authority in the United State or the WTO, I'd CHIMP OUT at what China's doing. Especially if I were in America and controlled a police force, I'd immediately start rattling the sabers. I'd arrest every Chinese person in America with affiliations to the Communist Party and I'd take the passport of every Chinese student (though I'd probably offer them U.S citizenship if they renounced their Chinese citizenship and really do a brain drain). I'd put the communist party affiliated people in bad conditions and use not-quite-tortue to force concessions out of China all while pounding them with an unrelenting cyber attack, very aggressive maneuvers in the South Chinese sea, and construction an iron dome of missile defense systems in every US aligned nation in Southeast Asia. What their doing is nothing short of economic acts of war and I would respond in kind.
The notion of such a collaboration sounds interesting. For most industries, it would healthier for consumers in the long run if the major stakeholders competed, rather than collaborated, at this early stage. But in the short term, it means framework fragmentation, publishing pains for indie app developers as the big guns vie for exclusive contracts. Not to mention potentially delaying technological progress in the space, what with all the R&D occurring within isolated silos keeping their trade secrets close to the vest.
HTC's press release raises even more questions -- they claim they will continue to develop the next flagship phone?

> HTC will continue to have best-in-class engineering talent, which is currently working on the next flagship phone, following the successful launch of the HTC U11 earlier this year. HTC will also continue to build the virtual reality ecosystem to grow its VIVE business, while investing in other next-generation technologies, including the Internet of Things, augmented reality and artificial intelligence.

http://www.htc.com/us/about/newsroom/2017/2017-09-21-htc-goo...
Laura Kipnis’s Endless Trial by Title IX
I posted this above, but you may not expand the full thread and see it. So, I'll post it again.

http://nautil.us/issue/35/boundaries/why-nature-prefers-hexa...

Sorry for repeating my post, but I figure you may enjoy the linked article.

Additionally, two documentaries spring to mind. Forces of Nature and The Code: Numbers Shape and Prediction.
Extensive discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15281364
Since that's not what he said, your lack of awareness is due to something else.
As someone who works for one of the biggest satellite internet providers in the world....what the fuck are you talking about?
> With ceramics and glass, things get a little tricky. You can take a relatively weak and softer piece of pottery ceramic and obliterate the hardened bullet-resistant windows on police cars [...] That happens via ultrasonic frequencies created on impact.

All of that is wrong. You can't use pottery shards or even hard pebbles to break glass; you need very hard technical ceramics[1]. Spark plug ceramic is alumina which is extremely hard.

It has nothing to do with ultrasonic frequencies, it's caused by crack propagation. Tempered glass is under internal stress due to its quench rate and chemical treatment, so as soon as the outer shell is broken the entire thing shatters. Alumina is so hard that a corner can chip off a bit of glass, releasing that pressure.

Ceramics can't be tempered like glass, and like untempered glass they only shatter if an impact by a much harder object is above the fracture propagation energy. That means that most of the time the impact energy is about the same as the actual toughness of the material. For high toughness ceramics there are no materials hard enough to cause chipping, so they break exclusively under normal toughness.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ninja_rocks
Bonzi Buddy was even better, it's the original "clippy that doesn't go away"
I do agree with that. As I am from India I find myself hitting g! or actually opening google.co.in more often than I should but I am still trying DDG and will give it few weeks more.

StartPage doesn't seem to be helpful at all. It doesn't let me select language and region separately. I need to select English UK and then it sets my region as UK. Also, it's very slow (at least for me)
I agree that Haskell is made more difficult than necessary by sticking to purity so tightly [0]

Having said that, Haskell is very much not built around the question "what if everything was a monad". Monadic IO wasn't even a thing until Haskell 1.3

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/wp-content/uploads/...

[0] Although this is, in large part, forced by its unfortunate choice of being lazy. It has also, arguably, forced advances in PL research that would have been avoided had Haskell added first class support for imperative programming.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15295146

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15299547
> The deal also includes a non-exclusive license for HTC intellectual property

From the blog post, seems to be a license.
Scientists remove one of the final barriers to making lifelike robots
Uber Admits It Doesn't Base Driver Pay on Rider Fares
The downsides of A/B testing. Unless of course you have confidence in your brand and decision making to not always trust users and the short term bottom line.
No it isn't. If I turn off WiFi from the pull down menu, it stays off.
I do this. Looks like I'm an idiot to onlookers, but I don't care. :)
Where is the RF Lab announcement?
This post has some decent points about reviews and the fine print, but the rest comes off as a bit precious.

I travel a lot and have used Booking.com to save myself quite a bit of money over the years. I still regularly compare their prices with other sites and they are pretty consistently cheaper than competing sites.

The "hurry" parts of their site do induce a little anxiety but I tend to also appreciate the real time information so I know I get the room I want.
4K sensor, uploads 1080p. 4K is used to do high-quality digital zoom (with some tricks like zooming in on person while simultaneously capturing the wide-field view).
/On-time./

Which doesn't mean they won't get there eventually. A project like this isn't going to happen overnight anyway. And the market seems to value Tesla as if they'll eventually sell multiple millions of cars per year, so it's not irrational to make business decisions with that kind of end state in mind.
It seems there is a little different.

In the press release of HTC[1]

> Google will continue to have access to HTC’s IP to support the Pixel smartphone family

Is it means HTC only licenses IP to Google, not sells them to Google?

[1]https://www.htc.com/us/about/newsroom/2017/2017-09-21-htc-go...
My main claim was that Urbit isn't revolutionary. It is really just a Unix server and programming language.
However, in an attempt to seem more sophisticated they invented new words so that nobody could figure out what it was. Urbit is purposely obtuse in their terminology, when they really could just use words that programmers already know and use. Here's some examples from the documentation you linked:

"A value in Hoon is called a noun" - or you could just call it a value.

"A gate is a Hoon function" - or you could just call it a function.

"A core has no exact equivalent in conventional languages, but the closest equivalent is an object. An object has methods; a core has functionally computed attributes (arms). An arm that produces a gate is the Hoon equivalent of a conventional method;" - or you could just say that objects in Hoon (the language) can have methods and attributes, and you would never need to invent the core/arm/gate terminology.

They try to give themselves an out by saying stuff like "Hoon has concepts like all these abstractions, but they remain false cognates." When you dig into it, the only unique things are the words. It's like children trying to come up with a code- "instead of door we'll say blorp and instead of close we'll say bleep. Now bleep the blorp before we continue inventing our code.
I will buy AirPods the moment they come in black... so I'm guessing I probably never will. :)
Nice question by OP which piqued my interest. Unfortunate to see such polarized opinions. Based on the responses so far, I'm still up on the air on whether RN is a good choice or not. :(
"What else ticks me off about this, is that there is absolutely nothing wrong with issuing stock in your company as tokens on a block chain instead of through brokers on a standard exchange. Just do it legally, for Pete's sake! Go to the SEC, or whoever the appropriate regulatory authority in your jurisdiction is, and get authorization to issue stock! Hire somebody to implement shareholder voting as block chain transactions. If the law in your area doesn't allow anonymous stockholders, then you need identified participants (and, inevitably, a Trusted system to assign or match IDs). It can work. It has advantages even. But after the meltdown that the scammers are bringing down on this whole form, it's going to be anathema, or even illegal."

Ironically, the first "ICO" to do it with full compliance, useful tech and good business model, will be huge. There is demand for it.

The other big opportunity is to come up with a framework that everyone can use to be compliant (e.g. An Ethereum with "compliance" mechanisms built into it will be a big "general-purpose" blockchain).

It's hard to understand why ignore compliance, when being compliant is quite simply going to be much bigger, sustainable and "good business" than all scammers put together.
RR 325 Date Night with Ruby with Ruberto Paulo
That's understandable. I just don't see how anything good comes from this breach unless we can get eyeballs on poor security practices. Because nobody else between you, me, and the wall seems to be paying any attention to this at all.

There's no relief forthcoming that is possible. The only way things get better now is if we dismantle the entire credit system as we know it, the cat is out of the bag. I'm not interested in punishment. I want to see more serious attention given to prevention.

First, I want to see the license and the keys taken away from the repeat offending drunk driver. Who gave them keys anyway? I sure as hell didn't sign up for this, I want to get off Mr. Bones Wild Ride.
What do you mean defensive warchest? You can't sue a patent troll for patent infringement because they don't produce any products. So how does owning lots of patents protect you from patent trolls?
Ask HN: What sites do you check daily?  (besides HN)
It would be nice if they made it a different icon like say a wifi symbol with a little timer on it.
If I didn't know what galaxies, stars, and planets were, and that instances of those are ships, this wouldn't make any sense at all.

The main audience of this post is people who're already into Urbit and understand some of the basic lingo around running a ship. If you don't have that terminology down, and don't know Ethereum either, this probably reads like Jabberwocky[0].

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jabberwocky
Same is true for most of Google's messaging apps: Gtalk, Buzz, Wave, Hangouts, Allo, Duo. Too many.
OH-58D ‘Kiowa Warrior’ takes final flight
it can't even demonstrate that we're not already there.

This is simply false. That's the whole point of the test.
Is it really that difficult to use? C'mon... Just force touch it instead of regular touching and you get the same control as before.
And then you have places like Dell, where one friend was actively forced out by his manager and prevented from moving to a different group that desperately wanted him, just so that the bad manager could get the satisfaction of shitting on this guy as much and as hard as possible.

Oh, and also making sure that he was forced to pay for Cobra and go through the whole re-hire contingency process, and screwing up his seniority at the company.

There are some hateful, hateful people out there whose only joy is causing as much pain as possible for other people.

Hmm. I wonder what POTUS gave them that idea.....
IIRC, that particular episode happened in, like, 2013, when Arvo (Urbit OS) was barely prototype-grade. Urbit developers decided to work on the OS rather than chase after a bounty of about $1000.

There was also no meaningful documentation at the time, which is why nobody else could complete it.
I consider Microsoft the patent troll in this case. (https://www.wired.com/2013/11/rockstar-2/)

Microsoft at the time was bragging about Android licensing revenues and basically using whatever they had, including non-practiced patents, to threaten Android OEMs into submission.
(Small recommendations) Visiting the landing page, for a search-engine site whose entire purpose is to search for startups, the search bar should not be mid-way down the page. It should be right in the header. Also, instead of the word "Go!" on the search, use a magnifying glass to again help identify it as a search input.

On search results, did you specifically opt not to display logos? It may actually be nice not to have them so focus is placed on mission statement / slogan, but I'd be interested if this omission was intentional.

Overall, seems like a site I'd use if it expanded to the U.S. and other countries. If this site is targeting people interested in products (rather than investors / job hunters) then maybe you could add a feature to subscribe by email for specific search terms. For example, what if I want to be alerted once a month if there are new companies posted that match the term "coffee"? This would be a great addition to help encourage users to return to your site.
FUBAR Delivery.

If it's not f*cked it's free!
This is wonderful, thank you.
You've seen the interview process for Amazon right?

I mean, it's like they're trying to eliminate all human beings from consideration, before they even get started.
Step by Step Guide on Incorporating in Estonia
My first inclination is "Why doesn't he just ignore Michelin" but then I realize that a poor ranking in Michelin could do real damage to his business beyond the segment of his guests that is aware of Michelin ratings.

Thanks for the translation by the way.
I wonder if Arq backup will work with this one day.
Please identify one concrete computing action that I cannot do with Linux/Windows/Mac that Urbit enables.

In other words, what is Urbit's "Killer Feature"? Cause I'm not seeing one.

And a runner up question: Is Urbit still heavily dependent on unreleased root node code? In other words, is this distributed computing just a load of hype covering over a overly complicated star topology?
This is a feature I would love. Ideally with a prompt "do you want to forget [current network]?" if you're connected to one because I'm probably turning it off because it's poor quality or I can't be bothered with the sign in process.
This is very bad. A strong attack based on this could run through entire data centers.
Ticketmaster pay a substantial share of their "service fee" to venues and promoters. By signing an exclusivity deal with TM, venues can guarantee themselves a greater share of the effective ticket price. Artists are powerless to negotiate because of TM's dominant position in the ticketing market. It's a grubby little money-go-round scheme that exploits artists and fans alike.

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/12/business/12tickets.html
I thought you're joking and then discovered there actually really is a .pizza TLD.

https://icannwiki.org/.pizza
It sounds like the HTC Pixel Team, minus the management people.
I just spent 3 weeks travelling the USA and we used Booking.com to see what was around. But then we went directly to the hotel's site to make the booking and you know what? Same price, if not slightly cheaper in some (not all) instances.
What's wrong with the driver experience? Mine seems fine. It's certainly better than the automatic transmission in my old car due to smooth and instantaneous power delivery with no "dead spots" for shifting between gears.
Check out Tachyons and similar CSS libraries which use CSS classes to essentially define inline styles efficiently. When you are making components, this can work out well in containing potential interactions of CSS.
http://tachyons.io/

Combined with a lightweight vdom library like Mithril.js using the HyperScript API and maintaining state in plain old JavaScript objects (updating on any user interaction, network events, timers, or some few other events), this makes web single-page application development quite pleasant and scalable. You can also test much of such vdom-based UIs without creating real DOM nodes.
https://mithril.js.org/

Here is one example FOSS project I wrote in that style: https://github.com/pdfernhout/Twirlip7

Of course, few web developers grok this yet because most affirm "best practices" from years ago (e.g. semantic CSS, HTML-first design, JavaScript as a progressive afterthought) -- and also are used to coding in non-standard HTML-ish templating systems (e.g. Angular, Vue, JSX) which give them a false sense of security they can maintain more complex apps that are mostly about JavaScript. React has helped a lot of developers begin to move past some of that, but it has its own licensing issues and also baggage (including JSX) from being only half-way to the new paradigm outlined above.
They similarly totally lie about matching the lowest price. Had the misfortune of booking through them once, then I found the same hotel for a much lower price on another site (makemytrip) so I sent a screenshot to the support.

After a day they outright DENIED to honor this "Lowest Price Guarantee" with some lame excuse. When I told them that I'll go to the small claims court I never heard back from them. Don't believe a word on this site.
"It is really just a Unix server and programming language."

You should read https://urbit.org/posts/overview/

The whole reason Urbit exists is that Unix + the internet is broken and needs a complete overhaul

Re: the different names, there are slight differences between gates and functions, but I agree they're not important enough to merit the change in name. But hey, it takes a purist to spend 15 years rewriting the whole stack from scratch!
>>finally he plays the same semantic shellgame with his words he plays with his political essays, to convince you that the horrible political views he has aren't so horrible.

I suggest you leave your ideological biases out of your assessment of Urbit the technology. We all have our political beliefs - mine are hard libertarian, yours are hard feminist/leftist - but hopefully we can put those aside when assessing technology.
I'll say it again. Ya canna ha ya cak en et it tu.

In addition, what testable predictions has evolutionary theory made about existing organisms on this planet? Not interested in any prediction about things long past as you can modify any theory in any field to match up to such findings. What can evolutionary theory predict today that we can test as an outcome by going out and finding those predictions in living organisms today? That should be an easy question to answer if there is any veracity in the evolutionary model/theory.
The impact is worse than just hurting brands.

After hotels.com boned me, I've soured on the very notion of online bookings, price comparison sites for travel stuff, trusting ratings.

Caveat emptor (aka Freedom Markets™) is bad for business because it increases transaction costs (friction).

Reforms like consumer protection regulations are championed by businesses trying to make an honest buck once they get tired of the cheaters ruining the market for all the players.
Taliban and Al Qaeda had been at each other throats especially post 9/11. There has never been love lost between them. It had been personal decision of Mullah Omar to put islamic solidarity over realpolitik.

Some clever policymaking - mixing military threats with financial incentive - could result in catching most of Al Qaeda possibly Bin-Laden included and avoid 16 year war. But B-1 coming with vengeance after mountain caves looked better on TV and as propaganda spin post 9/11.
Yet Fujifilm survived while seniority-itis is stronger at Japanese companies than anywhere else
Right now you can build decentralized apps like Mastodon, except they 1) take hours to setup a node, along with having to know arcane Linuz sysadmining 2) aren't actually decentralized, but federated. Urbit wants to make it easy to setup your own server, which runs as a node for all these decentralized apps (instant messaging, Twitter, etc.), along with be useful for server-y things like aggregate APIs (email, Facebook).

This sounds vaguely intriguing. But the problem that most Ethereum projects have is that they put the solution and technology before the problem. Half the time I don't even know what I'm looking at or if it's worth looking further.

Can you restate the problem that Urbit solves in the simplest terms you can think of?