skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Still lacking text outline, which is still available as a dll plugin.

Other than that, one the best software on earth. I have never used photoshop, and I don't need it.
How Brendan Eich plans to flip the online ad model and fix the web – Digiday
This works very well for low-grade depression for sure.
There seems to be a threshold where this type of intervention becomes completely ineffective (personal experience).
You can advocate for law enforcement without being a frothing animal about it.
>> And your point doesn't always hold true. For example https://github.com/torvalds/linux/pull/17

> I don't know what this is supposed to mean

What I linked to is an example of a discussion that didn't stay focused or tight despite the fact that it's not threaded.
Whenever you have a question about bitcoin ask the same question about gold, most of the time it is the same answer.

Can you use paper cash in a monetary system that runs on gold? Yes, see the 17th to 19th century. Banks issue counterfeit resistant pieces of paper that represent pieces of gold in the banks safe. Sometimes you get counterfeiting or fraud, but it works well enough. When the power gets turned back on you go back to using real bitcoin payments (which are more convenient than gold).
The first example would be better as a simple if..else. The second example is doing an instanceof check on every case where it ought to be using switch(get_class($object)).
I wonder if they considered git appraise [0] as it allows offline work and synchronization due to underlying transport (git).

[0]: https://github.com/google/git-appraise
dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15371102 and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15371111
Obesogenic environments exist.
>Does the prominence matter? Size? Adjacent material?

No, no and no.
Just for a starter, "Danes are even more content than Norwegians with having even less, giving almost everything back to the state" is blatantly and utterly false. The effective tax rate in Denmark is not particularly remarkable among OECD countries.

This misconception, as well as call to "all Norwegians know this", and your use of the term "politically correct" as a pejorative makes it clear that you have a political agenda, an axe to grind with the social democracy practiced in the Scandinavian countries.
The New Reality of Old Age in America
Basic Attention Token (BAT) Blockchain Based Digital Advertising – White Paper [pdf]
To someone not familiar with Darwin internals, are drivers bundled or is it possible to get binary blobs? Does this mean we can build an open source stack that could run on iPhone or iWatch?
> If they start taking PR's

It’s a mirror.
AERO: Enabling a Drone Superhighway Within the United States
I wrote my thesis in LaTeX, there was at least minimal support at our PhD office (minimal in the sense of they would accept postscript at the time). My choices were MS Word (in early 90s, so ... yuck) which I didn't have on any machine I had access to, or LaTeX. So LaTeX it was.

I wound up using some of the APS macros, and a number of things I wrote.

For me, the cool part of this is that my thesis was built using a multi-pass makefile. I ran it on all of my machines (SGI Indy, OS2 laptop) at the time.

Since then I've written documentation for 2 projects in LaTeX. It worked quite well, but then I was forced into using the dark side's tools (Word) as none of my colleagues were versed in the finer side of (La)TeX.
I'm going to call this thread an instance of Graham's Law: the probability that men on Hacker News will eventually find a way to drive the conversation to a discussion about the relative intelligence of women is 1.
Without the ability to sign the kernel, even if you could build one you wouldn't be able to run it.
There is a lot hidden in the "idea that writing tests and documentation is actually worthwhile." Few (any?) will argue against that. The problem is there are actually three skills embedded there.

I am coming to view it in three parts:

Testing code typically benefits most from being able to think about how the code is not supposed to act.

Writing code is typically describing what you want.

Documenting code is talking about how all of the code is supposed to work together.

I think most examples online that try and get folks better at any one of these, pick an example that is worthless for the other two skills. In particular, writing solid tests for a function or unit does little to help document how it will work with all of the other parts. Writing good documentation for a unit is trivial, so not often applicable to a person's day job. And then seeing the documentation for a full piece is often too much to include the code and tests. (I'm talking specifically about "blog" level articles.)
I was hoping to click through and see Terence Tao's name on the paper. Then I would assume it was correct. Agree with the other comments as it stands.
Somewhat unrelated, I recently discovered that monitor lizards can "count as high as six"[0].

[0]: https://www.earthsfriends.com/monitor-lizards/
Just fill 9/10 of database with plausible crap. It would be pretty useless to brute-force it (and any part of it) then.
The Bitcoin apocalypse is coming in mid-November to a block chain near you
Don't forget the drum beats to convince US public to invade Iraq. Media is much more controlled by the establishment than any other country here in US.
It's great to see this here.

For context, this is the model the author is referencing:

https://slatestarcodex.com/2017/09/05/book-review-surfing-un...

Scott Alexander is currently my favorite essayist. I just wasted most of yesterday reading the last 18 months of his "links" posts.

I regularly pass his work on to friends and would do so more often if I didn't think it would upset people.
Or maybe some people legitimately were concerned for your health? The statistics are indisputable, being obese causes permanent damage to your body and reduces both the quality and length of your life. Wanting someone to frame this differently is a bit of an odd complaint.

No, not at all. If you don't frame it differently, you won't change anyone's mind. That reveals the goal for what it is: to feel good about thumbing your nose at obese people, rather than actually persuading them to do something about it.

If you want to persuade people, it's best to be clear about that in your own mind. But if you only want to feel superior then being like "You're fat, yo" is a fine way.
You can. You'll have to navigate to WiFi in the Settings app for it though.
FirefoxOS produced several useful artifacts, sure, but they were things like device APIs. e10s pre-dates FirefoxOS by many years, and unless there was some very long-term secret plan that they didn't tell the rest of the company about, WebExtensions came after FirefoxOS was shuttered.
Pachet Slim Formula and XShape and Chromium Max 500
If we rethought whatever quota system is in place for arrests it would be a great help. Cops need to make lots of arrests, this is an easy arrest to make, and the cop is a step closer to the quota. It seems to create a system where people arrest people for profit instead of to "serve and protect."
One use case that I'd like to see that runs contrary to the spirit of net neutrality is the ability to buy a 'data transfer' service tier. I.e. lots of data has to move from somewhere to the public cloud and most telecom infrastructure sits under-utilized especially at night. I would more believe the telcos that net neutrality is innovation stifling if any of them had ever taken our money when we wanted to buy intentionally low priority service, but at huge throughput, for cheap.

Anyone know where we can buy said service?
This makes me so mad. Posession of a pocket knife used for work ruins 6 years of a mans wife...and I tell you. We know this was used on the poor or the brown.
It's a story that (a) the iOS bits are included and (b) it's posted to GitHub instead of dumped at opensource.apple.com. We'll see if Apple accepts pull requests.
The flight crew captures the line and reels the person onboard.

> As the line was caught between the forks on the nose of the aircraft, the balloon was released and a spring-loaded trigger mechanism (sky anchor) secured the line to the aircraft. After the initial pickup, the line was snared by the pickup crew using a J-hook and attached to a powered winch and the person or cargo pulled on board.

As the retrieved you’d really be hoping that the “sky anchor” was well built.
I don’t think it counts unless someone who doesn’t know about the change can actually figure it out.
'any alcohol' != drunk. But the line includes 'judgment is impaired' which is a very loos definition.

'Drunk' has expanded with DUI laws to be include very mild levels of intoxication as people get DUI while not noticeably impaired. Further, nobody is taking blood tests making dunk and consent tricky subjects.

Can a 120lb person give consent after 4 shots in 2 hours? How about 6, 7 etc?
I'm really not worried about some downvotes, but am surprised to see them. How is it not embarrassing that as much progress we have made with web standards, a major feature in one of the most popular email services is browser specific?

There is no need to point any fingers, but I find it interesting that for years now we've had key players in major browsers sit around at conferences and talk up how much they're working together on standards yet this is where we end up.
Well that's a bit different. That would be a direct misrepresentation of the product. i.e. you can not make anyone look like that with the advertised product.
This is true. Galicia has been continuously kept down since centuries so that Madrid could take the spotlight.

Part of my family is Galician, I'm Portuguese myself. Still, instead of breaking Spain apart I would actually prefer to see the whole of Iberia working together as a union.

The main problem seems to be where the capital would be placed since only Castilians would want Madrid. I only wish that we could agree on a small but memorable place like Santiago de Compostela as centre for that union.

Fragmented even more, our Iberia has little voting power in regards to negotiating with France and Germany in the European Union. If Catalunya has to separate, so let it be. In the end of the day we are all together on the same boat, can only wish that we could row together too.
For context check out the book he's referencing, or at least his review of it:

https://slatestarcodex.com/2017/09/05/book-review-surfing-un...
Source here ?
Filecoin, Sia. It's actually a horrible idea. Can you imagine competing with Amazon?
You don't want to take a group of people with notoriously low self esteem and make them fat.
"In most of the rest of Europe (DK, DE, FR from my own experience), if you want the engineer path with good money, you need to get hired by a big company."

This is true. Unfortunately this has likely very little to do with your skills. To get hired by a big company there are three options:

1. You have family connections
2. Your professor in the university has connections
3. You work for a start up that get's acquired by a big company.

Exceptions confirm the rule. Also this may not be the case for companies like McKinsey or BCG.

I once applied for a job Germany at BASF. Job location would be Asia. Based on my resume I was very well suited for the job. I filled out the shitty SAP application interface. They really got back to me. "We received your application. Please also upload your 'letters of recommendation' (something that is provided to you in writing for every job you had in Germany)". I emailed them that I got my PhD in the US and worked in the US and that I don't have this but that I am happy to provide references. They emailed: " If you don't have letters of recommendation then we don't need you. We deleted you application!" This was a multinational company.
The False Dream of a Neutral Facebook
I agree. From keeping logs over the last few years, severe depression was more likely to occur due to e.g. not enough sleep or just illness, and in those cases accomplishments were impossible. Rest was it, and I felt lucky if I could get good rest before acting on any depressing thoughts or ruminations. So I wouldn't call goal-reaching a standalone cure; far from it. Also there's the fact that people accept/reject potentially helpful information based on different criteria, from very rational (is it in a reputable journal) to irrational (do I like the person who gave the information) to incredibly subjective (did I think of it on my own?). So the idea of "why not try accomplishment" may be doomed from the start, due to factors outside of the advisor's control.
I can't speak to the psychology of it, but I imagine the same sort of invincibility complex exists for big movers in traditional business/finance/politics. We're just being made aware of it here now because of the democratization of the entire system.
The vast majority of human babies are the result of either "Whoops! Babies happen!" or "We tried for years for this one!" The families that try for years tend to have one or two kids, not three or more. The people with many children who complain of being trapped typically have a lot of other things going on that lead to them having too little control over their lives.

I am super uncomfortable with statements that suggest people just need to exercise some self control and stop cranking out babies. That position is incredibly dismissive of very complex issues, including lack of access to health care in the US. Historically, health insurance that paid for Viagra did not pay for female birth control. We have this underlying assumption that men have a right to get laid, even if they need chemical help to get it up, but women do not. Yet, most of those men are getting laid with women, not with other men.

Questions of reproduction and sexual morality are incredibly complex and a very touchy subject because when two people have sex where the result may be a child, there are a great many people impacted. It isn't as simple as her rights vs his. The rights of the child are an issue, but so are the rights of the rest of society.

It really isn't a discussion I care to see injected here.
Counterpoint: I wouldn’t think of starting a startup in the US but I would seriously consider it in Sweden. Healthcare is one of the issues for me.

Maybe it’s not right to say it’s the reason for Sweden’s success but it could be an enabling factor.
Tech TopX: Prism Central 5.1 Features
> access the banned websites/files locally

What exactly does this mean?

Do you mean by accessing this address:

https://ipfs.io/ipns/QmZxWEBJBVkGDGaKdYPQUXX4KC5TCWbvuR4iYZr...
Cash in hand isn’t unhackable at all. Counterfeiting is still a real thing.
If we want EMP resiliency, we need to stop export controls on it. (US Munitions List [1], page 24.) It's not hard, or even expensive. All portable devices without cables could easily be EMP protected. Cars and trucks, especially, should be EMP-tested. Long wires are more of a problem. Lightning and surge protection devices should include EMP protection; some do, just because the devices are fast enough.[2] Fiber optic cables are totally immune to EMP.

We're not going to get it from China. Anti-static Mylar bags are touted on Alibaba as "EMP protection". They're not.

[1] https://www.pmddtc.state.gov/regulations_laws/documents/offi...

[2] http://www.futurescience.com/emp/EMP-myths.html
It is important to note that Hitler came to power by an entire "democratic" process. His party was voted into power by several elections until they reached a point where they started passing laws which one by one eliminated democracy.

Look at the recent changes in Turkey. Yes, Erdogan got democratic approval to the changes to the constitution which now enable him to control the media and most government functions.
I'm not able to evaluate the paper but from what i can make out after a quick perusal the Twin Prime "proof" is showing that the probability of there not being a twin prime approaches zero?? That's an interesting approach (perhaps that's common, I don't know).

There seemed to be quite a lot of approximations in use; that approach prima facie seems shaky - surely the probability there isn't a prime above a particular integer could be anything non-zero and still leave the conjecture unproven.

I've probably misinterpreted it.

Will be interesting to see a proper teardown at a later date.
This sounds a lot like Martin Seligman's work. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Seligman
EU citizen here. Also I live in Turkey.

The education in Turkey was/is low quality. Always 50 years behind Europe. The reason why half of Turkish voters voted for Erdoğan is that Erdoğan is able to tell lies to uneducated people. The western part of Turkey is more educated and doesn't vote for Erdoğan.

And as you might know Socrates hated democracy. I really understand him now. He believed that uneducated people will vote for the popular guy on the ship, they won't vote for educated.
Why would this matter? There are more than enough books in the local languages about programming.

Formerly it may have mattered if you can afford a computer. But prices have come down so far that this is not an issue anymore. Hey, you could use a Raspberry with a keyboard and attach it to a TV to learn how to program.
It also includes the 5c, which was launched in 2013. The 8 gig version of it was sold by Apple as the budget option until September of 2015, a mere two years ago. Some retailers still carry them to this day.
Not in it's current state. It's just a kernel. It's missing key components of the software stack to even make it terminal-only, let alone a GUI. There have been attempts through the years to create a full OS from the bits of OS X/macOS that Apple drops on opensource.apple.com. They do this by surrounding the kernel with FreeBSD or GNU software land, porting Xorg, and other components. See DarwinBSD, OpenDarwin, and PureDarwin. None of the projects proved sustainable in the long-run. It is possible that could change now though with better access to the code on GitHub. It's also possible we could see better drivers developed for hackintosh.
That's the thing. If they went to school for Computer Science, depending on the program, we aren't necessarily taught how to code. More about how to think and solve problems. I never had to use a switch statement in my Algorithms or Data Structures course.

I learned how to write tests after pairing with a person from Twitter on some Rails work a few years back. He randomly saw me testing things manually and then he was like, "Let me show you how to write tests for this so you don't have to waste time manually testing." And I've just written tests since then. But my University never taught us how to write tests for our code. Some professors gave us a test suite for our code to run against as a sanity check, but that's about it. I became a better software engineer through great mentorship and building stuff in my free time.
The Narrowing Gap Between Mobile Apps and Mobile Websites
> (borrowed from MS COM)

are you referring to microsoft's com (component object model)?
Cash is the solution. Your other comment is literally demonstrating what merchants have done for millennia before we had computers - write down the transactions in a ledger so you can keep track of daily business. Now, if the lady behind the counter had a problem counting cash - that's on her.
Literally overuse of "literally."
Danish tax rate is one of the highest in the world if not the highest in the world. On top of that you have 25% VAT and on cars, you are up to around 200% (recently lowered)

Denmark is indeed remarkable.
Thanks for explaining, this comment is much more useful than your original to someone not well versed in statistics like me.
Really Iphone Portrait Lighting Is Cool Enough
It wasn't something I just decided to do, 15 years of hating my life eroded almost everything but my basic needs. Now I can look back at that time and with confidence say 'no' when asked to do something which would cause me to relapse.
> Deaths from Anorexia are about 150/year

> (See https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11513012 )

treatment for anorexia has got very much better. It used to kill about 20% of people with the diagnosis. More people get full recovery than used to, and more people live long term (either maintaining low weight, or relapsing & remitting) with anorexia.

But, also, deaths from anorexia are often coded as something else.

EG https://twitter.com/MaskedAMHP/status/910465836170846208

https://twitter.com/AgnesAyton/status/913722609610760192

etc.

http://content.digital.nhs.uk/catalogue/PUB21748
Certain types of currency are absolutely unforgeable or easily detected if they are forged. Gold, for example. It's how we discovered specific gravity.
I'm not American, but I don't understand, how did this man get those 6 years added in a tribunal? Did he go to court? I mean what kind of legal people put this guy in jail for that? I mean did anybody blink on it?

Sure the law is a problem, but I don't see what motivations the justice system can have to apply the law like that, can somebody explain it to me?
Going outside and getting daylight on overcast days is still much, much better than any typical light indoors. If you measure the light in a room vs. outside, rooms are dark caves. Your eyes may say it isn’t dark, but you’ll get next to nothing indoors. This has a big effect on your mood and hormones.
It was not about the hardware. It was their goals, and their partners.

First off their goals, effectively OLPC the phone. A cheap "smartphone" built on web tech that allowed the owner to modify the software as he saw fit.

This then clashed with the partners they found, carriers that had zero interest in owner-modifiable phones.

It was doomed from the start, but it allowed some execs to pat themselves on the back and tell their fellow gallery dwellers that they had done something for the third world...
I agree with one thing you said: if the barriers to municipalities providing broadband internet are removed, then the current monopolies will discover what true competition feels like, and a lot of customers, especially those in underserved rural communities, will discover what true world class broadband internet service feel like.

See https://www.thenation.com/article/chattanooga-was-a-typical-... for a description of what I mean.
For what it's worth, KGIII is mischaracterizing their position. In no way do they feel invincible. They're keenly aware of how vulnerable they are and are hyper-vigilant about their opsec. I'm pretty sure their #1 fear is to make a dumb mistake that gives away their identity.

The idea that they think they're untouchable or that "They think that being nice is going to keep them from going to prison" is just flat-out a blatant misrepresentation of their words and persona.

Also, this is amusing: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15371053

>> It may sound crazy ...

> I don't offer an opinion on your business methods, recovery methods, or even the morality.

Followed by

I'm no psychiatrist and a few Internet posts aren't enough to diagnose someone, but I'm pretty sure they are crazy. Not 'so crazy they might just get away with it' crazy, but 'should seek professional care' crazy.

I suspect people are simply bothered by the idea that his venture could actually succeed, which manifests itself as "He's crazy." Yes, obviously you have to be a little nuts to go up against the full weight of the law. But there is method underpinning the madness, and he seems to be holding up his end of the bargain so far. He could've disappeared with the money and no one could trace him.

We'll see if that happens, but until then it's worth keeping an open mind. It all depends whether he can execute and actually deliver the app.
Thanks. I did sort of know that in a not very active vocab way. In my native language, I think we would use some form of "the monotheistic religions".
Sure - for some definitions of "understand".
I doubt they will. Actual commits aren't going to github, just version snapshots.