skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Instruction set can't be patented. Intel tries to patent ways to implement and functions those instructions carry.

ionno, try telling that to Microsoft. This wasn't welcoming: https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2017/06/intel...
Peter Thiel and Sean Parker are financing a secretive cancer-fighting startup
As a US citizen, I worry our senators are vulnerable to lobbyist influence campaigns.
attributed often to Emmerson: ‘I cannot remember the dinners I have eaten, nor the books I have read, but all have helped to make me.’
When you load Lisp files, they get compiled; this compilation is saved as binary files (often, "fast load files"), that do what it says on the tin: They allow you to, next time, load your program really quickly.

Now, your program also has state. If you want, you can also save the state of the program (i.e. by using the "save-lisp-and-die" command). This can create large files, because this allows you not only to quickly "run" the program again, but to also run it with the same state that it had when you did the save.
Bose BT headphones have two inputs. I usually have my phone and laptop connected. It has some priority sorting order which seems to work well.
Can you mention a few of those additional features?
What is money? What are taxes? It's all relating to a promise of a certain amount of work will be done. Do we generally do free things for our family, for our elderly parents, etc? Yes, we do. It's the idea of imagine if what everyone did was to work in service of others, where no money was exchanged - but if literally everyone is helping you - you will be 100% taken care of. With automation we can replace - or rather we can free many people's time that would otherwise be needed. The construct and culture we've been born into, "educated" to believe, is flawed in getting us stuck in a non-abundance mindset - into a mindset of scarcity. In some parts of the world, sure perhaps that is the case currently, however we have the resources and knowledge to efficiently manage everything so everyone is taken care of. And Elon's helping give us more room and be able to mine more resources from space as well. The universe is big, there's abundance - we just have to allocate resources properly - which includes not being destructive with war and violence.
I can imagine that if proof-of-work remains a prevailing feature of popular blockchain systems, setting up e.g. bitcoin mining operation off near-free solar would be a nice passive income stream.

How fast can modern ASIC hardware pay for itself if mining?
> Well, for some reason the ports on my phones would always kind of stop working at some point

Lint. Headphone jacks and lightning ports on every iPhone I've ever owned would always stop working properly after 6 months to a year of being carried around in my pocket. (Sort of) easily fixed with a paperclip to pick the lint out of the port, of course, but annoying and the headphone jack was harder to clean than the lighting/dock connecter port.
> The point is, parents aren't protecting kids by [driving instead of busing].

Sure they are. A bus is a different environment than school. For one, the only adult is actively concentrating the opposite direction of all the kids, who have large seat backs that block view of all but their heads. That leaves a lot more room for... activities.

I took the bus a few times when I was in junior high school almost two decades ago. I faced very minor bullying every trip. At school 7/8 of my classes were "advanced" in some way (honors, pre-AP, AP, orchestra, etc) so I didn't interact with the kids doing the bullying. I can count on one had the times I felt bullied at school during those years.

Now for me it's possible I would have been better served by just learning to handle small stuff like that, but I can certainly see how a bus ride could be hell for some kids and then they'd be mostly ok at school (maybe just some incidents at PE and lunch).
Both talked about not doing another regime change in the Middle East, so the opposite of Clinton. That was a pretty big deal in quite a few people's minds.

Now obviously that's just campaign talk, but I would go with the smallest glimmer of hope of not killing and displacing another million people in the process.
Where do you pull data from?

I'll definitely try this app, I've built my own super-simple dashboard [1] for the same reason, with data pulled from kraken.

[1] http://priceeth.github.io/
Unfortunately people don't think through their choices so carefully. They either go with a whim or vote based on a particular issue they are passionate about.
I can't speak for these, but I assume they are based on Google Translate, which does offline translation on-device when configured to do so. It needs to download a pre-trained kernel for each language, but once done, it can handle it offline.
They support PGP, so you can use this.
Replace upvote with vote for two Significant Identification Labels, which would be

I am Left (X) or Right (X)
Written from Left-View (X)
Written from Right-View (X)

Biased (X) or Fair (X)

Pushes Left View (X)
Pushes Right View (X)

I Agree (X) or I Disagree (X)

Makes Sense (X)

As You might see it's geared towards outputting two different Labels, one from I am Left View and one Right View both showing under each other.

The idea is to show both view besides each other to signify there are more side than one to a coin. Right now in Reddit they are both reduced into one counter.

The resulting Significant Identification Labels would be along the following:

Left Wing
Pushes Left Wing (X)
Pushes Right Wing (X)
Says it
is Biased Towards
Left(X)
Right (X)
is Fair (X)
Makes Sense (X)

Right Wing
Pushes Left Wing (X)
Pushes Right Wing (X)
Says it
is Biased Towards
Left(X)
Right (X)
is Fair (X)
Makes Sense (X)
“Without computers” is extremely vague. What needs to be done without them, considering the majority of use cases for our existing cases for SSN’s or state ID’s are electronic (even if it is just handing the card to someone so they can copy the details into a computer).

A smart card handles everything pretty well, it acts as a normal physical ID but can also be used to electronically sign things as well (plug it into a terminal at the bank and enter a PIN to verify your identity when opening an account, or use a card reader at home).
Hey, don't get mad at me, bro because Bloomberg thinks Apple a crook. That's Bloomberg's wording, not mine. The same article also mentions that JY Lee of Samsung is convicted of corruption in South Korea, having colluded with the previous administration. While there is no conclusive evidence that Samsung paid off KFTC regulators to go after Qualcomm, I wouldn't be too surprised it turns out they did -- my father used to work for the South Korean Intelligent Agency for almost two decades and these things do happen.

Apple is also known to influence and buy politicians to win favors -- see Obama's reversal of Samsung ITC in 2013. In America, this is called "lobbying" and is perfectly legit. It's also rumored that USFTC's lawsuit against Qualcomm was Obama's parting gift to Apple. It looked like Qualcomm's allies (aka, lobbyists) urged Trump to terminate FTC's complaint against Qualcom, but I guess we will have to see how far this administration will allow this to go on.
Then turn off that warning if you don't like/want it.
Another interesting story about the bar (Brehon) - a guy started a successful pharma advertising agency out of that bar! They actually used the pay phone as their phone line. The business is still successful and located about a block away, called Closerlook.
Posters are popular because they are cheap and compact, both for the presenters and (more importantly) for the conference.

Posters are usually used in high-volume settings with very light review. "Everybody" attending the conference gets to present a poster if they want to.

> a video... an interactive computer screen

Now you need 500 monitors at the conference venue, power cables, etc. The costs add up big time; hotels make a killing on this type of thing.

> a talk

You want to limit the number of talks so that the accepted talks are actually well-attended! So, not everyone gets to give a talk. Also, most people who give talks also present a poster because maybe there was a parallel session that stole some of your audience (who are interested enough to find you at the poster session).

At least in CS, no one is choosing a poster over a talk! talks are reserved for the work that passed the highest bar of peer review this year. (That said, I always recommend people present posters for some of the reasons described below. Even though talks are "higher status", IMO posters are often more effective once people are engaged.)

> a demonstration

These are sometimes rolled into poster sessions, but require more space and planning on the part of the organizers. Space at conferences is often hard to find.

> an interactive exhibit, a diorama, a play

This is kinda funny coming from a CS/math background. I guess in some fields this could make sense but would have the same drawbacks as videos or talks, respectively.
There was no primary rigging.

The fact that you think this is the result of Russian propaganda, because it works.
The downside with chrome's implementation is that they are completely isolated instances of chrome - there's no easy way to hop between containers.

Being able to right-click on a link in your personal container and open it in your work container is pretty slick.
Posting from the other thread here too...

The "translate conversations in real-time" part seems to have nothing to do with the Google Pixel Buds - it's already live in the Google Translate app.

In fact, you can try it right now. Open the Google Translate app on android, put on a pair of headphones with a mic, and tap the audio translation. As you hear spoken word in another language, it'll translate in realtime back to your non-google headphones.

*note - The trick is you need to press the button so it enables translation across both languages, as that seems to be the only way to keep translation on even after the first phrase.
If your chosen party is revealed to have literally sold you out and subverted democracy, voting Trump kinda makes sense. Let's not forget, the DNC actively worked against Sander's campaign. It was borderline treason.
What I find more amazing is how educated, successful people all over the world can be almost deliberately blind to the massive difference that culture can have in the functions of a society.
Weird that you spend virtually the entirety of your post comparing the "bokeh" score when that is one area where the pixel 2 scores significantly worse than the iPhone 8.

Another one of your posts, talking about the white temperature, etc, is just surreal, and I dare you say that you are utterly clueless on this subject.
> you should be using a qualifier like foo:: or this-> to access them anyway.

I think a lot of C++ devs will disagree with this. It's also very uncommon from my experience.

One could argue that this should be solved by semantic highlighting or naming conventions instead.
This would be invaluable for patient encounters. If anyone at Google is reading this -- is there any plan to make a set like this available with a BAA / HIPAA compliance?
Heh yeah, I remember saying back then (and getting agreement from friends) "it aint a real arcade unless it has SF2".
Why not whitelist hn?
if you're uncomfortable storing them there, you're going to rotate all the secrets after you move the repo to keybase, right?
Power is largely fungible, though. It doesn't merely need to pay for itself eventually, it needs to pay better than simply selling the power.
Saying that phones "could" be hacked/backdoored is no more of a fallacy than saying Hidden trigger words "can" exist.
It is, but it's also worth bearing in mind that, on average, you're going to be average. And, as is natural, you probably overestimate your own behavior. (This last point is basically true of everything, but gun safety's pretty unforgiving on that last point.)
Why not have the flag and not use it if you don't want it? That way other users of gcc who want that flag are not deprived of that feature.
I don't have to leave the US to find disaster situations where knowing Spanish would be useful.

Yes, clearly actually knowing the language would be better.
Are you sure?

From: https://www.theverge.com/circuitbreaker/2017/10/4/16408962/n...

"And this year’s Pixel will take advantage of the phone’s always-on microphones to listen for music (not just the phrase “OK Google”) and display what you’re listening to on the screen, even if it’s something on the radio."

Pretty sure it can't do that without at least transmitting audio fingerprints to the cloud passively...

Idea: a device that sniffs wifi and bluetooth MAC addresses and warns you when there's a Google Pixel2 in earshot...

(Note: That's the Pixel2, not the earbuds, but for the "magic" to work, the earbud wearers will have one of those in their pockets...)
Is there a way to remove the auto-scanning and microphone listening features? I have an Iphone so I don't know. Every phone does this now I know. It just seems weird that it is brought up so non-chalantly in the article. Like I guess we are just okay with this now.
In 2005, Bruce Schneier noted the purpose is to provide a fallback password[1] if the primary password was forgotten, but the reality is, security questions are a much less secure protocol than passwords themselves.

While on a personal level you can fix this by using a password manager and generating another random string as an answer, other cute and terrible implementations like United[2] (calling you guys out) obliterate it, making yet another, terrible, horrible, no-good secondary protocol.

Why companies use them is because the Powers That Be(TM) believe it to be a secure protocol. They localize the problem to themselves and since they haven't been exposed using their mother's maiden name, it's good enough. Also, everybody else uses security questions, even our competitors, so we have to be at least as secure as them, right? The key phrase is "at least". Then you are equivalent in policy and protocol; certainly not more secure. :D

[1] https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2005/02/the_curse_of_...

[2] https://www.united.com/ual/en/us/account/enroll/default
"They’re wired behind the neck but they’re every bit a competitor to Apple’s AirPods"

Umm, no. The killer feature of AirPods is the form factor and not having an annoying cable connecting the buds. As other posters have noted, Amazon is full of cabled headphones. Language translation is certainly cool, but for most people that's not an everyday need.
> Blockchain is interesting because it uses that chunked linked list data structure to create distributed consensus.

Bullshit. Blockchain does not build distributed consensus, it's a totally
different thing: document timestamping service.

> So it's unfair to just isolate the data structure on its own and say it's not interesting or novel.

The only thing novel in document timestamping service called blockchain is
that it doesn't need trusted third party. That's all. Other than that, we had
cryptographic timestamping protocols for some time already.
An opposite anecdote:

I bought my Nexus 5X used on Swappa. It finally bootlooped about a month ago. Called Project Fi support, they transferred the phone to my ownership in their system, and then issued an RMA and sent me a refurbed 5X. I was fairly surprised, as the phone was both out of warranty and bought used.
This is just a list. There is no curation. No commentary, no analysis, no setting in context.
You must be new to the web development.
Sciencey people going into AI????? Maybe during the AI winter. Today, we are living in a hype bubble of epic proportions.
> In day to day life there are 0.21 homicides by gunfire for 100k inhabitants per year in France and 3.6 in the US (source: wikipedia).

This is missing the point of the comment you're replying to. You're comparing homicide by gunfire, not homicide.

It is true that Europe has a lower homicide rate in general, but there are exceptions. Lithuania is a European country with restrictive gun laws and a substantially higher rate of intentional homicide than the U.S. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_intention...)
>like every other file based language

As I mentioned above, Smalltalk is also file-based; when you distribute a smalltalk program source, you distribute a set of source text files.

Just like any other typical programming language.
No IPS screen??
Never existed on the nexus 9, pixel c or 2015 pixel chrome book.

Not every 'chromebook' is the same.
IIRC we get 10 gigs for free... unless that changed at some point?
Hi, thanks for letting me know. I saw the crash report. A fix will be in 1.3.
unbelievable, it's so much fun.
First thing I thought of too. Would be an awesome feature.

Edit: Just tried and no dice: 'Remote "origin" does not support the LFS locking API.'
Lithium-ion is an order of magnitude better in Wh/L vs supercaps [0]. There simply isn't room to get 100+ kWh of supercaps into a ~car-sized vehicle.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_density#Energy_densitie...
clang just adds more stuff to -Wextra but you can get most of the warnings in GCC too.
The internet absolutely needs to be regulated more. Namely, in regards to the large scale surfacing of user generated ads and other webpages without any amount of in person monitoring before they are deployed.

A couple weeks ago I received a phishing call from someone claiming to represent the FBI. When you googled the information they gave about the location of their office, or their phone number, you saw facebook pages, and tons of other very real looking websites surfacing that they were the FBI. I've since reported this information of all of the various legitimate websites, and they have done nothing simply because they aren't forced to.
> Instruction set can't be pantented

This is simply false, as far as Intel is concerned. You can't even emulate x86 (therefore infringing 0 hardware patents) without expected heavy litigation from Intel.

AFAIK the actual x86 patents have expired but none of the extensions have (x86-64, SSE, ...)
> Shouldn't a piece of software having been audited (or otherwise examined) and having problems fixed increase confidence not decrease it?

Not necessarily. Clearly the project has less bugs in it now, but if you thought that the project was very secure and then a very simple but critical vulnerability is found, your previous estimation of the security was wrong. And so whether or not it increases or decreases your confidence depends on if the vulnerability is within your estimation of the security of the project.

For example, Heartbleed shook my faith in OpenSSL. I believed OpenSSL to be very secure and that any vulnerabilities would not be something as obvious as Heartbleed. So the existence of Heartbleed implies that there might be others of a similar nature, and my previous confidence precluded the existence of similar issues. Therefore my confidence must go down; I have more evidence though so my variance also goes down.

Largely its an issue of "I trust X to not have security vulnerabilities worse as bad (or simple) as Y" and then a Y type bug appears and is fixed. You can no longer have the same trust.
As satire, this article is entertaining. If the author meant to reflect reality, it's laughable.
Interesting, thanks for the reply.

What about an app that you interact with rather than something physical on the headphones? Considering the phone is required, anyway...
Except I'm human and I can consciously decide not to have kids.
Touché, #1 seems a little nitpicky though.
Russia is good enough to not try to persuade people to vote for Mickey Mouse.

When I played football in high school, in some situations our blocking instructions were, "take him whichever way he wants to go". That is, if the defender tries to go around you to your right, take him right; if he tries to go around you to your left, take him left. Russia could do something similar if, say, it wants to remove support from Hillary: If a voter is somewhat to the left of Hillary, move the voter toward Bernie; if the voter is somewhat to the right of Hillary, move the voter toward Trump. That won't work with a dogmatic "I'm with her!" voter - nothing will. But it could work well enough to prevent a win by a candidate that Russia didn't want to win.

But I don't think Russia's real goal was to prevent Hillary from winning. I think Russia's real goal was to undermine faith in democratic institutions. Russia seems scared to death of color revolutions - reasonably enough, since they are revolutions by the people against undemocratic regimes, and despite the presence of elections, Russia is rather undemocratic. Putin therefore wants to undermine the credibility of democracy in other countries, so that Russian citizens look at democracy and see just another empty promise, and therefore don't see any reason to pursue it at home.
Not sure why this is being downvoted. The existence of Apple at all today is exactly because people perceive a value greater than the sum of the cost of parts.

This isn’t a new idea, and people put tens of billions of dollars behind this concept every fiscal quarter.
From the article, Google already confirmed everything happens in the cloud. The only thing these headphones add is first-party integration with the Google Translate app so that you can launch the app directly from the headphones.
I want a removable battery, not an exploding one. (Still on my Note 3, with its battery swapped out after the stock one started giving me bad battery life, a friend is still on his Note 4.) And I make use of the IR Blaster just enough that I'd be annoyed not to have it anymore. Samsung doesn't keep stuff people want, they just follow trends like everyone else. I am looking forward to seeing how the "flexible phones/tablets" end up though since I've wanted that concept for a while, even if I have to give up some features for it...
There is a portfolio feature coming that will show gain loss and it will work across multiple currency pairs as well. So for example, you can buy XMR <> BTC, or ETH <> USD and it will do all the math and figure out the gain loss in the fiat of your choice. We are working on it.
Yes, the foreigners put up the foreign aid to build it. The corrupt people running it simply thieve the $$ they sell the power for and do not manage the silt
I believe that the negative pressure/vacuum is known to be the cause. One obvious solution would be to replace that pressure with a solution, probably your own plasma or similar - and then you'd just need to determine the best technology to apply for the system to allow for equilibrium..
I stand corrected and I apologize. I am pretty sure it did exist in the past but I haven't used Facebook in years so I am having contemporary info about it.
Sorry, but they’re not truly wireless, so they don’t compete at all

Also, Android uses SBC for Bluetooth streaming by default; until they fix that (by using AAC), BT audio will sound like shit