skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That suggests an easy path to a self-funding, virtual cycle out of poverty: a charity makes such "Vimes boot" loans where they get $20 to buy two years of toilet paper (instead of paying $5/week or whatever), charges some large amount of interest that's still much lower than the 200% effective rate, and uses that to keep lifting others out of poverty.

I suspect that the reason it doesn't work is that the theory is off. Lack of the initial capital (to bootstrap the virtuous cycle) is not the real bottleneck; it's the ability to commit to a plan where there is a big long-term benefit. Such a charity would run into the same problems as for-profit lenders and CCs -- not enough people paying back the money.
Coming out of college I was surprised just how big of a separation there is from web designer / developer, since I was so accustomed to doing both for school projects.
If you want that kind of overkill, how about using interprocedural data-flow analysis to try to parse APL?

https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=805380
Without a major credit card or the resources to meet a car rental agencies “cash qualifications”? No, it wouldn't, because conventional rental isn't an option.

Again, it's expensive to be poor.
uk: it's a motorhome
Russia Has Turned Kaspersky Software into Tool for Spying
Henry Ott's /Electromagnetic Compatibility Engineering/ [1] is a really good book about the topic. Also mentioned in the article.

[1] http://www.hottconsultants.com/EMCE_book_files/emce_book.htm...
I wonder if you can get sued for malpractice if you're a math doctor. They'd need proof either way.
Even if US government doesn't have such power as chinese (though I doubt they don't have) there still can be a motivation for US companies to cooperate because it can be mutually beneficial (for example, a company in exchange can get some contracts or some changes in legislation).
Honestly I just want a Rift priced at $300 without the touch controllers (today, with touch controllers it's $400).
Ask HN: Freelancers, what day to day tasks have you automated for yourself?
I've been freelancing for a year and a bit and am starting to look into freeing up my days as I think I spend too much time dealing with client emails + other non-coding tasks when I could be making more money.

Any ideas?
Another confused person reporting in. I read the title and was like "well, that's not completely surprising is it?"
OxygenOS Telemetry Lets OnePlus Tie Phones to Individual Users
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Technologies: c++11,14 and a little 17 also python as a system scripting language and a little SQL. I have primarily worked on a Linux platform and I understand basic networking.

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I believe that is set by the app creator so that users wouldn't try to load the same subscription under multiple accounts. I'm speaking of the general app purchases, and family subscriptions we haven't had an issue with.
Mark Zuckerberg: We want to get 1B people in virtual reality
We kill them, because we have replaced the apex predator in most ecosystems.

There are too few wolves, mountain lions, bobcats, coyotes, and bears to keep the population in check, so we do it.

>so the argument boils down to kill them because they're going to die anyway.

There's more to it than that. Overpopulation will cause damage to more than just deer. One of the biggest is the increase in the deer tick population and the subsequent increase in Lyme disease.

Instead of killing them ourselves, we could try to reintroduce predators, but why would a deer prefer being killed by a mountain lion to being killed by a human?
Boy friend friend dies and he pored out
It's probably not important for disaster relief (there doesnt seem to be a shortage of relief supplies, but rather a shortage of on-island transport to distribute them) - but I'd agree it is a huge drag on the local economy.
From my experience, we're in the stone age when it comes to treating depression without drugs as well. I reached out to my PCP at my HMO, they made me talk to a specialist who cleared me for treatment and referred me back to my PCP. My PCP seemed skeptical that anything was wrong and went against the recommendation that I had been given by the specialist office by strongly recommending that I don't try anti-depressants. He referred me to get therapy but the internal office is understaffed with a 3 month waitlist, so I had to fill out forms to try to find a approved out of network provider. I do all that to find out that I absolutely hate therapy (socially anxious and bad at discussing emotions). I'd like to try a cognitive behavioral therapist instead but it's really not worth the institutional barriers.

Meanwhile my cancer screenings for a large lump that required 4 visits were done in 2 weeks and super straightforward.
People I've worked with kinda-sorta understand the advantages of having a trace ID (aka context ID, correlation ID, etc), but don't code it into their systems. Or they do something like replace an incoming ID with their own, which negates it's value.

For folks who aren't familiar with the concept - at the initiation of any action (user button click, timer firing, automated job starting, etc.) a new ID is created then passed to every single method and external call. This allows you to trace that action as it wends it's way through your distributed systems.
Interesting news! Will be looking forward to the specs and actual demo experiences.

Also, I wish they were lighter on the word "magic"...
As said in other comments in depends on the nature of the ground. In this case it should have been bonded to chassis ground and not to the ground plane of analog board, which wasn't feasible due to mechanical constraints.

In general cable shielding should be connected to shielding ground of devices on both ends of the cable as long as the devices have purpose-designed shielding enclosure, which they often don't and in that case it should be connected at the end with lower impedance ground. Another problem are cables where the shielding is also used as return path for normal operation (RF coaxial cables, consumer electronics...) and in that case it obviously needs to be connected at both ends.

My rule of thumb for this is that shielding should be connected only on the lower-impedance ground end except when it is not obvious which side that is or the shield is also return path. Neat solution to the "non-obvious side problem" is used for IEEE1355/SpaceWire and related interfaces: outer shield of S/STP cable is connected at both ends while the per-pair shields are connected at transmitting side for given pair (used cable has isolation between shields).
The projections for Austin's population growth from two million inhabitants to four million by 2030 require an additional 167,000,000 housing units required.

This seems to be a problem but not uncommon even beyond Amazon.
If I recall law school correctly, this would generally not apply to trespassers, only to people you have invited onto your property. There is an exception to this general rule for "attractive nuisances", so if you put guns in a place where they were visible from the property line you might fall into that exception.

Not saying one shouldn't use proper storage, only that liability probably would not result if you didn't (at least under federal law — as others have noted various states/cities have tighter laws).
That makes sense, I guess I'm just being pedantic
How does this compare to Keybase folders?
I had a cron job that sends automatically a text to my wife each morning along with a joke, she's in another country so is something I did to keep the communication open
Automating book renewals back when I was in grad school. :shrug:

http://ro.ht/posts/Automating-Library-renewals/
Smartphones in Europe are close to being online 24/24. Energy management by OSes might limit apps in what they can do, of course.
In any case, 4G networks rise might lead to interesting new solutions.
In many ways, the standalone headset is potentially much better for VR/AR. At least with regards to reacting to the user's movements. If the processing and display is close to your face, that cuts down some of the latency.

Now, yes, I know that at the speed of light (or more properly the speed of electrical signals) having a PC 3m away is only about 10ns, which is not going to be noticeable.

But there will need to be translation on each end to send a signal that far away, such as conversion to / from HDMI. If the embedded processor in the headset is directly connected to the LCD, that type of conversion eliminated. Ditto for cameras and other sensors needed for position tracking.

To reduce latency, developers are counting microseconds these days. Crazy.
But why is the Browse Activity tab now full of huge bolded text and gobs of whitespace? I wasn't unhappy with how it was, but this seems to strictly be worse, especially if you follow a decent number of people
Amazon is always talking about making sure customers are happy. They do a great job at that for the most part but my biggest frustration with them is the crappy search on their site.

Why is it so crappy, Amazon? It's an easy fix when you compare it to keeping millions of customers happy which is hard.
But software loaded from webpages are not immutable. They could be manipulated at any given time. So even if someone audits the code you still cannot trust it because all the audit would show is that the specific downloaded version which the auditor saw was non-malicious.

As long as websites have no fingerprints that encompasses all loaded resources and can't be pinned to that fingerpint crypto in the webbrowser is not trustworthy.
The Wikipedia article says that Tolkien's plural of "Ainu" is "Ainur". That'd be less prone to misreading/misinterpretation than "Ainus".
"Instead I'd produce a restricted C compiler that only accepted constant time programs, and mapped directly to a limited set of machine instructions."

How would the compiler knows if the code it's given is constant-time ? It's actually a property quite hard to verify due to pointer aliasing or whatnot.

Another angle is to have a compiler that always outputs constant-time code. It's always possible, at least for crypto code according to Peter Schwabe, just that it's probably not going to be very fast code...
Sorry, but I'm really turned off of the Oculus Rift because of Palmer Luckey and Facebook. Gives me the creeps.
I recently made a bot that scapes the local apartment listings every five minutes, filters by price and area, and then sends me the new ones in the form of Telegram messages with the basic details, a GIF of the photos (scaled to mobile size), and a map widget.

Getting push notifications with the new apartments is really great, and I'll definitely be making more Telegram bots in the future...
Except homes for most people are not investments. They are where they live, and everyone needs one of those. It is one of the greatest flaws in modern economics that the combination of policy and scarcity makes property values such an out of control growth space.

I'd love to see either state or federal buyback programs. Using the same appraisal rates used to calculate a property value when setting property taxes most states could offer to buyback properties at 80% of their assessed market value and then have redevelopment programs to reinvigorate dying neighborhoods like in the OP.

It lets the poor escape dying neighborhoods much easier, and it also creates a pathway to save these dying cities for relatively low investment by creating job opportunities to fix the state possessed properties or put them to auction so they can be competitively worth fixing. Either way the state should not be out the money for very long - you have a depressed area that has terribly low property values because its an impoverished slum, let the residents sell the land off as a means to get out of that hell, and then make a deal with a redevelopment firm or use the civil engineers corps and then sell the resulting revitalized properties, hopefully after some mixed used development.

That last point is probably the strongest reason why the US in particular has these widespreading "dying neighborhood" problems. Zoning for the most part has been an abject failure. It was conceived to segregate the rich from the poor and has failed to recognize that a thriving community needs work and play to intermix and develop organically. It also exists to constrain development to prevent cities from growing up and increasing density to meet population demands, all to prop up the real estate investment bubble making the semi-rich filthy rich.
Well put, and I agree. I love the theory of evolution for explaining so much of the living world, including the awful stuff. I think it's a great comfort to know that it's not arbitrary.

In fact it can explain why I have empathy with other living things, and want them to have happy lives. Maybe that will be an expanding niche, who knows. I know nature doesn't care, but I do.
I'd appreciate it if you could nag one of your colleagues to pick it up ;)
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Nice work really ! It reminds of emmet-vim
Credit is broken and Affirm has a plan to fix it
and where he had hidden money in his house.

How would someone else know this? You can't just ignore facts that don't fit your theory and still expect people to take you seriously.
Are your neighbours your close friends? Most likely not. Most likely they're strangers from different walks of life who happened to be your neighbours purely by accident. Since people are different, your neighbours will likely have different opinions than you. Same for people you meet in a bar. If it's not X-political-gang bar, you'll probably meet all kinds of strangers from the area and away.

Meanwhile your closely knit friends' circle is mostly of people who think similarly to you. Or at least people who you're comfortable with.

People in general are lazy and rarely look up different opinions for the sake of it. They hear whatever opinions they bump into. Be it their neighbourhood and bar or their FB feed.

Another thing is, back in hood & bar times, people would not only hear different ideas, but see that it's regular humans behind them. That there's no inherent us vs them. In social media, it's easy to just write it off as bullshit, the other person as stupid and block them.

"Well known people on each side" is a part of a problem. They're "them". It's harder to find common ground with some celebrity you don't agree with than with a neighbour you interact with daily and who is a great human being other than few political points you don't agree with.

Of course humans were always prone to "us vs them" and echo chambers. But today's technology makes that very easy to find very specific echo chambers. A century ago language was the echo chamber limit. Thus people speaking same language in close enough geographical proximity would usually get along pretty well. Now that is more or less gone, but we have echo chambers in between people living relatively close to each other. What next, reorganising into virtual states defined by political opinions? Liberal and conservative living next to each other, but following different laws? This is how many countries were run up to modern times actually. Jews having different laws in some European countries. Christians having different laws in Ottoman empire. Neither of these ended well.
> awesome for watching movies or concerts, playing games, or just hanging out with your friends in VR.

I have real life for movies, concerts, and hanging out with friends, so that leaves games.

What’s the content offering like for VR these days? Are there any games that are more than a tech demo that lasts for a few hours? Something like a Skyrim or a Civ, that I will want to return to week after week?
Not sure if this counts because I didn't actually code anything: but using gmail filters to automate my personal email flow has had a huge effect on my day.
With AOL closing up shop in NOVA, theres a huge real estate gap that Amazon might be over to take over too on top of all the other speculative talk Northern VA already offers. I'm sure FFX County / Loudoun will place an appealing bid.
They cover this target group already with the Samsung Gear VR

But as you said. Not everybody has a 1000$ phone.
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Here you go:

https://www.zazzle.com/it_t_shirt-235771206132335085
This could be partially true. CA, MA, and a few other states have laws protecting against this kind of liability, but it's still probably a best practice against major liability.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-apology_apology
I think Miami makes a lot of sense, and housing has always been one of the top reasons.

Notwithstanding what this article suggests (a little hard to follow), Miami housing numbers are as follows:

About 12,300 new condos are expected to be completed in downtown between between 2014 and 2019; between 2004 and 2009, more than 21,000 units were delivered.

And this is just downtown, “Miami” itself is a sprawling area with development continuing South and West where it’s suggested Amazon would set up shop. In fact some of the housing development has even been paused due to to much housing coming on the market and lack of demand (though the demand is actually there, local wages are not, reading between the lines foreign investment is drying up). Still the developers (deep pockets) want nothing more than to keep the good times rolling and bringing in Amazon would be instrumental.
So I think that VR headsets (the real ones) do need to come down in price before they (and VR in general) can become mainstream, even though the technology is still quite not there yet, which means it will be hard to make such devices cheap while also upgrading their technology (or at least slow/er).

However, this isn't really what Oculus is doing here. This isn't a "cheaper version of Oculus Rift". This is an expensive version of Gear VR/any Android Daydream headset.

It has some extra sensors and whatnot, but other than that, it should play the same content. So how are most people going to understand the difference between a $60-$100 Daydream headset and a $200 Oculus Go?

At least the $600 headsets actually offer you a different kind of experience (realistic 3D games, etc), even though their price means they'll be relegated to an early adopter market for a few more years.
Botnets are out in force on touchy subjects in force recently. You cannot see private upvotes/downvotes so you don't know the user that upvoted or downvotes a comment. I think eventually we will have to see this on reddit/hn etc as the botnets are en masse now and mostly just brigading when there is an important subject.

I wasn't calling you a bot per se but I see lots of people puppeting botnet "whataboutisms" that is some hardcore propaganda and getting giddy when they are upvoted by these same fake users. Strangely the brigading is mostly when the news is political. Just based on what I have seen the last few weeks especially, they are ratcheting it up. It is making discussion of serious topics relegated to battling bot armies rather than individual opinions, a losing battle unless you have your own bot army.
Quick feedback, I watched 2 videos, I have no idea what this does.
You do it on the shared event bus.
Holy crap, xelxebar. Thank you! This is a game-changer. I've been wading through the bash man pages like a fool.
The issue with deer is that there are too few natural predators for them in many places on the east coast. The booming population has detrimental effects on the forests. Deer consume only certain plants so they end up causing lower diversity of eastern forests. When the decision is either cull them now or let the population starve until it gets back to a comfortable capacity, it's much better to cull them. This not only helps the surrounding ecosystem but also gives some people the chance to get large quantities of meat for almost no cost. Some people in the US really do still live off the land to an extent, meat is much cheaper when you kill and clean the animal yourself.

https://blog.nature.org/science/2013/08/22/too-many-deer/
None like you
I track my visits to the gym with a geofence trigger with my phone--logs to a google spreadsheet through IFTTT.
What I learned after 20 years of combat training in a dojo (full body fights) is that 3 seconds of inattention and my 4 years old son kicked me in my testicles after missing the ball. It is a miracle he now has a brother.

#4 is great, your ability to run a 400 meters in 70 s is awesome too.

Do not get into fights if there is any way to avoid them (including begging).

I you have to fight to full throttle and be the one to hit first.
From the article:

> The government of Israel first alerted the U.S. that Kaspersky software was being used to find American intelligence information, after Israel’s own computer spies penetrated the networks of Kaspersky Lab beginning in 2014, the current and former officials said.

> Once inside, the Israelis discovered how the software was being used and how Russia had obtained classified information from the NSA, these current and former officials said.

> Israel’s spying on Kaspersky, which U.S. officials said provided crucial evidence that Kaspersky Lab was working with the Russian government, and the use of Kaspersky to scan for classified keywords was first reported Tuesday by the New York Times. Israeli officials didn’t immediately respond to requests for comment.

> After the Israelis passed along what they knew to the U.S., officials at the NSA began an investigation that led to the contractor who had installed Kaspersky software on his personal computer at home. People familiar with that investigation say he appeared to have no ill intent, but knew that removing the classified material from the NSA’s headquarters campus at Fort Meade, Md., was a violation of agency rules and possibly a crime.

Don't know how much of that chronology was already in the news, but I had no idea that the Ft. Meade leaker was connected to the Kaspersky intrigue.

Kind of mind boggling how vulnerable even the most well-armed are to in- and ex-filtration. And how hard it is to detect.
What your describing is a non issue.

If you do something 10,000 time every frame that takes 10ns it's still only 0.0001 seconds and no you don't need to make that trip 10,000 times sequentially.
Possibilities:
* User has an iPhone
* User has a lower-end phone that can't run this
* User has a different phone OS (Windows Phone, Sailfish OS, etc)
* User's phone doesn't have long enough battery life while running 3d apps
These Are the People Behind Million-Dollar Sales of Amazon Businesses
You automated a part of your relationship. This is awesome!
A few years ago I wrote something which went out and grabbed the top articles from the BBC, Guardian, Economist, Telegraph, and front page of HN and sent them to my Instapaper so I'd have stuff for my commute.

I'd love an app with a bunch of my feeds / socials plugged in which would then load up with content for my commute (which is offline/underground for large portions).
Email Address Submit Extending Corporate OPSEC to Those Working from Home
I feel like it's treatable the way cancer is treatable -- lots of times we can totally 'cure' it, and sometimes we can't. But that doesn't mean you don't try, and we're getting better every day.

Now that I write that out I guess it's like every other health disorder. We're pretty good at a subset of them, so-so at another set, and have no flipping clue what to do about the last set.