skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The article uses the Russia election situation as an example, but one doesn't need a clearance -- or any classified information, for that matter -- in order to prevent a large number of these recent "hacks" or, at the least, make the attackers work much harder to be successful.

When companies can't even be bothered to install security updates on public-facing applications or web sites (cf. Equifax), is anyone really surprised that they're being broken into and having all their private data stolen?

In my experience, these public/private information sharing "partnerships" are heavily weighted in the government's favor. That is, the private companies share their detailed, specific data with the government but the information that the government shares with the private companies is laughable. When I was on the "receiving end", it was typically bulletins and notifications that were vague and lacked enough detail to actually be useful or actionable (and even those were limited with regard to distribution).

It's been a few years since I was involved with that stuff so perhaps things have changed. I would be really surprised if they have, though.

In addition, it seems to me that this is a good way for the government to get these tech companies to "go along with" some of their "requests". Oh, you have some private data that the government would like to have access to but you don't want to turn it over? Or, the government has a "black box" they want you to install in your network but you don't want to? Boy, it sure would be a shame if your employees' security clearances got denied, wouldn't it?
Are you the type of being that thinks food is too complicated and time-consuming to deal with, and would rather crush a couple of caffeine pills into a bland nutrient slurry, to be poured into your intake port a few times a day? If not, then this is probably not for you.
having a headphone jack is graceful degradation imho
I don't buy into a lot of audiophile nonsense (and personally I don't think I can tell the difference between a 192kbps MP3 and uncompressed), however there is a clear and obvious quality issue with some Bluetooth devices, in addition to how terrible the pairing experience is.
This seems to be a issue with health/food regulating government agencies all around the world. Here in Sweden the National Food Administration is constantly criticized for outdated dietary advice and are often accused to be influenced by food industry giants.

Also, I can go into any grocery store and buy all kinds of snacks, candy and soda which really are 100% garbage "food", so I'm not sure why anyone would think that regulating the percentage of fat would matter in term of health.
I know literally hundreds of immigrants (meaning naturalized citizens) with TS/SCI clearance. Did you mean to say "non-citizen"?
When Siri Met My Son
I can sympathize with keeping the public safe, but there must be some legal way to promote non-traditional nutrition regimes, in this case as simple as increasing fat consumption.

There are many diets suiting many different lifestyles in Canada, from the traditional Inuit meat & fat heavy diet to many 'fad' diets extolled in magazines. It seems strange to me why it's legal to advocate a diet in media but illegal to label a product as such.
It made me fart like crazy when I tried it. Felt very bloated and had some dire shits. And on top of all that, it had a rather unsatisfactory taste.

I wouldn't recommend it.
Not sure if you try to be sarcastic or not. But yeah I expect people to chop up their PS files before they send them to me. docx at least has has free viewers. A PDF or HTML would be better.
If you had to pay for answers on stackoverflow, many of my peers and I would not have escaped college. There's no question the answers have provided me with a lot of value though - I can't even imagine the amount of troubleshooting hours that site has saved me.
The phone comes with an adapter. If you want another one, they cost $9. I believe the Pixel will be the same.
Article has a typo in the quote should be Olber not Older who described what's now known as Olbers paradox.
That's probably what they'll do. "Not a meal replacement but sold in convenient 2000kcal pouches... wink wink".
The Pareto principle is alive and thriving in the audiophile community. Anything beyond midrange is pure wank IMO (although I'll happily listen to 160kbps MP3 so you can probably disregard what I say. :P But this does seem to be borne out by a lot of double-blind testing, as you mention.)

As for Apple products, you might get the same spec computer for half the cost but Apple has really nice build quality and integration (or at least did when I got my MacBook). It's the same spec but it's just nicer.
From what I understand, Soylent severely underestimates the importance of fiber in the human diet.
This site is nice even for mobile!

Shameless plug: I made an Android app for arXiv if anyone wants something simple to search articles on mobile. Graduating soon so if you try and enjoy it, any positive (but honest) views help the looming job search ;)

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=xyz.imaginatri...
Not just 'close to'. The wifi channels are very fat, and every channel extends .01GHz in either direction from its center. But more importantly bluetooth uses the exact same 2.40-2.48 range. It tries to minimize interference by frequency-hopping, but it's guaranteed to overlap 2.4GHz wifi.
Sheaf-theoretic formulation of biology
They are not extraordinarily more expensive than any BT ones I have used that work acceptably.

If you mean wired, those still work just as they did prior. The iPhone comes with the adapter.
I would love to see an open source version of Google Play Music app for Android. There are a bunch of minor things I don't like about the application but can't easily be fixed because there is no open source version.
The sold it in less then 24 hours?
The iPhone came with a dongle.
I know you think you believe all that, but as an AirPods user and addict, I am at least somewhat confident in saying that you'd believe it a lot less after 48 hours using AirPods. Until you use them, you can't grasp just how rapidly they charge, just how easy it is to keep them topped off without even thinking about it, just by putting them back in the case, and the fact that you can't and don't "forget" to put them back in the case. Because the case is always with you, and because they're just a pain to carry without the case, and because of the penalty if you lose one.

AirPods are a miracle; a true "wow" product. And as an aside, the audio is really surprisingly decent. I'm a professional classical musician, so my ears aren't terrible.
You must watch the recent 60 minutes episode featuring a former head of the DEA blowing the whistle on Republican legislatures stonewalling investigation and conviction of opioid distributors..
"Huel" sounds like an onomatopoeia for vomiting. Unfortunate name choice.
Breaking the 49-Qubit Barrier in the Simulation of Quantum Circuits [pdf]
Ahhhh that's why I was getting those completely useless Swagger objects!

> the usefulness of the export will depend on the extent to which the Paw-user "dressed up" the request objects
Fine points but in this case posted MPH isn't an output, it's an input. So is the number of lanes.

Spacing is a function of speed. Even with autonomous cars spacing is not constant because there are on and off ramps so some will be accelerating or decelerating. We don't even know how those cars will work, maybe you can pay more to drive faster!

The question here is which configuration of the tunnel will maximize throughput.

I can't find any explicit statement of the planned speed limit but I did find a document [1] that implies there will be variable speed limits much like other highways in the area.

[1]: http://www.wsdot.wa.gov/Projects/Viaduct/Media/Default/-NewD...
This makes me jealous for an Android version. The Bragi Dash has been a huge letdown due to persistent connectivity issues.
I know someone who is handicapped and wheelchair bound. In SL they get to fly around an interact with friends and communities they have made. So they still go there. Oh and they also have a kinky side, so that's another appeal apparently.
I lucked out when I decided to upgrade my main system to a Ryzen 7. Not really considering audio, I had decided on an Asrock X370 Taichi board mainly because it was known to work with ECC RAM (and it indeed does according to dmesg), and was quite pleasantly surprised when I plugged my headphones into it for a listen. It sounded every bit as good as what I get from a Focusrite Saffire on another system, and even better, the headphone amp has much more power, making it much better for live, uncompressed classical choral recordings than the Focusrite. I can play them at concert volume and not get clipping in the loudest passages. No complaints from me about the DAC or amplifier stage on this motherboard. On the other hand, I haven't tried any recording with it, and for stereo recording my first thought would still be to reach for the Focusrite or my portable recorder and mic preamp, since I'd need 48V phantom power anyway.
I think the point was that he entered the information in digitally, so it should have been easier to provide a digital copy rather than scan actual printed pages.

Note: Didn't go to the link, so just guessing.
That's awesome!

I did a similar design for my tilde.town site: http://tilde.town/~myles/.
My persepective is completely different. I still see him as a brilliant and hard working guy. I think he was given an opportunity to take something crappy and transform it into something else, something worthwhile. What an incredible challenge! I think he has risen to that challenge and carved out a diamond in the rough that is BuzzFeed.
Earlier bio: https://web.archive.org/web/20000816213404/http://dymaxion.o...
Is the data out of date? or is it fairly recent (ie at least 2016)
Stephen Hawking's 1966 thesis crashes Cambridge University's website
You're forgetting something: They were hostile to me before I had a chance to contribute.

Here's where your logic falls apart: B.P1 is demonstrably false, in at least one occurrence. (i.e. Mine, where the hostility existed irrespective of my writing skills or the value of my potential contributions, or the lack thereof, because they were acting with zero information which shows their tendencies. If you've already established social capital, you're part of their in-group and therefore will not be attacked.)

But from the overall tone of the other comments here, and the sheer upvote/downvote ratio of my top-level comment, it's probably not a rare event.

I didn't think you overlooked this detail. I misinterpreted your statements as a personal attack based on the fact that I already explicitly made this clear and you appeared to have enough mastery of the English language to possess basic reading comprehension. But clearly I was wrong somewhere.

I apologize for giving you too much credit.

Hopefully spelling it out here, again, makes it clearer. If not, there's no point continuing this conversation because it's only going to get nasty.
It does hark back quite strongly to when Apple removed the floppy drive from the original iMacs. And not having a floppy drive sucked at that point. Just because something's the way of the future doesn't mean the old option is instantly obsolete.
It's a helpful list, but I don't actually agree... Reporting isn't a high-tech job, and most of the suggestions to me seemed unnecessary.

Document-sharing with edits being tracked is the big one, though (like the article raised).

Also, Signal being tied to a phone number is a nightmare.
Sorry, what I meant by that was that it is sometimes unavoidable using a less than stellar bluetooth device :)
Authentication now comes with a wave of your hand
There must be more we can do, but I honestly don't feel qualified to say what it is. Ben Hale is the fellow to ask, he's the JBP maintainer.

I've recently toyed with the idea of taking libbuildpack and OpenJ9 and just ... seeing what I can do. But I'm ill-qualified to tinker with either and it's in the pile of fifty kerjillion other sideprojects I want to do.
Apple is not confused. Lightning is a better and much smaller port for phone use. And there are over a billion Lightning devices out there. There's no compelling reason to switch to anything else, certainly not to USB-C.

And no, moving iPhone to USB-C would of course not end the Great Dongle Wars, nor even get rid of a significant chunk of them. Most dongles are necessitated by all kinds of old ports, mostly video, on laptops.
The iPhone8 onward now has wireless charging. I see portless phones in the next 5 years tops.
Welcome to socialism. Why should there be any cap on fat % (one of the requirements)? If I want to buy a food product knowing full well what the fat content is, and if Soylent wants to sell me a food product faithfully labeling the fat content, each of us to be engaged in a consensual transaction with no externalities (no third party getting hurt), why is Canadian government putting both of us in jail? Socialism is not just a bad idea that does not work, but an evil idea that encroaches on freedom. Feel free to disagree and provide your evidence.
Good luck taking online training from any government agency. FEMA, e.g.
Perhaps Canadians with an interest in Soylent could use locally sourced hospital-type meal replacements instead?

If obtained from medical suppliers, they'll probably be healthier and have better quality control too.
I am reluctant to accept an anti-regulation message from someone whose name seems a likely riff on Ayn Rand, but setting that aside...

I'm also reluctant to look at deregulating hearing aids without looking at some of what the regulations do...

Like, something that came up on HN a few years ago was another thread about hearing aids, and one thing I remember from that was that cheap hearing aids can actually do further damage to a person's ears, because of how they do or don't amplify the sounds appropriately.

Maybe the regulations, in this case, are there to prevent people from paying $38 for a hearing aid that wrecks their sense of hearing further. If that is the case--and I don't know that it is, but I think health equipment merits a degree of caution--then I think that's a good place for regulations.

Very few people would be able to properly evaluate whether a given cheap hearing aid would be one that worked without harm or would be one that caused further hearing loss. Very few. That's exactly the place in society for regulations--when few people are capable of making an informed decision, etc.

It's certainly easy to blame regulations for this and everything wrong with American health care, but I don't know if it's sensible here or in general--or if blaming regulations (and consequently removing them) would actually lead to the outcomes people claim they would. My gut tells me that the problems we have lie elsewhere in the medical system, not in the regulations concerning medical devices or medicines.
"Edit: well I was partially incorrect"

No, you were completely incorrect TBH.
BT headphones also have the massive downside of insufficient control over volume. Minimum volume is too loud == hearing loss. Strikes me as a market oppty for someone to develop BT headphones/earbuds that solve this.
I think you hit just the right note here. Yes, recognize that the child is benefiting from economic privilege and readily-available mentors that aren't available to most children, but at the same time, recognize that these kids are hard-working and smart (and above all, they're kids).
Not to mention a USB DVD drive is $25.
> I'm having problems understanding why would anyone want to consume something like that.

Nothing of what Soylent Green does is new, companies like Fresenius, Nestle, Abbot and whatnot have been manufacturing balanced liquid nutrition for medical needs for decades.

I'm far more surprised these established players in the enteral nutrition market haven't started their own push for something like this, trying to sell their medical products as convenience lifestyle products. I guess they wouldn't want to cannibalize their own profits from the medical sales by offering a more affordable non-medical lifestyle alternative.

As somebody who works with this kind of stuff, parenteral and enteral nutrition, I think there's a real market here. But I'd vastly prefer offerings from established companies, rather than some random guys buying bulk ingredients on Amazon and mixing them up in moldy warehouses.
While my dad was a programmer, I wouldn't say any of the BASIC programs I wrote at age 11 were world changing.
A $150 pair of in ear monitors will have a huge impact on sound quality and the average person will continue to notice improvement into the $300 (dual driver) range before significant diminishing returns. Air pods don't come close to that quality for the same price.

Power usage matters much more in wireless headphones. Bluetooth takes power. DACs take power (better ones and better algorithms use even more power). Better drivers use more power (without considering the big response boost you get with multiple drivers at the cost of additional power usage). With super limited battery size, all of these are cut with a corresponding decrease in quality.

The USB and lightning ports tend to get a lot of interference from the dozens of digital signals mere hundredths of an inch away. The size of the 3.5mm seems to ensure that it's more isolated.
The resident evil screenshot looks incredibly realistic. I thought that was a real photograph placed there to contrast reality with games. Until I read the paragraph below it.
In an entirely mechanistic nonprobabilistic universe, where state C always follows state B, which always follows state A, etc, then if State X ever equals a prior state, say state B, then the universe enters into an infinite loop.
A-B-C-D-X-C-D-X...
Rust is out because of their cultlike traits and their need to turn a language into a political statement. Elixir I know nothing about and an absolute necessity is a wide variety of educational tools, existing projects, libraries, and help sites where people are free to tell me when I'm being an idiot.

I learn best from people with exacting standards.
Forget about headphones or not for a second. Removing the jack is about killing the last analog hole for good. It's about control. Yes there are adapters for now but they're transitional and we can expect them to eventually go away.

Once the output is locked down, expect to see the equivalent of HDCP show up. Only music you have purchased through your phone's marketplace may be played, and only to an authorized device.

That's the broader issue here, and it shows one more step in the long path to removing your ownership of your devices.
Until energy prices go through the roof. Then wireless charging will give ppl that disgusted look of "What were those monsters thinking!?"
I did a crude analysis of the effects of density on cost in this thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12362684

"Sure. I found this for Canada: http://www.altusgroup.com/media/4099/costguide_2015_web.pdf
Toronto (average $/sq ft to build given range) Medium Quality Tract House (assume 1 story): 180 Medium Quality Highrise (50-80 stories, average 65 stories): 270
This comes out to $1.38 more per square foot for each additional story.
Let's just assume land will be twice as expensive in the city center as at the edge of that metro. Assume the cheapest land is $200 per square foot.
Assume that the house will be built on the cheaper land, and assume one dwelling per story for simplicity.
As you add a story, the cost of land is halved. After adding the 65th story, it is divided 65 ways.
By adding the linear curve of building cost over the inverse curve of cost of land divided by story, you get the cost per square foot per story. In fact, this is maximized for a single-story building as land costs are born by a single tenant. Cost per floor falls until construction costs overcome the falling cost of land.
The minimum cost to add a story, $214.67 occurs for the 12th floor.
Again, back of the napkin and very naive.
A highrise will probably have less square footage per dwelling though. If we halve that the cost of land falls even faster, with building costs plus land costs bottoming out at $203.51 per square foot, for the 8th floor.
Finally, I added an $8,000 per square foot premium at city center. With this, the cheapest floor costs $348.44 per square foot for the sixth floor.
So as land prices become steeper from city center to periphery, it actually makes more sense to disperse. Likewise reducing dwelling size does not have as much of an effect as rising build costs."

More than happy if someone can poke holes in it, but my takeaway was that costs are minimized at lower density rates than I first assumed. Mid-rise buildings are the most cost-effective, moreso than high-rises.

I'm glad that the BuildZoom study confirmed my exercise somewhat, but it's still disappointing that sprawl seems to be the best way to make housing affordable.
The recharging story is made even better by the ability to put one at a time in the case. That's particularly important for long phone calls/web conferences/etc, when the microphone tends to drain the battery faster.
Definitely a multitool like a leatherman. I wish there was a check-in just for multitools on a plane since thats the only thing I can't bring with a carry-on. Obtaining a quality multitool in some countries can be hard/expensive.
Yes, the first iteration of W1-headphones are pricey. Point granted. But that will change. (Also, they are worth the price, which helps.)

BeatsX (with W1) are at $150, by the way. So the price is already down several percent! ;)
Advocating a diet (or any other opinion) is protected under Section 2 of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms. Actually selling a product with potentially misleading labels is not.
The whole SV area is out of touch with reality.
The idea is essentially maximizing nutrition while minimizing preparation. It's not really a way of buying food so much as a way of buying time.
Some governments? All governments exercise control on all businesses to some degree and vice versa. Business exert control on government too.

Knowing the right people is easily the most important factor in your business succeeding, not just in china, but in the US as well.

Elon Musk's contacts in the US government is why he was able to get hundreds of millions of dollars to bailout a bankrupt tesla many years ago.

Elon's success, even with paypal, had more to do with knowing the right people and having the right information than anything else. The same with tesla.
This is specific regulation related to food/meal replacements which are historically closer to medicine than food. I am not saying they are great, but all Solent needs to do is change their marketing not their product.

Also, I suspect these regulations have more backing than what you are assuming. They may not be correct, but they are good enough for people survive indefinitely on which is a solid track record.

PS: Used soylent for months 1.x and 2.0, swapped to Meal squares.
Most with that high of clearance are working in the DC area, one of the highest locality pay in the country