skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"I used to think several years ago, that the main benefit of strong static typing was code safety / eliminating a whole class of bugs. But I've changed my opinion. I now think the biggest benefit is that it makes the code a lot easier for other people to read and understand."

Obfuscated spaghetti code and write-only programs can be written in any language. I've seen plenty of convoluted OCaml programs, with tons of one-letter variable names and no comments. And don't get me started on Haskell's propensity for using dozens of non-alphabetic operators that make it read more like line noise than Perl, not to mention its famous easy to understand monads or easy to reason about lazyness, on top of the community propensity for one-letter variable names, same as with OCaml. Static typing does not save badly written programs in either of these languages.

Besides, you can add type annotations to your Python programs, and even have them checked by mypy. Those programs might even wind up being easier to read than programs written in a statically-typed language where the programmer relied on type inference. But they won't necessarily be any more readable, as readability has less to do with types than it does with the programmer and the reader.
How about this link instead, since the GitHub page has no info about the language?

http://www.lemon-lang.org
Considering that the delivery codes to our apartment building were used to gain access and steal stuff, I'm less than inclined to create something like this for my home.

It only seems to be solving the problem of people stealing packages left outside, which I would rather just get re-shipped rather than have to deal with things stolen in my home.
Don't put your house key inside the lockbox!
My point: Hearphones may be cheaper, but they aren't a substitute for hearing aids. If people want to use them in lieu of hearing aids, fine. But they're a poor substitute. Other products may be better in the future.

A more exaggerated example: Someone who is nearsighted using their smartphone to look at more distant objects. Sure, it works, but it's not exactly practical.
Such a weird wording, it feels like blackmailing the company to get what you want, otherwise you're a racist or bigot.

I can see it working but the letter left a very bad taste in my mouth and also repeats the stereotype that the people they list are only into sex, porn.
Its not well paid IT contractors its all the minimum wage disguised employment "gig" jobs that is where the growth is.
I'd think the ^C would be transmitted by a physical disconnect, i.e. changing the state of the DCD line. The DCD disconnect should immediately trigger an interrupt, which should trigger a SIGHUP.

To be fair, though, I can't say I've used a proper serial terminal.
Capital-As-a-Service: A New Operating System for Early Stage Investing
Just a friendly reminder that nobody outside of Apple has actually used FaceID. So maybe we should all shelve the hysterics over hypotheticals until we can base our opinions on actuals.
C++ would be a non-starter for them.
Kaspersky says NSA hacking tools obtained after malware was found
> TouchID, for better or worse, has run the gauntlet.

Yet if you had a 5S you knew how awesome it was from day one.

I think the point is if you're preordering something with a new feature, you'd better have a lot of trust in the company you're preordering from to deliver on what they promise.

Many people have that trust with Apple, so they're fine with committing in advance. I don't see a big problem with that when they have a very solid track record.

> (holding it wrong and such)

I never met a single person who actually had this issue, and there were literally millions and millions of iPhone 4 devices in the wild. I owned one personally, never experienced it. Few things were as overblown as this.

Apple offered everyone the option of simply returning the device for a full refund, and nobody took them up on it. Why? Because the phone was great and the issue was pretty much non-existent.
We have a well decorated military general as our Director of IT Security. The general's background is purely in business administration and not background in IT security.
Did you used SceneKit, or UIKit dynamics, or is the physical effects are homemade/keyframe animations?

Very well done!

Edit: On a second thought I would see myself doing it as UICollectionView with a custom layout.
No I would be the one managing an event, and I need to cue up the files in advance. I don't really mind about the format, but how to manage and switch between multiple large pptx smoothly. Cheers in advance for any tips!
> Wait till your kids are teens and they have nothing to do but drugs and video games because there is nothing else within 200 miles.

Uhh, I think we live in very different realities. Drugs and video games are proper subcultures in their own right. It has nothing to do with where you live and more to do with your identity.
I'm probably talking out of my ass but I'm somewhat suspect of a cortex having straight up columns. I'm curious whether these are artifacts of the fact that linear algebra seems to be the dominant algebra in ML/modeling of human perception. Recently I've been dipping my feet into geometric algebra which seems to be the superior algebra for just about anything you can think of (human perception but also like all of physics, Maxwell's 4 equations are reduced to a single equation in GA) and it's particularly better for reasoning about spaces which this seems to be all about.

And unlike linear algebra it actually makes sense (e.g. why is cross product only in three dimensions?, wtf are determinants esp. in the context of matrix division all about?).

This blog post introduces GA and talks about it's relationship to human perception.

https://slehar.wordpress.com/2014/03/18/clifford-algebra-a-v...
Ideally, the cubbie would work like a PostOffice drop box and have a way to insert packages at will with out a code and then the owner has a key to unlock the cubbie.
http://www.slate.com/blogs/future_tense/2017/09/12/the_iphon...

I'm waiting with bated breath for the "quickly press the home button 5 times to disable it" objection, because thats not how real life situations work.
Point taken - I guess I should have said user serviceable for upgrades.

When you can do this you are able to get more life out of a laptop and avoid having to discard it for a new one. I'm pretty sure on Macbooks today you cannot upgrade the internals b/c they are sealed and permanently soldered to the mainboards. IMO I don't see huge advantage for it being any lighter or thinner than they are today in order to give up the option. I know I don't have a choice if I want to own a Mac and for the most part that's OK. However, as an Apple customer I wish they would engineer this in to allow people to easily extend the life/function of their products (thus reducing the load on landfills).

I was not trying to be anti-Apple fanboy - I do enjoy Macs (and have had several over the years). :)
I agree.

But if the goal was for it to be universal enough to work anywhere without the password manager installed then these crypto primitives would work.

You'd still be relying on the strength of those primitives and your secret key so it's not nearly as secure as randomly generated password.

So, yeah, use a password manager.
To me the thing that sets Nest cameras apart from the rest is the software. I am curious to see how Amazon did it.
No way. No Python dev would ever use both tabs and spaces...
FYI, current iPhones already light up the display when you hold them in a position where you can see your reflection.
Police Are the Problem, Not the Solution
>The light and the gravitational waves travel along the direct line of sight to us, curling around the gravity wells of intervening galaxies along the way. As a result, the initial burst of light and gravitational waves hid a little gem: the time difference between the arrival of the gravitational waves and the light. All 1.7 seconds of it.

I'm not clear on this part. Was the light slower by 1.7 seconds because it interacted with intervening matter?
> So the annoying workaround is to append year+month on the end of each password (which I was basically told to do when first setting up my account). So combined with a "maximum 10 characters" leaves 6 for my actual password...

Or do <password>, <password>1, <password>2, ...
There's another locker company, Luxer One, that takes deliveries from all of the carriers, not just Amazon. Probably others out there.
depends how they fiddle th figure I though 3 or 4 % was the full employment rate
"If the Universe were your local neighborhood, dark matter is the family that communicates with everyone, even other family members, only by changing the name of their WiFi network."

Ha! There are a couple of other gems in the article. Entertaining and educational.
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... probably not by pure coincidence.

p.s. specific dated link
https://blog.acolyer.org/2017/10/25/why-does-the-neocortex-h...
This is very cool. I'm wondering if decentralized overlay 'mesh' networks will become more prevalent in the future. Overlays have obvious benefits for multi-cloud setups if latency isn't an issue for the services you run through the network. I can imagine this becoming a more popular technique in the future as cloud instances become cheaper and more people are willing to make the performance trade-off for convenience. Additionally it can be a great pattern to fight vendor lock-in.

I run a similar concoction for my 'home network' which consists of various mobile devices like my Android phone and some cloud servers, but instead of ZeroTier and I use CJDNS in combination with Consul. The code for it is on github in the vdloo/raptiformica repo. I ran into various issues with the difference in latency between nodes. I think most people run Consul in a very homogeneous environment (like in one datacenter), but maybe perhaps the differences between using it cross-cloud is not enough to cause problems. I'm wondering if there were some Consul settings that the author had to tweak (and how) for stability and if there were any unexpected issues.

One thing that caused me problems with Consul on overlay networks was an ARP cache overflow. DigitalOcean also ran into that running Consul at scale in their DC if I recall correctly: http://youtu.be/LUgE-sM5L4A I noticed that if I put enough Dockers on one host (like 50 - 100) in an overlay network and tried to run Consul on top of that things would start to overflow, presumably because of all the network abstraction and redundancy. I'm wondering how many machines the author had in one Consul cluster and if they tested to what amount of nodes this setup could scale.
I recently wrote https://justa.ml

Was looking for something ready-to-use and simple (without login or giving too much details) for the situations when AirDrop or PushBullet <3 is not an option.

Hastily written code code is available at https://github.com/mustakimali/JustA.ML
Learned a thing or two about end-to-end encryption while working on that.
Great post, nice system to improve the self.

Sidenote: I think its fair to say Franklin never achieved the "Justice" virtue considering he was considered a racist. I guess pretty much all influential white man in America during the 1700s were though. But check out Benjamin Franklin's "Obervations Concerning the Increase of Mankind, Peopling of Countries."
Scipy and numpy are both awesome. But I've always wondered what causes so many widely used projects to hold off for so long on the 1.0 release?
What people think at the gym
If Patreon is worried about associating their brand with pornography, they could still spin off a sister site under an entirely different domain, brand, and infrastructure, but with the same underlying codebase.

If Big Food and Big Opthalmology and Big Others can present the illusion of competition by having one parent company own all the brands on the market, why not Patreon?
Hackers breach plastic surgery clinic
How on earth are they able to post photographs from a professional digital camera and pretend those are images from the device? I'd expect some sort of "simulated image" disclaimer somewhere... but these images are clearly shot with a professional camera.

https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/71sMIACL1bL...

https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/71xBkN5g40L...

https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/G/01/kindle/d...
So...it is a wiki/knowledge base...hosted by others on your behalf? Er, that is, its a wiki/knowledgebase - hosted by others - with features added for some specific use-cases (e.g. encrypted text data like passwords, widgets to automate adding bookmarks, etc.)...?
If the new housing replaces old housing, without adding any /many new units, it can certainly increase prices (new brand new apartment often costs more than a 20 year old one). That isn't what you are talking about here, but some NIMBYs may think that is what is going on in some situations- in those cases, education is key to persuasion.
Sources said that HR department representatives told staff in one office they were being let go due to problematic "conduct with peers." When questioned, an ex-employee said, HR declined to specify any details about the alleged poor conduct, which had never been previously discussed.

<tin foil hat> Is this pre-empting a union push?
There is not a goddamn chance I am putting a cloud-connected indoor or outdoor camera in/on my house.

I can't believe how popular this trend is becoming.
The csv parsing is not part of the benchmark.

The only thing I measured is iterating the list and matching entries within range of the input coordinate.
> "Not only that, the most vulnerable among us – disproportionately queer, trans, disabled, people of color and those whose first language is not English – are literally scared for our lives. "

The writer uses "people of color" and "whose first language is not English" to build a case for the author's own desire. The author doesn't truly serve in the interests of the black community, immigrants or any of these groups they are name-dropping.

I guess, every one's doing it though. Think of the children!
So basically, step two of getting to Mars is to setup interstellar refulling stations.

Once you get to mars, or any destination, you need fuel to get back/other things...

So assuming we have an engine that can deliver us back and forth in a reasonable time, then we need to think about deploying intermediate refueling drones... and then drones to refill them... and then how to manufacture and deliver that fuel to the various nodes...

And if we are running out of helium, on earth, we need to find the most harvestable noble gas we can in the solar system...

What are the atmospheres of the other planets made up of, specifically Jupiter, how could we slurp off its atmosphere to Bush is around the solar system?

Assuming other energy sources don’t pan out
pure framebuffer UI's exist in embedded systems, they look horrible but constraints are constraints.
The iPhone 7/8 already turn the screen on when you hold them up, so not sure how it's any worse to unlock.

She could get the black one and use the glass back.
Regardless of what you call them, Geniuses are just CSRs, and I think we've all gotten ill-informed information about products and services from CSRs regardless of the company. I would stick to official press releases and copy about the device for accurate information.

There is absolutely no way FaceID is required, I would bet my life on it. It flies directly in the face of the whole "Apple cares about your privacy" thing they've been pushing as of late.
I hate stories with no ending. My high school English teacher used to write AND??? with big red letters after reading them. And that's what this guy needs. What's the conclusion? Did he get the job? A snarky rejection letter?

AND?????
Workers are usually more efficient when they concentrate on one job full time. But that leaves them exposed to any disruption of that one job.

Also, many employers expect contractors to be always available, or available full time for long stretches, but that makes it impossible to diversify their income.

So it can become very one-sided. A possible answer would be to make it normal for employees to have contracts with several employers at once, but that can create conflicts of interest in a lot of professions, and would make things like IP very messy.
Yeah, and these gigs aren't the best thing around for sure. But I wonder where people would be without them, you know? Would it be huge unemployment? Or would conventional employees be the result?
Sprint planning? Start by asking these 5 questions
Will Facebook Ever Stop Bullshitting?
Ah yep, thanks, s/biodiesel/corn ethanol spiked diesel/.
Again, I'm not buying it. Investors are also people, who are also capable of knowing right from wrong. I absolutely will fault them for taking evil steps to make profit at the expense of others.

And I disagree. Including the clause indicates your willingness to be evil in exercising it.

The fact that the card exists is absolutely a problem that exists and needs to be fixed. But you had the option to take it or not, and you chose to take it. That in itself is an evil step.
Memoir '44 and other games under the same system (there's an Ancient Rome themed one, for instance) are fairly accessible and (depending on scenario) play quite a bit faster than most Risk games. They're (mainly) 2-player, though. They're also at the battlefield level, rather than worldwide strategy or anything like that.

Diplomacy's either a much better or much worse alternative to Risk. Depends who you ask. Not directly comparable but scratches the same itch, possibly better (see: depends who you ask).

The Board Game Geek site probably has some lists for semi-casual or otherwise less-hardcore wargames. That'd be the place to look. Then see whether Shut Up & Sit Down has done a video review of any that look interesting to you, before buying (they have for Memoir '44, IIRC).
The lots of space problem is an issue with VR headsets too. Even I have trouble setting up mine because of the space issue and the fact that its just plain easier for me to do something else.
Primary Differences from established alternatives:

1. Unique User Interface/Features

Examples:

- Intuitive keyboard shortcuts makes the tasks component in the projects module work almost like a free-text editor, making it super-fast but structured.

- Customizable labels that can be organized within folders, allowing the same document to effectively be in multiple folders through the labels. This provides the right dimensionality for quickly identifying the relevant resources. For instance, you can have 30 labels organized in 6 different high-level categories. You can use the specific label or high-level category for quick filtering based upon what you are interested in.

- RegEx Search. Surprisingly few applications have RegEx search + labels. These 2 can work great together for filtering purposes.

2. Single Platform and Uniform Interface across different resources

3. Free

Free because of low variable cost and efficient development.

There isn't a phone app but the web application is cross-device compatible.

Your passwords are encrypted using AES-256 with your Managify account's password as the key. The password tokens are then stored in the databases. We do not store enough information to be able to decrypt your passwords.
Upstate New York is in no danger of drying out - they get plenty of rainwater from lake effect storms and snows.
And: "Must be four characters different than your last password" (this from a particular state's health insurance system). What does this mean? That four characters from the previous password must not appear in the new one at all, or only not in the same position? (fans of the little game Mastermind suffer deja-vu) What if the previous password contained all of the must have set of alternate symbols, then you've got a direct contradiction.
What if Patreon wants to be family friendly, and allowing the selling of porn on Patreon ruins that image?

Seems like a business opportunity for another website to take that niche, a "Porntreon" if you will.
I wonder how different things would be if sex work was decriminalized.
Amazon's Dream of Drone Deliveries Get Closer with Trump's Executive Order
Allow those liens to compound over enough time, and eventually they become more than the value of the home. Also, many of these voters want to leave their property to their children, not the government.
Not clear as to whether those were SolarCity or Tesla (direct) employees.
Kinect was a phenomenal piece of technology for a lot of my highly experimental AR stuff.

However, a lack of MacOS support, terrible drivers for Windows that worked about half the time with my Unity rig, non-native Unity support, et al, really messed up a lot of the longer-term plans I had for it, and caused it to not be reliable enough to ever use in a production environment.

The developers make or break a piece of hardware, and while I get that it was mainly an XBOX device, when it failed to make a serious splash there, they could've saved the hardware by working with its high-demand for a ton of different high-tech solutions and provided consistently better SDK's and API's.

Good riddance, because hopefully we'll get something better. Shame, because Microsoft really had a product that spoke to higher-end developers and filled a phenomenal void for a low-cost alternative to brutally high-cost motion capture and natural interaction systems.

Hopefully the structure sensor [ https://store.structure.io/store ] can help to fill this void.

In the meantime, I'm guessing it means that the software support isn't going to get any better. :(
Would Turing Have Won the Turing Award?
Yes, the article even has a section where they straight up say "Einstein was right".

The title of the article "Colliding neutron stars falsify some theories of gravity" is accurate, but the theories of gravity that it falsifies isn't the popular mainstream one (Einstein's) that, let's face it, we've all been secretly hoping to take down. Instead, it falsifies some of the new challenger (MOND) theories.

I, for one, welcome our continuing Einsteinian Relativistic overlord theories of gravity (at least when it comes to dark matter)
SEC ignored years of warnings about cybersecurity before massive breach
I'm not involved in any way, but from the news I watch, both a) and c) claims are debatable. I guess he's not worse than what he replaced, but that doesn't make him good. At least that's the spin in the media in my country, possibly very biased for a lot of reasons.
The degree of muddled thinking around Apple's competence never cease to amaze me. Do you really think that Apple went about trying to replace TouchID, a fundamental part of the experience of using their most important product, with FaceID and didn't consider time to unlock as one of the most important engineering considerations?
Then I have good news for you: you can use an existing spreadsheet app or a relational database!
I doubt Ben took them seriously. He's well known for having fabricated popular stories on slow publication weeks/months. This was likely his form of click-bate.