skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Here's a decent article to start with: https://journal.thriveglobal.com/how-books-and-television-af...

If you do some searching, you'll find lots of ink spilled on the subject of "does TV rot your brain" and the cognitive benefits of reading.
> Does it have a fingerprint reader?

Reminds me of the attributed quote from Ford saying "If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have asked for a faster horse"

Fingerprint reader is just a mean to an end to provide secure login. How quickly people forget that a few years back people were asking Apple to introduce gesture-based pin entry like on Android phone. Fingerprint reader made that requirement obsolete.

Also, there are new workflow that are enabled by FaceId. For example, it is completely reasonable to require authentication before popping out the keyboard, before sending any message, change any option, or switch to another application, ...

That's huge. There was no way back to pin code to me once fingerprint allowed me to remove the grace period for no authentication on the lock screen. The workflows I mentioned above (if practical in reality) similarly would change the game and remove any interest to fingerprints reader. (well assuming FaceId works as Apple demoed - that's a big if in the first gen of the technology)

edit: side note - fingerprint working on the whole screen would allow the same workflows that I mentioned. That would be a competing technology worth looking at.
Or he’s suggesting that if he worked at Google he would face an immediate disciplinary measure. He said he’s a manager so he’s involved in the prosecution that J. D. denounced (and was fired for).
That is truly disturbing.
I read both but think the WSJ article was written better.
It wasn’t widely known what was happening behind the scenes until the Soviets started to take back the east.
I actually tried an android chrome incognito Google search which found the WSJ article, but it used a different but just as effective way to prevent viewing all of the article even though it was AMP. That's when I figured I'd ask.
Old & new previous-gen iPhones are available at Android prices, including “free with contract” (in the US at least).

They aren’t cutting edge, but neither are the equivalently priced Androids.
Patrick, on the 2.6+ Linux kernels, is there a significant difference between threads and processes? It seems like both threads and processes are created via clone and the only difference is memory access?

I often hear "context switching between threads is cheaper" but pthreads still have their own PID and everything, so is this really the case?

Is there really much advantage to pthreads over the way PostgreSQL does things with efficient CoW sharing between processes for the binary?
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I agree it isn't 100% perfect for every situation. But I can think of plenty of instances where ditching colors, lowering resolution, etc. have been totally fine (and often essential) for gaining a level of intuition. As some other comments noted, this intuition may be flawed, mostly because it's hard to know what you don't know. As a result, you are still more informed than you might have been before, but you also might not know much more.

however, being able to mix and match properties is really what most good plotting and visualization is all about. having done a bunch of ray tracing, my intuition around lighting and light is much better. I am not even good 'anechdata' so take that for what its worth, but I found visualization to be much more intuitive than reading e&m textbooks/lectures. I'm not sure if knowing a phenomena as bottom up or top down is really a guarantee (nor am I suggesting that symbolic reasoning is bottom up or down), but seeing something is just so efficient for some people. Like anything powerful, it just needs to be used judiciously and with asterisks.
there's only a tiny microcontroller and radio added per light. the power consumption of this additional technology is on the order of milliamps at 3v. this is minuscule compared to the LEDs themselves.
OK, Let me explain in more detail:

In every redaction, there used to be a government employee called censor. This one read all articles are decides what can and what cannot go into print. Censor followed government wish what citizens can and cannot know.

This German law institutes private censors. This one will behave exactly like the same, except they will be employed by the company, under penalty.

This is not cultural marxism, this is censorship. The rules under which censors will operate are based on political correctness, which is based on cultural marxism.

Personally, I believe that free speech is not about what you can say - it's about what you can hear. Authoritarians are not afraid of what you can say, they are afraid of those who listen to you.
so we are selecting who is gonna die so everybody raise to our standard of living? Are we selecting some people who we will purposefully maintain in poverty so that we keep our standard of living? Or are we reducing our standard of living down to some sustainable world average?
Universities and teams within corporations run Linux desktop, though. Maybe they'd make for specialized targets?
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I'm curious how, in this context, a Colonel is giving orders to a Brigadier General.
What makes this different from a minimax algorithm with alpha-beta pruning?
The Blub Paradox
> That's another reason to switch to F-Droid.

But if you need to download WhatsApp to communicate with loved ones, you can't get it from F-Droid, right?
The component manufacture is outsourced too isn't it? It seems they have been setting up or buying some chip fabrication facilities, but does any current Apple product contain anything built in an Apple factory?
Rock, paper, billet description. Col Spath was the sitting military judge over the tribunal, and BGen Baker is the chief defense counsel.
Wow. Were you hoping it'd do your laundry too? I'd recommend avoiding pre-release indie games and new tech in general.
Come on dude, be nice.

All I'm saying is that, whenever people complain about Comcast, it's inevitably about some problem with either their network, or customer service.

Comcast is a huge, scaled organization that deals with "the public". They deal with people who don't pay. They follow up when bills get lost. They deal with people who forget to return their routers. They provide level-1 tech support for people who accidentally switch their modems off and call to complain. They handle shitty premises wiring problems induced by home DIYers who crimp RG-6 connectors with pliers. They handle support cases where people spill Coke on their routers and complain that it "stopped working".

All I'm saying is, it's just incredibly naive to look at the problem of an ISP as just "network operations". Like, we can build/operate a better network=profit. That's an incredibly naive view that neglects all the ancillary work of premises provisioning, bill/payment management, 24/7 customer support, pretty much the entire "customer" side of running a large-scale retail ISP.

I mean really, what is "community broadband"? Are we just going to magically assume that, because we aren't dealing with Comcast, all of this work will somehow magic itself away? I don't get it.
Complete with creepy predictions like "Predicted optimal life path: $120,000 net worth, 63 year life span".
Potential for class action lawsuits?
The Court is giving the orders, I'd imagine.
Yes, it is. However, it's also reassuring that the system has corrected itself. While we might desire a system that never makes a mistake, it's comprised of fallible humans, and as harsh as it is, we know that sometimes there will be errors. What we can do is try to make a system resilient enough that it can minimize and correct those errors.
As part of our Extra Life 2017 fundraising efforts a bunch of us are live streaming an 24 hour LAN party.

We're giving away a very special piece of memorabilia! NESFlix / DARNes is the only NES in the world that can watch Netflix. You might remember it from the Castlevania Trailer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iIMrFnl5NiA or the Hack Day blog post!

For more technical details check out Guy's blog post on the subject: http://blogofsomeguy.com/a/2015-03-22/nesflix.html and a demo video by Guy and Alex here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_yn-rNdYZAY

If we reach our donation goal of $10,000.00 one lucky donor will be receiving the NES!
You can't put up a wordpress site with more than 4 plugins selected at random on a linux box that is secure. I even experienced a THEME that was hacked.
The most interesting stuff is about state criminal law, where each state will be different. Of course, SESTA is more than just that, but it is still an interesting question.
HN added a "web" button underneath each story that often helps in these situations.
It hurts to let it go.. but I love the cause ;)
Is that your own spin on the CAP theorem? Where does "performance" even come into the equation?

And CRDB is a CP system, just like Spanner.
Knives that can carry a tune
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A very rare piece indeed!
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15627294
Alternative .onion link for those using the Tor Browser Bundle

https://www.nytimes3xbfgragh.onion/2017/11/02/magazine/the-f...
Tinyc.games
The First AR Game for TV Shows
> it's also reassuring that the system has corrected itself.

Extrajudicial courts were created. Client-attorney interactions were willfully disrespected. A Brig. Gen allowed for the dismissal of the disrespected attorneys. A military judge threw a fit. The last ill has been partially corrected; we're a long way from due process, fair trials or justice.
The UCMJ is a completely parallel legal code and has some messed up elements.
In my experience, web link no longer works for WSJ submissions as WSJ no longer pass-through access from search engine referrer links.
TLDR is:

- Meteor uses MongoDB as a data store

- You write queries on the server called "publications", that make documents available to the client

- The client implements "MiniMongo", which basically lets you query the documents that have been published via your publications using Mongo queries as if you were writing them straight from the server

- The publications are (by default) reactive, so whenever any of the documents in your queries is added/removed/modified, the changes propagate instantly to your client.

- The original view library (Blaze) would seamlessly update with these changes in your UI.

From memory, the performance bottlenecks here are:

- It uses the Mongo OpLog to determine when changes have been made to the collections, which makes the queries themselves quite slow.

- For every dataset published to the client, Mongo keeps a cache of that dataset on the server so it knows when it needs to send deltas over the wire.

So for both of these reasons, once your queries get big, they get SLOW.

The other thing that is costly (but not fundamentally a fault of Meteor itself), is that most people building web apps model their data in relational terms. If you try and apply that to Mongo, (ie, treating collections as tables and "joining" across them instead of nesting data hierarchically inside your documents), you'll end up writing slow queries.
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I'm not saying anyone is collecting bills from their neighbors. I think people are reading my comment a lot more literally than I intended.

What I'm saying is that, we have large-scale utilities like power and water companies that are able to provide individual, metered service to households over a geographically distributed area. In order to to this, there is a large amount of unpleasant, schleppy work required that most analyses of smaller-scale alternatives conveniently sweep under the rug.

Either we assume (a) another large-scale operator will provide broadband, which will probably be something like Comcast (maybe not), or (b) it will be done at a smaller scale, say, a company for 1000 residences. Does (b) actually exist?
Amazon prime video is available on play store.
Without the Bill of Rights having already been drafted and clearly having enough support for success, the Constitution would not have had enough support to have been ratified because of opponents that were concerned about the very rights that the Bill of Rights enacts (including freedom of speech).

It is obviously true that the first amendment is an amendment, but it is not accurate to suggest that it is (or was viewed at the time as) less essential than the document it amended.

This is something that is covered in most U.S. civics classes.
I have a question arising from the article: what is a "learned counsel", google is giving me garbage when I search it (I guess it's a word that bring money to SEO people). I am not a native english speaker.
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Large, unlimited, and permanent files sounds great to the average person. One nitpick I have with the IPFS crowd is the use of the word 'permanent'. They know exactly what it means, but the connotation for the average person is incorrect (persistent data for the latter, permanent address for the former). The marketing problems run deep.
The Internet Association doesn’t represent the Internet—it represents the few companies that profit the most off of Internet activity.

Reminds me of the similarly misleadingly named "Internet.org" - Facebook's walled-garden "substitute" for an actual Internet connection.
Never loan a client more than 1 or 2 weeks pay.
My current client has gave me a large retainer up front but usually I try to work for more than one client so no single client owes me more than 40 hours pay.

Technical competence is only 1 of the 3 things you need to be good at to make it in this business; the other two are (a) getting paid (b) finding new work
This law is just the German constitution applied specifically to a certain industry. Germany doesn't have free speech in the same vein as the First Amendment in the US. When the Allies created the German constitution they avoided the trap of using the US model in Germany. It would have been utterly idiotic for there to be US-style "free speech" in the country that was ground zero for Nazism. Without the handcuffs of free speech, Germany was free to completely de-Nazify itself.

No one would accuse Germany of being anything but an open liberal democracy. And it's a liberal democracy with unique protections that will ensure it remains one (while other liberal democracies are hijacked with their own freedoms) [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streitbare_Demokratie
If it is optimising all your decisions, even the mundane ones, is it really your life any more? If it plugged into your brainstem and took over, by definition nobody else would notice the difference (you always did what it said anyway, or you’d be suboptimal), so why not just flood the 20 watt carbon-based neural network with bliss drugs and let the silicon-based neural network be the person instead?
Do you really need to tell people when there aren't any new jobs? No one is telling taxi drivers that their industry is shrinking fast due to Uber/Lyft, but they see the writing on the wall. The world is full of employment markets that dry up, and it is reasonable to look around once in a while are notice that.
What is this time with package managers? Takes an hour one time to learn pip and virtualenv. Then its 1 pip command to install a package.
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This reminds me of Google vs. the Chinese government.

The government wanted heavy censorship for certain forbidden targets. Google picked up their toys and went home, and let the Chinese discover the joys of VPN.

If that's what Germany wants, Facebook should pack up and leave, and make people use a VPN to access Facebook.

Every time you give censors the ability to arbitrarily determine what's ok and what's not, the ability always gets misused by the government, in my experience.

For instance, compare and contrast the results shown for Tiananmen square in Baidu vs. Google. It's even forbidden to show relevant results for June 4th - most Chinese people get around that by searching for May 35th.

If you can control the present, you control the future. By forbidding speech that is not currently fashionable, you open the floodgates.
Remember when "Internet surveillance" was strictly for and "because terrorists"? How long did that last?

It still is. Along with children (and child porn in particular), "extremists", drugs, and other things that provoke more emotional than rational thought. These days, almost everything oppressive is done in the name of "security".
There is a live stream of the event here: https://go.twitch.tv/netflixgamers
I hope there are no fake banking apps like that...
F-Droid
Good catch. Didn't even think about that.
There is ransomware in the wild for Linux desktop now, iirc propagating through Flash.
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Well, no. The UCMJ isn't "parallel" any more than the IRC is "parallel." They are both part of the U.S. Code. Just like "IRC" is shorthand for "26 U.S.C.", "Art X, UCMJ" is shorthand for "10 U.S.C. § 800+X"

That also has nothing to do with this case, seeing as how this is a tribunal under the Military Commissions Act, not a court-martial convened under the UCMJ.

UCMJ: Chapter 47 of Title 10: https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/10/subtitle-A/part-I...

Military Commissions: Chapter 47A of Title 10: https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/10/subtitle-A/part-I...
Those who find this interesting are recommended to look at the demoscene --- where realtime procedural graphics and music are the norm, and some groups have gotten very very good at it.
This refers to the requirement to have attorneys of a certain level of experience on a given case.

The Navy Lieutenant (O-3) is still serving as defense counsel to the detainee even after BGen Baker dismissed the civilian counsel. But due to the above requirement, the case cannot proceed with him alone.

For those looking for more detail, Rule 506(b) in the Manual for Military Commissions reads: "Capital Offenses. In any case in which the trial counsel makes a recommendation to the convening authority pursuant to R.M.C. 307(d) that a charge be referred to a capital military commission, or in which the convening authority refers a charge to a capital military commission, the accused has the right to be represented in accordance with section (a) above, and by at least one additional counsel who is learned in applicable law relating to capital cases. The right to be represented by at least one additional counsel who is learned in applicable law relating to capital cases terminates at such time as all charges for which the death penalty is authorized are dismissed or referred as a non-capital offenses. Such appointment of learned counsel shall be in accordance with regulations prescribed by the Secretary of Defense. If necessary, such additional learned counsel may be a civilian andmay be compensated in accordance with regulations prescribed by the Secretary of Defense."

http://www.mc.mil/Portals/0/2010_Manual_for_Military_Commiss...
Apparently this is the so called progrwssive prince behind the crackdown, the one who among other things allowed women to drive.

I wonder what this could mean for the middle east and the Saudi export of Wahhabism...
The SPARC Port of Linux (1997)
I'm of the impression that there's an important difference between Go and Haskell's models--namely that Go is M:N threaded and Haskell is not; however, I don't entirely understand the significance of the difference, so hopefully someone else can comment and enlighten me.
You may find the Luakit browser interesting.
https://luakit.github.io/
I have an Android dev phone that cost £19, no contract, about half-to-a-third the price of a then-equivalent second-hand iPhone. In third world countries even a £19 device is worth stealing, as a friend of my partner experienced.
How about Logitech makes an affordable effective precise VR glove. Then we can use that for many things besides just data entry.
For my information, why is M:N so successful for Go and not for pthreads? Is M:N more practical for systems with a particular kind of garbage collector?
Have you tried org-velocity?
Indeed. There's still a lot to be corrected, and the system as a whole wasn't perfect to begin with. But it's also last bit, which has been corrected, is the context of the submission. It's of course important to step back and assess the system as a whole: it's also important to recognize when smaller parts are working, if nothing else to remind ourselves that the system as a whole is worth saving.
If you type the letter “i” and it autocorrects to an “A” with a symbol
This is true for high performance server software, too, especially servers that resemble databases.

I personally find myself thinking about alignment more than I probably should. For Go, I use http://golang-sizeof.tips for experimenting. I've been able to make schema changes to my structs to enable more functionality without increasing memory usage.
There's a Kedzie Hall on the campus of Michigan State
Correct. I'm fairly certain he was agreeing with you.
Adding features too quickly was one of problems with swarm.
The disturbing implication here is that Freelancer has little incentive not to push any given debtor to a legal process, given that this escapade cost them but a little personnel time to respond.
If you market yourself by speaking at conferences you usually make money.
Yes, of course :(

But if IBM sold the gear long enough before it was clear that the Nazis were doing that, IBM arguably isn't at fault. And if they did, they are.

Notwithstanding Edwin Black's IBM and the Holocaust: The Strategic Alliance between Nazi Germany and America's Most Powerful Corporation, it's my understanding that all suits against IBM over this have been dismissed or withdrawn.
Wait, I'm confused. Right about what? Trump was saying that Talal was trying to buy American politicians. Talal wasn't arrested for that. Or are you saying that Trump is somehow responsible for the king's actions, because that seems like a ridiculous conspiracy to me. Please connect the dots for me.
It could easily be hooked it into their existing opinion rewards program. Every time a new app is published on the play store or the name of an existing app is changed, just ask a half-dozen real verified humans if it matches the name of an app they've heard of before. I'd be happy to do it once a week or so for ten cents of play store credit.
I think GIMP could have the best GUI in the world and still no designer would use it since it lacks non-destructive editing.
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Any material that can’t be power washed won’t work for the NYC subway.
Fixing bugs and adding important features.
Anyone interested in a free version of the platform?
Thanks, I looked at it, I wanted a crude web browser, not a modern html5/css3/js(6).

The point was to make an extremely light, yet programmatic access to web data and almost static html.

When I use dillo I don't miss much, maybe a few css fix here and there. What I feel is that I want some emacs-ish capabilities in it so I can do more with less. And I love the ridiculous resource consumption of dillo, 30 dillo tabs = half a chromium one; and without parsing js and fetching scripts .. network + rendering is hard to measure.