skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Why would they publish something like this?

It's as if people in the world have agendas that allow them to handwave away things like facts.

In all seriousness, it's an op-ed, so the NYT hasn't subjected it to their standards of journalistic rigour, and it's written by a lawyer/blogger who works for a think tank called Demos. Maybe I'm biased from living in DC/the Beltway for so long, but in my head whenever I read 'works for a think tank,' I substitute 'professional liar'. The author is the very definition of someone pushing an agenda.
Facial recognition is utter garbage and until every phone has Apple's FaceID stuff, it always will be. The TLAs know this and aren't going to waste efforts in that particular snake oil.
I'm a compsci undergrad currently, wouldnt say I'm bad at math wouldnt say I'm particularly good(thus the question), I can teach myself some math but it takes a lot of time and a lot of stress (which I'm trying to improve).
Spring Cloud Data Flow 1.3.0.M3 Debuts Live Stream Update / Rollback
I don't see why having a smartphone should prevent you from taking a walk and seeing cool things.
What are you saying? My brokerage account has to tell the IRS how much money I made selling stocks. Sometimes I find that information out by referring to the documents which they send to the IRS, ffs!

Why is this any different at all?

If you already paid taxes on them, you can demonstrate that pretty easily.
What I find conspicuous by its absence in the author's list is that the tax bill removes the $4,050 exemption for dependents. It seems like that would be a major tax increase for large families. It's very peculiar that Republicans would be mounting an assault on families with children, presumably a core constituency, and also odd that people opposed to the GOP aren't emphasizing it more.
The market was on an all time high already back before the tax cut.
I've been trying to replace the last dependency I have on Google products, a "finacial forecast" Spreadsheet integrated with Calendar. It lets me see approximately how much cash I'll have on hand at future dates, basically letting me live paycheck to paycheck without too much stress :) Can this do something like that? If not, does anyone know of something with similar features (local program, simple data files, etc.) that can?
Sure, I realize that it is for collateral. Nonetheless, that is why I spend my time doing stuff with IPFS rather than Siacoin.

I tried to answer your question about why people are hyped for IPFS/Filecoin (some only for one of the two) rather than the alternatives. It is not only because IPFS/Filecoin are "flashy", but because contrary to your claim developers _did_ have something working to play with from the same developers for quite some time which is also superior in some regards (public hosting).
What do the best interviewers have in common?
Could higher levels of smoking (either by the patient, or by family members) be related somehow?

https://www.cdc.gov/tobacco/disparities/low-ses/index.htm
I'd be interested to know more on this. Sources/links?
Their opinion section tends to have a liberal bent, but their investigative journalism is strong.
I wish OCaml could just use the libraries of Go and Rust. They can both compile to object files, and their type systems can be mostly modelled in OCaml's.
If the military needs to spend $1000 on a KVM switch, they won't bat an eye. That's not true for most of the rest of us.
Im with you. I feel that we never stopped to ask ourselves how will this make the world better.

Sure automatically tweeting my pics is cute, but does it improve my life or anyones lives?

We are simply chasing novelty.
Yeah, but housing is the 2nd most important thing, right after food! Also the ability to give your kids a good education, which is also very dubious in SF (public schools not great, everyone with $ sends their kids to private school). And even arguably healthy food is expensive; the cheap stuff makes you fat & gives you diabetes (maybe).
The strategic decline of the US relative to China and Russia over the past few decades has been due mainly to the massive cost of the American bureaucratic state. Both nations spend pennies on the dollar and cause our hawks to bluster embarrassingly as they flush our prosperity down the drain.

At least in the case of Russia, this was the objective from day one. The US is strategically weaker today (in terms of alliances, power projection, public support for wars and ability to handle multiple fronts) than it has been at any time since achieving superpower status.

We've seen a massive slide toward authoritarianism over the past few decades as well, with an emphasis on "us vs them" beliefs and other childish mental habits that have become mainstream.
I honestly don't understand the hype. Why Moleskin and not one of the in general better Leuchtturm products? Anyway, I personally went back to those blank exercise books I used in school decades ago. But then, I also run Linux and not some overhyped Apple.
If you don't want to get the phone greasy, turn the bag inside-out.

If you don't want to get everything else greasy, put the inverted bag inside another bag.

Bonus: Two layers of shielding.
That is mostly a Google thing. I've seen small subreddits activating the same thing in Google Drive. I would say that the threshold might be as small as 1000 people trying to access it.
New version of the best color manager is already in AppStore Download today
I haven't heard of this before, but it looks like it's similar to Docker compose or maybe a layer on top? And insight or comparison as to why you would use this over other tools.
I hope folks would forgive this plug but I think we can help: if you're looking for an alternative check out https://repl.it We have a lot of folks using it for online courses and YouTube tutorials.

We're committed to being open and available to anyone who wants to use the product. We're also very passionate about education and have a product specifically targeted at educators: https://repl.it/classrooms

We're currently not as feature complete IDE as C9 is but the aim is to get there without complicating the product too much. We want to keep it so that under 2 seconds anyone can spin up an environment. We also want to keep it simple and uncluttered. However, we want to expose a lot of the power that we already built the infrastructure for. Big updates to that end coming soon.
Republicans have become walking and talking contradictions, it really shouldn't be surprising in 2017.
Perhaps that's what the Senate bill was like, but last time I checked the House bill did the opposite by expanding the child tax credit. Based on what we've seen them advocating for within the last decade or so, I would expect the end result will include a bigger deduction/credit for children.
Percentage of Users Who Don't Use an App Straight After Installation?
Is there any data on what percentage of users fail to get to a critical event after installing a mobile app?

An example of a critical event is playing a song, if an app is a music player. In other words, if a user arrives on a critical event, it means they've got a value out of an app.

The data I'm looking for is different from D1 retention. It's just an average percentage of users who don't get an app straight after an install.

I'm trying to test one of my product ideas by building an MVP. The main metric of a success for me is an MAU (monthly active users). There's statistics on the Internet about average MAUs and DAUs. But what I haven't seen is any data on people who don't use newly installed apps at all.

Basically, I want to know whether I should be worried if I see that, say, 20% of installs don't lead into any user actions at all. And if on average 20% of users never use an installed app, then it's finea. Otherwise, I should take it as a signal of a problems in my idea or its implementation.
Wow, half way through I was specifically thinking to myself how this could have been a drunken mistake, and the report directly addressed that! I'm also happy that they were able to find the official documentation of the patient and resolve the situation.

I don't think hospitals should be lenient with DNR requests. Choosing to let yourself pass is a big choice, and having a single well defined path to make that clear is beneficial. It's not incredibly difficult to get a DNR, though possibly out of reach of somebody who is incredibly impoverished
I look at the efforts my Marco Rubio (Florida) and Mike Lee (Utah) to increase the child tax credit further as efforts to redistribute to said large families. It's currently at $2000/child and they're pushing for a larger number via an amendment.
>>AND there is no dilution.

There's no dilution unless token stewards (usually structured as non-profit foundations) decide to increase the overall supply of tokens.
>My country is already moving towards real time cctv identification in airports etc.

Your country must be very gullible and have poor standards of proof. Facial recognition is nowhere near capable of any such feat. Even in cases where the picture is taken under controlled circumstances, with ideal lighting, in good resolution, without extraneous background details, etc, facial recognition is still utterly terrible at matching people against a database of known images.

Tell your government to prosecute whatever contracting company lied to them and said such a thing could work for fraud and instead look into technologies that work, like those touchless optical fingerprint scanners that can take a persons prints from several feet away. Heck, I wouldn't be surprised if gait recognition had a higher ID rate than facial recognition. Prints and irises are both very good biometrics, facial is less reliable than having a schizophrenic practice phrenology on people one by one.
Never underestimate the ability of someone with an IQ of 135 to make every problem difficult.
She herself says:

"demarcation disputes between supervisor and student are always difficult, probably impossible to resolve. Secondly, it is the supervisor who has the final responsibility for the success or failure of the project. We hear of cases where a supervisor blames his student for a failure, but we know that it is largely the fault of the supervisor. It seems only fair to me that he should benefit from the successes, too. Thirdly, I believe it would demean Nobel Prizes if they were awarded to research students, except in very exceptional cases, and I do not believe this is one of them. Finally, I am not myself upset about it – after all, I am in good company, am I not!" [0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jocelyn_Bell_Burnell#Nobel_Pri...
Agreed. I mean, Russia already verifiably tried to influence the 2016 election, right?

Maybe the algorithm can be adjusted to not promote content that aligns with Russian interests. That way we can ensure people are only seeing the perspectives we want them to.
Yeah, I guess the complaint comes from a guy that was already familiar with OCaml's syntax.

I guess if you don't know OCaml, maybe the Reason syntax is more appealing.
Exchanges have ALWAYS been a known risk. People who actually care about privacy don't use coinbase.

Interestingly enough, people are working on decentralized exchanges through smart contracts. Good luck shutting down a smart contract or stopping atomic swaps between cryto currencies.
Parent comment is likely referring to the lawsuit against them which has recently seemed to take a turn for the worse for Uber.
I'm really looking forward to the release of this. Im hoping to replace my phone with it, a device that dual boots Linux and Android and has a physical keyboard is like my dream phone.
Or you can simply look at the probability of various causes of death: http://www.businessinsider.com/death-risk-statistics-terrori.... They don't specifically have ladder deaths, but at about 300/year, it would rank between heat waves and electricity on the list.
I was referring only to the parts of that rant that are/were of some objective value, e.g.:

> anybody who tells me that STL and especially Boost are stable and portable is just so full of BS that it's not even funny

> the only way to do good, efficient, and system-level and portable C++ ends up to limit yourself to all the things that are basically available in C.

You can certainly write C++ code without overabstracting it. Maybe Torvalds only ran into C++ programmers who liked overabstracting their code -- as it is usually the case with opinions of some people about other people, that part of the rant is best discarded :-).

But as my memory serves me, back when "portability" meant x86, SPARC, Alpha, ARM, MIPS, PPC, PA-RISC and m68k, the only way to do "good, efficient, and system-level and portable C++" was to limit yourself to the (relatively small) subset of C++ that was well-implemented by widely-available compilers (particularly GCC) across all these architectures -- not as a matter of discipline and code elegance, but because writing non-trivial C++ code back then usually resulted in very unpleasant trips down the standard library's source code and poring over objdump outputs trying to figure out what the hell broke this time.
How many times can a bubble burst? once ... So far the bitcoin bubble has "burst" several times, maybe we can call it something other than a bubble?
> it demonstrates that enforcement obeys different rules than other assets

Like stock exchanges and banks? Right, because they certainly don't report your gains/losses to the IRS voluntarily. /s

Seems bitcoin IS being treated exactly like other assets. Parent said this is a good thing. I agree (and I am a crypto trader). Maybe it's because my disdain for taxes-are-theft libertarians is much stronger than my reluctance to pay what I owe for my gains.

Also, it's one thing to not want to pay taxes if you're working a plow in a field all day. However if you're sitting at a computer pushing a few buttons and earning money from it, then yeah, no excuses to not pay.
Did you do any transactions with more than $20,000 worth of bitcoin? If you didn't, you're fine. If you did, well then I hope people dealing with that much bitcoin would be wary of the financial consequences.
Rating people is great but it is not a unique value proposition.
YouTube Begins Blocking Music in Finland Due to Licensing Failure
The remaining use case is when you want to share a monitor along with the keyboard and mouse.
It's on everyone's computer in the office, and doesn't require internet or training outside of your non-tech specialty.

Also, there's a TON of .xlsx files in the wild with years of business knowledge and processing. Everyone uses about the same 50% or so of Excel, which is captured in Google Sheets and any other spreadsheet. It's the extra 20% that everyone else uses -- and it's a different 20% for everyone -- that causes the issue of entrenchment.
LOL

The funny thing is that there are so many comments that say "what about X?" or "they didn't control for Y!", but that they would know otherwise if they actually read the article and/or the paper!
I would argue there isn't really a network effect for lyft or uber or any ride-sharing company for that matter. There might be brand and price effects for the companies to battle over amidst both riders and drivers.

I'd say there is a network effect for ride-sharing in aggregate, neither Lyft nor Ueber has been good at locking drivers and riders in with loyalty programs to try to keep people solely on their platform.
There's an enormous opportunity in UberEATS if they can get the unit economics right.
They could also retreat into already profitable markets .
Prevention is not the issue. It is the development of reactive thought patterns that result in being distracted too frequently. It's hard to think when you're used to not thinking at all.
And Emmy Noether is another one who had to fight for her due recognition

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emmy_Noether
> mmap("/dev/mem")

but that would only work if some kernel module or the kernel itself hasn't mapped that IO space, right?
Yet technology has never been a problem or a limiting factor of Uber. Uber deserves plenty of criticism, yet it seems rich to blame technology when they grew from nothing to enormous with few if any hiccups. It worked.

But yeah, extraordinarily few internal projects can be turned into an external project without enormous rework. It's only the myth of middle managers who perceive software as a growing asset who think otherwise.
Is this aside from the built in date utilities that org mode already has? I usually see dates tucked “under” the item so they can e.g. be viewed (and manipulated?) from something like the agenda view.
Agree except that Litecoin had ASIC for years.
There is a massive shortage of pilots. Right now pilots are being hired at regional carriers and flowing through to the mainline carriers extremely quickly.
I bought a smoker a few months back. The top of the line model had Bluetooth. A smoker does not need Bluetooth.
Depending on how complicated your spreadsheet is yes. I enter my fixed expenses a month ahead of time. I can then see how much money I expect to have on a given date with something like
ledger -e 2017-12-15 bal checking
This looks super cool, but I'm not sure I'd use it.

When the Series 5 was launched, there weren't a lot of good options for text input on mobile devices. The keyboard made a huge difference, because your alternatives were a full-size laptop, Graffiti on a Palm device or the awful resistive touchscreen on a WinCE device. The Psion 5 was the most useful productivity device that could fit in a coat pocket.

Today, touchscreen keyboards work well enough that a Psion 5-sized keyboard isn't a vast improvement. For less than $30, you can buy a folding Bluetooth keyboard that is barely bigger than a phone when folded, but gives an almost full-sized keyboard when unfolded. The Gemini's fixed keyboard makes it impractical to use as a phone, but isn't as good as a folding bluetooth keyboard. Loath as I am to admit it, I think it's simply an obsolete form factor.

If the keyboard snapped on magnetically, I might have given it serious consideration. As it is, I just don't see where such a device would fit into my workflow.

https://www.amazon.com/iClever-Portable-Keyboard-Bluetooth-W...
Randi Zuckerberg Says She Was Sexually Harassed on an Alaska Airlines Flight
RubyConf 2017 videos are up
I loved my Psion. I could actually use it to write documents or spreadsheets on a plane without problems. The battery also lasted really long.

I guess the success of this may be defined by the quality of the keyboard. The Psion's was just phenomenal.
Monero is a cyptocurrency.

How will the police shut down Monero miners in Russia and China?

How will the police shut down ALL of the Monero botnet miners?

If you are already running a botnet, you aren't worried about the 'extra' illegality of the currency. If police could shut them all down then they would have already done so.

Also, people are working on decentralized exchanges run through smart contract atomic swaps.

It isn't really possible to shut down an exchange that nobody is running in the first place....

Unless you are arguing that the government is going to shut down all cyptocurrencies now and for forever?
>Case 3: money laundering and other types of financial crimes. There are entire companies who build software to detect money laundering. It's a well-understood problem.

If the Panama papers have taught us anything it's that there are better places to hide money and legally avoid paying taxes on it than bitcoin.
I am a very happy user of nanobox, i was able to deploy to linode after migrating from GCP app engine, relatively painless. Their whole suite of tools made it easy to not scew up that..first deploy to the new server shudders
You're comments and views are completely acceptable here. The only reason you might get downvoted is your comments about being downvoted - a self-fulfilling prophecy. I would remove them as they don't add anything to the discussion.
"Tico" (sounds exactly like Tikku) is brazilian portuguese slang for "penis". Makes for some fun reading...

"Tikku...can be erected"
"Many Tikkus can grow side-by-side like mushrooms"
"Where ever a car can go, Tikku can grow."

etc.
Yeah, for better or worse that's ort of the default. I think ML syntax is fine, and in some cases great. However very few CS programs seem to teach MLs and AFAICT no bootcamps do so these languages tend to get picked up by dedicated autodidacts and academics. ReasonML might be a nice bridge,
This got posted yesterday and got ignored. I don't fully understand why. Unless I'm totally misunderstanding, this is a really big deal. Compromise of any iDevice I own can result in the total compromise of my Apple ID, and potentially bricking all of my other iDevices in the process! Whaaaaaat is going on!?
My wild guess is that intel has support contracts for their compiler, and they could be charging a lot more for those. Additionally, having a billable compiler may also be /to their benefit/ -- consider cases where someone wants a line item on a receipt (think government, military, etc).
It doesn't, really. It's just a background sense of being connected with an umbilical. Without a smartphone, no one can reach me, I don't have a map, a camera, music, distractions. Geez, to think people used to be always like that! If something goes "wrong" I might have to improvise--scary! Interact with people, take responsibility.

And there is the fact they are tracking the shit out of you, and lying about it.
The BSD part of the kernel is written in C, but IOKit, the kext framework, is written in (a subset of) C++:

http://xr.anadoxin.org/source/xref/macos-10.13-highsierra/xn...
What are Bitcoin's alternative uses?
Sorry mate. As you might have guessed, Community is a bot. Some quick tips might help for next time:

* Never, ever, write a question without tagging it with either a language or language-agnostic, though in the latter case you're still better off using a language tag as well. This is basically the only reliable way to get views.

* Try to give people a jump-in point. If your question gets 50 views, which is far from guaranteed, only expect 10 of them have the time to write an answer. If your question isn't approachable to at least one person in your mostly-random panel of 10 people, you're going to suffer for it. Giving people a minimal piece of code massively improves engagement rates.

* State your problem clearly. Your newest revision would likely never have had these problems, but your first revision was not obviously about C APIs, and by then it was too late.

* If your question is just closed and you think you deserve reconsideration, flag it with a custom reason for an actual moderator (rather than just a user with a vote). They're the only people who really have power to reopen fast enough to matter.

* If your question stays closed for a nontrivial amount of time, it's dead unless you post it to Meta (meta.stackoverflow.com) and people reconsider. There are too many questions posted to this site to spare a second glance to closed ones.

In short: be clear, be proactive, and focus on quality from the get-go.
As a home buyer, why is it a negative? It seems like it would represent such a small % of the purchase price and could be easily included in the negotiation as needing to be removed by the owner before you move in.
I highly recommend these videos:

https://xiph.org/video/

They don't directly explain the Fourier transform but watching them will give you important background that will help in understanding the Fourier transform.
“I did not believe it was patently illegal,” Jacobs said. “I had questions about the ethics of it. I suppose because of my personal ethics it felt overly aggressive and invasive.”

ref: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-11-28/waymo-tri...
I saw this was posted yesterday. For reference, don’t delete and resubmit things to HN if they do not get traction.
Moleskin are more widely available. I was at Target last night and they had a very large selection.
I have never seen a keyboard as small as the Psion's that felt as good. I hope they can replicate that.