skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The was the "angel" on indiegogo - but they tanked before delivering any of the "perks" (product). I lost $249 there - still a bit sore!
Thanks for those insights - that is interesting and very helpful.

Seems you have more Chinese background so you may be a tad biased but please give your honest opinion (which is valued greatly, given your extensive experience!): which is more fun to speak & listen to, Japanese or Mandarin ?

Also you're planning to visit/live in HK do you plan to (or already) learn(ing) Cantonese ?
If I can read the picture properly, the microinsect is just a small plastic part (injection molded? it doesn't look printed), some servos, and a microcontroller. Any lab that's serious in this area could recreate it. https://robotics.eecs.berkeley.edu/~ronf/PAPERS/dhaldane-icr...

Ah, OK. It's a bit more than that. They had to upgrade the bot significantly with next-gen materials to achieve high speeds, https://spectrum.ieee.org/automaton/robotics/robotics-hardwa...
I wonder if the other shoe will drop in iOS12 - Apple getting rid of the bruteforce limiter on PINs. Or making it much more relaxed, too. If it will be willing to do that, I would start getting worried about hidden changes to TouchID and FaceID, too, that could make them easier to crack as well.

I wonder if Apple changed its mind on blocking law enforcement from decrypting iPhones. It seems they were the ones to reach out to law enforcement when the Las Vegas attack happened.

I for one think it's completely ridiculous that every time such an attack happens it's encryption that gets most of the blame, rather than say the guns that were the actual tools that killed all of those people.

So one unhealthy individual can go and get an assault weapon, hundreds of bullets, no questions asked, but it's when he starts talking on his iPhone is when we should be getting worried and monitoring his conversationss?

Plus, such attacks are probably kept private, not shared with their best friends before they happen. The whole logic process seems so backwards. It's a little late to be reading the contents of the shooter's iPhone after he's already killed 20 people, no?
I promise, that if you put the same work into being there for someone as you _HAVE_ to do with your own kids, and do it because you want to connect, that someone will be there.

If you half-ass it for the wrong reasons, of course not.

But the same thing is true, but with higher costs (both economical and psychological), if you have your own child with the same attitude.
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...and then gains most of it back over the next 3 days.

Bitcoin is volatile. The world doesn't know quite what to make of it yet. Is it a ponzi? Is it tulips? Is it a truly transformative technology?

I have my opinion. But no one knows for sure.
Not a great solution, but if iOS itself is asking for your password pressing the home button when the dialog is up will be a nop instead of returning you to the home screen.
But they patched the Mac root login within 48 hours of it becoming “a story”? I don’t buy the conspiracy.

More likely, Apple wants to ease user adoption.

Did you buy an iPhone X? It was awesome to setup. There was this nifty feature to use NFC/the cameras on my new phone to authenticate myself, and it was a breeze. Huge fan of this type of improvement and convenience.

You know what I’m not a fan of? My iPhone being a gateway to hijack the rest of my digital life. It’s a key to my little kingdom that didn’t exist before, and my only protection is (figuratively speaking) locking my phone to me like the Nuclear Football, and continuing to use a 20+ character passphrase with enough entropy I can’t be brute forced.
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I would say CopperheadOS - https://copperhead.co/android/
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I'm not sure they were calling it an ICO around then, but there was absolutely an online public crowdsale in 2014.
Have you got any sources to back up your claims of deleterious effects on human health? Any at all? I will remind you that the claims of phytoestrogen interfering with human reproductive ability have not been proven, despite rigerous study.
Actually, there's an upcoming AI/ML specific Google conference coming up next week or so.
Models have lower bugs.

Your fin model has normal sanity checks and then functional checks.

And in the end the out put must be readable AND make sense.

And whatever bug you have is going to propagate down your projected time series.

Finance chaps use finance as their weapon of debugging. Sure mistakes get through. I’ve seen mistakes get through code as well though.

Also - analysts get fired a lot faster.
The problem - in my opinion, probably going against wiser and smarter people - is that today's secure stuff is tomorrow's insecure stuff. So if you don't want to be locked into an eternal cycle of upgrades or worry about what level of security you should assign to the stuff you use everyday you are far better off by simply not taking the risk.

I understand that for many people this is problematic because they need these goodies for their day-to-day functioning. But so far I've managed to do without them and I don't feel particularly handicapped.
Thankfully, now we can blame all those evils on "capitalism" instead.
Interesting how many (myself included) assume "job interview" when they read "interview". Especially because German is my native language where the word interview exists but is not used for job interviews.

Now this is hacker news and chances are " interviews" probably refer to "job interviews" but it's not necessarily the case. The title doesn't indicate it, so why did I assume job interview?
Not for Linux per se but I've been developing a variant of CAN(+FD) kernel extension for XNU/OSX. Some things are manageable through userland so not everything is done in kernel but extending berkeley sockets is really fun and I'd suggest anyone interested to try it.
Can websites use “tracking walls” to force consent under GDPR?
(from the linked article about Illinois & Evernym)

Businesses and governments will be able to verify and
authenticate citizens by requesting encrypted access to
these verifiable claims.

"Requesting access" from whom, exactly? The idea that a person would control their own identity information is compelling, but I don't see how they work around "who holds the private key":

* if the person holds it, there will need to be an analog recovery procedure for when the key is inevitably lost. The "digital ID" isn't a replacement for the other documentation in that case, just a way to carry the data in those documents more efficiently.

* if the issuing agency holds it, the above but MOAR.
Anything is hackable.
The rats didn't buy passage to America...

They were just carried there. They are rather smart, but either way will do what they can to find food and mates, just like every other species.
I don't want my previous comment to seem like I'm 100% against this, but there are some significant issues. The biggest one is availability, closely followed by price. I live in Denmark, not the Netherlands, so can I even buy these products? I've tried Quorn and a number of other meat substitute products available here, and I'm sorry, but they're simply bland or even downright repulsive.

Secondly, what is the price difference when compared to actual meat? And I don't mean the absolute cheapest possible meat option, I want to compare with good quality organic meat, something where at least some significant steps have been taken to improve conditions for the animals.
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Sure we do. Its tulips. A thing with no objective value that gets bid up in 'bubbles' to astronomical 'values' in a bidding war.

It may serve some other societal purpose (Darwinism of the marketplace?) but its tulips for sure.
The Trinet
The terminal claims to work exactly like a native shell, but doesn't. Not with Python3 anyway.

[i*i for i in range(20)]

displays each number on a newline. I tried in Firefox 45.9.0
> Dedicated servers in shooter games were social and more exciting. Every server was a mini community for players who frequented it, usually because they had "good ping" there

WoW was even more social before they changed things for worse by allowing character transfer between servers and random groups over all realms. It went from getting to know other players by stumbling upon them frequently to being able to experience the whole content while avoiding social activities altogether.
He is, but the rest of his former co-workers aren't, nor his replacement.
"Will this feature be profitable if it requires X more engineers per Y users?"

If the answer is yes, then I guess it's fine.
No, they're a way to part fools from their money.
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From my understanding of WWII it was the opposite. Women that were not evacuated were raped by invading forces, women that were evacuated stayed in mostly all women dormitories/cities. The type of man who was evacuated as well was mostly physically sick or too old to fight.
I think I tend towards the Aubrey de Grey point of view on this- it's not necessarily anything anyone is doing wrong here, it's more that these folks are living in dying bodies that can't do what they want them to do. If they were suddenly young again- they could go out, make new connections, start over.

With that said, I do see the point that this is a western/capitalist phenomenon in the sense that capitalism encourages business relationships at the expense of personal ones. And it's the personal ones that are more lasting and meaningful and which you need once you reach retirement age.
Not a parking lot, but a park:

https://www.visitberlin.de/en/tempelhofer-feld-tempelhof-fie...
That would be interesting to know. As long as the files are not obfuscated too much that could be a solution (I'd like to avoid having to reverse engineer a binary format).
I'll moderate my attitude a bit. I'm sure these products are adequate substitutes for processed/minced products, especially generic products such as nuggets and strips.

But I like good quality chicken complete with skin and bone, I like pork chops, I like texture. I'm not sure how processed soy can replace that.
Try not to be an asshole. Thank you.
I've heard Quorn has gotten better since I last tried it a decade or two ago...
I don't get why this is the same thing : if every company is doing this, every company is still powered by fossil fuels, and just producing renewable energy that won't be used anywhere.

Edit: as the energy they buy is sent into the grid, if all companies do this, the renewable energy can be sufficient to power all companies, so I guess that makes sense
Our existence is what we make of it.

It might be your purpose, or even most people's purpose, but there are plenty that frankly just aren't that interested.
You're correct, my bad.
I'm perfectly OK with the idea of replacing processed/minced meats with plant-based products. You're mostly tasting the spices and cooking process at that point anyway.

And the impossible burger seems pretty awesome. I'm just a very skeptical and discerning person when it comes to food (of all kinds).
The Perl6 Advent calendars are great year after year. The language is a huge beast that demands a curious mind. You won't arrive at Perl6 if you are just looking for just a tool. If you are interested in what a modern dynamic language might look like (concurrency, gradual typing, metaprogramming), check it out.
> So, stop blaming Jamie and start making the changes that your culture demands. The sooner, the better.

This is the last line in the article. So I am wondering what led to the conclusion that this article blames stuff on the programmer?
We actually go a bit further in the interest of giving you more power - CoderPad uses ipython for its Python repl. You can read more about it at https://CoderPad.io/languages#python
"Way more" is an exaggeration. I'd estimate it's a 2:1 ratio (of profs and postdocs, not techs). Second, I am not disputing that most theorists use code from time to time. Lord knows I do. The claim is that this is nothing like 80% of their job.
More details at https://gist.github.com/odersky/f91362f6d9c58cc1db53f3f44331...
You're mixing stuff up here. If you lost your password, your existing backups are not recoverable regardless of what the article is talking about. This includes the "lost their phone" case as well - you don't have access to the phone to reset the password and make a new backup.

So, the only scope left is if you have your device in hand, in which case having the option to back stuff up to iCloud even if you lost the local backup password is pretty legitimate if you want to migrate devices. And useful even for resetting the said password: you back up to iCloud, reset your device to reset the password and then restore an iCloud backup. The only catch is that you'd need to buy some iCloud space from Apple, but a) they're gonna be happy to charge you for it, and b) it's quite cheap as the backup size is quite smaller than the amount of storage taken on your phone (my phone backup is 15 GB when 80 GB was used on the phone), and is a one-month purchase.
If you can go without GPS maybe have a look at the MI Band 2.. afaik there is sone kind of third party app android that allows you to sync and export the data without the mi software..
Yes. At least my Fenix 3 and Fenix 5X do. You can write apps for it. So it is hackable in that sense.
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>Did you miss how trump Jr, Flynn, etc all retweeted confirmed Russian propaganda accounts? And trump himself echoed many positions that probably came to him in a similar way (he probably didn't specifically know that his sources were Russian peppaganda originally, I'll give you that. He doesn't know much)

Do you have a source on any of that? I haven't seen anything to lead me to believe that.
I know Alpine is a great fit for any container env but I'm wondering, is it used elsewhere?
They do? I've had the screen replaced on a few, and they always have me unlock it myself. Are they capturing my input somehow? I've never verbally provided any passcode to an Apple store employee.
And a good, optimizing interpreter also is "a large, complex program". Both can be fairly easy if implemented naively, but gain complexity quick.
True, I guess, but with how much effort? I think OP wants something he can jump into, not something he has to basically re-engineer. That said, "Anything is hackable" is a good spirit to have.
there are some. checkout https://coinlist.co/
> but we of course do not share your data

There you go buddy:

"A record of everything the candidate types in the pad will be permanently saved for your team to review and share afterwards."

https://coderpad.io/getting-started-recruiters
You absolutely have a stake in terms of your paycheck [...] Are plenty of people happy with that kind of stake? Absolutely.

That "stake" is a product of how good the employer is relative to others, how hard it is to find another job and the job market for the position in general. I don't begrudge people for being happy with that. I am one of them. But a first order approximation of this "stake" can be summed up as "no stake."

Sounds like you should start a business.

Whether the parent poster should start a business is irrelevant to whether or not it's bullshit to ask/expect employees to be motivated as if they have a larger material stake in the business than they do.
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Is there more on this? It sounds both interesting and gross, an intersection of two interested.
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There's this great book on a similar topic, "The Origin of Species," if you're interested in the phenomenon.
I'm not sure if this really fulfills your "without proprietary software" criteria, but Polar recently announced that they've opened up their API for developers. I believe you do need to have a Polar Flow account though, so the API access works along the same lines as the Google API, i.e. using OAuth 2.0 authentication that connects to your Polar Flow account, which the watch syncs to via phone/wifi. So there's no LTE, but the watch does sync to the Polar Flow account in the cloud via phone/wifi. Their M600 watch is an Android Wear device though, so it might be possible to write an app for that to access the data directly, but I'm really not sure about that part.

https://www.polar.com/en/developers
Pebble. Someone installed linux on one and they're extraordinarily cheap to pick up now.
I think deep inside you do understand the difference between immediate root access to a system without knowing anything at all and spying on somebody to learn their passcode. And even if I do agree it's definitely a change for the worst it doesn't deserve they same hysterical response the root no password required bug deservedly got.
It depends. Generally, you'll find spoken Chinese is easier than written Chinese. Chinese grammar is actually quite simple, and it's one of the most "analytical" languages, which make it easier to learn than languages that have extensive morphology. The Chinese script, on the other hand, is difficult.

So, a big difference comes from alphabet. I would guess you'd learn reading and writing Bahasa Indonesia faster than Thai, because the former is written using Latin alphabet, and for Thai you'd need to learn a new script.

Russian is related to English while Finnish or Hungarian is not; most English-speaking people still find it easier to survive in Finland or Hungary, because the writing uses familiar letters (even if the alphabet is expanded with new letters made with adding dots and other marks to existing glyphs).
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The first-world problem is not the "staying warm" issue, but the fact that the fancy 'IOT' thermostat requires an internet connection to set.

In "third-world" areas, and even in many modern "first-world" areas, a heater can be manually turned on with a simple switch, regardless of thermostat settings, and just as easily turned off. The lack of these controls on a significantly more expensive thermostat is where the first-world problem creeps in.
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The region where Basque is spoken is not gray because of its difficulty, but because there's no data [1].

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/MapPorn/comments/7dith2/language_di...
> Next time I consider a laptop, you made it tot the top of my list, even if it costs more.

I won't, if it means having to run Ubuntu (and derivatives) or Pop. I'd like to run the distro of my choosing, thanks, but no thanks. It will be possible to disable ME on other laptops/desktops as well.
why would someone write Scheme not as a joke?

wait do the downvotes mean that some people actually use Scheme?
Agreed someone needs to create a subject checker, not just a spell checker
I realize this won't be popular with this crowd.

One big reason is the campaign against patents in general, and against software and e-commerce patents in specific.

Why would an investor put down money for an idea for a new website where FB Google Amazon Apple MS will simply copy the idea and use their economy of scale to remove even the hint of success?
I know a few people who actually use it as their main OS
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Chronos is neat, but it isn't really fitness oriented and notably it doesn't have any of the sensors OP wanted (GPS, heart rate, gyro)
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Thank you for all you do! I am still on my first System76 laptop and I am continually impressed with its quality (and Pop OS is sweeeet!).
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Was going to say this; you may be referring to https://github.com/Freeyourgadget/Gadgetbridge

The devices have the advantage of being very cheap; I've bought two for £15 each. I'm kind of surprised there isn't an open project on them. The chip is Dialog Semi with the usual Cortex M0: https://www.dialog-semiconductor.com/products/connectivity/b...
https://github.com/fatherlinux/container-internals-lab
Of late it's been said that one of the most detrimental things to ingest, from a healthy eating perspective, is highly processed foods, things like most flour, canned goods, etc.

Would this be considered a "highly processed" industrial food? If so, would people consider it a healthy alternative?
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Do it. It's an open secret in musician circles that many rely on beta blockers for high pressure performances.
That could be a solution, but I'm a bit wary of this kind of solution because the the support could be dropped any day if the manufacturer closes the device. Of course, I could keep an older firmware.
What a fascinating story.
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Exactly. My usual thoughts on communism ect. as a a resource allocation paradigm are that they'll only work "post scarcity" and even then we'll all be chasing larger computational budgets.
Indeed. Just this week, someone in my hackerspace approached me who had just switched to Alpine on his notebook, and he convinced me to quickly add support for Alpine to the minimalistic configuration management tool that I'm maintaining.
With the organization I work for, new Americans arriving in Hungary spend 2 years in full time language learning and at the end of it are at about a 5th grade level of Hungarian.
GPS is really nice for running, I thought about making drawings with my running trails. I need motivation:P
Activities are stored in the FIT format, which is publicly documented and they have a rather easy to use sdk available for it as well[0]. Its fairly trivial to get other daily metrics out of the watch as well using Connect IQ, you can even write out to a plain text log file if you want.

[0]: https://www.thisisant.com/resources/fit/
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English is an unusual case in that English dropped most of its inflection as it transitioned from Old English to Middle English, and then heavily adopted Romance roots (first Norman French for a fair few common terms, then Latin for advanced scientific terms). Thus a native English-speaker already has a greater familiarity with the functional vocabulary of Romance languages than they do with other Germanic languages. Meanwhile, what should have been the grammatical leg-up from being a Germanic language doesn't exist, so the grammatical ease of learning French versus German are going to be roughly equivalent. Although Romance might be somewhat easier, since it's a two-gender system unlike the Germanic three-gender system.

The closest language to English is Frisian, which isn't a variant of Dutch (English and Frisian broke off from West Germanic as Anglo-Frisian, and an Englishman could well pass for Frisian in Medieval times). Dutch broke off at the same time as Anglo-Frisian, and it evolved somewhat towards English and Frisian (particularly in some of the phonology).

As someone whose only competent foreign language is French, I'll point out that Frisian and Dutch are in no way intelligible (although I'm mostly going by written varieties here, and it should be noted that Frisian and Dutch butcher their orthography on the same order that English does). Occasionally, you do come across a sentence in Dutch or Frisian that is completely well-understood, but most of the rest of the text remains fairly impenetrable.

From what I've heard anecdotally, the interesting thing about Dutch is that it seems to unintelligible to English or German monoglots, but English/German bilinguals tend to find it quite easy to understand.