skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are lots of food delivery guys riding bike using mobile navigation. They use mobile holders.
I've had remarkable luck picking up used small-business servers off Craigslist. I don't have much need for speedy graphics, so a Lenovo TS-140 with a bunch of memory for $200 was a great deal. That, a Debian USB key, a cheap mechanical keyboard, and a wide-screen monitor from Goodwill made a great coding box for me.
I get the feeling you didn't read the article rememberinglenny posted about his techniques, or maybe you haven't painted or drawn before.

While he does transfer styles from one domain to another digitally, it doesn't end there. He uses the generated images as a basis for physical paintings. For this to be possible a degree of skill is necessary. For example, try drawing yourself using a mirror and your output will be greatly different despite having a perfect model in front of you.

I don't agree with your last paragraph. That's like saying that because C is a very well documented language, programs made with it are trivial. What we do with the tools we have and the experience gained by practice is what makes something "magical", as well as the message it conveys. This last element, the transmission of the message, is highly dependent on the individual who experiences art. Which means that no piece of art is for everybody.

Finally, I agree with what brudgers said:
> Saying "I could have made that" is false in the context of art. If a person could have they would have. If they didn't, they can't. The proof is in the work.
Basically when you take some value the user gives you and cast it to the dependent type, you can then cover the case where you got some result because the cast was successful or you got none. You can't have dependent types at compile time, at least not completely so, though you could use something like fslint to catch any data being entered in code.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7567310
Ask HN: What small communities do you use for education and self-improvement?
I'm wondering what small online communities autodidacts frequent to discuss topics of any sort. Sites similar to StackOverflow or Hackernews but more community focused.

Discord, Slack workspaces, websites, or forums! What do you find most useful?
I solve the sensitive conversation problem by having my device hit an IFTTT task to disconnect itself from the lan. Then I have another task to turn it back on.
While that is an interesting idea I see two major problems with that. 1) It doesn't really encourage colleges to decrease the price of college. 2) Degrees matter little when you compare to knowledge. You can clearly say on your application to a job that you graduated but your degree was revoked. What does the company care? You didn't lose the experience and education, only the paper.
> So, using sports as a proxy is not the same as management decisions where there are no well-defined criteria or expected value.

Small aside but some including me would have a problem with even using sports as a proxy. There's a school of thought in soccer that maintains that the best match is a 0-0 draw [1][2][3]. While the data reflects a completely unproductive match, a 0-0 draw means that both sides performed admirably in defending and in countering the efforts of the other side. There is very detailed stats in soccer too now, but, that doesn't weaken the point.

[1] http://lastwordonfootball.com/2017/09/09/five-famous-0-0-dra...

[2] https://www.theguardian.com/football/2007/aug/14/newsstory.s...

[3] http://worldsoccertalk.com/2010/06/22/explaining-a-draw-to-t...
gold has always been a weird instrument since it was decoupled from fiat currency, and it has a unique position because it has been around for a long time so investors sort of understand it. the value of gold is determined a lot by confidence in the asset's performance as a "non correlated" backup medium of exchange. there is a long track record here, which matters, despite how "soft" and "squishy" this line of thinking may seem to someone who doesnt work in markets. bitcoin doesnt have this: it is not widely used as a store of value, and it does not have a track record. basically, the perceived probability of it going to zero is infinitely higher than the perceived probability of gold going to zero

this article does a much better job than i just did: http://www.businessinsider.com/economist-jim-rickards-bitcoi...

and heres an intersting history of gold: https://www.investopedia.com/articles/investing/071114/why-g...
Um, to counter one example... Maryland actually tops US News and World Reports' high school rankings overall. [1] Their city public schools were recognized for improvement by the US Department of Education for a number of years. [2] I'm sure there are problematic areas, but it seems bad practice to go after the entire Baltimore public school system over this -- on the whole, my impression is that it seems pretty decent.

The Atlantic article reflected concerns about Midwest research spending. Since the Midwest has states that are both Democrat dominated and Republican dominated in politics, I'm not sure you can actually draw any partisan conclusions from that article.

(There is a political divide on research spending opinion per surveys [3], but even here, most Republicans either support increased scientific research spending, or keeping it at the same levels.)

[1] https://www.usnews.com/education/best-high-schools/articles/...
[2] https://www.ed.gov/labor-management-collaboration/conference...
[3] http://www.people-press.org/2017/04/24/how-republicans-and-d...
The FastMail Security Mindset
> People aren't learning how to read a map.

So what? If relying on GPS navigation erodes ability to read a map, doesn't relying on a map also erode ability to navigate by intuition or ability to follow verbal navigation instructions?

I actually agree with the claim the heavy use of GPS navigation erodes ability to navigate successfully without it, though I have only anecdotal evidence of this. My own ability to navigate definitely seems to have declined when I started relying on GPS nav frequently, first Garmin/TomTom and now Google maps. But so what? Overall I'm significantly more efficient at navigating now overall.

Net net it's a gain, which is the very promise of technology. (Almost) No one laments the decline in ability to type on a manual typewriter that has come from the rise of general purpose computing or the decline in ability to use an abacus or sliderule that has come from the creation of calculators. The loss of these skills is far outweighed by the benefits.
Confirmed. I've built many machines via Newegg and I definitely won't do this for the next build. It has turned into something of a clearing house for scammy looking "sellers" that no one knows anything about. The prices aren't any better than what you find on Amazon while the shipping costs more.

Shame they ruined it.
I just want a real 'stock' android, that is the OS, the hardware drivers, a settings app, a phone app, and a SMS app. It works out of the box and then it's TOTALLY my choice what extra apps I install onto it.

So many people call their custom ROMs 'stock' when they are anything but :(
> Summary of what the database contained:

> Phone number,

> full name of the owner,

> IMEI number

> links and the information associated with the social media profiles (birthdate, title, emails etc.)

What's wrong with their users? Why would a keyboard app need this information?

At least I would not install an app requiring those permissions. And I allow the Android phone to connect to the Internet only via my firewall (of course Google servers are blocked from the start).
"A similar number of people" developing a brand of hero worship for scientists? Maybe I'm hugely biased but that doesn't really mirror what I see online and elsewhere.

Are you telling me that for every climate change denier, for every anti-vaxxer, for every creationist, for every chemtrail/tap water/moon landing/flat earth conspiracy theorist there's a rabid scientist who elevates the current scientific consensus to the level of religion?

That's borderline whataboutism IMO.
oh you reminded me of a program we used in college named the same. It was about model theory and valid logic clauses (blurry memories)..
That Brexit is happening doesn't mean Germany has no influence over the UK. Just not enough to prevent Brexit; "very little" is not the only alternative to "absolute".
>Why can't you just stand up and, you know, flick the light switch?

Because it is more efficient to yell at Alexa "Turn off the bathroom lights" than stand up, walk to the bathroom and turn them off.

Or better yet, having all your lights and things turning on as you walk in the door. Or having Alexa wake you up by turning on your lights slowly.

Or baking something and telling Alexa to set a timer. No more having to type into Google "20 minute timer" then remembering to keep that tab open and your sound on.
Assuming you have the disk space, I would get Disk Copy onto your old Mac, and create a read-only image from the contents of your hard disk. (or create a blank image, and copy the contents of your hard disk onto it)

Then copy the image to a modern computer, and you can transfer it into an emulator and mount the image.
Ethernet to a netatalk or FTP server is usually the easiest way, depending on what kind of Mac it is.

If you need advice, PM me or make a thread at 68kmla.org or reddit.com/r/vintageapple
https://github.com/uutils/coreutils for instance

Personally, I don't find this a bad idea, as long as it is not the primary thrust. The reason it is needed is that you aren't going to convince everyone to change the default tools they've used for however many years. If you want to make things safe, you have to swap out implementations and keep same/similar interfaces.
There is an argument to be made that hijacking the word "freedom" for this was already half the battle for repealing net neutrality. Good luck battling "freedom" in America... If only the other side could have gotten there first.
I'd guess Teichopsia was more interested in sources about slave labor, energy costs, and environmental impact.

E.g. [https://www.thedailybeast.com/this-is-what-we-die-for-child-... | This Is What We Die For: Child Slaves Made Your Phone Battery]
Walking across a cramped room in the pitch dark can be dangerous, particularly if you're living in a dinky apartment and have osteoporosis. Consider also that a lot of people use wheelchairs to get around.

Long story short, there are many lives very different from yours. There are ways beyond Wall-E (that are also far more useful and connected with reality) to broaden one's horizons.
That's what I do, even though I have remote control switches. The nice thing for me is when you're leaving the house and you can just turn off all the lights. Or you're laying down in bed and you can shutdown the whole house (turn off lights, lock doors, etc).
I have learned that practising agile and proper documentation is a life saver when working in remote when your team mate is not an arms length away or on different timezone. I was able to appreciate the importance of these two during remote. At those times I enjoyed working in the night and relaxing / travelling in the day. So it was an new experience. Just my 2 cents
Markets are wrong all the time. See the dotcom crash, the 2008 crash, etc.
Government auctions are also a good place to find deals: https://www.govdeals.com/index.cfm?fa=Main.AdvSearchResultsN...
Well. Maybe it's really just about allowing ISPs to run the same exploitative business models as Google's intimate personal information empire, Google/Apple's 30% tax app stores with far from neutral content policy, etc.

But how about giving them some credit? Maybe the plan is to temporarily allow ISPs to suck on some of Google/Youtube monopoly rents (weakening their defenses) while regulators look into regulating the whole pile of internet monopoly garbage?

It's possible. And it would be so good.
I'm sorry, but your appeal to morality is a fallacy, and thus a bullshit argument. I, and everyone I know who has gone to one, has enjoyed our trips to Vegas and Atlantic City. We've played moderately, and see it as entertainment. Now, if you have evidence/empirical data that shows that gambling causes more misery than joy, by all means, present it!

Alcohol is not bad because some small percentage of people get addicted. Neither is online gaming, neither is sex, neither is marijuana, neither is gambling.

Now, nicotine... THERE you might have an argument. But even that is fraught with difficulty: http://discovermagazine.com/2014/march/13-nicotine-fix
Strangely enough that proposal was floated around in earlier versions of the currently proposed tax bill: the 401(k) yearly contribution cap was going to drop from $18,000/year to $2,400/year. That would have driven savings into Roth 401(k)s/Roth IRAs so that the tax income would be realized sooner rather than later.

I currently save at a 50/50 mix of 401(k)/Roth 401(k) just in case the scenario you described comes true. I expect that as I age I'll contribute more post-tax dollars to my Roth and fewer to my 401(k).
For home use, build your own.

For business... suck it up, buy a Dell workstation, and let the warranty do its work if needed.
> It's funny to me how similar our codebases look.

To me, your codebases don't look very similar at all, except for the fact that you're both coding mini-Bitcoin nodes, so there will be inevitable similarities.

Edit: Not trying to be rude, but I'm never sure what people are suggesting when they say "hey, your codebase looks like mine!". Perhaps just an innocent remark, but otherwise, I just wanted to point out that the two codebases are quite different.
> than stand up, walk to the bathroom and turn them off.

> No more having to type into Google "20 minute timer" then remembering to keep that tab open and your sound on.

The horror
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IMO this space is a pain point for Go compared to other languages. If you have a single page app talking to APIs it’s less of an issue though.
I'm sure many people have similar stories, but the first thing that went through my mind was when a new dev joined my old company. He'd been recruited directly, and after a successful week trial he was given a full-time role.

A week later he answered his phone. It was a recruiter for a popular recruitment agency in Bristol. This recruiter unloaded on this poor guy about how he'd sent him the opportunity to work for his new employer, and how he was cutting him out. The recruiter threatened the dev by saying that he'd pull every string to make sure he didn't work in Bristol again. After a heated back-and-forth with the MD, the head of the recruitment agency said that there was no "recruiter black list" that this guy was threatened with, but it's a common enough story that I'm willing to bet that it exists in some form, at least for that recruitment firm.

The point of that rant was that there's nothing illegal about freezing the recruiter out. Obviously, there's a dilemma around whether you'd want to join a company that's happy to do such a thing, but one thing worth considering is whether the recruiter is going to sit back and accept it. At best, you'll be hired and the recruiter will learn a lesson. At worst, this recruiter might take it out on what he/she considers to be the weakest link in the chain - you.
The fundamental problem here is that student loans have been declared a special debt not dischargeable through bankruptcy. At the same time, these loans can be Federally guaranteed through FFEL. This leads to $100K cooking schools promising to turn a recent dischargee from the Army into a pro-chef, sign here, here and here.

If student loans were subject to bankruptcy banks would be more careful. Instead we have a political system making bank from banks for ruining young people's lives.

Any libertarians care to wade in here and tell me this is a small price to pay for freedom?
Yeah but you can say that about any modern convenience. Why don't you just.. you know wash your clothes by hand? Or are you fat and inert too?
Because half of America doesn't want to do a buyback. Though I suspect, if done, it would end the same way as the 2009 bailout. People are upset, and then mostly forget about it. And in this case, would still be upset at banks and institutions instead of the people. But I think getting initial support would be difficult. Personally I'm fine with increased taxes for this. I think everyone should be educated. But again, we need to lower the cost of school and stop them from cheating companies and the gov on research money.
Read the article that describes his technique.
> Like what? What scenario did you encounter and how did your studies help you? Otherwise it sounds like a vague claim that every religious institution would make.

Studying for a degree involves more than just reading a book. A good degree (no matter what major you choose) should leave you with the skills and capabilities to learn and teach yourself new skills. This - not the knowledge gained - is by far the most valuable takeaway that I have from my studies: Oh, I need to learn about the problem space X. How do I start, research, teach myself things about something previously unknown. School teaches knowledge, university learning skills.
> asking what's for dinner.

Do you have a stay-at-home cook? How nice.
Help build a high-throughput, low-latency brain-computer interface.
Reminds me of this old SMBC Comic.[1]
"The easier college gets, the dumber you look for not having a degree."

Having hoops for discriminating simplifies hiring and other decisions. Simple ones like these are going to stick around as long as people think degrees matter more than how a person produces.

[1] https://www.smbc-comics.com/index.php?db=comics&id=2729#comi...
how many people do you think keep their bitcoins in wallets vs on exchanges?
Tara lazzers
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Unfortunately fractional reserve isn't safe for a currency that is this volatile. Depending on what the "fraction" is, some major withdrawal demand against one of these exchanges would topple it
Is this another scare story to create a temporary trough in the BTC price?
> IIRC, all phones shipping with Oreo are required to support Treble.

"Shipping" is the keyword. So OEMs can get around that trivially by shipping the phone with Nougat and promising to update to Oreo very shortly thereafter, thereby bypassing the requirement. Look no further than the recently launched OnePlus 5T:

http://www.androidpolice.com/2017/11/21/oneplus-confirms-won...

I would not be surprised if they intentionally did it this way just to get around the Project Treble requirements.

> Also, Treble doesn't allow you to get updates "without having to wait for the OEMs", it just makes it easier for OEMs to update Android

This is true, but it could also allow one to more easily flash ROMs onto the device without the usual unlocking the bootleader process, which would in theory let people then put a ROM onto their phone that's still getting updates, a la LineageOS. OEMS, predictably, probably see that as a drawback.
It's a shame you're getting downvoted, since you make good points. For many people the expected value of college is negative. I also think HN is unnecessarily critical of the military. I work with lots of people who served in the military for a few years after high school before eventually going back to college and they seem happy with the decision.
Bullshit. People can still read maps.
I haven't acquired a new desktop in a long time but I'd build from components if it were a beefy developer/gaming machine, or buy whatever Costco is selling this week if it is for a "regular person" to just do email, spreadsheets.

We get most of our laptops from either Costco or Lenovo, sometimes Microsoft.
The scale is different, probably by several orders of magnitude. Crypto isn't pushing the stock markets up. The damages will mostly be limited to those speculators risking their own money.
This is one reason I think training kids in any 'classical' discipline is really beneficial.

You will almost certainly never be as good a composer as Mozart, as good a pianist as Horowitz, as good at dancing as any company you can see on TV or as good at singing as even a mediocre performer in a talent show. But you can learn from the best and always get better through hard work.

Being exposed to the idea that 'no, you're not the best and probably never will be, but the real reward is seeing yourself improve step by step through hard work' is invaluable.
NIPS 2017 – Day 1 Highlights
Ugh, these things still aren't stateful enough to hit eventual consistency? Thats not much different than the X10 stuff I was playing with more than a decade ago. I had a few outdoor lights that controlled from a computer and serial adapter and just had to blast whatever command I wanted several times and hoped it worked.
Either build my own (Newegg.com typically) or Dell.
Weather... I live in the midwest. Looking out the window tlls me absolutely nothing. There could be a line of storm coming towards me with potential cells of tornados. But that's maybe 30 to 50 miles away while it's sunny and nice outside.

Most of the Echo use among my family is music. They just want something they can stream and listen as background noise. Sometimes they use it as a radio station. Nothing more beyond that.
This is an Israeli company. What were they doing with the data before they leaked it? Who were they selling it to?

One of the revelations that came out of the "binary option" fiasco is that it's legal in Israel to scam non-Israelis.[1] Financed by the binary option industry, which is 40% of Israel's financial sector, Israel's organized crime sector has become much larger. They need sucker lists for marketing. Data from phones is a good way to figure out who has spare cash.

Although a recent law change in Israel is expected to shut down the binary option industry next January, the law is very narrow. The scammers are moving to "forex" and initial coin offerings.[2]

[1] https://www.timesofisrael.com/knesset-committee-to-vote-mond...
[2] https://www.timesofisrael.com/cryptocurrencies-may-be-the-ne...
A modern Prolog like SWI with CLPFD allows you to apply Prolog's semantics to arithmetic expressions in a way that you never were able to in classic Prolog. Instead of using `is/2`, you use `#=` and some other operators, Prolog can find solutions for expressions that would be very difficult to do in either classic Prolog or any other system.
You are talking of a time where theocracy was the rule of the land and literacy rate was below 1%. The scientific method wasn't even invented yet and whatever proto-science that existed would not take you very far.

During that time, insulting god was the worst possible thing someone can do, and following another god was a way of doing that.

The prize for participating in the crusades was a papal bull, which is document representing a guaranteed entry to heaven by cancelling all your sins. So if you went full ape and killed 1000 people you technically still went to heaven.
Some of my lights aren't controlled by a switch on the wall but on the neck of the lamp or a cable behind a table.
So I have the option of opening an app. using a wireless remote. or simply uttering a sentence...or breaking my back to switch them all on. Including being able to easily control the overall lighting scheme of my living room.
Republican tax cuts are targeting small businesses and the middle class. Nice try