skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Its basically pretty comparable to React at this point. You get a few more things out of the box, and its a fair bit harder to debug (but nowhere near as bad as Angular 1.x). Upgrading is painless (and the upgrades themselves are gradually chipping away at pain points in the lib itself)
I still don't understand why people see them as mutually exclusive apps. While stories is in competition, the rest of both apps, the primary use of both, are completely different in practice. Instagram has taken over the role of Facebook for young people, and Snapchat is the messaging service. Most high schoolers I know through younger siblings of friends, etc, use both. Stories still lean Snapchat for those younger ones. YMMV.
The A8 doesn't have a dedicated crypto engine like Intel chips do (uncore I think they call it). The A8 does have a couple of AES specific instructions so each core can speed up the work, but they were executed speculatively and presumably are no longer done so.
These benchmarks are between iOS 11.1.2 and 11.2.2, which include the battery throttling code in 11.2.0.

We need a benchmark between 11.2.1 and 11.2.2 instead.
Eh? I thought the flaw in US safety nets was the income-based "cliffs", whereby taking a better job would often decrease a welfare-recipient's overall income due to the decrease in benefits received.
I've often thought that having pets (who will obviously have a shorter lifetime than humans) will help them learn to deal with death. That way, when it inevitably happens to an adult in their life, they will have experience processing it.

That may seem a morbid thing to think about, but everything happens for a reason ... circle of life and all that.
Yeah there is. Get your battery replaced. Apple will replace your battery for $29 (as long as there's sufficient wear, but if you're seeing throttling, you're well past the cutoff).
Which is to say: network effects are king and people will use what their social contacts already use in essentially all cases. I think that argues strongly against Snapchat as a growth bet, given the numbers in the article.
This smells like digital snake oil. It claims to be identical to React 16 + IE8 support, improved performance, and reduced size, with little mention of details about how any of that works and zero mention of tradeoffs. I don't see how two developers came out of nowhere and one-upped one of the biggest tech companies on the planet (with one of the biggest open-source communities on the planet).
> What the hell are you reading?

Uncivil attacks will get you banned here. Please don't do that.

Also, would you please stop bulk-creating HN accounts? This is in the site guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html. HN is a community. If users don't have some consistent identity for others to relate to, we may as well have no usernames and no community at all. That would be quite a different kind of forum. Anonymity is fine, and throwaways for a specific purpose are ok—just not routinely.

More here: https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comme...
I'm not interested in your put options on BTC (nobody in their right mind would sell you that), but I would make a wager that the percent increase of total "market cap" of all "cryptocurrencies" (loosely defined as cryptographically secured tokens redeemable for fiat currency, e.g. coins listed on CoinMarketCap) at least 2 out of 3 of 5, 10, and 15 years from now exceeds the total "market cap" increase of the S&P 500 in the same period. I believe my bet more closely models the prediction I am making - that cryptocurrency gains will continue to outstrip S&P 500 gains.
Signal on Android does not have a Google apps dependency anymore (2017)
I think I know what Pied Piper's crisis will be on the next season of Silicon Valley :)
Discovered Bulma few month ago. Like it much but have no chance to use in project. What was your point to chose it over bs?
From the atom FAQ in answer to the question "Atom feels slow or is consuming too much CPU or memory"

"Atom isn’t designed to be a tiny native-code editor. If the ultimate in speed is what you’re after, Atom probably isn’t what you’re looking for at least for now … and possibly not ever depending on what you’re expecting."

I tried Atom as an alternative to Eclipse, about 3 months back, as I consider Eclipse to be pretty bloated and slow, but Atom made Eclipse look like a speed demon. I tried running with --safe, removing plugins, but nothing seemed to help, it was still painfully slow. Perhaps it's my machine or some other local issue, but I run Eclipse with lots of plugins and it runs great, in comparison.

After reading the above in the FAQ and many many posts about how Atom was running slow and the responses those issues received, it seemed to me like they actually do admit there are performance problems but have the attitude of "That's just how it works, if you don't like it use something else"
> "vim vs emacs" is a holy war; the fact that Signal is more secure than Telegram is not, when there is a consensus among experts about the question. IMHO, calling it such is misleading.

A holy war is determined by its propensity to raise "debates of attrition" in which both sides are so unyielding they may as well be (and sometimes are) ideological. Whether or not one side has a legitimate claim to superiority over the other is entirely orthogonal; such a debate is "holy" in nature because even if that superiority existed and was demonstrated, it would not be accepted. You cannot use reasoned expertise to decompose ideological adherence.

With respect to your other point:

> The problem is precisely that this article does not mention Telegram even though it is in direct competition with Signal. If I didn't know better, I would assume from the article (and the paper) that Telegram is not subject to this vulnerability, and is probably "still" secure (if I thought it was before). Moxie addresses the issue, so this is not whataboutism; he just hints at what the article should have mentioned, that experts have been recommending Signal (and, after it, WhatsApp) over Telegram for ages, and that even though this recommendation could now take a hit, it probably won't budge with a vulnerability that small.

I would have accepted this explanation, which is far more nuanced in presentation than the one we're discussing. You added all the context that would have safely negotiated those waters; but as stated, the comment does not achieve this purpose, in my opinion.
The lights have gone off at CES 2018
the very first example in the story was a dancer that paid off $180k in loans - almost a textbook example of someone that's 'poor'. this grant is literally a lottery win for some of them
Presumably, they are just observing for UIScreen.isCaptured property and this is just a brilliant marketing effort for Confide. The UIScreenCapturedDidChange notification only fires after the screenshot has already been taken, so I would assume that is not being used.

I’m in no way affiliated with them.
Santana Row is a mostly upscale shopping complex with hotel and luxury housing attached. On a nice evening, there are pleasant outdoor eating options and it generally was designed to have more of a walkable area than most complexes of this type.

But it's really not much like an authentic town center in the types of amenities it has and, while you can walk to a number of restaurants, I expect you'd still have to end up driving for most things. The area as a whole is not very walkable and there are limited transit options.
I just updated my 6+ and ran Geekbench before and after. No major difference in scores and the single and multi-core benchmarks are consistent with the comparison numbers for other 6+ phones. Battery is in good health.
Ray Thomas, Founding Member of the Moody Blues, Dies at 76
See http://www.dartmoor.gov.uk/__data/assets/pdf_file/0006/81447... for some history of farming on Dartmoor
and https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/climate/uk/regional-climates/sw for climate.

tldr - forest was cleared by about 2000-1500BC primarily for grazing although some evidence of cereal being grown. However, by 1000-1BC the climate deteriorated and spread of peat led to abandonment of higher moor.

Climatic improvement in early medieval times led to re-occupation, but by mid-1300's the population had moved again to better land. Black Death reduced Devon's population by 2/3 and meant that if you survived you went and farmed better land.

Farming is still hard on Dartmoor, driven by soil and weather. For example Princetown is 23Km and 400 metres away from Plymouth, but rainfall doubles from about 1000mm to 2000mm per annum.
Certainly - the laws are messy due to the importance of water, but the amount collected in these systems tends to be trivial in the scheme of things and ends up going straight to the same ground anyway, albeit in a more distributed fashion (and one that has less runoff.)

I'd argue that it'd be in the southwest's best interest, in general, to move to clearly legalizing rainwater collection of modest amounts - say 200 gallons.
>It's kinda remarkable how many people don't actually use modern bayesian analysis techniques, which is why it's such a policy war. It's the difference between "older statistical methods uninformed by the glut of modern processing power" and "things which require a computer to do well, and preserve uncertainty."

There's an old joke: There are two types of statisticians. Those who use Bayesian techniques, and those who use both.
Please help me! I'm trying but I've gotten next to 0 feedback so far. If you have two laptops will you test it and let me know what your experience was?
CodeOwl is not yet supported on small screen resolutions :(

...

Running in w3m on FreeBSD, decently large screen :)
Essential Phone review, four months later: The sun is setting on this experiment
> We know that apes remember past events in detail and plan for the future; they are masters of mimicry, learning to use human tools simply by observing; they can understand spoken language and communicate with gestures and abstract symbols; they methodically cooperate to hunt and defend their territory; they maintain unique cultures, passing down particular toolmaking techniques, dialects, and habitat-specific survival skills from one generation to the next; they form lifelong kinships, mourn their dead, and are just as dependent on social intimacy as we are; they can recognize their reflections and have a sense of self. They are, in sum, highly intelligent, self-aware, autonomous individuals.

All of that can be said about many other species -- certainly about dolphins or elephants, for example.

Just because an animal shows intelligence doesn't mean we're cousins, or, more to the point, animals don't have to be closely related to humans to be intelligent.

In just a few years, Youtube has done more to help understand animals than all of Western philosophy, from Aristotle to Descartes.

Some cows can open barn doors with their tongue. Birds play. House cats prepare and implement pranks against fellow cats, or dogs.

Although it's a sign of progress, it's bothering that we are only looking for signs of intelligence into creatures that most ressemble us morphologically.
Largely, the transparency, which meant public hearings with lots of involvement from interest groups, with accusations (which turned out to be true) that both major political parties were actively working behind the scenes to coordinate those groups to bend the process to their partisan advantage, and all kinds of related drama that didn't happen with legislative districting.

But, yes, I think people are mostly satisfied with the results, which is a separate issue from drama in the process.
Can we use tech to help get people off of food stamps?
That's certainly part of it. And part of the reason that Republicans control more states is (as TFA makes clear) that they made a particular effort to win them in order to control the mapmaking process for Congress.

I don't know which party is more likely to gerrymander (or gerrymander more shamelessly) if given the chance, though it should be calculable in principle.
Coalition Announces New “Please Don’t Listen” Standard against Man-in-the-middle Attacks
Ask HN: Interviewing with Depression
Any tips on interview while depressed? I have found that it destroys my confidence in both technical/behavioral interviews.

I've been job hunting for the past two months and I've found that the more I fail at them, the more depressed I become.
A new study says much of the rise in inequality is an illusion
English is not my primary language and I live in a country where I don't speak the local language which is not English, I have consistent issues with miscommunication.

Once I went to a McDonald's and ordered some double cheeseburger with no onions, when the order came it was just the buns with no meat.

Especially in a place like McDonald's where they serve several people familiar with the menu, the staff seems annoyed if you don't know what the ingredients of one of their menu items are and often don't handle specific requests well.

It's not just language issues, my ex-girlfriend always asked a lot of questions when ordering at restaurants, sometimes checking with me, you can visibly see the waiter getting tired or annoyed because of this, not coincidentally, there is always some minor screw up with the order because they forgot to write something down. The same happens if you go to a restaurant with 20+ people and the waiter comes in to take everyone's order, the chances of making a mistake goes up.
Would this book be helpful to you?

https://nostarch.com/networkprotocols
The Future Will Be Technical: A modular essay about our optimistic future
Reverse Engineering the OBi200 Google Voice Appliance: Part 3
This.

The article should be flagged off the front page or edited by the mods to show that it's questionable.

This is a single person's test results, across versions that are known to have touched the battery/CPU slowdown logic, showing insane performance degradation across almost every aspect of the phone... it's super questionable. And right now it's #1 on HN despite all of that, just spreading misinformation.
You are confusing the [in]ability to take more and more decisions with momentum/inertia.

Often momentum is kept by NOT taking more difficult decisions.

Also, if you don't trust psychologists you should trust the marines even less.
I’ve more than a little skeptical of these results, I too am very disappointed in major CPU vendors (especially their PR and management teams), but these results seem more than a little smelly.

I am what I’d consider a heavy iOS user on multiple devices and I don’t believe I’ve honestly noticed any difference at all. If these results were correct, I believe I’d notice at least a 10-15% decrease in performance - but no. What I haven’t looked at is battery life so I cannot comment on that.
If some of the Linux distros would start trying to look like MacOS instead of constantly aping Windows, then switching would be a lot easier.

That's been the big reason I've never really taken to Linux. The GUIs all look like Windows with a skin. Where's the innovation?
You are exactly right, but I will add those fines eventually DO get paid.

The HOA bill keeps increasing until it could be tens of thousands of dollars. When the landlord eventually sells the property the HOA is then able to get payment from the new buyer before the former owner receives the funds.

Since legal action is so expensive, this is almost always how the HOA eventually gets their money. Of course if the bill goes over 30k, then it might be worth their time to go through litigation to get their money.
Can't wait to see before/after benchmarks for Android. Something tells me it's going to be even worse than iOS.
A problem that the DAGs seem to face is that integration with an exchange is a much more difficult process. At least with XRB (Which I am most familiar with) each exchange has to set up multiple hot wallets and ensure they are kept in sync.

I think XRB is now exchanged on 3-4 sites and they all only have various levels of support.

I think the DAGs (XRB, Byteball, IOTA and likely many more I am unaware of) have the potential to be very useful for microtransactions.
Without right policies, automation risks shift of income from labour to capital
Okay... But can it handle mounted directories yet?
It wouldn't be the first time that a buffer overflow somewhere led to arbitrary code execution. What we're patching is a mechanism that allows escalating from unprivileged execution to reading kernel memory, and a mechanism that defeats KASLR
I would never do something like that.
If I order a pizza either I order it from some place that I know that can do a decent pizza or I’ll thoroughly look at the reviews of all the places that can deliver it to me.
Seriously...Dominos...
Google said they've finished patching, and it was all done before the bug became public.

That means the people who have the best information about mitigating this issue have a fix that apparently has minimal performance impacts on their cloud workloads, and I suspect their cloud customer SLO's would be taking a shitkicking if that weren't actually true.
It's not rocket science, I think you can figure it out. To get started:

git clone https://github.com/emilwallner/Screenshot-to-code-in-Keras

pip install -U floyd-cli

(login to floydhub.com, a super simple platform for cloud GPUs)

cd Screenshot-to-code-in-Keras/floydhub

floyd init picturetocode

floyd run --gpu --env tensorflow-1.4 --data emilwallner/datasets/imagetocode/2:data --mode jupyter

Then, navigate to the folder floydhub/Bootstrap/test_model_accuracy.ipynb in your Jupyter Notebook and click on Cell > Run all

Now you can see the prediction and the correct markup for all the evaluation images. Ping me on twitter: @emilwallner, if you get stuck.
> I fail to see why one wouldn’t just use VS Code

Github is cool, Microsoft isn't. /s
>Even at a glucose level, various studies have shown relation between our blood sugar and ability to tolerate frustration and make decisions.

I think it is exactly these kinds of studies that are being questioned. Can they be reproduced?
Me too! Depending on your credit, that is. Finally a get-rich-quick-scheme I can get behind.
https://github.com/angular/angular-cli/issues/8284#issuecomm...

That comment is more or less a recurring experience for me. I've been solving problems that are slightly out-of-the-box of the typical CRUD app, and Angular 2+ has been nothing but pain for me.
You might be right for people who have ordered a dominos pizza many times and already know exactly what they want. Rattling off your requests to a person might be faster and less stressful than navigating a UI.

But what if you don't know what your options are and how much they cost? You have to ask the person to list off the possible pizza styles, sizes, toppings, and the prices for each one. Then they have to tell you about all the available side dishes and desserts (with prices, again) and how there's a half-off deal if you get THIS side with THAT pizza on a Tuesday, and on and on and on. It'd probably take a good 20 minutes to convey all that over the phone (I hope you have a good memory or are taking notes), and by the time they're done, the poor employee is probably so frustrated that they're ready to strangle you.

Or, I can suck up all that information at a glance on dominos.com, and I won't have to repeat my credit card number over the phone 5 times before they get it right.
This article is piggy-backing on the original source discussed yesterday here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16107183.

Submitters: it'd be good if you'd take a minute to do some due diligence on articles like this before submitting them. The HN guidelines ask for original sources (https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html), and this is the opposite.
Mike Ybarra has said there's no need for them to patch the Xbox One against these attacks:

https://www.trueachievements.com/n31065/xbox-one-consoles-un...
Yep, looks like they plan to plant trees in the Dales too WTF. I can't see *why& they're doing it. (I'm naturally suspicious of anything a Tory govt would do something which, on the surface, seems pretty cool.)
Overall, there’s a bigger lack of intermediate and advanced sources than beginner sources.

Eg you can find literally thousands of articles etc on exploiting a buffer overflow on x32. But exploiting a type confusion bug and bypassing all mitigations on the latest Windows 10....yeah, not so many.
Any company that grows to that size has to get in bed with the government to various degrees depending on their industry. If you don't think Dropbox (and Amazon, and Google, and Twitter, and Facebook, and everyone) isn't in cahoots then you're just naive. Individual rights matter little, all files on all these providers are constantly scanned, you have no expectation of privacy at all.
In the past I wanted to use this high quality encrypted communication tool on my android phone running Lineage OS (successor of Cyanogen mod) without Google Apps, but it was not possible because of a dependency to "Google play services". This dependancy was removed in march 2017.

What is more an official APK can now be downloaded from Open Whisper Systems servers.

I submitted this because I discovered this by chance only today and I would have installed Signal sooner if I had known.
At least you can hit the second button down on the right to mute it.

There was a gas station that I used that had that annoying GSTV stuff going, but one day the machine refused to give me my receipt until the video stopped playing. Amusingly, that location closed less than a month after that. Good riddance.

A new one opened in its place with none of that nonsense.
My point is that your point in it's current from is essentially un-communicable, to non-advanced technical users.
The real difference is human assistants are paid well to act as their principal's agent. If a PA had a choice buying a nice bunch of flowers or a weedy bunch with a $5 kickback, they'd be dumb to take the kickback and risk their job.

But if I ask Facebook/Google/Amazon to order some flowers for me, why _wouldn't_ they monetise it? Gotta pay for those tens of thousands of engineers somehow.
Sure, but I think that would (potentially, with the proper exploit) turn any non-root-level code-execution-able breach of your machine of a machine into a root level one, no? Maybe that's okay?
You betcha, sure thing. Like I said, I'm happy to see new entrants into the market and wish you the best of luck!
I will repeat these benchmarks on my iPhone 6 when I get home tonight...but in the meantime, the benchmark numbers in this article look almost exactly like the ones I had as a result of battery throttling. I bet the actual patch-related performance hit is pretty minor.
Microsoft Cairo...finally!
It looks like the README[0] was recently translated from Chinese to English.

The Chinese README is still present in the current version published to NPM[1] which is v1.2.2

[0]: https://github.com/NervJS/nerv/commit/18b1d8720b69d250603d58...

[1]: https://www.npmjs.com/package/nervjs
Simple Lex / Rails chat bot tutorial
This is particularly funny to me because people in the South Bay typically use the big shopping malls as the landmarks (as in, “down by Santana row” or “head in the direction of rivermark...” where in other places people would say “head north” or “by the border of ...” or at least use an unbranded man-made landmark like “near union square”)

I don’t think it’s at all unreasonable for people to speak this way — between Mountain View and the SJC airport is a vast isotropic region that’s been rendered devoid of natural landmarks. But for the uninitiated it’s weird.
Depends on the phone. Lower end phones use cores like the A53 which don't have enough speculation HW to be affected at all.
Thanks! Url and date updated above. Submitter url was http://adrianmarriott.net/logosroot/papers/LifeBeyondTxns.pd....

Submitted interestingly many times without discussion: https://hn.algolia.com/?query=Life%20Beyond%20Distributed%20....