skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think Google Pay makes more sense than Android Pay for two reasons:

The first is that non-technical people don't seem to know what is Android. They know their phone is a Samsung Galaxy, LG G series or a Motorola, but most of them don't know that their phone is an Android or that Google is making the OS. It doesn't help that Google renamed the Android Market to Google Play.

So in the eyes of the everyday man, Google is a better known brand than Android.

The second reason is Fuchsia, which I believe could be Android's successor. I think Google want this OS to be everywhere; on phones, tablets, laptops, servers, IoT devices, etc, and since it will be updated and maintained directly by them, version numbers will be irrelevant for most people. In other words, there won't be a Fuchsia 1, 2, 3. It will be updated constantly like Chrome and probably named something like "Google OS".

So having a payment solution that is named Google Pay make sense when there's a possibility that Android is not Google's future on mobile (and everywhere else).
I see no issues with tracking on the Rift when playing in the sitting position, I guess this is down to individual sensitivities.

How many sensors did you have?
That's the point of Chesterton's fence analogy: Don't rip down the fence until you know why the fence was put up.

I think we're in agreement on this - if you don't have the tests, you don't know what the system does. The Michael Feathers approach is my favored path forward in these cases. Rewrites are more valuable in the small (class-level) than in the large (application-level) in the vast majority of cases. And if you absolutely need to replace an application (say, your company standardized on Oracle and Tcl and you can't hire any new developers because they laugh when you tell them your stack...) you do it piecemeal, building tests in your old system so that you can reliably replicate the functionality in a way that functions as a living, reliable spec.

sigh
Can you explain how you chose land as the equivalent asset class? That doesn't even seem close to the ETH situation.
Questions on Fannie and Freddie Have Separate Answers
The real tragedy here is that an instant, anonymous, feeless, global cryptocurrency would form the absolute ideal medium of exchange between online sex workers and their patrons. Sites such as ManyVids, et al. probably see on order of $100K per week in transactions. Although the cryptocurrency community may balk at the association. The benefits of decentralization in this particular milleu are self-evident. Its possible it may even become the driver of significant transaction volume growth!
I understand the singularity and I am not arguing against it. It is reasonable to expect exponential development as a rule, but that doesn't mean development happens smoothly. The intended point was about how foreign the world would look to an average person transplanted 50 years in the future. The original comment asserted the first half of the century had a more dramatic change than the second half, and there is a good argument for this.

The links you provided are very good but they deal more with theory than actual observations by a normal person.

There is one specific concrete example given in those articles - Moore's law. This is a very good example of exponential development, but only to a point. Someone correct me if I am wrong, but Moore's law was helped because its very existence affected the result. To some extent industry even scheduled their advances. If someone lied to Intel and said a competitor was getting much better speeds, I bet you we would have seen some faster improvements.
Tylenol definitely accrues liver damage over time.

And your nephrologist is correct about NSAIDs. One of their direct effects is to reduce afferent blood flow to the kidney. Every time you take one you’re telling your kidney, “that amount of blood you think you need? Have a little less.” Blood flow to the kidney is extremely carefully regulated - this is never a good thing.
The people who care about "useless regulation" are already anti-Net Neutrality, so you might as well count them out.

It's important to fight for the things that matter to us.
Successful "reduction" from a NP-complete problem to an undecidable one :-)
I have 15 down 0.5 mbps up sonic for $70...
The ISP bad behavior has already been going on for years and is now hitting a high-pitched fervor now that the FCC has repealed net neutrality. I don't see how it's risky; the bad behavior is already there and regulation is sorely needed.
Well the only ones in danger are people visiting my Dad and he doesn't get too many visitors. Thanks for demonstrating how ridiculously judgemental people have gotten.
Isn't that inferal tree in Australia more painful?
Since vitamins and supplements are totally unregulated it could be that it doesn't actually contain any of the active ingredient it claims it does, thereby avoiding any legal issue.
When I saw the headline, I thought it was satire.

It happens at a disturbing rate these days. Is it just me growing old(er), or is the world really becoming more and more unreal?
1. Find an editor you trust enough to give you very candid feedback. Work with this person to figure out where you are right now and where you want to be in the future. Ideally, you're looking for someone who will tell you what's wrong without killing your spirit. Or as I often say, you're looking for someone who is kind but picky.

2. Practice.
This is from PNAS early edition, and has no citations yet (meaning nobody has used this work in subsequent studies). For the general topic, Google Scholar (https://scholar.google.com/) is excellent at finding journal articles on any topic (including testicular function as it relates to ibuprofen). At first glance, this doesn't appear to be reproduction of prior work either.
28.4 miles south from SF (according to Google Maps driving directions from "San Francisco"), I've got gig down/40 up from Comcast. And the only competition is ATT DSL (yes, I'm like 2000 feet from the CO and they'll only give me 40mbit).

Comcast advertises on broadcast TV all over the bay area "gigabit now available in your area". So I'd think penetration is pretty high now.

Now, I'd rather pay pretty much anyone other than Comcast, and in particular I'd rather not pay $170 for gigabit, and I'd rather have symmetric FTTH, but hey, someone finally brought the bandwidth and I put my money where my mouth is.
I don't care if it's optimal, I care that it works, which it does. That makes it good. Don't let perfect be the enemy of the good.

I'm gonna say this flat out: Do you believe in net neutrality? Because this argument that you're concern trolling with leads me to believe that you don't actually believe in it. Trying to give supposed "advice" to advance a goal—that doesn't actually do so—is deceptive.
There could be. How does this help though? He'd send you a worthless token.
Holy cow, the look of that IBMVGA8 font hit me right in the gut: instantly I'm ten years old and puzzling my way through the great underground empire.

Somehow I expected my petite madeleine moment would be more... literary
They addressed it by waving their hands and insisting its different, that doesn't equate to a valid argument. That also doesn't change that the methods and impacts are all the same, the only difference is scale, which is my point.

If you want to get into details, the article addresses it by saying "Unlike TVs and desktop computers, which are typically relegated to a den or home office".

That is disingenuous and naive at best, outright misleading and wrong at worse.

Laptops have been around a long time, TV's are making their way into more rooms in the house, waiting rooms, restaurants, even many businesses are putting tv's in lobbies and other places. Walk through any major city's shopping district and tell me there isn't a deluge of televisions in every direction/in every window, if you do you're either blind or being dishonest.

And every single technique used by smartphones to capture your attention applies to laptops, desktops, tablets, television, to pretend otherwise is to ignore the past.
I think this is an audition to have a recurring guest spot on Fox, not a serious lawsuit.
This vote is an important device that serves to decouple net neutrality as a distinct political issue, rather than a footnote in a particular politician's larger platform which -- to many voters -- isn't as important as some other hot-button stances to merit single-issue voting. By triggering a senate vote, this gives an opportunity for each senator to make their stance on this a matter of official record, theoretically independent from any other affiliation they might hold. With the FCC's latest ruling opposed by a majority of liberal and conservatives alike, this is an opportunity to stand with their constituents.

The other objective of those who brought the vote is to illustrate just how few, if any, of those on the other side will vote to oppose the FCC's new rules. This can be weaponized on the ground in later elections, especially competitive districts -- or in this case, states.
SMQ. Message queue written in less than 55 lines of code
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nonsteroidal_anti-inflammatory...: "NSAIDs cause a dual assault on the GI tract: the acidic molecules directly irritate the gastric mucosa, and inhibition of COX-1 and COX-2 reduces the levels of protective prostaglandins" (emphasis added)
Thank you for re-running them. You saved me the trouble. ;)

I would be curious to see ack get into the test suite, however. Even if it is much slower, I'd like to see the results.

And I'd be very curious to hear your reasoning for the different results in the subtitles_ru test cases -- why is rg returning radically different numbers of lines as compared to the other tools?

Thanks!
Seems comparable to immigration controls between countries.
this shit happens - don't work with founders who show even the slightest sign that they are there to fuck you, because that means they are. not a lawyer/doctor/veterinarian etc - but if you have the discretionary cash get a consultation with an attorney, even if (and it may end up that) the value of your options does not exceed the cost of that initial look
If you expect the Republican leadership to not support it, they won't even need the filibuster-- they've got the numbers to vote against it already.

TBH, I've lost track of who supposedly supports what and why. The votes and arguments on the NN debate, in our political sphere, seem to have nothing whatsoever to do with policy anymore, so it's hard to "predict" how someone will vote.
> Just today it was announced that Sydney-Melbourne is now the world's second busiest air route,

And wow, the most hilariously-expensive business class fares it seems: USD $1,288 return (even including a Sat night stay) with Qantas. It's a 1hr25min flight. Luckily Virgin looks to be providing some tough competition...at $1,143.
Python has lambdas that have multiple expressions and statements.

They're called functions.
Lync -> Skype for Biz -> Teams
It is risky because you are wrong; nothing is hitting any fervor at all. What are you referring to?
Here you go: https://examine.com/nutrition/is-saturated-fat-bad-for-me/

Actual studies linked within.
Did you read the linked article? http://www.oregonlive.com/oregon-standoff/2017/12/rebuke_of_...

"In the meantime, the dissection has begun: How could prosecutors have lost sight of due process, one of the basic tenets of the legal system."

Near as I can tell, the prosecution committed malpractice. Turning over Brady material is such a basic part of criminal law that the prosecution can't claim it did it out of ignorance. It makes no sense. For now, like so many things in the gigantic federal government, it's a mildly concerning mystery.
The ISPs have already been caught red-handed throttling/shaping traffic to fit their business goals over and over.

Comcast was blocking bitorrent traffic in 2008. 1

Verizon blocked tethering apps in 2008. 1

AT&T blocked FaceTime in 2012. 1

Comcast imposed data caps for all streaming services except their own offered through xBox live in 2008. 1

Comcast currently exempts its own Stream TV service from data caps. 2

1. https://www.dailydot.com/layer8/net-neutrality-violations-hi...

2. http://www.streamingmedia.com/Articles/News/Online-Video-New...

I dug that up by googling for 5 minutes.
dupe of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16098676
Works for what, exactly? You obviously have no idea what you're talking about.
This would benefit strongly from examples.
Wasn't Google's Fuchsia just renamed Zircon? Or is that something else? I can't keep up any more.
Which article? Not the feature from TC, I'd presume. If there's a good rebuttal to what Scott wrote out there, I'd love to read it!

There's Grant's response added by Scott to the comments [0], but I don't think that really qualifies as a rebuttal.

[0] http://slatestarcodex.com/2017/08/07/contra-grant-on-exagger...
That's basically right, we use the same system that IFTTT and Tasker use. So we have to specify the URL schema ahead of time, and we are bound by the 50 app limit. Sometimes we have to spend a bit of time discovering an apps URL scheme.

On Android, we're a lot less limited and can service all apps. We also have a programatic way of discovering URL schemes on Android.
There is section 706 instead of II
Although I haven't used this feature, the behaviour with the custom icon and filesize seems extremely unusual and I'd be quite puzzled if I came across this without knowing about it first --- imagine opening a text file whose size is shown as 500KB+, but discovering it has a tiny fraction of that --- I'd probably be shocked and, if it was a file someone else gave me, wondering "where's the rest of the data? Is my filesystem corrupt?"

Of course, if it doesn't count xattr sizes, it would be equally confusing in the other direction. Maybe showing "1372 bytes (and xxxxxx bytes extended attributes)" would've been better.

But from past experiences, IMHO xattrs and similar "bonus filesystem features" are not something you should rely on in general for portable data exchange. The name (or a slightly modified variant thereof) and the associated sequence of bytes are all that can really be relied upon to reliably survive transfers, since it's the lowest-common-denominator abstraction.

PDF has annotation features in the file format itself; perhaps Skim should use those instead --- in which case annotations will also survive and be visible in a Windows or Android PDF reader.

I'd also consider things like icons to be "display metadata", in the same way as the size of the icon or its position in the GUI use to display it.
I think they just purchased some patents from Softcard in 2015.
quite, I recall quite vividly 1994, arguing with my father who was a chemical engineer working for a blue chip in the city that the Internet had anything to offer the business world, 'the fax is fine, no one will ever trust anything that's not on paper', I feel the same about 'blockchain' technology, I've been following cryptographic currencies since it was science fiction, I've survived E-gold and Beenz, Mt-Gox and Butterfly labs and emerged into a new wild west. Winding back the clock not so far, emerging websites were all well and good, yet it was combining them with the power of databases that really drove the expansion of possibilities, I feel the same about distributed ledger technologies, while I would certainly not bet the house on any current implementation, the novel uses that the technology enables are only just being explored.
>As far as his "conservative white male" discrimination claims, I've seen that too. My boss specifically requested candidates that are not middle-aged white males. But it's nowhere near the same level of discrimination that people of color or women have endured for decades. Perhaps the reason people don't feel sorry for conservative white males is that if they are rejected by one company they can keep trying and will find an "old school" company that will hire them. We have not had that luxury, for blacks and women it was 100 nos for every 1 yes. It's not that way for white guys, sorry.

Its not that way for white guys to receive hundreds of Nos?
I am really happy with Fixedsys Excelsior[0].

[0]: http://www.fixedsysexcelsior.com/
interesting. Link to the actual zoomable map:

https://www.davidrumsey.com/luna/servlet/detail/RUMSEY~8~1~3...
what about internet? There is a ton of stuff out there on the internet that is bad for kids, so shouldn't that be controlled too ?
I hadn't heard of that. How do you use this feature?
The point is that a nanosecond after noon is "post meridiem".
Intel CEO’s Stock Sales May Warrant SEC Examination
Previously "communicator" ;)
Magenta [1] was renamed Zircon. The component in question is the kernel for Fuchsia.

[1] https://9to5google.com/2017/09/13/google-fuchsia-os-kernel-z...
Can life emerge after the fires of a supernova?
Yeah, but the sidewalk’s like 1/10 the work of the driveway, if that. Heavier the snow the bigger the difference, too, since you have to move the snow so far from the middle to reach the side of the driveway.
A p-value in a test statistic is the probability that the result of the test statistic could have been achieved through random data variations. A p-value is described in tandem with an alpha level, the minimum acceptable value to reject the null hypothesis in the test statistic.

In short: typical alpha is 0.05, so a p-value < 0.05 is considered "statistically significant" and the results are not attributable to random chance in a t-test. An unpaired t-test compares two populations, and a p-value below the alpha level indicates that differences are not due to random chance.

Take everything with a grain of salt, though. Low sample sizes dramatically change how test statistics produce results. P-value hacking is the practice of eliminating data from an experiment to produce statistically significant results or otherwise altering the data by adding buffers to ensure that a result confirms a belief a researcher has.
iOS has this too, it's called Guided Access.
I have 3 mb/s down sonic for $68. It comes bundled with a phone line that I do not need. They charge me $10 extra because they are trying to improve the network elsewhere.
What makes one quantum computer superior to another? Not number of qubits, I guess? IBM has a 50-qubit machine.
Show HN: Game Play of video game I'm working on
https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT202612
have the benefit that now those people get included in a social environment that they would normally be cut out from, get payed more than they would otherwise and, hopefully, this will trickle down to their children and grandchildren

Irish immigrants started out from a culture, where the typical peasant was 1/2 to 1/4th as wealthy as the median pre-Civil War American Slave. There was a period of time when ethnic Irish political machines helped to place the party faithful into cozy government jobs. This was beneficial, up to a point. However, there is a point where such subgroup politics becomes so corrupt, the leaders of that group keep their people in deliberate isolation to maintain their power.

The IQs of many ethnic immigrant groups to the US can be shown to have increased after several generations. The Polish and Italian immigrant groups' IQs increased from 85 to over 100 over the 1st half of the 20th century. There seems to have been a reversal of such trends for African American communities starting in the 60's. There are also studies of the African American children of US armed forces personnel in Germany. Their IQs are the same as other children growing up in Germany. My conclusion is that the leadership of the African American community and the influence of the US political Left, by glorifying a toxic subset of their ethnic culture, is holding the group back, in cultural isolation, in such a way as to harm the prospects of their children as strongly as lead in the water of Flint Michigan.
> I am more interested in how a position of moderation is in theory attractive, and may even show benefits in controlled situations, but in practice use of substances or mobile games can lead to excessive use (i.e., abuse) and have a net negative on a user physically, mentally, emotionally, financially, etc.

Some people, unfortunately, have personalities that are vulnerable to be exploited (at the most cynical case). However, if we are being really honest, the same is true of things like sex addicts.

The reason we are reacting to this is the newness of it and the fact it is being marketed to kids. Really, the only restriction that might be reasonable, is restrictions on childhood consumption.
That is an interesting perspective and great story to hear first hand from Rachel Thomas about Fast.ai. Building products in a 'healthy and sustainable' way is a laudable goal. A successfully IPO'd company that springs to mind having such a journey is Atlassian - who were also founding members of the Pledge 1% initiative. It would be good to hear about other startups doing it different - innovatively.
Isn't it too bad that he doesn't name names? Isn't that what reputation should mean, that we fear having it tarnished by our bad behavior? If victims aren't even willing to go that far, then why believe them?
I use Apple Pay every chance I get. I'm not a big shopper, but I use it probably 3 to 4 times a month. I use it because it's faster than chip and signature, and more secure.

(edit: I'm in the U.S.)
> Is Damore responsible for the failure of some of people in managing their own emotions?

That line of stoic reasoning really justifies anything though. Like, my co-workers should manage their anxiety just because I like to work with a firearm strapped to my chest and 2 grenades on my desk.
Like many language features, they can be extremely useful and can significantly improve code clarity.

They can also be abused in such ways that clarity is actually destroyed.
what is your NN position, Mr. Lurr?
They're still pretty awful anywhere they can get away with it. In the Boston area, the best upstream I've ever been able to get from Comcast is 10Mbps (real-world 12Mbps) regardless of package. So I hope you don't like to use video chat, or Twitch streaming, or the like.
I can assure you that in Australasia there is both high demand and high prices. Even in season, avocados are typically $2.50 ($1.80usd) each in NZ (and this is a crop that is widely grown locally).

It's worth noting that the 'smashed avo on toast' meme originated in Australia. It was a tongue-in-cheek jab at millennials who complain of being priced out of the property market but still have the temerity to visit cafes regularly.
Ask HN: Booking.com sends raw CC data to Hotels. Is it legal?
A friend of mine has a hotel and hostel and is partner with booking.com. He received 100s of CC raw data each day.

There is no protection whatsoever. Booking doesn't manage payments on their own, they send the data clean-text directly to the hotel owner to process them using their own POS.

Is it legal? this is Masive.
Animal jam
I really hate to see this rush to "make sure our code doesn't use branch prediction". It may be the best fix we have available now, but it's going to create a legacy of bizarre inefficient machine code that will last forever.
I used to have a Nokia 6700 Slide that was pretty much that, but sadly it died. No GPS though, just maps.
What is the reasoning behind reusing version numbers?
Attic Labs–the company that started Noms–is being acquired by Salesforce
By the way, don't necessarily attribute bad intentions to the founders. Many startups do a terrible job keeping track of who executed what, and it's not uncommon to find cap tables that have significant errors and omissions.

Note that even if your shares are worthless - you can take the tax writeoff, but you do need to get documentation from the company that the common stock had no value so you have something to show the IRS if you're audited.