skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Apple refuses to support anything else than Apple Music

I was pretty appalled when I installed the first version of OS X with Siri and then the first thing I did was ask it to play a song from my iTunes Matched iTunes library and it had no idea what I was talking about because the artist (Kanye) wasn't on Apple Music.

My iPhone 4S I was using at the time could do this feat just fine but the so called latest and greatest can't manage it because Apple wants to force Apple Music on me.

I disabled Siri a few moments after this.
Why in the world would they design a custom hash function?! How amateurish. As Bruce Scneier said:

> In 2017, leaving your crypto algorithm vulnerable to differential cryptanalysis is a rookie mistake. It says that no one of any calibre analyzed their system, and that the odds that their fix makes the system secure is low — Bruce Schneier (about IOTA)

OK, it looks like the answer is they designed a custom hash function because their system is built with ternary logic (?!?):

https://hackernoon.com/why-i-find-iota-deeply-alarming-934f1...

... because "Ternary is the optimal radix" according to their cofounder:

> Ternary is the optimal radix, actually Base E (2.71....) is, but you can't make processors like that. So it comes down to Base Binary (2) vs Base Ternary (3). 3 is closer to the universal optimum 2.71 than is 2. That is the absolute most simple elevator pitch for ternary.

https://iota.stackexchange.com/questions/8/why-does-iota-use...

Reading about the design of this system, I feel like I just entered the twilight zone, or maybe the website for Time Cube. Urbit makes more sense than this. (The design of Urbit makes fine sense, it's just the implementation is extremely obscure.)
I agree with you but I want to point out that "a traceable and immutable book" is perfectly achievable without blockchain. Just have De Beers (or the authority of your choice) publish their signed "immutable" ledger publicly at regular intervals. Anybody can mirror it (like the "nodes" of bitcoin mirror the blockchain). If the authority decides to cheat and rewrite history (for instance to change the origin of a diamond) any of the 3rd party mirrors can detect the conflict and blow the whistle.
Prescriptions for everything work better. People end up trivializing medicaments when they are freely available. Talking to a doctor helps control certain conditions that are easily masked with self-medication.

Of course, it's hard to do this without having universal healthcare.
He started by talking about global fertility rates. He then mentions lower sperm counts but it's not a given that one is solely or mostly because of the other. Fertility rates are expressed in children per woman, not sperm count.

A large drop in global fertility rates is attributable to lower infant mortality, better access to healthcare, contraception, and education about using it. Also, as levels of education in general rise, people tend to have fewer children.
> (By 'theoretical model' I mean something like 'an interpretation of what the math is representing'.)So you can't read off theoretical structure from mathematical structure. And so you can't read off the structure of the world from mathematical structure.

Occam's razor favours a theoretical model that corresponds more closely to the mathematics, rather than one that adds a bunch of epicycles to arrive at a different interpretation. If you follow your logic then you can never reject geocentrism, because it's possible to create a geocentric model that generates the same predictions as a heliocentric one; nevertheless we would generally say that heliocentrism is "more true" and "more physically real" than geocentrism.
> I'm forced to use the buggy Reminders app, because Siri only supports creating reminders with Reminders.

Siri has third-party reminders support now, I use it with Things.
I wasn't aware motorbike racing allowed the use of traction control.

I know as a fan of F1, that fans generally look down on traction control, is that the same in motorbike racing?

Does MotoGp use traction control systems?
It really depends on what the material essence of the stream is the streamer or the game.

You can go on YouTube and have multi hour long recordings of single player games that turn the game into a movie for story focused games I can definitely understand why some publishers would like to put an end to this as I have watched a few of those instead of buying the game and I know quite a few other people that would.

In other cases the streamer is the focus of the video either as an “athlete” or a “skilled professional” and you watch how they play or as an an entertainer where the game in the background doesn’t serve any purpose other than a filler or a tie in.

As for cosplay the legality while not formalized is pretty well established if you commercialize by for example selling kits, molds etc. without licensing you’ll get sued if you just cosplay at conventions no one would care.
“Professional Cosplayers” are currently the problem because they blur the line between the comercial and amateur/ hobbyists as many of them well the really pretty ones are paid to attend events and do promotions basically as boothbabes in costumes this the biggest thorn as those events are often not sancationed by the owners of the IP or and could go counter to their principles or at least the public face they try to maintain.
Yes there are outliers like Nintendo and in some cases companies that didn’t like what was portrayed on stream but the former is getting better and the latter doesn’t just apply to games you can still be sued in civil court for damages caused even if the content was under fair use.
In what way? Genuinely curious - what sort of technical work needs to be done that requires actually knowing the regulation? I'm asking because I got my law degree with the idea that I would combine tech skills with knowledge of the law, but I never really found an angle to make that work.
They want the UX to be opt in. Or more opt in anyway, that the data ends up on a server is reasonably clear, so just using Strava involves a fair amount of opting in to begin with.

I don't think I have strong feelings about it. I can see the point of something as severe as a data protection law that would require the app to explicitly ask for permission to share every activity (with options like "store to cloud" and "store to cloud, share data publicly"). On the other hand I'm not really bothered by the "don't use Strava" method of opting out of their data collection.
It's unavoidable for me.

It provides no drawback for users who don't utilize it, and the alternative is me remaining with KVM which is a vastly larger attack surface, so your argument defeats itself.
Qubes runs mostly on computers with Intel CPUs.

It's good of them to admit that the layers-upon-layers approach just doesn't bring in any additional security if you have buggy/unsecure hardware.
touristid, sent:637bytes, rcvd:1.1mb, send pack:3.
Qubes aims to provide both consumer and enterprise workflows, and everything in between. People use computers for all sorts of things. A full Qubes system delivered to a tablet/phone interface is also a fine tradeoff for millisecond GUI delays.
Pown Apps – scriptable desktop applications for Pown.js
That's unfortunately how it's often done in orgs.

It's not just large orgs, either. I've lost count of the number of startups I've interacted with that had barely if ever talked to their own users.
It's really telling that even Linus Torvalds was not happy with their "fixes" and now Microsoft. Intel needs to start taking the situation completely seriously cause their actions don't imply they are.
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This is an amazing book.

Almost all software engineers would benefit from a basic understanding of networking. Most networking books are in-depth and intimidating, especially the ones that get into the nuts and bolts of packet formats. This book on the other hand provides exactly what most software engineers need to know.

It costs nothing to try it either.
Most operating systems, or the most popular operating systems?

The most important distinction between evolution and design, IMO, is that evolution bars forethought, and any refactoring that trips local optima (which in this case, would be breaking backwards-compatibility).

Popular OSes are popular mainly because of their backwards-compatibility and momentum, and are therefore typically unable to be redesigned in any non-evolution fashion.
AI used to cover Expert Systems, which have nothing we'd recognise as a "learning" phase at all. Hell, it used to cover parsers.
How can you ave a multi-year uptime unless you willfully ignore kernel security updates? In this day and age, year-long uptimes are an anti-pattern (if only because you cannot be sure whether your services are actually reboot-safe).
> So you think an electron IS a mathematical expression, not that a mathematical expression describes its behavior?

To the extent that "is" means anything, yes.

> Suppose we develop a unified theory in physics which supersedes current formulations of quantum theory. Then would the old quantum theory still BE the territory at that point? Or would it be just a less accurate description than the new one we came up with?

I think it's useful to treat "isness" as something analogue rather than binary here. The old theory sort-of-is the territory. The new theory a-bit-more-is the territory. But there's no Platonic ideal of the territory as a separate thing from the mathematical model that reality implements. There is no there there.
Absolutely agree! Have been smashing out YAML templates for 12mths with pleasure (3yrs of JSON templates beyond that), comments are the winning proposition, allows neat sectioning of various parts.
Ask HN: Is it paranoid to avoid submitting applications to hire.withgoogle.com?
More and more I am hesitant to share information with companies like google. Sure, it seems quixotic since they capture your information in so many different ways. But just because they have so much information on me does not mean I should willingly give all information to them. Well, that is my belief.

I should say that I don't see google as the only or worst culprit of this -- it is just that I was looking at a company this morning who use hire.withgoogle.com as part of the G-suite.

I guess I am curious how other people here view this and what you do, if anything, to avoid it?
http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/new-zealand-gardening-... ?
Intel doesn't care. What choice do we have?
I did not, and do not lay any blame, I only provided context to the prior comment.
You still have to have an accredited BS in engineering or science to take it. I assumed a degree from an accredited school would fit the bill but found out that was not the case when I wanted to take the patent bar years ago. You have to check the website to see if your degree qualifies.

I have a BS in Computer Information Systems which is almost identical to the CS degree that I could have gotten. The difference was that it switched out some general classes and the foreign language requirement for business classes...which seemed like a good idea to me.

Only the BS in CS was accredited. I also have an MS but the patent bar strictly cares about your BS.
I want to keep locality. Being able to derive it would be a happy bonus, but I'm perfectly willing to adopt it as its own axiom.
I'm in Australia and looking at a box of plain Ibuprofen. It also recommends limiting to a few days at a time unless told otherwise by a doctor.
I used Ajenti in the past on smallish boxes.
Absolutely lighter than cPanel, not sure tho if light enough for a 5dollar machine.

http://ajenti.org/
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I agree. The real low hanging fruit is not new research, but to make the easy, basic first or second year graduate math understandable in the context of ML.
> We have an unfortunate obsession with form over content

I partially agree with this observation but I also think that it’s a bit misleading: especially if used, as here, to refer to the distinction between programming languages (and their grammars), rather than paradigms.

In truth, different programming languages are highly coupled to different (classes of) paradigms, and the grammar of a programming language often prescribes or at least culturally supports a given set of paradigms. There might not be as much difference between, say, Pascal and FORTRAN, to use Floyd’s example. But if you asked a professor whether they taught Lisp, Java, Python or Haskell in their introductory programming course would tell you a lot about the paradigms they teach.
Initially I was that way too, only took a couple weeks and a few reference templates that demonstrated the constructs to get past that and haven't done JSON since. Definitely more efficient to develop with.
Obviously, Most of Japanese websites look like a product base or advertising base website. May be they would to cover all necessary details within one website. By the way nice topic.
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I seem to recall in SVs earlier days, when tech started putting old business models out to pasture, the following phrase was thrown about quite a bit:

> No one owes you a business model

I don’t reslly care if FB doesn’t work at scale, if we put minimum responsibilities on them. They’re not owed that business model.
What's the difference between this and jupyter? besides the file format itself obviously
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You have to know that Rakuten itself doesn't do much beside the frame. Rakuten is an Internet Mall - a place for merchants to show their products. These people are just sellers, not designers, and they are allowed to customize their products' and shops' pages however they like. Rakuten is to blame for not promoting consistent design among the merchants, but merchants themselves are to blame as well, for tons of noise in the pictures. When you compare, on Amazon pictures are big and clear, while on Rakuten they are there because seller just must put something. Often when you click the thumbnail, you get... the same thumbnail instead big product picture (which makes me mad.) And if sometimes 60-70% of picture space is covered with text. But what really makes me wonder is - how this strategy works? They are there, they are successfully selling their products! It's not only Rakuten, it is visible everywhere on the streets. Posters and commercials are full of noise. Not only text, mind it. It is common practice to have a person with tube in front of your store to praise the products they are selling. Noise is everywhere here. Everywhere except luxurious boutiques. :)
Don't believe that article people, it's the Huffington Post, everyone knows they're full of shite.
The GPU is a PCIe/AGP "bus master", so it can usually initiate DMA transfers from host memory and read anything it likes. IOMMU blocks some of this, but is not a perfect defence. https://security.stackexchange.com/questions/150386/does-iom...
No need to imagine; they're quite up front about it.

https://metro.strava.com/

> Metro anonymizes and aggregates this data and then partners with departments of transportation and city planning groups to improve infrastructure for bicyclists and pedestrians.
The best we could get my mom was LG Wine Smart a year ago, she is reasonably happy with it as she requires physical buttons.

There really is not much choice when it comes to flip phones today: https://www.gsmarena.com/results.php3?nCPUCoresMin=2&nRamMin...

Out of those only Gionee W909 has at least somewhat respectable specs.
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ContentSquare raises $42M Series B for its UX insights platform
Teenagers are worried about where they're going to live, and staying with their parents well into adulthood is usually not a desired option.
VW supervisory board demands inquiry into diesel fume tests
It's just gardens in general which are illegal

I'm afraid you've fallen for a hoax [1]. Gardening is a legal and popular pastime in New Zealand [2].

[1] http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/new-zealand-gardening-law-hoax
[2] http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/new-zealand-gardening-...
Thanks a lot for the comment, gives me a new view of Swift. Didn't understand Playground was so embedded with the language and/or vice-versa. Very interesting.
I read the article. It's a technical overview of a website designed to scam users. It doesn't reflect in any way that IOTA as a tech is insecure. Your claims are not related in any way to the contents of the article, are overreaching and biased. The allegations you've mentioned have been debunked [1]. Seed is basically a password so it's understandable it's not generated by the client software but many tutorials exist on how to create a secure one [2][3].

[1] https://blog.iota.org/official-iota-foundation-response-to-t...

[2] https://iotasupport.com/gui-newseed.shtml

[3] https://iota.guide/seed/how-to-generate-iota-wallet-seed/
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And Person of Interest.
That's why only brain interfaces can replace keyboards
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For the longest time there was no practical alternative, but nowadays... AMD is back! The whole Ryzen lineup has turned out to be pretty good. You may even save some money in the process.
I disagree. People regularily take 800mg of ibuprophen for regular/tension/miagrane headaches. These can be quite regular and chronic occurances.
I hope you're right, I just bought an IBM stamped (so maybe not Lenovo made) T61p off ebay to have a go with. It's not arrived yet but every review says the hardware is bulletproof.

I know it's very old but hopefully once I've finished putting the SSD in and a lightweight Linux distro it'll be enough to work on.
Even though this is a toy blockchain, it is essential to provide a Blockchain.verify() method to check the integrity of the blocks.
While this was true in the mid-2000s, I think the modern websites are much more similar to Western websites.

Perhaps the one thing that stands out is my adblocker doesn't work on japanese advertising so I get all the ads that I'm no longer used to seeing on my usual websites...
If you're interested in how this data gets exchanged you might want to read this:

https://www.crossref.org/blog/how-do-you-deposit-data-citati...

https://www.crossref.org/blog/the-research-nexus---better-re...

(I work for Crossref)
If-statements design: guard clauses may be all you need
It's guaranteed to be great either way!
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Is it? It is much easy to add/replace SDD & RAM but you are stuck with bad display.
What are the chances of it launching as scheduled? I've dreamed of seeing it but I only have a one day window to fly down and back because of some work obligations.
> Disclosure

That's a "Source", not a "Disclosure". There's no conflict of interest in explaining the internals of an open-source project while being involved in an open-source project.

A disclaimer is only necessary when you have a hidden agenda.
> Quantum entanglement is happening constantly everywhere

This doesn't mean it isn't a limited phenomenon
am I the only one who thinks this is neither a new kind of scam, nor in any other way surprising, and that the whole discussion here is hardly about the article but mostly people voicing their general opinions for/against iota?
What anti-EU sentiment? The only anti-EU sentiment inside the EU comes from populist politicians and the people who vote for them, who have no idea how the EU works. And what non-EU entities think is, frankly, irrelevant.
About time this gets more mainstream coverage.
The risks with this use are both far more imminent and potentially more severe than "AI" developing godhood or putting everyone out of their jobs by doing it for them.

A few years back there was this reportage: http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/11/23/doomsday-invent...
It mostly focused on Nick Bostrom's concerns about "Superintelligence", but to me the more interesting passage by far is this one:

The keynote speaker at the Royal Society was another Google employee: Geoffrey Hinton, who for decades has been a central figure in developing deep learning. As the conference wound down, I spotted him chatting with Bostrom in the middle of a scrum of researchers. Hinton was saying that he did not expect A.I. to be achieved for decades. “No sooner than 2070,” he said. “I am in the camp that is hopeless.”

“In that you think it will not be a cause for good?” Bostrom asked.

“I think political systems will use it to terrorize people,” Hinton said. Already, he believed, agencies like the N.S.A. were attempting to abuse similar technology.

“Then why are you doing the research?” Bostrom asked.

“I could give you the usual arguments,” Hinton said. “But the truth is that the prospect of discovery is too sweet.” He smiled awkwardly, the word hanging in the air—an echo of Oppenheimer, who famously said of the bomb, “When you see something that is technically sweet, you go ahead and do it, and you argue about what to do about it only after you have had your technical success.”

As the scientists retreated to tables set up for refreshments, I asked Hinton if he believed an A.I. could be controlled. “That is like asking if a child can control his parents,” he said. “It can happen with a baby and a mother—there is biological hardwiring—but there is not a good track record of less intelligent things controlling things of greater intelligence.” He looked as if he might elaborate. Then a scientist called out, “Let’s all get drinks!”
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Oh I don't know much about ideographic writing, but I wonder if one can describe the language as a big search tree where the leaf ideograph is the overlay of all intermediate nodes (say each node being a vector representation.)
Then why don't we also investigate chakra, god, the jabberwocky.. etc.
That sounds weirdly familiar. (Hello S7 project files?)
Exactly. Chinese, Japanese, and Korean letters are all designed to fit in a square grid.

Movable type was invented in Korea 200 years before Gutenberg, and their version was much easier because they just had to plug letters into a square grid. When I was a kid, everyone learned to write on sheets of paper containing a 20x10 grid. Lengths of books and school essays in Korea are still frequently measured by the number of 20x10 sheets they would take up if printed on such a grid.

When your writing system is designed to fill a two-dimensional grid, whitespace is not only unnecessary but also potentially distracting. Chinese and Japanese don't even use spaces between words. (Korean does, at least in modern usage.) Leaving a large amount of space between lines would break up a block that should belong together.

Probably for the same reason, WYSIWYG editors here tend to insert <br> instead of <p> when you press the Enter key, Western semantics be damned. Extra space between paragraphs is implemented using two <br>'s instead of margins on the <p> tag. In other words, people see no need for vertical space that isn't an integer multiple of the height of a 1-em square.
Whenever I get a vocal message I just ignore it and write back ”sorry, I’m not going to open that because I am in a delicate situation, could you please resend as text?” People being lazy doesn’t mean they can expect me to disrupt my existence to receive their lazy communication,if it isn’t worth their time to type it then it isn’t worth my time to read it.
Any language that lets you put anything in tables lets you put procedures in tables. Most languages do not offer reflection for their own syntactic elements (probably for good reason), however if you need that you might want to make your own language anyways...