skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why should they avoid? I sort of liked it. And also about 86% of Rotten Tomatoes reviewers out of about 17,620 did. Not every movie has to be liked by the elite movie reviewers or editors in media news media. Some of the movies just works for folks. I'd say keep them coming. I'm only paying a fixed price and I can always choose what I want.
Yeah the EU is really the savior of last resort now.
I've always wondered how much a typical internet user generates in ad revenue. Basically, if I wanted to buy out my ads for a year, how much would it cost me?

I've never seen this number, and it seems highly relevant in the the debate over ad-supported services versus paywalls.
>Make it clear that math, in any form, is not patentable.

Ok but CRISPR isn't math. And the distinction between designing an algorithm and designing a machine is kind of arbitrary. If you are going to get rid of one you should get rid of the other and abolish patents entirely.
Yep. As as a European WhatsApp has become as essential as breathing. Just the thought of coordinating all my contacts to switch over to another app is scary.

Unless WhatsApp ever charges money. That would get people to move.
Depends on what you eat at McDonald's, and how much. In any case, I was merely comparing ease of access.
> What can China do to someone a US citizen, living in the US, using a Huawei phone? Even if all telephone calls are monitored?

Sell personal details like credit card numbers or the SSN to a criminal syndicate.

No one said they would spy to steal state secrets.

Another possibility is identity theft. Read about the scandal involving Australian passports used by Israeli secret services in 2010: http://www.smh.com.au/national/mossad-hit-snares-australians....
Sorry—I just saw this! But, as it was, I was not saying that you should release a patch version every time you make a code change. That would indeed be pretty arduous!

What you should do is test your library independently from the consumer that uses it. If that's not possible, ask yourself why that is; maybe this code should not be sequestered into a library after all, or maybe it needs to be designed a bit differently to remove some of the coupling between the library and app that seems to be at issue.

Ideally, your testing in your app should not be testing that the library works; it should be testing that your use of the library works. Too bad the real world is much messier than the ideal world.

Good luck either way!
For years I've been using paper and pen to explain waveforms, noise cancellation, and the psycho-acoustic model to a few of my musician friends. Every time their eyes have glazed over, and I've thought "there's gotta be some animated web page that explains this better."
And here it is - exactly as imagined!
Thanks for creating it.
>I've had my account since 2006 and despite the company's terrible practices, I'm really not interested in disconnecting for good at this time

Having a Facebook account is like being in an abusive relationship. You've been together for a long time, and you keep hoping they'll change, but they never do, and it just gets worse and worse. The sooner you realize this this and get out, the less additional time and energy you'll waste.
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Yes, and the standard Communist criticism of the idea of welfare states (which, IIRC, predates both the actual existence of welfare states and also that of Leninism, much less the present Chinese Communist regime) is that it is a bourgeois “reform” to capitalism that provides the illusion of serving the lord classes but only actually reinforced the power and position of the capitalist elites.

(This is structurally similar to the right-wing capitalist criticism of welfare states, which is basically the same but substitutes an amorphousus government elite in place of the capitalist one.)
In fairness, Okja was similar to the kind of fable style tale with a near-future/modern/technology angle that Black Mirror had done for some time before (the first two seasons of Black Mirror were not Netflix productions). Almost everyone I know who watched it comments on this.
What product does Google provide for altruistic purposes? Just because they haven’t figured out how to monetize something doesn’t mean it was made for altruistic purposes.
I’m with you in that all too often pro reviewers are just jaded or pushing an agenda, but I should be clear that I personally disliked Bright. I didn’t however, mean to offend, and I should have simply said that I didn’t enjoy it, rather than make a generalization about it.

Edit: the third thing professional reviewers are, is hungry for clicks.
Is there any evidence that claims of innovation and creativity shutting down without patent and copyright protection are, in fact, correct?

It seems like the purpose of these supposed protections is bent so far out of share that the threat of "getting what you wish for" carries no weight.

Some media might shrink, but other media would grow to take it's place. Neither patent now copyright "ownership" are natural rights like real property ownership. In both philosophical and practical terms, dialing them down to zero and then seeing how much we really need of them might be the best way to find the optimal level.
Why would they do that? These phishers alone got $10 million in stolen Bitcoin. They must have paid a significant amount to Google.
to support payroll and recruit

The use of the incorrect form of recruitment appears to be one instance of a similar phenomena for many words that is perhaps some sort of American or Silly-Valley grammatical neologism. Does anyone know whether this has an established/accepted linguistic description or whether it has been noted in academia?
I felt like I was getting beaten over the head with the metaphors.
You nailed it. And if AMP jeopardizes this core idea of "email as a reliable log", which is how many people use it, it will slowly eat away at the usefulness of the service itself. People will stop trusting it and using it as such.
For ages now, I've wanted NT-style process handles. open(2)ing a process (maybe via its proc directory) should keep the corresponding process alive, even if as a zombie. This way, you'd be able to write perfectly robust versions of pkill without annoying TOCTOU PID reuse races.

Linus has rejected this mechanism due to the ability of an outstanding process handle to prevent process reclaim, permitting users to fill the process table --- but I think this argument is bogus: users not constrained by RLIMIT_NPROC can do that already, and we could count process handles against RLIMIT_NPROC.

Bonus points: allow operations like kill, ptrace, status-reading, etc., via the process handle FD instead of PID-accepting syscalls. This way, you'd be able to pass the FD around as a credential.

Even more bonus points: select(2) support for the FD for easy process death monitoring.
U.K. moms are turning parenting into an experiment
Wow, the title really buries the lead here and I see no comments here talking about how this wasn't any ordinary building: it was the 5pointz (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/5_Pointz)! Not only that, this wasn't illegal graffiti, but rather murals that were originally sanctioned. When the landlord wanted to demolish the site, the artists went to the courts and the court was going to make a decision, but the landlord went ahead and painted over them a day before the decision.
Bandwidth and storage have been slowing down and stagnating for some time now. My internet isn't much faster than 10 years ago. The difference between video codecs makes a huge difference in the quality of video I get to see.
Their content peaked years ago. Used to be that the "Netflix" badge of content meant this was quality. Now it doesn't really mean anything.
Another reminder that with Apple you are their customer. With Google you are their product.
These guys were definitely going to be using diffractive waveguides (photonic crystal waveguides). Look at the LinkedIn profiles of some of the folks on their optical design team (especially the ones with titles that include "Diffractive Optics Engineer"). One had a PhD adviser at Berkeley (Eli Yablanovitch) who originally coined the term "photonic crystal", another wrote a widely used open source implementation of RCWA (S4) while working with a top group in photonic crystal design at Stanford (Shanhui Fan), and some of their engineering leadership came to the company from what was Digital Optics Corporation.
As an ethical UX designer, unethical UX designers/PMs/ need to be shamed for creating/allowing dark pattern in their work. This goes against the fundamental tenets of empathetic UX design and in downright manipulative and bordering evil.
INAL but from my limited understanding of copyright law you can't copyright facts. However original works in any medium are protected, so the code and also the images themselves would be copyrighted at the time of creation. But anyone could create another set of similar yet original code which could output similar images and not be in violation. Subsequently these new works would also be copywrited at the time of creation... Ad nauseam
You don't necessarily know if there are irregularities. Many elections are quite close anyway. Just count the paper by default, it's not that hard.
The right wing and the extreme left have remarkable similar attitudes toward the center–to–center-left.

(Leaving aside question of whether the Chinese “Communist” regime is on the left in any substantive sense, rather than merely as a historical rhetorical affectation.)
Wouldn't abolishing them create an out of control copycat shovelware economy worse than the app stores? I mean, if you can blatantly rip off other people's IP
A friend of mine just finished his PhD in Physics and is jobhunting. He's been to a lot of tiny villages in the last few weeks..
Caper (YC W16) Is Hiring a Senior Computer Vision Engineer
Ask Girls/Couple to Feed Me Chocolate [Valentine's Day Challenge]
Interesting. I wouldn't expect hemp would have the tenacity as the fibers we're using. But reading more about it now, it looks like people are trying to do some interesting things with hemp in bulletproof. One challenge might be how fine the fiber can be made. But I'm going to look into it!
I bought a new Accord two months ago. Where the tachometer is is actually a display that can be cycled; it started flaking out immediately when I did anything with the audio. Took a week to put new parts in.

Now CarPlay stopped working. I fear another week to repair/replace.

Not quite as serious as UConnect issue, but I totally feel people when they say they'd rather have less technology.
This begs for a willitblend.com style campaign: will it run?
His right to speak ends st my right not to die from measles because Gwyneth Paltrow has a gaping hole where her soul should be. Where harm to large populations is concerned, I’m more than happy to infringe on speech, and the courts agree.

This isn’t just crazy, it’s demonstrably damgerous.
Thunderbird team: Generate a request to the URL, and include the attachment as a WARC file, not a PDF. The client or any other system can then render that content however they desire at a later date.
You know, when I first heard about this about a year ago my jaw dropped because I was finally vindicated.

I was a stoner teenager during the whole DMCA/Napster era and between copious bong hits amongst friends I would ramble about how I thought that the whole music/movies thing was just a front for establishing a regulatory framework to control the inevitable rise of digital fabrication.

It really sucks to be right about this. :(
That was the way it was done previously.
My Netflix bill is creeping up. I’m up to $13.99/month. Honestly I’m probably not going to keep it if it keeps creeping up.
To be fair, the Shinkansen system is pretty much one-dimensional.
> Most manufacturers are installing firewalls in 2018+ vehicles, ... With the past few years of vehicle hacking and the automakers being embarrassed, they have started to take Bus security extremely seriously.

Unless their software source code is available for public review, I absolutely do not trust that this 'firewall' will do its job 100% of the time.
Finally interested in getting off gmail. Could someone summarize the pros/cons of fastmail vs. protonmail or any other major email provider?
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It might not have been clear to investors who were fed patents with fiber scanning all over them.

http://www.kguttag.com/2018/01/06/magic-leap-fiber-scanning-...
So in love with this! As soon as my bf sent me the kickstarter video, I became a funder.

I love all the women-focused specialty clothing we're getting in the past few years, especially ones that use modern technology to improve our daily lives/comfort (and not just make another bra that claims to be the last bra you'll ever need but that actually still only fits one type of breast...).

And speaking of innovative women's clothing, I'm assuming you are familiar with Heist Studios and their tights?
Finding Undervalued Stocks
I hate will smith, don’t like most of his movies. Enjoyed bright. Started out slow but now hoping for sequel...
Why should patent holders have to show "progress"? Isn't the invention enough? Would they have to invent more or advance it further? Or do you mean commercial progress, making money, building it, etc.?

The latter is called "working the patent", which is the opposite of what patent predators, née trolls do. Apparently some countries require holders to work the patent, and I'm a big supporter of fundamental patent reform in the US that would require people/corporations to produce and sell the invention in order to maintain a patent. That would almost vaporize all the patent predators out there.

Right now we have a system where you can just think shit up and write it down. Boom, you've got a patent (with the help of a lawyer usually). That's a ridiculous legal system. The system should be designed around actual market activity – the introduction of innovative products. I think it's an important right that someone who invents something should have exclusive commercial rights to it for a while, but not a right to just sit back and stop other people from using their brains too.

Your percentage of profits idea is something I liked for a while when I was thinking a lot about reform, but I now think that it would be way too hard to enforce. It would be such a mess to carve out exactly what the profit or revenue was that could be attributed purely to some part of a product that hinged on some dude's patent, along with all the other encumbered parts and features. It would be worse than the mess that is the income tax and corporate income tax.
Streaming 4K videos (or fitting them onto a 50GB physical disc) requires better video codecs. MPEG2 wouldn't be enough.

Personally, I see the benefit in 4K having a setup to take advantage of it.
Many electricians don't like to use "back-stab" or push-in connectors in receptacles, and prefer to use the screw terminals -- see, e.g., https://diy.stackexchange.com/questions/7977/when-to-use-hol...
If you’re relying on active messaging, why bother with FB?
Mathematicians look for more elegant proofs of already proven theorems all the time. The earliest proof is usually not the simplest, nor the clearest, nor the easiest to generalize, nor <insert desideratum here>.

Similarly, I think there is scientific value in finding cleaner ways to implement known algorithms, prove their complexity bounds, etc. For example, one of my current projects is to provide total functional implementations of known data structures and algorithms (i.e., free of assertions and unreachable control flow points), and I have gained insight about these data structures and algorithms that I couldn't have possibly obtained from their published descriptions.
In the US 'television network' and 'network television' have specific meanings and HBO and Netflix are neither networks nor 'network tv'.
If you've been to an open source conference that lasts a week the pattern is always the same: the bulk of messaging ends up on IRC.

It doesn't start out that way. First you have a lot of people pushing their favourite barrows. Then they set up IRC gateways. Then they bleed users to IRC. I've been to a few conferences that keep actual statistics of messages published, and it's always the same.

But it's well hidden. No one gives up pushing their barrow, so if you just listen to the conference gossip you would never know it's happening.
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I tried this, and my problem was that I would end up with "listening fatigue" or whatever you want to call it after 6 hours of listening every day.
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https://www.cdc.gov/flu/about/qa/vaccineeffect.htm

>During years when the flu vaccine is not well matched to circulating influenza viruses, it is possible that no benefit from flu vaccination may be observed.

I'm crazy for not allowing myself to be injected with several strains of influenza virus when the most-optimistic estimates of efficacy are around ~40%.

Calling it a flu "vaccine" seems like a misnomer to me, given the rapidly-mutating nature of the virus.

>We may as well dismiss them and move on.

This is HN.
I think I’d probably agree with you. But Blockchain technology (the backbone of a decentralized movement) is the parent to bitcoin.

I’m speaking on Blockchain, not bitcoin.
Custom database product for EPA, seemed like a good fit. While I have no connections to EPA, I do some collaborative work with bio-engineering department at a university in Chicago, I'm a data scientist/developer/have a small team, I thought I'd try dipping my toes in something new.
Rediscovering the Blazingly Bright Colors of Ancient Sculptures
There was supposed to be a geosynchronous satellite over North America too (https://amsat-uk.org/satellites/geosynchronous/na-gso-sat/) but I haven’t heard anything about it recently.

Geosynchronous is interesting because you just need to point a fixed dish at it and it always works, whereas the LEO satellites only occasionally pass overhead and you need the antenna to track it (either by hand or with a tracker)
Bright is Urban Fantasy, which is a rather rare genre for feature length films. It's not a great movie but it's a lot better than you'd think if you just listen to critics.
Who cares about what overseas intelligence agencies know of them? I would be much more concerned about the agencies that sit close enough to actually be interested in my person. I am exaggerating (McCarthyism is probably not this hard any more and people are much less prone to take communism seriously nowadays) but just for example: if an American gets involved in an anti-communist club in the USA China will hardly care about him in particular but if some of the people in one's phonebook happen to be communists the homeland agencies can actually go after him and ruin his life :-)
Computer Chronicles: The rebirth of the home computer (1990)
Evolutionary patterns emerge in the universe of GNU/Linux operating systems
Raleigh police searched Google accounts as part of downtown fire probe
I stopped working with ember about a year and a half ago and it's interesting to see how major progress seems to have halted. It became pretty obviously hindered even before then with the controllers to routable components initiative, but I can't seem to . I don't check in on it often enough to be an expert in the project now, but I get a feeling that the new glimmer stuff is a similarly distracting big idea that will get in the way of many smaller improvements that could go out in that time.

That said I do still sometimes miss ember, specifically ember data. I was pretty hesitant to start using using ember with all of it's magic, but having all of that magic really felt like it kept us from over thinking most small problems we had to solve. Also the codebase was extremely easy to digest, so things that seemed like the framework was standing in the way of usually only required an hour of poking through the library code and you could build out functionality you needed with private APIs. Got really familiar with the data codebase and got to pull off some fun hacks.
Plus the argument kinda petered out at the HBO also broadcasts on the internet part...
I'm speaking completely outside of my subject area, so take this with a large grain of salt but hear me out -- I think the video is great and success from the Kickstarter is proof of that.

But, I think a business needs to have solid distinguishing characteristics. An ad that basically says, "It's more durable and just a little more expensive, so if you do the math, it will work out in your favor after a long enough period of time" doesn't sound like you're playing your strongest cards in your hand.

If you can make a product that no one else can, such as 3-6 denier, or super-strong athletic compression tights, then you create name-brand distinction. Even if it means that the bulk of sales end up being what you just advertised in Kickstarter, the tail-ends of the market is what defines the brand. "Super-sheer, super-strong."
> if there are unforgeable signatures on some of the content (e.g. DKIM signatures from third parties on incoming emails)

FWIW, in many cases content can be changed even if signed with DKIM without breaking the signature.

http://noxxi.de/research/breaking-dkim-on-purpose-and-by-cha...

I think email clients should be rethinking how they communicate to users whether or not an email is signed, e.g. if the headers haven't been oversigned and/or the full body hasn't been signed then it may be better to just show the message as having been not signed at all.
> This has me thinking Ansible.

Yeah, no, bad choice. Ansible only pushes configs to remote servers, and
on-line ones at that. Don't expect a retry if any of the servers is down. Good
match for deploying things, but terrible for long term management. It's
somewhat similar with this regard to Jenkins.

Also Ansible's approach of using SSH (directly to root or through sudo) is
brittle; prepare for outages if you start changing sshd config or sudoers, as
it's easy to cut off your all channels: configuration distribution, running
predefined procedures, and debugging. And there's more, like managing hosts'
public keys being PITA (as always with SSH) or weird way of encoding
a programming language as YAML with mismatching preprocessor (Jinja2).

If you have Puppet deployed, stay with Puppet for managing configuration.
California's initiative process isn't the only way to do democracy. You can argue that it's too easy to get on the ballot, or that representative democracy is better than direct democracy.
@phaedrus take a look at Weld from Stanford then, may also be useful to you. Edit: in addition to what @ozinenko pointed to of course..
Here's a free B2C startup idea for you aspiring founders: a personal email (local?) archiver and search engine. Pull all my logs from my 15 different addresses I've had over the years, and give me super-fast realtime search on all of it. I wouldn't hesitate to pay 10 bucks a month for that. This idea has a super-useful B2B angle as well (think of the explosion of MailChimp clones).
I liked Bright. It can be difficult to defend because it certainly has some substantial flaws, but people seem to just love love love crapping all over it like it's the worst thing they've seen all year.
I'm actually surprised that that hasn't been cracked yet --- or at least, a quick search didn't find anything (do let me know otherwise!); as we all know too well these days, Google isn't particularly neutral in terms of what search results it wants to show anymore.

That said, the RPi being the closed system it is, it's not surprising that no real hacker/cracker types would bother with it and the community remains mainly docile. But given the publicity and popularity, it is a little surprising.