skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is why I went with an IoT network in my house, that doesn't have access to the outside world (ingress or egress) except through a carefully controlled firewall.

And as of right now, the only 2 things that go through that firewall are the nest thermostat (yeah, it's pretty and hasn't given me any trouble, so i'm happy with the tradeoff here), and the google homes (again, another tradeoff myself and my family are comfortable making).

Everything else is on that network without access to the "internet" directly, with WPA2 encryption for protection against local eavesdropping, and pushed through an open-source home-automation controller called "Home Assistant" running on an intel NUC served up over HTTPS to our devices.

I don't have any baby monitors yet (no babies!) but we do have cameras and with this system they work great and I sleep pretty well at night knowing it's all secure enough that i'm happy buying cheap devices knowing the security is garbage.
Show HN: A serverless chat backend – built on Firebase Cloud Functions
Fallacy: whataboutism.
as interesting iota is so they claim, my bet is on lightning network for high scalability transaction and machine to machine payment
> Don't get me wrong, it would be awesome if we could compromise on any given toolkit, but do you honestly see any of them waving the white flag?

No doubt it will be years before everything moves over, but at this point Qt is the clear winner: it's always looked better, its licensing issues are now solved, it's the only option that has remotely decent bindings for a remotely decent language. A month or so ago there was a new release of Wx and the comments here were universally "that still exists?"; GTK will go the same way.

There are other options, there are people who really like those options, but Qt has the momentum and has the knowledge base. Just use Qt and you'll be fine, or at least you'll be no less fine that you were with GDI on windows.
There are a lot of letters in that article. Here is a lot less:

It is a scam
Coconut water is marketed for hydration because it does have a relatively high electrolyte content, but it's mostly potassium with minimal sodium, so not as effective as an oral rehydration powder which has those specific ratios of electrolytes / sugar that maximize the speed of uptake/hydration.
This is pretty neat, thanks!
Do you remember the news that insurers found Hotmail users are more likely to get into auto accidents and raised their rates? Hotmail users are people who haven't bothered to a superior service for over 10 years. I would not be surprised if those same people still exclusively watch TV instead of streaming
In some asian communities clinics provide "ringer" glucose IV. It definitely boosts you up, but you can also end up with life-threatening infections: https://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/21/nyregion/despite-warnings...
Kottke makes the important point that the demise of GoogleReader and decline of RSS was really the turning point in the popularity of blogs. I often wonder how things might have been (better?), if there had been a more accessible independent group of writers over the last 5 years.

I feel like Twitter, Facebook, and to a lesser extent Instagram etc would have been forced to be better by some competition as well. OTOH I have saved months of my life not reading them...
Perhaps, but that hardly makes everything brief witty.
Yet the comment in question was entirely lacking in wit.
An interesting moral question.

I think there's at least some consensus around the idea that Strong AI doesn't necessarily imply consciousness, and without consciousness, it isn't slavery/immoral. Of course, consciousness isn't well-defined or well-understood, which is why we're not really sure about whether that's true, or how to make sure a Strong AI doesn't have consciousness.
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Looks like they have:
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/strawstraws/straw-straw...
http://www.harveststraws.com/
http://www.strawbystraw.com/
Since you're doing .NET have you looked at https://github.com/AvaloniaUI/Avalonia for cross platform UIs? I haven't messed with it, but it just hit beta and I was hoping for some insights.
Should product managers learn to code?
If there's one lawyer in town, they drive a Chevrolet. If there are two lawyers in town, they both drive Cadillacs.
So the disclaimer and the word "probably" wasn't hedging enough for you?

Maybe you just already had your own conclusions and don't like it when people disagree.
Why would anyone spend Time to write this Article?
Amazon plans to open as many as six more cashier-less Amazon Go stores this year
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=baby+monitor+video+hacked
On Being One's Own Rabbit: A Skirmish in the War on Tetany Disease
Behavioural economics teaches us that the jump from a price of zero to a price of 1 penny has a much, much larger effect than going from 1 penny to two pence.

https://market.subwiki.org/wiki/Zero_price_effect

The same acts in reverse.

I personally reuse the same bag every time I go shopping until it is damaged. When I walk to my local, I carry the two or three items I bought directly, rather than in a bag. I could afford to buy over a million plastic bags a year, yet I've changed my behaviour to avoid buying them whenever possible.

(In my case, it has nothing to do with being asked, as I invariably use the automated checkout machines. Bags are available for purchase adjacent to these machines, so it's not an availability problem either.)
Sukiyaki in French style: word2vec for recipe transformation
Metabolic basis to Sherpa altitude adaptation [pdf]
I put straws in the basket with silverware. Works fine unless you've let something really dry on there (like a smoothie).
shudder

In Taiwan, it used to be a thing to get vitamin B shots all the time for no good reason. The placebo affect was probably involved. It turns out that the vitamins were almost certainly useless, but some 90% of the population got Hepatitis B. Guess who didn't sterilize everything properly?

I would stay the fuck away from quacks who want to inject magic solutions. At least the detox crowd just drinks that stuff.

Also, jeez, for the cost of one of those infusions, you can drink a lot of delicious, potassium-loaded fresh coconut water, even at restaurant prices.
Witter Updates Developer Rules in the Wake of Bot Crackdown
I bought a Remarkable. A completely different type of e-reader. While overly expensive I would say it represents the future evolution of e-readers. Mostly focused around realistic writing feel, making it easier to read .pdf and less eye strain.
> Yes I’m also aware of Qt’s 200 language bindings and funnily enough, a lot of shitty, slow, crash Qt apps on my Ubuntu desktop are Python with the PyQT bindings.

So much like Electron then?

Use Qt, use Python, and get on with your life. Or use Electron if you prefer, that's fine too. But don't make out like it's the only reasonable option and everything else is too confusing. If you ask 10 developers the right way to do a simple GUI application on Linux, 9 of them will tell you: do it with Qt and Python.
> both byteball and iota use trusted third parties to secure the network

and Byteball looks more secure than IOTA you can have several witnesses that can bee different entities and you have to conclude more than half to change consensus state.
A neighbor of mine became dehydrated because of an infection (I think it was a kidney infection, but I'm not sure). She went to the emergency room and they pushed IV fluids, and I mean pushed. They hung a total of three bags, and at one point they were squeezing the bags to increase the flow of fluids. They over-hydrated her, and then they had to give her something to deal with the over-hydration. The over-hydration, or the medicine they gave her for that, affected her heart. She went into the hospital with a simple infection, and left needing expensive heart medication.
Whenever I read this, I think of Bradbury's counterpoint to the Shakespeare quip that "Digression is the soul of wit." It's about having something to say, not just being of few words.

More apropos here, concision can be a powerful dramatic device, but I don't feel that there's any wit in the post you're commenting on above.

If you want a clickbait/digest-in-an-instant headline, why not "IOTA is vulnerable to replay attacks but has no intention of fixing the flaw"? [0]

Personally, I like having a more detailed, precise, technical assessment. It may not be concise, but you can't put a pretty bow on cryptography without dumbing it down.

[0]: https://thenextweb.com/hardfork/2018/02/21/iota-replay-attac...
> It's easy to learn, easy to make

I disagree completely. It's easy to get a 'hello world' type thing working in HTML, sure, but it's very hard to make something behave like you want. Traditional UI toolkits are much simpler and easier to understand.
Interesting. Any indication of why Sciter seems to be the go-to UI framework for antivirus software?
> and moderators can set a comment to automatically be collapsed if necessary (e.g. meta-discussion).

I'd like to be able to turn this off in my profile. Or maybe it can be linked to "showdead".
Goodnight, Adobe CreativeSDK
That would be nice indeed. On a separate note, I love the fact that they support freebsd!
There are plenty available. Of the top of my head I’m aware of are fennel and strawberry from Tom’s of Maine, which are pretty widely available. A quick search shows lemon, mango, cinnamon, and pomegranate are also available from others. Might take some trial and error, but hopefully you can find one you like.
The US does have open mapping data:

https://www.census.gov/geo/maps-data/data/tiger.html

While useful for taking the US Census, the TIGER data isn't really suitable for most navigation tasks. At best it can be used as a base layer to build a geospatial dataset.

OpenStreetMap did this about a decade ago:

https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/TIGER

That being said, the current administration is looking to cut TIGER funding, not increase it.

For the foreseeable future getting mapping data suitable for navigation in the US is going to be the job of private for-profit companies.
There's a workaround - https://blog.apify.com/how-to-make-headless-chrome-and-puppe...
At the risk of troll-engaging: there's a huge difference between using an independently-auditable, multiple-contributing-entity, open-source library that happens to have been originated by a social network's engineering team, and using the identity-tracking public APIs of a closed social network. And both can be useful in certain situations. Be wary, but don't close oneself off to good technology just because it's associated with technology you disapprove of.
I think I've done that before.

Yeah you just call page.authenticate(user,pass).
We bought an audio-only baby monitor and gave up on it for precisely this reason. We'd hear the baby, then two seconds later the baby monitor would wake up with a ksssht-WAAAH noise.

Now, what would be really helpful for small babies is consumer-available version of the 'clicker' breathing monitors they use in NICU wards. Our oldest was in NICU for nearly two weeks due to being a little prem, and when we got them home the lack of that regular 'click... click...' from the monitor was so hard to get used to.
Electron has really raised the bar for how easy it should be to package and publish a cross-platform native-enough app.

If something like Slack is "utterly trivial to implement in a proper language natively", why was Skype so awful for so long, to the point that they've now switched to Electron?
Skype for a long time only had an outdated application on Linux. Now that MS converted it to Electron, it's available and regularly updated.

And now Mac users get the same terrible Electron app. The problem is that companies are not just making Electron apps for Linux users. They are replacing native well-integrated Mac and Windows applications by Electron apps (Skype) or do not consider writing native apps (Slack).

So, we had nicely integrated applications with Automator workflows, consistent shortcuts, consistent look and consistent feel. And we are replacing them by things that do not fit into the platform at all. No thanks.
What is the rationale ? Are disposable plastic bags really that much worse than reusable / paper bags ? From what I understand plastic waste is usually burned for electricity or heat in industrial processes, and it's not that much worse than natural gas.
The most effective time to consume oral rehydration solution would be after drinking. Alcohol is a diuretic causing you to lose more water than normal through urine, and eventually also electrolytes (although at first, your body will make an effort to retain them). So if you drink the ORS whilst still in diuresis, it won't have any negative effects, but you're more likely to urinate away the contents. After drinking, but before sleeping is anecdotally the optimal way to use ORS products for the hangover use case.
Isnt it correct that IOTA is not meant to be tradet by humans?
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Thank you for your concern. Yes, both medicines were prescribed by the same doctor, and there are others in the mix as well that mean Serotonin Syndrome is something I'm very aware of (Tramadol, Immigran). It's been a fixed dosage for a long time and I'm regularly seen by my GP, have LFT's twice a year etc. Just to note, the Amitriptaline isn't perscibed in my case for depression, it's taken in a smaller dose for it's neurapathic pain properties.

I find the ZoMorph blocked me up quite a bit, Fibrogel works well in this case.
A "superintelligent" AI that is to a human as a human is to a fly. Is it impossible to say anything about the world after it's been built?

Yes. It's not the fact that it doesn't exist, it's the fact that not only is it not clear that it's even physically possible, anything you come up with can just be handwaved away by this mystical property known as "intelligence". Your two examples don't have this problem so they're not similar.

Most of the literature I've seen about AGI is about theories on how to build it, or theories on how to build it safely (e.g. so it has stable preferences that align with human values). Not stuff on "how to defend yourself against a rogue AGI", because there really is nothing you can say about that.
I have high hopes webassembly will allows us to move away from javascript while keeping the cross platform bit. Not convinced it will address the complaints about electron which I understand rather come from the use of chrome/html/css in term of resources.
Voice Over Talent
I've always been amazed that a proprietary engine with unclear rules and unavailable source code is the dominant source of news for the hacker community. Although it is designed better than reddit, unpopular opinions are still punished, which can stifle discussion and results in users self-moderating themselves and preventing themselves, even subconsciously, from expressing certain opinions from fear of downvoting.

Many of those undocumented behaviours are described with speculation - why don't we have a clear image of the capabilities and inner workings of Hacker News available anywhere? Security by obscurity?
Yikes, yeah that's the thing. That's so beyond any of my clients budgets. I've been pushing to do other things including billboards since I spend a majority of my time these days working on online advertising and seo which has had a wonderful ROI (putting the time in to get proper conversion tracking and funnels has been a treat) and keeping doors open but I want to take it to the next level for both personal growth and peeling back the curtain.

Plus, video production is something I did in the past so doing more of that could be exciting even if it's bland lawyer commercials for Judge Judy. $100mil/yr is a dream. Definitely get a sense of jealousy when I see other firms showing up on TV.
Only if you recognize its malicious intent before it convinced you to implant the fancy new chips that it invented right into your brain.
> privacy concerns is rather an interesting intellectual problem, and not a real one. if it was a real problem, people would change their use of those tools but they don't.

It is a real problem and plenty of people do change their use of their tools.
https://www.reddit.com/r/MachineLearning/comments/7ftxow/d_e...
Maybe for pointless votes like American Idol or Formula E fanboost that's fine, although it seems like massive overkill to me. You're still going to need to justify the energy bill/incentivize miners, and these systems have a central authority that could run a regular voting system anyways.

The issue I have with electronic voting of any kind is that it's a huge and valuable target, it's pretty much guaranteed that multiple hostile nation states will want to poke holes into these systems. Introducing crypto doesn't do squat to prevent all sorts of nasty problems, including information leaks and stolen private keys. Given what we know about how most people handle basic passwords, I think paper is probably the most secure form of voting we've ever seen.
Fair point. A minor detail is that he mistypes the standard term :

> I used “Euler path” instead of “Eulerean path” just to be consistent with the referenced book [1] definition

Should be 'Eulerian'. It's not horribly confusing, just a little vague.
> everyday Linux desperately needs a proper application management

You mean something, that won't allow two packages to own the same file? Something, like, rpm or apt?
I turned off autocorrect on my wife's phone as her messages didn't make sense ;) (not bothering to check the autocorrected words).

As for multi-language, SwiftKey seems pretty good, you don't need to switch between languages, it handles two (maybe three) at the same time relatively well.
Being on more than one antidepressant is not unusual, and can even sometimes be optimal. Even ones acting on the same neurotransmitter often target different receptors and hence different symptoms. More often it's because doctors are better at adding drugs rather than taking away ones prescribed by other doctors "just in case."

Serotonin syndrome can be an issue with all kinds of things (most people aren't warned about being on a SSRI and having cough syrup for example), but is not very common in practice, and because it coincides with a change/increase in medication, often sorted out quickly, even if it's characterized as a "side effect" or "tolerability" problem and not actually recognized for what it is.
Interestingly enough, SBCL on x86/x64 has a conservative, but moving, GC. It can know some, but not all roots precisely, so it pins any objects that are reachable through conservative roots.

It's earlier implementations were on RISC chips that had 24 or more GPRs so the implementation was simple: 2 stacks and divide the local registers in half for boxed and unboxed values. This obviously didn't work when porting to x86 which had far fewer registers.

The ARM port I believe uses the non-conservative approach, despite having 1 less register than x64 (the x64 port was derived from the x86 port so uses the same register assignments).
It drove me a little bit crazy to hear a mom complaining about how she couldn't find sugar-free Pedialyte for her child. It is difficult to explain that to a person who has spent their whole adult life demonizing artificial colors, artificial flavors, and of course sugar.
The habit to get into is have a non-bulky resuable bag that folds up nice and flat and keep it in a jacket pocket or some other location that's available when you're out and about; and to put the bag back in that place when you finish unpacking at home.

Relying on remembering before you leave the house or whatever is much less effective, I think.
What kind of pricing are you thinking of, for say, 20 hours / week remote help in maintaining an existing system for a small shop? (LAMP / AWS stack)
Wow, really? Do you happen to have any sources? I'd be curious to see. Thanks!
What about https://news.ycombinator.com/best ?
The funny thing about it all is that Bitcoin really stopped functioning like a currency over a year ago, these days its really more of a speculative asset more than anything else.
I remeber myself being a junior - overwhlemed by enthusiasm and lack of experience, eager to just create things, not thinking about how to maintain them in the future. What a pain it was for our leads to handle us.

"Herding Cats: A Primer for Programmers Who Lead Programmers" is a good book for psychological issues like this.
Surprisingly Singapore, a developed country with Budget surplus, and that which can afford a plastic ban, is no where in any list.
And the plastic bag use is extreme here.

[1] http://www.straitstimes.com/opinion/3-billion-plastic-bags-a...
Right now I am just grateful to be alive and healthy, yes things could be better but you have to look at the small things first.
Actually there is a reason the ER moves slow for what looks like no reason: they need to always have free beds and time just in case a more serious emergency comes up. If you can wait it is better to not see you even though they could to ensure that if somebody comes in with a seconds count emergency they are able to take care of it in seconds.
If that's true, it would still be a lot less plastic if we gave free access to the homeless population.
How to host static web pages in Ethereum
Perfect answer, relevant link for those that are interested: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC419333/
Yes, I should have been slightly more specific. The presence of the sticker is by itself technically not illegal. The illegal part is the practice of refusing warranty service for breaking the sticker.
I am wondering does anyone have a survey or list of AI exploits or malicious actions done on production services or systems ? For example like if a misclassified image that would target a image recognition system (such as Clarfai)? I have only seen papers that have theoretical attacks so far.
Although I didn't read it before, it does look good with the Table of Contents. You can follow the story or get to the point. Thanks!
What about if stores credit customers n cents per bag they don't use (i.e. for each reusable bag they do use) and then claim an annual tax credit, kind of like a mirror version of how pass-through consumption taxes like GST/VAT work?
[sorry, wrong post]
Kind of types of JavaScript
> “You can use steel products, or edible straws – or maybe you just don’t need to use straws at all,” he said. “There is no inconvenience caused at all.”

This is debatable. I've definitely heard dentists recommending using straws to drink sodas to reduce the acidic decay effect on front teeth (basically just prevent the teeth from exposing the to harmful liquids). [1]

[1]: https://www.webmd.com/oral-health/news/20050617/sipping-soda...
I like baby monitors for their one-way-ness. If I just open a door a bit, I can hear a baby just fine, but the baby can also hear me. Would you believe that babies can get woken up by their parents making noises?
And don’t forget Free Pascal and Lazarus. I opened it up the other day on a whim and made a hello world app.

Everything about the thing felt 1990s... in the best way. The IDE was clearly designed not for initial discovery by a novice, but for someone who they ultimately expect to become proficient and thus able to capitalize on the expert-friendly UI.

The reasulting binary felt like the 1990s too: A single small executable with instant load times :-)