skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The article makes reasonable technical points, but adds a fair amount of scaremongering. Even the title is clickbait-y (which is not surprising since the firm is in the IT security business).

I personally do not feel that all IoT-capable devices must be secured to the hilt. If I set min and max temp on a network-enabled thermostat I am not worried that someone will connect and warm (or cool) my home a bit within that range while I am out. At worst I might suffer a minor discomfort when I come in, but the chances are low and the fix is cheap.

Most IoT setups I would consider fall in the same category: low benefit for attacker and low pain if hacked. If so, I take simplicity and reliability over security. And if I ever wanted to build an IoT setup that would be more painful when hacked I would probably put together 2-3 simple, completely distinct systems that report the same data and check for discrepancies to detect intrusions rather than trying to secure one device to the max. Just my 2c.
Well it's nice to know you've thought it through.
Remember the "Don Gall" ads? Holy crap, were they awful!
> they're words on paper that governments or populist movements can easily ignore

For example, China's constitution also contains "Article 35. Citizens of the People's Republic of China enjoy freedom of speech, of the press, of assembly, of association, of procession and of demonstration."

However various words and phrases to even mention Article 35 itself are banned in some chat apps, etc... in China even though the full text of the constitution is available anyways.
Yes it might begin like that. Finding the first piece can be hard especially having just heard something awesome performed by a great pianist. Or encountering tepid elementary exercises in an educational-style publication. However, after you've got a few pieces under your belt then your optimism rises and your appetite tends to align with your present skill level. In other words the feasibility of a piece becomes a major factor in how much you want to learn to play it. (As with a novel, or a video game -- too easy or too hard are both boring.)
It doesn't breach current international trade agreements.

In the long run, however, we'd expect to see international trade agreements attempting to harmonize these requirements worldwide, and likely include some mechanism that makes cross-border enforcement easier.
Not if they are also bred to be more conflict-averse. Additionally, the leadership would probably get preferential access to genetic treatments and favorable mating partners.
Tribler: an attack-resilient micro-economy for media
‘No jerks allowed’: the egalitarianism behind Norway’s winter wonderland
I've been learning piano for the past few years, and I will say I fell in love with the iOS app Simply Piano (https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/simply-piano-by-joytunes/id1...). I would highly recommend it for learning.
>You shouldn't try to help people in other countries, period

So when oppressed people inside an imperfect country are pleading for help from another imperfect country which is capable of helping,

The country being begged to help should go “sorry, we’re imperfect, can’t help. Besides, even though you’re asking for our help and we can certainly help, we’re not the global police, so we can’t help you.”
UK: Maplin collapses as rescue talks fail
Ninja Shell – Port Knocking Technique with AES256-GCM
Hulu and CBS both offer ‘no commercials’. Hulu + no commercials + Live gives you more channels and real time availability, but you may have to ‘commercial skip’ on some shows if you subscribe to the DVR mode instead of the time delay back catalog mode.

Plex with PlexPass (look for a lifetime pass sale) has beta live DVR, supports external digital ‘tuners’ recording up to 4 live channels per device, and auto-stripping commercials. This can be very compelling in metro areas and if you have enough storage.

PlayStation Vue has probably the broadest coverage of channels while supporting iOS + tvOS 11 Single Sign On for channels’ own ‘apps’.

But most folks would be hard pressed to run out of TV between just Netflix and Amazon Prime, supplemented by the $11 ad free flavor of Hulu if “keeping up to date” matters.

Cheapest totally ad free with ‘up to date’ broadcast network shows is probably Netflix + Prime + PlexPass DVR. (After HTPC w/ storage paid for.)
Works reasonably well in pure breed pets and production animals.
I fell there was a correlation between the use of this heavier strain of cannabis and still not having a job at 28 years old.
Fwiw, in a hypothetical design, you could use DNS as a means to delivery for those who are not running IPFS. It would be fully decentralized via IPFS (ignoring any flaws there), but still be centralized for adoption and those not needing decentralization.
> “were over four times more likely to have their importance questioned” and their pages marked for speedy deletion

Deletionists of Wikipedia are just destinied to fall on their face, and embarrass the whole project.

Deletionism is the single big thing that makes Wikipedia somewhat sour in my view.
Do you only monetize it with Google Adsense?
erm... Idk. I see this as similar to the "we need to solve poverty before we can go to mars" issues. Things just work independently of one another.

On one hand we have conservation, on the continent with the biggest poverty and governance issues. Wilderness, land-use & habitat issues are key issues. Outside of the artic, there just aren't many habits to support those kinds of far ranging species. African land tracts are unique.

Elsewhere we have rewilding, in its infancy. The US seems to be transitioning from one to the other. Europe is very slowly opening up to the idea.

Elsewhere we have some eccentric ideas about engineered hybrids using paleo-genetics, like the idea of bringing back mammoths. The ecological implications are complete unknowns. It's more of a genetics science project, with futuristic zoo implications. It's far from being a wilderness question at all. Resources don't compete.

Projects like the Russian Pleistocene Park don't really need mammoths. They've had a lot success using "closest available substitute" species instead of extinct ones. Maybe African or Asian elephants can (or can be bred to) tolerate that kind of cold and eat local plants.
Forget simplicity, the abstract is beautiful
Being able to work independently. You're not being closely supervised, so you want to make sure your resume, and interview, convey your ability to work on your own.
If cars run bumper-to-bumper, that mean the entire line must come to a halt when you detach one car, then the front half must move forward to give some clearance, the car can then leave, then the rear must speed up faster to catch the front half.

The experience from the train world is that having to switch trains on a line severely crimps performance: you can get 40tph on an unswitched line, but only about 30tph on a switched line. The limiting factor on trains tends to be ingress and egress.
Respect for wildlife may well be a cultural thing, but it is assuredly not a racial thing.
OT, but as a non-Pythonista, I very much appreciate the way Python does function annotations. Neat and obvious!
uBlock Origin (Open-source efficient ad-blocker)
The Great Suspender (It allows me to open +200 tabs) (Open-source)
Session Buddy (Organizing tabs/sessions)
There's help and there's help. Are we talking help as in sending temporary emergency relief after a natural disaster or famine or help as in ousting a democratically elected leader and replacing him with a puppet dictator?
Gods are un-necessary. How do I prove this? Not needing a thing, I think I may not need but I could be needing it and not know it - like some vitamin or mineral or social que.. I mean then which one of these Gods or which group of Gods? How do I prove which one I need if I do not need it? And if I need a God for some reason what reason? What benefit? Who benefits from this need the God the man who says what the Gods say? Why do beliefs have Gods attached to them and not something else... these are the questions that keep me up at night.
No, it does not. A company in PA, USA does not give two cents about EU VAT. It charges EU customers in the US and provides services in the US and tells EU to shove it. Actually, it does not even do that. It simply ignores everything that EU does.
A small amount of Google AdSense (<$100 monthly.) Sortable makes up the vast majority - https://sortable.com/ . Switching from only-AdSense to almost-entirely-Sortable is what made me able to afford to live off the site's revenue: my earnings doubled overnight.
Although I'm not totally disagreeing, I think a lot depends on the student/teacher relationship. Growing up I had piano lessons and the two people teaching me (not at the same time) were very nice/patient/encouraging, however they never really grabbed my attention the way goofing off and playing with the different piano voices, and following along with my pianos built in"tutor" songs did. I think my earlier more traditional lessons taught me a lot, however year without practicing later, the only songs I remember how to play are the ones that were built in to my piano, and a few others I taught to myself.
4chan as well
Show HN: noisecat – the noise swiss army knife
What knowledge is unethical to research and discover?

Do you want to know what impact genes have (lots and lots with current knowledge)? Or pretend it doesn’t?

Knowing will let us take steps as society to equalize fairly (improve below mean hopefully).
Very neat project. Since you are one of the contributors, I'd like to ask a philosophical question:

The wiki has this quote (emphasis mine)

>Tribler is a Bittorrent-compatible alternative to Youtube. It is designed to protect your privacy, build a web-of-trust, be attack-resilient, and reward content creators directly. We are building a micro-economy without banks, without advertisers, and without any government

I see this sentiment in almost all blockchain/crypto circles, including a lot of government funded research groups.

1.) How does that get unified in the mind of contributors? How does working to abolish the very thing that enables you to do your research without having to make bank doing it
2.) It seem to me that in general people want government. See Thomas Hobbes et.al. for studies in academia, or whichever region descended into anarchy most recently. Whenever things are "improving" you see government emerging. Why is so much rhetoric directed against government, when really what everyone is talking about is abusive government?( Which is a much messier problem to even define, but seem to me to be ultimately the correct problem people are trying to solve. That might be be done through building decentralized government -I think so -, but there are cases where centralization makes sense.)
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I disagree with one of his conclusions regarding his reference to money and power. specifically, I see the '2008' housing crisis proving that money is power and without money power soon wanes. I see the bailout as a debate that the government lost and proof money in an of itself is power. I bring this up because the bay derives its power from money, if the money is going elsewhere it is not only losing money, it is losing power.
I'm not entirely sure what you're getting at.

Actually I can't even parse the first two sentences, and the third seems to refute something I never claimed.
Discovering Hello Marcel, the chatbot revolutionizing your family life
Cool project! But I have a hard time shaking the feeling that a lot of the content and comments are bots or are paid for.
Oh my. You're right, I entirely misunderstood. How embarrassing. I wish I could delete my comments.
graffiti artists are now even less likely to get caught.
What’s New in Deep Learning Research: Learning and Teaching the West World Way
Given the requirements of traffic for effective A/B testing, companies already have to be moderately big to do testing effectively.

That said, it could very well be that Optimizely was dealing with increased support costs as A/B testing is widely misunderstood. This could cause perception to reflect badly on the product, and by adding such a minimum price, they virtually ensure the client has enough traffic to be worth their time.

I am not sure which plan you folks were evaluating, but looking at their offerings, you really need to be at the 'Business' level to get the most out of your reporting, or the 'Enterprise' level to optimize specific customer segments, rather than the entire site.

Those are some complex topics, and by setting such a high minimum, they are very clear that the client company is invested in their testing program, likely willing to have those discussions, and in short, worth Optimizely's time.
I'm just about to start down a similar road with my 5 year old son. I'm intrigued how it will turn out. Yamaha EZ220 + Synthesia on Android.
Project author here, AMA.
China's constitution sounds very unlike their real policy. Is there no recourse for Chinese citizen's to challenge unconstitutional actions?
Ask the guy who said “You shouldn't try to help people in other countries, period” to clarify.

Side note, being democratically elected does not mean your country is a democracy. Hitler was democratically elected. Doesn’t change the fact that he consolidated power after the fact.

And interestingly enough China, the topic of this thread, is consolidating power. This week their administration has announced their plans to abolish presidential term limits, clearing way for their president to remain in power indefinitely.
Memcrashed – I hereby forbid you from ever typing SOCK_DGRAM into your editor
I've banished all apps that contain any kind of endless news feed. I still use my phone for messaging, hailing rides, maps etc but no longer have any reason to pull it out all the time to check for new junk information. I also worry a lot less about taking pictures because I don't have anywhere to post them.
Are you using 'N'etscape 'N'avigator by chance?
I think it can be explained just using intuition too.

Instead of 3 doors, imagine there are 1e9 doors. Then you choose one door (at random), and the host reveals all but one other door.

I think then it's clear why you would switch doors.
lol. Yes. Stung by fat-fingers and overzealous auto-correction.
I'm a Freelancer and work a lot of remote projects. Here's the most important skills.

1. Clear communicator. Get in front of and clarify issues so you dont waste anyones time.

2. You get things done on your own. You dont waste time on irrelevant stuff, but you constantly pludge forward getting stuff on the agenda done, without anyone having to watch over you / motivate you.

3. Excellent Communication skills. Did I alread mention that? Ita that important. You better be able to clearly communicate and be able to manage sending emails, answering chats promptly, etc.
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Yes, this guy is truly an inspiration. If you're a one person business, you will find this tweet very useful:

https://mobile.twitter.com/levelsio/status/93870716650815488...

(aka stop running after shiny new things and just do it!)
No, I'd advise them to use edibles or vape. There's not much reason to ingest actual smoke anymore.

'Two puffs instead of three' doesn't really fix that joints aren't granular enough for most people: 10mg is fine for a casual cannabis user.
> It's about an armed citizenry to keep the government in check.

Which made sense 200 years ago. Today, against a government armed with reaper drones et al, a populace armed with AR-15s would last about an hour if the government really wanted to put them down.
Agreed.

What I do for tables is use the OCR as a step 1, where I just extract the coordinates of each textbox. Then, use one of several methods to recognize columns (Hough transform, or we search for empty areas). Then, do some clustering to recognize lines.

The problem is that there's a million of edge cases that you need to handle (split boxes that span multiple columns, in the case of tables recognize cells that span multiple columns or rows, etc.). There should be a solution for all these edge cases, but it gets tricky quickly.
There's a reason "correlation does not equal causation" is such a popular heuristic.
The public intellectual trapped in a Facebook bubble
> If I set min and max temp on a network-enabled thermostat I am not worried that someone will connect and warm (or cool) my home a bit within that range while I am out.

Will you say the same after I set min/max temperatures to optimize for high cost and change it back in time so you only notice on your next electricity bill?

And how many times are you willing to wake up at 3am in an overheated apartment before you insist that only you should be able to adjust your thermostats?

I am sure there are plenty more ways to abuse even simple things like thermostats to make your life hell. And the more devices are deployed in the wild, the more "pranks" will be thought of and executed.
VizWiz Grand Challenge: Answering Visual Questions from Blind People
Here, I have a Venn diagram to illustrate a point:

https://www.meta-chart.com/share/how-wikipedia-deletionism-w...

Two important takeaways are: A lot of stuff on Wikipedia just isn't encyclopedic. For example, there's a lot of sports trivia about obscure teams and local leagues. Such data deserves structured storage and not Wikipedia, and I just don't feel "2013 Richmond Raiders season" is more important than any single matematician who worked with Erdős.

Second takeaway, a whole world of topics is just not ever noted by Wikipedia. For examples, you can have whole branches of local music scenes ineligible for note because every single artist fails to "be mentioned in a paper made of paper" (in 2010s, seriously) or "sell 3k discs made of plastic and foil" (again, this is in 2010s).

If there's some kind of consistent policy I definitely don't see the value of it.
You left out why that's different from Guantanamo, and instead just defended it generally.
Ask HN: Why is web tech used to make apps?
Why are so many apps these days glorified web pages running in a browser that pretends not to be one?

- There are much better way to target multiple platforms while sharing code: Xamarin, React Native etc. (and not so good ones like QT/Swing and the like, I guess)
- Apps made this way are not native to any of the platorms they run on - best case scenario they replicate platform UI and conventions poorly and with great effort, worst case they look nothing like native apps. Not as bad as Java does but close
- HTML/CSS was never meant to be used to create UIs, they are meant to describe and style (hyper)text. It's a necessary evil when targeting browsers where there's no alternative, masochism otherwise
- They are also slower and (much) more memory hungry than native apps - Slack happily eats 300+ megs of ram to do very little
- They mean having to use JavaScript, instead of a better language with better tooling support
- Many/most of the time the use case can be served by an actual web site/app - if you are making something that needs to connect to a database on a remote server to be of any use, why are you making an app to begin with?

Given the above downsides, why are Electron and the like so popular these days?
So, hold on--they can't write "China"..?
I used to think Heroku was too expensive, and I set out to build a service as comparable to Heroku but using more open source stuff to bring costs down, including bringing the friendly heroku interface to your own servers, so it didn't matter if you had 1 server or 30 servers, you'd pay a single small fee.. I even became a maintainer of Dokku in my time of getting very familiar and contributing to it's plugins and core while building my service.

Then I realized Heroku really isn't that expensive anymore, and I dropped it all and started building my projects on Heroku again.
1. Base your idea on research. https://stackingthebricks.com has lots on this. But basically if instead of "I HAD AN IDEA" your process is "read read read read read WOAH these people have a PROBLEM", you have evidence that your idea is useful to someone. (My audience for my product is programmers. Research led to blog post, which ended up on front page of HN, created another blog post which again made it to front page, and then I started work on product. Made a big difference to long term motivation.)

2. Have more than one motivation. Sometimes motivations can be contradictory: "learn new technology" is bad motivation to pair with "build a business" because it slows you down with irrelevant details. But "learn how to do content marketing", say, is great paired motivation because it both helps you with feedback loop and means when you're stuck on building you can switch to something else, keep going, and still feel you're getting value out of your work. Longer version, with slightly different focus but same basic idea, here: https://codewithoutrules.com/2017/08/03/stay-focused/
I believe it would be called a blunt at that point.
In the hypothetical, and the research is good: if I'm stressed out when I'm in the act of procreation I'll have less stressed out kids??
You must be mistaken. China's Constitution matches exactly with daily life in China. Of course there's a way to challenge unconstitutional actions, through the Communist Party member dispute process where you can escalate to each level of political officers in the township you live in.

If you go high enough, you might get personal attention from the regional or even provincial governors, who also have to make sure they have enough food, water, shelter, jobs, and prisons to fit the population of their jurisdiction.
Piano is not about mechanics. Everyone can do that. Piano is not about playing. It’s about hearing! And no app can replace professional human being with ability to hear these tiny nuances. Sorry to say that but if you want to play music, not piano, get a teacher.
My last smartphone was an iPhone 5S (which IMO is the nicest of all iPhone designs). The battery eventually died... I still think about reviving it. In any case I then got a cheap (30 quid IIRC) dual-sim little Nokia which takes a French and a UK sim card (pay as you go) and quite cheap for regular calls. Works like a charm, the battery lasts for days, and I don't worry if I lose it.

Separately I have an iPod touch which gives me some control over smartphone addictive behaviour as it only has wifi. And it has the headphone jack :) I absolutely refuse to buy a device without one.

I used to joke with friends about "smartphone zombies" in the streets but now it is no longer a joke. It's genuinely scary to be on a train or subway and see everyone glued to their phone without looking up. Mothers and kids each staring at screens instead of interacting.

I was a big Steve Jobs fan when he was alive, but now wonder if the iPhone (and its competition) are destroying society the way automobiles destroyed much of the physical world.
> (at least I haven't seen a GC system yet that doesn't suffer from STW GC pauses to some degree).

Well I can already think of three languages that have solved this problem: Erlang, Elixir, ponylang. Every actor has it's own isolated heap with it's own GC. If the actor doesn't allocate then it will never have to stop for garbage collection and even if it does, the pause times are extremely low because the heaps are tiny.

It's surprising to me that modern languages like dart aren't even attempting to pick up this low hanging fruit.

Modern languages are all converging to the same good feature set but don't have anything to differentiate from each other. Kotlin, Groovy, Ceylon, Typescript, Dart? All basically look the same to me, there is no real reason to choose one over the other.
When it comes to election meddling, America is as guilty as Russia