skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Giant atom hides its neighbors under a single-electron skirt
As I mentioned, I haven't tried psychedelics but from listening to Sam Harris and a few other experienced meditators talk about it, it sounds quite useful for witnessing firsthand the context dependency of human experience. I think this is an important insight in to our existence - the person you feel like you are is whatever is happening in your brain right now and that can change quite easily and quite quickly. A bit unnerving.
I don't think that's feasible for Spotify -- why would you subscribe to a paid monthly music streaming service if most of your music (the 85% produced by artists associated with the "big 4" labels) isn't on the service? Sounds like a good way to drive people back to piracy.

Honestly, Netflix's selection is poor enough that I know quite a few people who have gone back to piracy. Spotify is in an even worse position.
> ”Is there a reason for me to not flag paywalled submissions?”

The FAQ is clear on the mods' stance on paywalled articles:

(https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html)

> "Are paywalls ok?"

> "It's ok to post stories from sites with paywalls that have workarounds."

> "In comments, it's ok to ask how to read an article and to help other users do so. But please don't post complaints about paywalls. Those are off topic."
I don’t think the parents complaint is about the workflow as such. There is basically no information on how to start as a developer, giving the impression of a closed cabal. A project that wants and welcomes help should in some way facilitate that: have a page or a section of a page that welcomes contributors, explains how and where to start, how to get changes accepted. It’s fine if that is “please just send us an email, we’ll pick you up there.”, but “how to contribute?” appears exactly zero times on the page.
What is Atomic Scope?
Investors must be seeing something that we ordinary peasants are missing. Has there been another company that raised so much money PRIOR to a commercial product launch ?
Expanding Use Cases Mean Tape Storage Is Here to Stay
Bitcoin just tanked below $10,000
Does Google release bugs that were fixed in each release? Im still waiting to hear if they fixed the MS Exchange syncing using Gmail that was broken in Android O. It's near impossible to tell what is working or broken between releases.
The IRS mileage rate is $0.545 per mile, and is supposed to be a realistic average for car expenses.

Edit: per mile, not per hour. Oops! fixed the rate, too
This happens to me regularly also. I either have to restart Wifi on my phone or reboot the Chromecast. Sometimes I have to reset the Chromecast. That said, I've noticed recently that it sometimes is device-specific and if I switch to my iPad it works fine, so it might not always be a hardware issue
Thank you, really good suggestion. We'll see if we can put snippets on the main page to help with this.
The best Wolfenstein 3-D ports were on the Apple IIgs, Atari Jaguar and Panasonic 3DO. FWIW.
I remember when this all first went down. My mom used to take me to Martin's Beach when I was a young pup.
I am not making any claim. I just asked a question. Not everything is a debate, you know.
I guess politics.

You see the same with Go, all the Android support is kind of done by volunteers.
The reason Hulk Hogan didn't want the tape disseminated was because he was heard to be using racial epithets: n-gger.
You can rationalize almost any injustice with "if you don't like it, move away". And telling an entire generation that they shouldn't be allowed to live, or raise families, in the Bay Area is an injustice.
You don't want the cheapest. Better something nice like a Xiaomi Mi A1. It is part of the Android One program (clutter free stock Android, timely updates) and doesnt cost a fortune.
> It's ok to post stories from sites with paywalls that have workarounds.

I got around the wall by getting there from the Google search results.
https://outline.com/L4wwUN
The claim of the article is that it would be technically infeasible - and they go into how difficult it is to interpret context. However simple keyword matching would be more than enough.

Facebook has a lot of compute resources, but they wouldn't have to use it. Your smartphone is more than fast enough to do simple speech recognition. The accuracy rate wouldn't have to be that high - you won't get mad if you see an ad for a misheard keyword.
One of the largest issues of Android P is that the Nexus devices will never get it.

So if you as developer want to get the developer preview, the cost for that just went from 270€ (Nexus 5X) to over 759€ (Pixel 1), and the Pixel 1 isn't even available in major markets such as France.

So now a huge number of developers has no ability to test their apps on the latest version of Android.

For me, personally, this means I won't be able to support Android P, I won't be able to replicate bugs, and in worse case (as happened before once) I'll have significant bugs in my app, no way to replicate them, and no way to fix them, because the bug doesn't show in the emulator, and I have no device to test on.

Google's really shooting themselves in the foot by offering no way for developers to get an affordable testing device anymore.
It's usually easy to click the 'web' link on the top of the discussions page and follow the first result on google.

I believe there have been many discussion on the utility of paywalled articles and I believe the discussion has mostly settled on allowing it as long as it is easy to circumvent.

OT: actually interesting to see how the author worked backwards to understand why he is receiving adds. Still: all this, and still they keep showing adds for stuff I recently bought...
> essentially
I wish they'd consider moving away from Java, Kotlin and really any JVM-basis for the platform entirely. I just can't stand development on that platform. It's got all the worst elements of "enterprisey Java" style development.
Display ads, get ad-blockers. Demand cash in exchange for delivering articles, get complaints.

Publishers really can't win, can they?

Quick tip: search for the article's name on Google and click on the link from the results.
Glyphs in fonts already make use of composite features (ü can be u + ¨, just the coordinates of the references). But readability of type can be complex, so I don't know if that's a viable solution to compose large-nonwestern fonts in a way that is natural to read. There may be very subtle differences that force the designer to decompose the parts and make modifications.
Consider the contrast between the two things you just said:
"place bets on which cryptocoins might be more useful than other" "The Casino ALWAYS wins, in aggregate."

In the former, you expect you have some better than even odds of winning money -- otherwise you wouldn't be doing it. In the latter you clearly understand that the odds are against you. See how different those are?

We can argue about the ability to day-trade the cryptocurrency market, but it's hard to argue that the odds there are more clearly defined than in a casino. The reason there's a moving market is because we don't all agree on those odds.

Hold on a second. I never argued that the odds are more clearly defined. How in the world can you calculate political odds, legal odds, and other odds? Can you calculate odds on a commodities trade like oil? What happens if a war breaks out between Iran and Israel? If a new technology takes hold? All of these things are another way in which odds can't be calculated as cleanly as, say, a Blackjack hand.

That many in the HN crowd consistently compare stocks and now cryptocurrency to casinos, and pad their argumentation that casinos are the same or better with an underlayment of probability calculation -- that shows the inherent mathematical bias of folks in tech. For how can one ascribe odds to purely human factors? Here's a probability prediction: chances of this comment being voted down > 50%.
Hi, Mithril author here.

In terms of API, frankly all the frameworks are more or less similar. Mithril has been around for a while, so obviously all the common observations apply (i.e. it's been more battle tested, it has a more mature community, more libraries, etc)

Taking a quick glance at the Radi.js code, I noticed a few things that could still use some improvements (e.g. the comment regexp someone else had pointed out, the handling of attributes not accounting for things like SVG, etc)

I didn't see support for lifecycle methods in the Radi.js code, and it's not clear to me from the docs whether keyed lists and fragments are supported. Keyed lists are extremely important in cases like `someArray.unshift()` and any list containing stateful dom (e.g. inputs or link tabindex). Lack of fragments would not be a deal breaker, but IME they're super nice for building lightweight abstractions, especially in Mithril's case, where they can have lifecycle hooks.
The last thing to install on ones phone is FB app - technically one gives up all privacy. If you need to use FB then stick to browser and clear browser data afterwards.
I feel like kicking out the actual founder of the company may have been a bad idea. Politics or whatever, I get it, but it doesn't feel like there's a vision guiding what VR is supposed to become.
> Data brokers run personal information through an algorithm before uploading so it’s not identifiable, Facebook says, but it still can be matched with Facebook account information.

You keep using that word...
> They can only find patterns in what they're told to.

I disagree.

If you feed a bunch of images into a CNN, it doesn't just learn flower, cat, etc. It learns more fundamental things such as edges, textures, patterns.
see: https://distill.pub/2018/building-blocks/

Moreover, you can use simple reward signals, such as "progress forward", to learn complex locomotion: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hx_bgoTF7bs

If you still think these represent "find[ing] patterns in what they're told to", I would argue you only think that because the scale of these experiments is so small.
Any way you could make this available outside the Mac App store? Apple seems to have decided I did something horrible and unforgivable by moving to a different country after creating an account, thus making it impossible for me to use the store.
Or are not able to receive the help in some way. This is mostly a people issue and not everyone is able to manage people effectively.
Similar Guardian article with no paywall: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/nov/09/facebook-...

That said, this is a quite silly conspiracy theory. Believing the "recording" theory requires you to believe that Apple and Google both are in cahoots with Facebook to give them a rootkit-like API for mic and location access that override all of the OS-level controls and warnings about when that hardware is in use, and hide it from the data and battery usage stats on the phone.

This API, when (not if) found, would be a watershed moment for privacy legislation directed at all three companies. Little to gain, potentially the whole farm to lose.
what you discribe is basically what https://github.com/google/incremental-dom is all about and in certain cases it probably is as fast as vdom and also less memory heavy.
Doom was just the nail. Economically, Commodore was messed up by the time Doom came around. But I agree, Doom made it very evident, I remember it well - suddenly, a 486 became a "must have" for rich geeks.
I respect Khosla's investments, but I can't believe he isn't running the math on the negative backlash this is creating against his personal brand.

Californians love their public access to nature. And it's a really nice thing.
I may be explaining it wrong, but here is a reference, particularly 22.8:

https://www.scribd.com/doc/118169687/Network-Protection-Auto...

This makes it sound more complex than what I learned when I last tried to figure it out =)

They seem to be describing that where two grids meet they go through a synchronizer that disconnects one or the other if they aren't in sync, so implies manually disconnections throughout the network as needed locally.
Yes, you could bring an invasion of privacy suit against them. I'm not aware of anyone having done so since usually informant doesn't have the resources to justify that sort of lawsuit.

And in the case of Best Buy, they're not acting illegally in the situations described in the article.
It's worth nothing that the reason security researchers haven't just intercepted the traffic from the Facebook apps to see if its transmitting voice data is because the apps use Certificate Pinning, which prevents the SSL traffic from being decrypted using the SSL certificate generated by mitmproxy/Charles.

In light of that restriction, what might be interesting is looking at the amount of data transferred by the Facebook app with/without the microphone/location services enabled. (this is a data project I have in the pipeline)
You think these people making $15/hr don't watch their actual take-home after expenses carefully?
Wouldn't that destroy your battery life?
This is why I like Caffè Nero's loyalty cards. They are little pieces of cardstock with nine coffee cups printed on them. You get a stamp every time you order. Once all nine cups are stamped, redeem the card for a free coffee. There's no PII on the card and your name isn't going through an additional computer (on top of the standard 17 a day, per Cereal Killer).

More places should do this.
The irony being that in 2018 most new devices are being released with Nougat, with eventual update to Oreo, if at all.

Why? Nougat devices don't require Treble certification.
Finding a kernel regression in half an hour with Git bisect run
The whole regulatory framework behind cryptocurrency is a mess. IRS classifies cryptocurrencies as a property, while SEC classifies some as a security. Which only makes it harder to regulate. Problems like these need to be solve in order to help the ecosystem mature in a sustainable way.
AR-15s are only $400 now, it's crazy.
I got a Pixel C for my mom when I got my launch Pixel in 2016 and have been extremely disappointed in the lack of application and feature parity on the C, despite being on 8.1.

Luckily, I can just switch it over to an open project like Lineage OS (limited to 14.1/Android 7.1) or one of the many on XDA, but this isn't a choice for all hardware.

Because I've had this happen before, the capability to put my own choice of OS on the device just happened to inform my decision to purchase it.
> If the SEC was going to come down like a ton of bricks they would have done so already.

Could you elaborate? Why do you think that the SEC has made a final policy decision on crypto/ICO?
I notice one thing missing from the various threads of discussion about self and what self means here: an acknowledgement that an individual's life is unlikely to ever meaningfully cover the full scope of human experience. It's always an attempt to stretch that individual's experiences out so as to somehow apply with nigh universality across a population.

It's seemed pretty clear to me for a while now that I can barely begin to imagine what it's really like to be in someone else's head, in terms of experiencing their perspective on the world. Empathy alone isn't enough to account for formative life experiences or physiological state.
https://source.android.com/devices/architecture/treble

This is Google's attempt to do this, in a sense, but as the sibling post points out, vendors are so resistant to adoption that it's just slowing Oreo uptake. And yes, Treble just abstracts the framework from the kernel - but it requires a much more modern baseline and the common HAL interface should make kernel front-porting much easier and therefore allow manufacturers to ship less broken kernels.
Yes, I think that's exactly the case, for doing object / face recognition from your phone camera in real time for example.

Or maybe on device speech recognition in the future
>Their software support ends today on March 7th

This refers to major OS updates only. They get security updates 3 years from the date of sale so these devices will continue to get monthly updates until October (and possibly through December) of this year.
There's a knife sharpening business here that seems to print money they have so many restaurant/salon contracts.
So closed borders, closed trade? Is that your ambition? You sound like a lover of discipline, why don't you just tell me and the other posters what you want? Why attack what you oppose rather than striking out in the direction you intend to set out in?
FBI again calls for magical solution to break into encrypted phones
I suspect the worldview difference is individualism vs collectivism.
> The author suggests that news in print is accurate

No, what he points out is that due to the nature of print news it is not subject to all of the the problems of ‘instant’ news and social media.

It’s never perfect, but it’s clearly more likely to be accurate, with fewer malicious and unsupported details masquerading as facts.
They could start by not demanding a full subscription and a user login for a single article.

Also, the Google trick won't work if you bounced off the paywall already, you have to open a private tab or clear cookies.
Faithful NPR (specifically my local branch) listener here. I agree with your general point, though I notice it most with immigration related stories. The thing I appreciate about how NPR covers things though is that their commentators are almost never spokespeople/PR reps. They are legit professionals in the field, elected officials, or people who seriously study this subject matter. Of course they still have bias, but not _nearly_ as much as what I hear / see in other media which is "person whose literal/only job is to promote political stance X."
Am I alone in being horrified by the reality that many people today consume most if not all of their news and entertainment holding a camera and microphone on proprietary communication systems running software controlled by the same entities producing the content?

How is this not the greatest threat to democracy in the entire history of democracy?
> It's not that simple. There's not much of a public interest angle in Hogan's sex life, so he still had a claim for invasion of privacy

I agree it was sufficiently murky to warrant some sort of monetary award. But hundreds of millions? You can't have it both ways – he's either a public figure, in which case some invasion of privacy is defendable, or he's a private individual, in which case that amount of money is in no way justified.

> Gawker then compounded that by saying that they would have also posted stolen child pornography

A Gawker writer made a stupid joke during a long deposition. Nothing in Gawker's history indicates they would have done so.
Seriously, I am trying my luck in NLP with some Indian languages like Marathi, Hindi, Gujarati and Tamil. The sheer number of dialects is driving me nuts.

Even dialects have very different sounding words or pronunciations which increases the complexity exponentially. But I am trying it only with an eye on its potential. NLP will simply act as the catalyst for technology adoption in the rural and semi-rural area.

I'm thinking to study China's approach here since I heard even Chinese is incredibly diverse.
Yes - in particular, whenever I hear "housing crisis" being used to describe a permanent and stable state of affairs, I know I can stop taking the rest of the article seriously. Mercifully, that clue was present in the second sentence.
I ran into this just the other day. Feeling burnt out at work, I said "I need a vacation." In response I got "You are going on that trip in a few weeks." I was thinking time at home to relax and it never occurred to me that one would be thinking about activity-filled trips.
That's really going to suck if he wins. It's only then a matter of time before all desirable coastline is snatched up by the rich and barred from the public.

I'm a little confused though. Is he wanting to close off the beach itself from public use or just the access road that people use to get to it? If it's the latter, it's a little more understandable and I think the state should have to chip in to maintain the access road and public utilities.
At his age I'm not sure he cares.
When they allow a foreign currency to become the de-facto medium of exchange in a nation, the government is basically admitting that it's lost the ability to issue currency and manage its own economy. The loss of economic control involved is so extreme that you'd only do it if you had essentially no other options left - the government is close to failure.
I've had a great experience with Hive!

One thing that has made me sad is that there is that Rails / Ruby has little to no support. Many of the repos are over four to five years old.
Tbf this Hacker News, a casual social forum.

I’m indifferent to concerns about rigor in my comments. Also I’m on a phone and half interested, passing the time on a bus.
Great reminder that we work to live and not live to work.
Good to know, thanks for posting this. We'll post the dmg file on our landing page this week or next.
> This project is "assisting in killing people" to at most the same degree that developing munitions guidance, military radar systems, and sonar are "assisting in killing people"

Which incidentally, many developers find completely abhorrent.
I think the current strategy of guiding ultra-high density residential developers towards the Central Waterfront (i.e. the Dogpatch and the flat but underutilized industrial parts north of the Bayview) makes more sense than trying to up zone existing Victorian neighborhoods. There aren't many NIMBYs there to block development and it will also give the entrance from the Peninsula up to SF a much better feel.

http://sf-planning.org/sites/default/files/FileCenter/Docume...

The challenge is that construction in general (not to mention the once in a millenium transformation of a former industrial zone to a people friendly multi-story residential zone along with supporting light rail/subway transportation) takes time and the media doesn't have the patience.

There will definitely be a lag time between a project as significant as Salesforce Tower being completed and the supporting residential tower being completed. Residential developers aren't going to start building until there is a sufficient guarantee that the office buildings are going to get completed and corresponding demand will be there. Unfortunately that lag does mean some interim pain with respect to apartment rental rates.

Here's a fun historical time-lapse of Downtown SF. A lot of the office buildings are actually relatively recent (post 90's-20's).

https://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/BAY-DSJ-Salesforce-Tow...
Even in case of mortgages, you need to be prepared for requests. At least where I live, it's legally allowed to remove all information about a loan once you paid the entire cost of it.
Promising cryptocoins priced under $2
Find broken links on Pelican
What brand, though? Most Californians have no idea who he is, and even if they do, they probably aren’t aware of which companies he invests in.
This is the most dystopian thing I've heard about in awhile. It's sad this happened but it's even more sad the judge hasn't been disbarred and charged with assault.
Obviously not everyone has this same notion about the role of government. Since we (at least aspire to) live in a society of democratic ideals and freedom, what do you say to people who want innovation in this space?

I prefer for government to be wholly uninvolved in the matter of decided which assets constitute currency; it seems to me to be an utter conflict of interest.
My bank runs a public bug bounty program. It's a start