skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What I got out of Hackers and Painters is that the two activities are similar in procedure: most basically you begin with an idea, you, you make an initial sketching, then you iterate with periods of refactoring until it's done. That's a procedure that seems true of ANY creative process, and the essay argues hacking is more of a creative process than whatever else a person might think it is. This is especially true when working with certain languages where you're encouraged to constantly rework designs. Dabblers and Blowhards kind of missed this point, but the overall criticism stands: an individuals subjective experience of an activity isn't necessarily shared by everyone.
I don't have any notifications on the lock screen, period. And the things that get to alert on my top nav bar are few (emails and texts only).
Zap them? Can you create a charged field and point at them? Of course you have to watch for your own equipment, and if the drones are above, they will still drop
There's a couple of things to keep in mind. First, all major browsers (and many other TLS clients too) have been using SNI for more than a decade now, so it's not so much that TLS 1.3 makes things worse, it just better reflects the implementation reality. Second, even in a hypothetical world without SNI, anyone watching the traffic would still see the IP the client is talking to. For a large percentage of web traffic, that IP address can easily be associated with exactly one domain, and for the rest - shared web hosts, things behind CDNs, etc. - you still have the response size to work with, which you can use to make a fairly good guess as to what the domain is.

Of course it's usually even simpler than that because you can just look at DNS lookups which overwhelmingly don't use transport-level encryption today.
I think the sentiment implicit in your question—that the initial hype wave of AR has cooled off—is valid. I believe one of the biggest reasons we’ve yet to see AR truly succeed on mobile is that it’s prohibitively difficult it is to create AR content right now. You need professional developers and real budgets to create a single AR experience. It’s too costly for businesses/brands/individuals to experiment or try new things, which is why there are only something like 2,000 ARKit apps on the Apple App Store [0]. Given that, it’s not surprising that we haven’t seen any big, behavior-changing hits aside from Pokemon Go and messenger frames.

You might be interested in what we've been working on at Metaverse [1]. The platform we're building allows non-programmers to create interactive content that leverages AR (our beta testers have already created over 30K experiences).

We’ve been at it for about a year and a half now and are still in beta, but it's being used by marketers, teachers, record labels, etc. [2] These people don’t know how to code (most of them don’t even know what ARKit is). They’re ordinary people [3] who now have access to a powerful tool that lets them try new things, play with new patterns, and leverage otherwise-inaccessible technologies to solve their own problems.

The long tail of Youtube brought us unboxing videos, Twitch, and Justin Bieber; we want to see what AR (and software, generally) begins to look like when ordinary people have the power to create. I think that's where the really cool stuff is going to be. Check out our Twitter account to see some of the awesome things people are making: https://twitter.com/metaverseapp

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[0] https://sixcolors.com/post/2018/02/this-is-tim-transcript-of...

[1] https://gometa.io/

[2] https://medium.com/metaverseapp

[3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f-VTbkDX694
I need to see some evidence of these claims. I doubt that prison is materially similar to a "networking retreat". Are people really pleading down to manslaughter, after literally shooting and killing someone, and serving less than 3 years?
Interesting fact:

Firearms were present in Japan beginning in the 13th century, but saw little adoption. In 1543, the Portuguese introduced matchlock firearms, a much more impressive weapon, and Japan embraced them. They began manufacturing them in great numbers, researching firearms technology, and fielding armies equipped with firearms, which they used to great effect. In 1592 a Japanese force invaded Korea and rapidly captured Seoul, in large part due to the presence of an estimated 40k gunners in the force. It's estimated Japan may have led the world during this period in firearm production, and surviving written records suggest they saw firearms very positively.

...then, they stopped. There's an excellent book about it called "Giving Up The Gun" (https://www.amazon.com/Giving-Up-Gun-Reversion-1543-1879/dp/...) There's no super clear explanation; the answer mostly seems to be a vague hand-wavy nod towards "cultural reasons".

But, obviously, those cultural reasons didn't seem to apply prior to the Edo period, when Japan went all-in on firearms, arguably more so than any European country. Odd.
3 years for manslaughter ? That seems a very, very low sentence for taking a life.
I fail to see the point of this work. When I program, what I want to see is how each statement relates a precondition to a postcondition. From this point of view, the selling point of value-oriented programming is that conditions are partially reified in the program as abstract types, rather than merely existing in the programmer's head or a separate piece of paper. Note that this does not require the complete absence of mutability: an abstract value may contain the identities of mutable objects, but the role of abstraction is to constrain the ways in which these objects can in fact mutate. Laziness is a prime example of this.
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My app was featured on the App Store as "Game of the Day" and "Great on iPhone X" and has gotten pretty popular: https://itunes.apple.com/app/id1312458558

It's called Rainbrow and it uses the iPhone X's face-tracking capabilities to allow you to play the game with your eyebrows. Not exactly an ARKit app in the traditional sense, but it makes use of ARKit API's. It's also free!
My experience is that when the debuggers are bad, they aren't used much, and when they are good, they are used all the time. The web browsers offer poor debugging experiences ATM, so for Javascript they aren't as useful as say debugging C# in Visual Studio or even Java in Eclipse.

I agree that functional programming idioms in practice makes debugging harder, but only because debuggers lack the right UI to deal with the buried control flow of things like functional orgami. I've heard F# with its Visual Studio plugin is doing better in this regard.
Joplin, an open source Evernote alternative
Out of curiosity - how do people who employ these marketing tactics reconcile this? do they drink their own Kool-Aid or do they willfully turn a blind eye to the grey/blackhat clients because they don't want to think about it?
Question for anyone who knows: is there a vim command or plugin to transform the word the cursor is under to upper/lowercase (or camelCase, kebab-case, snake_case, while we're at it)?
This feels like it comes down to values more than security. Bottom line is you are intercepting my traffic as an employee.

I've worked in these places and I won't work for them. It places trust in my employer and other employees (most of which I will never meet) that I'm not willing to give. Sure you can tell me that certain sites aren't intercepted, and I can tell that from the origin of a certificate, but many employees can't and don't understand any of this.

If your data is really so secure setup an airgap. There are other ways to securing a corporate network that don't involve a 'just in case' dragnet.
OS programming makes it hard to mount a decent debugger directly. You are often stuck with interrupts and serial port interfaces, it isn't the same as writing an application. When I was young, I interned for the OS/2 device driver team, really a different experience.

I'm sure Linus at least uses a kernel debugger. But looking at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kernel_debugger, I guess not.
draw an upside down triangle and it thinks its the first picture. Which means, that AI is still kinda retarded.
Recently I decided to have some fun "going dark" with my phone update. I wonder how far I got:

- I purchased iPhone8 from the store using cash. I gave fake name to print out receipt.

- I purchased empty sim card from eBay with cash at $5 value

- Finally on my way back, I picked up $500 pre-paid card from Wallmart. The lady at checkout wanted my ID because as she said "the purchase is over $500 with cash" (I had few other items) but I complained that this is BS and she probably doesn't like my accent, and she let me go without authentication.

- I brought all this home when I have whole house covered with VPN from one of top 5 VPN providers (altho I connect thru USA - any connection from outside makes life much more complicated, like multiple verification screens etc)

- The sim card company website gave me some issues using prepaid card; but as I remembered that gift cards should not be used for ongoing charges, I just unchecked "autopay every month" and it went thru.

- I registered mail.com email address without phone # or optional recovery email

- I fired up new iPhone with new empty sim card. I went thru setup process using new email. Here it was harder. iTunes did not like my prepaid card. I had to use my VOIP app (not Google, an app I use from Netherlands) to call iTunes and complain. I think it was a matter of one flag because it took them five seconds. I had verified complete iTunes account with valid payment method on it.

- Of course I turned off as much localization/icloud/blahblah stuff I could

- I decided not to use my new phone and new number for incoming or outgoing numbers due to number matching techniques "they" use; instead I use a VOIP app to call my people.

- I did sign up to my regular mailbox but did it from BlueMail iPhone app, not the native one.

I wonder how hard it will be or how long it will take "them" to match me back...

Edit: altho this is my last "iteration" with regular phone. NExt one on my list is https://www.silentcircle.com/
The headings are a little misaligned on the readme.

For the first row of data in the readme, A023AF would be the 24-bit ICAO hexadecimal identifier for the aircraft, which using FAA's Registry would point to US tail number N108NY, operating under callsign EJM685. In that example, 7660 is the squawk code that the aircraft's transponder is emitting.
A modern version of this song would replace 'Eating well, no more microwave dinners and saturated fats' with 'Eating well, no more processed foods and refined sugars'
I've been recommending Outline for people. I've changed my mind on this.

Outline themselves have inserted a persistent, always-on-screen nag for their Chrome extension or app, which can not be disabled from Chrome/Android.

I've written them on this. It's still present.

I'll be firewalling that site as well, and using Firefox Reader Mode (or Archive.is where access is an issue) instead.
Weirdly, I'm curious if there are others selling phones like this legally? I guess Blackphone is one.
Bows were invented millennia before swords were. The earliest bows we have dated go back 10kya, and we suspect they date even earlier. Advancements like recurve and composite bows date to at least 4kya. By contrast, the earliest swords date back to around 3-4kya, late Bronze Age, and the important advances (most notably, capable steel production) that make swords effective weapons really date to only around late Antiquity and Early Medieval.
Darpa Urban Challenge Video (2007)
Pastebin for Chilean people
Well, there is another thing as well: is it legal and easy to get a gun in Japan as a person ?

Because I get that a gang use guns in the US, where it's quite easy to get your hands on one.

But in France, while some criminals do have guns, it's not that common. It's not only hard to get a gun but it would also almost always considered like a sure tell something fishy is going on. Having a gun, unless you can conceal it very well and not be noticed when you use it, is a great way to get busted.
If you want to connect all your hosts together in a mesh I suggest ZeroTier. It is an easy to setup network designed for this use case.
A good rule of thumb I've read a couple days ago was: only allow notifications that come from other people. This means allow notifications for texts, emails, calls, but absolutely refuse to be badgered by a computer, e.g. a notification for a new feature in an app, or to tell you x people liked your picture, or whatever.
Is it really that hard to determine what changes more geometrically?

:) :( :| :O :D :/ ;)
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The large numbers of prison gangs is evidence of the networking function. And in gang ridden neighborhoods most murders aren’t even solved, and 3 years happens regularly, because of the low evidence an lack of witness cooperation causing prosecutors to cut plea bargains.
This is basically what I do. I'll grant any app notification privilege, but the very first time it sends me something stupid, it gets notifications turned off completely. Unfortunately most apps hit this point quickly.
>"“Nobody can love you, for she shapes you to her own will”.

So does Mother-in-law & Daughter-in-law fights !
What these gangs are doing is closer to single combat than to war, as it is about proving oneself. In most societies, the manners around single combat place much greater emphasis on what is honorable than what is effective, and in that regard Japan is not exceptional.
The woman in the article had a severe allergy. Many substances far more commonly used than quinine can also cause life-threatening allergic reactions.

It doesn't seem quite fair to criticize people for consuming a classic ingredient which is perfectly fine (well, as fine as any alcoholic drink is) for all but a vanishingly small minority of the population.
Japan produced an IPSC champion some years back. In Japan, he trained exclusively with an airsoft pistol and only ever fired a gun when he came to the US to compete.
At least 2 killed in NYC helicopter crash
The Problem with Webpack and Why It Is (Kind Of) Our Fault
One of the other comments in the thread linked that original complaint and yeah it makes the whole thing look even more dubious than the original article did. The evidence presented there seems extremely weak and it will be interesting to see if these charges stick. Clearly law enforcement hates private communications and are trying to put the pressure on companies that provide them on the basis of highly questionable entrapment efforts and tenuous evidence.

This case really highlights how destructive the drug war has been to individual rights. When you have a victimless 'crime' like this where all parties to the transactions are willing participants and there is no victim to complain to law enforcement then the only way for charges to be brought is entrapment, oppressive surveillance or encroaching on fourth amendment rights. The logical progression is to attack parties providing otherwise completely legitimate and legal private and secure communications.
My kids are a slight pain in the ass for a few days after “spring forward”. Despite all attempts to ensure plenty of sleep, there’s always increased fighting, crying and - like today - increased physical clumsiness that results in a 6 year old skinning his hands and knees on the sidewalk.
In the article, the writers says pilots and witnesses have come to him in frustration with the lack of investigation into what they’ve seen. So that makes the obvious explanation you suggest not as likely.
What kind of retention are you seeing? Are users downloading it because it's a cool thing to try out, or are they coming back to it?
You actually see this in mixed martial arts as well where Japanese fighters often refuse to cut weight and instead fight at their natural weight.

For those who are unaware in MMA everything is done by weight classes. If you fight at 155, you need to stand on a scale and weigh 155 or less the day before the fight. Most fighters tend to start at a much higher wight and cut all the water out of their system in the days before. Once they officially weigh in, they rehydrate which makes them much heavier by fight day. A lot of fighters cut more than 20 pounds leading up to a fight, so you can imagine what a disadvantage a fighter is at who fights at their natural weight.
feels like it would have been simpler to buy an android phone with an unlockable bootloader, install lineageos (which doesn't have gapps), and side-load all the apps you need. at the very least you skip all the apple id/itunes related headache.
Who knows? That would depend on the person and the situation.
Having worked in locked down networks before, I get the idea of securing resources and keeping secure data inside the network.

But what bothers me, is I keep asking myself the question: When and why did we decide to give the proxy all the power in this relationship?

If we have to use proxies, at least the proxy should be transparent about itself to all parties on the connection. Then my bank can drop the connection or restrict functions/data to non-proxied data, secure government servers can drop the connection, my browser can drop the connection and give me an error (because I don't want anyone snooping on my banking history), etc.

Eg. Let's say I open the patient portal for my hospital through a proxy. Is the proxy software HIPAA compliant? What about the people that have access to my health data through the proxy software? In this case, I would think we should allow the portal software to drop the connection because the connection itself is not secure.
I'm not a historian, but I think "the period of war" is a nice explanation:

> The Sengoku period (戦国時代 Sengoku Jidai, "Age of Warring States"; c. 1467 – c. 1603) is a period in Japanese history marked by social upheaval, political intrigue and near-constant military conflict. Japanese historians named it after the otherwise unrelated Warring States period in China. It was initiated by the Ōnin War, which collapsed the Japanese feudal system under the Ashikaga shogunate, and came to an end when the system was re-established under the Tokugawa shogunate by Tokugawa Ieyasu.

So, after the period of war ended and the Tokugawa Shogunate was established, the "Bakufu" clearly did not want millions of unemployed soldiers hanging around with guns. (I heard even the invasion on Korea was conceived as a means of keeping soldiers and lesser feudal lords busy, though I'm not sure how widely it is believed.)
This has nothing to do with what distro you are using, except perhaps what termcap information it has. If vim detects that the terminal can support mouse input, then it will enable mouse features. If not, vim does not get control over mouse input and your terminal provides default mouse behavior (right-click paste). You can disable mouse features with the command ":set mouse -=a". If you're pasting into vim from a terminal, you may also be interested in the "set paste" command.
As much as I want to believe this is true, I can't help but question the accuracy of the japan times reporting on Japan. In my mind, it's like RT reporting on Russia
> Unfortunately the built-in iPhone clock application does not recognize the International Space Station in its search.

But it does do UTC.
The fact that the most damning evidence they could come up with was this line with the inserted "[drug trafficking]" is telling. Reading the full complaint they do not include the supporting context for that insertion which makes me highly suspicious whether it is justified.
> Exercise is co-opted by many groups, but it didn't
> originate with those groups, it has always existed and
> worked really well. Same with most of these things.

We sort of use exercise to supplement our jobs/lifestyle that doesn't require physical activity. The crisis of finding time to exercise is exasperated by the very lifestyle that doesn't give time for the benefits physical activities give you, but still creates feelings stress and anxiety. Feeling bad about not exercising is somewhat of a negative feedback loop.
wouldnt the solution be more accurate if you partitioned the picture down into smaller segments and then just use the algorithm on each part?
Why did Facebook choose Mercurial over Git?
The guns of the Gunpowder Age are generally some variant of the arquebus, matchlock, flintlock, or musket (the terms are generally interchangeable). The key early innovations in that era were the development of the triggered mechanism (originally a smoldering piece of rope, aka a match, later a piece of flint that sparks when struck), the stock for stability, and the long barrel for sighting.

The developments that led since then to the modern gun are breech loading, the Minié ball, magazine-fed ammunition, paper and later metal cartridges, rifling, smokeless powder, and the automatic firing mechanism. With the exception of the paper cartridge, all of these technologies were developed in the latter half of the 19th century.

Simply put, pre-American Civil War guns were tactically very different in operation from 20th and 21st century guns. As an aside, this is why WWI was so bloody: generals were trying to fight a war with 20th century guns and 18th century tactics.
Creator here. A little background on why I made this and how it could be used to add some whimsy to data visualizations: https://labs.spotify.com/2018/03/02/introducing-coordinator-...
That's quite a leap - dishonor of an easy shot equated with fear of new weapons? I think a source is needed.
I'm glad there was no punishment, but wow, that's such a crazy and unfair situation to find yourself in.
I think if you had some way of forcing the issue, and telling states like Kansas and Mississippi that they didn't get to have disproportional control over the federal government anymore, and if they didn't like it, they could just stop being subsidized by California and New York, either they would go along with it, or they would secede from the union and deteriorate into third world countries.
If I had to guess, the people who made these offensive comments about white males do not believe that their comments were racist or sexist. They have likely been taught at university that something can only be racist if it's being done to a non-white person by a white person and something can only be sexist if it's being done by a man to a woman.

In this view, racism and sexism are about power. The white male is the dominant power group. Therefore, women and people of color cannot by definition be racist or sexist because they are not part of the dominant power group. I went to college with idiots like this at Syracuse University in NY state. Black students at my school would take classes in African American Studies and then go around ranting about "racist white devils." If you pointed out to them that what they just said was racist, they'd say "no it's not, racism is about power."

I went to college in the 90s and the school I went to wasn't even a super-liberal school. I can only imagine how much worse the situation is in 2018, especially at full on SJW schools!

We need to hold universities to account for teaching this sort of crap. No one gets a free pass to attack others on the basis of their race or gender!
from a previous blog post:

"Our engineers were comfortable with Git and we preferred to stay with a familiar tool, so we took a long, hard look at improving it to work at scale. After much deliberation, we concluded that Git's internals would be difficult to work with for an ambitious scaling project."

https://code.facebook.com/posts/218678814984400/scaling-merc...
The Mpemba effect [pdf]
A Characterization of the DNA Data Storage Channel
Agreed. That seemed gratuitous.
As a side project I sorted the doctors based on opioid prescribe count. It isn't hard to see who the pill shops are -- I am sure the DEA can do a sql command. IMHO they (DEA) prefers kicking down doors in poor areas.

https://www.opendoctor.io/opioid/highest/?hn=1

From article, John Couch and Xiulu Ruan are on top of the list.