skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This reminded me of a TCP-over-DNS hack[1].

You could use airport wifi access points protected by captive portal to browse internet without paying by sending traffic through DNS requests.

[1] http://analogbit.com/software/tcp-over-dns/
The hand-tracking is probably the same module as in their existing products, and those have been available <100$ for years now (although they've gotten improvements over time)
Same company, new product. Plus the remote integrates with NewsBlur. I tend to only build productivity tools that use aggregation to get work done.
Pirate Radio in Space
Novartis buys AveXis for $8.7B – Axios
Heh, this reminds of a similar incident in New York a few years ago: https://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/26/nyregion/homeless-shelter...

tl;dr: they opened a homeless shelter in a heavily (Asian) immigrant community and were met with protests. The result was a sadly hilarious exchange between the two groups with one side yelling "get a job" and the other side yelling "go back to [some Asian country]".

A more paranoid person would see these moves as politically intentional. As the stereotype goes, they're expected to take it quietly, they're not as politically involved, and when they do, they're less likely to invoke sympathy (xenophobia in America seems to be more acceptable, at least vs. racism, and there appears to be a lot of resentment towards Asians.) The problem then becomes minority-vs-minority, so racism accusations are not directed at whites.
So it's like protesting against eBay by tricking ordinary people into putting orders you have no intention of ever shipping?

Just because someone has a beef with Uber doesn't mean it's a good excuse for making me late by trolling me into a transaction they are not willing to fulfill to begin with. I'm not Uber. It's like getting a job at McDonald's and sabotaging from the inside (because they made your hot-dog stand go bust).

If that's the level of social ethics they demonstrated at their prior reasonably good jobs, I'm not too surprised about their losing them.
I gotcha. Sorry for getting ranty, but it does seem like a useful tool. Good job on shipping something useful!
BPF/XDP: accelerating networking with AF_XDP
I think that under-simplifies the dynamic: public opinion is changed slowly and painfully through consistent advocacy efforts that publicize abuses, while the abusing industries fight back and regain ground at least some of the time.

But yeah, more GDPR-like moves would be fantastic.
Proposed alternatives?
For 2) you might want to look at GDELT. It is a big feed, so you might not want it on your phone, but a 5$ VM should do the job. It lacks 1), from what I remember, but that's about it.
Super Mario becomes a surreal physics experiment in this free browser game
>What an absurd statement. This isn’t about being able to be “irresponsible with [your] personal data”. GDPR compliance is a difficult, expensive, onerous, and uncertain endeavor.

Being responsible with someone's personal data is inherently difficult, expensive, onerous and uncertain.

The idea handling personal data wasn't already all of that is exactly the abuse that got us where we are today.
Show HN: Transcrypt Python to JavaScript compiler w. ES6 modules, alpha release
I'm also aware of robots being used in fast food pizza preparation. In some markets the robots are what keep the franchisees profitable.
Three More Nations Join Lawsuit Against Internet Giants for Crypto Ad Ban
genann is also a similar small neural network library written in C.

https://github.com/codeplea/genann
And just as with SMS the greediness of the telegraph companies probably only sped up development of alternatives.
Official announcement post from Leap Motion: http://blog.leapmotion.com/northstar/
What exactly is the output of the example in `test.c`? I.e. what do the numbers mean? The error in the prediction I guess, but the prediction of what? What is the first entry in the semion data set? a "0"?
Blizzard has never made anything truly groundbreaking, it's mostly re using existing ideas, with a high level of polish.
I see quite an opposite. There are new languages to replace some old, but old stay. And one could say that JavaScript today is almost different language than ES6 was.

By new coll languages I mean Go or Rust. Java and C# are still prominent in business sphere. And I can see push of functional languages as well, such as F#, but that is not so big pressure.

What I also see is big fracturing in ecosystems. When I started developing, I used .NET. I could make WinForm application for Windows and WebForm for Web.

Now there is MVC, Razor Pages, Single page apps (where you have to choose from many JavaScript frameworks). For Desktop app you can write WinForms, WPF, but Electron with .Net seems to be also popular now.

It seems no two companies are using same stack anymore. For me it's becoming quite overwhelming.
Let me simplify it there is medicine and actual doctors...then their is ayaveuda
This is an early experience release.
Official release will be in July.
For production use v3.6.101.
http://www.transcrypt.org
> Alternatively, I can fiddle with my phone, get it to recognize me, hope it works, etc. which--even if it doesn't always take longer--is certainly less deterministic while the person behind me is probably going through their own version of the internal sigh I have when the person in front of me is fiddling with some non-routine payment method.

I don't recognise this at all.

Pull phone out of pocket, touch the fingerprint reader to unlock it, wave it at the reader.

Done.

That's quicker than getting my card out of my wallet, let alone swiping and then signing something.
Might be coincidental -- but you also post a similar request very recently on the FreeRTOS forum?
I did! I however did NOT fail to enter my credentials correctly locally, and the rest of the logs were filled with random forms submitted during testing.

"Yep, all looks good on my machine!".
How is this better than the official web client and why would I use it? It's not really "native", either.
Facebook urged to make GDPR its “baseline standard” globally
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I hope it will work better than the DAO.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_DAO_(organization)#History
Most of humanity is housed and fed. We shouldn't get our image of the world from movies. Nearly every country has made great strides in the human condition in the last century.

Anyway, no way the current ecosystem supports the current human population. Its only thru intense civilized effort that we've built these hives of humanity. The die-off would be immense.

And because of competition, those who are fit will dominate. So the glasses-wearing insulin-needing people will be first to go.
>Parents expect teachers to work miracles...

I think this sums it up well, and it's sad. My wife works in public school for the last few years, and has personally been yelled at by parent that said "my child would never do anything like that!" (the kid had destroyed a school book, even admitted he did it...)

The public fight against the teachers, and the teachers are convinced that school should be fun and play time instead of primarily a learning time. So not only does discipline slide, so does learning, and everyone is part of the problem.

A dead comment below pointed out the difference between "gun violence" and "simply violence", it just so happened the story I was relaying was about guns. But I think other forms of abuse are pervasive everywhere, and gun violence affects only a tiny amount of the population. Which is why it was such a striking point for that school and those kids. He completely misunderstood the implications.

Edit: I want to also reiterate that while I taught in college, the students were more interested in Facebook, video games and their phones than learning. This is a student problem as much as anything else.
To be more precise, the name of the institution on the degree matters for only a handful of universities. If you don't have one of those names, it doesn't matter which name you have.

If the kid isn't getting in to one of the prestige-brand schools, the parents and counselors are correct--many of the public universities and lesser-known private colleges are essentially the same. But there is also a third tier, composed mostly of community colleges, correspondence schools, and for-profit "nationally accredited" colleges. That credential might not be enough to pass by all gatekeepers.

Different universities occupy the top tier for different industries. For instance, in software, MIT counts, but in politics, it doesn't.

It's not really the quality of the institution, but the strength of the brand, and the nepotism by alumni. And it's the people you met that can pry open an opportunity for you later. We don't live in a meritocracy. You still have to know someone who knows someone.
Well, yes. That's called the service industry.

In their defense they also are quickly reconfigurable with visual and audible reprogramming options. I don't think you can get that Spyce robot to leave the kitchen and mop the floor when someone drops a drink. You also can't call in more robots when a bus full of high school kids shows up out of the blue.

Disposable, self-healing robots also do other things like assemble your iPhones and laptops but they're an ocean away so out of sight out of mind, right?

In some parts of the world service workers belong to unions that stand up for fair wages and working conditions. Where you live might not see that as viable or perhaps it conflicts with local religious or political views, so your conditions may vary.
Consumer advocacy groups complain YouTube is collecting info from children
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Mtv, series, movies and programming literature, but i guess that depends on how you define "fluent", i still mess up a lot in English.
It does already, but it misses the social aspect.

Eg. if somebody apologizes for keeping me waiting, it's a different experience already.

Also some drivers "arrive at the destination", but not the exact destination where you said you were waiting at, and the way we manage to handle this together is part of what I consider as being late or not, too.
Neurotechnology to help people with epilepsy
> Consider the work you do. If you love your job, and particularly if you love that type of work more than anyone else you work with, would you keep doing it for a modest pay cut? Really think about the answer to this question. I’ll wait.

When the writer of a piece tells me what to do like this, my first instinct is actually to close the tab.
Everyone consumes. It's the basis of the economy. The producers produce that which is consumed. The best thing for consumers is for producers to produce more goods at lower cost.

If one of those goods is a bicycle, then the highest use might be for a nominal consumer to use it to kickstart a delivery service and join the ranks of net producers. The revenue generated by his service, or credit extended on the expectation of future revenue, can allow him to outbid a pure consumer from purchasing the bicycle as a leisure device, leisure being a lower use than that of delivery.
Heal your gut, heal your mind
How to Find Out If Your Facebook Data Was Stolen by Cambridge Analytica
I loved using Fever back in the day for RSS! It was self-hosted and bubbled up stories of the same article from different sources. https://feedafever.com
It's been a while but ISTR Atom is extendable unlike RSS
You see whether scarcity is “attention” if you’re 59, “retired” due to “technological obsolescence,” and develop a medical problem in the U.S.
Things I Learned Shipping an Ancient Data Center to AWS (Part 2)
Self-Powered Image Sensor Could Watch You Forever
I wouldn't be so quick to say it doesn't harm anyone else.

It's not so far fetched to imagine a married family man acting on an impulse to hire a prostitute. It's a situation where if one wasn't so easily available, he wouldn't have done it.

Not such a stretch of the imagination to imagine this person getting found out by family. Bam! Instant harm to multiple innocent people.
Two U.S. Cities Win Support for 5G Wireless Test Beds
I wonder how many suspensions there are going to be before everyone accepts that data leakage is nothing less than by design.
Google Buzz died first in December 2011. Google Reader died in July 2013.
How does this compare to Franz?
https://github.com/meetfranz/franz
Cranium is another alternative that uses BLAS for efficient matrix operations.

https://github.com/100/Cranium
> I'm pretty sure the “CHIP READER DISABLED” thing is just the merchant didn't set up their account with chip enabled.

It’s generally the fault of the POS software. In many (most?) cases, enabling EMV on the terminal requires the use of a new API. The POS software has to write code to support EMV.
Note that zig has a similar feature: https://ziglang.org/documentation/master/#Import-from-C-Head...
There it is - the deliberate explaining away of personal responsibility to make oneself feel better. The last comment gives away how we all know the first is false.

The restaurant owner in America does not pay a good wage, because tipping is a thing and the market adjusted. Not tipping for service is victimizing the least powerful person in the relationship. And the need to make it 'ok' is self-serving doubletalk.

A famous dude said "I will judge you by how you treat the least powerful person in the room"
>I wouldn't expect someone to immediately know about the existence of Hacker News, nor immediately assume "oh they're the good kind of hackers, for sure" when I am sitting in a security clearance interview.

It's the tracking and asking you about what you visited part, not the "not knowing about HN" part
Ask HN: What are the some passive income strategies you do beside your IT job?
Amazon FBA, Dropshipping etc. Please share your stories.
Uber acquires dockless bike share startup Jump
This was the go to method of keeping information when I was in the military (05-09), which was _strongly_ encouraged starting in boot camp. If one was found without a pen or two and a notebook, there was some words said. I've kept the habit going into my civilian life though I don't take notes as often.
Obvious corollary: if you're lucky enough to love doing something useful that most people would hate, you're likely well situated to get paid a lot for doing that thing.
In a way there is nothing illegal about offering links to another site. But subtitles are a derivative work of the original text so they are copyrighted and also you typically only need subtitles for movies obtained in a questionable way. So you immediately get involved in legally shady stuff.

The main problem is that if you get sued you stand to lose a lot of money, even if you eventually win.
Sure and in time you will be able to.

It's going to take time for payments to all go digital but they will. Whipping out your phone and swiping it and then your done is way quicker and easier then the current payment UX we are doing now.
WTF is deadcode elimination? How to do it by yourself
> The main problem is the goal of the given algorithm which is often trying to maximize someone else's profit rather than minimize your time reading the feed...

True that. Sadly, that is the business model for the larger part of the internet. My use of RSS is partly a way of trying to escape that.
I think it's fair to argue that scarcity has been reduced significantly, and continues to be reduced. It's been replaced by hoarding. I agree that this book is a little naive in that way (from what i've skimmed) but it's also important not to dismiss the spirit of the claim just because we haven't totally solved all of our dependencies on limited resources.

edit: I also wanna point out that i get frustrated when people say "late stage capitalism" or "post-capitalism" because it's really presumptuous. For one thing, you have no evidence that you're anywhere near the "end" of capitalism, or even that it's in decline!
Commercially-minded industrialists regularly put artisans, who love their crafts, out of work by driving down costs. Some of the things those who love their work do aren’t meaningful to customers.
It says in that article that their limit was 500, which might explain why there wasn't as much benefit from it as one might have hoped. Dunbar's Number is around 150; 500 is way past the point where we can effectively manage relationships.
*unless the money is very good
Consider why you feel that way. I'll wait.
Fed's target is roughly where the 10-year average is, so it's easy to justify a neutral stance.

https://trends.axibase.com/491c2442/2/
Ability to view my friends information or public stranger's information without them being notified about it.
Get an ATM card and take cash out of a machine when you get to London. Seriously, this works well, you get a fair exchange rate, and most places still take cash.

But it is easier to use plastic in the Tube, as others have said.
So you're saying the inferred information doesn't exist because of some false positives? I'd say false positives can be more dangerous because humans will have propensity to trust the algorithm and interpret it as truth
Uber acquires dockless bike-share startup Jump
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I'm really curious if anyone has the notification described here that their data was stolen.

(Unfortunately?) I am in the majority with no difference.
From 2016, updated in 2017; so, still more than a year old .
Very well put.

tl;dr - any job that has teenagers dreaming of doing it is almost definitely a terrible career choice. You'll be trying to get paid for a job that others want to do for free. Of course, they tell themselves it's only until the get established, but there's always another crop of chumps finishing school.

I say this as the spouse of someone who dreamed of working in museums and is now bitterly disappointed at how museums/heritage/academia treat its people. Sure, they could have known ahead of time, but we all make mistakes.

Funny enough, I have a pretty good gig at a video game company at the moment, but doing very not-video-game specific things. To be honest you can really tell that the people whose skills are focused on Unity and C# are more stressed out than the ones who know Python and AWS and can pretty much walk in to another job.
50 Things I Learned from Highly Likable People That Will Make You Sensational
Introducing Git ship, a simplified Git flow workflow
It's something I think is worth reading at a certain point in your life (younger, say below 25) or if you find you have poor abilities to stay organized and be productive.

Its core concepts can be distilled to 5-10 bullet points, and some of the original edition didn't age well (do you still use a rolodex?). The edition I have was updated to be a bit more general regarding tooling.

I'll put it in the same camp as some books on lean/agile software development: If you haven't learned it yet, they're useful reads. If you have, it may give you a better vocabulary to discuss it with others or think about it for yourself. But if you've already learned it (or other approaches), the value of the time spent reading versus the gain may not be worth it.
>Asking what should replace Capitalism is a very reasonable question. The problem is that lots of people don't actually explore this question in a spirit of intellectual honesty.

It is not a reasonable question because inquiries into this matter start from the assumption that capitalism is a conscious creation by man (and thus replaceable) and not something that, through the laws of human action, evolves spontaneously between free individuals.

>Right off the bat, you insist that any alternative to capitalism is necessarily the whim of a "central planner", and go on to suggest that:

Yes, because an alternative to capitalism (the interactions between free individuals in a market) necessitates the use of coercion to enforce, coercion that will inevitably be directed by someone.

>But of course, Socialism does not prescribe a central authority (although many theories suggest one), and an exchange market is not the only way to collectively make decisions.

Let us assume that a collective has made a decision to produce pineapples and not bananas, what happens to the guy who likes bananas and funds the production of bananas and refuses to participate in the production of pineapples?

>The market doesn't tell us why things cost what they do. Proponents of a free market argue that anything the market values is inherently valuable, even if that seems unintuitive. However, I think when many many people are unhappy with the priorities of the market, we should perhaps consider this claim with more scrutiny.

No, and we will never ever know why things cost the way they do, but we can draw some reasonable conclusions based on things like supply and demand. Ultimately however prices are the result of the choices of billions of people in an enormous decentralised system (the market), and it is literally impossible to objectively know the chain of choices that led to one specific good being priced one dollar or ten dollars. Doing so would require knowing every single choice that every man, woman, and child makes every single moment as well as taking into account the choices they didn't choose, the ordinal scale of which is quite literally infinite for every individual.

>Proponents of a free market argue that anything the market values is inherently valuable, even if that seems unintuitive.

No, the subjective theory of value does not say that, in fact it says the opposite: it is impossible to determine the objective value of goods since they come from the subjective choices of free individuals. Prices come pretty damn close though. Ironically, it is Marx that said that value can be determined objectively through the lens of the labour theory of value where the amount of labor put into a good is what determines its value. That, most certainly, is unintuitive.
TL;DR: The more lovable a job is, the more ripe it is for taking advantage of those who want to do it.
They’ve improved the hardware but never released a standalone update. They’re focusing on AR and VR headsets.

They were talking about DragonFly a few years ago:

https://www.roadtovr.com/ces-2015-leap-motion-co-founders-ta...
fly.io is aimed at very different use cases. It is essentially a programmable CDN, and priced like a CDN, too ($0.10/GB traffic). You would not enjoy the bill for trying to serve all of your video content through it, and you also don't get disk-based storage from them, as far as I can tell. They only have memory-based caching, which could be fine for caching the hottest of the hottest of your video (or images), but for anything else paying $6 for 100MB of cache, or $60 per GB per month, would make for insane costs.
What you're describing focuses too much on the implementation on a specific platform. It's true that each vendor will provide their own way of doing things (perfectly normal), and things will change as well (also expected). But you have to also keep in mind that there is a lot that can be learned about the Bluetooth protocol and technology itself that is independent of the platform its implemented on. If the developer does not understand the protocol and specification, then they will end up getting sucked into the implementation of the specific platform.
I don't work for Nordic nor have any affiliation with them, but from my experience, their support is top-notch and I love the community interaction and support they offer through their DevZone site. No vendor is perfect, so it goes without saying that there will always be pros and cons.
The other somewhat related corollary is that a lot of things you find are fun as a hobby may not be so engaging as a full-time job--especially if you're not sufficiently talented/lucky to be able to mostly do the job on your terms.