skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We totally thought we’d try signing. But it turned out that our child was able to make their message known with their own signals. So we just picked up theirs and didn’t bother with “official” sign language.

Around 6 months our kid picked up signs from other kids at school and tried them on us. That was super cool. I asked the teachers and they told us they only used 3 signs. So our kid definitely picked it up from friends.
So, it really isn't an improvement.

Anyone can skim the blog and get the gist of a 75 minute talk-a-thon in seconds, and move right along.

The presentation is just beating a dead horse about text expressions edited ina text editor and/or executed at the command line, and interpretted by R, vs. button clicking in R, in a nice IDE that's comfortable and approachable for non-programmers.

E.G. le tooling debate du jour, oui oui, monsieur...
Switch to your destination's clock when you board the plane. Then sleep or wake according to your destination - this supposedly helps prevent jet lag (another one is apparently fasting - don't eat on the plane - but I haven't personally tried it)

I usually find anything that involves too much thinking pretty hard on a plane; instead, watch movies, read, or listen to some music - really listen to it - undistracted by the other things that often relegate it to background noise (hopefully you have some good noise cancelling/isolating headphones)
I don't have details, I just happened to see a crash to desktop, but it may not have been certified - many Australian retailers will pay the fines rather than go through the effort of ensuring compliance.
Well, no, of course not- when a neuron dies, the information encoded in it's connections is lost. [1]

But replicating the original connections isn't necessary, and certainly not necessary for the neuron to "compete." For example, say an old corporation dies, e.g. Microsoft [2]. Could a new corporation replicate the 1000s of precise products, services, and contracts of the original? Not at all. But replacement corporation could find new things to offer, potentially taking advantage of the economic shortfalls and new demands precipitated by the demise of Microsoft. Eventually the economy returns to full efficiency, though in a slightly different form than before. And just so with neurons- the information passed through the neuron that died will now be in demand by neurons downstream, and this demand can be fulfilled by new connections by the new neuron (or new connections from old neurons, or simply not.) But the information may come from different places, or have slightly different semantic value, or other differences. [3] Brains, like economies, change, and are good at changing gracefully.

[1] At least, as far as we know- with glial cell participation and functional viral capsids and whatever else is going on, anything is possible, I guess.

[2] Example chosen without malice. Honest!

[3] All assuming the competition model of neural organization. Which is a plausible model last I checked, but see [1].
What ought to happen is that people have more than enough money to buy things they’re likely to use, driving money into the economy for things that are useful.

Instead, wages are terrible for the most part. Income inequality is so off the scale now that you can’t expect people to just pay for all the little things they use. Making all these free things might have the side effect of distracting people from realizing how little they can actually afford.

Since no one is paying for things that are useful, instead money goes to whatever can trick the most ad viewers: sensational news, outrageous things, etc. Anything that can’t be made interesting to most people has trouble making money.
Four person home, annual shared income is ~20k in the rural Midwest. Not exactly rich, but semi-affordable given they have a house already.

The line gets a bit blurry when you consider that there are a few high school-aged people on HN who can't legally get a full time job.
duckduckgo the way to flow?
https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/david_mamet_478663

David Mamet's your person.
The psychological impact of an $11 Facebook subscription
They problably do. Sounds like in this case the thermometer was able to hit a phone or videoconferencing network.
Would be interesting to see this data for other countries, and comparing for example the overrepresentation factors for violence and terrorism.
In the video at the very start he mentions that the title of the talk is provocative, but when it's used as a title for posting on a site like this, it can obviously backfire a bit.

In the Q&A at the end, the very last question asked (regarding visual pipeline GUI's or something like that) was the content probably most directly related to the title.

What I think is interesting is that even though he's largely correct, in the real world the ease of use of approachable UI's, even if built on top of objectively substandard application cores, very often wins the race, at least until the next "shift" occurs. This has saved Microsoft's bacon more than once in history.
Two things

>It lights a fire under M$'s asses to make windows competitive

>Adoption is slow but exponential. Today is the first day I learned about ReactOS and I'm excited. I can program and I have money. If people can find value in it, adoption will grow.
The recommendation is typically to use a "fee only" financial planner, who actually charges by the hour for advice instead of taking commissions on the products they sell you.
Between middle and high school, I went to summer camp, where there was a ropes course. I remember how scary it was to jump from the 60 foot platform, even knowing that the zipline harness would catch me. It was an experience of being very scared, but pushing through the fear, and then getting the instant reward of how much fun it is to whoosh through the air and accomplish something difficult.

Though probably less scary than skydiving, it is still considerably scarier than most things people ever encounter in everyday life. And you can't quietly shy away from it, either, the way you often can from social situations or intimidating opportunities or novelty in real life; you're standing there on the platform, everyone is watching and cheering you on; and success is binary-- either you jump, or you are shamefully lowered back down to the ground (which is still probably not much less scary anyway).

I didn't think of that experience of being very important, but it occurred to me recently that many people have never had that experience-- of being very scared, but pushing through it. It resets your baseline for fear, and it shows you what you are capable of. It is, I think, important training for the skill of managing any strong emotion, but particularly fear.

It is a kind of experience I think everyone should have in their life, ideally early on.
You're thinking of people who charge you a management fee and try to "beat the market". I'm talking about people who charge you by the hour to explain to you how to manage your money. Maybe "financial advisor" is a better term?

Either way qualifying any form of professional counsel as "a scam" seems a bit excessive, and also bad avice.
Good point to the article, though the quote about Cambridge Analytica seems a bit misguided - the leak there was as a result of Facebook Platform which is antithetical to the ad targeting model which the rest of the article is about.

FB leaking user data through CA is not part of FB’s business model.
Actually, the problem is centralization, as Tim pointed out. The early pioneers are often proprietary systems (Windows, IE, Britannica) followed by open source software (Linux, WebKit, Wikipedia) which are better in tons of ways. For one, the long tail is served better (Linux has even been known to run on toasters, Wikipedia has way more articles). For another, people own their own data, identity and brand.

Look, you are writing this on YOUR domain because Wordpress gave you that ability. It powers 20% of all new websites. What we need as a society is a Wordpress for social networking.
> Spotify only lets paid users play any song they want on-demand, while ad-supported users are stuck on shuffle.

False, paying upgrades sound quality. 192kbps vs 320kbps is a noticable difference.
The parable in question, about the child not eating the "black stone" in his pudding, is one that many people report hearing. It might have been in one of the discourses.

I must stress that the individuals and teacher in person were wonderful people and I've absolutely nothing against them. The main issue, without slighting the dead, is Goenka's part. Including the condescending parable.

I would probably go again if I can't find a non-goenka course. But I'd listen to all the discourses and get my annoyance out ahead of time and consider the chanting to be an added difficulty.
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I like what Linux is trying to do, but I havent been satisfied with desktop usage.

Ubuntu server with LAMP is the greatest thing of all time, but desktop Linux has disappointed me over the nuances like mouse acceleration settings, netflix not working natively, etc...
Could you please provide a link to the changes that you had made? This would be useful for OSM editors to understand what has gone wrong.
Before version 3.3.16 of that documentation, most instructions contained a small table with architecture, latency and throughput columns.

Since version 3.3.16, including the current 3.4, the guide no longer contains this info.

Why have you removed that?
Priority doubles as ID in most CAN systems, so changing the priority means you're no longer sending the message to the same endpoint. As you say, though, CAN isn't secure against someone with physical access to the bus.

IMO "the problem" isn't the CAN priority system, it's that a remotely programmable device (the CAN gateway) was connected to both the control network and the internet (via the entertainment center). For something so security critical, it should have been kept as dumb as a box of rocks, and certainly never made network-updatable.
With such a fast car, I'd be more worried about "owner driven." ;-)
No reason why prepared statements and single-call batched-statements can't both be used together. Of course, if one method (batching statements) works well enough, there's no need for another (prepared statements) too.
"Simple encoding" doesn't mean its RISC. There are simple encoding instruction sets that are CISC. For example - PDP-10, it has fixed size, simple encoding, but is "classically" known as CISC.

CISC vs RISC for modern CPUs (last 20 or 30 years) doesn't mean anything. Any modern ARM or Intel is partially RISC and a CISC at the same time.

Think this way:

1) modern x86 micro-ops can be viewed as RISC. So x86 is RISC?

2) ARM1 (from 1985) had an micro-ops, that means user visible opcodes are not reduced enough. So ARM it CISC? http://www.righto.com/2016/02/reverse-engineering-arm1-proce... Not talking even about modern 64-bit arm cores.
The parent comment was also complaining about the lack of public transport routing, and this is not something that you can fix easily, as far as I know: there is no software support for public transportation timetables/routing as far as I know.

(Edit: in fact there is work in progress about this in Gnome Maps https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-maps/issues/25)
> Why would a thermometer need to connect to the Internet in the first place? It is absolutely unnecessary.

It’s strictly unnecessary, but it’s a bit convenient for NAT-piercing and enabling remote monitoring and management.

It’s like everything else: there’s a trade off between certain conveniences and security/privacy. For some people, the line is strongly on the side of security and for others, the line is more favorable to convenience.
Ah the Tesco method. :)
Ive considered this in a few things.

What if we could go back and access that infrastructure, what lessons could we learn?

I really dont know, but I personally see this as useful from an entertainment POV, let alone function.
I can't remember the proper accounting term for the practice, but businesses do not like to postpone/buffer payments like this. These legally count as on-the-books debts, and no business wants to track millions of dollars of tiny debts, each of which may one day need to be paid out. Particularly when these debts roll over year-after-year across tax years.

I previously worked for a business where both the marketing and customer service departments handed out promotional credits to users like candy, without accounting for them. One day we got a new CFO, and a report on these credits was one of the first things he asked for. He sure wasn't happy to discover over $2.5 million dollars worth of credits idling in users' accounts with no expiration. While it's unlikely any significant percentage of them would have ever been cashed in, there is no guarantee and legally the business is on the hook to cover them.
My intention was to quickly validate the response of a ReST API by making sure only desired properties are present in the response (avoiding exposure of not required properties). using validators like joi, ajs etc is one way, but in some cases thats a bit extra work for the node
I feel like you just repeated your previous comment. I don't need a lesson on unit economics. My whole point is that your don't need a 16 bit index.
Oh please. The price of free -- being shown ads -- is not too high. It's free.

We need good advertising systems. Businesses need to be able to pitch new customers. We need to clean up some issues wrt privacy of course. But well-targeted, relevant ads are a good thing.
For those of you who would like to run pen tests on safe ip addresses here is a list:
http://bit.do/rhemgla
Which are you calling the "Big 4"? I'd have said there were five; has one dropped below the others recently?
Not surprising: Keynesian economist doesn't like Austrian economics explanations.

Surprising: Bitcoin part is largely left uncriticized.

I would say the author of this article is clearly biased against the Austrian view that make Bitcoin attractive to the libertarian types so the criticism is largely unsurprising.

What we do see is that the author of the critique and the author of the book can't be both right, especially about history. The success of Bitcoin does seem to favor the Austrian interpretation, though I'm sure many will disagree. Whatever the case, the experiment that is Bitcoin will continue and give us more data to make the case ourselves.
And yet Zillow has been already been doing these low offers successfully, but with only third parties making the lowball offers.

Sometimes people just want sell now.
You still can, and they have warranties.

https://performanceparts.ford.com/engines/

http://www.chevrolet.com/performance/crate-engines

http://www.chevrolet.com/performance/connect-cruise-powertra... up to 727 horsepower, with transmission and electronics included and ready to go. Connect and Cruise.
Most people don't "stick their neck out" as much as you do. I'm a casual browser and I feel like I've seen you discussing your life situation enough to the point where I know your circumstances better than that of some people I consider friends.
The rest of TFA discussing free software seems prescient, considering BeOS somewhat lives on in Haiku
No there is another.
(chime music)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16844462
There's a, not insurmountable, learning curve for both Sailfish and Ubuntu Touch.

Quirky isn't necessarily better if you're trying to woo users who just want a familiar experience without learning new paradigms.

The lack of a back button in Firefox OS annoyed me! Instead of pressing a section at the bottom right of the screen with one's thumb, one had to 'click' on a web toolbar button all the way near the top left of the screen.

It's not that "gestures aren’t that difficult to get used to", it is more do they offer anything more than the tried and true?
Unfortunately, this OS also has many down sides and exploits. Here is a list of IP addresses which can be safely tested for these vulnerabilities:
http://bit.do/rhemgla
> When one party is funded by the public service unions

At least in the U.S. we don't have parties which are funded by unions. The unions contribute, and get out the vote, but that's rarely uniformly going to one party which gets a veto-proof majority everywhere. You see divides — e.g. the teachers unions lean Democratic but the police, firefighters, and prison guards lean Republican — and a lot of local politics showing counterexamples for any of those trends.

It's also not really the point I was interested in, namely that several generations of officials choose to cook the books so they could make politically popular moves without raising taxes or even cutting them. This is not a problem specific to pensions and it's definitely not limited to a single party as e.g. three decades of Republican magical thinking about tax cuts paying for themselves should demonstrate.
Bikepackers have been using on-bike GPS navigation for years. These newer devices just make it a bit easier to create routes by linking directly to your smartphone. The eTrex series of GPS from Garmin are more popular for long, multi-day rides because they run off AA batteries.
I never understood why people record in stereo when all is happening is people talking. Stereo is awful for that.
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Take it from someone who has been studying distributed systems while architecting his own for a year — https://intercoin.org

You can have both.

The SAFE network uses Kademlia to select a group of computers based on a content address. It achieves security by not allowing computers to set their own IDs in the system but having them be kicked around sections from time to time.

The XRP consensus algorithm is essentially what you would want when implementing crypto currency. It is also pretty good for storing files.

The trick to scalability is always one thing: horizontal partitioning, also known as sharding.

As long as you can partition your data, you can scale up the wazoo.

The tough part with crypto-currencies is verifying the history because coins can mix, whether it’s UTXOs or account based systems. So the coin you hold may be the product of transactions among millions of other coins.

So I think the only way to really do sharding is to emulate how cash has $100, $20, $10 etc. in other words have tokens that never get subdivided but only exchanged in an operation to “get change”.

Instead of subdividing tokens, you first check with a given address whether it has enough change, borrow the change, do the transaction, and then the recipient will send the change back to that address and get back a larger denomination.

All this happens behind the scenes but reduces the growth of UTXOs which is a huge problem for Bitcoin and others.

What I talked about here is a FULLY distributed system, that is nevertheless super fast.
You're factually right. But this is HN and everytime we discuss something of Chinese culture, the comment will always be "welll actualllly" or something about Taiwan that's completely irrelevant just because people here hate China. Oh well, it's how it goes
Which can also be a problem with Libraries.
When I first saw the title I thought this was about extracting data from an air gapped network through some crazy thermometer enabled means. Truth seems to be much more mundane.

Curious.. are there any recorded instances of air gapped networks being breached?
It's not all sugar, there are some actual differences; and especially around async/await there are optimizations that can only be made in the non-transpiled code.
Bloodless revolution in diabetes monitoring from an adhesive patch
Bit of a shame an "operating system construction kit" cannot be developed without using Windows.
Fair enough. I guess I'm in the camp that unsupervised learning is of limited utility.
$300 is around ₹20k. Certainly not much for me. But if I have a choice between free and ₹20k I'll almost always choose free.
Fewer people die to violence now than they ever did. That’s what makes it news.
"Decentralized systems" != Cryptocurrencies.

Email, BitTorrent, Git are all "decentralized systems" and they have nothing to do with finance and do not use blockchain tech.

I realize crypto is hot right now, but lets try to have some perspective.
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Hokkien is a type of Chinese dialect. The only reason people rush to call it "Taiwanese" is because of politics, not cultural.
You're missing an important caveat in number 1, which is the tax implications. You've got to compare selling immediately and paying regular income tax vs selling in a year and paying long term capital gains tax.

If you can beat that difference regularly in the market then you're probably in the wrong industry...
Former Quintillion CEO arrested and charged with $250m telecom fraud
I use to code, but probably a combination of me getting bigger and seats getting smaller, it's really uncomfortable. So what I do 3 possible things.

1) Tackle a difficult problem in my mind or on paper.
2) Sleep
3) Read a book.
The scripts are pretty messy, but the process went like this. It was necessary to use AppleScript because the Graph API doesn't give access to friend's Likes (because of privacy issues e.g. Cambridge Analytica). But AppleScript has access to everything through the GUI. (if anyone from Facebook reads this, please don't ban me - I'm just doing this to find out what my friends here like, so I can learn Chinese. I'm not selling this data!).

1. Get a list of IDs (I must be friends with them).

I manually maintain Lists of friends I met in each country. I went to my Taiwan list, scrolled down, and copied the source into TextWrangler. A few regex find-replace later, I had a list of all my Taiwanese friends' IDs.

2. Find-replace to make URLs.

My ID is 705630362, so the URL of my Likes page is: https://m.facebook.com/timeline/app_collection/?collection_t...

3. Scroll down and copy out. This is GUI-intensive, so run it on a spare computer.

tell application "System Events" to tell process "Safari" to key code 119

tell application "Safari" to tell front document to set download_source to do Javascript "document.documentElement.innerHTML;"

Repeat those two while download_source does not contain "<div class=\"_51lb\">". If download_source contains "The page you requested cannot be displayed" then exit repeat.

4. Write it to a file (use cat, not Apple's recommended code, in order to preserve Unicode).

5. Convert to text.

In my case, the HTML files took up 479 MB for 1576 friends. I wrote another script to convert them to text.

Split the HTML based on the "<a class=\"darkTouch _51b5\" href=\"" delimiter.

6. Post-processing!

Now it's time to do research. What are the most common likes? Just combine all the files using cat, and use a bash script to find the most common lines:

cat "input.txt" | sort | uniq -c | sort -n -r > "output.txt"

I plan to write more about this soon, and I'll probably put it on the Pingtype blog. But I might put it on Medium, because people seems to like that these days. Maybe both. There's also my personal website, but I'm worried that people might complain about privacy, so maybe I should distance myself from it. I'm not afraid to write the comment here because we're all hackers.
perhaps it was sarcasm
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How did you do this? Did you take photos of the person and include it in the deck?

I want to do something similar to this, but haven't really nailed down how it would work ('hi nice to meat you IanCal! Could I, uh... take a photo of you?')
I don't know Chinese but I guess the text will become much more difficult to read. At least in Japanese there are many characters that have the same reading but different meaning. So with roman alphabet all those characters will be written the same way.