skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, they are not neutral in many cases. But, they are not always presenting political shows. Also, do you think ABC, CBS, CNN, or Fox are more factual? Clearly, none of them are neutral. Neutrality is impossible but fact-based reporting is possible. I accept that they cannot be neutral but still support.
Android is becoming more closed source every year up til the point that they basically forked it without officially forking it. Apple has open sourced Darwin but the real goodies are in the closed source part of macOS.
What I keep in my bag as a Remote Developer
The best explanation I had for the existence of the (on the surface of it preposterous) martial art of Aikido was that it was a kind of post-graduate martial art for tough guys who already knew a bunch of other stuff.

Frankly most Aikido guys seriously have no clue about how to handle any real situation. Whining that real fights aren't like the UFC is ridiculous, as being ineffective in a civilized gym fight (i.e. 1:1, no weapons, etc) is not some magic predictor of being effective in a real fight unless your training is markedly more like the real situations somehow.

Aikido's defenses against blows are contingent on highly telegraphic, committed lunge punches and the like, and their technique against even unsophisticated grappling is wildly overoptimistic unless the Aikidoka in question has a really serious background in other martial arts. I've met some guys with savage wrist locks and some nasty tricks from Aikido and generally good movement, but these guys were serious cross trainers and knew what a real attack looked like (non-telegraphic and semi-competent).

As for the bogus versions of Aikido:

Generally the process seems like a process of mutual hypnosis. Uke is taught - by pain compliance - to go along with ineffective techniques (rather than go completely off script and win), and gradually becomes more and more hypnotized. Thus those ridiculous videos of super-senior people 'throwing' Aikido people by sketching out the barest minimum of a throw in front of them.

The other thing that gripes me about the bogus type of Aikido - aside from the fact that is has been the single greatest source of overconfident people convinced they could "take care of themselves" - is the number of people I've met with Aikido injuries. "OK, so you separated your shoulder when someone did a shoulder lock on you that wouldn't even work against a resisting opponent". Sigh.
Not a direct comparison of these projects specifically but here is the write-up that was presented in the context of the Kubernetes SIG Node discussions about this topic:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1QQ5u1RBDLXWvC8K3pscTtTRT...
The license we (I am an engineer at Google) cannot use is the AGPL.
I had a room like that in the 90s with early PC gear, modems, and electronics.
Well if does not fit their needs makes sense to fork. But Google has the money to have an attitude to re-create the wheel and that does not appear their approach.
I’ve done Krav for years, and while the principles are strong the lack of sparring makes it nearly useless in most real combat situations. For example, we’ll drill kicking someone in the groin repeatedly on pads but ignore the fact that it’s actually really, really hard to land a kick to the groin of a resisting opponent. I’m glad that I have the striking experience I’ve picked up from Krav, but I’d trust my jiu jitsu training way more in a real fight.
Up to 270 women may have died after breast cancer screening IT error
Youtube surely does get a lot of DMCAs, but the vast, vast majority of copyright disputes are handled with a system meant to preclude DMCAs.

Secondly, do you have any evidence that DMCA claims are a ranking factor? Google search actually goes out of its way to point to sources showing takedowns, implying they do not agree with them.

Thirdly, Youtube has millions of incoming links. It's going to do pretty darn well in ranking no matter what.
"Thanks to the mission-driven nature of this partnership, and of public media overall, we'll put the needs of producers and listeners at the heart of everything we do with Pocket Casts" == We are going to add useless features, bloat the app and switch to SaaS model.
I don’t think either rockets or private jets are worth fretting about when it comes to climate change, but I’ve seen a lot of people suggest that flying to compare conferences is hypocritical and everyone should just videoconference over the internet instead.
It would be interesting to check, indeed. Especially since ear shape is highly individual.

Any chance at a soundcloud link?
A dentist cleaning without dental insurance is $100 or less in the US. Yes, I realize there are people for whom that is a non-trivial expense. The overlap between that demographic and those getting some startup toothbrush service is, I would assume, nil.
microg is an implementation of most relevant playstore APIs
Using GraphQL to manage local state with Apollo
An inverted index ? From part 2:

For each document, we extract the list of words and build a hash-table that associates words to documents
When all documents are processed, we compute an on-disk binary data-structure containing the mapping of words to documents. This data-structure is the index we will use to process queries.
The title of this article is click-bait, surely? Apple have made much PR out of their privacy stance. Indeed, the article says: "Apple makes a big deal about its different approach to privacy on the company website".

How is this eye opening?
> You give them a technical test and whoever scores the most wins, if they score equally, you can pick at random.

The thing is that people don't have equal opportunity to prepare for the technical test. Thus the people who do best might not be the best for the job. Especially as a lot of value can be obtained from hiring someone with a different perspective on life, which the hiring manager might not appreciate (as the other perspective doesn't align with theirs).
There wasn’t really any MMA-style professional western fighting scene before jiu jitsu. Boxing is strikes only, and (traditional, non-WWE) wresting is very close to jiu jitsu in a lot of key ways. MMA as we know it was literally invented by one of the pioneers of Brazilian Jiu Jitsu as a venue to promote BJJ by showing its effectiveness against other martial arts.
Sure, but that is such a common mistake that all Java IDE's warn you when you try to use == for Strings and normal non-number objects.
It took me about a year or so before I found this functionality. No idea why it's not with the rest of the settings but heyho

Play a podcast episode and tap on the "now playing" bar to open up this screen http://i.imgsir.com/1OMb.jpg

The settings are hiding here http://i.imgsir.com/GZAL.jpg
Hmm... yes I can see that perspective from long-time residents.

Thing is I grew up in the Midwest in the 90s-2000s and SF always felt like a global mega-city in my mind up there with New York and London. That's how I always pictured it mentally even though I knew it wasn't as big. I was just so influenced by the culture it had exported since the 60s counterculture all the way up through 80s-90s hacker/tech culture, etc.

Socioeconomically it's a city that is (was?) poised to become an "alpha global city," but it's possible that the NIMBY-driven excessive and premature housing cost explosion has destroyed that. I already feel like a lot of what made SF great has been driven away. I don't live there, which in a way might make my view more objective. The city no longer seems to be the beacon of culture or intellect that it once was. Maybe for the NIMBYs that was the goal, but in keeping the city the way it was physically they might have succeeded in destroying the way it was socially.

I live in SoCal now and like it down here too. I strongly support action on the housing crisis to prevent SF's real estate hyperinflation cancer from spreading down here. It already has to some extent, but San Angeles (what I call LA/OC/Riverside/SanDiego) has what may be a non-metastatic non-terminal case that could still be treated with a dose of chemo.
Sending Email Asynchronously with ReactPHP Child Processes
If you only want a server, OVH/Hetzner are much cheaper for the same performance. To me, AWS/GCP/Azure only really make sense if you start using the whole ecosystem. Otherwise you can get the same for half the price..
But what if there was a way to write algorithms that can't be expressed with a von Neumann architecture?

Do you know where I can read about what categories of biocomputation there are? Is there a biological Turing machine that's ever been built, or no, I guess it'd be grown?

As another commenter said, computation is a more vast category than the simplicity of one instruction and then another instruction. Fantastic things can be computed, but most of them are difficult with modern computers.

Parallelization in a biocomputer would also be an important advancement. Like how early computers were room--sized, I can imagine a room full of intricate, strange plants all arriving at their results. That's a lot cheaper too, presumably, then a bunch of GPUs on a rack. Even if it's more expensive, the category of computing it could do might make it still worth it anyways.

Do you think someday that biological computing could perform useful computations?

I'm sure you're busy with important work, you don't have to answer these. I'm sure your knowledge is immense, so your time is precious! Thanks for your comment!
9 Reasons Why to Outsource Your App Development to Ukraine
You'd probably have to have different people in office, yes.
> There was a lot of margin in the prevailing blade prices that they could undercut and still make money.

I also suspect they do not have fat margins on the razors, but the ancillary purchases you can throw in with your monthly razor delivery: shaving cream, aftershave, etc.
As math that works fine, in practice it's a world of problems. A.x = B.x is a question of finite precision close enough and all prisoners will not agree if A.x = B.X or A > B or A < B. Adding precision tools does not help as you get into things like thermal expansion and the weight of prisoners deforming the floor etc.

So, while that works as a math problem, it may fail as an actual solution.
US accuses China of pointing lasers at its pilots from Djibouti base
Please fix Conputing.
<Your Siri requests —"Show me how to get to PF Chang's," or "What year was Steve Jobs born?" go back to Apple — but it uses a random identifier to mask your identity. So a Siri search for the closest Chipotle restaurant will only tell Apple that a user requested the data, but not associate it with me.>

I find that comforting. In fact, if I was a large organization and processed a ton of user data, I'd want to store that data anonymously too, due to the sheer risk of having that personal data.
I always question the effectiveness of obfuscating data using "unique identifiers" against a party determined to de-obfuscate the data. Aside from that, however, this is an encouraging read.
Humans are a species of extremes. The comparison between this article and the one about the murdered kangaroo is a great example of that.
Lofty ambitions, won't ever happen.
What has Google open sourced that would put it at a competitive disadvantage if a competitor uses it? Android? Earlier on they really didn't have a choice if they wanted to compete with Microsoft with the OEMs. When they became basically the only game in town for device manufacturers, they closef off much of what made Android Android to most people. Even Apple open sources stuff when they want to gain traction in a market as does Microsoft.

How is Google's strategy any different from Microsoft's and Netflix's? It would have been unthinkable a few years ago that MS would open source .Net and make it cross platform or gone through the trouble of creating Visual Studio Code that supports almost every popular language.
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This reads like a parody of science journalism... It ticks all the boxes. Simplifying quantum computing to "it runs every possibility in parallel"? Yup. Making vague and impossible speed up claims? Yup. Etc.
> The logic here is so transparently hypocritical, self-serving and stupid that I suspect it will really crystallize the "sides" involved here [...] So I say, go for it. Protest against every attempt to include minorities.

See, this isn't being charitable to those who disagree with you, and your attitude is a big problem with why these issues just get more inflammatory. Consider the fact that people who oppose such efforts aren't your enemy, they simply disagree with your allegedly infallible logic.

Few people are actually against "minorities". In the end, the smallest minority is the individual. This is why discrimination any basis is wrong, because the individual's experience, advantages and disadvantages are not dictated by whatever group they belong to. Privilege is a statistical metric, but individual experience is not causally dictated by such metrics.

Group-specific efforts wouldn't be so controversial if they weren't pushing a narrative that denies this basic fact. This should be obvious from the outcry you'd get from trying to organize, say, a male-only tech event, or an Asian-only tech event. Might seem silly given the demographics in these industries, but you'd get serious blowback just from the effort.
Oh, well, if it won an award, it must be good. /s
Are they really digging this stuff up? Sounds like a lot of work. I was under the impression that they were taking it from existing museums and private collections.
Maybe one day the difficulties of establishing a nano/micro payment system will be overcome.

https://cs.stanford.edu/people/eroberts/cs181/projects/2010-...
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What I'm saying isn't "migrate a critical part of your workload to Google" - just suggesting that it's worth evaluating Google Cloud, merely for your own reference, even if you are sure you aren't going to use it. They offer a pretty good free trial to do so.
Peregrine falcons hit their prey after a stoop (dive) of over 200MPH. They can handle it. Plus, you can train the birds to avoid the blades; these are apex predators for flight.
> chose to ignore the challenge I've presented. I wonder why...

My guess here is that it's because you offered somebody a 6-12 month physical challenge on a discussion thread about nutrition. Unless you're willing to engage in a 6-12 month comprehensive study of messageboard thread challenges, which we will cofinance (but in the end, if we find that these types of challenges are generally accepted as arguments, I'll compensate you for your half of the research budget, and vice-versa), you must concede that that's a silly thing to wonder about...
This article reminded me of an old quote from J Allard, a former exec from Microsoft. Replace Microsoft/Windows with Google, and the result is scarily accurate.

"In order to build the necessary respect and win the mindshare of the Internet community, I recommend a recipe not unlike the one we've used with our TCP/IP efforts: embrace, extend, then innovate. Phase 1 (Embrace): all participants need to establish a solid understanding of the infostructure and the community — determine the needs and the trends of the user base. Only then can we effectively enable Microsoft system products to be great Internet systems. Phase 2 (Extend): establish relationships with the appropriate organizations and corporations with goals similar to ours. Offer well-integrated tools and services compatible with established and popular standards that have been developed in the Internet community. Phase 3 (Innovate): move into a leadership role with new Internet standards as appropriate, enable standard off-the-shelf titles with Internet awareness. Change the rules: Windows become the next-generation Internet tool of the future."
PyDelhi Dev Sprint – 28th April 2018
Perhaps because we've all been conditioned to ignore PR, or to believe the exact opposite of what PR says. Seeing that it's true is an unexpected situation.

It's also eye opening in the context of a comparison against the other FAANG companies in question.
The eye opening part was how little data there was and the hoops needed to verify the recipient. This is in comparison to Google and Facebook. Both have orders of magnitude more data and sent the data with, apparently, little verification.
One of the stats could be "How many ads can we cram in per 30 minutes before people stop listening"
I have mixed feelings about this, since it's got a lot of great information for someone getting started with C. I can see why you'd want to avoid scattering dire warnings all over the place, but it skips blithely past a whole host of hazards, stopping briefly only to mention that synchronization can be a cause of threading bugs. It's leading people down the garden path, and then leaving them at the bottom where there's a hungry tiger.
Yes, but the way our nervous system does this is by two mechanisms:

1) The inter-aural time difference. Sound takes time to travel, so any sound coming from left of the head will arrive at the left ear sooner than the right ear.

2) The head-related transfer function. The shape and auditory characteristics of the head and ear canal change the sound slightly depending on the frequency and the direction of the incoming sound. Since this direction is different for the two ears, your auditory system can compare the 'shape' of the sound it gets from each ear and use that to position the sound in space.

The inter-aural time difference is, by far, the more effective of the two, but it only gives horizontal bearing. It also can't give 'in front' or 'behind'. The head-related transfer function can give both horizontal and vertical bearing, but it's not that accurate. Together, these explain why humans are far more accurate at localizing sounds horizontally than vertically.

Binaural recordings try to capture both of these mechanisms through stereo recording with a mock head. That's why listening to a binaural recording gives you the feeling of sounds coming from a point in space, because it's replicating the same experience you'd get from actually being in that space.
Could this Civilization clone have useful ideas for you?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C-evo
This is the exact opposite of what Marco just did with the recent release of Overcast. They even spoke about it on Accidental Tech Podcast this week. He's actively working against allowing people to track podcast listeners more than what they can get from straight HTTP downloads of their shows.
Just pointing out the obvious: Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.

The only eyeopening part would be the fact, that Apple doesn't store much about it's users, which isn't verifiable.

Also unique identifiers are not the only way to link data. And due to differential privacy the guarantees that the data cannot be linked decays over time (see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15224312)
We're working on it with postmarketOS [0].

A lot of the issue is that most devices have poor, if any, mainline kernel support. That means you have to rely on the downstream vendor kernel, which is almost always hopelessly out of date. (For instance, the downstream kernel for my OnePlus One is at 3.4 from 2012.)

Besides just being out of date, the vendor kernels require binary drivers and Android-specific services to use a lot of peripherals. For instance, the graphics driver Freedreno is compatible with my OnePlus One's GPU. However, Freedreno isn't compatible with the version of KGSL that the downstream kernel supports. That meant that my only options, if I wanted hardware-accelerated graphics, were to use Halium or mainline my device.

That's not even getting into bringing up WiFi, LTE, and actual phone capabilities, which are still a ways out as far as open source software is concerned.

[0]: https://postmarketos.org/
I'm sure it's fair that there's a level below Warby Parker. Heck, I buy reading glasses (which I need when I'm wearing contacts) by the 5-pack from Amazon for about $5 each. They're not optimized but they're close enough and I can scratch them and lose them and break them.

It does depend what's available around where you live though. There's a Warby Parker in Cambridge MA and I'll probably get another pair of glasses there at some point. (Although it's complicated because I have good insurance I can use with my regular eye doctor/vision place.)
> Resistance is futile. You will be jazzimilated.

Thanks, but no thanks.
New Xiaomi Privacy terms, in short: “we collect any piece of your personal data”
Well if you're free to ignore all context, then you can cast anyone resisting the status quo as a bad actor.
We don't particularly care who has these items, but we want to remove incentives for randomly digging them up. The archeological value of documenting the context of an item is larger than any analysis of item itself, and once an item is removed to be sold, that contextual value is permanently destroyed.

Gaining an ability to track and possibly recover existing artifacts is nice to have, but it's actually harmful if it means creating a financial motivation for removing new artifacts and thus destroying the context for them; ideally, we want to create a situation where they get left in the ground because it's not worth for the looters to spend effort digging them up.
Biological AI?
I work on another music file management system, my personal special hell is playlist files. An m3u playlist file is just a new-line separated list of file paths, which can be relative or absolute, and potentially encoded in whatever locale is set on the users computer. Some fun issues:

* Windows and Mac filesystems are generally case-insensitive, so some users will have the file names in the playlist file in one case and the actual file names on disk in another format
* Sometimes file paths cross between two different filesystems, because one is mounted in the other with a USB drive or over CIFS or similar. Sometimes these two different filesystems have different case sensitivities
* There's no way to know how the playlist file was encoded
* HFS+ normalizes file paths to Unicode NFD, but there's no guarantee that the paths in a playlist file will be normalized. Also, sometimes users generate an m3u file on a Windows system and expect it to just work on a Mac. Also, the filesystem nesting problem with network or USB mounts can happen this way too.
Not entirely; see https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/8594427 although that's the only case I know of and it's the only paper that actually discusses what would have been a serious health issue.
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To me the next American likely to win looks to be Thomas Pynchon.
Are there any that are client-side / javascript instead of server side?
The comment used the words most and some. It also included an example about synchronized swimming.
If your hammer can fly then probably yes. Are you against license plates on cars too?
Will it ask hundreds of questions about me like OKCupid once did? The only matches they ever suggested promoted an very much not my type.
I certainly disagree that GEB was pretentious. For beings that can understand information, surely computation is the highest possible goal. To that end, a certain seriousness and prestige is available when referring to CS.

We all have our opinions.

Did you find GEB to be a helpful reference? What kind of science were you studying?

Not to invade your privacy, I was just curious.