skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd watch doorwayball.

I'm picturing basketball with a slightly larger court, a canvas wall suspended down the center strapped down around three doorways evenly spaced from the edges, six players per team on the court, and maybe some round padded platforms centered behind the free-throw lines for extra terrain strategy. There'd be some kind of rule similar to dribbling to prevent standing in doorways; something like, you can only stop or take more than two steps in a doorway zone if you've got the ball.
No paywall: https://outline.com/SBXeKp
> A transaction ledger...

Did I hear AmazonCoin? /s
I really want a setting on my HN account to filter out paywalled articles from the front page.
It is not right to have customs search his laptop. Anyone with that much power will abuse it one way or another.
That World Cup TV ad for Hdac's Internet of Things on the Blockchain, explained
Not bad!

Uploaded some photos:

* Macro of Gerbera >> Daisy 99.5% Confidence

* Dark shot of bookshelf >> Bookshelf 98.12% Confidence

* Photo of a lake at Hokkaido with Mt Fuji behind >> Lakeside, lakeshore 79.62% Confidence

* Flatiron mountains Colorado >> Alp 96.61% Confidence

* Trinity College Library Dublin >> Library 92.27% Confidence

But then:

* Milky way >> Velvet 31.37%

* Field back home >> megalith, megalithic structure 29.47%

* Earth at night from space station >> Nematode, nematode worm, roundworm 76.63%

Still. It's quick
take any nightmarish atrocity and torture committed by people against other people or animals, and you'll always find a logical and reasonable rationale for it - at least held at the time by the people committing it.
Did he try to sell drugs in the US? How can they arrest him for things he did back home?
No Copyright Law: The Real Reason for Germany’s Industrial Expansion? (2010)
But Mozilla are still pouring mental and financial resources into Pocket, including the servers to host it and power its recommendations. So just ignoring it still leaves a deleterious effect on Firefox overall.
Even with all the mistakes that he made, I think he would have easily walked had he not done the thing that sealed his fate: bringing his hot "work" laptop (possibly unencrypted or otherwise compromised) with him to the US.

All his other mistakes put together were not enough for the feds to hang him since there is plausible deniability:

The "writing style analysis" may seem advanced but in practice is laughable in terms of false positives.

Being in a possession of a bitcoin address that received payments from a drug trafficker isn't enough evidence to convict. But of course allowing the feds to go through his laptop where he had the trafficking signing keys and other credentials can not be explained away :-0
It's interesting how the term "disrupt" has been overloaded these days because the headline gave me a different impression than the article.
Best way to retrain without having to pay AWS a huge fee for all the certs?
This is the major reason I have seen startups apply for patents. Pure signalling value.

Lots of companies patent complete bunk, and I’ve never seen anyone get called on it. It seems like investors don’t really read them.

I have also seen companies patent things that won’t work and that they have no intention of working on - with the rationale that it will confuse competitors.

Given what we know about Theranos it’s entirely plausible that some of their patents were intended as “smokescreens”.
Bitcoin isn’t really pseudonymous either (not by design) it only has one type of transaction that is always public and there is no inherent deniability as far as wallet ownership goes.

There are some currencies that attempt at providing anonymity or at least deniability but those also haven’t been tested yet either against capable forensic adversaries.
I’d use another, less charitable, word. Finding the laws of physics isn’t any different than finding a winning play in Go, except the search space is vastly larger. If we aren’t going to pay for things like the Superconducting Supercollider, we aren’t going to pay for a brute-force search to find the laws of physics. We have to use heuristics to guide the search. “Beauty” has worked in the past (Gell-Mann has a TED talk on this) so there’s no reason to abandon it - until it doesn’t work. Then we’ll try something else. In addition it took, what, 300 years to prove Fermat’s Last Theorem? Good grief. For hard problems, 40 years is nothing.
Here's a whole Wikipedia section about extended formats: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extended_precision#IEEE_754_ex...

Now I totally agree that people should almost always not be storing these things on disk or passing them across the network, but they were RECOMMENDED by the IEEE committee, and that's why Intel and Motorola implemented them. A kinda bad idea, bad implementation choices, but recommended.
He was making an inherently disingenuous claim that anyone arguing for immigration reform is called a racist. I have discussed with people the issues in our immigration system and ways to fix it and not once have I been called racist.

Whenever I see someone make that claim, in my experience it's because they've been in favor of racist policies and when called out on it, tend to try and shift the argument into people being against immigration reform period.
What is special about Occam's Razor? Why not get rid of it? Do you know why Scotus and Occam and the rest of the gang came up with it? Very few people have actually thought about why and what it was for, so why do so many people cleave to it?
animal feed is used to make more animals which humans eat. Im not saying I know that this would affect China for sure, but you cant take a major producer out of a market or increase their price substantially and expect no effect
Flutter is good, I echo the author's sentiments. I wrote a Flutter app for Android in a very short period, relative to my Android Java attempt.

The use of widgets saves a lot of time, leaving one to focus on connecting everything together. It's also easier to learn than React Native (for me at least).

The current downside for me has been the lack of maps (I'm aware of current efforts). I also hit a weird Firebase Messaging bug that leads to an infinite loop of the app opening itself [0].

I agree with the author regarding the strong Firebase push. The community doesn't yet seem large enough, so outside of wine of the Google supported plugins, it's sometimes a struggle.

I am building a second app in Flutter, using the new Material stuff that Google announced this year.

[0] https://github.com/flutter/flutter/issues/18524
2) What additional value does a married service member provide to the taxpayer that is worth an additional $40/day over what an unmarried service member provides?

There are two answers here. The first is that being married means you get housing allowance instead of being expected to live in the barracks. You lose that housing allowance if you get into on base family housing. Either way, the military takes responsibility for making sure you are housed in a way that is not the norm for a civilian job.

The second is that being in the military makes you property of Uncle Sam and the US government has long used this fact to encourage social outcomes it desires. This is part of why the GI Bill provided mortgage assistance and help going to college: Because it is a very effective means to promote home ownership and education which helps stabilize communities, build social capital, reduce crime etc.

It works vastly better at furthering such goals than most of our welfare programs, in part because it is tied to specific outcomes and in part because character and honor are a big part of what you need to develop and prove you have to make it in the military. We do distinguish between "Honorably discharged" and "Dishonorably discharged."
So this was "flagged", which is HN terminology for "eww we don't like this, it's controversial", which of course is total horse shit for most things that are both popular and flagged.
Does the GraphQL Spec Contradict Itself?
Conformant to the bit formats or conformant to the accuracy guarantees? I was mostly talking about the latter.
What we really need is a way to tell salespeople to fuck off and die in a goddamned fire, in a way that truly expresses the soul-deep, sheer hatred I feel for them at that very moment, that makes them feel unending shame for even existing.

I may have anger issues.

On a normal day, I just sort of hate them, kind of the same way I hate real estate salespersons, bad drivers and anyone making over $100K who bitches about the middle class being hammered.
Most likely yes that is correct. I'm not a lawyer but I think it's _possible_ a judge could allow them to leave the country but I doubt they frequently do allow that. Often they're restricted much more precisely than nationwide.

How does it work outside the US? Is there no parole or do they typically allow you to leave the country?

Edit: said bail instead of parole
It is inevitable that malfeasance will spread, for the simple reason that as the police are required, in big ways and small, to violate the rights of the people they are supposed to protect, those who do not wish to do so will leave the force, leaving behind those who do.
Privacy feature DNS over HTTPS not so private
This stupid thing American journalists do with avoiding the word "and" in headlines really makes them difficult to read sometimes.
You don't become a prominent online drug vendor because of a careful, risk-averse disposition.
You appear to be downplaying the article.

You write "just because someone has not committed a crime does not mean they cannot be taken to the hospital involuntarily". The article certainly doesn't disagree with that statement. It states: "Hennepin Healthcare staff are authorized to use ketamine when a patient is “profoundly agitated,” unable to be restrained and a danger to themselves or others, according to their policy."

Instead it is pointing out times where there does not appear to be a justifiable reason, and for situations where there seemingly should be a cut and dry decision. The morality point you brought up, while true, does not appear relevant to the topic at hand.

As an example of downplaying, the article talks about being handcuffed and secured to the stretcher. You turned that into two distinct cases, and gave an example of where each one separately has come up in your work. But how often have ended up in danger from people who were both handcuffed and secured to the stretcher?

The other use of "handcuffed" was from someone maced while intoxicated, who suffered an asthma attack as a result. The woman, who "was not actively resisting police, asked for an asthma pump. Instead they handcuffed her to a stretcher and gave her ketamine, the report said. ... It is also important to note that it appears no crime was committed, no threat to the safety of officer or paramedics was evident, ...".

Again, your abstract question of the morality of taking someone to the hospital involuntarily under any circumstance does not seem to be relevant.

You write "In many cases is it safer for the patient to use chemical rather than physical restraints." Certainly. Again, I don't think anyone disagrees. However, the article points out examples where both chemical and physical restraints were used. For example, a man secured to a chair, then "[w]hen the man began to regain consciousness .. [t]hey injected him with another dose of ketamine", causing him to stop breathing.

I interpret your true but abstract observations as a way to blur the concrete examples of problems highlighted in this piece.
Are you sure the savings will be real? I've read that real savings results from using the cloud for bursts while keeping the base load on-prem. (Never done this personally so can't speak from experience.)

Once you let those people to you will be losing their knowledge in this area. Not sure if it matters.
Have you ever seen a modern factory?
>Sharing credentials exposes me. Receiving credentials burdens me in the event that something happens with the account for which I know credentials.

Sometimes it's more or less unavoidable when you're helping aging parents and have significant access to financial information anyway. (But, then, that doesn't fall under "shouldn't access.")

However, in general, yeah. Good infosec practices aside, I just don't want to be in a situation where I have niggling suspicions of someone or they have of me because something weird happened and one or the other of us had credentials to the other's systems or accounts.
A criticality event is _bad_. If you are near it, you get cancer. And there are many ways a small nuclear reactor can malfunction without that much yield, and still ruin my neighbourhood. I have to agree, the crater is the worst case.
They need to standardize package sizes. USPS, UPS, everyone. I know this would be ridiculous, but what about essentially milkcrate-like containers of standard stackable sizes with fixed rates for residential bullshit. Residential shipping has to be the biggest fucking pain in the ass- I know I've done it. I moved via UPS one time, packaging tons of random 3' square boxes with shit unpadded, the delivery people actually taped them back closed with my stuff inside. You should never accept those. Basically, have a few sizes of really over-built injection molded milkcrates with honeycomb for impact protection, and customers bring a box of crap to the store and pick out their crate, put all their stuff in, set it on the conveyor with their name/payment/etc and it rolls up to the front. A machine inflates a tight plastic bladder which secures the material inside, closes it, charges you and spits out a receipt.

There shouldn't be customer service. If you need to pick up your package, scan your ID or slip or something. If you have an address problem, you use the computer to ensure you're shipping it to the right place. Declarations are handled, and an impact resistant box would probably do well for all the stupid assholes shipping batteries, liquids, dead animals etc.

I know this wouldn't work for a lot of reasons and people would just keep the boxes, but maybe you can keep them from being taken out of the store, like you pull your cardboard box out of it or something.

You get to fill a cardboard box that's barely taped shut and that HAS to fit in the plastic crate. You can't take the crate home.
Does it end with the initial sentence or can it be longer?
How much actual benchmarking have you been able to complete for your applications?

Have you already virtualized your own server and applications in the DC you have?
While some cracks definitely shipped malware, and more commonly someone would release a crack and then a distributor would add the malware, the reason those things triggered antivirus was because they were doing their jobs: writing to memory addresses within a separate process space. This is how the cracks worked, but it's also extremely common infection tactics from malware authors.
I've been figuring for a couple years now I'd have to abandon macs once my air dies. Apple seems bound and determined to shun developers and instead sell facebook machines.
Does anyone else hear the Carmagnole drums beating through the headlines?
How to network at tech meetups
Oh. Well, there are cases where it would fit without such an exotic connector, but those are non-compliant.

I assume you don't need licenses for just making a dumb PCIe card, if you don't name it with trademarks? Or are there patents you need to license to sell PCIe-compatible, non-electronic cards?
> Crossing a border is a big decision, no matter how cheap the tickets are.

While generally I agree with you, some are trivial. Especially where the EU has gone to great effort to make them trivial to cross. Or where they are fractal and run through houses: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baarle-Nassau
You should check out #tagyoursponsor to realize why they like it there so much.
I thought perpetual motion machines claims were automatically denied. I know they were back in the 1970s when my dad worked at the patent office.
Brute force search isn't what solved Go. What was needed was a model with the right information, not all the information or the most elegant or compressive version of the information, but the right information. What "right" means in this context is what we need to figure out!
For selling to US customers. Similar to the GDPR and European customers.
That is no reason to remove a UPC barcode -- it is common to all instances of that product/size and doesn't reveal anything about its travels through the supply chain.
Metacat, a unified metadata discovery service for Redshift, S3, Cassandra, etc.
And it works with reader mode. Bless your soul, child.
Front-end engineer differs from front-end developer (2014)
#noteverywoman

#notevenmost
Automation doesn't reduce the workforce. Capitalists wanting to pay less for labor reduces the workforce.

You could retrain them. You could make them work fewer hours without reducing wages if the same surplus value can be produced with fewer labor hours.

But, if, as it seems, your goal is to reduce labor costs, then there is no way to do that without costing wage earners their livelihoods. At that point hand wringing about people losing their jobs is pretty meaningless. They're probably better off leaving and looking at other options than they are staying and having their wages cut, but either way they're getting screwed.
Youre right I personally can't name it but I'd be interested to know what app has 100s of thousands of AR users browsing products. What app would this be?

>No. It's because they want to own the AR mapping and content landscape which are both required for glasses to work.

This also makes no sense. They don't own the text or image content creation landscape and they still make computers and browsers. AR already exist (although they're quite expensive and cumbersome) so a new proprietary asset format might be nice but its not a requirement. What are you saying here? Just that they're pushing AR to force adoption of USDZ?
Studies find evidence that meditation is demotivating
How does one go about “exiting/selling” their Windows Store app?
I have an app that gets about 6.5k downloads/mo and produces about $700/mo dollars in ad & add-on revenue. Maintenance is about $37/mo in Azure.

I think it has a lot more potential in monthly revenue but I am looking at buying a house and would be interested in a lump-sum sale.

Should I just start courting software companies directly or is there a market out there that I am not aware of.

Windows store link: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/p/screen-saver-gallery/9nblggh5j8tx
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optimal_solutions_for_Rubik%27... -- "In the half-turn metric with a maximum number of 20 ... In the quarter-turn metric, only a single position (and its two rotations) is known that requires the maximum of 26 moves."
s/journalists/headline writers
What was the resolution of the picture of earth? Maybe it picked up a roundworm on the surface.
You’ve got to consider who has incentives to do the research. This basically breaks down into a few categories:

1) entrenched competitors that want to protect market share.
2) hedge funds that start OTC trading and are shorting.
3) insiders that want to vaporize the company as part of a bizarre money laundering scheme. (Most likely, although very bizarre, option imo.)
4) the rare journalist that does investigative research.
5) the rare VC that does dd.

So something changed to interest one of these groups. Prominent physicists and biologists couldn’t care less what private companies are doing.
How do you infer that the article concentrates on the misbehavior of police more than misbehavior by EMS workers?

I have read it a few times now, and I don't get that interpretation.

If anything, the medical system comes off worse. For example, compare:

> Hennepin EMS Medical Director Jeffrey Ho and Minnesota Poison Control System Medical Director Jon Cole dismissed the findings of the report as a “reckless use of anecdotes and partial snapshots of interactions with police, and incomplete information and statistics to draw uninformed and incorrect conclusions.”

with

> Minneapolis Police Chief Medaria Arradondo would not comment on the specifics of the draft, but credited it for changing his department’s approach to interacting with EMS workers.
> The observation of the apparent non-existence of something (supersymmetry, in this case) is at least as important as the existence of something.

Human imagination can create a large number of theories. It isn't as valuable to prove the non-existence of something you have imagined up than proving the existence of something you have imagined up.

Sure, in this case, it was pretty important to prove an idea (supersymmetry) wrong because it was so widely accepted. But, insofar as physics is an empirical science, not it's important to reflect, how did it happen in the first place that an idea with no empirical support became so widely held? What can be improved in the culture and habits of physics and physics funding. Which traditions should be reconsidered.
And complete their long slow transition from making computers to making appliances for web browsing and word processing
Negotiate a discount for the certs as part of the large contract you’ll be signing with AWS
No, they won't extend the initial sentence unless he commits another crime (then it's technically a different sentence). The worst that can happen is you get denied parole all the way up to your full initial sentence and then you're let out.
I’m sorry that you don’t see the difference between the two. Philip Glass isn’t an activist campaigning to alter the public’s understanding of physics. He’s just a guy relaying his beliefs in an interview where he is being pressed to explain them.
Can you give an example of a falsified result?
I don't confuse these things. I just stated that there isn't much activity. But thanks to your answer I took a second look. My problem was that the first impression of the documentation site wasn't/isn't that good IMO. I skimmed the first (quite a few) pages of the documentation and didn't find anything that gave me a first impression what this program/language looks like. You know some kind of small (or not so small) sample code. Then I skipped to the "Tutorial" section which consists of empty pages. Discouraged by that I missed the much better "Scripting Reference" section. So I suggest to at least remove the empty Tutorial section until there is actual content and/or simply link to the examples in the repository
> it remains hanged without any evidence on those claims.

While I get where you are coming from, give me a counter example/evidence.

My observation of the open source world is pretty much in sync with the generalization of this article.
Even if you might find some good counter example it most likely will be the exception to the rule.
HN, do your thing, tell us why it's not going to work.
How are you writing this on the web?
Eric Drexler's solar-sail patent was the only actually-educational patent I've ever seen, myself. https://patents.google.com/patent/US4614319 (Hm, I remember it as more detailed -- maybe I was remembering a tech report instead. But still this looks like reasonable English.)
For most romantics that should be enough. Essentially the same thing as a iPad with keyboard.

ios is still to limited when it comes to usb storage but when that is "fixed" i belive 80% of all computer users could be satisfied with IOS.

Neglecting the fact that users want torrent software and the likes.
That's an interesting observation.

The problem -- if it is one -- is certainly not limited to the Win 8 Start menu. There are plenty of interfaces where pressing a button, or some similar action, pops up a new full-screen or nearly full-screen UI element that looks & works differently from what was there before.

I wonder whether any research has been done on whether this makes any significant number of users forget what they were doing. If not, I think such research would be worthwhile.