skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You can't develop myopia or hyperopia after your eyes/skull/orbital muscles are done growing. So this suggestion probably applies only to adults.

Keep in mind that this is age-related macular degeneration. Your photoreceptor cells are protected by the α-tocopherol until "a person's 50s or 60s." You wouldn't need any prophylactic interventions until then.
That sounds like a stretch, given that they can't even get voice chat right.
There's nothing special about toll roads. A billboard company could put a camera on their bill board pointed at the nearby road and collect the same data.
I really believe that extensive international trade between the us and china will have a good tampering effect on potential war between the two countries.

The article could be interpreted thus: Extensive international trade between the us and china will have a good tampering effect on trade war between the two countries.

Chinese building of military bases in the south china sea against the wishes of your neighbors and and asserting your power won't help anyone to trust china

The long term plan of US strategic planners is to keep China bottled up behind their coastal waters with the help of Taiwan, Korea, Japan, and other allies and neutral parties who want to avoid Chinese hegemony. As a distant hegemon, the US is much preferred. On the other hand, China wants to realize the Greater Asian Co-Prosperity Sphere envisioned by pre-WWII imperial Japan, but with China as the head and local hegemon.
One way to solve it is to look for TCP resends, over a diverse set of connections, and decrease the apparent line speed if there are "too many". The bloglog entry I posted earlier [0] goes over this.

[0] https://rkeene.org/projects/info/wiki/176
This. What a nightmare.

I fantasize about buying a house and find it outrageous that most of the houses I would want to buy are nearly 100 years old. Anything since has been very cheaply constructed and designed for a strange lifestyle that seems to prioritize individual greed. To me, my home is second to my neighborhood and this should result in smaller homes which make for a walkable and neighborly surrounding. What was going on in these greedy baby-boomers minds? They are like aliens to me.
Ask HN: Does anyone dislike public code review of coworkers' code on GitHub?
I don't believe that I was uniquely taught that when critiquing someone it is best to do it privately.

DownSides:
a) Potentially embarrasses the person
b) Can create animosity towards co-workers
c) Difficult for introverts regarding reviewing & critiquing

Alternative:
Private code reviews

Any suggestions?
Better title: Systemic Budget Mismanagement Comes Home to Roost.
I get this wistful feeling every time I read a nuanced observation from an ex-president.

Maybe we can sum this up in 140 characters?
I understand where this comes from, and your resistance to trying to override your spouse. My partner works in a hospital, too. She tries to keep her 'hospital clothes' separate from everything else, which is probably wise. In her old car, basically nothing else could go in the trunk. Groceries, day-to-day supplies, all went in the back seat, because the trunk was the dirty place. Who am I to argue? I don't see the horrible effects of infection day to day, and I don't go through the procedures they have drilled into them.

Thankfully, it's not like your partner's. We share a car now, and there's just one basket in the trunk for the 'dirty' hospital shoes. She tries to change out of work clothes as soon as getting home and throws them in the laundry. Reasonable precaution, that's fine. She's more squeamish than I am about touching raw meat. But those are all preferences, and it's well under control. I don't think it's OCD related at all, it's just precaution.

In your case, it sounds like your SO has crippling OCD that's being fed/reinforced by rationality. Can you have some kind of intervention where other people who are impacted by this behavior are the loudest voices in the room? It's not good for her, it's not good for you, it's not good for your relationship, and it's not good for your child.
Scientists Create Biodegradable, Paper-Based Biobatteries
Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17697127.
I bring my own laptop to work, which runs a linux distro I installed myself (Ubuntu). I also have to use my camera and mic quite a bit, so, they remain free of obstructions most of the time.

If I was using my work supplied laptop I would likely take efforts to blind the machine outside of work hours.

I am a lot more worried about my phone. The android update process is slow and opaque and I have no idea what the manufacturer might be slipping into updates. Again, I use it a lot, so it generally remains un-obstructed.

I value privacy, but, apparently I value convenience of being able to actually use my devices a little more.
Scrolling is a little wonky on iOS too
I was going to edit it...but your reply made it worth keeping the typo....
> you never explain the existence of this backdoor.

I certainly do.
I cover my camera with a black tape. I also disabled my camera from device manager in Windows.

I noticed that my ear piece can work as a microphone. So I unplug it from the laptop when its not needed.

A few acquaintances have complained that their camera flash on certain sites and apps. So it's not all conspiracy.
Fortunately for the teachers, Californians have a very short memory.

All the teachers need to do is survive for the four-to-five years it takes Californians to forget what they have voted for. Then they can roll out a Proposition or local bond measure scolding voters for not funding education. Techies and other knowledge workers in particular respond very well to this kind of prodding which is why these measures pass reliably every four to five years but tend to fail if done too frequently. The unwise teachers in my town, Los Gatos, recently tried to shake down voters before the buildings promised by the previous bond measure were constructed.

The same is done with transit funding...I can't remember how many times a Measure or Proposition has passed that has promised to "finally" address transit funding...until four years pass and it is time to "finally" address it again.
Please don't post unsubstantive comments, especially on a difficult topic like this one where emotions are guaranteed to run high.
On Beavers, nature's perfect analogy for Silicon Valley tech
The baby boom generation (as a whole) benefited the MOST from a surging economy, the debts of which are falling on Gen X and Millennials.

I'm not singling out individuals, obviously not every boomer benefited, but it seems, like NFL players, we are not good at budgeting for retirement and perhaps there is value in maintaining that social safety net before it's too late.
I think it's a subset of people (let's call them "assholes") that do the littering, the engine revving, and so on. This is just an anecdote but usually the people I see throwing their rubbish out the car window are people driving cars commonly associated with young working class men with bad attitudes (boy racer cars like black astras and such). Or in other words: it's chavs. Most people are pretty decent in general, and IME chavs are bad actors along multiple dimensions.
Germany relaxes ban on Nazi symbols in video games
Yes (front facing cam on phone as well, can't easily cover back one yet), Zuckerberg and FBI director Comey do as well. Seems common sense these days. Which is really, really sad.

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/23/technology/personaltech/m...

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3790585/FBI-d...

A highlighted photo of Zuckerberg's setup:

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=zuckberg+covers+his+camera&t=lm&ia...

From here:

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10102910644965951&se...
They were talking about this on 1A last night (NPR). Apparently the average amount of debt, is something like 3 years worth of wages.
North American agriculture universities are the unsung heroes of the modern age. Endless quiet innovations in crop yields that have fed the exploding world population in the post world-war era.
Well, you need the means. Not just the cost of moving; the residency or citizenship.
That's a good attitude. Pretty much immune to that form of blackmail. But I sometimes mightn't want someone watching me from some angle or place, so even tho there's other placements where products can monitor, I'll cover it to exercise control over that one.
Discord itself works great on Linux, obviously can't speak for this new store feature.
But Paul Ryan, leader of the house, wants to cut social security, medicare and medicaid.

I don't think that he's against helping people. Rather, he thinks that those programs have long term externalities which outweigh their benefits. We're talking about actual people here, not villains from a 60's cartoon.
I'm concerned about the combination of size and resolution:

Display: an LCD display that is 5.7″ at 720×1440 pixels

The size should be smaller, while the resolution should be probably higher.

They mention, that such resolution is caused by heat dissipation issues[1] (since they by design don't use integrated SoC). May be size is also caused by separate chips?

Regarding the browser, it would be nice to have something based on Servo, rather than Epiphany. Are there good mobile browsers that use Servo embedding and can work on normal Linux?

1. https://developer.puri.sm/FAQ.html#what-resolution
Three collinear points is just a degenerate obtuse triangle, so this falls under one of the cases above.
Serverless – Extreme Positions and False Dichotomies
I think more than a few districts nationally are already moving to 401ks like private industry is, but paying now is a bitter pill to swallow. And how do you convert existing pensions to a 401k when the money doesn’t really exist?
I'm in the same boat. It would apprear they realized that they are loosing advertizing eyeballs. Just checked, this also affects Buffer¹.

Well, if they are making a push to lock people into their platform, this might make me back off further.

¹https://faq.buffer.com/article/985-publish-facebook-profiles
Sweet!

And does the kit have any sort of identifier with it? If so, I was considering some sort of 23andme kit remixing service, where people pool funds to buy a bunch of kits, and then randomly select a kit from the shipment. :-)
Pioneer: A home for ambitious outsiders
Ask HN: What are the best ways to build a single-page site?
> Allowing anyone to use any software to access their banking data would allow them unprecedented abilities to automate, and attack.

In certain countries (Germany, etc) there are actually open protocols (FinTS/HBCI, etc) that banks conform to and allow any software to gain access to the accounts provided the proper credentials are supplied, and it doesn't look like the world has melted down.
They have no hope until they fix the terrible audio quality on Linux that appeared several months ago.
Honest question, do you play boardgames? I play tons of boardgames, and to me it always seems like the developers who rage on about “using apps to digitize boardgames” completely miss everything that I and my friends love about the games. I want to throw the dice myself, not press a button on my phone. When I play tricky economy games the fact that I need to do the math myself is a feature of the game not a bug. And when I play dungeons and dragons I want it to be all imagination. If I wanted to fight 3D fire breathing dragons in an immersive visual experiance I would be playing Skyrim not D&D.
Tensorflow 1.10.0
At 34 now, I hope to.

Can anyone recommend countries that are easy to move to? With urban environments and culture, without being too expensive for cost of living? I have tech skills but am not one of the trendy rich engineers. I commit my free time to art, as it brings me life. Unfortunately, it is increasingly unable to bring me survival.
I did the same route as you (Master's first, then starting on my PhD right now). It's a great route! In general, the best route is to try and join an ongoing project where you can be guided/mentored by a Post doc or senior PhD. This is easiest is larger labs, though in a smaller lab the professor might interact with you more (unlikely you will meet with prof much in larger lab). For your application two things matter: recommendation letters and publications. Joining a project on which you can have mentorship and showing yourself to be resourceful and productive is the best way to attain both. If you find a lack of guidance or a bad fit in whichever lab you first end up in, don't hesitate to try and change things up. In general, also always feel free to ask for advice and guidance; PhDs and post docs have been in your shoes and are more than willing to help out, you can always just ask someone out for coffee to talk about research and ask for advice.
That reason specifically makes me excited about this as hopefully they'll make enough money to keep going.

They are the best chat client around right now IMHO, beating out all the enterprise apps (slack, hipchat, etc) particularly if you want a fantastic client on all 3 OS.
Ask HN: How do you decide which company is right for you?
When applying for a job, how do you decide which company is right for you?
Discord is claiming that these new features won't add to bloat:

https://blog.discordapp.com/how-discord-maintains-performanc...

Meanwhile I've noticed that Battlenet and Steam have rolled out even more Discord style features very recently.
While Jupyter is not technically an IDE, I've found it a more than adequate replacement for the MATLAB environment. When I used MATLAB, I didn't often need to use the debugger, so the "IDE" that I actually use/need is mainly just an integrated REPL and code editor. Jupyter serves that purpose and also has the benefit of providing a very literate history of your research
Of course they do. As the article says, teachers don't get social security and sacrifice current pay for future pay.

This is California's voters not wanting to pay for promises they made.
That MIT license only applies to the Julia wrapper code. The package downloads and dynamically links into an FFTW shared library, which means any code that uses it needs to be GPL if distributed as a whole.
I think it is, but I guess its a matter of opinion. I see someone using the CEO/CTO title of a 15 people operation as disconnected from reality, makes it seems like these people care about titles more than anything.
> Why be reasonable when you can get benefits for yourself and have someone else down the road pay for them?

The only reason someone down the road has to pay for them is because the state/municipality reneged on its half of the bargain to actually fund the pension at the time, counting on future earnings to skate by. The teachers unions accepted lower pay raises or frozen wages in exchange for a good pension. Don't blame them for the malfeasance of the counterparty.
Well they do have A mapped to Z and B mapped to X which makes sense I guess but is flip flopped positioning from what the original NES controller was if I recall correctly. You might have to fight your muscle memory on this one.
Do companies care about being effective or care about covering their liability?
I have to admit, when buying a house in the bay area, this was one of my thoughts of the risks of how housing prices could fall. As the baby boom ages, downward pressure on housing markets and therefore housing costs.

Whether that's enough to make up for influx of new people from elsewhere in the country and the world, who knows. And of course, many houses will just be inherited and turned into rental properties...
A lot of the complaints here appear to actually be "if you download software, or run that software on Android, or on any third party hardware at all, it could be compromised", but with Signal singled out.

For a given user, I don't understand how signing is better than a checksum under this threat model. Going online to download an app is not part of an established connection with that app, so an attacker could simply serve you a page of their choosing with a signature they issued. Verifying identity for an initial connection is definitionally what signatures can't solve.

I think, maybe, the idea is that a signed app could reject communications from unsigned/mis-signed installations? So if someone has entirely hijacked your session and served you a fake app, you won't be able to communicate with the rest of the network. It sounds like a coherent model at least: you can protect single targets by verifying their software when they try to communicate.

(If so, I don't understand how that meshes with the call to federate Signal, which would require it to accept signatures from outside parties. Is the idea something like a CA web-of-trust where only people approved by accepted signers can federate their apps?)
Well, from frying the AQI was sometimes getting as high as 400. That seems...worrisome.

(More typical is 70-150, but that's usually with windows open. Harder in winter)
If it doesn't require complicated functionality just use Wix.
Without having looked at the article, I interpreted it as "we found something in the wild or already in cultivation, not already known to us", not "we made dis".
> How do you convince someone with 99 games in Steam that their 100th should be bought through Discord instead?

You don't have to, there are always people just starting their library. The Discord client is already significantly better than Steam's (which is why its so popular for chat).

I think people are pretty meh on Steam achievements since hacks to unlock them are pretty widespread, but Discord would need to provide other platform norms like cloud saves and DRM.

I also think Microsoft should swoop in and buy Discord before it's too late. The Xbox brand and UWP need a shot in the arm, and a Discord purchase could finally get PC gamers using Xbox services.
I think, white LED bulbs do use a single wavelength blue LED, but they pass it through phosphors which transform it into a similar distribution of wavelength that you would find from an incandescent bulb, or sunlight. LED's are a lot better than fluorescent lighting, which does often have very dramatic peaks and gaps.

In theory, you can look at the CRI rating, but in fact CRI only uses a small number of wavelength probes for the test, so a rating of 100 doesn't necessarily mean a smooth spectrum, it could be the manufacturer has tuned wavelength peaks in order to game the test. There are better rating systems being developed, but they're not used by manufacturers or mandated by governments yet.

I actually think it might be the lightbulbs that change colour which could be problematic. I wouldn't be suprised if some of those did generate the colour just with single wavelength blue, green and red sources. Hopefully the better ones would have individual phosphors for each r/g/b source which produces a spectrum which when combined is reasonable.

I would be particularly careful about cheap/unbranded colour-variable lightbulbs. I doubt they've been through much or any consumer testing, it seems you can buy anything straight off the boat from China through domestic web stores these days.
Ignorance Is Bliss, Illusion Is Not
<html></html> and perhaps netlify.com? I found it super simple to deploy a static jekyll blog site with them.
> half the country has an ideological resistance to helping each other

> I agree that the vast majority of Americans want those things

I had to double check that this was the same username. You seem to have disagreements with yourself. Which comment is the accurate one in your eyes? Either way, lumping half the country into one harmful ideal, then not apologizing or explicitly admitting you were initially wrong to do this or actually believing it, is not ok.
Teachers don’t get social security, and unlike firefighters or police officers, most retirees earn modest pensions of about $55,000 a year.

This seems like the most important sentence in the entire article.

Why are California teachers paying into a separate pension system rather than Social Security like everyone else?

What would it take to decommission STRS for CA teachers?
I've heard often that sea salt mixed with lemon juice helps, wonders of home medicine
1. It isn't so difficult. "Pharma" makes drugs from plants all the time. It isn't hard to imagine having strains specifically for treatment, packaged in prepackaged dosages with the right strains with different strengths. Or inhalers and things. "Pharma" also makes things like aspirin, after all. Besides, "Pharma" isn't the only one with an interest here - alcohol and tobacco companies would surely jump in to fill the niche. Not to mention that many countries have taxpayer-funded health care and have a vested interest to provide lower-cost treatments that work.

2. It depends on what is causing your migraines. I have a family member that will smoke occasionally if the migraines get bad enough. But they also have allergies, and sometimes smoking irritates them. That means that she has a small chance of the headache changing forms. One type of pain traded for another.

3. The situation is pretty horrible. I don't have them, but they run in my family. I've had to pick a person up because they got an aura while driving. I've known another that goes literally months with headaches. The pain gets bad enough that folks near "If I overdose, at least the pain stops". It can literally disable folks for hours. Cannabis doesn't always work well enough and doesn't prevent them. Most things that help with the pain still disable folks enough that they can't drive nor do their work.
> Their bill was $1885.43, not $436.77

I understand, I was comparing the storage cost.

Backblaze publishes a cost calculator here: https://www.backblaze.com/b2/cloud-storage-pricing.html (scroll down, it is half way down that page). But it might not contain transactions.

Backblaze does charge for transactions to recoup costs from that sort of thing. But it isn't intended as a "profit mechanism", we believe we approximately break even on the bill for transactions.
Did CRISPR really fix a genetic mutation in these human embryos?
> Isn't the whole point of Signal that it's e2e encrypted and therefore can't really read and share your messages?

Maybe. They have an awkward, compromised design, because fundamentally you can only the key exchange stuff that's necessary for forward secrecy if you're both online at the same time, but of course they want to support offline messaging, so they have a protocol that's mostly-e2e but the server also participates in it in some cases. In theory maybe it's all fine, but it's complex and has a lot of surface area. Combine that with Signal keeping the server not-quite-open and being weirdly insistent on not having federation, and I'm suspicious.

> But at some point there is a level of trust required and I trust a company like OWS more than I trust a company like FB. Call it blind faith, I dunno, but I also have to trust my operating system otherwise I wouldn't get anything done.

Agreed, which is really what the article is about. I have very little trust in OWS and Marlinspike in particular because of his attacks on the most important/effective working cryptosystems we have (OpenPGP), and his willingness to compromise security properties that seem very important to me (open-source auditability, federation, stronger anonymity than a phone number has) for the sake of features that I think are less significant (forward secrecy), and his refusal to even acknowledge that a tradeoff is being made.
It makes their content borderline unusable. Half the time the page won't scroll at all (mouse or keyboard) and I have to reload. The ads shift around and are always covering a good chunk of real estate on my screen. When you scroll and now your mouse arrow is over an ad, scrolling stops working. There are ads horizontally and vertically. It's bloody awful.
From my skim the results are simulation, but the labs involved also have actually fabricated these memristor devices so very feasible that's next step. One step at a time...