skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hey everyone - I'm working on a book reader that allows you to read text while it annotates using Wavenet.

I have dyslexia and I've found that I can read so quickly with high retention using this method, and having specialized software for it is nicer.

It might help anyone here who suffers from the same thing that I do.

Email me at cammarata.nick@gmail.com if you want to be an early user!
hey! Our first customer was acquired through a personal contact and second customer came in as a referral from our first customer :)

We plan to better the product now before going in with full blown marketing/sales.
Blood uric acid level and IQ: a study in twin families (1984)
Three Lenovo rootkit versions
Blank A4 sheets from the printer folded twice and ripped apart.

Too cheap for notebooks and I'm a lefty.

Notes I want to keep/search are in keep.google.com

I use clocker to track my time so I don't worry too much about noting what I do each day because it's mostly in there.

Paper is mostly for just remembering things, todo, doodling, or drawing up system flow when I need it.

The paper is mostly ephemeral I find the things I want to look back at historically are what I did when which is in clocker, old scribbles are just that. If it's important it went in keep or email.

Edit, now that I think about it, has anyone looked at digital paper solutions? I use a mix of hand written and typed and find hand written doesnt lead to distractions like context switching on my laptop often can.
Her first husband said the only book she ever read was “Dress for Success”
??? Alfie Evans had nothing to do with the NHS not wanting to cover the treatment. From the first paragraph of the wikipedia article you linked to:

> Alder Hey Children's NHS Foundation Trust sought a declaration that continued ventilatory support was "unkind and inhumane", and not in Evans' best interests
Not sure that outlawing gambling, which wrecks lives through addiction and has no measurable benefit, could be equated to outlawing letting you talk about the fact that your government slaughtered students in Tienanmen Square or simply that your ruler resembles Winnie the Pooh.
Violent Video Games and Real-World Violence: Rhetoric versus Data [pdf]
VNperf: Vehicular Network performance measurement tool
talking about cars that drive themselves only 99% of the time is a straw man. Waymo's disengagement rate in the year leading up to nov 2017 was once per 5,596 miles [1]. i'm not sure how to translate that to a percentage of time, but let's say a disengagement is a tenth of a mile - that means waymo's cars are self-driving 99.99998% of the time. they're the closest to market, but that was almost two years ago now, and in the 65 reported disengagements they didn't kill anybody.
The article suggests this is happening without not just the students' consent, but even without their knowledge: "He and Lenhart also say schools should disclose that they’re using systems that could slurp in students’ posts, since not all will have considered who might read or collect their public posts."
Entrepreneurial Cognition – Exploring the Mindset of Entrepreneurs
My understanding is that the development of Augur was funded by the initial sale of REP, and that the organization presents itself as only developing the software, not as creating or running any of the specific markets.

So, no, I don't think they have a house take? However, the individual markets are each made by someone, and I believe that these "market makers" are financially rewarded through I guess a sort of a house take thing?
Thanks for sending me down that rabbit hole.

And no, I don't think it's Silicon Valley that's holding him back, it's more companies where the people value "not wanting to get shot at work".
the article is about them removing gambling apps, not about them removing apps that help citizens speak out about their government...
The Ginkgo Model of Societal Crisis
This depends on the market. This is definitely not the case in NYC
I would be curious to know what the differences between snap and flatpak are? Is this just a "flatpak is for RHEL, snap is for debian" situation, or is there something more to it? Just curious.
When you change your objectives, you change your work.

IITs are all about placements and big salary pay days. It works that way because the alumni want to preserve the value of that name on their resume, only way they can do that is continue to pay obscene salaries to their own kind. So that when they go out looking for jobs, the same thing can work in their case too.

Once you arrive here, all questions on research or doing good work et all go out of the window. You are just about marketing gas, advertising you own legend.

A few start up founders even told me they avoid hiring IITian for this very reason. They act like they are above everything, nothing you pay is enough, they always think some work is beneath them. And yeah barely stay before a project completes.

Lastly, the only thing IITians train their whole academic career is for being good at interviews and exams. That's understandable, because they only thing they ever do all life is hop jobs.
No they do not. REP token holders get a "house take" in some contexts. Augur isn't a company, so a business model doesn't really make sense. Augur is a protocol, and the Forecast Foundation is a non-profit that supports some development.
It worked pretty well for the Manhattan Project and the Apollo missions. I think that you're romanticizing technological progress a bit if you don't believe that more money (often) leads to more progress.
Ask HN: How common are sign-on bonuses?
What was your title? And if you're comfortable sharing how much did you get?
Yeah, but it's not just about solving the problem "how do I install package X on a random Linux distribution". I agree there have been solutions for that for a long time. In fact, Snap at least does not even fully solve this problem because its sandboxing depends on AppArmor, which clashes with SELinux on distros that use this - (e.g. anything from Red Hat).

The real key to Flatpak and Snap is the entire app "experience" - integration in the software center as a trusted source, automatic updates, clean installs and removals without messing up other parts of the system. Before Flatpak and Snap, this did not exist on Linux, especially not in something that was compatible with all distros.
Didn't the European Parliament vote this down just three months ago?
Isn't the 'you need JS' in order to let the captcha work?

I believe I have to whitelist certain scripts in uMatrix before those things work (or even appear!).

edit: also the website just works for me even without scripts. I think your IP has triggered a flood warning leading the captcha and for that to work you need JS (which makes sense).
Could you point me to Dudley's patents? I attempted a USPTO search and didn't find it.

I'm interested in when the patents were issued and the methods they cover.
Long range trucking is really the killer app. Fleets of N trucks can take an entire lane of road in sequence (almost like train wagons) and talk to each other and have M<N supervisors.
Depending on where you live, the reason also could be because there is a refugee population that has been resettled in that city.

Omaha, where I live, has a growing local chain of Thai restaurants (Salween, if you live here) that are owned and run by Karen refugees who have been resettled here. Their food is very, very good, the restaurants are very popular around town, and they greatly assist their community.

If you want to help refugees and other people groups, patronizing businesses owned by them is a fantastic way to do so.
Decision-Making Factors for Selecting Application-Security Testing Tools
In the terms of service. For Google, that's:

https://policies.google.com/terms
Sorry, conflated this with the recent purge of VPN apps that China insisted on to prevent citizens from talking of Pooh and Tienanmen.
Note my comment about "I'd prefer it if the NHS was resourced to a level"....

The issue with not getting GP appointments quickly seems to have been a relatively recent thing - due to lack of resources and mismanagement rather than fundamental problems with the approach.
Service Workers – Hand on tutorials
No States allow broad gambling. Even Nevada only allows it in certain areas. So it's pretty safe to say that gambling is generally illegal, with a few exceptions.
>It's pushing us users towards silos like FB/Snapchat/Apple News where we don't get constantly nagged.

Some would say that's the point. Not only are they pushing for laws that smaller players will have difficulty following - they're also making it less convenient to try and escape any large, centralized silos.
I'm in Chicago, and good Thai food is indeed hard to come by around here. I've been to Bangkok and good food is everywhere, even in mall food courts (Siam Paragon in Bangkok has surprisingly excellent food -- I think it's because most Thai people tend to hang out a lot in malls due to the hot weather).

Most of the places that non-Thai people recommend in the Chicago Loop are mostly of the Americanized variety (because restaurant economics -- these places need broad appeal to turn a profit given the high rents).

Don't get me wrong, I'm ok with non-authentic cuisine as long as they are good, but Loop Thai restaurants are mostly only "passable". The better Thai places are in locales with cheaper rent, e.g. JJ Thai Street Food in West Town, and Aroy Thai in Ravenswood (Aroy was recommended to me by a Thai person). These serve dishes that are much closer to what you would find in Thailand (i.e. spicier, more fish-sauce punch), but the downside of this authenticity is that folks with milder palates might be put off -- you probably wouldn't be able to bring any Olive-Garden-loving relatives to these places.

My personal barometer of how good a Thai place is the sweetness. The sweeter the pad thai, the less authentic the place.

Tyler Cowen, the economist, has this to say about Thai food in the United States: [1]

"Thai food in the United States is becoming bad. It’s getting sweeter—with excessive use of refined sugar—and the other flavors are growing weaker and less reliable. In absolute numbers, more excellent Thai restaurants exist than ever before, but I wouldn’t want to vouch for the average quality of Thai food in America these days.

One problem is that many Thai people have such a wonderful service ethic. I don’t think I have ever once been treated poorly in a Thai restaurant. That has made courting wide audiences relatively easy. Thai food also looks healthy and has beautiful colors—all those greens, reds, yellows, and oranges.

As a result, Thai food has become cool. I first saw this trend in California, in the 1980s, when young people in black started turning up in large numbers at Thai restaurants in Hollywood. It spread. Americans eating in a Thai restaurant are likely more hip than those eating in a Chinese restaurant. Yet hip people do not always have superb taste in food.

As Thai restaurants have become more popular, they have become unreliable. It is so easy to make the food too sweet, appealing to lowest-common-denominator tastes or masking deficiencies in the food’s preparation. The best sweet Thai dishes mix sweet with tart, but there’s been too much abuse on the sweet side and not enough use of fish sauce or fermented shrimp paste or ground white pepper. The most-reliable indicators of bad Thai restaurants are a large bar and sushi on the menu. Those are both signs that the restaurant isn’t that serious about food. Stay away."

[1] https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2012/05/six-rul...
Someone on HN said that all regulation is written in blood. We're finally seeing regulation of the IT sector to avoid the issues that are plaguing users for decades now. Yes, it's inconvenient to click that "Ok, I accept cookies" (or the other button), but so are child-proof medicine containers, vaccines (needles hurt, right?) and many many other things in this life and people just have to get over it for the sake of common good.

P.S I don't agree with automated content censoring, I only agree with regulating the sector not to abuse my data and my user rights.
I also initially read it as drugs, and "your love is like heroin" in particular, being both self-destructive and highly addictive.
> Augur is a protocol, and the Forecast Foundation is a non-profit that supports some development.

Who got the $5 million?
Cookie law does not give users a way to opt-out. That's why you get annoying pop-ups that say "By viewing this site, you agree to all our tracking bullshit"

GDPR says users must be given an option to opt-out and you cannot start tracking them until they specifically click "I agree".
I'm not sure it gets flagged, but might deserve a honorable mention in a weekly n-gate writeup.
> Starting or strengthening friendships around food is a great way to lessen the power of prejudices, and put aside our national identities for the benefit of sharing a common bond as humans through our cultural identities.

I agree, and I have a theory/dream that this same principle can be extended and to all identities, including gender, sexual, and political (which are all subset of culture, of course). The value of having these discussions over a meal may be in part that there are certain expectations of social behavior in play, so people tend to be on better than normal behavior, and everyone knows they're going to be there for a while anyways so might as well make the best of it. As a result, it facilitates an environment where people actually listen to what other people are actually saying, rather than relying almost entirely on subconscious, preconceived notions, as is what routinely happens on internet forums. This extra time and dialogue helps bring people's perceptions of reality, in this case their understanding of the beliefs/culture of others, more closely inline with reality itself.

In a sense, discussions over a meal forces good behavior on people, and the result of that is that people realize their preconceptions were off the mark. Absent a meal and the social structure and expectations/rules that come with it, and particularly in the case of internet discussions where there is no physical presence and often no strongly enforced behavioral expectations at all, we're left to rely on rationality, conscious awareness and personal discipline, things that aren't really taught or practiced in certain cultures. I'm a big believer that this is one of the key enablers of the increasing polarization we are witnessing in our societies, Western societies in particular.
> series of bad employers and have a misdemeanor driving-related arrest

Reading between the lines, it sounds like you have a chemical addiction. You will not be able to do well for yourself until you conquer this giant.

Seek help, my friend.
I think their point is that you can't just buy progress on demand.
CSS only Roll-The-Dice game
Influencing and Collaborating in Product Management
Unity; for More Than Just Games
I don't think this is the case. Not only are there probably no locks that work like this on the market, but it is even less likely that, were one to exist, it would be impossible to discover the remote server connection without probing the remote server. Remember also that the law we're talking about isn't strict liability; you have to knowingly exceed authorization.

I've spent the last 13 years doing this kind of work, and bumped into a lot of remote servers I don't own on assessments of devices. There've been a lot of times where I wished I could go further, but never a time where I accidentally got sucked into hacking someone else's computer by dint of probing my own device.
For flatpak, the installed apps go to /var/lib/flatpak for system-wide, ~/.local/share/flatpak for user-specific.

Then there's the question of app-created data, that would normally go into some dot-directory. Flatpak by default redirects all XDG dirs into ~/.var/app/${appid}, but as a part of the required permissions, the apps can request access to the user homedir or specific subfolders.

Some apps abuse it. Yes, I do mind, when an app liters into ~/Documents/. I'm looking at you, Viber.
I'm sorry, but you start with a supposed treatment for a certain disease.

You give proper treatment to some people, and you give a placebo to others. Then you check if there's any difference.

I don't see how that would work with western medicine and not with homeopathy and ayurvedic medicine. Please explain.
This is pretty silly. All sorts of valid contracts are non-negotiable. You have an option: return the device for a refund.
Yeah colonialism and Britain's control, exploitation and distortion of India over 300 years has nothing to do with India's problems.

"The West" "solved" a bunch of its problems as it created problems in the rest of the world.
It's interesting to see the pre-built / manufactured home business is only finally starting to pick up sales again after imploding post year 2000.

We used to see 350k manufactured home units sold per year in the US throughout the 1990s. That fell to ~50,000 for '09-'12. Now back up to 100k units again.

There used to be a stigma about these types of homes in regards to quality. I was surprised at how relatively nice they are now, looking at the Clayton Homes site (a subsidiary of Berkshire Hathaway). I would think these types of inexpensive housing units are a critical element to relieving the US housing shortage again.

https://www.bloombergquint.com/business/2018/08/16/cheap-and...
Wikia is also good with it, though it's not too clear that "Reject advertising cookies" is a button.

http://metroid.wikia.com/wiki/Metroid_Wiki
Exactly, the majority of the applicants probably don't have relevant or adequate qualifications.
Safety and inspection bot startup Gecko Robotics adds $7M to the coffers
Is this company Intel, because I was working there five years ago as a contractor and this seems spot on.
This is a new (to me) scam
A new (to me) scam - this turned up in three of my honeypot addresses:

(reformatted)

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Hi, victim.

This is my last warning.

I write yоu beсausе I рut а malwаre оn thе web рage with рorn which yоu hаvе visitеd. My virus grabbеd all yоur рersonаl infо аnd turnеd оn yоur сamerа which cаpturеd thе рrосеss оf your оnanism. Just after that thе soft saved your cоntaсt list. I will dеletе the cоmрrоmising video and infо if yоu pаy mе 300 USD in bitсоin. This is addrеss fоr paymеnt : <redacted>

I give yоu 30 hоurs aftеr you oреn my messаgе for mаking thе trаnsасtion. As sоon аs yоu reаd the mеssagе I'll sее it right awаy. It is not necеssary tо tеll me that you have sent mоnеy tо me. This аddrеss is соnneсted to yоu, my system will dеlete evеrything аutоmаtiсally after transfer сonfirmаtion. If you neеd 48 h just rерly оn this lеtter with +.

Yоu can visit the pоlice stаtiоn but nobody саn help yоu. If you try tо deceive mе , I'll sее it right аway ! I dont live in your соuntry. So thеy саn not trаck my location even for 9 mоnths. Goodbye. Dоnt fоrgеt аbout thе shame and to ignоre, Your life сan be ruinеd.

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Interestingly, the messages had different addresses, leading me to wonder if a sufficiently motivated techie could actually trace anything.
Check out "Thai Tom", it's more the style you're thinking of and very, very good. Expect to stand in a big line though
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/app is not visible on the host system, only inside the container. It is chroot on steroids.
those where quite different projects, having to surmount lot of known unknowns. self driving is still fraught with unknowns unknowns. once the problem gets mapped out money will enable company to power trough.
Materials for Teaching Applied Statistics
That's fine you gave me a link and a path... How do I know I'm allowed to go there?
I trello everything in my life.
Todos/bookmarks/everything.
Linked to IFTTT I have my completed todos in G calendar and some other integrations like that.
Reasarchers aren't normally expected to build a production system to sell as a product. They might be very smart people but for something like this you need a team with at least some members who have real experience delivering automotive hardware + safety critical systens + automation.

Research tends to ignore the boring but important details that make a product.
> I believe that less competition equals lower quality.

While I generally believe in competition leading to better results for users/customers, the real life experience of Linux distros vs Windows or Mac OS doesn't seem to bode well for the free market :p (i.e. Linux distros should be the pinnacle of software quality and they aren't).
"How did Maduro's govt mess up their economy? It was my impression that the US placing sanctions on Venezuela was the tipping point."

This is satire?

Total dysfunction, cronyism, corruption, dysfunction, (a lot of government debt is held by members of government!) and of course arbitrary government intervention in the economy like forcing retailers to have certain prices, nationalizing private businesses and factories willy nilly and ploughing them into the ground, fixing exchange rates etc. etc. etc..

I could go on.

Basically 'everything is wrong' with how they managed the economy.

Mass cash inflows from Oil sales can paper over a lot of problems and pay for some infrastructure, healthcare and education for the plebes (which is good), but ironically it can make the rest of the economy very dysfunctional and fragile ... but his 'red revolution' did in realtime what all the red revolutions do. How many times does this story need to repeat itself?

Chile is a better example.
What acronym?
I don't think that's the case at all. At Google I/O they announced that Waymo has been doing fully autonomous driving in a limited fashion with real people in Phoenix for ~6 months.
I dunno if it's socially acceptable or not, but I generally tip a flat rate on alcohol.
I am curious if they had a think tank determine the risk of how many subscribers would move back to torrents, usenet, etc. If so, the risk or percentage must be really low.
There is nothing stopping one repo containing one app+runtime.
Who's gonna sue you? The EU has no power or jurisdiction over you, you're not required to block access to their citizens.
> Who got the $5 million?

The foundation to fund development (which they kept in Ether so is much more valuable than $5million when the sale happened).

He's right, it's a protocol. There is no method for them to take a cut. The protocol gives the fees to the REP holders who report the outcome by staking their REP tokens.
I'm not following what your point is. If I'm reading the first table in [1] correctly, 20+ unit condo (and maybe apartment?) complex new construction starts have been declining annually while single-family home construction has been increasing. This seems to support the parent comment's argument that growth indicators are out of alignment with what markets actually need.

[1] https://www.census.gov/construction/nrc/pdf/quarterly_starts...
I love the Thai food in the US, so much that it has made me consider visiting Thailand. I wonder if it actually nets tourism dollars? I guess it doesn’t need to because Thai restaurants could also be a relatively safe investment if more people love them as much as I do.
My former employer did exactly this (dev incubator it was called) with people from the call center.

During the time I was there one guy turned out to be a genius and after a few years left to work for a big bank and another guy got enough experience to start his career as a dev somewhere else. The rest of us learnt a lot mentoring these guys and feel quite proud of them.

This was no more than 5 years ago.
I am porting gnuk to tomu. Check the links below. Any help is appreciated!

Dev: https://github.com/aze00/gnuk/tree/efm32

PR: https://github.com/im-tomu/tomu-samples/pull/35

Issue: https://github.com/im-tomu/tomu-samples/issues/4