skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
SexyCyborg reviews small phone, although she implies they are more for prison suitcases -

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8BlfAMitMf4

There are other good reviews out more specific for use in prison but I like her style.

(Some sellers specifically target the prison market)
How about just returning the service url along with the API auth token. This would enable load balancing and failover too.
Whoah
Nemesis: A new hardware security bug similar to spectre and meltdown
Jeff Bezos launches $2B fund to help homeless families
I don't understand why a QR code reader is not more deeply integrated into mobile OS'. It used to be one tap away on Windows Phone (under the search button), and I used it quite regularly. But due to bad discoverability I guess most people didn't know it's there.
City with a past: why classical and modern Athens are at war
Our understanding of the model is thought to be quite poor. Further, we should not ever mistake the model for reality or attempt to fit data to predictions. The cosmos might not be anthropomorphic.
I disagree with no.11 ... I prefer nested code of if's because as a reader I learn which conditions are relevant and assumed, rather than check-it-all at the start.
Show HN: Building an R/AskHistorians Comment Moderator
Proposed code changes should in any case be reviewed, tested, then committed by someone with the right to do so (which should be a restricted right).

This is what really prevents malicious code changes.
I am surprised that only some countries require the regulator to be outside. Just seems like a relatively simple thing to do. Does having the regulator outside require more maintenance or something?
One might say the device only does "signal inference", as opposed to telepathy. But interestingly, maybe a telepath does the same thing (thus requiring ability), but at a distance, and via a different (as yet unqualified) medium.
Given how these stories over the poisoning have played out it certainly looks that way. The "cover" story is comically poor, and they have plenty of people intelligent enough to do better.

So short of Putin calling a press conference saying "Yup, we did it" it couldn't have been telegraphed much clearer.
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Conversion script used: https://gist.github.com/ptytb/6eade153de6f54dbc0fc1fc0d46993...
on mobile i am a very pleased user of Aqua Mail pro ( by MobiSystems ).

https://www.mobisystems.com/aqua-mail/
I get it. You have a gripe towards it. Did you lose money? Know people who did? Have the feeling of missing out?
You don't need Linux for that, AOSP would do the thing.
I was expecting this to be about combining Lambda with S3 lifecycle management to make a poor man’s cron.

Now I kinda want to try that myself.
A plug for something that you may find useful: https://github.com/dan-v/rattlesnakeos-stack

Backstory: It was created after the death of copperheadOS to fill in the gap. It builds stock AOSP (without any google play blobs), and signs it with your own keys for verified boot. This project is still pretty new, and has some limitations. It builds on aws, whereas I would like to do local builds. Still, a pretty neat and useful project.
Look, Jimmy, if you’re gonna keep playing with us you have got to stop poking everyone with that thing!
Yeah, that's the TV line.

This guy lived quietly in the UK and had no "Putin's beans" to spill. He did blow cover of several hundred Russian agents, but he did time for that in Russia and then he was exchanged. It is possible it was a long-delayed payback from the GRU, but, again, there is no reason for it to be made that publicly. He could've choked on a pound coin and everyone who needed to know would've gotten the message. But the way it stands, the only discernible message here is "don't do any more spy exchanges with Russia".
Globally, pretty obviously seems to be absolutely the case. With few exceptions which you can count on the fingers of (let's give you the benefit of the doubt) two hands.

Even the exceptions are degrading rapidly, as I live in one of them.
Despite the fact that quantum entanglement is frequently referred to the new ways of communication, at the current state of Standard model/Quantum physics quantum entanglement does not mean interaction or information transfer. Furthermore, instantaneous information transfer is restricted and its speed is limited to the speed of light.

Quantum entanglement is rather about correlation and statistics, which is, hopefully, will be quite useful for some applications, but not for communication channel. Otherwise, it will ruin the current foundation of quantum mechanics.

I strongly recommend reading the book of Nicolas Gisin 'Quantum Chance' [1], which is quite good for the general audience to understand, what quantum entanglement actually means in the real life, i.e. in the physical experiment.

[1] https://www.springer.com/gp/about-springer/media/press-relea...
> I hope the admins use it as a honey pot for locating shills.

There are shills on all sides.[0]

Many of the people you are calling shills are actually doubtful of the narrative put forward by a security cabal involved in one of the most pervasive and under-handed spying programmes [1].

Part of the reason for this is because that narrative is actually inconsistent with earlier versions of itself.

Those who disagree with that narrative are most likely not Russian shills, they may just be able to spot an inconsistent narrative based on evidence drip-fed to the media and refuse to believe it.

There are two Russian citizens who are now effectively limited to countries with no extradition treaty with the UK or its allies unless they are willing to face a trial that has no reasonable prospect of being fair. [2]

> If Westerners are now going to consistently favor a conspicuously monstrous dictatorship over their own defense mechanisms then their story is over.

If Westerners are going to support trial by lynch mob and trial by media with carefully-controlled evidence and a strong hint of xenophobic nationalism and a trust-our-state-sanctioned-murderers attitude then we will be the ones to suffer the consequences as the farce of the "superiority" of "western values" is truly exposed.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joint_Threat_Research_Intellig...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tempora

[2] They have had a trial by media and been found guilty.
Thank you for the vocabulary.
Is there any possibility that this was caused by hackers?
Can't speak for physical education, but I've taught basic maths to adults for a long time, and I work with English teachers and ESOL teachers.

A key concept in teaching is what we call 'differentiation', the idea that different students will need a different approach. A good model for HN people here would be (say) a computer game. If a game is too easy, you get bored. If the game is impossibly challenging, you give up. A well designed game that develops you has to be pitched at the right level for you. Individually.

English differentiates by student response to a common task.

Maths differentiates by topic.

So, the English teacher can (for example) set a title for a piece of writing and the whole class can work on that for say half an hour, and each person can feel that they have done their best. The teacher has to mark the pieces and that is where the differentiation comes in: one student might have shown really good progress by producing sentences organised into paragraphs, another student might have explored a metaphor and developed a simile, but might have been 'phoning it in' compared to their previous performance. Marking a class set of work and providing feedback to each student is where the time goes.

In my maths class, some students just need different work to other students. Some students will finish a lot quicker than other students. So my work is more on identifying and producing resources, skill development exercises and enrichment activities than the marking. Mind you, the marking still takes time. As a concrete example, how long do you think it would take to mark a worksheet like [1]?

[1] http://www.maths91.uk/files/week10-algebra02.pdf
Out of interest, you submitted[0]:

Climate change denial among
conservative Norwegian men

Why did you feel that was appropriate for HN?

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17817078
Can you have a self-contained pre-built FreeBSD jail that you can fire up without doing additional setup? Like a prebuilt Docker container with all the necessary stuff already installed.
If you want a reoccurring task then you are right, but if you want to run a one time task in a specific time in the future depending on internal logic, then it won't work
Ok, how about a $1000 to remove the the content immediately, refundable upon investigation, otherwise the content stays live until the investigation finishes?
That's 11 months ago. You're saying that for virtually an entire year everyone who has invested in cryptocurrencies has lost money. That doesn't seem significant to you?
The point use that we don't need to assume any new physics or assume any new technology beyond what is considered highly likely for the next century to view Dyson spheres as admission inevitable. We don't even need to assume fusion.

New technologies exacerbate this problem rather than solve it. As do new physics. In fact Isaac mentioned multiple times that the inability the apparent absence of evidence of advanced civilizations is the best evidence for there not being FTL travel or communication (as just one example).

So while i can agree we don't know everything I'm not sure why it matters.
Yeah, the payment process sounds horrible but hey, it makes you spend more time in this ultra hipster environment where you really want to be seen.
Because it's fun
Why does anyone think multi-syntax is a good idea?

They think it will help adoption? But surely it also hinders it by fragmenting code examples in the wild (Stack Overflow, docs, blogs etc) into different syntax populations?
I disagree. The publishers line of thought is absurd.

How can anyone reason that publishers should be paid for the major share of visitors Google forwards to their content? Of course publishers have every right to de-index their content from news, search or both and the tools to do so have always been available. However apparently they had to be reminded explicitely.

Google, or similar services like Apple News, certainly can't be forced to pay for content they don't want or need.
One may or may not like what another person is talking. If you don't like what others a speaking of that's not the reason to make them shut up. But RT is forced to close is UK and US. "Democracy" in action.
> why did not we do that then?

Because that would have been stupid. Why kill a spy when you can exchange him for your spies and then kill him. Which is what they (almost) did. Quite sensible really in a "fuck you world" kind of way.
My one addition to this would be: comment what you intent the code to accomplish not what it actually does.

I can see what code does, it written there, in code! I want to know what its purpose is so I can decide if I have to remove/refactor/fix it.

Often code doesn't do what was intended (a bug) and by only commenting what it does the bug transpires into the documentation as well.

Compare "// loop over array of numbers and add them together" with "// compute sum of all product prices in cart".

The first is only helpful if you are explaining a language to someone or are not confident about the language. The second tells the importance of this piece of code in the greater whole.
You're skipping past the congressional funding negotiations that set up those rules, and the motivations of hospitals to create the conditions supporting either funded or unfunded slots.

Sure, we can slice off portions of this process and explain the decisions of individuals, but there are so many players with motivations independent of the outcome it's not a clean line.
The whole “become an entrepreneur” is mostly a Silicon Valley bubble thing.

In the rest of the US, most people aren’t expected to start a business, they are expected to go to college and get a job.
It was the Russians!!!
reminds me of the teacher's lounge from when i was in elementary school. they had some lowbrow "on your honor" cardboard vending box with a cash slot and a warning that "account imbalance will result in future reduction of availability of chocolate items"
Hunter KIller Official Trailer
You should join them instead - it is an excellent work avoidance tactic ;-)
A discussion of local time in Ethiopia, where 12:00 is dawn
It's truly a calling. My son is a junior in college, studying to become an elementary school teacher. I've talked to him several times about likely future earning prospects, he's well aware.

I have the highest admiration for true teachers.
Interesting, I'm wondering if the standardised lesson plans and schemes are available on a Web site somewhere, and so I'm googling with my schoolboy French right now.

Are your teachers noticeably less busy by the way?
> Luckily, most human societies moved past the "physically fight each time you want to claim territory and/or women" phase

I don't know, that method at least had an honesty and openness about it that the modern equivalents lack. Everything is shrouded and hidden and lied about to such an extent that a lot of people even consciously believe the outward falsehoods while subconsciously still making decisions based on reality.
Previously on HN:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17951000

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17875941

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17722778

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17599635

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17415820

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16910576

It's basically an "infomercial."
Divide by millions. Statistically quite low failure.
Ask HN: Any way to create ebook reader on top of Kindle/iBooks?
Hi

I'm thinking about creating an ebook reader as a personal project, but I don't have any intention to enter ebook selling business!

I mean, I'm just considering creating a simple reader, and I want it to be useful (surprise!), so I want to be easy for users to add their books, and since most of us buy our books from Kindle or iBooks, I want to know if there's any public or private API or any other way that I could fetch bought books from the user's account, sync progress, save notes, ...?

P.S.: I know you could buy books from one of these and then pirate it, but hey, I don't want to incite users to illegal behaviour!
Xiaomi is primarily a software company, not hardware. It sells hardware almost at its costs, because it treats it as a user acquisition. If a re-seller replaces the official MIUI version with a modified one, Xiaomi loses a customer. Xiaomi doesn't care about Android One phones, and allows them to be unlocked instantly.
If you have a meeting in Ethiopia, you'd better double check the time
Ask HN: What is the typical workflow for a front end designer?
I am beginning my first seriuos project in react-native. We are using github and several other tools. What is your workflow for eg.
* sit down
* git pull
* start enviroments
* write feature
* test?
* git push
>> The larger the screen, the more you do with it.

I think this is getting at an interesting point. Over the past decade smartphones undertook a rapid and seem less evolution from a fancy gadget into what's now basically a full fledged minature computing device. It still looks relatively the same, but now has a fundamentaly different role in our daily lives, for better or for worse.
Probably can do something similar with fMRI.
‘Europe belongs to the Europeans’
I think there are two situations where the return early and nesting if options come into play, and each situation warrants a different strategy:

1. You are guarding for errors or invalid states - you should use early returns or thrown exceptions because these are unexpected states.

2. Your business logic has to branch - you should use a nesting if (or various other options that aren't in scope here, like double dispatch, pattern matching or polymorphism).
Correct me if I'm wrong, but s3 unlike dynamodb does not require a specific region, therfore it's more fault tolerance or it requires more work on dynamodb to achieve same level of stability
Ask HN: Can you share any decision-making spreadsheets?
I'm interested in discussing tools and spreadsheets we currently use for decision-making e.g.

- What works well and what do you find unsatisfactory with them?

- Are you happy with the decisions you have made with them?

- Can you share any examples?

The background is that I'm building https://thorny.io - an interactive notebook for decision-making. I want to make the decisions and reasoning we face designing software and running businesses, fast and easy. You can post your examples here or drop me a line: duncan at thorny.io.
also, even without creating output or taking action in the world reading alone does not suffice to learn. New ideas have to be pondered, developed and connected. Connecting what you already know with what some information stream tells you and carrying the lines of thought further is the valuable part. This is the central crux of speed reading, the ability to think is the bottleneck, not the parsing of text.
Here as an example to get us started from when WikiData were choosing a new graph database:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1MXikljoSUVP77w7JKf9E...
Shoulda paid more attention in school.
>The sides where Russia is happily occupying and destabilizing the regions which were previously under their area of influence

So, the sides where Russia has been surrounded by ever closer NATO bases (post cold-war), and those countries are used to put pressure on it, while the news constantly bombard western audiences with "enemy du jour" coverage?

Where foreign countries constantly meddle with its internal goings-on (with embargoes, sanctions, supporting opposition parties, funding NGOs and "independent" organizations, and good old "Voice of America" style efforts), to establish friendly lackeys in power like Yeltsin, to sell the country's assets wholesale to them?
This isn’t using S3 as a scheduler. Cloudwatch already supports cron and rate expressions, as the post alluded to. This is a hack to schedule something once.

All Cloudwatch would have to do is implement a recurrence = 1 feature but I’m guessing it's not a common enough use case.
Wow, interesting. Most places in US are "at will" meaning you can quit or be fired anytime, even before day one.
> that's the TV line

As well as the well-substantiated conclusion of several international investigations. Same reasoning for Litvinenko’s polonium tea and North Korea’s nerve agent assassination.
My problem is that I stick with a bad book for too long. I keep thinking there'll be more 'good' parts, but it's lost time.

I'd probably benefit from reading fewer books, but sticking with quality material.
There are benefits to being a teacher as far as work life balance. Your schedule is the same as your kids schedule as far as holidays, and summer breaks. Teaching is especially good if you are a dual income couple.

It won’t force them to raise wages. What a lot of cities are doing are getting teachers from overseas.
I was there at the time, making a living out of webdesign and Flash.

My jaw dropped when I saw webkit translate(). Not everyone notices but it makes all the difference to some.

>You know damn well that most flash content has been retired from the web.

I’m sure most of the impressive demos can still be dug out.

I understand it was possible to compute on the GPU with AS3, but the end result, rendered inside the plugin box of a browser never felt this fluid.
What is sexual intercourse after a medical abortion like?
A Tesla has crashed backing out of a garage
I want to point out that the author/speaker points out that efficiency and productivity aren’t the only metrics to consider and in certain scenarios you would want to consider other metrics as well. I personally feel that the examples effect was reduced because the values that led to a loss of productivity in the food processing industry in Japan or the beer making industry in Germany may actually be worth it. But in general they still do illustrate the point he is making about efficiency and productivity arising out of competition.

That being said, the IBM/Microsoft example didn’t really work for me. Because it completely ignores Apple. Apple operates very much like the IBM thst MS vanquished but for the past decade or so it has been crushing Microsoft by any measure of efficiency or productivity. I’d argue that MS still has significantly more innovation than Apple, but is unable to convert that into productivity or efficiency.

And that’s where I think there is a slight hitch in the argument. Competition appears to help with innovation. And innovation often leads to productivity and efficiency. But not always. So if you take the beer example, I would suggest that German beers are likely more innovative than American ones (by which term both the author and I are excluding the fast growing craft beer industry in the US, which is clearly less efficient than the Budweisers the author is discussing) because of the high degree of competition, but in this case, that hasn’t translated into efficiency. I find the author’s claim that this is because of strong localism hard to swallow considering that the effects of competition in other parts of the article are described as strong enough to lead to the demise and conquering of entire continents, but apparently cannot overcome local tastes. Also, the laws argument doesn’t explain why the thousands of breweries within Germany are unable to compete with each other.

It seems to me that in this case American companies are more efficient because they focus on efficiency whereas the German companies prioritize having a distinct taste which disallows productivity gains from mass production and stuff like reducing brewing times by using certain chemicals etc.

Further, the tremendous rise of the American craft beer industry seems to indicate that even Americans, having been exposed to better beers, are valuing less efficient methods of beer production.

So it seems to me the author is making another correlation that does not necessarily stand. Which is a correlation between efficiency and becoming rich.

I think the author describes the conditions under which innovation happens, but incorrectly draws a straight line to efficiency, and continues that line to making money.
I'm getting nauseous from this website.
Signed git pushes give you an opportunity to check if they really were "committed by someone with the right to do so". Without git push --signed you have to basically trust Github (which may be fine for most people's needs).
Scrolljacking is a bad idea in general
https://codepen.io/gunderson/pen/GJJPpV
it took me a long time time to reach the level of maturity as a reader to say "enough is enough" and dropping books a couple of hours in. "starting what you finish" at any price is a waste. Life is too short for bad books.
If she has expensive student loans and she knew she was going to be a teacher, that may be her fault. She could go have gone to a cheap state school.
Anyone know if any of their drinks contain snake-oil?