skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Rationality: from AI to Zombies by Eliezer Yudkowsky.
You could get pretty realistic lift on the sail from simple (potential or vertex panel) methods. But the drag's gonna be a bitch to get right. And you probably have to neglect wave motion. Would be really fun to try though.
I was just about to ask if it is available for Linux, but then I saw that the official page advertises its cross-platform properties [1] :D

I know about the different concept of Powershell for quite a while now, but since it is MS tech I didn't expect it to be available for Linux. Maybe I will try someday how it feels, but I am sceptical as the thing I like most about POSIX shells is that everything is just text and I wonder how Powershell will integrate with other *nix tools.

[1]: https://github.com/powershell/powershell
newLISP is a Lisp-like, general-purpose scripting language. It is especially well-suited for applications in AI, simulation, natural language processing, big data, machine learning and statistics. Because of its small resource requirements, newLISP is excellent for embedded systems applications. Most of the functions you will ever need are already built in. This includes networking functions, support for distributed and multicore processing, and Bayesian statistics.

Now I can train a neural net to calculate the probability that a distributed computation will fail without having to type `require`.

NewLISP looks interesting.
Honest question since I’m not knowledgeable about this. Is this even something anyone cares about, considering how Oracle has treated Java and its other inheritances from Sun? If yes, how?
Very cool and great use of webassembly. Bug report: if you get low enough in the last level and thrust upwards, the black smoke somehow mixes with the purple smoke outputs and they start instead covering the screen in black smoke.

https://i.imgur.com/vHOrBWm.png
It is a design problem that people are trying to fix in production. I strongly agree with you about not blaming users but I think the focus should be on what happens after they click on the link or open up the attachment.
"HTML5 is wildly popular. Every second tens of valid HTML5 documents are parsed throughout the world."

I don't think you're quite there yet with your analogy.
FEMA to test 'Presidential Alert' system next week
Kudos to this much needed community effort to shed more light on firmware integrity. Please upload your device firmware if you have the tools,
https://tcsltesting.blogspot.com/2018/08/whats-in-your-firmw...

For more on firmware, open-source and boot integrity, see the talks and references at https://www.platformsecuritysummit.com/2018/topic/boot/, especially "Firmware is the new Software".

The first (?) conference on open-source firmware was held this week in Germany, https://osfc.io.
Lack of a home button is a selling point for me. FaceID feels like somewhat of a compromise because there're many ways in which it's inferior to TouchID, but the swipe gesture replacing the home button isn't a compromise at all--it's better. Swiping to dismiss feels faster and natural, and the swipe across the bottom to switch between apps feels way faster than double pressing the home button to summon the multitasker.
Talking about a method to improve that ability, that's interesting. And certainly powerful, in today's world.

I wonder , what about longer periods of time ? How long can you be alone, without something to do and enjoy it ? And what's the context ?
Skepticism about expert classification of accidents as "impossible" is a completely rational argument given the history.

Again, I'm not trying to have either debate. I'm just arguing against conflating them, at least within each single country. Once we're policing other countries about keeping off bombs, then, sure, forbidding their power plants might make sense.
The ethical problems that AI can pose are clear
Or worse, you need to change some behavior and it it only gets changed in one of those places...
This is fun and I really like it, although honestly don’t think I would use it. Not entirely relevant, but figured I would make the connection: I work in healthcare tech and knowledge management “lists” or ontologies are a huge area of investment. Example use cases: list of drugs, diagnoses, side effects etc.
Cartesian skepticism always assumes some external entity manipulating your mind. So, at least you can be sure you have a mind and there is an external world.
I actually like the idea. It provides a lot of opportunity to excel. Let us assume the project is to write a 'Hello world' application. You have 3 choices 1) ignore the assignment, 2) do a simple application 3) go overboard - create a requirements document, design document, project plan, code, test plan,....

If you do option 3 there will be one of 2 reactions - they decide you are overboard and do not want you, and really if they cannot appreciate the hard work, they are not worth getting wrapped up in, or they will go ga ga over you and want you immediately.
“...but that’s boring!!!”
First class because there is no need to deploy your own JS engine on both these platforms, you can argue all you want, both have a webview/js engine API that are part of their respective SDK.
That wouldn't work outside in bright light, and would send bad blue light though.

Been waiting for an e-ink laptop specifically for working with it outside in the sunlight, and in the evening, since blue light is supposed to be really bad for humans at night.
What is Oracle's motivation for doing this? Good will?
Elephant birds: Who killed the largest birds that ever lived?
iBooks will sync non-store content between devices (e.g. PDFs etc). But I can't find a way to get a .m4b file into iBooks on macOS, so that may not be helpful.
> "The culture is predatory," said Ku Irvin, who started working as a driver for DeliverOL, in Aurora, Colorado, in November 2016. "It's a revolving door. A lot of promises are made that are not kept."

Amazon, like Walmart, is innovating in terms of applying metrics to their labor force. But at least some of these metrics turn out to be inhumane, such as the infamous tracking of bathroom break timing, or unethical to the point of illegal, such as making it effectively required to work of the clock to finish your tasks -- i.e. wage theft.
Wow, super impressive. Great job.
I have acquired an ES133UT2 (and data-sheet with what appears to be waveforms) but have not replaced it because I damaged the cover of the Dasung during disassembly which means the display module would not be held securely to the screen.
It's a really cool optimization, and it doesn't just apply to Option. Here's a StackOverflow thread: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/46557608/what-is-the-nul...
Blazor: Modern Web Development with .NET and WebAssembly
If there are no bad after effects, then why is it not a good idea? We already use explosives for all the things listed. Stopping hurricanes sounds pretty useful about now.
Show HN: A rap song about working remotely. A new tech song each month
Note that you can drop down to unsafe C-style code in Rust. https://doc.rust-lang.org/stable/nomicon/

Anyone who claims Rust is simple should ensure they thoroughly understand that book.

Another way to "turn off" the borrow checker is to write a scripting language that compiles to Rust which automatically annotates all variables with the longest lifetime possible, and spits out mutable references depending on whether you actually mutate anything.

There's also RefCell, which lets you defer borrow checking till runtime. It's handy for pretending like your references are immutable.
Idk, I mean, it was intended to be illegal(for kids) so I am a little shocked
I haven't seen a reflective black and white LCD matrix that didn't suck. Think TI-82 calculators.

That being said the segmented LCDs like those found in 4 function calculators and wrist watches usually look fantastic.
Certainly Java EE is far less interesting than Java SE. Even huge "enterprises" steer clear of the "enterprise edition".
I said "depending on your configurations". I have email set to pop up on my phone every 30 minutes. I have slack set to never send me a notification except for an @here or direct reply to me. These settings work decently for my current role.

The one major hole is that the slack icon shows a red dot whenever I use ⌘-tab to switch apps, and the red dot appears on non-essential slacks that I'd rather not read so frequently.

I'm aware that some people have unreasonable bosses who freak out when emails aren't answered faster. But clueless bosses will be clueless in any medium.
Sadly, Teller's 1968 "The Constructive Uses of Nuclear Explosives" is not available online, at least not in an easily accessible form.

Interested folks should check out Project Plowshare.

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

[1] https://www.osti.gov/opennet/reports/plowshar.pdf

To get into the mindset, give Dwight Eisenhower's "Atoms for Peace" a listen:

"I feel impelled to speak today in a language that in a sense is new - one which I, who have spent so much of my life in the military profession, would have preferred never to use.

That new language is the language of atomic warfare."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2B8R-umE0s0
read Daniel Ellserg's "The Doomsday Machine"

summary: Remote commanders had autonomy due to concerns that centralized control could be subverted. Also, no reliable "call off the dogs" mechanism. Centralization of control of nuclear weapons came much later than the public believes.
Z5 Compact user here. It's very good, only occassional issue is Sony's "What's new" bloatware and its notifications. Easy enough to swipe&ignore.

I wish Sony will keep this line alive, Apple SE was only real alternative when I was buying the phone . . .
Oh stop it. How many bald male news casters do you see? I've never seen one. Most men have to have short "professional" looking haircuts. How many long haired male newscasters have you seen? Why do you think trump is so desperate to keep his combover rather than shaving his head bald? Perhaps because we rarely see bald presidents and baldness is generally seen as an unattractive quality for men ( especially leaders )?

I've seen far more short haired women than long haired men on the news.

> Pretending sexual double standards

It's not double standards. It's simply standards.

It's almost like these companies are just putting out what men and women want to see. I know you won't like this, but women prefer seeing other women with smooth long hair.

If you don't like it, why not start your own news short with short haired women.

Also, why do people like you see "de facto" sexism only in one direction?

How come you guys don't complain about sexism when it favors women? Why aren't you picketing women's sports tournaments? What about the disproportionate number and quality of hair/beauty products for women compared to men? Is that sexist double standard? What about the disproportionate amount of medical funding for women's causes as opposed to men's causes?

What about this? Why are short females allowed to be newscasters why generally, male newscaster have to be taller? Is that sexism against men?

If hair smoothness is what we have to cry about, then it's proof enough that there really aren't any serious problems with sexism anymore. Isn't it exhausting?
Watched a video. That looks close. However I think they used just some cheap particle effect.
> From a consumer’s standpoint, Apple seems so shortsighted and completely out of touch with what people love (not jut like), want and desire.

Consider for a moment that it's actually you that's out of touch with what people love, want, and desire.

They sold like 200 million iPhones in 2017. Hard to believe that they don't know what consumers want.
I've heard of it but never heard a compelling reason to try it. Until your statement: I'm now very interested.
Why Bother with Recurrent Neural Networks for Structured Data?
Ask HN: Why must interviewing for a developer role be so asinine?
I've been having the hardest damn time to get employed. Here's my latest experience for one company:

1) Phone screen involving being asked programming trivia.

2) Project I submitted (had an 8 hour time limit) and another problem through Codility.

3) Phone tech interview on Collabedit involving a LeetCode problem. Besides that, Collabedit's UI has always been broken to me; I can not see what I'm typing, because there's an autofill popup over where I'm typing all the time.

4) Three references required.

5) Finally the onsite. Two whiteboarding sessions, including more LeetCode, cause knowing LC is important for working on legacy Java systems. I can't tell whether it's a requirement to be bubbly and everything; it sucks to be an introvert these days. Finally, it's so hard considering I have a speech impediment problem that scales up with anxiety and have a vision disability.

After doing great, if not perfect, I was rejected at the onsite step due to "bad fit."

This wasn't even for a coast or tech company. There were other red flags I discovered as I got deeper into the interview process.

Aside from all that, I had to pay $100 to get there, when I'm unemployed and have $0 to my name. This was a large company, and in the past other companies such as Visa told me I'm not allowed to use the reimbursement form because I live within 50 miles.
I'm fascinated by the fact that people believe those tapes existed in the first place (secretly), and then when people ask about them, they are "lost".
There are already plenty of circular Android Wear, so it's far from impossible.
They file a case, and ask for a preliminary injunction. And once that's granted (which is likely), they take that order to customs, and customs will start looking for those devices in shipments from your supplier or to you.
The problem is individuals aren't objective. They're biased. You need other people to tell you when you're wrong. At least in part.
I'm not tu sure regarding the start up scene in particular, and thus can only provide my 5 cents on European business culture in general.

First, Europe is not, historically, the center of consumerism. Most smaller companies, the famous Gean Mittelstand for example, which is usually run by the founder focuses on corporate customers (apart from small electrician and construction companies and the like). So the whole infrastructure and financing through banks is comfortable with these companies. I could imagine this spreads even to VCs to a certain degree.

Second, at least in Germany, we don't have a great failure culture. Esentially, you fail once and you are burned. Unless you are well conected in the corporate and political spheres. Which again makes launching B2B endevours less risky.

In the end that means that B2B become somewhat a strength of European companies. But that is juat my opinion.

As one counter example to the above, Germans did come up with Flixbus.
I'm sure many have seen this, but this was clarifying for me: https://i.imgur.com/1zUUPGh.jpg

Yes, the notch introduced unfortunate design headaches, but it maximizes utility given current technology. I think if you took those pixels away, most existing iphone X users would object.
Great fun game! This tech would work great for a top-down whitewater rafting game =) or even a Canoe slalom game (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canoe_slalom)
Do you mean log segments then? In that case I don't see what's special about it because that's just rolling files and all of these systems can handle millions that way.

As far as millions of topics, if you have to do it at a logical layer yourself, then you might as well use a system that supports it natively.
I'd say that rust crashes early in a strict superset of when C crashes early.

The case where rust fails to crash early is you have are using indexes into an array as a pseudo pointer, but you've "freed" the object you wanted to use and put another (of the exact same type) in it's place. If you do the same with malloc/free in C you also aren't going to crash early. But in C you can also fail to crash early because of things like "and now an object of a different type is in it's place".
Nothing will come out of this. If people think it's OK to track adults it'll be OK to track kids.
Making a hash of things: changing the comment character in Git commit messages
You're breaking the guidelines a lot and if this continues we'll ban the account.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
"Don't be evil" was one of the most successful pieces of feel good propaganda I've ever seen from any corporation. People still regularly quote it as "proof" that Google is an altruistic entity which only spies on you to "provide you with a better experience" and "change the world" (with "for the better" being implied).

It's amazing how easy it is to get the majority of people to completely shut down their critical thinking abilities. In this case, it only took 3 words.
I had a TI-83. Yes, the resolution was terrible by modern standards. The contrast was fine until the batteries started to die.

If I didn’t already have way too much on my personal to-do list, I’d be interested in converting an LCD with a backlight into a reflective one. I assume it’s not possible with all models, but also that it is possible with some.
There was quite of bit of discussion about this last year. The goal was to activate the cold water bubble/mist field around a 1000 miles from the shore. The theory is that before the storm hits warm shallow waters that increase the strength of the storm, the cold mist could collapse the thermal convection turning a major hurricane into a tropical storm at landfall.
Astronomers have discovered that black holes can burp up 'ghost stars'
Warren Buffett on why the next financial crisis is unavoidable: Greed
Works for me (tm) in Firefox 61.0.1 (64 Bit, Linux)
Believable escalation path concerns might be what prevents a war in the first place though.
I developed a board game, this is what I learned
Vulnerability Disclosure in Aadhaar
As an amateur Lisp enthusiast, flipping through newLISP's introductory material, I found "Comparison to Common Lisp and Scheme" [0] a fascinating read.

[0] http://www.newlisp.org/index.cgi?page=Differences_to_Other_L...
https://doc.rust-lang.org/nomicon/print.html

Rust is otherwise quite permissive with respect to other dubious operations. Rust considers it "safe" to:

Deadlock

Have a race condition

Leak memory

Fail to call destructors

Overflow integers

Abort the program

Delete the production database

However any program that actually manages to do such a thing is probably incorrect. Rust provides lots of tools to make these things rare, but these problems are considered impractical to categorically prevent.
Children have two legs, dogs and cats have four.
Nah, people are going to stop complaining about the jack by the end of the year.

Using a lightning adapter is pretty painless. People just don't like change and love to complain.
There are 3 types of phishing emails:

1) information harvesting

2) malware delivery

3) trust abuse social engineering

For 1), don't use passwords other than to protect private keys,in-browser dlp protection can help leakage of other PII. Alternatively,invest heavily in MFA.

For 2), there already strong mitigations like attachment whitelisting but my idea is to allow email attachments to ne saved to,written to and read from an execution restricted file path(even temp files. noexec on *nix and SRP on windows). Of course app whitelisting is ideal solution which mitigates drive-by download/web phish infections as well.

For 3), don't use email for communicating trust or authorization of change. Plenty of other alternatives (mostly e2e messaging and call apps) but it is more important to have an established protocol(e.g.: call back using listed number X and confirm with another call to Y before changing banking info or transfering money).
I agree. SGML/XML was invented for representing and editing semistructured text, not as generic data serialization format. In markup text, attributes are for data that isn't to be rendered itself, but for specifying how rendering should be performed and other things (how CSS fans thought it would be a good idea to make up an entire new ad-hoc language for this purpose, then reclaiming "HTML is for content not presentation" is another discussion). But the NoXML/JSON folks haven't really come up with a widely used alternative to eg. XML Schema (which isn't surprising since JavaScript isn't statically typed). The majority of the work where standardization of message payloads is useful (such as for parties in e-Commerce) has already been carried out. The world hasn't and couldn't have waited for JSON to become a viable alternative. Besides, what makes JSON so practical - that it is schema-less - is exactly the reason it isn't a good fit for describing upfront protocols for long-term multi-party data exchange.
Because in Europe no one has made money from consumer facing businesses.

European investors are all ex-banking / private equity spread sheet modelling morons who do not understand risk capital and are looking for risk free bets.

When you have this lens u eschew anything that can harm you holding onto your career. That is why.

B2B businesses have a very clear path to revenue / margin / profit.

A B2C business is effectively a punt, yes a punt, US VCs arent some sort of fucking oracles. If you look at the analysis Social Capital did for who backed the biggest co's at the series a level its effectively spread evenly so there is no "science" here.
Get in on the Sale of Yourself
You could have just installed F-Droid and use the apps from there...I mean, I don't see how "taking away features" is a reason FOR a product.

I understand that critical aspect but being faced with an IPhone that is unable to sync mails from the exchange server for several OS versions already is what I'd consider a critical issue and problem. I never had anything like that with the Android or other relevant "not working" issues. I have no idea what people do with their phones to really "break" it.

Edit: I still wonder how people who intentionally switched away from Android take the missing back-button and the continues search for the function within the apps. It's either right or left, called differently every time. Sometimes it's not even there...
Show HN: Jest – Delightful JavaScript Testing
Immigration is a huge elephant in the room here. Sweden has admitted an enormous number of immigrants from the Middle East and Africa. If you don't correct for that, your results will be meaningless.
Scalable 10 Gbps TCP/IP Stack Architecture for Reconfigurable Hardware (2015) [pdf]
We're working on providing a list of these data brookes (companies that provide no value to you but still collect and sell your data) so that you can easily it out of them.
Whoa! A flying Segway, 30 years before the Segway!
Highway – A Modern JavaScript Transitions Manager
Yeah PowderToy springs to mind.
Thomas Paine also started a deistic religion during the French Revolution-

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theophilanthropy