skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We can create life in a lab. And we also create new realities on a computer. How long before we create a new reality in a lab and life on a computer?
Awesome! This would be handy and can avoid the heavy sourcetree (atleast on windows!)
It's not like someone sends an anonymous text message to them and they immediately publish it. They start investigating based on that tip.
Great video, thanks!

I'll add that based on their last earnings call it sounded like they learned a lot from xmas 2017. Now they're introducing new models every year and at lower price points. Competition is one reason. Also, saturation is probably why we see that $100 trade-in credit for any old digital camera. There is a slight premium to pay, but in a lot of cases I think it's worth it for waterproofing, build quality, software stability, etc.

Their stock has really tumbled but I think they've figured out the formula now and the stock will probably turn around in 2019 after the xmas sales numbers are in.
Samsung just launched a phone with a triple-lens camera
I had the same idea: a lightweight variant of Electron, that just uses WKWebView for the GUI and JavaScriptCore for the core functionality, passing messages between them (serializing via JSON).

I have a proof of concept already, but it's not cross-platform so that's a major downside, and I don't think many people need the combination of (1) Mac-only, (2) lightweight, (3) using JS for the core logic, (4) using web views for the GUI. I just don't think there's a market for that.
I'm sure this was in the works well before Safari/iOS 11 implemented the majority of the PWA standard, but can someone help me understand what the target market is for this in 2018?

We just built a ground-up PWA and users LOVE it (Android/iOS, tablet/phone/PC).

Why complicate and slow your programming + production software down by trying to XP?
> If anyone thinks there is a chance that they could use my help, please do let me know.

A) How much time per day would you honestly put in if someone offered you something?

B) You should be more specific about what kind of development work you can do, and show at least 1 example of past work.
Sorry, I meant "vertebrates with brains"
What kind of person sends an innocent man to prison just to score a win in a case?

Someone with no skin in the game.
This is easy to internalize when you remember that humans can tell the difference between 30fps and 60fps which is one frame every ~33ms vs every ~17ms
If only code as sloppily written as this article could have been submitted to Torvalds some months ago, the email would have been worth reading.
Unless they can verify it some other way, I highly doubt any reputable journalist would publish something like that. When a journalists publishes something based on a source that wishes to stay anonymous they are putting their career and reputation on the line.
Does this device support U2F?
'Incognito Mode' in Chrome Might Become 'Private Mode' Soon
Awesome, somewhat speculative and philosophical science book on this topic: Other Minds by Peter Godfrey

Wiki - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Other_Minds:_The_Octopus,_th...

Review - https://www.theguardian.com/books/2017/mar/15/other-minds-pe...
it does say "from the makers of Sublime Text" in the title and on the page immediately under the title...
Reminds me of:

"No wireless. Less space than a nomad. Lame."
I found this which is pretty close to what is described:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=209&v=ZU_2CzHnbd...
> Creativity is additive — even if you only do something small, it still matters.

This is a wonderful quote, which I'll probably steal. (Is it original to you?) Thank you!
Does that mean we should have SETI looking into other channels?
From the post:

> One of the most exciting opportunities the Librem Key opens up to us is in integrating with our tamper-evident Heads BIOS to provide cutting-edge tamper-evident security but in a convenient package that doesn’t exist anywhere else.

...

> We have worked with Nitrokey to add a custom feature to our Librem Key firmware specifically for Heads. This custom firmware along with a userspace application allows us to store the shared secret from the TPM on the Librem Key instead of on a phone app. Then when Heads boots, if the BIOS hasn’t been tampered with the TPM will unlock its copy of the shared secret, and Heads will send the 6-digit code over to the Librem Key. If the code matches what the Librem Key itself generated, it flashes a green light. If the codes don’t match, it flashes a red light.
Intravenous bag spiking does not cause time-dependent microbial contamination
Is It Time to Get Rid of Time?
Isn't keras just a high level API for various NN backends such as tensorflow and theano? Counting it as its own category seems silly.
@jskinner can we run the 3-way merge tool from command line, i.e to set it as a `git mergetool` ?
I didn't say "controlled" I said "coordinated with" implying a partnership.

We know from the Clinton and Podesta e-mail leaks (remember their content?!? it was kind of important) that ABC, CBS, NBC, MSNBC, NYT, Bloomberg, and Politico all had "journalists" amenable to planting or slanting stories. These weren't just op-ed pieces either.
First iPhone XS teardown – more watertight seals, single-cell L-shaped battery
That's definitely a brilliant idea. I wish Jon like this one.
I believe Signal and Wire are both clearly superior alternatives when it comes to privacy and trust. Both are easy to use for non-technical people.
Your remarks sound fairly woo, yet not.

Most of the folks who are, say, antivaxxers firmly believe that metals, pesticides and other chemicals are a primary cause of chronic illness. The reality is that chemicals of that sort concentrate in fat stores in animals and get worse the further up the food chain you go.

It is one of the better arguments for eating vegetarian.
I've been pretty happy with SourceTree, despite a few minor annoyances. What missing features are you thinking of?
Metadata is surveillance. And in almost all cases, is more invasive than content. People are convicted all of the time of evidence based on metadata.

Apple's very good at winning over the public and implementing something like this and have it accepted en masse.
Ruby and Rails were big at the time, and those communities really took to Git. There was kind of a competition between them and Python, so maybe that had some influence on not picking Mercurial/Bazaar, but regardless I think it wasn't as grounded in technical points as we'd like to think.
I figured, before I looked at the article, that Mr. Dixon was black. I guessed that while reading the article, he was going to be accused of being involved with drugs. The DA in the article did so without proof. The statement is alarming, as it is suggesting that although he didn't do the crime that they convicted him of, he was certainly guilty of something, regardless of the lack of evidence presented. Based on statistics of people in prison by race, the differences in prison sentencing by race, and the amount of actual crime committed by race, I'm assuming that this is not an uncommon occurrence in the United States.

"The New Jim Crow" should probably just be required reading at this point.
I mean, the license could have a nondisclosure/confidentiality agreement, right?

That wouldn't be a full substitute for copyright though. For example, if they broke the contract and distributed the code I don't think you could prevent other people from distributing it further.
I wonder how he'd have fared if he'd drawn anything other than gold courses.
should be considered 'cruel and unusual' on an innocent man in light of the circumstances. Unfortunately, the founders didn't specifically spell out how to handle a 21th century for-profit prison system in the Constitution, so no go with 'Originalist' judges.
Do people actually go back and look at all these pictures and videos of themselves?

Yes. To counter this, let me ask you: what's with people who don't enjoy the hobby of photographing and recording things always making the absurd assumption that those who do illogically never have a later use for such media? Why do you try to frame people with different interests as literally insane?

Outside of a controlled studio, it may take hundreds of photographs to get one really good one. With video, you never know when something interesting will happen (e.g. dash, helmet, and security cameras), so the more continuous the recording, the better.

Incidentally, as someone who likes photographing things, I consistently remember events and recall details of places visited better than my camera-eschewing friends. The camera is a tool that increases my engagement.
OMG. All I have to say is thank you.
> Many prosecutors and police officers feel that, even if you weren't guilty of this crime, you were probably guilty of something

You are right, the prosecutors feel that way. From the article:

But despite Mr Dixon's exoneration, prosecutors say he did provide the murder weapon, which they described as a machine gun.

They also said he was an "up-and-coming drug dealer" in Buffalo at the time of his arrest.

"Mr Dixon is innocent of the shooting and of the murder for what he was found guilty of, but Mr Dixon brought the gun to the fight," said the district attorney.
Riding the NYC subway is surreal these days. The majority (not a guess, an observation) of people are spending 30-60 minutes each way experiencing waves of desire, envy, and jealousy by scrolling through Instagram. It's like science fiction.
[cw: tangential point]

> This is the JavaScript equivalent of death by a thousand cuts.

Seems to me there's one really big knife in particular, doling out most of the cuts: https://i.imgur.com/Hzrfq13.png

I wonder what analytics platform is contributing all this slow-down to his first interaction... ;)
As an extremely-low-frequency user of Coinbase's services, I personally wouldn't really care if, when they make necessary crypto trades to liquidate commissions or maintain requested customer/index-fund holdings, they used their proprietary position to get a slightly-better deal.

They have to make their profits somehow. And, the ultimate check on their profits is competitive offerings. Thus a slight profit here may just help them charge less elsewhere, in the fees I explicitly pay. (I can see how a professional or high-frequency trader would feel differently, though.)

But, a further clarification from Coinbase has confirmed my skepticism of the nefarious interpretation of the "20% volume" statistic. The 20% figure s driven by trades at the direction of of customers, not for Coinbase itself. See:

https://blog.coinbase.com/correcting-the-record-coinbase-doe...
That seems like it's going to increase your odds of being ticketed. Having been pulled over twice and not ticketed that seems like a significant sacrifice.
She may be extremely magnanimous about it, but didn't they give the prize for J.B.B's work to her supervisor who had told her that the signals were terrestrial?

The peace prize was corrupt from the start. I am, for an atheist, a great believer in redemption, but I do not believe it comes from sticking your own name on a big cash prize for the good works of other people, hence the (unpopular it seems, I must have missed the 'No Stairway' sign) Led Zeppelin reference I made elsewhere in this thread.

I am not sure about the Dylan thing, literature is a tricky thing to judge at the best of times and I am admittedly biased, as the second verse of Subterranean Homesick Blues is one of my favourite sentences;

Maggie comes fleet-foot, face full of black soot, talking that the heat put plants in the bed, but the phones tapped anyway, Maggie said that many say they must bust in early May, orders from the D.A.
What are these keys used for? Is it for 2FA? I would love to use my phone for 2FA, and not have to carry an usb device with me, because

- I often log in to web services on my phone, and I don't have an usb adapter cable with me to use the key, and

- because having to carry a device always with me sounds cumbersome. My phone is always with me anyways.

Is there some other use case I am overlooking? I am eagerly awaiting browser vendors to implement these use cases: https://w3c.github.io/webauthn/#use-cases
Octopuses on MDMA reveal genetic evolution link to human social behaviors
It uses gentoi hardened? Get ready for tons of breakage.
Actually, I was sceptical to begin, and I agree that it is not an in-depth article, but I think the general principles outlined are good ones for someone to follow.
Looks like hardware wise that's true, but from the article they've added what looks like a challenge response type mode that the key informs you about (based off totp?) so that you can say that the bios has validated itself to the key.

We have worked with Nitrokey to add a custom feature to
our Librem Key firmware specifically for Heads. This
custom firmware along with a userspace application allows
us to store the shared secret from the TPM on the Librem
Key instead of on a phone app. Then when Heads boots, if
the BIOS hasn’t been tampered with the TPM will unlock
its copy of the shared secret, and Heads will send the
6-digit code over to the Librem Key. If the code matches
what the Librem Key itself generated, it flashes a green
light. If the codes don’t match, it flashes a red light.

I can't say I know how secure or safe this is going to be without examining it in detail myself (and even then i'm an amateur at cryptography stuff) but it sounds like a good start to things.
Aung San Suu Kyii's contempt for human rights is nothing new. I referenced this behavior in 2013 in fr.wikipedia :

« How can Aung San Suu Kyi – a Nobel Peace Prize winner – fail to condemn anti-Muslim violence? », The Daily Telegraph,‎ 2013-10-24, http://archive.wikiwix.com/cache/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fblogs.tel...

« Aung San Suu Kyi is turning a blind eye to human rights in the name of politics », The Guardian,‎ 2013-11-26 https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/nov/27/aung-s...

I had to "fight" to add these to wikipedia. My first edits were revoked. When the first accusation of genocide appeared in 2016,there was a editing conflict because I added a paragraph about the Rohingya in the top summary. I finally was allowed to put a single sentence about it, which was preceded by another sentenced explaining that Suu Kyi was powerless against the army. I certainly wasn't very tactful, and I lack experience on such conflicts, but that made me extremely distrustful of every Wikipedia article.
Louis CK made a splash a few years ago by completely avoiding ticketmaster. While a live band is very different than a stand up, I feel like if bands cared they could try something very similar.

https://www.csmonitor.com/Business/2012/0628/Louis-C.K.-Comi...
The mind blowing thing is that it actually works, and with rand(0,1), it'll get you results with only 10 guesses (though it's a bit cheating haha).

Fun fact: a policy of [1,2,3,4] will solve the game.

When I started off the article, I was thinking of doing some kind of evolutionary-based policy search but turns out none of that is even necessary.

I hope to have a more technical follow up w/ deeper analysis and hopefully another one that goes into harder games where random guessing is okay, but there are more "sample efficient" methods.
Its not i386 that's the issue, it's the ABI
I remember reading in one of the Wikipedia articles on US Military mess kits that the United States is the only military that doesn't expect troops to forage at least some of their food. (This was relevant to the article because that resulted in some of the mess kit designs being optimized for cafeteria style serving) Of course normal considerations about the accuracy of Wikipedia may apply.
What other measures are in the works, since this is only part? I'm excited to see more widespread adoption of privacy technology. Thank you for listening to our complaints, genuinely happy to see progress on this front.
If you don't understand why someone would buy a GoPro-type camera instead of just using their iPhone then you are probably well outside of the target market. In addition to the mobile phone form factor being unsuitable for a wide number of commonly used camera placements, an iPhone would not survive a single average day of filming PoV freeride mountain biking or skiing/snowboarding.
The YouTube codec did some wild stuff with that slow-mo flying mulch at the beginning... any video experts around that can explain?
Good thing normal people love being irritated by senseless popups.
Well designed language! I particularly like that you took great features from Haxe such as Abstracts. So far i didn't see any WTF!?'s in the language syntax, which is rare these days. People these days can get too inventive when designing new languages. I like that you kept things readable (looking at you Rust :) . Nice work!
Andrew Chen on Startup Growth: Zero-To-One vs. One-To-N
This is an excellent general framework for upping your game in software development within the context of a decent sized software engineering organization. I've stumbled my way into much of this advice over the past 2-3 years.

One caveat is that much of the advice is predicated on having a supportive environment.

For Example,
> Application development is a team sport. Period. Full stop.

What if you work in an environment where people primarily work on their own? I have done a lot of that in the past.

> For many, the best way to learn is to teach.

What if there aren't feasible opportunities to teach or your management pushes a pace that makes it not plausible?

> Create side projects

There are managers that support the idea of doing side project but not the execution.

I'm sure you can find more examples of suggestions that aren't plausible in your environment.

Here is my answer to these examples, I wasn't just complaining. If you don't have opportunities to fulfill sections of this framework that you feel you are lacking in, do it anyway. If your manager tells you not to spend time learning and improving ignore them. Do it anyway.

You might say, "that's fine for you Mr. internet commenter, but I'm the one that has to take the risk". Well, that's true but I've already done it. Here were my results.

Did exactly what my management asked me to do for two straight years. All reviews for two years were "Meets expectations" with a long list of things I should improve.

One year ago, I read a book with an abhorrent title but good information "stealing the corner office"

I stopped listening to what my manager told me to do and instead I picked up random side projects with little to no perceived business value for my team, spent 10x more time reading code and made commits in projects I shouldn't be working on, and started spending a lot more time understanding basic fundamentals of software engineering.

Have had "exceeds expectations" on every review since and glowing praise.

It's counter-intuitive but, don't give the people what they ask for, give them what they want!

Note: I got a bit carried away on this comment, I should have mentioned that in reality I spend 10 - 20 % of my time working rogue, and the rest of my time doing what my boss tells me.
He might have gotten away without any change in personality if he'd avoided the subsequent infection...
So you are saying other countries are "just as bad" when it comes to imprisoning innocents? I don't see how that is even possible given that the incarceration rate in the US is so much higher.
I got used to it surprisingly quickly.
> And finally, I believe that on general principles of fairness, such blatant errors should be voidable.

If they’re voidable when the house loses, then they must be void ab initio and refunded when the house wins, otherwise it's a system of fraudulently inducing bets.

I'm surprised your “general principles of fairness” are so biased in favor of the party with more power and control.

> You win if FanDuel ever pays this bettor the full $82,610 – whether due to public outcry or any action by relevant legal authorities. I win if the bettor accepts a settlement for less, such as the tokens-of-apology that FanDuel has already offered.

That's a bad bet, because even if FanDuel legally owes the full amount and the trial outcome was somehow not in any doubt by the claimant, settlement for less because reimbursement of costs is not guaranteed to the victor in US civil process would still be a normal outcome.
> Ethically, I would turn your question around: Why do I get to control other people's actions that don't affect me? Why should I be able to sell that control or hand it down to my heirs? It's not clear what that argument could be.

All ownership is a right to "control other peoples' actions." What "fundamental right" does a farmer have to keep people from picking ears of corn off his field? Surely the farmer can't stop someone from exercising their natural right to grab whatever is laying around in nature for their own sustenance?

And infringement does "affect" the copyright owner, just as much as taking an ear of corn from a farmer's field. It reduces the market value of an economically valuable resource that the person created through their own labor. The response of "taking the ear of corn from the farmer leaves him with one less ear of corn" while copying a song does not seems like an ethically irrelevant distinction to me. The farmer doesn't care about possessing the corn. The only thing he cares about is how much he can sell his corn crop for, and the fact that someone taking an ear of corn reduces his income. Likewise, infringement reduces the money a content creator can get for having created a song or movie or book.

In both cases, what's lost is opportunities to make a sale. In the case of the corn, it's one lost opportunity per ear of corn (the stolen ear is one you can't sell to anyone), while in the case of the song, it's a fractional lost opportunity per copy (some of the people who get a copy would have bought it). That a difference of degree, not one of fundamental morality.
From what I can tell, the first HN post referencing Bitcoin is this one from February 3, 2009, about a month after its initial release: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=463793
For sources and journalists looking for more advice on how to manage both digital and physical security on the go. We built an open source app with simple lessons on it. Big update and iOS on the way.

https://secfirst.org/umbrella/
Yes, it will be cross platform, it's all part of the move of Office to React, see this whole Twitter thread [0] from Sean Larkin:

> And here's ReactXP which is baked in to Skype (consumer) to make it possible to ship cross plat and single code base native applications with consistent UI

[0]: https://twitter.com/TheLarkInn/status/1006857447364063232
...ham and pineapple...

You monster! (Kidding, although I don't think I'll ever understand Hawaiian pizza)
> I'm not sure why you trust Google Web "Fundamentals" that 0-100ms is perceived as instant.

Those numbers go back to the studies Jakob Nielsen did at the Sun Microsystems usability lab and the results posted in his oft cited AlertBox articles from 1993 and 1997...

https://www.nngroup.com/articles/website-response-times/
No one really keeps github releases up to date. If you look at their package.json, 1.40-rc.2 was released 5 days ago.
Orthogonal content that inspired me to finally get serious about learning functional programming, and led me to Erlang: http://sijinjoseph.com/programmer-competency-matrix/

Sure, it's flawed, but isn't everything?
reactxp on NPM was last published 5 days ago. It seems they stopped publishing releases to github.

https://www.npmjs.com/package/reactxp
EU investigating Amazon's usage of third party sales data against them
There's but a fine line between generative algorithms used for the purposes of arts and entertainment

and those used for programming itself.

Formerly referred to as meta-programming

generative programming is the art of writing programs that help generate programs

sort of a way of extending the idea of the tool as in programming tool

beyond its current rather static avatar that consists merely of a rather lifeless IDE