skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If society celebrated math and science, there is a huge cast of heroes to draw from that period to tell an amazing range of stranger-than-fiction true stories. When you read the real story, Cryptonomicon seems comically small minded in comparison.
Sure, I am familiar with them all (there's another decent Rust cpp gen one too). That's what I was alluding to with "I am aware of many efforts in many languages that just use the C++ API directly by essentially building their own C API layer." Unfortunately each binding has to do this themselves because there's not a blessed C API.
Rust does not have a stable ABI.
Actually the regulations already prescribe additional capital requirements for larger institutions, the so called SIFI.
There's a guy who did a drug abuse study on rats but not locked in cages. his theory was that being locked in a cage was different than being in a social environment. So he built a habitat where rats could socialize with each other, use hamster wheels, and run around obstacles.

In this population he found that almost NONE of the rats did harmful amounts of the narcotics-laced water. (He was using opiates as his "drug of choice.")

So his theory is that a) many animal models of addiction are wrong because they use animals in very confined spaces b) maybe people who feel "trapped" in their life are more prone to developing addiction, and we should be treating addiction as a social disease.
How does this work exactly? Did they have some kind of device that allowed them to record a single frame to video tape at a time?
who said anything about phone apps?
Because unless there's a tv or radio station involved, there's not a lot to stand on here in the last 50 years.

Translation: We just fell through the cracks because of the technological specificity of older laws. Time for new laws.
no talk about antitrust/ breaking it up?
DDG has a fanbase that, like most, is not immune from cognitive dissonance.
>>> go for a car that has a whole community around it like an 'R' or 'GTR' or 'M', things like that because again, people want those car badly and would do anything to get one cheaper than brand new.

+10
>Spotify often suggests me songs I already like but haven't listened to on the platform

This is exactly why I like Pandora, to the point of it being eerie at times.

Like that one time when I was listening to a Trans Am[1] CD in my car, and thought - well, I've listened to that disk enough times already; let's listen to something new on Pandora -- and it gave me that exact track, while the band never popped up on any of my stations before!

The band was not a station seed, and it's not a band with a huge presence either - I got their CD randomly somewhere.

I know it's a coincidence, but just goes to show how well their algorithms are tuned.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trans_Am_(band)
What is a Stablecoin?
There are amazing ideas popping on ShaderToy.
French expat on the west coast here, I totally agree with you on the social stigma of being a "rank-and-file" developer.
Why do you want to give them cryptocurrency rather than the fiat currency that they’d find much more useful?
I considered using it, tried registering but had some issues. Tried reaching out to them but it seems like there is absolutely no way to contact them (other than their twitter, which looks somewhat abandoned).

This made me pretty suspicious, but especially since https://keybase.io/support is just another user claiming to be Keybase support. That's a huge red flag in my book, more so for a security product.

I don't know, but for me this didn't really inspire much confidence.
Survey: Half of U.S. Adults Cool with Robots Making Their Food
I wonder if they 'd offer to send their lawyer if the chinese had asked.
Seeing the world in autopilot part deux (Tesla Breakdown)
I don't think it's arbitrary. You're paying for the (vehicle, driver) time and distance and the closer your are to vehicle the shorter the trip. If the vehicle is far enough away to make it vary greatly just cancel. The seemingly arbitrary charges and price volatility are not supposed to start until after you're in the vehicle. This may just be a bug.
Related to your comment re: pace of releases, it's also possible that their publisher was pushing them to grind out titles as fast as possible.

I used to work for another studio with the same publisher.
> Even on small scales, deceit and conspiracy are rare.

Yeah, I mean imagine if Apple had a track record of leading a multi-company effort to illegally suppress staff salaries. Could never happen.
Have you ever developped anything serious with swift ? Honestly, this is by far the best language i've developped in (including go, java, c#).

Note that i'm talking about the language here. The libs are of various quality. But powerful enums & switch + null safety + generics while retaining the ability to be learned easily by any "regular" developer makes it a category of its own.

My secret hope is that someone somewhere is working on a flutter equivalent coded in swift.
Then do it you wont unless your DNA thinks the reward you get for validating your assumptions is greater then the consequences of your actions. Likewise for the person your debating. That's why internet debates are so much worse than in person way less consequence for your actions.
BMW 3 series is not for me. Too small, stiff ride, not plush enough. 5 and X series lease (for 24 months) is actually higher than entry level Mercedes which I felt was a lot nicer for a little more money.
> Doesn't your own link say that there is a ~2.6 times higher likelihood of violent offenses in schizophrenia compared to the General Population?

No.

It tells us that people who are mentally ill are about as violent as the general population unless they also have substance abuse.

> it also says this is not to be used as a baseline for studies but if Schizophrenia is commonly co-morbid with substance abuse then pointing out that mental illness doesn't increase violence by much seems like a red-herring

When trying to predict risk of violence knowing that someone has schizophrenia tells you almost nothing. Knowing they have substance misuse tells you a bit more.

And knowing that people with schizophrenia are not more violent than the general population means community treatment is easier to provide.
Not quite sure if it fits within the idea of complete privacy but Whatsapp is available for KaiOS.

https://blog.whatsapp.com/10000649/WhatsApp-for-JioPhone-on-...
I don't see what intersectionality or feminism have to do with smaller government.
This looks like a big part of the story:

>As Business Insider previously reported, Palihapitiya's involvement in the firm has been inconsistent.

It definitely paints this guy as capricious and ADD about his company.
I'm inclined to think that if republicans/conservatives are seeing less republican/conservative results in their respective republican/conservative Google searches, it's probably the result of republican/conservative webmasters who don't fully understand SEO.
What is Gary doing in Mozilla?
Except they're announcing a feature freeze for november 2018, so unless something major happens i don't think we'll get any surprise here..
> I suppose it makes sense as a Mozilla project, but what does it have to do with the browser?

Those are my thoughts as well. Mozilla is like Google, and Firefox is like Chrome. If Google had introduced such a service, it would have be called Google Monitor, not Chrome Monitor. Because it has nothing to do with a web browser.
I'd like to see a source on that.
Yes. The thing with Youtube is that it only can use one song as a seed, whereas with a Pandora station, you use multiple positive and negative seeds to trim the station to your taste.

It's like comparing weeds growing in your backyard to a carefully trimmed bonsai tree.

However, I'd go to Youtube for hand-picked playlists. There's always a place for that.
Implying that Google is operating on American liberal values. I guess this depends on the definition of liberal values a lot.
Agreed, but you can use those from Python, through pywin32 and (for a few rare things that are missing in the former) ctypes.

(If you're on Windows. On Linux, Qt could be considered native. On Mac there is PyObjC. )
iClusterPlus+source:+R/iClusterBayes.R
Thanks as always for your good work. :)
Qualcomm's ridiculousness with things like CDMA set back the American wireless industry almost a decade.
This should be a slide deck for startup school, or any product management course.

So many of these seem like obviously terrible ideas, and yet, these are what happens when you design products without customers.

You can see where some of them were just derivations of other companies design languages, where others were the expression of one meaninglessly novel idea (the catamaran car). Some of them you can see the thing they thought would be good (big windshield, aerodynamics, ornamentation, minimalism, quirkiness, etc), but when you tried to wrap a car around that idea, it was uncanny and un-car-like.

For each of these abominations, there are software and startup analogs, I'm sure of it.
I don't know. But I would speculate that if such an effect existed it would be tied to a shared financial outcome for the pair vs two unrelated people cohabiting.

There should also be a secondary effect on savings (if they were combined) where the compounding of interest would work more effectively on a larger principle.
If you can't get it directly (I can't), there is an archive available at https://web.archive.org/web/20180925210033/https://blogs.dro...
Don't they take a cut from any transaction in the Play store?

In stores around here, you can buy gift cards with a Google logo on it (play store credit). That's about as direct a way of giving them money as i can think of.
There are microphones in cars. This allows:

* create audio content hashes, then send them

* process audio on the car, then send the results

* send all the audio unencrypted to "the cloud"
wow, after all these years, the Java syntax for

print(fetch("https://winterbe.com"))

is still this behemoth:

var request = HttpRequest.newBuilder()
.uri(URI.create("https://winterbe.com"))
.GET()
.build();
var client = HttpClient.newHttpClient();
HttpResponse<String> response = client.send(request, HttpResponse.BodyHandlers.ofString());
System.out.println(response.body());
!?

One can argue about taste, but how can anyone defend such uuuuuuuuurgh?
We actually started with a local storage approach too during the first 1,5 year we worked on History Search. The reason why this approach failed is due to the size of the application—it to large have for mainstream devices. If you're interested I've written about our journey more here: https://medium.com/@martijnverbove/moments-before-success-or...

I like what Worldbrain is doing but their extension is a prototype. As you will notice they support plain-text search (similar to ctrl-f), and History Search is full-text search and won't impact your device's CPU load or memory.

On their website they mention their next version will be cloud-based too. This is not to spy on people but because of the performance demands of a full-text search engine and the applications—this types of services also require maintenance. Just to give an impression; our search engine alone is over 3,5 GB, this doesn't include the app or databases.

What I would recommend to try them both out and see which one is best for you.
I'd say it looks like an Isetta with a massive glass front:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isetta
Ask HN: Tips for a prospective Ph.D student
I am a 25 year old guy who is going to be a PhD student in Europe. I have a bachelors in a pure engineering field (Ciivil), masters in operations Research and now my PhD is going to be in the field of Discrete Optimization. It is a three year program and I would like to solicit some advise from the community with respect to the following issues:

1) Any pitfalls that I have to avoid. My advisor is already decided and I can not change it.

2) It has been my life long dream to work for google and I think this PhD program is a good stepping stone. How can I utilize the next three years towards my preparation for a google interview?

3) Any other life advise?
Same framework as net neutrality except with speech/content instead of bandwidth. Of course, net neutrality isn't en vogue with current lawmakers.
The Swift 5 release process document specifically implies that some Swift 4 code will not compile on Swift 5. This discussion is about source compatibility, not binary compatibility, which neither Rust nor Go offer AFAIK.

The number 5 _also_ implies significant breaking changes. Otherwise, why wouldn't it be Swift 4.3?

Removing Swift 3 compatibility mode (which was part of Swift 4) is itself a major source-compatibility breaking change, even if nothing else.
> Why not just be brave and come out and say "we support these values and not those values, we are not a neutral platform, please move on to another service if you don't agree".

Presumably because telling half of your users to fuck off is a terrible financial decision?
>The real problem for startups is the lack of American style VC funding. European startups need to get profitable much earlier than US startups.

This is a common refrain, but the reality is that VC is both out of reach and not the right fit for the vast majority of US ventures. Likewise, knowing the number of firms that get VC but will collapse anyway, I often wonder if it is a benefit that in other countries there is a slower, more profit-driven path that would seem to build legitimate companies for the long run rather than vehicles that border on financial engineering in the name of short-term potential success.
That assumes you are marrying someone with zero resources.
He's the shot-caller. Nobody else has that much influence in the company.
Unintended pregnancy in US teens has consistently dropped by quite a bit [1], and I have to imagine that has reduced the number of "shotgun weddings" at a young age. That said, the number of unintended pregnancies by people at and below the poverty line has actually risen somehow.

[1] https://www.guttmacher.org/fact-sheet/unintended-pregnancy-u...
I posted this on #swift in freenode and they kicked me out.
You can move to Finland, they don't ask for donations here.

In fact, trying to donate gets you a "Thank you for your interest" page: https://donate.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Landi...

The legislation could use modernization, but progress is slow...
But if you have a luxury apartment, it's likely large enough for traditional furniture.
Coinbase Listing
Wasn't the post more "am I wrong?" rather than "poster is wrong"?

And the responses were useful.
Full FBI File Released on 'The Anarchist Cookbook'
Don’t believe the mice – Cosmos
Oh yeah, I was in gamedev before this and NDA process back then was quite involved. These days with the ability to run on production hardware that's a lot less restricted.

I'd say that SoC vendors are a bit more strict about NDAs vs GameDev where it was pretty wide knowledge who worked on what. Once you were in the industry there were very few secrets given how small it is.
This put a nice smile on my face. Thank you
I host my website on keybase and use git and messaging to do freelance jobs. If anyone's interested here it is https://turbocafe.keybase.pub
Java has and has always had a very high ABI compatibility.

But that's an unfair comparison since its "binary" format is non-native.
There are a lot of enterprise users on Java 7 at the moment and they are not going to move to Java 11. I just moved a company to Java 8 and it was a big thing. Not sure which one is the next "LTS" release, that will be the next target for our migrations. The biggest "feature" is G1GC in "new" Java for a lot of users based on my experience.
I'm not going to lie, after reading articles and comments like these, I appreciate living in the DC area more and more.

There is really great hiking all around, a plethora of cool people to hang out with and things to do, and it's not ridic expensive (It's just normal expensive. Maybe bordering on ridic at times).

The only thing I hate is the traffic, but it's not too hard to find a job that allows you very flexible scheduling (basically, the policy everywhere I've been is that "core hours are 10-2, be here during that time unless it's your telework day; pick a schedule and stick to it, try to make it to the office as much as possible, and work about 8 hours a day and definitely 40 hours a week.")

This allows almost anyone to optimize for their commute and get on with their lives.
The Powerhouses of the Internet Are Turning Hostile to Websites
How we’ve scaled Dropbox (2012) [video]
> FB could probably afford to foster a bunch of kittens and puppies, and allow the people dealing with horrific imagery to also take the time to hug a puppy (call it socialization) multiple times a day.

These are called emotional support animals, and they are totally a legit strategy for helping people cope with emotional trauma.

Knowing someone who used to work on their moderation/graph integrity team, whatever they're doing, it's not enough.
Example: You can't shut off somebody's electricity or water because they are a bad person, or have expressed unorthodox opinions. But you can shut off their twitter, their email, their web search, their facebook, their linked-in, stop processing payments for them (potentially cutting them off from their livelihood). You can cut them off from their digital identity and shut them out of the digital "public" in a manner of speaking. When that happens right now today, people hand-wave it away because "X is a private company they can do what they want." Never minding the fact that X has become how almost everybody addresses/interacts with the rest of the public digitally, or how X has ALL their email data, and many important documents etc Getting locked out of these things is not life threatening in the way that no water is, but it can essentially delete somebody from the "public" with almost no recourse.
So far there are only a handful of small breaking changes between -swift-version 4 and -swift-version 5 on the master branch. The only ones I can think of are a type safety hole getting plugged and some warnings for corner cases around access control that got promoted to errors.
it is worth noting that swift 3 support is being removed from swift 5.
So GOES looks to be an imagery satellite, right? And LRIT is some aspect of it's method of communication?

A few explanatory words in the title here, at the beginning of the article would really help. I'm surprised it made first page without them. The author's work is rather cool, though!
>I can tell someone's political leanings just by whether or not they think Google is biased.

If someone described my political leanings they would certainly use the words "liberal," as well as "socialist," "communist," and maybe even sometimes "anarchist." Just to save you from having to engage in Strawman or false assumptions. I'm curious what my political leanings have to do with your claim.

Do you have evidence that Google search/news/other products are "biased?" I have never seen evidence of actual evidence by the company itself demonstrating bias against conservative ideologies. I have seen plenty of evidence that for example the internet as a whole is biased against conservatives, or even really reality, but never google. I would definitely agree that the majority of employees can be described as liberal, but then again, Google's headquarters are in the Bay Area, so that's hardly Google's fault.

Here's a writeup, I am genuinely trying to find evidence of this, because nobody that believes google is censoring conservatives has been able to get it for me: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Censorship_by_Google . Check discussion and sources for lots more info.
That is compiler compatibility. I am talking about language-level compatibility.

Yes, you can continue compiling v3 code with a v4 compiler with a flag, but if you compile your v3 code without a flag, your code may fail to compile. So while there may not be a compiler breakage, there is a language breakage between v3 and v4, and apparently there will be another one between v4 and v5.
"Source compatibility" for Swift means that the compiler provides a flag with that will allow it to compiler earlier versions of Swift.
> keeping it running 24/7 involves substantial costs

So does using a cloud service. It's not actually obvious, conceptually, but very little of the admin overhead has to do with the "own hardware" aspect of running it, especially if one excludes anything that has a direct analog at a cloud service.

There certainly exist services that abstract away more of this, but that's in exchange for higher cost and lower top performance, but that doesn't scale (in terms of cost).

> Sure, if you run a solo operation, you can just get up during the night to nurse your server, but at some point that no longer makes sense to do.

I'd actually argue the reverse. My experience is that the own-hardware portion took at most a quarter of my time, and that remained constant up to several hundred servers. It's much cheaper per unit of infrastructure the more units you have.

The tools and procedures that allow that kind of efficiency were the prerequisite for cloud services to exist.
In the past, poor classes had more children then rich. Nothing new about it. Which is what comic says.
But the UI changes very rarely, and it’s out of the way most of the time; whereas the class method is always in the way in parts of code that could see a lot of day-to-day activity, migrations (py3...) and so on.
Petuum and CMU Introduce Open-Source Text Generation Toolkit Texar
You can run Lineage OS without installing gapps. It's all the Google apps, including Play, that does all the tracking. I'm not 100% certain, but I see references in the bugreport log to dm-verity so I'm pretty sure it's doing cryptographically verified boot.

And then the next question is what are the alternative store options and which is the best?

Google searching (oops! irony!) I found aptoide.com, and found they have a lot of apps: Firefox, Firefox Focus, Lastpass, Expedia, Chime Bank, etc. I don't know how their build and distribution system ensures safe binaries - didn't check it out.

I recently dropped Google Maps in favor of OsmAnd, and I'm still having growing pains. You have to download maps offline, it's not on demand. It looks like I only get 7 downloads for free. I haven't checked pricing. I'm not sure what happens if I do a phone reset, if I get a new stack of downloads or not. Local searches are super screwy, listing things like delis, pizza, hardware store, in other towns but not my own town. It's...not like Google Maps.
You know what the lowest cost of resolving a dispute is: zero. When someone files a class action that causes a business to stop some illegal behavior, I get protected and it costs me nothing. I may even receive a small check. Nobody benefits from a zero accountability environment long-term.