skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks for pointing this out!

I'm currently using a feed reader installed on my web server so that I can access and sync my feeds between all my devices (home computer, work computer and smartphone). I use Firefox on all of my devices. Do you know if there is a way to sync the Brief database on different devices to keep them in sync?
A lot of the robocallers just play a pre-recorded message asking you to call back.

That’s when the flooding works.

A lot of the scammers are just call-centres that outsource the lead generation. By flooding the call-back number, their campaign that they paid for goes down the drain.
You know, the 140 chars limit or even the fact that there should be a limit at all is arbitrary too :)
Trying to copy amazon
Are muscle cramps the source of your back pain?
It’s in the Server Key Exchange record (from memory) but i probably didn’t explain it well.
They are still required to fix things and return your money.

If someone "steals" your identity, and then shows up at the bank and withdraws your money, the bank will be on the hook for that loss, not you.
Probable April Fools joke. Posted on March 31st.
Obama started drone strikes.
"And in math papers notation is often invented on the spot. [...] It can mean whatever the author felt like that day. Maybe it's quandle product! Maybe multiplication. Who knows."

This shows another longtime insight I think I have on math, I think tool-wise we are in the stone age of math. Every formula somebody writes down should automatically be an executable program that can be debugged or at the very least that has intellisense/autocomplete/documentation pop up over its symbols. Forget executability for now but even just having a convenient way of parsing a formula, havings its notation explained to you automatically.. that would be so important.
Also I don't think that a math notation which has symbols that don't even exist on ascii keyboards should be acceptable. To me, math notation is a programming language like any other and it shouldn't be so hard to write it, find documentation for it, get autocompletion for it and to verify it.
I get that math was invented in the time of paper and pencil but we need to find a way to write math more efficiently on the computer now so we can get better and faster at it, so people can copy and paste math on the internet without having to use picture formats or specialized software to render it.
You probably agree that the vast majority of math papers are never read by more than two people, the original author and the reviewer. Imagine the alternative: Every paper could be like a programming library that should be plug&playable on the spot without even understanding it. Just hit that button on the top of the paper that reads "play" or "execute" and let's see the testcases/subproofs/partial proofs running green in a checklist. Then let's read the API docs to get which final formulas are usable to me now that you wrote this paper.
Whoever sits at these prestigious journals in my opinion is already being paid for this very job: to make sure that papers are accessible. Well to me that also means development of tooling, conventions, etc. Not just a simple online search box where you might find a whole paper via a keyword.

"Is mathematics invented, or discovered?" is a never-ending debate."

I think that this is the wrong focus because I heard this question when I was younger and it made no sense to me. The act of asking that question (often playfully, probably somehow already admitting thereby that it's a wasteful question which is surprising in itself) was confusing to me because intuitively I think we all know the answer, it's obvious. But as soon as you ask, you imply that it's an open debate and thereby create confusion. Everybody already knows the answer: Math is obviously an invention in most ways because humans invented the symbols but it's also obviously an approximation of something inherent in the universe. We may not know the exact percentages of how close we are to the universe's true inner workings but that wasn't the question anyway.

I will read your link.
Are you going to self fund the $50,000/year in hosting costs and devote time to fixing the malware problem?
I think you should have used abuse@ebay.com
Your blood oxygenation will stay at 95-99% even while in a cabin.

Metabolism in aircraft is pretty low: you’re generally sitting idle, but I think the alcohol metabolism is still constant except the terminal metabolism.

Fever is partly metabolism, but largely reduced cooling.
How does your country handle authentication? The real problem is that in the United States, social security numbers and birthdates are used as private information for authorization with all the various financial and health institutions. I'm less afraid of them being public and mostly afraid of the fact that all these institutions treat that information as private.
Do they use their own delivery in NL? All the Ikea here refer out to third party drivers that just pick up at the actual store, and are not really related.
The Smart Inhalers
I used to work downstream from groups like yours. In the data center, we would receive abuse reports and investigate. Look for 100% CPU use, or wide-open ports, or just visit the server on port 80 and see the phishing page. Then pull the nic and email the technical and administrative contacts.
Attempts have been made.

https://github.com/zv/SICP-guile

https://github.com/unindented/sicp-guile
I think the main point is that performance depends on some factors that we can reasonably expect to remain constant between races ('ability'), and others that are likely to vary quasi-randomly between races ('luck').

Those names are imperfect but the underlying logic is sound: the winner of a race is relatively likely to have both high 'ability' in himself, and higher 'luck' than usual for that particular race. In the next race, his 'ability' will remain high, but he will probably have roughly average luck.
Thanks for the link -- this does look really nice. But I do think the fact that they resort to using LaTeX-generated images for text [1] (as you mentioned) sort of proves my point that the existing implementations of this sort of format aren't really flexible enough for a lot of scientific papers yet.

However, I admit this could be a reasonable way for even impatient and stubborn researchers to publish papers, given the right implementation. I'll withdraw my initial arrogant "I can tell you that ..." :P

[1] http://www.cs.utah.edu/plt/scope-sets/model.html#%28part._.S...
Yeah, I had the same thought reading this article. It's like they went out of their way to keep mentioning "rap crew".
Titanium app development company
How can we prove this is in-fact what Apple said? Where is the documentation? I guess I am just cynical, after seeing what people will do for clicks/views/attention.
If the time comes, sure.

Also it can be hosted for much less.
--I can say that extreme incompetence exists in the airline world, especially in Africa, India, SE Asia

including Hong Kong?
Try craigslist or ebay listings with local pickup. I got two used 37U OEM racks for $150 in the DC-metro area.
It's already being done. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=EtsXgODHMWk
It varies.

I took six months off after being fired(!) (four months truly off, ~6 weeks prepping, looking for new role and interviewing). During my time off, I traveled, got healthy after years of neglect, created a couple of mildly interesting side projects, read oodles, and generally was just a man about town.

I told recruiters in month one that I was taking some time off but that I'd love to speak to them around month four. When the time came, I still had very good choices and landed a fairly coveted position.

I did have one particular worry that I guess aligns with what you're saying. I felt that if the three or four good companies I'd hit snooze on in month one all fell through and I had the explain the six month gap after the fact rather than prior to, the onus would have been on me to prove that I hadn't just been applying everywhere for six months with no takers.
That's a fair point. We need cynicism in today's world. Though not too much.
Some facts:

Hull loss rates by region of operator per million departures (Jet / Turboprop) 2012-2016: [0]

- 2.21 / 7.38 Africa

- 1.17 / 20.59 CIS

- 0.74 / 3.42 Middle East / North Africa

- 0.53 / 1.55 Latin America / Caribbean

- 0.48 / 1.45 Asia Pacific

- 0.22 / 0.98 North America

- 0.14 / 0.73 Europe

- 0.00 / 8.73 North Asia

India falls below Myanmar, Nepal, Pakistan in air safety audit[1]

>The audit — ICAO Universal Safety Oversight Audit Programme — seeks to identify if countries have effectively and consistently implemented the critical elements of a safety-oversight system.

>India is one of the 15 countries that are below the minimum target rates.

[0] https://www.iata.org/pressroom/pr/Pages/2018-02-22-01.aspx

[1] https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/industry/transportation...
And this is why I'm so strongly against adding any more features to browsers such as WASM and new JavaScript language features and APIs: because browsers are already extremely complex programs that can't easily be created from scratch if FF decides to push their users around. I just hope all those armchair web devs who are only looking at their favourite programming language to become supported in browsers via WASM would consider how much they contribute to the death of the web by too many features. Those parties already in the game - browser vendors and self-acclaimed standard bodies - don't have an incentive to simplify the web stack, and will never be able to step back and say "the web is done" after 25 years of attempting to shoehorn a document viewer into an application platform.
I for one look forward to abusing the new and exciting prescription drugs designed to treat this.
> You can experiment with $10 if you want. Try it.

Guess what, I actually thought about doing that just "for science" - setting up some nonsense page, launching a $5-10 ad campaign, and seeing what happens. I.e. measuring the impulse response of the system, in a way.

To be clear, I source my distrust to adtech partly from personal experience as well. I worked at a company that also did social media marketing once, in particular it would run content marketing on Facebook for people. I had a first-hand look at "how the sausage is made", and my overall impression is: marketers having no clue about statistics dump some charts into a Word file and write a story about how that graph means things are great; customers having no more clue and no way to verify effectiveness believe that. Both sides are happy, and money changes hands.

Also funny you mention print-on-demand, for two reasons. One, I'm building a side project in this space right now. Two, print-on-demand apparel are the ads that are pissing me off the most right now on Facebook (in particular a certain company that's named after a game animal saying "hello" in Hawaiian).
Fascinating that Behrens reward game showed that humans were able to mentally model volatility at the level of an "ideal learner". But in the variation of the game where there was punishment instead of reward, non-anxious people still performed as "ideal learners" whereas anxious people's predictions became totally out of whack. In other words, the overly anxious mind temporarily lost its capacity to correctly formulate heuristics, which can lead to all kinds of mental chaos.

Personally, I remember that I was once in a job interview where I had to code on a whiteboard. I was so overwhelmed with anxiety that I was temporary incapable of completing simple coding tasks. In the face of extreme anxiety, I literally become stupid.
I believe this one is related. 1 trillion fps. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=EtsXgODHMWk
So by that logic, is it free if your life depends on it? I'm looking forward to the economic apologies not rooted in reason or fact.
Good luck! Hopefully more will join your Patreon to assist in making that happen.
This isn’t always true, fortunately. I’ve seen JetBlue attendants yell at people who kept trying to jump in boarding classes. Line cutters are scum.
Thanks. I haven't come across PRESS before in my various investigations, nor have I come across MathPiper either. I'll have a close look at these to see what more I can learn.
> "Find people who hold the most influence, typically those who sit at the center of a social network"

This is an assumption - and I'd be interested to see what gets found when it is tested. Influencers are critical, but are they detectable in the degree of a social network graph?

I know a couple of people whos opinions would cause me to change my actions. I don't know if I'm friends with them on a social network, which I mainly use to keep in contact with close friends. The highly connected nodes in a social network could very easily be people who are the social equivalent of town criers rather than the social equivalent of the town mayor, or local matriarch/patriarch, who wield actual social power and validate or invalidate "what everyone knows". In that case, seeding them preferentially isn't all that different from seeding random people.

Societies can do an exceptional job of hiding who actually has final say on what are and are not the valid opinions. They are not the people who talk the loudest, or most frequently.
We know that FLT is true because Andrew Wiles has proven it. We don't know that RH is true. We have strong reasons to believe it is true since we have discovered directly a large number of roots on Re(z) = 1/2 and none anywhere else. I do believe intuition exists in the process of doing mathematics, but I don't think either of these are good examples.
I first joined it in 2007, meaning I was 13 or 14 years old :). Being South African, the adoption rate for internet here was quite slow compared to first world countries. So back then it literally was like the cool thing to be on, just like being the kid on the block with latest and greatest Playstation or motorbike.

From a socio economic point of view. It's actually terribly when I think of it today. But that's just how it were growing up.
These videos -specifically the ones calling Apple out for water damage- are some sort of weird internet phenomenon.

Apple's stated and written policy is "we replace everything if we detect water damage, no negotiation". Thats the real story, and thats what we should debate. There is nothing mysterious about this, it's just a business decision that sometimes makes getting your computer repaired at the genius bar impractical.

And that is an important point to debate, especially with the upcoming software check of all replacement parts. Will Apple allow Grossman to access that tool? Or will they be shutting him down?

Instead of having that debate, it seems like we're trying to foment some sort of outrage cycle about fraudulent repairs, when every example of these "fraudulent" repairs is just a genius bar employee repeating some variation of their policy. "If your liquid contact indicators have changed, we must replace every part that got wet"

Is Grossman himself behind this? Because I believe misrepresenting that policy, misguided as it may be, as 'fraudulent' is probably going to hurt the battle more than it helps. And even if it is helpful in the end, it is dishonest.
Anything to make them look worse, I'd say. It's really a shame because they were definitely savvy there. How many people can claim to have taken out a fraudulent $30,000 loan and got away with it for a decent amount of time? Seems without the Google Nest cameras they might have gotten away with a few of these schemes, as well.
How was this posted to HN? I thought users could either submit a link with no commentary, or submit an Ask HN.
The Suadis have already gone on the record with their own version of events.

The time is now for everyone to see the incontrovertible evidence while it still has the world's attention.

That we still haven't seen it is rather suspect.
I can remember interviewing at Google on a whiteboard, with an employee who was: disinterested, overly specific, and antagonistic. Left that building wondering which was less healthy: my anxiety or their culture.
The Magic Leap Con
This seems good for me personally, I decided not to go to school and am about to start working in software for a Fortune 500 company. If degrees are seen as worthless, and other heuristics are used (such as the technical interview I participated in), I will have a good chance of being hireable in the future.
Oh wow! I guess they changed their policy. Thanks for finding that!
You must have been among those who got unlucky with ICANN's upgrades.

https://www.networkworld.com/article/3313341/internet/icanns...
I just got back from Monaco. Can you tell me what you think is so great about it? Personally I prefer the French villages not tooo far away.
Sourceforge Decommissioning CVS for Commits (2017)
Was somehow hoping that this was pitting two languages (golang vs forth) against each other. It wouldn't make any sense, but it would have been at least as interesting.
> it's not as people wanting to fly were going to travel sites and saying, "If only the cheapest flight here was $25 less than it was"

Is this meant to say that consumers aren't price sensitive? If so, why don't airlines just charge arbitrarily high prices?
Uhh. Plastic Gloves?
I tried Robokiller on my iPhone. It wasn't even catching half the calls. I ended the trial before I got charged. Anyone know of an app that actually works?
Interesting study, but this totally falls under Betteridge's law of headlines. No, influencers aren't overrated.

There is no way in hell I will get the message across as effectively as if I have an influencer spread it. This should not even be a question. If I have a story and I tell it to 7 people at random and convince them to spread it vs. convince Paul Graham to spread it - no contest.

We just did a test with one influencer (6M followers on Twitter) to promote our products - bang for buck way better than advertising.

The connection asymmetry (good influencer has magnitudes more connection) and trust/influence (I trust/believe information coming from PG) are important. It is however hard work finding good influencers, and just having a lot of followers does not mean a thing if they are not engaged etc... But worth it.
The Secure Enclave runs a customized version of L4Ka::Pistachio, apparently. Different codebase (Pistachio is C++, for example), same origin.
I only realized in retrospect that it was burnout. I "felt fine" at the time. I remembered being passionate about things in college but it seemed like I was just too busy for that kind of thing anymore. Sometimes I'd sit and think, "hmm, strange that nothing seems to excite me anymore, maybe that's just what getting older feels like."

I knew I felt weary, but everyone around me seemed to feel the same. I was honestly surprised when the color came back. I was almost too busy to notice it was missing.

Now that I know how my own burnout symptoms manifest, I can keep an eye on my stress and work-life balance to make sure I don't get so far gone again.
How is this prohibition supposed to be enforced?

I've recent experience of flying with checked luggage which contained multiple AA NiMH rechargable batteries, spare camera batteries, and on one occasion even a fully-charged 16000 mAh power bank.
I'm not saying this is a definite thing but he's also a journalist of a notable and large publication who is doing international news stories abroad in the Middle East. Would he not be a person interested in tech and savvy ways of obtaining data / recordings / photos / video? I'm not saying that this is something we should believe inherently but something about how sensitive things can be with sources and obtaining the types of datas he'd be interested in while working on the types of stories that got him into the position of fearing for his life turns on a light, for me, that would indicate he was the type of person interested in making his devices capable of doing as much as possible for him. I, like others, am not completely knowledgeable about the Apple Watch nor it's ultimate capabilities so I'll defer to the experts but I'd assume there has to be some way to broadcast it to a device within a few 100 yards?

I could also see it being obfuscation as OP mentioned since it seems those reporting officially on the story from Turkey have been quick to cite evidence without showing any proof. It's very interesting all around and I've got my eyes peeled on this story.
I like the idea of doing this plus the random characters.

"identity theft high risk 2fZMbjL1lLZgnS8La"
Sometimes It’s Better to Just Start Over With iCloud Photo Library Syncing
Here is what Google did internally:

- Bundle all C/C++ native libraries, and link them all together with the java launcher - e.g you produce your own java.exe that has your C/C++ libraries linked in, then you slap the .jar file - for extra bonus you can slap at the back of your .exe and make it load from there

Voila - you have single executable (almost) with all you need, and you don't need to unpack .dll's anywhere

But... you must compile java.exe yourself...
Yes, the autothrottle commands the thrust as calculated for a Flex take-off. But it's only correct if the input parameters are correct. There was a Sunwing 737 which bent the runway lights at Belfast in 2017 because the pilots had entered the wrong temperature variable:

https://www.flightglobal.com/news/articles/temperature-error...
The point of dropping the abstractions during meditation is not to deny the usefulness of them. It's to prevent getting caught up in abstractions to the point of extreme delusion. In this way, it improves the executive function of the mind which can have practical benefits. I view meditation as a way of giving the brain some "fresh air" and keeping abstractions in check.
Pure cocaine is a peaceful subtle drug. The product produced by cartels, even at 90% purity is cut with amphetamines, bath salts, and other gross drugs.

Pure cocaine is habit forming but the cravings seem to be more of a daily than a hourly thing, which is the case with cut products.

If you do cocaine you can practice harm reduction by washing in acetone, and if you have it available, cloraform. “Pink cocaine” available on the dark net has been washed using the above methods, then cut with b vitamins.
Are you referring to the zipapp library? I had no idea this even existed until now but that seems pretty clever. Huh. Why can't it also dynamically unzip a shared object library?
The problem is that when someone claims to be you and says they've lost your password, the security questions are sometimes the only thing preventing the customer service rep from letting them bypass the password entirely.
It's possible this is true of some airlines, but it is not true in general.

I know cabin crew on two different airlines and cleaning the toilets during the flight is part of the job.
This sounds a lot like Parallel Construction:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parallel_construction
Most people have a Google email address these days, it would seem. Google has made spam nearly a non-issue, insofar as its detection rates are 99.9%. First question: Who is still making enough money from email spam to be worth the effort? Second question: Who's going to step up to solve the phone spam problem? Bonus question: How long till spammers start texting like this?
My view is that G+ was better, by design, for users but that design was intrinsically less viral, which led to its downfall. Sharing was readily limited to those for whom information was intended, and open/clean design with a total absence of ads encouraged thoughtful interaction. (<checks G+, as it's been a long time> yep, still no ads.)

Management that chose to be better toward users' true interests unfortunately yielded something insufficiently FB-like to counter FB's huge existing-network advantage.

Thank you, G+, for showing us how such a network could be better. It was.