skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Why keep around an invasive species that carries a deadly virus?

They’re not invasive, and not a single person in history has died from being bitten by a wild monkey with herpes b despite thousands of people being bitten per year.
Do Positive Psychology Exercises Work? A Replication of Seligman et al. (2005)

Results: Repeated measures analyses showed that the PPEs led to lasting increases in happiness, as did the positive placebo. The PPEs did not exceed the control condition in producing changes in depression over time.

Conclusions: Brief, positive psychology interventions may boost happiness through a common factor involving the activation of positive, self-relevant information rather than through other specific mechanisms. Finally, the effects of PPEs on depression may be more modest than previously assumed.

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Myriam_Mongrain/publica...
Active Inference is one possible hypothesis unifying different ideas on how brains think.
Unfortunately the likelihood of life on Moon is next to nothing (if that's what you are implying by carbon). Remember, we have some ~900 lbs of moon rock we brought back with Apollo that we have studied. By all accounts the moon is just a dead ball of dust. There isn't even tectonic activity. The little water is trapped as frozen ice in rocks. No atmosphere means constant bombardment by radiation and temperature differentials are in hundreds of degrees. It's as inhospitable as it gets.
Some recent studies have found lack of breastfeeding and autism to be linked.
My understanding, which may be incorrect:

The "anonymity set" of a monero transaction is just the number of fake values created in it. This is a fairly small number. If you're willing to put the effort in, you can trace all of them.

For MW, the the anonymity set is either "all users of system" (if you don't believe in a global network observer) or "all users of system who exchanged parameters in a given set".
How Technology is transforming the automotive industry
I've taken a look at this project in some detail, and it doesn't correspond with reality in many places. I have NDAed precision GIS datasets for things they're showing on their map, and they are nowhere near the actual location. In particular the submarine cable maps can be treated as logical diagrams and not physical reality.

The biggest carriers with fiber routes are NOT going to share the precision GIS datasets with a public site that will publish them for everyone to see. I have maps of hundreds of regen huts, vaults, aerial fiber splice cases and fiber routes for paths between seattle, salt lake city, denver, boise, sacramento and things throughout the western US, and they look nothing like Network Atlas' maps.

As a project it is an admirable goal, but I don't see the actual owners of the dark fiber choosing to make their data public any time soon.
Do they have an API? I'm surprised more apps don't plug into this. Most watch-faces on my Pebble required me to get a personal Weather Underground API key (and now have stopped working). :(
> An IBM spokesman, Saswato Das, said, “The Weather Company has always been transparent with use of location data; the disclosures are fully appropriate, and we will defend them vigorously.”

Why say something so stupid instead of issuing a simple “no comment”?
Oh, the broken implementations don't stop at backwards compatibility -- Lightroom CC, their new Cloud product, last I checked, prefers to send sRGB to Photoshop (!) unlike the traditional Lightroom which fully supports preserving embedded colour profiles when exporting. It's been a couple weeks since I looked into this but the instructions in this post https://lightroomkillertips.com/keeping-your-color-consisten... apply to Classic Lightroom if I recall correctly, and the modern "cloud" Lightroom CC only exports wide gamut correctly when set to export as uncompressed TIFF 16-bit. Everything else tries to export as sRGB automatically, which sucks for print or DCI-P3 workflows.

Also, I'm trying to find details on Apple's P3 profiles in how they differ from standard projection profiles for the movie industry to maintain compatibility with sRGB gamma, but there's not as much online as I expected about it.

In my search for info, I came across https://ninedegreesbelow.com/photography/lcms-make-icc-profi... which seems like a useful resource for Linux/FLOSS folks.

Ah. Found it, a source for the differences between "Display P3" and movie-theatre P3. Here's a link to the relevant section of the video, on colour spaces: https://developer.apple.com/videos/play/wwdc2016-501/?time=2...

And here's a good discussion on why D60 was chosen for film projection while D65 is used by modern computers for sRGB/Rec 709 compatibility: https://www.liftgammagain.com/forum/index.php?threads/dci-p3... and here's a bit on the technical details of ICC profiles and CIE XYZ numeric representations of colours: https://ninedegreesbelow.com/photography/xyz-rgb.html
Does the stock iOS app forward to IBM the same data the Weather Channel app does?
You're being sarcastic (I think), but the first thing I thought of when I looked at this site was "This could never be my go-to weather source, those icons are much too ugly."
Right, but a targeted phishing attack against an internal user is just as likely to rely on an application (or a facsimile of an application) you don't control, like a benefits management portal or something that supposedly authenticates through an SSO.

I guess if your argument is that there would be high value in eradicating open redirects wholesale, I sort of see your point. But the incremental value of eliminating one open redirect is marginal at best.
From what I understand pretty much all countries have a government run weather service and they all have an API. The problem is they are all different organizations that have different APIs so all the weather api services do is combine every single one of the apis in to one that only requires one api key.
HTTPS (and DNSSEC!) are antithetical to the idea of proper network engineering. Hierarchical, centralized control systems. Let's Encrypt being free should only make you more suspicious about who's making money from whom. No thank you.
Ask HN: What is the best way to manage customer issues from API testing?
Understanding how minds work won't answer ethical questions, but I do think it would help us better understand what our choices are: where are some ways we could plausibly draw the line when making rules?

Or maybe there is no natural way to do it and it will just muddy the issue further? That would be interesting to know too.
There’s a reasonably extensive MicroMasters course on Algorithms and Data Structures. How would you rate it? Comparable to finishing Skiena? CLRS? Concrete Mathematics?

https://www.edx.org/micromasters/ucsandiegox-algorithms-and-...

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Google shifted $23bn to tax haven Bermuda in 2017, filing shows
Sharks Have Existed More or Less Unchanged for Millions of Years, Until Now
Since the new iPads Pro have USB-C connections, one can just plug any old keyboard in and it works fine.

I've done this on occasion with my Ergodox, it's quite comfortable. Granted, I mostly use the iPad for tasks which are more suited to the Pencil, but it's there if one wants it.
That's amazingly simple and effective. Awesome!
The Daily has a good podcast episode where they go into more details with the reporters who wrote the NYT article: https://nyti.ms/2G7NcWH
mosh uses Ctrl+^ for connection control stuff, IIRC, so you might want to give that a try.
i checked out your jobs site, that is the coolest thing ever, a command line terminal with links as directories and files, very nice work.
A pretty heft chunk of Michael Lewis's mini-book on corruption in the Trump administration centered on Accuweather's role at NOAA, and how companies like Accuweather do little more than repackage data generated by the federal government and pretend to be gatekeepers for it.

Supposedly, companies like Accuweather have been working for years to eliminate government weather services that are readily usable by consumers.
iOS’ Weather app uses The Weather Channel as data source. Does anybody know if Apple acts as a proxy and obscures personally identifiable information?
more facetious than sarcastic. A lot of people care about the icons
I enjoyed his book "The First 20 Hours". Most of the content is how he specifically applied it to learn certain skills: Switching from Qwerty to Colemak keyboards, and learning to play Go were interesting. He also had a chapter of learning to program in 20 hours.
You have never needed an open redirect for that (just an internal redirect page).

In the past, one solution was to HMAC the destination URL with a time component (i.e. the redirect is only valid for a short period of time).

Today, you can check the origin header when your user lands on the redirect page or just tell the browser what information you want in the referrer (see https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Headers/Re...).
> 1.5 blocks from a VTA hub

Here you go. Most of SV isn't.

> I assume you remember that some form of car-rental exists [the Uber-Lyft, Enterprise, Taxi, &c]

Relying on taxi for mundane day-to-day movements maybe ok for people way richer than me, but for me it would be several thousand dollars per month - way more than I could afford. And way more than I spend on a car, including the purchase price.

> the average person literally cannot walk or transit for a restaurant or grocery [food deserts aside]?

Yes. There is maybe 2 or 3 restaurants within walking distance of me, and by walking I don't mean 1.5 blocks, I mean at 15 minutes. And by "restaurants" I mean anything including McDonalds. If you, like me, don't want to eat in McDonalds, closest decent restaurants are about half an hour walking. Sometimes we do walk there, but it's not for every weather and every mood. And if you want something like going to a brewery to get couple glasses of beer, that'd be an hour hike. Or a short drive.
And as for groceries, one grocery store in 15 mins walk. Good luck walking there. Under rain. Or scorching sun. With groceries. Nope, no thanks.

> You'll see me on VTA lite rail

If you live next to it and everything you need also is next to it, you're in luck. Look at the map and see how much of the SJ territory it covers - and how much it does not. Vast majority of people live in "does not" territory.

> Will I be seeing you on a sidewalk confused in wonder?

Nope, you'd be seeing me driving past you, getting where I need to get an hour earlier than you :)
I want a seamless service where customers can easily submit and track their issues with our APIs during the testing phase. One of the ways I am thinking of is creating a public repo on GitHub for issue management but that is something client might not appreciate.
The default iOS weather app uses data from IBM’s Weather Channel. Your previous comment (re: app) is misleading.
Thanks, that was very informative. I think I'll just get the display and get the leap separate if I find myself wanting. It's only $90 on it's own anyway. The extra $10 for the case and cleaning cloth is cool, but it's never going to leave my desk so I'm not worried about transport and I already have several microfiber cloths.
This seems like an exercise in masochism. Why would you want to code on an OS targeted for smartphones and without any native compiler support?

To those who want LTE connectivity, I don't think you know there's a device called the Thinkpad X1 with this functionality built in.

Or is it that coding on tablets is considered "hip" these days?
I'm not claiming it makes much sense, but it's better than having to download all the files every time you want to play a game built for browsers.
Title is inaccurate due to the Forbes article being inaccurate. Forbes compares Tesla's worldwide sales with BMW's US sales.

https://twitter.com/FredericLambert/status/10809989511956766...
I commented on the title only. I made that obvious. I also didn't say anything about frequency. I also don't get my medical knowledge from The Guardian.
OP just said it was interesting, that's all. Do you have any insights of your own to add?
That's pretty much the first thing he says in the TED talk.
People like you are what make these kinds of infrastructure plays such an easy turkey shoot. Look up the market cap and P/E of something like Akamai. I could build out the server footprint for that in 12 months (look up my linkedin).. the peering and lines are the hard part in terms of time and capital.
Open redirect alone doesn't look dangerous. But combining it with another vulnerabilities like OAuth misconfiguration -> account takeover. I wrote a blog about this common mistake some time ago:
https://pwn.netlify.com/open-redirect-to-oauth-token-theft.h...
That’s a solid idea, thanks for the tips!
Today’s Apple is like what Microsoft used to be. iPhone X this and iPhone X that. Just like the many editions of Windows. It’s a brand dilution and it almost feels like “ let’s milk it when you still can”. It’s damaging to the brand. This is what companies do when they are no longer run by product people.
Help My Sanity
I dislike Apple, but one thing I'll say in their favour is that I can wander into any Apple store and get a replacement device when it breaks (or maybe even a repair if I'm lucky). Lenovo, on the other hand took weeks to get back to me and then quoted $400AUD to replace the display backlight - with someone else's name on the quote.

If I've got LTE connectivity, I'm probably going to remote in to some other box with a lot more processing power, rather than code on a limited laptop/mobile processor.
Working on a hypervisor, I see this. It mostly crops up as things like IPIs being more costly when nested.
I've seen public Trello boards[1]. We use Jira tickets - you can have a customer feedback project that enables customers to create tickets without seeing the full board[2].

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[1] https://blog.trello.com/how-to-transform-trello-into-a-power...

[2] https://medium.com/thinktilt/five-options-for-creating-jira-...
Fibre:A WebGL application for visualizing 3D vector fields and dynamical systems
"As utilities fight distributed generation, electricity is getting less reliable"

https://pv-magazine-usa.com/2019/01/03/as-utilities-fight-di...
Or, you can create an account after investing a few hours or so into the game, at which point a bit of friction is irrelevant. And sure, the credit card details will have to be entered eventually, but again, you'll be very invested at that point, so a bit of friction doesn't matter.

Regarding the CDN costs, with some very aggressive caching (Service Workers and stuff), is it really that much worse than a downloaded game? You're the one who actually has a game, though, so I guess there really is a problem here.
In case anyone else just wants to just download the MP3 of this episode: https://content.production.cdn.art19.com/episodes/4f87f227-3...

This took me approx. two minutes longer to find than it should have.
Chris Voss's interview on Shane Parish's podcast is filled with some really good nuggets. I have not read the book but found the podcast like a condensed version of his skills/expertise: https://fs.blog/2018/01/chris-voss/
I remember reading in multiple places that an admired design point of the Internet is its ability to route around damage.

I believe crypto-currencies are, among other things, an attempt to route around the damage of payment processing blockades... And I would expect that to eventually (if not already in reality) include SWIFT and similar fiat currency monitoring systems.
No, it's not the same. Behaviorism claimed that internal states like thoughts and feelings don't really exist.

I'm saying that whatever they are, they must cause the external behaviors we associate with consciousness. (And furthermore, the theory must explain things like the effects of brain damage, surgery, the effects of drugs, hormones, how children's minds develop, evolution, and so on.) These are just the requirements for any scientific model of how minds work.
It's also a tool for Android development.
A habit... really? Based on examples from two centuries past?
How an Entire Nation Became Russia'S Test Lab for Cyberwar (2017)
That photo's bizarre - I can't judge the size of the speaker at all. It could be 100m tall or 10cm tall. The article says it's 30 feet (10m), but in that case the bushes must be really tall, and the flag really tiny.
Surface supports Ubuntu 18 out of the box pretty well for regular use. The caveats are the touch screen doesn't work, I had to make a one line fix to get WiFi to stop failing randomly, and setting up luks at install time can't be done without an external keyboard because the type cover isn't recognized at boot until a one line fix is made, but that's it! I've used it as my daily setup for several months without issue. As a backup I have a Windows to go instance on an external SSD that I can fire up.
14 Proven Strategies to Increase Sales of Your Product
Definitely at least go through podcast: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18822162
Not entire crazy given popular perception of mobile as being an app-driven platform. And not at all coincidental given former CEO of AccuWeather Barry Myer's direct involvement in crafting policy which prohibits NOAA from developing mobile apps[1]:

In 2008, AccuWeather named Conrad Lautenbacher, a recently departed NOAA administrator appointed by President George W. Bush, to its board. Myers was soon appointed to a NOAA working group that gave him a role in shaping policy. He helped fashion one in 2012 that restricted the organization’s ability to develop mobile apps for the public.

This is the same guy nominated by the Trump adminstration and currently awaiting Senate confirmation as the head honcho of NOAA.

[1] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2018-06-14/trump-s-p...
I have a feeling that if a similar thing existed in the US, it would become used as a "sonic billboard" for playing adverts all the time, and pranksters would occasionally attempt to get that infamous Rick Astley tune to emanate from it...
Which wars would those be?
Black Holes May Have ‘Hair’ That We Can See
The age of Apple innovation sadly died with Steve. I think the time since he passed has shown that without a strong willed visionary leader their products have become fragmented and reactionary. I’m sure they have great engineers and designers but I wish someone had said no to some of the recent ideas including abandoning highly useful features like displays, magsafe chargers, usb ports, headphone jacks, etc.
“Linked” is a weasel word for lack of a a quantifiable result. (Not breastfeeding increases autism risk by X%.) The better thing is to look to the massive medical experiment we happened to have conducted in the last 50 years. From 1970 to today, breastfeeding rates have inverted. Back then, 70% of babies were never breastfed, even in the hospital. Today, it is the opposite.

But rates of autism are not much higher among Gen X-ers than millenials.
> Westerner, Middle Easterner and an East Asian [...] based on names

This international variety of names is common outside the English-speaking world, e.g. the 3 biggest internet companies in China (Alibaba, Tencent, Baidu).
PHP Security Roadmap for the Year 2019
For comparison, my electric company, Puget Sound Energy, has a thing called the Green Power Program. You can pay extra on your bill and that somehow pays for renewable power to be added to the grid, offsetting your carbon footprint [1].

For $4/month, they say it will reduce my carbon footprint by 5328 lbs CO2/year. $6/month give 7991 lbs CO2/year. It looks like it goes up linearly.

My guess is that convincing the average person to pay $4/month will be a lot easier than convincing them to give up meat, and it has a bigger impact.

[1] https://www.pse.com/green-options/Renewable-Energy-Programs/...
Scientists Have 'Hacked Photosynthesis' in Search of More Productive Crops
RAM. Swap space.
I am sorry, but I don’t understand something.

Why should it be inexpensive to have children? And I am not talking $$.

Is Quebec trying to boost its population?
In my experience, it does if one rides in a way to take up the entire lane. Many motorists don't perceive bike lanes as actual lanes of traffic they have to yield to when making turning movements. But they will do so for general purpose lanes.
Tedious post lacking relevant content. The answer is simple, you could code on an iPad with a SSH client and a fast remote server. But because of lacking browser dev tools it is nonsense. This is nothing new for few years now. iPads are declining, check all the reviews, people find the hardware exceptional but wonder what they should do with this device. Finally check Apple current share price. Nobody needs locked down devices, especially not developers.
Yes NWS has an API with quite a lot of data in XML format. Weather Underground api was supposed to shut off on December 31, but has been extended to Feb 15th of this year. Good riddance, it was very flaky, would return occasional bad data, and all around a bad experience.
Capital controls don't apply, you buy the bonds through HK.

Devaluation is always a risk, in any country. USD can fall too, look at historical USD exchange rates to the world currency basket. Foreign bond investors have to live with that risk; I assume they don't expect a large Yuan devaluation. also see https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-11-16/the-world...
Show HN: Cryptocurrency News Aggregator Combined with Google AI
Do you have any references on the data provided by Apple to IBM, e.g. how can Apple provide live weather data for all possible locations without sending your location to IBM? Is the iPhone's IP address (which can be mapped to WiFi location) used to make the weather data request to IBM?
Not to be rude, but yeah, what else would they mean? Is your peripheral good at picking up anything on the planet since it's always spinning? Everything is always moving relative to something else.
I don’t find OS X any easier than windows or linux. It all just works. And never had any issue running linux in a vm on windows.

I think at the end of the day it’s all personal preference. I prefer windows. But have no problems in linux or OS X. Granted I won’t be buying another MacBook anytime soon. Just switched to Lenovo.
Cartels already have anonymous payment channels, which Bitcoin is not.