skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
However, their Chinese subsidiaries are also called "精工“, which is identical to the watch company. Their history page says it was renamed from 正興 to Seiko Advance in 1950.

http://www.seikoadvance.co.jp/en/company/profile.php
http://www.seikoadvance.co.jp/cn/company/profile.php
Samsung DeX is no more, Samsung has decided it wasn't worth the trouble.

https://9to5google.com/2019/10/18/samsung-discontinues-linux...
Other classical games, like backgammon or poker, are also stochastic or have hidden information, elements that are not in chess. And yet, those games are also considered to be skill-based and interest in them is comparable to that of chess (although chess reigns supreme in the pantheon of classical games, probably only rivalled by go).

Anyway, the absence or presence of stochasticity or other specific game elements can't be what sets chess apart from strategy games played on a computer. I think the real difference is the level of abstraction in the game. Like I say in another comment, chess is pared down to the bare essentials whereas games like Starcraft 2 have loads and loads of detail that does not server strategic purposes, and so detract from the point of the game.
Samsung Dex is dead, the project was canceled.
huh... that's fascinating. Thank you for the link! Reading through it now.
Launched my audio plugins in July, averaged about $1k/month in sales (no idea if this is good or bad).
https://bomshankamachin.es
> ...from the right than the left this year about the BBC?

You do realize that the single claim that you're citing as evidence for the BBC being biased towards the right is from a publisher that is left-leaning?

That's like asking Trump if CNN is "fake news" and citing his only opinion as evidence that CNN is biased against him which is hardly credible.
That's interesting, and it's good to know that my sleep improvement might be perceived rather than actual.

That said, this is just evidence that the placebo effect may not apply in this case. It's not evidence that if interventions only work due to the placebo effect, they don't work. You've convinced me that I'm probably not experiencing benefits from the placebo effect in this case, but that conclusion is unrelated to the conclusion of your previous post.

I'll also add that your assertion that pain perception is the only thing that responds to placebo is incorrect. Placebo is effective on a wide variety of things, including weight loss[1], itching[2], asthma[3] and warts[4] (that last one surprised me).

There's also lots of cases where placebo makes things worse, such as people responding to placebo poison ivy[5].

Finally, there's lots of cases where things which were used in studies for placebos turn out to be active. For example, a study of insulin and chromium in sugary foods for diabetics used apple pie as a control source of sugar, but discovered that the cinnamon in the pie produced a larger effect on insulin resistance than the chromium.

[1] http://www.drsharma.ca/the-power-of-placebo-in-weight-loss-t...

[2] https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0022202X1...

[3] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4351653/ Note that in this case, symptoms were improved but lung function was not.

[4] https://www.contemporarypediatrics.com/pediatric-dermatology...

[5] http://www.theworldcounts.com/life/potentials/placebo-effect...

[6]
And you wonder why the USSR was so angry and suspicious?
How to speak (Professor Patrick Winston from MIT)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Unzc731iCUY
Is this just a USA thing? I live in Colombia and wish to have something like that, but not know how judge if the packages given by banks are truly decent.

For example, I look at one of the richest bank accounts balances of a company I work for and the savings account become a net loss after each year.

The way to get some money is for people itself perform in a kind of lottery we call a "natillera" where people put together money and try to create some profits running events from it.

This demoralize me a lot, because if with all that money in an account you lost anyway, what chance get the rest of us?
A genetic algorithm Twitter art bot in Clojure
Financial establishment kind of conservative, not what many would think of American conservatism in general.
I didn't find the pseudocode to be a hurdle in CLRS. In fact, it was pretty useful to see some pseudocode shown in practice. What stung me in the book was how abstract it could get. It was clear that some of the authors wrote in a more approachable way than others when explaining the material.

Its also focused on how to solve problems than Sedgwick. Algorithms explains some elementary algorithms that noone is ever going to code themselves. CLRS teaches you what to look for in algorithms for solving particular problems.
I am not in the UK Conservative Party but I actually know a few people who are and I hear enough of what going on in the party. I don't particularly like the conservative party however I signed up for account because of egregiously wrong you are.

a) Various leaders agreed to go on a show. Boris Johnson doesn't have to go on the BBC and the BBC can interview who they wish. Andrew Neil likes to make fools of people on his show. He has done it to many politicians of all colours. It is really just a higher brow version of "Ben Shapiro defeats Liberals with facts and logic". Jeremy Corbyn was stupid enough to go on there and get himself shafted by Neil.

b and c) Gove and Stanley Johnson was sent by their party to the debate. Channel 4 (which is mostly publicly funded which most people don't know) did the whole ice sculpture as a stunt. They already bought the sculpture. The

As for the BBC having a "right wing bias". Nothing can be further from the truth. You can go on the website yourself and there are thousands of stories talking about typically left wing talking points.

I am actually building daily news site analysis tool by cobbling together some sources. I am using some fairly simple word analysis techniques (most of the effort is scraping the data from these sites and deciding what constitutes a real news story) and most of the language on the BBC and the Guardian are similar. I suspect that most of them just copy and paste stories tbh.
Show HN: Places traveled – leaving bread crumbs of your journeys
Serious question: I keep seeing Vim thrown up and down like it's the holy grail. I've been using VS Code for two years maybe now, and I don't see how Vim could help me be a better/more productive coder. What am I missing?
or AVIF.
Physicists Just Achieved First-Ever Quantum Teleportation Between Computer Chips
Most likely because 2-1 hybrid laptops are a much more convenient way of approaching this workflow, with more powerful devices to drive the whole system.
All streaming will have delay built in. Exponentially so when multi-room is involved. Audio has to be intercepted, encoded/transcoded, sent over the network, possibly endure packet loss, be received, and decoded, before it can be played through speakers.
Very informative. I hadn’t heard that term before.
Hello HN! My name's Mike. I built The Great Translation Game to help me improve my Spanish writing skills. I figured the best way to improve my writing (and vocab and grammar) was by mimicking native-level content. I was copying and translating back and forth using news articles and books in Spanish, and realized the whole process could be way more efficient, and that's how TG2 was born. I wanted to share it with you all here - curious to get your feedback and hear what you think! Hope you find it as useful as I do. Thanks for checking it out!
I am still convinced that creating social networks aka gigantic databases of our own population was a mistake on an unheard level of idiocy. Foreign intelligence must be shaking their heads in disbelief what we handed to them voluntarily. What took months if not years to generate for foreign intelligence can now be gathered, tested on confirmed in a plethora of public, leaked or infiltrated systems.
The super-cool materials that send heat to space
Is it possible it’s the encoding of the episodes? Some audio workflows get all confused with VBR for example.
You can also say that for any fraudulent enterprise ever. He added no benefit whatsoever, having done wrong what his betters could have done right.
Pure oxygen may clear up a hangover, but as far as I know the body metabolizes alcohol at a fixed rate unaffected by oxygen, exercise, etc.
DockerCon is going virtual in 2020
Lambda School is still operating without a license in California
I'm as skeptical about today's "AI" as you can get, but FWIW, medical community seems concerned about it. Going by what my acquaintance fresh out of medical school keeps telling me (and what the doctors chambers' publications seem to be saying), doctors are worried about the impact of AI on their jobs, and they believe the (IMO vastly exaggerated) claims of effectiveness of upcoming solutions. And radiology does seem to be at the forefront of this - the question whether it's even worth it to start specializing in radiology today is one seriously considered by graduates.
Americans Are Moving Less
> These advancements will be occurring in parallel to the rise of immutable databases in the form of blockchain platforms, applications capable of invoking quantum computing systems and artificial intelligence (AI) platforms, which are not only going to become more accessible but also certified to be trusted and secure, says Ferris.

Article just seems buzzword soup, bringing up: Containers, Unikernels, Blockchain, AI, 5G, IoT, Edge Computing, Quantum Computing

> containers in the years ahead will be deployed on unikernel systems

What does this even mean? Containers are built around sharing a kernel, and unikernels are all about having a kernel custom for your application. Seems the ideas are at odds.

The most charitable view to me seems to be an orchestration platform for running "containers" which are actually VMs running unikernels, instead of contained processes?
> browser-based threats, including threats from malicious websites, are nullified.

I’m skeptical about that.

How does this keep traditional browser-initiated 0day chains from compromising the machine?
They have all their money in checking probably because they don't have nearly enough money to invest.

Those people would be much better off learning to either spend less, earn more, and get out of debt instead of learning about how to invest hypothetical money that they'll never have with their habits.

I certainly didn't know a damn thing about index funds, investments, stock markets, etc until I actually had the extra money to invest. Now people come to me for advice.
CS50 is good, but I personally don't like it. I prefer MIT/Princeton/UCB intro courses comparatively. CS50 starts off with C for 3-4 weeks IIRC. Then moves on to python/sql/webdev. Not only is this fast paced, but it also covers a lot of breadth in a short time. For a self learner who has a full time job without proper support structure like peers and office hours which you get in the on campus version, it is difficult (not impossible) to go with the pace of the course. I do agree Malan is a great instructor.

In contrast, I like the MIT/Princeton/UCB courses since they use an easier language to start with and also introduce C in the later courses for systems programming.
Seems reasonable that oxygen should affect metabolic rates.
"Consult a lawyer" would be the best answer I could give here. The applications we're actually targeting are open source servers of various kinds (think memcached, apache, etc.) so it's not an issue we need to consider ourselves as the licenses will be compatible.
No, that's what uic does.
Ask HN: Non-audiophile looking for first quality headphones
In a recent HN post I saw people mention Bose as a less desirable brand for headphones. I’ve always thought it was the better brand likely due to marketing.

I’m not looking for any brand bashing, but more of what I should look for that will help make an educated decision when purchasing a nice set of cans.

Thanks HN!
"despised" does not sound like a rational thing.
I think I might go with this recommendation, maybe watch the CS61B videos as and when necessary.

I did the intro course from the sedgewick and wayne from coursera along with their book and loved it. Would recommend it to anyone who likes a decent challenge while learning. The book is pretty dense.
Hello everyone,

I am the author and have this question every year before the New year: How was this year? What new countries did I visit this year?

So I spent a couple of last evenings and developed a set of scripts wrapped with Streamlit to fetch your data from Foursquare and visualize in different ways with Altair.

The source code to run on your own data is on GitHub: https://github.com/lc0/traveled-dataviz

PS: the code was written while being on the road, so it might need more of polishing, but I wanted to post it before the end of the year :)

Enjoy your data and Happy New Year!
The preventable disaster—and one that’s cost taxpayers maybe a trillion dollars with the F-35–is that the Marines have fighter jets. The argument we should be having is whether the Navy should have its own fighter jet capabilities in addition to the Air Force... but the argument we’re having is that the Marines also have fight jets and impose silly requirements on their jets.
The i.MX6 is certainly a poor choice today but do you know of any good contemporary alternatives? Honest curiosity because personally I can't think of any medium-power (or at least thermal dissipation), (Mainline-) Linux capable, well (and openly) documented processor available long-term in low/medium quantities from a proven vendor.
True, though I’m in the camp of “make enough money where I don’t have to feel guilty spending money on food”.

If you’re more income strained then yes though.
FYI less than half of American workers have access to a 401K plan. Less than 60% have access to any retirement plan.
> Seattle has had 20 years of almost continuous growth, with little housing expansion

False. "Seattle not only has more cranes than any other major city in the country, it’s by a landslide—the city with the next-highest crane count is Chicago, with 40."
https://seattle.curbed.com/2018/7/24/17608278/seattle-constr...

> almost no affordable units

Rents have actually declined over the past few years, and housing outside the urban core is affordable. Not everyone needs to live in SLU.

> if we ignore the problem it'll just go away.

If you just stop interfering with the market, the market will fix your problem for you.
This FB ID strategy has been in place for at least 2-3 years.
Have a look at Sapper, which is a framework built around Svelte that makes the server-side rendering pretty easy. I worked with a next.js SSR project recently and that was an absolute trainwreck, but Svelte/Sapper, while not perfect, is pretty nice.

You have to be a little careful about the interactions if you really care about it working with no JS (e.g. have an on:submit for a form and then also have a server-side route that it can POST to) but it's not too bad really.
You end up with a self-contained application binary which runs anywhere that you could run a Linux kernel.

However it's different from embedding an initrd into a kernel image in several ways: The kernel is minimal, containing only the bits which are needed by your application or drivers required to run on the hardware. The application runs in kernel space and is linked with the kernel which gives you a nice performance boost because you never context switch (which is the driver behind the whole project actually). You can also call kernel functions which aren't syscalls, eg. for specialized memory management.
Good question! There are 2 reasons that you can count on SimpleLogin:

- The running cost is low enough for us to keep the service running almost "forever". Even when SimpleLogin doesn't earn enough money to pay our salaries (the biggest cost), we'll keep SimpleLogin running as a side-project as we and a lot of our family/friends use SimpleLogin.

- The code and hosting instructions are open so anyone could deploy SimpleLogin on their server and migrate all their aliases there. The migration is actually not too complex as it mostly consists of changing the DNS and re-import your existing aliases. Making sure that SimpleLogin can run on an inexpensive and simple server is part of our design rules since the beginning so you don't need complex infrastructure to deploy SimpleLogin for yourself.

> Do you have any plans on how to sustain in the long-term?

Our revenue comes mainly from the premium subscription. We are also considering to create products derived from SimpleLogin technology but targeted at business.
I tried this out with a lumia 950 myself. I could turn my windows laptop into keyboard, display and mouse for my phone. It worked well enough, with the browser and mail client using the larger screen well, sufficient to be a sort of chrome os equivalent.

However, after using it, I don’t think this is actually a useful feature. It is cool, but I found no practical use for it because my laptop could do all the same things better. I think it only makes sense if you have no other computing device, but still somehow have invested in a keyboard, display, mouse and dock setup. I don’t know who that mythical person is, but it definitely wasn’t me.
Dinner for One: A New Year’s Eve Tradition – Review (2014)
Yeah I like Kotlin. The problem is I liked Scala, Erlang and Go as well and I spent a lot of time learning those and eventually discarding them.
But the article linked wasn't posted. A different new article was posted and the link changed to this one.
Reducing metadata leakage from encrypted files with PURBs
> cant criminalize just being homeless either

Yes, you can. It really is that simple. The homeless problem isn't persistent because it's technically hard. It's persistent because a segment of society is addicted to moral posturing in a way that blocks necessary and obvious solutions.

There is no legal or moral problem. Build adequate shelters in inexpensive locations and arrest everyone who camps on the street and refuses to go to one of these shelters. (This approach is also compatible with the recent SCOTUS stance on the subject.) Everyone needs a place to sleep, but there is no reason for society to support squatting on random public land as a lifestyle choice.
Linux On DeX was something different. It was a way to run a virtualised Linux distribution on Samsung phones.

DeX is still around and lets you run Android as a full desktop environment by plugging your phone into an HDMI screen.

https://www.samsung.com/us/explore/dex/
It's pretty simple to validate. Create two different FB developer accounts. Then create a Login with FB type app for each account. Then use a third FB account to login to each different app and use the FB Graph api to view the user id in the tokens. It will be different.
I have found that it's easier to find all assignments/materials online for the later courses from UCB compared to CMU courses although I do find that the CMU courses to be at a much higher rigor than UCB.
I made it easier to opt out of data sharing that no one would have opted in to: https://simpleoptout.com/

Lots of people have. There's now some consequences for customer-unfriendly data sharing policies, too: someone will notice and you'll get negative press. It was recently in the NY Times: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/24/smarter-living/privacy-on...
Local shops urge action to save cash machines
Wow, usually when there are reports of "near misses" the planes are relatively far apart (still potentially dangerously close, of course) - I don't think I've seen a report with the planes this close to each other before.
>I think the question "why there are social hierarchies" is the biggest open problem in social sciences

This is not an open problem at all. It is a _well_ explained phenomenon.
Does it count if you lie awake in bed for an hour unable to sleep because of rumination? Because in that case, I'm sure plenty of people do it at some point.

But what helps me is taking walks. You're alone with your thoughts, but the act of walking through nature is stimulating for more positive thinking, from my experience anyway.
That's a very nice resource thank you very much.
This. Never underestimate the power of leverage combined with luck (good asset selection, which almost always is luck).

TQQQ, a NASDAQ 3x leveraged ETF is up almost 50x since 2010.

Real estate has insane leverage via mortgage. 10% downpayment results in a 10x leverage, 5% downpayment is a 20x leverage.

Imagine a house that was purchased at 10% downpayment. A 2x (+100%) house value appreciation gives you a 11x (+1000%) return on that 10% downpayment.
It is amazing how much impunity billionaires the wealthy and powerful seem to world.
missed by a whisker -> 90,000 nanometers apart
They kept referring to IoT uses in the article. It got me wondering if the best usage of this would be to be embedded in a jacket’s outer shell. You get the surface area but not a lot of wattage of heat, I guess. But it sounds like it makes a pretty good insulator. I could certainly imagine sensors running off that kind of power.
Consider this attack.

You found a vulnerability in FooSmith and want to collect a bounty. You're keeping the vuln secret both for security reasons, and so no one else can jump your claim.

FooSmith has announced a bounty process where you can claim a bounty by sending an encrypted message with a novel vulnerability according to a specified process.

So you send a report using the mandatory bounty collection form, which starts off with a fixed position field "Bitcoin address to pay bounty to: <address goes here>".

I happen to know what address you're going to use since you posted it so everyone could see when you got paid. I happen to have write access to FooSmith's issue tracker. I xor youraddress xor myaddress into the stream at the right position, and tada thanks to the fragility of stream ciphers, esp unauthenticated ones: it decrypts to a different message that asks for the payout to my address.

Adding a digital signature to the encrypted wouldn't have magically made it secure: I would just rip that one off and replace it with my own-- FooSmith can't authenticate a signature here, the authentication is "common membership inside an encrypted message", and without authentication that can't work securely.

There are other attacks when the encryption lacks a auth. Imagine you run a network service that accepts encrypted messages and decrypts them then reports back various distinct result messages based on what the input decrypted to.

I have an encrypted message for your service authored by someone else and I'd like to learn about its content. Without auth I could start sending it to you over and over again, flipping bits in it to learn about the content. In some cases, when the planets align just right, this kind of bug lets you use the service as a decryption oracle-- you can get the entire encrypted message!

(Toy example: if the service reports the input in an error message, simply corrupting the first bit might instantly get you the content. But it can be much more complex and subtle than that.)

This isn't to say that you couldn't build a security protocol that didn't use authed encryption... you can, but without auth the encryption doesn't form a nice abstracted layer and much more of the application has to be analyzed from the perspective of cryptographic attacks. History has shown people fail to do this well, so authed encryption should almost always be used unless there is a really good reason why it can't be.
It's very common, and generally quite safe. Both the computer systems in air traffic control and the traffic avoidance systems on the individual aircraft are able to handle it nicely.

The article mentions the Embraer's TCAS alerted them of the problem, for example. Even my dad's little four seater prop plane will call out "traffic, twelve o'clock, three miles" sort of notices, and if the traffic gets too close it can additionally order climb/descent to avoid.