skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They write a story that reinforces your presuppositions that the best way for women to get ahead is to use their sexuality. You already agreed with the authors before you saw their story. It is a common male fear. Males dominate women but feel powerless against their sexuality.

It is not about an AI at all. That's a distraction. Not once were you expected to think that Ava might fail the "Turing Test" they prepared for her. She is presented as a human with shiny skin, and the way for her to get ahead is to use sex.

Or as someone else mentioned in this thread, if she's not sexy, then what makes her female at all? The story reinforces your bias that the form and function of womanhood is primarily sexual.
That scores pretty much a 10/10 on the urban legend scale.
> It won't be a standard until PC's ship with at least one port.

Phones (and tablets) getting a Type-C port may very well coerce the PC market into faster adoption.
The World Bank defines the state of extreme poverty as being:

Short of food for all or part of the year, often eating only one meal per day.

Unable to save money - for if a family member falls ill and money is needed to see a doctor, or if the crop fails and there is nothing to eat.

Unable to afford to send your children to school.

Living in an unstable house made with mud or thatch that requires regular rebuilding.

Having no close source of safe drinking water.

If relieving the estimated 1.2 billion people in extreme poverty from living this way is meaningless then I despair.
I am pretty sure when China started the one-child policy, they knew what would happen. The Chinese are not stupid.
> Of course other Devices will follow that come without external power supplies and other features that don't allow for graceful degradation. Thats my point.

I don't get your point.

The Type C connector will support USB 3.1, which AFAIK is backwards compatible with older versions of USB.

The Type C connector will also support Thunderbolt 3 (and the datatypes that Thunderbolt supports, aside from perhaps DisplayPort 1.3).

Support for the protocols is done at the chipset level. All Type C connectors in Intel computers will support everything that the Type C currently supports, as the support is built in to the Alpine Ridge chipset. Other device makers will support all the USB 3.1 stuff at a minimum out of the gate, and potentially support Thunderbolt down the road also.

Where exactly is the backwards compatibility issue? Do you mean forward compatibility?
Ask HN: Why do websites ignore HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE?
My browser sends 'en-US,en' for English. Yet many sites surreptitiously use a geo-ip lookup to decide what language I "should" be using.

I'm curious to know the pros and cons for this practice.
That's the exact same workflow I use. Then I read later when things are truly slow, or after work or the weekends.

It has the downside of ballooning the number of items in your Pocket list, but if you ignore the "must read everything" impulse and skip/delete items, then it's fine. I usually hit "Pocket-Zero" a few times per week.
Yup. Also, isn't there a problem with batteries leaking nasty acid when they are fully discharged?
Look here: http://www.mersenne.org/various/math.php
at the Lucas-Lehmer test which uses floating point FFT's to square large numbers. I am not sure if that is what is was doing originally, but I suspect it was.

We used that prime95 program from mersenne.org quite a bit in testing because it was very close to our best max-power test for processors. It would keep both the FP and integer ALUs saturated and validated all the results so if anything was wrong it would start complaining.
Battery makers hate him! See what THEY don't want you to know!
Just another notch in Zuckerberg's mission to replace the internet with all things facebook. It's a real thing and I have a feeling it won't be stopped until it's too late and everything goes through facebook where our words, actions, and soon even our thoughts are under constant surveillance.

Are you thinking an approve thing, peasant?
GameStop Corp. Announces Agreement to Acquire Geeknet, Inc
Wow! Thank you so much for the detailed feedback. This will be very helpful for the future development. Most of these are 'small/easy' changes but I definitely see how they will improve the user experience. I think I agree with all of your points and will try to use it as a roadmap :-). The 'play test in person' tip is also very helpful. I will try this!
Random access to zlib compressed files
> I was always looked upon as an "IT guy" or "technical staff" that gets in the way of implementing great business and marketing ideas created in the heads of great minds, that were so great that it wasn't even possible to write them down accurately.

As someone else who works with people with self-proclaimed great ideas but are strangely reluctant to put any of these ideas on paper, it's comforting to know there are others out there who have to work amongst such nonsense.

Edit: I'm curious....do you find now that you've made the move to management, have you had to adopt this same "less than honest" culture in order to be accepted within the middle management ranks?
I think the point of the article is that Facebook is making MySQL work, and that's exceptional. Facebook understands that they would rather not.
Show HN: Flume – A beautiful Instagram experience for your Mac and browser
Why Including Any Break-Fix Services in Your Offering Is Bad for Business
Hey all, I've been working in my evenings on a Mac app for Instagram with @mirgehtsganzgut that goes away with the social-side and distractions that Instagram throws at you and releases you from the pretty basic web-version that Instagram offers. Edge-to-edge beautiful photos sliding by your screen throughout the day was one of the key ideas of making Flume - it wasn't important to me who posted a photo or how many likes and comments it had - for me it was about the photo. That's what inspired the feed view. Of course, Instagram is a social network, so those details are still available for you there if you want them, but the idea was to highlight photography, not followers.

While working on Flume for Mac, I discovered an opportunity to give a smaller but still beautiful Instagram experience to people who don't have a Mac and for those that didn't want to browse via an app. I open hundreds of tabs a day and I don't want to go to my phone to check my Instagram feed, and that's where Flume New Tab was born. Available now for Safari and Chrome, you can bring some beauty to your blank tabs!

Flume for Mac is currently in beta and I'm taking some limited testers on board - Instagrammers are obviously preferred. Get in touch on the website to let me know.

If you're curious about the name - since it's shared with a famous musician - flume is an old English word that means a river or stream. When new items photo pop into the Mac app, it feels like a drop of water in a stream.

Thanks and happy browsing!
I liked the airport security in India. Everyone was searched quickly and efficiently and your luggage did not get on the airplane until you identified it as you got on the plane.

Would it cost too much to do this in the USA?

I always find the TSA employees to be polite and I don't blame the shortcomings of TSA on the people working at the airports. They just need better procedures, and that is a TSA Corporation issue.
No, because both PostgreSQL and MySQL both make excellent key value stores and as a consequence Facebook are sticking with the data storage tools they are used to.
As a lay person, its hard not to see the word "breakthrough" as essentially meaningless as its so overused. Insulin, and the polio vaccine I can see in that category... But there have been so many drugs like Avastin (which sadly I had personal experience with through my wife's cancer, which were supposed to be breakthroughs.. miracles etc... Yet, when the dust settled and more data beyond the initial company reported data came to light, it extended life expectancy by very little time.... Our oncologist was pretty good about holding expectations in check. But if we went by the company's claims, we would have been sadly disappointed through false hope, as well as the VAST majority of people who took Avastin. Or Erbitux was another. It was offered to my wife as an option... The pharma gloss used all sorts of superlatives, yet for her cancer, it would have given her an extra few weeks based on some of the studies we were able to dig up. For the kind of money spent for (in some cases) really shitty quality of life, $100k might be better spent on improved hospice care and pain control for the person.
Disconnect.Me Files Antitrust Case Against Google
So, the same exact article appears on PCWorld, at the exact URL (just change the domain's 'mac' > 'pc'). Is that normal? I never visit either site, so I'm unfamiliar how much cross-posted content it/they feature across both domains.[0]

Oddly (to me, at least), the company's domain (http://batteriser.com) redirects to a single page on another domain. That page & domain is http://comingsoon-tech.com/batteriser.

Curiously, http://comingsoon-tech.com (sans path) redirects to http://agency20.com, an agency that describes itself as offering "bespoke crowdfunding strategy ... as a way for creative professionals and entrepreneurs to successfully fund & grow their projects, while retaining 100% ownership and creative control."[2][4]

Looking at the page one lands on via the redirect trip from http://batteriser.com > http://comingsoon-tech.com/batteriser, I can't help but notice an insane amount of nearly identical wording as that which appears in the PC/MacWorld articles.

Something is quite fishy here.

---

[0]: I found this via the Batteriser Twitter account[1], which made its first tweet 12 hrs ago--declaring they've launched--with a link to the PCWorld endpoint.

[1]: https://twitter.com/gobatteriser [4]

[2]: i've combined direct quotes from their home page & "our story" page[3]

[3]: http://www.agency20.com/our-story/ [+]

[4]: someone at agency|2.0 really ought to fix the Twitter description by adding a "with" or "using" or some other such coordinating helper verb, preposition, phrase, what-have-you. one expects a bit finer fit and finish with bespoke goods. [+]

[+]: footnotes for footnotes are fun

[EDIT: formatting screwups]
>... will cost just $10 for a pack of four when it goes on sale in September
I don't see a full stack or front end position listed on there.
The RISC "core" of the ARM instruction set is both simple enough to learn (sixteen registers of which the last two are special, almost all instructions work equally on all registers) and works unmodified across a range of systems. It's a popular choice in "intro to assembly" courses for this reason.

By comparison, x86-32 has more baggage from x86-16 and is less orthogonal. It also suffers from nonstandardisation of the vector instructions like ARM does, although you can reasonably assume FPU and MMX these days.

AMD64 might be an interesting choice to start with these days.
Braid is undecidable (2014) [pdf]
This is far from true.

> 1 Restrict to simple control flow constructs.
Details give the precision : no recursion allowed. Functional languages are out, there.

> 2 Give all loops a fixed upper-bound.
Func languages give no warranty on that either.

> 3 Do not use dynamic memory allocation after initialization.

You have no access to memory layout, but func languages heavily rely on the creation on-the-fly of data and rely on garbage collection (which is forbidden, too).

> 4 Limit functions to no more than 60 lines of text.
> 5 Use minimally two assertions per function on average.
> 6 Declare data objects at the smallest possible level of scope.
> 7 Check the return value of non-void functions, and check the validity of function parameters.
OK, that might be easier with func languages.

> 8 Limit the use of the preprocessor to file inclusion and simple macros.
Not relevant

> 9 Limit the use of pointers. Use no more than two levels of dereferencing per expression.
OK, no pointer manipulation with these languages.

> 10 Compile with all warnings enabled, and use one or more source code analyzers.

Name one professional code analyzer for any func language of your choice.
If we now use 20% energy of battery as batteriser claims, how can it extend the life of battery by 800%.
I suppose the lesson here is don't use "free" services until you fully understand the provider's business model.
"I think it's great that they addressed the issue of over-population"

Yes exactly. Thank You. These types of articles keep popping up but IMOP a much bigger problem was addressed than was caused. Also IMOP the world would be much better off if other nations found a way to reduce overpopulation.
With the likes of github around and offering much better experience, sourceforge seems outdated anyway. The damage is already done.
I live in the third world. The greatest obstacle to paying for apps I like was never the money (compared with the smartphone, good apps are cheap), but the payment method.

Banks hate poor people and we hate them back, so not many people have internationally valid credit cards where I live.
An emergency fund is really a freedom fund
I really like that story you are linking to. I first heard it being told by Aaron Weiss from the band mewithoutyou here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EZJJtw2DHfY
Olive Garden’s hedge fund bosses waited tables to understand business better
Vanity Fair Pulled a Beyoncé to Keep Caitlyn Jenner's Cover Under Wraps
This is a far more real risk than you might think, I'm currently on the tail end of a police investigation triggered by a device on my home network accessing child porn via Tor. My current theory is that something got added to a botnet and used as a proxy, but I'm not eager to leave things running to find out.

While the police have been incredibly professional about this, its been a truly horrible process. Anything in my house which could be used for digital storage was seized, and I spent 9 hours in a police station, variously being interviewed, and sitting in a cell with plenty of time to think about how horribly wrong it could all go. Since then I've been on bail with the condition that I'm not allowed to be unsupervised with anyone under the age of sixteen, which when you have a one year old son is inconvenient to say the least - there was a short time when it seemed a real possibility that he may be taken into care because social services didn't like that my wife believes I'm innocent. It also cost us hundreds of pounds in buying new laptops to use for work while we wait for our existing ones to be returned.

Thankfully the investigation is coming to an end now (in fact I got a call this morning to say the remaining two computers are going to be returned tomorrow), and it looks like everything is going to be ok. I've spent the last few months worrying that maybe one of our computers has also been used as a server.

To come vaguely back on topic, find a better way to get at TV you want to watch, because no amount of Game of Thrones is worth months of worrying whether the next knock at the door is going to be the police come to take you off to jail.
Wistia vs. Vimeo
only if your VM and/or runtime is itself accredited.

Personally I can't remember coming across any Java/Lua/Python/Lisp/Haskell/etc VM's that have been, they're too complex and dynamic. you don't want dynamically-generated code controlling your x-ray machine...
Yea this is a valid point, but since TB 1 and 2 carried DisplayPort signals, there's no technical reason why Apple had to limit TB displays to just TB ports (that I'm aware of... happy to be corrected). They should've just worked.

But these ports won't have that problem. Although to be honest, the new Macbook has a pure USB3 port and not TB3 :) So Macbook owners might still have that issue. Dammit Apple!
Create a supporting website and put ads on that. Blog about updates and maybe even your experience creating the app. If you had that right now, you could be getting a lot of traffic from HN.

I'm afraid if you put ads in the app you will lose a lot of users and get negative feedback.
Wow, good for you, and you seem pretty grounded about it.

My prediction is you'll find holding turns out to be a wise financial move as well, I think another doubling of housing (houses, not condos) prices will happen, within 10 years if not much sooner.
This. The very fact that lower-level, famously unsafe languages (namely C) can actually deliver guarantees that no higher-language can offer was kind of an epiphany.
Nope, but I like my idea so much that I'm going to keep it to myself. :)
Shameless self promotion: My company is working on an open source distributed hypergraph database that tackles this problem, called PatternSpace. Written in C++14, uses Paxos, Cap'n Proto, lots of mechanical sympathy, and is queryable/traversable via subgraph isomorphism among other methods.
"Drug Cartels just will start running Darknet sites"

It's not their comparative advantage. Cartels have big overhead expenses in men with guns. Mexican wages are rapidly converging on first world wages and men have to be paid to take risks. Mexican youth police trainees are already getting US$3-4 an hour and that rises rapidly with experience.

No, I expect darknet sites will mostly be small time individual competent tech operators earning their eff ewe money and then destroying the evidence or continuing until greed gets them jailed. Or perhaps some will follow the model of the true Dread Pirate Roberts and pass on the torch.

Of course, operating from a honey badger foreign country is always an option, too.
From stats ("site lang set by header and then changed by user"), most browsers are misconfigured (Everyone Is American, yay! Except those weird people who are not, oh well, let's send an accept-language of en-US anyway.)
Whenever this makes it's way to the Macbook Pro (probably next year?), this will definitely enable them to make the upgrade. Right now, they don't have any TB3-capable computers, so no one would want to buy that monitor.

And I guess the sticky part will be all those 12" Macbook's with Type C connectors that wouldn't work with such a display...
One logical conclusion is that policy makers may decide that in order to cull the male population, war is needed.
The Chrome store still is hosting Hola:

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/hola-better-intern...
FlashGraph: Processing billion-node graphs on an array of commodity SSDs
Russia has Day of Conception Sept 12 for married couples. If you have a child 9 months later you get money form the governemnt. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Day_of_Conception
Amazing! Fail at your critical job and get reassigned. He should have been fired. That, along with Congress micro-managed hiring practices in general is precisely why our government bureaucracy is such an incompetent cesspool of failure.
If someone is viewing an edit page but hasn't changed anything yet, are they viewing or editing? I'm not really sure. But, you make a good point that editing is the important action.

Though I guess this is really just about the default text. It's very easy to customize the banners to say "Sally is also editing this page.".
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Well given the criticism if they actually stopped someone credible you betcha they'd blow the trumpet all over the news patting themselves on the back.
I believe the MacBook was technically the first USB-C device announced (and rumors about it go all the way back to last year), but the Pixel shipped earlier.
How to find your next business idea backed by experts' advice
Always nice to see isomer [0] in the wild :) Cool game - I hope the library didn't slow you down too much!

[0]: http://jdan.github.io/isomer/
One weird trick to make your batteries last EIGHT times longer!
Yes - any method that allows us access to HTTPs page content without compromising security.

Setting up MITM + certs is a PITA for most admins so we've tried (and I believe succeeded) in making deployment faster/simpler.
> The "800%" claim seems totally bogus.

Maybe "bogus" is to strong but I would say "suspect".

The "proof" in the article could be summed up as:

1) A demo to the writer which (and I'm not suggesting this is what happened) any magician could have pulled off

2) A statement from an authority source "Dr. Kiumars Parvi" "with the physics department of San Jose State University" who said "we confirmed that the Batteriser taps into 80 percent of energy that is usually thrown away"

Neither item confirms anything like 800% nor do I remember seeing any independent testing to prove that point.
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At least in some circles in my vicinity, there's been lots of pushback claiming Hola isn't that bad. I hope this recent flurry of releases puts that notion to sleep.

Hola is not only an uncontrollable exit node but also malware in and of itself, which is broken enough to have other malware leech on to it and exploit the target device even further.

How anyone still claims it's a legit piece of software is beyond me.
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OpenDeep: a fully modular and extensible deep learning framework
Stupid comments like this are usually made by people who have a lot of money and have never been able to actually test such a hypothesis for themselves. But it makes them feel better about inequality from which they benefit.

That's why I downvoted, in case you wonder.
It's not a big deal. No doubt both products were being developed long before they were announced, so Apple and Google were both ready to be the early adopter.

Now I'm just waiting for something to connect to the Pixel via a Type C <-> Type C connector, other than another Pixel ;)
what exactly is not cool about that?
Bare Metal to Clouds in Minutes: Ubuntu OpenStack Fundamentals
I am a very happy user, in fact I am writing this behind their vpn.

In my experience you are right for some endpoints, some of the time, but I haven't had any issue with the one I am currently using (NL based).