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Steam survey shows Linux marketshare hitting 1.0%

Some problems mentioned on the comments on here, although I can think of other problems too than only the ones mentioned. So, I can think of another possible solution to these and many other problems (although it has limitations, but there always will be): Don't design your game for Windows or Linux; write it for Famicom or Game Boy Advance or whatever (or design your own open source VM if you must, and use that). Emulators are available for many computer systems (including the less common ones), and will do many things for you automatically too that you will not have to deal with by yourself, such as rebinding controls, zoom levels, etc. They will then also the user will not have to worry about malware as much, either.

Train Wheels Are Cones

It is for the same reason wheels grab the rail from the inside, not from above.

How we built an auto-scalable Minecraft server for 1000+ players

Getting the two players in different servers to sync and see each other seems a headache. Instead can you not dynamicly change the border(s) think Gerrymandering.

Playstation 3 Architecture

This is a good, well-explained article. I'm quite curious about the Ps4 and ps5's architecture. I'm quite wondering if it's complex than this.

How to Learn Stuff Quickly

Focus on the high level abstractionWhen learning something new, I’ve found it’s helpful to hear the top experts engaging with one-another about the topic. Not to hear what they think, but to hear how they think, and in particular, the level of abstraction in which they’re working.

iPhone apps can tell many things about you through the accelerometer

Data point of one:I am disabled and don't move around a ton. When I do walk, I often have a limp. But I don't have MS.Facebook is constantly serving me ads about MS.

When my wife developed Alzheimer’s, the story of our marriage kept us connected

I fear mental deterioration and degradation more than physical.They're quite connected though.

Stripe Financial Connections

Anyone here know how fast ACH transfers are from one account to another? Is it same day 3 business days? I'm in Canada but I can use this to build something for my US clients. But if it's not same or next day, I can seem my clients not wanting to use it.

Two containers with same number detected in Chittagong port

But what does this have to do with docker?;)

.ai

this is the most "OG" domain name I've ever seen

Apk.sh is a Bash script that makes reverse engineering Android apps easier

The problem with tools that rely on apktool is that they tend to fail to patch the most sophisticatedly obfuscated apps typically banking apps. This is because they abuse implementation details in the Android source to essentially make it possible to unpack the app while installing, but impossible to repackage it (usually using sketchy non-utf8 characters and broken Manifests). The only way I found to patch these apps is by making them debuggable and then injecting Frida at run-time. This is possible by delicately patching the Manifest as precisely as possible. Full disclosure, I made a Python script without any dependencies: https://github.com/julKali/makeDebuggable

WireGuard for the ESP32

A Tailscale IoT mesh would be killer.

The audacity of Apple Podcasts

Is it Apple Podcasts Subscriptions[0]?I don't use their app (Overcast for iOS is great!), so I wasn't familiar with any of this, but most of their site seems focused on the usual podcast stuff, same as it has been for a long time. When I started digging to find the bad behavior, I eventually came across this page about subscriptions.Is the idea that people who have an existing podcast and are tired of paying the S3 or OVH bill (or whatever) look into this "Apple Podcasts Subscriptions" service and it says right up top you can offer your podcast for free. So they click through to the pricing page[1] and see that they can sign up for $20/year and keep offering their show for free, and it isn't clear on the publicly-available pages I've linked so far that this is going to break your podcast, making it no longer freely available everywhere.It's possible that's buried somewhere in the fine print, and given how many lawyers Apple employs, I'd be shocked if it's not. Still, this is BAD behavior, a bait-and-switch.It's possible to offer podcasts by subscription. Even on their own list of hosting providers[2] they mention Blubrry, Libsyn, Omny, and RSS.com, all of which do that. (Most of them charge more than $20/year for hosting, too.) But critically, all of those still offer a feed so you can listen in the app of your choice. Once you take away the feed and lock it down to only your app, you're not producing a podcast anymore. You're producing an on-demand audio show, like Spotify does.I get the appeal. Spotify and Apple both can say "using our app, you can listen to any podcast, PLUS a bunch of shows exclusive to us!" But of course, Spotify's exclusives can't be listened to in Apple Podcasts, and Apple Podcasts exclusives can't be listened to in Spotify, because they're not actually podcasts at that point.Apple should know better. They're usually better than this. Shame on Apple.0. https://podcasters.apple.com/878-subscriptions1. https://podcasters.apple.com/support/904-availability-of-app...2. https://podcasters.apple.com/partner-search

Steve Wozniak used to tip from printed sheets of $2 bills

Sheesh the comments on the ID! All morality and legality aside, we have to take a little bit of context into account. The Great Woz is behaving in the much heralded spirit of the age, encapsulated in things like Make. He may as well actually be the Lazer and Chief (retired) of the Defiance Department. A sense of humor might help with the nuance. Imagine the back-office or radio chatter tho. "Casino security says the bills are real. They have better machines than we do. Right. Some technician at Apple. Makes sense. Alright Tom I'll call you back."

The entire prompt of Microsoft Bing Chat?

I just watched the highlights from the Microsoft reveal, and it was incredibly dull. Their presentation was so uninspiring that I had to close it and move on. It's strange how they managed to take something exciting and make it so uninteresting.

Zig is hard but worth it

> easy things seem easy primarily because they are familiarThis is also why I struggle to answer the question "is it hard". Is it hard to build a web-app? No. But I've been building web-apps for 20 years. Will you find it hard (if you've never programmed before)? I don't know, if you want to build one this weekend, sure. If you have the patience to spend a few years learning first, then no.

Nakatomi Space

Nice to see the Matt Jones post on Jason Bourne vs James Bond linked here. Very appropriate, on Bond as a well equipped foreigner wandering through fancy action sequences & villains lairs, while Bourne is equipped with a sharp recall of the local train timetables & ability to steal cars and parkour his way through complex urbam settings.That article got submitted too, and was fun to re-encounter! After living in my head so long & being something I'd orally relay along (and having forgotten the original source)! https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37957558 https://petafloptimism.com/2008/12/12/the-bourne-infrastruct...I could have sworn the pieces was like 4x as long!I'm on mobile so it's not easy to see post times, but I assume the discussion here lead to The Bourne Infrastructure getting submitted. Thanks all. This is wild stuff.

Google is Evil, Worse than PayPal: Don't use Google Checkout for your business

Intense. What has happened?

Congratulations Patrick

hey how are you doing

Nevada passes law authorizing driverless cars

Anyone else think this thread may be linked to 10-20 years from now when this thing begins to take off?

Learning Modern 3D Graphics Programming

Is learning OpenGL from wthe ground up really the best way to go? The trend nowadays in programming seems to be to dive directly into the deep end. Wouldn't it be faster to just download a game engine like Unreal Engine 3 and go through its tutorial, learning about OpenGL along the way?I'm using the example of Unreal Engine, first because it's extremely popular but also because their online "developpers' network" seems pretty well done: http://udn.epicgames.com/Three/TechnicalHome.html

Google can be used as a graphic calculator

I use Wolfram Alpha to check if I solved my math assignments correctly. Can you solve e.g. limes with Google? I tried a couple of syntaxes but nothing.http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=limes+%28x%5E3%2Bx%29%2...

Batman's Real Story

Although it may be seen as a little unusual, it is nice to see someone who has succeeded financially pay thousands or even hundreds of thousands of dollars of their own money in order to inspire, encourage, and strengthen the spirits of children who are in the hospital- many of which are seriously or even terminally ill. Mr. Robinson demonstrates the benevolence that should be seen as a responsibility of those who have attained financial success and does so in a very creative way. You can't question this persons heart to see to it that a child who is suffering is given a bright-spot in their day, and a highlight of their life by a visit from a super-hero- Batman.

A Hole in Mars

Strange few days ago I made this free Android App that takes info from APOD and NASA https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=nasa.project.v... and today we have unusual picture of Mars on HN.

Mercator Puzzle

D3 has an amazing projection system for creating SVG maps from GeoJSON.https://github.com/mbostock/d3/wiki/Geo-Projections

Facebook vulnerability 2013

ابضاي يا ابن بلدي

Why I Will Never Go Back to the United States

> In the Philippines I had to bribe someone in order to get my visa extended for a few days.No you don't! I have been asked for "visa extention bribes" in many countries. Do not pay them. Cite the countries law and that you follow it. Bribes kill. "Every bribe you pay helps to kill a child." Just don't!What I learned from the story: If I ever go on a US trip, I get a fresh passport first.

Zurb Foundation 5 Released

I am switching to today.

I Hope My Father Dies Soon

I if ever become so weak as a man that I would vote someone else's conscience instead of my own, then on that day, Mr. Adams, be my guest: Kill me.

I fought my ISP's bad behavior and won

Anyone know if Time Warner Cable does this?

Jim Weirich's final GitHub commit

:(Feel bad for suggesting there was dog shit on the path of enlightenment! But he fixed the ruby koans package, so we continue to learn!

State of MetaFilter

So Google killed Metafilter?

Now Accepting Bitcoin on Dell.com

Can I buy a server and only pay after I mine its price in bitcoins with it? :-)(pretty please with sugar, don't take this joke seriously)

Batsh – A language that compiles to Bash and Windows Batch

Great idea. Keep up the good work man.

Announcing .NET 2015 – .NET as Open Source, .NET on Mac and Linux

Dear Microsoft,Please stay away from Linux.Sincerely,Linux User

Permissions asked for by Uber Android app

Clearly aggressive and not in a way that improves UX.

I Owe It All to Community College

Community college is an excellent place for continuation education as well. Over the years I have taken night classes there have nothing to do with my date job, like laws, commercial contracts, real estate, investment, languages, etc. It's a great way to expand your horizon in a classroom environment.

Who Owns Los Angeles?

I've built GIS databases w/ parcel data, owner data, tax data and zoning layers of high growth Virgnia and North Carolina jurisdiction. It's a very time consuming and ad hoc process. Some jurisdictions charge a lot of money for this data. If anyone has any interest in exploring a parcel based CRM startup concept, contact me. There is a lot of demand for this service. I have a few paying consulting customers and thinking about building it into a SaaS tool to power real estate development.

The Software Revolution

It takes 3 of us to fix a light bulbthe first time are usually struck by how establishments there manage with so few people. It's the other way round for expats in India. Dmitry Shukov, CEO of MTS India was amazed to see eight people pushing the boarding ladder at the airport the first time he arrived in Delhi."In Russia there is just one person doing that job. In sec tors like retail, there is always excess staff in India," he says. It's also very common in the hospitality industry, where guests are pampered with a level of service unheard of in the West. But splitting one person's job among three not only reduces wages, but also the challenge. Or, as Rex Nijhof, the Dutch chief of the Renaissance Mumbai Hotel puts it: "If you have something heavy and only two people available to move it, you have to find a way to build wheels on it. In India, you just get six more people."https://justpaste.it/Argumentative

How my father gave me a terrifying lesson at 10

As a kid I heard the song 'We Work The Black Seam Together' by Sting. It was protesting the closure of mines in England. Even as a kid I couldn't imagine what was going through his head. Yes many minors were put out of work and I'm sure many of them and their families were put into horrible poverty or worse but breaking the generational cycle had to have been a positive thing.

Redis re-implemented in Rust

Man you should have named it Rudis

Why It's Safe for Founders to Be Nice

The reason startup founders can safely be nice is that making great things is compounded, and rapacity isn't.So if you're a founder, here's a deal you can make with yourself that will both make you happy and make your company successful. Tell yourself you can be as nice as you want, so long as you work hard on your growth rate to compensate. Most successful startups make that tradeoff unconsciously. Maybe if you do it consciously you'll do it even better.This captures why I prefer Silicon Valley to Wall Street. In Wall Street the assumption is zero sum - one dollar either goes to me or you, but not both. In Silicon Valley there is the illusion that you, your employees and your customer can all win. Whether this is true or not, it makes for a healthier work environment, and PG helps explain why it is true for startups. (Nobody at Wall Street grows 5% a week)

Fifty

The problem with getting old is that one-by-one all the things that you dreamed of as young and you got to try when got older, feel old and demystified. Suddenly you look out and see less "magic", less mystery, less things to make you excited, fewer major surprises around the corner.I'm only (//already) in my early 30s but it scares me to think how it might feel, at an older age, to not be able to see anything in the same exciting eye that a teenager does. And the things that might still feel exciting, to not be able to try, due to constraints that "grownups" have (health issues, family, work, other responsibilities, lack of friends willing to participate)

Large Companies Game H-1B Visa Program

This can be fixed by forcing companies to pay H-1B's the same wage as local hires and allow them to quit and move on to other companies if they're unhappy. The benefit to companies would disappear, and so would H-1B.

Dell shipping laptop with rogue self-signed root CA

The self-signed certificate is probably something a developer at Dell was using for testing and forgot to delete.

Being homeless a struggle, even with a $100k job offer

It's a bit weird though. Why couldn't he just rent a house/borrow money to pay for a temporary residence, then pay off using his paycheck? If his case was indeed already listed as exonerated, then he should be able to at least take some loans. But indeed, whetehr he was truly guilty or not, the stigma put on people via even just one conviction is just horrible. This seems such an ancient and brutal practice in today's world.

Bayes's Theorem: What's the Big Deal?

Bayesianism is a 'grand unified theory of reasoning' that all of science be should be based on assigning (and updating) probabilities for a list of possible outcomes; the probabilities are supposed to indicate your subjective degree of confidence that a given outcome will occur.Yudkowsky's 'Less Wrong' group of 'rationality' followers, aimed to try to force-fit all of science into the Bayesian framework. And of course it doesn't work at all.I think Andrew Gelman's criticisms are right on the mark.Probability theory was designed for reasoning about external observations - sensory data. (for example, "a coin has a 50% chance of coming up heads"). In terms of predicting things in the external world, it works very well.Where it breaks down is when you try to apply it to reasoning about your own internal thought processes. It was never intended to do this. As Gelman correctly points out, it is simply invalid to try to assign probabilities to mathematical statements or theories, for instance.You see 'Less Wrong' followers wasting years of their lives engaging in the most unbelievable and ludicrous intellectual contortions to try to force-fit all of science into Bayesianism.Go to the 'Less Wrong' blog and you can read reams and reams of these massively complicated and contorted ideas, including such hilarious nonsense as 'Updateless decision theory' and 'Timeless decision theory'.---David Deutsch in his superb books, 'The Fabric Of Theory' and 'The Beginning Of Infinity', argued for a different theory of reasoning than Bayesianism. Deutsch (correctly in my view) pointed out that real science is not based on probabilistic predictions, but on explanations. So real science is better thought of as the growth or integration of knowledge, rather than probability calculations.In terms of dealing with internal models or hypothesis, I think the correct solution is not to assign probabilities, but rather to assign a 'conceptual coherence' value, so for instance rather than say 'outcome x has probability y' (where x is a hypothesis) you should say 'concept x has conceptual coherence value y'Conceptual coherence is the degree with which a hypothesis is integrated with the rest of your world-model, and I think it accurately captures in mathematical terms the ideas that Deutsch was trying express.Probabilities should be viewed as just special cases of conceptual coherence (in the cases of outcomes where you are dealing with external observations or sensory data, Bayesianism is perfectly valid).Then all of the problems with probability go away, and none of the massively complicated theories expounded on 'Less Wrong' are necessary ;)

Apple Apologizes and Updates iOS to Restore iPhones Disabled by Error 53

Boy, lately things haven't been going well for Apple.

fMRI software bugs could upend years of research

Does it mean studies like these are likely bunk? http://kangleelab.com/articles/Paper0002_0009.pdf https://med.stanford.edu/news/all-news/2016/05/moms-voice-activates-different-regions-in-children-brains.html https://www.theguardian.com/science/2015/apr/21/babies-feel-pain-like-adults-mri-scan-study-suggests https://news.brown.edu/articles/2013/06/breastfeeding And with bunk I mean doesn't show what they claim.

Go’s march to low-latency GC

Before Go I was web developing in Node.js but wanted to get "closer to the metal." Thought about using C for the back end but then heard about Go and have been in love ever since. My favorite programming language by far.

USCIS Proposes Rule to Welcome International Entrepreneurs

I am inviting foreign nationals in a nonimmigrant F-1 Post Completion OPT (EAD) status to meet in San Francisco and discuss their thoughts about the proposed rule.I am drafting a response from a nonprofit research organization and H-1B cap-exempt employer perspective:https://www.eventbrite.com/e/lets-discuss-proposed-rule-by-u...or SMS text WHOMENTORSDOTCOM to 50500 to obtain my contact information.This year, my organization endeavors to maintain a relationship with startup founders of a startup that would not otherwise be a qualifying institution to work part-time on-site at the non-profit research organization anywhere in the USA.

Linux debugging tools you'll love

Sysdig was not mentioned.Most of all those tools / command, can be achieved with this one tool / command.http://www.sysdig.org/wiki/sysdig-examples/

The new MacBook Pro is kind of great for hackers

>You can buy tiny little USB-C adapters like this by the handful on Amazon for cents:Buying a proper USB-C adapter is not trivial.[1] I read somewhere that Amazon subsequently removed a lot of bad listings/sellers but that doesn't mean a new batch of bad adapters are selling now 2016.>In a year or two when we all have junk drawers packed full of extra generic USB-C cables that cost nearly nothing, we’re going to look back on this and wonder why everyone was so worked up.Because Apple didn't synchronize the USB-C-is-the-future simultaneously across all new products. The brand new iPhone 7 is Lightning instead of USB-C. The brand new yet-to-be-released AirPods' recharging dock is Lightning instead of USB-C. That's what leads to the mob mocking Apple's product strategy requiring the clutter of dongles.[2][1]http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2015/11/google-engineer-leave...[2]https://www.reddit.com/r/funny/comments/5a6lbd/it_just_works...

Microsoft’s Surface Hub is now apparently a billion-dollar business

Wow, companies are spending on average between $450k to $1M per deployment on these things. You don't need too many customers to reach $1B at that price.

Tim Cook assures employees that Apple is committed to the Mac

In other news, CEO lies to employees. Oh wait, that's not other news at all.

On Conference Speaking

I speak as part of my job and have spoken at probably 20+ events that are 3rd party to my employer in the past 2 years. Currently I am averaging about a conference a month in 2017.I thought this was a really great list. Some big ones I like to call out:#9: Travel - This gets me more than most things. I have on occasions bumped into other speakers completely unprepared for their travel for or for things that might go "boom" such as: laptop failure, presentation corruption, display adapters not existing (or breaking which is harder to prepare for) and my personal favorite Immunity Boosters. Hell yes. A coworker turned me on to these two years ago after coming down with the plague after speaking at a few too many events in a short period. Now its a must for me and whether its placebo effect or not I haven't gotten sick while traveling/speaking since.#10: Showtime - No one is born a great speaker. Flat out no one. I know people who speak weekly at public events and they used to suck at it too. Don't be afraid/stress too much before a talk. That said, I have seen people bite off more than they can chew and give a first talk at a major tech event such as AWS's Re:Invent where rooms average 1k people. If you're going to choke at your first event, don't have it be that big/visible of a one. Start with local meetups!#5/6: A big one that I always recommend is peer review your content before you even start dry runs. Presentations often live longer on sites such as Slideshare than they do in the minds of those who have seen them live. It is in sites like Slideshare that your spelling, grammar, and even design issues will stand out the most. Get someone who is detached from your presentation to read through it, maybe even two people, take that feedback and then move forward. For me, my wife who was a journalism major reviews almost all of my content despite not knowing much about the technical nature.

A Cyberattack 'the World Isn’t Ready For'

His attack came on the 29th April - yet there were Snort signatures on the 21st April (42329, 42332, 42340) for DoublePulsar, and before that 14 March (41978) for one of the vulnerabilities.Despite his much lauded protection, I find it odd to believe that he's not running Snort, and the lack of actual specifics make me believe this is really a piece for the mentioned Israeli security company with a "blackbox" IDS.

Building a Music Recommender with Deep Learning

LeCun recently griped about this topic w/rt classical music on GooglePlay,https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10154605399547143> Don't you guys realize that putting everything from Monteverdi to Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, Brahms, Moussorgsky, Stravinsky, and Bernstein in the same "Classical" bucket makes no sense?> (Particularly when you have ultra fine-grained categories for popular music!)Any comments about that?

Inside Patreon, the economic engine of internet culture

I think the hyperbolic title needs an injection of reality. My 2c. Patreon ... added it 1 year ago to a commercial-friendly (LGPL3) library, in finance of all areas, that I've ploughed hundreds of hours in to over 8 years ... 14,000+ downloads per month ... and nobody has ever given a cent.

A High School Student Building Integrated Circuits

I have really wanted to do this myself. Buy some older fab equipment, and produce NAND chips. Start selling 4TB SSDs for $100 or so. It's ridiculous how long the price-fixing in the SSD industry has been permitted to persist, and someone needs to take them out. We don't need even 10nm production for SSDs or anything. Go ahead and fill a standard 3.5" drive cage with the device. Since the chips function mostly in-parallel, you get speed increases just from concurrent use. And I'd imagine you might find a subversive company willing to sell you controller logic on the cheap. Just so absurd that such a basic part as NAND chips can even get treated like a premium item despite being in basically every product of any kind created in the past 10 years. Any other component like that is commoditized and dirt cheap, especially when they contain no rare materials.

Announcing Microsoft DirectX Raytracing

Why not path tracing?

We might be swinging away from the newsfeed

This is free AI. If you paid for it, it would serve you. This way, it serves whoever pays for it. Email from top fintech asking me to work on their "personalized recommendation system that balances engagement, revenue, and our partner constraints". Do you see the welfare of their users in there? It's financial clickbait for naive people. Stop saying it's a tech problem, it's the uncanny valley and what not. This problem is created by billions of naive cheapskates and a system that rewards moral flexibility.

How to write efficient matrix multiplication

A similar article on how to optimize SGEMM on GPUs using OpenCL - https://cnugteren.github.io/tutorial/pages/page1.html

A cartoon intro to DNS over HTTPS

Why is DNS taking so long to have security patched in as if governments are pressuring to make sure they can snoop on things easily. Same goes for email.Having an opt in security mechanism is easy to deploy as in keeping the http version of a site available while running https on a new port for clients that want to use it.

iOS 12 introduces new features to reduce interruptions and manage Screen Time

I have just installed beta on iPhone SE and it feels much faster.

The Site Reliability Workbook: Practical Ways to Implement SRE [pdf]

Huge fan of what Google is doing with SRE, we're mandating that everybody that works on production systems reads this book. So many insights that point you in the right direction on how online services/products are properly deployed. Even if you can't implement everything now, go read the book.We're a small team and we started implementing SLOs for services, we're slowly building our SRE teams, with the purpose of "SRE embeds" in existing engineering teams.A must read for anybody that wants to do systems engineering / devops / whatever sys admins are called these days. A must read for any technical lead.

Why we need more than “learn at your own pace” online learning

My comment is merely anecdotal, I guess, but I believe if I were part of this study my data point would have been considered a 'statistical anomaly'.I am a career changer who moved from admin roles to software development. This part of my life started in 2014, when I decided to make the change. My first instinct was to get a degree, since I had never got one before, so I started an evening presential course with a local university. During the course, I often noticed that I wasn't taking much in from the lectures, so I'd come in on weekends and do my study then. I'd still attend classes, as I was always afraid I'd miss something important for the exams, but this turned out to be rarely the case. In my last year, I was already so frustrated with spending 3 hours in class each night after a day at my full time job, that I decided to completely skip my lectures altogether. Surprisingly, these were the modules where I had the best performance.There's a lot of correlation here, but in my case I'd say that what motivated me were not the classes themselves, but the deadlines. I tried online at-your-own-pace classes before in my previous career (accounting), and they did not work at all. It was very hard to keep myself motivated. Again, the correlation here does not necessarily indicate causality -- it could be argued that the lack of motivation came from the fact that I didn't like the subject. But I still believe that what works best for my case is to have a deadline, and learning resources other than presential lectures.TL;DR: career changer who tried learn-at-your-own-pace resources for previous career path and wasn't successful. Then tried presential lectures + self study for CS career, was moderately successful. Best results were obtained with self study + externally imposed deadlines.

A fullscreen desktop application resembling a sci-fi computer interface

Take a look at http://tracesof.net/uebersicht/Übersicht lets you run system commands and display their output on your desktop in little containers, called widgets. Widgets are written in JavaScript + React's JSX.

StateOfTheArt.ai

When I think of the things I would add to this, I realize how amazingly useful it would be to have more data on the tasks themselves. For starters, whether or not there is code and what license under which it is released, and for NLP what languages were used/are available for use. Also, sign language recognition fits somewhere between computer vision and NLP. If picked up by the community, this could become a huge knowledge base.

“No, we’re telling everyone we are using Java”

It might be time to reconsider using Java because of the Oracle v. Google lawsuit. Oracle has asserted that Java's APIs are copyright; that issue is the subject of a writ of certiorari currently before the SCOTUS. And some recent versions of Java are no longer free and open source. It is strange when language choices are driven by intellectual property considerations.

Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2019)

Symaps.io | Full stack | Paris, France | Full Time | Onsite | Compensation based on profile | VISA Symaps.io is a fast-growing tech startup located in Paris, Station F : it's an AI application that finds the best location for your business (restaurants, stores, etc.), based on profitability. It's currently used by clients in the EU, Switzerland, Korea and Taiwan, incl. Tesla and Décathlon. We just closed a 700K seed round and several clients contracts, and are urgently looking for passionated peoples to strengthen our team of 6 peoples (incl. 3 full time engineers).Esp. we're hiring 2 full stack engineers. Our stack : Python, React, Scikit-learn, Kubernetes, Elastic, PostgreSQL / PostGIS.More details here :https://jobs.stationf.co/companies/symaps-io-1

Super Thinking: The Big Book of Mental Models

Quoting "Art of the Deal" and extolling Trump's virtues as a dealmaker didn't really sway me. Regretting this purchase.

Dear Agile, I’m Tired of Pretending (2018)

I personally found that a good methodology: each team member has clear area of ownership/responsibility. John does X, Jane does Y, Ann tests X, Jeff tests Y. Everyone logs their own tasks. We define and work towards a sprint. No elaborate planning, no estimates. The peer pressure is enough to get everyone moving.Managers often tell me that my process is chaotic. They want more visibility and deterministic completion dates. We adopt Agile process. Now we have long sprint meetings. I think we get less done.

Patrick Winston of MIT CSAIL has died

To read and contribute remembrances about this great man, Patrick H. Winston, welcome to https://www.memoriesofpatrickwinston.com/remembrances. His research works, talks, photos and more can also be found on that site.

TextMate 2.0

Hmm really surprised that it is slower in handling large files then VSCode

Lab-made primordial soup yields RNA bases

Before inquiring whether something can be made accidentally, perhaps one should determine if it can be made intentionally.That is, can organic chemists create functioning RNA from scratch? How about a strand of DNA? (And, by scratch, I mean starting with components that were not derived from living organisms.)

Moxie: Incremental Declarative UI in Rust

> moxie assumes that the program will enter from the "top" of the tree each time. [...] My suspicion is that Rust may be fast enough along with the right memoization strategies to never worry about the time spent getting from the root of the tree to nodes with changes.I think there is reason to worry: consider a node with a lot of children, for example a list of many todos. Say you want to change the state of one single todo, for example marking it as done. With a top-down approach such as diffing you have to go through each child to see if it has changed. This is O(n). If you instead have components that know their position in the tree and can react to external changes, like react's Components or using hooks and useState, this can be updated in O(1).

Why are some things darker when wet?

ELIF5 explanation: https://www.reddit.com/r/explainlikeimfive/comments/e6czsd/e...

Bosch Smart glasses: A tiny laser array paints images directly onto your retina

Hope those lenses are not reflective

Developer salary spreadsheet compiled from tweets

This would be even more useful if it had after tax take home amount.

Wildcard: Spreadsheet-Driven Customization of Web Applications

Seems like you'd want to look into eavt databases for a universal schema, Datomic has a lot of resources explaining it's schema

Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2020)

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Norwegian Air to cancel 85% of flights and temporarily lay off 90% of staff

airlines are expecting a full travel ban soon (including domestic). Projections have United revenue down 9% this quarter and 95% next quarter (not a typo).https://www.cnbc.com/2020/03/16/coronavirus-makes-airlines-c...

U.S. judge blocks Twitter's bid to reveal government surveillance requests

Didn't Reddit have some sort of a "red herring" that was raised if they had to comply with some FISA request?

Lesser-known Web APIs

Here's one that's Firefox exclusive, and still seems to work: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Global_att...It's something I've used on a few sites, and it's a shame chrome dropped support.

On Abandoning the X Server

GNOME on Wayland allows me to set my FullHD laptop screen at 100% and my 4K display at 200%. I'm sold. :D

Apple Silicon M1: A Developer's Perspective

These first generations Apple Silicon Macs are really publicly available DTKs for developers.I think Apple is expecting all developers to jump and port their apps so they are ready when the high-end Apple Silicon devices hit the market.

Heap-based buffer overflow in Sudo

At this point, can somebody recommend linux security best practices on desktop? I already have two user accounts one for important stuff and other for unimportant stuff. I prefer to use sandboxed apps, but flatpaks don't look well maintained compared to official repositories, and often unofficial. Firejail seems quite controversial due to use of UserNS? What do veterans in security recommend for sandboxing of user apps?

How to Lose Money

You can lose money with options or stocks or literally any form investment.The real problem is: not assessing risk tolerance correctly and not diversifying your investment portfolio.e.g.: you YOLO one stock instead of investing on multiple stocks, multiple sectors, with ~5% on each stock.

Timezone Bullshit

I wish, although I'm totally aware it'll never happen, that there were no time zones, just UTC and that's it.One clock for the world. If that meant you started work at 0900 UTC and finished at 1700 UTC then fine, but if you lived in a different part of the world your work day might be 0100-0900.It'd definitely take a bit of getting used to, but as the world becomes more intertwined, timezones are a pain and constant source of confusion.

Kanban board in one HTML using localstorage

This is great, so simple, would be great to have a sync feature.

A man is looking for the friends who shipped him overseas in a crate in 1965

I bet the Irish guys had a damn good laugh in the pub after posting him off. What a spectacularly stupid thing to do.

2021.06.08 Certificate Lifetime Incident

This is an outrage! I demand my money back!

Another 0-day looms for many Western Digital users

IOUTInternet of Unsuitable Things.

Intel is reducing server chip pricing in attempt to stem the AMD tide

Sigh.1. According to DigiTimes, you should have stopped reading right there.2. Intel has already been discounting their Server side CPU since combating Zen 2.3. It is actually listed inside Intel quarterly report where Server margin are under pressure.4. Did I mention DigiTimes?

Was Google Earth Stolen?

How can I get full access to this article? It's sad that people discuss it so much and it's featured on HN but I'm seeing just the first paragraphI mean, is it okay to feature and discuss paywalled information here and everybody good with it? To me it feels like an ad for medium.com

Error 404 (Not Found)

I was experienced this issue with my spotify app. Initially thought, it was my internet issue lol.

JetBrains Fleet: The Next-Generation IDE by JetBrains

Just started using VS Code after years of JetBrains IDEs. Wow, it's like flying through the air vs. the maple syrup feel that JB IDEs have grown to be.Thin client hosting might be their Hail Mary.

Pfizer board member suggests end to mask, vaccine mandates

I've always found this to be much ado about nothing.

Difficult situation on campus: traffic jam of food delivery robots

I'm on a campus with these robots and over winter break, with the first big snow, a friend of mine was bored and apparently spent parts of his days just going around and helping the Starships that got caught in the snow.