skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Would love to see the Android init system replaced with a stripped down version of systemd and binder replaced by kdbus someday.
>Tell that to IKEA, their catalog is 75% CGI.

Obviously that doesn't apply to IKEA.

First, because IKEA uses so good CGI (and hybrid techniques) that their photos are life-like and totally believable.

Second, because everybody has seen and touch IKEA products, and can visit an IKEA store at any time. They're not some mystery meat web store.
Sorry, I edited my comment after you had already copied it, so they don't match up.

I meant to say that most of the people begging for money are mentally ill, addicted, or both. I got that info from a psych professor in college who was researching homelessness with the CDC (they do that apparently).

It was only one city, but my assumption was that her research was a model for many American cities. I could certainly be wrong about that.

I did imply that it was a causal relationship, and I certainly meant it. Part of the definition of mental illness is that someone doesn't function in the society in a prescribed way. That's also how people become homeless.

The point that people may also become mentally ill after becoming homeless is well-taken, though, and I'd add that to my own comment if I could.
> Although we can agree oop is garbage :D

Can we? The stuff that Alan Kay put forward in Smalltalk, with message-passing, polymorphism, late binding etc.... was definitely NOT garbage imho!

What C++ an Java and all the all the languages that tried to copy them, and also Javascript with its prototypal inheritance ended up with... it stinks indeed.

But where Scala on one side, and Go and Rust on the other are going... that will be interesting at least :)

Maybe Odersky is on to something with his whole "functional and oo are orthogonal" thing... though the way macros are implemented in Scala on top of and USING the oo core instead of separate and serving as the foundation for oo (CL style) makes me wanna puke when reading the resulting code...
I would hope everyone would feature USB-C with their Skylake processors. There's no reason not to.
Not sure what's the equivalent for the steps 3-7 here in Australia, but getting a referral from a GP and then getting a portable testing machine, that you're supposed to wear at home, is very straightforward. It also doesn't cost much - think it's something like $80 after getting the Medicare rebate.
What is interesting is that those volumes put Uber no where close to a monopoly player in the taxi/"car lifts" market. They are just 1 player and I think people use them because their app is cooler than calling a taxi by phone or razing your hand. I don't know, I wouldn't put money on them. Maybe their app, who knows, could be useful for taxis once uber goes away?
You'd think they could be smarter about combining the R,G,B images. E.g., allow for the thing under each pixel to have moved a little from one image to the next, look at all their narrowband images (which will typically be strongly correlated, especially for nearby wavelengths) to estimate how fast each part of the image is moving, and then to get a pixel in the final image combine its G with slightly offset (maybe interpolated) R and B.

Fiddly but hardly, er, rocket science.

(Of course for some purposes you really need the unaltered R,G,B images. But if you're producing a single RGB JPEG image for public consumption, that's not one of those purposes.)

[EDITED to add:] More difficult, I guess, is dealing with things that appear in only some of the planes. E.g., if G is taken last then there will be bits of Earth at the trailing edge of the moon in the G frame that have no counterparts in the R,B frames because the moon occluded them in those frames. So there will still be artefacts in the image. But I'd have thought they'd be less objectionable than the ones you get from just naively stacking the R, G, and B.
May be because there is a 69.37% increase in the Indian American population since 2000's? ;) Just saying!
"He counsels staff and clients to keep their credit cards in specially shielded envelopes to or stack them one on top of the other so the signals are jumbled up."

Slightly terrifying advice. A few years ago Kris Padgett (iirc) demonstrated that nearly all RFID "blocking" wallets were useless. That and they employ some immense collision detection -if you can throw a binbag full of chips past a reader and still manage to scan them all, I find it impossible to believe 2 cards stacked does _anything_ to help.
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Ask HN: Self taught/no degree freelancer.. What salary can I get?
Based on my skillset, what salary can I get?

I've been freelancing/consulting/contracting for about 5 years and I'm looking into getting a full time frontend dev position.

I have no degree and everywhere I've worked I was the only developer. I feel like I've worked with alot of different things but my portfolio looks like shit since most of the businesses I worked with don't exit anymore or they moved on with different developers. All my personal projects are still major works in progress.

I think explaining my backstory in depth would clear up alot of things but I'll try to keep it brief since I probably wouldn't have time to explain everything in an actual interview.

Languages I've worked with
PHP: 2009-2013
Javascript: 2011-Current
Ruby: 2014-Current

JS Frameworks
Ember: Late 2014-Current
React: 2015-Current

Ruby Frameworks
Rails/rails-api
Sinatra

Databases:
MySQL, Postgres, Redis

Random Sysadmin stuff:
Haven't touched any of this since 2011(paas's ftw) so if someone asks me a question about it, I probably wont remember.
nginx, Apache, Varnish

Stuff I'm currently learning or used recently but I'm still a noob:
Elixir(phoenix framework), Go, and about to check out Clojure.. I really want to get more in depth with functional programming

Design:
Photoshop: 2007-Current
Illustrator: 2009-Current
Sketch: 2014-Current

PPC/Ads
Managed a 20k ad spend for a client from 2011-2014. I only do PPC for one of my own businesses now that has a 2k per month ad spend with a 800% return on ad spend.
Show HN: Markbook – Automagically Collect, Organize, Search Your Upvotes/Stars
Show HN: Just published Localize-Swift, a useful Swift localisation framework
Dell's XPS[1] range should eventually get a refresh also, but Dell seems to have a habit of launching laptops juuust before Intel does a refresh which is myopic or careless or I don't know what.

Looking at those benchmarks[2] the Skylake i5 is no slouch but I just have an aversion to the i5 for no rational reason whatsoever. Seems to be clocked lower and doesn't have hyper-threading. If you're going to get the top of the line CPU and chipset you may as well go for the i7 rather than the i5. is my thinking. I guess the i5 exists to create mid-range gear -- pair an i7 with a dedicated GPU, i5 uses integrated; i7 gets a retina panel w/ touch, i5 gets 1080p and no touch; i7 gets more RAM, i5 gets less; and so on.

[1] http://www.dell.com/ie/p/xps-13-9343-laptop/pd

[2] http://anandtech.com/show/9483/intel-skylake-review-6700k-66...
every now and then: flash

(because I don't want to install flash system-wide)
Markbook collects your favorites, upvotes and stars from Twitter, Product Hunt, HackerNews, Github and Medium – so you can organize and search it. It's a new way of social bookmarking as it runs in the background and doesn’t need you to manually add things you want saved. But instead, it integrates with existing social buttons you already use (like favoriting on Twitter, upvoting Product Hunt etc). The integration happens completely on the client-side, so you aren't bothered with connecting all your social accounts. Just install the Chrome extension and you’re good to go! (Safari extension coming soon)

Some background information: I mostly favorite things as a way to bookmark but went through quite a struggle every time I wanted to find something back. So I built an early version of Markbook purely to meet this need. Today, I thought I’d share it with you the v1 I have been working on the past few weeks on the side. Give it a try and let me know what you think! Hopefully you have some feedback on how you’d use it and what features you really need next :)

Thanks!
Besides, infecting the computers in a nuclear plant is not as easy as sending a technician a tweet with a link to the .exe or pulling a trigger thousands of miles away.

We still don't know how they infected the Iranian nuclear plant, so chances are there were some covert operations near the site.
That sounds interesting. Any references or notes on that I can read? (or source code :) )

I would say that just because your memory use is deterministic, doesn't mean you don't get garbage. Garbage is just memory that isn't needed any more.

for example, in

let
a = f(x)
b = g(y)
in
a + b

If there is working memory used in the body of f(), it will be garbage when f() has finished executing, because it won't be referred to any more.
So it could be freed after f is executed and before g is executed, which may reduce the maximum amount of memory required by the program.
What Windows 10's “Privacy Nightmare” Settings Actually Do
Of course HN's advice is about 10% good, and the up-votes may not be accurate in coaxing out the valid signal. Lot's of people will have opinions, but often it's not really coming from a source of experience. Even on this, most of the comments are about the website itself, which probably could use some work.. but only 2 i think i've seen mention what the customer might be thinking.

I think if you really want to know why your customers aren't buying, you're better off asking your customers.
I'd love nothing more than to just use the latest DOM APIs, but every company I've spoken to in the last 5 years wants a framework. They feel more comfortable working with an app structure that everybody else is using to supposedly great effect.
I think we mostly agree! :-)
That shouldn't be too hard. Disconnect all radios from management computers with an airgap. And if that goes at the cost of some functionality then so be it but the downsides of interconnected systems are heavier than the upsides.

At a minimum stick an 'airgap' switch in the dash somewhere and default it to 'on', or label it 'insecure' when off so the users know the risks.
Top 25 Android Devices to Use for Testing
Anybody who adopted Angular right out of the gate is kicking themselves now because everything they wrote in the last year is now obsolete. Hopping on the latest thing might be fun and you might learn a few things, but I'd prefer to wait for things to be fully battle tested and have a good history of support before I put it into production.

Another good reason is speed. It's rare for a framework to be faster than native DOM api's. And the app loads faster!
Ask HN: What Is the Future of Sencha Ext JS
My company which creates enterprise software for utilities is currently using Ext JS as it's primary front end technology. Previously they have used Dojo (which has now been replaced by Ext) and we also have a large amount of legacy Adobe Flex on the front end.

I have a basic knowledge of JavaScript and have played with a few frameworks such as Meteor, JQuery, Knockout etc. My background is in databases so I'm not really a front end developer at all although I have written parts of a lot of production web apps using stored procedures, java etc.

I'm just wondering if learning more about this techology would be good for me in the future?
Every satellite needs to use propulsion for station keeping, satellites at LaGrange points included. Orbits aren't as stable in real life as they are in math.
Maybe because Isis Anchalee Wenger is not an engineer, despite what her inflated job title ("platform engineer") and 3-months of web development bootcamp may tell her to the contrary. That doesn't mean she doesn't face real sexism -- just one comment about her appearance is one too many. The more interesting question, however, is what does a software engineer actually look like? Does a 3-month web bootcamp give you the rights?
I'm one of those people that has a service/app for almost everything I need or do: managing what I eat, sleeping schedule, finding new music, learning new skills (and practicing them), etc. My friend Mat is similar, so we decided to combine a list of sites we've used and found useful in the past to make randomusefulwebsites.com

If anyone has any ideas, please submit them using the link on the site and if they're decent, I'll get them added!
World's First Unstealable Bike Yerka Goes into Production
After a 2 minutes check, the deal breaker for me on this website is that there is NO WAY I will spend several thousands of dollars with so little information on a specific product (lack of pictures for example - I would need a lot more visuals to appreciate the quality of the models proposed).

Plus, no customer evaluation (this is the first thing I look at right after pictures: what people are saying once they bought it).

Look at what Amazon, Rakuten does. Their websites may be crap visually, but they have a bunch of useful information making your purchase "safer" in the first place.

Furniture on Rakuten (in Japan at least) has litterally pages of pictures / dimensions, different setups to help the purchaser imagine how it actually fits in their environment.
Interesting. Our daughter is 2 months away from her 2nd birthday and just in the last month or so, her speech has started accelerating at quite a pace. Whereas from 8 months or so she was making noises and started to form her first words, these days it's almost one new word per day, and she's starting to make lots of 2 and even 3 word sentences.

Another interesting point: we're bringing her up to be bi-lingual (Dutch and English), and because her environment is primarily Dutch, almost all of the words she speaks are in Dutch, though she understands a decent share of English too, now. I wonder if because language development is a bit more prolonged with bi-lingual children, if this vulnerable phase is also then prolonged, or if the brain starts to be more resilient as soon as a "first language" is settled in?

I love this stuff!
>Your advice comes off as pretty sexist to me.

Sort of. That's why it works.

In this case it just means using "sex" to sell something, the oldest trick in the advertising book.

If you want to sell something using the possitive images of sex appeal etc it's not necessarily a bad thing (I mean any more bad than advertising with any other means of persuassion, personally I find advertising bad in itself).

Protestants (including atheists brought up in protestant society) have this weirdo idea that all things should be de-sexualized, else it's "sexist".

Nope, it can just be sexism: invoking desire and recognizing that sex is natural and something people enjoy.

(Wheareas "sexist" is implying a sex is inferior and should be serving the other, etc).
Jimmy Iovine Interview: Producer Talks Apple Music and Taylor Swift’s Wrath
> I mean, what are you arguing here for exactly?

I think that goes for you too. If you don't feel that the comment addressed you personally why over-react like this? It was simply a bit of information presented in good faith.
Unlikely; Wolfram Alpha is based on Mathematica, which has arbitrary-precision integers, and I don't think one wolfram can be more than about 10^12 nano-dijkstras.

(If I put "1 wolfram" into Alpha then it tells me about Stephen Wolfram. If I put "2 wolfram" into Alpha it tells me about tungsten. I guess that when you ask it for "1 whatever", it first simplifies it to "whatever", and then you can have variable quantities of tungsten but not of Stephen Wolfram.)
Your MVP is probably just an experiment – leanstartup.nl
Reddit: A Nine-Year Case Study in Absentee Management
What’s up with this publish or perish nonsense? If you are concerned that MIRI works on problems that are disconnected from reality, then read their papers and provide a thorough analysis.
It's not a huge sample set to draw from but the average amount of sleep across all of our Exist[1] users is 6:56 (as tracked by a device like a Fitbit, Jawbone UP, etc). So not quite as bad as in the article, but not quite enough either.

[1]: https://exist.io
When you're addicted to it you just need a fix to put you back to baseline. So the stimulating effect of it goes away until you start having withdrawals.
Nothing there about communities that cause harm.

There are a few "thinspo" communities. Some are just porn of thin people. Some come close to, but avoid, the "promotion of eating disorder". EG /r/thinspocommunity And some are decidedly pro-eating disorder, eg /r/xthinspo and /r/ProED

It's a bit worrying that children (under 18s) share photos in a public sub of themselves in their underwear, even when they are aware of predatory men seeking images for sexual gratification and seeking girls to groom.

There's also a kik-group.

It's pretty easy to de-anonymise some users. Similar nyms are used across different social platforms, sometimes real name fragments are used, sometimes locations or schools or college courses are disclosed.

Reddit admins were told; they don't care.

So a sub to share cartoons of images of child sexual abuse gets banned, while a sub that shares images of people with a dangerous[1] mental illness is left alone.

[1] anorexia used to be (when adjusted for factors) the most lethal mental health problem, killing about 20% of the people with the diagnosis. We're better at keeping those people alive so I'm not sure where anorexia ranks. But the other most lethal MH illness is body dysmorphic disorder, which has (obvious) close links to anorexia.
The fu*king tube strike
some nice links in there. It might be good to have a random list for each session and each time Let's go is clicked you are send to the next one in that list. It currently seems to be a random pick from a list which after while means you are brought to the same (not so interesting) site over and over again.
Even with a gaming PC, anything graphical on Linux doesn't feel as snappy as a Windows PC, with a fresh install.
(OTOH on Linux, every filesystem operation feels 10x as fast..)
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How does it work out in the US wrt what you can bring with you to a new employer, where non-compete agreements are outlawed? Is all information then free game? European countries tend to have it in national legislation that you can't disclose important trade secrets.
I got a form that said "To see how your results compare to those of others, please provide the information below."
There was not really much more information, but it said 99 is "low".
Soon, retention hackers:

- Prevent people from unsubscribing
- Prevent people from canceling their orders
- Discounts if buy every day/week/month
- Sending tons of emails with fake site activity ("somebody sent you a message"-style)
In practice, the experience of six minutes of ads when watching television on the web is watching the same two advertisements six times each, so I would not be surprised if people had much less ability to tolerate them for very long.
You mean like how all the horse and buggy companies became highly successful car manufacturers? I can see the Uber logic - we will sell buggies now since we don’t have the technology to make cars and when the technology eventually arrives we will be able sell cars because we have such a great buggy customer network.
I find them very entertaining! I mean, a little while ago one was adamant that his new fancy SD card made his audio sound better.

I worked in pro-audio kit for a long while, as long as there are audiophiles, they'll be work, employment AND entertainment :-)
I've never been to one of the US based conferences (mostly CCC). Has the attitude towards the NSA changed a lot in recent years? A while back it was more or less friendly banter and the meet the FED panel was fairly relaxed (from watching Defcon(?) videos). I remember they gave away mugs and joked about them being bugged (which to me felt like they probably were somehow :P).
I don't feel like I've woken up properly in the morning until I've had a cup of coffee.

...of course, sometimes I will get up early, do some stuff around the house, drive to the shops, drive back to the house, put everything away, cycle to work, and I still won't feel like I've woken up properly until I've drunk my coffee and read my email.

For me, it's all about the ritual of drinking the coffee rather than the caffeine content. I'm quite sure that if someone were to replace it with decaf and not tell me, it'd work just as well.

Everyone's different.
a proper separation model with a bridge controlling which message can go from each zone would work as well without reduced functionality - the problem for now is not even that they had some fault in their security but that there was no security to begin with, everything listen to every other thing and can send messages to (almost) anything over the common car bus.
I guess my criticism went slightly over the top.

Indeed, "use your brain" is not an insult if you say that to people you know pretty well, especially if they just did something extremely stupid that was easily avoidable.

However, I still find it inappropriate to say that to strangers on the internet which you don't know. Of course you can try to extract a lot of character information out of a single sentence that somebody said, but the error rate is quite high.
I'm not saying there's an actual logical relationship nor that I believe porn causes violence but governments might end up believing so. I strongly think porn, even inevitable, especially in teens, is amazingly detrimental. It might not be a reason for someone to force someone else (I never thought of shooting someone after playing Doom), but it will twist the notion of intimate relationships.
The Property Tech I would invest in, and why
Very similar name to f.lux https://justgetflux.com/

it makes the color of your computer's display adapt to the time of day, warm at night and like sunlight during the day.
Always give money if I have it. If even a fraction of it goes toward food or shelter, then it's money well spent.
The gimp.org domain has expired
How do you generated that list?
'hire someone' XD

still some valuable info for idea guys, but link has little to do with 'how to create a mobile app'
Well you can blame 95% of Windows problems the same way.

Don't blame Microsoft vendor A implemented it their own way ...
Sounds like you could command a relatively decent salary, if you can prove your claims via portfolio or testing, but that would also depend on your location, presumably. Where are you based? SV, London, Nowhereville have massive differences in average salary levels.

What I'm really interested in though is how your PPC campaign manages an 800% return. Ideally you'd tell me in detail about the business but of course understand you can't. Some general info might be nice though?
Hey, me too!

https://cloudup.com/ce7ElFcdmKO
It reminds me of a story I read via Joel on Software:

> In one of Gerald Weinberg's books, probably The Secrets of Consulting, there's the apocryphal story of the giant multinational hamburger chain where some bright MBA figured out that eliminating just three sesame seeds from a sesame-seed bun would be completely unnoticeable by anyone yet would save the company $126,000 per year.

> So they do it, and time passes, and another bushy-tailed MBA comes along, and does another study, and concludes that removing another five sesame seeds wouldn't hurt either, and would save even more money, and so on and so forth, every year or two, the new management trainee looking for ways to save money proposes removing a sesame seed or two, until eventually, they're shipping hamburger buns with exactly three sesame seeds artfully arranged in a triangle, and nobody buys their hamburgers any more.

http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2007/09/11.html

Short-term goals with little or no consequences are the problem.