skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Even for blogging, the iPad is a series of compromises. While there are image editors, none are on the level of photoshop and the audio software, while it exists isn't nearly as powerful or fast. I'm sure anything the author does, I can do faster and more efficiently with OS X. As a front end developer, sometimes contractor for TV Shows, and hobbyist musician who's made the odd dollar, not a single one of these activities are viable on the iPad.

Sure, the author does fine with an iPad and seems to like it but for most people this is simply not a reality.
Bloat is relative and subjective. I've never used WebRTC, Pocket, or Loop/Hello, so I'd consider them bloat. On the other hand, I need to deal with PDFs fairly frequently, so it's convenient to have a browser that supports them. Someone else is going to have different requirements. I don't have a problem with that, but I'd prefer to have an option to disable or remove the features that I don't need or want.
No shit. Bottom-tier design work was necessary when the default templates for everything were crap and people were ignorant of the technology.

Also, a lot of "designers" and "design agencies" can't code HTML worth crap and the value they provided was minimal.

To me, a good independent designer codes, knows quirks, and also has the eye for design. If you're a larger company and you want the specialists, it's just better to hire them. And if you don't understand the importance of design, there's an unlimited amount of cheap, quality templates out there.

The trivial work for Photoshoppers with a design degree is up.
There's not enough overlap for MS to want to buy Xamarin to shut it down. This is them putting their money where their mouth is vis-a-vie .NET expansion plans.

Hopefully they'll keep Monodevelop under development, if they don't bring VS to Linux.
aka marketing/advertising (usually)
I think you're looking for "Why Do Nigerian Scammers Say They are From Nigeria?" by Microsoft Research.

http://research.microsoft.com/apps/pubs/default.aspx?id=1677...

Edit: Here's a particularly illuminating quote: "By sending an email that repels all but the most gullible the scammer gets the most promising marks to self-select, and tilts the true to false positive ratio in his favor."
And they're at a conference! Conferences are luxuries for those looking to network, expand their skills and re-ignite passion. While some sales are made, conference goers should be hitting the pavement looking or new work, not complaining that no big business will hire them freelance anymore.
I'm honestly amazed that it took this long. I've tried Xamarin before to make iOS apps but couldn't justify paying an ongoing subscription for what is basically a hobby project. I'd love it if MS expanded the "Starter Edition" to allow more fully fledged apps - they could be seriously competitive with Xcode.
Who really hacked Sony? Cybersecurity researchers say they finally know
Microsoft is only a threat to JetBrains from where I'm standing and looking, I have a feeling they will fix up Xamarin the way we all hope they will. I really hope there will be a completely free option of Xamarin for Students and maybe even on BizSpark.
I imagine .NET devs around the world are rejoicing (myself included). I hope this means access to Xamarin through existing MSDN and BizSpark subscriptions.
Hope this means lower prices. Or even some free edition? :)
How I got fired up about programming
Isn't pretty much all advertising everywhere "without the end-user's explicit consent"?

Websites, TV, radio, print media, billboards, sides of buses, posters in public bathrooms, Disney-branded kids' food at the grocery store, product placements embedded in actual Hollywood movies, desktop search in freakin' Ubuntu...

I didn't sign up for seeing ads in any of these. They're just an implicit part of the social contract in 2016.
Thanks, I've asked our UX engineer to look into this.
There's no way to get Windows 10 for free. Either you pay for an old version of Windows and upgrade or you buy Windows 10.
> Games have also generally always put their saves in your documents folder.

Many games do, but there are still plenty that put them elsewhere. You probably want to use something like Gamesave Manager [1] to find them all.

[1] http://www.gamesave-manager.com
Why do plastic bottles have pointed bottoms?
Interesting, but it looks like they have a fork of R. They package it differently, and provide some performance enhancements.
I'm very familiar with and frequently read Hackaday. I'm more concerned with the non-technical issues. As in, is trying to do something beyond the hobby level by myself realistic? Am I misguided for thinking I can parlay a startup attempt into an early-stage job?
Pretty much.

I develop for a dozen or more totally custom Wordpress sites for my job and the effect this will have on us is precisely zero.

More importantly, this is a band-aid fix for the problem.
In general this doesn't seem like huge surprise. Blood is reasonably homogeneous, but noise becomes an issue when you're looking for anything present in low concentration (signal close to the noise floor) or when small differences in concentration matter (signal superimposed on background noise causes the value change from expected to be close to the magnitude of the noise).

If noise is too high for a single drop, a venous draw is a much larger volume and theoretically equivalent to sampling many drops of blood—it's the physical equivalent to averaging samples to increase the SNR.

The authors note[1] that averaging may not be enough though, and that there may be an interesting difference inherent to fingerprick blood (possibly caused by their collection method):

"Our data also suggest that collecting and analyzing more fingerprick blood does not necessarily bring the measured value closer to those of the donor’s venous blood (Figures 1D and 2D). For example, donor B’s hemoglobin and WBC concentration were similar for venous blood and fingerprick in drop 1 but became less concordant with additional drops, while donor C’s fingerprick measures came closer to the venous measures with additional drops. These data may represent true differences between fingerprick and venous blood, or they may be the result of errors in collection (such as leaving the tourniquet on for too long during a venous draw). Further research is needed to determine how common these patterns are."

1. http://ajcp.oxfordjournals.org/content/ajcpath/144/6/885.ful...
I don't know too much detail about theranos, but is that really the case? The article says they needed to go to 6-9 drops, is that a dealbreaker for what they wanted to do?
Texas. Not Austin, unfortunately.
I wonder what that means for Xamarin.Forms.
You'll have to use ReactJS as it's needed to have the control over the DOM.
Not necessarily. Depends on what your goals are. I'm a freelance IT consultant and I love it, especially the part about about finding leads and working for many different clients on new and interesting challenges.

If freelance work dried up in my segment, I'd look for other entrepreneurial opportunities, which could very well mean not working in software development or IT anymore, but I certainly wouldn't settle for working as an employee. It just isn't for me.

Besides, the high level of job security is a fallacy. As an employee you're working for only one client: Your employer. If that employer suddenly decides you're redundant you're out of a steady income at once with no other clients or leads to compensate for that.

You can't exactly always be on the lookout for another position while on a job because your current employer will get suspicious and ask you what you think you're doing. For an entrepreneur always to be looking for new leads is the default mode so losing a deal - while unfortunate - isn't an end-of-the-line scenario in most cases.
Oh yes, free licenses through Bizspark would be awesome.
Some websites turning law-abiding Tor users into second-class citizens
Yep, but still more effort than I've heard anyone going through (besides spy agencies and the like, anyway).
I strongly feel that they will provide a free edition which works with Visual Studio Code.
Have any of these people complaining about inherently low battery life simply tried turning off data when they're not using it?
Controlling a Nissan Leaf, including other peoples' cars
Bah. That's later on. Right now, we're delivering at a speedy pace. The time we save now can be used later. Hell, I might not even be here later, so I won't have to care.
Yes indeed, right now Xamarin is very very buggy and also pretty slow. I think the software will get MUCH better if the teams at Microsoft will start working on it.
But they aren't the same at all. Kindle is literally ads, with big text, calls to actions, discounts, etc. This wallpaper is 99% a wallpaper, 1% an ad.
Except they actually are¹ charging for Windows 10. And even if you pay for it, they still shove this tracking crap down your throat.

It seems the only sure way to avoid all this tracking crap is to pay for the Enterprise version of Windows 10 (good luck with doing that if you’re not a business though).

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¹ — http://www.microsoftstore.com/store?keywords=windows+10&Site...
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10364056
Miguel finally gets his job at Microsoft: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miguel_de_Icaza#Early_software...

Congrats!
or its embrace extend extinguish?
How Apache Is Losing the Web to NGINX
I'm not just using my evidence of anecdotal "conference goers" I have 6 months worth of email to back it up as well. Non-conference goers. People who are just trying to make a living and wondering why they can't.
Mostly the latter, I believe.

The human brain uses the incredible 20 Watts to achieve things that modern megawatt supercomputers aren't capable of.
Ask HN: Is it easier to find a job as web developer or mobile app developer?
It seems obvious to me that the FBI considers their position here to be legal. All I'm saying is, if it were truly the case that they didn't care about the law at all, there are probably more direct and effective extralegal methods they could try.
Possibly.
An individual murder means it is unlikely to have an impact to you. A serial killer will often impact a demographic in a city. A mass murderer will often impact a demographic in a large area or country. A terrorist will usually target a demographic in many countries, but on a much smaller scale than a mass murderer.

I currently think a mass murderer would be a greater threat to the world collectively, but the terrorist triggers the fear that any location might be attacked. Hence, while much less destructive, has the "me" factor that pulls heart strings of society at large.
Cars track you too: http://www.kliemanlyons.com/2014/09/vehicle-telematics-a-use...
As an independent consultant/software developer, I'm deeply sympathetic to the author and freelance web communities issues. However it seems like the issue here is not that web design work is drying up, it's that web design work for freelancers is drying up. If all of the companies that used to contract out to freelancers now want permanent employees, then that's probably where you're going to need to go.
The road not taken
VT100 Terminal Art: old text-based animations you can run in your terminal
Fixed or dropped within 6 months?
Visual Studio Code is an entirely different animal, built with JavaScript on top of node.js (like Atom).

MonoDevelop is a clone of Visual Studio written in C# which isn't even remotely compatible with the mis-named Visual Studio Code.

If they want to port MonoDevelop to Visual Studio Code, they would have to re-write all the features from scratch.

At this point they might as well re-write Visual Studio to node.js and not waste time on porting MonoDevelop.

I hope it doesn't happen. I certainly don't want to develop on an IDE written on top of a God-awful language with a ridiculously slow run-time.
That Jeep link is great. I heard about the hack when it was first floating around, but never saw the details.

Using the time as a seed is a bad idea even if it actually works, of course. It's too easily guessable. But doing it and then failing to even find the current time first is completely silly. You'd think at some point in development someone would have noticed that all the generated keys were identical.
Hopefully this means the .NET for Android and iOS solutions will become better supported and (maybe, I hope) free and open source like the rest of .NET is now. Maybe not, I doubt there's any profit in it for them (or maybe there is since they'd likely make it part of VS), but I'd really like to be able to take .NET for mobile development more seriously.
In fact, that's the only way to do it. This VFIO/IOMMU setup virtualizes the PCI-E port itself. It routes the PCI-E port that the graphics card is plugged into to the VM. So the VM has exclusive and direct access to that PCI-E port. Therefore, the GPU, the ports on it, everything hooked up to that PCI-E port belongs to the VM. Most importantly, this also means the GPU's SMBus for temperature monitoring is also routed and owned by the VM. From the VM's perspective it isn't any different than a physical card.

You can also route USB hubs to it the same way, sound cards, etc.
When P(vote affects outcome) x (Value of outcome A - value of outcome B) < emotional_benefit_of_doing_whatever_you_want.

You observe this effect in national politics all the time - for instance, the emotional benefit of voting for a cool guy like Trump drastically exceeds P(vote effects outcome) x (Delta in outcomes). Last time I checked, I had to approximate P(vote effects outcome) by hand because it was too small to represent with double precision floating point numbers.
I think you have a different idea of what gpu acceleration means here. When we say that animating transform and opacity is fast, it means that we can animate it without rasterizing content over and over again i.e. only use composition. This is independent of how rasterization takes place. Rasterization itself can be gpu accelerated, Chrome has started doing this on mobile[1].

Animating other CSS properties such as font-size require us to rasterize new content on every frame of animation. That is the inherent reason for why it's slow. Again we can use the GPU for rasterization but we're still going to do it every frame instead of caching the result in a texture that's then composited over and over again.

[1]: https://www.chromium.org/developers/design-documents/chromiu...
Well its about time. I wonder if they waited for the prices of startups to turn down.
You should read the middle chapters of Ron Chernow's biography of Alexander Hamilton, because he had a pretty expansive view of the "Necessary and Proper" clause.
My coworkers and I have been predicting (and hoping for) this for a long time. It'll be interesting to see how this affects licensing costs, particularly for smaller teams. The per-year-per-platform license really turns me off as a solo dev.
It is tricky to restore a backup on a newer version.

I think archiving the whole VM makes sense.

Another solution would be to start with a fresh namespace/group each year instead of a fresh server.
Judge Orders Defendant to Decrypt Laptop
What's the page load overhead in adding this for each user?
Looking at the MooseFS source files, I don't think they can. The license header of the files says:

/* ...
* MooseFS is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
* it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
* the Free Software Foundation, version 2 (only).
* ...
*/
Thank you very much, I will explore this tomorrow. I am hoping it can be done with PS or some other scripting means.
But I presume dropping support just means not being able to use the latest features.

Even a very old system image of windows 7 will run on the very latest skylake. It doesn't need the very latest updates. I doubt they will create a kill switch in a windows update that refuses to boot if the system detects a too modern CPU.
Sounds like a great concept even for a U.S. entrepreneur.

If you are someone new to the business world, figuring out how to take step 1 is a very scary process. At least having a default set of options pre-selected for you sounds like a great starting point. And of course, Stripe could also be in the business of connecting potential entrepreneurs to pre-vetted legal and accounting services.

And Stripe's incentives are perfectly aligned, more businesses using their payment services. Anything putting these businesses into legal or accounting jeopardy is also bad for Stripe.

All in all, this seems like an obvious-in-retrospect, brilliant idea.
A major trend in the past few years has been an increasing focus on conversion optimization. Companies no longer care quite so much about their website being beautiful; they care about whether it's helping their business.

Indeed that's what they have always wanted - but 5 years ago they didn't realize they could measure that directly, and aesthetics seemed like the best proxy.

I, for one, blame patio11.
Sorry to have frustrated you. The joke was http://dowebsitesneedtolookexactlythesameineverybrowser.com/
Getting 6-9 drops of blood from a finger tip is not easy - you have to ask "Is it really a benefit over a venous draw if it's much more difficult?" At some point I think it makes it easier to instead just focus on super-fine needles, and the need to draw less blood, from venous draws.
This threw me for a while as well!
$10.

http://www.corp.delaware.gov/Dissolution%20-%20274%20BIS%20S...
The whole thing reminds me of the main character's job in Her. Life imitates art.
Apple Lawyers: Prosecutors said they will continue to invoke 18th-century law
NFPA 704
I hope its not too much to ask for apple-touch-icon for the site, as it looks like a great useful site that will be on my iPhone's home screen. Thank you
This is by no means a conclusive list.
Holly crap, I always dreamed to achieve what you did and never knew direct GPU access was possible, even though I used Qemu for work before.

Right now I am basically running a windows pc for gaming and a linux laptop for work. It seems IOMMU is compatible with all my gaming tower, and with many modern cpus/chipsets. I will make a test over a live CD anb if it works migrate my whole pc and blog about it.

Thanks very much for the ida
Cloud Services: The Foundation for Digital Business
Fellow opens $700 battery pack, finds large sponge and a $30 battery inside
Why Nativescript ? Feels like it is a completely different direction to this.
I will run Windows 7 as long as I can. When it goes the way of XP, I'll go back to Linux.
I agree with your point but I doubt that something published by such a large company which many consumers have a distaste for ("my stupid computer is always blue-screening; I hate Microsoft") would be able to sustain such a huge development effort on just donations.

Edit: if it were open-source and they paid some people to work on it still, that would be...interesting.
That list is much short than the headline would imply. I was afraid of a list of thousand of projects, with a final footnote of "Every Enterprise software application ever written."
How much? I know it's undisclosed but it would be very interesting. Hopefully someone leaks it.

The rumor was Miguel told MS to "F*#K Off" when MS presented him with an offer many years ago. This lead to CoreCLR being open sourced and Visual Studio Code being built.

I'd like to know if by undermining parts of Xamarins business they were able to get them at substantial discount - especially with the tech industry downturn. Or if failure in the Windows Phone market has made MS desperate and forced their hand. Given it's undisclosed I'm guessing it's the former. I'd like to know if telling MS to "F#&K Off" was a good strategy :)
Unless youre a fashion model?
somewhat offtopic, but has anyone used lldb lately, when I last used it I found it much worse than gdb but I expect it will at somepoint surpass gdb (like the rest of LLVM has done to GNU (if you're on x86_64))
Was Bernie Madoff a sociopath?
Oh definitely, the "with donations" is also TANSTaaFL since it acknowledges costs. You're just arguing semantics.

I don't think they meant "universal expectation of free software with donations only".
There is, but it appears to be harder than ever for newbies to get hold of it.
Politics Predict Car Preferences: What Reps and Dems Drive
This was always on the cards but still nice to see. Congrats to all involved. Should be some fun times ahead.
The legal precedent set would compel Apple to do this for every phone the FBI brought them. The process of unlocking the phone doesn't matter. It's the precedent set that is at issue.
Or Nemiver:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nemiver
I think I'll get downvoted for this, esp. on HN, but I think the main surprise people have with this kind of thing (+ what you're missing out with the comparison to men frankly) is the significant biological difference between men and women - it's far, far easier for a woman to find a male partner than vice-versa. Generally, women choose.

In history 40% of all men have reproduced, while 80% of all women have. It's just biology.

So it's surprising they couldn't find this in real life. Additionally, women tend to have better support networks than men.

Of course, this doesn't mean it's easy to find a decent guy, and yes, partners are not commodities, so maybe that is the real issue while still wanting some companionship.

And it's not just way better for _women_ to be single than to have the wrong partner, it's way better for a person to be single than to have the wrong partner.
Despite that, Visual Studio Code is pretty awesome though.
I stopped paying much attention to .NET because I switched to JS a while back, but I seriously thought this had already happened years ago.
I frequently questioned the sense of having to do a separate quarterly and yearly review at the same time, especially when we were told repeatedly that quarterly reviews did not matter and were just practice for successful yearly reviews.

I'm glad I no longer work there, but at the same time I mostly worked with really great people.
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Inventor creates ingenious AI chatbot to waste time of telemarketers
MS already have one; Visual Studio Code. The crazy has been coming a while.
Agreed. For the record, I hope you understand that whilst I disagree with you, I respect your viewpoint :-) if I've been overly harsh, I apologise. I agree this is a long conversation and probably not entirely the right forum. Also, I just had an operation and in pain, and just took some heavy medication, so I'm going to have to bow out... My writing might suddenly appear more erratic than normal!
Xamarin bought by Microsoft two days after Skype for Linux can't join calls by new clients. Oh yeah. The future is bright. Just not for the Linux desktop pieces of Mono.
I've started a private slack group for my most active friends and business associates.

I like that better than linkedin.
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Apple being asked to do the government's work, say there is no precedent
Perhapd they have no idea. Ie they are pretending. So they use fancy terms and language amd jargon to show off like they know, but they dont

I have a coworker like this.

Coworker: "Im going to instantiate an instance of this Class and assign it these values from one of its constructors"

Me: "cool - you made an object. go on..."
Google charging an orphan Cloud account, support refuse to help. Help?