skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Shibbys builds are still going strong (though two months since last update).

http://tomato.groov.pl

I used Tomato (various flavours, including this one) for a long time until finally succumbing to OpenWRT.

The web interface is lacking compared to Tomato, but in return you get a recent LTS kernel built with the latest GNU toolchain and a superb package manager + collection.

OpenWRTs CLI config system is very slick, the web interface just doesn't yet hook into all possible settings (which may vary between devices).
I don't know if you have an organization around you or not, but be careful. If your software is actually producing some sort of a quantitative or even qualititative "you have this visual defect or not" then the FDA may very well consider you a Medical Device and you'll have to go through submission, etc.

There are a lot of small businesses out there that are unwittingly (and illegally) producing medical devices and don't even know it (yet!).
Thanks. I'm only a beginner at coding, looking for a service out of the box that can not only take the screenshot but also have it viewable on the other side.
Siri will reportedly come to the Mac this year
I wouldn't be surprised if we see a number of modernized devices in spaces where there are established consensus standards.
Apple plans Siri for Mac as tentpole feature for this fall’s OS X 10.12 launch
With Talent Scarce, Stealth Worker (YC W16) Is 'Uber for Cybersecurity'
Another thing from that same section that worried me was their discussion of inference attacks on first and last names. Their results assume names will be queried based on a particular distribution instead of an arbitrary (maybe even adversarially-chosen) one. This is a very, very weak model of security that categorically eliminates realistic attacks.
The best ways to invest a single dollar
1. Stream your data into Kafka using flat JSON objects.
2. Consume your kafka Feeds using a Camus Map Reduce job (a library from linked in that will output hdfs directories with the data).
3. Transform the hdfs directories into usable folders for each vertical your interested in, think of each output directory as an individual table or database.
4. Use HIVE to create an "external table" that references the transformed directories. Ideally your transformation job will create merge-able hourly partition directories. Importantly you will want to use the JSON SERDE for your hive configuration.
5. Generate your reports using hive queries.

This architecture will get you to massive, massive scale and is pretty resilient to spikes in traffic because of the Kafka buffer. I would avoid Mongo / mysql like the plague in this case, a lot of designs focus on the real time aspect for a lot of data like this, but if you take a hard look at what you really need, its batch map reduce on a massive scale and a dependable schedule with linear growth metrics. With an architecture like this deployed to AWS EMR (or even kinesis / s3 / EMR) you could grow for years. Forget about the trendy systems, and go for the dependable tool chains for big data.
Stripe Atlas and the Trap of Brand Extension
Just putting this on here because I know that a lot of Google engineers are on HN.

I understand you can't police the internet, but I'd love for Google to use their NLP technology to try to suppress reviews making light of locations of horrific violence on their places pages. 4chan and the like have their place, but Google Maps location reviews aren't one of them.
Javascript SPA applications get less respect from business owners than they deserve.

People see JS and throw their JQuery & some CSS developers at it. Or they use their backend PHP devs who've never written code that runs for longer than one request.

Either way you end up with code written by people who don't understand some of the fundamentals of UI programming.

Angular gets the worst of it because it's the most popular framework. It's exacerbated by the fact that Angular doesn't offer suggestions for a lot of common problems.
I would love to be able to embed Servo with this approach. With the serious lack of cross-platform AND cross-language UI toolkits available these days, everyone is turning to embedded browsers (I am looking at 7 Slack processes averaging 40MB each, though the Slack devs may deserve blame). I think bit rot is what has made --single-process for Chromium no longer viable.

Heck, I'd say even making it easily embeddable before feature complete would still get adopters due to app devs knowing what they need to support unlike the open web. Granted I cannot really put my money/skills where my mouth is here so it's just wishful thinking on my part. I am not familiar w/ where Servo stands on the embedding front today, I have not looked in a while.
Open List of Requested iOS Security Improvements
Why would anyone choose embeddable Gecko over Electron?

Spending time on this is a waste of Mozilla's resources.
The real competitor is clearly Servo (once it actually works with real pages than just Wikipedia and GitHub) because it is actually faster and is not legacy software that barely works.
Maywa Denki puts art and business back together
I don't think there are very many people who actually have "no problem" with torture, and even fewer who have "no qualms" about abortion. It's just a question of whether they should be legal or not (I'm "no exceptions" for torture, but not abortion, FYI).

And the reason why we should be less polarized, politically, is because there are a large number of important issues that can be solved, and need to be solved, even if we can never come to agreement on others. The way politics is being managed in the U.S. is basically an "all or nothing" grab bag on every single issue, with no chance for compromise, and that just leads to hours of pointless rhetoric and gridlock while the problems just get worse.

IMO, one of the parties is a worse offender than the other, but it really only takes one side being intractable to ensure nothing gets done the way the U.S. government is set up.
Sounds like you misspelled vulture. I say that knowing the downvotes are seconds away.
LinkedIn retires the Save to Contacts feature
Having read the article from start to finish - I can't help but wonder 'so what?'

I mean, this is akin to finding out the diameter of the moon in isolation, are we going to do something with it?
The BMI is more right than wrong. The strength of a physical object varies with cross-area, so the strength of your heart varies as height squared. The amount of work it has to do varies as mass, which does tend to scale as height cubed.

The result is that height and heart disease are correlated. See http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25051127 for a random verification.
The way I used to look at it the 'Like' button was intended as a signal of affirmation to a person than to their comment. That is certainly the way my FB "Friends" use it. Often other people don't have a perfectly distilled reaction to something, and the button functions more to say "this affected me" than, say, "I like your perspective on the President's policy in the Middle East."

The semantics of a button labeled "Like" are certainly a little bit weird. I obviously don't like the fact that a friend is diagnosed with cancer. But my friends also don't post "I've got cancer." and leave it at that. People tend to explain their feelings if they share things like that.

In any case, I'm not sure that Reactions are really much of an improvement. If my friend says, "I've got cancer, but my doctor says I can beat it. Thank you for all your support." I think I'd find this new feature confusing. Is it a "Like" because she has a positive outlook? Is it a "Sad" because cancer is difficult and stressful? Is it a "Wow" because it's unexpected? Or is it even an "Angry" because my deity of choice has shown itself to be capricious or vengeful?

Maybe there's a positive side to this. Maybe it will, unwittingly, encourage people to attempt to share their feelings and try to process them instead of just clicking a button.
I'm really excited about Stripe Atlas, I just hope they will establish it as an independently branded product going forward.

Edit: wrote some thoughts on it on Medium: https://medium.com/@__tosh/stripe-atlas-and-the-trap-of-bran...
The scary thing about those blimps is that we used exactly those in our various warzones. Look for them in pictures of Kabul or Baghdad while Americans were there. I used to joke to buddies in my unit that it was even the same contractor sitting in the trailer where the blimp is anchored, watching the video.
Being self-taught left me with the [false] impression that the reason I don't write good code the first time around is because I never formally studied CS.
now I'm happy that we used SMTP plus tags in mail headers and not their API. at least we can hot swap their service.
any recommendations on transnational email provider without initial sender domain verification?
So, realtime feedback...

I opened your features page, everything looks good...
I open your pricing page, and you've lost me as a customer.

Sorry... But you're using the same "$X = Y recipients per month" crap that seems to have lead to MailChimp pulling this shit will Mandrill.

I use Mandrill because they are the closest to usage based pricing (and yes I know there is the 100% DIY route with something like SES on AWS, but that's a different tool for a different job) effectively charging me per email. I want usage pricing. If you don't offer that, you aren't really serving the same market as Mandrill was. (I'm going to refer to them in past tense since Mandrill is dead to me.)

> Every Mandrill account comes with 2,000 free trial sends.
> Once you’ve finished your free trial, it’s $9.95/month for 25,000 emails.
> After that, we charge on a per-thousand-email basis.
> Since we build discounts into our payment structure,
> your per-email pricing automatically decreases as you send more email.
>
> $9.95 up to 25k emails per month
> $0.20/thousand next 1m emails per month
> $0.15/thousand next 5m emails per month
> $0.10/thousand remaining emails
> Add a dedicated IP for $29.95 / month.

Old Mandrill pricing: $10 + $X per email (with volume discounts)
New Mandrill pricing: $X per Y emails
MailChimp pricing: $X per Y emails per Z recipients per month
Sendwithus (You) pricing: $X per Y email recipients per month

Sorry, you look nice and all, but your pricing model is just more of the same.
Haha, all-caps is so UBER.
I've rightgraded to a pay-as-you-go dumpphone, and largely go without it.

If you don't need to be constantly reachable, a phone isn't a necessity.

The biggest single pain point is for information while moving. A device with wireless capability, a map, and transit information would be handy. It also removes virtually all distraction modalities.

There are a few factors underlying this trend not adequately mentioned in the article:

1. Phones suck. They suck as phones: poor voice/call quality, spotty coverage, poor coverage indoors, poor battery life, poor messaging capabilities.

2. Phoning sucks. Yes, there are times when direct voice comms is useful. I spent a couple of hours in a productive international video call courtesy of Google Hangouts last week -- one of my few significant voice comms in months. But the lack of text-transcribing, syncronous nature (we'd set up the call days in advance), likelihood of interruptions, and failure of virtually all devices to offer blacklist / whitelist or meaningful quiet-hours capability are all horrible.

3. Devices suck. Even smartphones lack many capabilities I'd consider essential (several listed above). The near-commodity nature of feature phones means that capabilities and interfaces are horrible. I'd be willing to pay a slight premium for durability, a decent set of basic ringtones (melodies suck), and some sort of voice messaging system of my own choice.

4. Privacy. Celebrity (and non-celebrity) nudes, voicemail hacking, messaging / email hacking, and absolutely ubiquitous advertising-based and, increasingly, governmental tracking are all massive turn-offs. If I don't need a pocket spy, I won't carry one.

Caveat to much of this: I've got a tablet. It's WiFi only, and 10'. This means it doesn't fit in a pocket, and isn't online when I'm travelling, but is often usable at stops (public WiFi is surprisingly prevalent, though yes, that too presents problems). With onboard storage, I've got vast amounts of stored information which I can (and do) access. With a bluetooth keyboard it's close to a laptop replacement (though I'd prefer a more capable OS and set of apps).

For road trips, it's quite useful: parked when not needed (or feeding to my car's sound system), pulled out at rest stops to check routes and hotels (I still rely on, and know how to use, paper maps). But it avoids many of the negatives of a cellphone.

Device identity is of course random strings and principle account is rarely if ever used.
My apologies for mis-summarizing. In general I think there would be interest (as far as actionable interest in the form of a maintainer I am not as sure).
Change it to 9to5Alphabet.
Using Servo to build apps is an explicit goal, and part of the browser.html project (https://github.com/browserhtml/browserhtml) includes developing a privileged set of APIs and other things ("Graphene") that work in Servo and let you build applications. This is more towards creating standalone applications (no need for actual embedding) that use Servo, though.

As far as the embedding story is concerned we do support the CEF API (if you need something more there, please file an issue and we'll look into it), and we do want to eventually make it into a webview-esque thing which you can embed in Android and elsewhere.
That is a very interesting post. My intuition is that it is precisely because there is generalization across models that it is an effect of overfitting. This is a different kind of generalization than the never-before-seen-data generalization that, when high, means no overfitting. If the underlying structural correlations in models result in similar fragile decision boundaries when trained on the same data, that does suggest overfitting to me.

The example with softmax regression is extremely interesting and I have to think about it more, but I don't think it quite represents what I was saying about plain OLS in my comment. With even basic logistic regression, you get the logistic function sort of "smearing" perturbations from the decision boundary, and so an effect that only occurs in a single direction even may be large enough to cause the logistic function to "amplify" it. Reasoning about that same possibility in a super high-dimensional softmax scenario seems very hard and it's at least not obvious to me that the softmax functions wouldn't similarly "amplify" small differences, leading to places where the decision boundary could be fragile in this overfitting sense.
Do you also use only DuckDuckGo?
I'm not saying that it was the right thing to do in hindsight, but I get a little nervous even when updating a small web server, so I understand the tendency to leave repair options open on something as big as iPhones. Real hardware-based security is about more than just about asking for a password. It means making the device unreadable if it's been disassembled or tampered with, and that could have unintended side-effects if any mistakes are made or something is overlooked. It's definitely worth pursuing considering the political situation the world is in right now.
On the topic of Open Source, our IP attorney was primarily concerned with licensing, but that's because he's an IP lawyer. Our Regulatory and Quality Assurance people would be far, far more concerned with the Design History of any open source code we tried to bring into a medical device product. How was it developed? Where are the requirements? How was the output validated against the requirements? Our process mandates Design and Code inspections, can we show that they were performed on this Open Source product, etc, etc, etc.

Once you see the uphill road, you realize you're better off starting from scratch and writing the product yourself instead of depending on OSS. For some noncritical aspects, it's fine, but then you get into the definition of "noncritical" :-)
Or find a custom ROM like cyanogenmod
Agnostic. After all these years I still can't reach a conclusion.
Yup. Yet one more cost: Supply Chain control is vital.
I am so glad to see someone write this. I've worked with too many designers who stack modals onto modals.
That's because you aren't backed by thousands of men in black uniforms with automatic weapons. And that's what it's really about.
The outside of letters isn't encrypted. The destination in Tor is encrypted by design to everyone who is expected to know who you are. It's literally the purpose of Tor to make that information private.

Or to put it a different way, if Tor doesn't create a reasonable expectation of metadata privacy, what would?
From the article:

$ lua
Lua 5.3.2 Copyright (C) 1994-2015 Lua.org, PUC-Rio
> print(0.1 + 0.2)
0.3

(For completely different reasons. I think it's worth being explicit that NQP and Perl 6 get the right result because they are doing this calculation with exactly correct numbers and operations rather than "using printf() with a %.14g format string".)
For comparison before this shitty move by MailChimp, Mandrill used to be $14 for 50000 emails.
I honestly think "writing" code in 3d with VR could be incredibly effective. I'm starting to work on a project to test it out.
It's partially "group identity" and partially that they didn't care about issue X enough to hold onto that idea. I feel like people identify with parties in the U.S. based on its position on a few issues they really care about, like Global Warming or Abortion, and just go along with them on the other issues that they don't care that much about.
There is something more serious than migration and price increase. By migrating to mailchimp you are agreeing to mailchimp's terms and service. If I understand it correctly, now they can read all your customers' email address and content (presumably for machine learning & send optimization). This is in direct conflict with the agreement we signed with our customers on data sharing. Unless I am mistaken, this seems to be deliberately omitted in mandrill communication to mislead and collect data to create "network effect" from our customer data.
FWIW, my observation came from working on a scheduling product used by ~40k small businesses. I think what you've noticed is just how successful advertising can be. We've seen clients have similar success with Facebook and Yelp! ad campaigns, all without a homepage. One customer got over 30 new customers (expected LTV of over $1k per customer) in one month of Yelp! spend.
With respect to the progress made by some MS divisions (and the people pushing for it), it seems not all of MS is keeping up. For example, this was on HN today: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11167964

It's hard to trust that the currently good sides of MS will be allowed to stay good while other sides of MS are still behaving badly.
Android and iPhone both have software settings that can mute calls and texts from anyone who isn't on a whitelist. I use the "Blocking Mode" on Android all the time: if you call me after 11pm and aren't on a short list, you go right to voicemail.
No only print, but store too. If the result is mathematically accurate, then what does it matter how it works inside? That's why we use abstractions, for convenience. Yes, there are trade-offs, but that's the price we should be willing to pay.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DWIM
That's absolutely crazy how old it is.

From my very anecdotal perspective, BMI is only used when addressing obesity or anorexia as a first-order approximation, or rather illustration and a way to find out where you are in relation to peers of the same sex/height/age. Do other formulæ fare better in those use cases?
Isn't the point of their efforts to make it so that Apple doesn't know how to get into the phones? If someone from BlackHat or Defcon can get in, the FBI should hire that person if they want access. The reason Apple is doing this is so that if they are served a court order, they can just say "we don't know how"
>They're giving over the information to a third party, which usually destroys any 4th amendment rights.

By that argument mail, courier, landline phone, cellphone, satellite phone, email, web chat, SMS, and everything except face to face speech aren't protected.

Legally, I suspect that's a bit of a reach.
Coraline Ada Ehmke Joins GitHub to Fight Epidemic of Harassment
The prompt is different based on the type of code you use.
Most of the code I write at work is just automating processes and I usually do it piecemeal until managing it all gets too unwieldy then I refactor and simplify. I'm not exactly building one to throw away, but I'm using a lot of essentially placeholder code that I know I'm going to replace with a more coherent system once I see the pieces working together. Sometimes the quick and dirty stuff is good enough and I never need to touch it again, though.
I've said that town's reputation is a sham for years.

The reason it's hard to get funding is because there's never really been a large VC there except for Austin Ventures, who 1) everyone saw as a Faustian bargain 2) has been hammered by investors for the past 3-4 years 3) is now broken up.

To make matters worse, there aren't any large enterprise customers. There's two Fortune 500 companies - Dell and Whole Foods, and the later is not a tech company. Sure, Apple, Google, Samsung, etc. all have presences there, but decision making is still in San Jose and New York.
I get that it's frustrating for freelancers who used to be able to make a nice living doing web work, but this just reads as someone complaining that their skills are no longer in such short supply.
And I expect Tesla to react the same way Apple did. "GTFO"
I would say their pricing https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11172142 is more off putting than the spam. Its almost quaint.
The grandparent post was about determining the complexity of a PIN/Passcode by watching it being entered - more screen interaction = more complex.
Why SVB and not WF? Seems odd that the sponsor bank for your payfac distribution, that has more resources than SVB, won't equally house the account for this new vertical. Any particular reason?
Or the kind of people who care of such things will be long gone. Or it'll be illegal.
Your most dangerous customer
And ideally a system that makes it possible for people who don't know how public key auth works to securely update the firmware on their devices.
When I make a phone call it routes through a public network. Tapping a phone is illegal due to my expectation that the call is private.

I dunno. I've seen some good arguments either way here, and I'm also not a lawyer.
Better add to that list minimum company/market size and target audience exclusions, otherwise nobody will ever innovate again, companies like SparkFun will have to shut down, there'd never be another successful Kickstarter campaign by anybody not a front for an existing company, ...
That's fair feedback (pricing is per recipient), but it reflects the cost of running our service (we store data about your customers long term, which adds up more than the cost of each individual send).
if abi changes keep breaking things, how come skype keeps working even though microsoft barely ever updates it? For a while we were still on version 2, until microsoft decided to break the server protocol, but that version ran for ages without any updates.
There are various ones for about 1k on ebay eg. http://www.ebay.com/itm/A-Portable-Digital-Ultrasound-Scanne...

Don't know if that'd the kind of thing or too basic?
I was a fan, back in the 80s. There was something restful about the minute or two it took for each page to arrive.

And it was fun watching the designers trying to add creativity to blocky 24 x 40 char pages.
Auth0 blog is pretty nice if you are into JavaScript and Security https://auth0.com/blog