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Ask HN: PDF-based notetaking apps for iPad Pro and Pencil?
Paper notebooks have long been an essential part of my software development workflow, and now I'd like to take them digital with the iPad Pro and the Apple Pencil. Unfortunately, it seems that most of the notetaking apps on iOS are fairly proprietary: your sketches are stored in some hidden database or in the cloud, and the only way to get something standard out of them is to perform a clunky export. I'd like my notes to be in a standard format, and I'd like them to be editable directly; in other words, there should always be a 1:1 mapping between the files sitting in my Dropbox and the notes that the app is editing.

So I was wondering: are there any Pencil-supporting iOS apps that simply let you create a new, blank PDF — maybe even with a custom cover image — and then use it directly for sketching and perhaps even text and image entry? Huge bonus points for handwriting recognition!
I'm still not sure why we're talking about firmware in the context of secure boot. The firmware isn't changing and isn't vulnerable to being rewritten by something with system permissions (excepting microcode updates and the like) - the boot sector is, which is exactly the thing that secure boot cares about.
Heh: "suped up golf cart". I drove one of those. It was called a Citicar: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citicar

My dad owned a GM dealership. I was in high school when the 1973 oil embargo happened. Around the same time, the 1973 issue of Scientific American showed how bicycles where 46x more efficient that cars. (I think this was the issue where Steve Jobs got the inspiration for "Bicycle of the Mind") So, I gave up cars. But then, my Dad started to carry Citicars.

It had a couple issues: First, it had a 40-mile range. Second, the body was ABS Plastic. Because there was so little mass, drivers would stomp down on the accelerator, rear-end the car in front, and do $500 damage to the body. So, after the first shipment, the dealership stopped carrying them.

[EDIT] 40 not 20 miles, though the last 20 didn't go up hills very well.
No thanks. I pay just slightly more than $1,375 for the mortgage on my 4 bedroom house on 3 acres of land.
Good point. I think most people don't do that, though, since it's typically "opt-in".
Mildly cold region of the country?

Not sure which parts of MN and ND your friend lives in, but north-central MN like Bemidji or Grand Forks, ND are actually some of the coldest parts of the country.

Nothing about that weather is mildly anything.
Similar results from TrueDelta.

http://www.truedelta.com/Tesla-Model-S/reliability-1095
Fuck. And I thought paying $1k a month in Toronto was too much. I've been looking for work in cheaper cities like Hamilton or London literally because what I make versus what it takes to survive don't sit well with me - and never have.
I decided to start signing all my commits as a matter of policy, since the cost to break SHA1 is now estimated at $75k. There are certainly git repos that it would be worth $75k to compromise, and a single birthday attack collision in SHA1 can be reused to compromise multiple git repositories (requires some social engineering). So I think that is a good policy now.

Github could have a setting like "flag unsigned commits from me after $date" that allows this kind of policy to be communicated.
I mean I get an error message when adding my key on Github:

> There was an error parsing that key. Check that the key is valid and try again.
I used to work at HubSpot. The company isn't perfect, for instance the lack of diversity is a huge problem. Taken in isolation, there's nothing in the article that's wrong, but the overall picture he paints here is wildly inaccurate. HubSpot is full of incredibly intelligent and capable people, including some of the most talented engineers I've ever worked with. I had the opportunity to meet and speak with every executive during my time there, I've even been to Halligan's apartment. The fact that he managed to find something negative to say about Dave, one of the most genuine people I've ever met, tells me all I need to know- the reason Lyons didn't fit in at HubSpot has nothing to do with his age, it's because he's an asshole.
"Twitter also has a former NFL executive in its ranks: The company's chief financial officer previously held the same position at the league."

Yeah, no conflict of interest there huh?
An AWG is rarely the most efficient solution, but sometimes it's the best solution.

If you're not going to be in a particular area for very long, digging a well might not be an option. An AWG can collect water while you're moving -- all you need is access to air.

If you find yourself in an area where the water table is contaminated, using an AWG may end up being the safer option.

Imagine you're living in space (or a similarly resource-constrained environment): you've got multiple people losing something like 0.5+ L/day (citation needed) to the air through perspiration -- that's valuable water. Moreover, to keep people comfortable, you should make sure your relative humidity stays below 60% (citation needed), so you're going to be pulling it out of the air anyhow. NASA undoubtedly has these systems in place in space, but that doesn't mean we should develop a open source version of the equipment that everyone can collaborate on and improve.

TL;DR
Sometimes you're willing to trade energy for water. Also, open source.
New website lets anyone spy on Tinder users
It actually seems like a pretty good understanding of Musk's track record to me.

They're obviously not going to go out of business as a result. But considering Tesla has already had earnings calls pretty much exactly like that with respect to slower than expected Model S production, yes I would expect Tesla in 2018 to admit that most people on the pre-order list are going to be waiting a very long time.

That leaves Tesla in the awkward position of either needing to massively ramp up every aspect of its production pipeline now (which is a HUGE undertaking) at the cost of not producing Model S and Model X on schedule, or facing a significant number of pre-order people giving up on waiting, and a constrained production capacity well into 2020.

The OP's comment was with respect to shareholder confidence, which is currently propping up the stock price based on future expectations. I believe the point was that if Tesla can't come even close to meeting the market demand for its vehicles, that's a signal of weakness on several fronts that would need to be priced into the stock.

I'm also not sure what landing rockets has to do with mass-producing cars. SpaceX's achievements are indeed amazing and I watch all of their launches, but figuring out how to land a first stage is an engineering challenge. Figuring out how to produce 300,000 cars in a short time is a logistics challenge. Not to mention no one yet knows how Tesla's model will scale to the larger market with respect to service, support, parts replacement, etc. Scale in the automotive market just brings with it a huge number of issues to tackle that don't exist in smaller volumes.
Prediction: HTC Vive VR Headset Will Become the Microsoft Xbox One VR
Microsoft Xbox One is dead in the VR water. It has no hardware solution.

"The HTC Vive offers the best consumer VR experience for now — but it needs better games" http://venturebeat.com/2016/04/05/the-htc-vive-offers-the-best-consumer-vr-experience-with-todays-technology/

HTC's connection with Valve Steam is not enough. HTC needs heavyweight support behind it - as heavy as Microsoft.

Microsoft has the games and console platforms on PC and Xbox. HTC has the hardware, but no games platform. They need each other badly.

Prediction: somehow the HTC Vive will become the Microsoft VR hardware. How they structure the deal remains to be seen but its a match made in heaven and solves a huge problem for both companies.
Controls aren't doing anything for me :-(
Both ST models come with performance summer tires, so I think that's unlikely.
> So, we'll be watching it in six second chunks?

If it's HLS or DASH, then pretty much, yeah. :)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP_Live_Streaming

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamic_Adaptive_Streaming_ove...
Excellent write up. Troubling though.
> At the current pace of the economy it's not reasonable to expect from someone to work at the same job or industry their entire life.

I disagree, I think it's a wrong path, because it devalues really deep expertise. It seems to me that people do not want to be experts anymore, precisely for this reason. Dabbling in many different things is seen as a path to success. But I think this culture is missing out on something.

By the way, good social security or basic income can be seen as insurance to switch jobs without too much risk, too.
The Loop Magazine app is dead
What about:

I can afford another machine right now, but will that put a monetary strain on other areas of my life that are important to me?

I can afford another machine, and I have backups, but the restoration of the backups is painful enough that I would prefer to avoid it.

I would prefer this episode be over with as quickly as possible as I'm not guilty, so should I comply to speed this process along? (note that I think this isn't necessarily guaranteed to be a good strategy).

Depending on what the police believe about the situation may greatly affect what is the path of least resistance and problems, but you unfortunately have very little insight into exactly what that is. In some cases, talking to and cooperating with the police is the easiest way to extricate yourself from the situation, and in other cases it's the easiest way that they can twist the situation to implicate you in some way. The safest way is to always have a lawyer present and never voluntarily give up information, but not everyone is in a situation that makes the safest choice easy to take.
As already mentioned, there's already a setting for turning off notifications globally: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11433799

Having a web feature off by default is essentially damning it to not exist, so that's a non-starter. If you don't like the features that are enabled by web standards most of them can be globally disabled by turning JavaScript off.
One thing to note is that one has to gain physical access to the network (i.e. find a network plug) to perform the attack. The door controllers might be the least of your worries if this happens.
That's a valid point for such apps as Slack or Gmail etc.

But then:

a) the majority of the apps asking for notifications are spammy sites (as always the louder offenders).

b) Slack, Gmail etc can have its notifications enable toggle hidden in Settings (and Slack indeed has significant customization options for notifications there).

If we start saying "ok, Slack is useful, so it's OK to allow it to show an unsolicited popup asking to show notifications" then next thing we have half the useless web also doing the same.

It's not a slippery slope either -- it's just how the web and spam works, with spammer sites/ads/etc exploiting any given opportunity to be loud and soliciting to the max...
Awesome, now how about we make this default to on just like we default on pop up blockers etc?
People are baffled by Tesla's success? I don't really follow cars, but I do know that Tesla gets high marks from a lot of different independent organizations.

Besides the whole electric car thing, there seemed to be a general opportunity in the auto industry for an upstart firm. It looks like a classic oligopoly where the incumbents got lazy.

Tesla is doing to everyone what the Japanese did to the Americans in the 70s and 80s. Outcompeting the complacent incumbents.
Thanks for sharing too - interesting.

Didn't know about HP-UX vaults. Maybe it came after I stopped using HP-UX, or I just missed it.

Edit: Just googled, it looks like vaults came in either HP-UX 10.24 or 11.x. Think I used HP-UX versions 9.x and upto 10.20.

You're lucky to have worked on Amiga [1]. Read a good amount about it, including its power and performance, multi-tasking, in BYTE etc., earlier, along with the Atari ST, though never got to use either.

(Still remember an Atari ST ad, probably a big deal at the time: "A megabyte of RAM for $x99!"). And where are we now in terms of RAM ...

[1] And had read about Carl Sassenrath, wow. Did all that stuff for the Amiga, and then goes and creates REBOL, maybe single-handedly (?), with the language, and the libs, and the GUI.

Good stuff.

Edit: typo.
It's horrible UX and as a German software engineer I am deeply ashamed of the bad practices in the local car industry.

During university there were always these huge talks about the engineering excellence needed for all the fancy embedded systems, but once you get in touch with these systems it leaves a bad taste.

For example with current Audi, if you put it into reverse, the camera pops up and then picture freezes for ~2 seconds.

In every talk with salesmen from the three large German brands I ask about the software issues, but they don't even notice it.

I really feel a lack of focus on UX.

(You could replace "embedded systems" with "human-computer interaction" - car industry was always the big example but once you get more experienced you see they are all hustling, and badly..)
The open-source alternative is the Signal app made by Whisper Systems, the same people helping with WhatsApp from TFA, available for Android and iOS: https://whispersystems.org/

Don't know what kind of funding they've been having, but for an open-source app, it's pretty polished.
Uber & co are good for tourists who don't want to get scammed. Locals might not be scammed, but it's very common for the tourists to get scammed. Also helps that you can enter addresses without having to know the native language. It's not %100 but it's better than nothing!
For that matter, there are good arguments to be made to simply eliminate corporate income taxes entirely. After all, any profits ultimately flow to individuals and their individual tax returns. Of course, good luck ever getting that passed politically.
>As already mentioned, there's already a setting for turning off notifications globally

That's good, but might be too blunt a hammer. What should be is a standard way to turn them on/off per individual site, WITHOUT unsolicited popups.

>Having a web feature off by default is essentially damning it to not exist, so that's a non-starter.

As an IT teacher in a past life I've seen 10 year old kids go through 10 layers of obscure program settings to enable a particular behavior / proxy their way out of a school network / etc.

If people care enough for notifications, they will find a way to enable them. If they don't, no harm done.
If you're like me and gpg --export -a $KEY is 3000 lines of output due to lots of signatures on your key, try:

gpg --export-options export-minimal -a --export $KEY

I guess github wants to associate particular accounts with keys, but it seems they could save a lot of cut and paste bother if they supported importing keys from the keyservers.
Well joke's on them then because CIA is in Panama Papers too! The CIA findings were published just two hours ago: https://www.occrp.org/en/panamapapers/spies-and-shadowy-alli...

To be honest, I don't see any other country doing anything remotely similar to Iceland. After all, Iceland is small, western, and very progressive country. 20 thousand people in the protest yesterday represents ~10% of registered voters, which is a huge percentage of people that came to protest.
Any idea how much this costs?
In Norway where I live tipping is totally unnecessary, the restaurant staff are paid a reasonable wage. I travel to Poland on business and rarely tip anyone, just a few cafes in touristy spots seem to think they deserve it. I often let the taxi driver keep the change when I am flying out because I have no use for a pocketful of small denomination coins.
Ah, ok. A quick google didn't show me why there was no reply link so I just assumed it was a depth thing. Thanks for the info.
It accepted an ascii-armored export of my key (gpg --armor --export $GPGKEY), have you tried to add that?
Yeah, and then they went down in the dot-com crash, and then they went up again from 2005-2007, and then they went down again in 2009.

I moved to Mountain View in 2009. In late 2008 (as the crisis was hitting the stock market, but before landlords had realized it would affect them), a realtor was showing me around, and I asked about a swanky corporate apartment complex we drove by. "Oh, that's out of your price range - they charge $2000+/month." I ended up living there for $1400/month in 2009-2010, then they started jacking up the rent. When I left in 2013, they turned around and rented it for $2700/month.
plus the fact, between them Moxie and Trevor probably own the copyright, and can just provide them with a copy under different terms
Ironically, that gives a "untrusted certificate" error on my phone.
It's worth observing, as a fun fact, that English obeys a grammatical gender system which is not masculine/feminine:

in modern American English, "who" is a pronoun for people (and anything being granted a sort of honorary personhood, like a pet), and "what" is a pronoun for non-people. The third-person pronouns follow the same distinction, with "it" being marked for nonpersonhood. This is a change from historical usage, and is why e.g. some people today will be offended by another person referring to their baby as "it".
This is so monstrously evil I'm speechless, even discounting the alleged murder that may or may not have taken place. I can't believe the author knowingly took part in this and even enabled it. All men are voyeurs just like all men are born murderers - who hasn't at some point felt like taking a life in anger even if only for a brief moment. Most men just don't do it. There is no justification, scientific or otherwise for this (and those claims are extremely dubious anyway). I really hope, if this is true, there is some legal way for Foos to suffer some serious consequences, however short the rest of his life is.
I'm dying over here! These are legitimate stories about being treated poorly.
80k for M4 is also totally overblown. The 4 series is very recent - I've actually never seen one in Germany up until now.
Android On-Screen Navigation Buttons and Failed Expectations: A Visual Analysis
thank you for pointing this out for me
Cleveland wants to become one, but it's an uphill battle.
The Nvidia slides had it at $129,000 a pop
What does the word startup mean anymore?
Privacy Tools
Enhancement request: support for desiccant module
Pretty sure no one was claiming it should. Rather they are claiming that the police should be required to collect evidence showing probable cause. If raids on tor nodes find CP more then 50% of the time then yeah they are collecting enough evidence. But if they don't then the police are in violation of the Constitution.
Yes, rents are high, but if you invest even a little bit of time you can find a fine residence in the Bay Area for a lot less than $4,500.

I rent a two bedroom house in Oakland for $2,200. My commute is not too much longer than it would be if I live in certain parts of San Francisco.

There's simply little advantage to living right in the heart of a major city.

You have to ask yourself:

"Instead of renting in a high-profile location, what else could I buy with an extra $24,000 a year?"

Yes, average rents are too high, but nobody says you have to pay the average rent.
Does it to me also. https://127.0.0.1:8008/
It's hard to overstate the impact this is going to have on San Francisco, long-term. As Technology becomes the most important industry in America, a well-governed San Francisco could have positioned itself as the next NYC. The hub where all of tech gathers, the same way all of finance gathered in Wall St. Replace the 70 year old 2-storey homes with Manhattan style apartment buildings, and rent in San Francisco would have remained very reasonable, despite the rapid economic growth. This would have prevented exactly this problem where tech workers are forced to disperse to other mini-hubs, due to lack of capacity in San Francisco.

20 years on, San Francisco could have become what New York City is today. One of the top 5 cities in the world, and the undisputed hub where all of technology resides. Instead, it's on track to be just another major city, in the same league as countless others like Chicago/Seattle/Boston.
Yup, the few $$$ are usually not worth it from a customer perspective.

Even worse in the case of Tesla as they need to drive a 1920x1200 panel which is quite a strain on the Tegra3, I'm honestly surprised it's as fluid as it is.
Hopefully Tesla doesn't end up crushed by blood-sucking union pension liabilities and can afford to continue making a marketable product.
Someone wrote: "wrong - those jobs are currently needed at a specific pay rate. They may not be needed if hourly wage is raised enough that automation is cheaper."

Well, that makes the argument more solid, not "wrong", as I covered that case already.
If you're digging a new well, you should see if you can do a ground source heat pump to get heating and cooling out of it at the same time.

Most of the startup cost is in digging the heat exchange loop.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geothermal_heat_pump
Its very likely that a newer apartment would be priced higher than an older apartment. But that doesn't mean new apartments don't have an aggregate effect on the prices of other apartments.

http://cityobservatory.org/in-some-cities-the-housing-constr...
Notification flag prompts interrupt my browsing flow.

A browser popping up a permission request to ask me whether I want to receive notification is very likely an annoying interruption, and is not relevant to my current task. It would be much better to indicate that the site is notifications-capable with an icon, heck the sites can have an opt-in button, just don't pop up that prompt and force me to acknowledge it.
Luhn doesn't catch everything.
(It will not detect transposition of the two-digit sequence 09 to 90 (or vice versa) - Wikipedia).

But, ok, what about an innocent CCV typo.

You need to give real users errors when they make mistakes.
That is great news! I hope they will also go the next tiny steps soon:

1) as another commenter already pointed out, I would really like to see an "unverified" badge instead of the "verified" to make GPG signing the default; everyone should really be aware that all commit metadata like author and committer are completely voluntary and you can lie as you want.

2) Please, add another merge restriction that only allows commit pushes/merges-to-master with GPG signatures. This allows me to fully verify future git repositories.
Must be nice that your entire roadmap is written for you =) no shame in straight up copies.
Git's use of SHA1 is explicitly not intended to provide any security (per Linus), so this argument really doesn't make sense. On github, right now, I can commit as you all I want, no exploits required, and that seems like a much more pressing reason to sign commits.

The other thing is that the SHA1 weaknesses are collisions. It's not likely to be possible in the foreseeable future to create a commit that matches an arbitrary hash - to generate colliding commits, the committer would need to generate the good and evil commit at the same time.
You have this backwards. The only person in the world who can be suspected of having originated that traffic is the person from whose network the requests can be seen originating. There's no way for law enforcement to know he didn't make those connections until they investigate, and thus (as others have said on this thread) it would be dereliction of duty for the officers not to have raided him.

If you're going to run a TOR exit node, which you are absolutely free to do, you have to expect this to happen from time to time and be prepared to explain why you are not responsible for the traffic you appear to have originated.

Cost of doing business. If standing on principle was free, it would be unremarkable.