skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Your friend's jury service wasn't needed precisely because of the issue mentioned in the Times article--the cases plead out. That doesn't stop the system from summoning jurors. If trials have declined by 90% or more, so should juror summons. That hasn't been the case.
By the way, the one thing I will say if you want to use your Android phone as a laptop is that there's a major difference in using USB vs. using casting. Aside from the latency issues of casting, you can only send video screens in casting -- and you have to buy the casting device. Android devices typically don't have a video out, so outside of using USB / DisplayLink, the experience is really poor.
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The pop-up slider visualisers are interesting, anyone seen those before?

Do they have a name?
I remember a while back there was the similar ClamCase Clambook[1] (all manufacturer links now non-existent). It never shipped. Any relation to that project?
1 - http://www.zdnet.com/article/clambook-turn-your-smartphone-i...
> macos (nee osx) is the result of combining freebsd and the mach kernel, both very cathedraly technologies.

Not to mention the remains of NextStep. Also very Cacthedraly.

Edit: thinking about it, I wonder why Apple didn't keep using that name/brand. It's obviously there all over the API. Was the NextStep name/brand tainted as a doomed technology at the time?
Startups give stock options because they feel they have to in order to attract talent. The startups can't compete with Google/Apple/Microsoft when it comes to the base salary, they simply don't have the cash or revenues to do so yet.

But what if the startups offered something else that most of the big companies can't or won't? How about 100% remote work, real work life balance (less than 40h weeks), 4+ weeks of vacation out the gate, 4 day weeks during summer (like Basecamp) etc. Basically, given conflicting choices, always optimize towards what makes a great place to work. Would that attract top talent (not necessarily only the SV talent)? What if there were no stock options involved at all, would that make you less psychologically invested in the company?
Agree in general.

> Anything that is really tightly encapsulated within a function ... well, can be a little grimy so long as it's not so bad. Point being, it's uglyless cannot spread beyond the function.

Of course, if you're in the position of having to debug that function, you might curse its griminess.

I tend to only write really gnarly functions if I'm trying to heavily optimize them and it is only by virtue of those optimizations that they become grimy. And even then, I tend to do it only for those functions that can easily and quickly be rewritten entirely. (And I also try to write them one optimization at a time so I can always fall back to an older, less optimized one if a bug is introduced.) And, of course, there are always comments to help light the way and warn of dragons.
There's no such thing as a repository in Guix. Using GUIX_PACKAGE_PATH is the closest thing, conceptually.
The barrier to entry in the trades isn't the difficulty of the work. If you trained 1000 programmers for six months, a good number of them would be competent, but none of them would be able to get licensed. Every single one of them would need to work as an apprentice to a licensed plumber as part of the licensing requirements.

On the flip side, all you need to do to get a job programming is an internet connection and the desire to learn it. Anyone can teach themselves and if you can code enough BS on a whiteboard, somebody will hire you.
Not quite sure I understand the use case here, is meant to make updating a complex cache object easier?
5 Requirements Not Found in My Job Descriptions
I am currently on a fairly fresh install of Windows 10 (past week or so), but I do have some of my dev environment installed, so not completely clean. It started happening pretty soon as always for me.

I'm starting to think it may have something to do with the way some people interact with the UI, as some people do not get it at all and some, like me, get it often.
How well does it work without Andromium? For instance:

Can I enter directly to the phone with the keyboard? Does the phone screen show on the large screen without Andromium? Is the large screen a touch screen?

Even more important -- if I have a rooted/virtual machine instance of a standard Linux distro running on my smartphone, can I use that? Do I have to use Andromium if I have a setup like a rooted chromebook? Turning the smartphone into a laptop it seems the biggest limitation would then be the app store. I don't want it to "feel" like a computer. I want it to be a computer -- OS and all.

One final question. What is your privacy policy, open vs closed source and permission requirements for Andromium and why?

This is a great idea, but I am raising a serious eyebrow at the Andromium aspect of it.
How does a web session work?
Do I have to run Andromium to use it or can I also use my current setup and have it simply mirror my display with keyboard/mouse?
For those that haven't used Mma, the uppercase/lowercase convention helps a lot here. Built in functions start with uppercase letters, like LinearProgramming. You should name your functions with a lowercase letter. So the namespace is messy, but you're never going to accidentally collide with a built in name.
>>for the purposes of finding someone guilty
>Also for finding someone innocent. You forgot that.

True, some people may want to break the law to gain evidence to support someones defense. I have a gut feeling this is going to be in the minority of cases.

>>As a European (currently!) I would not want to allow this to continue.
>Because its drawbacks are?

It's drawbacks are mainly being that it would be a massive retrograde step.
Facebook plans commercial launch of rural WiFi
None at all! Although we've gotten in touch with the founder, who is a super nice guy. He mentioned about the challenges of software - near impossible on iOS.

And actually of all of the various attempts at this, the primary failure was that the software experience was so poor. We've been working on the software side (Andromium) for over 1.5 years, with a bunch of feedback from a pretty awesome community :)
I think it is a call center in Florence, South Carolina.
But if you do secure it properly, what value do you get from obscurity?

I think the big problem with obscurity is that its impact is asymmetric in the wrong direction: it inconveniences white hats a lot more than black hats.
Also notable that these questions still pop up for Windows 10 even now. When they had the UserVoice set up for Windows 10, this bug was there as well. I think the UserVoice is gone now though.

One other "bug" I wish they would fix is when you change virtual desktops, the taskbar items reset, apparently, to the order the windows were opened in. Messes me up really bad as I keep the windows in specific order.
For tenants or landlords?
"Do the proper research, the nuclear option is much less promising as the proponents claim"

I agree that Nuclear Tech today has problems, but we haven't made real investments in 50 years. Do you realize how far airline, rail, and road safety has come in that time?

I firmly believe that if we put as much $$$ into Nuclear - as we have in Solar - that we'd be way past the safety problems.

Also - there is absolutely no physical limit to 'growth'.

Yes - commodities are limited and so is space. But we are making better use of both at an exponential level.

As some things become scarce, the prices rises, we figure out how to better make use of them.

My friend: Plastic.

Plastic did not exist 100 years ago. It was not 'on the horizon'. Nobody was even dreaming of it. But imagine life without plastic. We couldn't make a thing without it!

So 'plastic'. A single, new, and unforeseen innovation that fundamentally changed everything. And that's only one of many innovations of that era.

What is the next 'plastic'?

Will we be able to simply forge metals or other minerals as we need them in a fusion reactor?

If fusion ever works - this is within reach.

Fusion means not only cheap energy, put possibly the ability to make many elements on the periodic table like Star Trek.

Again - the possibilities are unlimited.

As long as we don't wipe ourselves out, this will go on forever.

That said - we measure 'growth' in dollars, and we don't measure dollars in anything :). I suppose you could make the comparative value argument for real growth, and that it depends on 'happiness' or some sort of intangible.

At least in classical economic terms - growth will go on ad nauseum.
> I'm sick of people, who just see such things only in dollar terms.

This statement is more accurate if you remove the comma. What you wrote makes a blanket claim about all people (which is highly unlikely to be true for even a majority). Without the comma, it's a useful heuristic for what kinds of people you should avoid so that you can have a more fulfilling circle of friends.
You don't need to, but the mirror of your smartphone display sometimes ends up being a fully portrait screen - not the best experience.
It sounds like a redis competitor - but I don't see any distinguishing features.
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The what, why, and how of transferring data to the US
The ones I talked to were not interested in taking on projects further than a 10-15 mins drive. Please note that plumbers also add markups on the products they install (water heaters, etc) and charge higher rates for weekend/after hours emergencies. Nothing wrong with it, they just take advantage of the good market.

Not picking on plumbers, just pointing out that jobs in the software industry are not as plum as they seem to some posters here, compared to other jobs.
WinGPG – simple yet secure way to protect your data
Encryption of sensitive data is a key element of any privacy either corporate or individual. There is no need picturing how it feels like to realise that the third party is using your personal information.

Nowadays the protection of sensitive information is an actual and important problem, and one of the best software solutions for privacy protection is PGP and it's Open Source implementation - GnuPG (GPG).
However, from our point of view, there were no utilities that offer an easy and effective GUI to use it on Windows. That’s why we have developed our own open source solution, a special ‘shell’ for GPG. It looks like many other similar products but our software is easily manageable and is really intuitive.
WinGPG developed by Scand Ltd. is a tray-based classical Windows application and a classic GPGv2 distribution (we use the cryptography from the official site without making any modifications).

It supports the following operations:
Encryption/Decryption (we offer automatic zipping at encryption time, so your files are ready to be transmitted via email or any instant messenger immediately)
Signature/Verification
Key management (create, import, export, revoke)

WinGPG main operational features are:
WinNT Explorer support via context menus
Global shortcuts working from the active explorer window or clipboard
Clipboard support for both texts and files
No complicated setup, you only run a batch file
WinGPG is a fully functional tool, which offers the user an opportunity to manage keys and files easily. Password protected keys, default keys, and other useful tricks are available with WinGPG.
Please, proceed to full-featured description of WinGPG and our post on this product in the company blog.
To get feedback with the team of our developers, please, write to us to
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"many things have been declared serious crimes in the US that would be minor offenses and barely be persecuted elsewhere."

Like rape, for example. Germany just made it illegal:
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/rape-law-germ...
Ask HN: Is e-mail confirmation less common for companies in India?
My primary e-mail address is first.last@gmail, where my name is one that seems to be very common in south-east Asia, especially India.

I regularly receive e-mails from Google that someone has signed up a gmail account and tried to link it to mine (I always disavow).

However, I also get a lot of e-mails from companies in India where it seems that somebody has signed up for their service with my address and they just start sending me stuff with zero confirmation that this e-mail address belonged to the person who signed up. I get cell phone bills (Vodafone), some kind of ride service (Careem), and many many others. There is usually not even an unsubscribe link because they just plain assume that this must be my account.

Almost every service I sign up for here in Canada/US, forces me to confirm my e-mail address to avoid this problem. For HN'ers in India, is this an uncommon practice, or are these companies just bad apples?
This sounds like an manager's handbook today.
GNU Make allows arbitrary code execution during the build.
This is what I was taught in University is the defining trait of addiction: engagement in a behaviour despite the recognition that it leads to negative consequences.

Personally, I think that this is enough to justify addiction as a true 'disease' that merits outside help. It takes a belief in some kind of strong definition of free will in order to maintain that people are suffering from character defects or should just pull themselves out of it at that point.
I regularly get cold-emailed by recruiters I've never dealt with for jobs I'm unqualified to do in locations I'm unwilling to move to. (No, I am not going to be a PHP dev for a betting outfit in Leeds.)

I bin them, but I suspect there are at least a few people who will go "hey, I can wing that" and respond depending on their level of desperation.
plmake allows arbitrary code execution during the build.
Max Schrem's case caused some change.

> If your organisation is still relying on Safe Harbor as the legal basis for transferring personal data to the US, you need to review your position. The law says you can only transfer data with adequate protection, and Safe Harbor is no longer considered to give that protection. Doing nothing is not an option.
> a single copy of HandBrake can't fully utilize 40-threads

That's it. I prefer a few fast threads instead of bunch of slow ones. That's why Xeons are server CPUs and workstation editions (W) ussually have much less threads - it's hard to utilize all of them.
Correct link:

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-08-09/you-re-ab...
Author here, I agree to an extent. As I said in the "Spend Time With Them" section, a lot of developers also program as their hobby. In fact, you pretty much have to program in your free time in order to keep up with all the new paradigms and frameworks.

Jobs that have been around a lot longer, like construction or accounting, allow you to just leave your work when you go home.

In that way I think developers face a unique challenge. We all know how prevalent burn out is in the industry, it's tough making sure relationships don't burn out as well.

Thanks for the feedback!
It works fine without Andromium, but it is just a larger version of your phone screen.

The answer is Yes. As long as the device you're working on as a displaylink driver, you can use it. In fact:

Superbook + Surface tablet: https://vimeo.com/176370847
Superbook + Mac: http://imgur.com/a/oZwwN
Superbook + PC Stick: http://imgur.com/a/eTbtm
Yes - but my point is, you're 'having to re-write' that function is not an existential problem for the product or company. It's just a shitty piece of work.

Any individually poorly written but well encapsulated piece of shit is just a 'bathroom clean' away from being nice.

Contrast that with bad design, bad APIs, or other things: they mess up other things. They can even create massive, ugly dependencies, and massively increase complexity, bugs etc. etc..

I've seen build-chains that involved 6 different scripting languages. Because we all had to use it, and almost nobody knew all 6 languages, it f*ed the whole company and caused huge pain.
Where does one go for a non-tech job nowadays. Part time low or unskilled. Or ft like a vet assistant, laborer (eg construction), medical biller, etc
Capital and finance isn't evil. It is a tool, a unified currency to allocate resources. A tool is apathetic to the motivation of the hand that wields it.

Machines for logging = capital

labor = capital

software = capital.

A VCs business model is that of investing and profit. It's not altruistic, its a business. As such it is interested in profit. There are other methods to raise capital for a business but a VC may be a better option.
Mapillary isn't open source. One can fork the recently announced https://github.com/openstreetview though.
Love how the website in the demo is theverge.com. That pretty much convinced me it's good hardware.
How I made hiring easy with XSS
No, but I'm not actually objecting to the business management class in particular (that's just a guess).

I'm objecting to yet another popular article that treats a narrow study of a non-standard sample like it's ground truth. Generalizing from classmates to friend groups (which are more elective and full of closure/network effects) is totally unsupported, and while that doesn't invalidate the study it certainly cripples the article.
Ok. It might not be what you previously saw, but it does do that:

https://domainr.com/?q=project

Returns things like:

proj.ec/t

Hope that helps :)
The OSS would have been carrying out operations overseas. The FBI would have been investigating sabotage or suspicions of sabotage in the US. The Germans actually landed some agents in the US with plants to blow up this and that, but they were all caught before they could do anything.

You could argue that perfectly loyal American tank and torpedo designers accomplished a lot more than any Axis agent could have hoped for.
My company recruits heavily on college campuses via their career departments. We also use Indeed. We've tried out Craig's List, but haven't had much luck.
There was also Motorola Atrix and one can get that laptop/shell for $75 on eBay. I wonder if their app works with it.
This seems like a market thing more than regulation. If you believe Android is always drowning in malware, go iOS.
Creator here: I don't know if they have a name but I based the design of that interaction off of Propellerhead's Thor iOS app which is the only other example of that overlay that I could find.
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And the readme doesn't mention redis at all - is it possible that the author is simply unaware of the existence of redis, and has simply reinvented it? Because that would be absolutely hilarious :p

It would also be a fun project, though. Redis is something that I really wish that I had had the opportunity and the vision to build myself. Classic data structures as a service; too cool for school.
Final question: Closed source right now. Having spoken to some early Mozilla employees, considering open source.

Full list of permissions can be found on the app page: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.andromium....

There a ton of permissions we ask for in order to make the experience smooth. To be honest, we've been focusing less on privacy and more on just making a solid desktop experience. We can definitely be more intentional in our permissions as we mature as a startup.
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The CIA did not exist in 1944. It was still OSS:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office_of_Strategic_Services
Precisely, thanks. I can get an upper bound on Earth's carrying capacity with (volume of earth / volume of a human), but it's going to be way harder to calculate the number that will actually matter.
The UWP programming model, which was introduced in Windows 8 as WinRT is COM.

Basically it is the original idea of .NET, which as called COM+ Runtime, before they decided to create the CLR.

WinRT is nothing more than COM+ Runtime, but with .NET metadata instead of COM type libraries.

Also since Vista, the majority of new Windows native APIs are COM based, not plain C like ones.
Haha yes! But when it came out, the laptop shell was $500-$600. Unsupported hardware has a tendency to get cheap ;)
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I think it's fair for a programmer to evaluate himself (and, surevaluate himself) just like start up founders, investors, evaluate their start ups when they try to sell them...

I think I'm worth millions right now. Hire me, I'm such a huge opportunity !
> The modern equivalent of COM is the JVM and it works wildly better, even if you look at the messy neglected bits (like serialisation and RPC).

Actually it is the WinRT introduced in Windows 8.
There is some evidence that developers are better at relationships. When it comes to marriage they have a relatively low divorce rate of around 10%. It can be partly confirmation bias that the worse relationship outcomes are most obvious to us.

There is nothing wrong with seeing beauty in math and algorithms, because it's certainly there. But taken too far, it can become self-validating by judging other people as lacking value, and refusing to see beauty in other people with different interests.

This might be part of what you view as an attack on technological professionals, where we're stereotyped as people with only an interest in computers/math and have no interest in actual people.
ProjectSauron: top level cyber-espionage platform extracts encrypted comms
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The inspection of the washing-line design should have identified this... unless human-failure.

So your point is:

"we don't know what we don't know"?

True. I see no way around this.
I don't know if this feature is on the roadmap, but touchscreen would be cool (and probably super hard to implement) because of how much of the mobile experience is geared towards that.
Indeed.com (or its national variants) seems to be the place a lot of these kinds of employer advertise.
I see, guess that works for me. As long as you don't call it lightweight ;)

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User switch with custom restrictions in Symfony
100% possible and in the roadmap for v2. We couldn't add it to this version and keep it at $99, but trust me - I've touched the screen more than a few times.
Not exactly have a answer, but most rules around how to send emails to potential customers are relevant in the U.S. or Europe only. I also tend to simply ignore the U.S. rules for example.
If it were the only computer in existence, probably not. But it gets measured relative to all of its competitors, which get updated more than every two years and have their prices go down when they're old.

Also it's not my primary work tool. If your company wants to buy you one, great, but spending my personal hobby budget on outdated gear is a harder sell.

And yes, $43/month over 3 years is a lot of money. $1550, in fact. Breaking it down like that to make it feel like a smaller number is a shitty trick that only works because we have bad instincts at math.
Everyone "learning to code" instead is probably why! If I were giving career advice to any young person now, I would definitely tell them plumbing or a similar trade. As we say in Yorkshire "where there's muck there's brass".