skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
See user chainsaw10. Anecdotally, on my vanilla Arch systems, I can run "poweroff" without being root, and without sudo, and the computers will end all processes and turn off.
I will concede the point about laptops but saying that

> you can't get developer grade desktop hardware anywhere outside Apple at a reasonable price.

is just false.
I think you mean if your device CAN fit through the slot.
I'm not sure what you're basing this assumption on?
MEGA BREACH: 58M Accounts Leaked from Modern Business Solutions
Sub-prime mortgages?
Isn't this how bad laws happen. Eg. do you think that in 20 years thickness issues won't be completely solved, likely by some completely different technology. Yet some stupid law from 2016 requires that a brand new product segment has to have an arbitrary thickness applied.

Yes, we could just remove that law when that day occurs but that doesn't always happen so easily.
Cue the new Samsung mobile strategy, picking up Google-retired project Ara, and pushing for easy recall.. I mean green modular phones.
Bad idea. Consider how much time people/employees waste on Facebook every day. What company would encourage their users to login to Facebook during work hours? The notifications will send them to the news feed, which becomes a black hole the moment one starts scrolling down the page

Facebook
This massive social network deserves a mention on its own.
This makes up 7% of the websites accessed at work and is a
major contributor to all the wasted time in the workplace.

https://biz30.timedoctor.com/infograph-wasted-time/

1. Social media sites. Not surprisingly, visiting social
media sites is the black hole of workplace productivity.
Facebook is the top social destination, with 41 percent of
survey respondents logging in from work every day. Facebook
is not the only culprit however; LinkedIn, Google+, Twitter
and more recently Pinterest all claim their share of
work-hour traffic.

https://www.americanexpress.com/us/small-business/openforum/...

I wouldn't work at a company that used Facebook as an internal communication tool, because it would encourage massive time wasting.
Ask HN: Possible ways to transition into AI?
I've become very interested in working on AI and am trying to find out the best way to transition into it (or maybe decide I shouldn't).

Background:
I'm single in my low 20s, studied enough CS to get a degree in it at a top-ish school in the US, though I don't think I'm that particularly gifted technically (no math/cs competition background, was ~average among my classmates; just smart enough to ace the SATs). I have a full-time commitment now in a completely different field (which I was drawn to more than what I imagined a software engineering job to realistically be like), but recently, I've lost complete interest in it because I've somehow convinced myself that AI is really the only problem worth working on.

Questions:
1) Having no evidence of technical brilliance / experience at a famous tech company, is it even possible for me to end up working in a meaningful AI job? Every AI firm I've heard of only hires truly exceptionally talented people (IMO winners etc), or at least people who were "tracked" into AI (top phd program in related field).

2) If it is possible, what is the optimal way to transition? Do I try to work on side projects outside of my full-time commitment, or should I quit first? What do I have to achieve on my own for people to take me seriously? I feel like taking some MOOC and showing off some toy project is somehow insufficient.
True.. Maybe I can just buy two keyboards and cut them in half, one speaking with it's own USB dongle as a prototype..

That's a great link, checking it out now, thanks for sharing.
I'm fine with stipulating "mostly wiped out" rather than "eradicated" as long as we can both agree that they're not native to the country. They were brought here as livestock.
> despair

Huh? FB has the expertise in connecting people to each other and information. In hindsight, it looks like an obvious next step.
Was just on a regional Southwest flight today. The pilot instructed everyone with a "Samsung Galaxy" (not specifically the Note 7) to power-off their device for the remainder of the flight. I'm sure the generalization of the warning was an over-cautious oversight.
I remember low-budget sites before and after bootstrap, and I gotta say that post-bootstrap is way more usable. While you can mess things up with Bootstrap, the limitations help guide you to settle on standard decisions (like their nav bars, verses whatever cute creative thing people would do on their own).
Apparently samsung is going through a regime change, and the new guy exercises less authority implying he doesn't have as much control over Samsung as the previous regime.

When the Americans play hardball, Samsung should be prepared but it seems like they caught them completely off guard.

By now, I'd be surprised if they were even able to isolate where in their production line they were sabotaged. I'm guessing they introduced multiple points of failure and also introduced some security bugs into Android to target various components.

When dealing as a major global corporation, and especially if your main competitors and antagonists are the likes of American corporations, being prepared for sabotage by CIA etc should be part of daily ops.
I looked at assignment #1 and realized just how dumb I am (not a bad thing, just a statement).

I am interested in Machine Learning, but I'm going to seek out the intro material first and come back to this (much later).
Now MS just have to seamless integrate their Ubuntu Bash filesystem with the Windows filesystem so I can create files in VSCode and access then in the ubuntu shell. They will build the best dev environment.
Manual decisions are the the enemy of consistency
How to convert videos for iPhone 7
> California doesn't care

Romania doesn't care either, considering how it is not subject to US law.
We just need to get Garrett to dump streams and adopt FreeBSD TCP stack . Illumos/joyent just switched to FreeBSD boot loader . So we are making progress .
>TBH I think google is probably slacks biggest possible competitor. Google makes a pretty good set of business apps with gmail, calendar, contacts, docs, slides, spreadsheets, google drive, small group chats & video. A lot of big corps already use them. They just need to add corporate slack-style chatrooms and forums (not email lists/ groups) and they will probably take a chunk out of slack & co quickly.

Agree. I keep wondering when Google will release this Slack like chat app. We already use the other Google tools, and even Slack shells out to Hangouts for video.
The ending of Mass Effect 3.
Photo choice is one of the most effective editorial tools a publication has. For example, do they show a photo of the person as a child, wearing a suit, or casual clothes posed with a weapon? Each is technically the same person, but all will prejudice your view towards the subject.
What "contractually belongs to them" is exactly what they agreed to work for when they were hired. If that included health benefits exclusive of any particular medication, that used to be a consideration between them and their employer. You may think it better to live in a place where the terms of those contracts are stipulated by the government.

The reason for the U.S. having enumerated powers where states could pass such laws but the federal government couldn't was that if you disagreed with your state's world-view, you could leave that state for one more aligned with your beliefs.
Can anyone on hackernews comment on the specific issue in the Note 7? And why was it (seemingly) easy to screw up the replacement phones as well?

Are we taking for granted the lengths that other hardware manufacturers go to to make sure such issues don't occur with their batteries? (At least, those innovating in regard to battery capacity, chemistry, and shape)
I just wanted to say that I really like these kinds of posts an enjoy seeing people ask them every few weeks. Its exciting to read business ideas that people like myself can pull from. Curious if anyone would be interested in doing video cast where some of these respondents are interviewed for ten to 15 minutes about their business. I know sites like Mixergy exists but I think something more raw and down to earth would be cool. :)

edited for clarity
The VS 15 Community debugging feature is incredible as well.
One of my good friends has repeatedly said that "consistency is the most important feature." Even I, as a 20-something, struggle to be effective in any windows product with flat design and keep installing windows 7 on every new overpowered PC I build.

I think another problem is the fact that there are multiple interfaces to every product. For example, Google Drive has the desktop website, the desktop app, the mobile site, and the mobile app.

Or the fact that competing products have different design patterns. Coming from an Android background, even I become functionless if given an iphone, despite the fact that I've been using a macbook pro for years and have multiple ipads.
> We didn't consider lying and cheating to be frowned upon until we decided we were a civilized society with rules based on

Eh, what? Where are you getting that from? Any organism with cooperative dynamics also has to contend with cheaters, and yet cooperation is extremely prevalent in nature. There's a reason parasitism isn't considered the norm in the animal kingdom.

I sincerely doubt that primitive human tribes widely tolerated healthy adults who contributed absolutely nothing to the group.
I didn't edit my comment. At all. I'm not sure why you're accusing me of editing my comment.
MBS crisis wasn't because of a "recall" or even because of the excessive bad loans.

What really killed the system was that there were side bets worth magnitudes more than the MBS securities themselves that the market would keep going up because no-one really looked into the crap going under those bonds and how risky they really were.
This is very helpful, thanks!
I don't suppose that there's a shred of evidence to support this conspiracy theory?
The title I got in my RSS reader was "File manager supports over 100 file extensions(Open source)." I was expecting a recent discovery of something from like the 60's being the earliest known document using the term "Open source." Shining example of the over-overloading of terms in tech.
Yup, we just need a startup that makes Robotic Surgeons and Nurses. Easy peasy.
Politics is covered in the guidelines so it's intentional, not a trend that people have noticed: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Except the boatloads of money she's already extracted from the company. What about the hundreds of people who propped up her vision and fueled the hundreds of puff pieces by A-level publications that walk away with absolutely nothing? What will it mean to have been a lab tech at Theranos?
I have heard of KDevelop but don't know what it is. The About page says nothing of that. No time to spelunk around their site. Bye
It's entirely appropriate for the supporting photographs to support the article, but that's not what the parent is questioning. If the news is based on facts, then the facts can speak for themselves. An unflattering photo does not support the article if the article is not related to how well the subject takes photos.
As someone who develops in PHP, and continues to be generally annoyed by the way many HN commenters will dismiss the language out of hand, I really hate to be the one saying this.

However, while PHP has come a long way and modernised significantly in terms of development practise, WordPress is really not an example of that modernisation. It may have applications for a basic blog, but I find it very difficult to take a Wordpress-built project seriously when it's supposedly aimed at developers and includes auth/signup + handling user credentials.
To be fair... It isn't that the idea failed. It is that the failures were misrepresented. Badly.
Is this a thing? I'm running Slackware and mounting a disk is still done with good ol' `mount`, same as it ever was.
Logical fallacy: https://yourlogicalfallacyis.com/tu-quoque
This article is very short and shallow. I mean... you can apply it to any architecture that Qemu supports (and there are many). Altogether there are 2 assembler instructions in the whole article. Not much of an exploration...

Qemu usermode emulation is nice, but the full-hardware emulation is way more interesting. Eg. in https://github.com/dpc/titanos - toy kernel for Aarch64 written in our lord-and-saviour programming language: Rust, I use Qemu to run kernel and unittests for that kernel. With Qemu gdb stubs it's like having a software-defined hardware platform with a JTAG debugger attached. `make run` and it runs - no need to plug cables and press reset buttons.
Haha I can relate. I have a post-it note on the TV on how to switch from Chromecast to cable. Unfortunately, she doesn't know how to cast things in the first place...

What about hooking up an old computer to the TV instead of using a smart TV? That way, the interface can be familiar. I made the mistake once of getting them a Roku and using the ipad as a remote. Waste of $50.
Try sitting in an area near, say, a marketing team. It's not quiet.
Say whatever you want about this, but they know their audience.
(nit: "full gamut" is the phrase)
Noise canceling headphones are for low frequency sounds such as those found in airplanes. They don't work well with conversations phones ringing and laughter.
He also predicted that the stuff that grows on your feet is really tasty. The jury is still out on that though.
I'm not arguing that it's possible now, but then, we face a lot of problems without immediate solutions.
haha oh man this is a toughie. I can't imagine the number of people who get confused about toggling wifi or data off while traveling.
Moving fast and breaking things...
I guess setting auto-reply with "I don't use this account anymore, please contact me via (either email or a link)." would do the job quite well.
A Hippocratic oath for mobile app designers?
Is the word "cyber-" adding anything to the discussion here? Reminds me of 90's newscasts, right next to the "information superhighway."
> knowledge is universal

But it isn't... take your example on economy. In the last hundred years people tried out all sorts of things with the guidance of experts, from market economies, planned ones like communism, globalism, and now economists are shifting their thinking on that too. The chances that we're right about all that today are pretty slim too. In 10, 20 years economic thought will have shifted elsewhere. That's a mere 2-4 election cycles.

> If you're voting on trade policy, you should know the economic ramifications of a tariff. You should probably know the history of our positions on trade as well.

Isn't that why we have a representative democracy? And even those who govern look to advisors for these things anyways. I don't need to be micromanaging the government.

> So if you're voting on, say, the minimum wage, you should be familiar with the economic ramifications of it.

Does anyone know the economic ramifications with adjusting minimum wage? Seriously. We just did this in Seattle and there were experts arguing that it would destroy all the businesses in the area. That didn't actually happen: https://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2016/08/10/...

Turns out, people disagree about all sorts of things. Usually it helps to look at what people have to gain or lose. In the minimum wage case, business owners didn't want to raise their expenses. In your case, the more people you exclude from voting who disagree with you, the better chance your policy preferences come into play.

I'm not saying we shouldn't try to understand the choices we make through our voting decisions, but knowledge tests as a means to reduce.. "idiot voters" is just another way to exclude people who disagree with you from voting.
I went through the relatively laborious process of unfollowing every individual and group and now just use it to learn details of events, for other apps which require an account, and to prevent anyone from impersonating me by creating an account in my name (Although I'm not particularly worried about that one.).

I also deleted pretty much all personal details and locked down privacy and removed all posts, images, and tags.

You're absolutely right, it's a pleasure not to deal with that terrible newsfeed filled with so much misinformation and bad memes. I go on twitter a bit more but there you can curate a sweet list of incredible people in any field to follow.
And yet in many cases they're prescribed without even trying therapy because they're cheaper.
No excuse, sorry, especially since it's not at all clear that he's not lying. I'm not saying he is but it can't be ruled out. Even giving him the benefit of the doubt, if it's true that he did innocently help out a relative and had absolutely no idea what that person was up to, then why not show some contrition and just get the problem resolved?

If I bring my cousin with me to a party at a friend's house and he trashes the place and gets into fights, you can sure bet I'm going to be apologizing like heck to the host, cleaning the place up, and trying to make things right. Would all people do that? Maybe not ... but don't go complaining that the host never invited you back if you didn't.
Isn't the problem here that they don't know what the issue is? Or that there are a multitude of issues? I've yet to see a statement from Samsung that wasn't vague or unconvincing.

(And in at least one case, it seems they're more concerned about covering up their incompetence than explaining their incompetence: http://www.theverge.com/2016/10/9/13215728/samsung-galaxy-no...)
I interviewed there. They wanted me in Menlo Park.
I was probably being a bit snarky. I have run into cases where getting a drive to show up in the GUI (so, mounting as a user) needed something via dbus.
The wheels of justice turn slowly, but grind exceedingly fine. - https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Justice#F
I pre-ordered two of the things.

I use keyboards all day, every day. I currently have three $200+ "ergo" keyboards (two for PCs, another one for a Mac). They serve me well as nearly frictionless devices that turn my keystrokes into money. In the past I have paid more for keyboards that sucked. I have built my own keyboards. I will stick with a good keyboard brand for a decade, no problem.

The current state of keyboards is pretty bad. Microsoft lost me as a customer about ten years ago because they started going cheap on keys (which is a shame, because the original Ergo keyboard they did in the early 90s was nearly perfect, and I have several cow-orkers who are still using those, those and similar ones). The market is full of "gamer" keyboards with various clickity-keys and little differentiation. Their layouts are uniformly terrible.

I don't know if the keyboardio keyboard will be any good. It may be an ergo disaster that I am unable to type on. But I'm pretty sure I want to buy the next keyboard that keyboardio does, assuming they can survive as a company and keep making new designs.

I think there is an untapped market for keyboards that don't suck. It may not be a massive market, but it's definitely nonzero. The ergo market currently doesn't have very many players, and none that really understand tech workers.
And hence comes the recordings.

Dash developer caught up in an errant fraud check? Eh, it happens. At least this is Apple; were it Google, the developer would be right proper fucked (then again, his post made it to HN, so he might have gotten some special attention).

However, making that resolution conditional on the developer making Apple look good in a blog post? That feels pretty scummy here again to me.

The error seems innocent enough to me (though the party line of "we can't tell you why you were shut down" is the worst way to interact with your developers), but the conditional resolution is not making Apple look good.
Them linking accounts by some heuristic does make them the same /legal/ entity. Shared bank accounts/accounts with multiple owners do exist.
They bet that their heuristic is correct. In this case they might have gotten it wrong. That's their problem.

Do they make people aware that the accounts are linked?
My father-in-law is a PhD chemist that reads various research papers for fun. I don't pretend to understand the field, but he has talked about Li-ion batteries some.

His main concern about Li-ion is that it is a still heavy researched field. There are lots of papers and studies coming out about the material and how it can be used in application. The volume of papers around the topic is a sign to him that it's not as well understood of a material as the public believes.
Sounds like the DARPA Shredder Challenge from 2011: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DARPA_Shredder_Challenge_2011
First was discontinued in safety trials, and phenethylamines require an MAOI.
From the guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

> What to Submit

> On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity.

> Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. Videos of pratfalls or disasters, or cute animal pictures. If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic.

The fist one "Turkey's president ..." I think it falls in the too political category. It doesn't matter if you or me agree or disagree with that article. An article that you or me agree with can be also too political. But that article is not [dead], it's only [flagged], so was less visible but not killed.

The second one "Tesla stock ..." is also [dead]. I can't see the URL. Looking only at the title it doesn't seams to obviously bad, but the URL is strange, because it's in google.com . Was it a google redirect? Was it a link to the google stock graph? Was there another article in the front page with a similar content? I'm not sure what happened with it.

Anyway, to get an authoritative response you can write to the mods: hn@ycombinator.com That's also useful if you find a false positive and the vouch button doesn't unkill the story.
Menlo Park is still almost 400 miles away from L.A...
That's a really interesting idea, but it would definitely be a different project than our Vim extension.
I can definitely understand wanting to see the guts, sadly I have no faith that's what the vast majority of people would do with it. I've met far too many people who just want free stuff and seem almost offended they have to pay for things. Those who were like that and ask for FOSS I think were just using it as a cover for their greed.

That's not a real FOSS believer. I know that.

I would completely understand releasing the source to a game after a few years when it's not making as much money. I don't see why any developer would do it as soon as the game comes out (ignoring the fact that this game is in early release and not finished).
To what end? It's well known the body has < 10 hours of high-level productivity in it per day.

Unless they get paid by the hour, I see no reason to continue to participate in such a system. Still, it should not be allowed when lives are at stake.
> And that is indicative of a new trend: attacks with physical-world consequences.

In general, I think all attacks made against computers have physical world consequences. Time, money, disrupted services...
Facebook is monopoly, yet they do not. Tesla, Canonical, Red Hat,AWS, National Geographic, Nikon etc etc.. is not monopoly, but they do have real added value.
If they do actually know what the issue is, they certainly haven't actually told anyone. They've only given generic and sort of hand-wavy "we fixed it don't worry" kind of explanations.