skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have a few principles:

- Spurn ~. It generally gets cluttered with machine specific stuff.

- The primary goal is to preserve knowledge.

- The data should be easily readable in 20 years time on hw/sw not yet invented.

My 'digital life' goes in its own folder (eg /foobar), which is Syncthing'ed around to various machines, and backed up periodically. It's very big, and contains a snapshot of 'everything' I want to preserve.

Cron run various scripts to pull data from multiple services (e.g. Pinboard, DayOne, etc) so if they ever go down, I have the data I created on them.

I segment documents and projects that I create / work on from those I've just downloaded to use. This results in a fairly simple top level folder structure:

- docs: Documents and textual data

- dev: Projects, design work, development etc

- external: External tools, software, etc

- media: mostly video/audio

Projects of course do live in their own git repos.

Tools:

- Emacs org mode for notes, todos, etc (best in class)

- DayOne for journaling and notes while mobile
(integrated with org notes)

- Pinboard bookmarks

I'm not a huge fan of using fancy project management software tools, because fashions change, tools go out of date, data gets lost etc. Straightforward text files for most things is the best combination of usability and persistence for me. Wikis are great, but suffer from this - they need maintaining, software needs updating, the database format could change, etc. A bit of work to get a text based system going is totally worth it ;).
Apple is growing in non-hardware services
I loved the 500+ but the A2000, A3000 and A4000 were legendary.
It's not just that it's rarely enforced it's that it's rare at all, there's no point in putting one in the contract when there's 95% chance you'll get big fat middle finger in whatever labor court has jurisdiction if you try to activate it, and inane contractual obligations are a risky bet for the contract itself.
Erlang and Elixir distribution without epmd
Since the article says the post processing can be done outside the camera on a separate computer or in camera, that's likely the case already.
Tesla ranks near bottom of new Consumer Reports survey
When I worked at a consultancy there was a separate non-solicitation clause about clients that was written into my contract and I'm pretty sure was written into the contract clients signed too to not poach consultants.
Non-competes do have value to employers. But if they really don't have value to employees or society, what exactly is he supposed to argue with? There's no way to prove the non-existence of something.

He could prove they're detrimental in some way, but that's different than proving that they have no positive aspect for those groups.

It sounds to me like he has already stopped and pondered it, and came away with nothing. Then he posted here, offering people a chance to correct his ignorance.

So far as I can tell, he's done everything correctly.
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Images from Cryptolog, the NSA's internal newsletter (1974-1999)
The Meaning of Bob Dylan’s Silence
Spies for Hire
Something was quite wrong with their navigation if they where around Cuba between Caracas and Paris! ;-)
Not even flying to New York would take you over Cuba.
Maybe this is how life forms are created.
Finnish startup creates the TV of the internet
I hate to sound mean, but Opera feels somewhere between the Moller Skycar and a Dyson Hairdryer.

To be fair:

Chrome is fast and adopts tech fairly quickly but kills your battery and your privacy.

Firefox is private and supports new things, but wastes your time.

Safari is battery-efficient, but waste your time and tech lags.

(IE is shit.)

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Conclusion: Pick your poison for the appropriate task and time.
That's why we need the Triborough RX. http://ny.curbed.com/2016/6/1/11830816/the-triboro-regional-...

But MTA funding is controlled by the state, meaning that all subway funding needs to be balanced by upstate highway funding, meaning that super high return projects like this (which could probably justify themselves based on the improvements in real estate values as Hong Kong does) are not happening.
TBH, when I talk about this upgrade I'm talking my work laptop, which I have the option of upgrading (for free through the company) every year. Most of my configs and tooling is customized and backed up, so getting up and running on a new system is not too time intensive. And in the case of better specs or better tooling, then why not? It's not about owning the latest gadgets but the performance improvements that come along with them.

My home system is a 2012 rig running BunsenLabs Linux (https://www.bunsenlabs.org/) which I upgraded to from Crunchbang some time back.
Erm... What? What the heck is this?
Are you positive that the clients would have remained clients if they'd been billed "correctly"?

I have trouble getting excited about "X has been broken for years" except in pretty special cases, e.g. code paths that only get exercised when your Mars lander is about to touch down.
About the decline in software quality
Yes, of course what you are saying is true, but I feel that this is underestimating the risk of keeping them in the system.

Wosign/startcom are known bad actors and put the entire ecosystem at risk because browsers trust all CA's equally.

Certificates are ultimately fungible with redundant CA's globally. One certificate is essentially as good as another, from the browser perspective (and nearly all site visitors).

This interchangeability:

Reduces the risk for 'otherwise innocent customers' in terms of cost (especially now with letsencrypt) so it's "easy" (or at least possible) for customers to replace their existing certificates when they had put trust in an untrustworthy vendor, and

Increases the risk that Wosign/startcom will sign bad certificates by backdating them (especially because signing certs is, in fact, their business model and now they have no incentive to not sign bad certs by backdating, since their business is basically dead now anyway.)

The risk is too high to NOT revoke all of their certificates, unless the current certs were able to all be enumerated and pinned. Letsencrypt only issues certificates for 3 months in order to provide some semblance of control.

If they wanted to have their cake and eat it too, Mozilla could give a thirty or 60 day warning period saying 'upgrade your certs NOW' or change them to 'untrusted' (grey) for that period of time and then completely remove (red) the way Chrome has done in the past with legitimate but no-longer-secure certs.
If it is super important, I write it down in a hard bound journal. I find things get lost in digital note keeping apps. Yes you can search, but there is no structure to the data so you get back a whole bunch of unordered keyword matches.

I often thought that store some information as Prolog facts would make it more accessible while being somewhat structured. I have not had time to build a proof of concept on this.
That's not what the XT folk think, and they've got some of the most prominent bitcoin develpers behind them.
But how, though? Blocksize limits?
I feel very disturbed when I hear all this. I do my part, whenever I hear someone saying something degrading for woman, even as a joke, I object. Because i know, that even if it is said as a joke, if it is being said over and over, you tend to think that's the way it works.
Many a times, things happened not just because someone did something, but because someone did not do what he should have done to stop something from happening.
Do your part, if everyone will do their part to stop it, it will change a lot.
How can you reach line 10 when entry is NULL?

(prev->next==entry) can only be true at the end of the list, but the for-condition already checks that.
Mostly federal laws prempt state laws by threat of witholding some sort of funding. When the federal interstate speed limit was 55mph, states could still have higher limits but they would lose their federal transportation funding.
I will do all your design services . Graphic- Web Designs
The Battle of Conversion Rates
Weird. I'm heavily allergic to "enterprise" because of spending time in the Microsoft ecosystem, and want to deploy to Illumos because it's better.
When was that? In theory the rules for EU citizens are exactly the same ( https://www.sem.admin.ch/sem/en/home/themen/fza_schweiz-eu-e... ) but in practice implementation may differ, I guess. Did you have a job there before moving?
> The Major Chord is the most common chord. Whenever you're asked to play a chord without specifying what type, then it's a Major chord.

Certainly not in modern pop music. By far the most common chord is power chord.
http://neverthink.tv/ was created so we and you never need to think about what to watch online again, you know, like when you're working, cooking etc. and don't want to bother with searching the internet for interesting videos.

We call it "Distraction On Demand".

Some important facts:

Neverthink.TV collects the latest videos in each category in REAL-TIME, it is NOT a playlist site.

Neverthink.TV channels are all LIVE, meaning that everyone sees the same video at the same time in each channel (Try it out with a friend, it's pretty cool!).
Creating Music and Startups – Does Original Exist?
Ask HN: Elegant and readable syntax highlighting color scheme for JS?
What's the best syntax highlighting color scheme for an elegant and readable JS?
I've just started playing piano and I've been really inspired by pianowithjonny.com. It's an excellent web site, well worth the $20 or so per month for monthly membership so you get access to all his courses (put in your email address and get a discount code).

I just started his Blues Bible course[1]. Maybe that could help speed you up. It's tons of riffs to help get you improvising. But yeah, he says riffs are basically just a bag of tricks you can dip into.

[1] https://pianowithjonny.com/products/bible-of-blues-riffs-vol...
Drag and Drop 3D Objects Using Three.js
SLR or mirrorless lenses that do 28-150 equivalent are pretty heave and bulky. The worst bit is that the camera body and the lens are perpendicular so the size of the full system (measured as a bounding box) becomes pretty extreme.

This system has a big benefit in that the optical axes are along the camera body so the flatness is preserved. I remember a few (single lens) digital compacts that did this in the past.
Thanks! This is a good idea, we'll look into it.
Because it's an art. It's like painting a picture. Good art takes time.
Are you more attractive to the new employer because of the training and education that your current employer has provided?
Nice use of -1 there.
Have you tried the others or are you just assuming that Apple's implementation is better?
To me, the ideal setup is a single entity, whether govt, coop, or nonprofit, to run the 'last mile' to the homes as a utility (gpon or something similar). then let ISP's, telcos, etc run their fiber to the CO, and provide internet, TV, and voice. A bill gets split up, and the utility gets a small percentage for maintenance, repairs, on-site troubleshooting, and upgrades. ISP's no longer need a fleet of techs, and just need to worry about core infrastructure. Competition thrives, as you note just need to connect to a CO to start competing, etc. Actually very similar to how many rural power co-op's with now. Since the utility is small and local, you can actually talk to them about concerns, etc.
I like how its all live typed (or seems to) with the occasional back-space and everything =)
Show HN: SteadyMouse, Anti-tremor filtering for your mouse
"how do you scale learning, so that a single person or a small team is able to have a good overview plus detailed know-how on the these complex devices."

I don't think that there is a single person to understand a modern, complex CPU and its production in full details. Take, for example, a datasheet of modern CPU/SoC -- it's thousands of pages of dense, technical information, and that's already a (comparatively high level) abstraction. As one professor told us in university: technology systems are getting more and more complex very fast, and soon (if not already) the biggest problem will be that noone fully understands how things/infrastructure, our society relies on, works. UML[1] and similar solutions alleviates this problem to some extend.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unified_Modeling_Language
Wow, that sounds pretty bad if thats true.
What about Edge?
Cost to Make an App
I heard this anecdote a few years ago.

Someone met a world-class concert musician after a show and said "That was incredible. I'd give my whole life to play like you," and she replied "Well, I did."
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Tracking Time with Trello Using Scrum Application
This one is arugably a camera in the "latest generation of compact cameras". It competes with them since it's a separate device, and it competes with the highest end ones, such as the Sony Rx-series and the Fuji x100t.
You make claim after claim, and I think they do need substantiating evidence. After all, I find it highly unlikely that if he were even 10% as bad as you make it sound he would be the head of one of the most successful projects - especially since everybody working with him does so voluntarily. There would have been breaks long ago. The fact that the Linux kernel held together under the original author loudly speaks against assumptions of "bad interpersonal skills" on the side of Linus.
The apps are also listed on Product Hunt: https://www.producthunt.com/tech/pdf-viewer
And this is just for a sole developer who knows what he's doing. When
you have a team of people at varying levels of ability, a meeting for
every decision, JIRA-wielding project managers with burndown charts to
keep happy, standards & practices, legal, translators, UI designers,
all regularly taking out exclusive locks on each other's time... it's
a wonder anything gets done at all.
"How can you get featured on Product Hunt? "

Honest question, I've never followed or cared about PH. It's that big of a deal to be featured there?
Are you sure about Hyperion employees being unpaid or paid very little?
Keep seeing people on HN championing Twitters huge employee number by bringing up this stuff.

In the light of this news was any of this time well spent?

Or is it just engineers hoping that dev-facing work is actually of value to a company when the wolves are circling?
Weird descision
Microsoft holds a copy of Windows 10 users’ drive encryption keys
I think they have other revenue streams.
Power chords aren't actually chords, since they're only two notes.
I'm piggy backing on this.

I still have found my holy grail : a kind of knowledge management software where I could just stuff things probably with tags.
Not only links (I have pinboard for that) but ideas, snippets of knowledge etc.

This would be online (not necessarily self-hosted) and I'm willing to pay for that.

Accessible via smartphones and potentially with an email gateway would be great.

I don't think mindmapping software fit the bill. I really would like tag and/or full-text search.

Wikis come close but it's quite cumbersome to add a piece of info.
Before claiming "regulatory capture" don't you have to make some facial showing that the regulations only exist to protect incumbents? The regulations at issue are Title II, which everyone here loves.
The 'readable' button in Firefox was not working for me. Maybe others also would like to paste this in the url bar:

javascript:document.body.style.width='600px';document.body.style.margin='0 auto';void(0);
Monitoring Sidekiq Using AWS Lambda and Slack
To be clear, there is no real mutual authentication between the server and the token. The server can authenticate tokens (after first registrations) but not the other way. (You have to get outside FIDO U2F specifications if you want to do so.) With standard FIDO U2F USB tokens, the server authentication is done through SSL on the client application level (most of the time : a web browser).
The article is about both real vanity plates and fake promotional ones.
This is amazing! Thank you for creating it! OMG!
To summarize your argument, you're saying that in practice NDAs are meaningless as a term of your employment contract, so adding an even more onerous and one-sided term, the non-compete is advisable? Contracts are only as good as their enforcement and the honor of those involved in the agreement. If an employee leaves and spreads your trade secrets to your competitor, then you sue them and the competitor, the same as if your competitor hires that employee in violation of a non-compete. The difference here is the NDA is specific, a non-compete is broad. The NDA says not to share your secrets while working at a competitor, the non-compete prevents you from working for the competitor entirely.

Since the secrets aren't yours to share at will, they belong to the company, there's nothing that restricts your freedoms in an NDA. It's more of a covenant than a restriction. You're making a legally enforceable promise to not spread about things you know full well are supposed to be confidential. A non-compete however restricts your freedom of movement in the labor market and directly provides a tool for the employer to coerce your actions in and outside of work. There's a huge difference in consequences and incentives, while the NDA provides sufficient protection for the things that matter in your scenario.
"More recently Qandeel Baloch, who came from a village in Pakistan's Punjab region, used social media to gain celebrity by posting provocative selfies online. Known as the Kim Kardashian of Pakistan, she challenged Pakistani social norms by embracing the sexualised culture of the internet - until she was strangled by her brother in July this year for bringing shame on the family.”

That paragraph got dark real fast.
I'm perfectly OK with a non-compete agreement... as long as it pays me for my downtime.

You think the information in my head is so valuable that you don't want me working for a competitor for three years after I leave? OK, pay me for three years.

It's not worth that much to you? Well, how much is it worth?
That's what Microsoft is pursuing on their latest phones under the name "Continuum". It doesn't run x86 apps (unless you connect to something like Citrix) but it provides a desktop environment very similar to regular Windows 10.
Client lists are covered under NDA and you can add a non-solicitation clause which is different from a non-compete and seems both reasonable and fair.

NDA + non-solicitation: You can't start your own HVAC company by handing your sales person a copy of my client list and calling everyone who currently works with me.

Non-Compete: You can't start your own HVAC company. Full-stop.

Do you see the difference? Do you understand why one is reasonable and fair and the other is not?
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Lots of exciting news. DevCompiler exceeds expectations. I'm sure already I won't miss Dartium.
If you want to update a specific package only:

sudo apt-get install --only-upgrade <package_name>
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12775983
Firefox is wonky with its "readable view" button, huh? I visited the page, it wasn't showing a button. Came back here, clicked again, and it did show a button. Clicking it worked well.

I don't know why it's breaking so easily.
The Sugarless Story of a Diabetic Life
Huawei had sold 6M of the P9 in September. Apple sold 13M combining both models the first week last year, and they have not released sales this year, but it's supposedly down around 25%.

I'm not even sure what you mean with multimedia and multitouch. Are you suggesting other phones don't have it? Does iPhone have better "multimedia"?
It is a shame that Google Fiber did not build a EPON network like the ones that major ISPs in South Korea, Japan and China either have built or are building. The equipment is cheaper because it is free of legacy cruft. They could have opted for 10G-EPON to have been able to put more users on each node too.

That said, the biggest advantage that fiber seems to have in those countries is that the government is pushing for it. In China for instance, I have heard that all new construction must have fiber available. It is possible to order 200Mbps down and 20Mbps up fiber service in Shanghai even in old constructions. I have only seen the situation in Shanghai firsthand, so I cannot comment much on South Korea or Japan. However, I do know that they deployed EPON technology and are migrating toward 10G-EPON. 10G-EPON is superior to the GPON that we use in the US:

http://www.dslreports.com/forum/r30519466-PON-EPON-or-GPON-o...
Um... that story states that the clause was never actually enforced therefore there was no valid claim of harm.
Where is Part 1? I tried replacing the '2' in the URL with a '1' (and also tried removing it) but got their 404.
The author(s) of the statement, who are hoping to convince you to adopt the same position.
A ban seems heavy-handed. Since a noncompete essentially ties up an employee for a period, I'd prefer to see that tie-up treated by law as a continuation of employment at the existing salary. Surely companies must value their precious IP more than a single employee's salary for a year or two — and if they don't, perhaps it isn't that valuable after all.
Murder - Benghazi (edit: not Benghazi, according to the commenter below), and she was Secretary of State when US attacked Libya. Plenty of murder happened there, and is still happening.

Treachery - AFAIK, other people have been charged with treason for toying with Top Secret information like she has (sending it to/from insecure email addresses).

Not caring about rights - she voted to build the Mexican wall (something Trump is often criticised for even suggesting), and said that US should "drone" Assange. (Technically, assuming the original commenter is a US citizen, that's not technically "our" rights, but given her statement about Assange, I'd imagine she'd also support "droning" of US citizens, as US has done in the past few years.)

Not caring about the constitution - I don't really disagree with her here (I don't agree with her either - basically, it's complicated), but I guess you could frame her support for greater gun control as "not respecting the constitution".
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New Reddit.TV alternative hits 1M daily visits one week after launch
Depends on the client. Typically a day rate is a good chunk of change so it's a good way to get clients to think about things a bit more seriously / show a lot more respect for your opinion/decisions.
“Considered Harmful” Essays Considered Harmful -> http://meyerweb.com/eric/comment/chech.html
You can see the Pacific Ocean on one side, and you can see the Atlantic on another.

You know of something called a shovel, machetes, labourers and engineers. And you have a budget.

Of course, it must be possible to dig a trench connecting the two oceans.

When you start, you find your men get ill from the climate. And perhaps you don't quite know how to build a reliable lock, but you figure the engineers will find out somehow. And meanwhile there are constraints coming in from government.

Things take long because it's easy to see the big picture, and getting more detail (ie learning) normally means discovering that you need a bit more time to do fix some issue that you didn't see standing on the hill.
The second point "Shared data between requests" would actually turn into a negative when it comes to dynamic web apps; if you had to re-render a component in realtime and send the HTML for that component over the wire for every permutation and change of data (which will be different for each user), caching would be futile.
Also, this will basically move cache consumption from the client to the server; which is worse for the company which has to pay for hosting.

Performance-wise, full server-side rendering is a huge step back. For dynamic web apps, next.js is going to drive up hosting costs massively and open you up to DDoS attacks because of server-side cache issues. I suppose it's OK for static websites.