skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That dashboard practically never reflects the actual distribution of devices in use - at least according to analytics of app we've released (with several mil users across the globe).

That's because they count all the pings of devices that answered across the globe in a sliding window and that is a hugely different number than actual maket share across US and EU and comparable markets. Sure we can then go into details about how poor Indians / Chinese / Africans need secure phones too (and I agree!), but those people have no means to afford an iPhone either.

(And no, sorry, I can't provide you with NDA protected market data :/ )
This would have been surprising until a week ago when a friend of mine sent me this image of course offerings for those signing up for unemployment: https://imgur.com/gallery/tCG6J

Side note: If anyone is looking for an experienced technical sales person in Boston let me know! They have experience with startups, IPOs, large corporations, channel sales, and has the sales gift in a non sleazy way.
This is probably a good precedent. If my product has 15 lines of infringing code out of 2 million, then you shouldn't be entitled to my entire profit margin. There should be some basic test by the courts to determine what percentage is liable. This means less of a payout and ideally lower incentives for patent trolls to litigate and more of a "fair" compensation instead of a winner-takes-all model that seems to be the default.
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> Once VLC.js runs, you can reasonably expect it to run forever

You can reasonably expect it to run... until the first non-backward compatible change in anything the code depends on. The major assumption for this to keep working is that everything has to be permanently kept up-to-date for all the breaking dependencies. And I assume it will always be easier to produce a Linux or Windows binary that works relatively long without changes than anything that non-trivially depends on the web technologies.

A few years ago, as far as I know, it was still possible to run the Netscape Navigator binary which was around 20 years old on the recent Linux kernel.
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so Engineering degrees are second class institutions then ?
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If I would have that kind of spare money I'd like to have a private secretary who takes care of all the small things like booking flights, booking hotels, doing taxes, sorting mail, sorting documents, administrating my software licenses and netflix/github/dropbox/... subscriptions, and all those other things.
What fanless mini PC should I use to run a VPN gateway at line speed? I see a lot of random boxes reccommended on aliexpress, but which one should I buy? Should I just get whatever one, as long as it has the right AES instructions? Or are some of them awful?
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Incidentally, Tower Records didn't 'go away', it's still doing roaring business in Japan, specifically because Japanese like the tactile feel of CDs, and because Japan's anti-crime culture generally meant that file-sharing never became a thing [https://medium.com/cuepoint/the-tower-records-stuck-in-time-...].

A lot of the time when a product or service appears to have 'gone away' it's actually moved on to serving a different audience with different needs.
My wife is not a computer person and she has been using Linux exclusively for about 15 years now. I help every now and then.
is it actually a train station? that would be awesome for the commutes of people that will work there
For me keybase solves a lot of the WoT problem but not the day-to-day usuability problem.

The killer is lack of good x-platform e-mail integration + difficulties in key management.

I was hoping keybase might take that on as well, but AFAIK that's not on their roadmap.
I'm always fascinated by people's fascination with smart mirrors. I don't get it myself, but I like their enthusiasm.
That article says nothing about increased atmospheric pressure being at fault. It lays the blame squarely on pollen as expected.

This is why pseudoscience is so difficult to discuss meaningfully. It's supporters cherry pick, exaggerate, and outright lie to support the claims they make because the actual science does not support the claims.
There isn't a lot to unpack in this article. Most is set-up; explaining how connected he is to a community that is enthusiastic about PGP yet doesn't apply secure operations in practice.

Then there is the main complaint:

> I haven't done a formal study, but I'm almost positive that everyone that used PGP to contact me has or would have done (if asked) one of the following:

> - pulled the best-looking key from a keyserver, most likely not even over TLS

> - used a different key if replied with "this is my new key"

> - resent the email unencrypted if provided an excuse like "I'm traveling"

I haven't done a formal study either, but no one I know that uses PGP would do any of these things under any circumstances. PGP works fine for myself and the group of people I know that use it, because we adhere to security protocols that are just as important -- if not more -- than using PGP itself.
tplink c7. period. you can go and read the detailed reviews on whirlpoolforums. the amount of ram available is 512mb which is huge.

if i were you, i would take an el cheapo j1900 intel box (from aliexpress) with quad lan ports and run pfsense on it. perhaps the best bang for buck configuration known to man!
https://www.reddit.com/r/jailbreak/comments/5gtf2f/release_g...
> That being said, I see a lot of people pointing to "incivility" as a problem in political threads. That is incredibly wrong. The problem in political threads is twofold: (a) people civilly arguing without actually acknowledging each other's points at all, (b) hateful rhetoric which destroys a sense of community.

I think you're right that both of those are problems, but they're not the only problem. Incivility is also a problem in political discussions here lately. Another problem lately is that discussions to which a political discussion is only tangentially relevant get derailed by political discussions that exhibit these problems.

> If you want evidence of how civility is not the problem, take a look at this thread where a long-time commenter (with >12k karma) civilly, calmly proposed the mass deportation and/or murder of Jews: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13056816

I disagree with this for two reasons. Firstly, if people could civilly propose the mass deportation and/or murder of Jews, then that wouldn't show that people proposing either that or innocuous things incivilly is not a problem (only that incivility is not the only problem). But here specifically, I don't think that commenter spoke civilly, any more than "No offense, but <some insulting or offensive thing>" is polite (indeed, less so, as the commenter made even less pretense). The civility of discourse isn't independent of the content of that discourse.
What kind of tech stack?
> To be precise, it is as old as Ubuntu 12.04.

I see what you did there. :)
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I think they understand that quite well, that's why when security gets in the way they just find a way bypass it.

Security has to be usable, if it's not usable then (almost) no one will use it.
Hi, how is the scene for software engineers in Paris? I am getting a master degree in Computer Science soon (I hope) and I would love to relocate to Europe, mainly something like Madrid, Paris or London. How hard is to get a job in Paris? How is the payment? Is it good to have a good life or barely to rent a small apt? Thank you.
Indeed, so it's probably just be my own curiosity that leads me to find this priceless.
It will make a difference in the damages
Thanks very much, I spent hours yesterday looking for a specific description of how the VHDs and VSS interacted and couldn't find it. A bit ridiculous really.
chrome uses pull to refresh already. So pulling refreshes the whole page AND triggers the library.
Hire a personal trainer, spend that on the personal trainer and just do what the personal trainer tells you. Even a bad personal trainer will get results if you're spending that sort of money.
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> It was painful to watch them stumble about, trying to debug installation errors that seem obvious to us. Just like trying to watch a lay person try to use a computer, watching these other people made me want to blurt out the answer.

I see that all the time. Programmers aren't necessarily expert computer users.

The number of people on my team that don't use, say, WebStorm's regular expression search & replace to quickly refactor, or find usages, or anything in the refactor menu, or even the NPM scripts I made to quickly update the project -- any of the less obvious features to make their own lives easier is more than half of the team.

And they also like to work on one monitor, maybe two.

Just watching them try to debug something with their cargo cult methodology is frustrating.
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There's about a million articles online on "How to be a Quant." I would just scan those for rigorous books which seem to appear multiple times. Although "market microstructure" might be a good search term for self-direction.

Also this:
http://www.quantresearch.info
I agree with this, but I also feel like there are better options out there right now. I don't feel super compelled to throw $2k to a company that wants to treat their customers with contempt and call it courageous.
IIRC, the Java source code repositories included pre-public commit history (you had to accept a license to access them).
You really can't compare pre-tax salaries between countries with such a completely different taxation and benefits structure.

The take home pay certainly is much, much lower in France than in the US, but it comes with access to top-notch free healthcare, free university, pension contributions, 5-7 weeks paid leave and generous unemployment insurance amongst other things. It all adds up.

I'm French, working in London and I've been happy with the trade off of more pay for a thinner social safety net, but I know it would be foolish to compare wages directly. I suspect the difference is much less spectacular with everything taken into account.
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Unlike carbon-based power, Mr. Kava said, wind supply prices do not fluctuate, enabling Google to plan better.

Can someone explain this? It seems like wind energy prices should fluctuate based on weather patterns (more wind == lower prices).
Fog Creek Software, Stack Overflow and Trello are all separate companies.
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After I built this, I discovered a bunch of these things. I hadn't seen that one, it looks really neat! One of the benefits of my approach (for me) was that I already had an Echo and a Kindle Fire (that I wasn't using). If you have a bunch of tech lying around, this approach can be more cost effective than buying a big screen.
Sort of, all the US based stores closed (went away) in 2006. Most of the international stores hung on, but most of them are now closed. So from their mega footprint in the 90's and 2K's to a few stores means they've gone away.

Sorry to see that happen, but it does.
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Ask HN: Is Apple audio copyright protecting locally on iPhone devices?
I recently edited a video in Adobe Premiere with my Macbook, and used a Kanye West/Jay Z mp3 downloaded from youtube.

The audio track plays fine locally on my Macbook, but when I uploaded it directly to Facebook, I found that the audio had been modified to only loop a sample of the song. I suspected Facebook was doing some copyright protection, so I just deleted the video.

I thought I could get around it by uploading to Streamable.com and sharing that on Facebook. What I then learned was:

- The music played fine if you were viewing from a PC on Streamable.com

- But music was stripped and only looped a sample if you played from iPhone from the Streamable website. Exactly the same as Facebook had done.

Here is the video URL if you'd like to test: https://streamable.com/pk3b

Interesting, I then thought Streamable could be implementing the same sort of copyright protection.

So I transferred the .mp4 video file directly from my Macbook to my iPhone via Airdrop.

The audio was once again stripped from the video and looped only a sample! Something is going on, the iPhone is refusing to play the audio in the file as is. Any ideas on how or what Apple is doing here?

I'm currently also in Thailand, my friend from New York says the audio is fine on both pc and iPhone.

I tested it on other iPhone devices here, and they had the same issue
Has there every been any survey about that?
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slack/hipchat + trello + github/gitlab + jira issues + continuous integration + docker repository rolled into one. All with mobile apps.

i would easily pay you 25 bucks per person.

EDIT : i would start with Phabricators codebase and go from there.
This is how medical devices are regulated. The FDA doesn't micro manage or guide your development. They just say "you must have a quality management system spelled out and stick to it. However it's written you must obey it. "
I have the same thing when I have migraines. Apparently it can be a symptom? It's like I can see the words but I can't make sense of what they mean.
I liked the CE process and thought it was pretty clear. You need to identify hazards and classify them according to probability of occurance and severity, then take appropriate measures to reduce the risk of harm. It's all spelled out pretty well without being a precise code (like NEC or UL 508A or something), so it's flexible enough to apply to whatever domain you're in.
Interesting point, which reminds me of one theory about why Silicon Valley took off: it was thousands of miles from the meddling money people on the East Coast, back when those miles mattered.
Seconded, that would be a good deal around where I live.
Analytics, customer support & automated marketing are converging.

I would pay 1k/mo (scaling far higher with volume) for a solution that is implemented by a (reasonably) on-site team over the course of a few weeks that can interact with the various teams responsible to integrate (dev) and use (marketing/support/management) it.

I would sacrifice features, which seems to be the de-facto differentiator in these classes, for a product which supports an opinionated but well thought out product development strategy. One based on the current norms for iterating products based on feedback from customers and funnel data.

- I work in payments / e-comm
I didn't realize I want this. And thinking about it... I can afford this and might actually go and get this.

A part time secretary of some sort... any startups doing this?
you can hire a virtual assistant for a 1/10 of that price
I'm using xubuntu for years now, but I have the feeling it got heavier every year.

Now I'm searching for a better alternative
I agree as well.

I find it bordeline cringey to see how other countries try to imitate "SV culture".

it's one thing to be inspired by something, and no question we should all admire what SV has created. On the other hand, I dream of France creating products that reflect its own identity and culture. It's not like we don't have anything in the past ot get our inspiration from.

I wish we didn't try to become SV, but try to become our better self, so to speak.
What OS/version are you on currently? When Chrome mobile detects there's a touch event, it prevents the native reload feature to be triggered.
Anything that allows 500+ users. As an example, Jira cloud monthly is US $1,500 for 501-2000 users.
Fudge. Let me re-create!
olympic lifting classes = $150
nutritionist = $300
I like:

"It’s like, websites are amazing BUT DON’T
CLICK ON THAT LINK, and your phone can run all of these amazing apps BUT MANY
OF YOUR APPS ARE EVIL, and if you order a Russian bride on Craigslist YOU MAY GET
A CONFUSED FILIPINO MAN WHO DOES NOT LIKE BEING SHIPPED IN A BOX. It’s
not clear what else there is to do with computers besides click on things, run applications,
and fill spiritual voids using destitute mail-ordered foreigners. If the security people are
correct, then the only provably safe activity is to stare at a horseshoe whose integrity has been verified by a quorum of Rivest, Shamir, and Adleman."

For his claim "YOU’RE STILL GONNA BE MOSSAD’ED UPON" I still don't know how to interpret the fact that Snowden seems to be relatively fine. Maybe that he had the idea about the blind spots of the system in which he worked.

His opinion on PGP "web of trust":

"“Chains of Attestation” is a great name
for a heavy metal band, but it is less practical in the real, non-
Ozzy-Ozbourne-based world, since I don’t just need a chain
of attestation between me and some unknown, filthy stranger—
I
also need a chain of attestation for each link in that chain.
This recursive attestation eventually leads to fractals and
H.P. Lovecraft-style madness."

It is an opsec problem that all the connections are then cryptographically provable.
Well, I generally come in at least fifteen minutes late. I use the side door, that way Lumbergh can't see me. Uh, and after that, I just sorta space out for about an hour.

I do that for probably another hour after lunch too. I'd probably, say, in a given week, I probably do about fifteen minutes of real, actual work.
It's not data, It's insights that underscore a data-driven business model
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12879179
read the 4-hour work week :)
This looks incredibly cool and I'm going to try it out this week. The structure of how this is setup makes it seem like it could potentially be expanded to include Android support without too much fuss, which would be even better.
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This looks like an extreme version of a thesis I've had for a while: mobile devices are portable dumb terminals for the cloud.

This basically drives the entire mobile UI remotely. It's like 21st century touch based VT macros.
This works fine until you get someone who only uses iMessage, and you use Android.
Congratulation guys! Good luck Akim :)
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Okay, wow, that's a huge hole in their system. Is there any indication that Nintendo is aware of this and is trying to patch it? Or has it been patched already?
Yeah, I know what you mean. I like to rip people who actually build real stuff from behind the glow of my computer. Why can't they simply build Jarvis and be done with it? I could do that if I wanted to.

Do I need to explain sarcasm? Probably.

Anyway, the challenge is to do better, not to criticize.
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As I posted before, this is basically HTML reinvented :)
I'm not a big fan of manually producing JSON. It seems like the wrong format to develop what is effectively a markup language/minimal programming language in.

XML actually seems like a better fit in this case.
Systems like Signal and WhatsApp show that that's not necessarily true to the degree of previous solutions.
Any of it? Even in France, the tax rate is less than 100%. Hyperbole does not serve discussion.
Maybe rEFInd[1] can help!

UEFI has some cool things, like you don't really need a bootloader if you don't mind switching kernels.
Just tell the bios which partition you want to boot.

[1] http://www.rodsbooks.com/refind/
Why would someone choose this over something like Ionic or React Native? Yes, it's advertised as a tool for writing 'native' apps, but you the developer are just trading HTML/CSS/JavaScript for some custom-baked JSON-based system. (This reminds me a bit of some of the things people have done with XML to build a scripting languages on top of it...) It advertises direct access to various APIs as a primary selling point, but is this any more direct than what frameworks like Ionic provide? You still have to access it through an intermediate scripting language, just one less pervasive than JavaScript.

That being said, it is impressive how little code it takes to build a simple functional app! https://github.com/Jasonette/Twitter-UI-example
All kids have been experts on computers for about three generations now. Its no longer a valid meme.

There's kids now that don't know what VCR was, but you can assure them that their Grandpa was the only person in the household who could figure out how to program the timer.
So if they increase the energy supply by investing/purchasing in renewable energy that would increase supply which would bring their energy costs down hypothetically?
I was huge into the BBS scene in the early 80's. My favourite were Blue Boards written by the late Martin Sikes: http://www.penmachine.com/martinsikes/

Martin was an early influencer in my life. Here I am 30 years later and I still love technology.

I have been searching for a copy of his Blue Board software for years so I can setup a memorial BBS site over telnet in Martin's honour. I even managed to contact the owner of the original Sota Software who published Blue Board, but I haven't heard from him since. If anyone knows where I could find a copy I'd be very grateful https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Board_(software)
I'm running OpenSuSE Leap 42.1 on my ThinkPad x131e (Intel).

I've also added the repositories that give me the latest Qt, KDE, and KDE Applications. The net result is that I've got a stable base and a rolling release of the desktop environment.

The only "issues" I've had are:

- Needed to add a repository to get the Broadcom wireless driver.

- Sometimes the network status applet gets "stuck" with the progress indicator spinning even though the network is actually connected. It's like part of the applet knows it's connected, but the icon state didn't get updated. A logout/login fixes this.

- Sometimes I have to toggle the Wifi on and off to get it to reconnect after a wake.

- Sometimes if I close the lid too quickly after shutdown it decides that it wants to reboot.

Honestly, these are the only real problems I have with the machine and they're very minor. For the most part, the machine performs exactly like you'd expect a small low-end laptop to perform.
Have you tested your group of people?
And 1/10 the functionality?
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Daycare.
That is definitely not my main complaint, and I suspect it might have caught your eye because it's the one that wouldn't apply to you (which is absolutely possible).

The article is about the flaws of long-term identity keys, and it would stand even if there weren't UX, adoption, or security protocols adherence issues.

Maybe try to unpack a bit more :)
Your comment caught me off guard and made me laugh out loud.

There were so many things about those early systems which were not universal skills at all, but simply hardware limitations (or holdovers from previous hardware limitations - or just terrible design).

And yet, after watching my kid learning to use a computer, I do feel a deep nostalgia for the single-purpose simplicity of the command line I grew up with.