skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
These are called interface standards and should follow the standards defined by the eco-system in which the application resides. This is why we adhere to them to ensure that the userbase has as much of a baseline familiarity as can be assumed.

As for the original question regarding the distribution of user's "computer skills"... if you can figure out how designers think about how you should use systems, then it's much less about having "computer skills" than having the capacity to figure out the psychology of the application designer - if you can type and use a mouse and can either Google or read a book describing the paradigms of an application or eco-system and figure out what they mean, you've got all the computer skills you need.

As programmers, I think we tend to forget what exactly it is we do... we don't just program, we figure shit out at the most technical levels. Other people are quite adequate at this too - we have lawyers, doctors, surgeons, mechanics and any number of other professions that solve way more complex problems than we do - we're not islands of all the world's intelligence. If people appear to lack "computer skills" it's because the paradigms we use to define our user interfaces and solve the problems we are attempting to solve are shit - and I say this as a pretty well seasoned computer programmer who spends most of my life trying to figure out how to get other people's shit user interfaces to get my own shit done.

So... that's really what I've got to say about that. People will figure out what they have time and inclination to figure out. If they don't have the time or inclination to figure it out, then it's your problem: Your software isn't solving big enough pain points for the learning curve involved. This means that either this user is not your target audience, or you don't understand your target audience well enough.

Either way, it's not on the end user, it's on you as the software designer.
Academic research articles have to follow a quality standard enforced by a peer review process.
Anecdata: I know a lot of well educated people who don't read. At all.

Our current Presdident Elect (US) reportedly falls into this category (or, pretty darn close to it). That's a scary thought.
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pfSense is really a good choice, I'm successfully using it for two years without any major problems on a dual-wan setup and some 50 clients.

How much coverage and clients does a single Eero manage - by the reviews I read, I think it shines only when multiple ones are used, but that makes them a pricey solution.
Perhaps, but if we develop technology to increase people's power over one another it will certainly amplify them.
I had a similar alias in my eeePC (broadcom wifi drivers, which needed to be restarted after every boot). And I remember days of printing out xorg.conf documentation and random help threads at the library, in the hopes that I could finally convince nvidia drivers to give me graphics again. That said, I'm glad that nowadays my Linux problems tend to be more along the lines of "notifications aren't making noise when a video is playing" and not system-breaking bugs.
Well what kind of seed rounds have you seen for companies that are small but have some traction? I have been involved in a few ( not as owner though), and for example a company with 0 market fit or customers or tech got 250k convertible debt for about 10% of the company (obviously depending how the next funding round went). Using that as my mark with a fairly conservative growth rate, 250k should fund me + 1 full time dev (+ current support staff) until we get to profitability.
They should be supervising, but I imagine they will be staring at their phones. That said, there are 4-5 hour halls down I-65 that I wouldn't mind downgrading to "supervising" :)

I'd be happy if this type of system would scan really aggressively to warn/avoid the deer barely visible off the road before it jumps out in front of me...
Yep, since the extension can test the url submitted or not , it will make the "HN hunter" - the submitter life easier
Kids are worse with computers than you'd think. Volunteer in a library for example and you'll be helping 16 year olds with printing double sided.
Not in my experience with JavaScript. You have a large common denominator (including libraries), and only a few specific things that don't work in browser (like filesystem) that still work serverside anyways.
It always pays to research if your hardware is supported on given OS, whether it's Linux, macOS or Windows.
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- google now has one more reason to collect your location and associate it with the rest of your activities

- you are encouraged to use your phone even more, because doing so signals to your loved ones that you're ok. Using your phone pretty much means sharing even more data with google, watching their ads and buying stuff from their app store

It's a pure win. For google.
They can still get the last location collected before the phone was powered down.

Also, now days a teenager without a phone, might as well be at home.
Wow, no wonder so few attempt to start projects (or succeed). That's a lot of chaff to get through, just to write some cool code.
Ugh, bug bounties being used for developing stronger DRM. Well, I guess we have to take the bad with the good.
Rootclaim wants to calculate if a story is true by taking all the evidence, consider its reliability, put it to the probabilistic test and come up with the most likely conclusion.

> However, people may sometimes have “context-based rationality”… If you are clearly and emotionally on one side of an issue, I don’t think we will convince you otherwise.

So true.
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In their case, they lived in the same apartment.
I'm not sure where you got that from. I couldn't find a single reference to parents or children on the page.
iOS usage with the tighter permission model is 100%. End of discussion.
bill, and most people, should read and recommend more fiction (there's a little bit of fiction in every one of his recommended books i'm sure).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B7reIMSpBNA
Very cool! Is it a flow chart visualizer kind of tool?
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thanks for the feedback - still looking for the most effective ways to share useful content.
Thanks for the support! I don't think I need 50k to quit my day job, depending on how much staff I have I should be able to quit closer to 10-15k MRR. If I can get people to prepay yearly as others have suggested, would be even sooner.

Has been an interesting journey for sure. Have not really planned it to happen, just did my best at each phase, and it has always been "enough". We will see how long this baby goes...
Emacs would be the first thing I would install if I were to get a Mac.
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I'm going to HN[0] you and say just use AdBlock on iOS. Works great!

[0] When someone ask for one thing and someone tells you to use another without addressing the actual question.
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There's no mangling that I can see? Take your profit number. Take the profit number for the industry as a whole (there's an opportunity for gerrymandering here, but phone sales are a pretty natural category). Divide a by b.
Pret's filter is superb! I wasn't dismissing, it's a great fail safe, and they're everywhere.
> How about "average reading level of a college student"?

This is a form of normed referencing, and ultimately it becomes a (sometimes rapidly) moving target that makes comparisons difficult.

The standard used in the field is criterion referencing (similar to "prescriptive" used by 'jasode). This allows for easier apples-to-apples comparisons.

You are correct that they layman understanding is closer to your definition (at least in my experience). The layman understanding that you describe is not the standard in the field.
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It manipulates people by expoloiting their weaknesses, insecurities and fears.

That's not the same thing as 'help'.
Ask HN: GCP for startups or AWS Activate without being in an accelerator?
Currently I'm bootstrapping a PaaS idea of mine without outside capital. I would like to provide a free tier for my users, but that wouldn't be possible for a longer period without being in a cloud provider startup program that would buffer the costs of running infrastructure.

I wouldn't want to sell a big chunk (5-10%) of my startup to an accelerator though, at least at this stage.

So, is there a way to get financial support from a cloud provider without being in an accelerator? Alternatively, are there accelerators that don't require selling shares and relocation?
I'm sick of this lie, mostly parroted by people that haven't touched frontend in their life, or who do frontend but betted too early on technlogy that never got traction. It feels like it's just an excuse to pick on frontend. If nothing new was developed everyone would point out how stagnant JS ecosystem has become.

I've been developing JS for years and I've been using NPM for frontend components for... 3 years minimum? Wow, such a quick pace, unbearable.

How is it bad that new tools and libraries are being developed? Nobody forces you to use the new shiny toys until they're established (and almost nobody does, unless you can afford the uncertainty). You call it churn, I call it advancing the trade and getting better tools made for free by passionate people. Some of those get established as de facto standards. Most don't. The churn rate is not high unless you count experimental technology.

> That something using Bower can be considered old really seems quite astonishing to me.

Bower was one of those shiny toys. It's not old: it's just that people used Bower on its infancy and it never got as much traction as NPM did. If someone bets on Bower and then blames churn rate when it gets less traction than competitors... maybe they should stop using the new shiny toys and wait until an established tool emerges?
Read that whole barrage and all I could think about is: "Man it must suck to be a pessimistic person, you only get to think about the failure of a school that hasn't yet opened instead of seeing the potential".
C is largely used for embedded / engineering / systems work. That work largely gets done at engineering companies that also employe mechanical and structural engineers.

They like degrees and apprenticeships as routes to entry - the coding camp crowd might be able to find an equivalent apprenticeship and grow out of that into engineering work. But they won't recruit to an engineering role out of a bootcamp.
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Option A. I work for a newspaper and I am looking for ideas about what do to with the data. Thanks for asking! :)
of course, one of the nice things with modern hardware is that we can deliver more features after shipping the device.

edit; also, it is a device connected to the internet. not supporting updating the firmware would be extremely irresponsible from a security perspective.
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Call me a sceptic.. since the invention of farming women have had little evolutionary pressure to run fast to catch food nor outrun predators. Why then haven't evolution widen the canal to reduce fatalities during childbirth? And this has been going on for much longer than caesarean procedures.
Why not just try flashing OpenWRT? I've been using the Archer C5 with OpenWRT for over a year and everything has been working flawlessly. Setup is incredibly easy as well.
I've tried the prototype device, and I'm very excited that this is finally coming to market!

That said, and it might be nitpicky of me, but the choice of micro-USB for charging is a real annoyance. This is a premium device at a premium price point which I'm expecting to keep for many years. USB-C for portable devices is something that I'm considering a must-have at this point. Will probably wait for the first hardware revision.
'Startup campus' is a new marketing low.
sssh, it feels good to believe I'm saving the lives of children. :-(
Not sure about this one but there has been more than enough public vulns that grsec was already protecting against before release to justify using it for the security conscious Linux user.

Archlinux has packages that make it very easy to use.
Thanks for that context man. People like to b*tch about taxes all the time, but the thing is, taxes sent me to school and university, it paid for my stays in the hospital, my mail delivery, our internet infrastructure and awesome projects like Station F.
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What you are saying makes me really sad. I live in Paris and I just graduated (CS). I am currently working as a java developer in a large company, the job is incredibly boring and I feel like I am not learning anything. Interesting jobs seems out of reach of a junior developer. I don't think Station F is going to improve things much. I am now thinking about moving somewhere else to find a better job.
I've had the same issue happen, running Archer C7 running OpenWRT. But I'm not 100% sure it's actually the router or whether it's really a problem with my ISP. I haven't seen the issue in a couple of months now, yet I've made no changes to my setup.

I did have considerable issues getting both wifi interfaces to work well at the same time, but that's probably more due to my own incompetence more than anything. I did finally manage to make it work, much like how you'd wiggle antennae on an old tv back in the day and suddenly you got a signal.
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Also, 90% chance the English will be sub-standard (just to clarify, I am a 36 year-old Frenchman and I know for a fact that my average fellow citizen's command of the English language is rather poor).
Look at how consistently the lines of code grow for these projects. I doubt that is surprising but think about the implications. Linux is a pretty old open source project and still on balance the lines of code just grow.

How many lines of code will it be in fifty years? Will we have to come up with new systems to manage the fact that individuals only really understand smaller and smaller pieces of it? Will it reach a mass where like a black hole it collapses from some uncomprehensible failure?

There have never been things like this that just grow in complexity forever.
my ThinkCentre home desktop runs on Ubuntu for 3 years, my Dell laptop runs on Fedora for 1 year. All smooth ;)
Not if it's a CIFS mount on a UNIX platform. I'm sure there are other examples. In practice, most software copes just fine with this arrangement.

I suspect that the breakage would be fairly limited, and I for one would love for this to happen. The amount of stuff which can't be done because of this design decision is huge; proper package management without numerous reboots would be one, and I think the benefit of that and having semantics common with Unix platforms would outweigh the breakage.
> who do they believe will be buying their products

Frustratingly, it doesn't matter.

Each CEO may be convinced that there won't be enough solvent consumers around for everybody, after everybody has gone full automation. Yet because there'd be a huge upside to being the only one to fully automate, everybody knows that somebody else will go there and destroy everything anyway. You might as well try to be an early adopter, reap some benefit to stow away safely, before everything goes to hell.

In other words, as fine a specimen of game theoretic dilemma as any.
Everyone's experience is of course their own, but I wanted to provide a counterpoint from my experience over the past 5 years. At NationBuilder we do schema-based multi-tenancy with Postgres. We have over 30,000 schemas spread across over a dozen databases. One of our databases has more than 5,000 customer schemas on it (the average is about 2,500). Nevertheless we are able to run a Rails application, execute migrations, generate new schemas using the Schema.rb file, add and remove indexes, and many of the other items mentioned in the article.

Has it been challenging? Absolutely. But it definitely is possible. Furthermore we have not found a better way to ensure the privacy of our customer data (separate schemas is the closest we can get to guaranteeing that a badly written join won't expose data to the wrong customer).

PS - I applaud the authors of the original article for publishing their schema management code as the open source Apartment gem (which I wish had existed when we were starting out)
Extensive list of places where you can post:
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150k is the fully loaded all inclusive cost (and in France, that a lot of inclusive) to the employer, so 50k being the salary part is consistent with that.
...as an aside, out of curiosity, does anyone know why the "...and the company goes away." phrase was linked to www.towerrecordsmovie.com specifically and how is that related to Fog Creek ?
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I'm far from an expert, but I thought the poor generalized performance of neural nets was largely associated with the complexity of the network (number of neurons, etc), and the training data.

Is there something more specific about the application of neural nets to generalized problems that makes them unsuitable?
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The big car companies are acting like a forty-year-old who had a year's piano lessons when they were a kid but suddenly decides they really want to become a concert pianist, now, and earn big bucks from that. They shouldn't even want in the business. The false lure of getting in on high-tech IP and abusive lock-in has 'em dazzled. Releasing superior open code puts far more air up the automotive companies' skirts than stating the obvious reason why the auto cos' private code can't beat his open code into the ground. The sooner they realize they're chasing a dream, the better for his bottom line. A little shock treatment is in order, I think.
I always thought the things that prevented Startups in France would be more to do with employment laws - rules about weekend working, very hard to fire people, etc etc.
I recommend a custom built PC and pfsense.
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At least we can downgrade our kernels without re-install-and-recover-from-time-machine though, but otherwise yea :)
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The user interface for that test is horrendous. I felt dumber just looking at it. The flow is quite rigid.

For example... at the start of the test, there's a "Please press 'ENTER' to continue"...

A) My keyboard has a return key, but no enter key.

B) It's a button. Has the test started yet, because I'm not sure if you're talking about the button, or the non-existent key on my keyboard.

C) You're making me think, and the test may or may not have started yet.

Maybe my reading comprehension skills are lower than I'd like to admit. Or maybe your UI makes smart people stupid.
Is that so much better? You can do the same on iOS now, if you have a mac, by sideloading from the mac.

Android has been losing openness, iOS has been gaining it, they've finally met in the middle with the Android 7 release.
Another N300 user here, very happy with it! No problems at all, and I've gotten work to start using them as our low-cost multipurpose routers in a pinch(they can openvpn!).
The rapid cycling of JS tooling and frameworks has only been in the past few years really. And ES5 came after many many years of no updates to JS.
This is a not-very-generous reading of "most", because while I read that as "most programming languages (weighed by how often they are used)" you can also read that as "most programming languages (weighed by counting them)" if you want to prove some point.
Thanks for the option - are you using an Wi-Fi card on PCI, or you have access point connected by the LAN ports?

If it is the first option - there are two recommended Wi-Fi cards - which one you are using and how many client devices does it manage?
we went to CES this year to see if there was any reason for us to go, but based on that we decided not to. it's insanely huge and hard to get any kind of exposure, even if people knew about us beforehand.

but seeing is believing, especially with this product, videos doesn't do it justice imho. so we need some way of getting it into the hands of people, probably some kind of ambassadors that have some reach and a lot of integrity. but this has to wait until our ODM finishes the next batches of prototypes, so we actually have devices that we can send out.
The opportunities for business use of computers was realised pretty early on - the first dedicated business computer was created in 1951:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LEO_(computer)
It will be primarily used for parents to track their kids.

They don't need to specifically spell out that use case with parent/child characters.

It seems obvious to me that this will enable parents (all kinds, good and bad) to track their kids with a pretty scary level of control.

But you're right in that this isn't just restricted to parents and children. In my post just substitute parent/child with a controlling boyfriend/girlfriend.
HN isn't a constructive forum for arguing politics anyway. I don't know that such a forum even exists.

If you want to influence people, take Confucius' advice and live a model public life that inspires (or shames) others into behaving ethically. Don't waste time dragging yourself down into arguments with base people, live a life that contrasts yourself with base people in the eyes of others. Let you successes, your intelligence and your quality of life, sell your politics. I make sure all my friends, especially my politically- and religiously-extreme ones, know how great my life is. Every time I post a picture of my smiling happy family and our successes, I am advertising my moderately-liberal politics and my Humanist philosophy. And when my conservative Christian friends do the same, they are successfully influencing me to have a more positive outlook of their politics and religion. Be a friendly, caring representative of your side of the aisle and you will constructively influence others.
What is more advanced about SPSS mixed models (not accusatory, just ignorant)? It looks like there are more covariance options, but is the estimation/implementation better/more robust or faster?
> You shouldn't avoid Haskell because you are irritated with a bit of syntax, you should avoid it because you can't ship or maintain the kind of deliverables you need to write.

I can ship and maintain deliverables I need to write in Haskell more effectively than other languages.
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Thank you! But sorry, what is FUD?
For senior developers in Paris the median may be around 50-60, (most of software engineer jobs are in consultancies) but there are tech companies that pay up to twice as much . I know mine does, and is looking for developers from all around the world, if you're interested :)