skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
yubikey can still be circumvented by bribing or blackmailing a user. idk seems like another security illusion.

and it's proprietary so only yubikey knows what kind of extra shit they're running on it.
General aviation I imagine.
> I'm curious how long the battery lasts. That thing must have a beefy discrete GPU given Razer's pedigree.

I guess that the dGPU is only used when all three screens are extended or an application that requires a dGPU is running. Similarly to MBPs which by default use the Intel GPU and only on demand switch to the dGPU.
What Steven Soderberg saw and read in 2016
Some discussion about this is already happening:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13328805
They didn't test computer monitors.
I meant ride on bike. Sorry if that was unclear.
> In te Netherlands, we have stickers that we cab place on our real-life mailboxes: "No ads. No unspecified recipient." The advertisers (mailmen) are not allowed to ignore this sticker.

Wow, that's actually kind of amazing. I wish we had that in the US...
Agreed. However the issue is quite a bit more subtle because the larger the company the harder it is for employees to have the big picture on a purely logistical level. So it's not necessarily true that employees pushing back are right.

Yes - I've seen this too. The bigger the company, the longer you have to be there to understand all the far flung parts.
My business still growing and in the beta phase, it's a one-person businesses but haven't launched. Hope it becomes a succesful one-person business anytime soon. Here it is how it looks right now: https://talkbot.io Let's see how it looks in a fee months.
Fillr autofill app requires users to approve every piece of data before autofilling a form. Makes it easy to know when a site is trying something shifty. Dashlane also lets you pick exactly what to fill. Native browser autofills have been battling phishing exploits since early IE days.
He says he's "particularly [interested in] pre-classical Greece" but you recommend Guns, Germs, and Steel. I'm wondering why since the later is much more relevant to modern history (by modern I mean post 600 AD) than pre-classical Greek history.
Every profession contains at least some form of feedback: From your manager, from your peers, and/or from your subordinates.
'Responsibility' without any repercussions for not protecting it.

Who still really believes that private companies are any better or have more responsibility to protect your data.

You want to protect your data, don't give it out.
I didn't mention gold. I asked about two cash-flow generating assets that would be considered investments by most people (but of course you can have your own definition of investment).
Right now I use a Pebble smartwatch (which I use for fitness, too) with Bluetooth 4 to unlock my Android phone. Not very secure since (as you put as well) I don't verify the unlock via my smartwatch, and I'm not sure about impersonating Bluetooth 4. Then again, I'm not sure if NFC (RFID) can be impersonated, either. And, if yes, how feasible it is.
There's no one-size-fits-all type of advice because everyone's situation is very different. There are some great resources available online to get started though. This one [1] is for physicians but could also apply to everyone. The bogleheads [2] and their wiki page are also great resources for these topics.

[1] http://whitecoatinvestor.com/the-proper-ratio-for-retirement...
[2] https://www.bogleheads.org/
Browsers don't auto-fill credit cards and passwords, today, because they are private.

Chrome (and I assume others) has a secure credit card and password auto-fill, separate from regular form auto-fill.
I think the key is to not put pressure on yourself, and don't allow other people to do so. One person can only do so much, you can't make a baby in 5 months. Work a stable amount each day, on tasks in descending order of priority. I never work past 6 pm, and never work on weekends. If a deadline isn't met, it's the fault of the people that set the deadline.
Not just any beefy discrete GPU... a GTX 1080.
> why would I want to use any Google product in the future or recommend Google to anyone?

because the world isn't black and white. i don't agree with every decision google makes, but i don't think there's a single company for which i agree with every decision.

i think its really a stretch to say that this single decision means that all google products are going to be terrible. google prioritizes its ad revenue over user experience sometimes. but if it still produces a product superior to its competitors, i'll choose that product. and if it produces an inferior one, i probably won't choose it.
"...or not."

I've kinda developed a thing against headlines that seem to announce something great and wonderful, but in fact are purely speculative. One way to lure in readers.
I speculate that burnout is more psychological than physical. Ultimately, I think it stems from the shame arising out of the realization that giving 110% instead of 70% at your job accomplishes little but making things harder for yourself. A software engineer doesn't get more money giving 110%, and if they work to finish something quicker they're just rewarded with more work.

Often engineers (being human) will want to do a good job, give 110% on an important project, and when its over and their pay and work hours are exactly the same, they get angry with themselves for giving 110% instead of the bare minimum. They have this "I just wasted a month of my life because I'm a fool" feeling that completely zaps their motivation to do anything.
I realize you're not saying it's limited to software, but I think it's interesting to note that the term was coined by a psychologist (Herbert Freudenberger) trying to describe a condition he himself experienced.
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That's a surprising statement coming from an otherwise libertarian leaning HN. The ad market is one of the largest and most successful of the 21st century. Isn't that the definition of a market economy?

Until recently OP monetized his blog with ads. Should he have given up before his blog was popular enough to switch to sponsors?
How can you afford to be full-time on $2239/month? O.o
> I agree that Russell's book is good, although Will Durant's Story of Philosophy is even better. :-) Of course there's no reason you can't read both.

I found Durant to be much drier. He also covers less material, both in the number of philosophers and the breadth of each philosopher's work. It was still OK and I'm glad I read it, but I only kept one of the two and it wasn't Durant. It is shorter and skips most of the kinda-boring scholasticism stuff that Russell covers thoroughly, though, so it's got that going for it.

One of the things I appreciated about Russell was his willingness to critically engage the philosophy he's describing. I think it's why his book catches a lot of shit for "bias", but I thought it was nice to have an expert explain where certain parts of older philosophical work had been found to be insupportable or problematic (and why), which parts lived on in viable modern philosophies, et c.
It's not a "pyramid" scheme. A pyramid scheme involves selling a product - something like knives or energy drink. But the actual thing which is sold are licenses to sell the product. Each licensee passes some of their profits up to their licensor who is the licensee of someone else and passes along part of that and so on. Eventually the last round of licensees are stuck with product that they can't sell and the upstream licensors are getting rich from the "pyramid" of downstream licensor/licensees recruited into the scheme.

A ponzi scheme is quite different. You pretend to invest an initial investor's money. The returns to that investor are paid out of money coming in from later investors.

Social security works in this way. The money paid into social security is not invested at all. The returns from social security (money going out to current retirees) come entirely from new investments (money going in from current workers). This is the basic definition of a ponzi scheme. It is a sustainable ponzi scheme so long as taxes collected from current workers exceed benefits paid out to current retirees. The designers of this system did not count on two things: (a) ever increasing life expectancy and (b) the baby boom. The former has increased the length of time each person collects benefits and the latter has resulted in a demographic bulge that is now hitting its retirement years.

Thank you Mr. Bismarck![0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otto_von_Bismarck#Old_Age_and_...
Hmm, what you're saying makes sense, because the way you explain it makes it sound like it would have the opposite effect and let them act inside your OODA loop. Maybe I'm reaching too far, since it's not a topic I'm well-versed in.

I've heard cheng and chi translated in other ways, like "ordinary" vs. "extraordinary", "direct" vs. "indirect," so maybe "unpredictable" doesn't really apply here. I read it as being more about conflict within an ever-changing environment. If the world is constantly falling out of order, the advantage doesn't go to the one with the most consistently rational strategy, but the one who responds to change the fastest. So instead of making your opponent confused about your strategy, the goal is to degrade his perception to make him unable to keep up with reality itself. This is all very theoretical and abstract though.
Ask HN: What do you use for internal docs?
My org uses Confluence and it feels bloated to me. What do you use (crowdbase, gollum, GH wiki)? I want something with great markdown support, inline editor (i.e. not git), good/easy organization and fast.
Interesting use of CVV, since vendors aren't permitted to store it. But Chrome does, for you... is that synced across browsers? That would require Google to store the CVV on its servers...
I really wish that life-long learning would be assumed and encouraged on a societal level. Even if it's something that is currently not seen as "productive".

I wonder what my older relatives and acquaintances would've want to learn, or work with, without the chains of economical reality.
My thinking is the user should explicitly autofill each field. Yes, it involves more work, but it's really not much work to click on a field and pick the right autofill value.

I'm always concerned about using autofill because browsers eagerly fill any field they have data for.
I thought this was a key take away from the article:

>Taxis already share all the data the commission is requesting from Uber.

If Taxis are required to give this data why should Uber be different?
If we change to a popular vote system then the entire race looks different. It's a silly argument either way.
The more general term for these two structures are Functional vs Divisional structures. In the case of software engineering, a feature based team is a functional structure, and a "database team" (or "API team", or any other specific technical concern) is a divisional structure.
You build the wall, you put in insulation, sand, water, glue and stick ceramic tiles on it. That could be a sound-insulating step two, but, you know. Has to be built that way.
> using different LEDs (Cold-white, blue and green)

I wonder what the results would look like for warm LEDs ~ 2700K. I used to be a Cold-white aficionado but moved to warms for everything. If I experiment by suddenly switching between my cold and warm lights its pretty jarring (warm seems more relaxing).
Good timing, BTC dropped from 1080€ to ~900€ today :-)

I don't know if it's just a problem with my windows 10 installation but the currency (USD, EUR etc.) dropdown is not clickable. With tab- and arrow-keys I can switch to EUR.
> while technically true, it's clearly misleading

What's misleading here? Are you saying there are as many poor articles that are "anti-feminist" than "pro-feminist"?

I'd argue that a publication like the BBC would be a lot more careful about offending feminists, but I admit this is speculative.

Now here's the thing - the feminist concept of "patriarchy" is literally the demon-haunted world of enemies (wrt men/non-allies) that you are claiming this article invokes (wrt feminists).

"constantly pumping out articles that imply that feminists are some kind of boogeyman" - Do you apply the same criteria of critique to various feminist blogs and publications (e.g jezebel)? Because I'd like to hear the difference.

In fact, I hear "What about the menz!1!" is offensive now - isn't that exactly "the wider context" you feel is missing here?
You can get AliExpress suppliers to ship DHL or UPS Express, which takes 3-5 days. It varies a bit due to customs. The problem is that it's massively expensive, and doesn't make sense for a single small item.

We have established suppliers now, many of which we originally found through Alibaba/Aliexpress, and we order hundreds or thousands of items at a time (I run a small chain of cell phone repair shops), but even then shipping on a couple medium-sized boxes can run $80 and up.
And this is why the rest of us can't stand people like you. I lived on the west coast for more than a decade and people were not generally better or worse than when I lived in rural IL. Get your head out of your ass.
Venture Capital Is Going to Murder Medium
He's a billionaire and a TV star. Are you a billionaire and a TV star? No? Then you are not comparable to Trump.

He's not an outsider. He's absolutely a member of the elite.
Hanlon's Razor for Docker Containers
I remember Valve articles from that period when the Windows 8 Store was being introduced, and Valve started pushing Linux. I remember reading a similar article from them on the subject, but that one mentioned DirectX 9 Source Engine on Windows performance versus OpenGL 3 on Linux, which is a shady comparison to say the least. Just mentioning it, since such details got curiously ommited in the referenced article.
This is a very clever hack. I've tried in the past to adjust my HTML to disable autofill and it's not possible to prevent Chrome from aggressively doing it.
Why? Uber drives aren't using the medallion.
Other than the Colorado River, does California depend on other states for water? If California seceded, wouldn't they retain their part of the Colorado River Compact?

Power, I'll grant you. They've been "exporting pollution" by having power plants built in other states for a while now...
Async means reducing likelihood that your work will be blocked by someone else (e.g. waiting for response from someone) as it might cause big issues when someone is 10 hours away. If you can't get any work done because you are waiting for someone who is sleeping, that's really bad.

Single source of truth can be google doc, wiki, github issues/wiki, whatever. As long as it's single. The problem is when critical information is scattered in slack history, github issues and PRs, wiki and some odd google doc. It makes it hard to find information and you will end up finding contradictory information. Lack of single source of truth or not updating one will reduce the async property of the whole operation, among other things.
There's no self contradiction. I never claimed that we have no way of determining whether something is true or false. I only claimed that we have no way of determining whether the explanation a person gives for how he made a decision actually matches his real mental process or motives. We can't yet install a debugger with break points and variable watches in the human mind; it's very much a black box.

Logic 201. :-)
Makes a lot more sense to read it that way. Auto-pilot (...I guess I just did that) caused me to read it as Google Analytics.
No, because this map scales the country according to its latitude. So when you drag down England to be next to Atlanta, you're looking at the size of England with respect to Atlanta. The "true size" is just "true" in comparison to whatever it's on top of. So it should be accurate.
Even THAT isn't good enough, since not all thunderbolt 3 cables support the necessary wattage. (for example https://www.amazon.com/Belkin-F2CD081bt1M-Certified-Thunderb...)

I'm really hoping this is just a transitionary period and soon all USB-C / TB3 cables are created equal. When type-A started being used for charging there was a time with similar inconveniences.
... because Uber is a special snowflake, haven't you heard? /s

Uber is trying to differentiate itself from the standard taxi companies in order to avoid the same level of regulations and issues. To do that, you can't concede on any front no matter how trivial or reasonable it sounds.
I live in Washington State, which was essentially totally ignored by all the candidates. The reason is simple - WA is an overwhelmingly blue state with a winner-take-all delegate selection.

If elections were based on the popular vote, then the candidates would have been here campaigning, which might have dramatically changed the vote in WA. Not enough to turn it red, but a big chunk.

My point is that changing the rules on how Presidents are elected will change how they are campaigned, the platforms of the candidates, etc. One cannot assume a voter tally under one scheme will be the same as the tally under another - not at all.
Clinton won a plurality of the popular vote in the United States of America. That includes California and New York and every red state you can name.

Seriously, what a stupid fucking argument. You should be ashamed.
Old Opera went one step further, where it would fill forms using a Wand button. This approach also was used for logging in.

IMO, much better way, since it works well in situation where your passwords are encrypted and browser is configured to forget master key after a while.

Firefox in that scenario will bug you about master password each time you go to page where such password is stored.
SoundCloud in danger of running out of cash
FireCrypt comes as a malware building kit and includes DDoS code
Large discussion already underway:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13328549
Ah, the "Mariner" cancellation debacle.
Turn the lights off in a room, and see how much of it your monitors can illuminate. Our eye's logarithmic response to light can end up confusing us about the mile-wide canyon between a glow and a light.
Perceptual Control Theory, Interactive tutorial (1989, 2016)
But if your product is ad supported you have the incentive to make it as inefficient as possible as long as it stays interesting. I wonder if there is a market for a paid or freemium product that is designed for efficiency instead of clickbait.
Wow, guess you can get LED poisoning :-). The question that I've heard being bandied about is that people use brighter (higher luminous flux) LED lights and displays for better visibility and the question was whether or not the pupil dilation reflex was appropriately triggered (sort of like going blind by looking directly at a total eclipse of the Sun). If a cause could be identified and reproduced it seems the "fix" would be simply adjusting the spectrum of the output to clue your eye into the fact that it was really bright.

Anyway, I wonder if these guys got a follow up grant, does anyone know?
I doubt any of these powerful individuals would ignore a call from Mark Zuckerberg right now.
You can't obviously. But when it comes to wines there are certain flavour characteristics that are desirable for that particular type of wine. So a 'good' wine is a wine that shows more of those characteristics and a 'bad' wine is a wine that has less of those characteristics and more 'undesirable' characteristics. Whether or not you think those characteristics taste good or not is a separate discussion.
Actually, this is how I taught my son to ride with one of these skuut bikes:

http://www.twowheelingtots.com/skuut/
Thus improving public transport and make people less dependent on Uber :)
I honestly believe there's the past and the present when it comes to wine. In the past, there were greater differences because better wineries had better knowledge, better craft, and better land.

However, the macro-wineries really upped their game in the last twenty years. Today, the bigger difference is that the macro-wineries are able to create at scale. More wine with lower per-bottle margins is a profitable strategy.

That said, there are some truly great wines out there at higher price points, but the real differentiation is how much has been produced.
> Compilers already have these optimizations.

git co <previous-hash>

You're welcome!
IndieHackers is a brilliant idea. Being able to learn from other people's successes and failures and seeing that most startups are not unicorns is a great help.
It's designed to require a President that has trans-regional appeal. It does pretty well at that.
Some immediate thoughts:

1. 6000 lux is a _lot_ of light.

2. The LEDs tested are not the "warm white" (1500-2500K) commonly used as replacements for incandescent bulbs in the US. They're the "blue white" (>4000K) ones, or pure blue or pure green at specific wavelengths.

With those constraints, it's an interesting result. It does not mean you need to run home and rip all the lights out, though.
On the contrary; in this case, Twitter is a symptom. Instead, the problem is bubble-based news. The platform could've been something else, like Facebook, or RSS.
I think, although I'm not entirely sure, that LED backlights work in one of two ways. Either there's a white LED that is behind red, greed, and blue filters, or there are separate red, green, and blue LEDs. In the former case, the filters are likely to reduce short-wavelength light and, in the latter, case, the red and green LEDs would be inherently safe and the blue LED would most likely be selected to be longer-wavelength for efficiency reasons.

(IIRC blue and violet LEDs are close to 100% efficient, but our eyes are much more sensitive as the wavelength gets farther from violet. This means that the "efficacy" of less violet LEDs is much higher. The backlight power will be set to achieve some desired apparent brightness, so a longer-wavelength blue primary would save power.)
Not everyone on HN earns SV money.

Best of luck in becoming a pilot!
I think I may be 56, hmm, still learning and producing
I started coding at 36, that means I have 20 years of experience, thats cool hey!
Not sure I understand the question. You can always just copy a program somewere, add it to path and so on with both PS and cmd (or script it, the equivalent of "make install").

You can also download and install Windows installer setups from a shell, and also uninstall them e.g by name (more elegantly in PS than in cmd). Because win apps are usually binary this is a more common way than the "make install" equivalent on Linux (Where I don't believe there exists a distro independent binary installer format?)

You can't install apps like "packages" without a package manager like choclatey, but that I assume is the same in Linux, you need to install a package manager like apt or yum if the distro didn't come with one.
> it still requires...a working installation of Ruby.

Does OS X/macOS not still come with a bundled installation of Ruby? Or is the version it comes with too old to use with brew/brew cask?