skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That seems to have happened to some of the robot companies Google bought. Bot and Dolly [1], which did robot-assisted special effects for Hollywood, had actual products, customers, and film credits in major movies. Now they're just gone.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lX6JcybgDFo
No, it was not illegal.

Marketing and consumer behavior contributed to people not seeking out the cheaper option.
This one is not little-known or little-discussed, but I found org-mode really nice when paired with tup. I have a small shell script I put in my ~/bin which calls emacs' org-mode's tangle functions on each of my .org files in a project. I write everything (at home) as literate projects. Going back to the nice feature of tup (recognizing that a target file hasn't changed and ceasing build actions) comes in handy.

My .org files may change, but the .c or whatever files don't as often, or they do but it's white space so the .o files don't change, etc. It's all in the documentation or the layout, or changes to the export (as html/pdf) options. So the whole project doesn't get rebuilt (like it might with make) just because I added a paragraph describing an algorithm.

It's also great for source code dissection. Using the noweb aspect I can break a file down from one initial source block into dozens, creating cross references across files and documents very easily, and then export this in a distributable format (currently doing this for a new project at work). I have a 100k SLOC project that we've taken on and while we understand the high level, none of us have ever worked on this source code (we work at the maintenance end mostly, this project has entered maintenance). Technically there's documentation on it. Doxygen can generate nice reports. But that doesn't beat the act of tearing the code apart line-by-line for really learning and understanding it.

This'll be the largest project I've attempted this on, so that's a new challenge. Usually sub-10k projects that I've tried this with, or just small sections of larger ones. But I'll be one of three guys on the developer side of this one (one above me, responsible for more than just code, and a junior dev just out of college with us). So either we fumble or one of us becomes a SME. This work is also shareable by generating a PDF or set of html files from my efforts and distributing it to them so what I learn can be more easily shared with others.
It's more that their different classification makes them cheaper. If SUVs had to play by the same fuel economy standards as cars, they'd be a lot more expensive than they are. I don't know if they actually have different emissions standards, but if they did then the same thing would apply there.
Just thought of something, a post-it on the door that says, "I'm in XYZ."
Appreciate the feedback! My point on the price concern was that the app was not developed solely for my county, it was resold to multiple customers - at least 2,000 according to the link I posted in another comment.

I'm not sure what other customers were charged for the app, but if they were all $70K (as my County was), then that's a hefty rake.
It also has to do with legislation and with marginal value. Above 40 hours or so, a lot of countries have laws, like overtime pay and what have you, that start to kick in and make it less worthwhile for an employer to ask for those hours. As well, most people find that above that amount of time, the value they get from increased income starts to go below the value they get from non-paid-work time. It's sort of a normal equilibrium.
The mobile app gold rush may be over
I doubt he actually believed this. He thought people would be working 16 hours a week with zero caveats?

Sure if all things remained equal, if basically nothing changed at all from 1929 to 2029 then yes his prediction would be accurate. But did he actually believe that?
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My experience echo the trend you describe above. I have a Kindle. Love it to bits; it has replaced all the paperbacks I used to buy when traveling (Which I do. A lot.) Can't be beat for its compact size and instant gratification - within seconds of deciding I'd like a new book, it is downloaded.

Absolutely terrible for anything but clean text, though - add illustrations to the mix, and it looks like it is rendered without any thought given to aesthetics whatsoever. Most photos are just greyish muddles which had better been left out.

However, one (unexpected) change occurred after I'd had the Kindle for a while - I realized how much I missed holding an actual book while reading. During the six or so years since I bought my Kindle, I've bought (and mostly read!) 3-400 books; most of them hard covers and quite a lot from what one could call the anti-Kindle - publishers like The Folio Society.

(For those not familiar with it - they go the extra mile to make every title they publish a small piece of art - good paper, proper smyth sewn bindings, more often than not an illustrator is commissioned, slipcases - still surprisingly affordable, at least to someone from Norway)

) Norwegian bibliophiles suffer from the fact that just about every bookstore is owned by one of the larger publishing houses - guess what that does to prices; a new novel costs some US$45-50 on release. They even got a law enacted which makes it a crime to sell a book at too deep a discount!
What is "this use case" for you? The topic of the article is symmetric encryption, and whoever uses the defaults has much more chance to produce the files which could be compromised. it is a huge practical impact for me. Even when not using the defaults, the passphrases have to be really, really long to keep the content safe.

http://security.stackexchange.com/questions/15632/what-is-pu...

"In GnuPG 1.4.12 defaults are (found experimentally):

--s2k-mode = 3

--s2k-digest-algo = SHA1 (supports MD5, RIPEMD-160, SHA2s too)

--s2k-count = 65536 (supports from 1024 to 65011712)

--s2k-cipher-algo = CAST5 (supports 3DES, CAST5, Blofish, AES, Twofish, Camellia too)"
I have read a lot of history about chemical process industries, energy, and allied sectors. I'm trying to compare inputs and outputs of processes without invoking dollars: number of laborers, tons of sulfuric acid, megawatt hours of electricity...

My impression is that many commoditized products continue to see decent year-over-year improvements in the ratio of inputs to outputs. But if economists don't care about material input:output ratios, only currency-values, then improvements-plus-fierce-competition could look like stagnant productivity. You would need process improvements plus GDP growth to recognize productivity gains; flat GDP per capita and simultaneous shrinking inputs of matter and energy wouldn't count.
Quickly jotting a time on a piece of paper doesn't seem to drop be out of the zone/flow/etc whereas switching to some time app does. I always have the notepad and pen next to the mouse ready to go to write notes about what I'm doing anyway, may as well just timestamp the task changes. Also the notepad is always there in physical space, I haven't accidentally closed the tab it was in and it's never hidden behind a terminal window.

Not really sure, I think it's having a different input method as opposed to the mouse and keyboard I'm using to do whatever task I'm doing so it doesn't get in the way.
Or a technical collective. This isn't necessarily sinister.
For comparison and context of my "as is-tradition" comment:

> The Sydney Opera House cost $102 million and
> was completed in 1973.
> The original plan was: a cost of $7 million and
> completion date of 26 January 1963.
If we're talking about GPG, please pay attention to https://www.passwordstore.org/ which is really cool, open source password manager built on GPG.
I think putting universities on the hook for defaulted student loans would probably help. They'll start steering people out of $50k english degrees and into degrees that they might have some hope of paying off. Or will figure out a way to make english degrees less expensive.
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Hi, thanks for signing up, you can switch on simple time tracking if you go to Profile page in Manage menu. Also did you create projects and tasks in a wizard when you first sign up?
Technology can play a part at every stage of this. For better or for worse.
You say

> Why do you care what the rendering engine is?

then later you say

> I currently have a tab open that will just keep loading forever every time I load the browser, taking 100% CPU, until I go and press escape to stop loading. It's slow as hell and frequently freezes.

Do you not see that those two things may be related?
Perhaps surprisingly, /r/dndbehindthescreen. They're one of the few subreddits I've found that has a subscriber count in the tens of thousands, consistently high-quality content, and an active community of people that actually contribute.

/r/roguelikedev is a fun community, as well- I love the opportunity for cross-pollination of ideas, since everyone's doing a rather similar thing, but with different languages, libraries, and so forth.
An estimated 60 people have died because of these excess emissions.

What penalty would you consider appropriate for someone breaking the law, resulting in 60 deaths?

Should it matter what law was broken, or how those deaths were caused?
Try https://wakatime.com which I built to solve this exact problem... it automatically tracks your time, no more manual timers!
That's not at all true. Simple symmetric offline encryption of files is one of the few crypto operations that is easy to get right. The GPG1 defaults aren't great, but they aren't going to get your files compromised. And with the command line options presented upthread, you have the passphrase problem either way.
It's too bad it's not a falsifiable claim. Unless you know how to get to the alternate timeline? (Asking for a friend)
I hate the scrolling on mobile (iOS). I don't know what they tried to do, it feels like a JavaScript smooth scrolling on top of native smooth scrolling.
Neuroscience methods tested on Atari 2600 failed, casting doubts on credibility
Catholicism isn't terrible in this regard, either. They actually take a rather agnostic approach, which is refreshing to see.

http://www.vatican.va/roman_curia/congregations/cfaith/cti_d...

Basic summary is that they rely on God to judge, and instead hope that He finds them worthy.
J.M. Keynes was basically just spitballing when he said that, in an article called "Economic Possibilities for Our Grandchildren". Basically a non-academic article to make some long-term predictions based on trends of the time. Also this was 1929 and some notable events happened not long after.
There is opportunity cost which is working for a big company from the start.

If startups are not risky enough to be irrational to get involved, are you saying then the big companies are acting irrationally when not getting involved?

That's of course a dual view. But it seems to me that the big corporation is more likely the one that calculates the correct expected ROI than the startup in the unknown space..
Larger outfits can usually hire you into their European offices.
That's not a formal or informal fallacy. In fact, I'm really not sure what you're getting at with "elements of surprise". Maybe explain more?

Again, off-network exchanges still require the network to verify, which means they don't solve the scalability with users (same as side chains).

You do need to prove that pink unicorns exist by giving examples, rather than describing it.
For folks who really care about performance, the easiest win is just switching to Inferno or Preact. You can pretty much leave your React code unmodified and get massive performance gains.
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The Mac Pro design was fun to look at, but the concept firearms on this site were the most impressive to me. Well thought out and engineered from a concept perspective, addressing pain points for the customer that requires some pretty serious knowledge. I'm surprised somebody hasn't tried to manufacture the Thor A1 at this point, as they seem to fit a pretty sizable PPW market.
The browser does store the text in the text area, but the text area disappears when you reload the page because you need to click a button that adds that element to the page.
May have been a bad decision, but I drove a Toyota Solara (2-door Camry) through years of winters in (properly) upstate NY. Knowing when/how to drive in snow goes a long way further than AWD or ground clearance.
Please be upfront in what you are insinuating. That article indicates that there was an incident where 3 US PSYOPs agents worked as interns at CNN until it was reported upon.

That is worrying, but a far cry from showing that CNN is the mouth piece of the US, or that they are committing some sort of "war on truth", especially when the context is killing journalists and employing entire agencies of people to troll online.
Looks like what Darth Vader would have on his Destroyer.
How does paying bills and credit card debt mute the effect of the tax break?
That's a great article, thanks for posting. I find it deeply saddening that so many people ask "How could people vote for Trump, what are they thinking!", but have less than zero interest (aka hostility) in any answers, and there are many, to that question.
I hope someone from amazon is reading this. Their new app on the roku is unbelievably slow, 5+ seconds for transitions.
Watch the video and you'll see. The thing has a lot of scripted audio files and seems like it has a beefy battery.
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I have the exact same issue on iPhone 7 iOS 10.2
4) forget to mention that your definition of 'create job' is 'take it from some other business which must fire a person and move this position to (amazon)'
Yay! I was going to mention Cosmos but you beat me to it. I certainly appreciated the deep and rich history associated with Newton in particular among others in the fields of math and science. Their lives were often hard and wrought with conflict vs. the powers of their times, which is hugely important.
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https://shakespeareillustration.org/ -- in case you don't want to brute force the correct order of link-clicks to find the original source.
He was also a top student at one of the best industrial design schools in the world, and had some stellar internship experiences.
So they found a hard-coded API token and no further user authentication to limit the requests. This is obviously a common rookie mistake (didn't Facebook, Snapchat, Instagram all fall for this at some point?) and security software particularly should not have such a basic vulnerability, but I do think TFA veers past security writeup into editorial when they start critiquing the cost/pricing and calling for customers to drop the software, particularly since the vendor was responsive to the report.

It seems like maybe the vendor's communication trailed off toward the end leaving OP with bad feelings which show up in the write-up.

Generally I like to see security research and vulnerabilities reported as a way to document the process used and experience gained, but not to skewer the company except with respect to their responsiveness of a patch.

Of course, everyone here is free to skewer the app as much as they like, I just don't like reading it in the actual write-up.
I think "Team" membership is key -- it tells which opinions they are likely to listen to. Any team can rustle up a credentialed opinionator that didn't do the math themselves (or will say anything, just, because) to round arm the rubes with talking points to unleash onto Reddit (or wherever). It would be a quite the dance spectacle, if it didn't make my stomach hurt. And, the worst thing is? My brain is just as broken (for the purpose of thinking rationally) as any of theirs! :-O
^d in Firefox and Chrome also bookmarks the page

Both Firefox's awesomebar and Chrome's omnibox let you go to a shortcut by typing its name
Key Transparency
I don't think Roku apps are written in JavaScript/HTML. I believe they use BrightScript (at least on the older models), so I don't think React would help.
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That's a big reason why genealogy is so important for the Mormons. They need to baptize past ancestors so they'll be able to see them in heaven.
How would you apply for this as a student? Could you get the ID mailed to you overseas for example?
I took Isbell's class as well, and perhaps here we can share our respective experiences.

In the year I did it, the class was structured as follows:

At the beginning of the semester, you'd pick two datasets.

Every two weeks, you'd apply two or so algorithms that were being covered at the time (maybe k-means and SVD, or a NN and SVM) to your chosen data sets. There would be a set of variations that you were supposed to apply to each algorithm. Typically you'd normalize or clean the data in some way. Perhaps you'd filter outliers, etc...

The result would be a set of experiments to run (2 datasets) x (2 algorithms) x (2^3 variations per algorithm). You would compile the results into a (10 page max) paper, with analysis about how the dimensions differed.

It was up to the student to figure out how to actually implement this pipeline (I used sqlite + numpy/scipy/scikitlearn, many used Matlab).

On paper, this sounds like a great class - what a wonderful way to learn about how different approaches relate to each other, and how crucial the process of preparing data is to the effectiveness of the algorithm. In practice, however, this did not happen for most students I knew.

These students spent most of their time finding implementations of the algorithms and hacking at them to actually run all the experiments. They then rushed through gluing the results together through some semblance of analysis. Alumni of the class I knew said the same thing about their experience.

This analysis was read by TA's. There were I think 3 of them for about 100 students. We wouldn't get the papers back for weeks (long past we moved on to new material). When we got our papers back there was very little feedback of the content - mostly it was noted that we submitted the work on time, and had successfully performed all the experiments required.

I agree that Isbell is a joy to listen to - he is charismatic, entertaining, and I too enjoyed his anecdotes. However, I felt like you would only get something out of his lectures if you already knew what you were talking about.

When I think about the quality of the class, I think about how responsive the class is to the individual needs and progress of the student.

If you say that it's up to the student what they get out of the class, and your bar for a good class is that the content is arranged in a nice manner, then here you go https://pe.gatech.edu/sites/pe.gatech.edu/files/agendas/CS-4... ... any self-directed student can grab Mitchell, and do the weekly assignments I describe above - all for free and in the comfort of their own home.
Plex has shuffle functionality. Go to Futurama, hit shuffle, and it'll play for days without touching it. Even if you want them to play in order, if you hit play on the show or season instead of a specific episode, they'll play automatically after each other. No stopping every 22 minutes.
They moved to Blink the day of the announcement. They knew it was coming before it was announced.
what's with the downvotes... People don't agree that Blender/Gimp/Darktable have a usability problem??
It makes it impossible to compare between models or even between model years.

Since a key use of the information of for a consumer to compare between two cars to decide which they should purchase based on emissions and fuel economy, a repeatable test is a key requirement.
If we accept physicalism i.e. that the world just consists of the physical, then the two methods should be identical except for a possible time delay.
Do you agree there is a difference in behavior between startups and big companies, though? In the way they are willing to invest into something?

If you agree, then how can you say both act rationally?

Why wouldn't rational people who have labor to offer, instead of joining a startup, go work for a big company? The pay is usually better I hear.

Addendum: I am sure you can explain the difference in behavior by invoking "preferences" or "utility" (which is actually meaningless in humans, cf. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13276760, but that aside) of monetary rewards; however, that doesn't explain why there is the difference in the first place. If some entities are rational, they should perceive the world the same way and thus have the same preferences.
Someone else mentioned here that the reason the software is poor is that there is not enough money to make it better. Not sure if that is true though.
Earlier submission: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13378078
Yes it's not just masters and it's not just indians. I think everyone who has been in tech long enough can give many examples of people with great backgrounds who just weren't great engineers. Education is a signal for sure though I think - it shows a certain willingness to dedicate oneself, and a certain level of intelligence and aptitude to attain, and getting a M.S. or PhD or even a B.S. from a hard school is going to filter out a lot of people already.

I also think a graduate degree is necessary for certain types of work. For just bog standard programming jobs where you can read a web page to learn the language/framework/library, sure you don't need it. But for other types of roles (quant roles, more research oriented, ML, anything tech cutting edge that requires theoretical understanding), an M.S. or Ph.D. is going to be a gatekeeper whether you want it to or not.
I disagree with this sentiment based on my own experience. I did great in my BS CS program from a highly ranked program, but was woefully underprepared for industry and quite frankly a bad software engineer. Graduates from traditional programs often leave with next to no experience with testing, version control, team structure/process, newer languages, frameworks/3rd party packages, etc, and my experience in industry is that it's a role of the dice if your company, team, etc are interested in teaching you or waiting for you to learn. The only people I know who graduated with those skills are people who either had amazing mentors or were natural hackers in their spare time. If I could re-design my education, it would be 2-3 years of theory and then 1-2 years of applied liberal arts education before starting an actual career.
There may be quality-control binning involved. Lots that pass the brand-quality standards tests get sold as EpiPen, and those that pass only the minimum standards tests get sold as the generic. There is probably also a "ship overseas" bin. Those tested as dangerous or defective are destroyed.

Of course, that's how I would do it. It is also likely that there is no binning involved at all, and that quality is exactly the same for a branded EpiPen at $600, a generic at $300, and one smuggled through customs from Canada at $150.
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In terms of complexity the two projects are not comparable. Modern buildings have more bits and more of those bits need to work with other bits. And, for the two projects to be comparable, you have to compare them at the time of completion. (Empire state building has enjoyed 86 years of upgrades and retrofits).

And that is before we look at things like worker safety, bureaucratic demands etc.

We do harder things now.