skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In a way it did. Now instead of installing the BlackMagic Decklink cards, I can buy the Blackmagic UltraStudio or Intensity and get the same function over Thunderbolt or USB3. What was once locked to one machine is usable by every machine I have, including taking it on the road and connecting to my laptop.

Apple saw where the market was going and that an iMac or MacBook Pro with Thunderbolt/USB3 peripherals can do the work that required a fully decked desktop machine 6-7yrs ago, which is great for the vast majority of creatives. But in doing so they have left a segment of the creative community without the expandability, upgradeability and speed necessary (3D, CGI and some VR, etc). But some of these were never really strongholds for Apple anyway.

As a 20+yr veteran editor who has used just about every NLE on the market, my money and time goes to FCPX unless my clients specify otherwise. It's the fastest, most versatile and most stable product out there and the only one that feels like it is truly evolving away from the original late 80s NLE paradigm. And while its use in the high end market (film, tv and commercials) in the US is minuscule, it's global footprint is growing.
Approach it like you're teaching someone who has zero knowledge. For anything that isn't a common household term, explain it.

Instead of, "Tavis Ormandy broke news about Cloudflare's memory leak that potentially reveals sensitive data," you explain each of those terms.

"This guy, Tavis Ormandy, is a security researcher at Google, so his job is to investigate bugs and find ways into otherwise secure systems. Yesterday, he wrote a blog post about a bug with Cloudflare. Cloudflare is what's called a CDN or content delivery network. A CDN is a network of servers distributed across the world, so that when you request data, they can find the closest one to you and serve you content from that server. The closer it is, the faster your download. That seems really useful for a lot of websites with lots of traffic, right? Well, it turns out Cloudflare is one of the largest and most popular CDNs out there. Anyway, Tavis revealed that Cloudflare had a memory leak that revealed sensitive memory. A memory leak is... well, imagine an Excel spreadsheet...."

It's like teaching someone calculus. In order to teach them calculus, the must first know algebra. In order to know algebra, they need to know basic arithmetic, and so on. For reach term, you either define it and then define other terms in that definition, if needed (e.g., "Cloudflare is a CDN; a CDN is...") or you make an analogy ("if you have a spreadsheet and the cells represent bytes,...").

Anyway, that's my trick. Another way to practice this would be to subscribe to /r/explainlikeimfive on Reddit, and try to answer questions as simply as possible. Study some of the top answers and see how they do it. Like someone else said, one trick is to actually know what you're talking about!

Good luck.
The comic book store for the blind
After using it for a few months I must say I am not very impressed with FastMail's antispam filter: I am receiving quite a bit of spam (tax/home alarm/life insurance/what-have-you spam) to an alias email. About a dozen a day (maybe it's not that much, but still a whole lot more than I am used to coming from Gmail). I always mark them as spam yet new ones, at a glance very similar to the marked ones, keep making it into the inbox.

Admittedly this is partially my fault since the alias is very-common-firstname@one-of-the-many-domains-offered-by-fastmail.com.

Since you've been with them for awhile now, what is your experience in regards to spam?
There are pros and cons to gun ownership; it both contributes to and harms the public good. Net neutrality is a more lopsided issue—the arguments against net neutrality are all about legalizing extortion and promoting a tragedy of the commons, or else they're non-specific arguments against regulation of any kind.

Taken on its own and rationally, the net neutrality issue is much less amenable to producing a permanent stalemate than gun control. Existing political factions can incorporate positions on net neutrality into their existing political stalemate, but outside of such a context it's pretty easy to see that holes in net neutrality like the one here are absurd—why should smaller monopolies have more leeway to abuse their customers than large monopolies?
If that's all they could find after eight years in office, you're making the opposite point to the one you think you're making.
Absolutely, though as you mention, removing the ability to use packages and the necessity of writing statistical code that properly accounts for data being spread out across multiple nodes would likely be out of the reach of your everyday/typical R user. An open sourced alternative to Revolution R/Microsoft R Server's out of core processing backend + distributed analtyics packages would be a huge addition to the R language.
Libervia: Ethical and Free (Libre) Social Network
Sure, I'm painting a picture to illustrate the point. But reductio ad absurdum can be a useful way to explore the problem. I don't think there's anything in my scenario that's beyond the pale. We could get there by degrees in an aggressively unfettered market.
And that's why you have a swappable hashing algorithm.
Rolisteam is a virtual tabletop software
Coders is ambiguous, e.g. medical coders.
No news since mid 2016. The screenshots look like they were taken in 2010.
Replicating Apple Design Awarded Applications
Many English words support multiple definitions. Programmers and developers can both be argued to have similar ambiguities.
XWiki team is proud to welcome Amazon as a new XWiki SAS client
Because the business model of the carriers is built on a fairly high ARPU of about $45-55. They need to protect that average revenue per user, so they don't really care what they sell you as long as they get the revenue. At first it was voice minutes. Then as those got cheaper more of the money was made on domestic roaming and long-distance charges. Then those went away and they replaced them with SMS charges. Then revenue shifted to data. At this point data makes up about 60% of the revenue, and I suspect this number will only continue to rise.

The only way for that ARPU to drop considerably is if a new player enters the market that can significantly undercut the existing players, because none of the existing players are willing to see that number drop by half or more. I don't believe such a new entrant will materialize anytime soon due to the high barriers to entry. I suspect the cost of building and operating a wireless network in the US is too high to support a carrier operating on a fraction of the ARPU.
Ask HN: Any workaround for color management browser issues?
...as a content provider?

So let's say I create original artwork in HTML5+SVG that I publish on the web. This artwork looks different in Firefox and Chrome than it does in Safari. I don't have a Windows box to test at the moment.

Is there some color profile magic I can do to make the artwork render consistently? For example, would electing sRGB for all my content leverage the common denominator in my favor?
Ruby is every bit as dead as Visual Basic.
Ahh this will be useful for my kitchen receipts. Thanks. Now I just need to roll that with an auto translator too.(I guess I have my day off project now :-) )
Shame on you. You don't like his politics, fine, but cut the propaganda.

> Lying about his past support for the Iraq war

Go watch his Howard Stern interview yourself: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2OU_Vrb_QXo. Listen at how indecisive he is for that question compared to the rest of the interview. It's wishy washy. It's hesitant. It's not a statement of support to call someone a liar over, unless you have an agenda.
Previous discussion of this comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3075355
Yea, it's a bit funny to see somebody complain about headless chickens, and then go straight into dancing around like a headless chicken himself. :P

Why is the difference between collision and preimage so difficult for people to understand...? I'm genuinely puzzled.
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Why that would be all? Of course it's not all. It's just one random article that I've seen couple of days ago, I didn't make a full survey of whole 8 years. It is enough though to establish the fact that the some of the press did field softball questions to Obama - in addition to publicly gushing about how awesome he is - which fact should be obvious to anybody who paid any attention through his tenure.
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Sandy's system covers the 2,400 housing units within city limits, and it cost $7.5 million, so it cost over $3,000 per house to wire up (or $3,500 per subscribing household). Which is actually on the higher side considering that Sandy is a pretty dense little city (about double the density of a typical suburb).

Assuming the city can get a 4% bond, and depreciates the asset over 20 years, about $27 of that $40 goes just to depreciation and interest.

That cost is actually fairly typical. What isn't typical is an 83% uptake rate. Average for municipal providers is about 54%, and average for private FTTH providers like Verizon is 30-35%. If your uptake rate is 35% instead of 83%, your monthly cost in depreciation and interest alone jumps to $64. That's before the cost of bandwidth, maintenance, customer service, etc., which typically eats up about half the monthly bill.
What makes a good industry manager?
I'm asking because I'm in the verge of a substantial career change.
That's better then what my cable connection can achieve. too bad they stopped improving a long time ago... the best ping that I can get is about 20ms.
I know, don't explain the joke, but for those who haven't seen it (it did come out ~18 years ago, and I'd guess that its popularity/currency peaked ~10 years ago), the relevant scenes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_BaMx_n2_hM
Facebook's forecasting at scale
2 super easy techniques to create GIFs
Ask HN: Who do I choose – Fastmail, Hushmail, ProtonMail, or something else?
It's time I broke up with GMail. I've tried ProtonMail and like the idea that they are in Switzerland. Because, Switzerland! I've read about Fastmail and their incredible customer service: I respect CP Botha's opinion and insight. I just saw Hushmail, and that's all I know. The name. Would love to hear some insight on which avenue I choose. I am also thinking about moving my small business as well.
Man this will be the matrix or definitely Caprica.
Apple deleted server supplier after finding infected firmware in servers
The problem with that goal is that affiliate links are having less and less of an impact on convincing people to buy from Amazon, because Amazon is becoming the #1 place where people buy things anyway. If I read about something on the Wirecutter and I decided to buy it, I will buy it on Amazon whether or not they have a link to Amazon. Amazon knows this, and as they begin to dominate online sales in a certain category they can afford to drop their affiliate commissions knowing full well that it won't really impact their sales.
And flagged off the front page from within an hour of its posting, despite the 300+ comments and 600+ points. Hard to discuss when it's been hidden.

</rant>
> Hoboken

> $1 billion

Definitely jet.com

I'd suggest removing that information in case your interviewer becomes aware of this thread

Also 40k is really low even for a new grad. Look elsewhere. Also don't apply to new grad jobs (nor should you present yourself as a new grad even if you are).
Ask HN: How to break into AR/MR Industry
I am in graduate school at Cornell and I am super passionate about augmented reality and mixed reality. I am in need of advice on how to break into the AR/MR/VR industry. I am having a hard time getting interviews for top companies (Magic Leap, Oculus,Apple), and it is incredibly frustrating since I feel I am very qualified to work at the companies in the role of a computer vision or graphics developer.

I have strong knowledge in computer vision and computer graphics, and I have worked on projects at MIT and Verizon building Augmented Reality apps. I keep having a hard time getting interviews for top AR/VR companies such as Magic Leap and Oculus, and I really want to work in these companies to be at the forefront of the industry.

I am thinking starting to freelance for small companies and brands to build AR as several companies have reached out to me to develop AR, but I feel that working for a company that is pushing the industry forward will be more valuable.

Any advice will be super helpful, and I am interested in hearing about any opportunities if anyone knows of anything. Shoot me an email at hub503bub@gmail.com.
"I was totally against the war in Iraq." — Donald Trump on NBC News in 2016[0]

That's a lie, and one he's repeated often. Wishy-washy, hesitant support for a thing is not the same as being totally against a thing. His assertion that he was in opposition to it from the very beginning is a deliberate, egregious misrepresentation of his past views intended to convey authority on a subject that he simply does not possess.

I'll update the wording of my initial point to be more clear, since you have my original wording quoted here for posterity.

0. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/09/07/th...
Ragic – Editable forms with relational data
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It's worth pointing out that Uber had their service working more than a year ago, so while the folks you mention might help take Uber to the N+1th order of optimization they are clearly not necessary to reach the Nth.

I suspect this is what the GP is getting at: reaching the levels of optimization on this problem which are required to launch the service is comparatively easy. Going from there to optimality is extremely hard, but may not be necessary from a business or end user point of view.
I'm sure it also triggered the flamewar detector, which also pushes it further down in the rankings. It still has had very healthy discussion despite being pushed down. As you point out, well over 300 comments.
Cloudflare data still in Bing caches
You are too polite. I've reported this before, and I'd easily add an expletive in front of unusable. Worse, it's not even Viewable on mobile.
Undersandly, the conversation in here revolves around the technicalities and semantics of net neutrality. But this isn't an issue of technology. It's a political issue, or worse, an ideological issue. It's not about the empirical truths of net neutrality, or the collective intent of those who created, and those who continue to develop the technology that has woven itself into the fabric of humanity. It's about idealouges imposing their ideals on every facet of our lives, regardless of the facts.

The sad fact is, this is yet another grim attack on net neutrality by nefarious agents who see the web as something to be dominated and bent to their will exclusivley for political and economic gain.

Like it or not, the work we do is going to become highly politicised. Are we ready for this? Do we have the moral fortitude to resist the influence that fuzzy, sloppy, and emotive politics seeks to have on our discussions?

I think back to how we handled the Brendan Eich debacle. I (regretfully) came down on the punitive side of that argument. And I participated in that debate with a level of anger and vitriol that embarrasses me now. But whichever side you took, there's no doubt that for a brief moment we were deeply divided. The Brendan Eich story was a flash in the pan compared to what is about to happen.

Should we engage in political debate, or should we avoid it? Can we buck the trend and participate in political debate in way that doesn't tear us apart, or should we ignore it as it happens around us and impacts upon our lives and work? Or is there a path between the extremes, where we can be neither ignorant to our political leanings nor beholden to them?

I don't dare offer any advice on how we should prepare ourselves for what is about to come, I just hope we can all think about how we hope to respond before it happens.

One thing I will say though, being someone prone to highly emotional reactions in all aspects of my life; developing software in teams has taught me the value of "strong opinions, weakly held".
The menu on the linked page does not work on mobile because the fork me banner is overlayed on top on it.
https://abookapart.com/products/making-sense-of-color-manage...
Kind of a big deal: Paper-thin air-conditioning system uses no energy
Nobody wants hard questions, as such, but I agree it would be good for the President to allow diversity of viewpoints be represented in the press pool. I'm just saying journalists being soft and submissive towards the government with which they are politically aligned is not exactly the new thing that Trump threatens to unleash on us - it has happened many times before.
Can you provide your evidence? Who are the people that they have standing by?

I wonder if it would be possible to convince those people to support a better cause. There's a dire need for some good investigative journalism right about now.
Annotation is now a web standard
Researchers guilty of misconduct later won more than $100M in NIH grants
This is an excellent piece of work and one that helps give some solidity to the notion that the stability of our situation on the planet only seems stable because we have only been recording (and hence reliably remembering) how things were for the last 2000 years or so. Suggesting once again that being able to live on different planets in the same system and to easily move between them would be an excellent survival tactic.
Ruby is alive and well. A beautifully written language with an incredible community. Rails only gets stronger and you can look at Shopify for just one example of very large production rails apps. How about Gitlab? There are many more.

It's a quick and easy way to iterate a design while getting out of the way. React can just talk to a rails API and boom you're building the MVP with a simple rails new command. One command to generate models. It's just fucking beautiful. And not bloat like node, rack is a few thousand lines. Idk I'm not an expert but it's just a great platform, why the fuck should anyone not use it? Plenty of reasons exist but it's the right tool for a set of jobs.
You're mistaking all games for competitive games :)

Classic.
> who goes to ebay before just buying the item from Amazon

I do, all the time. For one, the exact same products are often cheaper on eBay.

Second, it's much easier to discover the right items on eBay. Amazon search/sort/filter is absolutely terrible unless you're looking for a specific model or just want the best seller. It's a very fuzzy search, so you can't force an exact match on title.

eBay in contrast allows you to use booleans in the search terms, and makes it possible to filter by well structured category-specific data.
Accidentally registering a false time (even accidentally cutting the course and claiming a prize, which would be more than you did) is very different to cutting the course and then cycling the route to falsify GPS records.
Is it possible for me to get the data? I can trade you 11 years of NFL point spreads.
I've struggled so much with video games over the years. I have probably spent a significant percentage of my life playing a huge variation of games. By far the most destructive was MMORPG (Dofus) because it meets so many desires at once and can be engaging for so many years (reaching max level on this game was a multi year journey). Others can be finished or played enough to satisfy and allow me to come up for air, like a good book or TV series they all eventually finish no matter how engaged you might be for a short period.

I've also found different games appeal at different times, I think they each answer different desires and I can often guess what I'm lacking by the kind of game I want to play - achievement, confidence, socialising, artistic outlet, aggressive outlet etc..

Perhaps in this way we can use games to realise things that we are lacking in our life so to find more constructive outlets or better life balance - or perhaps games are a beneficial occasional outlet for things like aggression.
Yes, you are right that I should have said little power gets lost.

I thought about it some more, and I think the underlying problem is that even these very heavy rail cars don't have nearly enough mass. Compare them with the literally millions of tons of water in an even moderate-sized reservoir.
I supported the Obama FCC's attempts to preempt those state laws, but most states have no such laws to begin with: https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/the-21-laws-state....

E.g. in Maryland, nothing precludes Baltimore from building its own broadband network. It just has no money. Ditto Chicago, or New York. The laws applying to Philadelphia or anywhere in California shouldn't really stop construction either.
10 command-line tools for data analysis in Linux
one of the major issues of malware/spam/botnets is a direct result of the hardware ISPs provide to their customers. They should at minimum be taking on that responsibility of security upgrading their rootable hardware. If abuse@ could just be triggered by honeypots that could quickly identify hacked routers & ISPs would replace/upgrade them accordingly, at least one ugly sliver of the IoT would be addressed.
Destroying objects that have historical value (which is distinct from collectible value).

As an exaggerated example, you wouldn't chop up a Dead Sea Scroll into tiny fragments just because it's useless as bedtime reading. The fact that collectors would be willing to buy very tiny pieces of dead sea scroll (perhaps collectively netting more than the sale of a single intact scroll) doesn't make it okay.
A story about human kindness or how I got a whole new PC
Is it stupidity or transparency since they don't know for sure it's legit? Just be a good netizen and use SPF and DKIM for that.

https://support.google.com/mail/answer/1311182?hl=en

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/8236312/how-to-remove-via...
Settle: Federated IOU network from your command line
Good point about the fixation-on-details type. However, it is the Jew haters who sometimes get organized and do real damage to the world. Also, nasty politicians can sometimes convert large numbers of people into Jew haters.
How is their spam filtering? Rackspace's is pretty bad.
I definitely expected this to be like a JSON serialization format for HTMl.
To be fair, your "arguments against net neutrality are all about legalizing extortion" already sounds a bit "ultra biased".

What if someone wants to start an ISP, and charge less for a lower QoS band? Is that legalized extortion?

(Not to say it would be a good idea, I agree that it is a slippery slope)
Such people don't hang around the sorts of circles you live in. But in much of the world they are the norm, alas, such as the present Middle East.
There are games that make you learn a lot.

I never thought I'd ever know as much about 15th century ++ history as I do know thanks to Europa Universalis 4.

Often I find myself zapping through Wikipedia after a few hours of gaming.

And the game itself is very good.
Good point. I've also seen people talk about a singular megaflop.
I bet most would, but privacy would be a big concern for me at least. script is optimal format for me
Can you both reach out to me via the methods in my profile?
How long is the one side of this thing going to talk past the other?
I've not really noticed a spam problem at all, but I do things like sign up using microsoft+trap@domain-name.com, but even then I haven't really noticed a lot of traffic through that account.

OTOH, I'm pretty anal about protecting my personal email accounts.
> as useful a skill as calligraphy.

Typography is a multi billion dollar industry; see Gerrit Noordzij's The Stroke for why the calligraphic stroke is as relevant as ever in the digital age :)
Tool Assisted Arbitrary Code Execution in Pokemon Yellow