skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Identification of User Touch Actions and PINs Based on Mobile Sensor Data [pdf]
Why Slack is inappropriate for open source communications
No kidding. Over 20 years ago, I used unpack to read minicomputer log files. It was vastly faster to FTP them over to a Sun Sparcstation and process them with Perl than to use the native log reader. It was also far more flexible.
Boursorama Banque is a bank, as in, a normal cheque account, IBAN, VISA card, loans, term deposits and no trading account. Real normal bank. The main Boursorama website is another department, it's not really clear on their website.
I'm saying the total number of government employees vastly exceeds the number of politicians.
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The main purpose of the stretcher was most definitely because the man was severely injured. Go hang around people with a confused mental state for a while and you'll recognise the behaviour the man shows when het gets back on the plane. He isn't just being a stubborn ass there.
Really? Which one? I've used the T450, one of the W series ones and an X1 Carbon, and neither of them were very satisfying
Wow, that is crazy. The more I hear the stories the more it makes me want to go back into management, its just whether or not I want to sharpen the elbows again.. Honestly, in my experience, dealing with the blowback from other supervisors and managers is much more difficult than any challenge the employee will bring. However, I hate seeing people treated as you describe.
What are you doing on a message board if you think no one here has anything insightful to offer?
"I don't see that as being more crappy UX than the rest of the Goodreads design."

I've seen this mentioned a lot of times on various forums. GoodReads by design doesn't look as good as any other social service we use now. But I am curious, whether that can be something an incumbent service can work on.

Providing great design and with GoodReads functionality, would that work for the new service?
Social security is a pension program with contributions made from salaries, and future benefits based on the amount of contributions and age at retirement, as opposed to need.

There are other programs administered by the Social Security Administration (e.g. SSDI) that are welfare programs, but that's not what the previous poster was talking about.
Stacey on IoT - https://staceyoniot.com/
I hope that soon a 'duress fingerprint' option is implemented; the simplest way is that you enroll one finger to be your duress finger. When you scan that one, the phone will require a password to unlock it (even if rebooted)
Using Q in Machine Learning with Neural Network and Clustering Examples
> Isn't it obvious to check [___ ____ __ ___ __________ etc...]

If you're asking this, in the context of a discussion about UI, the answer is almost always "no".
For data science: https://www.datascienceweekly.org

We have tens of thousands of data scientists and up-and-coming data scientists who subscribe.
Angry Hen Are Crazy for Meeting His Gf
FFT and the convolution theorem are some of my favorite tricks in math. A toy I made a few years back:

https://github.com/thearn/game-of-life
Even the smallest Digitalocean droplet comes with 1TB of bandwidth, and I'm not sure whether they charge extra for overages yet.

GP with his 50KB pages would have to get over 20 million views a month in order to use 1TB. Most of us who work in tech can probably afford to upgrade to a larger droplet if that happens.

Hosting your own content isn't free, but it doesn't have to be very expensive, either.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hercules_(emulator)

The problem isn't the availability of an emulator, it's licensing the OS you want to use on the emulator.
Thanks for this, I will most definitely have a read (and, if their criticisms are valid and consequent, will shut up about the BI Paper).
So my Citroen C3 is a luxury car. Good to know.
New Report on Spear Phishing and Social Engineering Risks and Best Practices
Mastodon Is What Disruption Looks Like Right Before It Happens
Design to manufacture for 3D printing
Hynix launches 72-layer 3D NAND
What the fuck does the title mean?
Bruce Schneier's Crypto-Gram: https://www.schneier.com/crypto-gram/
When does the HackerNews brigade come and start accusing random people of being paid Tesla's shills, like they did in the John Deere threads?
Meet the millennials making big money riding China's Bitcoin wave
Would you buy WinGrep?
We hold ours after lunch. No "everyone eats together culture", unfortunately, but there is now an "everyone finishes lunch by 13.30" culture.
There are numerous modules and setup stuck in prefork mode. And the alternative with workers is a joke compared to the event loop of HAProxy and nginx.

HAProxy > nginx > apache

Of course if you compare apache to nginx, you can find stuff where nginx is lacking too.

Agreed, a lot of critical features are stripped in the open source nginx.

TLS = tcp with tls, not https.
Most companies I met are after employees and not contractors.

Big corps because they want to form the people so they become exactly as they want them.

Small start-ups probably because they can't sell a company without employees?

On the other hand I know a few devs of bought start-ups that had hard times because the buyer only wanted a few of the devs and only those they considered good, not the "bystanders".

Also, managers want more control and employees can be scared with the prospect of losing their job, because they value stability.

As a contractor I'm always aware of losing a project, people don't have any budget left or it is simply finished and I need to go on, so if a manager wants to give me a hard time, I simply wrap things up and go to another company.
As a partially-colorblind person, I can attest there are quite a few developers who couldn't pick a decent set of colors to save their lives.
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> This is completely normal in America

Oh yes I forgot. Other countries don't have the concept of unions /s.

My point is that the concept of a union isn't bad. Specific implementations of the concept of a union might be bad.
Thats a good one, from his "Simple made easy" talk[0]

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zPT-DuG0UjU
I often see these as well. I would even go so far as to say these problems are the rule rather than the exception. Why is software development still so high risk?

I don't know the answer but it seems to me that software development is much too bespoke. Take a relatively simple case of web store front development. What if the development company said, OK, for your store you can have option A or option B. Period. The developer doesn't gather requirements at all, and all the tools and libraries are known and have been used before. The customer gets to pick a few options like when you buy a car (e.g., say some look&feel options). This is a low risk, predictable, "there's only one way to do it" approach.

I'd like to see software development become vastly more predictable and stable. This will bore some developers who always want to try the latest framework and technology, but novelty adds risk.
Fix the leaks or find another ship (planet).
Well, it's not really a problem now. Spring came a month early, but who cares? Islands aren't underwater yet, there's plenty of food in first world countries (who would be paying for this) and there's no serious drought. From a politician's point of view, you're proposing to spend billions or trillions to solve a problem that we're still only seeing hints of (with an extremely first-world centric view, of course).

If the technology works, why not wait until the people demand it, instead of telling them they have to feel the pain of paying for it now to solve a problem no one can see?
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I get your point.

The CEO of Boeing can probably still afford to take a flight on a plane made by his company, and that probably is true of an average worker of a Boeing factory as well.

So let me rephrase: if people working in a factory can only afford the very basic necessities and the actual goods the factory produces get shipped to the other side of the globe (and waste gets left behind), something is not right.
You can flag comments that accuse others of being shills.

Click the timestamp of the comment to get the flag link.

I think you need 30 karma for the flag link to appear.
Don't be afraid. Get a list of feed back questions ready, find people in your target market and let them try it, see how much they would pay for it...could be eye opening.
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The benefits of technological and social progress we have managed don't depend on us continuing to pollute and overpopulate the planet. We could have, as a planet, decided not to grow our population back in ~1960 and decided to transition away from fossil fuels back in ~1980 and still managed to have the same, probably more freedom and safety than we have now.
I'm amused that it's an article about hosting content yourself and it went offline when the HN audience tried to view.

> Hosting your own content means you have control over it and the reader’s attention

goes offline
It might have been with a much longer team, and a much longer time to market. We were 4 people, and as I mentioned in another comment, getting VC funding for a company in the rural midwest is essentially impossible.

The other issue is that I'm not sure we would have gotten as many buy-ins from the farmers. Many of them were very frustrated by the lack of interoperability between different pieces of equipment, their sensor data being locked behind DRM schemes, etc. They wanted to integrate the hardware and software that they owned, and wanted something that would let them do it piecemeal and with relatively little risk to their hardware. A complete overhaul wouldn't have helped with integrating their historic data, and would have definitely had a higher upfront cost and risk associated with bricking their equipment.
VIOLENT CLASHES BETWEEN POLICE AND ANTI-G7 PROTESTERS IN ITALY
Why dedicate all your life to making money? All these "productivity" things, working 20 hours each day. To show others that you are not "loser"?
Look, we're not "killing the planet". Humans are organisms like any other. Sure, human populations have spiked from millions to billions in recent millennia, and mean per capita resource utilization has increased dramatically. But that's just what organisms do.

So anyway, the planet will be fine. Human civilization may collapse, given the risk of crop failure and war. But even humanity will survive.

Edit: Many other species won't be so lucky. Maybe there are moral implications there. And certainly there will be practical implications. That will be part of crop failures.
"Going concern" pretty much means has no threat of going into liquidation any time soon.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Going_concern
What is Interrupt Testing?
That they might need to liquidate wihtin 12 month.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Going_concern
Most headlines _are_ clickbait, or at least they should be, to encourage people to read the articles. The problem is poor quality articles, not well-written headlines.
What alternatives are you talking about? I love NYC mom&pop pizza places, but are there any chains that are better?
Not to mention famine. At this point, it seems inevitable that billions of people are going to starve to death before the end of the century.
Imec delivers perovskite solar modules with 12.4% conversion efficiency
Yeah indeed. I saw my comment is away ( probably from editing in "not so recent" tab, where i mentioned that 70% is eating right and 30% is exercise).

All in all, i don't think we disagree. But tend to push another perspective. Which ain't bad after all
40 hours is Enough
Red Hat takes messaging to new levels – SD Times
Toshiba just announced "We are unlikely to continue being a business for much longer"
The tiny changes that can cause AI to fail
Researcher: "I have no solid idea where this problem could be coming from. As a last resort I'll examine whether the ritualistic consumption of decomposing human brains may have something to do with it"

> Lindenbaum had a hunch about what was going on, and she turned out to be right. It had to do with funerals. [0]: Ibid.
Sure, but also we need to keep planting and cutting down a shit ton of trees to make that actually capture already released CO₂.
Vehicles are increasingly powered by coal plants.

Electric batteries don't power anything, they're best compared to empty buckets.
React DnD
The consensus is, we're sure. Doubts on the details shouldn't slow us from acting anyway.
> I meant the waveform data at offset 0x700000 on the internal storage of the Kobo devices

Waveform data is unique to each batch of panels and there are also tuning parameters for each batch of power management circuitry in a board. A Kobo with a 2015 panel will have different waveform data than a 2016 panel. More expensive panels contain the waveform in a flash on the panel which can be read by the host. Cheaper vendors will try to cut cost and just store the waveform in main flash. But that has caused some problem because end user accidentally flashes wrong firmware with a waveform that doesn't match the panel and bam, the panel quality is degraded, maybe even permanently.
Well the VP probably knew that
1) The company (couldn't afford | didn't want to spend) to build a new replacement system.
2) New people would be needed to maintain the existing system
3) Students don't know how much their services would be worth - so the amount might not be big enough as a regular engineer might charge.
That wasn't my original intent, no. I already have a HN account with a few thousand karma. What I needed was to be able to comment without tying it to my main username.
If I may play devil's advocate:

1. to retire early

2. if you are in america, to ensure you can afford to live someplace where the schools are good for your kids. A sad state of affairs but it is what it is.

3. assuming you enjoy your work, to make some positive difference in the world before you inevitably die.

4. if you do not enjoy your work, then so you can get your hateful work done sooner, and then have time to do what you actually want to do.
Ask HN: Who had the most influence on your career and why?
I am curious to hear about your most influential persons during your professional, but also during your private life. Have these people been coworkers, students or friends? Who had the biggest impact on your growth as an individual in the end.
Twitter allegedly deleting negative tweets about United Airlines incident
What about self-taught programmers that get all the materials from the Internet?
Nah, go with terminal apps in Visual COBOL distributed as Electron apps.
Chat is also disabled in the app. You have to download Facebook Messenger to get it.

I suspect that decision to split the app comes from equal parts marketing and software engineering incompetence.
How do you know? Have you seen one?
You can't really say that without knowledge of how high those additional taxes would be. If the costs rise to the point that a reasonable profit for the level of risk involved can't be made then prices would certainly have to rise irrespective of demand. I suspect given the nature of ever rising taxation in most municipalities that introducing this tax even in a modest form would increase perceived risk[0] of property ownership enough to increase average rents.

[0]If the cost of an unoccupied property or a nonpaying tenant goes up, rents will likely go up in response.
Or in other words: There are 35 apps that can leak your data to tons of other apps. However we're not going to tell you which ones.
IBM legally destroyed a business for trying to do that on top of Hercules emulator. You can use the emulator, though, with a licensed copy of their mainframe OS. Common case is you already have license for an actual mainframe then use Hercules for development/debugging/whatever.
Man filmed being dragged off United flight causes outrage in China
Wow - does that mean Ryzen CPUs could be coupled with Nvidia Pascal GPUs?
>If it's mostly the latter, what would stop Panasonic from providing the same technology to other parties?

There's a big benefit for Panasonic supplying a company with hot products, like Tesla. But outside of whatever contractual obligations they have, there's nothing stopping them.

I implore you to look around at these industries from other sources. If you only read HackerNews, you'd think Tesla is the only company that can make a decent EV (even though motortrend said the Bolt performed nearly as well, had longer range and was $30k cheaper than the Model 60), that no one is close with self-driving and that Tesla are the only one providing this type of solar panel or battery storage solution. These are all hyper competitive, low margin spaces.

Tesla is doing some very cool things, but the unjustified hype is going to blow up in people's faces. Expectations are too high.
Non-Blocking i/o isn't really some miracle new-age programming drug. Doesn't change the equation much.
Yes. Please don't think this is a new idea, though. :)

To make running untrusted code safe, it would have to be a restricted VM. And I think it just turns out that there aren't that many problems that it's profitable to recode for an untrusted environment, have no communication between nodes while they solve the problem, and run on an ad-hoc net.
Why must it be one or the other?

You're implying that if one uses the color tool, he's going to spend hours playing with it and forget about implementing important features. The tool will save you time instead of waste it, since you don't have to make up a color combination yourself, giving you more time for implementing stuff.

I also disagree than making an app look good will make it more appealing to only 0.3% of users. People are very design-oriented nowadays, and non-technical people will judge the quality and reliability of an app mostly by the way it looks. Personally, I _always_ try the better-looking app first, and if it works I stick with it and never even try the ugly one.
This could also stand a title change. Should be: New Google tool helps developers make best use of color in Material Design.
Ultra-thin multilayer film for next-generation data storage and processing
The question should be why the OP made this observation regarding the other claims he made
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I think it is actually your first point regarding reading news articles and books that people are trying to avoid. People become addicted to constantly looking up things to distract themselves instead of paying attention to what is going on around them.

If you take public transportation, look around, everyone is looking at their phones and no one is interacting with the real people around them.

We have become a society lost in their digital devices.
@mods please replace Ability with Inability in title
The funny part is even if you do interview at Facebook, they only ask algorithm whiteboard questions. So it doesn't really matter if you have the sort of aesthetic values that cause this horrible app or not. If anything they might be actively selecting for it by filtering out experienced hires.
Before I owned a Toshiba Satellite Pro, I'd be somewhat sad and curious why, after, not as much.
>I think you need 30 karma for the flag link to appear.

Interesting. I guess my poor attitude makes that 30 karma threshold a tough row!
That's true, but it's also not very relevant.

Many asteroids and barren planets are also going to be fine, but I don't think anyone cares about that. People care about the future of human civilization, which is very much at risk.
This is a brilliant solution.
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Data Machina (weekly) - https://www.getrevue.co/profile/datamachina ...
Finsmes (daily) - http://www.finsmes.com
I was suggesting that he was medicating to keep those hours.
100MB video with 5 million views is 500TB. If 500TB costs $5000, it's $10/TB, not $50/TB.

As long as you stay away from well-known IaaS platforms, there are plenty of places where you can get bandwidth for less than $10/TB. Lowest I've seen is $1/TB. Having actually used a few hundred TB with them, it's a bit slower but not that bad.
So maybe we should reduce energy use, now, instead of contemplating vague solutions decades into the future.
If you have kids and ever go to some sort of school function like a play etc. Look around at all the parents watching the play through the phone screen recording instead of just putting it down and looking at their kids as they perform.

I noticed I did that and decided to just leave my phone in my pocket and watch it directly with my eyes. You feel so much more connected with the moment and your kids value the eye contact.
It's not a dichotomy. I'm arguing for the importance of both, not either-or. Obviously, a thing that doesn't work, doesn't work, regardless of how pretty it might be.

> Then once you've figured out what to build you can always make it look pretty.

That's a lot harder than it sounds. No, of course you don't commission a big fancy design before you know what the thing should do, but you equally can't just build an ugly, but functional thing and throw lipstick on it five minutes before shipping (or after - activities schedules for when the thing is 'done' have a nasty tendency to not happen). Both, in parallel, at its time, not either-or.
Beauty and the Burst: Remote Identification of Encrypted Video Streams [pdf]
You always have to take into account location. $100k/year in NY and Arkansas are completely different beasts.

I've been online for many many years and I STILL do not understand why people miss this simple idea.
In this age where ISPs are injecting ads and tracking headers? And MitM attacks are used to redirect to malware (see redirects to foxacid)?

Everything needs to be SSL - it provides more than just confidentiality.
You're comparing apples with oranges.

Terminal/DOS-based software isn't ugly, it's just a different interface (GUI vs. non-GUI).

Of course some technical people that know what they're doing will enjoy using the command line because you don't have a GUI that gets in the way, but using this fact to "prove" that people like ugly software better doesn't make sense—it's just a bad example.
Test+Title
Even meetup.com has the same problem, abit to a lesser extend.
I thought our apps were fat, this is ridiculous. But clearly they belong to the school of never rewrite just keep adding more and more and more. Eventually you wind up having no idea what you are shipping and the quality goes in the dumpster. At least you can use the web if you hate the mobile app (I do).
It hugely depends on the target user group: admins don't mind about an 'ugly looking ... but productive software', but non-IT users mind a lot, and for them it has a significant effect on usability. It can only be '_very_ productive' for the target group, when it is also well-designed for them.
There's a retail bank in London that still has its core standing order system written in pounds, shillings and pence with a translation routine sitting on top of it. It was supposed to have been rewritten as part of the millennium-bug investigations, but it never happened.
> Why do we need banks at all?

Mostly, regulatory capture.
You're overlooking the value of off-grid power storage, severing reliance on the grid.
This goes to show you should not use DO, because they aren't truly global, and a single outage brings everyone to a halt. They don't think of region redundancy like the real cloud providers who actually have everything split up.

This is the reason I don't trust anyone who swears by DO.
Issue #2, that slack is based on synchronous communication, is something that is always ignored. Sometimes I log in to slack and see a conversation that I want to add something to, but it is 4 hours old with 50+ new messages on varying topics. Even with Slack's new threaded messages it is hard to evolve the conversation after all the synchronous folks have moved on to other topics.