skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well for one thing a browser search function can't distinguish between post content and the rest of the page. Also just one endless stream for a thread is practically unreadable.
Does anyone have the link to the actual list? Neither the article nor the original paper seem to list the tracking apps, they just mention McDonald’s and Krispy Kreme.
You can in theory be retired for a very long time 115 - 55 = 60 years. IMO, you should at least target a 5% survival chance which likely puts you out 30+ years if you retire mid 60's.
This is something that I would be interested in but for different purposes altogether. Anyway to sign up for a newsletter/waiting list?
Um. So, if I have a laptop, running Linux, with a built-in ethernet port, and plug in a USB ethernet adaptor, it is suddenly illegal to import it?

Crazy.
Offering recourse to the pension-holders will clearly require penalizing groups that did not cause the problem.

But can't we also penalize those that made the un-keepable promises and mismanaged the funds? This won't make the policemen financially whole, but it would offer at least some sense of justice, and, more importantly, send a message to others currently operating similar schemes.
I would love to get my hands on a VR kit in order to look into AR and UX design, but sadly, I do not have the money to invest in a HTC VIVE or similar.
But its the citizen of the country who initiated the communication, and the act of providing a service cannot be made as an excuse for war. At best, the citizen get prosecuted for illegal communication.
Leaving aside the 'should they be allowed to question' - let's hope they succeed in making unauthorized access impossible. That would really suck as a remote exploit.

Impossible... Hmmmm. Not a word you hear used very often in security circles...
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Comey is not just someone with a job at a particular organisation, he's also a servant of the state, and he is a citizen. Any servant of the state has a duty to the constitution. His job description comes second (or later).

It's not at all natural that he should argue for hollowing out the constitution, or favour the needs of own organisation over the rest of the state or over the entire society.
But what incentive would satellite communication providers have to agree? Wouldn't it be better to facilitate a black market by not putting any blocks?
Is it really ultrasound? Microphones on phones may be able to pick this but what speakers are able to play even 20 kHz?

And these apps should always listen, that will drain battery quickly, so these apps will be listed in top power-consuming apps and user will notice it.
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Hi,

I'm Peter, windows developer c++/c# from Romania.
Can handle just both c++ and C# after 15 years of development on Windows. Here is my resume
https://www.dropbox.com/s/fy3kljjdgh2442p/CV_PetreCojocea_20...

If interested to work with me, please send me:

1. a short description of the app you need (please mention who's using it, how is using it, on what type of computer will run, any deadline if existing, any other ideea)

2. how do you intend to test it?

I will return several questions + a incremental plan of small deliverables (to grow trust from step to step).

About rates: best would be a project based discussed after project specs

Please note:
At this moment I'm looking to take side jobs on top of my main contract, hopefully that I will take more outsourcing jobs and build up a company. Depending on your project description I might split the work with some of my friends.

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Ok - so I know nothing about investing, so genuine question: isn't that the time to buy?
This issue isn't due to forces outside their control, but specifically because of decisions they consciously made. It is political malpractice and the people of Puerto Rico will now pay the price for generations.

So the children of the children of the children of people of Puerto Rico should accept their situation because of "decisions they consciously made"? They're not even born yet. How does that work?
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Are there any calculations made regarding life expectancy in comparison to LCD technologies?
After seven years that data is removed from your credit report due to consumer protection laws. Its possible they had no idea, and even if they did its illegal for them to deny credit because of it if it was 7 years or more ago.
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You can declare bankruptcy all you want, but if you are able to pay your debt, it will not be accepted.
Why is Puerto Rico in bankruptcy?
I'm not going to lie, this is the first time I've heard of Kiva. Can you talk about some of the reasons why you chose GraphQL and what some of the technical problems that you've solved that were drastically easier in GraphQL vs REST? I'm trying to decide if it's worthwhile internally to consider a GraphQL API build out, but I'd like to get others perspectives on some of the problems that have been significantly easier to solve, and what was surprisingly more difficult.
I've done all this, I felt there was a (marginally decreasing) increase in quality at all levels of that chain you described. Maybe the marginal increase in quality of the fish was less than that of the rice; I don't know. I certainly couldn't tell -- they both seemed to taste better and better to me.
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You missed a critical point - the "well educated" leading us into financial crises, expenses scandals, lying to us etc generally means they lose respect.
No. But I do write system tests. I'm always using ruby on rails with capybara this is basically headless testing through a browser.
Definitely is not 'nobody really cares'.

Adding vacation time (which is standard not only in IT) of 5 weeks plus average sicktime (let's assume two weeks in a year) that's a big paid difference.

And as to the basecamp package being typical in SV: I concluded from many posts in this conversation differently.

PPP adjusted for cost of living, I suspect 20% lower on average than yours. Taking into account healthcare (priv and public), pensions, education (here is free and much better objectively: https://blog.hackerrank.com/which-country-would-win-in-the-p... but also feel free to google OECD reports for EU/USA gap if you don't like hackerrank) and of course that year of paid maternity leave you skimmed over ;-) yeah it's much "different" here.

p.s. There was also a great discussion on HN about CA standard of housing and costs (rents, houses etc) two months ago. Conclusion: insane, unless you're DINK.
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There exist good multis, but they're quite a bit more expensive and still probably not as good as the real thing.
All of this was arguably true two weeks ago.

Today, Litecoin has locked in support for Segwit, and in about a week it will be possible to create Lightning Network transactions using Litecoin.

This is largely due to the efforts of the creator, Charlie Lee, who was able to build consensus among the community to activate Segwit.

Contrast this with the inability of the Bitcoin Community over the last few years to get any improvements added.

You may think this is a bad thing because Litecoin has a more centralized authority governing it, or you may think it's a good thing because Litecoin has a way to improve itself, but either way I'd argue Litecoin has very recently become more than what you described.
The contrast on those looks really bad compared to the normal ultra high contrast color schemes used in road signs. I'm not sure that reliability is more important than visibility.
Ask HN: Is Twitter Search API Down?
or any of their APIs for that matter?
Could be; I can play for many hours and I love it. I see what is great about it. Are there any non anecdotal sources for this by the way; anecdotally, non of my friends have that issue. With the Virtual Boy (I have a few of them in working condition) I definitely feel bad.

With the PSVR or the Oculus no problems at all. The helmets can get annoyingly heavy after long play but besides that...
> Everything you said applies to Windows 10S as well

Your 100% right but

1) The Hardware. They have a $999 Surface Laptop that screams general purpose laptop, but it is Windows 10 S. That right their is the reason why I brought up Steam. That is a laptop very capable of doing a lot but instead it is a Chromebook lock down?

2) The world knows Windows as a general computer operating system. Now we had RT and now S that changes that.
There's also the best kind of hurt: outdated, insecure firmware that gets delivered to users who aren't aware of it, can't inspect it anyway, and even if they could, they can't do anything about it because the firmware is signed and you can't load your own.

This particular type of hurt is why I like GPLv3.
Hi, Ursa from Visionect here, the company powering the Sydney traffic signs. To answer your question: electronic paper technology is 99% more power efficient than LCD (uses energy only when changing content). In many applications, it can also prove to be as much as four times more reliable than LCD.
18-19 kHz is usually high enough; smartphone speakers can play that fine from my experience.

Yes, battery drain is an issue. Most apps use a background service that wakes up at a fixed interval. The longer the interval, the longer the broadcast has to be though, so it's basically a trial and error kind of thing.
Key management is a very real issue in cryptographic systems. Arguably, convenient key management improves security.

Simplistic interpretations are the bane of security engineering, especially where human factors are involved.
This doesn't actually answer the question of lifespan.
I'm aware of what you're saying about Buffett (he is essentially an excellent and influential business magnate, not just an excellent investor), but it doesn't apply to Simons. He's a mathematician (Chern-Simons theorem), and his investing methodology is utterly different from Buffett's.

Simons' firm, Renaissance Technologies, doesn't do value investing. They were one of the first hedge funds to do quantitative financial modeling. I suspect a lot of what they do is market making instead of purely directional trading, but it's hard to know since the fund is incredibly secretive. Simons' business connections or acumen in the traditional sense have nothing to do with the fund's success; it's entirely about the strategy they employ.
Are you starting new language server instance for each project? Isn't it not-scalable?
Site seems to be down?
I'm talking about the number of stories about Gmail and their respective upvotes: https://hn.algolia.com/?query=gmail&sort=byPopularity&prefix...

Gmail is popular on HN, and probably more popular than all other alternatives.
Love the 500..
I'd like to understand what you mean by those numbers. Why does the manager's numbers for gain/loss differ from the fund's?
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What if you're homepage was a command prompt?
I hope the next revision of MAVLink (one of the most common message serialization/transport protocols used for UAVs) will have built-in encryption.

While systems can encrypt MAVLink messages in transit, I have not seen it actually done- everyone is relying on security of the physical layer (i.e. obscurity of telemetry radio frequency hopping/channel negotiation, WiFi security).

So in most implementations, MAVLink messages are actually transmitted in plaintext, over plain TCP/UDP connections.
There is value in spreading genes, but also in spreading memes. The biological patents give the former, the adoptive parents give the latter. As this is an agreement that all parties consent to and it has consideration for all involved and say its a valid system.
This is why apps that shouldn't need the mic or speaker but still require it should not be installed.

Permissions on an app should be checked carefully by a user, and users should be educated in this!
What's wrong with the emacs startup hack that makes it something that's not worth repeating (and improving upon)?

To me it seems like a fantastic way to improve startup time regardless of language or ecosystem.
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Couldn't read the article (can't access) but I guess if it was dangerous in any way it would not been used for trafic regulation for 4 years, no ?
Jones Act and a couple of other things:

https://www.bna.com/demise-puerto-rico-n57982074653/

Used to be that Puerto Rico was once upon a time #1 in manufacturing, Japan was #2. The USA and England followed. Something to think about. Puerto Rico exports out of the US more pharmaceuticals than California currently, or at least it did in 2015[0]. There's so much potential for Puerto Rico. We also have a lot of engineers in NASA (or did?) because they go to Puerto Rico to hire engineering students if I remember correctly from Mayaguez. So much potential and it's sad to see it go to waste, I think all Puerto Ricans are to blame as much the people as the politicians. We all always blame politicians but as a people we don't do enough.

[0]: http://www.puertoricoreport.com/puerto-rico-leads-pharmaceut...
Ask HN: Travelling to another state on behalf of the company?
Two days ago my manager invited me and two other guys from my team to a meeting with the CTO. Two guys from another team had been invited as well. Basically there are a lot of problems technology-wise in our office in another state. This office concentrates mostly the commercial and financial departments, and for some reason we have a grand total of zero developers there. Well, we have one now, there's this guy that has been travelling there every week for the past two or three months to fix all the problems, but he's not being able to handle it all by himself. So they called that meeting to see if one of us five wanted to go there and help. They'd cover all the expenses, we'd need to go there every week for an unforeseen amount of time and stay there the whole week.

Would you do it or not, and why? Would you ask for any additional compensation?
"Litecoin founder"

Funny how people get pride from copy/pasting Bitcoin's code.
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I wouldn't be so sure about users knowing, unless they are told. Plenty of users use apps that drain a lot of battery.
At least you can use all the money saved from electricity to pay for replacement .. hum
Another issue (besides the privacy issue) is that it may be annoying for pets. Dogs and cats can hear these sounds.

Also the apps on the phone have access to the microphone (even though they probably do not need this permission for any other purpose), so these apps are all potential listening devices.
I think the "1 purchase, multiple devices" is fair in the sense that I'm only using one device at a time. Also, if I upgrade my phone, why should I have to buy your app again?

That said, the lack of a paid upgrade option in the App Store is a significant negative. To pretend that a one-time purchase for $5 should guarantee you a lifetime of upgrades is both shortsighted and abusive to developers.
how is this not illegal?
http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:cURJPVA...
I would posit that "free" but ad-driven sites did far more harm than Apple ever could.

If anything, I think it's pretty impressive how Apple made paying for apps a viable thing, back in the days of rampant Internet piracy.
It is these kind of "behind your back" shenanigans that will quickly force governments to move to regulating the industry, giving rise to a whinging chorus of "leave us alone" from the industry. An industry that has shown itself to be utterly untrustworthy, sneaky and aggressively invasive.

I see a need for a good, simple, slick and solid interface that allows you to select what functions an app can and cannot do on your device, be it laptop, tablet, smartphone, car, whatever.
Thanks. I appreciate the feedback and completely agree. We will have a FAQ up tomorrow.
Sounds a little like one of Powa Technologies ideas before they went boom.

Embed inaudible tones in tv content to sell you stuff. Never saw the appeal.

But as we know the appetite for tracking is endless, foe some reason.
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> Their results revealed Shopkick ultrasonic beacons at 4 of 35 stores in two European cities. The situation isn't that worrisome, as users have to open an app with the Shopkick SDK for the beacon to be picked up.

Wouldn't it be far easier to just transmit a wifi SSID that encodes this information?
The site was up a few minutes ago, I bet somebody thought they were getting DDoS'ed and took it down.

Also normal road signs use retro reflective spheres mixed into the paint to increase brightness at night, not sure if those can be carried over to e-ink displays?
Clock sync? Protocol usually is to check NTP and broadcast at prechosen times if you wanna keep the battery drain down.
No, yesterday TensorFlow team released benchmarks [1], as part of these benchmarks they simultaneously published tips for ensuring high performance [2] which they used in benchmarks. The reason for publishing the second link is that due to copying memory between python and C++ (when using feed_dict) TensorFlow can appear to be slower than competing frameworks, hence they felt a need to point out methods used to ensure high performance by reducing I/O latency.

Looking at [2] without having context of [1] can be confusing. But no one is trying to pass this off as "innovation".

[1] https://www.tensorflow.org/performance/benchmarks
[2] https://www.tensorflow.org/performance/performance_models
Don't give Microphone permissions to apps that don't need them.
Totally. Just assumed OP meant the request, as the responses are very clearly valid JSON.
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Why are low prices Apple's fault?

If it's their fault, what did they do to push things in that direction? What could they have done to have pushed things in the other direction?

I'm willing to listen to honest attempts to answer those questions.
I wonder if Steam isn't doing something similar. Prices are higher there, but I almost never pay full price for a Steam game, and I get the game for all platforms at once.
In our product "Sky Drone FPV" we encrypt the MAVLink channel via DTLS.
Its hard to charge prices when apple don't allow trial versions.
Facebook and Google's advertising revenues can give you some idea of the reason.
"The team is training its algorithms of several thousand frames of inspection videos using the CUDA parallel computing platform, the Pascal architecture-based NVIDIA TITAN X and GeForce GTX 1070 GPUs and cuDNN." Wow! A few thousand dollars desktop computer would do that, with the relevant data available, even the p2x.large spot instance on AWS at $0.20/hr would be worth a try.
This is why the only startups I'll work for are B2B. Trying to sell an "app" to the masses? Uber is losing money and they're a household name, good luck with your Tinder for dogs or whatever.
Ask HN: Search plugins for ecommerce sites?
I was wondering what search plugins people used for their ecommerce sites. From what I've seen, the solutions include Nextopia and SearchSpring. Nextopia and SearchSpring seem quite expensive ($300+ per month) and quite difficult to use, but this may be my bias speaking. I'd be interested to hear what you guys thought of the search plugins you ended up using. Thanks.
Is there a physical way to deactivate the microphone (on my tablet, I never use it)?
I don't have an Electron project going, but I can tell you something like this could add some value to some companies invested in Electron as-is. You just have to get their attention. I would suggest maybe resubmitting this post later if it doesn't catch the flare of intrigue. If I do end up building an Electron Project I will definitely look into Electrino when the time comes. You mention it doesn't feature all the features of Electron but is the typical browser DOM still available?
They might not have an explicit mechanism for trial versions, but people do make either a free version of their app, or make their app free and have IAP to purchase the full version.
Mencken on Veblen:

http://www.gutenberg.org/files/53538/53538-h/53538-h.htm#Pag...
Markets gonna value what they want to value... I think it is good to have different options for people. Overall I think cryptocurrencies are undervalued - 40 billion market cap is nothing when thinking about the potential. However what cryptocurrency should have which percentage of the crypto economy is a much more difficult question.
Why does an "ethical Hacking"¹ site post an 0day instead of responsible disclosure? Am I missing something here?

¹https://legalhackers.com/
I ditched Toronto in 1979. Despite having a thriving job market, I see no compelling reason to return.

Want affordable? Move and setup shop in Elliot Lake. Hey, we can do this job from anywhere right. A $600K home in T.O is about $75K in Elliot Lake. Surrounded by woods, hiking, atv, cross country ski, downhill skiing, boating and all those great things that are 'life' outside of work.
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I would love to have an unadorned A3 or larger e-Ink device to mount on the wall next to my front door for a smart calendar/weather/to-do.

I also really, really want an A4 sized eReader but for reasons completely beyond me the only manufacturer of such a device is Sony and not only are they ridiculously overpriced they've got bizarre anti-consumer constraint to basic functionality as well.
Shouldn't be too hard, at least in principle, to enable a low-pass digital filter in the Android audio subsystem. There must already be one there for anti-aliasing when apps demand 16000 or 8000 samples/second capture. Just need to leave the 8KHz low-pass filter enabled for the 99% of us that never use the mike to capture music.
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Lack of consideration? I don't know what consideration you want but the roads are completely car dominated so there's no consideration necessary in my opinion.

I usually ride to work 4 days a week, and drive 1 day, depending on weather. I'm a driver but I still want proper separated bike paths. And I can't be the only one. People are scared to ride and I don't blame them. It's scary riding on a road with so many tired/oblivious/terrible/selfish drivers who actually don't follow the road rules even while driving a deadly weapon.

I can't understand why it's so difficult to provide facilities actually. Bike paths don't have heavy vehicles ruining them so need way less maintenance than normal roads.

A bike path for 2 way traffic only takes the width of a single car lane. You could just make one road per suburb one way, and there you go. I'm oversimplifying but I'm not a town planner, I'm just a dumb commuter.

At least where I live, it's laughable that you'd be complaining about a "bike push", as there are no real facilities for bikes at all. Just crappy unconnected paths that never get you to anywhere useful. You always have to go on a road with cars to get anywhere.
That model is backwards. If there is one thing iOS got right, it's the permission prompt. Nobody reads those lists and it's hard to know what the intent is without context in the app.

Having the app ask on first use makes much more sense. It's much less likely to get away with this. Even better, you can still use the app if you say no. It will just get dummy values back.