skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hate on this guy all you want, but there's a lot right with this article. I covered this same set of issues at Ars way back in the day:

https://arstechnica.com/uncategorized/2006/07/7340/

https://arstechnica.com/security/2008/03/paying-for-secrets-...

What passes for "innovation" nowadays, especially in the world of software startups that HN tends to venerate, is typically nothing of the sort. It's actually just gambling.

https://collectiveidea.com/blog/archives/2015/09/24/the-righ...

To do real innovation of the kind that got us where we are, today, you need to fund lots and lots of basic research on multi-decade time horizons. (Here's a rule-of-thumb test: if you and about 20 hotshot engineers could clone the product in a year, then it's not innovation, at least not in any worthwhile sense of the term that the generation that gave us the Internet and the transistor would recognize.)

The stock market's quarterly focus, which incentivizes base hits and accounting tricks and punishes real risk-taking, makes the public sector a terrible place to do this kind of long-term, blue-sky work.

Anyway, this is one of those sad, stupid stories like electronic voting -- a few people who are paying close attention write about it for a decade and bang the drum, and nobody really listens, and then when it's way too late people start to wake up to the problem.

If you hated this article and came here to bash it, you'll have plenty more opportunities to trash this same argument, because it's one that way more people will be making as this freak-show drags on. That's because it's basically right.
103%? Are you sure that's what you meant to say?
It's also hardening against malware basically doing the same thing that mitmproxy does though.
Isn't that similar to the model for Opendoor?

They buy houses from owners at a fixed price and then need to turn a profit on it. Therefore they need to have a good idea of what the eventual selling price will be.
I agree. It is so much easier and quicker on a smartphone though.

The survey is intentionally dumbed down so non-technical users don't have to type much. You can almost say it is geared toward the general population, many of whom use smartphones.
I would broaden the statement and say "America has become anti-change, and it's suicide".

For decades Americans were convinced they were the best country in the world, with the best Democracy, working conditions, quality of life, health care, education, infrastructure, etc. etc.
Probably, most of it was true.

Unfortunately, for the last 10-20 years America has fallen behind the world leaders in these key areas, but the chant of "We are the best" still rings loudly.

By continuing to think they are the best, Americas have stopped trying to improve, and attempting to improve anything is now seen as "Anti-American".

A country that does not try to improve itself does not have a bright future, and nobody should stop improving even if they are number one (that applies to a lot more than just countries)
xfce (Xubuntu) hasn't unexpectedly changed on me in about 10 years. YMMV but I haven't been surprised once and haven't seen any features in other DEs I wish it had.
> Any time you've been in a public place for the past few years, you've likely been watched, analysed and optimised for

I don't believe this. This kind of advertisement in public would be illegal in germany as it is mass surveillance.
In the works
Scalable, Secure Access to Data with DBaaS on IBM LinuxONE
Yes it does, and you'll note that I support public funding for science as stated above. My contention with this idiotic article is that it implies that America cannot innovate. Even though SpaceX may rely upon contracts for NASA (and idk how much of that is a given), you cannot claim that America is not innovative when it's a private company in the United States building REUSABLE ROCKETS. That is innovation.
Yes exactly, I know I'm late to the discussion but I hate when people state you font have to support a browser because it only has x% market share.

It's all about your own users. I'm doing UX and front-end for a company that deals with a lot of IE8 users... -_-

The ongoing theory is that they are on hacked XP copies since that traffic is coming out of China.
> This is hard stuff but so cool too

I agree! we have some semblances of pushdown filtering across aggregations and some other interesting techniques as documented in the RFC[1] that first proposed the distributed execution model.

[1]: https://github.com/cockroachdb/cockroach/blob/master/docs/RF...
One of the episodes of SG1 had the source code of the Replicators on screen, iirc it was the HTML output for the Bank of Canada.

I just googled it and found http://thedailywtf.com/articles/Stargate-Code-of-the-Replica... so that might be a fun one to do a deep dive on.
NASA's mission to Mars includes a year-long stay on the moon
That may explain your bias then.

Nvidia provides decent official Linux drivers, whereas manufacturers usually provide none.

On windows, all cards have decent drivers. Nvidia is not particularly remarkable.
How does it compare to yaml?
I haven't tried this yet, but I love the idea of it! ShellCheck [0] is a similar tool for shell scripts. I'd love something similar for common configurations like ssh servers, apache, etc.

For many of these tools there's objectively wrong configurations, where you'd only use certain settings for legacy reasons. But it's not always clear for newcomers.

[0] https://www.shellcheck.net
Agreed. Except for that horrible screen tearing.
People keep down voting and up voting his like crazy. Just would be nice to know if you disagree with the statements or that the statements are problems. Or that I'm submitting an opinion at all.
> Until there is some kind of law in place that makes companies financially responsible for this kind of blunder, it will proliferate.

It will still be out there. For example, in a startup that's trying to get off the ground, going bankrupt because of security issues isn't that much different than going bankrupt because you failed to gain traction. It will still be put off to "later."

That said, with significant financial penalties there will be a point where the startup assesses the cost of security to be worth it (vs. now where there is no downside other than bad PR).
Not that poster, but yes, the information is correct, because in total, all their competitors made a loss
Insomuch as it's what the analysts who arrived at that number meant to say, yes.
"[...] in the case of automated facial recognition it's almost universally despised across the world."

I don't think that's true. Most of us tech-geeks are worried about privacy way more than the average person. I personally don't see this particular use case as too problematic, depending on what is done with the data - as others in the thread have pointed out, you're in a public place, other people could be taking pictures of you or writing down information about you, and I don't think most people are worried about that either.

My view is that as long as the technology exists or can exist, it will be developed used, so complaining about the people building it is completely fruitless. If you really dislike how it's used, help pass laws against it! Don't go around guilting people for building this stuff.
Name me a "wholely" anything. With this line of reasoning, you will go down the Hegelian "whole truth" path; there's nothing completely "private sector", as well as there's nothing completely "public sector".
Yes. Alms or every day since 2002. I don't really trust memories, especially as I get older. My journal not only helps me vent, and work through my thoughts, but it's a record I can look back on someday when my memory really begins to fade.
Yes, thanks. I have that one in the queue to do a video on. But thanks for that link as I'm trying in the text beneath the videos to credit people who discover these things and I'll add that.
I can't imagine how you're looking at it. Monopoly is not the right word. Successful is the word.

How is it Apple's fault that all the other smartphone makers combined run at a loss?
For the record, equal temperament is needed to make certain complex chord progressions sound good, but individual static chords always should sound best with just intonation.
The extent to how it happened in Britain, I believe, even had other cities in Europe being called 'little Manchester'.
Here are some examples

https://github.com/typesafehub/config#examples-of-hocon
I made a game about drawing districts
I don't see any in-principle problem with using a recent example to illustrate a trend, as long as they back it up with other examples, statistics, research or whatever.
"So what am I supposed to do if I find this invading my privacy?"

There are laws and customs around public places and what may be done there. E.g. depending on your local laws, if you're in public, people can usually take pictures of you and there's also nothing you can do about that.

Don't like it? Petition to have the laws changed. This is how we deal with such things in a democracy.

Trying to guild the engineers who build this system is both IMO wrong, but also completely pointless in terms of real-world effect.
Laravel DataTables and sortable DateTime/Carbon objects
I just saw the name and started humming the theme song. This show and game made me want to become a helicopter pilot.
> If this existed, would you — an open source software developer — sign up and use it?

To whomever does create such a thing, please make any JavaScript served to the user free software (it'd be a bonus if the server software were too, of course).[0] There are sites I'd use to make donations, but I can't because the code is non-free; I don't find this to be an unreasonable request for free software projects.

[0]: https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/javascript-trap.en.html
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Simple math is why Elon Musk’s companies keep doing impossible
> ...the economy that produced Juicero is the same one that’s creating opioid addicts in Ohio... These phenomena might seem worlds apart, but they’re intimately connected.

I don't think so.

I'm from Cape Cod, Massachusetts, a place that has had such a sudden and dramatic onset of opioid use it was the subject of an HBO documentary[0]. I know many people who have been affected by it.

Cape Cod was never going to get tech jobs. It's a beach town fueled by tourism. Sure, we got a few hundred Uber driving jobs from the tech boom over the last decade, but not much else.

While the author makes some good points about funding scientific research, tax cuts, and so on, I think there are many other important factors that outweigh the performance of the tech industry or "innovation".

[0] http://www.hbo.com/documentaries/heroin-cape-cod-usa
Ask HN: Is there a demand for Bookmarking app that does more than bookmarking
I constantly find myself bookmarking interesting things only to forget about them and rarely coming back to them.

What I am thinking is, I build a product that:
- Let's you bookmark to the cloud

- Finds related interesting bookmarks other people have and suggests to you

- Makes bookmarks searchable by keyword, url etc

- Periodically scans your history and mentions your previous bookmarks related to the subject. Also, suggests from your previous bookmarks if they are related to the page you are currently viewing

- sends you daily emails with interesting bookmarks which are relevant for you.

Wondering if this is only something I find useful or if there are others who need this.
The way it's different from pinboard is it constantly scans what you are doing and suggests relevant content. Also reminds you everyday to look at your things you left off.
I like git's config notation. Don't know if it supports references though, and other general "object" characteristics, like explicit types for polymorphism.

Then again, Java Script Object Notation supports neither.
Thanks!

We have many ideas for the future, follow us on social media to be the first that hears about them.
The article may be referring to 'sweetheart deals' Apple struck with Ireland:
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/news/apple-ordere...

According to the article, Apple paid an effective corporate tax rate of 0.005% on European profits, which resulted in the EU claiming 11B in back taxes.

Regarding monopoly-status: could you state your sources for the 15% figure?

Lastly, being the "largest corporate tax payer" is irrelevant to the structural criticism leveraged in the article. It is also the most valuable company in the world - I'd almost expect it would be in the top 5 US tax payers, since a large part of its operation is in the US.
1. Assign a set of public/private key to each person.

This ensures that people can validate that their vote was taken into account.

2. Make the list of all public keys and their owners public.

This ensures that there can only be one vote per person.

3. Let people trade their keys with other people.

This ensures that people who want to remain anonymous can do so.

Am I missing anything?
what are all those shortcuts ? AFAIK, you can customize gnome easily.
Nice idea, although I would argue this is a comparably small subset of "anything".

A search function would be nice, e.g. if I search for rock climbing it would display something like

health->physical->fitness->rock climbing
Patient contracts?
Are we seeing the same page? The sponsor page hardly lists anybody noteworthy and nobody is going to click through those links. It's wasted marketing money (developers are the worst segment you can try to sell to).

I think it is pure imagination to think marketers throw 100k for this.

Also thinking of funding opensource as a marketing fund is really not the right approach. The companies are then coming to you for the wrong reasons.
In the countries where the products were sold?
If you're looking for a cheap, hackable device with basic sleep tracking, I highly recommend the Xiaomi Mi Band (1 or 2). The protocol has been reverse engineered, so you can use a program like GadgetBridge to get all of your raw data out of the device.
Not what you're looking for, but strong recommendations:

1) Find your co-founder first. Much better for your negotiating position going forward. You may have a harder time bringing in a co-founder if your stock price is impacted by the funding.

2) Always have potential investors sign NDAs before you disclose anything remotely confidential. They expect it. And they will take you more seriously.

3) Be picky with equity. Be somewhat arrogant about retaining control. That IS the long-term view a founder should take at your stage.

I'm happy to discuss in more detail by email. But you need to get certain ducks in a row to make it sensible to take on funding.
Avoiding taxes is sound business. If a public company failed to avoid avoidable taxes, it would have a problem with its board and shareholders. Illegally evading taxes is a crime, and I'm not aware of any criminal prosecution of Apple for tax evasion.
I'm pretty sure most Christians believe God is all-knowing enough to be able to detect cheating.
> Another solution is to run a proxy on your computer that filters out garbage.

That's what I was thinking; a proxy server that can run on a pi. Plug it into the wall, configure wifi, connect to it, and bam - instant safety. (Assuming you trust the code.)
> As someone who deals with old GPU support daily, I challenge this! The most recent drivers still support Fermi chips (GT400 series) that were released over 7 years ago.

To deliver a source:

> http://www.tomshardware.com/news/nvidia-eol-graphics-card,26...

My opinion on how long a device should be supported: As long as there is no open specification available, one is dependent on the vendor to deliver updates. And graphics drivers are very prone to security bugs.
So as long as devices still have a not tiny user base, the vendor has to provide security fixes for it. I would even love to say we should raise our standards and demand that a producer has to support their hardware up to the moment they release open specifications for it.
> Facebook's overt effort to clone their product

I'd be interested in hearing if anyone else absolutely hates this new stories thing Facebook is pinching from Snapchat.

Every damn time I pull down (Messenger on iOS) to reload the conversation list I end up at the damn camera. That's not how literally every other app works.

Now Facebook (iOS app) has updated and it feels like whenever I accidentally drag my thumb slightly in a non-specific direction across the screen the damn camera opens there too.

Bring on the next social network. This one's getting all gross and gooey.
This is a terrible article that nonetheless brings up an important point. Silicon Valley doesn't do itself any favors by abusing the term innovation by applying it to companies that sell juicer machines. The original iPhone with the app store was an innovation. It changed the world. Each new model is not.

It's time for a new word. Does evovative work?
‎https://youtube.com/watch?v=qqPQggW1vMA
Ask HN: Any success with 'Ask HN: Who wants to be hired
Any one around here would want to share any experience on submitting a post on 'Who wants to be hired'. I browse every month and see that the posts get a lot of good submissions but there is no way to know if these people get hired anywhere
Did you take a look at the 6502 assembler in "The Terminator". Maybe you can find the bug that stopped AHnold from killing Sarah Connor.
Multiplatform Trojan Written in .NET with It's Own API and Plugin Support
Did you become a helicopter pilot?
The author also links to his student's analysis of a bunch of sleep trackers: http://sleep.cs.brown.edu/comparison/ which is quite interesting; the TL;DR is: it pretty much doesn't matter which one you choose; the data aren't particularly scientific but can be fun to look at.
(a) talk with patio11 and tptacek and follow all their advice for tarsnap
(b) work on this new idea while the picodollars flow in…

:-p
An API is a part of our roadmap, but currently we have a lot of features that people would like to see, and we cannot focus on it.
Making a book recommendation service from scratch
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8571879

Since then the bug list has grown impressively: http://lcamtuf.coredump.cx/afl/#bugs
In my experience of Cassandra (working on an application client, not managing it), one FTE per hundred nodes is extremely generous.
Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14314795
> If a store has a warning at the door that this happens inside, it's good because now I can avoid getting inside the store and silently hate and boycott the brand.

Given how widespread this kind of monitoring is, this approach is basically "I will punish the honest stores and reward a sneaky store by spending my money there instead"
I don't see any evidence that this is a "facial recognition system."

It's likely hard to legislate against software that attempts to detect if there is a person, what their expression is, and guesses at their gender.

You could imagine that job being done by a person (just noting how many people stopped at the advertisement, and what their expression was). I don't think there's really a way to make that illegal.

I suppose I think it's something that people should be aware of, though.
How is it an ethical issue for strangers to look at your face when you are out in public?
I wish they could somehow learn about Firefox, which is still supported on Windows XP. Then it would basically be just the people with old phones and 6-7+ year-old Macs that would require fallbacks.
I pulled it out of the drawer again a few days ago. It was lovely, I wrote a monad for asynchronous HTTP results (basically the async monad + an Either monad + some methods to produce some HttpErrors) and encoded a bunch of API functionality (including auth filters) with early returns. The only pain was not having anonymous dynamic objects in C# new { syntax = "syntax" } and using Dapper.

I'd definitely like to give it a go for some bigger projects.
Blogdown: Creating Websites with R Markdown
With regards to your thoughts about the hardware being expensive, I found the following [1] article interesting. I'm mostly referring to the vendor lock-in part with CUDA.

[1]: https://streamcomputing.eu/blog/2014-08-05/7-things-nvidia-d...
Ask HN: How much time per week do you spend on side projects?
GitHub stars can be easily gamed socially.
The self driving car relies on computers, GPS, sensors (eg LIDAR) and algorithms. Computers were developed for the military, LIDAR was developed for government-funded atmospheric research projects. GPS wouldn't exist without military funding. The military funded a lot of computer vision research.
SpaceX took a lot of government money, too.
Is this different from what you get by installing gnome-shell via apt?
Are you asking for a critique? It's a facile analysis that borders on meaninglessly vague and unsupportable, and is riddled with spelling errors.
As I understand it, if one accepts Jesus into his/her heart and as lord and savior, that is, according to the good news of the gospel, all that is required, as long as their heart is pure and they truly repent. I may be mistaken. I only went to Catholic school for 12 years so what do I know?
True! If you love snow sports, Michigan isn't too bad. The U.P. is incredible in winter.
Do Person of Interest please :). They actually used Shellshock on-screen as an exploit quite soon after it was in the news, and also AFAIR featured Stuxnet dumps.

Revolution had some Lisp code in the first season[0].

[0] - https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/216352/lisp-in-Revolutio...
Yaml parses with this. You can write yaml but use the features of hocon like variables and includes
Ugh, yeah, I've recruited a few of these people. They're the worst because:

1) they're used to the benefits that come from a company that is swimming in cash

2) they didn't personally take any of the risk to create that firehose of cash but they want you to treat them like they did.

3) they don't realize it, but they're used to working in very protected environments. Typical career paths look like top-tier college -> Google / FB / Twitter / whatever. None of this prepares them for sitting in a room with some shitty Ikea desks and trying to make hard decisions that will have a direct impact on the companies growth. No, we don't have the time or resources to build a new JS framework.

I'd much rather higher someone from a second-tier US college or from overseas that can show me a time when they took significant risk / projects they built from scratch.

^ All of this is in relationship to < 20 employee companies trying to get from zero to 1.
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Most humans today are prejudiced against nonorganic life due to not growing up interacting with anyone but other meatbags.

There's a huge double standard in place that makes it somehow wrong for computers to do what humans have been doing without objection for decades or millenia.
What's a typical latency increase (on a purely localhost) of adding SSL/TLS to nginx?

I've been doing some testing, and I see an increase of about 40-60ms, just for initial connection server compute. Is that normal? How does one reduce the initial SSL/TLS connection compute time?

My web app responds in 1-2ms. Adding another 40-60ms on top of for https that wrecks latency.
Probably different strategies will be needed for different markets.

I created PropertyWebBuilder, an open source tool for creating real estate websites and I find in that sector there just isn't enough technical knowledge for people to get involved directly. I think in that case some sort of groupfunding initiative where estate agents / brokers club together to finance projects that help them might be best.

You can find a more detailed examination of this in an article I wrote about the subject:

https://hackernoon.com/open-source-software-for-real-estate-...