skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
He is exactly where he is supposed to be. They do not want a thinking general population equipped with cognitive tools. That would be a disaster for that set and the end of their long running party.
Guess that's not my idea of freedom. Freedom to me is what I can actually do, not what the government won't stop me from doing.
> I don't see what the US segregation has to do with me being a racist

It makes you a racist because minimum wage laws have the same effect in Europe and keeps Muslims out of job (I know you're not being purposely racist, that's just a consequence of these policies you favour). As a son of a Syrian immigrant myself, I can see the devastating effect on my Muslims brothers minimum wage and high labor costs have on them, they are the poorest in Europe because they tend to be unskilled and cannot compete on price because of racist laws. Economic laws are universal and racists economic measures such as the minimum wage will have the same effect in the US or in Europe. There's no magic that will protect us from that.
The Chromebook pixel from 2013 had 4G LTE, for some reason they didn't include it on the 2015 one.
With regards to quadratic equation comment,
Aside from being one of the simplest non trivial derivations/ uses of algebra you could teach children (and often the derivation is not taught...), the solutions to polynomials have a very important place in the history of mathematics and the development of modern algebra (which of course is also not taught...)
Should children all be forced to gain an appreciation for the significance and origins of modern algebra? I think, yes. We force them to learn history of whatever country they reside in, year after year. We force them to learn and appreciate novels and literary analysis (equally "useless"). If they don't have an appreciation for mathematics is or does (and quadratic equation is a simple example leading up to some VERY important developments), how will they really know whether or not they want to have a career involving math some way in the future?
Why are you assuming there aren't enough resources?
The branch deploy sounds pretty interesting, I wish there was more detail on it than just a footnote
I work for an aerospace-related org. You would be shocked at how even within a single org nobody enforces standards across different groups. Even within this one org they use a handful of different CAD systems whether by choice, or as a result of time passing and people and technology changing.

Nobody spends the money to bring old drawings forward into newer tech when it changes either, and the CAD files tend to often be proprietary binary formats that are difficult to work with.

Really quite annoying and wasteful, but it is the way it is because people don't think about these problems and plan/ spend in advance to avoid them.
As I believe humans are the #1 cause of climate change/ destruction and the eradication of other species, I think we could stand to lose about half the current human population until we can figure out a sustainable lifestyle.
I usually like satire, but this felt too obvious. Subtlety is in my opinion a key part of good satire. Otherwise it feels too forced or too in-your-face.

But as the specialist external reader said: "Stross can clearly write workmanlike, commercial prose". I can definitely agree with that!
"Or, you know, annihilate the Tories"

That's difficult in a country with largely billionaire-run or staunchly establishment-friendly media.

They may not like all the policies of the Tories but the alternative poses something of an existential threat to their overwhelming wealth.
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Not true. Witness the routers or another embedded devices, that are using standard Linux and yet are never updated.

Or worse, coming with obsolete kernel right at the release day.
This is by far the best introduction to D3 I've ever seen.
Someone needs to make a succcessful ad free service for news articles that can support good journalism.
Why not just use Apache open office?
Ask HN: What do you use for managing personal finance/money?
Howdy HN!

I'm looking for a tool to manage my personal finances. Something that lets me keep track of money coming in and money going out, possibly in a decently detailed way.

The idea is to keep track of mainly my taxes, knowing at any moment how much I owe and how much I have as "usable" money. But since taxes can just be seen as an expense, this can be generalized and include also all other expenses. I would like to be able to track my outlay and earnings in categories divided by date (e.g. 2017-05-13, fuel, 30EUR). Ideally, I would also like to be able to extract reports based on the metric I prefer (e.g. Give me the total amount of money gone in taxes in this given period).

What do you use for this job, if you use anything at all? I'm curious to hear about how you tackle this problem even if you don't use a particular tool but, say, a spreadsheet synced somehow.

The ideal tool would be cross platform (Android/Linux/Windows), work offline, and -- I realize this is highly unlikely -- possibly with an eye to privacy.
I expect that you believe that UBI is impossible. I am not interested in continuing to engage with you because you are not interested in engaging intellectually and analyzing why you might be wrong or helping others analyze why they might be wrong, but are focused exclusively on scoring rhetorical points. That's sometimes a fun game to play, but it's not productive and it's not why I come to HN.
Do you believe there is a link between resource consumption and climate change? I do.
Microsoft mobile system runs on exactly one SoC. Even for that, the different brands of devices had different rollout dates.
15 yo high school student here; we have Google Apps accounts and use chromebooks every once and a while. The district has carts of chromebooks that are brought in when students need to do research or work on projects in class. They work pretty well. (The district also has Mac Minis, which are used by the teachers and in the library; they are imaged to Windows if the teacher chooses.)

Happy to answer any questions.
Right, the real money is not going to come from the bitcoin ransoms, but from the information on millions of patients which they surely made copies of.
IpCrypt implementation in C
Is it satirizing publishers?

It seemed more like a device for mocking people who are unwilling to consider conspiracy theories, but... Somehow it didn't feel like satire to me. Can't put a finger on why.
The Itanium is a noteworthy example of what happens when one designs an architecture exclusively for parallelism to the exclusion of all else, and leaves all instruction scheduling to the compiler. The performance was great when software could take advantage of the parallelism, but horrible otherwise, since the processor would still be fetching bundles of 3 instructions (16 bytes each!) but only 1/3 of them would be anything other than NOPs, effectively making each instruction a ridiculously-cache-bloating 16 bytes long.

I suppose a similar analogy would be doing everything in x86 with SIMD instructions and not using the scalar set at all.
Around here a good portion of uber eats seems to be by bicycle...
I think someone did that for some iot devices
I don't think you need an address to get a driver license. To open a bank account you need to verify your current address with something like a current bill or pay stub.
Chromebooks are much better than iPads for this kind of a task for sure, but I wouldn't want everything my child wrote and looked up throughout his development sent to a major advertising corp. This data should still be maintained by the school or by a company the school partners with with a zero internal or external sharing policy.
You could use a neural network to optimize the hyperparameters of another neural network, but afaik it's not a really efficient way, your best bet would be to use bayesian hyperparameter optimization.
Ah, I wasn't aware of the old name, thanks!
And (1) is in part because they deliberately put in extraordinary effort to customize and break Android, increasing the costs of merging from upstream.
Here's an application of the quadratic formula: https://twitter.com/beesandbombs/status/863124880614719488
They no longer just facilitate it, they gather it with an ever-more-naked avarice and disregard for personal privacy. And I say that as a long time fan who has become increasingly creeped out by them over the past few years.
Are they? It seems that a lot of their work (WSL, VS Code, etc.) seems to be focused on building developer mindshare, which was largely taken by Apple [1] in the last 1.5 decade. After the Windows Phone and Windows 8 Metro fiascos, I think they realized that the 'launch the platform and the developers will come'-strategy does not work.

tl;dr: this seems like a direct attempt to lure developers away from Apple's platforms.

[1] To repeat a cliché: go to a developers conference and the majority of laptops will be MacBooks.
Thanks for the tip, and I will try this. As I said, .DOCX files work best in their native Win Office environment as I've had problems with them in open source solutions (formatting issues), whitespace injection ruining the layout, etc
Yes SQueaLy does support Athena. As of now we support Athena, Redshift, Mysql, Postgres and sqlite

Soon we will be adding support for Mssql and Cassandra also
That's about exactly what happened with Mr. Klumpp's CrunchButton - people learned very quickly that $6 per delivery kills your wages when college students don't usually tip and you can make only a delivery roughly every hour unless you get lucky with multiple orders coming in for the same food place. Most Crunchbutton drivers were actually losing money once they figured in gas expenses (which of course Crunchbutton did not pay.)
I don't feel that strongly about artificial sweeteners. Just responding to this comment:

"that's what science IS. Providing the ability to answer any and all questions about our nature."
A funny allusion: "E. S. Blofeld, Editorial Director" likely refers to "Ernst Blofeld," a villain from the James Bond novels.
Unfortunately, income inequality and knowledge inequality go hand in hand when it comes to upward mobility.
The aerospace companies have spent a lot of money on open CAD formats [1], though it wouldn't have helped in this particular case.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_10303
Chelsea Manning prepares for freedom: 'I want to breathe the warm spring air'
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Isn't this the same as FaceTime/iMessage and other messaging apps?

You know who on your contact list has an iPhone, WhatsApp etc.
> It is Microsoft's fault. A software customer doesn't know that a vendor is going to go out of business or get bought by a competitor that discontinues their product and promotes an incompatible alternative with seven figure transition costs.

It is categorically NOT Microsoft's fault that software vendors are bought or go out of business. It's on the software customer to ensure that they don't get stuck with vendor lock-in.

Reverse the situation: A bunch of critical systems which run Linux 2.4 are being compromised by cyber criminals via a kernel exploit. You're going to argue that it's Linus' fault for providing such a great kernel and not supporting it forever?

Or that it's Linus' fault vendor XY who hasn't existed since 2 mergers ago chose Linux 2.4 for their product and now aren't around to provide updates for legacy software?

> Microsoft are the ones who worked so hard to make sure that software for Windows isn't compatible with not-Windows, creating all their own alternatives to POSIX, OpenGL, Open Firmware and everything else so that it's as difficult as possible for software compatible with Windows XP to be compatible with any Unix or Linux, leaving the user out in the cold if it also isn't compatible with Vista or later.

And so does every other operating system on the planet. You cannot take a MacOS binary and run it on Linux. And until very recently you couldn't take a Linux binary and run it on Windows.

You could argue that with Linux, the only thing preventing it from running Win32 or MachO binaries is that those operating systems are closed source, but this is the world we live in. If you want a "universal" binary, write it in something like Java.

https://xkcd.com/927/

> The reason there is huge demand for COBOL programmers is that it's more reasonable to hire a COBOL programmer than to discard a working system with a multi-million dollar replacement cost. "Just throw away everything you own and start over from nothing" is only rarely cost effective.

Yes, and I feel that I addressed this when I said "because banks are too spendthrift to rewrite their software"

It's a business decision. Currently it's cheaper for banks to hire COBOL programmers at obscene rates to fix their software. Eventually, there either won't be COBOL programmers, or they'll be too expensive, and the bean counters will dictate it's time to rewrite.
Customer support and office manager are the big ones. I wouldn't use the word exclusively.
The comments in your previous submission are accurate: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14329227

Also in a previous comment you said you were $130k/5 years exp? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14319426
Technology for transparent pricing in electronics manufacturing
If your Muslim brothers (and I am the racist one) are unskilled, not matter their price, they won't be able to compete for jobs. Because at some points the job has to be done. And that has nothing to do with racism.

Now explain to me how you went from minimal wages promoting racism to minimal wages promoting religion-based hatred ?

If you believe they don't have job because of minimal wages then maybe you ought to advice them to seek asylum in countries without minimal wages laws instead of trying to change them ?

The sad thing is you'd rather have everyone burning than considering the possibility that strike breaking and workforce dumping hurt everyone in the long term.

When an employer chooses a white man over a black/brown/fuschia man even though the wage it's the same then it's not the law that is racist. It's the employer.
Software patent stops sale of indie macOS window manager
Aren't the vast majority of Windows revenues from new PC sales and volume licensing?

Both would continue if Windows was "perfect" feature-wise and only security updates were provided going forward.
No it isn't. You can do this on a hololens, HTC Vive and Oculus Rift, albeit with many limitations. Windows MR headsets are on preorder and are 1440x1440 per eye and will let you run any application on them.
They're a semi-monopoly (~80%) in the following markets: mail, search, online advertisements, browser, smartphones, mapping, layer data (it's $AMOUNT busy at place X right now)

I like Google since they're one of the few companies that has a 20+ year record of being careful with user data, but how much they control (or at least facilitate) is pretty scary from an objective viewpoint.
If "Zero Day: The story of MS17-010" is meant to be an accurate report of facts regarding MS17-010, then there is at least one inaccuracy in it:

> someone calling themselves "the Shadow Brokers" leaks a huge trove of classified NSA documents to WikiLeaks, who in turn dump it on the internet.

Shadow Brokers didn't leak to Wikileaks. Shadow Brokers uploaded the trove of NSA documents to `mega.nz`, and someone else downloaded the trove to GitHub[1]. Wikileaks merely tweeted about this after it happened.[2]

Correction: As per well-sourced Wikipedia article[3], this was not the `mega.nz` leak, this was another subsequent one. The main point still stand: Wikileaks has nothing to do with publishing the MS17-010 vulnerability.

Would be nice to stop pushing the false narrative that Wikileaks was involved in that one NSA leak.

[1] https://github.com/x0rz/EQGRP

[2] https://twitter.com/wikileaks/status/850783902616625152

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Shadow_Brokers#Fifth_Leak:...
> I'm sorry, but this just won't wash; surely the good guys would prioritize protecting their own corporate infrastructure?"

No, why would they?

Not a single nation in the world is speaking with a united voice; there are groups with different interests. See Clinton vs Trump. Why would either of them help fix the infrastructure belonging to other's clan? Both of them would prefer the exploitable one at the other side.
No, it's a terrible space. Pick something less noisy and with fewer competitors. Like log management. ;)
Ms should release one last security patch for XP, even pirate copies: a firewall that kills every protocol except HTTP/HTTPS and email. Close all the ports.
He's a great follow on Twitter, he works for some cyber security company in LA I think but lives in England. Got offered the job after he created a Mira bot tracker IIRC.
In the absence of federal support programs, are people who would drive for Uber or any of these gig-type apps better or worse off with the opportunity to earn $4.40/hr?

If you raise that wage, most likely​ the business model ceases to be worthwhile for Uber, so the job goes away. I don't think that means it is replaced with something better.
I thought gold teeth were so Soviet/Eastern European thing at the time, that it should be an immediate giveaway of woman's origin.
Yep. At my employer, all programs that get deployed to production must be built with either the current version of the toolchain, or the previous version. All builds are hermetic, and it's a requirement that all programs get rebuilt and redeployed at least once every N months, so that the programs out in the wild aren't built with toolchains and libraries that are too wildly different from head.

But there's a whole team dedicated to the task of maintaining that state here. I can imagine that at a company where this is not the core competency, there would be some slippage.
I use the planet labs images plugging (on mobile, so can't look up exact link). It shows satellite imagery from their dataset of interesting places. I highly recommend it.
Even though lots of different publishers were born, they were using the same technology, which is the printing press.

Google's core technology is search facility. If someone does this better than them, then there will be no monopoly. The core feature of printing press stood as is for longest period of time (even Xerox did not bring anything "new" to the table). That's, until the Internet in fact, was able to put a dent on the core invention of printing press. People are now reading on their screens, where as previously, they used to read only on the paper.

You are stuck with the short-term view of monopolies and privacy issues. We wouldn't be surprised if there was a big brouhaha over privacy during the time of the invention of printing press (ask any religious scholar what they have to say about the history of churches against the advancement of technology and knowledge).
Usernames are one-for-one correlations with UID, so just don't allow users to personally owning files outside of their /home (they shouldn't according to FHS/LSB/POSIX/etc).
> just don't work for them

Easy to say. I can move anywhere, work at almost any company, get a great wage, etc. We are the exceptions. 1.5 million American families, including 3m children, live on less than $2/person/day. That's not by choice.

Half the planet lives on less than $2 a day. That's $2 in our buying power. What would you buy with $30/month where you live? Not rent. Not gas. Flour? Bag of rice? Hope you can find a cheap source of (probably not clean) water.
WannaCry – The largest ransom-ware infection in History
Even economists themselves finally admit that retraining is the missing link in the global trade model. So while jobs go, people don't transfer into other well paying jobs. Instead the good jobs are replaced by worse paying service sector jobs.

So that theory that people will get new opportunities which are as good, or they can transition into is not valid.

Now if the service sector jobs go too?
That's like saying you don't know what you'd "use a lever" for.
This playlist gives a very nice geometric intuition to a lot of the foundational concepts of linear algebra:

https://m.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLZHQObOWTQDPD3MizzM2xVF...
Actually it's the opposite of asking a random person a question, which is what aggregated opinion really stems from.

The person behind the counter, for example, has likely seen the movie given the folks I've known who work these jobs. As well, they might tell you something like "the people leaving the movie are always talking animatedly" or some other insight that a random movie-goer likely couldn't assert themselves.

I was just pointing out that people have different preferences and that there are many reasons one might trust a single person behind the ticket counter over whatever information they might derive from their smartphone.

That this is so controversial is amusing to me.
Even simpler, shouldn't the configuration be part of the fuzzed input?
1.5 million American families, including 3m children, live on less than $2/person/day. Half the world lives on less than $2/day (in our buying power). This isn't by choice.
Thank you. That's exactly my point.
Production minimalism: maintaining fewer moving parts, and retiring things
Highly educated Indian/Chinese/African/Russian fight it out at home or roll the dice?
It might be that it notifies those other users of your phone number when they might not know it. I.e. if you store a number of someone you don't want to speak to so you can decline their calls.

Supposing you did this for extra piece of mind, even though they don't have your number, it would suck if they end result would be you giving them your number.
Sometimes sandboxes resolve all DNS, so if you point to to a nonsensical URL and it resolves, then you may be in a sandbox.
In Many European countries the state covers when you don't earn enough. So it's against the interest of tax payers for companies to offer badly paid jobs if that means it becomes a race to the bottom.
Go all the way and ban windows. You won't regret it, I promise. Run msword with wine?
Could you please not?
Not at all, you are thinking of the allegations regarding the CIA content from WikiLeaks.
If it's a crime to share a draft of a law, you're no longer dealing with a liberal democracy, but a Saudi-style shithole, and it's time for that country to remove its government.
Should Designers Code? – No, Part One
Whether they want to eat Linux or not, I don't think they can. It will always be free.
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Maybe it's time to watch Yes Minister again.
"Gig/Contract economy" is the analogue of outsourcing, except for the cheap workers being drawn from local population.
Its a logical consequence from corporations wanting to reduce wages and legal trickery to avoid work liabilities and benefits for the workers. Its exploitative and ruthless example of what "capitalism" becomes when law doesn't hold the punch, companies just figured out the necessary mix of legal and tech means to avoid the system being labeled as "work" and pay fair wages/expenses per worker. Expect this type of "work" to increase and subsume new sectors of economy as they figure out how to transform them into uber model.
But there doesn't seem to be a way to silently block calls. I'm pretty sure on Android or iPhone I can blacklist numbers, so I would not even get a notification that the number tried to call me. If the device says "Call from $CRAZY_EX, do you want to answer?", you'd feel terrorized. Of course the solution would be to unplug the device.

It's pathetic that "We will take your whole address book, and tell everyone on it, that you're contactable here." is the default nowadays, that even "secure" alternatives are doing it, e.g. www.jwz.org/blog/2017/03/signal-leaks-your-phone-number-to-everyone-in-your-contacts/ (jwz hates HN so copy-paste this link...).
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You are fine if you are behind a router on a local network at home and don't have SMB port exposed to the public internet. And assuming all other clients on your network aren't infected.