skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm kind of excited about SOLID, while it may not be exactly what you are looking for I'm hoping it will pave the way for the next generation of decentralized social networks where users own their own data.

>Solid (derived from "social linked data") is a proposed set of conventions and tools for building decentralized Web applications based on Linked Data principles. Solid is modular and extensible. It relies as much as possible on existing W3C standards and protocols.

https://github.com/solid/solid
Web gallery of solutions from paper is available here: http://three-body.ipb.ac.rs/sequences.php
We really need a cheap online laser cutting magnetic metal lamination service. There are more and more online laser cutting services, but they don't stock magnetic lamination steel. The only online specialized service is incredibly expensive.

We are in a golden age of electric motors, but access to custom laminations is a limiting factor for tinkerers (now that the magnet are widely available).
> As an European? Yes.
> Things were evolving fine in Europe; from our POV, Uber isn't doing anything innovative - they're just a personal transportation company (we have those) with a cute app (we have those) that tries to outcompete everyone by unilaterally deciding that laws don't apply to them.

If you believe that taxis are getting better in Europe, see the following video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dl2QcEOIdHg

Sorry, I couldn't find proper English captions, however the numbers are still clear.

The person who made the video, made 4 trips from the same point A to point B and these are the prices he had to pay for the same exact journey:

- 1250 HUF
- 2000 HUF
- 2500 HUF
- 5950 HUF

None of the drivers provided a receipt willingly. Meanwhile Uber cost 1105 HUF.

Note that: taxi tariffs are regulated in Budapest, yet it clearly doesn't stop drivers from overcharging unsuspecting foreigners.
If you get cold-called, you will catch on that somebody is checking your status (home/not home) or tries to elicit information from you – because you are directly involved. With this API, you'll never notice that somebody tracks you. Most non-tech people will never check the settings tab and even fewer will check the privacy settings. They are not aware they are sharing their info publicly.
The interesting data would be the market share of iOS vs Android among only the people who can actually afford an iPhone
I went back and forth on this, but I think it's quite clear what the point of the comment is so I'm not going to explain.
I didn't mention it in the original post, but Foxpass also has an LDAP endpoint so it can manage users and groups on your linux machines.

This means you can set up a linux group with sudo capabilities (sudo or wheel, usually) in /etc/sudoers. Then using Foxpass you can manage the membership of that group by adding users on a permanent or temporary basis.
Well, maybe. I don't want to discount this concept entirely because some info is being "leaked" if that is the right word, but...

Let's say one of your contacts chats a lot because it's a chatty person. They're online far more than another person. What if that other person only chats on the bus on the way to and from work at roughly the same time every day to tell their wife they're on the way home. This activity will overlap with the chatty person's activity all the time.

By your rationale, they are having a conversation, maybe cheating, and maybe having a work affair.

I think the more contacts a user that are active, the higher probability that your model predicts they are having a "conversation" with another user. You'll probably find that your thresholds are really hard to fine-tune: maybe we say A chats with B if abs(A.activeTime - B.activeTime) < threshold, but that threshold is going to be super hard to find* and even harder to validate.

Sure, there is some information here (the picture probably being the most concretely weird) but the fact that you can just go to the App and check a box for privacy means that this seems like not a huge issue.

Yes, WhatsApp made the software, but its your responsibility to apply your own privacy settings.
All vertical shots. Communicating to the masses. Market to the masses, live with he classes.
Just to clarify - Improbable are a simulation company, right? As in, VR would just be one application/interface to their software, but the point is simulating things at scale?
If you lose the device key on your computer (perhaps there is a hardware error or it is stolen), you can use the paper key to add a new device key to your account - and not lose any data.

You can add another paper key using `keybase paperkey`, and you may want to revoke the old one using `keybase device remove <key name>`. This is also possible to do from the "Devices" tab in the desktop or mobile app.

Of course, if you have Keybase both on your computer and your phone you already have some redundancy, and maybe having a paper key is not as important.
If you're strongly motivated by money, London is probably the worst choice for taking a permanent job (unless you have enough experience to make a nice 6 figures salary and all that).
Convert EML file into PST
I don't understand the uproar about this. Giving away free music is vastly different then installing random apps in my opinion.
U.S. used-car glut is a dealer’s dream, automakers’ nightmare
Great problem they're tackling. Some issues:

Splitting inventory is an expensive activity. Often times you need to purchase more overall inventory and incur more warehouse receiving cost when you try and divvy up your stock around the country to decrease average shipping times.

They don't own their warehouses. This can be an issue if something goes wrong (eg they lose track of a large portion of inventory). Often warehouses hire temporary and low-trained workers. Things can go wrong if the warehouse doesn't have proper operational controls and can stay wrong for days (months even!) if a warehouse doesn't have a proper support team. Since they don't own the warehouses these issues are difficult to control for.

There's some competition in the space like Shipwire owned by Ingram Micro (who also lease space to Amazon). Also I believe you can use Fulfillment By Amazon (FBA) to fulfill customer orders even if an item isn't listed on Amazon.
TensorFlow: I want to like you, but you're tricksy
We use Phabricator (installed locally) to manage most things in our company. We have a 20 member team, all repositories, ssl certificates, issue tracking etc

https://www.phacility.com/
Yes. But it also seems like the browser based model continues to be flaw. One application (i.e., browser) makes a single update and EVERYONE downstream now needs to retest? And Perhaps significantly refactor?

This is a MAJOR UX violation. If you were going to by a car and you were told that's how it works you'd never buy that make/model. We keep getting by on the ignorance of end-user. That's not a positive.

I'm not sure what the details of the answer is. But I do know that accepting the status quo is no longer acceptable. The first step to solving a problem is to admit you have one. Step 2 is to make sure you identify the right problem.

We have a problem, yes?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paperless_office
There is a lot of work going on using tech to bring energy access to the 1.2 billion people currently living without grid access.

BBOXX are using the combination of developments in renewable, battery tech, big data and IoT to bring down the cost of offering solar energy to people living in the most rural areas of the world. Briefly, we use the above technology to enable a pay-as-you-go solution to energy whereby a customer can sign up for a small and affordable down-payment. We will then dispatch one of our installers to fit the system in the customers house and teach them about how it works. We will then remotely monitor the system over the GSM network to ensure it is providing a reliable source of energy. The customer then pays weekly or monthly using mobile money to keep the system enabled. The data-side of what we do enable us to prove to investors and financiers that we understand our customers and can control repayment rates which means we can continue to grow the number of systems we have deployed.

We currently have most of our units deployed in Rwanda and Kenya through our fully owned retail network but more recently have launched partnerships in Nigeria, Cameroon and Pakistan.
Sounds like you've gone to a lot of effort to use a HSM (good) but then put all your trust in github.

At least github supports two factor auth, but you're still placing trust in a third party.
Tiny tug unleashes cryogenic currents
> Why won't people want to own cars? What if people want to drive for the fun of it, or do not care to use self-driving cars?

Some people will undoubtedly want to pay extra to drive their own car for fun. I imagine that having a driver's license will be like having a pilot's license today.

> what of motorbikes or even regular bicycles?

A bicycle is a lot cheaper than a car, so I imagine that more people will be riding their own bikes than driving their own cars.

> In the future people could lounge at the pool all day and have everything done for them by robots.

Yup. Except for the stuff they want to do themselves.
Your suggestion was taken :)
Going to lower the min budget to 250 USD.

Thanks!
Bluey McBlueface: The first new blue in 200 years is becoming a crayon
My account managers are quite happy with what I get doing enterprise consulting.
I mean, having science as an excuse to do LSD is a win already.
£850 is quite expensive for London (not outrageous, but above average). Most are more in line with £650-£750 for a reasonable double room in a 2 bed flat share. You can get cheaper if you share with more or go further out / to less desirable areas.

Source: I live and work in London and have done so for the last 5 1/2 years
What do you want to be judged on? A majority of those British wanting more immigration control are struggling, you judge them from a position of relative comfort; You are relatively immune to the same concerns.
Apple watch can detect some strokes
This is very impressive, but keeps me wondering - how is this engine better than the stuff you can just go and buy in the shop? This is an honest question, I have no clue what are the benefits here (besides obvious coolness factor!).
Is-it docker compatible?
Yes, but don't you think as much taxable activity as possible would be moved out of Greek jurisdiction? Especially as Greece would probably have to raise taxes quite a bit to finance the government... if they no longer have access to a euro bond market to do so.
Ask HN: Best and worst UI's you've seen?
The worst I've seen, or tried to use is my city's public transportation bus app here:

https://centro.org/service_schedules/mobile-app

Best would be ProxmoxVE's, here:

https://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Main_Page
Kaspersky Lab gets thumbs down
Well, I think he's wrong. I don't think Uber would have won the space anyway and I think self-driving cars will require a driver behind the wheel for a long long time, effectively eliminating any benefits for Uber.
> With modern Android's anti-spam features, I can even dodge spam calls to my phone, so this is not a problem for me.

With those modern anti-spam features, you leak all call details to those providers. Read up their ToS.
WSL (Windows Subsystem for Linux) isn't virtualized, as the article states.

https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/wsl/2016/04/22/windows-subs...

It's aim is to run Linux binaries natively. The degree of it's usefulness, issues and filesystem interoperability was discussed before so won't get into that.
Having an above average tax contribution, simply means you earned more than average. The fact that you now flip on something so trivial, doesn't that just mean you were always a liability?
Thanks for that information, makes sense!
If you check the model I described in my comment, it should filter the "bus problem", since it will detect a chat only if, compared to the standard "bus time" probability of the user A chatting, it is chatting more if in the same range also B is chatting. If you add to this that people on Whatsapp usually do not talk to the exact minutes, it is definitely possible to create a robust system for guessing with good probability of two have often conversations. Also note that the phone numbers in input are not random, are the ones of a connected circle of persons. Add to this the fact that we can split the ranges even, potentially, by few minutes, and you can even detect interesting stuff for people having continuos chats with multiple persons like teenagers. Another thing that is possible probably is also "groups detection", since at new messages a set of users will activate at the same time.
Thanks for the tip, will check that out!
For the curious: create a new shortcut with the following target:

explorer shell:AppsFolder\c5e2524a-ea46-4f67-841f-6a9465d9d515_cw5n1h2txyewy!App

I think it is pretty "meh"
Holy shit are those numbers real?

1M paying subscribers added a day? I'm guessing this is prepay with cards / top ups right? If so the cash play becomes amazing too.
Many people who have lived under actual capitalist governments see capitalism for what it is - evil.
This is a stellar example of marketing gone wrong by a company that's out of touch with a vast number of their customers https://phdify.com/essay-types. Yet it simply doesn't matter. Apple's massive revenue stream and its astronomical cash hoard makes them impervious to various failures here and there. It's great to be Apple
Anti-pattern #1: Using REST. It's just cargo cult along with everyone describing it and then implementing it differently. The only good part it has is how to layout the URL, and even then it's just common sense.
There seems to be a confusion. First value wins - is in no way how hocon works. Just take a look at the examples
2 out of 5 young Californians live at their parents' home
For non-perishable goods, you can compensate for this by keeping larger stockpiles at the destination to prohibit shortfalls. However, this obviously costs more in terms of warehousing, risk, and sunk capital.
I thought we were talking about purchases, not streaming. How would DRM-free streaming work?

I haven't seen regional releases in ages.

Platform exclusivity? Again, for streaming maybe, but we were talking about purchases, right? I buy my weekly releases in a digital, lossless format from a range of stores. The files I receive are mine. Non of the issues you mentioned apply these days.

Streaming, however, while convenient can have disadvantages like the ones you mentioned. More importantly, you don't own your collection, you just rent the music and albums may disappear at any point.

However none of this justifies piracy since there's a flawless alternative: Buying music.
I grew up thinking we'd have supersonic airliners any day now.
You use a scripting language - most languages have somewhat usable libraries for manipulating e.g. MS Office documents directly, not through the Office applications.
In the UK we mostly have FTTC and copper to our property. I'm in London admittedly, but I get 220Mbps/20Mpbs solidly, so copper isn't all bad if you have fibre running to a cabinet that's close to you.
why do you care what some people on instagram are using? i don't get this sheepish mentality. you can get gazillion variants of android devices from 150 to 800 USD, with massive screens, 8 core cpu and 4 gb of memory, dual sims, memory card slot, 3.5mm jack and so on.

or go apple, but FFS do it because it suits you and your budget, not because of some crappy instagram healthy people
VR Porn leaders are making sensors to stop fans getting caught
I received an email the other day saying side collision avoidance has been added in the latest update, but the rest still stand.

That seems crazy that automatic windshield wipers aren't enabled... my 2008 Honda Civic has those!
Page load scores for Facebook, according to Google
Hey, that'll fit on my Apple Watch. Emacs is quite small by today's standards.

Making Emacs a Lisp interpreter turned out to be a great idea. Too bad they didn't use Scheme or Common lisp.
Well those first two points are completely contradictory so I won't even bother humouring the rest.
Yeah, it was weird reading that argument from Scott, who long ago proposed using dead children as a unit of currency: https://web.archive.org/web/20160318104428/http://www.raikot...
> Visibility issues with the sensors aside,

You got what I was aiming for, yes.

That plus difficulty in understanding streets obscured by a cover of snow, etc.

> Less prone to be overconfident in their stopping/steering abilities.

Very true. Computers have weaknesses, but vanity is not one of them :-)

> I'd probably trust a computer in the snow vs. most humans.

I have a car (2016 model) with several fancy assistants.

The lane-following assistant (which only works in very limited, benign conditions anyway) is regularly confused by shadows on pleasant days. Or by puddles on less pleasant days.

The car-following cruise control has missed a 40t semitrailer and would have merrily accelerated right into it.

The car-following cruise control regularly panics because it suddenly interprets guardrails or street signs as cars. On an empty road. This is not nice, because it has braking authority.

The computer in my car, at least, can absolutely not be trusted.
On Tensors, Tensorflow, and Nvidia's Latest 'Tensor Cores'
It is possible for communists to be evil but Communism can't be any more evil than anything ​else.

There is mismanagement of public money everywhere. There are people who abuse their position of power everywhere. I can agree if someone says it is impractical but to say it is evil is just misplaced anger.

Even if Communism is evil, it is still true that the people orchestrating the red scares were evil as well.
So let say you have bunch of servers that your team has to access via ssh, how would vault help adding users public keys add it to ~/.ssh/authorized_keys of each machine? i am familiar with vault locking/unlocking secrets but not sure if Vault can help centralizing and deploying those keys to individual machines.
Sorry, the company doesn't exist anymore. Our marketing didn't focus on the self install angle for residences, but it did for business. In either case, it's logically no different from hiring any worker to do it.
Basically our pitch was, you can reduce the install cost to whatever the minimum wage is. Deploying the physical topology of an NBN can be designed to require 100% unskilled labor. Maybe the problem was that it would create too many jobs. *joke
Most of the counter-examples given as being examples of interesting companies sound terrible to me:

>> ... Neema, an app to help poor people without access to banks gain financial services...

Neema sounds even more useless than Juicero. Poor people have no money so they don't need financial services.

>> ... Kangpe, online health services for people in Africa without access to doctors.

So they don't have access to doctors but they have an iPhone with internet. Totally realistic.

>> Dost Education, helping to teach literacy skills in India via a $1/month course

Does the $1 per month include the cost of the computer/iphone, electricity and internet?
It's probably cheaper to just pay a private tutor for one hour a day.
Teachers aren't that expensive in India.

>> ... CBAS, which describes itself as “human bionics plug-and-play"

Nice buzzwords but what is the actual point of this?
Does it actually improve lives? Is this what people really want or is it what silicon valley wants them to want?
Nigerian techies are making great strides in the sector, overcoming challenges the environment and the system poses on them to shine among their peers. Great efforts have been made in the ecommerce and fintech sectors, but I will also like to mention Andela(https://andela.com/what-we-do/) which is doing a great job training and exposing African tech talents to the outside world. There are other platforms of that nature now, springing up across the nation.
> I'd love to be able to take a word/libreoffice template and generate a document by supplying command line parameters for example.

Python with PyWin32 is great for this, the Word doc part anyway. I've got several scripts the create modify or read Excel and Word docs for a number of different purposes: tracking my mileage, automating creation of new users (now done with Powershell though), converting and uploading documents to a web server. VBA/VBScript can do some of these things too, but Python is a much more capable and sane language to use. Powershell is another great automation choice too.
Oh, this was much further back. The last time I set foot in the JCMB was around 1996. I think the main workhorses of the day were a Cray T3D/T3E. ISTR there was a Y-MP in there as well.
This has been done before.
I'm really rooting for AMD. If I hadn't built an FX 8350 system a short while back I would be straight onto Ryzen. It's brilliant we are getting these high core counts.
While I can see this is an excellent strategy for the Windows platform, and will probably make developers on Windows more productive, I for one will never give up natively installed linux distributions for development.

It may be childish, but I resent Windows for every anti-privacy, anti-competitive move they make, despite how much it is within their rights and fitting with their corporate goals. Trying to put linux in windows and pretend that they've been on the side of developers who push F/OSS this whole time is a hard pill to swallow.

I recoil at the possibility that some developer 5 years from now might ask me "Why bother installing your own linux distribution? You can just get Windows Go 15 and run Arch/Ubuntu/SUSE from inside there. Don't forget to disable the ads and tracking that come standard".
The first and second times I do something, I do them manually. The third time, I create a repeatable procedure that I execute manually. The third time I use that, I start writing scripts to take bites out of the time it takes.

Around the 30th or so time I have to do it, there's no point to automating any further. But I've learned that automating to the point where you can put it on a cron job is usually just not worth it. You haven't yet squeezed out all the failure cases. If you could have completely scripted it and put it on a cron job you would have done it at the beginning.

Usually when I find myself doing this, I'm doing it in response to emails that have been sent with spreadsheets. It's a huge time pit to automate that the first time you get one. You just don't know what they're going to keep sending you each month, and you feel like such an asshole nagging them about it. Just make a note in your procedure, and use an error to detect the case when you finally script it.
Not very likely considering Postmates has the majority of the market.
Dan Shiffman created a Youtube playlist titled "Intelligence and Learning", which might be a good place to start.

This is the link to his channel
https://www.youtube.com/user/shiffman
Have you seen this? http://pgslab.com/

It's billed as a handheld gaming system but you don't have to play games on it.

Runs Windows 10 on a 5.9-inch 1920 x 1080 screen. Atom processor.

Whether it will lever get made is another matter (it's an ex-Kickstarter project now taking pre-orders), but the approach is interesting.
I didn't know the story about social security cards. Thanks for sharing.
History Is on the Side of Tax Cuts
Plus, there's starting to be a lot of promise in Ukrainian startups - Looksery had a great exit a few years ago, and now Grammarly has just attracted $100M+ https://techcrunch.com/2017/05/08/grammarly-raises-110-milli...
Overkill. Just use:

$ sed -i 's,MY_NAME,Marco,g' *.txt
This story is missing something, since reverse engineering is legal and done properly [1] gets you around copyrights and trade secrets. We're patents involved?

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clean_room_design
Scaling Python/Flask Microservice with Kubernetes