skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Synthesisers and mixers are less dependent on getting faster/more powerful. They are inherently more long-lived.
I break out in cold sweat when I think about routing a 4094 pin socket. How does anyone layout a motherboard for this in a reasonable time frame?
"pro user" is an interesting way to put it. If I remember correctly it was heavily integrated with IE in the past to push browser share. Want to update your system? Open buggy old IE5/6. Want to get rid of IE? What antitrust? IE is part of essential Windows functionality after all, we can't get rid of it.

> Get back to me when MS starts remembering their customers are human beings again.

Oh, they know. Their whole abusive process is build around milking that fact for all it is worth.
I think that's an unfair comparison.
(Hardware) Synthesisers are pretty much feature complete, once a good one is made there's not much more you can add to it and therefore the evolution of them over the years hasn't changed much. I doubt the midi spec has even updated much since it was created? The only thing with much scope to improve on the audio side is mainly around software (better daws, synths etc)

This is like comparing sound cards to graphics cards. Good quality sound cards will pretty much last forever because we've reached the peak of human hearing and the latency can't get any lower, (I've had the same sound card for production for over 10 years).
GPUs however have loads of scope for improvement and so new ones are constantly coming out all the time, making old ones obselete.
The iPad is a luxury device mostly.

A smartphone is pretty much essential in the modern world. Even those from poorer backgrounds, will save their money to buy a smartphone. An iPhone is a similar price to other top end devices and arguably better value since it lasts longer (updates/resell value).

A Laptop is essential to learn or to work, it's a solid way, established tool for work.

A tablet/iPad is mostly seen as thing to watch movies on, check social media and play games. All of which you can do on your phone. Apple is going to have a hard job convincing people that the iPad can replace a laptop - I don't think people see it that way.

If every iPad came with a free keyboard cover, they much have some chance, because people would give it a go and see if it works for them. But right now in the UK a iPad pro + keyboard is more than twice the cost of an iPad 9.7 (to which you can't add a keyboard later - for some reason).
Why does e to pi i equal -1?
> If my friends want support they'll run Linux, otherwise I'll let them deal with Microsoft's support or whatever.

Dealing with Microsoft's support is quite an experience, I think I would be better off talking to some indian "anti-malware" "security experts" that would install remote controlling software and would tell you some fancy tech words that you could listen to while they're at it.
Not suggesting that this is the difference between it being worth it or not for an individual person, but I didn't feel like taking an Uber this time out of LAX and did a traditional cab to Pasadena -- it was $90. The Uber app quoted me at $38 and $33 if I had wanted to do pool (side note, I've ridden pool 3 times between LAX and Pasadena and not once have they ever picked up another passenger).

A savings of $50 for a one way trip is definitely at the point where the "spying" is worth it for me.
Sorry, but I can't agree with this. If it weren't the NSA discovering it and losing control of it, some other group would eventually get to it.

The problem is Microsoft, who wrote the exploitable software in the first place.
I (as well as my Chinese friends) were looking for Chinese queries. Couldn't find useful stuff. I ended up using Bing. :(
Walmart needs to suck it up and rebrand its online store as a separate, more updated identity.

My wife won't shop there "because Walmart". It isn't rational, but it's a thing.

Edit: to clarify, my wife won't shop on the walmart website. The physical stores are a different topic.
Indiana Jones of collapsed cultures: Western civilization is a bubble [2014]
The hardware will become commodity. The software is where the action will be.

Imagine what would happen with fighter jets if they only had 3 main sensors. Lidar, Radar and camera.
A better way to put it would be to say all of the UK tabloid papers (the Mirror was also mentioned in the article).

Tabloid journalism doesn't exactly have a stellar history of responsibility. Unfortunately this sells for some reason.
Ask HN: What do you do to monitor your software’s critical flows?
Hi HN! We’re a group of senior university students looking into common practices used in the software industry, and we’re hoping to get some insight from people with experience in the field.

How do you make sure your business-critical application flows (e.g. user sign in, payments and revenue streams) work in the software you write, and what are the biggest issues you deal with when making sure these flows work?

Also, how do you typically find out when something does break?

Thanks for your input!
Doesn't the CLI client allow you to generate a new paper key? Then you can use that paper key to authorize the new device.

Command: `keybase paperkey` will generate a new paper key, then enter that key onto your device.
Experiment in morphing
Thankfully Firefox still offer a LTS variant.

I jumped on that train when they moved to GTK3, but said train seems to be running out of track.

As of late, Mozilla have done a whole lot to alienate long time _nix users in their attempt at catching Chrome's tail.

And you bring up a good point about tightly coupled versions.

_nix was in part adopted because things were loosely coupled. But in the pursuit of attention the DEs and various other big projects have steadily pushed for more tight coupling so that they can deliver a certain "commercial" UX.
Thanks for these, something resonated with me reading his description. Any other recommendations on the strategy side?
A wonderful book that doesn't suffer the discussed flaw is Visual Group Theory by Nathan Carter, discussed on HN earlier. It provides ample motivation and examples before diving into the theorems.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11745486
> "if you indeed liked something about ThunderCrypt and would like to donate" ~ in their reply

What? The owner of the ransomware is asking for donations?

This is hard to parse.
For three months? That says a lot about the overall testability of their stuff.
From what I've heard of lawyers in the Free Software world, they most applauf AGPLv3 for its clarity and precision.

Maybe it just seems imprecise to a layperson because they don't know the well-defined meaning of various legal terms? (... and confuse these with their fuzzy meaning in ordinary language)
Anecdotally (I know, I know), I've ordered a few things recently from Walmart that were cheaper than they were on Amazon. Each time I received the items multiple days later than what the website told me. e.g. "2 day" shipping taking 4 business days. I've had this happen to me maybe a couple of times over several years from Amazon, but its happened each and every time from Walmart.
I would say that yeah, they are toys. Or at least "luxury conveniences" --- rather than some kind of essential tool.
The network boot can be made to work on the RPi 2, I believe. You still need an sd card in there to host the updated boot ROM but it won't be used for anything except booting, so it should be pretty safe from corruption.
No it is about fixing, a design flaw allowed this to happen. SMB1 (hopefully) wasn't built thinking EternalBlue would be a fun feature.

No one expects perfect software; but this clearly happened because Microsoft's​ software was broken, the NSA found where, and horded and then lost control of that knowledge.

edited: I understand what you mean about people not patching and leaving themselves vulnerable. A lot of pain could have been prevented at that level.
I've been wondering if it is possible to dox my Reddit account. I like to think I've been careful not to give too much away but I wonder if it is true.

I would like to find a white hat site that prepares a report on what they can find about you.

(For the record, my reddit account has a different username than my HackerNews account)
I don't have any numbers but they say they are going to set them off driving members of the public this year. Have to see if they deliver.
While that is true, there is really no need to make it (deliberately?) harder by withholding relevant examples, applications, and historical background.
Race-condition exploit ? RCE is almost always an abbreviation for Remote Code Execution, lets keep it that way.
Magic with Manticore
I won't say governments are perfect, but at least buying votes values each individual equally (in theory, there's various issues of how democracy is actually implemented).
> Math is not code, it's not programming.

Computing theory would have a word or two about this idea.

You can not code a Python script without knowing Python any less than you can use a mathematical theorem without knowing the definitions.

And yes, you can know what problem a piece of mathematics solve without knowing the math. How else would the math be invented in the first place?
I've gotten a lot of life out of an iPad 2, still works fine for checking traffic, text sites, and Garage Band. Have acquired a Mini for when it eventually sunsets - though down the street there are rows of small shops that will unlock and/or modify any number of devices for a reasonable fee. Yay!
Chrome DevTools for iOS Safari on iOS device
How to Follow a Twitter Feed in Your RSS Reader
Thanks - I deserve a dig for not googling it. It's a pet peeve to see acronyms that aren't defined, but this is apparently a "common" word that I just happened to be oblivious to!
Show HN: Alternative to Dockerfile
Wage Slavery
“By  1911, an 'Ama­zon' meant any woman rebel”
A valid point. Agents of government also indeed have motive.

I probably am a cynic (or a realist as I prefer to consider) but it's less the ulterior motive of churches and charities and more the lack of dependability and ability to scale.

I see it to be a function of government to care for the disabled or less fortunate if for no other reason than to avoid the associated social problems. Others might not agree. Government traditionally doesn't do the most efficient job at things, and this one they are doing particularly poorly at, but to be fair it is a hard problem with lots of factors.
Ah! I didn't realize it was an English dictionary word. I really thought it was an "inner circle" term that needed defined for the layperson. My mistake.
Mostly agree, but AMD's TDP estimates are slightly optimistic and in reality Ryzen's power usage is much closer to its Intel counterparts.
5 years.
Ah - while it's technically slang, it is defined in the dictionary - https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/dox

My bad!
that's The Thing 5+
"I never understood the wealth redistribution argument from (USA) Americans. If you make $32,400 a year you are in the top 1% globally."

The math doesn't pencil out. Global population is approximately 7.4 billion.[1] One percent of 7.4 billion is 74 million. In cannot be the case that every member of the global one percent is American. But there are more than 70 million Americans that made money income of more than $47,000 in 2015.[2]

[1] https://www.census.gov/popclock/?intcmp=w_200x402

[2] https://www.census.gov/data/tables/time-series/demo/income-p...
Tesla Slides After Morgan Stanley Warns of Cash Burn, Richer Rivals
Then you're always at the will of corporate whims rather than general human decency.
AMD Ryzen 9 Threadripper CPU Lineup Capped by 4.1GHz, 16-Core/32-Thread Beast
I don't understand why they dont just do what macOS does -- you can keep peoples computer up to date without force restarting at insane times and downloading a ton of junk. "Security" does not excuse microsofts customer abuse.
The video has constant motion though, which makes compression much less effective.
> They may not use the term "doxxed" lightly, but they also don't provide a definition for it.

"doxxing" = "documenting" = investigating using publicly available information

Until now, only unlicensed civilians were shamed for doing investigative journalism. Accusing actual journalists of doing it is a new development.
> And most of the items I buy are cheaper at Walmart and Target.

Even used products aren't cheaper on Amazon. Ebay's usually cheaper (and, these days, maybe more trustworthy) and for books in particular both Abebooks and Alibris are usually cheaper, even with shipping, and sometimes way cheaper—which is weird, since Abebooks is owned by Amazon. Blindly using Amazon is a great way to be ripped-off. One cannot trust their prices or products, at all. Even non-tech-savvy relatives are starting to catch on that whole categories of products ought not be purchased on Amazon, ever.
Gareth was a quiet, private person completely unknown prior to his death. Various news media pawed over the gory detail without so much as a thought to public interest or the bereaved.
Complying with minimum-necessary legal obligations is insufficient to not be considered a jerk. There are many jerky things one can do that aren't illegal.

Stiffing someone, legally or not, because you'd like to see the renumeration system under which they're paid change is obnoxious. You're not sending a message[1] and you're not applying pressure where it could influence change[2]. You're underpaying someone who can't afford it, and have no room complain when people notice what you're doing. I personally do believe it reflects on character.

[1] Well, you are... just not the one you intended.

[2] To be clear, I'd love to see tipping go away, too.
I upgraded my first iPad because of weight not speed. As long as the battery keeps up I can probably keep this one 3 times as long. My Mother got three of various sizes, but is probably going to stick with just one or two sizes long term.

Assuming many people get a new one fairly soon based on form factor Apple and others may have been confusing side grades for upgrade.
I think some of this is true, but it doesn't really excuse anything.

I mean, you're right about his age and pizza and hobbies. They turn a tech-news story ("Major malware attack stops") into a human-interest one ("Meet the man who saved the internet"), which plays way better for these papers. The general public, or at least their readership, probably does enjoy those details.

And I suspect they didn't exactly consider this 'doxxing'. It's a less invasive piece than a lot of what they run, and the information was available via public sources. The Sun in particular considers felony phone-tapping fair game, so this is almost chivalrous by their standards.

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But... none of that justifies a damn thing. The general public wants plenty of things that are harmful or illegal, and we don't accept "people wanted it" as a defense of those things. The Sun, as I mentioned, proved that point in spectacular fashion.

Even conceding that the information was available, this isn't something excused by decent journalistic ethics. Publishing nominally-positive personal accounts about people without any attempt to contact them or let them request redactions is pretty odd. Showing up at their friend's houses without notice or interview requests to the main player is bizarre and unwelcome. Offering real name and location info on someone who just interfered with a major criminal action is downright irresponsible - he made the info available in the past, but might have felt pretty differently after interfering with this attack. Using his Twitter photos (unembedded) is comparatively harmless, but it's also illegal!

So yeah, I see why there was a human-interest piece run here. But that doesn't actually justify how the thing was handled.
If you have a statement that humans doesn't know how to prove, finding a proof via automatically generated proof is kinda like trying to decrypt RSA by factoring the key. In both cases, you're looking for a specific key in the search space is extremely large. You can put some insights into the tool that search for the solution, from simpler ones (e.g. using fast multiplication algorithm to verify the candidate quicker), or more sophisticated ones (e.g. using generalized number field sieve instead of trial division), but in the end, they don't help you much in practice -- the search space is still too large to expect to find a key in the lifetime.
It could be rational: usually due to preconceived ideas of class, or perhaps product quality.
Python for Scientists and Engineers Is Now Free to Read Online
Hello,

Python for Scientists and Engineers was the first book I wrote, and the one I still get queries about. It had been out of print for more than a year, but I could never get myself to update it, because it looked like too much work.

Recently, I asked for help in updating it, and a few people volunteered. Thanks to these volunteers, the book is now free to read online (and will remain so).

The book assumes you already know Python, or any other language. I feel there are too many resources for beginners, and not enough for intermediate/advanced programmers.

Anyway, check it out here:

http://pythonforengineers.com/python-for-scientists-and-engineers/

Cheers,
Shantnu
This is both good and bad. Good for developers who can control more, bad for sysadmins who have to force JVM updates to address security vulnerabilities and inefficient settings (hello world pre-allocating 10 gigs of memory).
5V DC power adapters aren't usually larger than the Raspberry Pi.
I really really wish I could do math. I have very high dyslexia and dyscalculia and I really really struggle to understand numbers, it's just so difficult for me to think about them, think about putting them together, even basic addition can be a complete struggle. I'm not sure why, but I can somewhat understand geometry.
Judge orders Uber not to use technology taken from Waymo
> Others attribute the majority of the differences to nature

In the world of policy, we often have to run with an assumption before we can prove it. The question is, what presumption do we apply? The logical thing to do is to make an educated guess from observation. Look at history: Women have long been excluded from the professional world, and been socialized to accept non-economic societal roles. This is recent history: Had my grandmother gone into my field (law), she would've started her career at a time when firms openly refused to hire women regardless of qualifications; had my mom done the same, she would've started at a time when the practice was still widespread and the federal government was fighting to stamp it out. We can also look cross-sectionally. In countries with strong communist influence, the representation of women in science/engineering is much higher than in the U.S.: http://knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu/article/stubborn-obstacle....

If you're a doctor treating a patient who had cancer 10 years ago and it went into remission, you're committing malpractice if that's not the first thing you check for if new troubles arise. Given the above observations, it is disingenuous to start with the presumption that observed differences have biological rather than sociological explanations.
The CIA isn't law enforcement, they don't combat child porn or pedofilia. Plus they've been known to utilise drug channels to launder money and weapons.

It is easier to think of the CIA as a legalised criminal organisation, in that they conduct criminal activities in foreign countries, for what they (and the US government) view as for the "greater good." Which is of course no different than MI6 (SIS), Mossad, or the SVR RF who also primarily conduct illegal activities in foreign countries, often utilising criminal back-channels, and with their respective state endorsement.

For example, the Tor network (used for a huge amount of illegal activity) was primarily funded by the US Government and had expertise provided by US Intelligence. It is no doubt used by organisations like the CIA to help conduct their activities abroad.

Plus the CIA isn't even meant to get involved in domestic law enforcement, they're meant to hand that intelligence off to e.g. the FBI to investigate.
> I've read in multiple articles that other foundries have caught up with intel.

This was 100% intentional market warfare by those other companies. Companies needed to make up the ideological gap and Intel took a bit of a stumble, so they decided to fudge the numbers and make it look like they somehow made up a whole generation's progress overnight - think "megahertz wars", only this time worse (basically, the numbers are completely meaningless market monikers now - you're forced to go read the spec sheets.)

Sadly, it's worked wonders...
2018 Volkswagen Arteon – Interior, Exterior and Drive
Plus, it seems that authors sometimes feel compelled to appear smarter by leaving out the intuition and motivation behind a result, and in particular the easier and more intuitive simple cases (which might have been the inspiration for the result in the first place), and instead present only the most abstract & most general version of the result that they managed to prove.

Including some of the enlightening historical path towards that result is not "dumbing things down".
Amazon started with books, if I remember correctly.

Then they expanded which many businesses do.

Musk is a bit different.
Whether charges have been made is completely irrelevant. If you prevent a LEO from doing is or her job that's obstruction, or spoliation, or one of a couple other charges depending on the specifics.

If this wasn't the case, you do these sorts of obstructions to trick officers into never laying charges for the crime you committed. You might respond, "well shouldn't they be charged with the crime they committed in that case, not the obstruction stuff?" And they can be charged for that as well, but often the obstruction, especially the destruction of evidence, makes it impossible to actually get a conviction.
So 1st the article conflates hate speech and harassment, and then it implies only unambiguously bad things fall under hate speech, ignoring how Geert Wilders' call for fewer Moroccans in the Netherlands was also ruled as hate speech. Increasingly, advocating any kind of border enforcement is 'hate', and disallowing someone entry into your homeland is 'denying their humanity'.

The article also helpfully states that equal laws have unequal effects on different people, but ignores it would be poor people, unable to pay the costs of defending against a hate speech lawsuit, that would be disproportionately silenced by hate speech laws.
> mathematicians have usually similar feelings: there is no scorn more profound, or on the whole more justifiable, than that of the men who make for the men who explain.

Yes, Hardy was a great mathematician and he did say this --- but most mathematicians have tremendous respect for peers who strive for clear exposition in their lectures, their papers, and (if they write them) their books.

I am a professional mathematician, and Hardy's attitude is one I have never heard expressed by any of my peers.

"A Mathematician's Apology" is a fascinating read, but his description of mathematicians' attitudes is certainly not accurate today.

It indeed can be boring to reconstruct your thoughts in a way so that others can understand -- but many of us make the effort anyway, and doing so often leads to new insights.
Judge grants Waymo partial injunction against Uber
When I first started in the late 90's I mostly relied on books or long form written tutorials on the internet. I don't really remember using forums much until the early '00s for programing type related questions.