skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ugh. This looks like MS trying to one-up Material Design (itself already on the rich side), and in so doing I think they've gone a step too far.

It does look good, in a sci-fi movie UI kind of way. But it would be a nightmare if many of the apps I use day to day started to look this way. All the animation, depth, texture - it's too attention grabbing, self conscious, and annoyingly, deeply, branded.

Software is not supposed to be a high-design object, taste is very individual and any object with so much aesthetic weight imposes on our consciousness. While highly designed things can bring us a lot of pleasure, we should be free to judiciously choose them for ourselves.

Many pieces of software are non-negotiable high-use tools. They should be, first and foremost, highly usable - and if there's an insistence on imposing an aesthetic experience on the user, it should be acknowledged that the user likely has no choice but to use the software, and may be temperamentally or socioeconomically unlikely to appreciate the aesthetic experience being thrust upon them. (I wonder what my 75 year old Russian mom would make of all the depth effects, Windows 10 already confuses her and hurts her eyes.) So if we're going to insist on infusing our software with some particular design aesthetic, it should at the very least be light, minimal, and easy to ignore for those who aren't interested and just need to get their work done.
Nothing is secure. That post is basically spreading FUD as far as I'm concerned. There isn't even a point of comparison to any other distribution platform/native toolkit.

I also trust browser vendors to focus on keeping stripped-down versions of their core products secure more than I just joe/jane schmoe the app developer that just learned how to use QT/Swing/whatever.
OK, but so what? It still in some sense restricts the rights of the person using the software.
MetroPCS is a wholly owned subsidiary of T-Mobile.

Cricket is a wholly owned subsidiary of AT&T.

Boost and Virgin are MVNO's.

EDIT: I stand corrected, Boost/Virgin are owned by Sprint.
Ransomware cyber attack hits Telefonica, other Spanish firms
Terrible move, yes.

As for legality, that depends on jurisdiction. Cryptocurrencies are not recognized as a legal tender currency in many areas. In some areas they are, in other areas they are considered an asset like a stock, in others a collectable and in some places have no more legal rights than the gold you earn in World of Warcraft.

I agree he had no moral right to spend that money, but legal becomes highly debatable. It will be interesting to see if there are any small claims cases that rise out of it as it could actually push forward legislation on crypto.
Liquidate.
I hear that - it sounds VERY similar to what I dealt with. I also had the additional problem of working to help an audience and a customer base that deep down, I didn't care about.

So many people seem to believe it's only about overwork - but that's only a small part of it. It's a myth I tried to dispel as best I could in the article.
You have to test the patch against your images! You cannot simply roll out whatever shit Redmond send you down the pipe especially when they had to rush it out themselves due a tip off. That would be gross negligence what if there was some device attached to that workstation keeping someone's machine on? How would you know what that workstation is doing?
Canada has 3 big mobile operators, and there is zero competition.

In provinces that have local operators, they do compete.

The difference between markets is so large that people pretend to live in Manitoba or Saskatchewan just so they can have cheaper plans.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/wireless-black-market-offe...
None of the gifs hit 1kb. This is actually a pretty lightweight page. < 1mb loaded.
I agree, my table saw still scares the living shit out of me. When I had some tension in a board I was ripping down clamp up on the blade and start to buck, I couldn't reach down for the switch, so I jumped away and yanked the cord from the wall. It was a very tense 4-5 seconds.

Afterward I calmed down, i flipped the board around started ripping from the other side to meet in the middle and everything was better.
Not necessarily "morality" as such, but some cryptocurrency advocates idealise the use of smart contracts and such to create binding agreements without using the threat of state violence.
For those wondering, while I'm writing this, these Bitcoin addresses store $7771.84 (according to XE).
Because that is not the title of the article.
Somebody should inform all the companies selling enterprise software whose entire model depends on selling seats, then.
Right, but what makes a design fluent? Are there guidelines? Other than using "light", "depth", etc.?
* End-user monitoring / surveillance (I started my career with a paper motivated by how skeeved out I was by IPWatcher: http://cs.unc.edu/~fabian/course_papers/PtacekNewsham98.pdf)

* Anything for DoD (or any country's Dept. of Defense)

* Casinos

* Weapons

That might be about it. I could, situationally, be comfortable working on:

* DRM/content protection

* HFT

* Some aspects of adtech
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> Streaming services are the future of media. If Cannes wants to be irrelevant then so be it.

Electric cars are the future of transport. If Formula 1 wants to be irrelevant then so be it.

Carving out your niche doesn't make you irrelevant. F1 has plenty of petty rules, yet it's still damn profitable.
Do we know which 16 are affected?
Spotify adds QR-like codes for quick music sharing
It really is not
Linux llega a Windows 10 con Ubuntu, Fedora y SUSE
Not the best, but interesting enough that I watched it before work today: Kill the Ref https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=coK5US8tfK4 Recommended with the premise that refereeing is interesting.
My objection to shell is that it obtains that line advantage by cheating. It has terribly poor error handling, it uses an incredibly sloppy serialization format that frequently breaks at the scales people attempt to apply it at, its performance characteristics are terrible, its debugging story is nonexistant, perhaps worst of all it affords a programming style that blinds people to how much compromise they are making with their data because of the aforementioned serialization format, and on it goes. Of course programming languages can't get as concise as shell; even the sloppiest programming language communities there are have the bar for quality set substantially above what shell can meet.

Your example isn't even equivalent to my rather sloppy Perl, since, for instance, it will do something quite different if /etc/passwd doesn't exist. Shell only has the size advantage as long as everything goes perfectly correctly.

Shell is only good for two cases: 1. You don't much care about the integrity of your input or output, and you don't much care about what happens if something goes wrong. 2. When you don't care about the aforementioned issues because you're right there on the spot and can fix things if they do go wrong, because you're using shell interactively.

Having fiddled around with designing a "new shell" every so often my current conclusion is that there is no way to bridge the gap between the optimal interactive use shell and the optimal shell script with one language, and modern shell scripting, for all the features they have apparently for shell scripts, are firmly for the interactive case.
If this trend of targeting large institutions continues, yeah, I can see someone eventually "overreacting" with black ops.

This said, they're probably popping champagne at Tory HQ right about now.
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>I wasn't replying to the person, I was replying to /you/.

And my point still stands. How do you define a "fully autonomous vehicle" is an important question. Consider the following three possibilities:

- Drives better than the median human driver in average weather conditions on half of the roads in the US (alternatively, for harder goals, replace with US+Europe or World)
- Drives better than 95% of people in 95% of weather conditions on 95% of roads in the US
- Drives better than any human in any weather conditions on any road in the US

I'd argue we're almost certainly past the first milestone, and probably at or approaching the second, and the third will never be reached, but that doesn't matter.

>A vehicle which can navigate autonomously 95% of the time might not be that far off (I still call it a decade though), but those last 5% (thus, no steering wheel at all) are going to be way harder. To give but a few examples: humans are taxed by navigating roads in snowy weather at night, but they usually pull it off. Or intersections controlled by traffic police. Or intersections with undisciplined drivers pushing in. I'll be interested to see an autonomous system deal with such situations gracefully.

Fwiw, I'm fairly confident that waymo's vehicles can handle flagmen and have more experience driving in the snow than I do. And I'm sure they can handle aggressive or undisciplined drivers.

Conversely, there are situations that AVs will handle much much better than humans already (a neighborhood with a lot of kids running around and shrubs occluding them for example).

For context, we know that the first goal (better than average driver in half of road conditions) is now achievable by teams of 1-3 people on a tight budget in O(months) (and really, maybe weeks), since people have done that and posted it on the internet.
>The most interesting thing about cryptocurrencies for me was them slowly realizing why a basic level of financial regulation is important.

Anarcho-capitalism is all fun and games until you discover you're not really a wolf among the sheep.
It depends, sometimes the product involves so much infrastructure that new competition is basically impossible. Water, sewage, electric, gas, internet, wireless internet all require very heavy investments in infrastructure that make it impossible for newcomers to come in and compete.

These are the things that should be classified as utilities and just operated by taxpayers, since everyone needs it and everyone benefits from it.
From the guidelines [0]
> please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Until the Next Deal: a quick story about losing an angel deal
Does this mean he was running on wallet funds from the start? It doesn't sound like he had any investors or any revenue at all.
But if for some reason some court rules the GPL invalid, doesn't it mean that the companies using the GPL'ed software are violating copyright?

Because the GPL license is the only thing granting them the rights to use that intellectual property, right?
The one-vendor theory and the herd mentality did and does a great disservice for tech, humanity and its rights. We should concentrate more on open standards and software freedom to avoid all the trouble.
> He was a stand-up guy

I think the facts of the case would imply he really isn't. Sounds like he had good intentions and no deliberate malice, but he did something bad anyway.
Marginal decisions are still probablistic.

A doctor with that success rate is terrible because value of success is lower than the cost of failure. A VC with low hit rate is good when value of success is 100x the cost of failure.

VCs are going to have to choose how liberal/risky to be in investing. They could maybe choose to invest less and we'd not have Juicero but we'd also not have many other successful companies. When you investing in many companies some are going to be bad.

Extrapolating Juicero to all of SV is like critisizing a hundred billion dollar infrastructure bill because of one fairly useless hundred million dollar project in it.
I'm not sure which article you were referencing, but the pictures in the Guardian piece clearly show Windows 7.
Exactly this. When ever anything comes to tender, out of the usual three on the table, the cheapest will always be chosen.

And because departments are left to their own devices, they solve all their problems with shared drives and excel sheets.

Ransomware is the hero we didn't ask for.
Not necessarily.

"I've considered selling exceptions acceptable since the 1990s, and on occasion I've suggested it to companies. Sometimes this approach has made it possible for important programs to become free software."

Read his full text for some boundaries he sees.

https://www.fsf.org/blogs/rms/selling-exceptions
Interesting question. My take would be that software engineers may tend to be more publicly open about their mistakes and pitfalls in an effort to help those who come next avoid the same mistakes. This is especially true regarding technical mistakes and that mindset has permeated to personal/emotional difficulties as well.
The future of net neutrality might rest on this obscure court case
there's load work to do from the eff

FSF
I work for one of those consultancy firms.
Typically, this is the kind of stuff that's required to get us through the door in the first place.
They beta tested the sim cards only on their own Lyf branded phones which are some of the cheapest 4G phones available. They plan on releasing more phones, an FTTH broadband service, they already have movies and music streaming services, they have small portable wifi hotspot devices, there's news that they'll enter the D2H TV service market too. I think they'll make their money back with a combination of the hardware and services.

The competition has been the biggest boon for the public even more so than the services they're offering, forced every major network to lower their prices which I hope will have a good long term effect for the public.
Interesting. What kinds of tools are you using for your SSH setup?
From the article, past the first paragraphs..

"Over that time the group, the Krefeld Entomological Society, has seen the yearly insect catches fluctuate, as expected. But in 2013 they spotted something alarming. When they returned to one of their earliest trapping sites from 1989, the total mass of their catch had fallen by nearly 80%. Perhaps it was a particularly bad year, they thought, so they set up the traps again in 2014. The numbers were just as low. Through more direct comparisons, the group—which had preserved thousands of samples over 3 decades—found dramatic declines across more than a dozen other sites."

"The mass of insects collected by monitoring traps in the Orbroicher Bruch nature reserve in northwest Germany dropped by 78% in 24 years."
http://www.isup.me/apnews.com/

Looks up.
First off this looks cool.

But these 4G connected smart ODB dongles scare the crap out of me. You are giving an IOT device the ability to disable breaks, the transmission, and lock you inside. I'm not really worried about a Maximum Overdrive type situation, giving this much control to a category of devices that was able to take down Dyn because so many of these devices used a subset of 60 common factory default usernames and passwords.

I think there is a good use case for these type of devices, but I think ODB, isn't the right mechanism for it. But I don't know if there will be a new standard.
The currency is supposed to be secure from snooping which precludes strong oversight. But at the same time, the asset manager is able to just loot all his depositors at will with no repercussions.
>The planet; as-in this rocky, water-world orbiting Sol, will exist for BILLIONS of years.
>The _life_ on this planet AS WE KNOW IT is dying, along with ourselves.

Do you honestly think the person who said this doesn't understand that rocks aren't alive and will keep on existing whether there is life on it or not?
And when multiple bash scripts do that, it is easy to have them accidentally overwrite each other's temp files. Plus an attacker can play with temp files in a number of interesting ways to turn their use into an attack.
Does this really happen in darknets? Or is it just Dale Gribble types and law enforcement stings? I've seen the postings in certain places, but never assumed it was real. It seems IRC would be a more likely place for things like this to take place. It's not like a drug market.
Tech nearly always reached the rich first.

"Computers are type writers for rich snobs who can't type."
Wikipedia says[1] Jumia is headquartered in Lagos and also:

In 2012, Jumia Group was launched with the
support of Rocket Internet, MTN, and Millicom.
In March 2016, Jumia Group secured over €300M
of funding from MTN, Rocket Internet, AXA,
Goldman Sachs, Orange and CDC

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jumia
> VSCode is great on Ubuntu and every version of OS X I have run it on.

VSCode barely worked for me on Ubuntu, it has a lot of glitches and just a rebrand for atom.

> Plus tons of other cool things like bash on win; etc.

Bash is everything but cool.
This goes to show how disastrous a single bad business decision can be. When the 4G standards were still in flux, Sprint committed to WiMax and spent billions building a new network around it. Then the rest of the industry went with LTE, WiMax died, and Sprint had little money left to redo their network again. They've been basically on life support since.
> If there were a car brand with affordable cars that didn't play these games, I'd buy from them happily.

No you wouldn't. You've already lost the affordable game by insisting on new cars. New car dealerships get away with this crap because their customer base is already not very price-rational. It doesn't matter whether they're discounting you $1000 or $3000 when you've already foregone $10,000 or more in exchange for the abstract feeling of newness. If you don't want to play price games, just get on craigslist, look for a car at a price you like, go check it out and have your mechanic inspect it, then don't negotiate, just pay the price. Or whatever, you can even be sloppy and get screwed by a private party and still probably end up way ahead compared to the stealership's prices.

New cars are a luxury product and it's very strange to see people discussing them as if they're anything else. Luxury products always have wacky economics, since their value is so untied to fundamentals.
Here is a link to the actual opinion if anyone else is interested.

https://scholar.google.com/scholar_case?case=377952933561079...
Interesting that you mention lawyers. I've heard multiple times that they are at super high risk of burnout. This quote, for example:

"Lawyers are at especially high risk for burnout, both because of the job and because of the personality traits we tend to have."

From this article:
https://lawyerist.com/94605/recognize-prevent-lawyer-burnout...

Yes, I went looking for an article about lawyers and burnout, so it's not particularly telling, but it least it demonstrates existence.
If they were regulated as utilities, maybe. But under the current political administration, that's not going to happen. We can't let them have it both ways - ideally there would be both competition and consumer protection regulations, but if one is certainly gone we can't compromise on the other.
That may be their contention, but this is exactly why this is fundamentally different to the copyleft case. The GPL requires none of this.

I would add that it seems pretty specious to argue that I bought a license when the license was not presented to me at the time I paid for the product and left the store, but I accept that this could be their contention.
Off of a rooftop would be practically suicidal. Wingsuits need time to inflate and start flying, which for the best guys on the planet is around 300 feet. Normal humans require about 400. 'Margin' is a word that has a bunch of different contexts, most of which still put wingsuit base in a reasonably safe range. Terrain flying, which is the sub-discipline of wingsuit base where you're goalposting trees, is indisputably the most dangerous sport on the planet, and I've lost six friends to it in the last year.

I don't know that i'd describe it as 'controversial' but would rather describe it as 'that thing a bunch of people with nowhere near enough experience or currency to be doing it keep doing and fucking killing themselves.'
"it could nuke the planet eliminating all insect life"

We'd have to spend a while building a supply of big cobalt-salted bombs because the nuclear arsenals we've actually had have come nowhere near to the level required to wipe out all people let alone all insects.
He raised $445K in a seed round. The article is really crap and doesn't fully explain what he did. https://dogetipbot.wordpress.com/2014/12/05/on-tipping-dogec...

I think this story could have gone "we raised $x million in series A" and have some sort of exit in some hype-bubble and he'd be lauded as a genius.

Edit: It seems that they built this: https://honeyledger.com/ - chargeback free way for streamers to get money from fans. Not a bad idea.
This is why banking regulation and licensing exists. It's also well understood that a bank will do this with your money, while a regular custodian should not.

If he'd made it clear upfront that the funds would be loaned to a risky business venture, with no reward, and people still chose to trust him with money then arguably that would be fine from a moral standpoint, but he didn't, and I'm sure he didn't because he knew nobody would have agreed to it.
How Cloudflare sends your sensitive data to their 1M clients.
I would much rather see governments embrace and contribute to Open Source software available to all, they could even pay 3rd parties to maintain and service.
They exist everywhere but that hasn't stopped them from being especially prevalent in cryptocurrencies. The financial system is pretty sketchy in general but cryptocurrencies seem to have a large amount of scandals for having such a low volume of people actually using them.
AnyProxy is a fully configurable HTTP/HTTPS proxy in Node.js
I submit that the working person greatly benefits from having a strongly held, over-arching life goal. Then even if he or she is working a soul-draining job for, say, a social media company, they will be content knowing it is a necessary step towards their goal.
This doesn't make sense.

A Chromecast is 35€.

A 7 year old laptop is perfectly capable of streaming and a HDMI cable to plug your laptop into your existing tv is 10€.
Boost and Virgin are owned by Sprint, as well.
Oddly enough (and probably speaking to our mindsets as a community), it was the death of a good buddy of mine that pushed me to finally start base jumping.

Here's that story: https://vimeo.com/167054481
The court could rule that part of the license is invalid, but not all of it.
I'm a self trained dev (aka horrible person?) who's spent the last 8 years doing back end dev work - mostly C#, Java, Python and now Scala in everything from SV startups to a government research lab. Either I'm an outlier, or you're overestimating the importance of those cherished fundamentals (which can be picked up independently of a degree anyhow).
Everything in that list is happening for me right now, with perhaps the exception of the mismatch between my values and my company's. I tell my manager about it and he has been trying to rearrange things to try to help me, but I feel like there is probably a reason things got to be this shitty, and that reason will probably keep on happening. I don't know what to do. My last workplace was bad in many of the same ways, and I don't feel like I have the energy to enter into yet another employment situation brimming with optimism, only to have it turn into the suck once again.