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Ask HN:Is Roboform v8 an improvement over previous versions?
I haven't really seen this discussed since it's release and I would like to get others inputs on using it now that they have "improved" privacy [1].

1. Now they hide the data such as passcard names + URLs until you are logged in (if this is truly the case I am not completely sure as any reviews of the new version haven't really surfaced so we only have Siber's word and visually seeing it like so within the software.

2. I am now able to easily switch accounts between my work and personal roboform's much more quickly - right now I can click the roboform icon in the browser choose logout - click it again and then change account to quickly change to another roboform account.

Really my question is do you think this changes the game for Roboform in a security sense? If they truly can't see how your passcards are named or where they go to then this could be a big game changer for a lot of users to start using roboform? I've always loved the interface compared to other similar (open source) softwares that just don't seem to integrate UI wise well.

[1] https://www.roboform.com/roboform-8-features

I understand that there are always security consequences with sharing your data (even encrypted) with a third party because down the road those security encryptions may be broken however I have yet to see a well done interface that doesn't require complex setting up for your average user - our company is much smaller and thus can only devote so much of my time to doing any computer related stuff for the business and thus we can't spend money on direct dedicated techs for security and such.

TL;DR
"Do you think the improved privacy features in Roboform v8 are a game changer for technical users who want/need to use a cloud based passwords manager?"

(side note) I submitted this a minute or so ago and it didn't put it under "ask" category so I'm a bit unsure how to get it in there since I can't find a submission option under that category.
Yeah. I don't know if it's quite as beleaguered as we like to think around here, maybe it is, but either way it's pretty important.

And it all started from "people talking about what they ate for lunch".
Related rant: Can apps please stop making the back/play/forward buttons microscopic and as close to each other as possible?
can anyone recommend a good intelligent robot arm kit for building myself?
I agree. The incentives are out of whack. Being a self-pay patient over the last several years has been enlightening. The health care people I've dealt with are generally ready to go well out of their way to help make care more affordable. Once I was given an unasked-for 55% discount on an ER visit. (They're happy they don't have to deal with an insurance company!)

I've heard that people with high-deductible plans are now finding it advantageous to just say they are self-pay to get the discounts.

For comparison shopping, healthcarebluebook.com can give an average price for a certain procedure in your area.
Many Windows developers do want UWP, it is Longhorn done right.
Anecdotally, it's enough to nudge me into alternatives. Other people are saying they know people who decline Walmart shopping for similar reasons but on the other hand with about half of US households using Amazon Prime it's a drop in the bucket.
It looks perfectly sized to me. Where it's lacking is personal storage space, but if the back wall slides open to provide storage, that's excellent. And the desk area doesn't seem deep enough.

The problem with the big glass wall is that peoples offices tend to be messy. They want lots of desk space to toss crap on. But you want lots of glass so it feels more open (while still giving people quiet work areas). If you can give them good enclosed storage options, then their offices should remain looking relatively neat.
exactly, just more scare mongering
I'd bet that's actually a part of what is restricting general demand for 1gbit+ NICs on consumer gear. How many consumer or prosumer applications actually exist where 1gbit/sec isn't sufficient, but a pair of bonded 1gbit/sec NICs still isn't enough? Link aggregation is commonly enough supported and easy enough to configure for the kind of audience who needs it that I suspect this covers much of the demand which might otherwise be served by 5gbit or 10gbit NICs natively.
It's always good to see more companies push for GraphQL.

There are a few others like this, one of which I co-founded, called Scaphold.io (https://scaphold.io), and we're huge proponents of GraphQL and Serverless as well. It truly is the future of app development.

If you're interested in learning more about using Serverless with GraphQL, feel free to join the Serverless GraphQL Meetup that we're hosting (https://www.meetup.com/serverless-graphql).
These 22-Year Old Developers Just Launched a DVR for Bugs
If only reddit allows you to customise what you see... oh wait it does.
We actually use both. The data used to train the neural networks is all generated through a scripted policy simulation. We then use a single human demonstration in VR to show the robot how to carry out a particular task. VR lets a human do a demonstration quite naturally, and would also be an effective way to collect training data for more complex tasks, where we’re not be able to create a scripted policy.
Currently salivating for a self-hosted version of this. I suppose it's too much to expect that this would ever become a reality.
The lawyers did.
Not the person you replied to but I have the same setup. The only real issue is getting the adapters so they can be connected (plenty available on a variety of websites, but of questionable quality).
Login wall really hits my "cba" buttons, sorry. If it re-appears on my radar with some more info behind it I'll give it a thought again.

To expand on that a little - if I forget and link an interesting comment thread to a friend and they have to register to view it I look like a dork. It's not happening.
The break of the Lorenz cipher is one of those great moments in deduction. If you're not familiar with how it happened, this is a great summary: https://www.codesandciphers.org.uk/lorenz/fish.htm
That seems like a bit of a red flag

A basic and egregious security blunder is more than a bit of a red flag.

and makes me wonder if it is the tip of the iceberg.

If you already see that the tip sticking out has a mine on it, the tons of iceberg only give you the difference in the degree of egregiously bad.
Hey jorjordandan - just ping @nilan in our slack and he will get you set up with a lifetime project plan :-)
Pros and cons of Spotify’s plan to forgo an IPO in favor of direct listing
It's about VAT collection. If you sign up and warrant that you do it yourself, you could click the button. However, your note reminded me to kick off a specific email about Ireland as a possibility.

Disclosure: I work on Google Cloud, but I'm definitely not a lawyer, tax lawyer, accountant or any such financial type.
As alluded to, yes it's "ok". How good it is varies based on how tired I am. I like sites at 100% or less zoom in the morning, and often at 110% or more zoom towards the end of the day. Also depends on how far away my screen is.

For example, I tend to put my phone screen very near my face in the evening.

No such thing as perfect eyesight when you've been wearing glasses since you were 8 ;)
Make everything static. Unless you really need some sort of dynamic content. If you do need dynamic content, make sure to stress test it. There are tools out there to load test your website to see if it breaks.

Put it on Cloudflare. Cloudflare can absorb huge volumes of traffic with ease. Keep in mind there are other WAFs (Web Application Firewalls) you can check out.

Use as little third party widgets / bells and whistles as possible, and self host assets when you can. If these go down (which they will when your site is trending on Hackernews), then your site may not load correctly and leave your users frustrated. Remember the recent S3 failure? It broke thousands upon thousands of sites.
Thanks, I forgot about the NoSQL part due to tunable consistency.
I remembered Cassandra as almost similar to SQL databases with horizontal scalability.
You'd be surprised how many "AI-powered" startups are actually powered by BPOs located in Columbia/Philippines/India/etc.
By "zone out", I don't think he means vacantly ogle the scenery. He's just advocating turning off the music/podcasts, disabling phone notifications, and just driving.

I often do this when I find my base stress level rising. You just watch the road in front of you while you turn things over in your head the whole time.

We're well into idle speculation territory here, but I think this sort of mental garbage collection is a necessary and underrated exercise. It's something that people are unknowingly depriving themselves of when they insist on constantly signal jamming their brains with Facebook/Instagram/Twitter/Feedly.
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It probably won't count network downtime either, since it's measured at the server, not the client. Even if your client is in GAE...
This is part of it:

“Falcon Heavy is one of those things that at first it sounded easy,” Musk said. “We’ll just take two first stages and use them as strap-on boosters. And like, actually no, this is crazy hard, and required a redesign of the center core, and a ton of additional hardware. It was actually shockingly difficult to go from a single core to a triple-core vehicle.”

http://spacenews.com/spacex-to-launch-falcon-heavy-with-two-...
I can't even find the API docs for drawing to "paper." They need to work on the usability and make it a proper open standard, like HTML Canvas!
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I think the most interesting question is, how do they handle the different interfaces between phone and desktop. A touchscreen needs a very different UI than a desktop with mouse and keyboard.

If I read that correctly, they are just ignoring the problem and share files on the phone between Android apps and programs running on Debian, which seems like it could work most of the time. (No idea if there is Blender for Android, but I am pretty sure there are .doc readers for Android.)
Wolfram Looks Back on New Kind of Science
Why do so many cities have poor east ends?
Yeah I know. I use the same monitors that designers use. Or at least used to a few years ago when Apple monitors were still The Thing To Have. Haven't upgraded in a while.

You know what happens with those gorgeous monitors with perfect contrast and beautiful calibration when it's sunny outside and my blinds aren't down or I'm physically outside with my laptop? They turn flat black. Can't see shit.

Also designers sometimes push the contrast thing too far. In both directions.
And a power source for the screen...
Stephen Wolfram Reflects on a New Kind of Science
The theory is that street or public or other not-specific-to-this-business parking is a commons, and that absent regulation, everyone will try to maximize their share of the commons even to the detriment of all.
Bundling these features by default is bad for Atom. It changes Atom from an editor to an advertisement. Maybe Github dwarfs the competition but boxing them out of the editor is unnecessary. This smells like bundling IE with Windows 98.
I really wonder what how much food could be produced if all the lawn and empty lots in a city were effectively productive as vegetable plots. I know that it can't be used because people like their lawns and things but often there is unused space in densely populated areas.
I have deep reservations about the way S-Town was produced and edited.

I think it's likely Brian outed people who didn't want to be outed, who also happen to live in a violently intolerant society. That's journalistically unethical.

Brian also does a lot of bisexual erasure in S-Town and that's not cool either.
There was a presentation about it done last year by Keith Packard at Linux.conf.au.

Hardware and Software Architecture of The Machine

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S--Kgseuy0Q
Oh, you know, drivers kill over a million people are year. But you are right, why is that a problem?

Driving is the single most dangerous thing most people will do at any time. It is a ridiculous, barbaric thing to do.
Backing Up Cloud Services with Doomsday Machine
I find that feature very helpful. If a track I like is no longer available and I enjoy it enough to want to download it, I can always go somewhere where it is available and buy it/download it. Much better than it just randomly disappearing and then having to remember what track could possibly be missing out of my 100+ song playlist.
That's a personal solution not a general solution.

Make your font bigger (14 please), choose the font face for clear character distinction, and increase the contrast.
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My bad, and thanks
They certainly have private code, but this seems to have been recently updated:

https://github.com/reddit/reddit
I don't know, but when people talk about the reduced overhead from unikernels or containers I doubt nested hypervisors is what they had in mind.
So what you're saying is you can update the neural net to do dick or not dick without going through the App Store review?
Facebook facing privacy actions across Europe as France fines firm €150k
Similar to the Earth, it would be a combination of heat from radioactive decay and the original heat of accretion slowly radiating away.
Microsoft is giving it another go with Windows S, which is continuum without the phone part.

I have a windows phone with continuum and tried it, and while it is executed quite well, it wasn't very useful due to the lack of apps. You can use any windows 10 device as a screen/keyboard/mouse, but usually the laptops I have near me are mine, so they already have everything I need. If it had an ability to carry a self-contained programming environment I might have played around with it more.

It does make a fine fallback presenting device. You put your powerpoint slides on the phone, and if all else fails you can project your slides to any w10 laptop that's near.
He did not say these words, that was indeed what I was referring to.
Really great to see this! We're excited to see Graphcool using Auth0 Extend for functions and this is a great use case for Serverless. When you write your function in Graphcool, GC doesn't have to provision servers to run them. All of that is handled on demand by Extend, powered by Webtask.
So, it would be cool to have Debian as the base OS and Android running in a container. When in Phone mode, Android is front and center and when in Desktop mode, the base Debian host is. Could then still access the Android container.

If the UIs supported a seamless mode, that would be icing.
On the other hand this will Github an incentive to keep on improving Atom. Maybe someone has finally figured out how to monetize an editor. I hope so, cause the current ecosystem of editors is a mess of half baked solutions.
Cool idea, I just don't think we're ready yet.

If a cable has to be used, i'd prefer it to be a single USB-C, which also charges the phone while plugged in and being a desktop. Possibly to a dock with a keyboard/mouse/monitor and other ports.

ARM processors have made some insane progress over the recent years, maybe in another 4-6 from now they will actually be quick enough to really make this a solid experience.
You don't need a single memory machine to simulate the human brain though. Because neurons have a clear spatial structure, you can break the problem up into a mesh, give each piece of the mesh to a different machine, and give them some interconnect so they can broadcast relevant portions of their state to neighboring machines. You don't need low latency direct memory access for every node to all of the memory. Look at something like the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tianhe-2 which has about a petabyte of RAM

EDIT: I think you're also not considering the ample opportunities to compress this data set. For instance, you can represent the connections between neurons with a sparse adjacency matrix, and there is a whole body of literature devoted to coming up with small representations of that kind of data, while still being able to perform operations efficiently. For the genome variance, keep in mind the variance is going to be absolutely tiny in comparison to the whole genome, so you can just store the genome of one of the neurons and then the diffs between it and all the other neurons or something.
30 years later Aliens looks like a cliché action movie. I think it looks that way because it set a lot of standards for action movies. Poke around at popular action movies from the early 80's. Aliens has no Star Wars mysticism. Aliens lacks Star Trek optimism. It's not 'a guy with a grudge' like Rambo or Commando or any of a dozen others.

It certainly pulled from old westerns and war movies, but did it in a (imho) pretty innovative way.
But by then everyone currently using es6 will be writing es7 which will be compiled to webassembly with an optimising compiler...
Imagine if you went back 50 years and told Terry Winograd or Marvin Minsky that in 50 years we'd still be trying to figure out how to get robots to stack blocks on top of each other. They'd think you were nuts.
From the article: "Prof Seba’s premise is that people will stop driving altogether. They will switch en masse to self-drive electric vehicles (EVs) that are ten times cheaper to run than fossil-based cars, with a near-zero marginal cost of fuel and an expected lifespan of 1m miles."

If things move that fast, chances are cities start banning all internal combustion engines, as some already do for older diesels. The average citizen wouldn't feel that bad about that, as it would clean city air, and _renting_ an electric car probably would be cheaper than driving one with an internal combustion engine.

So, _if_ that's true, 'most vehicles will be electric', for me, isn't out of the question. 'All', I would call highly unlikely. I doubt that million mile lifespan, though, especially for the batteries.

Edit: forgot to add that this heading is not what the report says. It starts "We are on the cusp of one of the fastest, deepest, most consequential disruptions of transportation in history. By 2030, within 10 years of regulatory approval of autonomous vehicles (AVs), 95% of U.S. passenger miles traveled will be served by on-demand autonomous electric vehicles owned by eets, not individuals, in a new business model we call “transport- as-a-service” (TaaS)."

That's five more years, 5% less, and not a percentage of _cars_, but of passenger miles. That leaves plenty of room for 20% or so gasoline cars rarely driven but kept for old time's sake, used by those who rarely drive, or used in the countryside.
I want this on my iPhone so badly. iOS when standalone, Mac OS when plugged into a display.
The times are a' changin'

Dr. Emory Brown's work out if U Mass in anesthesia is a data point for this. He claims to have a working general anesthesia machine. From the talks and data of his I have seen, it really does work. Yes, it's not good for a pediatric car accident victims, but for tonsillectomies or proctology exams, you know 'routine' general anesthesia, the thing works great. He says that he uses it in his own surgery suite with better 'results' than a human can obtain.

Yeah, it's 10 years out, maybe 20. But this trend of replacing doctors with robots (and getting better outcomes) is not going away. So, that there is a current bottleneck may be true, but in the near future, we just won't need doctors for a lot of areas of medicine.
> The actual cost to develop a single successful drug, if you pass all the clinical trials, is in the ballpark of $500M or so.

I'd love to see a source for that.. Not even Pharma claims figures that high. Take Sofosbuvir for example; It was discovered in 2007, was developed through 2011 and then the company was acquired by Gilead while they had multiple Phase III trials running. In that time period, they spent a total of $230 million on R&D -- for all of their candidates. They also had two other compounds that were undergoing Phase II trials.

> The Phase III clinical trial by itself is well over $100M, much more if you're doing a large, long-term clinical study for a difficult problem (say, Alzheimer's or cancer).

Nah. Not even close. HHS's most recent look placed Phase III at $19.9M, with very few classes of drugs costing more than $50M total for all phases (Ignoring IV since those are often more marketing than R&D)[1]:

https://aspe.hhs.gov/system/files/images-reports/examination...

> Something like 50% of all drugs fail in phase III.

The average is closer to 60% success rate, with some areas up to 75% success.[2] And it's not like if you fail the Phase III, the compound is scrapped and all of that work is wasted. There's an entire industry behind drug "repurposing, repositioning and rescue" to purchase and retarget promising compounds.

[1] Full study: https://aspe.hhs.gov/report/examination-clinical-trial-costs...

[2] https://www.bio.org/sites/default/files/Clinical%20Developme...
If you can get stuff for 90% cheaper than Finisar/Avago you can afford to buy spares.
> However it also pays incredibly well. Even moreso for specialities and surgeons, who can make over 200k a year even in low cost of living areas. Despite the difficulties of being a doctor it's harder to get into medical school than ever. The difficulties are not deterring med students.

I wonder how many doctors would be up for "sharing work (and compensation)" - in other words, would a doctor be OK with dropping his comp to $150K (from $200K) so the savings can be used to add a third more doctors to the staff?
The "relief" in working conditions may well be worth it, for the doctor's sanity of course, but also for the patients (and all of the benefits down the line from having fewer mistakes, etc).

It's obviously not the only dimension that can be played with to help, but it's one that could be fairly straightforward to implement, as long as there is enough supply of applicants to increase the workforce.
I can do hi-def video calls and video playback on my phone already; the video encode+decode is handled by dedicated hardware. Ditto for certain types of video conversions. Gaming is at 1080p, equivalent to PC games from perhaps 10 years ago.

This is with a mid-range phone from a couple years ago. I think you're being overly pessimistic.
$5? You still need to store the weights, and with 100's of millions of parameters@32 bits each that still won't be cheap. It'll be a lot cheaper than a GPU though and it will use far less power.
very cool link
Sure. But I have my phone anywhere, and peripherals are ubiquitous. My beefy silicone devices...not.
Well, that might be overhyped, but at least it has a meaning that everyone agrees on: distributed, multi-party, append-only database.
> Why should the company spend millions a year on a perk you can take advantage of that I can't?

You can absolutely take advantage of it, by raising a child.
Also the Tyranids and Zerg are so close in concept it's not even funny. Still, you're right, there is no original art/thought etc. Ultimately our brains have a finite amount of possible states, so everything is a remix.
It's weird, I think HN's text size is perfect and view the site at 100%. I clicked through to your link and immediately scaled it down to 66% to make it readable.
Where does the article say anything about it being habitable for humans? The article is about the possibility of finding alien life.