skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you ever ride the ferry from Wellington to Picton, most of the time you'll see Bottlenose Dolphins chasing after the boat. It's a pretty cheap ride and is less than an hour. I've heard similar stories about ferries in Seattle.

You don't need to pay for expensive tourist rides to see some of these creatures. If you live in the right areas, and if we take care of our waterways, you can see all kinds of amazing creatures just by riding a ferry.
Spotify and Amazon Prime.
Well there is a case for having encryption and this isn't as first class of a parallel, but when GPS was young and primarily being used by the military they purposely skewed civilian readings. Eventually, they decided to not alter the civilian results; hopefully they can just get to this conclusion faster on encryption.
Note that the minimum is updated annually. Most recent amount is $88,231.36.

Does not apply to trainees or entry level programmers.

https://www.dir.ca.gov/oprl/ComputerSoftware.pdf
> If the value of labour on its own was really equal to the value of money paid to the worker

Nobody, not even Marx, is claiming this. The employer does not actually buy labour, this is a popular misconception. He purchases the capacity to perform labour, which is measured usually in hours (though it can be measured by other metrics too). This capacity is a separate commodity, which is the only thing most workers have available to sell. This commodity is a special kind, for its use value (not exchange value) is the ability to create value, that value is transferred to the products themselves and is crystallised in them, as abstract labour.

>and intelligently directing it

Nobody denies that the direction itself is applying labour to the products; for if it wasn't, engineers or project managers wouldn't be applying labour. The question is why the capitalist not only receives the fruits of his own labour, but also the fruits of others' labour.

Do you not think that a capitalis' labour, when applied in conjuction with the labour of the workers, equals a product which is exactly equal in value to the product if the capitalist was also extracting surplus? The fact is that surplus does not need to be extracted for the products to be made, which is the entire argument behind socialism - you don't need the capitalist for production.
The tech solution might be giving partial keys to someone in another legal jurisdiction.

e.g. I send a partial key to my cousin and grandmother which live in another country. When crossing borders I then logout and cannot log back in without their part of the key. A local judge will not be able to compel someone in another country to cooperate - and my grandmother's local judge will not be able to compel her since the request is being made in another country.

Kind of hokey - but maybe it works?
I'm pretty sure that Microsoft uses Office, in part, as a way to develop and refine new UI elements.

At some point the API got pulled out of Office and made part of Windows proper, with the Windows Ribbon Framework[0]. Built in applications, Explorer being the most visible, have now started using it.

[0] https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/dd3...
> The best answer I have

That's an excellent answer and I think you are right. Car culture is a big deal in the US and I think the perceived independence it represents is part of the reason why.
Liquid-cooled motors are widespread in many applications already and technically it's not something complicated. Furthermore, high torque, multi-pole motors (assuming you want to direct-drive a cutting head moving at 2-4 RPM) have little to do with with the kinds of motors used in cars.
Sure but in this instance, Trump screams "fake!!!111" when the NYT reports anything about him breaking or subverting the law, then turns around and calls Maggie Haberman and Glenn Thrush into the White House for interviews, and personally calls Robert Costa of WaPo on his phone when his healthcare bill is about to be pulled.

I'm stating that his repeated use of fake on anything he doesn't like, to get his supporters to only get their source of truth from him is dangerous, and what wannabe dictators try to do.
Why Did a Chinese Peroxide Company Pay $1B for a Talking Cat?
> You have to be paying close attention to notice, and the reality is that most people do not care.

You're right, most people don't care. But this app isn't targeted at "most people" it's targeted at developers. Developers do care about things like CPU's running at 100% while idle, memory pressure and apps crashing because they can't open a 1GB file.
SourceTree just became worse and worse with every release, to the point of unbearable. I am using an old version of SourceTree (1.5.2) and it works great.
Cross platform apps are not the future. They've been here for a long time in the form of, say, C++/Qt.

The backlash is because, unlike C++, the Electron apps take huge amounts of memory and CPU to perform the simplest tasks.

For some developers Electron might be a step forward, but for end-user usability it's definitely a big step back.
Dumb question: What stops someone from seeing your js script and copying it to their website using your db connection.
2 core contributors joined after that. I can't recall the last time it happened.
I am curious as to what your definition of luxury or bring well off is
Can confirm, caught the programming bug by using Warcraft 3's map editor. It had a really powerful drag'n'drop script editor, which made it very accessible for me to learn about variables, conditionals, and events.
Actually, it's standard for founders to have a vesting schedule, too.
it was a direct answer to you saying 'they must be doing something right' the implication being that while they are able to find paying customers, what they are /not/ doing right is the actual work of developing software.

the parent points out that this market inefficiency exists because the people making purchasing decisions are not technically competent enough to truly evaluate the vendors that are selling them these development contracts.

A company can make money selling a bad product, it happens all the time; and its a well know phrase in finance that 'markets can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent'
> Oh, there's still no build for Linux.

Check this:

https://github.com/desktop/desktop/issues/1525#issuecomment-...

At least one person forked it and made it (somewhat?) work on Debian...so you might check that out.
Also, for convenience for families and people who haul stuff in the back of their trucks. Is soccer mom going to be using autonomous vehicles to haul her kids around?
There is nice table in the paper which compares the capabilities of the different technologies trying to solve the DOF problem in HDMs.

http://i.imgur.com/8rdoeS3.png
I don't think I'll ever be convinced that a non-hardware escape button is remotely a thing that I could use.
Do I Have What It Takes to Be a Senior Engineer?
This is a fun project. Will try to check
And lets' not forget that one lucky hit with pig entrails is enough to build a career that lasts a couple of decades.

I'm trying to remember where I read about this but, allegedly, there used to be a gentleman in New Orleans (if memory serves) who went around handing, at random, sealed envelopes with "boy" or "girl" written on a piece of paper inside, to pregnant women.

The idea was that he could expect to hit the right sex of the unborn child a few times and that those lucky hits would make people think he had some sort of gift for seeing the future. As to the misses, the women would be too preoccupied with having just given birth to raise a stink. Note the envelopes were handed out for free. It was his advertisement, see.
Well, the gist of articles like this is that indoor rack farming could replace traditional dirt-and-soil farming. This is commentary on an article and not some separate argument about whether or not hydroponics are good or not for certain crops.
Then we also get the opposite advice, above, _don't_ think about your component architecture when defining state! "Define your state shape in terms of your domain data and app state, not your UI component tree."
The general dynamic of North Dakota has always been a bit of an amazement to me. Its like "nope, not gonna do it" to "let's get on with it, oops done" happens like a flip of the switch. I think folks give too little credit to a farm state's love of "better". Its a weird, stubborn, leap-style advance on getting stuff done.
Do you know that or are you just being cynical?

Chase's program saves them money that would have been spent on on boarding and off boarding employees. I also know people who have gotten new internal jobs via Wells Fargo's program.

These are real programs that result in retaining people.

It is a world of difference between this model of 6 months notice and the chance for a new role and Netflix's we'll fire you if you're sick or away from the office for too long.
I'm still driving a 2001 civic (if it ain't broke...), so I can believe an average of 10-11 years.
> even if she wasn't trans

Who is gunning trans (just because they are trans)?
Pricing says 'call us'. That is a huge bummer. Basically means I won't invest the time to use this. Keep in mind I'm already an auth0 customer.
The irony, YouTube can't keep up with the streaming.
That's like saying, "to understand why the automobile is valuable, you need to suffer through a horse and carriage".

You don't need to suffer through yesterday's problems to understand today's.
I hate to be the bearer of bad news but that version of SourceTree is affected by this security vulnerability:

https://confluence.atlassian.com/sourcetreekb/sourcetree-sec...
So what is it about being autonomous that will change the game? Because taxis haven't made owning cars obsolete. I know exactly zero people who prefer taking a taxis over owning a car, although a few would be in favor of public train transportation .
Single Payer Success in NY as Medicare-For-All Bill Passes State Assembly
It's a ready-to-go DC: https://aws.amazon.com/snowmobile/ -- basically you plug in the fiber and power and you're good to go.
I disagree. I can think of multiple examples from my life of people who got to that point. Some I knew personally, others indirectly through people I knew.
One of Quantopian's studies shows that backtesting poorly predicts live trading results: https://blog.quantopian.com/using-machine-learning-to-predic.... From the forums, it looks like 90% of the effort is devoted to getting a good backtest, a yardstick which might not have any bearing on reality. How do real quant traders deal with this discrepancy?
Solarwinds (Pingdom, Librato) Acquires Scout SaaS Server Monitoring
H1B? No I don't care about that. I just think it's a bit concerning that the only things keeping this cornucopia full are the circumstances of a language barrier that's only relevant because foreign software companies largely aren't yet competitive with those in the US, and that no-one's fully cracked making remote work a thing on a large scale. That's a tissue-paper thin barrier protecting the wages of 95+% of the people employed as software developers in the US who aren't doing anything remarkable.

My job security's fine as long as all these dumb "Facebook for Dogs", mid-sized software company doing nothing all that amazing (so: 99% of mid sized software companies), and "Non-software-company software division" jobs that comprise a giant percentage (almost certainly the vast majority) of US development jobs remain in the US (or other expensive OECD states). I'm just not certain why they would remain here, in the medium-term. It's not paranoia so much as "gee, why the hell am I paid so much?" The reasons seem pretty weak, which... isn't comforting. It's not like I'm curled up shaking in the corner over it, though.
Which is one of the reasons government purchasing specifications are famously absurdly complicated.

First, if you really need zeolite clay you can't use the shortcut term since someone will complain to the IG that you stupidly overpaid and wasted the taxpayer's money.

Second, relatedly, some vendor will sue because you specified a "hammer" but didn't specify the material, thus overlooking their cheap plastic hammer.

And as a result we end up with the $600 toilet seat.
Any Half-Decent Hacker Could Break into Mar-A-Lago. We Tested It
Ask HN: Any support for partial ordering in spreadsheets?
Have been struggling to use libreoffice calc to plan a project with strictly ordered subsets but allowance for parallelism. (i.e. any project with more than one person on it).

Has anyone used a tool that does this well out of the box?
They didn't become sprawling cities on their own. If you plant down rail, the city reshapes over time. The areas right next to stations becomes high value retail space. Their sales immediately jump up. Rails literally change the commerce and economy around their points.
It makes a really good doorstop

EDIT - to all the downvoters, I read like 40% of it but all of the criticism you can easily find about it[0] is accurate. 10 years or so later it makes a really good doorstop, I have used it for that several times, it's super heavy with thick pages. I have used it as a source of knowledge exactly zero times and a doorstop probably 8 times, so it's utility to me is overall pretty high. I think you can get used copies for about $4, so it might be a good investment.[1]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_New_Kind_of_Science#Receptio...

[1] https://www.amazon.com/gp/offer-listing/1579550088/ref=dp_ol...
If you're building web apps, you should learn about web servers. I realize that's an obvious statement, but a little can go a long way if you have no experience.
"protection against dilution" (beyond what the law already provides for minority shareholders) for founders/common shareholders is not standard, so you'll have a hard time finding a template for it.
Of course there's a backdoor for targeted surveillance - no phones stand up to that, especially if you can devote a few man-hours for hands-on manipulation of the device. (easiest would probably still just be a traditional small mic+tap on the touch and screen interface. Or room/car surveillance...).

Signal might be adequately secure to thwart no-cost/zero-per-user investment, drag-net surveillance, and at the same time not secure enough to avoid targeted surveillance.
We're only getting your side and have no info about the history product team so it's tough to say. If you helped build product, there is traction or enough for for validation and the company has some actual deliverables; then you should ask for what you think is fair.

Either way; I would start somewhere around what your salary was (or a completive salary) and then add a bit for risk.

I would try and meet in the middle with equity or an earn out but people have different opinions. Maybe convert to debt; really depends what the company is worth, what you want and what the other 2 want...And what any legal forms / obligations are
It can, it's your network that's the issue.
How will the police patrol roads when all these cars are self-driving?

Police forces will either need less patrol officers or they'll need to re-assign them somewhere other than roads. Or maybe surveillance inside vehicles to prevent any crimes being committed whilst in-transit.

What happens when someone decides to drive a non-autonomous car on the road? If they are banned someone is going to need to pull them over. If there are less police officers patrolling the roads, who will be doing all this enforcing of self-driving cars?

I like futuristic projections in that we really don't know how things will settle after a shake-up.
I don't think the parent commenter is referring to going back to what there was before; a Marxist who wants to hasten the revolution, for example, is not arguing for the stage of historical development before capitalism (feudalism), rather he is arguing for the abolishment of classes altogether. That is the charitable reading, anyway.
I don't know about that, but I did notice the author's photo looks like a passport pic (strict, formal). An unusual thing to include on a personal site, maybe.
I spent all of high school and early college on What.cd. I felt the same way when it disappeared.
Is this somewhere online? Github, site or what?
This feels like a way to make more money off of developers. If you can't set a limit, you might end up spending more.
Simulation of 1,000 people's average day
I believe the New York MTA use OS2 for their MTA metro card activity
Others have had similar complaints for a while and Google/Firebase has not resolved them: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/38959321/firebase-databas...
Van Allen Probes Reveal Man-Made Barrier Shrouding Earth
We've been seeing these quantopian fund stores for years now.

Where are the numbers? I mean at some point you have to produce right?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12171843#12173142

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12950276#12952666

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12335272#12336086

THe biggest issue I see for a quantopian fund is the "skin in the game" rule. All of the successful fund managers I know have a very unhealthy portion of their net worth in their own funds.

It's not clear to me that the quantopian algo designers will be able to, or be forced to, put their own money into their strategies. I find "skin in the game" to be one of the most promising alpha signals that still persists to date.
I cannot tell you how truly STUPID such musings are... this article belongs on the bottom of a birdcage, not on HN. Sigh....
I would be cautious about extrapolating from that. Yes, it sounds like an unfortunate decision, but I've been a FastMail user for many years and have been very happy with them.
I've been imagining a grooveshark like site, run on magnet links, using browser based torrenting, and with all URLs and playlists user contributed. What's the legal precedent for suing that out of existence?
Came to this thread wondering if the Firebase issue from earlier was going to spill over, but yes also hoping for some cool stuff as well and keep refreshing Twitter :)
Streaming on my tv in high def via my chromecast without an issue.
Is Whatsapp down?
Well positive reinforcement works for training animals to modify their behavior so seems likely it will work (and does) for humans.
Smart Reply Is Coming to Gmail for Android and iOS
Wattpad lays off 10% of staff to shift focus to machine learning capabilities
News Feed FYI: New Updates to Reduce Clickbait Headlines
This has been the case with every google product
Unsurprising hivemind is downvoting you here; better luck next time. :(
I was hit hard by btjunkie [1] going down. IMO, nothing yet has been able to replace it

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BTJunkie
Various arms of Microsoft's design efforts have definitely been trying to kill the menu bar as design pattern for many years at this point. Ribbons are superior. Fluent has its own suggestions for how to build the right affordances for a menu, which remain very similar to Ribbon principles.

Ironically/sadly, Visual Studio will probably be the last bastion of classic menu bars and toolbars from Microsoft because to some extent Microsoft's designers are busy elsewhere, but that continues to set a bad example to developers.

If it weren't for Visual Studio itself, I'd even argue that it was merely the cross-platform interests of keeping Mac users happy that GitHub's team might even think menus were a good idea.
Ask HN: How do I secure Windows XP?
I have a few relatives who are resistant to change and are still using Windows XP. Does anyone have any recommendations on how best to secure XP?

I found bitdefender[1]. Has anyone ever used this?

1. https://www.bitdefender.com/solutions/security-for-xp-and-vista.html
This. It's kind of surprising how many people in this discussion are equating the value of common and preferred shares!
Paytm to launch payments bank on 23 May
I would like to know more about that black magic of removing things from photos in the foreground.
A single NN can predict more than one class of object. The ImageNet competition has 20,000 classes.

There's also image segmentation as another poster has pointed to.

In the case of FB face tagging, they'd have learn an embedding space for faces, and when a new image comes in they'd place it in the embedding space along with all the person's connections and find the nearest neighbors.

See https://arxiv.org/abs/1503.03832 or the implementation https://cmusatyalab.github.io/openface/
GraphQL Authentication with Apollo and React
Google I/O 2017 live updates: Sundar Pichai reveals Google Lens app
My network is fine, and it broadcasted Build 2017 w/o problems.
Because if you think critically about that concept for a moment it falls apart. If people didn't have to work to earn wages in order to survive and simply had their needs provided by society there would be little incentive to work, thus few would work, and thus workers would have to be compelled to work by the state. Thus slavery. It solves no problem.
Lies about the very sources (an email) it cites. Also incoherent - what did Google do exactly?
LCD Soundsystem had this giant farewell show at Madison Square Garden complete with documentary and album saying it was there last show ever. Now they've come back to play tech conferences? Lame
For some reasons that gave me suspension that their encryption is not good anymore since the politicians encourage their staff to use it.
You would likely be well served by watching Penn and Teller's PETA episode. And perhaps some wildlife documentaries - there's nothing quite like getting eaten alive.

Most captive animals exist because we tend to them. Are you suggesting that we let them die of starvation or simply eliminate them (as PETA does with many of their 'rescued' animals)?
Define "successful". Many of them are only interested in floating as long as possible. User donations pay for the server and users have motivation to help keep the site running to keep the ability to pirate. Development and moderation is volunteer work.

For many of these sites just their continued existence is a success - however many years it ends up being.
"Have my router pw, Google"

edit: Should have emphasized the using camera part.
When the entire argument is based on social status, commenter's own status has to be known. It is everything but incivility. Said commenter has this information publicly shown in his bio. If you prevent that from being known, while still allowing the user to comment, you are making the whole discussion absolutely pointless.

I'm sorry Dan, but you are full of shit.
Google’s second gen TPU chips takes machine learning processing to a new level
Whoever wrote this, I'd like them to evaluate my life and write me a mission statement as well.
Google Cloud TPUs
They may be indistinguishable but common sense still applies when asking for clarification. For example, I work with folks of a certain intellect where I have to ask very specific and pointed questions that do not contain substantial detail in each question in order to clarify something or to get an answer I need.

When that conversation happened, it should have ended with, "just to clarify, I should, or should not, use organic cat litter?" That would have cleared it up.

Furthermore, “It would have been much clearer if they had said an inorganic zeolite sorbent,” Hobbs says.

Wouldn't one argue that a better way to explain it would be to specify nonorganic kitty litter since that would clear up any confusion whether written or spoken?
Nothing you've said makes that any more acceptable. I don't care if we "know going in"; it's still unacceptable, and they should be investigated for it.
I already have a kid, so I know how noisy (pun intended) the data can be. I honestly don't expect to work at all, but it will be fun to try!
Google's new TPUs are here to accelerate AI training
If my browser had the capability to set watch on multiple different directories for a service worker, you could have an almost desktop like experience without a different software.

With service workers, this would be pretty much do everything that the Dropbox or Github clients can do.