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Show HN: CloudRail for Xamarin – Unified APIs for Cloud Storage, Social and More
Try replacing the springs, or checking to see if one is broken. Happened to me.

22 years, same washing machine.
Going by what I am learning in Crucial Conversations: safety is achieved when you know the other person genuinely cares for you. In that space, people can talk about anything, no matter how controversial or intense.

This space is not an external space nor is it acheived through policy or code of conduct. This space is an internal space that is created when two or more people genuinely cares about each other despite having differences in opinion.

It follows that, the best way to create safe spaces is to first practice this with people you already have a relationship with, particularly those you have severe disagreements with.
Nevermore, the Shadow Fiend is the original Dota name.
Selling but not shipping. No word on actual ship dates on any of the three linked sites (direct, Best Buy, or Sprint) unless I'm looking in the wrong place.

Edit: Sprint is currently estimating August 28 on their shipping page.
Yes, these discussions need to start happening on a personal, 1-on-1 level. Having these conversations on twitter or on some tv/radio talk show is too intense.

What would be interesting is reading a discussion by two thought leaders that could happen over email (read: slow medium of communication) and edited to bring out the best of each side. Heat of the moment discussions don't help anyone.

Going to take a look at Crucial Conversations. Thanks!
The reason a govenor how the ability to pardon people is because the scales are stacked infavor of the accused. This logic implies that the scales are stacked against free speech.
This is what a lot of people want to believe but orientation seems to depend more on culture than genes (e.g. Ancient Greece, US Prisons, etc.).
You have persistent processes which you can send and receive messages from which can be treated like a data structure store, as well as ETS if you need more advanced querying and Mnesia if you need embedded persistence.

I'm not sure how these compare to Redis in terms of performance/latency but Mongo is more of a "proper" database than any of these.
Ah, the realities of supporting IT infrastructure. When things go right, management wonders why they even pay you. When things go wrong, management wonders why they even pay you.
I'm too dumb to understand any of this stuff re AI, but one thing occurred to me recently on the philosophical side of tech: When your life is closely intertwined w/ tech, you begin to almost solely view the world through the lens of progress and innovation. Progress and innovation often comes at the total expense of momentary awareness and satisfaction. Innovating becomes an expectation. It's just what comes next, that's it. That's a problem, generally speaking, IMO.
I don't think this is how businesses work. Its like trying to get a teacher to not teach a certain lesson because you don't want to learn it. Aren't they paying you to do a job? Not the other way around. If you have problems adapting they might consider someone else who'd do your job instead, is it worth putting your career at risk because youre not comfortable with change?
Printful is the drop shipping company
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This is absolutely insane. Why can't government develop their own in-house solutions? Create jobs and have full access. The law should demand that these algorithms and all information about these systems be revealed publicly or these systems should not be used. I don't want some random code from some random for-profit company deciding my fate or anyone's fate. I don't even understand how this is legal or constitutional. I'd bet serious money all these systems are in violation of multiple laws, especially discrimination laws. What a fucked up technology. If this is what people talk about when saying they are afraid of AI, then yes, I'm absolutely fucking terrified. Fuck this "AI". It has no place in our society. Fuck these companies that develop it too, making money off of people's suffering.
Not DIY. I went to an allergist, found out what I was allergic to, then they inject you with gradually increasing amounts of what you're allergic to weekly in their office. There are risks, as you could have a bad reaction. If you do, you down 1/2 a bottle of Benadryl and go to the ER if necessary. I had one bad reaction in the 2 years I did shots and a double dose of Benadryl fixed it.
No, that wasn't their goal, it was stated to be Android from the beginning.
I honestly think that being a manager 1st layer is the least enjoyable job in a tech company. So I wouldn't blame them too much since they're already dealing with a bunch of problems:

* Managers are easily replaceable because they don't have any expertise but people skills. My grandma has those skills, could she take on a manager role? Of course.

* You often get promoted internally to manager. So it's hard for you to move horizontally between different companies since they don't know you. You need to prove yourself again. Plus there is 1 manager job out there versus 10000 dev jobs.

* You get away from coding, far away from product then have to deal with expenses, HR issues, infinite meetings, etc.
That’s nice. What does that have to do with the comment to which you replied? Your comment sounds like something an Apple fanboy would say, who’s just looking for an excuse to inject the name of their favorite company.
HashiCorp Extends Microsoft Collaboration to Help Terraform Users Adopt Azure
I used to work for Ericsson R&D, so I am sad to see this, especially for my previous colleagues. There are some very sharp and dedicated engineers there.

At least this cut seems to mostly affect Managed Services. That is the division that basically manages telcos networks for them. It was a big growth area a couple of years ago, but turned out to be very low margin.

Ericssons fundamental problem is that their only customers are the telecom operators, and the telcos aren't going to invest in infrastructure unless they have to. 4G rollout is mostly done in developed nations, and 5G is just a buzzword at the moment. Even if Ericsson invents some amazing technology that improves the end users experience, it doesn't mean they will make much money from it.

Of course the price pressure from Chinese competitors has not helped, even if Ericsson has held on to its marketshare.
They are just a way to wrap up the code/data somewhat similar to how callbacks are used in Javascript async code. And from using Haskell I believe they are an excellent abstraction when doing any async programming, once you wrap your head around them.

Although in terms of concurrency I've found Elixir/Erlang actor-esque process based system with messaging much more intuitive when building complex programs and much simpler to reason about than the various solutions Haskell offered. But I'm also not an expert at Haskell so take that comparison with a grain of salt.
Awesome work, thanks for sharing!

Bookmarked it, should come in handy when I'm building my next landing page =)
>The math behind Bayesian methods is pretty solid and indisputable. The main controversy is how to specify priors.

But as the Bayesians always point out, specifying which sampling procedures, test statistics, and inferences to run under frequentist statistics also amounts to inserting subjective judgements into your statistical analyses, soooo... you might as well just pick the one that reviewers in your field like, or that works for your problem.
Misleading headline: the algorithm has been made public and it is included in the article as a PDF link.
Ultimately it seems like the software issue is just a symptom of the greater problem that is our criminal justice system.

I think software could play a helpful role in all aspects of our government, but having closed source, proprietary algorithms play a hand in someone's life hardly seems like justice to me.

This needs to be stopped immediately, and some serious debate needs to go into how software can assist everyone in assessing the facts and making a judgement, instead of just increasing the speed they can process people.
This looks great. I'm going to give it a shot. If you'd like feedback I'd be happy to provide it.
The bandwidth is improving. If they could fix that 240000ms ping it would at least be bearable.
No, the TV needs to initiate the connection to the mothership to punch the hole. This then allows the mothership to send commands to the TV over UDP to manage its activities.
These types of articles are the reason I come to HN!
Does anyone know if these phones will work with Project Fi?
If they really made it well, it would come with a declared lifetime.

What it has is a 2 year $99 extra warranty, on top of a $699 price.
What is is about scheme that allows the 18k LOC to be condensed to 7k LOC? I assume there was some culling of excess code, but that's a dramatic improvement.
They sell closed ecosystems as novelty items. Existing attempts to have people in them have tried to do way to much.
I hazard a guess that the author is somewhat atypical for an 80s girl. She certainly seemed to be comfortable with a lot of activities that would draw scorn and condemnation from the popular kids in the 80s. Not giving in to peer pressure is very hard for teenagers. I don't know for certain, but I suspect it's even harder for girls than boys. Boys seem more willing to go it alone if they have to.

This is mostly from my own life experience as a computer nerd during the late 80s and early 90s. You get shunned by anybody even remotely popular. This is really tough during middle school since you become bully bait but perseverance pays off in the end. In some ways I had it easier since I lived in a neighborhood that had no kids my age (or within 3 year of my age), so being a loner and an outcast wasn't a new situation.
Am I missing something? Admittedly I have not traveled much internationally, but I don't remember customs ever asking me to unlock my phone.. I have only traveled to and from Europe though. So maybe it's different in the US?
I really like CULA. It's a very straightforward tool and allows you to do quite a bit for free. Well done guys!
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Took another look at the pricing page and saw "billing is dependent on amount of meaningful change per month. $9 per user per month for static analysis."

Does that mean I could expect to pay < $49/mo for a learning use case? These projects don't move to quickly, so I envision using static analysis extensively, then getting a more complete review 1-2 times a month.

Might be worth clarifying the pricing description.
I'm running mwm on my desktop machine now and I build emacs against Motif too.
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Yeah, I wouldn't do it.

But I bet that any substantial (more than a few dozen) effort would build some pretty huge indoor spaces.
haha, I've encountered this. it's a trip! Check out the free samples:

https://smile.amazon.com/Lord-Rings-Vol-1/dp/B00OZTPQZG/
>In France, we've always had a slew of "Bulgarian taste" yogurts, which are usually slightly acidic in taste

In the US, I think this is being marketed as "Greek yogurt." (I don't like yogurt so no first hand experience, but in the last few years I've noticed many brands being advertised as "Greek", and as being more tangy and possibly more healthy/"natural")
Time to find another job.
That is fine, so long as we are not expected to hold both that it is not a big deal when it is not achieved, and is a big deal when it is achieved. Personally, I incline towards the latter.
That’s a very interesting hypothesis. It needs a little expansion to address the reported “suddenly in 1984” aspect. I wonder if, around that time, there was a change in many colleges that required more advanced math (or some other topic) where HS teacher biases are stronger (or more impactful). Very neat read.
Show HN: Command line utility and Go library to work with Bloom filters
> Water is, of course, plentiful, albeit in the wrong phase of matter.

Well, since they mention that water as ice is actually abundant[1], it's probably good for testing out strategies for harvesting and purifying water effectively and reliably at the same time they are dealing with the other problems.

1: From the article: Water is a mix of hydrogen and oxygen and is abundant in the form of ice mixed into the top meter of the Martian regolith. Around the equator and up to 60° latitude it varies in concentration from 2-18% but further north and south it’s in even higher concentrations, reaching 100% at the north pole.
Is there actual evidence that consumer horizontal machines take less energy per cycle?
Yes, and I'm curious how it turned out. Are there any followup talks on this that anybody knows about? It's certainly a solvable problem, but how many of the advantages remain once the data dependency problem is solved?
An introduction to RDF Containers
This was the most annoying thing about the film The Martian for me.

Everyone crows about the science, but I've not heard anything about the psychological trauma someone marooned and isolated on an alien planet for several months would go through.

I imagine it would be something on a par with the Dancing plagues of Strasbourg

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dancing_Plague_of_1518

But without the cheesy disco music.
It might be wise to also consider the community and values of a company before you commit to it. For most people, and particularly for people at startups or in demanding technical roles, you'll spend more time with your co-workers than almost anyone else. You'll be relying on them in crises, supporting them when they fall, and looking to them for a lot more than a check. In some ways a job is like an investment, but in others it's like a marriage.

Years ago, I picked a small startup (with a great CEO, a great team, a great product - all the things mentioned in the article), but when I think about the best part of the decision to join them, it was how the whole company came together to support me when I suffered a personal tragedy. I'm happy about that startup's success, but I'm even happier that I was able to make (and keep) the friends I made there.
That eclectic mix of content made BYTE by far my favorite of the early computer magazines. (And I worked for Compute! Magazine.) "Dr. Dobbs" was a close second. And "Creative Computing" had the best BASIC games of the S-100 bus era.

"Ciarcia's Circuit Cellar" was one of my favorite columns in the early BYTE. I tried to build some of his designs (and maybe one actually worked) and really enjoyed Steve Ciarcia's self-published book. It might seem weird to have this column in a computer magazine, but this was not long after the era of homebuilt computers (in the first year of his store, my dad used to actually offer to build computers when people bought them) so knowing your way around a soldering iron wasn't unusual for 1979 computer hackers.
Seems they have their own OS for home devices, ambient OS.
I have to pitch our solution to this problem also, a fork of the nginx ingress controller, External nginx ingress controller.

https://github.com/unibet/ext_nginx

Basically just handling nginx.conf from information in k8.

We run in production with ECMP in our routers to load balance stateless over any number of nodes. Easy to understand and very scalable.
link: https://www.ted.com/talks/simon_sinek_how_great_leaders_insp...
Tell HN: How to Easily Add the WebExtensions Build of UBlock Origin to Firefox
For those of you using Nightly Firefox, you'll notice that development has proceeded enough that addons incompatible with WebExtensions are now disabled by default (at least, that's true for me; they may be staggering the rollout). I noticed that my old version of uBlock Origin was no longer working, though the page at https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/Firefox-WebExtensions notes that a WebExtensions version is under development. If, like me, you had no idea that addons.mozilla.org even offered a development channel for addons, then here's how you can install the new version today: go to the uBlock Origin page on AMO ( https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/ublock-origin/ ), scroll all the way to the bottom, expand "Development Channel", and use the button there to add it to Firefox.
I agree that it's a bit of a over hype tactic in a toy situation which might be marking to maybe make people think the technique and bot are more capable than it is. But I think people are overly down on it too. It's a demonstration of a technique in a way the general public (and gamers) will understand. OpenAI isn't going to make money off of building game bots... people wouldn't watch. The human drama is a major ingredient in e-sports.

But we shouldn't be down on this while we were going gaga over a lego sorter done the same way a month or so back.

It looks like for some things we can almost have a plug and play ai solution. EG, like we are seeing with image classifiers, this doesn't take years of phd doctoral research and game theory to build up a world class bot. Which is what everyone used to do. This is moving some of these techniques into the "get data set, get hardware, download library, train" plug and play type solution which we're seeing more and more with in other areas like machine classification. Eg stuff anyone with a few years of experience can do, maybe not amazingly, but better than they could hand coding the solution. The problem becomes one of gathering good training sets or building an accurate simulation to train in.

This means, I think, that you'll see way more of these types of ai solutions where people would have balked at a hand coded solution before. This in turn looks a lot like mobile's change to computing where things that were annoying to do on your home pc became different just because you had a camera + gps + computer + radio in your pocket.

I know my company has started using classifiers a lot more for things that are kinda sliding bad user actions instead of coding up huge rules engines. We may not be as effective as a several area deep engineers writing rules and doing data analysis, but instead we have 1 engineer per problem space being about 70% as effective which is still a huge win over not solving the problems at all.

The funny thing is that this bot actually pulled off the stereotypical hollywood training montage with just a few weeks of hard work it beat the best in the world. Just get some sweet rock in there and you've got it all.
From the Project Fi FAQs:

>Project Fi is available on the Pixel, Nexus 6P, Nexus 5X, and Nexus 6. Currently these are the only smartphones to support our network of networks. You must have the North American model of the above devices in order to use it on the Project Fi network.
At this point, the only thing I care about is whether or not they plan on releasing quality software updates in a timely manner for a reasonable amount of time...
This is so cool! Thank you so much for this. Also, my browser address bar doesn't support emojis. Am I doing something wrong??
>As the years go on, loneliness and despair will set in. Those first colonists will likely spend the rest of their lives pretty much with who they landed with. Their lives won't change much at all over the decades they're there, and they'll have no hope for things to ever be different.

We don't have to wonder. We do it now. Its called jail.
Are the bone density problems actually a problem if you never plan to return to Earth?
VR games/interaction will fill that void IMO. Especially if you grow up with that being the norm.
What exactly would a Mars colony need to dig tunnels for?
our attack can be enabled with any remotely exploitable
vulnerability that allows the attacker to reprogram the
firmware of an ECU (e.g., the infotainment system).

I will be honest, it seems very unprofessional if vehicle safety engineers have allowed complex, network-connected entertainment systems to have write access to the same CAN bus that the brakes and throttle are on.

After all, if a hacker can remotely reprogram anything on that CAN bus, for sure they can remotely trigger a fatal crash.
Eh, who has a phone longer than 2 years now?
The problem is not OBD-II. Rather the risk is when another vulnerability occurs on another system attached on the CAN bus like an infotainment system. If that infotainment system is vulnerable and the vulnerability allows to control the CAN bus then you have the real problem.
That's assuming all the IO you can block on HAS support for non-threaded concurrency. Things that wrap C libraries may support threads, but not the reactor-of-the-day (twisted? tornado? etc.)
I agree. But there's more to anomie than anger. Angry young men have always been canon fodder. But now we have cynical young men who are posing as angry, but really just in it for the lulz, who can organize themselves through the Internet. It's a new dynamic.
Both managers and co-workers come to me asking me to perform a task. If I don't know why they're asking, then I immediately ask:

What is the problem you're trying to solve?

This is just a different way of asking "Why?" More often than not, this changes the entire conversation. Often this leads to us determining that the task is unnecessary. Sometimes it's that a different approach would be better. Sometimes I do the task with a small modification. Rarely, I perform the task exactly as described.
Ask HN: How could a tech company function without management?
I was wondering if it would be possible for a tech company to function without the 1st layer of management. Could the hiring/firing process be handled externally by a 3rd company? Could software replace status reports and time tracking? Could software also make sure that careers are on track and that employees are moving forward towards their goals? Employees problems could be solved at a Sr. management level.

In other words, do we really need that 1st layer of management?
Are there any reviews out? From what I can tell reviews are either embargoed or review phones haven't been sent out.
Great idea! I agree that $49/mo is a bit steep if targeting startups. Though at the same time, each PR could easily take an hour to review so it could get time consuming fast. Is there any free trial?
One thing to note is humans can entrain to a 24.65 hour (Mars sol) circadian rhythm [1]. This does not significantly detract from your point, however.

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1934931/
The comment about FaceTime made no sense. On iPhone you can use all the apps he mentioned. In terms of security, I trust FaceTime far more than I trust What’s App who, in their policies, make it clear some data is shared with Facebook. Using What’s App as a counterargument to FaceTime is rather strange to me. Signal maybe, but you can run that on iPhone just fine as well.
Need? Like, there are people going around complaining that their clothes never get clean enough unless they swap them around in the washer?

I have found most washer "innovations" are simply ways for companies to sell new washers, rather than having people fix old ones.