skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks for the apt feedback. The journey to make the site and product more immediately intuitive and understandable for the elderly is ongoing. I hope to eventually incorporate much of the guidance here [1].

The software itself does have lots of tips and guidance built in with the user-manual being just a backstop to that. Indeed though, getting SteadyMouse installed the first time is the hardest part. From there it's usually smooth sailing for folks. I will work towards simplifying in the future.

BTW, you may have explained why a lot of my customers are children and grandchildren finding SteadyMouse for an ailing grandparent. I did not mean to filter-out the less tech savvy!

[1] http://eldertech.org/apps-for-seniors-10-technical-tips/
Founder here.

I use to have a frustrating experience searching for and organizing movies, shows and music. I had tried using excel sheets to keep track of the movies and shows that I'd like to watch but ended up spending too much time looking for ratings and trailers. So, I decided to build a platform that can aggregate all this information and allow me to keep all this data well managed.

Please let me know if you have any suggestions.
Makes it very clear how hard it is to make it practical; grid, even a small one, is just better.

An interesting insight further down: "It turns out that most remote islands are powered like ships are"
Another great polyglot was Sir Richard Francis Burton [1]. Not only did he speak more than 20 languages, but he led an incredible life. Edward Rice wrote a great biography [2] (although I read the earlier edition). Burton himself wrote a great deal as well [3].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Francis_Burton

[2] https://www.amazon.com/Captain-Sir-Richard-Francis-Burton/dp...

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Francis_Burton_bibliog...
I definitely do. Mostly in the context of writing and speaking but I also find myself thinking English when I am familiar with a concept in English but not in German. It's more subtle but I noticed it several times
> Like, Nickelback is in the original footage or someone overalyed the track on top of the footage? I would imagine if this ever really happened it would be fine in the former, and muted in the latter.

While I agree that would be the most sensible course of action, if this in reality happened right now, the whole video would be deleted in both cases, automatically (assuming it's clear enough to trigger detection in the first example).
Are these all YC backed startups? If so, under 10 percent have exited? That seems bad for investors.
A few years ago, as I was working as a programmer in another synchrotron, I remember seeing an open position for a software engineer at SESAME. I considered applying to travel a bit.

They have a jobs page but no position for a software engineer as of now: http://sesame.org.jo/sesame/jobs.html
I used to be able to speak schweizerdeutsch, but unlearned speaking it sometime in my youth due to disuse. I can't remember switching to it in my head, but it might just have been my age. I definitely do a fair amount of thinking in English (not when cooking and cleaning ;)).
In the current system we would be liberated from a livelihood which is something to fear if you are not independently wealthy.
How did they actually make NES games? By that I mean, what types of computers were they using for creating NES games? Other 6502-based computers? Could they run the NES games on there? Or did they have to burn to a cart to test things every time?

How did they design graphics? Was it basically graph paper, which then they translated into sprites by hand?
Because airplanes are very, very safe.

That said, police could definitely do a better job. Body cameras may have to be always-on (but queried only for relevant portions, or if the officer is dead) at some point. Currently they seem to be off at crucial times in an encounter.
London Underground tunnels are less than 12ft.

There's no reason you couldn't do trains instead of cars.

It's weird to me that you'd do this with cars if you believe self driving cars are the future. Trains between hubs give higher density (which means building fewer tunnels), then (if strictly necessary) switch to a car at the other end to get to your final destination.
The pun is the lowest form of humor. There is a tendency, especially among educated males of a certain age, to start to feel themselves quite clever. These fellows, in order to demonstrate their cleverness to the world, being to subject their friends and family with an onslaught of puns. If you know such a punner, and you probably do, don't encourage them by saying things like, "I just love how your mind works" or "I never would have thought of that." Such encouragement can lead to years of future punning. These men need your help. I recommend a good hard slap.
I keep thinking, if this is really just for research and development, why are they doing it under LA?

It seems like there would be some place more remote and a little safer for drilling giant tunnels.

Also, I'm surprised to hear it's only going to be 6m deep.
...said someone who resorted to ad hominem and then complained about "tone policing", because just chucking random insults at one's interlocutors qualifies as good-faith discussion, but calling out those insults as such is unreasonable. Okay.
Then people would just shred their orders and separate them by one satoshi to make the market appear deep.
It's a $25B+ a year business that earns more profits than all the other PC makers in the world combined. I'm pretty sure they don't want to kill macOS.
Potentially what he meant and probably a fairer interpretation. I run a (small) factory and my wife works as an engineer at the aforementioned Nissan plant so I tend to have a less forgiving attitude toward people who seem to disregard worker safety.

I remember when I toured the BAE submarine plant 10 years ago in Barrow in Furness being told that 1 death per month was considered standard and kind of ok in the early days of that plant - terrifying and thankfully not the case anymore.
One of my side hobbies is writing short stories. Just for myself, "just" to keep creativity going.

I'm currently on an AI/Human relations kick. I hadn't considered "people walking" as something to use, so thanks.
Its not like wealthy, powerful, privileged people could actually get together and forge some kind of sinister plan to expand their wealth power and privilege - Right?

If that would be possible there would be clear signs of it all over the world. It would require great effort not to notice it.
So just because theories are "evidence-free" or too hard to make studies around, they are untrue?

My experience should count for something because I am actually a woman in tech, who loves to code, who started my own successful tech business. People like me should be a vocal part of the discussion because we're a minority who has some first hand insight. Studies have been shown time and time again to sometimes create conclusions from biased premises, to make the wrong conclusions, or simply be contradictory to a dozen other studies.

Not to say they are always wrong. I have no reason to believe biology plays no role but I personally don't believe it plays a significant role.
"relevant"? Sure, it's relevant, but let's dig in a bit. The article presents on the record statements that assert Musk's statement does not reflect Tesla managerial practices and priorities in the factory. So, some possibilities:

1) The article is BS and Musk's statement reflects the real state of Tesla manufacturing-labor principles.
2) Musk's statement and the article are both accurate and work habits will change, which means Tesla will voluntarily reduce output. No worries, they have lots of capital and can afford to slow the rollout.
3) Musk's statement and the article are both accurate but Musk is being undermined by mid-level managers he can't control. Poor hapless ineffectual Elon.
4) Musk's statement is deceptive PR. He is in control and forced to choose between hitting ship targets (widely reported as crucial to Tesla's survival) and reducing worker injuries, he is choosing the former.
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Also AVR is nice for C programming, it even have GCC support.
If you're not using the value you can't “want it”. There is only one sane way to interpret the following two expressions statements (in C), and it is that they are equal.

g++;
++g;
> It’s good to spend time outside the bubble

I disagree. The only thing marginally good about being outside of the bubble is pulling up to a gas station and getting sandwiches, chips, candy and drinks for $4.32 total and being able to pay for it with a credit card without worrying about a $10 minimum. But if you've adopted celiac disease you are SOL.
I think Dave Thomas[0] made some great points recently [1] about what Agile (as a noun) has become and I think it addresses some of your complaints. Note this isn't just a repeat of the agile manifesto, it is him discussing why he hates what Agile has come to mean to a lot of people and it sounds like his grump-level closely matches yours.

The jist I get from it is that agile has become an Enantiodromia[2] and has in some ways simply replaced the problems it was there to fix. That doesn't mean it has to be that way, but thats what happens when people take something and create a religion around it.

In my company we call our process "agile", but what that really means to us is to do the minimum amount of analysis we can to develop the features that the customer actually wants, and when they realize what they thought that they wanted was not really what they wanted, we can change it without wasting massive amounts of time. If we find that our process is causing problems for the devs, we tweak it. When we find we're not doing enough analysis in some situations, we try to improve those situations. No buzz words really, just what is best for us and what is best for the customers.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dave_Thomas_(programmer)

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a-BOSpxYJ9M

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enantiodromia
I agree. Additionally, I'm not going to watch the same movie everyday for weeks or months at a time like I do with an album. Renting movies from Amazon/iTunes/Vudu is probably the optimal solution in my case. It's strange how this was the norm in the pre-Netflix days, and now, the idea of paying a la carte makes us feel like we're wasting money. Maybe we need an Audible model where we get ~6 movies a month for a flat fee and discounts after that. I don't know what to do with television content.
Few police departments are into internal self-improvement. When they get better, it's usually due to heavy pressure from the outside. Sometimes getting a new police chief from the outside helps. But there's no institutional oversight system to make them better.

Some top cops, such as Bratton, have written autobiographies. Improving a police department is mostly hard work, management controls that measure results, better training, firing a few underperformers, and common sense.

Traffic stops are a big problem.[1] About 5000 US cops a year are injured during traffic stops, usually by other traffic. About 7 cops per year are shot during traffic stops. The big risk to cops is being run over, not being shot. Some training materials don't get this.[2]

[1] http://www.forcescience.org/trafficstop.html
[2] http://resources.learningforlife.org/exploring/lawenforcemen...
Hey, Thanks for the offer! I just updated my bio with email.
> "I can't do so without critically damaging my credibility with those among whom I would so advocate."

I know. I've have had friends who I installed linux on their computer then call me in a few months describing some strange problem, probably related to a broken update, and then in a few months I cringe when I see them buying the latest Apple product but understand why. I worry they think less of free software after that experience.
I'm quite sure he is doing internal PR, keeping up the team morale. It's not so much about caring (aka patronizing), but more about giving workers the feeling that they are all rolling up their sleeves together. IMO it's the only strategy that keeps teams together in times of high stress. People become very sensitive to "boss issues" if the work or workload sucks. To prevent burnout, workers have to feel that they are cared for, and their work appreciated. I'm sure you were in such a high stress situation yourself before - if team spirit stays intact, you feel strong and maybe even euphoric. As soon as things go downhill, you will soon think of bailing out.
> Be reminded that we had a revolution less than two and a half centuries ago.

Sure. By landlords and merchant interests. In short, people like James Madison, as quoted in a comment below.

"In England, at this day, if elections were open to all classes of people, the property of landed proprietors would be insecure. An agrarian law would soon take place. If these observations be just, our government ought to secure the permanent interests of the country against innovation. Landholders ought to have a share in the government, to support these invaluable interests, and to balance and check the other. They ought to be so constituted as to protect the minority of the opulent against the majority.”

Economically, Trump is a lot more like those "second sons" of English aristocracy than he is to the modern-day, progressive elites from whom he’s trying to wrest control.

> And a very tumultuous last few decades. I think that MLK represented a very real possibility of meaningful political upheaval.

You evidently haven’t looked into the origins of the NAACP. Who do you think backed the Rosa Parks court case and all that? There were a bunch of government grants, as well. As always and forever, the question is: where did the money come from?

> police (as distinct from sheriffs) are ranked in a paramilitary totem rather than a constabulary structure, have wide discretion in contrary to Peelianism, and in some cases are afforded greater arrest powers than the citizenry at large

I’m not quite sure what Peelianism is, but otherwise that’s an excellent point. There’s also, now that I think about it, the fact that becoming a police officer is quite often a “retirement” job for ex-soldier veterans, meaning that simply by virtue of their presence they bring military training and military attitudes developed and honed in their time in some sandy, godforsaken Middle Eastern country somewhere back here to civilization. And that’s even if they’re otherwise perfectly fine people who don’t mean to do it. Some programming, once learned, just doesn’t go away.
For what it's worth, I'm seeing it develop for myself at the moment.
Huh, I'd have guessed the opposite: that a laser, optics, and a piezo vibrator would be easy to integrate, while a MEMS gyroscope would be much harder. I ask anyone who gives the slightest hint of familiarity with the field because I suspect that my surface-level understanding is just missing the juicy photonics challenge that's roadblocking integration.

The alternative hypothesis of military heel-dragging (similar to the case of bolometers) is much less exciting, but verifying it would at least allow me to stop poking around :)
What a fantastic product. Could you share some slightly more detailed info about the jitter reduction due to physical movements? The demo shows remarkable reduction of the tremor induced jitter. It looks like radar jitter I've implemented algorithms to reduce in a different life.
And the ecosystem they promote. The more windows boxes, the more MS Office licenses.
They do, and justifiably so.
This is what's wrong with Reddit in a nutshell. When I joined 8 years ago, it was actually full of intelligent discussion. Now I have to scroll through 40 comments of puns and the same old tired jokes.
Don't blame addicts for America's opioid crisis. Here are the real culprits
Because of the wording of the marketing? As soon as the author sees the word detoxification, he is triggered?

While seeing the word "detox" in marketing materials might be a good heuristic if you need to make a snap decision, there is enough time to evaluate the scientific claims and make a decision based on that. If you're going to put a substance in your body on a daily basis for the rest of your life, one would hope you would use more than a heuristic when making that decision.
The obvious counter example is UU, which doesn't necessarily share beliefs other than a kind of social responsibility to do charitable work.

Unfortunately the median age in UU seems to be about 80. I'm not sure 20-somethings looking for community are going to find it among grandparents.
I'm not sure where this notion that cities run out of space comes from. We've always had high land utilization in cities. But the cities still grow, they grow by replacing low density residences with higher density residences. So forth and so forth. If a city can't grow by building up then that's most likely a zoning issue.
I think scrum gets a bad name because folks get so caught up in strictly adhering to a concrete implementation of the agile philosophy that they lose track of the philosophy. Folks doing scrum often value scrum processes and tools over the individuals using them. Scrummers stick to their scrum plan rigidly instead of reflecting on and changing their process.

It's fine to say such teams aren't really doing scrum. It's true, right?

I wish that instead of promoting scrum as a one-size-fits-all agile process, scrum was taught as a place to start. That if in a couple months, a team was still doing scrum exactly as taught, they were probably failing to respond to the team needs, and also the business.
Well then maybe we all should write enough comments and tests to fully document behavior.
> Do you feel like you are adequately represented in government, and that you can trust elected officials to appoint staff those who will make decisions in the best interest of you, your family, your city, state, nation, etc.?

No, but (as my comment history shows) that's because we have what is empirically shown to be a very poor electoral system (among those used in modern democracies), not because officers of the central bank are appointed rather than elected.
Please look past the reasons you have described. What Elon is saying is that he will personally meet the injured workers and hear from them what happened with the process and why the injury happened. Then he'd go back to the process by performing it himself and find the root cause. He will then make sure that these processes are improved so no such incidents happen again.

I read similar stuff in The Toyota Way book where workers kept complaining to the management about poor manufacturing processes leading to the injury and poor quality incidents and then the management made sure these processes are constantly improved (Kaizen).
Wow, that's awesome. Thanks for stopping by and creating such a wonderful program.
The hard part for agile projects is that you only loosely know what is the desired end result.

Specs should and will change.
Shortread - Meandering story about man trying to live off grid. Discovers that 100% solar not practical without energy storage. Also large scale energy infrastructure not such a crazy idea after all.
Show HN: An automated approach to uploading malicious payloads to Python's PyPI
Brian Ward's - How Linux Works is also very good https://www.nostarch.com/howlinuxworks2
Ask HN: How to sell Kleiner/Google-funded D-round Shares?
So I own a small number (under $100k at latest preferred valuation) of common shares in a very successful SaaS Analytics company that raised cumulatively close to $200mil from all the top investors. If you are in tech and in SV, chances are, your company uses its product. The company has been almost doubling its share price with every sale. And it has always had a healthy Revenue number to power up a big chunk of its growth.

I am currently in a rush to sell these shares. Unfortunately I am the only one former employee with such interest, so the volume is too small for secondary markets to take interest.

I've reached out to several professional liquidity solution companies, but received a low ball offer (price from a previous round). Maybe they expected that I would negotiate up and I missed the signal - regardless, it seems absurd to discount preferred shares at 40-50%. Especially for such a small volume. I mean, what do these guys know without access to company's finances, that Google did not when it invested $80 million (an had access to company's finances)?

So with that, what is you experience? How would you approach the sale of these shares?
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I actually have a buddy who's into Tai Chi and also recommended this to me as a way to meet new people when i first came out here. This completely escaped me since. Thanks for the suggestion!
Well, we don't, but would you rather use software known to have bugs or software not known to have bugs?
I was thinking more along the lines of something like this:

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

Or of the micro-bugs/robot spiders in Minority Report, I mean the idea is that the police officer can see inside the (already stopped) car, to give orders he/she can shout or use the microphone and loudspeaker, that all patrol cars have, I believe, in the US.

There is always an issue with language, maybe, but the idea of the small screen with text assumes that the stopped driver can see it properly (imagine an older chap that reaches for his spectacles ...).
> There's your racism and colonialism right there. You could call it hegemonic and imperialist as well if you like.

Look, man, I don't think it has anything to do with race. And if you like — but only if you like! — we can talk about why it is and what makes it so.

But facts are facts, and I'm not going to stick my head and the sand and ignore them. You can if you like, it's a free country, but I'm not gonna.

https://i.imgur.com/4GSCBOd.png

P.S. Check out Indonesia. Crazy, right?
Doorbell Hacking
Well then we need to get away from the idea of work and revenue. We need new economies where automation helps us all work less and still survive and contribute things to society. We need less of the consumerism cycle.
They certainly sound different. You'll easily find a German in Switzerland who will tell you they don't understand it.

From what I can tell they aren't all that different structurally and in term of vocabulary though.
That's my secret sauce, however a RESNA[1] publication[2] a few years back seems to have done a bit of reverse-engineering on the old SteadyMouse 1 free version if you are interested.

[1]https://www.resna.org/

[2]https://www.resna.org/sites/default/files/10400435%252E2013%...
It way too volatile and uncertain. It literally depends on a decentralized network that no one can control exactly so that why it keeps getting shut down
More generally, this is why I don't find languages that add "functional" features very compelling.

Behavior is so well-defined in a functional system that it's intensely frustrating dealing with any imperative/OO language.
Besides web browser extensions, this sort of thing works nicely in firewalls that support DNSBL (DNS block lists). I've got pfSense running pfBlockerNG, and it whacks both incoming (known malicious) and outbound requests. As a result, anyone on my home network gets the same ad-blocking and other protection, including guests on the Wi-Fi. Nobody has to do anything special, it Just Works.
You may be right in this case, but is there any discipline more rife with no-true-Scotsman rejoinders in its defense?
http://www.rtl-sdr.com/spoofing-gps-locations-with-low-cost-...
We may soon see 'inertial navigation system (INS)' to supplement GPS.

I wonder if the cost of producing/maintaining it could be lowered significantly enough using new sensors developed for use in smartphones and such.
Very nice. Thanks. And of course I wouldn't want you to give up the secret sauce!