skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wt.rs – free repair shop crm built by Reddit
There's free repair shop software I'm currently building that's getting quite a lot of interest - I launched it a few days ago and we're already in 18 countries with 28 timezones.

reddit thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/mobilerepair/comments/6ztmka/wtrs_launching_the_free_and_unlimited_repair_shop/

Actual site (note - unfinished landing page): https://wt.rs/

It's free (and always will be for smaller shops) but I just thought I'd post it here if anyone's interested! Thanks, rob@wt.rs
Wow. Thank you for pointing this out. The article does a terrible job and makes it seem like "Oh hey free perpetual motion"
Or, I don't know, they learned useful and relevant things while earning those degrees?
Can someone give a quick summary of how this differs from Google Chrome "People" accounts? On the surface they seem very similar. Thanks!
Why We Must Still Defend Free Speech
This is a great question. Fortunately my LLC for my startup is based in a state that doesn't mandate charging sales tax for SaaS products. That being said, I do not go out my way to apply sales tax to those ordering in a state that does. I've never found a clear definition of what to do in these terms; at least, not without spending serious cash on a lawyer.
That's a pretty silly strawman to build up and then tear down.

That's tantamount to saying an engineering degree is just a piece of paper. Of course it implies a lot more.
Well thought-out type systems allow decidable inference. Inference lets you omit details about the program that are already obvious from its structure. Omitting obvious details lets you focus on the important parts. Focus helps creating better programs quicker.
I thought the same, but then it made me wonder how many mines are built such that you are hauling ore down instead of up?

I don't know enough about mines, and googling "most common mine design" isn't cutting it. Could anyone weigh in with more insight? The only big mines I've seen look to be pits, like the Bingham Copper Mine near SLC.

I do remember reading something about ore trains in some Scandinavian country using regenerative braking to power nearby towns and its own trip back up.
The article deals with a lot of stuff apart from the clinical aspects of diagnosis and treatment. For example, it outlines someone who lost social connections as he grew older, a major causal factor in depression.
> “On older phones the sequence was to click 5 times [on the power button] but on newer phones like iPhone 8 and iPhone X, if you grip the side buttons on either side and hold them a little while – we’ll take you to the power down [screen]. But that also has the effect of disabling Face ID,” says Federighi. “So, if you were in a case where the thief was asking to hand over your phone – you can just reach into your pocket, squeeze it, and it will disable Face ID. It will do the same thing on iPhone 8 to disable Touch ID.”

Interesting. I did not know that
Sounds like a schroedinbug:

http://catb.org/jargon/html/S/schroedinbug.html
I'd like to hear more about your method. I've looked at a number of different ways of building neural nets over the years and all have their advantages and disadvantages, but if you have something completely different then I'd be thrilled to hear more. I agree with Hinton that we really need to rethink the way we're doing things.
exactly what I came here to find out. Thanks.
I assumed this was a link to Conan's sketch. Gruber pointed out how surprising it is "that Federighi is famous enough to spoof."

http://www.loopinsight.com/2017/09/14/craig-federighi-on-con...
That's the first time in a while my "conservation of energy" mental alarm has false-positived. I could see "mere engineering" getting in the way of the dream but the energy checks out.
>For example, there may be `urllib3` which is a valid project that must be signed by key X. Someone then comes and registers another project, `urlib3` which must be signed by key Y.

Key X is on the company approved key list, key y is not. Your argument just fell apart.

>The problem with manual review then becomes one scale. There are as of this time of writing 117,226 unique projects on PyPI with an average growth of around 100 new projects a day.

You're not dealing with projects. You're dealing with keys. It's not one key per project. It's one key per contributor. This has the added bonus that if a contributor goes rogue, you can revoke the one key and all the suspect projects are are invalidated at once.

>There is one part time paid person (me), plus my unpaid time, plus one other part time unpaid developer/ops person who do the vast bulk of the work.

Sonatype has turned this into a rather nice business. It's not a volunteer project for them. You expect me to believe it's impossible despite solid examples to the contrary?

>at the end of the day without a manual review system individual end users are still ultimately responsible for ensuring they're asking for the correct thing

Blaming the victims.

>Security is achieved by layering multiple secure systems on top of each other, not by randomly rubbing crypto on things because it makes you feel good to have crypto involved.

It's also not achieved by doing absolutely nothing at all.
Hope you don't mind me asking, which state are you based in? DE?
سعر آيفون 8 وآيفون 8 بلس في السعودية وكل الدول – أسعار اليوم
The darkest ring of hell would be tech support for wireless (bluetooth?) printers
> So, if you were in a case where the thief was asking to hand over your phone – you can just reach into your pocket, squeeze it, and it will disable Face ID. It will do the same thing on iPhone 8 to disable Touch ID.

I imagine that authorities will catch on pretty quickly: "keep your hands up and away from your pockets while we retrieve your device." It would have to happen before any kind of duress.
Point 1, we know. Just look at all kinds of the insects.

Point 2, this reads as some advantages compared to our current computers.
I only had a quick skim of the article so maybe I missed it but is there a quick disable for Face ID like there is for Touch ID?

Can law enforcement just hold the phone up to your face and unlock it? We all know Touch ID is not protected under the 5th Amendment so I am going to assume Face ID is not either.
Is it that hard to believe, especially with other articles[0] discussing how much millenials love pets even before having kids, that there's a significant number of people who prefer yards and quiet and peace and all those other suburban perks over living in dense environments? I don't deny that a lot of people prefer living in the city, but it's not only price that can make people choose the alternative. (But due to the nature of density and surface area, you'd have to seriously large majority prefering the suburbs to really drive the city prices down.)

There's also a definitions thing hiding in here: much of San Fransisco is pretty damn suburban, with houses, one or two story buildings, etc. Still expensive as hell, though. And then look at all the towns on the peninsula. I'd argue that the affordability differences are regional much more than urban/suburban driven.

Worth also looking at the costs within those regions of city vs certain suburbs, like SF vs Palo Alto, or LA vs Santa Monica.

[0] such as https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/business/wp/2016/09/13/m... http://www.marketwatch.com/story/do-pets-have-the-potential-...
>Some of your list is just basic quality of life. Sleeping? Eating at the table? Talking to them? This is all general parenting.

That can't be taken for granted anymore.
Exactly, look at the simple answer, as you said. I'm not sure why people think this is such a controversial viewpoint. It's pretty obvious that ISIS was a big threat in 2015-2016 to the entire Middle East and that just so happens to correspond to when Saudi Arabia started acting irrationally in terms of its oil output. I'm not sure why this is so hard to believe that it's related.

The oil sands have been in business for the last 40 years. You're telling me now is when they feel the Canadian oil sands are a threat? In the last 2 years is when they decide to act irrationally and start dumping oil? Hogwash.

ISIS controlled large portions of Syria's oil output. But their operations in Iraq are much larger.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/timdaiss/2016/08/26/why-islamic...

Also from the article:
ISIS used to earn some $30 million monthly from its oil operations, but revenues were down to around $15 million a month at the beginning of the year, according to Christopher Garver, spokesman for Operation Tidal Wave.

ISIS's claim to be a caliphate hinges on their ability to maintain a government-like status. They can continue doing this if they make $30M/month. But the US is hamstrung because they want to stop ISIS from taking advantage of the oil in Northern Iraq, but they can't bomb all the fields, otherwise it will cripple Iraq going forward.

So the best way to hurt ISIS and the Caliphate is by hitting their major source of income, which is oil, but cutting the price. If legit oil is $40/barrel instead of $100, and the caliphate can't afford to maintain their structure, then it implicitly collapse. Did you notice that after Hurricane Harvey, the US used that as an excuse to dump oil from the SPR? The problem isn't oil, it's the refineries in Houston that were taken offline. Releasing oil from the SPR made no sense because we're already in a glut, except to keep pressure on oil to stay low.

Again, I don't know why this is so hard for some people to believe. It's not a conspiracy theory, it makes a lot of sense, and I support it.
Don't forget Siri.

I still don't understand why these companies cannot let us choose a name for our listening devices. Computers can be named, phones too.
Slight correction – it's 5 presses of the lock/sleep button not 5 presses of the home button.
Cryptocurrency and companies: Not ready yet
I think Equifax, Transunion, and Experion should be blocked from accessing a person's information unless they explicitly authorized by the person.

There needs to be more transparency into the storing of personal information and the whole process of credit scoring an individual for the purposes of the borrowing they wish to do. This is a service that should be free. Why should people be paying to access their own information? That's just weird. The lenders are the ones who should be financing the credit scoring industry.
It's not, this article is click bait.
"So before you go around claiming that serif typefaces are easier to read than sans-serif typefaces, you might want to do a little checking around. The embarrassing truth is, there's no solid research to back up that claim."

Source with references: http://asserttrue.blogspot.com/2013/01/the-serif-readability...

One of many studies that show it's actually additional spacing that's at work when small text readability is improved with serifs: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4612630/
It is super fishy that they got rid of every copy of video interviews with Susan Mauldin right as they were being reported on. I watched the interviews before they got erased and I was shocked that they were ever aired, I'm sure the transcript does not convey as much about how little this person seems to know for being the person in charge of the security of every person's credit files who has credit in the US.

I don't like to see people get shit on (and she looked like a person who was trying hard to do a good job,) but she also looked like a person who was put in that position because someone with a lot of money knew that doing security right would be expensive, and she would be someone to comply.
Nice to see this has made it through the standards process -- the `immutable` keyword is tremendously useful for systems that store and provide actual immutable data, e.g. content-addressed distributed systems.
Heh, my dad took the whole computer away from me and put it in his room. This did not stop me from removing the motherboard, hard drive, video and sound card, and taking them to my friends house in my backpack for a LAN party. Spare monitor and power supply I borrowed from my friend got me up and running.
The article said you'll be able to use the new method (hold sleep/wake and volume button for 5 seconds to require a passcode to unlock – i.e. disabling face/touch id).
Ask HN: 0.25s to run first 50 Euler solutions. Interesting or not?
Not too long ago, I decided to finally become comfortable with Rust. So I read through the new Rust book and used Rust to solve the first 50 project Euler problems.

Here's the part that I think is interesting:

As I progressed through the problems, I started noticing that people were posting run times along with their code. So I joined in and began posting my run times with each bit of code.

Of course, once you're posting a performance-related number, you're playing a game and that gets a bit addictive. I started trying not just to solve the problems but to make the solutions fast.

After I completed the first 50 problems, which was the original goal, I measured total runtime for all 50 problems. It was just under 2 seconds. Seeing that new number led me to go back to improve the slow solutions. On some I was pretty stuck so I went to the Euler forums for ideas. In two cases, I found algorithm improvements that bought me factors of perhaps 100.

Plucking low-hanging fruit brought the total time quickly down to about 0.5 seconds. Wrestling brought it down from there to under 0.25 seconds. For example, for p14 I never did find any real algorithm improvements, but gradually brought it down to 29ms by speeding up the implementation. I changed implementation details on faster solutions, analyzed bounds, etc. and generally climbed further up the tree.

I think it would be fun to open up the code on Githup and see if together we can get down to 0.1 or 0.05 seconds. Also, I think the code can be made prettier and more Rust idiomatic without slowing down. Anyway, I was thinking of writing up a lessons learned post and making a general invite. But before spending the time, I wanted to see if there would be any interest. So ... would anyone be interested in reading a lessons learned post if I were to write one?

* All times are on my HP 7z laptop. Specs: AMD Dual-Core A9-9410 APU (2.9 GHz, up to 3.5 GHz, 1 MB cache)
You may be right - that post does come off trolly-y, in retrospect.
> Why is it not already this way?

Because the credit industry can afford better lobbyists and lawyers than you.

A normal, rational person would indeed know that to be libel, but US treats damage to reputation differently from Europe. I'm not a lawyer, but I think in the US you have to prove the allegation was false, that they knew it was false when making it, and that the false statement actually caused you harm.

The businesses in the industry establish the reasonable norms for knowing when something is false. The CRAs say they trust the creditors to report accurate information, and the creditors say they trust the CRAs to match reports to the correct records. They both point at the identity thief as the true culprit.

But you can't sue them, because they used your name, and no one knows who they really are. Essentially, it's a blame-shifting shell game that only holds up because of the massive amount of money flowing through the industry.
Why is Google search better at autocorrect than Chrome spellcheck?
I get that the one is offline dictionary driven but surely I'm not the only one that noticed the painfully obvious difference between them.
Seems to be working fine now.
I wonder how much of a charge it needs to have at the beginning of the day in order to sustain itself via just the surplus from regen braking. The article mentions charging by 40kWh on a descent, which I take to mean that it's less than that to ascend.
I would really like to post the link to video interviews with Susan Mauldin (they made quite an impression on me) but they were deleted apparently only hours after I watched them.

https://www.hollywoodlanews.com/equifax-chief-security-offic...

There is a transcript that you can still read at:

http://archive.is/6M8mg
Thank you! Figured I had missed it skim reading on mobile :)
Extra credit if you can read that hires text on an Apple ][ color monitor (or NTSC color TV), where you get one color per two pixels, with seven pixels per byte, and some very quirky rules for figuring out the color!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_II_graphics#High-Resolut...

The Apple II's Hi-Res mode was peculiar even by the standards of the day...

Each pair of adjacent pixels generated a single color pixel via artifact color, resulting in an effective resolution of 140×200. The lower seven bits of each byte represented the pixels, while the most significant bit controlled the phase offset for that block of pixels, altering the color that was displayed...

Finally, another quirk of Wozniak's design is that while any pixel could be black or white, only pixels with odd X-coordinates could be green or orange. Likewise, only even-numbered pixels could be violet or blue.[4] This is where the so-called "fringe benefit" comes in. The Apple video hardware interprets a sequence of three or more turned-on horizontal pixels as solid white, while a sequence of alternating pixels would display as color. Similarly, a sequence of three or more turned-off horizontal pixels would display as black.
Yeah. I'm the author, so I'm obviously biased, but I wouldn't say the TL;DR here is about ECT either.
How many layers of management should have caught that first? It shouldn't matter whether someone graduated from third grade when it comes to something that simple.
Yeah, police won't have any problem with people quickly reaching into their pockets to grab an unknown object. I can't see how that might go badly.
I'm surprised they didn't use one of the existing diesel-electric hybrid dump trucks as a base model. That seems like an easier conversion than converting a truck with a mechanical transmission.

Here's an example diesel-electric hybrid dump truck: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liebherr_T_282B
Did you consider appointing (renting out) a community lead for those groups? Maybe something along the lines of Über driver system?
If a group has a natural leader - perfect. If not they can "rent" one to keep the momentum of the group going.
FuTTY is my favorite fork
https://code.google.com/archive/p/futty/
https://sourceforge.net/projects/futty/files/
https://github.com/FireEgl/FuTTY

Major features i like:

* adb and cygterm support
* ctrl-scrollwheel zoom
* clickable links (always or while holding ctrl)
* jumplists
I'm not sure what good the Affero GPL license is good for in this case. The resulting software cannot be distributed under it: It depends on React as a critical and integral component to its functionality. I cannot distribute the resulting software under AGPL, because it contains known patents I lack the right to distribute under the terms of the AGPL license.
Many people with a CS degree are clueless about security. It's a relatively new discipline.
When I bought Logic 7 around 2006, it came with several manuals and reference books totalling IIRC about 2000 pages. Now there's no boxed version to buy.
Not betting against him but there are couple of things to note
1) Not many new undiscovered markets exist
2) Google, Amazon, Facebook, Microsoft are getting bigger and bigger.
3) More bets tend to fail than succeed. So coupled with 1) and 2), not sure how much money will be left in 600M
They should have added facial gestures that disable the feature. Like wrinkle your nose or something.
Unless they are using this dump truck to fill in an old pit it doesn't seem like that should happen very often.

The logistics of feeding the power back to the grid are also a bit wonky. Is it going to be dragging a cable behind it? Is there an inductive charge/discharge pad that it drives over? The article has no useful details on this, and the whole idea seems rather half baked.
No, but please upvote if you also want this feature ;)

https://github.com/mozilla/testpilot-containers/issues/47
The models listening for the initial hook of "okay google" or "hey cortana" etc are stored and executed locally on the device-- usually in a low power manner.

This comes with a set of constraints:

Certain activation phrases are more catchy than others, with hard consonant sounds and enough length for the alg to grab on to. Allowing users to pick any name opens this up to a high false positive rate, where the device would 'respond' to arbitrary inputs rather than specifically its name when called.

Training models on new trigger words and then deploying them back down to the device is in its infancy, and voice detection has a long way to go (another example of this is the difficulty around responding to a specific person's voice, with its signature sounds etc). I could see this happening in the future as the tech improves.
Ask HN: How to get first 3 client projects as a small dev shop?
Aside from being able to disable Face ID by squeezing the side buttons, it apparently disables and requires a passcode after 2 failures (compared to 5 for Touch ID). It's not clear yet to me what counts as a failure, though: if someone gets the phone before you can squeeze it then holds it up to your face but you don't look at the phone (Face ID is said to "require your attention" to unlock), does that count as a failure?

EDIT: Apparently both Touch ID and Face ID disable after 5 failures — https://developer.apple.com/documentation/localauthenticatio...
Firefox already has that sort of profiles, though they are somewhat less visible than the equivalent Chrome feature.
I humbly beg to differ. This is the terminal and editor font I use: http://www.dafont.com/nouveau-ibm.font
WEX – Bitcoin Exchange, Namecoin Exchange, Litecoin Exchange, BTC Exchange
The two most common types of surface mining are strip mines (where there isn't much up/down climbing) and open pit mines (where the loaded portion is going up). It's possible the mine in question is an open pit mine where your loaded descent to the dump site distance > the loaded climb distance out the open pit.
I'm wondering whether Apple sees this technology totally replacing TouchID, or if they will continue to offer it in the next 3-5 years on some devices?
The original article: https://www.empa.ch/web/s604/e-dumper
There are interesting aspects there, but the idea of protected classes vs unprotected ones and restricting discrimination based on that isn't one I have a huge problem with. I don't believe that a cake store having to serve minorities needs to imply that they have to be willing, say, to create cakes with arbitrary recipes. Could be an issue that comes up in the future with food allergy stuff, though, but as it is today that's not protected, and I feel it would be ludicrous to force shops to be "common carriers" that have to cook whatever the customer wants—of course, there are significant level-of-market-control differences here too.
Equifax hack explained in 5 minutes
The comments about the "attention" detail make it sound like they have tested this extensively with diverse groups. But I've wondered if they had anyone "red team" to see if they could fool it. Faces are less private than fingerprints, and I imagine the police would jump to buy a tool that can unlock phones. Statistics about the false-positive rate are mostly meaningless in an adversarial case. Maybe it is mentioned in the forthcoming white paper.
These are probably more commonly used in mining than in landfills.
I'm shocked that so many people fail to realize this is a red herring. This is more shocking to me than the story itself.
I'm not sure where you're getting the 20% number...?

The ownership stake is dependent on how the negotiations go and how much the company is looking to raise at what valuation/terms. Social Capital will argue a liquidity premium should be applied, and I'm sure the company will say what you're saying (they can IPO <1%). However, they could both stand to benefit, so I see a deal happening with this SPAC