skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've been a Technician for many years. I have worked numerous local responses: parades, athletic events, smaller scale weather disasters. It was really rewarding, especially when a family member was actually participating in the event, and you felt awesome knowing you're keeping watch and helping to direct and dispatch help where needed. I met a lot of folks who were much older and had amazing stories. One in particular drove his RV with his wife down to LA shortly after Katrina and, using a ham radio and bag phone, helped relay a lot of the communications flowing out of the area.

Unfortunately the bar to get a General license is much higher than Technician, even without the Morse Code. There are a ton of regulations and rules you need to be familiar with that are often not related to E&M. This unfortunately kept me from ever upgrading and being of use in large scale disasters like this. I can understand to an extent why the licensing is still required; otherwise you will have these spectra flooded with people probably using them for commercial purposes with no regulation to cut them off.

Basic ham communications are still absolutely critical in major disasters. A few others have touched on this, but bandwidth and throughout for communication is increased with the advent of digital interfaces to the radios to the point that you can essentially establish a data connection over the air. Godspeed to those who make the trek.
What happens to all those "older developers" when they reach the ripe old age of 50? (or 40) Surely, not everyone makes enough money to retire at 50. There can't be enough management positions for everyone either. So, where?
One way the architecture metaphor breaks down is that very tiny details can have incredibly large knock-on effects in software. This is different from normal architecture and building engineering where it's certainly true that there are many details that need to be carefully considered, but those things are well understood and managed from project to project. Software on the other hand could be doing anything, in a world of pure logic traversing scales analogous to the smallest quark ranging to the entire universe. Building physical things just doesn't deal with those scales, you only have to worry about material properties and structures within a range of few orders of magnitude.
Please take your pro-oil astroturfing elsewhere.
Well I'm not in the iOS ecosystem, but I genuinely like the location data to be in my photos, and I go somewhat out of my way to ensure it stays there.

Being able to search my images by location means I can easily find all images from my trip to X, or grab all the pictures I took while at my old house. It's hugely useful and I would be livid if an is update or app update started striping that info.
What are people using to study for HAM licenses these days? Any modern resources to know about?
Of course they can. Flash isn't a cloud service. All "deprecated" and "EoL" means is that Adobe isn't going to change the product or provide support. Google could do the same. It will keep working the way it has always worked. There's millions if not more sites out there still with Flash content. I have a collection of SWFs (mostly games) and they still work too.

The "this technology is old/deprecated/EoL/unfashionable/etc., let's just delete it all and provide no equivalent replacement, nevermind the fact that it's been working well" attitude is what really pisses off users, including me. Also somewhat like me, they don't really care what technology is as long as it works --- all they see is something which used to work is now broken and they can't do anything about it.
> the average rate of income tax paid by the American middle class — the 20 percent of households in the exact middle of the income ladder — has been going down for decades, and was at 2.6 percent of gross income in 2013, the last year for which statistics are available.

This doesn't make any sense to me. I have paid an effective tax rate between 25-30% for the past 5 years, does that mean I am above middle class? My wages are only at 50% of the required wage to purchase the lowest end houses in my city, yet I pay more taxes than 60% of people?

This article seems like it was not fact checked well or their terminology is off.
It's obvious you're disappointed with how things are proceeding. In these situations, I think it's customary that you sit down and look at what was agreed on, on paper and in email.

So which agreements were violated? And what is described as the consequences for that?

For example, you say you set your own projects aside in exchange for an agreed amount. So I assume you sent the bill for that? Did they pay it?
Penn or Stanford? I think that was mostly Nick Foster’s work.
Unless it's a 24-hour clock, then it's only once. Or the break isn't just a stoppage but simply a mis-setting. Or running fast or slow, at which point it will be right with some period other than twice/day. (The original phrase specifies a stopped clock, which eliminates the second two exceptions).
From the actual study: "Himba participants show categorical perception only for their own linguistic categories and not for either the supposed universal categories of English"

Roberson, D., Davidoff, J., Davies, I. R., & Shapiro, L. R. (2005). Color categories: Evidence for the cultural relativity hypothesis. Cognitive psychology, 50(4), 378-411.

On top of that there is also Berinmo tribe that " marks a color boundary that is absent in English (i.e., a boundary within the English green category), but also fails to mark other boundaries that are found in English (e.g. the boundary between blue and purple (Roberson, Davidoff, Davies, & Shapiro, 2005)"
A Short Distance from Southie, but a World Away
It's not the same -- Relay Modern and Apollo Data are both a bit half-baked still in terms of client-side state caching. GraphQL mutations are painful to code right now. I say all this as a long programmer on my side SaaS -- with a team, things aren't quite so bleak. I really want to go GraphQL but it's just too complex still. Redux is much simpler to reason about. It is a simple state store. The client side state caches are just not there yet from what I can tell. There is too much magic and not enough time on the market to trust my business with them.

I'd love to hear contrary experience.
First, the FAA weren't really moving that fast about drones until idiots started flying drones in active fire control areas. Once planes and helicopters started needing to be grounded in active fire control areas because of morons with drones, regulation was inevitable.

Second, airspace is controlled. If you want to put something in it, you need permission. I wish you luck with your quest to deregulate airspace.

Third, drones were effectively unregulated for quite a while. And the drone users somehow couldn't police themselves--sorry that your libertarian utopia ran aground on the shoals of human stupidity.

Fourth, yeah, I'm sorry if your libertarian sensibilities get offended, but when, not if, your drone comes crashing into something I own, I want to know to whom I need to send the bill. Your right to operate a drone impinges on my right to know who is damaging my property. No regulation implies that I surrender my right over my property and you have given me very little justification why your flying lawnmower should receive such treatment.
Masters of Doom is a great read... or listen
I think with current technology that'd make the training prohibitive unless you boiled it down to a few options. Which would still likely result in false positives. I mean, this stuff isn't magic.

OR you could use the face as a username, as many suggest, and a short 4 pin password. You could easily have a duress password option (which as far as I know doesn't exist), still quickly log in, AND have fairly good security.
You hit the nail on the head. Also, not only is there an upper age, your salary levels off pretty early in your career and only rises very slowly after that unless you are willing to take on bigger and bigger risks. On top of all that, if, like me, you spent any time in graduate school, there's even fewer years to "make it".

It's very frustrating the lies we live with and how much of our income is forfeit in taxes which just ends up in one boondoggle after another or in the perpetual (multi-generational?) war in Afghanistan. It's insane what we put up with and I for one am sick of pretending any of it is worthwhile.

We pay too much for defense, we pay too much for entitlements, we have too many federal workers, and most states have too many state, county, and local workers as well, all of which I view as another type of welfare scheme.

I'm not saying we need zero government, but the time for government to right-size itself has arrived.
«If it's a merchant I haven't heard of it...»

You are right. However, examine your pattern of purchases: if you are like the typical consumer, most of your purchases are made at the same merchants that you have been shopping at for years and already trust.

«How big of an issue is this in practice»

It's a huge issue in some markets (eg. online shopping.) I can't remember the stats but CC fraud actually has bankrupted some merchants because it is so prevalent. Dishonest clients are a lot more common than dishonest merchants. It's easy to understand why: by being dishonest, a merchant damages its reputation instantly, however if someone attempts to use a stolen CC and gets flagged, he would simply try another CC number or try another merchant.
I feel that it is dramatically less like playing blindfold chess and more like playing normal chess.

You can always refer to the code or state in the debugger at a given time, but being able to think through steps ahead in your head is very helpful. Likewise in normal chess you can always refer back to the board to reset your mental state, but it helps to be able to think 5 moves into advance.

Playing blindfold chess isn't much harder at the beginning of the game; you can always reset to the initial state and replay moves if you want to. But as the game goes on it becomes hard to remember "Did I move the A rook or the H rook?", basic playing of the game isn't too hard. If you could refer to the board every 10 moves, blindfold would not be very hard at all.

When programming, all the information is there, being able to run it in your head is just faster than asking the computer to do it.
> the grid itself is perceptually more or less uniform

I can tell you that the grid is more physically uniform than perceptually uniform. It is well known that humans are physiologically less capable of distinguishing hues of blue than of most other broad categories. This property is encoded in most colorimetric systems, such as CIEDE 2000.

Update: I read a paper some years ago which I can no longer find an English copy of[0]. The author used Isomap to project the mutual perceptual distances (as modeled by CIEDE 2000) of physically-uniform colors onto a two and three dimensional euclidean space, with very interesting results (toward the end of the PDF).

[0]: https://www.maxwell.vrac.puc-rio.br/22445/22445.PDF
> It is far past time to recognize that the hacking environment in which we live IS THE NORMAL ENVIRONMENT, and these hacks ARE everyday anticipated harm.

> The only basis for this is impatient project management where the key priority is to to ship yesterday because the management are idiots and think software is trivial.

I agree with the former but it is negated by the latter. The economic incentives certainly do.

> These approaches to start slinging code, write it fast and change it often are useful only for prototyping. In writing real software, my first two steps are 1) understand your problem in depth, and 2) work very hard for a long time to avoid writing code (i.e., better architecture to simplify, separate dependencies, etc.++)

Ideally this would be the case but this approach is a luxury many could not afford. This is especially true in an "Agile", first-to-ship mentality seen in most startups.
One of the best arguments for Lisp I've heard this decade
Star Trek is truly amazing. I just wish we were closer to that time than our own. I wrote these exact same feelings of what it can teach us before the downfall of humanity.

http://www.confessionsoftheprofessions.com/human-greed-downf...

And each character also represented something... when Mr. Spock passed IRL... I couldn't help, but write about it.

http://www.confessionsoftheprofessions.com/mr-spock-live-lon...
That's amazing. Well over half the zeros to the Planck length. And they said we'd never measure that small, but I sure wouldn't bet the farm on it now.
"10 McDonald's workers can't fix your teeth. 10 dentists can be equally as good at making hamburgers."

That is incredibly arrogant and so far wrong it's not even close to the truth.
Growing one acre of corn takes approximately 8 gallons of diesel fuel (directly) and produces enough corn for 485 gallons of ethanol.
Yup. I'm really fed up with the lack of interoperability. I have an Echo Dot, and hate that I can't use it to play back from Google Music (not without a beta-quality third-party Alexa skill that still requires me to use a stupid trigger word), and I can't push to Chromecast.

But the Google Home ecosystem isn't so great yet, so I don't want to jump into that basket.

I've been messing with some of the open source alternatives (+Raspberry Pi), and they're all pretty rough. I plan to spend some time to put together something easier to use, but it's a tall order.
Can you tell them to change it back? It's absolutely annoying.

Edit: http://www.herongyang.com/PKI/Chrome-40-HTTPS-Certificate-Ge...

The old screen showed the same information as in the "Security" tab. Right now a click on the "Secure" button in the URL bar doesn't even show the certificate issuer. It is useless this way.
It seems like the defense you have been required to make is just proving your point. People appear almost offended and baffled at your comments which are easy to understand.

They are also overlooking the basic facts that healthcare in Sweden is significantly better than in the US despite the significantly lower pay scale, Sweden has a higher median income, and the quality of McDonalds food and service is probably better as well (it has been anywhere I have been in Europe).
The ‘I lost my phone’ serverless, IoT button
Ah, got you. I misinterpreted your statement as a defence of ARC, but rereading I see that's not the case.
Add to that, there's a popup asking for my email address for their mailing list as soon as I start to scroll. Seriously, has anyone ever entered their email address in order to get rid of a popup instead of clicking "X"? Is there a more sinister purpose to these boxes? I note that users without Nuke Anything (or similar) installed in their browser will have to click whatever button the designer chose, and its associated tracking code, to close the popup.
Debatable. I'd say it's a cellphone for which no infrastructure currently exists, which admittedly doesn't make it a very useful cellphone unless and until those changes occur. But a car is still a car even if there's no gas stations.
What Makes Docker More Secure Than VMs or Bare Metal?
Uhhh, I lived in Germany for quite some time (and have German heritage and German speaking family), thanks very much.
FDA Warns Chinese Drugmaker on Fake Test Results, Blocking Access to Inspectors
Eh. Case studies is still data. And the theoretical physicists that don't use data are criticised as not really doing science. Most theorists I know (I am in physics) are heavily data-driven.
The low power usage of the device is impressive (I think), but the battery free part not so much. It seems as though this is just the modern day version of the crystal radio sets many of us built (or tried to) when we were kids.
"Everything should be built top-down, except the first time" --Alan Perlis
the implication is people really started digging into his work after reading that blog post.
iOS apps get complete access to where you've been the last years
That and a hacker is much more likely to target a major coin exchange worth millions of dollars than you, random person with 0.5 bitcoin.
I would have never guessed I was downvoted because "Bitcoin is mentioned too often"…

I need to point out that your comment ("idiots") is against HN guidelines ("be civil"): https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
> And you have the little problem of (correctly) creating the formal spec.

How on Earth did we end up putting people who can't write down precisely what they want in charge of programming machines that do exactly what you tell them to?
You only read the first sentence and not the rest it seems. I said exactly that, that you can't use biometrics for an identification protocol.

I still disagree on the username. You know my username here and on twitter, you don't know my fingerprint. And no, you can't repro my fingerprint so easily as you think because "fingerprint reader" is a short for a sophisticated piece of hardware that measures other things, e.g. blood pressure.

On the research, I didn't say biometrics can be revoked. I said you can build a function of biometrics info, whose result can be revoked [1]. No one is disagreeing with your premises, but this doesn't mean that the problem has no solutions.

[1] https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=0,5&q=revoca...
I wonder how this relates to the results of the white room experiment? In that experiment you take a rat and put it in the center of a rectangular room with white walls, and you put a treat the rat wants in one corner, and let the rat see it. You then turn the rat around a few times to disorient and release it.

The rat then tries to get the treat. 50% of the time it goes straight to the correct side of the room, and 50% of the time it goes to the wrong side first.

If instead of an all white room you do it in a room where one of the long walls is painted blue--the results are the same. Half the time the rat goes to the correct corner first, half the time it goes to the wrong corner first.

That's interesting because other experiments show that rats can recognize blue vs. white and can recognize left vs. right. But apparently they cannot put the concept of blue vs. white and concept of left vs. right together to remember that something is on the left side of the blue wall.

If you try this with human adults, they of course go right to the treat almost every time. We have no trouble remembering the goody is on the left side of the blue wall.

Babies, though...nope. No better than rats. Two year olds...still no better than rats. Same for three and four and five year olds. It isn't until a human is around six years old that they can go straight for the treat.

The scientists in the story I heard on the radio talking about this (probably on Radiolab on NPR) had a hypothesis about what is going on.

Before around six the spatial language used by kids is not very sophisticated. They would not say that something is "on the left side of the blue wall". Around six their language is developed enough that they would say something like that, and that is the same time they start being able to beat rats in the experiment.

The scientists suspect that the rats and the younger kids have the concepts of color and of relative position in their brains and they can apply them, but there are no links between them. When the kids get sophisticated enough that they start composing phrases like "left of the blue wall" that links the relative position concepts and the color concepts, and then they can use the combination of color and position to remember things.

This is not quite like Sapir-Whorf, because it doesn't necessarily mean that the kids can start thinking about "left of the blue wall" BECAUSE their language has developed to the point it can express it. It could just as easily be the other way around--they add that capability to their language BECAUSE they became able to think about it.
See also:

https://www.textise.net/

It's remarkably handy and I use it more often than I'd expect.
FR = Farseical Reality :-)
Every damn site does this. I'm in the middle of reading an article and boom, I get a popup in my face asking for something. If it were just one site, that'd be fine. It's not -- it's an epidemic. News sites, shopping sites, blogs, charities, tech articles, they all nag and nag.

The nagging and attention-stealing is everywhere. Every time I buy something online that's not Amazon or Apple, I get signed up for an email newsletter. I get spam in the mail, often from, say, furniture companies because they have some kind of sneaky thing that gets leads from pages I visit. I've never bought anything from Flos, Design Within Reach or Bonobos, but in my mailbox the crap goes.

These things add up. It's just a never-ending deluge of materialistic effluent.
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Sorry to hear that.

Here is the detailed guide with screenshots: http://www.actoncloud.com/blog/chrome-extension-for-cloudure...

We will replace couple of images with actual product images (detailed) shortly.
Does it use visible light? If it’s supposed to work in total darkness that seems like a problem.
Programmers write code badly due to time constraints in many cases or really disconnected teams being led by business not engineering.

Rarely is budget allotted for quality code, you have to fight for it as a coder to your own detriment internally on timelines/shipping.

Engineer led companies, or companies that value engineering as a main decision maker in the company usually fare better with issues like this and are already smart about design, architecture, standards, security, reliability, interoperability, user experience and more.
Finally a device for 360° video. /s
The world's first blockchain smartphone is in development
Science did not begin at Bacon.

Saying crop rotation or glasses or fire were not science is a bit like saying ancient geometric constructions are not algorithms.
Presumably advanced users can pick a resolver with DNSSEC support?
Seconded. You feel like you know the old id team personally after reading it.
New type of quantum supercomputer based on light and dust
Hollywood loves them, esp. if you come from money. To get a foot in the door anywhere, there's unpaid internships that you might work anywhere from 3-6 months, then maybe roll onto the next. I've met people that interned for 1-2 years before getting a Production Assistant job (pays about $12/hr starting, IIRC) in which you step up from taking out the trash but are still working 12-hr days. Once you pass that hurdle though, you can keep moving on up to better pay and positions but the expectation is to pay your dues (for free).

Young, recent grads are great for that I guess because of how unencumbered most are but, when you look at the debate on diversity in Hollywood, it's not about what's in front of the camera but about the opportunities behind the scenes, which your background might limit when you're starting out.
Tremendous potential that once again shows us computational power will keep accelerating. From the article:

"We are just at the beginning of exploring the potential of polariton graphs for solving complex problems,” said co-author Professor Pavlos Lagoudakis, Head of the Hybrid Photonics Lab at the University of Southampton and the Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology, where the experiments were performed. “We are currently scaling up our device to hundreds of nodes, while testing its fundamental computational power. The ultimate goal is a microchip quantum simulator operating at ambient conditions."
The Sapir-Whorf hypothesis is controversial, but it is not dead as some try to suggest.

See Regier & Xu (2017) or Cibelli et al. (2016)
Marketers need to embrace artificial intelligence
Believe it or not, lots of folks use Youtube as a music player and just waste the video bandwidth
The type of article written by someone who presumably has never needed a cavity filled, never contracted any disease requiring antibiotics, and does not need glasses to get around day to day.