skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are definitely people making a real effort here, and I appreciate you. But I can't shake the feeling that the reason your task is so hard is that everyone before you has been selling snake oil. "Visual programming", "human-readable software languages" and so on are all just ways of saying "crippled tools".

It's not an accident that the examples in the article were WYSIWYG editors, Photoshop, Squarespace, and Mario. All of those things flatten neatly into two dimensions, and their terminal form is visual. The visualized code is the product.

Meanwhile similar initiatives for software in general are almost always nonsense. There was a pretty compelling TED talk* about visual tools for cybersecurity, shared by lots of people I know. Only one problem: none of the fancy tools showcased work, or will work. They're operating backwards from a known answer. Like most programming tools, they collapse right where they're needed most, stopping at the same edge cases that cause these problems.

More broadly, it seems like the existing tools for known-safe software run exactly the opposite direction from Bret Victor's vision. Correctness proofs, exhaustive test suites, reversible debuggers, and so on are far from non-code, but they're what we use where reliability matters most.

I can appreciate that "code everything like the space shuttle" is hopeless, and I would love to see breakthroughs on easier correctness checking. But right now, it does feel like an attempt to push tools that won't work when they're needed.

*TEDx, but selected by TED for special featuring: https://www.ted.com/talks/chris_domas_the_1s_and_0s_behind_c...
I'd prefer dual 1/4 threads on the bottom of the camera, then you could add the Arca Swiss dovetail and it wouldn't have the rotation issues. Also, the aesthetics and feel of the camera body wouldn't change.
You try and explain that to them, but whatever database they are using "is fast". Not that I have ever had a problem with relational databases being slow. Certain queries, yes, but a bit of rewriting them and proper indexing usually solves that.
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If he doesn't mind dropping a bunch of cash on it, Samsung Smart TVs have all the major providers (including Youtube).
The difference being someone might actually care about what Zuckerberg is saying.
Okay I am not understanding, would help enlighten me please?

I read this and go '52 weeks a year for sick leave? Aren't there 52 weeks in a year total?'
https://www.theverge.com/2017/8/17/16161758/ios-11-touch-id-...

is how you work around that issue.

Keep in mind, you don't need to refuse to TouchID/FaceID forever, just for the timeout (which I do wish was configurable -- I think one hour is reasonable).
> When the phone rings, I put it to my ear
without saying hello.

Actually I often do this with unknown callers, it usually confuse them especially when it's advertisement, they usually wait for someone to speak up, but at least it's easier way to save your breathe if someone who is calling you doesn't even know your name to ask "is mr. XY there?", then you can just hang up.
Well, if FB doesn't want to do massive wealth transfer to real estate developers and current land owners it would benefit them to get involved. Part of the reason salaries are immensely disproportionate to the rest of the country is cost of housing.
I don't think the New Republic or Current Affairs have changed massively in terms of the verbosity of their articles.
I’m 32 and spent $200k on biohacking
Nah, these are definitely their own platform. Just ask anyone that owns one - they don't use it as a phone substitute. Plus, it would be another method for Google to bring iPhone users into the fold.

I know plenty of friends and relatives with an Alexa, but a lot less with a Google Home. I think Google needs to make an equivalent of the Echo Dot - a small, cheap device that people can put in multiple rooms.
Why is Twitter moving to 280 characters?
How likely is it that there are feeding mechanisms for black holes that make them this large?

I guess the main problem is that you'd need friction to slow down matter that's attracted by the black hole, so it doesn't just orbit it...
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I moved to San Francisco with no money and 50,000 in college debt with a degree that wasn't worth much at the start of the great recession. No one wanted to hire me. Yet I pulled through.

Having a bad attitude is the worst advice.
How is it a regression? What kind of scenario exists where the cops can force you to FaceID unlock your phone, but not TouchID unlock it?

You think they can force you to look at it ("engage" with it) but not touch the phone?
That's not really the price tag that's discussed here, isn't it?
Echo + Hue totally does this. Though, you have to say "Turn off the bedroom lights."

I think that's exactly what the OP wants to do not have to do.
I'm surprised understanding the domain hasn't been mentioned. Whether I am developing for someone else or for myself, it turns out misunderstanding/misrepresenting the domain is the most common source of trouble.

If your understanding of the domain isn't thorough, is TLA+ going to be much help?
> Oracle SQL Developer is ugly and slow compared to SQL Server Management Studio

This cannot be said enough. I've recently changed positions to a team using Oracle, coming from MSSQL, and dammit if I don't hate SqlDeveloper.
HDR is High Dynamic Range. Dynamic range is unitless, which allows comparisons different systems with different signal levels.

The dynamic range compares the highest signal level to the lowest level. Higher dynamic range implies higher resolution because if you hold the maximum output as a constant, one can resolve smaller signals with a better DR spec.
I had the exact same thought as you two minutes ago if I'm honest and apparently that's on the way with the new pixel phone.

http://www.droid-life.com/2017/09/19/google-home-mini-exclus...
There are still articles like this. Time and Newsweek regularly have 10+ page articles that go in depth.

I don't think much has changed. You might just be looking at different kinds of sources now.
FaceID uses a combination of IR and visible light. So, theoretically, if you had a perfectly EMR-transparent burqa, it would not interfere with FaceID. Although an EMR-transparent burqa might not even qualify as a burqa anymore.
His point of view is that those perks don't justify the commute. I'm personally inclined to agree with him having tried both.

There's a fair amount of research suggesting short commutes are good for mental health and the effects of regular walking/running/cycling are well known.
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Because we tried a bunch of ways to allocate lands over the course of human history. The current system (where you pay money, acquire it peacefully and the government backs your "property rights" with all the guns) seems the best among alternatives (like violence, ceding it to people who live somewhere for X years etc).

Do you have a better alternative to allocate land (or any other asset)? Please share so that we can discuss.
Ahh yes - excellent point.
Just because you can monitor the traffic doesn't mean you can verify what it's sending. If the assistant is designed properly, it'll be using pinned certs and everything it can do to encrypt and compress the data, but to be usable it's probably listening and throwing away a lot of data to be responsive (like how the new iPhone cameras constantly capture when on, and give you appropriate moment right before you press). There is a possibility that additional trigger phrases may exist that Amazon/Google/etc capture. It might be rare enough to be difficult to trace.

I wonder what data was handed over in that Echo subpoena for the murder case? http://www.cnn.com/2017/03/07/tech/amazon-echo-alexa-bentonv...
Url changed from https://futurism.com/a-startup-claims-to-have-found-a-soluti..., which points to this.
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It can stream the whole desktop, it's just a tad inconvenient - you have to leave Big Picture running minimized.
The other big area Google has an advantage in is in one that really matters - the reliability of its voice recognition. I have both a Google Home and an Echo and the Google Home and the Google device's actual speech recognition is dramatically better. Maybe it's just my voice, but the Echo seems to have a lot of trouble understanding me with some commands even after doing the training, while the Google Home rarely misunderstands me.
So, what is your advice?

Tough it out? Lobby?
Here's a skymap [1] that really drives home the point about how much having a third detector helps.

[1] http://www.virgo-gw.eu/skymap.html
Again, much thanks. No more questions, for now. Just a sincere thanks. I don't actually read HN for the articles. I do read many of them, but I'm here for the informative answers, insightful responses, and chances to get an education in subjects I'd not normally consider.

Once in a while, chaos theory or traffic modeling come up. So, I get to give back. ;-)

Again, my sincere thanks.
This might sound super gross (ok, it's super-gross) but I have a pet theory that your odds of being hired have a lot to do with your "fuckability" - regardless of your gender. That is to say, I think men who hire will also prefer to hire other men who look good, even though they're likely totally uninterested in them sexually.
>Now that they have that - and without offering any new value to Facebook - they want all the perks that high demand, highly skilled workers get. It's a never ending cycle.

Everyone wants everything they can bargain for. Welcome to real life. Nobody goes and reads God's Supply Meter to decide what job they're gonna do or where they're gonna live. People don't make personal career choices to optimize the GDP; they make them to maximize their own standard of living.

Now workers behave exactly as the system says they should -- and you complain?

Shouldn't any worldly, aware capitalist understand this?
For every employee that leaves over something like this, there are 10 lined up who would be thrilled to work there.
Historically, this is exactly what happened. I'm just saying—it's a morally repugnant thing to happen, and it shouldn't be any less morally repugnant whether it's an entitled capitalist techie kicking my grandfather out of his house, a swindling clan leader, or some imperialist with an (albeit smalller) axe to grind.

Coercion is coercion.
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Powerpoint is a different kind of hell.

I think the rise of brevity comes out of the move from paper to screen for reading.

where before we had a defined page, with defined columns of text to read, and thus felt a kind of progress as our eyes scanned up and down each column and page, now we only have a single long column of text. And our eyes only wander the height of the screen at best, repeatedly.

I have tested various browser extensions aimed at paginating longer articles, and i have found myself enjoying the experience more.
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That, and gloves!
Ahoy, a new market!
Pardon my ignorance. FR industry? Foreign Relations? First Responder? Flame Resistant? Google was no help. Edit: Oh, do you mean facial recognition?
>free market

When was there a free market? Colonial times?
Ditto actually. Seems like some don't like employees that know too much. They see it as an impediment, they'd rather have little sheeps drinking the coolaid...
How long have you worked as a professional programmer? Because you sound like a just-out-of-school idealist with an idea of the "right way to do it". That ideal tends to get blunted after a decade or two of experience in the real world.

In particular: Set theory? I don't want to program using set theory for the same reason that I don't want to program using octal - it's the wrong level of abstraction for what we're actually doing, no matter whether it's formally equivalent or not.

Tools for checking the correctness of desired properties? I can agree with you there; better tools for doing so would be useful. So far, the problem tends to be that the tools are less generally useful than the tools' authors and proponents think they are.
Silicon Valley has to be at least 65% cult.
Here's the sequence of events:

1. You're walking, with your phone in your pocket.

2. Suddenly, a cop accosts you. You don't have time to react.

3. They detain and restrain you (with handcuffs or otherwise)

4. They pat you down and find your phone

5. They hold up your phone to your face to unlock it

I know that people who've never been detained or interacted much with cops think that this is a completely unlikely situation, or easily avoidable, but I promise you it is not.

TouchID isn't great from a law enforcement perspective, but it's light years ahead of FaceID.
By that metric it is just as useful as "I won't give you my password" and "I won't touch the phone"

https://xkcd.com/538/
This is not for live streaming Wowza-like no ?
Dreamweaver was actually famous at the time for creating clean and readable HTML. It's FrontPage you're thinking of.
They did issue a correction at the bottom of the article to that effect.
32GB of RAM, an F-function row below the touch bar and a mag safe port next to the USB-C
Disclosure: OP works at Brightcove
It might be really interesting for those of us on the outside, so if you end up doing it, maybe publish the resulting conversation somewhere as far as possible?
Node utility/listener to your gmail account for any incoming mail
https://github.com/ksrawat/node-gmail-hook

Node utility/listener to your gmail account for any incoming mail. It keeps monitoring your account.

It also moves mail to Imp and respective folder and mark them READ.
Not to defend the appalling US system but the costs of operating a dentist's office in the US is higher. There are environmental laws concerning the chemicals used and disposal (if you drill into someone's legacy mercury filling you have to dispose of the debris carefully for example), drug handling and disposal, and of course malpractice insurance premiums.

All that being said, dentists in the US make out like bandits.
I'm pondering using standard CDNs for serving bandwidth intensive payloads, but I have some doubts whether this is a right technical decision. I did not find any general purpose CDN that would explicitly encourage the use of their product for large files nor a CDN that would disclose any information how large payloads are handled by their infrastructure.

The primary use case for CDN is latency reduction for serving small files (CSS, JS, images) and such traffic has different characteristic and requires different optimizations than high-throughput traffic. I worry how long large files are going to be cached by CDN PoPs. PoPs can't certainly cache everything forever and they can be more eager to remove large files and in such case CDN will be reducing performance by adding an additional HTTP level hop to the origin server (and likely a few IP level hops). My other worry is that PoPs can deploy DoS detection heuristic that are tuned for standard web pages and a bandwidth intensive page may trigger the rules and have the traffic throttled. Such throttling is something that I've occasionally observed while testing CloudFlare with large files, but I'm not sure what was the cause, CloudFlare monitoring tools did not report anything unusual.
GDPR stands for "General Data Protection Regulation". The author should have written this somewhere at the beginning of the article instead of just assuming all readers know what it is.
It all depends on your threat model. Police are perfectly capable of breaking into my home, but it doesn't matter, because if they do it without a warrant everything they find is inadmissible in court. Whereas with FaceID, if I'm arrested and they point my phone at my face to unlock it against my will, anything they find is now admissible as evidence.
It always surprises me what surprises people.

Peeps, how about a little bibliography if you're going to downvote? A downvote isn't supposed to mean "I wish that weren't true, so it can't be."

Too close to call on corruption
https://www.theguardian.com/news/datablog/interactive/2011/d...

Theocracy, read about the BJP, and restriction of freedom of the press around religion.
This might be a start:
Censoring Indian History
By Audrey Truschke
Posted 27th July 2017, 11:50
Laws against religious offence in India have altered the writing and understanding of the nation’s past.

In the end, I made numerous wording changes to both books and, most dramatically, in Aurangzeb I cut several sentences that outlined Shivaji’s caste background and relations with Brahmins, the priestly caste, topics which are especially sensitive to those who subscribe to the modern mythology of Shivaji. In addition, the publisher declined to publish a map in the Indian edition of Aurangzeb showing the extent of the Mughal Empire, noting that a prison term can now await those who publish maps of India without first gaining government approval. Religious (and nationalist) sentiments are increasingly trumping historical truth in modern India.

Audrey Truschke is the author of Aurangzeb: The Life and Legacy of India’s Most Controversial King (Stanford University Press, 2017) and Culture of Encounters: Sanskrit at the Mughal Court (Columbia University Press, 2016).

http://www.historytoday.com/audrey-truschke/censoring-indian...
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It sounds like you're both in agreement, which would support the criticism of the article, which hides the (addressing of the) very points the parent was raising, and gives the impression that it only solves the very academic version of the problem rather than the real-world software snags.
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Uh, why would Alexa be better than Siri or Google esp. since they're likely tied to CarPlay/Android Auto?

The market there is very crowded, I doubt Amazon's looking to disrupt there.

If I were Amazon and wanted to enter the car market, I'd make a decent dash camera based on their work with Echo Show... could possibly disrupt Apple/Google.
Netflix uses frame-by-frame ML to decide what you really want to watch
Exactly. If anything I appreciate when errors are _highlighted_ a la `sl` (Steam locomotive) for `ls` or the `gti` for `git` that has a golf gti run across the screen
> And at a certain point, you're going to find there are less and less people willing to "do it for less" due to simple economies of scale, cost and time.

Unfortunately, that point is well below minimum wage. You will always have a line of people willing to "do it for less" until you make it illegal to pay less.
The lossless compression example is, I think, taking about image compression.

Other CDNs charge for bandwidth so why would they offer their customers an easy to use 'optimize images' feature, it'll just lose them money. Cloudflare can offer it because making your images smaller saves them money.

This will be an interesting option for anyone who publishes videos but speed, integration complexity and pricing are going to be key.
am I the only one who's still convinced these things are useless
This is only the beginning of the excitement. There's loads more stuff out there that LIGO and Virgo can see - binary neutron star inspirals being the big one.
As someone else mentioned, sick leave is not guaranteed. There are millions of people who have jobs where if you call in sick, you are risking your job.

For years, my dad had 4 days off a year. That was both vacation and sick time. Any other time missed was time he wasn't getting paid for.

People who read HN probably don't know what that's like for the most part, especially if you offer opinions like yours. You might have learned that in kindergarten but sometimes you gotta eat, too. Especially when others are depending on you.
> If your understanding of the domain isn't thorough, is TLA+ going to be much help?

I suspect it could, actually, because it lets you formalize and work with the implications of the understanding you do have without getting bogged down in the details of actual coding. Seems like this could give you the opportunity to debug your mental model much earlier in the process. (I confess I haven't actually tried TLA+, but I plan to.)
Easily said when you're young, unbound and without family.
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The unofficial looking Youtube app on the Fire TV and Fire TV sticks that I own works OK. I don't know how it compares to Youtube on other set top boxes such as the Shield TV though. For live streams, it doesn't show the chat section that you see when looking in a web browser. It also makes it hard to see the video comments/notes (which I usually don't care about anyway).
That's dead on. There is a video on Digital Review where they compared someone using their iphone to post an instagram photo vs a good camera and copying it via wifi to the phone to post.

With my LX10 you can batch transfer the photos so that it makes it easier. But it's still a pain. (You have to manually connect with the phone etc)

There should be a service connection on Panasonic's side to say: this camera id is configured for these services and accounts and I should be able to view the photo on the camera and post directly to say imgur. (No phone needed)
It is overrated. I also just use Spotify/Google Play Music and what you listed above.
By “removed” do you mean “occluded”?

If you have access to the screen but not to the sensor array, you can use a passcode. This is obviously very difficult to do when the phone’s in your pocket, so that’s a very small regression in usability there, but that seems like an extreme edge case.
Take a operative system like debian. It has a huge number of packages in every combination and mix of open source defined and free software defined license. It does not limit itself to only use code that closed code can use. The community embrace license diversity, and thus has very little "my-way-is-the-only-way". As a practice, if they can avoid writing their own stuff they do so, always look around them and see if someone else has already written what they need. They use the "if-you-want-something-different-then-me-you-might-be-right" attitude to code, happy abandoning anything home brewed.

You can't have both a no-ideological community and "no gpl welcome". Either you welcome everyone and focus on getting code to work, or you exclude based on licenses and reinvent the wheel. The question you need to ask is what is important for you. If the most important thing for the project is the license choice, then be upfront about the ideological choice that such goal is. If the goal is to get working code that will use any software you can legally use, then a more pragmatic approach is more suitable.

I personally don't run operative system which focus more on the license rather than getting things done. My work also don't pay me for license choices, but they do for code that works and create value for the customers. I could put agpl code on the servers and you know what, no one would object.
The current amazon box is discontinued. Also, this does HDR.
I'm guessing that part was as serious as this part:

>you have the means to end your life internally by simply controlling your energy, sending it up your spine into your brain
The analogy is one of defense in depth: if you're serious about security, you can use memorized & typed secondary passwords on secure apps, such as secure notes in 1Password, or an app like https://guardianproject.info/apps/pixelknot/ that would steganographically encode secure notes into otherwise normal photos, potentially with independent passwords for complete deniability.

A locked door and a face-locked iPhone are only the first line of defense, and are largely for convenience's sake in both daily use/as a deterrent and in the case of physically being distant from your property. The "guns" are entirely independent.