skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They're free, like Amazon, to fork Android & make Cortana the default assistant. What's this got to do with bundling an Google?

MS never gave access, hence never allowed forks of Windows to happen.

How much more can Google do than give away the entire OS for free? They have ZERO commitments by monopoly law to usurp their default apps in their distribution of Android
How 'Talking' Corpses Were Once Used to Solve Murders
Strobe seems to be using some very advanced physics. Here's a paper on quantum LIDAR.[1] The semiconductor technology is exotic.[2] The detectors in the research papers require cooling to superconducting temperatures, but apparently that can be overcome. It's amazing this technology is making it to the automotive environment this fast.

[1] https://arxiv.org/pdf/1305.6627.pdf
[2] http://www.princetonlightwave.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01...
Any help creating the Wikipedia article would be splendid.

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Draft:Electric_ho...
Vogt did an interview with Forbes earlier this summer, in which he implied that the Lyft investment was done on the initiative of some other arm of General Motors, and that Cruise doesn't need no stinking rideshare partnership. I guess we'll see how that plays out.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=beaaidqx4vA
It's stuff like this that really puts people off the idea of forced updates, to the point of turning it off altogether. What the user doesn't see are the fixes to various security issues; what they definitely do see are these disruptive, completely unnecessary changes to their environment.

To paraphrase loosely someone else's memorable quote (unfortunately I have forgotten the author), "the updates are like vaccinations that also have a large chance of making you grow an extra arm and turning your skin green."

Relatedly, another forced update recently left some of my coworkers using Win10 and IE pissed off about an extra useless search box appearing: https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/ie/forum/ie11-iewindows_...
Active investing: what's your approach?
For those of you who use Robinhood/Etrade/etc to invest in stocks, what's your approach for finding stocks to buy?
> that at no point had even a single feature that wasn't available better on iOS and Android

According to the dates[0] I found online says Windows was the first to have a feature that would automatically connect to your cellular connection if the Wifi didn't work. Most consumers don't care but it is something I was surprised iPhones[1] and Android[2] didn't have at least at the time. In addition continuum is unique/better in many ways although that is more recent. It has been a while since I have used a Windows Phone.

[0] Windows 8.1 definitely had it in 2014 according to this https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/10652/windows-phone... I'm pretty sure Windows Phones predating this also had it although documentation seems lacking.

[1] Wi-fi assist was introduced in iOS 9(2015). https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT205296

[2] There are apps for Android that do this but at least this one is 3rd party. No sources says it predates 2015. I have not experimented with this on Android. https://www.guidingtech.com/54831/get-ios-like-wi-fi-assist-...
Do you think GitHub has grown complacent?

IMO they continue to innovate quite quickly, on multiple fronts.
I have used Microsoft Word and Leanpub[1]. Super easy and I like the set your own price.

[1]https://leanpub.com/
Random frequency, "hey...we need to talk" (recipe for heart attack)
I'm not sure about the 20 points number, the effect feels much larger. Perhaps if you simultaneously apply a 20% penalty to hand-eye coordination, balance, facial expressions, typing skills, enunciation, penmanship, memory/recall, creativity, etc. you could accurately represent my skill as a human being while presenting.
If we're just waiting for the old guard to die out, I apologize. My econ 101 class was 24 years ago, and we definitely started with rationality as the basis. I'm very happy to hear behavioral economics ideas are now undergrad-level topics. I'll be happier still when they're econ 101 topics, and there's no "behavioral" label at all, because the ideas have taken over the entire field.
Could you clarify what you mean by the difference between colo vs on-prem?

We run their on-prem in our colo, and it works great for us.
It's not a huge flaw, as the mobile 3G (esp. AT&T's) networks weren't that good in 2007.

The fact that you could get (edge speed) unlimited internet for $20/iPhone was pretty amazing. Same for Palm/Verizon was $45 and more for 3G.

Native apps showed up in jailbreaks which I installed literally months after the release. The app install process was unparalleled.
The Security Behind the Birth of Zcash | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14782232 (Jul 2017, 49 comments)
A massive review shows letting people out of prison doesn’t increase crime
What is the state of the art in building high assurance lock free components? Are there type systems or proof assistants that are workable?
I don't believe so, but that isn't their point. The point being that Google is tying the translation feature into these headphones to upsell them, even though it could be done without headphones at all.
Classic "growth hacking" — it feels deeply unethical, and makes me question the judgment of the person behind Botletter.
Be careful. A little backlash has been brewing all over the place. Some of it's about privacy. Some of it's about power and influence. Some is about addictiveness. It's not much today, but the gap between a little backlash and a popular one is smaller than we're inclined to think.

This thread is full of comments making wild assumptions about cities they've never visited.

Uber and Lyft made the same assumption about Austin--that they could get away with anything because people love their product. They lost.
This is wonderful! And the best thing is that a freemium model immediately suggests itself, for a fee we can receive personalised rejection letters for the case if we would get to interviews. I feel that’s when we need this service the most.
It is a Xoogler-founded startup called Bodega offering a product that would compete with, and potentially replace, real-world working-class owned bodegas.
The problem may be the copying. If what the cheap brands do is copying the expensive brands while trying to subtly change it to avoid getting sued (trade dress/copyright/design patent), the changes are likely to make the design worse in some way.
Alpha launches two new Ultrathin Aluminum Laptops with hardware to match
That was probably going to happen anyway because the zero-installation, easy-update, relatively upgrade-safe environment of Web apps is really attractive to businesses.
I agree. The author should just omit the "Made with love in $COUNTRY" line. No need for all these hoops.
Mars has 5M cubic km of ice
Did I say it matters?

Some of you seem so predisposed to be on the defense in this topic it's difficult to even have a casual discussion without becoming adversarial.

It's worth knowing if some forms of marijuana can effectively treat pain without significant impairment.
Pretty sure there is a lot of antipathy right now towards London as the centre of European finance. For NY, just replace it with Wall Street.
"Regardless of wether I do nothing or go out and explore, it would mean I'm not essential."

You never were. Neither am I.

"Working is not only about the money; is about finding a place in a community and having some sense of identity and purpose."

And now, since you're not forced to get a job to support yourself, you can go and find that identity and purpose with something you actually want to do, rather than something you must do to survive.

"Could be either, as necessary."

Doubtful. Most of those projects will largely be done by machines. So the jobs available will be small.

"Work on the projects he listed"

I mean work how, as in, most of the work on those projects won't be done by people. So how are most people going to work?

In much of the country, the number 1 job is truck driver. But we're working on driverless technology more and more, and eventually that will be phased out.
Yeah, I had to get a second phone recently so a client could put things on it, and the Moto G5 Plus was a perfectly solid phone for just over $200.
Steps to publishing your research:

-Do a literature survey and read LOTS of papers. If you are not coming from the standard academic route you are probably vastly underestimating how much existing work has been published. To publish your research you need to place it in the right context, with citations, and really understand what is novel about your ideas. Read lots of papers, take notes, keep track of the bibliographic details. Follow up on citations to find more papers.

-Write up your understanding of the relevant field as a survey of existing literature with citations. This will clarify your thinking and help you become familiar with standard terminology. This will also be part of your finished paper.

-Write up your idea using terminology and notation consistent with your existing survey. Discuss what is novel and different about your idea.

-Analyze your idea from the point of view of other paradigms. Answer possible critiques that would come from other ways of thinking about the same problem. If you've discovered "standard" ways of evaluating your type of idea, do the evaluation to see how you compare.

-Get feedback. Get opinions from as many other people as you can that are as good as you can find. In the draft paper, thank everyone that gives you any feedback. If people give you substantial ideas that improve the work, ask if they want to be co-authors and work with you a bit more.

-Once you feel there is a real research contribution in your paper draft, and people you have shown it to think it is good, start working on getting it published. Put it up on preprint sites and send it to conferences or journals that are relevant. By this point you should know the right venues based on your survey work.
They are publicly known. But I would say most paper requirements are "necessarily complicated", simply because science is hard.

Writing a scientific paper requires both solid science (both good results and good scientific practices) and solid writing skills to convey an important idea in a clear and precise way. Mastering both aspects requires time and effort.

An academic author is a person who made a job out of it. Most people don't like doing that, and that's fair, but I don't think it's fair to say that "they are gatekeeping education" when that same uninterested people suddenly find out that the pro level is hard.

(Disclaimer: I'm working in academia, although not in AI)
Given what their product does, I'm not surprised at the lack of ethics on display here.

Hooray for "growth hacking"
people love using hammers for nails.

they don't love the maker of the hammer.
but marketing was always a core M$ strength. it's been a standard criticism of the company for a very long time.
What’s the best way to contact you?
That's enough to cover the whole planet to a depth of 35 m/ 115 ft. Not exactly what I would call bone dry!
Ask HN: How do you manage note-taking for on-the-job education?
(Brief background: I'm a recent college grad, and have been working as a software engineer for ~4 months.)

In college, my note-taking approach was primarily focussed around quickly capturing and synthesizing knowledge as it was delivered during lecture. The structure of my notes followed the curriculum, and I was able to use pen and paper which I've found really helps me focus. Projects rarely taught new material that would need to be injected into my notes later, mostly they just reinforced concepts already on paper with concrete examples.

On the job when learning a new concept, I'm struggling to find a way to take hand-written notes in a way that is expandable and will be useful tomorrow and in a week, much less in 6 months.

I'm now learning chef+ruby to add some manpower to our devops team, but as I learn things from a variety of sources I'm unable to keep my hand-written notes from becoming a mess. As I begin to grasp the bigger picture there's a lot of detail I want to go back and add to my initial understandings of these systems.

Taking hand-written notes and then integrating into a digital notebook is something I'm considering. I don't relish the idea of re-typing hand-written notes, but it might help comprehension. The hassle of diagraming in digital notebooks is my biggest concern.

Have you found any good methodologies for taking hand-written notes that is expandable as you learn better mental models of the basics, as well as new information on the subject?
Keeping older models in stock seems to work well for Apple...
> People put up with Facebook

No, people love Facebook. But they love "Facebook", the utility that lets them connect with friends and family from afar, post photos and videos of loved ones and organise events. They do not love Facebook, the monolith company headed up by Mark Zuckerberg.

That's the important distinction here. People like the products they are given, but couldn't care less about how they are given them. By and large, that's fine, but it's highlighted when people assume that Uber customers care about how they were pioneers in innovation or whatever else SV applauds them for. Nope. They just want cheap car rides, please.
Ask HN: What's your relationship with coffee?
Another day, another let down by mozilla
> People generally do love Silicon Valley and what it creates. It’s the media that doesn’t.

People love some of the products that silicon valley produces. They definitely don't like the tech industry's staggering myopia, arrogance, and disdain for institutions and ideas that are not tech-centric (even if most people would never phrase it this way).

People hate on Juicero because Juicero's creators obviously had very little respect for their potential customers, but the engineers, designers, and backers of the venture did not seem to care.

> in order to be right funding Facebook

That Facebook is a net good is far from a universally held opinion, and the media is only now catching up to the fact that a significant portion of the population think that most social media platforms are pretty user-hostile.
I think what he was saying is just move the "button" on the headphones to a button on the phone, because they are already holding it. Then the headphones can just be in a normal "audio call" mode, and the phone button triggers the translation engine to stream data...
What about the people whose labor is not worth your minimum wage?
Only slightly related, but does anyone remember the code puzzles that FB had as a filter for the interview process? Specifically one (jurassic island?) where you would connect to a shared server and take control of a dinosaur on the island. Eventually when you gathered enough energy to lay an egg, you could spawn another connection to control that dino.

I had no hope of having a competitive score on the leaderboard, but I loved playing around with that little world.

Edit: Found more info on dinosaur island: https://github.com/robertdimarco/puzzles/tree/master/faceboo...
They have before, and they may again.

Are we that quick to forget articles like this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10904671
this would not mix well with my alcohol fueled coding 'technique'. it would be fucking hilarious for almost 5 seconds a day tho.
Intellij tools are capable to parse, lint, and autocomplete sql in strings.

To my own surprise, it has become my favorite way to handle queries with multiple/variable joins.
I expect the regular iMac to have Coffee Lake and the iMac Pro to have Skylake-X Xeon W.
I hope this is a bug and not intentional, but if it is, it's just another pathetic attempt for Microsoft to compel engagement with its storefront instead of releasing products that will convince people to use the Windows Store voluntary. If anybody from Microsoft is listening, this type of shady forced behavior only makes people want to avoid the store more. Also, your spun-off WRT/UWP apps are universally buggier than their old COM/.NET predecessors, and even when they are technically more featureful, they have a doughy, empty-calories-laden vibe that leaves them feeling less responsive.
>> PureVPN's Privacy Policy: We do NOT keep any logs that can identify or help in monitoring a user's activity.

Just further confirmation that these lip-service policies used by VPN's are completely meaningless. Remember this the next time you use a commercial VPN for "privacy".
This is a great question. Not to highjack the topic, but I think it would be great to have a clear path for publishing novel (if credible) research in reputable journals.

Could be a great hack for someone to enter a grad program for which they're otherwise unqualified.
"Assume rational actors" in econ ≈ "assume a perfect sphere" in physics.
Assuming there's no ambiguity, it can eliminate false positives.
the 'requirements' that are being referred to go well beyond objective rules (e.g., no more than 4 journal formatted pages) and include things like lingo, citation standards, ordering of sections, and general academic writing voice.

Written communication of science is hard, especially when you are new to it. I think a good 50% of what I have learned as a PhD student was how to more effectively communicate through writing. And that builds on me (honestly) being in the top quartile of writers in my program when I walked in the door. I have worked with many co-authors who have had great work rejected by journals for writing reasons. It isn't about scholarly snobbery - a lot of it just isn't understandable to anyone but the author. Writing advertising copy / business plans / anything related to startups I worked with was orders of magnitude easier.

In a strict sense its gate keeping, in a more realistic sense its about norming. These standards/expectations often develop organically and are sometimes hard to write down in the sense you are asking for.
I feel like you're missing the point that people are making. I personally agree with you when you say "It's a show, watch it, enjoy it, stop trying to hold everything against some fictional​ ideal model." I don't even have a problem with people seeing something in a form of art that I don't. If someone sees a lot of nihilism or even meaning in Rick and Morty, there's nothing wrong with that.

My gripe with Rick and Morty fans, as a group, is that they seem to make a lot of claims that come off as arrogance against people who "just can't understand" the show as they see it. I know a lot of Rick and Morty fans in real life, and I do like the show myself, but I've even met people offline that seem to believe that being a fan of the show means you're of some apex intelligence. I nitpick these claims because they're often made through an objective standpoint, not a subjective one. I have no problem with subjective views, but once I'm told "Oh this thing is so nihilistic, so intelligent, so smart... you just don't get it", of course I'm going to refute those points when I find little basis for them.

I normally don't let public opinion dictate what I should like, but a lot of fan behavior I've experienced is so toxic that I'm now having difficulty having anything to do with it. I mean, waiting in line at McDonalds and even jumping the counter for some freaking sauce packets mentioned one time in the show? That's so over-the-top pathetic, I feel kinda gross even thinking about it. I shutter to think that they, many of whom are grown adults, are going to become parents.

> what elements it has in those areas goes well beyond most other available shows

What are some of those elements?
Spam reduction. They often require email authentication and this makes it more difficult to submit spam.
It is generally easier to use Squid in reverse mode. It is a production quality proxy that can do reverse proxying. You can generate a CA cert, install it onto Squid chain it to privoxy and install the CA cert into your browsers.

Mitmproxy is great and we use it a lot, but it will have a pretty big hit on your performance. They have a more streamlined tool, mitmdump that is more aimed for these use cases, but it is still not written for performance first.

https://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/linux-setup-transparent-proxy...
https://wiki.squid-cache.org/Features/DynamicSslCert
https://wiki.squid-cache.org/Features/SslPeekAndSplice

That link is an exact recipe for what I am talking about. It isn't really trivial to setup, but it does work well. Then, you can transparently privoxy ALL of your connections. You have to mix and grind several ingredients together.

Specifying proxy is always easier/better, but transparent with upstream (from squid) proxies is possible. Squid can also do much of the ad blocking as well like privoxy, just without as nice of a config look and feel.

edit: Just keeping things simple, I use squid with dynamic ssl certs, non transparently and have most of the rules I used in Privoxy working fine on Squid as the "one proxy" to run browser through. This prevents needing to monkey with proxy rules. As a bonus idea I also run this Squid on a perma-privacy-VPNd box, and always force certain site traffic through using a browser configuration like ProxySwitch Sharp. If you are really paranoid you can keep your sensitive traffic through your home / more trusted connection (whitelist style) and then route everything else through Squid/Privoxy.

Setting up a nice little Linux VM that simply can't route traffic without the VPN connection is very nice, it ensures traffic thru your little VM can't leak if something on the VPN fails.
Point taken.

I think the research is very valid and interesting. I just question if this is most importent, or just a whats by far the most popular economics subject in the mainstream.

Its a good PR move for the constent critics economics suffer from.
ORMs aren't the problem, they're simply a tool. Developers who never bothered to learn SQL, indexing, relational theory or schema design are the problem. Incidentally, this aversion to learning is also how we ended up with MongoDB.
>Most people already work (95%+) and those that don't - children, elderly, sick, disabled - those people aren't ever joining your work programs. They make up a huge percentage of the total population and you just.. ignore them like they don't count.

I'm confused, what is the "95%+" then?
The formatting makes it difficult to read the message you are trying to convey.
It would be interesting to pay in x€/Mbps (up to y Mbps).
This is how I buy potatoes so this is hardly a revolutionary novelty.
I currently work on disaster recovery and used to do a lot of work on DBMS replication internals. Both fields have problems requiring compact, efficient solutions that work at scale. What I like about Knuth is that he treats algorithms in depth including trade-offs, which are often quite subtle.

For example, you might not think there's much to sequential search but after reading Knuth Vol 3, Section 6.1 it's clear that view is the mark of a greenhorn. ;)
on the upside, seems like a good sign "x is the new y" is on its last legs.
The protocol could not scale to a large number of participants at the time. Just with six participants it took an entire weekend to perform.
I share a somewhat pessimistic view of our ancestors, but it is worth noting that we have evidence of mixed genes and not rape. There are ways for genes to mix consensually, although there is no evidence to support that either. We only know that they had sex, and children who were fertile, nothing more.
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if you're there to play the game then you're there to let it manipulate you, so you made your choice before you started playing.