skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This article would have been much stronger if the author included mail correspondence with Microsoft. Right now it is only one side of the story without any information on what exactly the author did to resolve the issue or provide Microsoft with information so they could help. We just have to trust the author he perfectly corresponded all information as well as Microsoft returning answers that were clearly shortcoming.

This is not going to stop anybody using their services. So if that is the authors intention (s)he should write a better rant :).
I've been using Keepass on Windows for several years now since I switched from LastPass. I like it a lot and as long as you are using it alone, syncing works great :)
The instructions at the end of my job postings are pretty clear: use email to send resume and cover letter in PDF or text, in your cover letter describe an interesting technical problem that you solved.

The cover letter is a writing sample: I want to see how well you communicate in written English with a presumably limited time budget. Lots of documentation gets written that way; it's directly relevant. Deeper than that, what people think is interesting - or technical - is a clue as to their overall technical depth.

Getting the resume in .docx means that they aren't so great at details.
Ask HN: Who uses touchscreen with MS Windows, and howithwhy?
Pondering the new Thinkpad 25, I notice it comes with a touchscreen, and I have legitimately no idea how I would ever use it (and not sure the non-matte screen is worth the trade-off).

My wife has a MS Surface Pro 4 for work, and has not ever used the touchscreen. She's a non-technical people manager, and spends her time in Outlook, Word, Excel & Powerpoint, and there has really not been a moment where touchscreen would've been preferred to a mouse - and that's with a tablet.

On a regular laptop, what are the use-case scenarios for using touchscreen with Windows for normal workflow - or is that just a feature one pays for and never uses? :-/

Thanks!
In case anyone else was confused about the reference, it appears to be to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Keeping_Up_Appearances... from the British sitcom "Keeping Up Appearances", written for the BBC but also airing in the US on PBS.
Why is imutability by default important to you? Why not just add const to your definition?
What makes you think they aren't trying?
This story showed more than meeting or talking though. Agreements of some sort were signed, and he was asked to move out to Google and work with them.

Sounds like Google's position is that they did do what was alleged, but that Attia had signed terms that made it legal.

What you described above is similar. Legal, but shitty. Some amount of information obtained under false pretenses is surely passed to the "clean room" team. Otherwise, why meet with the target at all?

Edit: This Verge story has pretty good detail on the backstory: https://www.theverge.com/2015/2/17/8048779/google-x-eli-atti...
I am curious: is the Hoffmann who built this car in any way connected to the Hoffmann Werke in Lintorf? In other words, was it a prototype built by this company?

Wikipedia [1] lists the "Hoffmann Autokabine 250" (literally "Hoffmann Car Booth 250", which sounds exactly as ridiculous in German as in English) as the only car to ever come out of the Hoffmann-Werke. If you google the "Autokabine 250", you will find images of the 1951 Hoffmann, but it looked in fact like [2].

[1] https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hoffmann-Werke_Lintorf

[2] https://i.pinimg.com/originals/5c/30/cb/5c30cb93f8a007e1e896...
Individually they are. As a group they can deliver if they are a real team. Just look at the German soccer team. You could not mention a star on that team but they won 2014 FIFA World Cup.
Regulation, and taking advantage of current practices?

Any aviation or civil engineering project is in a highly regulated environment, and lives can be spectacularly lost if the product fails.

Lawsuits and criminal charges would likely be large and numerous if such a project failed, and was built with entirely new processes and technologies that were seemingly chosen on the whim of a project leader and their people, combined with "something we found on github." (I'm guessing there's no such thing as github for civil or aerospace engineering.)

If your environment constrains you in some dimension, then you're not going to spend much time and resources discovering new ways to stretch that dimension.

"Cherish your constraints," if you will.
The point-like properties don't just come out of the mathematics used. You can fire electrons at each other and they scatter as if point particles so that aspect of them is an experimental observation also.
If you're only wanting to make games for iOS, sure. The moment you want to make games for any other platform in addition to iOS, you have to look to other options (or be willing to work on multiple codebases, which I have less and less time for nowadays).

I've got a game half done in Swift with SpriteKit that I did as a learning exercise, and it was a smooth experience, but I'm having a hard time justifying putting more time into it when I would rather spend it working on something that I could make a build for PC, Android, and consoles as well. Hence why my efforts are more in Unity now.
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I think the last thing ai’s will be successful at is generating art that humans will appreciate on anything but the most superficial level, and it surely won’t come from just feeding it a bunch of movies, but rather as a genuine expression of the AI’s own experience of the world.
u people are just not the target of bitcoin it seems, me i can not use anything else but bitcoin for online money, its only option, there is no other option. For banks u need passport and official paperwork, which is not possible by majority of worlds population. i can do with bitcoin what i can not ever do with anything else.
Me too and I moved from lenovo to dell for the brighter screen :'(
APFS password hint security bug in High Sierra was a last line copy/paste error
Check if https://github.com/anishathalye/git-remote-dropbox fits your workflow.
Disqus #databreach – 2012 incident Exposed details for 17.5M users
So is it now CIA have to spy everybody then ?
In this crazy world, everybody could be terrorist ?

How about search engines, do they have any responsibility in this ?

Question: What about the false flags by government.. who's watching them ?
> RadioShack seemed to lose their way when they started selling phone subscriptions.

What else could they do? Even with the big markups, those resistors and transistors weren't profitable because they turned over so slowly.
The "Oh my god" is more that the laws of physics as we have them could be wrong. Might not mean much but experiments like Michelson–Morley not agreeing with the understandings of the time have had big effects.
Few people see IT as anything but a cost, When companies run a tender, they go with the lowest cost bidder.

Companies that bid, also have twisted priorities, the people who do the bidding, aren't the people that have anything to do with the project, they more onto the next bid.
They could never keep 2500 stores open, but they probably could keep 25 going.
Could analyse any name/username given to determine most likely gender and set it to the opposite.
This seems like a good time to mention Captain Disillusion.

A filmmaker and video editor, Alan Melikdjanian, started a YouTube channel back in 2007. He debunks viral videos and adverts, whilst performing in character as the rather surreal "Captain Disillision".

Don't let the bizarre performance scare you off - his production values are simply outstanding, especially considering he does this all pretty-much singlehandedly, and has done so with hardly any recognition for the past 10 years. I think his channel only hit 100k subscribers last year, so it looks like he might finally be getting some well-deserved recognition.

Here's a few links to some of his best stuff. You'll probably be thinking "WTF is this?" when you first start watching, but trust me and stick with it:

- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H_slT5YpBok

- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KbgvSi35n6o

- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NXCtgI2lkFw
Rust takes a lot of flak for it as well, some to the point of suggesting it's illegitimate until it has one.
But then you can find people saying that type checking has no value because all errors will be caught by the testing you should be doing - I came across someone saying that just a few days ago.

I am not sure that 100% can be called an asymptotic goal, given that you cannot even get close, for real systems. Once you recognize this, you can start having a realistic discussion about what you actually will be able to test for, how best to allocate your limited resources, and what other steps you might take to mitigate the consequences of this unfortunate fact. It means that methodologies bassed on extensive testing must justify this use. An additional benefit is that we might be able to discuss what we can do to improve software development without the sort of dogmatic non-sequitur that I mentioned in my first paragraph.
You're probably mistaking Mailspring for Mailpile (https://www.mailpile.is/)
"Don’t sleep any more than you have to, I usually sleep about four hours per night." -- Think Like a Billionaire, President Trump.
I know... is this actually leading to scenario, where Alex Jones and Infowars are stamped to be terrorist organisation .. and if you watch any they videos you could be jailed ?

- hard to trust our governments really. We as normal poor people seems to be always the loosers and abused.
>Is enough money spent on the sciences? No. Do scientists waste too much time on chasing funding? Yes. But is there an oversupply of scientists? Yeah, I'd say so.

It is also possibly part of the reasons why, sure, still there should be a "fair" method to choose the "best" among the "many".

What I fear is happening now is that instead - given the current situation - the scarce funds available go not to the "best" scientists, but rather to the ones that are better at relations/PR/self-promotion, so not only you need to be able at whatever your field is, but you have to be very good at selling yourself (which is something the "typical" genius may not be so good at) and - at least I have this impression - the lack of security/funding makes scientists more selfish and averse to collaborations.

I cannot believe that in current times it would be possible, to make an example, that - should a new Srinivasa Ramanujan come out - there would be a Godfrey Hardy capable of recognising him and sponsoring/supporting him.
That moment when someone tries to talk about area but they call it weight and make it sound like it's a revolutionary concept.
Note that the article also talks about how to detect standards image manipulation as well. This could be useful for me when reading academic papers and questioning the visual representation of results.
Absolutely, I've played around with this. There are tons of open source libraries to determine gender from name. Obviously it cannot be 100% correct, but it can provide a guess
If they build a good product/organization, I think they have a nice takeout by Amazon or Walmart in their future.
I'm not sure I understand what the service provides. Can screenshots be added to help visitors understand what the service does?
I wonder how the courts and elections will survive if this type of fake ever exceeds our bandwidth and investment to detect them. Maybe ultimately no one will believe video any more? Maybe people will ignore fake detection and go with whatever their biases tell them is true? Either way electing or convicting anyone might become too easy to manipulate.
FotoForensics [1] is a great tool for checking if images are airbrushed/manipulated, seems like they work by checking JPG compression and the RGB-average concept.

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[1] http://fotoforensics.com/
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Alas, it is long out of print, and the few used copies out there are expensive. I just did a search on AbeBooks [1], and the cheapest is about $300 USD, which is greatly down from the outlandish $700 that the two available copies were going for five or six years ago. You can buy it as a Kindle ebook though, and there used to be an Adobe DRM'd PDF available (which is what I have) but I don't know that you can buy that one any more.

I did have the opportunity to compare my PDF with a genuine original book, and found no differences. Even the typos I found in the PDF that I thought must be OCR errors turn out to be in the original as well.

[1] https://www.abebooks.com/servlet/SearchResults?isbn=97890569...
But RadioShack was a shithole. The reason I stopped going was because it just wasn't frankly safe to go there and buy a last-minute capacitor from the store on Sunday night, versus just wait a few days for DigiKey to ship. You're taking a fairly substantial risk by using those crap substandard components sold by RadioShack, and it had been this way for some years before they shut down. If RadioShack had actually stocked quality parts for makers, and not tried to pander to the lowest common denominator as their primary focus with the stupid consumer electronics (and phones and mountains of batteries), things might have turned out differently.

Now, Adafruit is expensive, but I trust their components not to explode or otherwise destroy my project. I would travel to an Adafruit-owned RadioShack on Sunday night for that last-minute component. And like I did so often in the 90s, walk out of there having thrown a couple hundred dollars into the "this looks interesting" project hole.
Because it’s more exciting / entertaining. Remember that for most people following these discussions is basically a hobby they do in their free time.
Xcode have soo so many places where it need to be fixed. No wonder why people rather use android studio. And swift version is changing every 6 momths to ruin everything.. good luck
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For programing subjects, what is the advantage of this over a specialised subreddit or mailing list / usenet?
There are Segwit2x and Core futures, as well as shorts with high leverage. If the author is so confident of the coming apocalypse, he stands to make an absurd amount of money if he's right (or lose if wrong).

He should put his money where his mouth is (but of course he probably won't).
Anyone close to the development of Go knows why modern language features like ADTs and atoms, which don’t really sacrifice simplicity, were left out?
I find this claim incredible. 25-30 fps below default?

I've used React on set top boxes with performance characteristics of old Android phones, and even then, our perf bottlenecks were not caused by function binds (it was usually CSS reflows/paints).

How many inputs are you rendering with React to see this kind of slowdown?
Well, Hoffmann is a common enough name, and this seems to be a unique product made by a Mr. Michael Hoffmann from Munich.

Which makes this the second-worst pimped-out faux-motorcycle designed in Munich.
Could that mean that the condition was immediate payment? (Salary,bonus, stock, ...)
> But inevitably, people die, and the knowledge of their private key with them, removing bitcoins from circulation. The amount of bitcoin will therefore decrease impredictably

Maybe a bit late, but you finally understood why Bitcoins get more valuable over time: their number grows slowly or maybe decreases, while the number of people wanting them increases.

That's why Bitcoin is the best Store Of Value ever devised.
Aside from the fact that whatever Adafruit bought, it's almost certainly not Radioshack's whole former business with 2500 locations...

Radioshack failed by giving up its original niche and trying to do what bigger, better-funded competitors were doing, badly. Maybe there wasn't a sufficient market for an electronic components retail store, but there certainly wasn't a sufficient market for a mini Best Buy with even worse prices.

There might well be a market for a much smaller number of stores with stuff for people who make things. Germany's Conrad Electronics appears to do well with that, though their stores are larger and also include a lot of ordinary consumer stuff.
> with a reputation as huge and important as Google's

Not trolling: What reputation?

Among non-techies, their reputation is one of creepy and spying.

Among techies, it's that company that keeps killing loved products.

Among developers, it's one of terrible support and awful job interviews.

Common to everyone is they are impossible to get hold of, a faceless and heartless machine that makes decisions you can't argue with.

None of this matters because they have the best products on the market in a few key areas and everyone keeps using those regardless of their reputation.

So what reputation do they have to lose? Their reputation is already bad, and it doesn't matter anyway, and they presumably know this as well as everyone else does.
The term is perhaps not very precise, but it is a useful shorthand to describe fundamental conceptual difference between say Basic, Haskell and Prolog.
Exact opposite for me.
I enjoyed the summary, but also ended up simply jumping over to read the official golang FAQ. Nice read though.
Dr. Hall's short autobiography (the article linked here) shows one downside of research-only orgs: the superstar effect - the celebrity principal investigator effect. A prestigious research-only org can fall under the sway of a single ego, or a few egos. When that happens it can drive away real inquiry.

Readers of HN are generally accustomed to a winner-take-all approach to life. That's also known as an inverse-power-law approach or a network-effect approach. It's what makes cities and social networks get big.

Science policy well done struggles to counter this. It's smart to keep science real by spreading the financing and the expertise around.

That being said, there are plenty of research orgs. The late lamented Bell Telephone Laboratories, the Institute for Advanced Study, the Max-Planck Institutes are just a few.
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AppCode is good, but can't quite keep up with the changes Apple makes on a timely basis, (for obvious reasons). It also doesn't have a great way to work with storyboards and thus is more of a companion than a direct replacement for XCode.
Yes, probably you need a new Keybase account just for that remote server if you want the remote server be able to do git pull after the initial git clone.

If all you need is a single git clone, and you already have a Keybase account, just do a git clone locally, and use rsync to upload the result to the remote server.
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My apps stopped crashing when I started writing them in swift. That alone is worth any hassles with an immature language or tooling.
Codinghorror gone from Twitter?
The twitter page for coding horror (Jeff Atwood) seems to be gone? “This account doesn't exist“ https://mobile.twitter.com/codinghorror

Anyone know what’s up? I’ve been following his RSS feed since he founded stack overflow.
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I know we're all speculating here but what is there to lose? Option 1: Sign my NDA or fuck off. Option 2: Show them everything and then they tell you to fuck off and steal your idea. At least with Option 1 you have some protection.

Different equation if you need money/investment. But if you're already up, running and growing it's easier to play hard ball and demand an NDA.
I, for one, am happy to hear Dr. Hall speaking up about the problem of superstar principal investigators. They do have the potential to slow down real inquiry.
Its really fucking simple, NO TRUST! If something reqires that I have take someones word for it, then the feature does not belong in a privacy focused application, no exceptions.
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Newly cached example: https://ui-avatars.com/api/?name=%E9%A9%AC%E4%BA%91%E9%A9%AC...

Well.. my copy paste didn't work! :(
I don't know really.

I found a config option that said something like "delete cookies when firefox is closed" I changed this to "No", but somehow it didn't stay.
Link: https://golang.org/doc/faq
Is Cosmos really bringing knowledge offline?
As I see, Cosmos has a massive community. I went through the code base and I found some of the most wonderful collections and structure ever.

Cosmos: https://github.com/OpenGenus/cosmos

I was wondering How far can Cosmos go in realizing its dream?
Having talked to many trump supporters, lots of them like him for not being PC, in my experience at least.
Sorry, not the author of the article, but of course there's a history.

I don't think the intention of the post is to stop people using Microsoft's email platform. It is about making it easier to troubleshoot, getting more help from MS to fix issues.

Some more details here (in dutch) and they are not the only ISP with problems sending emails to MS's platforms.

https://www.webhostingtalk.nl/lounge/195046-kunnen-we-zorgen...
I guess it is easy to trace casuality to increasingly imbalanced wealth distribution. People who don't picture themselves as the rare exception who somehow makes the jump over to the winning side (as seems to be the default on hn) will aim for the best salaries and the traditional answer to that is education. Everybody is pressing hard into the highest qualification brackets because it is everything that is left of 20th century middle class. The market does what it does when supply increases but that won't make those on the way into being part of the oversupply reconsider, as no qualification is not an option.

In all this struggle, science is the unnoticed roadkill. Inconsequential publications have always been a part of modern scientific process, they are the soil on which occasional advances of the art grow. But when the fraction of involuntary pretend-acts who will never succeed at getting beyond writing only for the sake of having published gets too big, the real deal will suffer. What could have been the soil for something to grow on turns into a landslide that buries the seedlings.
Captain Disillusion has been way ahead of his time for so many years.

I think his time has finally come.
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I find it it strange that you complains seem to be about tooling, yet you start the comment as if Swift - the language - is the problem.

In my experience, Swift has been great, I vastly prefer it to ObjC. What I don't prefer is SourceKit constantly crashing on me for example, but I wouldn't attribute that to Swift.
What are the real risks to their business? So they need to own the shipping containers, planes etc?
As he mentions in the article, DARPA currently has a large media forensics project going on. They have split it up into teams making manipulated videos and images, and other teams trying to detect those manipulations. They had a workshop at CVPR-2017. I'm on one of the teams that is making manipulated data.

https://www.darpa.mil/program/media-forensics
building a b2b shop primarely ( platform, with complex pricing per client)

phase 2 is migrating it to a b2c platform, where a huge inventory of products gets synced accross multiple shops ( domains)
> Maybe ultimately no one will believe video any more?

People believe whatever they want to believe; forensic hair analysis (not DNA) is also quite a controversial practice, it's still accepted as evidence by many courts in the US. Last Week Tonight had a bit about that issue in a recent episode [0]

It's sad and mindblowing that people have been sentenced to prison/death because a so-called "expert witness" confused a dogs hair with being their hair.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ScmJvmzDcG0