skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not too many average consumers willing to pay $50+ for software. But if you can find something with a reasonable sized market [developer tools] where people are willing to pay, then go for the larger base of users. But the days of average people buying novelty mac apps for meaningful money is over. The low hanging fruit is being given away by the OS or Google or some freemium offering.
That's because boys usually don't like it...?
Or do you mean that "girly" is seen as something negative?
CRISPR-Gold shows promise for gene editing for rare diseases
I'm sure there is a better way, but it would probably require a "weekends worth" of time to convert my entire iOS empire. When we started with Apple, "family sharing" and "ask to buy" wasn't a thing (so I'm not locked into the shared model) but I will definitely check it out - I didn't know I could create an Apple ID for my child AND share apps among all family members.

For those interested: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201084
In other news: flying cars also just around the corner, for a century now.
Same here, Google maps last updated imagery in 2004, streets in 2009. 3D data, funnily, is from 2016 – but with 3D disabled, you only get 2004 satellite images.

Entire streets and districts are missing, and no transit data.

Every competitor has all that. OSM does, Here WeGo does, even Bing does.
The upper bound is arbitrary code, and validating arbitrary proofs.
That's interesting. I haven't used Windows since UAC came out. Is a Windows password useless to an application then?
I'd like to but I don't have time to do writeup that extensive right now. There are a lot of other tutorials out there.
This is the most horrible UX I have ever seen

You must lead a very sheltered existence then ;-)
"Then get yours out, you ain't touching my phone."
That's an interesting idea! What happens if the source puzzle doesn't have all of the digits present though?
"Yes, but no, use your own."

No one has touched my phone while it was unlocked since middle school.
Perhaps you're referring to Windows? (I'm not trying to be snarky, a lot of people here genuinely don't use Windows)

System security related prompts have worked essentually as you describe on Windows since 2001.
Thanks for noticing. Unfortunately, I cannot change the title anymore … or don’t know how.
Not to mention children going to school. I don't think this model is very feasible for parents. Certainly not single mothers/fathers.

I find Assange's early life [1] relevant to this conversation. He lead a nomadic life, lived in over 30 towns throughout his lifetime. One could say it affected his nomadic adult lifestyle.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julian_Assange#Early_life (contains relevant sources)
And why didn't you do it in an open standard data format and just present it on Google Maps?
In that case you're probably more secure than 99% of apple users. I don't think more than 1% of iphone users would've noticed the difference.
How does anyone know it was me? Reporters keep their sources confidential as a matter of course.

It's unenforcable.
you're are right, I was a bit unclear. I guess I just feel I can trust Google more. Sure Google will take my data and deliver me targeted adverts, share it in some sort of aggregate form with partners and possibly use it to learn more about be than I know about myself, however I feel Google is good with dealing with privileged data. There data security is good and I never feel my account will be leaked, it's not Yahoo! (yet? .. that's another conservation).

It's business is fundamentally about trust, people trusting its services, I feel it offers good data security on its accounts and it offers services that I am happy I don't have to pay for. Almost 2 decades of email services, search, and drive space is something I'm glad I never pay for.

In certain cases I do keep data away from Google, I'll never upload all my photos to google photos, or put my media collection on a google drive, and i'll keep certain documents locally, but for the majority of the ephemera in my life, it's a fine place to leave it.

Nothing about my life is really that important or sensitive that security is a must and I need to be completely clandestine, if I leave a trail of breadcrumbs for someone to use to pipe adverts at me, so be it, but I can always stop them in browser with a good ad-blocker or a network level filter.

If I want that level of privacy I can always go down the proton-mail account route and use PGP or encrypted messaging. Although that's not really necessary when I'm just send my GF a gif of a seal playing a saxophone or deciding if I cook fajitas for dinner!
The sentence flows perfectly well. Not sure anyone would find it beautiful but it is certainly succinct and expressive.
Do you have a daughter? Girls like girly shit. It's nice that they don't have to, but they usually do.
Sure, but the overwhelming majority of software businesses never become profitable. Most don't even generate revenue so they end up shutting down.

But yes, if you manage to find a profitable niche, understand the problems in that niche and execute well, you're set for life.
I raised it because it is very commonly used as an argument against this system because "$ETHNIC_GROUP of people is so bad they can never be recovered".

And I don't think it matters, what matters is that all members of the society feels included and a part of it regardless of their origins.

But the latter is probably easier to achieve in a homogeneous society and you don't have to deal with xenophobia.
Lol. It reminds me of that scene from the Steve Martin classic.

A laptop, monitor, keyboard, mouse, Herman Miller embody, Heat/AC... That's all I need.

If you want to be inspired by some cool hacks, though, look up Sprinter Van Conversions. People get into it and do some amazing work. They share their specs too! You can outfit a van with my above hardware list for about 4000-5000 if you don't get fancy. You have to plug in th AC usually. Heat is easier, you just have to insulate well. I got pretty far along this path of research. Some day.
I did this on the users table in production but I was fortunate enough to have started a transaction. I was just about shaking when I typed 'rollback'.

The fact that I was entering a delete -- instead of setting to inactive and doing it in production from the command line should give you an idea of how likely the backups would have been effective. This was in '97, though when everything was seat of the pants during the full internet craze.
I'm not sure I understand your question, but the one that most pertains to ECC would be preventing corruption of the routine performing the checks --

It varies greatly by the method you use to ECC in software, since they all feature different mechanisms.

In the case of the one I had in mind, the kernel is relatively small (so errors are unlikely), and once loaded, it's stable against bit errors. There are probably better answers, I'm not an expert on software ECC.

(Tampering is a different issue -- if they can tamper with the program, ECC won't save you from them writing garbage to memory. So that a hack which can write memory can bypass memory safety isn't really interesting.)
I'm not sure if his needs are more for magnification or of he needs something more so I've documented some information for different types of support.

The built-in screen reader to iOS devices is called VoiceOver and there are many tutorials on YouTube for how to use it. Apple documents a great deal of info on their site for VoiceOver as well as other accessibility options for visual needs. In addition to the screen reader, the iPhone also supports inverted colors, screen magnification, and many other options. If you have an iPhone you can poke around in the Accessibility settings (Settings -> General -> Accessibility).

https://www.apple.com/accessibility/iphone/vision/

iPhones are by far the most preferred device for mobile screen readers. WebAIM conducts surveys regarding the most used devices for screen readers which you can review to see adoption.

https://webaim.org/projects/screenreadersurvey6/#mobile

Android devices also have many accessibility settings but I'm partial toward iOS.
scientists deal in doubt these days and it gets into nytimes. great. scientific method ftw... this comment might be baseless, but it's about as baseless as the article itself.
i'd like to see for once again that scientists 'prove' something with maticulous research and evidence. not some educated guesses based on theories yet to be fully proven.

“I’d say it’s fairly implausible,” <-- is that the only comment? Why does he say that? Really?

“The data is very slim,” said Timothy Leighton <-- what data? enlighten us?

“If you’re talking about a ray-gun rifle knocking out someone with ultrasound they can’t hear at a hundred meters — that’s not going to happen,” said Dr. Leighton. <-- it's not? Why not? What experiments proved this to be ill effective?

These people have degrees ? Bought at wallmart?

If a mysterious high-tech ultrasound weapon were used, it ought to have been easy to get the evidence while the attack was underway, Dr. Garrett said. Cellphone microphones are often sensitive to ultrasonic sound, he noted, and commonly available iPhone apps could have revealed it. <--- kind of depends on what frequency you are emitting doesnt it?? cellphone frequencies are within a specific band.. do all ultrasonic frequencies influence these? i doubt it!

as usual with these scientists, no reference to any research or sources is given. Superb!

breathe

edit:
somewhat sensible scientist, atleast gives a bit of a broad comment which isn't bad, though it adds nothing of value ofcourse!

“I believe those people got something that hurt them,” said Dr. Qin. “But it could be something in the environment.” The possibilities include toxins, or bacterial or viral infections, that can damage hearing.

yay science "something did something and it had some effect".
> Boys love Jewelbots, two weeks ago at an event a boy came up to me after to tell me "this was more fun than coding Minecraft". Best compliment in a while.

Yeah because its the coding part which makes it interesting to most boys.

It's like if you created a GI Barbie character (which is basically a Barbie doll with a gun) then boys would love it too, that doesn't necessarily mean that they love Barbie, they just love a different aspect of it.

Although I do agree that Jewelbot (by integrating elements girls would like with coding) can get them excited into coding.

Also see Adafruit's products, they are electronics and DIY supply company run by mostly women and they do super cool things things which are interesting to girls. My favorite one was when they embedded a NFC token on their nail using nail polish, and then program it to unlock their phone by just holding it.
Do you do anything to avoid piracy?
It wasn't used as a widespread attack but could've been used in the past for targeted attacks.
Yup. And if you develop apps and test in-app purchases in their iTunes sandbox, you will get these CONSTANTLY. Like, every time you change what network your device is connected to.
Why don't you wet the brush by dipping it into the glass? Why even wet the brush at all? The inside of your mouth is already wet.

But then again, I'm a bit of an oddball regarding tooth-brushing. In my view, the alcohol-based mouthwash is there to do a scorched-earth annihilation of all mouth bacteria, and the toothbrush is only there to break through biofilm and clear away all the tiny, tiny corpses. So I brush with a tiny bit of soap and tiny bit of toothpaste, while holding a mouthful of mouthwash. (And sometimes I use peroxide-based mouthwash, to attack the anaerobes under the gums. Cavities from S. mutans aren't the only reasons to brush.) If I routinely rinsed my brush, I would do it in an antibacterial, not with tap water, but when it comes out of my mouth, it is essentially covered in alcohols already, so I don't. As a result, the only use I have for the sink is as something to spit into.
On iOS the test of pressing the home button and see if the app goes in background seems a pretty strong one.

Perhaps in a future Apple can make you press the home button as part of the verification, so it’s kind of implicit.
We blame people for acting stupid, not for being stupid. As you mentioned, someone with an IQ of 90 or higher should have all the mental capacity to go about their day without causing chaos or running in front of a bus. But when they choose to act stupid, inconvenience others and possibly even endanger people, we have every right to blame them for that.
If on the other hand a person has an IQ around 60 we can't expect them to navigate our complex society without any hiccups and consequently we try to help and understand instead of putting the full blame on them.
I did this for 2 months, mainly forced to, I had my phone stolen, it was kinda nice, I read more newspapers and learnt i could send SMS messages from payphones!
...The track where he drops "I'm out for president's to represent me", which Jay-Z sampled for "Dead Presidents".

Turtles all the way down.
Application Packaging tool PACE Suite 4.4 is out, brings support of APPX
I think .NET Standard 2.0 is about the clearest path you could get forward from WPF.

> I don't understand why they even needed UWP. Why not improve WPF?

The short story: 1) To first-class support more platforms/architectures (ARM). 2) To support C/C++ and other COM developers, bringing everyone COM [WinRT] [1] and Managed (.NET) to the same table. (Microsoft still has a lot of teams invested in C/C++; it shouldn't be a surprise that they couldn't just focus on .NET and leave C/C++ devs behind.)

The full story I think is pretty fascinating, but that's the executive summary.

[1] Crazy aside: the tech still sort of known as WinRT is closer to the original goal of .NET as a COM replacement than .NET became. It's also close enough to COM that I'm still surprised no one's admitted to building a UWP Delphi or VB6 app. (Not that I'd admit to doing so if I built such a beast.)
You’re using the phone and set it down, it hasn’t auto locked yet.

They have your lock screen password but not your iTunes password.

You thought they were a friend and let them borrow your unlocked phone.

Even for a security conscience person there are plenty of situations where someone could get your unlocked phone.

And most people aren’t security conscience. It’s to protect them, not you.
How about your local library?
Everything that uses the TouchID API should seamlessly use FaceID instead on the X
All I could think about was Russ Hanneman.
I would like to provide a counterpoint. I had absolutely no interest in Digital Arts until my high school forced me to take it. Now I do digital arts on the side. So, yeah, school can open new doors to career paths that you never thought of.
Just say no.

Ok, it's a little more complex than that. In project management people talk about the "triple constraints" of budget, time, and scope.

The relationship between budget and time is not a simple tradeoff. To some extent you can accelerate a software project by increasing the budget, but that extent is limited, maybe you can accelerate the schedule by 30% relative to a "least cost" plan.

Fred Brooks learned these limitations the hard way in the 1960s and he wrote the Mythical Man Month so you don't have to! One problem is that if you add more people to a project, it takes time and attention to onboard them that could otherwise be used to get the project done.

A counter to that is that sometimes buying hardware, software, or services, can greatly accelerate the project. For instance if you are training neural networks on a MacBook, it is probably worth every penny to get a real desktop PC and put a 1080Ti graphics card in it, or to spend some money on cloud computing.

Many managers look at the cost as a function of the deadline, that is, they see the cost of the project as a function of the time you are tied up doing it, so if they can compress the deadline, the cost goes down. (or so they think).

Thus that leads to the "phony deadline" which has no real basis. One problem is that setting out without a realistic plan you are likely to make mistakes which will draw out the project, add to costs, possibly make the project fail.

Most of what I say above is laid out in more detail here:

https://www.amazon.com/Rapid-Development-Taming-Software-Sch...

The flip side of that is the hard deadline, where the job might as well not be done if it is not done on time, for instance, you need to get a grant application in on before a certain day, or you are putting together a demo you are going to show at a trade show on a particular date.

It is important to understand what the actual nature of deadlines that you are up against, what flexibility you have, what impact being late has on the business, etc.

That leaves "scope" as an area with wriggle room. Probably there are some features of the project can be dropped or modified, and management may be able to hit the deadline by dropping features it can afford to drop. This is one big advantage of "agile" methods; if you have something that sorta-kind works at the 25% mark of the project and then you hit the deadline with the most important 80% part of the functionality you are doing better than most people.
In my opinion less annoying than the iOS password popup. I think in one OS they appeared very often (Win 7?) but by now I only see them if I want to execute as admin. And I'm glad how they're designed, it's hard to accidentally click on them.
Similar, but different - the star of Malcolm in the Middle doesn't remember that experience:

http://ew.com/tv/2017/10/09/dwts-frankie-muniz-doesnt-rememb...

It's wild how fragile and unknown memories are for us. Great quote from Bryan Cranston:

Cranston said he told Muniz not to worry about what he can’t remember. Cranston starred with Muniz in 151 episodes of Malcolm. “They are still [his] experiences,” Cranston said. “It will me my job, I will tell him, ‘remember this? Remember that on Malcolm?’ What a life for you.”
> Q: How is it that all the anti-racists know all the code-words that make up a dog whistle for racists? Isn't it supposed to be, by definition, unhearable?

No. Just not explicit.
Quickly reading through the study, they stratify prisoners by severity of crime, claiming this is a natural experiment because the only remaining variation is in the judge selected. Not an expert in sentencing but I thought extenuating circumstances can be considered which wouldn't be corrected for here.
harder part of CBT is step one: identifying the bad behaviour.

usually doctors (or partners playing doctors as the case of the article) is too eager to move to action that they completely misses the point and the patient spend years just changing the background. for example, as listed in the article (not saying it was the case there), she wasted years retraining for a job change, when the trigger might have been the job putting her in a situation that triggered childhood trauma. nothing says that the new job won't put her in the same situation trigger but with different ambiance... the immediate improvement may just be the lack of 4 hour commute, which kills even non-anxiety sufferers.
You say that, yet the US government is pushing hard to extend their digital jurisdiction into other countries. Countries like France have also had rulings and laws where the right to be forgotten has to be obeyed worldwide, not just in France. It is entirely possible China attempts to extend its jurisdiction for online matters into other countries. It is extremely unlikely to come to any thing that will affect you, but not impossible I think
Caffeine is the issue I think
The problem is the USB powered monitors generally all use the same driver, one that frequently crashes on macOS and Linux. The driver is literally one of the worst I’ve ever used.
Japan's latest GPS satellite will guide self-driving cars
Consume Remote API Data from Within a Node.js Application
Cash is quickly becoming obsolete in China
Yeah, well, in my northeast MA community, NextDoor is FakeNuzDoor. Wannabe politicians spam it with scurrilous garbage about each other, and the rest of it devolves into arguing about that.

I guess it's good having news media pick up this stuff violates the terms of service.

It does have a "delete my account" feature. So it has at least one useful feature.
Electric bikes aren't cheating, says research into health benefits
Not just initial setup, but also ongoing services.

For instance, a language like Java has the garbage collector, JIT, etc. as part of the runtime.
5 Foosball games for Android
There's
are still many privacy problems with Android beyond just this. Lineage
has the proprietary Google Play Services (luckily they don't support SafetyNet
-- one the most ridiculous breach of privacy and user's rights).
I'm not sure a comparison between a multi national and a local business is apt. Granted they could probably be treated more similarly but multinational software and multinational hard goods seem to get similar tax treatment...No?
You can have a similarly libre smartphone. All the phones Google sells have unlockable bootloaders and you can build Android from source yourself including the kernel. There are many 3rd party open-source ROMs built on this.

But since you end up with essentially the same OS with essentially the same userspace doing essentially the same thing it raises questions of why go through the effort and hassle. You're completely free to do so, though.

You will, however, still end up with binary black box device drivers. Just like you do on a top of the line desktop if you want to actually fully use the hardware.
Ok, we've debaited it.
Crosswords are pretty tough, partially because many puzzles (such as the Tuesday, Thursday, and Sunday puzzles in the New York Times) have enough wordplay in their answers (not just the clues) that they break normal crossword rules, in a specific way that the solver has to determine. I think Dr. Fill (https://arxiv.org/abs/1401.4597) is still the state of the art.
Describe the book.

What are your goals?
Well tmux gives you back some scrollback (when you remember the key combination). I was doing linux sysadmin style work on remote cellular networks so mosh was great for the occasional dropouts. Also tmux gives you an extra layer of persistence and window organisation.
Would you please not post unsubstantive comments like this?

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

https://news.ycombinator.com/newswelcome.html
Take random characters from WingDings.
Zoom in a bit and things look better. You don't need a million dollars a year to raise a family on a single-person software business with 90% margins.

I know of at least four successful businesses that started as S3stat clones. No idea why they chose my particular niche either, as there are tons of better things to build.

You don't need to build a Slack. You can live quite nicely on the profits of "Basecamp for X", for hundreds of as-yet unaddressed X's.
A Rails for Clojure
> I don't think you can compare software to other disciplines like medical, air transportation or architecture. These areas are well understood and pretty mature and move pretty slowly.

Architecture maybe. Air transportation is barely a century old, though you could make the argument that it's a offshoot of other industrial engineering disciplines.

When it comes to medicine however, while modern medicine is older than computer science it's not by much, and what's called medicine until the late 19th or early 20th century is as similar to modern medicine as computers of the early 20th century (aka rooms of people with rulers and mechanical calculators) are to computers of the second half.

And medicine has in fact changed at a pretty frenetic pace, the "miasma theory" was only vanquished circa 1880~1890, and we can now sample and edit living beings at coffee-cup price levels.