skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Because that website is cancer if you don't have an ad-blocker, I'll quote the relevant text:

> The screen showed the operator what objects were detected on radar, and if he clicked on an object, it would track it. But if the operator wanted to get more information about the object (in this case, by listening in on its radio signals) to find out what it actually was, he had to move a separate cursor and click on the object again.

> It's clumsy and unintuitive, and it made it really easy to forget which thing they were highlighting at any given moment -- the operator can be tracking one object and have it display the information for a completely different one because he forgot to move the other cursor. It's the kind of user interface that wouldn't make it out of the testing phase of a cheap browser game. And it cost the passengers of the plane their lives.

> That's because the operator in the USS Vincennes thought he was listening to the incoming aircraft (the Airbus full of innocent people), because that's the thing he selected, when he was actually receiving signals from a parked F-14 several miles away, because that's where his other cursor was.

> Granted, the transmissions alone wouldn't be reason enough to shoot down a plane: They'd also have to think that it was moving like an enemy aircraft. Unfortunately, the stupid system made that mistake pretty easy, too. Instead of telling the operators at the Vincennes if the approaching plane was ascending or descending, the system just showed them the present altitude on a smaller monitor. The operator had to write down or memorize the altitude, wait a few seconds, then ask again and mentally compare the two results to see if the aircraft was going up or going down.

> Because of this, a calculation error led an operator to report that the Airbus was descending toward the USS Vincennes, like a combat aircraft would, when it was probably getting the hell away from them as fast as possible.
> They force an idea in the mind to become concrete and logically digestible to other members of the party.

You make a very valid point, what I was highlighting is that good communication can be achieved without whiteboards too.

I understand your underlying argument that whiteboards may constitute the best technology, but I also think there is a tacit convention at play here. People tacitly agree to communicate in a way that make whiteboards work. For there are many effective and fluid ways to iterate on ideas that do not involve live drawings or complex tech.

I know it for a fact as drawing my thoughts on a whiteboard has always been counter-natural to me. I can do it but I wouldn't say that it is necessary for good communication. It is just a communication choice that people make.

Everything that can be drawn clearly can also be written clearly (analogies, bullet point lists for flows, etc...). Not to say that diagrams are never helpful, but it may be a stretch to assume that drawings and whiteboards have an almost essential role.
34-Way Graphics Card Comparison on Ubuntu 17.10 – Phoronix
ST = shit together

CPA = closest point of approach.

CPA is calculated for anything close ahead of time, but only if both you and another ship are moving in a straight line. Which the McCain wasn't.
There is _massive_ evolutionary pressure going against this. To the extent that not wanting to have children is at all genetic, it will disappear from the gene pool within a few generations.

That the desire to "not want to have children" (especially among women) exists at all is caused by the sexual revolution (contraceptives), which changed who had children from "people who desired sex" to "people who desired to have children."
You are right but by the time I started dwelling on it was too late to edit. Sorry, that's something I'm working on (being less abrasive).
The issue isn't that marketers are taught to be ambiguous. It's that, as a tech company, it's difficult to find a marketer who can grasp your technology well enough to write about it unambiguously and accurately. So instead companies just settle for any marketer and give them a wordbank to use when writing emails, making landing pages, and attending events.

Unfortunately this never turns out well. Even if the marketer uses the prescribed wording, it'll look like marketing BS to any engineer ("web scale," anyone?). If the marketer steers clear of any specifics, then... well, we get posts like this.

The solution is to push your marketing team to understand your product well enough that they can talk about it with accurate specifics, at least to some extent. Or hire marketers who have some basic understanding of software (cough cough).
Double stealth mode: no one knows what we're building, and neither do we

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4166183
I don't have a lot to add the the discussion, but I am excited that some people are still working to find new and better ways to think, communicate, and iterate.
A lot of companies can't explain what they do either due to a lack of focus or poor writing, but this particular company's offense can be explained in one line from the post:

> It's important to remember that no one cares about your startup!

That original email was written with a tone of someone who expected the recipients to know who the company is, what they do, and expected the reader to care or be excited.

No one cares about your start up. Your customers might not even care - they just want a problem to go away.
People can claim all they want about wanting The Deck sort of stuff. But at the end of the day, those ads are still blocked most of the time. Possibly out of laziness to completely whitelist it, but the end result is the same. The ads are blocked like any other. I don't feel as optimistic that people blocking ads even want The Deck sort of ads. But without a study I'm okay not being sure.
I think you're just more used to Ubuntu. Last time I used the default GUI on it I wouldn't say I found it any more intuitive than Windows 10.
Ask HN: Any bandwidth saving tricks?
I'm on a capped internet connection and need to limit my bandwidth usage as much as possible.

In the old days, that meant installing a transparent proxy using Squid.
Roughly speaking - if you mark an asset lower than its purchase price you have an unrealized loss. You still hold the asset and - if you're taking the super long-term investment horizon view as Buffet does - eventually your asset will go up. In addition, Buffett gets into investments that probably wont have their business models disrupted anytime soon - and are tied to the success of the USA as a country: railroads, insurance, housing.If he does his stock picking right, he doesn't need to sell...
How is Ethereum less of a store of value than Bitcoin?
I personally could not do it. Even the system is fully functional and error-free; it can still be hacked. Maybe someone would like to kidnap my child, hack the car and unlock the doors, or simply just make it go somewhere else.

I would sleep better if there is someone who I can count on with my child's safety.
I think you underestimate the insidiousness of such systems, and your response is completely logically fallacious, and doesn't support your conclusion whatsoever. So if I installed a random script via curl (I prefer wget) and because there are still some proprietary hardware that needs closed source binary blobs... That suddenly means GNU/Linux and windows are on the same footing? No, not at all, and I'm tired of hearing that trite and clichéd response. The four freedoms matter.

No, its not the 90s. Now its worse!
I was thinking exactly along the same lines. Something like http://assemblymade.com/ but without any investor backing. Basically a community of open source developers that gains a share on any future revenue generated by the code developed by them.
Grey goo and engineered bio-weapons?

At space there are some pan-galatic killers, nearby supernovas (no idea where is the closest candidate), and a black hole could always cross our path without any warning.
> Not just that, but there's also the other side: Easy to procrastinate, easy to give false reports which then leads to regular overwork in the days just before a hard deadline.

That doesn't seem a problem unique to remote work. It's more about when tangible outputs are required from you.
> Since none of the cables or ports are visibly labeled with their capabilities you have to know what you’re doing.

I don't know about all of them but my cables and ports have visible Thunderbolt logo (small thunder symbol).
The only Google-related services I'd like to use on my phone is account log-in for Pokemon GO and Ingress. My options are a 120MB+ package of proprietary Google apps with max permissions to do whatever and run in the background, or a 4MB microG package with very limited permissions.
Will MySpace ever lose its monopoly?
It would make Banqiao dam failure minor:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banqiao_Dam#1975_Banqiao_Dam_F...
For Linux to have decent hardware drivers, the hardware manufacturers have to make enough information available to create the drivers. Unfortunately, they often don't do that, and only publish a Windows driver as a binary blob.

Even if the manufacturer does make Linux drivers available, they frequently don't actually work with the hardware. For example, the wireless card in my laptop only has one of two antennas and the default Linux driver tries to use the wrong one. The Windows driver somehow works around that, but on Linux I'm dependent on the work of one amazing guy who makes the driver actually work:
https://github.com/lwfinger/rtlwifi_new
If you think JS/HTML is bad you should try any of the cross platform desktop application frameworks.
Stick, peel, or bounce: Controlling a freezing droplet’s fate
Maybe they do this because it creates better engagement?

If they told you their signup process was quick, they would lessen their ability to convince you that you need to sign-up right now.

If they told you what they did, then you wouldn't have to click through to their home page or twitter account to find out what it is.

And finally if you weren't annoyed, you wouldn't have given them all of this free marketing on Hacker News.
Running Apache Kafka Streams on AWS
For anyone more into Vim and Tmux, then i3 fits like a glove. Got it running under Arch on an XPS-13. Best Linux machine I've ever set up, and it looks gorgeous. A lot of fun theming it, with lots of inspiration from : https://www.reddit.com/r/unixporn/
That's a bit reductionist. What the marketing person would say is you need to lead with the benefit or value that you provide and then explain how you do that.

So say you're making software for car washes. Don't lead with the fact that you make software. Instead, show the benefit by saying something like "Book 73% more car washes" and then say "Car wash booking software to increase revenue."

Marketers are often consumed by showing the company's "Why" - but the challenge in that is it often gets too abstract and generalized and may make you sound like everyone else. A great example of this is that many companies make software that, in the end, is designed to improve end-user experience. You might be, say, a testing company. The end goal is definitely improving end-user experience, but if that is all you say, then it won't be clear how you do that, or how you're different from, say, a UI optimization tool which also improves end-user experience.
Ask HN: Looking for "Automated Soldiers" survey participants
Hello HN, I've been a "lurker" for a few years but today require assistance from the community!

I am writing a small research paper on "Automated Soldiers". It is 8 questions and anonymous, I would greatly appreciate any submissions as well as feedback!

Link: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/SZLCSBS

The description of the survey goes as follows:

"I am conducting a study aimed at determining whether or not the general populous is for or against the idea of employing automated soldiers equipped with self-deciding algorithms for kill actions in war. Please take a few moments to review and complete the following questions which will collect information on your point of view. If the general population voices their opinion we can finally stop the swinging pendulum which is the decision to ban/regulate automated machinery that can operate autonomously."
> I can no longer focus. I am constantly pulled into meetings.

I think this is often an environment and culture problem. When I'm setting something up, I work hard to create spaces that minimize noise and distractions. And I think it's important to limit meetings, because they'll definitely expand to fill all time available. But most places don't bother with either of these, throwing people into noisy open offices and having a "meetings first" culture.

> I have 120 minutes of commute everyday. [...] When I get home I am too tired

This is the true killer for me. 15-30 minutes each way by foot, bike, or public transit? A pleasant part of my day, a useful demarcation between work and home. But an hour each way in a car and I begin to despair for my life.
Get Satifaction is far simpler in features than SO. I don't think you can compare the two at all. SO is a full proper Q&A site.

I've never personally seen a thriving Get Satisfaction instance. So maybe I'm being a little too hard on them. But I must've come across a hundred of them. I don't believe it's a well designed product.
Does this dynamically generate my topology/diagram by reading from AWS or is it like the other tools on the space where we have to draw/design the diagram ourselves and then "link" it to AWS.
Different kinds of trust. Trust that you will get the work done properly vs trust that you will not steal or expose critical business data.
Create an Adobe CC-Like System with Microsoft (Windows) Store
Eminent domain isn't even required, just giving owners freedom to build what they choose. Nothing has to change for the NIMBYs except the surrounding land that they do not own and the public services that they share with all other residents.
i don't understand your reasoning.

it seems like you're saying potato chips aren't scarce, because I can break the chips in my bag up until everyone in the world has a piece of potato chip, and thereby feed the world.

in economic terms, scarcity means that the supply is fixed. and bitcoin supply, by definition and network consensus, is fixed.
Uber AI Labs Open Sources Pyro, a Deep Probabilistic Programming Language
China’s secretive spaceplane may launch in 2020
I'm not sure how their employee's taxes are relevant. Those people would still be paying taxes if they went and got a job at a different company.
But open source projects have no other way so they need to work that way, also there is little pressure to meet deadlines and such.
Temperature Gradient Maps with Mapbox GL
Synopsys to acquire security firm Black Duck Software in $565m deal
SingularityNET: A decentralized, open market and inter-network for AIs [pdf]
Grokking the Y Combinator with Elixir
This doesn't surprise me overmuch. The foot in the door is Office 365 Enterprise, which comes with AD in Azure for free. From there, it's natural to setup a VPN to your Azure environment. With that in place, competitive pricing, and better compliance tools (such as host-external session-based flow monitoring) it becomes an attractive solution.

Tie that to experience with Hyper-V. Companies like mine who have unused Hyper-V capacity due to Microsoft's ridiculous VM licensing scheme for Windows, tend to run Linux instances on that extra capacity. The high performance of Linux on Hyper-V was an eye-opener for us. I could see us using Azure for Linux.

That said, we are 99% AWS, and I don't see our online platform ever moving from them.
Apple Says Developers Need to Embrace the Notch
It’s a great new meme opportunity, and you’re on the ground floor. Get in while you can.
This. Another problem is that companies often want to sell a long-term vision vs. a solving a specific problem. The end result is an abstract description of the company that doesn't connect with the end buyer.

Finally, a big issue I see is that companies use internal language to describe their software, rather than using the language of their prospect. They do this to "raise up" their messaging, but the result is often a word blob mashup of internal language and industry buzzwords which don't connect to the problem the prospect is trying to solve.
Well I don't know what goes on at "marketing school" but here's my view:

Knowing your audience seems really important to this discussion. Those of us with technical knowledge immediately want to know "what does it actually do?"

But there are a lot of decision-makers without technical knowledge who might be swayed by their "general impression of the people they meet." This group doesn't necessarily care if they're in need of what you're selling.

There's a spectrum between these two extremes and how you approach marketing is going to depend on your opinion of how the audience is distributed in this spectrum. If you believe there are more people toward the latter end of the spectrum then a more general, details-free approach may make sense.
>So what can one do? How to approach it? Is there even a way to create a computer that both respects the end-user as its rightful owner and can be safely used to conduct business and pleasure on-line?

Take a look at Qubes. It virtualizes almost everything that is done on the system and it had a very solid security model. An example: your banking VM can be clearly marked and distinct from the (potentially one-time) VM you used to pen that dodgy-looking email attachment.
> Find me a dollar of "waste" and I'll show you someone who benefits from it.

I expect others who've also worked on Government projects would find that as preposterous as I do.
I agree. The bitcoin number limit is fundamental. It's what shows up fiat for what that is. It's also what makes it threatened. I believe the growth of altcoins was in part to placate the financial system. Maybe not increase the total number of bitcoin that will ever exist but the creation of altcoins gives the idea that the alternative to fiat is expanding as fiat multiplies.
Show HN: Periodic Table of GitHub
This was based on a joke at work. I'm sharing it because I have a serious problem with the "it's not perfect yet!" paralysis that causes nothing of mine to get completed. The goal was to hack something functional together and be okay with sharing it, despite the embarrassing code and the voice inside screaming at me that it's terrible.
The example given here is pretty extreme. The lack of any explanation of who the startup is and what they do is so basic that I hesitate to even call it a marketing issue.
That's not correct for public companies - the unrealized mark to market losses will be reported as losses via correctly (mark-to-market) valuing the asset on the balance sheet.
I have no idea if it's actually majority - maybe there's just a lot of people here who share the discontent and wanted to add their two cents.

Video instructions are usually directed to people who are beginning their adventure, and in programming I usually need to just skim over some text these days to know what's relevant for me and what not. I guess many people have the same sentiment.

For me videos were insanely useful trying to get into Blender. Something that helped me a lot, but I guess mostly thanks to my 0% knowledge of the topic.
This, so much.

Just the past 2 weeks I've had multiple face to face meetings to decide on a plan of action for a project. Everyone left the meeting thinking something has been decided.

Turns out there were 2 or 3 separate ideas on how we were proceeding with handling things!

Can't help but think that if this conversation was held in text, proposed approaches would have been more clear to everyone, and the problem of whether a conclusion was reached or not would be easily solved by revisiting the conversation.
9 Sources of Inspiration to Make Your Idea a Winner
Can you please elaborate on the effective tools for fighting obesity? Do you have any pointers?

I am not convinced simply by the obvious statement that corporations will respond to the threat of regulation. The advent of Coke Zero does not prove effective fighting of obesity.
ISTM that many of the classifiers get a lot of their signal from detecting textures, and that the adversarial noise works by superimposing a different texture on the image.
Everybody's already paying the congestion tax. They just pay in time, health, and lost productivity. But since it's a negative externality, the incentive to fix it is blunted.

If a congestion tax worked, the overall burden would go down, because businesses would work harder to locate offices near where employees are (or want to be). And they'd also likely get more active in things like housing and transit policy, because it would be to their direct financial benefit to make sure that development was more balanced.
Or at least encourage you to 'start at 10am' and other times, so that 7:30am-9am is not a single solid rush hour.. Spread the traffic over 3-4 hours, and its much nicer for everyone..
It's increasingly frustrating too as we've shown over and over and over again at how bad the security, user-interaction, pricing and support is for all of those systems. Yet we don't care, because "it's easier".

There's a clear agenda to take back the power and voice that the computers are giving to the common man: http://opentranscripts.org/transcript/coming-war-general-com...
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The problem with a lot of these open source projects is that you're usually so exhausted trying to get the release out you don't have much energy in explaining them! (As these types of things require developer involvement)

But agreed. This is basically offering a paragraph long abstract or read the massive white paper, without much in between.
No, city legislation disallows high-rises to preserve the town's image, and keep demand high.

The reason for the lack of housing in the bay area is wholly artificial. NIMBYism at the extreme.

Look at other high population areas in earthquake prone regions. Plenty of huge high rises.
Please take this advice to heart all you startups. I can't tell you how many times I have signed up for a new startup waitlist and then 6 months later I get an email from some ambigious startup name - "Your wait is up, time to join Uprocket" with no additional information. Wait, who is this, I don't really care anymore. I know its obvious to you but its not always obvious to others. Just add it to your signature for crying out loud. "Uprocket - We help startups solve the problem of people not knowing what they do by adding an email signature which tells people what they do"
You can definitely encrypt your LOS device and update it (manual or OTA) just fine. I have a Nexus 6 and have been doing it for months now, both with official builds and a custom build I was doing.
It's GPL'ed. That means it is a no-go for a lot of people. E.g., my boss would be against it.
Usually burns the investors' money :)
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I have a hard time believing anybody actually goes "lemme turn off ads on this site to see how they are."

It's just something people say they do online to feel good.
That's good point.

But one big difference between Xwt and Xamarin Forms is that Xwt supports Linux via GTK (GTK1, GTK2 & GTK3) whereas Xamarin Forms does not.

Xamarin Forms also requires different code for different targets, such as:

// Android
Forms.Init(this, null);
var androidFragment = new MyFormsPage().CreateFragment(this);

// iOS
Forms.Init()
var iosViewController = new MyFormsPage().CreateViewController();

// UWP
Forms.Init(e);
var uwpElement = new MyFormsPage().CreateFrameworkElement();
That sounds very interesting! If you were working with their government, why did you need to smuggle them in?
Evolution of Smart Contract Security in the Ethereum Ecosystem
Maybe some of us don't want any kind of google services on their phone, open source or not?
Generally they have a parallel tunnel (either for traffic in the other direction, or specifically for emergency egress), and connections between them. They still take you to the same general place.