skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My Samsung TV got an update that added adverts into it UI. There's no option to disable it and Samsung's support team insist that the ads come from apps that I've installed, but they come from preinstalled apps I can't remove or disable.

I wrote a guide on blocking it. TL;DR DNS blacklist ads.samsung.com

https://gist.github.com/peteryates/b44b70d19ccd52f62d66cdd4b...
The .NET Core Zoo
Yes, the MBPs got that fancy light. The TP can point the camera to the back tho (which could be worse). I covered all 3 with tape. Both 3 have that option. Only the TP has a killswitch for radios though. And it doesn't seem Apple is very fond of killswitches for radios, given their utter lack of expected functionality in iOS 11.
If working in C++ land, I'd agree this is the nicest approach. It does, however, require linking against a specific libpython version [1], unlike Milksnake. But I'm not sure that's a bad thing...

[1] http://pybind11.readthedocs.io/en/master/basics.html#creatin...
Can elaborate more on that?

Currently I know Python and am using Django.

I am too lazy to learn Ruby. Is it worth it to learn Ruby just to use Rails?
well I think the article is fishy.
especially because of the headline.
It says: $400k lost, yeah thats a ton of money, but than it says:
"built revenues in his skin care business to more than $10 million annually in seven years"

I mean if I have a REVENUE of $10 million annually I would have savings of more than $400k dollar?!

Also if the product did not have had a trademark its just fine that somebody could clone the product.
what is not so fine are of course fake reviews and other stuff, but thats illegal and every sane person would actually use a lawyer. Also amazon actually suspended his account for infridgement cases and I highly doubt that their system is so bad that it does that automatically. Because that would be more than insane.

every story has his two sides and this story looks fishy on both ends.
> Why doesn't the EU pay developers 6 figures?

.. They do?
Funny. If only.
I would say, don't build anything custom until you know you can sell how much you think you can sell. Gumroad is perfect for testing your product market fit, since you don't waste a lot of time seting up a billing system. you sign up, create a product, and get a link (or some js to embed). easy.

gumroad is 3,5% + 0,3$ vs. stripe 2,9% + 0,3$

that is not enough of a price increase to justify wasting a lot of time on setting up a custom checkout form, imo.
2) is the house now obsolete after just 20 years?

It probably ran on Windows 3.1 and they lost the install disks.
> "It's nice that there is no regulation, but in the case of both fiat currency and stock, it is the regulation that gives it value, because they are backed by a system of laws and an army to protect those laws."

Sure, but ultimately the value is not for you or me or the government to decide necessarily - it is a collective decision by the market. If the market eventually comes to a consesus that this whole idea of large scale government is a failed concept and that it only results in monopolies, wars, and extreme inequalities - then people can choose to abandon that system in favor of something they might prefer and see a brigther future for; something that is decentralized without any central authority perhaps.

Personally, I would rather invest in companies that don't have to pay enormous legal fees and jump through umpteen regulations designed to benefit a failed system - I'd rather my capital flow away from violent 'armies' as you say and directly into the hands of those implementing new ideas on the front-line of innovation.

Just so happens I can do just that, just send me your BTC address. And if you'd like to give me a return, you need only a BTC address of mine - there we just transacted a stock using no more than two Bitcoin addresses. See the power here? If even not for philosophical reasons, people are going to choose this method for trading securities (or whatever you want to call them) because it is easier. You can't reverse that; the cat is already out of the bag so to speak.

> "With a crypto coin, if the masses just decide that it isn't worth anything anymore, then it just isn't worth anything anymore. It has no backing in reality as far as I can tell."

That is a natural course of any failed business. Try not to invest in the ones that you feel people may one day decide isn't worth anything anymore and you'll be fine.

We don't need the government to hand-hold us in our day to day lives; certainly not in what we eat, consume, read, or invest (or not invest) in.
Celebration: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celebration,_Florida

A bit like Seahaven Island from the Truman show.
That's funny: I found the second paragraph one of the most lucid and easy to read statements I've read on the Internet for a while (but I'm not a native English speaker).

Perhaps there's something to be said for long sentences.
>which is caused by the correlation between culture and race.

Why do you think there's a correlation between culture and race? Could it have something to do with people of color being explicitly excluded from white society as a matter of public policy until, like, 50 years ago?
> Basically, the Army blew the levee to save a town, Cairo, IL, at the expense of (a few) homes and (lots of) farmland on the MO side.

Are you sure about the "homes" part?

20 years ago, I was a professor at Southeast Missouri State University in Cape Girardeau. As part of new faculty orientation, we took a bus tour of the area. During the trip, we passed through the Birds Point-New Madrid Floodway. We were told that no one was allowed to live there, so that it could be flooded on short notice without endangering people or their homes.
Android.

Though a lot of the work I do is "full stack", Android is what earns me the jobs.

Biggest income source was selling an app startup, where 90% of the work was Android.

That event also highly accelerated my career. Got some CTO jobs and teaching jobs after that. Most of the work after that was fairly trivial, but the hook was my Android ability in all those opportunities.

I had a lot of contracts fail because the team I joined were not competent in APIs so I wonder if things would have turned out better if I was better with setting up APIs.
> I don't mean to be offensive but reading your statement alone shows me your bias. 1) You constantly referred to the developer as he. You may not realize it but the language you use is an indication of the prototypical picture of a developer you have in your head

Why on earth do you bring this bullshit sexism to this discussion? Of course I have a prototypical picture of a developer in my head. Like everyone. So what? I have interviewed developers and 99% of them have been male. I'm not arguing anything about that percentage here. Let's just assume _male_ developers here then if that makes you feel better.

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Point is, although there might be place for algorithm coding in developer interviews, I am willing to wager a large chunk of my salary that performing well in algorithm interviews doesn't necessarily correlate strongly to performing well on the job.

You don't have a point. It doesn't matter how well they communicate, or anything, IF THEY CANNOT CODE. It also doesn't matter if they can code it they cannot communicate. I'm _not_ saying that coding skill is THE ONLY skill they must have. Get that to your head already. It's ONE of the many skills that they absolutely must have. Another skill is the ability to express their ideas clearly. There are others of course but we are discussing "programming tests in interviews" here.

In addition, I don't believe interviews or any tests during interviews can accurately predict job performance. I think there are a lot of studies that support this. Even though all the tests show green light, the person can fail in the actual job. Nothing guarantees that 100%. We get false positives. But that doesn't mean interview tests are useless!
Unless the conversion from speed to electricity is more efficient than to heat, shouldn't the degradation rate be the same? Or is the heat causing most of the degrading?
Sounds like just buying a tiny piece of equity in a seed round. I don't get what a blockchain value adds here except probably easier SEC regs - maybe I'm missing something.
Actually thinking back on it and going over your responses I'll admit I'm wrong. You appear to have many many more years dedicated to online forums than me and very most likely understand how to sustain a community better. With mentioning several communities I've never heard of.

I'll still stand my ground that the first reply that I replied to was a shit comment only wanting to deflect conversation. If it followed what you said here then the appropriate response is to ignore it and report.
It's funny that he's angry at his competitor for copying his product, because his own product is a copycat of Panasonic's.
Not really... because then you're just competition against a larger pool of people. I.e. a generalist is common, while a domain expert is not, so more generalists means more competition.
Look for accessories, the speakers are often just sold separately and attach to the sides.
I do not agree with this. The simplest mathematical concepts can look very complicated when presented in a formal way.

Learning the geometric product in high school wouldn't be more difficult than learning the dot and cross products, and would make obvious difficult to grasp concepts as complex numbers and even quaternions.

There are historical reasons for which we do not learn this from another point of view, and in my opinion it is, indeed, a great tragedy. A tragedy that I hope will be remedied some day.

Disclaimer: I deal everyday with 3D rotations. Euler angles have been traditionally used in my field, but they present many problems. Everybody knows we could do better with quaternions, but very few people understand them. I have shown many people how to interpret what quaternions are from geometric algebra concepts and I have not yet found anybody who doesn't think it is much more approachable that way.
The inconvenient truth about existing cities is we have let them become completely dominated by technology, in particular the car.
Please check and file these bugs here: https://github.com/mozilla/multi-account-containers – I assume you are using this extension?
My Tech Stack in 2018
I stand by my opinion, but you have to read it not literally. Firstly and obviously, the phrase "just replace" is somewhat a simplification, even though I believe that, in any decent organization, it should not have any ripple effects at all. Secondly, assuming you attempt to read between lines, my points do not specifically target CEOs per se, but upper management, who almost always is the mastermind, initiator, orchestrator and beneficiary of illegal and/or immoral acts in corporations ("cabal" in your parlance).
Software is very rarely perfect though. There are some rare cases like Winamp and Photoshop where there's just not much to add.

I do find projects like Dwarf Fortress very charming in that there's an endless supply of new things to look forward to.
I’ve been looking into this stuff as of late (I bought like 400 bucks worth of books on it). I always kinda liked math but always felt like some parts don’t make any fucking sense (cross product only in 3d? Nice algebra bro). Also wtf are complex numbers really about? Geometric algebra resolves all this and it has insane applications esp for any space related reasoning. Space time algebra is very much related and it’s also balls to the wall insanity.

Maxwells four equations reduce to a single equation, a simple fraction. It’s beyond me we aren’t going hard on this.
It’s good to see I am not alone it felt like everyone was taking crazy pills when angular came along heralded as the greatest thing in web development and anyone pointing at the foundamental issues was suddenly a pharia around here
Sublime is a great example of users getting update fever. The forum is riddled with long ”is this software dead?” threads that pop up at regular intervals.
Sweden’s city model hardly represents the ideal: the 1960s thru 1980s intentionally ripped the public center out of almost all Swedish towns, discouraging outside public space and attempting to make city and town centers into purely work and centralized (mostly indoor) retail spaces, with large (often multi-storey) parking spaces to enable easy car-transport to and from the suburbs (where people were supposed to live).

Take a look at the center of Stockholm: the area past the old town connecting the southern, central and western islands (Söder, Norrmalm/City, Kungsholmen) is a horrific spaghetti of motorways leading right into the heart of town - impossible to navigate on foot (pedestrians are led under overpasses, through tunnels, up and down litter-strewn stairways, and past 'unofficial’ toilets. It’s a truly dystopian vision of what can happen to a town when city-planners decide that cities are not for living in, and only local activism and historical accident preserved the parts of the old town that tourists now think are so beautiful and charming.

Nowadays things are improving, but the center of the city itself is still largely pedestrian and cycle-unfriendly, and many central streets have no doors, windows or stores facing the street itself: the idea was to keep the sidewalks free from people loitering or strolling around.

If you want a human-scaled model of a city that’s built to encourage public space, walking and meeting, then almost any southern European town that’s built to radiate from a central (traffic-free) square, ringed by restaurants and cafés, is a better example than anywhere in Sweden.
the text is not superbly written at all. it's an advertisement with lots of plot holes and utterly absurd formulations of any kind. just the sleep/sister analogy is so weird and pointless it made me cringe ...
It's worth reading the paper. The Aurora team claims 10x plus boosts in transaction throughput and extremely fast recovery times. These are important benefits.
I agree with #1, look for competition. It is astonishing to me how many customer service saas companies seem to pop up every now and then, but many of them seem to succeed, despite there being already hundreds.

I have another rule for indie devs to make money online: Don't build apps for consumers marketplaces (iStore, Play Store). Build/sell apps on marketplaces for businesses eg. Shopify (https://apps.shopify.com/), Salesforce (https://appexchange.salesforce.com/), Weebly (https://www.weebly.com/de/app-center), Github (https://github.com/marketplace), Slack (https://slack.com/apps), Cloudflare (https://www.cloudflare.com/apps)
Because being maintained is very important for users and one of the easiest and most convincing ways to show that is to release updates.

But then we have the other side, releasing update after update without fixing or responding to common issues. That is quite damaging as well.
But we are not living in 2000 BC anymore. Public matters can be solved in distributed ways since the 1990s via public websites. What is happening right now is a much more fundamental change in the way cities operate.

1. The third social space (restaurants, cafe's, etc) becomes more and more irrelevant due to delivery services. So you can enjoy restaurant food within the comfort of your home.
As a result urban space used for restaurants will likely decrease.

2. Retail is dying for a long while. Currently 10.3% of urban retail space in Singapore (where I live) is not used.
Tendency increasing. The only thing working against the trend are co-working spaces, accelerators and incubators.

We have to come to terms that instead of building cities for cars we need to build cities for mobile humans with a cellphone.
Mathematica can probably do that
"It's like if you can see the robot move, it's too slow. We should be caring about air friction like things moving so fast. You should need a strobe light to see it"

https://seekingalpha.com/article/4122890-tesla-approaches-te...
That’s smart - businesses don’t expect as much for free, whereas consumer app pricing is cutthroat. Do you face more issues with gatekeepers in B2B stores?
Tackling the Chinese Communication Barrier
Google and Salesforce sign massive strategic partnership
BTW Irrlicht is great so thank you to the author for making it. CobberCube looks good too. But that is one reason someone might not update a project a lot -- they are making other stuff, for example one along the same lines that could make money. But Irrlicht works great still and still has a forum etc. so I would not complain if there weren't more updates.

Actually I wouldn't really want another update at this point, because I already have a code base built on the existing thing that does what I want and adapting to new/changed stuff would distract from developing features specific to my system.
I can program way better on average than a quant, but what does that matter to a quant
That article is in no way an attack on materialism. Quantum chromodynamics still constitutes a materialist understanding of the universe. Are you perhaps confusing "matter" and "mass"?
We tried to introduce it at work 2-3 years ago. We never got over a pilot installation. It seems rather challenging to install/configure into an existing automatic build system, because gerrit wants to be its own git server(?), but the implementation/hooks are not compatible with "normal" git. Didn't work with that part, so don't remember the details. The UI did not feel very intuitive, might be quite a learning curve.
> Special talents

Speaking from my (limited) project management experience, I found distributing tasks to the right person is actually a talent in itself.

Note: I was actually surprise how many people could not do it when I was trying to transition away into another project.
Braking force in EV is from magnetic fields in the engine pushing electricity back into the battery. Magnets and copper wires do not degrade when used.
Pad brakes in EVs are only used when braking HARD, as in emergency stop. They degrade less because they are not used much.
I love these habit tracking apps. It's better than the others without all the feature bloat. But not really helpful unless it can be a phone app.

But personally I'm looking for more of a SOP kind of app.

Like every work morning I'll take my nootropic stack, set aside my things to do list, meditate, pray, etc. I don't do this on non work days, and my work days aren't exactly Mon-Fri either.

On some days I have to do a Skype call and there's a list of things to do then - turn off fan & windows, check mic, put on a collared shirt.

There hasn't been any apps that help me set up a 'habit checklist' for certain situations. It would be good to just choose what routines I want to do today or tomorrow.
The inconvenient truth about anything smart is that it actually takes a lot of caring and feeding from very few experts (expensive) who actually understand the technology.

The end result is that economic laws put practical limit on what you can achieve with smart. The smart aspect of things needs to generate enough savings for the economic entity to be able to muster the experts to fix things, as they inevitably break in various ways. And it only happens if the entity is large enough.

Every, say, home could be made smarter, and the total savings would be probably big. But we won't do that as individuals, because for each of us, the cost of the expert is scary compared to the tiny savings that we can individually achieve with it. If we would organize (that is, create a larger economic entity), then perhaps it would be possible. But organization causes additional costs, too.
There are some speculations about ICOs founding things that are needed but are not founded now - like Open Protocols and Open Source software working with them. It might not be a good mechanism for extracting the value - but the others are also not very efficient.

https://medium.com/@zby/the-case-for-icos-bee2c223ec71
Optimising npm dependencies
But that is why your rates are (hopefully) so much higher than an employee...

Rule of thumb, your business should be viable at 50% billed time...
Best standup comedy ever
I wonder who's behind that... Europe is probably pushing this to counter Google. No ?
Classic crap
> However, I'm not sure the poster I was responding to would agree with allowing that distinction. Certainly many commentators on Dennett have interpreted "denying the existence of qualia" as "denying the existence of subjective experience", which Dennett does not do. For a person who refuses to allow the distinction, I think one has to simply disagree that Dennett denies the existence of qualia; he just says they aren't what most people think they are.

I read a lot of his back and forth with Chalmers & co. (and philosophy of mind in general), and no one argues that Dennett doesn't think subjective experiences exist. But subjective experiences are not qualia. Qualia are phenomenal properties of experience. Presumably, one could have subjective experiences without these phenomenal properties. Indeed, that is what Dennett argues, see the IEP[1]

PS: Not sure why I'm getting downvoted -- guess the materialists have a bone to pick ;)

[1] http://www.iep.utm.edu/qualia/#H5
> The third social space (restaurants, cafe's, etc) becomes more and more irrelevant due to delivery services.

Did you really mean to write that? :-)

To be fair, delivery services aren't really responsible for undermining the "third space" nature of these places: we've been treating them increasingly as retail conveniences for a very long time, failing to acknowledge their social and psychological role. But it is true that the rise in delivery makes the resulting isolation even more stark.
Ask HN: What are some good descriptions of how Personal AIs will work?
Aside from what's presented in the film Her, that is.

In a talk from the Singularity Institute, it was said that one won't need to remember things anymore, so the point will be the ability to ask great questions. I'm trying to imagine what that world would look/be like.

I'm also concerned the PAI will be 'wall-gardened', rather than it acting like a virtual you, able to choose from a wide variety of apps and services.
Cut the cord works
I have done all kinds of work that required some kind of matrix calculus in one form or another. There are of course all kinds of references (sibling links to my favorite), but I have found that more often than not really the best way to get the results you want is just to calculate them yourself. The work involved is usually tedious but trivial. But working through it goes along way to help make some sense of the various identities that come out. In looking at an identity one may see a transpose here, an inner product there, but not be able to assign any importance or distinction to any particular term at first glance. Working through a few calculations help with this.

EDIT:
I suppose I should also say that I never "learned" matrix calculus either, in the sense that I internalized the various features unique to matrices under derivatives and integrals. The calculations I refer to above are crude, naive ones in the scalar notation under whatever coordinate system seems appropriate.
The choice of LaTeX comes with two problems:

1) It's designed for describe graphical representation and not semantics.

2) parsing it properly is very difficult, especially considering how macros and other definitions can influence the syntax.
Here, I'll let you borrow my em dash: —
Don't buy a smart tv, hook a chrome cast to it, don't buy a new one just because there are better ones out there.

As for streaming, choose one service and switch to another to binge a new season, then cancel when it is over.
Maybe for 'trivial' software that can be the case. However for anything complex even if there isn't a problem inherent in the software there are still interactions with the environment which could cause a need for some workaround.