skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you have some niche or specific knowledge, you can set up a blog and sell infoproducts (courses, books, templates, etc.). I've done this on the side and there is money to be made. I had earnings of low thousands some months.

But it's difficult to grow an audience, it's hard work to create quality products and even though you can set up an almost automatic selling machine with little coding, just plumbing WordPress, Mailchimp and PayPal, there are still some customer support to be done.

So it's long term, not completely passive income, but if you know something and other people are willing to pay for that knowledge, it can be done.
There was a time when my regular errands took me down El Camino in Mountain View, and at that time, NOT seeing a Google car was notable. Seeing 2 to 4 during a single outing was normal. I vividly remember when they started rolling out what I call the "jelly bean car". Sharing the road with the sensor-decorated SUV's was no problem at all. They really drove well and blended into traffic very well. The early bean cars were slow and annoying. They drove like somebody's grandparent that needs "the talk" about giving up the car keys. Very frustrating to be around. Hopefully, Waymo has addressed that by now.
This is great for my chicken coop project :) I have been working with a raspberry pi and camera to train a system to recognize and respond to squirrels (close the feeder to stop them eating food). There are many other options of course, but it is nice that this is an integrated system that is easy to train!
> It is 100% false that a semantic domain of partial functions makes your state space in any way smaller than if your semantics domain is sets of behaviors. It's just not true.

Of course it's true. There's a surjection from behivours to partial functions. Proving things about denotational semantics is obviously easier than proving things about operational semantics. It's just less useful.

> > I can't believe that state-based reasoning could ever displace expression-based reasoning, since (as seen in your own talk examples) even very short expressions can correspond to absolutely enormous spaces of possible states.

> This is just mathematically wrong, because if you think of the cardinality of functions you'd realize that it's the same as (normally bigger, actually) than that of sequences (e.g. the set of functions from the natural numbers to the natural numbers is exactly that of sequences of natural numbers).

I think you must have misunderstood. Here's a simple example. There are finitely many partial functions between finite sets A and B but infinitely many sequences of state transitions that take states in A to states in B.
Hidden cameras are a regular staple of Japanese crime news. They hide cameras in literally anything. Inside smoke detectors and back-of-stall-door coathangers are two of the more nefarious ones I've seen.
My guess: If the vehicle allows manual override, and legislation does not change and force manufacturers of autonomous vehicles to prevent transgressions, the human operator will be able to go faster.
http://janusgraph.org/

Support for various storage backends:

- Apache Cassandra®
- Apache HBase®
- Google Cloud Bigtable
- Oracle BerkeleyDB

I don't understand how a database doesn't have its own native store. What exactly does a graph database actually do if it doesn't manage the data fed to it? Same is true for CayleyGraph† https://github.com/cayleygraph/cayley and proabably others.

†Plays well with multiple backend stores:

- KVs: Bolt, LevelDB
- NoSQL: MongoDB
- SQL: PostgreSQL, CockroachDB, MySQL
- In-memory, ephemeral
I hope soon - I have better things to do with my commute time than stare at the road.
> pretty much any legislation on this planet would obliterate us if we'd tell them that the result of the computations of our systems may be some cents up or down from the real result

But you are not some cents up or down, even if you are calculating with billions, you still have 7 significant digits, that's a lot of head room for calculations.

Are there any financially sensible calculations where large numbers (order of magnitude billions) are multiplied with each other?
Build fast, fix later: speed hurts quality at Tesla, some workers say
I'd love to see a heatmap of startup jobs, while you're at the "crunch data for visualization" task.
For my SaaS, the tech stack mattered a lot. I resisted the temptation to pick the hottest stack, and instead went with the boring stack I've been working with for 10 years. This allowed me to spend more time focusing on the business and less time fighting with the language/framework.
Security Update 2017-001 fixes this as well: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT208315
Yes, I believe so from the comments.
We agree that (PhD students like employees) => (PhD students should be paid like employees), but you also asserted ~(PhD students like employees) which I disagree with.
You are reading in things I did not say and rebutting ideas I did not promote. My statement contains zero suggestion that existing (charitable) programs should be shut down. It only rebuts the suggestion that we need some government run "free food" program of the sort described in the article.

There are also some excellent ones!

I am aware that quality varies. I did a write up of one that didn't completely suck as a potential model for how things should be done. But I wonder how many soup kitchens you have personally eaten at and how many you thought were excellent and would prefer it to most paid eateries (I mean solely on the basis of the high quality of the experience, not on the basis of it being free).
I know :( just wanted to point that out and emphasize that it's partly due to qmake and how it's handled within qt creator.
From the article: "I've had some great suggestions around tackling the root cause of data breaches and I'd love to have another opportunity in the future to talk about that, but it goes beyond the specific focus of this hearing. That said, who knows what I'll be asked by congressmen and congresswomen on the day and they may well question what can be done to combat the alarming rise in these incidents. I've now got a lot of great references on hand to go to should that happen so once again, thank you!"
> > And in practice, the only form of verified formal proof of properties of program fragments that sees use in "normal" industrial code (i.e. ordinary webapps and the like, not high-assurance environments) is Haskell-like typesystems

> This is 100% false. Haskell's type system (without clever tricks such as singleton types) is so weak that the properties it "verifies" fall far, far below what is normally regarded as "formal verification".

Be careful to pay attention to what lmm actually claimed. The claim was about "proof of properties of program fragments ... in "normal" industrial code ... ordinary webapps".
Regarding the future of existing Pixelmator and comparison to Pro: from the announcement, it looks like the current Pixelmator will be simply phased out so no need for the comparison or ensuring the current version gets any updates. Making this conclusion simply because the current version was not mentioned at all.

Let's hope for the fair play, so the current Pixelmator license owners would get the Pro with a discounted price.
I found jupyter notebooks to be a good note taking medium (its markdown!). I usually rsync my notebooks to a remote server that I can access anywhere. One thing I find frustrating is that the json is difficult to manipulate if you don't want to spin up the jupyter notebook server.
Or mistaken, or confused, or...

Apple knows when the bug materialized (sounds like it was part of a UX simplification of migration and/or upgrades) and I'm sure before getting embarrassed yet again they would have done due diligence.

Probably.
For comparison, Affinity Photo offers all of software, OpenGL and Metal rendering. I suppose at least supporting the previous version of Metal would not have been a massive burden. It's not like it's a completely different API.
Hey, finnish stereotype here! Brutal honesty :)
highly recommend this as well.
Probably. first thing I thought.
Say Hello to AWS Fargate and Amazon Elastic Container Service for Kubernetes (EKS)
I completely agree. I'm really not understanding the counter argument here.
Very well done! I like that these are plain JavaScript challenges, however, I think including more traditional interview questions such as algorithms and data structures that are presented in your way would be valuable.
"HOT DOG NOT HOT DOG" really makes it useful for adult film industry :D
Price is based on supply and demand. It's only deflationary if demand stays the same. But if people stop believing bitcoin is going to MOON, then demand can/will fall.

There are a limited number of beanie babies too.
No, not really. There are not many of photos of me on the web and any that are were taken from a distance and too low res to id me.

I've been stingy about that for a long time. FB doesn't have my phone number and I disabled the email address I used to sign up. I delete all my cookies often and use different browsers and turn off and reset my modem to get a new IP address.

I have no apps on my phone, don't use iCloud, and don't use the native "Contacts" app, I made my own for that.

I know I'm still being tracked, but not as much as most and I don't think FB could ID me right now with photos they have.
Show HN: A social network/desktop utility for work
> In any case if ound a lot of people really damaged by java. Its horrible what that language can do to some people's coding style and framework when thinking about problems.

What problems are you thinking of, specifically? In high school, I had a semester each of BASIC and C++, but my first serious programming was with Java in college. That is, beyond things like a "guess the number" game, getting into actual study of algorithms and data structures.

I'm mostly a C++ dev now, and I've never had complaints about my coding style. Then again, I never bought into the WidgetFactoryFactoryImpl kind of crap.
This is neat but sort of strange - I love the idea of a hardware package that makes fiddling with deep learning easy, but I wonder why Amazon went through the trouble of producing such a relatively niche product?

If I had to guess, this is going to be a great "user education" tool for AWS, designed to get new developers on the platform as early in the learning process as possible.
Something like 15 years at one of the mjors should do the trick.
I'd take $0 to add you on skype and chat about your entrepreneuriality. I'd like to own a tesla someday.
This doesn't exist to benefit the user. This exists solely to benefit Facebook.
>But I am not sure how this all fits with things like Lightroom/darktable. I know Pixelmator can easily edit RAW files. But darktable seems to be able to edit a batch of images at once so you don't have to manually edit each one. But should you?

If they are similar enough (e.g. same color correction for shots during the same hour), or you have common needs (e.g. add the same watermark) then yes, it can save you time.

>Plus there is something about organizing photos with Lightroom/darktable flows that I don't quite get. I have gotten by with manually organizing my files for a decade. Do I really need a star rating system?

Perhaps, perhaps not. They add a lot beyond a "star rating system". Depends on how many pictures and how professionally you shoot. Sorting 2,000 photos shot on a newspaper, travel etc assignment, and picking winners, is no fun done manually.

>* Also darktable boasts the ability to export an image into GIMP. Is that really like a big feature that you can't do from elsewhere?*

It's basically irrelevant, unless you run Linux, or are one of the few that runs both programs (Darktable/GIMP) on a Mac or Windows machine.

>Isn't it just a Save then Open type situation?

Do it 30 times for 30 pictures and it gets old fast. Especially since you need to scout to where you've saved each time.
In most cases it doesn't matter what the judge believes about you, what matters is what the prosecutor can prove to a jury, and whether the defence can introduce that vital "shadow of a doubt". Can one of a dozen average citizens believe this story ?

For minor things a panel of magistrates (non-lawyers who volunteered for this job, a clerk helps them understand what the law means and they can "punt" tricky things to a judge if they have to) decides, rather than a jury under supervision of a judge. Magistrates only handle little things, shop lifting, ordinary burglary, punch up in a night club with a few bruises, that sort of thing. No murders, armed robberies, rapes. But I don't know if "spy camera voyeurism" is something that'd go to a magistrate's court.

If the only thing the prosecution has is this - you owned this device, and somebody found it, you say you didn't know what it does - there's actually a good chance they would never take it before a court. Crown Prosecutors are specifically told only to prosecute people who they're sure they can prove are guilty - none of this throw everything at them and hope it sticks nonsense, "Innocent" verdicts are actually rare in this system, not because hardly anybody is innocent but because prosecutors are supposed to be bringing slam-dunk cases. I actually attend court periodically, and as an outsider, not a member of a jury, I'd say I never saw one person in the dock who didn't do it.

Anyway most of the time the police are going to find other stuff, which the prosecution can use to make a more solid case. That might be really definitive, like a test video you recorded, or a forum post you made saying you are "going to try it for real soon" on a spy camera voyeur site. Or it might be circumstantial but still able to be shown to a jury, like your search history "Spy cam bedroom sex" "Secret recordings" "Voyeur tiny camera", or they found the box the device came in, and it says "Spy camera: Most excellent definiton for make video" in big letters.
Dissecting the async methods in C#
Pardon my non-HN tone but...does that reasonable point come before or after I look down and can't see my own penis when I pee? How isn't that a trigger for "something is wrong"?

Yes, there is a well-armed enemy. But most people I've come in contact with are in denial that enemy exists. You can't stop a problem if you're unwilling to admit it exists. You can't improve your health if you're more committed to the idea that you have a God-given right to a sugar frosted donut.

Is it unreasonable to expect people to look in the mirror, literally? I'm not suggesting it's easy, but why is trying a bad thing?

Furthermore, and not to get too off-topic, but aside from too many sugars/carbs the average American diet includes too much factory farmed animals - whether that's milk or meat. Those animals are VERY resource intensive. Those animals also produce green horse gases (i.e, they fart, a lot).

So when was the last time you heard ANYONE of significant leadership say "America! You need to change your diet - for your own good, as well as the good of the planet"? Sure Obama got us ACA but he never met the much bigger (no pun intended) - less politically beneficial - root problem head on.

That's. Not. Leadership. Is it?
I guess this happens if the other posters are of low karma, or if the other comments are quite old.
I've been looking for, and testing, various automated transcription APIs over the years and never found one that was high-quality for videos of interviews (background noise, people don't talk in full sentences, people use filler sounds). I'd love to find something usable -- and plan to try this one as well. Human transcription is laborious, slow, and expensive. I've toyed with the idea of a human clean-up pass after the automated transcription, but that's still labor intensive.
Come to think of it, the concept of "fair" is something completely subjective and therefore irrelevant in this kind of discussions. I probably should've used a different word.

But anyway, corporations only have vastly higher resources when compared to the sum of all people they're targeting with their advertisement. When taken in a context of a single human life, resources that a certain corporation can spend on advertising to you directly are dwarfed in comparison with attention and empathy and interest (which are main resources required to manipulate someone) from any of your friends, family and colleagues.
> I have trust that the Euro will retain its value

You must feel very betrayed every year when you look at the inflation rate and the price increases...
I was hoping that AWS Comprehend would have actual text comprehension. This seems to be just entity extraction and noun phrases.

Basic Python Spacy.io or NLTK will get you this far.

That said, I'm still glad they built it. Every time a new company offers a library or API like this I picture a new startup having an extra tool to enter a market.
they wrote their own cni to use AWS networking, much like kubenet. I haven't found details in if everything is encrypted in transit though; I REALLY hope it is.
What is this going to sound like when cities have hundreds of whining drones flying around? Are we just going to have to get used to the noise pollution from the drones so people can get their coffee delivered faster?
> All told, actually starting k8s cluster is probably less than 10% of my time.

+1.

I've found myself (with Azure ACS) re-creating clusters quite often - as they don't support upgrades. This takes minutes with my deploy scripts, replicating the state of the cluster you're copying is the main bit of work.
Yeah I only know because I‘ve watched my posts gain better positions when I hit 1k karma (iirc).
You were doing great until "free". It's not free. It's hard work, using resources of value. There is compulsion, whereby others must sacrifice (under threat) their own wealth & resources to facilitate what is falsely advertised as "free".

You have a right to live, insofar as nobody else may unduly take your life from you. That you live, comes the responsibility to provide for yourself - and suffer the consequences of your choices.

We've seen communism tried time and again. The death tolls & misery are staggering. Many of us will make sure it's not "tried", aka imposed by threat & violence, here; this is not up for debate, and you'd do well to understand why.
Actually those benefits are often exempt or deductible (at least partially):

- From the feds: https://www.irs.gov/publications/p970

Furthermore, employers tend to pay for actual classes (with a professor and meetings and all that). A lot of the outrage around this is that the research portion of a PhD doesn't actually involve any of that.
Because the media says so?
You mean Triton? I wouldn’t really call it an exact copy if so. There was a whole Linux syscall translation layer in there...
Seems to me that a difficult aspect of the news editor's job is deciding what to cover. CNN does not cover "Clinton email scandal". Fox News does not cover "Russia collusion." If one of these outlets did so they would be pilloried for "platforming" or "normalizing". How do you guys think WikiTribune will gate their news?
The secret world below Chicago
I think it's rather a Silicon Valley reference.
Perhaps the task you're trying to complete is just inherently laborious, slow and expensive, then?

Given that humans frequently have trouble understanding one another, it's very unlikely you'll ever encounter an API that can do 100%, or even 90% accurate transcription across environments.

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Isn't transcription inherently an opinionated activity, as well? In terms of how to transcribe utterances, words spoken in other languages when the main language is another, etc?
Earthworms Reproduce in Simulated Mars Soil–a First
duplicate from 5 hours ago https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15806451
How does this compare to Heroku?
Who had the bright idea to put a drone video up top that has nothing to do with Mercedes? The company in the video isn't even mentioned in the article.

Stay weird, Bloomberg.
Indeed! You’re right, and my third paragraph was wrong
I was interested to try this out, but for being a release of something and posted on a company's own blog, it contains a small amount (none) of links to the service itself...

Searching for "Amazon Translate" doesn't give me any hints either (neither does searching for "translate" in the AWS console). Anyone got a link?
> Or does development in AppleSpeak mean everything?

It's a press release. It doesn't mean anything.
My kids have been in 3 schools. Public (among the best in the area) has proved far worse than private. "Keep" too much, and the money walks.
I hope SQLite is on their roadmap.
Snap lets you send stories (or whatever they're called) to specific groups of people, yes?

That's a huge differentiator, in my book. It provides a simple interface for sharing experiences with specific people. Not really any different than a group SMS or other form of group chat, really. But a very different experience from Instagram, for sure.
Not gonna lie - that's pretty fucked..

I imagine a noticeable uptick in the number of Macs pwned, in the near future.
Many open source PVR software packages do this for free (Mythtv, SageTV). If you want better guide data, Schedules Direct is $25/year.

I've been using SageTV (which was the foundation of the Google Fiber TV DVR) for 10 years since before Google bought them an open-sourced it. Between SageTV, Netflix, and ad-blockers, my son has basically never seen a commercial.
Heptio Authenticator – Using AWS IAM to Authenticate to a Kubernetes Cluster
But the fine print:

the faux soil is still missing one key compound found on Mars—perchlorates. ... the compounds can be lethal to people who consume them or eat plants grown in them. In studies where worms were exposed to high levels of perchlorates, most did not survive.
Hey HN, I'm a solo founder and this is my first official product launch. It was designed around facilitating group discussions but I've found it to be useful as a desktop utility as well, ie, keeping desktop notes, imgur replacement, saving private notes/links, etc. I'm always open for suggestions and feedback. Best, Dave.
Same price as google ($0.006 per 15 second increment) but more expensive that microsft ($0.004 per 15 second increment). However, this does charge by the second after 15 seconds which is nice.

I just wish they would lower the minimum threshold of 15 second intervals.
Might be putting off buying a (new) car with hopes of ride-share networks being price competitive. That's what I'm doing.
There is a very long history regarding the BBC and ARM, you could say that without the BBC ARM would not have existed at all.
Did anyone else notice that 11/15 top stories on HN right now are Amazon announcements? Crazy.

Sorry for the offtopicish post...
JanusGraph provides a graph data model on top of an existing storage layer. In this case it's using wide-column key/value systems. It works well, letting each layer do what it's good at while limiting the amount of separate systems needing to be maintained.
Yep. That’s called holding the bag