skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A bit of a strong idea, but what if we just outright say that face recognition is unethical?

I have a hard time finding any use that is positive for society. Advertising and surveillance. Given that, what if we try to convince as many people as possible to not research this tech, nor work for any company working on this.

You wouldn't work for a weapons manufacturer, maybe the same metrics need to be applied to adtech and all this other tracking stuff
PyQt seems to work quite well, for example fman is written in it: https://fman.io/

Regarding gamedev: Unity itself is still written in C++ and Unreal Engine uses it even more. AAA games are written mostly in C++ with Lua/C#/Python for scripting.

There are still a lot of other reasons to use C++, too.
Interesting. When I investigated it a few months ago I was frustrated that I could only find docs for QtCreator, and nothing about just dropping in headers and writing code.
Disregarding Open Source Licenses Is Bad for Your App's Security
You can switch to the Lynx browser then...

I don’t get how people are ostentatiously intransigent to people that don’t do any harm. What is it? Frustration, general resentment, vindictiveness?
Why should Microsoft produce a hack for an IBM antivirus product?

If a user upgrades their OS and something breaks they blame the OS upgrade.
XUL was what popped into my mind too. There have been quite a few on the JVM too, the best being Apache Pivot [1], which had a really good componentisation story.

[1] - https://pivot.apache.org/
Super interesting piece and as somebody who is interested in many things I appreciate such articles.

But seeing this on #1 feels a bit off on HN. Is there a slight possibility that the feed is sometimes curated (eg through different voting powers)?
Indeed, this is something I've wondered myself, since in my experience even 100g does make a big difference in a tablet.
But I've come to the conclusion - it's hard to really pinpoint the "cost of repairability".

Taking the numbers:

IPad Pro 12,9: 692g
Surface Book 2 13: 719g
Surface Pro 2017: 770g
Elite X2 1012 G2: 800g
Surface Book 2 15: 817g

Of course, the IPad pro shines, and apple certainly are famous for "shaving off every possible gram" - but it's just so different a platform, esp. thermals, that it's hard to make conclusions towards "cost of repairability".
The Surface Book 2 tablet modules are light for their size, but I'd say this is primarily bought due to a significantly smaller battery compared to the SP and the Elite (23Wh vs 46/47Wh) - batteries are heavy.

The only devices here realistically comparable IMO would be the Surface Pro and the Elite X2.

But IMO the more interesting device I've posted for this kind of comparison (even though I wouldn't consider +/-100g that critical here as I would with tablets) is the Fujitsu U937, because it's one of the lightest x86 notebooks overall on the market, while still offering competitive specs in all metrics (CPU, RAM, ports, battery size, display size, etc.) and still being easy to repair/upgrade.
(Too bad that keyboard and touchpad are rather mediocre :( )
Do you mind sharing a picture of this done right? The end grain wood floor pics I found on Google look mostly hideous to me.
I guess either Netflix's legal department gets on it or, more likely, the reuploader makes money off it.

According to [1], "Of the videos on Facebook, 72.5% are pirated. “According to a recent report from Ogilvy and Tubular Labs, of the 1,000 most popular Facebook videos of Q1 2015, 725 were stolen reuploads,” says Hank Green. “Just these 725 ‘freebooted’ videos were responsible for around 17 BILLION views last quarter.”

Admittedly that's 2015, entirely unfactchecked by me and (I've just learned) Facebook now has some new rights management tools, not sure how the land lies right now.

[1] https://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/facebook-freebooting-wha...
Or you could just do:
ssh -t user@server.tld "sudo command"
I’m an ex-MS dev and they brought a wave of nostalgia. The hypothesis they were injected by maligners isn’t needed. We wrote comments like that all the time, although after this leak they were somewhat discouraged.
you probably should have at least a chain lined up to work with. or find a var/re-seller that focuses on hotels. unless you are a hotel owner you don't know what their hot buttons are.

for instance if one of your features is guests can see their bill in real-time. that might not be a feature to the owners. they might want the extra revenue of customers not knowing their bill and getting cought up in the experience. the point is you don't know.

your adding features you want not the person buying. again unless you are working with a hotel owner or have sold similar systems or were one in the past.
They actually started the planning and final R&D! (That is before they realized that a slowly-melting ship isn't the most stable or sustainable solution to sea-travel and -defense.)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Habakkuk
What relevance does this have to the topic at hand?
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I think/believe there's lack of "external stimulus" for doing that. Unless you have a channel where a big part of the audience is both intelligent and independently thinking, your message get's no traction.

Simple defences of this or that extreme get a lot of attention because anyone can understand that. Maybe it's time the average "above average brained citizen" grow up and start uniting. But then we all know what can happen to such groups, either being eradicated or hijacked by political interests.

Sorry, I'm feeling very cynic today.
> Do Tuna and other forms of life effectively act as a sort of biological filter collecting mercury over time though?

Yes. This is called biomagnification. Basically, animals absorb heavy metals that are in the food they eat, but don't have an efficient way of excreting it again. Mainly since these metals are bound so they're fat soluble, not water soluble. The higher up in the food chain, the worse it gets.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biomagnification
The British military has funded studies of computer-based brain training protocols to enhance the endurance of its troops, with startling results

Anyone have anymore details on this?
Implementing Instagram filters and picture editing with React Native
I'm not quite sure what you mean. There is no ConfigurationManager used in Asp.NET Core. Are you talking about IConfiguration?

The reason why you want to have it injected as IOption<> is cause you might want to change configuration on the fly. If you do it right, there is no need for the app to restart if you change the appsettings.json at all. Also it makes things much more flexible and loosely coupled, for example third party middlewares can bring their own Settings and you can define which part of the whole appsettings.json is meant to be for that Middleware.

There is also no need to pass it to the constructor and manage it yourself via a field inside your class, at least in your controllers. You can just use
the [FromServices] attribute before an action argument to inject it into just that method (and that works for properties deeper down the "callstack" aswell).
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Or there is simply quite a few people like you who find this interesting, as the YC posting guidelines put it:

"If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity."
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80’s: Coleco Adam. Cassette tapes, Buck Rogers, and programming for the first time in BASIC. It died when I was about 10 years old.

90’s: 486, 28.8 modem which I spent a small fortune on (for a teenager). Programming in C++ and Assembly. Getting a CD-ROM drive for Xmas and installing it. Getting a book on Linux and installing Slackware from the included CD. Finished high school and within a year I began my now 22+ year career as a programmer and it has taken me around the world.
Of course, there may be no strong selection pressure against it. But the odd bias for red-green distinction has been there from the earliest primates, suggesting there is a strong selection pressure in favour of specialising in red-green hue distinction. This then goes directly against having no ability to distinguish so many green and red hues.

Well, unless the only genetic way to maintain this bias includes a risk of colour-blindness, but I kinda doubt that.

Tangent: actually, eye colour is very strongly influenced by natural selection. Specifically, IIRC it's one of the prime examples of social and/or sexual selection pressure being stronger than other pressures, precisely because it has no other survival advantage/disadvantage associated with it otherwise. Since social success is essential for individual survival in our species, being discriminated against for ethnicity in general is a selection pressure (and before I am misunderstood: evolution is an amoral context-optimiser and Social Darwinism is one of the worst perversions of a scientific theory ever).
Ask HN: Six-figure product end of road – sell customer-base?
Throwaway, but willing to reveal more if needed.

I've built a business out of a weekend-project over the past 4 years, which brought in six figures and is still growing.

My product helps businesses (and professionals) to market to certain channels, and my UVP is providing a self-service bridge to those channels. It requires quite a sophisticated technical effort to access those channels, and that's why only a few companies can offer it.

I have over 250 paying businesses on subscription (plans from $5 to $200 monthly), and many more on free tiers. It's enough for me to live off it, but not more.

Everything was sort of fine, until 'a new bridge appeared.'

A bridge built by those who assemble/control the target audience. And that bridge is only offered to be utilised by their exclusive partners -- which I am not, and won't be.

This means, for businesses, they will likely leave my platform eventually, and rather use one of the approved, exclusive partner products. My service still works, but using those exclusive products certainly feels a lot more professional -- and one day, may be the only viable route if those businesses want to use all the features.

My realistic options are: close down or hand over customers in some form of small-scale acquisition. But how? My service is bootstrapped, profitable, and without external investments or debts.

I don't have hard offers on the table, but a preliminary outreach resulted in 'some interest' to acquire users, possibly through some affiliate revenue share type of thing. The domain itself is probably worth more than that.

Would I go and cold-email (I am pretty sheltered off, contact-wise) those exclusive partners who seem to be a good fit, and warm up a potential customer hand-over to gauge interest? Most seem to be quite elaborate operations, and my potential user-base is probably like peanuts to them. I don't have a VC/accelerator network to utilise in getting the word out either.

Help!
You know, I was going to respond. I produced multiple million plus views comedy videos. I raked in those fat 4 figure paydays. Heh.

But then I realized that was all a decade ago and I have no idea how to do that today. Or if it's even possible now.
interestingly the plus points from your first sentence (which I agree are plus points) are the exact things that Scala is often criticised for.
> Funny or Die is incapable of monetizing that product in the current environment, but Facebook is capable of monetizing it. For that specific part of the issue, tough cookies Mr. Funny Man. Somebody got your product for peanuts and is doing way better with it.

Is it not, in some sense, bad that Facebook is capable of monetizing the product and the people who made it aren't? It seems like you're just arguing that might is right.
Is the plan still that 0.7 and 1.0 are the same except for deprecations?
In this particular case it's specific resentment. I don't like it when people create websites that do nothing more than present content they've taken from other sites without permission in return for ad revenue.
If you want to get really picky you should be converting to uppercase and ToUpperInvariant in particular:

From C# via the CLR:
Important If you want to change the case of a string's characters before performing an ordinal comparison, you should use String’s ToUpperInvariant or ToLowerInvariant method. When normalizing strings, it is highly recommended that you use ToUpperInvariant instead of ToLowerInvariant because Microsoft has optimized the code for performing uppercase comparisons. In fact, the FCL internally normalizes strings to uppercase prior to performing case insensitive comparisons. We use ToUpperInvariant and ToLowerInvariant methods because the String class does not offer ToUpperOrdinal and ToLowerOrdinal methods. We do not use the ToUpper and ToLower methods because these are culture sensitive.

And from MS

CA1308: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-gb/visualstudio/code-quality/c...
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Trying to place the blame for this on Republicans is dishonest. Shantytowns have existed for years, and Democrats haven't done much to help. For example:

> In December 2014, the city of San Jose shut down what was then America’s largest homeless camp — a shantytown that stretched for sixty-eight acres along Coyote Creek where a few hundred men and women were living in tents, shacks, treehouses, and adobe dugouts.

https://placesjournal.org/article/tent-city-america/
IRC is hit and miss with the friendliness. One tip is to make sure you ask properly:

catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
Its not really for stateful services though right?
Intel doesn't do this anymore: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentium_III#Controversy_about_...
Indeed cheeky since wood is not pure carbon, as opposed to diamonds ...
What we have now is only what this dude says, no independent expert has looked at the malware yet.

He used the word "evolve", as if the keylogger changed on its own, but he means he made improved versions of it over time.

The issue here though is that there's a chance they never captured any whatsapp conversations at all and made the whole thing up to incriminate a group of people.
"What is it with “connecting people” and really terrible ideas?"

Hehe, nice framing. I'd say the answer is "power." Collectivising, aggregating and connecting people yields power, new abilities that exist as a product of increased network size.

Yuval Noah Harari (grand narrative historian) identifies this network effect as the defining characteristic of human progress. Increased size of a functional group.

The bottlenecks are travel and (more importantly) communication. To him, the difference between modern palaeolithic sapiens and archaic humans (including archaic sapiens chronospecies) is "fictions:" abstract concepts like kingship, nationhood, religion, law, money and such that allow cooperation between strange individuals. Airplanes yielded similar power.

Increasing cooperative group size and the quality of that cooperation yields power, a lot of it.

Air travel improved group size and quality. You can send a letter, visit or bomb places 1,000 km away within an hour. European ships allowed the subjagation of foreign places, transcontinental trade and centralised global administration.
Ask HN: Learning Kotlin if you don't know Java
I want to learn Kotlin for Android development. I am a competent self-taught Python programmer. I have found a number of on-line and e-book sources about learning Kotlin, but to paraphrase all of the ones I have found say,"Learning Kotlin is simple for someone who already knows Java". Well here is the thing, I don't know Java! Is it really the case that to learn Kotlin I am going to have to learn Java first?!? Does anyone know a good first book for learning Kotlin from scratch?
Good question! In radiation pressure the fact that the charges radiate energy isn’t included, it’s just the change in momentum due to to radiation being absorbed or reflected that produces a force. In radiation reaction the charges are accelerated and decelerated by the electric field of the light. Classical electrodynamics says the electrons must give off em radiation, and so must lose energy in the process, so must be an additional force associated with this emission. Physicists such as Dirac looked at classical radiation reaction in the early 20th century, but I don’t think it’s effect has been observed in the interaction of electrons with light before. At very high electron energies and/or laser intensities the classical description of radiation reaction should break down.
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Seneca was bored and annoyed with life, so he drove his boyfriend up the wall by sending him lots of preachy letters. A lot of people in tech find this highly relatable.
No revenue was made from this blog. Do you resent Pinterest and Tumblr then as well?
> Revenue in the recent period rose 2 percent from a year earlier to $731.6 million, buoyed by data-licensing sales and video advertising.

I understand video advertising and if Twitter turns their attention to this area (after dipping their toes on Vine and Periscope) Youtube and Twitch may get a competitor. Now what does "data-licensing sales" means in this context? User data?
https://www.bipm.org/en/measurement-units/history-si/name-kg...

Love the last paragraph:

The decision of the Republican government may have been politically motivated; after all, these were the same people who condemned Lavoisier to the guillotine. In any case, we are now stuck with the infelicity of a base unit whose name has a "prefix".
You're absolutely right, and it is obvious now I look again. I must have gotten forgetful between reading the article and commenting!
Paying customers for Qt are still very C++/C oriented. Qt goes where the money is, and it seems to be in contracts with large manufacturers and focus in embedded systems, especially the automotive industry, automation and digital television. The QNX and INTEGRITY support is big deal in many industries.
> I think this seems true only because of Microsoft. I cannot recall any other major OS spending so much effort on backward compatibility.

The king of backward compatibility is probably IBM. AFAIK, their mainframe operating systems can run unchanged software from before MS-DOS was born.
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My workaround is not complicated, it's just time consuming. I usually skip years, I went from 6+ to 7+, skipped the 6s, I'm skipping this round of iPhones and possibly the next round too. So it's not something I have to do often.

> Or you consider the step of adding a song to your sync playlist harder than checking for every song manually when changing phones? I find that hard to believe.

I tried briefly. I don't always buy new music when I'm sitting next to my laptop. I usually buy music on my phone, immediately after I've Shazam'ed the track. If I don't remember to add it to the playlist later, then it goes unadded, and the next time I sync the playlist, it'll be gone.

I only get the urge to manage my music playlist when I'm listening to it. I usually don't have my laptop handy when I'm listening to it.

You're not misunderstanding and I'm not making this more complicated than it is. Apple simply refuses to make music library management reliable and easy by allowing me to move files from one phone to another, or by allowing third party apps to manage the music library, necessitating a workaround. It's that simple.

There is only one source of truth for my music library, the actual files on my phone. I don't want two sources of truth to manage, especially one that's in a totally different place from where I do my listening. My music library needs to live in one and only one place. I can accept syncing, but I need to be able to manage the process on my phone.
Amazon to deliver Whole Foods groceries through Prime Now fast delivery program
I know it's not free, but you could do something on Fiverr. If you offer a lot of value for a small price, i'm sure people would love to have you help out.
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I know you're being sarcastic, but for folks who are actually interested, you can request access to the Thread 1.1.1 specification here [1], and you can contribute to Nest's open-source implementation of Thread here [2]

[1] - https://www.threadgroup.org/ThreadSpec
[2] - https://github.com/openthread/openthread
The new brooms fundamentally changed the nature of the game, greatly diminishing the importance of the skill of the thrower and the strength and athleticism of the sweepers.

The cat is now out of the bag. The techniques learned from using directional brooms have now created a completely different style of sweeping, based mainly on manipulating scratches in the ice rather than heating it. Directional fabric broom heads are banned, but the directional sweeping technique they spawned is here to stay. Not everyone in curling is happy about that.

http://www.cbc.ca/sports/olympics/curling/curling-s-broom-co...
Not OP, but I found some interesting information here.

http://kaswell.com/about-us/history-of-woodblock/

Looks like it's good for outside flooring. Actually doesn't look that bad when used for that either, kind of like bricks.

(Actual gallery here http://kaswell.com/gallery/)
Facebook is certainly overpowered and evil with large negative fallout from their behavior.

But "They have more resources and cheap licensing of our content, therefore can sell better than us!" isn't an actionable stance of any worth to combat a particular instance. Tons of productive people can't sell well, and are outpaced by inferior products sold by more effective salespeople/marketers/publishers/etc.

People are leaving YouTube because it's harder to make money now than it used to be. People will be leaving Facebook as well, the next thing will come along, and the cycle repeats.
If you keep going after that, it turns into Dragonforce
Actually the Grateful Dead pioneered this approach. People thought they were crazy giving recordings away.
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I'm running Ubuntu 17.10 on an EliteBook 800 G3. It works great until you try normal things with the docking station, the video drivers freak out. It's kind of random, but always happens when connecting it to the docking station.
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Someone needs to do a same visualisation for wireless pollution in public and private spaces. With bluetooth, smart meters, wifi, emf, mobile phones etc. there is a hidden world that most people are unaware of.
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Nice app, horrible source code: Telegram for Android