skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's what I thought most people would think this would be about, based on the news cycle around this stuff (like leftpad). It's more a reflection on what the collective unconscious thinks about it, than an objective measure of the health of the ecosystem.
IMO, one of the most difficult fingerprinting attacks to defend against is the installed fonts list. I wish incognito mode only made a standardized list of fonts available.
Absolutely the worst news for everybody on the internet!
Curious to know how the intended market for Homepod use/play music. I'd problably buy the Homepod for the audio quality, I don't use Siri. I would open Spotify on one of my macs or iPhone/iPad and Airplay to the Homepod.

I personally cannot imagine myself asking Siri(or alexa/google) to play music because I usually don't know what I want to listen to while working, so I need to find it, visually, play some bits, and then settle on something. Ofcourse, N=1, but that would be my use-case.
iTunes for Windows allows you to Airplay to any Airplay 1.0 compatible device.
https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/artful-amoeba/wonderful...
>it should be possible to link to their content from the outside

But you can link the content, no? (example: https://t.me/dailyeng/1402). You see the full post, you don't have to donwload Telegram for this.
Have you tried goodui.org... this site is an open source a/b testing of peoples UI/UX designs. It shows results of the communities a/b tests. I find it an awesome resource.

rock on!
I think I was clear about my logic: no more monopoly!

Why would you think I'd have to use Allo and G+?
Not sure why this is a "Show HN" post as this is the official VMware govmomi library?

It certainly is worthwhile to look at if you are into VMware and go, but should IMO just have been a normal submission.
In my experience for a simple connection between two hosts a port forwarded over ssh was significantly faster than tinc VPN. Obviously ssh is port forwarding is not a network, but sometimes you don't need a network.
It's not the same as FTP, because FTP is a technology, not a hosted service. Slap an interface, apps, and integration on top of FTP and it's similar.
The entire list of words used on this specific paper. I just copied/pasted from the PDF here.
> Search got the google bug, so that it will change the results in the xx milliseconds while you are pressing enter or clicking.

I only use Windows at work, and my work computer is sufficiently slow that I have not had a problem with that. Maybe it is the version, too, my work laptop runs Windows 7 - and will hopefully continue to do so until Microsoft stops supporting it; as far as Windows goes, Microsoft really nailed it with Windows 7.
(I have to admit, though, I have only very little experience with Windows 10; I really disliked Windows 8/8.1 and the corresponding server versions because Microsoft butchered the UI.)
If your users are complaining that your software is slow, then optimization would not be premature.

Optimization is premature when the cost of creating or managing it outweighs the business benefits it provides.
The Best Prototyping Tools for UX Designers in 2018
I don't think there's much meaningful information to glean from this list. The package at the top is literally just a package.json that installs all the packages published by one particularly prolific npm author, it doesn't have any serious purpose. Many of the other high-ranking packages simply have put their devDependencies in their dependencies, resulting in a bunch of babel plugins and the like (a mistake to be sure, but not indicative of anything in particular about the state of npm package usage).
I think this is a valid critisism given that their selling point has been security, but as a practical matter is WhatsApp's encryption any better?
Remains to be seen if it's only another yes man or not
I still remember this comic strip 16 years after I saw it in the paper.
[random remarks from the internet]

Prototype both...in good faith. Show both to some users and some potential users. Get feedback. Because in terms of business it does not matter what you think. It does not matter what marketing thinks. It matters what users think...and more importantly what they do.

To me and without looking at the details, a separate app makes sense if the goal is primarily to add users who don't use the existing functionality. A single app makes sense if the goal is to expand engagement of existing users.

My general opinion is that a separate app dilutes the brand and increases the technical workload because two apps necessarily have duplicated code.

Good luck.
The goal is to open the inner solar system for human habitation and resourcing. I'm betting there is a robot on the craft, and its aiming for Ceres.

Lets see if the mounting pedestal comes back with enough Iridium to pay for the development and launch of the FH.
Except that's not the reasoning at all. They're saying:

"You might think that A would cause B, but the data doesn't show that. However, it's reasonable to ask if A does have any effects other than B."
This is an interesting study that addresses your distribution points directly.

> 3233 young and old adolescents representative of the population

> For the young adolescents, the observed difference in Mechanical Reasoning is equivalent to 10 IQ points, and this difference increases to 13 IQ points for the old adolescents.

> Beyond the observed small average sex difference in the general factor of intelligence (g), the boys' large advantage in mechanical reasoning (MR) must be strongly underscored. This sex difference is not explained by g, and therefore the probable contributions of what is measured by relevant subtests such as abstract reasoning (AR) or spatial relations (SR) can be excluded. The MR difference is still present with almost the same magnitude when the general factor of intelligence (g) is removed. It is also noteworthy that, for the old adolescents, more than half of the variance associated with numerical reasoning (NR) cannot be attributed to g. Thus, we suggest that mental processes captured by these psychological measures are behind the documented male advantage in STEM disciplines

http://atavisionary.com/study-index/intelligence-psychometri...

An observed standard deviation of sex difference in measures of mechanical reasoning at the average of the distribution.
It took me until the end of part II to understand the book title. Then i think i actually cursed out loud.
But why is that too far to assume a child can be exposed to the same things as an adult, ask the same questions, etc? There's this concept that if a child is exposed to something too early it will corrupt their morality or sensibilities and I just don't see it.
Ask HN: What's your setup to get perfect reading experience?
The Product Management Triangle
Oh yeah, this is very common in game development, and I'm pretty sure in other embedded dev too. There's a famous story about a game programmer who saved an entire production when it started crashing something like two weeks before shipping by commenting one line of code. Turned out the line of code was a malloc (of like a megabyte) that he'd added a year earlier, in anticipation of the game running out of memory. My details are probably wrong, but I'm pretty sure I've seen this story linked on HN.

I was in game dev for a decade, and I saw this happen where I worked, the studio technical director adopted the practice of saving some space, because we always started running out of memory near the deadline as artists threw in all their content.

*edit: http://www.dodgycoder.net/2012/02/coding-tricks-of-game-deve...
You can't see the list of posts. I had in mind something a la Twitter.

But you're right. I'll edit above.
Compared to e.g. KakaoTalk the UX is fairly poor

Edit: To perhaps stem the downvote tide: The impulse for my comment is that OP probably hasn't tried it, even though Telegram and KakaoTalk have similarly sized userbases and the emotion-inspiring stuff in the Telegram client app is mostly a timid knock-off of better Asian messengers (the Telegram team faces the challenging task of slowly acclimatizing Western audiences to features it knows will eventually be popular, by example). The West-centricness of such statements is grating to me.

The reason my comment doesn't substantiate the UX difference further is that I can't think of a single feature or screen that isn't better realized in Kakao's Android app than in Telegram's. General performance, group management, galleries / archive retrieval stuff, cross sharing, search, stickers, etc. It's available with a full English UI, go have a look. (From a privacy/security/freedom POV Kakao is terrible, though.)
He's definitely somewhere in the uncanny valley.
It beats using "your mother" or "your grandmother" as the term for a stupid person.
I wonder what is counted as soda. I've noticed, among my ageing peer group, people are switching en mass to flavored carbonated water (seltzer). Of course, that might just be due to age, but I've also noticed that more store space seems to be dedicated to these beverages, again, might just be because I'm buying them now, thus noticing.
FWIW I'm a fellow UI-grouch, but haven't hated anything about it enough to outweigh everything else I love about it. The funky screen redraw is just a brief thing and doesn't really get in my way.

The only UI thing that makes me scowl so far is that sometimes my pen settings inexplicably get reset.
Poor Ani :(
I would love a large e-Ink screen that I can use with a raspberry to create a low power unobtrusive dashboard somewhere in my living room. But all I can find are < 5 inch screens.
I Accidentally Built a Brogrammer Culture
I will draw immense personal satisfaction from not voting for Mark in 2020.
"but there are lots of restrictions on coordination between the two"

This hasn't been true or enforced.

https://theintercept.com/2016/10/07/both-campaigns-enthusias...
Do they not?

UNOOSA, Treaty on Principles Governing the Activities of States in the Exploration and Use of Outer Space, including the Moon and Other Celestial Bodies, Art. IX [1]:

"States Parties to the Treaty shall pursue
studies of outer space, including the Moon and other celestial bodies, and conduct
exploration of them so as to avoid their harmful contamination..."

Note that State parties are responsible for the actions of their nationals later in the paragraph.

Is the above wrong? I admit to not being a space person.

Edit: [1] http://www.unoosa.org/pdf/publications/STSPACE11E.pdf
Very much so. It uses the Signal Protocol.
I remember when the iPhone came out, and developers saw it as an opportunity to make some money (and possibly some retire now money). I was in that bandwagon and made some decent buy a car money. The apps were overall good quality, and definitely not scammy, IMO. It didn't last though, the big scam type companies with large budgets and big backers took over years ago by winning the race to the bottom. I think that probably bled into the watch platform, and will probably be a problem for any new Apple platform. (I don't own an Apple Watch, so I'm just guessing that's what happened).
I've tried one and was quite impressed, even though it's not a tool that I personally need.
http://datafordemocracy.org/ has a bunch of datascience projects, but also they need general software engineering help.
I disagree. I was unemployed for a few months and I could not get myself to do the things I needed to in order to get the jobs I was interested in. There was so much anxiety associated with this that it triggered avoidance anxiety. What saved me is that studying the things I am naturally drawn to that have a lot of tangential offerings. My advice: find the biggest tree of knowledge that you're interested in and hope that the branches that you can reach will take care of you.
Well I don't put much hope in Mozilla lately - they really seem to have lost direction. We had Persona and they dropped it far too quickly. Then they tried to offload Thunderbird.

To my mind Mozilla should have had, and kept, a set: Firefox, Thunderbird, instant messaging, Persona. Not forgetting Lightning etc.
For the lazy: https://security.stackexchange.com/a/49802/43688
PyO3 is a fork of rust-cpython, which has a nasty abort issue[1] which is unfortunately a show-stopper for me. It isn't clear to me if PyO3 is also affected by this issue.

[1]: https://github.com/dgrunwald/rust-cpython/issues/59
I knew I would click on this thread and see a comment suggesting SSH.

You are right – but SSH is certainly not a network. This technology is useful for folks who need to go down a layer in the stack.
true there was a blog post here recently where the conclusion was that ssh tunnels were much faster (by a factor of 6 or 8) than vpns
I wonder what the avoidance of absolutist words indicates.
Mostly the same feedback, though I’m curious on the performance differences you’re seeing with strongswan.

In my setups, strongswan seems to induce ~25% hit, compared to ~15% with tincd. I’m a noob with strongswan so I’m sure it’s something with my setup.
You're explanation is not less complicated and far from the simplest, a much simpler explanation is clothes are simply cheaper.

Dunno if that's true or not, but I suspect it is just from my experience. "Fast fashion" has really taken off.
> "Censorship" here is a big scary word for very basic common sense parenting: recognizing that kids of different ages, personalities, and emotional maturity are not ready to be exposed to some things.

Though there's the other common-sense side to this, which is recognizing that there are things your kid is going to be exposed to regardless of whether you think they're ready for it (in this case, hearing about sex from their agemates at school). At which point it becomes a choice between introducing it yourself and doing the best you can, or hoping it all works out when you're not involved.
The pale blue dot image gives some sense of scale here. Is it in the orbital plane of Ceres? I too would be interested in seeing the data results. If it's not orbiting on same plane then risks of collision drops further it would seem - would involve a plane intersection at the exact distance from sun Ceres orbit is at same time Ceres is there.
It is possible to embed posts from public channels in web pages. In fact, if your group is public, you can even embed conversations in your web page. Try the announcement link here https://t.me/telegram/83
Diesel cars shut down their emission cleaning when its gets cold. In Germany BMW, Volkswagen had todo a "upgrade" fix but in other countries there wont be a cold weather update.

https://arstechnica.com/cars/2016/06/europes-diesel-cars-may...

https://dieselnet.com/news/2017/08vda.php
>should be continually and consistently discouraged

If you need top security - maybe. If you need features - not. I'd consider using something else if other apps have same features or similar features done better.
Nebula  – container orchestror for IoT devices
Thanks so much for the feedback, as I am still actively working on it, I am working on making the briefs more in depth and adding more details and preferences.
"McGinn declined to discuss the results of his polling at Facebook, saying nondisclosure agreements prevented him from doing so. But he said he decided to leave the company after only six months after coming to believe that Facebook had a negative effect on the world."

I don't think he's a yes man.
At some point, after we start unlocking more secrets of the brain, we're going to understand how some shapes and biological attributes have been instinctively ingrained in our brains.

Then Hollywood will have some scientific basis to proceed from to make some true nightmare fuel that ticks all the right horrible boxes.
I refuse to use Apple Music as well, preferring instead to maintain a library of music local to my iPhone. It's more than unreasonably difficult to manage, it's insane.

Apple refuses to allow you to migrate music tracks from one phone to another. They demand that you re-download them from iTunes. But iTunes as music library management software is utterly unreliable and can't be trusted.

As a result, whenever I buy a new iPhone, I manually make a list of all the music on my current phone, by literally typing out song names and artists into a text editor. Software tools to do this have proven unreliable.

I then, on the new phone, download every single track individually.
I then run down my checklist and make sure that every single track is accounted for.

I've been collecting ideas in my head for a phone music player that allows you to safely store your library externally. I doubt I could ever get it into the App Store, unfortunately, but at least it would fix my personal problem.
how does calling it a drug make it bad? people take drugs all the damn time. i'm drinking a stimulant that my work bought for me right now! almost everyone at the office drinks one or more a day.

i actually used to live down the street from one of the "fight the new drug" offices in SLC. the problem in Utah, imo, is the seriously weak sex ed that they provide in schools here and the shit cultural attitudes towards sex.

the problem isn't porn, the problem is that parents are allowing porn to replace them as educators in this space. obviously that's going to lead to fucked up attitudes unless the young person happens upon some of the more healthy sexy spots on the internet.

if you want censorship, go ahead, but nobody has to make it easy for you. education is going to do a lot more for you tho. my parents tried to censor my access to porn when i was a teenager so i made an isolinux disk (ubuntu + tor) and used it to avoid their keylogging and filtering software.

i was/am mostly into erotic literature and sex positive forums vs other types of pornographic content, but that isn't thanks to my parents. i value intimacy, but finding sexual online places that share my values is difficult. i suppose the economics don't work out for that type of content. i know people who have had issues with porn interfering with their ability to be intimate, but it has never been a problem for me personally.

TL;DR don't be a fucking baby and talk to your kids about sex and physical intimacy. you can't "protect" anyone from pornography, but you can influence your children's attitudes towards these important topics.
Earth has lost half of its wildlife in the past 40 years (2014)
Windows 95 and its immediate successors had a lot of problems regarding stability, memory usage, performance in certain cases, etc. That and the comparison with the NT OS line is a separate discussion however. What is important about Windows 95 was the design of the GUI. At the time, it was a huge leap forward in desktop computing.

Even though I jumped on the Mac OS X bandwagon from the very first moment in 2001 and was happy to leave the Windows world behind, the fact remains that for a few years time in the mid 90s, Microsoft showed a strong ability to design GUIs that were easy to use, relatively consistent, and flexible enough to suit a large array of first and third-party application designs. It's a shame that, IMHO, Windows XP took things in a highly negative direction after that, and Microsoft never fully recovered. With the possible exception of Windows 7, every OS release since XP has been a mishmash of competing ideas and confusing discrepancies, and macOS has continually outpaced Windows in usability.

I still hold out hope that there's a solid future for Windows when it comes to UX/UI design, if only because I want macOS to have real competition on that front.
Porsche to Invest $7.5B in Hybrids, EVs
> We constrain the planet mass fraction to be larger than 0.0001 of the halo mass, which is equivalent to 2,000 objects ranging from Moon to Jupiter mass per main sequence star.

So the paper is saying there there probably aren't more than 2000 planets per star? That seems like a pretty large upper-bound.
I'm not a child psychologist or mental health professional, so I'm not sure what to tell you, except that it seems reasonable to me to think that just maybe exposing kids to certain types of materials before they have the experience, emotional maturity, etc, to process those things can be incredibly damaging. And I really doubt that trying to avoid my 3 year old daughter watching violent pornography is going to harm her, but yeah, I don't have the data. Sometimes you just have to take a leap of faith.
Seriusly? I can’t imagine him running for a president. What he is gonna do there?
Apparently, I didn't get the memo. I always bought Infinity speakers, but someone years ago convinced me Bose was good, so I gave them a try. They weren't.
Please seek professional help as soon as possible! Remember, it will get better.
WhatsApp had a severe vulnerability for groups disclosed not so long ago. Telegram has had no such vulnerabilities as far as I'm aware. This reinforced my impression that HN's mantra that "Telegram's encryption is bad" is more a personality cult to moxie than an informed opinion.
VRBO has been around since 1995. My parents had their vacation condo listed on there for a long time. The reason you don't hear about them is that they weren't controversial with sharing out rooms and didn't invest in pretty design.

I really think they dropped the ball when Airbnb moved into the space
Would love to know more!
Interesting. So what does that mean for logicians and mathematicians?
> Ah yes for the working class, I can see a 99% tax rate would very likely have this effect. I'm still wondering if we stayed in more realistic ranges, is a 40% tax rate, or even a very high 60% tax rate by US standards, a real disincentive to earning more money?

For me, and for people like me, it would be. I work high-paying shit jobs precisely because they pay a lot. The amount of saving I'm able to do in these jobs is life-changing (i.e. FU money after 5-8 years). If most of that money went to taxes, there'd be little point in doing them and I might as well induldge in doing something more satisfying instead.
Why iTunes Isn’t Bloated (2015)
I am glad you mentioned right click. I remember being really pleased with the orthogonality aspect of being able to right click any object.
> The clips tend to be short, low on production value, free and, though Pornhub

True as opened with “tend to be” but such a poor description of Pornhub in an article meant to help parents understand pornography. For example, the company behind Pornhub owns many production companies and paid sites. High production value clips promote those sites as do does the advertising.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/MindGeek

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fabian_Thylmann

http://www.jonronson.com/butterfly.html
Really? You can write FUBAR code in any language, language has nothing to do with this.
Support companies that care for their employees. Turn your back to those that exploit.

I think it's called capitalism.
How Elon Musk Beat Russia's Space Program
> I wish we had a messaging app with a market as large as WhatsApp's, UX as good as Telegram, security as good as Signal, run by an organization like Mozilla.

An open protocol is a prerequisite. There's a 2018 IETF proposal for interoperable E2E messaging, initiated by Cisco, Google, Facebook and Wire:

Architecture: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-omara-mls-architectur...

Protocol: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-barnes-mls-protocol/?...

"Messaging Layer Security (MLS) ... is not intended as a full instant messaging protocol but rather is intended to be embedded in a concrete protocol such as XMPP [RFC3920]. In addition, it does not specify a complete wire encoding, but rather a set of abstract data structures which can then be mapped onto a variety of concrete encodings, such as TLS [I-D.ietf-tls-tls13], CBOR [RFC7049], and JSON [RFC7159]. Implementations which adopt compatible encodings should be able to have some degree of interoperability at the message level, though they may have incompatible identity/authentication infrastructures."
I used to browse with lynx till few years ago. I am not sure if it is practical to do that anymore. Most of the web is no longer friendly for text browsing.