skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Excellent tool. Our organization is AAA compliant with the ADA section 508 (details for anyone who needs them: https://www.section508.gov/content/build/website-accessibili...), and color is a major issue.

One suggestion for designers & developers who need to be ADA-compliant: part of the spec is the level of contrast between different colors. We currently use WebAIM to check our color contrast: https://webaim.org/resources/contrastchecker/

I'd recommend looking at the contrast levels needed to achieve ADA compliance, or any other compliance needed depending on the regulations in various countries, to make it easy for designers & devs.
Every board has this issue, and the UI makes it difficult to follow the discussion. If you're not in it for silly greentext and a half hour (at most) of bantz, I think it's an uphill battle for quality.

It is better than /biz/, though, which is just MLMs and bad crypto advice it seems.
The universe isn’t all causally connected, limited as it is by speed of light and expansion.

So no.
i read it as saying it's for programming projects. And the output of a programming project is code. And you can't use this project if you don't reduce the code of your own (programming) project - in that case you would need a commercial license.
But did anyone ever point at any actual evil that they do? They seem to be rather liberal/progressive on social issues, and quite moderately conservative on economic ones, which doesn't seem too bad.
Yeah, that's when I reached my "oh fuck off" point and stopped reading.
>This is the crux of why I think the concept of privilege is extremely dangerous. You have no idea who I am and I've already stated that I fit some of the demographics that you deem underprivileged. Yet instead of listening to what I had to say (which is a quite simple explanation -- work smart/hard == do good) you fit a very elaborate psychological explanation over my experiences (of which you know nothing about).

It doesn't really matter who you are, it's unlikely that you're immune to bias. I absolutely listened to what you said, it's just orthogonal to the point I made, which is that no matter your experience, how your brain works is probably not unique. You're almost certainly subject to the psychological quirks as everyone else. Do you want me to give your experiences special deference because you come from an underprivileged background? I thought that's explicitly what you were arguing against.

>Do you believe that poor people cannot succeed without help? If the answer is yes, then why would you question someone telling you that's what happened? If the answer is no, then I think you need to reexamine your philosophy as it's fairly dehumanizing to be told that you're not capable of success.

No. And I don't think I've ever said that poor people cannot succeed without help. I've said it's more difficult for poor people to achieve the same success as rich people, all else equal, but I don't see anything dehumanizing about that. I'd ask that you take another look at what I'm actually saying, because you're turning my words into something that they very much aren't.

>Poor people who became wealthy are told they're experience is invalid, an outlier, not useful. Really shouldn't they (we) be the ones that have the most valuable opinion since we've proven it can work?

No. Not at all! For the same reason that I wouldn't ask Jeff Bezos for life advice. Its survivorship bias, plain and simple. For every person with your story, there's someone else who had a similar background, worked just as hard, and isn't successful.

The common explanation for this is that a lot of successful people say that a good things is to take risks. They all have this in common. They took risks. But so did tons of other people who ended up broke or bankrupt or otherwise unsuccessful. Only listening to successful people will result in exactly what you're doing now: thinking that [hard work/risk taking/keeping a strict schedule/buddhist minimalism] is enough to do succeed, ignoring the fact that there are many people who did exactly the same thing who have failed.

Just to be clear, are you arguing that you worked harder/smarter than every person from your hometown who has seen less success than you? Because I'd find that highly unlikely. It certainly wasn't true for me.
She's a tech journalist covering China. She knows WeChat is monitored. This was more of a confirmation of how blatant it is.
> What evidence does Chrome have that my site is insecure

The fact that it is using HTTP, and therefore can be trivially MITMed by anyone controlling any point traversed between you and the client. Communication between the browser and your server is insecure.

Whether that is an important fact to users is a decision users will need to make, but it is a fact.

> 'What could happen' logic would mean disabling all browsers since you could get pwned by using any of them.

Clearly, to the extent that is accurate, that's not the logic at issue since nothing is being disabled here. So, please, stop with the irrelevant strawmen.
Anyone used this?

I'm looking for a solution at home, but I think I'm looking for something a little more interactive, as in an open source style SmartBoard.
>Also understanding the technology that goes behind keeping your identity obfuscated from advertisers even with intense personalization.
A /lot/ of times the issue is one of budget.

It's //really// nice to actually have a budget so you can setup a testing environment and actually validate the things you're about to do to your production environment.
In short: "My toolchain chose to do a thing that is insecure given your (publicly-known) approach to managing your usernames. Now I am exposed to a security vulnerability and it's your fault!"

No! This is the go ecosystem's fault! It was knowable that GitHub managed usernames this way and yet they still chose to introduce this security risk.
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So many of these athletes feel that they are role models and civic leaders, yet they can't so much as balance a budget. Our culture glorifies these guys so much when they are much more like lottery winners than anything else. It doesn't take intelligence to be 6-8 and jump out of a gym.
A better EtherDelta? Making an ERC20 token exchange that doesn't hold tokens
The whole "Koch brothers are teh devil!" seems to be quite an extreme position, if one bothers to read what Koch brothers actually promote.
Fail0verflow hackers found an unpatchable flaw in Nintendo Switch and runs Linux
Are these long-term-thinking executives the same ones who can't see further into the future than the next quarter? You, know, the ones HN is always bitching about?
Big victory for Uber

http://ideas.4brad.com/uber-and-waymo-settle-lawsuit-giant-v...
I'm not sure the distinction is as notable as you're making it. The iPhone as you describe it is perfectly capable of listening to everything you say, it just has to never release control of the mic to the low-power ASIC.

I'm also not sure the article actually indicates what you're saying, it's kind-of vague. For example, it never states that anybody was able to actually program Alexa with a new wake-word, just the possibility of being able to create different signatures that could be used as wake-words. And the description of how they prevent things like the superbowl ad could all be done after Alexa detects the wake-word wakes up the main processor, but before Alexa actually responds to the user. I don't see anything in the article that indicates Alexa can't be using a separate chip dedicated to listening to the wake-word.

To that end, not to long ago a Reddit user claimed that Alexa did have two separate modes it operated in [0]. Which, it is entirely possible they could be lying, but you could always just open the thing up and take a look. But even if it does have a separate chip my previous point about the iPhone still applies, so besides power-usage I don't think it is extremely notable.

[0] https://np.reddit.com/r/Showerthoughts/comments/7m91u9/if_go...
> ...anyone who can keep up decently, seems personable, not stressed by the situation, and manages to leave an imprint is likely a good candidate by this measure.

I'm not sure high stress environment test is a good measure. I've worked with some amazing teammates before that might have been nervous if in such a situation.

>Present a few scenarios and ask the candidate what they think a team lead / manager should do in that situation.

I like this approach.

Regarding the question examples you gave, do you look mostly for how they reason through those situations, and their ability to put themselves in their teammates' / managers' shoes, or do you also have a spectrum of [right --> wrong] answers for those questions.
Cryptocurrencies are a new asset class, it doesn't really make sense to compare them to other assets.

Right now it's mostly used for drugs and money laundering, things which most people aren't interested in.

Eventually there will be a use case for bitcoin that will make a lot more sense than fiat, until then people will continue to be puzzled with cryptocurrencies.
I would suggest that most people who think someone is going to spend their time doing this to get over themselves.

If you are notable, intensely rich, or some other special person...
> and still succeeded massively and then had the money to pour into cleaning up the resulting messes.

And they typically have to pay enormous sums of money to hire the talent required to clean up.

This is large part helps create the bimodal compensation model.
Ha! Silly typo. Thanks for pointing it out.

"Inverse cute law" works as you said as well, it's when you're trying to exfiltrate data but physics conspires against you.
If people were tearing their hair out about internet gambling destroying democracy they would rightly be made fun of.

Internet gambling is discouraged/banned to the extent it threatens the local tax base, nobody cares about gambling addicts.
What's with people recreating religion but making it more sciency this time. Explain the difference between a gnostic god and a sentient/conscious universe.
The lawyers did such a bad job. They bungled the litigation. Now it seems like they have endorsed a strategic option (settlement) that was way too risk averse.

Alphabet had already won the PR war. They had alot to gain by grinding Uber into the dirt. Now Alphabet comes off looking like a paper tiger for a settlement that requires Uber to do very well to have any value. Let's not forget they are a major shareholder in Lyft. I can imagine that Larry Page must not be very happy right now.
Kinda cool - it does the first part based on what I see. It lets you know that they dropped the ball on delivery, but it's still on you to contact customer-service. Probably not a bad thing but I wish it went just a bit further - perhaps opening the chat for me and pre-populating a chat on the clipbooard or something....
> in-house skills to troubleshoot/manage hardware servers

Which costs time, money and opportunity cost. Something that all the "rack and stack" people seem to forget when they compare owning bare-metal servers against managed cloud providers.

The amount of time these "bare-metal" shops waste building and maintaining infrastructure management tools, scaling tools, reporting and monitoring tools is mind boggling. None of this stuff has anything to do with the core business the company actually is in. Opportunity costs here are immense....
Its valuable because of how much money people have put into it. All the ASICs, from the development to patterning to everyone who bought them and all those who pay money to keep them running to mine blocks all constitute an immense amount of capital and time investment in bitcoin that gives others confidence nobody is going to abandon it overnight.

In many ways its more reliable than regular stocks - governments can break businesses up, change the law to make the business less favorable, the company can be bought out, the behavior of a few specific individuals involved can usually wildly swing the consensus valuation, etc.

What I've learned through these years of cryptohype is that it doesn't matter what I think, because I'm not the one throwing billions of dollars at it. People believe bitcoin will make them rich, and thus bitcoins price has gone up absurdly high considering its adoption and usage for its originally stated purpose. Of course, stated and intended purposes can be quite different - I honestly think bitcoin is working out exactly as it was designed and has been architected to do. Its not supposed to change the world and usher in an era of transparent and seamless exchange between all humans anywhere, its just meant to be a pyramid scheme. It has succeeded wildly at that.

Now I don't want to leave bitcoin off in isolation - in practice its just like almost any tech company. You rapidly gain market without a business model or revenue stream, accrue an insanely large userbase, IPO or get bought out, and then either the shareholders or buyer realize there is no way to actually profit off what you did. But it doesn't matter, you ran off wealthy - the same can be said of the bitcoin whales of today. It doesn't matter if bitcoin itself ever actually functions as a currency because everyone in the insider club is already rich.
They also said:

> First and foremost, having a multiple-day spanning downtime is completely unacceptable for a central service like this [...]

Which goes to your last point a bit. It's not a normal occurrence to all universities, but to some. If it was me, I'd turn this thing off repeatedly until the people used it realized it's value and tried to dedicate a bit of manpower to it.
Outside of the SV bubble, the (entirely subjective) impression that I get is that there is much less bleeding-edge/buzzword-based hiring. There's still a fair amount, especially at medium- or small-sized B2B/sales-driven companies without engineering involvement in hiring, but it's much less epidemic.
Rolling release is unstable. You have absolutely no idea if any given update will crash some part of your system, because every variable of the known use cases has not yet been re-tested and certified.

Software and firmware updates from Linux distros have recently bricked modern hardware several times. This should never have happened, because a period of testing is necessary to evaluate whether a given update will cause failures. With rolling release, you update and pray.
If you're operating it in an environment where you need it to be up with multiple 9s or you're losing money, you call Red Hat and pay for a consulting engagement. As an open source piece of software, I think it's significantly harder to keep up with the level of public documentation that MSFT can with some of their products.

They'll provide RH certified packages that have been tested in-depth on certain OSes (not Gentoo), provide someone on-site to make sure you're following their best practices around configuration, upgrade process, etc.

Ceph is a very complex distributed system and it's very difficult (IMO) to nail down what the best practices are around hardware and resources - it depends almost entirely on the workload, and requirements out of it. If you're operating it solely for sequential RGW workloads, it looks _completely_ different than what you'd want for high performance RBD devices.

They do have some documentation online, to the extent that they can: separate networks, 5 MON nodes (to avoid one going down and ruining your day), etc. I just think it's significantly harder given that it's used on such a diverse set of workloads, which is why they are more than happy to sell consulting for this.
I could never find anything actionable in NewRelic. Seems like interesting data, but nothing I could optimize for. Skylight has identified slow performing areas where we've worked on and watched a downward trend.
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Commercial IoT products will be built to work in the world of IoT. If IOTA becomes the standard method of data and value transfer among IoT devices, manufacturers will implement them. Remember, device manufacturers will only include tiny JINN chips in their devices, nothing more.

You would have probably said the same about bluetooth chips when they first came out.
You could try Voat.
There's another comment of mine below that explains it better. The commenter says that they don't see much of a social ill in marketizing attention. I'm asking whether they see much of a social ill in marketizing affection and if so why. I believe the answer would expose some degree of hypocrisy or require them to state that they don't believe dowries are a social ill. It's an analogy to illustrate why (I believe) the commodification of our attention is a social ill.
The problem with your argument is the last 40+ years is +/- 10% of ~22,000. Yes there are highs and lows, but that's not progress that's just how well the economy is that year.

Basically take 22,000 * a function of unemployment rate and the data is flat over time.

PS: Looking at the highest income for a quintile also says very little about it as everyonone is making less than that. You really want the median of the quintile or the average of everyone within that range.
Why Did Wal-Mart Buy a Virtual Reality Startup?
I used to be all about how long my uptime was.

Around a decade ago, I started hating big uptime. "That machine has been up 200 days? WAY past time for a reboot!" In my previous job I implemented a policy of rebooting at least every 6 months, or whenever kernel or glibc/etc updates were done.

This was very effective at ensuring that changes to systems were ALWAYS reflected in boot scripts, etc... Way better than finding out that all sorts of problems existed on a hundred servers during an emergency when power went out, and nobody could remember the change that was made a year or more ago.
Sure, but one could argue that our sanctioned manipulation of fiat currency is similarly based on delusions of simplicity and/or understanding. We still don't seem able to reliably avoid recessions, and no one is predicting the market with any reproducible accuracy.

Perhaps such complex, chaotic systems may be better off sans regulation. Especially something like cryptocurrency, which does not have the same properties as paper fiat, although it is being treated as such.

I personally have less faith in institutions run by humans and bogged down by dated regulations than I do in an instantaneously fluctuating near free market. If you can't trust people to invest in currency because of complexity, what makes you think you can trust them to regulate your money, and make decisions that affect the value of your assets for you?
Startup Uses AI to Spot Lung Cancer Early
Please don't throw the baby out with the bathwater. Yes tons of ICOs are pure junk and unfortunately so are many coins. But there are several innovative and useful cryptocoins out there.

Unfortunately no one is content with a 30% per annum gain so they all decide that they need to invest in scam ICOs that are brand new.
lainchan.org has pretty good programming conversations. More civil and higher quality than any of the other chans I've visited.
Is that the reason you consider it one of the worst UI's you've ever used? To be fair, the UI does tell you that it's showing e.g. "5 of 6" databases next to the connection name. If you click on that text, you get the same Manage Shown Schemas dialog.
My generation was working for a few years when the dotcom bubble happened. Even though I was working for a tech company, most of my peers were not that interested in investing in tech startups. What they were largely interested in was buying property and traditional mutual funds.
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Norway’s Olympic Team Bought 15k Eggs Due to a Google Translate Mistake
Try to make rent in the bay area. If it's easy, you're in the right-hand mode.

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I don't think people want to ban social media, but they do want it to be controlled and subject to regulation in a similar although lesser degree to gambling.
Dude, when I moved to the US from India, I thought every guy in the US had a GF and was getting it regularly. Boy, was I in for a surprise. May be it's all the media/TV/Movies that made me think like that.

At least in SF, I see a lot of single men. I myself have been finding dating hard here (may be because I'm a foreigner), which translates to pretty irregular sex, but my friends in South East Asia are getting laid pretty regularly.
> I would expect that my effort would have at least some positive effect on my starter's income.

> At my work I am doing similar stuff as when I started programming at 12

Given the second comment I'm surprised that you have that expectation and I think it's heavily influenced by your culture.

In the states we don't care about effort at all. We care about outcome.

I think this leads to a huge number of efficiency gains.
Ethereum.

More recently close to no project reached their goal. Yet if we consider the 2017 ICO "batch" we should give them some more time.
Ask HN: Passwordless logins with email / phone based authentication, yay or nay?
I'm going to be developing a new web app soon and I'm strongly considering not having passwords at all.

Just email or phone based login links that set a ~1 year cookie so you don't have to worry about it on a day to day basis. It's the pattern where you get emailed a link, and when you click the link, it sets a JWT with a long expiration time.

Would you be offended by this, or feel good about it?

The only real use case I can think of for not doing this is some people have cookies disabled which means you'd have to login by email every time you start a session, but surely people in that position know what they are getting into it?

With password based logins, the lack of cookies is less of an issue because a password manager would fill out the fields, so it would be very fast to get back in.

On the other hand, the upsides for passwordless logins are pretty huge for most end users.

P.S., My target audience for this project would be developers and people who are generally into computers and the internet.
Here's a few that I remember most:
1.) Desktop - Volume "slider" (since it's really not on Windows) is difficult to adjust, especially to get back to 100% exactly or any other precise volume level (25%, 50%, etc.)

2.) Desktop - mouse slider affecting volume results in a lot of accidental volume changes, especially when using a Trackpad.

3.) iOS - When going back from playback to a list of media on your local server, the list refreshes to the top every time. Very annoying.

4.) iOS - connecting to a Local Server is awkward for pre-saved ones. You have to touch the saved setting and then it just pre-fills the login info without notice instead of connecting immediately. First few times it felt like it was doing nothing, until I realized what it actually did.

5.) iOS - Adjusting brightness/volume during playback by swiping is not precise and too sensitive. Very difficult to get the setting to desired level if it's not extreme and lifting your finger usually results in another change afterward.
Would love to hear HNers' recommendations on subs. I'll start:

https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/

https://www.reddit.com/r/DaystromInstitute/

https://www.reddit.com/r/skeptic/

https://www.reddit.com/r/financialindependence/

https://www.reddit.com/r/DnD/

https://www.reddit.com/r/DIY/

Also, if you're feeling down at any point, https://www.reddit.com/r/babyelephantgifs/ always does the trick.
I stopped reading at "Jason Bournes"... LOL