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Zenprivex (ZPX) | Full Stack, Front end and Backend engineers | Bengaluru, India | Full time | Onsite

We are a Singapore and India startup working on blockchain based financial products like Indices and Exchanges. We were recently funded by valley based Milliways Ventures, Singapore based Seedplus and prominent angel investors in India. We are looking to hire engineers who have a passion for exploring and building products on new technologies. Our products are built on Python/Django and ReactJS. If you have built products on these platforms and are excited to be working on blockchain and crypto technology, we would love to work with you.

Please reach out to me firstname at zenprivex.com if you have any questions.
Not so fast:

> https://www.buzzfeed.com/alexkantrowitz/heres-how-much-youre...

> Here's how much Facebook makes per person in each region, extrapolated annually based on the network's third-quarter numbers:

> Worldwide: $16.04

> US $62.60

> Europe: $18.88

> Asia-Pacific: $7.56

> Rest of World: $4.84

Another metric:

> The social network giant, Facebook has a market cap of $227 billion and 1.4 billion users—which makes you worth a whooping $158. https://arkenea.com/blog/big-tech-companies-user-worth/

So for a max. of 10 bucks per month we could get an ad-free, privacy oriented Facebook. With dev. money going to enhance the experience not maximizing revenues of the ad industry.
I think FAKE (https://fake.build/), hits an amazing sweet spot for this: standardized, predictable, with no sacrifice of programming/platform power when dealing with builds.

Project to another, just run "build.fsx" with the desired target -- it will self-download necessary tools and packages -- and you'll get a straightforward standard build. If you want to see the logic, just open it up: build scripts are standard F# scripts

Because you're using first-class scripting you get full language power, full component and package management power, full abstraction power, aided by a set of utility methods and tools. At any point things get hairy you can wrap them into a lib, or a full program, with no domain impedance. It's standard code, as learnable as the rest of the F# proj, no voodoo, no black boxes.

Heck, you can also load your project and use its libraries during the build. I find myself often using FAKE components in my main solutions to take advantage of its interop and publishing...
To me it wasn't the time commitment, it was the deception. Felt like a sweepstakes eventually because they are not upfront, and you give very private information. They know what's up with how it was designed and marketed (headline) and if they don't I humerously question whether they should be doling out AI grants.
Facebook restricts APIs, axes old Instagram platform amidst scandals
Social inertia. Toilet habits are very hard to change due to the taboo-ish nature of the topic, and the social expectation that toilets are more or less the same everywhere you go (at work or school, in restaurants, visiting friends or family, etc.).

Anyone who spent a year is in a country like Japan or South Korea will have experienced that toilet paper is down-right barbaric compared to a jet of warm water appearing at the touch of a button gently rinsing the nether regions. You still use toilet paper, but only two sheets or so to dry up.

But when you go back to a country that uses only toilet paper you either have to go out of your way (and pay a lot of money to renovate your bathroom) to find the kind of modern automated toilet seat that does add the features you've just left behind, or you just do as everyone else does.
That'd be great for anyone who doesn't have access to a washing machine as well.
Was this a sudden shift of several feet on the ground level (because the underlying ground was in tension for years)? Or how does a crack that big form? Is it even as big as the hole? I.e. if we were to measure from two points across the crack - did they move as much as the crack is wide?

Who would own the new land?
How Envato Manages the Competition for Talented Software Engineers
> Makes me wonder how this gets resolved without jumping through the gap to 'perfect' autopilot.

I suspect the unfortunate reality is people die on the journey to improvement. Once we decide this technology has passed a reasonable threshold, it now becomes a case of continual improvement. And as horrible as this sounds this is not new. Consider how much safer cars are than 20 years ago and how many lives modern safety features save. Or go for a drive in a 50 year of sports car and see how safe you feel. And in 50 years we'll look back at today's systems in the same way we look at the days of no seat belts.
Google bug bounty for security exploit that influences search results
Probably best if you ask your assistant to download it and email it across to you so you can open it in lynx locally
I see. The confusion on my part is that they used the term "e-paper" which I've now learned is an umbrella term including e-ink and any other technology that works to electronically replace paper.

Based on cursory research I believe the most important aspect of the LCD used on the Pebble time is that it's a "Memory in Pixel" or "Memory LCD"[1] – a technology specifically built for screens that may show the same thing for a sustained period of time.

Memory in Pixel seems to be a feasible alternative to e-ink if you want a low-power display that tends to show the same thing for extended periods of time. And it would probably work well for the use case of Apple's Touch Bar (assuming you can get a good pixel density with this technology).

[1] https://www.sharpsma.com/sharp-memory-lcd-technology and https://www.sharpsma.com/products?sharpCategory=Memory%20LCD
Wait, all these are protections are useless because someone with root can defeat them? Huh?

These protections should vastly reduce the risks of someone gaining root and make it much harder to do so to a running system with physical access. Or?

Seems to me that it is just as much security theater to pretend that it isn't game over if someone already has root.

edit: and perhaps the (by far?) biggest benefit of lockdown is to make it harder for someone to gain root?
I agree, corncobs work just fine
He might be an asshole, but he's not entirely wrong. I think conservatives tend to be more heartless, but liberals tend to be more apathetic (very generally speaking). Is it worse to not care at all or to care but not enough to actually do anything to change the situation?

Just imagine if every liberal person freely donated some amount that would be taken by the government in plans they can't get passed? We have the power as a people to organize, fund, etc. Maybe conservatives would see the good that these donations do and be impressed to contribute in kind.

I just think we could all do better as a people collectively in every aspect.
I think a leader displaying calmness, confidence and even a sort of levity towards imposing problems or struggles is very valuable even if this may be a practiced behavior or a kind of "performance" (if only in the beginning). In other words, maybe what's most valuable at any given moment is not to have all the answers for everyone in every situation but to exude an attitude which suggests "this too shall pass" and "together we'll figure it out". Over the long-haul it is likely more impactful to foster this environment and to calm those around you so that creative solutions have space to emerge instead of stirring anxiety and fear which may in turn be a hostile environment for collaboration and creativity.

I know this sounds a little idyllic or lofty and you may be thinking "yea except every day there's a problem that could actually kill our startup so I can't just act like everything's ok all the time" and this is where your role becomes uniquely challenging in that every day the sky may actually be falling, you aren't just imagining it- so how can you keep your cool?

I don't claim to know the answer but I have a feeling it involves striking a balance somewhere between being passionate, being personally invested and seeing the startup as a reflection of yourself and then on the other end centering yourself in a place of "detachment from the outcome", reminding yourself that you'll live and that "this is all just information".

I can't say I know fully how to strike that balance but this is the approach I shoot for. I think there's real power in detaching from the outcome of any given arbitrary situation- this gives space for creative solutions, rich contributions and better energy. This doesn't mean you don't care about the "success" of the startup, you can care deeply; it means you do not fear the land mines, the possible missteps because you know that these seemingly scary foes are actually bits of information, encoded information or even opportunities and that you and your team will be wise enough to see them as such and react appropriately where other's may let fear take hold and be blinded.

A book comes to mind, if you haven't already you should check it out: Antifragile by Nassim Nicholas Taleb.

Hope this helps! Remember... you got this!
How is that a strawman? You said "it's a matter of survival" to "defend yourself" and I'm saying that's not really a valid argument for the country in the article.
Drag and drop almost anything into the CLI produce a sensible result. Open command works as if you double clicked the item in Finder, which means it can be used to open directories, launch a program associated with that file etc.

In addition because mac use commad+C, command+V for copy paste rather than ctrl+C and ctrl+V as Linux and Windows, you feel no different working from a CLI than from any other app. You don't have to mentally jump in and out of two different ways of working.

This extends all the way into GUI apps. Typical CLI commands keys work in all mac GUI apps. I can use readline keys such as ctrl+a, ctrl+e for moving the cursor e.g. Works even in office apps like Keynote and Pages.

It is very frustrating to not be able to use these Unix conventions on Linux!!

There are lots of little things like this which makes a superior experience IMHO.
> Also, the cohort that purchases Tesla vehicles may be a lower-risk group of drivers than average.

Yes - that's why I suggest comparing it to modern Audi drivers. Basically any of the BMW/Mercedes/Audi drivers are where Tesla is getting most of its customers. Those companies all have similar albeit less extensive safety systems.
Mark Zuckerberg says he is a ‘power user of the internet’
> Assembling this kit would be much easier (and fun) then starting from scratch.

What is so fun on assembling a kit? The populate-the-PCB is probably the most mind-numbing part of the whole hardware engineering business. Design and debugging is where it's at
I read a fair way down the thread, but Garett and Linus continue to butt heads.

Michael Garett seems to think lockdown without Secure Boot makes no sense. The kernel team seem to disagree.

I didn't get to a point where any resolution was met, but Linus did complain about over 100 emails wasted before a legitimate reason they should be linked came out.
I honestly did. But the descriptions (just like the StackExchange link's replies) are utterly alien to me (squat..? How?) and I haven't found it in me to go on a video hunt (the StackExchange one links to something which supposedly is safe and helpful).
Timeless programming tools
Depends on the type of fingerprinting used. The example I mentioned with the invisible pattern yes but if the fingerprinting is done via other means such as replacing some words on a post with synonyms for each user in such a way that each has a unique combination of words it wouldn't work.

Generally speaking in these scenarios you don't want to grab anything directly from the source, just relay what you saw and write it down in your own words. Even then it has to be handled carefully (how many other people got this information? Are the details I'm seeing slightly incorrect in order to filter out who leaked this?)

Also take into account that you can be caught just by repeated "A/B testing" of sorts: half the population gets informed that at 19:05 some operation is taking place, the other half that the op is taking place at 19:10. The next day they do the same but using different groups, if you have access to the data that is being leaked you can track down who is leaking it like that after a few iterations.
There's a kernel-imposed boundary between being a user and being root. Right now there's also a partial barrier between being root and being the kernel that's fairly easily circumvented. Now that we can protect the on-disk copy of the kernel from root, there's also interest in protecting the in-memory copy of the kernel from root.
You'll be able to afford it with all the free lunches!
Do we really need another crap to replace it? just shut it down.
According to the VL53L0X datasheet:

> During the ranging operation, several VCSEL infrared pulses are emitted, then reflected back by the target object, and detected by the receiving array.

VCSEL is Vertical cavity surface emitting laser. Therefore I would say a pulse laser.
You could use a couple of anchors so that when it only moves 1mm the end attached to the gear would move several meters. Where the gear is really huge which makes the small gear spin faster. But it might still be too slow.
They can't mess up with the private key (at least this is what they say, and we can't verify that as their software is closed source). But they're free to manipulate the public key which is used during the encryption phase.

For Apple as a company, not having access to iMessages is the safest thing to do, and I believe them when they say they can't access them in the current setup and are not willing to change that. It's because this would change their status from hardware/software vendor to telecommunications provider, with all related problems and costs - and they don't need any of these, so the best option is just to shield themselves from any user-to-user communication.
An attacker doesn't have to be in a rush, they can wait for the next time you reboot (by, say, forcing a notification telling you that you need to reboot for security updates)
Don’t you attach a keyboard and monitor for your daily work anyways?

The MBP keyboard buttons aren’t too great for typing all day every day.
over-engineering much
Toilets seats with built in bidets have already been perfected in Japan and South Korea since the nineties. Anyone who suggests the need for computer vision aided complexity has never used one of these. They just work, and you learn to use them properly really fast.
Facebook confirms: Donald trumped Hillary on the social network in 2016 election
Sounds more like you are not familiar enough with using a Mac. Putting two finder windows next to each other is easy, and so is quickly creating a directory.

Finder also supports tree view you know. OTOH does windows have as good filtering tools, smart folders, labels etc?
An article /u/hudibras posted has the answer

In Rome, people cleaned themselves after using a public latrine with a sea sponge lashed to a stick, stored in a bucket of salt water or vinegar. It was considered polite to give the sponge a cursory rinse and a squeeze before putting it back in the bucket to get it ready for the next person.

https://www.farmersalmanac.com/what-did-people-use-before-to...
I wonder what is the penetration of these kind of news outside our bubble here at HN, reddit and the like. I'm wondering the rest 2 billion people (which to a first approximation is probably just about everybody) care about this or are willing to care if few of their techie friends leave facebook. Is there some mathematical model + social science that could estimate the network effects of say, every techie person does leave facebook for good - what would happen to the rest?

Most of my non-techie friends have heard briefly about "some kind of scandal with facebook" but I cannot possibly appeal to them talking about "privacy" or they are stealing and selling your data - "Oh, everybody does that, you can't not use the Internet".
We need grants based on the outcome of the project, not based on what technology is used to achieve it.
Radio Fueled car (1936)
JFYI, C.S.Lewis:

“Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn, my God do you learn.”
This article has the answer;

"In Rome, people cleaned themselves after using a public latrine with a sea sponge lashed to a stick, stored in a bucket of salt water or vinegar. It was considered polite to give the sponge a cursory rinse and a squeeze before putting it back in the bucket to get it ready for the next person."
I definitely agree with that last point. I get the desire to keep the top 100 sites going--I used to be on test for Mozilla, and you really don't want to be the browser that can't view a significant chunk of the web.

But that sort of fear-based commitment to backwards compatibility didn't do Windows any favors. I'd really hate to see it become endemic to the web.
How to Make a SoundBoard Using Raspberry Pi
“It's being the richest country in the world while 13.5% of its population is living below the poverty line,“

I don’t want to get into the political or moral issues, but I just want to point out that this is almost a non sequitur. The USA’s dominance is relative to other countries, but the poverty line is intra-USA. The single poorest person in the USA could be richer than everyone outside it and there could still very well be a poverty line - and people below it - in the USA.
Or the car could regularly ask a question about e.g. the colour of the car behind you.
Switzerland is a third world country (look it up [0]).

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third_World
Ah gotcha, have also been pretty impressed by pypyjs http://pypyjs.org/
Agreed. Plus they seem potentially less dependent on fossil fuels (e.g. producing hydrogen gas is energy-expensive, but it can be done with electricity, whereas airplanes need high-density fuel).
Interesting point, what is the carbon footprint in washing a soiled nappy compared to making and disposing of disposable ones. I don't know, be interesting to see if there is a difference. Thinking for washing them you would need high temperatures and a lot of water.
The Lotus Notes of Amazon
The first online graphic design app mainly focused on product mockups
I think it would make more sense to people who work on a CDN everyday.

This may sound like FUD but I'd strongly encourage people to stop spending too much time on edge or internet explorer. Just do the bare minimum and focus on Chrome/Firefox. It is better for everyone. I am very disappointed that Microsoft decided to bundle edge with Windows showing yet again they don't get it. Microsoft should be able to update edge separately of Windows. Without this, corporate users (pretty much the only reason to support ie/edge) will still be behind the curve for a long time.
Really well done. How long did this take you to build?
Can you do that? In my country they would send extra tax back to you next year.
Glad that it helped you! Thanks for sharing your experience. And what was the thing that did't work out with react-sortable-hoc?
Indeed. If I have to be sober and paying attention when riding in a robot car, I might as well just drive it myself just to keep me from falling asleep. At which point, I'll just not bother with the robot car at all.
The Wikipedia article is very informative also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diaper

From Pampers making big sizes for the child to be dependant until the age of 5, to skin irritation because of diapers. My guess. You just can't expect the same quality of care when people get poorer and poorer in general.
Yeah uh, water is at least fairly easy to reuse and isn't "wasted". My old apartment recycled water on site (one of the first in north america to do it) for the toilets/landscaping. If cities would just put in non potable water lines and make it code for new buildings to use it for toilets and landscaping we'd really reduce how much drinking water is used.
Millenial discovers the framebuffer ... welcome to the planet.
Photos for the crash on 92/880 in September.
What is TID conversion tracking?
For the effect on schizophrenia to explain the people who have difficulty quitting smoking, the population of people who have difficulty quitting smoking would have to be similar in size to (really, smaller than) the population of schizophrenics.

But I would bet that it's much larger.
Must be something about a particular way you are working. I have never experienced this as a problem.

Why would losing focus on one window be a problem?

Why would you need to create all these directories in multiple parts of the tree?

I can't quite comprehend what sort of work flow of work you do which require these things?

Perhaps I don't see it because I use the Finder and Terminal a lot together. I don't use one exclusively for very long periods.

But I am curious what you're workflow is like, because I see a lot of Finder hate, but don't really get what people's problem are, and how they are using Finder which is causing them so much problems.
Make the steering wheel vibrate and beep every few seconds and constantly switch with the driver, like Mercedes is doing with theirs.
I wonder how long it is before actors start selling the rights to use their image after death.
>e.g. we would be terrified of boarding a plane if they were merely statistically more safe than driving

Don't know why you're treating that as a hypothetical. Many people are terrified of flying and it is safer than driving.
I don’t know. Sometimes I’ve difficulty with comprehension. I don’t know how to explain. I thought it was better to ask then to assume. Makes sense?
'octahedral' could mean it has the same symmetries as an octahedron, not necessarily that it's an octahedron.
I can. Once I sat on a sewing pin that someone had dropped on the floor that went through my diaper. Very painful and it's one of my earliest memories.
Has anyone seen a product that was functional, polished, and enjoyable to use that would be capable of replacing Facebook? I haven't. Diaspora, Mastodon, Ello are the only things that I can think of, and none of them come close to matching the basic functionality and the "it just works" factor of Facebook.

Maybe someone should put in some resources to create a polished product and see what happens? It doesn't even have to be some idealistic p2p distributed system or anything like that, just a company who actively works to minimize the data they store and to allow users to control and manage their data effectively.
> be part of a statistics that you can control

well, even if you are in control with your hands on the wheel, you can still get heart (and even die) in a car accident where you have no responsibility at all. Sure you can control your car, but you cannot control others'...

(this is even more obvious from a cyclist point of view)
...because former Facebook executives are authorities on the operation of drugs?
Brings back memories. When I started coding graphical applications, writing directly to the graphic card's memory was the only way I understood. As I didn't know any better I had to recode stuff like line, circle and sprite drawing on my own. It was super slow but a very fun way to get into coding.

Maybe it's just me but I have the impression that drawing arbitrary things on screen has become harder since then.
I see the fact we can now easily trade cpu power for currency to have many more unexpected effects.
Show HN: Mood Climate, sentiment analysis in slack
The US has never signed the Ottawa treaty, banning the use of land mines. The US do however claim to abide by it, outside of the Korean peninsula. The US never signed the treaty on cluster munitions either, which have many of the same humanitarian issues that mines possess.
Can Google replace photographers with an algorithm?