skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There has been some recent work[1] towards backscatter video (actually from the same lab you linked to). The basic idea is the same as the "great seal bug"[2] except for photodiodes. I say "towards" because much of the work they present is in the form of simulation.

[1] https://homes.cs.washington.edu/~gshyam/Papers/videobackscat...
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Thing_(listening_device)
What about multinationals? What about subsidiaries, like a Brazilian company which is fully owned by a USA company? Who would get the key, Brazil or the USA?
> Why they don't chuck it on iPlayer is beyond me.

Because they would devalue new productions. The more license-payers watch old movies, the less they will watch Top Gear or Strictly or whatever it's supposed to be big now. This would mean less interest in new productions, less stuff sold by BBCWorld (or whatever it's called these days), less money going around... like all companies and organisations, the BBC wants to grow, not to stall.
They should sell it to Hooli. That’ll get Gavin Belson’s goat.
Some of us ladies want things straightforward too. Just saying.
The problem is the absolutes. I have learn that life is not absolutes. It is usually somewhere in the middle. Most of it is heavily dependent on luck.
We need decentralization and a multitude of platforms. A single centralized platform can't scale and no amount of automation can solve that. Human moderators are expensive and won't scale.

Who is going to vet 400,000 hours of video per minute Youtube apparently gets or the volume of posts Facebook gets? It's not practically possible.

Before no one really cared, but as the real world consequences of a centralized platform, surveillance and propaganda become clear the cost to free society becomes too great.

The only half way measure that may work now is to stop hoovering up data, stop trying to make endless correlations and inferences to offer micro targeting. Similarly advertisers can target by location and immediate textual context but micro targeting should be disallowed. With proper legislation this can easily to enforced.
You'll notice that in the HBO Go screen there was an option to subscribe if you don't already have it through your cable plan.
I don't personally care about newcomers all that much, but I was born in California and the housing shortage caused by prop 13 made it impossible for me to stay without severe sacrifices to quality of life compared to what is possible in other states. That I may someday inherit real estate from one of my parents doesn't really change the fact that I need a home to live and raise children in the meantime, while my parents are still alive.

So I left.

Except that I can't help but feel that there is something deeply dysfunctional about a society/culture/place (CA) which makes propagation of the next generation not really possible. And whose children get pushed out in favor of extremely wealthy outsiders. I'm not complaining, I've simply accepted that in order to be able to raise a family, I have to join the long tradition of Americans migrating elsewhere inside of the country in search of a better future.

But it sure as hell isn't how I would have things work if I were designing them from scratch.
HBO Now is a much worse experience than torrents. The navigation is slow, the updates to new episodes are poorly placed under a bunch of clicks, there are ads for other hbo shows over and over (even after I watched every single West world episode they still show me ads about a “new show”), streaming bugs (Although this improved quite a bit).

It wasn’t the price that moved me away from HBONow, it was their lack of convenience compared to a torrent rig.

It ended up being HBO’s design was more for themselves rather than me (“we want to show you ads” vs “you want to watch your shows”). It was still very old in its philosophy of content.

Netflix however is awesome because it’s very UX focused.

Ultimately, I think only OSS/pirate are closest to the use desires.
> Would AV1 have been possible in 1993 when MPEG-1 came out?

No. There weren't enough transistors in the world. I'm not being silly. Something like Av1 happens now because Moore/Dennard allow it to.
codesandbox.io uses Patreon with a 'pay what you want' model and it works pretty well.
Thanks for the feedback! Updating now
It seems to me that neither TLS or DTLS are appropriate transports for DNS. Both are connection oriented transports, with DTLS simply allowing that connection to be lossy.

To maintain the performance of DNS, you'd want a connectionless protocol. Although I'm not sure whether perfect forward security would be possible without adding a round-trip.
Are you planning an Android app? I'd love to try this, but don't have an iOS device.
Damn it..Youtube has already restored the videos. That's unfair. This proves that once you give them the data, it's not your's anymore to control.
Well.. That's the point isn't it? I've never heard about it, and likely only people interested in blockchain stuff has, I would guess.

On that note, are there any mainstream blockchain based sites or apps right now? Would be interesting to know.
Maybe some have that concern. Others of us recognize that it's silly. Also that you can't target weight loss to avoid affecting your boobs. Seems like education is the problem, not gender.
Seems like it's restored now.
If they say Linux, I'm in.
On Demonetization and the YouTube Shooter
Most businesses now do support Amex -- there's been a major shift in the last few years.
It can't delete an automatic or manual backup I've made of all/some of my email.

I think the argument is that you have a way to export and retain emails while there is nothing you can do with messages on FB other than screenshot.
> This makes young people more available to take giant risks with less apprehension (they have less to lose).

Is this a contradiction? How can there be risk if there's nothing to lose?
Zuckerberg’s duel with Congress this week more about reputation than regulation
> Philosophically speaking, the more and more that products are sold with one purpose on a closed platform, the more and more of these products that are going to end up in the junk yards when they can't be extended or repurposed beyond what the manufacturer wanted (or ever thought) possible.

This doesn't have to be the case, though. There's nothing stopping FreedomBox from selling a pre-made hardware solution that just has the software loaded on it that anyone can load onto a vanilla server of their choosing. (And it seems they actually do this, though it's not obvious from their website.)
Mobike in China are on about their 10th version of their bikes. The very latest one seems to be a massive improvement on their earlier ones so far, so it seems they are getting there.
Most of their money has been coming from VCs so far...
That too!!
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I am replying to this because it is a question I have as well. Stripe employees - I know the Atlas page discusses the reasoning behind a C corp a bit, but I think it would be beneficial to elaborate on why it is preferable over an LLC. It’s also worth noting that the Atlas website mentions support for LLCs and other business types later down the line. Any timeline on this?

As I imagine the OP of this comment is, I am a US citizen who was primarily interested in Atlas because it seems like the most painless solution.
The way we regulate self-driving cars is broken–here’s how to fix it
There was a science fiction story about a society where privacy was completely impossible because air everywhere was permeated by nanoscale cameras that recorded everything everywhere from all perspectives at all times. Looks like we are approaching that future.
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2027

http://www.osnews.com/story/24954/US_Patent_Expiration_for_M...
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>In the United States, race is inextricably bound up in economic outcomes. To pretend that race is separable from a person's experience here is intellectually negligent

Race is inextricably bound up in economic outcomes, but the author appears to be more than just acknowledging it - Peter Temin, the cisgendered white male boomer, is using it as a scapegoat for other, larger structural causes of poverty - namely the power and wealth of the 1%.

The "top 20%" (e.g. programmers like us) also appears to be another scapegoat stand in.

Asserting that programmers were the ones actively keeping the minimum wage down "just because we're white", using a thin veneer of academic legitimacy, is way worse than just intellectual negligence: it's class war.
Totally! We just felt that women have way more options than guys who just want to lose a couple of pounds.
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> For Netflix, I have a subscription. But guess what I do when I want to watch the latest Walking Dead or Game of Thrones. I want it convenient, preferably legal, but most of all convenient.

What is inconvenient about subscribing to HBO Now? You have to do more work to find/download an episode of GoT compared to streaming via HBO Now. Or you could stream the episodes from Prime. Same with Walking Dead. There are rarely inconvenient streaming options.
Show HN: Lightweight Requirements Management for Windows, Linux and Mac
It lets us correlate their calendars with our own.
Luc Trudeau, who wrote most of the deeper technical papers and specifications on CfL at Xiph, has a real gift too. I'm riding his technical prose in this post.
If you liked my update, you'll like his papers linked in 'Additional Resources'. They're some of the best and clearest technical documents I've ever read.
I am a Linux user and I am struggling to set up a home network between 3 computers. Okay, I am a part time Linux user, I have to use Windows for work. Havings said that I do work in IT so am definitely not an end user. My Samba installation somehow didn't work, VNC also didn't work and eventually I just used SSH. One of these days I am going to have to sit down with my router manual and set static IP address for machine as I use as the "server". I solve enough problems at work and I just don't feel like learning Samba to set up my home network. If I feel like this I can imagine how the "normal" user feels.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16792961
I like the focus of this piece, but I think it conflates "technology startup" with "product company" too much. There are so many great SaaS companies that don't need VC money, that also don't need so much customization. Why not start one of those instead?

Much more scalable, as defined in the piece, and also less capital intensive, less fragile, and low stakes (since so much of fixed income is in people's salaries — a lot of stress from feeding real people)
Unless your Goldman Sachs https://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/news/goldman-sac...

Ok, one of the major points was that the email had yet to be opened/downloaded but still that email disappeared from an inbox.
> First, you should still use a UNIQUE column, that prevents the most urgent collision issues.

Right, of course. I was using the UNIQUE/PK columns. When I said collision, I did mean that db threw errors on duplicates. Which is, of course, expected.

> You can also replace the random part with a Node ID

What is a "Node ID"?

Thanks!
Will there be another kickstarter in the future for Windows 11?

EDIT: From the KS page, "A Word to Mac Users"
This does not lead me to believe it's going to be something like an SDL2 port but a one off port. I hope I can be proven wrong.

EDIT2: Another World/Flashback was ported a while ago, but that was built on a VM, which is very cool: http://fabiensanglard.net/anotherWorld_code_review/index.php
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Ask HN: Did adding a payment system subject you to blackhat hacking attempts?
I run a small web app that makes a little bit of money through ads.

People commonly give the advice that you should ask your users for payments if you want to keep your web app alive.

I do not know if people will pay for this app, but recently, I decided that I would add some for-pay features to my app.

I mentioned my decision to a friend. He said "Aren't you concerned that accepting payments may open your site up to attackers or abuse?" I pressed him, but he couldn't come up with a reason for asking. This idea had not occurred to me.

So, I'm asking you, people of HN: is my friend just paranoid? Have you heard about something bad happening to a website or app after payments were added? Do you have experience with this problem, or was it never a problem for you?
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The next two will be on the Constrained Directional Enhancement Filter and the Daala Entropy Coder, which AV1 adopted as it EC system. Beyond that, there will be several more though I've not yet planned out a specific order.
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The title is a perfect mash of subjects. FB bashing, a few shots at YT's monetization policy, and a blockchain alternative to replace them. This is a trifecta for drive-by voters - even if it is pure clickbait.
All of these "alternatives" suck. Whether you believe in censorship or not (I don't), building a no-censorship alternative to a major media platform mostly attracts the people who were censored because of truly abhorrent content. Gab and voat suck because 90% of the content is extremist bullshit.

The development community needs to stop building "alternatives", with the hope that they become the next big thing, and go back to building things that we want to use ourselves.
i would talk to your family (significant other/kids) first before you make any moves, not a bunch of people on a tech forum. remember that whatever you do will affect your family first. so if you fail, you better come to the realization that you could lose your family if things go south.

i'm not trying to tell you what to do or scare you... follow your dreams if that's what you want to do, it's your life. just look at the WHOLE picture first, both achievements and consequences that your decisions will bring. a wise man told me, "you can do anything in life if you are willing to accept the consequences".

remember that your family are the ones that will have to go on this journey with you, for good or for bad, the people on this forum aren't going to be there if things go south no matter what they might want you to believe.
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> Which means that your old iPhone goes to someone else rather than the landfill…

Your Android phone will too, you will just be paid less for it.

> Technically superior in what way?

Bigger screen with better resolution,

better camera,

faster UI,

NFC,

wireless charging,

USB-C with fastcharge,

longer battery life,

expandable storage,

and most important, possibility to install a decent web browser instead of having to rely on app for every website you visit :)
tried to check out your website www.callindra.com it doesn't go anywhere. Do you have a current website?
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The features you list sound like something that should be implemented by an email client not an email host. I realize they have their own client, but that is really just a means to an end as it is obviously not their core business.

On top of that, it sounds like you really want something other than email.
The Top 5 Dangerous Assumptions Embedded Software Engineers Make – Design News
I thought this was commonly known?
I feel compelled to write every time 2048 comes up: 2048 is a shameless rip-off of another game called "Threes" which came out just before it. "Threes" is more or less a game-design masterpiece, far superior in every way (graphics, sound, design, gameplay, you name it) to 2048. The reason 2048 is more popular is that it was a free clone of Threes!, and people refuse to pay even a little bit of money on mobile platforms for games.

This is nothing against this article, of course, which is an excellent write-up. But: if you like 2048, you'll like Threes better, and the creators of Threes deserves to be rewarded for coming up with the design.
Doesn't all this come back to "it's better until it has to play within the confines of the system"? I see so many articles about X disrupting Y, but if Y is operating within the confines of the law, half the reasons people are saying X is better are moot as soon X comes in line with Y.

WRT to the article - YouTube may have clamped down on blockchain ads and extremist content, but what happens when DTube (or whoever) starting getting in to hot-water relating to the content, or the ads they're showing. Or someone decides to go hard about cryptocurrencies and taxes and they get caught up. Then it's just another YouTube without as many users.

All that said, I applaud anyone that tries to compete against a monopoly. Just think the odds are very much against them.
Yes absolutely. hopefully by the summer
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tl;dr:

No redhshift, clickhouse or bigquery. Use citus extensions for postgreSQL - HyperLogLog (HLL)and TopN - to handle billions of searchers per day across thousands of customers. Data pipelines are written in 'GO', run on GKE/K8S for orchestration using Google Pub/Sub for communication across services.
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If Tesla is production limited, shouldn't they just raise their prices? Or am I missing something.
in a nutshell lol
Yes. We still have internal investment is many pieces of Daala that didn't get adopted in AV1. I don't know the liklihood that Daala will rise again as a standalone codec project... possible, wouldn't bet on it.
Patreon works only for artists in a few countries. The point of cryptocurrency is to be inclusive; anyone in anywhere can benefit from it.
Ask HN: Which messenger do you use on your phone?
Note the phrase 'at our stores' in the preceding sentence. We don't know whether it's a couple of stores or a supermarket chain, but either way, it is likely that someone knows within any given enterprise.
> “How did you hear about me?”

Hacker News

> “I don’t understand that. I’m getting on the subway - give me an hour!”

While paraphrased, the above conversation is essentially the extent of my conversation with Lyle. I would really recommend removing dialogue from the bot that makes it seem like a real person. I know your app didn’t just get on the subway.
That was to subscribe to HBO from your cable provider if/when they decided to offer HBO GO, the streaming service.

When this comic came out(2011) HBO Now (confusingly separate from HBO Go) did not exist.
“Really? You don’t see why FB may post a decline in users, after all the pushback they’re getting? Why Twitter might enter a spiral soon? These just seem impossible to you?”

Not really sadly. I’ve been monitoring the App Store rankings through out all of the recent scandals. The only time the top 10 changed recently was due to March madness and that golf tournament thing. The main apps in the top 5 have remained social right through out.

Even in the social category, I didn’t see signal or any privacy related apps make it into the top
50.

I also bet that large portions of the public don’t even know Facebook own Instagram and it’s growing like crazy. Same with WhatsApp.

I can also see a scenario where any regulation that does occur, short of breaking up Facebook or google, benefits the incumbents. I don’t think they are gonna be broken up in the USA anyway due to the way anti trust law is written.
Nitpick: AVI doesn’t support B frames without ugly hacks. This was one of the main motivations to switch to mkv.
Yeah, I guess I more meant "grow up with the internet". Or, really, "grow up with services that goad you into oversharing a curated look into your life". I grew up with computers (well, first one around age 8), and hung out on local BBSes until the web came around, but even by then the worst social problems seemed to come from spending too much time chatting online and not enough time interacting with real people or playing outside.

I think really the point is when people started growing up with Facebook. Given that FB has been around for 14 years now, there's a good chunk of people who are even in their 20s now who were introduced to FB as soon as they were old enough for their parents to let them have an account. Instagram came 6 years later, when some of these people were in their teens. A lot of social behavior gets hammered out in those years and growing up with FB/Instagram/etc. rather than being introduced to them post-adolescence might make difference.
My particular pain point is how to have a Stripe account living in an unsupported country (Brazil).

Is Stripe Atlas the best solution?

I am starting two very modest side business intending to sell to international customers (mostly US+Canada initially). One SaaS and one content membership.

Any ideas?
I'm from Argentina. Are you a non-EU citizen? Some country with better relationships?
Is it related to “regression to the mean?”
I was in same situation and i ended up starting something in my own. Not profitable but i am enjoying the experience. Think hard if you will regret not taking a chance with yourself or will you regret leaving cushy job more when you are on deathbed.
IRC, and matrix. I use trillian5 with a custom skin as the client on my laptop, and riot on my phone.
"When" can be conditional too :)
Yeah, poor Germany, producing only 40 terawatt-hours per year using solar and 90 using wind: https://energytransition.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/non-...
They say "Good artists copy, great artists steal". :-)
I'm not sure whether it's true or not. Just saying...
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My dad and probably your “normal” relatives probably don’t care what Woz thinks. I stopped using Facebook, but nobody else I know actually cares. I’m in anecdote-land, I know, but honestly, the general public is addicted to Facebook. This isn’t a MySpace analog — MySpace was a playground of the fickle young. Once Aunt Edna is on Facebook, it’s going to be hard to dethrone. Aunt Edna was never on MySpace, so it was much easier for that platform to crash.

It’s also sad and hilarious to me that people have said they’ll stop using Facebook, instead they’ll use WhatsApp or Instagram. Same horse, different fleas.
Most likely the second, because when the media jump on their next topic the average user will switch back to apathy.
I think that's the important insight behind the success of ZMQ. Pieter Hintjens understood that a software library had a social as well as a technical context. ZMQ was built to be a delight to work with, not just a technical achievement. I have lots of respect for Sústrik, but I get the impression that he's willing to sacrifice everything else to have the right implementation.

Really, I think it takes both a Hintjens and a Sústrik to make something great. (Or a Lennon and a McCartney, a Jobs and a Wosniack, a Rodgers and a Hart.) There's a tension between giving people something with integrity, and giving people something they'll love.
It's not a "shameless rip-off".
> which is turned off by default.

Defaults matter.

- Most non-technical users won't know of this setting, and thus be unprotected.

- The consequence of forgetting to enable this setting is severe (forget it even once, and you risk leaking a secret for eavesdroppers).

- When security is optional, having security enabled is suspicious. When everyone has security enabled all the time, an attacker can't know whether someone is sending secrets or cat pictures.

This is why we're currently seeing a push towards encrypted by default everywhere. Not because everything needs encryption, but because then there's no risk of forgetting.
Absolutely cursed image.

(Also, I'd argue that's not a cycle since it doesn't return to earlier in the tree.)