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Ask HN: Need your opinion for my app
Hi guys,
I started development of college roommate matching service, you can check it on https://www.meetroomie.com.

It's work in progress and still buggy, i am looking for your feedback on what i have done so far and what do you think i should do next?

You can send your feedback at meetroomie [at] gmail.com or leave comment here. Thank you
Regardless of who goes to jail and why, I can only figure on three possible activities for convicts -

1) Rot in their cells.
2) "Busywork" i.e. stuff that resembles work but has no value other than occupying convicts' time.
3) Economically useful work.

The economic / social case against option 3 is pretty strong - I remember analyses of the economic collapse of the USSR blamed convict labor among other things - except that options 1 and 2 have strong downsides as well. Not just for convicts, but the COs and prison staff as well.
Ask HN: Paid Quora for Calls and Emails?
Hi,

I'm working on a side project on which I'd love to hear your opinion on before it's ready. I'd describe it as a paid and private (optionally public) Quora for calls (transcriptions) and emails.

The goal is to create a platform where anyone can sign up and create their profile using FaceBook/LinkedIn and other users can request for appointments for call or email. The catch is, the user pays to "connect" with the expert directly (call rates depending on duration/fixed price for emails etc).

My intention for use-cases are people connecting with consultants, high-profile individuals, subject matter experts, freelance tutors. Sometimes even startups wanting to get the busy time of journalists to pitch them something (journalists can now get paid to read emails from them or take their calls if they're spending time)!

At the same time, transcription of calls, and email copies will keep accumulating in the platform for user to refer to, and be used to create a public/private knowledge-base.

Any thoughts?
_Man, your comment comes across as pretty classist._

Yes, when someone is trying to set a "class" of standards, they are being classist. In this case, it's a standard that requires not holding down the shift key, so it's hardly exclusive.
I have to say: I feel pretty helpless that I can’t force them to give me that data although the EU-laws require them to give it to me (as a German).

My search history and Likes are clearly data that can be associated with me as a person and thus, fall under former EU data protection laws and for sure under the GDPR.
With hacking, data security, and privacy as huge issues in the press, the CTO Think crew discusses how we approach identity management on both products and across our teams.
>You posted a video wherein the tester simply sequentially opens and closes a series of apps on a Samsung and Apple device seeing which will run through the sequence faster...and the Samsung was a bit slower.

Certain apps were slower to load on the Samsung device. Additionally, the Samsung device encoded the 4K siginificantly video faster and took round 1 by 14 seconds and round 2 by 16 seconds.

>In theory it makes me wonder if iphone's storage is slightly faster than the latest galaxy or if the process by which one loads an iphone app is slightly faster/more efficient than the one by which an android app is loaded or if the tiny selection of apps the reviewer picked are just better optimized for iphone. Nobody smoked anyone and nothing of note was learned by anyone. So much so that I wonder why you bothered to watch said link or paste it here.

The iPhone X has faster storage and a significantly faster SoC. A 30 second win by the Samsung phone is what I could call getting smoked.

>I said half an OS because its built on technologies like linux and java not because its half assed even though it is.

And iOS is was a decedent of MacOS which itself is a decedent of NeXTSTEP. It also uses a language 11 years older than Java. So it sounds like iOS also meets your criteria of being "half assed".
Tesla is withdrawing from an agreement with the NTSB concerning the fatal crash
How to Raise Children?
The one true Bitcoin
We run a primary care clinic. The specific type of clinic we run is called "direct primary care". There are around 800 clinics like ours in the United States but the service is generally catered to the wealthy. For more details about the scope of practice you can read the following link.[0] When we cannot provide a service in house we usually help someone navigate the medical system. There is a lot of information asymmetry when dealing with healthcare and we help even that out for our clients. We also partner with other companies to get reduced prices on imaging, labs, and other services.

I don't believe you can run an entire hospital on this model. Hospitals/insurance are best suited for unpredictable events. Our model is great for chronic and predictable events.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Primary_care_physician#Scope_o...
A nimble supply chain, or "just in time" as they call it, is a hack large companies use to shift quantities from one column of their quarterly reports to another that the stock market looks more favourably upon. Analysts can't very well quantify the risk of a JIT supply chain but they know cash flow over finished goods.
> Arduino, ESP286, ESP32, <pick your own flavour>.

Both the Arduino libs and Espressif SDK are fairly big chunks of code.

Yes, you can program AVRs without libs too, but you did specifically say Arduino. It is also my understanding that ESPs are both bit obscure and fairly complex beasts to be managed without SDK.

While there are still some nice cases of simplicity in the embedded world, the complexity and layers of libraries and frameworks model is encroaching there too.
Couldn't they use that fancy LCD screen to show what the autopilot sees (or an approximation of it) for the next 150 feet or so? At least then you'd know if you were about to plow into a barrier.
Nice bit of literature reference there. The interesting thing about moral frameworks is there are so many to choose from.

Throughout history we have been known to send our sons and daughters to die in large numbers to first gain, and then protect, basic freedoms. And for other, less honourable, reasons as well...

Returning back to science, a utilitarian could easily make the case that, if it is impossible to avoid, being cruel to bird for the sake of humanity may be a tradeoff worth making.
Why would previous versions of Python3 (e.g., 3.5, 3.6) not perform as well as 2.7? What about Python3 makes it slower? Is it a language design issue?

We’re in the process of migrating several keras/TensorFlow-based projects to 3.6, and I’m struggling to get my emacs environment setup to handle Python 2 and 3 code simultaneously.
Which may enable new technologies that weren't cost effective before.

Or some other technologies will replace the materials used, rendering the new deposits useless, from a cost-based perspective.
Then again, a single phone call in or out of prison is super expensive and so are various fees. And it is not like medical care in prison counted much.

And more importantly, it skews incentives and market.
I suppose when I send a text I am using a text editor of sorts
How does it work? Machine-learning I assume, but what kind?
why do you think that?
You downloaded the information Facebook shared with you when you asked for the information they have on you.

Tracking cookies, personal profiling, and several other trails would probably never be exposed.
I have tried desperately to use technology to help me use technology less. I love my smartphone and Facebook and YouTube, I just don't want to spend all day on them. I have implemented some crude solutions already and they certainly help. For example, my PC shuts down automatically at midnight thanks to a cronjob. I also have a plug socket that turns off my router every night at midnight. I have a number of chrome plugins installed to help me use social media less. However, because none of these solutions are in-built they are not ideal - I can bypass them or they stop me doing work when I need to do it.

I want my phone to nudge me if it thinks I'm spending too long on certain apps. I want reddit to stop loading if I've spent more than an hour on it that day. I want to be able to bypass these limitations if I strictly need to (for example, "You've spent 1 hour on reddit already today, click here to pay $0.10 for another 15 minutes). Just in the way that technology can be fine-tuned to grab your attention, I know that it can be designed to help you get the most out of your time. I really would pay $10 / month for a version of YouTube or Chrome that had these features. If anyone knows of solutions like this please let me know.
Care to share some wisdom and protips? If not in a public comment can i bother you privately?
Who Shapes the Open Web – An interactive dashboard to explore W3C membership
Weekly Command: jumping directories with z
* High speed rail across the whole country

* Other forms of public transport

* Green energy infrastructure - wind/solar farms and the smart grids to support them

* Fixing roads, bridges and dams (all currently neglected).

* Building community centers and schools

* Caring for the elderly and infirm

There's a curiously high number of people who declare the jobs program that built LAX an obvious example of make work yet defend silicon vallley's silly startups and bitcoin mining (the purest example of make work) as "socially" useful merely because they were funded with private dollars.
At some point some enterprising youts figured out how to scrape public records databases and re-sell the information. It's hardly illegal.

It only got into illegal(ish) territory when they started gaming SEO to shame individuals with criminal records (so your mugshot was the first thing that came up on searches), charging money to de-prioritize those results, and not necessarily following through.
https://www.wired.com/story/reddit-redesign/

This one at least has some screenshots of the new design. It feels like a Facebook clone to me. In particular it looks like they're flattening comments to be like FB rather than the thread? model that Reddit has today.
Sure, but the underlying question is why are italics okay and not capitals. Arn't they both means to the same end, communication of emphasis? I understand no one want's to be yelled at, and it's a turn off in conversation, but arn't these just different methods of communicating the same thing? See my comment below for more.
For the purposes of being a Veblen good, yes.
The internet will be very different if the whole ad tech industry disappears. It will be driven largely by subscription, but I believe that is the model that Apple is encouraging.
Dribbble CEO Zack Onisko on building a business around community
Forget Congress. Facebook’s real problem is in Europe
Ask HN: How have you dealt with a team that is afraid of refactoring?
When in a position where your company culture embraces code quality, TDD, and other best practices, but some team members seem afraid to refactor in case of breakages, how have you approached shifting the team towards continuous improvement?

As I am fairly new on the team, my approach has been to add more and better unit tests, and slowly improve the code via small refactors, and let the results show themselves. This seems like a very long game to play, however, and I'm not sure if it will succeed.
The lady who pronounces things for Duolingo is a native speaker. The issue with Irish is that most learners, including teachers, pronounce it horribly wrong. They're never exposed to native speakers os they just substitute English sounds in.

That said, DL's Irish course is useless for anything except a little vocab. There's tons of incorrect answers, or things that only work in certain situations, or direct translations from English nobody would say, or things that are mistranslated, etc etc.
There's no need to fix that law. The woman in that case was severely burned by a coffee cup that was scaldingly hot[1], and the McDonalds location knew that but didn't care. The law worked as intended: McDonalds implemented safety protocols to prevent similar injuries in the future.

[1] She suffered third degree burns and required months of skin grafts.

Contrast this with Tylenol, which when confronted with the sales of tampered bottles, launched a PR campaign that is still widely regarded as the only proper way to address a safety crisis. In a nutshell: (1) don't blame the victims, (2) take full responsibility to fix things even if it's not your fault, and (3) carry out that plan to fix things.
This is awesome. But it is still impractical. The researchers knee deep in this already have to fight for the computing power and data access (and error checking of all of that) for years to get anything meaningful to come out. It's just not as simple as "publish the data". I'm willing to be proved wrong on this, but it's a lot like saying: here's an iOS IDE and a server, recreate Whatsapp. It's impractical for many reasons, but I'll definitely give that with enough resources (money/time/brainpower/data access) it is not impossible.
If you've directly provided Facebook with some information, you could have recorded this at the time, so their telling you they know that is something you could have figured out for yourself as it's no more than a reminder of what you've already told them. If that's all the law requires them to do then it either needs to be repealed as it's practically toothless, or amended so that they're obliged to tell you more.
So, you're saying, that I can't say that these devices are spying on me, by sending all the sounds in my home, into Amazon's servers.

Why? Because, so many people have already said it. And it adds nothing further to the conversation. And that if I don't want it, then I can just avoid using it.

I didn't say what I said, to prevent people that want to use Alexa, from using it. I just said, that I didn't see a point of the home speakers, when you have a smart phone with you at all times.

But then, the alternative, is that if nobody says anything, then this will give Amazon justification, that no one is opposed to Alexa.
It seems like these would be more prevalent, at least partial "rings". With how large space is, I'd assume there has to be something SUPER bright behind tons SUPER massive objects/clusters/whatever.

I guess we just aren't always lined up with them?
This largely depends on the language.

More complex languages, yes, but for languages like swedish/norwegian/danish where there is very little grammar, I find it's much easier to progress within the limits of their program.
Maybe because they're using Medium, and Medium doesn't have that option.

Why the biggest newspaper in America can't run their own hosted blog is a bigger question.
It's ML ofc, pattern recognition algorithms in a nutshell.
You can make a statement, you just can't leak information from the investigation to the public. They could have talked broadly about autopilot and what you should and shouldn't do without divulging the details of this specific case.
Maybe. This is something that we'll have to figure out later.
Slavery was much worst, realistically. Forced labor is bad, but the comparison is whitewashing conditions under which slaves lived.
Where does it say that it doesn't track students on that page?

The G Suite for Education Privacy Notice [1] clearly states that Google collects device information, unique device identifiers, mobile network information (including phone number of the user). Also logged are IP addresses, location information, and app usage using unique application numbers.

Even if this information is detached from individual accounts and aggregated, it equals a phenomenal amount of data captured by Google on millions of students in the US.

[1] https://gsuite.google.com/terms/education_privacy.html
The Hubris of Biohacking
I think it's making or going to make a come back because people do appreciate the sounds of the environment.

For example this famous recent action sport movie / advert has just the sound design, no music: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NHrwcQQ38bA

It is sound design obviously, but it's interesting that they put that much energy into recreating the feeling of being there through the audio without music.

I feel there is a trend of these videos with just sound design or raw sound, rather than the usual epic music.
If I can offer a suggestion. If you have android then I'd recommend you switch your browser to firefox and follow these steps (not sure if iOS has firefox, or if it does, if these steps will work on it):

1. download uBlock origin for it (yep, same add on, works in android firefox)

2. browse to reddit, an interstitial should pop up nagging you to use the app.

3. open up the menu and select uBlock origin at the bottom, select the eye dropper tool.

4. click on the div that is dimming all the content, this should give you an option to filter it out, uBlock will give you a list of parent elements you can add to the filter instead. In this case the one you are looking for is .DualPartInterstitial. You can verify with the preview button.

This will commit this div to your personal filter list.

If you frequent sites with these types of nags, this process will let you manually dismiss them until they redesign. Ideally they would respect your preferences themselves, but they never do.
FWIW: Generally, if you feel like that, AFAIK, you should flag it and let moderators handle it, not accuse them of trolling.
Accessing Facebook through a Chrome/Chromium browser on an Android device allows you to make an app on your homescreen that's not nearly as invasive as the mobile app. That being said, the main difference will be improved battery life and less background processes running, as they'll gather most of your data from your friends on the receiving end of texts/calls/etc who are using the mobile app.
Obviously I put in an email address that I control.
Or option 4, don't maintain a massive prison population. This combined with policies that encourage (demand even) spending the time focused on rehabilitation (so that's job training etc) and keeping convicts inside for as little time as possible. No slave underclass eating your economy, far less stress on staffs, more skilled laborers in general. Everyone wins when society distances itself from the archaic punitive system of justice.
I don’t know. Back in the day, I occasionally spammed the F5 key eagerly awaiting new replies in forums.
Probably migration existed first, but those with the ability to see the magnetic field were much more successful at migrating, probably due to expending less energy during.
Also very true. Unfortunately this data is dirty, context dependent, or plain missing. This is true of pretty much any "real" experiment.
Can't tracking just move to the servers if it becomes too hard on the clients?
We created a number of business applications that used earlier versions of EdgeDB. The list of companies we worked with is on our magic.io page :)
GBA was the very last of the "old-fashioned" consoles, and as such one of the best targets for homebrew.
Sure, but I would expect the logs to have more information than just the boolean "are there hands?", e.g. maybe containing the actual sensor data that was used to determine if there were hands.

The car should be conservative about the threshold it uses for the sensors in determining if there are hands (because it would rather err on the side of telling someone to put their hands back on, than err on the side of thinking someone has their hands on when they don't), but engineers analyzing the logs after a crash wouldn't have to use that same threshold when trying to determine if the driver was in control of the car at the time of the crash.
Matebook x pro, not just another macbook clone
Have you tried our app Space? You're right about the engineering limits of it being an app. It's very frustrating. Space was initially rejected from the Apple app store. It only got through after it was featured on 60 Minutes.

If you use Android, email me. We're working on something extra strength there.

https://youjustneedspace.com
The issue becomes that these prisons are exerting downward market force across the industry by using this labor source. They're creating an additional supply of workers which decreases demand and therefor wages. I'm fine with "The Free Market" doing its thing, but not through slavery/unfair practices.

To the point you're making of all the other things the prisons provide for the convicts and how that would amount to pay equivalent for free laborers: that's their job. They provide a public good service, feeding/clothing/housing in a humane way people who have violated laws. In exchange they are given money from the government. Their primary business should be that and not disrupting labor.
Sadly, overblown coverage of the latest blog post by Google or Facebook seems to be norm, especially since those two companies in particular have been loudly beating the AI hype drum over the last few years. Tech news sites are of course more than happy to oblige in the interest of driving clicks.

The root of the problem is that most tech writers aren't actually technical experts at all, let alone engineers with a degree in the field they're covering. So while they love to look down their noses at the mainstream media's clumsy coverage of scientific and medical advancements, these same "tech journalists" can routinely be found making the same kinds of inaccurate and outright misleading claims.
I'm also a Flutter contributer and code entirely in vim. I use dart-vim-plugin for syntax highlighting and 'flutter analyze --watch' for live analysis.

If you're after code completion, vim-lsc plugin combined with dart_language_server should work.

[1] https://github.com/dart-lang/dart-vim-plugin
Light travels from one point to another in a direction.

Perpendicular to that direction light "wiggles" on it's way from origin to destination.

The direction of the 'wiggle' is the polarization of the light.

Unpolarized light wiggles in every direction while polarized light only wiggles in one.

Certain things (like how the sun shines on the sky) creates polarized light naturally.

The earth's magnetic field DOES NOT polarize light.

Birds have a protein in their eyes that uses blue light + the earths magnetic field to visualize the magnetic field around them.

Similar to visualizing the polarity of light, we lack the ability to visualize magnetic fields, making both foreign concepts.
If you actually did go out of your way to protect your privacy, step 1 would be not to use Gmail.
Facebook Withdraws Opposition to California Consumer Privacy Act
> Clojure, Groovy, JRuby, Jython are popular dynamic languages on the JVM, there are others

Perhaps he meant no dynamic languages have become popular enough on the JVM that it becomes common knowledge that the JVM can support popular types. None of those 4 languages you mentioned (Clojure, Apache Groovy, JRuby, Jython) are popular, whereas alternative JVM languages built from the ground up as static languages (i.e. Kotlin and Scala) are the ones people are adopting.
Yep. That was clear from the article.
WRT cloud building: yes, it'd be more ideal to have a Mac especially if you want any platform specific UX or features but you can definitely get around it using just a Linux machine, an iOS device and some CI system.

The Flutter project itself does it at https://github.com/flutter/flutter/blob/master/examples/flut.... You can then self-add to your TestFlight and check that way. Though you can't debug.

You can also get around it using just a Linux and an Android device. You can press 'o' after you flutter run to change the platform on the fly to get iOS scroll physics, page transitions etc etc. But again, testing on the devices your users will be using is more ideal.

[disclaimer: I'm on the Flutter team]
I find that NOT turning on the TV and NOT cracking open a beer helps me to focus on the side project. ymmv