skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A week or two ago, there was a suspected/unconfirmed leak of usernames/passwords for paid account owners. It's possible your account details were among them. If the password change has solved the issue, you're probably safe for the moment.

The HN thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16773719
> That's about as meaningful as saying that having a glass of wine or beer with lunch is normal in all countries in the world.

Really? It's illegal in Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Brunei, parts of India, Iran, Kuwait, Libya, Saudi Arabia, Sudan and Yemen.

Surely you can see some variation between different regions of the world.
Boycott isn't a solution, proper media coverage is. Nike was damaged not by boycott campaign but by a massive media outbreak. Just image effect of good documentary film created by some famous talented director. It's much much worse for reputation than disorganized boycott campaign.
iHeartRadio opens up its playlists to all users with launch of Playlist Radio
Show HN: Hosted automatic site/blog with content from Dropbox, Evernote, Trello
Is it safe to say the bootcamp boom is over? For a while, it seemed like everyone and their cousin was starting a bootcamp, trying to cash in on the gold rush. Now, most of the biggest ones I know of (GA, Flatiron, Dev Bootcamp (RIP)) have been gobbled up.
Have you looked into Windows logs?
Expressions is also in Setapp which is nice
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second-system_effect
Great idea. And those independent thirdy-party mediators could even offer other services, like reviews. And you could pay through them. They could even have their own website. They could call it Amazon or something.
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> Evidence of its malfunction is that the outcome of a trial is often unpredictable

No, that's not evidence of malfunction. If the outcome is predictable, there is no reason to have a trial, and you'd expect a settlement without trial, which is exactly what happens in most cases, civil or criminal.

The only reason for the cost and expense of a trial is an unpredictable outcome.
You really shouldn't have to brake hard enough that the ABS comes on. Be smooth, don't jam the pedal, brake right on the edge of ABS activation.
Huh? You could access arbitrary websites from AOL. How is that not part of the internet?
Nachos :)

I hope if you ever have the chance, you try good "gourmet" nachos.
"But many, including Engadget, found the interface to be needlessly complicated and confusing."
This and I noticed that the pulley system really slowed me down when trying to accomplish a task with the device. On an iOS or Android device one can achieve frequent tasks quickly without looking but not the same with the pulley system. You can't go too fast when pulling down.
> (or even desktop Linux) has a higher installed base and they don’t bother Microsoft significantly.

Except for they did. I'm pretty sure WSL was about developers who had preferred GNU/Linux-based systems (or macOS, since it can be compatible for some cases) for work, not about just running some *nix server software on Windows machines.
I agree the legal system needs a good refactor from time to time. It’s like software, over time accrues debt.
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Entities that aren't media corporations tend to suck at holding a crowds' attention relative to media corporations.

You can't <airquotes> fix </airquotes> that by "rebuilding the web".
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> I agree the legal system needs a good refactor from time to time. It’s like software, over time accrues debt.

It's like software, in that incremental changes are safer and ground-up rewrites are usually disastrous failures engineered by people who failed to fully understand the complexity of the application domain.

OTOH, I'm not sure a “refactor” is a meaningful concept for the legal system. Oh, sure, you can hold requirements and expected outcomes the same and change the details, structure, and organization of legal code. “Refactors” of that kind happen all the time. They aren't as significant in impact as with software, because the code isn't imperative and doesn't run on dumb machines, so refactors are mostly about readability, and don't (e.g.) improve runtime resource usage significantly.
If you consider 6.4s 0-60 slow, especially for an SUV, you really need to recalibrate your expectations.
Whenever I start a new software project, one of the first things I insist on is that the design include a command line tool with the same functionality as the GUI. This usually begets a sensible API between the business logic and the shiny parts, which ends up allowing for a great deal of flexibility for the GUI.

I’ve been burned too often by the GUI first, top-down approach, where the software architecture evolves from the GUI. V1 gets shipped, then the UX designer gets bored and v2 has to have a totally different look and feel and you’re screwed because your software design is permanently tied to the original UI.
Context: My small shop is in the market for mobile app creation, React Native is what we're using atm.

I generally dislike signing up for on boarding when I have no idea how the app achieves it's goals. I browsed the home page with no clear idea on how it creates a native app from some web app. I did not want to go through on boarding (ie, email submission) when the homepage can't even explain how it achieves lofty claims.

Not trying to be harsh, just giving my honest opinion. I called it lofty, because it sounds like you make it easy to convert a web page into a native app. That is.. insanely challenging. I suspect you're using the term "native" very loosely here, and just wrapping my web app with a iOS/etc installer, which is not interesting to me at all.. and quite disingenuous to me. When I hear Native, I want at least the UI components to be running in their native UI framework, providing great FPS and predictable platform specific UX. Because that is my idea of native (not unrealistic imo), it further exacerbates the issue of me feeling like the product is snake oil or trickery.

Again, not calling your product anything - just giving my honest feedback, and what I thought as I read the page.

Best of luck :)
I find these articles a little ironic. I absolutely agree with the message, but they are always published in walled gardens themselves. Maybe that’s how you get reader counts and views but there is is really nothing that stops anyone from building their own.

It’s easier to use Wordpress than building your own, even easier to write a blog entry for O’Reilly.com but if your message is a decentralized network of enthusiasts, then maybe you should publish on your own platform, you know, to be the change you want.
How would someone contact you about this hypothetical job? I notice you don't have an email address in your profile.
Do you know what is the other thing that 4.17 also does? Optimizing idle loops so your laptop can run cooler for longer.

Phoronix's initial testing seems to suggest a 10-20% less power usage while idle which is a fantastic news for those who own a Linux laptop.

Since 4.0 or so Linux has become rock solid for me so I no longer anticipate new kernel releases but this is one of those times I run the cutting edge kernel because it is so cool. If you run a relatively recent version of Ubuntu, you can also test by googling Kernel PPA. It's just three clicks away at most.

Ref: https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=linux-41...
I know I'm a strange fellow, but I am having a hard time to understand why consumer grade routers are such garbage.

I have been using 2x wall-mounted industrial mini PCs running Debian to cover 2400 sq two story house. They just work. They have no software that is tricky or unknown. Hell, the one that has a cross connect to the cable modem even run a firewall. Speeds blow consumer routers out of the water. I even have a guest network so the visitors can access internet and not see anything else they are not supposed to have access to. Cost? $300 for both.
Fixing the internet is hard. There are so many things wrong with it. Take your website for example:

1. No encryption, meaning any intermediate router could have altered the contents or at the very least surveilled them.

2. Illegible line length without me boosting the font size or browser width.

3. No protection for the reader that this is actually motherfuckingwebsite.com and not some .com with a Cyrillic character instead.

4. No protection for the reader that what is on this site hasn't been fingerprinted somehow (zero-width characters, Cyrillic, etc).

5. Even if the site was encrypted the DNS lookup would have exposed that I was looking at it anyway.

6. It's on the root of the domain which has a number of headaches at scale and roots vs www in general complicate things like understanding certs, CORS, etc.

I agree that we need something simpler and locked down and I've even thought through not just the web portion, but the underlying portion as well, but it requires a massive change to get something that is both secure / trustworthy, not prone to spam, useable by the non-technical, and resilient against well funded mal-actors like warring nation states. And none of the replacement makes the world better for most of the worlds well funded corporations. Silicon Valley and Hollywood would both take a real hit because their business models both rely on insecurity. Hollywood is reliant on surveillance to enforce copyright and SV is reliant on surveillance to supply targeted ads.
And in fact almost did. Things like ISPs blocking VOIP services, blocking VPNs, preventing more than one device being able to use a connection, are things that actually happened, though a couple of years too late in some cases to count as 'the 90s'.
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Never ending cycle of measure, and everyday demand improvement over yesterday.

This is a horror story created by modern management methods that say "if you can't measure it, you can't improve it".

Apply it to humans, and you get "voluntary" servitude aka modern slavery.
anti-paywall: https://outline.com/7pzJ38 https://archive.is/MVMTT https://facebook.com/l.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.wsj.com%2Fart...
Yet another “Why my company chose Elixir” story
I can't comment on Walmart specifically, but from my experience working in a warehouse for a couple months it seems that Amazon is totalitarian in a way your average crappy low-skill job isn't.
Ads are only so prolific because they can be tracked. If we eliminate avenues for sites to track us their popularity will drop tremendously.
HN Guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Section "In Submissions," third paragraph:

Please submit the original source. If a post reports on
something found on another site, submit the latter.

I don't know about the particular links in this specific context, but in general many "science news" articles tend to have low or no value added (in some cases negative, if they mislead or distort). HN prefers discussion center around the study itself, not on some journalist's opinions or summary of the study.

There are exceptions, this is a broad over-generalization, I don't speak for HN, etc.
Yes, and when you cash out to enjoy life in the tropics, whoever you sell to will then use any and all information you may have as they see fit, and load up your service with the usual. I won't even blame you for it, this is just how things work. I believe the sincerity of your statement of principles, just as I believe that Sergei and Larry were sincere when they told Google "Don't Be Evil". Everything ultimately has a price, even your principles, and even if it is very high, there is someone out there that will meet it if they can make a profit on it. The guys like Richard Stallman that are religiously committed to their beliefs is vanishingly small, and the odds that a founder such as yourself is one of those people is correspondingly low.

That doesn't mean I wouldn't use your service (which looks cool). It just means that I would have a plan in place for what I'll do when you sell out ;)
More people should have "sedate driving habits". The road isn't your personal racetrack.

Slow down, stop stressing, live longer.
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Anyone who could count new hires and had access to an actuarial death table would be able to determine the size of the problem, even 30 years ago. I apologize if that kind of thinking is probably boring.
Julia:

fact(n::Integer) = prod(1:n)

But I wouldn't call Julia an array programming language. Not everything is an array, there are scalars too, and vectors (vs matrices) are very special arrays that exhibit the expected duality properites (since 0.6)

It's kind of crazy to think of Matlab as not an array programming language since the array is literally the only data type.
Culture shifts with awareness, education, and well-designed solutions being available. The next "Facebook" platform that isn't designed to control or have a strategy to collect or hoard data will exist.

The layman doesn't generally know what's good for them in any specialized area, that's quite clear when we saw the level of technical understanding shown during questions to Mark Zuckerberg; it's obvious career politicians will need to eventually evolve over to successful people with strong holistic standing of all systems, with the ability to learn in depth and have strong critical thinking.

We need to do a better job as a society of developing these people, and of capturing society's attention with genuine interest and excitement, and not merely with hype and paid-for reach.
The project looks nice and easy to use but I wonder if it might be confused with the javascript bundler named Parcel.

https://github.com/parcel-bundler/parcel
Most of the removed stuff is unused architectures, those did not get compiled into your x86-64 kernel anyway.
As a EU citizen after watching all of Zuckerberg talking to Congress I was really amazed. I do not think any country in Europe would have such open discussions. Most articles I've seen have unfortunately picked soundbites to make a point, or claimed the Representatives were not tech-savvy. But for me it was really great democracy in action.

if European legislation is more supportive for small agile companies to evolve

GDPR is great, but it seems to me many of the Congresswomen/men were questioning how would legislation impact the ability of US tech companies to remain agile. I do not think we have such pro-business forces in the EU. That's why we are so far behind US and China in tech. I fear more and more legislation will make us less likely to have small agile companies.
This is something addressed in a side project I'm building. Websites are converted to JSON (or built as JSON), then built in the browser by a small Javascript engine.

Since sites are just JSON, they're highly portable, and sections or whole pages can be simply copied from one file to another, to add content to your site.

The project is in late alpha - I'm just now completing the in-browser editor that uploads to S3. Other than requiring fewer server calls, it uses traditional browsers, servers, networks, etc.

https://www.sparational.com/
Lots of talk about this being setup and a way to get out of taxes (which are apparently due tomorrow in the US). Any chance this could be the case?
Right, but I think the point of the OP is to say "Good news everybody! Despite what you've seen on TV and read in the paper, you're still overwhelmingly more likely to die of old age than at the hands of murderers/terrorists."

And to go along with that, I believe it is trying to ask the question "is it not just as important to follow the trends in so-called 'death by natural causes' as it is to follow trends for 'unnatural causes', at least as far as public awareness/good is concerned?"
Doesn't this also describe amazon?
Mobile as a whole is an unsolved problem for decentralized systems. The mobile revolution is and has been by far the most powerful driver of centralization in the last 10-15 years.

Mobile devices are slower, have less memory, and must consume less power than desktop, laptop, or server devices. To achieve good battery life they really need to be in an almost-off state most of the time. Add to this the fact that cellular data plans limit bandwidth and cellular networks are a lot slower than most land-line networks and you also have to be very efficient with the use of bandwidth.

This means that decentralized systems that rely on peer to peer participatory propagation of data or distributed compute just don't work well on mobile. Anything with P2P data propagation will use too much data plan and run the radio too much, shortening battery life, while anything with distributed compute will destroy battery life and turn your phone into a pocket hand warmer.

Mobile devices really are thin clients. I call them "dumb terminals for the cloud." Since the cloud is mainframe 2.0, mobile devices are the "glass TTY" (e.g. VT100) 2.0.

The best solution is probably not to fight the nature of mobile devices as thin clients but to tether them to stationary devices. But which stationary devices? Laptops are themselves mobile and are off half the time, and most people (myself included) no longer own desktops. I have a personal server but I'm a geek and a huge minority. Most people just do not own an always-on device.

Farming this out to random always-on devices is a security nightmare or at best is no better than the vertically integrated silo-ed cloud.

I see only three solutions:

(1) Create a niche for a personal always-on server type device and successfully market one to the end user. It would have to be open enough to allow the server side of 'apps' to be installed. Many have tried to do this but nothing has caught on.

(2) Create a mobile device that's designed to be a "real computer." With 5G coming the bandwidth for this might be on the way, but you'd also have to contend with battery life and heat dissipation. One avenue would be to split the CPU in two: a high-power burstable CPU and a low-power slow always-on CPU. Require the always-on parts of decentralized services to run there and as a result to be very optimized. The problem is that a mass-market mobile device is a huge undertaking. Another route might be to sell a snap-on case that carries an extra battery and also includes a mini-server CPU, RAM, storage, etc. This would make your phone a bit bulkier but if there are benefits / killer apps it could catch on.

(3) Solve the security problems inherent in appointing random stationary nodes to serve random mobile devices. This would probably involve a major innovation like fast scalable fully homomorphic encrypted virtual machines or really tough security enclave processors.
Most people I know never plugged in their wifi router, the ISP tech did that for them.
Long ago I once saw an ad for a kind of swag: ribbons that attached to balloons. There were ridges impressed onto the ribbon so that you could draw your thumbnail down it and it would play a sound using the balloon as the diaphragm. The ad was for a company that would put your recording onto the ribbons, your jingle or slogan or whatever.
Seventh Day Adventists are also vegetarian, which almost certainly has health implications of some sort.
>Roman numerals make all kinds of arithmetic much harder than in Arabic notation

Sure. But of course they made arithmetic easier than it was before ('tallying' I think, i.e. IIIIIII....)

It's interesting how notation and language, which arise to foster communication between different people, become the very things that make it possible for a lone individual to think. This is why I guess that a single artificial person (AI) couldn't be created in isolation.
I'm not OP, but my take on this is that it would be quite difficult to design a DNN working directly with vector graphics. I'd say you should rasterize your image before inputting it to the network. Same with outputs. CNNs would definitely struggle with continuous images. This is from what I personally know, and I did not bother to google before writing this, so I might also be very wrong.
I don't think they allow people who have depression to join this course as this is pretty intensive.

Some of the best long time meditators who stumbled upon this path and stuck with it had depression.

The benefits that a regular person gets initially while meditating are pretty cool but not life changing. Like, you tend to get up and clean your room, file for taxes way before the deadline, do your chores without them feeling like chores etc. You also don't react automatically with annoyance etc. Again, cool benefits but not life changing. This is the reason why its hard to maintain regular practice.

But if you have depression, the difference that meditation makes in your life could be large (
Hypothesising) so you have more incentive to stick to the practice and over the years it all adds up and your quality of life might end up even better than those who did not have depression in the first place. Again, this is just my thinking and I am not sure.

If you have depression, you might consider taking some other mindfulness course to get a feel for it.
I tried it with a 323-Kb picture that was transformed into a 2,8 Mb txt file.
It worked the other side, but I had a warning regarding the filesize and potential memory problems.
Wouldn't it also work with UUENCODE ?
Webpack allows writing the config in typescript so you at least have static analysis on the correctness of the config object you generate.
Yeah, I'm not logging in through Facebook or my LinkedIn, lol.
Define "hardcore driver". Is it someone who drives aggressively and takes dangerous risks?
You can buy these things for $15. How much rigorous design, care, and quality testing do you think they get? To these companies, “software” is just a line on the BOM, like a screw or plastic piece. It’s something you source as cheaply as possible and pour into the product as the last step in the assembly line.

It’s amazing that these devices even work.
But the witchunt and purge of Brendan Eich. For love of diversity and civility, can't use Firefox.

Try http://brave.com instead. They're actually developing a way to democratize ad revenue so that it is directed back straight to creators themselves. Innovative, hopeful solution for a salient long-term problem that everyone else seems to be throwing their hands in the air and shrugging over.
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I specifically mean for a layperson.

<div class="inbox">
<div class="summary">
<q>Hi John how's things?</q>
(close all the things)

Is way better than

<td key="value">
<td key="value">
<img width=1px height=1px class=shim/>
<td key="value">Hi John how's things?</td>
(close all the things)
I mean YEAH thanks BUT please STOP doing THIS.
The livestream had nothing to do with it. Here's how he says he thinks he was hacked (from the bottom of the article):

"This is how I think I got hacked. My college email was listed as a recovery email to my Gmail. I remember getting an email about it being compromised, and tried to follow up with my college security to get it resolved, but wasn’t able to get it handled in fast manner and gave up on it thinking it was just an old email.

I kept text versions of my private keys stored in my Evernote, as encrypted text files with passwords. I think they hacked my email using my college email, and then hacked my Evernote."
Definitely possible but kinda hard to know for sure.
I think the Brave Browser and associated Basic Attention Token (BAT) are a step in the right direction. It's hard to escape ad revenue if you want to avoid paywalls, but Brave at least gives users privacy, control, and revenue share.