skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How good is the scanning speed? I've tried a few apps which will scan a barcode, but they all seem quite slow. If I buy 50 items at the store, I don't want to fiddle with it for 10 minutes to get everything scanned in, I'd like to buzz through them relatively fast.
People think Amazon has the most positive impact of any major tech company
A great way to become conscious in your dreams is to notice something that isn't supposed to happen while you're awake. For reasons I'm not sure why, many people share a lot of experiences that happen in dreams that work well as anchors; your hair falls out, you look in a mirror and have missing teeth, technology doesn't work the way it's expected to, light switches don't work, clocks don't display a proper time or you can't read them, and more.

There are more ways to purposefully check if you're dreaming, such as by trying to push your finger through your hand, or breathing through your nose while you pinch it with your fingers. But some of the examples above just passively happen while you're dreaming and you can train yourself to notice them.
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Facebook ended support for XMPP in April 2015.

https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2015/04/facebook-chat-api-empath...

I also don't understand your point as a whole.

Facebook and Google both aim to target ads accurately; Facebook also has unencrypted messages by default; therefore "google's issue [with adding encryption] is not with the ads but something else"?

I don't see how those connect.

edit: ah, your real conclusion was "google's issue [with creating a successful chat app] is not with ads but something else". I didn't think GP was purporting the unencrypted chat application wouldn't be adopted, just that it wouldn't be "good for the world", or somesuch.
Right. PG has appropriated square brackets for array notations, so you really just have to use double-quotes.

At least PG tries really hard to not add new reserved keywords, which means you mostly don't have to worry about your schema element names possibly conflicting with new keywords in future releases.
I used Amazon an an example because they are the first I learned to do this trick with. I know Amazon has canonical ways to shorten URLs. Many other sites don't. Here's Monoprice:

https://www.monoprice.com/product?c_id=102&cp_id=10260&cs_id...

p_id is all that matters:

https://www.monoprice.com/product?p_id=29523

95 chars to 45 chars.

CDW is more fun. They expect some pretty part of the URL, but don't do anything with it. So you shorten it to 1 char if you want the link to still work:

https://www.cdw.com/product/Tripp-Lite-10ft-Cat6-Gigabit-Sna...

becomes:

https://www.cdw.com/product/T/934322

127 chars to 37.
>If the closed web is a place where hate speech, harassment and bullying thrives, the open web can be, needs to be an experience where it does not.

I am strongly against this appeal to censorship. Luckily in the real open web, where you host your own content the incentives and mechanisms for censorship are few and difficult to achieve. No, my dream of the open web is diverse. Full of things people hate and full of things people love. Not just some gentrified, marketable, set of opinions from a narrow slice of the possible. The overton window has shrunk enough.

That's how the web was and how it can be again. Without extremes there's nothing exceptional.
Nothing else works with Siri. That's it. iTunes and Apple Music are terrible to use. But my kids can use it with Siri and I can use it in the car. Only reason I'm still on the platform.
>>You've gained 100k on your initial 40k

You haven't really gained 100k. You have gained 100k multiplied by your percentage of equity, i.e. the amount you have paid so far into your mortgage principal. Assuming it's a 30-year mortgage, that will be around 30%, so around 30k.

(And of course, the house price doubling in 10 years is a bit unrealistic unless you live in a booming area.)
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In addition to other's comments. Writing a specific unit test helps you test that the bug exists and after it was fixed it helps you test that the bug was fixed. Something that you have to do anyway.
I've made a lot of progress though, you've shifted from arguing that it is the default position to arguing that you like the status quo.
How long until I can use this as a Photoshop plugin?
> Bitcoin's entire purpose was to be p2p cash

Put another way, the blockchain's original sin was Bitcoin. It started the conversation in a scummy way.
Plumbing work, electrical work, trees that need trimming, kitchen or bathroom remodels (which may not be absolutely necessary but are part of a house not getting more and more rundown), painting, replacing windows and doors, furnace work including annual cleaning, etc. In a newer house in good condition, it may be less than $1K/month but it does add up over time. A lot of maintenance can be deferred but over 10+ years, there's a lot that needs to be done eventually.
Seems to be Rails testing, according to his blog.

Thanks for sharing @jasonswett, would love to hear more.

I'm in the same boat, transitioning from development to training. It's a long road but I feel it's worth it, I love to teach although I have to get out of my comfort zone. The biggest challenge is finding customers for on-site training & time investment, creating a course takes substantial time.
Precisely. As I frequently like to remind those around me (because I'm a total drag), "Coding isn't easy, but it's also not the hard part of programming".
It's a decent idea and I have been tending towards it. The main reason I like the non-phone device is literally the fact that there is no internet. I like my reading devices to be offline (or at least functionally offline)...so no data is a feature not a problem.
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In a corporate setting: At Etsy we use OSQuery on all of our corp machines(macOS) to help with malware/virus detection. We use community rules: https://github.com/facebook/osquery/blob/master/packs/osx-at...

In addition to community rules we also curate a bunch of rules in house from malware we've discovered across our fleet. We then aggregate this info into ELK and alert on it.

At Home: OSQuery as well + tiny elk stack + Elastalert. Overkill for a typical home setup but I like it.
Wow I thought I was an outlier, because I've never been able to get the hang of iTunes. I occasionally touch it with a 10 foot pole when I have to get something off my phone.

But I had assumed that almost everyone uses it now. Or maybe it's less popular than in the iPod days, because the phones/ipads are more independent.

My friend just recommended a podcast, and I didn't even realize that iTunes is where you get a lot of podcasts! I've never even tried.

Anyway, for buying music, I use Amazon's MP3 service and recommend it. You just download the album as a .zip file. Then I put it on my own music server. (I guess this is another reason I'm a dinosaur; I prefer listening to an entire album over streaming individual songs.

I switched to Spotify for awhile, but the quality was noticeably bad on my speakers. I use Sonos and when hooked up to good speakers, you can really tell. Amazon MP3s sound indistinguishable from the original recordings. And even streaming Amazon music, but not Spotify.
Everything you said also applies to closed source software, along with SaaS offerings.

We are only 1 change from having our house of cards toppled, if we depend on their being consistent. And that can change for them, say, if making X change makes them a fistfull of dollars, they will to the detriment of users.

Sure, in your case, Spotify makes sense. Cool. Unfortunately, they are 1 or 2 major changes that alienate their user base. Id rather have control and ownership of my data. And yes, that does mean some growing pains in how to do that effectively. But it also means some arbitrary choice in a boardroom doesn't affect me.
I am super skeptical about ad guard and I'm looking for someone to allay that skepticism. It's just... too clean. I don't trust software this perfect, especially since it's made in Russia and sees all the internet traffic on my computer.
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First I’ve heard about Beets, and omg thank you! I’m just what it says, An “obsessive-compulsive music geek...” I’m going to have some real fun with this baby.
Look through the typical house in Europe or practically anywhere else in the world. Note how many things are made in China - clothing, TV, furniture, appliances, etc. All that money has to go somewhere. Ideally, it would flow back into that original country as investment.
BitDefender is quite a pain if it ever gets in your way. They really did a bad job there wouldn't buy it again.
Elon Musk Just Sent an Extraordinary Email to Tesla Employees
I'll copy an earlier post of what I found:

On Android, I noted before that when I turned on and off location services, the GPS lock was near instantaneous (i.e. when I turned on location, Google Maps located me with GPS precision immediately. There could be other ways of how this happens, it was noted in another post of mine, but that had still had me a bit suspicious. I replaced Google Play Services with microG recently (https://lineage.microg.org/). I then saw that it was MicroG, NOT the OS, that had control over my location, and MicroG still tracks my location when Location is off(https://github.com/microg/android_packages_apps_GmsCore/wiki...).

While none of this conclusively points to Google Play Services tracking me when it is off, the way that Android is set up makes me very strongly suspect that's what they did.
All signs point to Apple revamping iTunes in the coming year/s, likely by splitting out the Music and TV portions into their own apps. This could come as soon as WWDC with the expected announcement of the unified app development framework; I seem to remember there being evidence that Apple Music on iOS is already using some of this technology, though I can't find a source right off.
For those who weren't doing Linux admin stuff back in the days when this was new: It might take some explaining that at the time bvinc is referencing, there were two major differences from how dedicated server hardware is sold now:

a) there was no such thing as a multi-core CPU. One core.

b) each machine was literally one server. there were no hypervisors such as xen, kvm or vmware esxi to divide up a single physical machine with a great deal of RAM and CPU cores into multiple severs. One bare metal machine equals one Linux install, with one system, one root password, etc.
WireGuard now works on unmodified Android 6+ devices
The solution to this is here:

https://decentraleyes.org
It lowers the cost and effort, on an incredibly effective form of lying.

It is effective because it engages a set of senses we have a harder time questioning ... and for good reason ... it’s (currently) easy to spot these unless you are really distracted. That’s because our brains blind us to how it constructs what we see ... we don’t get to continuously deconstruct our consciousness of red or blue, or a three dimensional reality. Such an adaptation would have been counterproductive. These videos cross back and forth in the ‘uncanny valley’ right now. I could easily tell it’s a fake, though i can’t explain why. Our ability to spot these with effort won’t be true forever.

I do fully agree that people have overcome public lying in many forms. It does take a while for society as a whole to adjust.
I wish this article had more on why basic income is being discontinued. Is it being ended simply for political reasons? Or did research show that basic income did not produce good results?

Y Combinator's basic income research is highlighted near the end of the article. It will be interesting to find out how it works out. https://basicincome.ycr.org/our-plan/
Sure it's complex. But WordPress works fine. Why can't a crud tool ?
> Google can't make good message app

They had one in Google Talk. Then they killed it.
Show HN: Fed up with Apple's Reminders app? I've built a better replacement
What would be the alternative? An Alexa that casually browses through your socks drawer pondering what products the mothership should advertise to you next?

An Alexa-enabled roomba clearly sounds like the lesser evil. And it could actually sit quite nicely in a the previously unoccupied intersection between the Alexa and the Amazon Basics subbrands.
Human reviewers are not fabulous at detecting make are sight unseen. This is also wildly unscalable.
Sounds about right. It's used for demand-smoothing over fairly short periods.

(I've been to Cruachan, well worth the visit even though you can't walk around the turbine hall any more)
I want a robot that travels around the house to clean up after my tornado kids. Maybe a little bit at night, very quietly, and definitely during the day, while they're at school.

I also would appreciate robots that empty the dishwasher; move the laundry from the washing machine to the dryer, and then put the dry items into closets and chests of drawers; wash windows; clean ovens and fridges; and so on. Basically furthering domestic robots that free us from routine labor, just as the current, limited robots have done for us (I tell my daughters the washing machines are simple robots, and we should expect better in the near future).
Why is Apple given a pass?

They gave all their China user data to the China government so they could stay in China to make a buck. Is that not selling users data?

Versus Google chose to leave China instead of handing over the data.

https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2018/03/apple-privacy...
Campaign targets Apple over privacy betrayal for Chinese iCloud ...
If you are an employee or contractor - your risk is higher than you might think. As an employee, if you do 'non-work' activity on your laptop that compromises it's integrity - you could be at actual monetary/legal risk. I would highly recommend you have one. Also, as a contractor you run a higher risk. With Mac, configure your built in firewall. Run a "paid for" version of Bitdefender or other. Use VPN ad blocking. Use LTE connections, not wi-fi, for VPN connections.
Thanks for the follow up. What if I have a website and I want all my pages rendered in Beeline? I immediately noticed being able to read faster and more comfortably. I view Beeline as a conversion optimization tool.
On top of that: Chinese financial markets are strictly controlled and the rates of return on safe investments like bank deposits are artificially kept down. Chinese citizens have very few trustworthy investment options outside of housing or sole-proprietor entrepreneurship, and the latter is only feasible for the politically connected.
Modern C++ is not simple, but modern JavaScript is?
My TouchBar. My rules
Out of the mountain of other issues I have with iTunes, the most frustrating has been the lack of "tooltips" which combined with the ever shifting, and bat-shit-crazy UI makes using iTunes psychosis inducing.
For that, see https://developers.google.com/speed/libraries/terms

That stuff is kept separate from all account data (like with Google DNS[0] and fonts[1], too): no common cookies, "unauthenticated" (ie. no cross-referencing with Google accounts), logs retain no referrers

[0] https://developers.google.com/speed/public-dns/privacy
[1] https://developers.google.com/fonts/faq#what_does_using_the_...
Using i and j in loops makes code much less self-explanatory, especially when you could use "page_index" and "image_index" instead.
Spotify has also made me completely abandoned any type of local music library (it even offers to save for offline use which I do often for road trips or flights). I do buy vinyl and spend money there but can't imagine ever going back to any other structure besides paying a streaming service for digital music. It's been great not having to constantly configure foobar or figure out syncing between devices.
What blows my mind is how much money Facebook gets from ads. I've never clicked a Facebook ad except by accident. And yet they get paid more for my presence than I'd ever be willing to pay for a social network.

That's the real rub for me. I mean, we imagine the ideal "decentrialized but user-friendly web". Like, there's an online open architecture of servers where you have a cryptographically-controlled "account" for your family and you can easily buy plug-ins to add features to this account. Like an app store but for webapps all linked to your private migrateable data store. And you can sync that data down to some kind of ubiquitous home box appliance as a local back-up/cache, or move it over to another host because it's an open architecture.

Presumably, if you wanted to enroll your family into a social network that's not based on selling you, you'd have to pay for it. So how much is a social network worth? I sure wouldn't pay $50/year for that program for my family.
I use iTunes 10. It's responsive, does everything I want and still has iTunes DJ which is the best method I've found for listening to random things from my music collection.
I believe there is a middle ground between hate speech being "allowed-but-not-thriving" and censorship, and I think we can do a better job of finding it than we do now.
I use T-SQL, and this is actually why I always join with the table name:

SELECT * FROM Person JOIN TeamMember on PersonId = Person.Id
Amazon is reportedly working on a home robot
>>convincing fake video since the 60s (see Kubric)

I assume you mean stanley kubrick. What are you referring to?
I love iTunes. For more than a decade it has been the most important non-work-related software I have.

11,300 songs

800 music videos

50 movies

1100 TV episodes

80+ playlists

I would be hopelessly lost without it.
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The way we make progress is by hiding more and more things under better and better abstractions. So this is the way forward - if the abstractions are better.

But there are two problems here. The first is that you can make better abstractions in text-based languages, too. In fact, it's easier to do there. So the visual coding language is always easily caught by text-based languages. They may be easier to use for the layman, but they don't offer anything extra to the professional.

The second problem is that abstractions always have limits. Good (useful) languages give you a way to escape from the abstractions when you need to. Evil languages sucker you in and then trap you in a too-limited abstraction from which you can't escape. (It's not just visual languages, either. The original Pascal, before the Turbo extensions, had exactly this problem.)
Maybe with a chain like with SSL certificates & authorities? Or maybe there could be a reference database with all the versions signed by a given authority so that you could verify it's an approved version? Why not go even further and show the same kind of alerts / block content if the source / signature can't be trusted?
Extensions do not come in at the volume of YouTube videos. Not only is the scale orders of magnitude smaller: But there's little to gain from an endless supply of browser extensions.

Unreviewed browser extensions should not be permitted, full stop. Microsoft has (finally) figured this out: There's a few dozen Edge extensions which Microsoft has vetted, and that's it.

Additionally, scrutiny for extensions can be filtered by their capabilities. In my given example, the issue is the ability to read and modify content on all websites you view: This permission should only be granted after extreme scrutiny, whereas an extension which can only access a single domain and does a simple thing needs only a cursory glance.
What do you expect from a web host?
As a designer or developer, what do you expect from a web host? what kind of tools and features is a must for you?
You probably meant it in a good way, but it is much better to say "Who knows a good alternative to iTunes?" or "How would you design a perfect music player?".

You wouldn't want to see a post "Who else hates dzohrob's music player?" would you?
In travel ban case, Supreme Court considers “the president” vs. “this president”
Devs are not the problem, especially not the amount of them. Google has so many devs, sure, maybe that's why we now have 7 messaging app from them...

The tools for the open web are present, just check https//indieweb.org

Comformist, lazy people, our own friends, are the problem. I'd love to see how to make them care.
“Crypto Market to Continue Growth” Says Former JP Morgan Banker
it's better only if you replace "appropriate" with more insights
> Use LTE connections, not wi-fi, for VPN connections

I'd get it for non-VPN, but for VPN connections - how does it matter? As long as peers properly authenticate each other, of course.

> If you are an employee or contractor - your risk is higher

Higher than whose risk?