skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think this is evidence of how much lower the bar is on Mastodon. 2k followers is insignificant on Twitter, irrespective of how few followers F-Droid has there.
The acquisition of Souq was mainly a response to the announcement of Noon, a $1 billion Souq competitor out of KSA.
The typical answers are: education, military, sports, entertainment. You either need to work hard in education or go join the military and survive or be naturally gifted in sports/music.
While it might be true that the step from Windows 3.11 to Windows 95 was more of an improvement for Windows-users (but not so much for those using OS/2, its main contender at that time) the author does seem to view history through rosy glasses. Windows 95, just like its predecessors and its successors Windows 98 and (especially) Windows ME was hampered by it being built on top of MS-DOS, remnants of which would rear their ugly heads in many situations. It was all too easy to bring down the whole system by a single malfunctioning program, Windows itself and especially many third-party drivers were riddled with bugs which would cause it to 'blue-screen', Microsoft's in itself admirable drive for backward compatibility caused many problems from earlier days to linger around. Network security was a mess, it was trivial to bring down whole office farms by sending packets with a few bits in the right positions. The lack of library versioning ('DLL hell') meant that installing program A could stop program B - or even the whole system - from working. On the topic of installing and removing programs, this was still a hit and miss affair with all programs using their own installers, many of which lacked functioning uninstallers, others which left loads of crud around.

In short, Windows 95 (and 98, and ME) was a card house built on quicksand. Windows NT 3.x made good on the promise of stability at the cost of performance and resource consumption. Windows NT 4.x improved performance at the cost of stability by moving drivers - which in earlier versions ran in user space - back into kernel space. Windows 2000 was probably the most balanced version, XP coming in second (after removing the Fisher-Price interface that is...). Given that many of the long-standing problems with Windows still have to be fixed I don't see any utility in the later versions, Windows 7 included. For those looking for an operating system to do the 'usual stuff' - internet-related activities, document processing, some multimedia - one of the more polished Linux distributions - Ubuntu, Mint, etc - is a much better choice which will save the user many a frustrating moment. If you need to run Windows-only software wine might be an option, otherwise just run it in a VM using Windows 2000 or XP if possible.

Windows on the server has been a no-starter from the beginning, this is not even worth discussing. The only reason for using it is running something like Microsoft Exchange, the question here is whether this is worth the hassle of having a Windows-based server park.
Here’s what I thought mmw actually looked like;

https://www.nap.edu/read/24936/chapter/4

https://www.nap.edu/read/24936/chapter/15

Also the Gizmodo video showing the leaked mmw images matches up with that fairly well;

https://gizmodo.com/5690749/these-are-the-first-100-leaked-b...

But then on L3’s site you see this for their SafeView product:

http://www.sds.l-3com.com/advancedimaging/safeview.htm

But then for the version TSA uses:

http://www.sds.l-3com.com/advancedimaging/provision-2.htm

Interesting.... I believe the difference may be “active” vs “passive” millimeter wave scanners, where the active type can provide a higher resolution image?
Can you give some more details about the Persian campaign that the propaganda you had absorbed discussed?
That makes sense. Fujifilm was the other brand of instant camera+film that I saw when taking a quick look around.
It does include everyone but if your income is over a certain amount you don't get anything. It's quite common in tax systems to be exempt or be required depending on your income level. UBI is in addition or on top of your income (if any).

UBI isn't necessarily income in that it's a person's sole income. In my country people get unemployment benefits if they are laid off, welfare if really bad, food banks, dental care for kids under 18, daycare for kids under school age, medical care (but still carry insurance), some school's pay 70% tuition depending on the circumstances.

So really UBI would combine all those into one, if you don't need it that's great but if you do there it is. Sure some people would live off it but it's no different than doing that now.
Ask HN: “Do's” and “don'ts” for tech recruiters?
I am thinking about a more empathetic, non-odious approach to tech recruiting. For example, subverting the principal-agent problem by hiring empathetic people who are easy to talk to, at a salary, rather than putting on commission. And to this general end I am soliciting everybody's feedback on demeanor.

What do recruiters do that you like?

What do recruiters do that you hate?

Feedback in this format would be great:

Do:

* Tell me salary figure upfront

* Tell me the name of the company

Don't:

* Stop communicating with me once you realize I'm not a good fit
This the wrong metric to look at. If you look at number of app reviews per week on Appannie, Flipkart averages roughly twice the number of reviews as Amazon with better average rating (4.6 vs 3.9). ~85% of India only accesses internet via mobile.
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I kind of agree with you on this, but I don't think Spotify is a good example. It's not like the 1995 equivalent of Spotify was free unless you were pirating all of your music. Uber and Netflix are similar in that they replace taxis and cable TV respectively.

Anyways, if you can, I'd suggest putting another paragraph above or below the graph in the article explaining what you've said in this comment. I did not get this point from reading the article and I think a lot of other people will also struggle with it.
>His exact cause of death is still unknown; police say the autopsy results are not expected for several weeks.

Love it when they wait until like five paragraphs into the article to include the sentence that tells you the whole article is a waste of time.
But it's not, really. At this point it's nowhere near advanced enough to actually replace a dog, and, honestly, I don't think it even replaces 1/10th of a dog, which might justify it's ~$3k lifetime price tag.

Don't get me wrong, I want this to succeed. I live in an apartment and work in an office that doesn't allow pets. I want more than anything to have a dog but stop myself because it'd be cruel even with doggy daycare and Rover. A robot dog would be perfect for me. But this is nowhere close to a robot dog.
> track and machine learn content people consume.

It's being done. The whole recommendation systems market/community is growing at an enormous rate.

There are a few basic types:

- new user (no cookie/session), lands on the main page: show the most popular stuff
- new user, lands on a concrete product page: item to item recommendation (others who bought this also bought this)
- user with active session: try to match to previous sessions, try to figure out what's next for this session (and optimize for time spent on site, or total cart value, or max clicks, or who knows)

And of course there are simple text based algorithms, like a full text search engine combined with scoring/ranking, and then there's the new fancy DNN stuff, and matrix factorization in between.
Here's a similar IoT LED clock my friend is working on.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1926284625/96766872
Piggybacking on OP's suggestion of youtube-dl, i have this alias for quickly grabbing the audio-only version of a youtube video. (I use it when I come across a song on youtube that I can't find for sale or streaming anywhere else)

alias dl-audio='youtube-dl --extract-audio --audio-format mp3'

If you have ffmpeg installed, just drop the video ID after dl-audio, and you'll get an mp3 of the highest quality audio stream available for the video.
I would absolutely agree with your hypothesis about the future. Kids these days don't have the kind of access to technology that you describe - the kind of access that inspires you to take something apart to see how it works, put it back together, explore what you can make it do - they have access to polished, streamlined advertisement-serving systems.

These systems (video streaming and children's games immediately come to mind) are designed to keep kids glued to the screen in order to maximize ad revenue. Any other goal is secondary, if considered at all. The genuine sense of discovery and creation which stems from having a blank & boring canvas to paint on has been replaced with stimuli-drenched dopamine-driven curated experiences. No room for imagination, no need for wonder.
S/he means desert
>India did also have a (presumably) Babylonian-inspired sexagesimal system as well, as seen for example in the pre-decimalized currency.

The pre-decimalized currency was 16 anna to the rupee and 4 paise to the anna. There was no base-60 denomination.
I repeat, it's not a summary if you don't even mention the subject of the submission, which is the system to auto whitelist. It's a criticism, or a counterpoint, or even just a useful addendum, but not a summary.

Your point is valid. It deserves to be said. It's still not a summary of the submission, and presenting it as such is not appropriate, IMO. For example, the following would have been a possible way to summarize the submission and also express the additional information you presented:

Summary: Chrome will not auto-whitelist auto-play for domains based on learning your preferences. What Google isn't noting is that they allow 800 of the international youtube domains to autoplay, plus some 200 other publishers to pretend they are neutral.
Really happy to see that GitHub ship more often lately. This feature seems really well done - I'm a bit bothered that the API is reserved only for apps installed through their marketplace - it'll be impossible for instance to report a custom Jenkins job there.
The ad blocklists are maintained by humans so they can block whatever elements that can be matched by the ad blocker's filter rules.
In your life, those years, it did not hold you back except when you compare yourself to a very small group of people who 1) had access 2) took advantage of said access. I'm imagining you probably compared yourself to the kid in War Games (1983) and wish you had the same access to hardware/modems/etc.

Truth is, at least anecdotally, most kids that had access back then didn't really dive into it. Hacking and programming in general was not something everyone was doing. Your interest alone gave you an edge even though access came later in life.

Present day, I think it's similar but different. Access is very high. Interest is still low, but definitely much higher than it was and increasing. The kids now who grow up consuming apps/social/etc are not helping themselves at all. Just like how getting cable TV "technology" in the 80s helped no one. The kids who regularly use a keyboard are the kids who have both access & interest to actually be a maker. And for most makers, the keyboard part still comes later like it did for you. What has increased is the support system for learning. Schools are getting involved, tons of startups revolve around learning to code, etc and of course the social stigma of being a nerd has flipped entirely. Not only have nerds become cool, or at least tolerable, computers do not necessarily equate to nerd like they used to.

That all said, in absolute terms there are more makers now than in the past and there will be more. Also, I feel, most of the low hanging fruit has been eaten. Which at some point means all these makers will need/want to solve bigger problems than we have to date and this is what's really interesting about the next couple of generations in tech.
That just means flipkart is better at driving reviews, potentially with some bonus for doing so
Then 1 year ago, china made a ballpoint pen: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2017/01/18...

Granted it was a politically hot issue so there must have been lots of top-down pressure rather than allowing a need to rise organically (if some German company will sell you tiny metal balls for less than it would take to sell them the pen, why not just buy it from them?)
That, and the inattentive safety driver. It's quite infuriating really, letting lose a ton and a half of fast-moving mass without even the decency of looking where it's going. There's really no excuse.
If the formula ingredients are so cheap why not just buy each of the components in bulk and mix your own? The components are all listed on the packaging and can't be that difficult to obtain in bulk and good quality. The relative quantities I'm sure are proprietary but could easily be estimated from information available in pediatric nutritional literature (maybe paywalled but worth the investment).
Once upon a time, builds used to be very expensive and take forever. Entire development teams shared a single single-pipe build server, and builds could not even be built locally first.

We're (mostly) past those times now, but "breaking the build" is still in the mind of many devs as a negative behavior.
And good luck finding the proprietary parts. My friends motorcycle displays used encrypted handshakes to connect to the rest of the engine - ostensibly to prevent theft, but incidentally delivering lock-in.
FTFY: Let this be a lesson to anyone who would donate money unrestricted.
Creating Multi-Root Vue.js Components
ok ok thanks, I'm learning c++ , and later I want to get into BI. :)
Please note that the Lone Star Tick can transmit a number of other diseases that are quite scary (various Ehrlichia, Tularemia), as well as STARI (Southern Tick Associated Rash Infection) which is very Lyme-like.
author here From what I hear from other O'Reilly authors my experience was more negative than most. We got very little support from our editors because of various situations (job change, maternity leave, etc.)

If I tried to self-publish my first book it would have never happened. I feel like there's too much to figure out I'd spend a year yak shaving and never produce a book. O'Reilly helped me focus on writing and making the content good and they took care of the rest. Coordination with editors, reviewers, and actual printing I'm sure would have taken me months to figure out and with O'Reilly it was just weeks.

Marketing had some push just because it was an O'Reilly book. Podcasts picked it up and that is where the sponsors started to get interested. If it were a self-published book I doubt it would have carried the same authority and not had as much interest. WRT sponsors, I did no work to bring in the sponsors or organize contracts. I only had to review the foreword and then was sent an "congratulations" email from O'Reilly that the book was sponsored. I did a webinar for one of the sponsors for free but haven't done any other work. We also were lucky enough to have CNCF marketing sponsorship who sponsored some of the book signings at events.

I still think O'Reilly added a lot to the process. Most of the extra work I did (website, affiliate programs, ad campaigns etc.) were minor work and didn't drive any meaningful sales.

Let me know if you have other questions.
The best visualization of Quantum Mechanics on the Internet [video]
I was talking about direct vs non-stop.
I guarantee you will find some other parents that are willing to let their children live like they did growing up.
Being a lawyer is not a requirement for being the Chairman or a Commissioner of the SEC or the Chairman of the CFTC.
Scarlet Fever in Children-Know What to Do During an Outbreak
Typo: should be DocBook. O'Reilly (used to?) use DocBook and now seems to prefer AsciiDoc (Atlas). Some info about it (and other useful style info for writing ebooks) is here: http://oreillymedia.github.io/production-resources/styleguid...
Uber crash: software was tuned to react less to certain road objects
Why does Facebook have so many "playpen" domains?
I imagine it also has to do with audience. F-Droid is a fairly technical project and more technical people may be fine with Mastodon... for a project that might not be oriented towards tech people I imagine it'd be more difficult to build a following there.
Is a NYC-SF route a possibility, or are sonic booms only politically feasible over water?
Seems like Twitter's 'automated systems' are to incrementally ban every account, for unspecified reasons, then re-instate those who figure out how to object.

(Of course, if this were a conscious strategy, they'd probably be better about not destroying following/follower state through a cycle.)
Not by any of my colleagues you wouldn't.

And I'm an Epidemiologist who went to school in the South.
Bloody impressive!
What you just said does not make sense. Please rephrase and try again.
> I sincerely doubt that there is a magic line between "similar but not UBI" programs and "UBI" programs where the good stuff immediately appears.

Maybe, maybe not. But it's pretty clear that an economy or society fits the definition of a complex adaptive system, and it's pretty common knowledge in that field that it's possible for there to be phase change transitions, where effects come suddenly and all at once at a specific level of participation of the independent actors.

Analogies include things like herd immunity, or sensitive dependence on initial conditions in weather forecasting.
Understanding F[_] in Scala
Walmart has an awesome research and development labs known as Walmart Labs in Bangalore. Flipkart has its development headquarters in Bangalore too. They have awesome engineers too.

Both Walmart Labs and Flipkart hire the best computer scientists and software engineering talent from across the country. They pay as much as and sometimes more than what Google Bangalore pays its engineers.

With Walmart now acquiring a majority stake in Flipkart, I can see the two strong and highly skilled engineering centers coming together and forming a formidable team to give a tough competition to Amazon.
> It's unreasonable and very dangerous if you do biohacking without actually knowing what you're doing

The question is whether you can really know what you are doing with this kind of process. There is a reason why biotech companies are spending billions on rigorous scientific research and well constructed, multi-stage studies. But even then a lot of that research fails to produce anything useful. Or something like the infamous Contergan slips through and causes massive harm despite all of this effort. How much can we really expect from a bunch of outsiders doing (at best) very flimsy science when even the best and brightest experts in the field regularly waste years pursuing ideas that do not work out?
I think the question that has to be asked is what is the specific deficiency? What if navigation skill is like a 3 legged stool that needs all 3 legs to work? Different people could be missing a different leg.

For instance in my case I'm actually better at steering an RC car or similar than I am at figuring out which way I should turn myself. To the point that sometimes when I'm lost, trying to relate a map on the wall to hallways in a building, my best strategy is to step outside myself and say, "OK if there were a mouse in a maze which way would the mouse have to turn here?" Often, the answer I get from doing that is different from what my brain tells me I myself should do; always, it is my first-person reasoning which has it wrong and the 3rd-person reasoning which is right.
Can you follow up on that? What if the Volvo, other than Google's involvement, was otherwise the best vehicle for you? Would you get an otherwise worse car, just because of the G stamp on it?
For me:

tee - for some tasks I want the output saved to disk but I also want to see the output in real time.

time - obvious is to kill a process after a period of time. But you can also send other signals to suspend a task or have it behave a certain way (dd for example will output stats with SIGUSER I believe)

strace - let's face it,most programs don't communicate unexpected or unusual conditions well. So, when a program hangs,behaves poorly or crashes with a vague error I sometimes use strace to tell what syscalls are being made,what network connections or files are being opened before the trouble creeps.

python - wanted to put sed,awk or grep here but I so wish I learned python sooner. These days, I open up a python repl and solve the problem where I would have used awk,sed or grep (for anything that appears a bit complicated to solve). Best part: I find it easy and convenient to integrate whatever I prototypes in repl into a well designed script I can easily include in other scripts. I just find python extremely mallable.
They're not all the way dead yet. Sublime text seems to be very transparent, in a 90's software sense. Pay some money, get some software, keep it forever. I'm sure there are other examples out there too. It does seem unlikely that any software like that will be as widespread as Windows 95 was, though.
> So that's about an order-of-magnitude cost reduction through the power of...magic, I guess?

Power of 50 years of technological development. That's less than 5% improvement year-to-year. Considering that supersonic flight overall was still fairly new thing when Concorde was designed and CAD was non-existent back then, order of magnitude improvement does not sound completely implausible.
The sadder thing is that this story isn't now trumpetted alongside every lyme-disease-is-growing story.

I actually personally remember considering getting the vaccine when it was available, since I spent quite a bit of time outdoors, and declining because my doctor and I were bamboozled into thinking the risks were real (that we now know to be faked).
Google has the most advanced search engine on the web. Most people do a Google search for product and probably end clicking on a Amazon link.

Instead of leaving Google, you could click on the product, see reviews and buy it directly from Google's UI.
Please do not accuse others of trolling.
To be clear (the headline isn't), a maximum of 95%. If you find an app in the Microsoft Store you're getting 85%. But for developers pushing people to install right from their own website, it's 95%.

So Microsoft gets a larger cut if they helped your app get discovered, which makes sense, and Microsoft always gets a small cut in general, which makes sense to cover distribution costs.

Given that neither Apple nor Google have really budged on the "we'll take one third" approach of app markets, this is kinda a big deal, though of course, since each one markets to it's own platform, this isn't really "price competition" in the strictest sense.

I saw a Reddit post asking if anyone had actually made any money on UWP yesterday, so, you know, this should help.
Hubris is the reason it is bad.
Being a lawyer is irrelevant. that article cites Gary Gensler who is NOT a lawyer despite being Chairman of the CFTC.
The AfD are far more frightening a right-wing group, and have far more power, than e.g. UKIP in Britain. I believe that because Germans refuse to see the Holocaust as anything other than a singular event they are now at risk of repeating it all over again. Their inability to relativise it (if that can be taken to mean to put it in a historical continuum in which other events of comparable atrocity are committed) means it's snugly in the past. I think this leads to a false sense of security.