skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Am I only the one who is disappointed in the seemingly stalling of traction for U2F?

The problem is that all of these things are a PITA to administer.

I wanted a VPN between our two offices. Cool. I'll buy some YubiKeys, type some command line magic on Linux and I'll be good to go ...

Pschye!

This stuff is fine if you have 100+ people and the resources to administer.

If you simply want to manually distribute stuff to <10 people, it's a nightmare.

Until I can set up something easily at the 10-person level and scale it gradually to 100+, this stuff is going to remain tractionless.
I don't think you understood the GP. Their point was that your experience was, relatively, a cake walk so you dont really understand the difficulty of raising money. A bit like a woman complaining that it took her 20 minutes of labor to give birth. Certainly an unpleasant experience but most have it a lot worse.

Really yall did a phenomenal job of raising money. Thats hoe you should have framed your post, not how terrible of an experience it was.
I can't speak to how informed you were when you gave the consent, but if you are using the service, you provided it.

"Law & Order and the Public Interest. We may disclose your information to third parties if we determine that such disclosure is reasonably necessary to: (a) comply with any applicable law, regulation, legal process, or appropriate government request; (b) protect any person from death or serious bodily injury; (c) prevent fraud or abuse of Dropbox or our users; (d) protect Dropbox’s rights, property, safety, or interest; or (e) perform a task carried out in the public interest."

I would assume that this research fell under the "task carried out in the public interest" clause.
Sorry to hear that. Stay strong!

I had taught my grandma how to use a feature-phone and she was pretty happy with it. Later she was diagnosed with dementia, that phone's battery is dead for some years now.
Somewhere down the line, she forgot how to use her phone (and pretty much anything else). It's sad watching her unlearn things.
Person-centric time machine for the ideas ever been generated in your team
Quantum Speedups for Exponential-Time Dynamic Programming Algorithms
Here's a networth estimator spreadsheet. Plug in your own numbers to see how much you will have when you retire. (Note: use File > Download as .xlsx to download the spreadsheet)

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Ryu_-mVYxSdJbW8lmf1z...
Don’t learn new tech in a vacuum
True, thanks for the feedback :)
The quality of content on TV is way better than YouTube.

IF you're talking only about children-specific stuff, then maybe so. But otherwise I totally disagree. There is SO much amazing content on Youtube (especially educational content); where nothing on TV can come close to match it. Pick a subject you want to learn, and there are hours and hours of content, a not insignificant amount from top tier universities, covering same.
But no good student who approaches the grad school process in a sane manner is going to work for a professor whose students stay there for 12 years and don't graduate. A common thing for deciding if you want to work with someone is seeing how long their students took to graduate, where they ended up, emailing them, etc.
My parents were internet-free until they figured out that a smartphone could show them pictures of grandkids. My siblings with kids were printing and mailing them pictures, but out parents were cut out of the daily fb updates of their grandchildren.
Truly this is amazing
> And TBH replacing servers after 2 years because you're worried about uptime feels like a horrible overreaction and self harming at the same time.

I agree. Such a tactic, in the face of modern high-availability systems design (including the notion of servers being "cattle not pets"), seems actively harmful, other than, perhaps, introducing a something akin to Netflix's "chaos monkey" into the system.

I could understand pre-emptive replacement of non-hot-swappable components, but only if they're known to degrade over time [1] and only if the server is already otherwise out of service. Even then, I'd consider 3 years the minimum.

> Servers that are meant to provide 99.999% uptime (so 5 nines or above, or maximum 6min downtime per year) are built to run for far longer than 2 years.

This kind of design sounds like it's from a different "world" (mainframes) or era (proprietary, even if x86-based, Unix hardware of the 90s), not commodity x86 servers.

[1] so, maybe RAM, which has increasing CEs with age/usage, though UEs appear to be skewed toward early RAM life and therefore the bad apples are eliminated early. non-pluggable PSUs. fans. very old internal-only HDDs.
The prosecution has the full backing of the state and for all intents and purposes has an unlimited budget. The accused often is stuck with an overworked public defender. The odds are against anyone whether innocent or guilty once you’ve been arrested. There have been plenty of instances of dirty cops get caught planting evidence on camera, prosecutors withholding evidence, and striking people of color from juries because they thought they were less likely to convict and (rightfully) who are less trusting of police.

Taking all that into account, a known lighter sentence makes more sense than an unknown heavier sentence.
+1 for this guy. as an engine mechanic my third most common question is "can you get my car to pass a smog check??"

And the answer is usually, "maybe."
So many cars are just behind on the maintenance that one expensive checkup is all it takes before they pass and become slightly less noxious on the road.

The biggest, most infuriating thing for me however is professional drivers / truckers that insist upon idling because "WELL the sticker says its CALIFORNIA clean idle certified!" That doesnt mean people wont hate you for filling the streets with diesel fumes while you finish your lunch.
True, adding personnalisation of the news depending on the profile of the user is in my list of things to do :)
> I'm completely floored at how she tries to fill every waking minute passively consuming content such as YouTube.

...is that so bad? She has an incredible world of content at her fingertips; what's the virtue in refraining from involving herself in it?
In major cities in the US, I've found that PurpleAir is a much better resource for checking local air quality. Air quality varies significantly, and the EPA only has very sparse monitors.

PurpleAir San Francisco: https://www.purpleair.com/map?&zoom=12&lat=37.7&lng=-122.4
No, that's considered having a large market share. Monopolies do not have competitors and have markets that are difficult for other companies to enter. Google has competition, both search (Bing, Baidu, DDG, etc.) and ads (MSN, Facebook, Twitter, etc.).

Put another way, monopoly companies have a large market share, but not all companies with a large market share are monopolies.
There was a good discussion about this on law.SE: https://law.stackexchange.com/questions/596/what-legal-liabi...
There is a difference between former prosecutors (who have knowledge of a prosecutor but not the political and institutional incentives of a prosecutor) and someone who much of their current workload is as a public prosecutor.

Yes, a former prosecutor is a great person to get as a defense attorney. That's not the question I asked.
> however, idling is as (or almost as) effective as low-speeding driving at warming the passenger area

No. The engine, and thus the water, will heat faster under a driving load.
Yep, that's been my life for a couple weeks when I went over my "unlimited data" cap and have been stuck in 2g land.

The modern interwebs is a bloated mess...1 minute plus loading times is more common than not.
I don't think "harbinger" is the right word here, I would reserve that for dot-bomb companies and services like myspace. That time (2000ish) had some pretty clear signals where things were going, while also being clear that it wasn't worked out yet.

By the time Facebook/YouTube/etc. showed up, the frontier was already a memory, and it was more a question of see who the big winners were going to be.
Rapid Urbanization Is a Risk to Global Security
The Business Case for Digital Avatars: Weaving Digital Characters into Our Lives
I’ve been fascinated with the digital avatars space and in particular, am bullish on the digital representation of what we know to be real.

Wanted to share my thoughts on the opportunities for commercialization and the applications of weaving such characters into our real digital lives.

https://medium.com/@thejerrylu/from-sci-fi-to-commercialization-the-rise-of-digital-avatars-ea164495c377

Please let me know what you think!
SemVer is a social construct, not a contract. It's nice when it applies, but you cannot rely on other developers to adhere to it.

One man's bugfix is another man's breaking change. If product A implements a workaround for a bug in product B, but the bug gets fixed in a patch version, it could break product A's code, so it becomes a breaking change. The only way to anticipate these changes is reading the change logs/release notes, and thorough automated regression testing. (Obviously unfeasible for every dependency.)

Maybe versions should be a single number, like a build number. It just gets tricky when you have multiple versions out there, each requiring patches.
A Linux niche I have had success selling is "privacy". The Linux crowd, especially decision makers in businesses that run Linux somewhere, are very privacy aware. It's a good differentiator. And people will pay for better privacy, especially considering the options.
Hopefully I'm not being too pedantic, as I do agree that saving money is not inherently good or bad based on the entity doing so, but the general concept that those in power should have a higher ethical standard for their actions than those without, is not without precedence. And it's not exclusively the domain of some sort of "separate universes"/cognitive dissonance type of thinking either.

I'm thinking here of Plato's "Philosopher King" ideal. It seems reasonable for an average person to think that those who wield greater power (in this case, via money) have a greater obligation to consider the potential negative externalities associated with using that power. Now, whether or not that average person truly has the information and wisdom to tell if the decision being made was indeed the most ethical one is it's own matter of discussion, but holding the powerful to higher standards doesn't seem to be all that unreasonable.
A decentralized trust system for financial value transfer. Sounds a lot like a cryptocurrency application to me.
Every time someone talks about space travel I'm reminded of the McMansion Hell article Jackson Gilman-Forlini wrote about rowhouses [0]. It's mostly a technical breakdown of the design and aesthetics of rowhouses, but he also mentions how urban neighborhoods had a surprising amount of racial and class diversity before public transit and automobiles: "It made sense that both boss and employee should live near their work, and therefore live near one another... This pattern of urban living changed only with the advent of trolleys, when the wealthy could afford to commute and consequently removed themselves from older neighborhoods and the working class." He cites Mary Ellen Hayward's book (which I have not read) "Baltimore’s Alley Houses: Homes for Working People Since the 1780s"

I currently believe that this pattern will repeat itself should space travel become affordable for the wealthy. I imagine suburbs on the moon and my neighborhood being demolished to make way for a big-dumb ugly space highway so the city planners who don't actually live here can get in and out of my town as fast as possible.

[0] http://mcmansionhell.com/post/163793178726/guest-article-row...
It's really not an age/generation thing at all. There are plenty of millennials who know shit about computers, while there are "old farts" like Bill Joy, Brian Kernighan, James Gosling, Rob Pike, Patrick Winston, Gerald Sussman, Bjarne Stroupstrup, etc. who know more about computing than most of us will ever know, and are more comfortable with technology than most kids out there today.

I think it's always been the case, and probably always will be the case, that some people intuitively embrace / grok technology, and some don't. Stereotypes aside, I haven't found that age has much to do with it.
Interesting - I wonder if there is a PM at Amazon making deals behind the scenes:

"Sure - I'll approve Steve's transfer to your department, as long as you give me 10K free compute hours for your API. Too pricey? I guess you don't want him then."
Some HN discussion on that (224 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10606226
What is interesting is that it seems to have more to do with age than intellectual capacity. I know very smart 60yo+ doctors with a lifetime of scientific achievements, who understands concepts way more complicated than the IP protocol or a browser, and who just refuse to learn it. They might learn just how to use it but have no curiosity on how it works.
According to my defense attorney friend, a 2 plea and 20 trial offer means a few things:

- It’s considered a 2-year crime.

- The 20 (that seemed high to him for a 2 year plea) is a fuck you for going to trial when you are almost undoubtedly guilty. As someone else mentioned, it seems to show a lack of remorse.

- Note that both sentences will probably have time off for good behavior as well as possible probation. This can make each of the sentences less daunting (e.g., “2 years” might end up as 6 months served and 1.5 years probation).

- Cooperating is a totally different issue. They use that to get a bigger fish (usually).
It's not always a zero-sum game.

Sure, there are cases of price discrimination - why would you sell a piece of data for $1 which allows a company to charge you $2 more for something you're going to buy.

But there's increases in efficiencies:

1) Get me to buy a similar product from competitor B instead of A since it's a better fit for my needs wherein I wouldn't have been aware of B

2) Show me fewer ads by showing me more relevant ads
Except sable is not part of AWS and thus why they couldn't just scale up more servers.
My dad is in his late 60s and belongs to a generation of non-tech office workers that had to learn to use computers without mice for word processing, spreadsheets, email, etc.
I feel similarly but not quite 100%.

For the core things the basic, inter-operable, standard should be fully open and free. This includes protocols, data formats, reference applications/servers/clients and anything similar.

A user should not need to pay to communicate. This is a natural right and one of the cornerstones of a free society.

However I don't mind proprietary products as OPTIONS that allow someone to do the above better or more effectively (while still following open standards for external APIs!), or for 'toy' tasks like games or fun. That's a premium feature or recreational extra.

For the logical retort about who should be funding the development and maintenance of the core items? In some cases (hardware APIs) manufacturers might want to form standards bodies (E.G. Khronos maintains OpenGL and Vulkan) and provide open standards. In other (most) cases governments maintaining civil infrastructure should contribute. I would love if every university had a course where existing code repos were examined by students for completeness and safety and the students actually signed off on their reviews and maybe even submitted patches (or at least bugs if the answer isn't obvious/requires architectural changes) for flaws.
I have been trying networking but I am guessing that builds up over time just as the word of mouth?
I do get a lot of referrals but most of them, their budget is usually what the person who referred them paid. So, it's a spiral.
This is ridiculous, I have never had a car need ten minutes of driving to make heat, even in a Pittsburgh winter. I have had a driving license for 36 years.
This is a shockingly small number. For comparison, Pew reports that 24% of Americans have not read a single book, in whole or in part, in 2017.

http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2018/03/23/who-doesnt-r...
As a counterpoint, I am a dropout myself, but certainly was cut out for completing a PhD. Extenuating circumstances of a different nature affected my own ability to continue after investing 4 years and at the point of choosing an advisor.

People quitting academia for random jobs isn't a new thing. The stories have been there for decades of physics PhDs deciding to quit to go into professions such as taxi driving or construction.
This Bomb-Simulating US Supercomputer Broke a World Record
While I'm not aware of any serverless signalling solution that includes support for stuff like Trickle ICE, at least there are trustless E2E-encrypted solutions like https://saltyrtc.org/ (Disclaimer: I'm involved, but it's an open source project.)
Meet the Woman Who Rocked Particle Physics–Three Times
Image editor that's close-ish to Photoshop.

Really good RAW-converter/image library, especially if it's cross-platform. The open-source solutions aren't really bad, but a good one would be worth money.

IDEs and various dev tools potentially.
Perhaps a rephrase which solves your objection:

“Maintaining innocence when you know the State has decided you are guilty shows a lack of willingness to subordinate yourself to the State.”
A lot of jobs require literacy and a phone number.
African paraplegic or Mexican? Pink Floyd wants to know (they bankrolled monty python and the holy grail.)
> If someone were to figure out the exact mechanics of this, then this could become universal basic income.

I believe that's what China's social credit system is doing. It's a very powerful idea, but also has some very dystopian undertones.
whats the exchange rate with wikipedia articles?
Darpa to Fund New AI Concepts with Millions
This is just one of many reasons why public libraries are so important. It's a major part of the mandate for modern libraries and librarians to offer a place where people with low incomes, low educational attainment, low tech literacy, and even plain old low literacy can get some help navigating occasional requirements like an online job application or trying to enroll in some kind of assistance program.
Researchers created an AI to help you suck less at video games
> part of me worries about the growing individualist and transactional nature of our social lives that the internet is causing

And yet we are growing closer together every day because of the internet. Technologies like Skype, Hangouts, and FaceTime enable human interaction like never before. As VR becomes mainstream, along with eye and face tracking, we can expect interaction over the internet to feel 99% as authentic as interaction in real life.

> There is some old Roman bit about easy/good/soft times breeding weak men who bring tough times

Contemporary moral systems look down on suffering. As engineers, we should strive to create a society where suffering and "hard times" are eliminated. The end-goal is everyone being able to enjoy life with tragedies and hardships eliminated.

This is not to say that we should get rid of all intellectual challenges - just that (by any contemporary moral system) it should be the end goal to rid ourselves of suffering.
> I think it's something about remorse. Maintaining innocence when you know you're guilty shows a lack of remorse about what you've done. Admitting what you did and that you did it shows you at least know it's wrong and that you deserve some punishment.

Yeah, but that hinges entirely under the assumption that the accused is guilty.

What if they're legitimately not?
This AI can help you learn music
CTs don't use homomorphic encryption. They use "additively homomorphic commitments" which are, essentially, cryptographic proofs.
Deep Learning Algorithms Help Map Developing Brains
They're going all the way to plasma. The idea is to pump as much energy as possible into small amounts of reaction mass, to maximize momentum while minimizing reaction mass consumption. They can get more energy from solar panels over time, but not more reaction mass.

Remember, not only do rockets need something to push against, you have to bring that something with you.
China plans new era of sea power with unmanned AI submarines
IIT-Hyderabad develops Artificial Intelligence to catch bikers without helmets
This press release is from May 18th, quite a while ago.
Uber/Lyft vs Taxi

- call by tapping a few times (vs finding dispatch phone number in every city)

- reliable ETA always on screen (vs calling dispatch for unreliable estimate)

- cheaper and always shows the price before I get in (vs more expensive and no estimate)

- never taken on scenic route and usually dropped off directly at destination (vs often driver optimizes by taking scenic route or dropping off short of destination)
In the more expensive devices, are the arbitrary new private keys imported from the computer it's plugged into? If the new keys are generated on the hardware you don't trust, it'd still be the same problem, since the private keys could be generated deterministically from a known seed and a counter.

You can at least verify when a cheaply-designed device has changed its secret key, because the public key it offers for github.com is different from before, but yeah, that 'new' secret key could still just be derived from a manufacturer-known seed/secret serial number, too, same as the first one was, but with an incremented counter.
If you spent your life becoming very efficient in a particular environment, there's an incentive to keep this environment from changing, and not to expend any effort to learn a new environment. That learning capacity can be more efficiently spent elsewhere.

(An IT illustration: there are still places running RHEL6 in production and not seeing an effort to migrate from it worth the while. They have more important things to do.)
Nice pink floyd reference, see my above post about the mexicans and the africans, too.
89% of Americans use the internet.
Is this really a part of the standard? There isn't a "I lost my token" process like there is an "I forgot my password" process on every website now?
It looks like HoneyBook pivoted from what is described in the article. Curious huh?
Ah! Thanks for this answer. Makes sense.
At home I'm very proud of my triple monitor setup and second iteration of my hand assembled computer. The setup is built with ease of use in mind. To lazily chat with friends, unwind, and keep up with bleeding edge news.

When I leave my little tech temple, my mobile computer of choice is a flip phone. A substitute calculator and unit converter.

With no GPS it's great reading the land and people in it. Very occasionally I'll cheat and bum around in front of a cafe and use the tablet to find a spot but most plans are made at home on a printed map.

As stated in other articles here, it's great not having a slab fight for your attention with bleeps and red notifications while out on adventure.

TL;DR / Long story short: Be the friend at the restaurant conversing, not on the glass slab.
A boy pretends he’s a woman on an online gaming site. Then the game changes
Remember, not only do rockets need something to push against, you have to bring that something with you.

Rockets do not need to push against anything... they expel reaction mass out one end ensuring an equal and opposite reaction. Hence the term “reaction mass” in the first place. Rockets would work just as well in a vacuum as in atmosphere, but it is true that you have to carry your fuel with you.

Downvote if you must, but Newton’s third law still exists. ;)
This is simply antisocial behavior for the sake of being antisocial.
A push notification to help you open the app doesn't prevent the app being usable offline though.