skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm more curious how Amazon avoided it. Switching from low-touch/trust consumer culture to high-touch/trust enterprise culture is tough.
This should help - https://www.zaproxy.org/
US Billionaires and Politicians Created the Most Unbelievable Tax Break Ever
There was a one handed keyboard in BYTE magazine that was similar to this, it was built on to a half sphere so the hand naturally curled around it.

My only issue with specialized keyboards is that I have at least 6[1] I use nearly every day, not all of them are easily replaced, so much harder to go back and forth between styles than to just have one style you can use.

[1] Home workstation work workstation, personal laptop, work laptop, home server, work machines in the lab.
That entire site seems clearly satire.. not sure if you were being serious or what?
Reagan Youth and Dave Rubinstein come to mind as well.
Same curved earth perspective when Adam from MythBusters flew in a U2: https://www.facebook.com/MythBusters/videos/adam's-u2-flight...
Whisky became hip in the last 5-ish years and all of the stuff I used to recommend to people has gotten too expensive. I've expanded significantly towards other matured spirits where the prices haven't gotten as redonkulous yet: rum, brandy, and even some good tequila.
hahaha, This one was really helpful and something probably I would have never thought of, but now that I think about it, I would also like to use something like this. Even I spend a lot of my time going to toilet again and again.
NET APIs Suite for Word, Excel, PDF, PowerPoint, Outlook 100+ Other File Format
Clicker Game Ditches Microtransactions, Becomes Steam Best Seller
Ask HN: As you scale, how do you promote autonomy without courting chaos?
And how do you standardize without risking stagnation and apathy?

I imagine that the natural inclination of a company towards scaling is to _standardize everything_

I was surprised to read from a former engineer at Spotify[1] that Spotify (at least used to) use iframes to separate features that were sometimes on the same page so that squads could preserve their autonomy in which tools to use

A few surprising excerpts:

> It's important that squads are able to control their own reality and can pick the best solution for their problem domain, instead of having a company tool forced down their throats just because it's in-house.

> The desktop client UI [is built] out of many small, self-contained web apps called Spotlets. They all run inside Chromium Embedded Framework, each app living within their own little iframe, which gives squads the ability to work with whatever frameworks they need, without the need to coordinate tooling and dependencies with other squads. While this approach has the disadvantage that we have many duplicate instances of different versions of libraries, increasing the size of the app, but it offers the massive advantage that introducing a library is a discussion between a few people instead of decision that involves ~100 people and their various needs. Not only would such a big discussion extremely time-consuming and hard, it would also force us to use a least-common-denominator approach to picking libraries, instead of picking the ones specifically tailored to the problem domain of each squad.

This seems at once both sensible and insane

I wonder what the discussions would have been like to have had them arrive at this approach, and whether they still do this.

More importantly though, how have other companies tried to solve this problem?

[1]: https://www.quora.com/How-is-JavaScript-used-within-the-Spotify-desktop-application-Is-it-packaged-up-and-run-locally-only-retrieving-the-assets-as-and-when-needed-What-JavaScript-VM-is-used
The problem still remains that you're ceding authority to a private body to determine a threshold of "potential for violence".

To assume that even most cases would be as objectively apparent as your example (which I will argue is not demonstrably an implicit call to violence) I think is over zealous.
tl;dr on how it works:

> The PilBox App itself (called the "PilBox kernel") is written in Java, the normal Android way. It displays a WebView GUI, and starts a PicoLisp binary compiled for Arm64 CPUs. This binary may now run any PicoLisp program, by setting up a local web server where the WebView component connects to, possibly opening a database, and doing whatever is desired.

I think this is a really cool project and I'm all for new (to me) lisp dialects doing their thing, but reading the main page, the tag line and copy don't seem to match, for my definition of "simple":

> [picolisp is] Programming simplified!

> PicoLisp is a programming language, or really a programming system, including a built-in database engine and a GUI system!

These two statements seem to be at odds.

That aside, I do like the idea because I'm a huge fan of the HTML/JS/CSS display paradigm for it's easy cross-platform support.

I also like reducing the "mobile app" to really just interacting with a single local "edge" (which is what people are calling client-side programs these days I think) server. Just me personally but I would love it if all frontend development was reduced to HTML/CSS/JS -- I have no desire to learn QT/GDK+/wxWidgets/whatever else (just like I don't like learning Java for Android, Swift/ObjC for iOS, Java for Blackberry, etc), and firmly believe that eventually performance will be comparable (or close enough to not matter) and support for native features will be passable.
In particular, determinants are born from matrices. Sylvester used grids of numbers to organize the calculation of determinants, which were useful in solving systems of n equations with n unknowns. Matrix multiplication and addition, or even matrix-vector equations, wouldn't come for another few decades.

Determinants are a rather old concept, named for their utility in determining whether or not a given system of equations has a unique solution. I believe determinants of general systems of 3 equations and 3 unknowns were known by Chinese mathematicians two millenia ago.

(My students seemed to be rather uninterested, or maybe more likely bemused, in the etymology.)

Calculating determinants was so important that even Charles Dodgson (a.k.a. Lewis Carrol) had a technique that he called condensation to evaluate them, a technique which had the benefit that the intermediate divisions would help you check your work in the event you expected the final determinant to be an integer.
That explains why people don't shop around for health care. But it doesn't explain why they won't shop around for health insurance.
If you ever find it, I’d love to take a look :>
Online customers with established payment history, operating in compliance with our TOS, AUP and local laws, will receive advance notification

Isn't this a meaningless promise since a customer that's been compromised is likely to be violating their TOS or AUP?

So, for example, a customer that's had their webserver hacked and used to host some malware can still have their entire account shut down (as opposed to just the compromised server).
Ask HN: Please suggest CTO equity range
Need to stay generic for obvious reasons. My details:
15yr highly relevant experience, prior CTO, top 10 masters. I’m not a founder. Salary slightly below market rate.
Company is series A stage, 75m valuation, ~50 employees. Not a SaaS but tech is a core component. Substantial work is required, almost nothing is built yet.

Looking for realistic guidance on fair equity package considering the scenario.
I recommend Meir Kryger's "The Mystery of Sleep." In the middle of the book, each chapter is devoted to a different sleep disorder (with accompanying anecdote).

It focused too much on these disorders for my taste, which might make it perfect for your taste.

https://www.amazon.com/Mystery-Sleep-Nights-Better-Healthier...
Our best-effort guesses are literally the best we can do. Pretty much by definition, dismissing them because "we know so little" means taking a view that's worse than that guess.
One thing I wonder about starting your own business like this is if you do sell .... if there's a bit of a sense of loss. Things change forever, you were successful, but it's fundamentally a different game / company now.
Indeed; who has never dreamed of a DataEgg keyboard on a smartphone.. https://www.media.mit.edu/wearables/lizzy/dataegg2.gif
Clean and Green: How to Make Software Assignments
> my mental model is that ex-bourbon casks add basically no flavors other than the wood; I think of them as “neutrally casked“

Typically vanillas, nuts, toffees, woods, caramels, and some cereal notes (other cereal notes from the barley of course, which oak may not drown out as much as the fruitier sherries).
Making babies sleep separately is a very western thing. Most women in the rest of the world sleep with babies, and its safe because - obesity, women smoking or drinking are infrequent outside the western world.
The nightmare videos of childrens' YouTube
Obviously, not Portland
The Lisp is native. This is a Java app that coordinates a native binary running pickup to present a web server that is used by the webview.
That's getting close to impossible now. We've reached the point in technological development in which we can fake almost anything (and we can fake absolutely anything on photos/recording) - which calls into doubt any apparently supernatural event that would happen from now on. That is, given current technology level, were I found myself in front of a talking, burning bush, I wouldn't think "God", I'd think "a gas vent and a speaker".
I have entire environments marked up as XML, including application servers and various parameters, database clusters and their replication parameters/partners etc.

This feeds into automation for everything from inventory/hostvars for ansible, DNS zone file contents, DHCP configuration, placement of VM's on VMware hosts etc. Clear yet flexible structure and the ability to have attributes on the nodes itself as well as data within them makes it so much more versatile than YAML or JSON for me.

Add to that XPath queries etc. xmllint/xmlstarlet/python+lxml are so useful, every time I try to process JSON with tools like jq I feel like I am going crosseyed.
Honestly it's a great game, but they have screwed over day one supporters with their dlc pricing. I bought the game for 60 bucks early on, not knowing at the time that there would be dlc later on that I would could buy for another 20 bucks. My rage compounded when I learned that newer buyers could get the full game+dlc for 20 dollars, while I was just sitting there, feeling like a fool for the 60 I had dumped, and not even gotten the extra content, which is essential to having a good ship that is pvp viable.
More confusing? No. Ingame voice lines also use the name on occasion.
Related, this post has a simple argument for why intelligence IS a long-term trend in any evolutionary process:

https://pchiusano.github.io/2018-04-21/evolutionary-methods....

So intelligence isn’t a fluke adaptive trait, it’s something that evolution tends toward. While I think it’s possible for evolution to get stuck (and perhaps this is very common on other planets or even on earth if we could replay the tape), it does have an arrow pointing in the direction of intelligence.
Intel sees this threat which is why they are working to glue an altera asic onto the xeon core. I don't think it's likely they will succeed though.
I got a Microwriter AgendA from someone around the turn of the millennium, and I loved the chording system as an idea, especially for mobile input. I've reimplemented it once or twice using the down/right arrow keys and 4/8/6/return on the numpad of a typical keyboard, as a novelty.

And I bought a CyKey, so both devices seen in this image in your link:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:MicroWriter,_AgendA,_and_...

But it is enormously slow; it's approximately like typing with one slow finger, with writing being enough let alone punctuation.

I'm most surprised nobody has made a HTML/JavaScript chording thing that works on multitouch tablets to be an overlay (maybe a bookmarklet?) to type into textboxes. So this Penti keyboard link is a great interest to me.
And then there's this: http://www.exitmundi.nl/ ;-)
Probably because it's "simply" easier (said). Let's take SandyHook (and the false information that is was all faked.)

It would be much easier to say "let's ban the dissemination of the idea that it was faked" than to say, let's go out there and show all those deniers and people who listen to them and show them the facts.

We know it's difficult to change the minds of people who hold steadfast views like these.

But the side-effect of something like this is pretty dire. You get what the PLA and the CCP exercise in China. There is the official, sanctioned version, which because it is shaped by body can take any shape the controllers want.

So instead of random people making up facts, you can have a center of power making up faked facts --and you can't dispute it, since they provide the official version of things.
In your extreme example of 100k valid stolen credit cards being burned simultaneously in one attack, you've got 1PB which is only $25k/mo online, $7k/mo coldline, retail, so even less wholesale or on tape backup. That's hardly noticeable on the bottom line.
Learn the OWASP top 10

Use vulnerable VM's and practice like Metasploitable and https://github.com/SecGen/SecGen

Get the OSCP

I also highly recommend being good at some programming. This is for source code review and quick scripts/exploit development.
Easy cross platform at the expense of user experience.
LeapMotion gesture sensors were shipping in HP Laptops at least 5 years ago, this is from 2013: https://www.cnet.com/pictures/this-hp-laptop-has-a-built-in-...

How does it compare to the Soli?
A classic trick in restaurants for serving older red wines that need to breath a bit is to just pour it through a sieve when pouring it into the decanter (it should be poured into a decanter to pour it off the sediment in the bottle) to aerate the wine.
It says that they'll give a 5-day warning when they detect the abuse.
Should these goals be constrained at all ? For example, can a regulatory body ban sales of all cigarettes because the son of the chairperson of the body died of lung cancer ? Why not appoint heads of regulatory bodies as kings ?
The number of items available on Aliexpress seems far smaller than eBay. And the overall shopping experience on Aliexpress is kind of miserable, worse than eBay.
And what is life? Does it have to be DNA-based replicators? Just carbon-based? Matter-based?
Must be because it doesn’t make sense otherwise...I submitted a PR to fix it.
If I were in your position, I'd choose Django or Laravel. I'm really not a fan of PHP but Laravel has a lot of dummy proof features and it's super fast and easy to get pretty serious projects built.

Django and Laravel both have very excellent, detailed documentation as well.

Good luck! Sounds like a fun project. I hope you post it on here so I can check it out when it's done!
""brutal capitalism" is both more efficient and more compassionate in the long run"

I'm not sure about that. I've watched a lot of scuffles in capitalist markets eliminate most of the competition to turn into lock-in via strong brands, control of territory, copyrights, or patents. The lock-in typically lands on a few companies that become an oligopoly of sorts. These are most noticeable in telecoms, operating systems, big chains of any kind, and so on. Once they form, they barely compete with each other. They mostly screw customers and employees over in common ways to maintain high margins. Internally, they usually form rigid hierarchies that push control more than innovation with the evidence showing they're driven by politics more than performance. If they pay a lot of advertising money, the media will also misrepresent their incompetence taking about how they're in a competitive market, struggling, or so on. Quite a few years on my resume was in one of those companies on Fortune 100 with general public none the wiser.

That doesn't even get into all the horrors of capitalism which stim from its incentives and operating environment. These companies systematically mislead people to get talent in the door, demand as much from them as possible, do as little for them as possible, do as much as possible for their controllers, discard them whenever opportune regardless of promises made, externalize as many bad things as possible, and pay bribes to lawmakers to make their evils legal. I don't have to imagine whether that was more compassionate in the long run: we're well into more messed up stuff than I can count that comes directly from financial incentives and moral apathy.

If you want to see some of that, the documentary The Corporation has a nice collection of anecdotes. I'd especially cite the examples of media suppression, taking water from Bolivians, and sweatshops. Author uploaded it in pieces on YouTube for free. I'll post first one followed by those clips.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pin8fbdGV9Y

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eZkDikRLQrw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xw5Fon_EjGw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H3m5lq9FHDo

Hell, let's add one for parents everywhere who suffer to this day due to the invention of marketing aimed at making kids nag them.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hi63rXnuWbw
Now I feel like a moron for going to speak about housing issues at the city council meeting...
Similar to "American Cities Are Drowning in Car Storage" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17530813

> it’s more lucrative to operate a parking structure than a housing unit. This is great for landowners who are looking to make a big return on their investments, but it makes real estate markets inhospitable to new home buyers and renters.

This is why public transportation is so important. The private car is a local maximum. Once everybody has one it is very expensive to create a cheap and efficient massive public transportation network. But if you have an efficient massive public transportation network, it is cheaper, healthier, and convenient than private cars.

That is why Uber can operate at a loss. If New York, for example, losses its massive public transportation to cheaper at-a-loss car transportation they can raise prices afterwards without fear of massive public transport competition again, as it requires to jump over the local maximum to the optimal.
Robot Painting Is Getting Really Impressive
Cool service! I could see myself using this to have hard-copy pictures conveniently mailed to myself. There's nothing like having physical copies you can touch.
You can do that, but you can't do that and have an account creation date that's 10+ years ago with 10k+ positive reviews,
Third party developers on a mobile platform designed for consumption and very light productivity, sure. Meanwhile, in the world of what is and not what somebody might handwave could be, Photoshop plugins are binary plugins that talk to a C++ API. These plugins are not going to be rewritten for a callback URL protocol and if they were to be it will be slower, less sturdy, and almost certainly to the detriment of platforms that people actually use for this stuff.

I know perfectly well what iOS provides for IPC and it is insufficient for big-boy tasks. I mean, for real: are you going to throw a 16K image with 20-100 layers across heckin' x-callback-url every every time the user makes a change because you want to recompute a layer transform? Do you want it to come back before you die of old age? Or is it actually that, no, this isn't for for-realsies work, this is for the kind of dabbler who won't notice that, and for-realsies work should stay on a Mac until they kill it and we go back to Windows and Linux?

And please don't get me wrong: I'm acting as if the plugins that big-boy apps host are sometimes a decade old and are effectively out of support, because nothing in the Photoshop (or, indeed, most production) universe dies unless, well, Apple kills it. It's even more common for Office plugins and, as mentioned by another poster, it's literally more common than not for audio apps. (Gonna replace VSTs with x-callback-url? We binary-bolt this stuff together because a millisecond is a long time, remember...)
I did buy one of eBay many years ago, and after a long time of hardly any use (years), sold it again, and still miss it sometimes.

The good: fantastic design and build quality. Magneto/optical key sensors way better than any key switch on a normal keyboard. Really surprisingly easy to learn and adjust to "almost-qwerty" default layout. Nice for long-form typing, fingers roll around very short movements, very comfortably.

The bad: huge on a desk, they are really chunky boxes and there's a big power supply and controller box. Basically unusable for one-handed hunt-and-peck typing. Really annoying to use as a mouse (can be done - one side middle finger does big movements, the other side does fine movements, but it's still stepped keyboard-based-mousing), but also annoying to move hand from keyboard to mouse and back because it involves careful lifting of fingers out of, or into, the key-wells - fingers are surrounded by keys you don't want to press. Because of that, can't hover hand over keyboard. Ever. Awkward unless you have perfect typing style - can't habitually press a key with the "wrong" finger, now there's a correct finger for every key and no other option. Expensive even then before their big price hikes and production problems, even second hand.
that was great, thanks.
Balvenie also has a 21yo portwood.
> The problem still remains that you're ceding authority to a private body to determine a threshold of "potential for violence".

No, it's not ceding authority, because no one else had that authority over Facebook's private property to start with, and Facebook isn't exercising authority over anything but what it chooses to relay using its private property.
The issue of fake volumes on crypto exchanges
>t's hard to reconcile a late-hours youth culture with responsible 9-5 job culture

I'm a founder at a startup trying to address this problem.
Just chiming in to say that I use parameterized builds! I use them for controlling the version stamp in custom one-off builds, and also in giving devs the ability to build from their custom branches.
You can be from anywhere.
Wow that feels like forever ago; that thing still hasn't shipped??

Here's a HN-er ordering one in Jan 2015 and being surprised that the expected shipping date is March 2015:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8880581
Apple likely snooping for contraband in 10.13.6 and 10.14 beta using Yara/MRT
That's one of 'em, yeah.
Yeah, in the early 2000s, there were bottles of Macallan 18 for $75 or so at Costco. It was a wonderful time.
California, as it is today, is the only major player in efforts to curtail the excesses of the conservative juggernaut. This market is so large that California's liberal legislature can coerce many nation-wide businesses and institutions to conform to it's liberal agenda with the threat of exclusion from its market. Efforts to divide the state would splinter that market reducing this power and also might produce 4 more conservative senators.
Rotating disc cylinder keying systems
Although you make a valid point, the article linked to is statistically questionable, and consequently potentially very misleading.

“Potentially”, because it may (who knows) accidentally have come to the correct conclusion, notwithstanding its shaky basis, but it could just as easily be wrong.

The author of that article even goes as far as writing “Correlation does not equal causation“ and in the same sentence goes on to call it a trend, which I find contradictory.
That was a wild read. Thanks for sharing.
I'd like to mention that the IDE has a scxml editor which I've been abusing for generating business logic lately.
Let's not forget about the crazy either. Both those with mental illnesses making them destructive, and those mutilated by the system. Think of the occasional random people going on shooting sprees or bombing runs. Imagine them with access to a home pathogen lab, in 20 years.