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Ask HN: How to help my parents and grandparents understand Google reCaptcha?
After spending almost two hours helping my mother and grandparents to configure an online account, via phone calls, I realized that Google reCaptcha is a nightmare for people who are not so invested into the tech world. They are struggling to understand which images they are supposed to select, even using prescribed glasses. The whole experience affected my mother so much that she cried when, after 2.5 hours, she was able to register her account, maybe out of happiness.

My grandparents didn't do any better. We resorted to make a video call so I could tell them which images to select, but obviously this is not a solution in the long term. They will surely face this challenge over and over again. I fear that I will not be there to help them all the time. I want to know what is a good way to teach non-tech-savvy people about this type of things.

Note #1: I understand how Google reCaptcha works. It will stop showing the image-selection challenge after some time, when the user's behavior can be detected with enough accuracy to consider them a non-artificial entity (aka. robot). But with the little amount of time that my family spend on the computer, I am sure that they will have to face the infamous Google reCaptcha for a few months.

Note #2: The problem with the images is not with the quality of the pictures, but with the fact that they don't know if the objects in the squares are part of the category requested in the challenge. For example, my grandfather asked a couple of times if a truck could be selected even though the challenge was requesting to select only buses. Road signs were the most difficult ones to solve, some of them were too small, or were spread across different images, they though that selecting the image image would be enough, but clearly it wasn't (clearly for me, not for them).
I see it more as The Atlantic knowing who their paying audience is. It's definitely not the teens, probably their parents who also don't understand them and are looking for any clue.
> The Amazon spokeswoman said it determined that fewer than 1% of hundreds of millions of reviews were fake last month...

Maybe they meant this to be a positive statement, but to me this just means they're not catching anything except the most egregious cases. Any cursory look at a popular product makes this look like a silly statement.
Thanks for the unnecessary remedial English lesson. You could try answering the question instead of acting like that, though. Hiring a qualified friend to work under you isn't 'corrosive to an organization'. So why is managing a qualified romantic partner so objectionable?
I find neovim to be quite laggy while scrolling without the metal renderer. It's the only reason I was so happy about this feature landing.
This mistake goes back to "Romeo and Juliet", at least.
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Article covers that. They start with oxycodone. From that a reduction to hydromorphone and then methylation to nalaxone. Not easy chemistry, but only two steps.
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Did you watch the video?

The officer's words: "The local community walks around here without any fear, I walk around here without any fear."

She's a professional provocateur with a clear anti-Muslim agenda. The officer stopped her because he believed she was disturbing the peace, and I'd have to agree.

Try doing what she's doing at a New York City synagogue and see how long it takes until the cops are called.

Somehow, I don't believe, "I'm just trying to criticize International Jewry!" would fly in that situation.

This is another example of a neighborhood where there's casual street traffic, children playing and absolute peace and tranquility if we ignore the woman gawking at people while loudly decrying their presence, ethnicity and religion on camera. I'd call the police, too, if such a person was trying to make an example out of me while wholly disturbing the peace.
I'd really love to see which part of the brain lights up when I'm interacting with it.

Over the years, though, I've 'integrated' it into my normal thought patterns. I used to interact with it through what's called the muscle test. That's how I discovered it in the first place. Over the course of about a year and a lot of muscle tests, I've slowly come to be able to predict what a particular test is going to respond with before I do it. Eventually I quit using the muscle test. Slowly the tulpa receded from my life, but any time I want to interact with it, it's only a muscle test away, I can also simply 'go to that place in my head' where I know it'll respond.

I've come to realize that this is the same process people who "have a personal relationship with Jesus" go through. It's a kind of imaginary friendship. But I think it requires at least a little bit of mental 'depth' in order to achieve.
I honestly never checked: do they still have an audio version? Maybe that's easier, even if it's still a shitty solution?
> I've been wishing for scripting in DAWs for a long time, and having a synthesizer that supports writing code to modify waveforms or change how parameters link would be awesome (if this exists, someone please tell me).

I'm working on a DAW that you can live-code with JS and math expressions if you're interested: https://ossia.io

C++ just-in-time compilation of sound effects is coming in the few next months (JS just does not cut it for real-time audio with per-sample access).
Android & chromium are kept outside the monorepo
> They view it as an imposition.

Are you arguing that women would never want a relationship with someone they met at work?
I actually like alacritty, but surprisingly latency is still much higher than on xterm or eshell. These are relatively slow rendering massive amounts of text (eshell much slower than xterm, and lacking many features).

However, the feature I price the most is quick responsiveness when I type. For that, I still find xterm extremely good.
I built this out of frustration with existing services like Buffer, which are not really hackable and don't work from the commandline.

What's missing right now is support for Patreon and Discourse, which might be tough, because Patreon doesn't have an endpoint for publishing content [1] and Discourse only allows admins to create API tokens (afaict).

For Patreon, I actually tried controlling a web-browser to publish content, but I failed because of the captcha.

[1]: https://www.reddit.com/r/patreon/comments/5p97zr/create_post...
That’s a ToDo app example
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The author hasn't really proved his argument, so I'm not too worried about where my lived experience stands in regards to his thesis.

edit: wait, are you trying to say we don't have personality, full stop?
When I travel I'm not doing it to relax, but to go on an adventure, to experience other worlds, push myself, and get outside my comfort zone. Otherwise, I totally agree. All the people who go on cruises or Mexican resort vacations so they can lay around and be pandered to, that never made any sense to me. I do that at home just fine, for a fraction of the cost and with none of the hassle.
There’s probably some software tool to give you an internal perspective on it, but if you want to “prove” your frame rate for any application, there’s one obvious way:

1. make the app full-screen;

2. make the app constantly vary the screen output as often as it can;

3. capture the HDMI output of your computer with a hardware video capture box[1];

4. use some scriptable video software to calculate, for the captured video, how many distinct frames (i.e. changes in content from the previous frame) it contains per second, on average.[2]

——

[1] you could also substitute a high-speed camera pointed at your monitor (necessary when the limiting factor is monitor refresh rates.)

[2] Conveniently, if the capture box emits video in a format with inter-frame compression, you can do the new-frame-counting at a low level, without decompressing the video. You parse through the video stream, discarding the “no change” I-frame chunks, and then count the remaining frame chunks grouped by the start-timecode field cast to seconds. Which is, I assume, what OS file-indexing services do to calculate a video’s FPS, for those that do. This answer is slightly high in the case that you’ve got no-change keyframes in the stream, but it should average out to essentially the same number in any video longer than a few seconds.
This looks intriguing but wondering if you’d consider changing the font? Script fonts have low readability and while possibly OK for a short logo mark, are not fit for anything longer.

Balsamiq mockup for example uses a “handwritten” but very readable font.
"gpu-accelerated cross platform" is not that hard as it sounds.

Here is an example of GPU rendering with support of Acrylic(Windows) / Vibrancy (MacOS) so popular in terminal implementations:
https://sciter.com/sciter-4-2-support-of-acrylic-theming/
The White Helmets are a part of Al-Qaeda, don't let them resettle in Europe
If your boss hires their frat bro from college as one of your peers, and said frat bro starts getting promoted faster to you, would you consider that to create corrosive sentiments? Whether said frat bro is qualified or not, you may start to question your boss’s objectivity.
I've used Lisp, and fell in love with it, before finding Ruby. Ruby is better than Lisp. It took me some time to realize this. Lisp isn't bad, but it's not Ruby.

I wouldn't call Ruby a niche language. You can use it for anything, it's very much a general purpose programming language. Most people only build websites with it, but you do see lots of other kinds of things built with it too, including, you know, a digital audio workstation.

I'd call PHP a niche language before I'd pin that on Ruby.
He's arguing what he said he's arguing: that women he's talked to or heard about view being asked out on dates by coworkers as an imposition. I've heard exactly the same thing.
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$ curl -L https://bit.ly/glances | /bin/bash

That (curl|bash) is really shady. Not saying the software is malicious, but if you're going to install it I wouldn't do it like that.
I'd appreciate someone to correct my data if it's wrong. I too would like to know.
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I'm working in a Django's Queryset port to Ruby on Rails: https://github.com/diegojromerolopez/babik

I really miss Django and its way of making queries and I think it could be a good add-on for Rails.
This article itself kind of falls into that, isn't it? :p
You can’t share my-life-is-better-than-yours vacation selfies that way though.
It was a long time since psychologists believed that unconscious thoughts where actual thoughts.

They are more like patterns in the way your brain interprets the world for you.

Patterns that where programed in to your brain when you interpreted that part of the world before.
> it's a shame that JSX deviates from HTML in attribute names.

Actually, that's a React issue, not a JSX one.

JSX is attribute agnostic. You can use it with another view library like Mithril and not worry about those shenanigans (class, autocomplete and spellcheck will work out of the box).
I would say collaborating on a Google Doc about strategy is pretty far removed from powering the drone technology used to kill people even if that's what the doc is about.
It’s relatively easy to split the difference in California as well. I live in L.A. and have done short weekend+ vacations to San Diego, Palm Springs and Malibu.

Book a hotel room, drive 60-90 minutes and you’re winding up, essentially, in fairly different worlds, with just as much or nearly as much to explore. It’s a great way to have the ‘destination’ component of a vacation without all the logistics and headaches involved in vacation travel.
Also keep in mind, whatever part of the brain lights up when I'm tulpaing, even if we ascertain that there's brain activity there even when I'm not 'going there', we'd need some way of proving that it's actual thought that's not simply semantic.
not my choice. certainly less people suffer bash in the BSD world.

while bashims may give additional features, readability and portability suffers. I much prefer scripts using a posixish #!/bin/sh and a strict subset of shell syntax. something like pdfx.
Not knowing anything beyond your irrational refusal to have meetings with women and your apparent contempt for their careers, I'm inclined to believe the (multiple?!) sexual harassment complaints against you. It's really not normal to be regularly accused of that kind of behavior.
I live in San Diego and have a list of tourist places that I haven't been since my arrival in '79. I have friends who live in Manhattan who have their lists of places they haven't been that "all tourists" have been to. Some Manhattan friends and I did a vacation together in San Diego, and I even stayed in the hotel they stayed in. That knocked a few things off my list of tourist sites.
I never said I hindered their careers. I have promoted and supported quite a few women over the years.

In fact, one of them is now a senior VP at a Fortune 100. I take no credit for that. She was extremely talented. OTOH, I certainly could have hindered her advancement but did not obviously. In fact I warmly recommended her for a promotion and later gave her very good references when she moved on to other companies. These were important steps in her career. Others have continued to advance as well, if not quite as spectacularly.

What I did say is that there are some who I did not help as much as I probably could have. They could have possibly benefited from some private coaching. I am not a crappy manager for not doing that. I am a good husband and provider for never allowing a situation to occur that could have put my career in jeopardy.

I didn't make the rules, the government (and especially the courts) did.

And calling me sexist is a cheap shot that only proves my point. Accusations are easy; proof is hard. This is especially true when you take a defensive position against the known risks of being falsely accused, as I have been several times.
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But if you're rejecting valid addresses then you're not assisting the user.
It doesn't matter, but couldn't help but notice that the honorable form feed (U+000C) was missing from the definition given. https://infra.spec.whatwg.org/#ascii-whitespace is the concept used in the HTML parser. (https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/parsing.html)
This actually has been a productive discussion. Usually discussions with materialists don't really contribute to my musings, but this one has. Thanks.
That seems like a much better idea, but I don't know anything about oxygen extraction.
Things I love in iTerm include the following:
* cmd-click on URLs or filenames to open them in my browser resp. editor -- even recognizes "FILENAME:LINE" to jump to the right line in my editor, which is super useful for errors printed by a compiler
* changing the theme when using SSH and/or root, so I don't accidentally issue commands on the wrong machine or as root
* split views
* lots of other, often "small" features, which I can't think of right now but which I usually notice quickly if forced to use Terminal.app
Better mention in the issue that you're working on it, and ask if you have any doubt
Heh, I think you're fooling yourself when you say 'all' marketing. The ads now are gamed customer reviews and paid comments.
That's why I emphasized "choice", using sh for scripting is a valid choice.
Incorrect. He (1) had more than one extramarital relationships at work with people under him in the power structure, (2) repeatedly lied about it, and (3) was given a second chance by his board after he was caught the first time but did it again anyway.

Why is the most upvoted comment on this article a false characterization of this executive's conduct that downplays its severity?
Yeah, I left as soon as I saw the font.
You literally just said you hindered their careers, in those exact words. The comment you wrote is there for everyone to read.

Your edit to that last comment doesn't clear anything up. It's non sequitur logic. "I'm not a crappy manager, I'm a good provider"?
No, you probably don’t have a book in you
No, I've not found national traffic data for Germany, unfortunately. I think it exists for one or two areas (NRW maybe?) but certainly not nationally, and the proprietary sources tend to be prohibitively expensive. I'm intrigued as to whether it might be possible to count cars in imagery as a possible alternative...
$99 is expensive? That’s, like, a half hour of my time
Electron definitely offers a developer some real foot cannons - of this there is no doubt.

But to be fair, it also offers some great security capabilities, ala Chrome, like Content Security Policies and a seriously solid sandbox that has had untold (wo)man-centuries of work put into keeping it isolated from priveleged contexts.

Yes, you need to be very careful about stepping over the holy line, but this really isn’t that different from the kind of common sense barrier we’ve all learned to maintain between a web server and a browser client. If someone accidentally throws an API key into some browser js, you’re in trouble. This kind of mistake gets made sometimes (even at high levels) but for the most part, any serious developer will know how to enforce a hard line between the server and the client—it’s table stakes.

A simple approach for Electron is to keep the bulk of your application in a browser window with nodeIntegration: false and then set a strict CSP on the root html doc. In this way, most of your code and most of your dependencies will be isolated from the os and the network, and you can carefully whitelist the exceptions. That’s actually pretty damn hard to do yourself in a purely native app.

In short, if you take some time to learn best practices, you can make a pretty damn secure app with Electron. If you can’t be bothered, then yeah, your users will be in real danger, but they’d be in just as much (or more) danger if you made similar mistakes in native code.

I have tried to do a good job building a secure Electron app with EnvKey[1], a tool for managing configuration and secrets with end-to-end encryption. All the client-side code is open source[2] and has its security choices documented[3]. Feel free to take a peek if you’re interested in seeing a live example!

Oh, and since one’s perfect, please post an issue or a PR if you spot any problems. I will owe you a beer :)

1 - https://www.envkey.com

2 - https://github.com/envkey/envkey-app

3 - https://security.envkey.com
You can basically do anything in NYC.

That's where Candid Camera did all their antics.
fish is nice but I've ran into too many issues where some weird shell command / script I find online is expecting to be in bash and I have to switch out of fish, so its hard for me to switch.
It’s just Amazon tricking the reader. If they have hundreds of million of reviews, and 1% are fake, there are millions of fake reviews.

How many of the reviews from 1998 are fake vs 2018? What is the probability of a marginal review being fake. My guess is 15-20%.
It is pretty neat and the main coder is doing pretty cool demos. It is not easy to master it, it reminds me the cool time of modules on Amiga and its magic woaaa effect.
IIRC for Vue.js it goes on the child, i.e.

<ul>
<li v-for="item in items">[...]</li>
</ul>

It is something you do have to remember. I believe you can use a template tag too if you like.
> and it's not appropriate in the workplace

It's fine in the workplace, lots of couples that I know have met in the workplace. Just not between superiors and sub-ordinates.
You're talking about autosuggestion, one of my ABSOLUTE FAVORITE features. I tell everyone about this:

If you're nervous about running shell commands here they're the same as the installation on the site if you care to check:

sh -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/robbyrussell/oh-my-zsh/master/tools/install.sh)"
git clone https://github.com/zsh-users/zsh-autosuggestions $ZSH_CUSTOM/plugins/zsh-autosuggestions

Then edit your ~/.zshrc plugins

# Plugins
plugins=(zsh-autosuggestions)

Then restart and type some commands. re-type a command you did and push control+e to complete it. I recommend re-binding your caps lock key to control for vim and also tons of hotkey ease of use. then you can just use caps+e for instant fast typing.

Combine this with using control+p to cycle through previous commands means you can be a wizard at commands quickly
True.

But the most interesting one is not.
Three accusations in thirty years hardly qualifies as a "regular occurrence." Having spent part of my career in HR, it is not nearly as rare as you would like to think for people (both men and women) to be accused of sexual harassment.

I do meet with women, regularly, just never alone. My refusal to meet alone with women is hardly irrational. It is one of the safest and sanest choices a man can make in the current environment where a mere accusation is often enough to cause the loss of a job and future prospects.

I sincerely hope it never happens to you, but odds are high that it will if you acquire enough power at work. Not a popular view, I know, but still true.
Stop spewing this postmodernism = Marxist crap. Denial of meta narratives is incompatible with the idea of a revolution or the dialectic of history. You cannot commit to both postmodernism and Marxism.
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Agreed, especially since there's a pypi package available.
If you put chalk under a powerful microscope
Maybe signing them up to Be My Eyes (https://www.bemyeyes.com/) could help?
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> Not saying conventional news is always right, but I'd still trust it more than pseudonymous accounts on a social network.

I beg to differ. I learn more viewpoints on HN than on media. CNN has reliably demonstrated systematically adding a spin to all their reporting (for example « women are the only victims of donestic violence and no women is guilty of anything », just by skipping the reporting on male victims), so much that Americans trust CNN lower than congress. At that point a mix of random viewpoints from Instagram, is way better than one media who claims to deliver the truth and reliably doesn’t.

If anything, news media need to seriously stop this nonsense, and at least it should not be possible with simple fact-checking to notice that they are spinning news all the way up to making falsehoods out of individually correct statements.
As another person said I also haven't checked recently but I remember "accessibility" being a consideration in captcha systems even 5-10 years ago. I expect by now they should have more accessible alternative methods.
what was interesting was trump's comment the other day regarding paying down the debt using the gained taxes in gdp growth. I haven't done the math myself, but it's an interesting scenario to thing through if it's possible because I don't think it's one that many people are thinking about.