skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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California fires rage, and Gov. Jerry Brown offers grim view of fiery future
I'm from Latin America, and I can't agree with that: lower middle class people don't tend to have access to credit cards. Besides, even for people who do have credit cards, the friction of using one for payment is non-trivial.

The reason everybody uses WhatsApp is that they never paid for it -- in fact neither I nor anybody I asked can actually recall ever seeing payment UX on the app.
This is exactly why I'm a huge fan of burdensome, difficult, snowflakey voting systems. Every state should be different. It should take many people to count the ballots. It should be hard.

Just like a natural organism, mono-cultures collapse because they are vulnerable. Voting should be a distributed system.
Yes, but the amount of computation that is practical to put in a car or a phone probably isn't going to increase much.
Throwing it out there for those who aren't aware of it

Clint of "LazyGameReviews" did a fascinating retrospective on General Magic a while back

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Opcuy-8VO64
Jetabroad (Thailand) | International Senior Software Engineer | Bangkok, Thailand | Onsite | Full-Time | Visa / Work-Permit / Relocation | Salary USD 80K | Airfares are hard, we tackle the hardest part, multi-city up to 10 legs long. Think exponential search space, fuzzy constraints, and constantly changing variables. We're looking for both front-end and back-end developers to work on our user-experience and search platform respectively. Bangkok offers a great place to live with a great standard of living at low cost. Our offices are in the heart of the city overlooking the green of the Netherlands embassy on Wireless Road. Check out details at https://lnkd.in/f499hJY We are predominantly built with .NET, but language proficiency is not how we hire - fundamentals always win the day.
Here is our Thailand website https://bkkthailand.jetabroad.com/ And, this is our main website https://www.jetabroad.com.au/

Interview - First we Skype, then maybe Skype again and possibly a demo-style programming task, then we get you on a plane to say hello and to check out Bangkok, spend time with the team, if it all gels we make an offer.
China Uses Robotic Doves to Spy
I concur. I’m having a hard time not coming off as a dick while trying to opine on how amateurish I think this is. I like JS but the devs and ecosystem leaves me wanting.
> The regulations in China are immoral. Obeying immoral laws is also immoral.

The real world isn't black & white like that. By operating in China, Google isn't making _less_ information available to the average Chinese internet user, since Baidu, Bing etc are already censored anyway. If anything, it will likely be a net win in terms of access to information and user experience as we'd finally see some meaningful competition to Baidu.
Wow, it's literally in the most hard-to-find part of the devtools UI. No wonder I thought it didn't exist.
Your post made me wonder whether I'm missing something obvious: what sort of global wallet platforms exist for underbanked users?

Credit cards are the only platform I know to work reliably, but most people don't have them, and they are horrible to use online. If you don't have a credit card, what online, global alternatives exist? Paypal I guess, but using it is even harder than using a credit card..
CloudFlare announces a new product Access
Try-something is very useful as a troubleshooting tool, when you need to change the state of the issue enough to collect further troubleshooting information.
Like you said, I normally don't post comments, so I agree there's irony here. However, recently I found some newly created accounts posting comments like the one above. Some of them are getting warnings from admins. Granted my comments aren't contributing either. So, sorry about that.
they are entirely responsible for common core, and teachers pay based on standardized tests.
ha like this guy https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CN666q3ptAU
Common core and teachers wages dependent on standardized testing is nuts.
>that the billing and billing limits should also be able to respond similarly

How so? With a pay-as-you-go system, firing off warnings and giving a projection of their future costs (which is hard when startups tend to have spikey traffic) is about as good as you can do.

Edit: I should add that the common solution to controlling your billing in situations like this is having some overflow path built into your beta app ("Sorry, we're not taking new users at the moment" or the like).
One Overheated Laptop Battery Could Down an Airliner: Study
Isn't this why you do pull requests, code reviews and QA before deploying? You need to make sure that the more senior(s) on the team and proper testing catch these things before deploying.
Ya.. that was really hard to read and I'm not even an art fan.
It actually makes total sense. If you make decisions based on emotion and not just reason, if we are close, you are more likely to make decisions in my favor. So of course I'd be more likely to trust you. Don't be depressed by human nature. Accept it for what it is, and realize that it's what's gotten civilization this far.
_Especially_ GitLab. Basically their entire product seems to be about building a whole bunch of separate tools and integrating them seamlessly into each other. GitLab has a built-in CI system, a deployment pipeline with Kubernetes integration, a built-in Docker container registry, performance monitoring tools for deployed applications, automated static analysis tools, etc. Describing it as "an amalgamation of 8+ open source projects or industries" seems pretty accurate.

That's by no means a bad thing though. While yes, there are downsides to tightly coupled tools, there are also advantages. If GitLab is trying to do the same thing for data analytics that they've already done for source control, they may very well succeed.
Reading the comments, feels like HN is schizophrenic which is actually not surprising (online mob mentality). The shorts and haters were out in full force before on HN, calling Tesla the next Enron, absolutely slamming Elon. Today, praise and congratulations.
A popular choice seems to be Mycroft

https://mycroft.ai/

(no affiliation)
I expect there is going to be a bit of a chicken and egg problem during the evolution of car charging infrastructure.

For example, if electric cars become popular we will need tons of public charging stations, but nobody will be willing to build charging stations unless there are already a lot of electric car owners to use them.

The early adopters of electric cars are going to have to deal with a lot of overcrowding at charging stations, unless they are homeowners and can charge in their garages.

All that aside, there is still the issue of price. I paid $21k for a new Prius C that gets 45-50 mpg. A new Chevy Bolt costs about $29k in California after tax credits as far as I can tell, and that does not include the cost of an in-home charger. That $8k difference would cover years of gas purchases for the Prius -- I've had it for 5 years and I've been spending about $35 for a tank every 3 weeks.
>In other news, we hired our very first Head of Security, and he started 2.5 months ago.

Uh huh.
Those orange gas plasma flat panel displays were my favorite - so perfectly readable and crisp. I went on eBay recently hoping you could just buy one, or even an old "portable" with a monochrome gas plasma, but I had a hard time finding anything.

Wish someone still made these displays, even in just smaller sizes!
I'm right there with you guys.

I made my desktop in 2014 with a Haswell i5-4670K @ 3.4GHz. Overclocked it to 4.3GHz, and I still don't have a reason to upgrade. I really want a Ryzen 2700X also but staying patient. Newer and better hardware will keep coming out so I'm in no rush. (but my next CPU will definitely be AMD)

My current thing right now is compiling the Linux kernel exactly catered to my Haswell machine, and using the latest gcc with "-march=native -O2" optimizations. It might seem minor, but man if she ain't screaming right now. I should mention I have an AMD RX 480 graphics card also. So I'm up-to-date in that world and enjoying the best of team red and blue right now. New drivers, software, kernels, and optimizations keep coming out that make my current hardware faster. But then came Spectre and Meltdown lol.
Both sides are criminalized in the US
IIRC for me it was a one time fee of 1 USD.

They implemented this fee whenever they were growing too fast and needed to slow they growth to keep their servers in check. At other times it was free.
The Future of the Java Platform and the JDK: Who Is in Charge? [video]
I have abandond Google and exclusively use DuckDuckGo. If Google wasnt giving search away for free to take users to the cleaners behind their back, there would actually be healthy competition in search and you would definitely not need to pay $500/yr.
Show HN: Quantius – Turn your images into data
How to sync files between locations with git-annex
Japanese children pass on horror of Nagasaki bombings
The Meltano team loves dbt. Thanks for making and maintaining it. Maybe the best open source project in the data space.
Which is the problem.
How do I know that a story I read yesterday has changed? Am I supposed to go back and read stories like this every day for some indefinite period?
Just remember,

http://funroll-loops.teurasporsaat.org/
> I've driven a stick-shift for a while in the past and always wondered if there was a way to capture the engine power when you downshift for engine braking coming up to a red light. Not sure how it would work though.

Flywheels could work, but they are heavy, and have a potentially unsafe failure mode (dense material disintegrating at high RPM).
Thanks. That is exactly the plan.
Sounds like EE.
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> The terms do not say that you can't have other means of distribution just that you can't link to them through the MS app or the listing page.

That's not what the policy says. It says, if you app process some sort of payment(policy 10.8) then it has to be distributed only through MS Store(policy 10.8.5).

Edit: removed duplicate word
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How do I know that the story has been updated since I read it? Am I supposed to read every story every day to make sure that I see future updates?
I don’t understand the MBA hate here. The WhatsApp founders don’t have MBAs and sold their company to Facebook for 19 billion. They wanted to be that rich. Nothing to do with MBAs.

Also let us be clear. Engineers are no saints either. Case in point Anthony Levandowski of Otto. Orchestrating one of the shadiest acquisitions to make a quick buck.

Folks have pointed out below that the issue of growth is not necessarily an mba or maximizing shareholder thing. In some competitive environments if you don’t do it, you will die. That said one can always do what DHH did with 37 signals...that was a specific choice. Nothing to do with having an mba or not.

One has to look at things with nuance, not just be black and white.
> Firstly in terms of market and brand perception Apple absolutely leads on privacy. That’s not really credibly contestable.

I'd say it's highly contestable, especially since we have no actual direct proof that they do value privacy. Additionally, I don't care about brand perception, I care about reality.

> Next even if the source was published there’s no way to know of the published source is what is in the phones they sell.

So because they ship a poor OS that doesn't let you manage and control your own system means that there's no way to tell? Interesting, considering that a lot of other hardware works that way....

> This is just as true of an AOSP or any open source phone unless you literally audit the source and compile the whole stack from source yourself.

A) So? What if I want to do that?

B) The point of open-sourcing everything isn't so that everyone can audit everything everytime. It's so that we can audit when we need to. I would never buy a car that doens't let me pop the hood if I wanted to make modifications, why can't the same be true for Apple's products?

> However at least we have Apple on record and accountable, and it seems like their actual commercial interests align with their stated policies.

Their commercial interests actually align to look like they care about privacy, while actually double-dipping. Additionally, they still cater to governments.

> Going with them seems like a reasonable risk to take, especially considering how poor we know for a fact most of their competition is in this regard.

I completely agree that their competition is awful, but that doesn't in any way mean that Apple is good.

In the end, none of what you said refutes my point: You are still reliant on Apple being honest.
I remember being a kid in the 80s and grabbing a free Houston Press [1] whenever I could.

Besides the great Alt-Comics section with Life in Hell and Red Meat, they had a sprawling "personals" section that read like a BDSM and fetish smorgasbord. Nobody seemed to mind that.

[1]https://www.houstonpress.com/
Q&A: Google Cloud CEO Diane Greene on the Future of the Cloud
The MMF is Launching
Yeah. :/

I was aware of this already—thanks for bringing it up though, since I think it’s important that people be aware of it. Unfortunately I haven’t found an equally effective yet safer replacement for nausea & allergies. Ginger works pretty well, but iirc that’s because it’s also a mild anticholinergic/antihistamine.
Programmable collective behavior in self-assembled mobile microrobotic swarms
> The best thing as a maker is finding a welcoming community

Even better would be learning to be completely immune to harsh criticisms that are not constructive. i.e. not giving them any more emotional validity than they deserve.
I will be over the moon if my novel sells 100k. From what Stross has blogged, I’ve been limiting my fantasies to no more than 10k, and suspect that 1k is much more likely.
Why not talk about usenet/early www? Just because you can sweep it away doens't mean it didn't exist
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Rescreening those from feeder airports is going to be a huge cost/rebuild at every hub I've been to.
Pyramid schemes all eventually fail.
Agreed but it's not that black and white. The overall success of the decriminalization also depends on the culture and education level of the populace and the ability of the govt to enforce the laws. From, what i remember of my talk with ngo friends in india, in a poor developing country like india or bangladesh, legalization of prostitution would actually increase the trafficking.

Similar reason why allowing everyone firearms works in Scandinavian countries but is an issue in the US
updating the framework version is like.. literally the last try-something thing to do though.
> In the Chinese case, the Chinese government gets to choose what is censored and any search engine has to censor the same things, whereas in the US it would presumably be Google that gets to decide what to censor and so someone could conceivably go to another search engine to avoid it.

I don't think that's true.

Google (and any other search engine) is compelled by US law to take down content that violates copyright. In China, Google will be compelled by Chinese law to take down content that e.g. criticize the government. See the similarities?

Sure, you could argue that taking down copyright infringing content is ultimately good for society, while taking down content critical of the government is bad for society, and yes I am of that opinion myself.

But this is a subjective moral judgement, and not a universal truth. And just like there are people in the US who morally object to copyright enforcement, you will find people in China who do _not_ morally object to censorship, at all.

In any case, it's not like Google is making any _less_ information available to Chinese internet users by operating in China. Whatever will be censored was already inaccessible to Chinese internet users, because Baidu, Bing and so on are already applying the same censorship anyway.
Because we can be better human beings by helping each other. Those private medallion holders made a mistake by putting all their eggs in that one nest, sure. But should the result of it be their lives ruined because "you lost the game, screw you"?

I realize a reply to this can be that bail outs lead to increased risk taking. I would still argue that it's better to risk the system and help those who can not recover from this kind of loss.
They'll only have to fix the few thousand that still have the emissions equipment installed.
> "Actor systems can perform computations that are impossible by Turing Machines"

As a turing machine can compute anything that is computable it is therefore impossible for an Actor to do any computation that is not possible by a turing machine. This is computer science 101 and makes me wonder about the value of anything else said in the paper.
New 5G Hurdles
Battle field 4 and battlefield 1, both of those games max out my cpu (3570k overclocked to 4 Ghz) and leave my 1070 twiddling it thumbs based on task manager and software to see GPU utilization.

Either my cpu is slower than it should be, your cpu is faster than it should be, or you don't check out one of the poster child's aaa game series.
Not to be pedantic, but 20 years ago the idea of having a microwave sized device on your desk that could make anything you wanted out of plastic seemed so impossible that someone could have (and probably did!) published firearm CAD files online and people would have laughed it off as well.

I wonder if in the future we will think back to this comment and say "man, we were so short sided to not recognize the emerging hobby of home nuclear fission!"
I've found reddit to be substantive, sometimes on par with HN, but filled with jokes. Depending on the subreddit, you may be able to scratch your itch there.
That is the funniest thing I've read in ages! What a jab in the heart!
Ignoring the fact that Auto ML can't have an impact is how Nokia and Blackberry laughed at iPhone that "huh! who'll use a full-touch phone". Data Scientists by profession are really insecure about this fact of Auto ML hence making a claim that can free up their mind.

Data Scientists in many companies have become close to what SQL Job or any web script job runners used to do and then CRON jobs came into pic and that's what Auto ML will do here with a a set of sequential steps replacing mundance ML activities.
Scientific reasoning is a rare skill. I'm regularly met with bafflement and blank stares when I suggest that we measure something to determine performance, then perform the same workload, on the same hardware, after making a change.

I've literally had people try to make conclusions on comparisons of test runs with completely different parameters, different data sets, different resources, different versions of code, absolutely everything varying.

My head just explodes... I wamt to scream that this isn't how this works, it's not how any of this works.
Vintage Computer Festival West in the Bay Area This Weekend
Ubuntu 10.10, huh.

I'm not old enough to have experienced that, but I can say that we have the same thing happening with 16.04

They had it almost perfect and decided to throw it all out.

History does repeat itself...
Ah good call, didn't see that. Nevertheless, her scribe did an amazing job!
Aww! Thanks ;-)
I'm really just calling out the spelling in the gp comment.
it was an exciting process, now we did it.
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Position: Mobile Security Researcher/Pentester (Android and iOS)

Job Description:

Gemalto provides mobile platform solutions to various industries, including governments and banks, across the globe. This role is very specific to mobile platforms- Android & iOS. The core responsibilities are:

- Perform pentesting on mobile products
- source code reviews
- Risk Assessment
- Researching on new attack and defense techniques for mobile applications.
- Act as consultant to internal teams and provide advise for best security practices, applied crypto, authentication, secure programming etc.
- Reverse Engineering mobile application (native, Java, ObjC).

Desired Skillset:
- Understanding of the attack paths on mobile applications
- Understanding about common OS exploits: Jailbreaking/Rooting/Flashing a device, custom kernels, custom ROMs, hooking frameworks
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- Knowledge of classic attacking techniques: data cloning, reverse engineering, traffic interception, hooking, debugging (like gdb, jdb, other tools like Burp suite, Substrate, Frida, Cycript, IDA etc.)
- Knowledge of iOS/Android security frameworks – their implementation and mitigation controls
- Knowledge about applied cryptography and best practices.
- Experience with reversing obfuscated code (C, Java, ObjC) using tools/techniques like symoblic execution, unicorn etc, is a plus.

It is a small well managed team, with challenging work and mostly involves working independently. Training and attending conferences opportunity is provided.

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That's the thing though: If you're a big company, your site being down is much scarier than a 100x bill.

When you're an individual, the potential for a $10k bill is much scarier than your hobby project going down.

When you're a small org/startup, the potential for a $75k bill is probably still scarier than your site going down.
I feel like what they are describing is what xubuntu already is....still I'd love to see some more power give to the DE
I agree with you. There are so many ways to make this infinitely more efficient. For starters, why are they re-calculating and re-rendering the value every time they get a new donation? Also, they could store those values in a more cold&cached-storage and just make the reads to update from Firestore.
Don't use a freaking database that is charging you for every single read and write, to deal with mundane client-side renderings.