skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, termtosvg is a really good solution to this problem!

Here's an example with a pause/play button:

https://rawgit.com/nbedos/termtosvg/develop/examples/awesome...
free healthcare... free college...

Don’t you mean taxpayer funded?
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I work for startups because middle management is a mind numbing disease. I certainly am not maximizing my potential earnings, but I'm maximizing my happiness and I find it really fulfilling to take pride in my work and leave the office knowing I accomplished something.
The distinction is tools of force vs other.
Thanks for the links. It's sort of sad when, knowing how much precision work went into assembling and installing one of those old KS15667s, you then watch them being unceremoniously demolished with blow torches.

Wonder if a some point it may be possible to synthesize a compact, ultra wide-band, minimal side loops ultrahorn for HF. Focused 24dBd signals on 20 meters without the need for a yagi antenna farm would be nice.
> Lately I spend more time on acceptance tests, which I do often write first. I use unit testing for non-trival logic.

What's the difference between acceptance tests and integration tests?
It is declining. Much of it has to do with the way agriculture works in that it takes far fewer people to run than ever before and the pay hasn't ever been good. The ones close enough to a major city to be competitive in terms of housing and schooling can stay afloat for while.

But if there are fewer jobs, the weather isn't that great, and you have to travel for an hour or more to get your needs met, it becomes much harder to keep a town running.
i do think they should follow the same rules if they are to occupy the same space.
I’ve only used Ubertooth [0] to sniff BLE. I was not very impressed with its ability to follow connections (it would frequently miss the connection exchange due to channel hopping).

Can using multiple micro:bits at once with BTLEJack increase the success rate?

Most BLE diagnostic equipment that guarantees capture of all traffic costs over $10k.

[0] - https://github.com/greatscottgadgets/ubertooth
> The reason we have these big evil hierarchies, where the poor are dispossessed and a small group of tycoons at the top make the decisions, is because they have a track record of good decisions.

Good decisions FOR THEM.
The problem is not data modelling. The problem is ensuring eventual consistency and synchronization of data in multiple datacenters around the world.
> For the rest of us, it's a nice convention where we can talk to real engineers and security researchers about problems that affect us

Good for you. I'm glad you got a chance to talk to real engineers and security researchers about problems that affect you. I hope you feel more secure as a result.

There are a number of other attendees who would also like to discuss the security problems that affect them, such as the notion that putting up a DnD sign on your hotel door is an implicit expectation that random men will corner you in your room. If these visitors aren't who they say they are, the only way out is through them. It being a convention of professional hackers, the fact that the only thing between you and an intruder is an electronic lock does not bestow much confidence in one's security.

Is it ok with you if we discuss this for a bit? Hopefully it doesn't get in the way of the important engineering and security research weighing on your mind.
I've lost count of all the side-channels that have been discovered since Meltdown/Spectre, and to be honest, I quite frankly really don't care any more than I did before... I don't run untrusted code (yes, that includes JavaScript) and I'm the only user of my PC. Since Intel first introduced "protected" mode in the 286 I've felt the notion that it was only intended for protection against accidental errors, not deliberate maliciousness. From that perspective, all this "side-channel hide-and-seek" seems like an exercise in futility to add a level of security to something that was inherently not designed for such.

Since this attack goes directly to a physical address, it can in theory read any memory in the system. Notably, that includes data kept within an SGX encrypted enclave, which is supposed to be protected from this kind of thing.

Maybe one of the more positive things to come of this mess... and proof that DRM-enabling technologies will(should?) always be broken by design.
I see Reddit is leaking into HN again.

Whatever you think of Milton Friedman, he was right to equate political and economic freedom. There's no way you can do wealth redistribution on the scale these people are proposing while maintaining individual liberty.
That sounds pretty similar to most democracies.

New Zealand now has free tertiary education because of the last election. Sadly it does nothing for my $25,000 of fees I had to pay for my fancy piece of paper. That's almost half a house deposit in some parts of the country.
Anecdotal. I am slowly realizing that not many of the people I know like to rewatch things. For a while I told myself they don’t want to rewatch it so I shouldn’t force them to. But I realized that I was depriving myself from reliving the movies and the great scenes just because no one else rewatches them. It’s great to just put on a old movie and do chores. I recently watched The Dark Knight for like 8th time (last time was a couple of years ago) and I just enjoyed it.

Different strokes I guess?
Fuck SGX. Fuck it long and hard.

Breaking anything that enables DRM is a win in my book.
Nice tutorial!

Looking forward to the “a todo app won’t tell you much about how good a framework is” type midbrow dismissals. :)
Los Angeles is first in U.S. to debut subway body scanners
Another variation is what Popehat calls "the Rule of Goats" (easy to google, a bit NSFW).
For Blue Origin, they don't have any customers yet, so no income there. And it is public that Bezos just sold what, about a gigadollars worth of Amazon stock, presumably to dump into Blue Origin (which I think he's done about once a year?).
Wow there must be some vacancies in that building. When I've worked in similarly-sized buildings with full offices, the wait for the elevator was such that no one would have considered using it to descend 5 floors. Most people would have taken the stairs ascending as well.
I live in a public service town that's far more educated than the average city, a huge IT presence but it's mostly boring enterprise IT. Hard for "systems programmer" to stand up next to "diplomat" or "international anti-people-trafficking lawyer" in terms of party cred.
I don't doubt that there were heat deaths in summer (Europe sees them every year as air conditioning is not normal for many countries) but 15% a year is insane - you'd need to be at least an order of magnitude off to have a sustainable population.
False, basically on every count.

This attack has zero effect on connections established using mitm-protected paring method. This attack is a non-event to any device that follows proper security design as per BT spec
A while back I stumbled upon an interesting issue with a hacked Asterisk server. It was routing calls to FreeConferenceCall.com and other free conference numbers.

https://www.mnxsolutions.com/security/i-accidentally-recorde...
If you enforce license and insurance you have two forms of motivation for the person to operate safely... first they can lose said license and cause serious hardships on themselves if that is their primary mode of transport, and if they cause damage / act reckless their insurance can increase.

I'm also very confused by your statement -- you seem to think saying that these folks getting a license is not a good idea, and then turn around and say it needs to be harder to get a license?? which is it?
They are both, if either side requests it. If you do not, you deserve what you get.
A lot of us were around for '08, and while more rare there are still some holdovers from the original .com bust. The exponential growth of the field makes it skew young but you shouldn't assume HN has no wisdom at all on it.
I'm a random engineer and not a company spokesperson, but still - what did we do?
This is just the beginning...

http://flavorwire.com/319649/a-collection-of-the-worst-thing...

https://jezebel.com/377467/vs-naipaul-is-worse-than-mike-che...

Forces you to think about how hard it is to separate the artist from their art.
The problem is that what people in the company _as an aggregate_ is valuable, but each job is broken down into pieces that are less and less valuable so that no one person is irreplacable. This is Capitalism 101, and it makes each worker feel like their job is BS, but it keeps the company as a whole safe from a variety of problems.

My current solution is to basically be at a small enough company that I can actually see the impact of my work. Of course, that doesn't pay as well and it leads to other frustrations sometimes.
My immediate reaction to this is that this is ridiculous but there after thinking about it there might be some merit to this idea. Do you have any other resources or articles on energy efficient programming? I would like to explore this more.
I worked there when they went through all that around 2010.

It was fascinating watching it play out. They put a hard deadline of when stores needed to upgrade from the decades-old DOS system, and in the case of my store at least, forcibly transferred ownership to a different franchisee when the original owner refused to make the investment.

The new system was a completely bespoke store management system. POS, call routing, back office management, driver dispatch, scheduling, inventory management, commissary ordering, line management, and online ordering all integrated into a single system.

It even had built in adaptive labor management, using historical volume data to estimate expected scheduling needs, as well as live trend data that told you when to cut drivers. Which was rarely accurate, because it used average delivery times as an input, but corporate used average delivery times as an audit metric, so most stores gamed the dispatch system to goose their corporate audit scores (with the side effect of breaking the accuracy of all the labor management functions of the new system).

On the backend, it enabled a lot of neat data analysis that corporate could use to identify shady shit at franchises, like 2 minute long phone calls, an order that was punched in but never completed, yet inventory coming up short for that exact "canceled" order.

Having worked at a store that actively resisted the changes, then moving to a store where the franchisee embraced the new capabilities and shifted incentives to increase adoption, gave me an incredibly vivid view of how change management impacts projects. One of the experiences I could have asked for that earlier in my career.
I'd read through the Legal section at the bottom of the website (http://www.ycombinator.com/legal/).
T-Mobile claims they are only doing this on traffic pumped numbers that cost them significantly more than that to call, but from the little I've looked into it they're charging this fee on paid conference call numbers that cost $0.002/min to call in the ratedecks I've checked (after doing an LRN DIP of course).

I've reached out to T-Mobile's business team repeatedly on an account that I'm a POC on to get a full list of surcharged numbers, but they are unwilling to disclose this basic information. This kind of stuff is what keeps businesses on Sprint and Verizon, at least they know their NANPA calls will get delivered reliably without surprise surcharges!
I disagree with the premise that democratic socialists are conquering the left.
That's a very reasonable approach. The issue is that if this is extended to every person in society then the cumulative effect would be worse.

An issue where the incremental benefits to one individual may have negative externalities throughout the society as a whole,
they do explain it. gifs have there place but this may be too long for a looping gif, i believe a proper stream would have been better to display the commands and process.
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This is totally wrong information about the current state of affairs of India.

1. Ease of doing business

The Indian government had stopped LLP registrations all together for no official reason. For Pvt ltd registrations from past June 10th rejections to form a new company or even subsidiary company has skyrocketed.

Source: LLP halt is reported in media, which still has some spine to stand against the government. Regarding rejections, all data is hidden even from RTI but you can talk with literally any CA/CS to understand the nightmare of MCA.

2. Investors

Its straight 5th-year FII has removed billions of dollars from the Indian market. Still, Indian Sensex is surging on the wave of the domestic mutual fund industry. Those "mutual funds Sahi hai" ads didn't start out of nowhere. There's no problem with the rise of the mutual fund industry, but to use it as a parameter for Indian economy's performance is nuts. Actually, rational investors are actively avoiding the Indian market.

Source: moneycontrol.com

Regarding corruption, infrastructure, education, jobs, credit rates and liquidity and other macroeconomic parameters, in general, are totally telling a different story. It would be really good to have the facts for all of the above claims. If I get to see the facts, I'll be satisfied with the claims.

Wake up before its too late! I just want people to question their government rather than defending them, irrespective of any political party.

Edit: Fixed indentation.
I got rejected from YC at the interview stage, and Justin sent me the rejection email. Great frigg'n guy. I protested and he out-classed me by replying to my objection.

Also, this article is spot on. This is a back pocket article because this question comes up a lot.
You mean the Tidner that will make $800M in revenue [0] this year?

[0] https://www.recode.net/2018/8/8/17662746/tinder-revenue-matc...
.mp4 videos usually use h264 compression (and now h265 for 4K/HDR), which is not free or open source. .webm uses VP8 or VP9.
Huh. I wonder if it would be cheaper to do a ticket like

start -> actual destination (stay on train) -> overshoot destination (get off) (get back on) -> (turn around; begin return trip) -> actual destination (get off) (get back on) -> start

?

Seems utterly unintuitive, and it probably is, but I am curious.
You're right. I was imagining bitcoin replacing cash, not bank transactions. (I'm assuming Turkey is like most of the developing world, in that most transactions are cash.)

That said, while the timing of bitcoin might be similar to bank transactions, nobody would use a debit card that charged a flat $4 on every transaction.
I’ve tried repurposing a three-button guitar footpedal for FPS games before.

The connection for the pedal is TRS, with one button being ring, another sleeve, and the last both—so it ended up being useful for only two commands as the last button would be ghosted by pushing the other two simultaneously.

I used the pedal for left and right leaning and with melee in the center, but with the ghosting, I ended up dropping melee and just stuck with using it for only leaning.

I used an Arduino Pro Micro which supports acting as a keyboard and just soldered a TRS socket so I could just use a regular TRS cable to hook up the footpedal.

It’s a bit satisfying once you get it working and the project didn’t cost too much—maybe about $20 (found a cheap used footpedal) and enough games use “q” and “e” binds that I get to use it a bit.
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Precisely. Photons always move at c.
> Which is one of the big reasons I'm so desperate to move away from fusion360 for personal projects.

I understand the need here and would humbly suggest trying to support development of FreeCAD for this reason. - FreeCAD Dev
This is a fair comment and I'm not sure why you were downvoted. However it is not a single random event either. A continuous random process with memory would probably be the most appropriate model, and this would be what Vanguard and others use to make estimations of likelihood.
I tried to engage with you constructively. It’s too bad I failed.
In the time it took to write this comment you could have unpinned all those things from your start menu and never see them again, they aren't installed.

Most people customise a new computer in a myriad of ways, how is the start menu any different? Of course it is sleazy marketing dreamt up in a management meeting, but you chose to accept the defaults here.

It's like knowingly buying a bike with a flat tire then complaining to everyone it doesn't work instead of simply pumping up the tire.
Cubans cheer as internet goes nationwide for a day
The original goal of this interstate call pricing scheme was to help encourage universal POTS service through America without creating something like the Universal Service Fund, primarily leaving it to "free" enterprise to provide universal coverage, mainly through small, rural telco cooperatives in areas Ma Bell wouldn't service.

Eventually the USF was created to help the least connected areas that didn't have tons of urbanites calling to fund their local telco cooperative. Meanwhile, these interstate calling rates were layered with intrastate calling rates as the baby bells prepared for local loop unbundling, expecting competing telephone companies to mainly target consumers.

Instead, what happened is CLECs mainly focused on business, creating those classic 1000 free hour discs from AOL, NetZero and the like. This pissed the Regional Bell Companies (which were the fragments of Bell Systems) off quite a bit, and they've been pushing forward with bill and keep as much as they can ever since.

Bill and Keep is essentially we bill eachother, and its hopefully close enough to a wash that no checks need to be cut. Doesn't work out that way though when dealing with even the most benign of businesses as your primary customer, plumbers, pharmacies, medical practices and the like mainly take inbound calls.
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>It seems criminal that I can't leave my ebook collection to somebody after I die.

Technically, you could, but doing that would be.... criminal.
Are you suggesting that a closeted person has any sort of obligation to come out to (potential) bigots so that said bigots can attain a more enlightened worldview? It is not incumbent on marginalized people to teach their oppressors the errors in their ways, often at great risk to themselves.
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The prediction is that ride-hailing taxis will be ubiquitous and cheap once we have self-driving cars. Companies will be able to flood the city streets with them once they are purely a capital expenditure and they don't have to pay human drivers.

If self-driving taxis are ubiquitous enough, there could be very little wait time between hailing a taxi from an app on your smartphone and the taxi arriving at your location.

At some price point, it will stop making sense to spend $20,000-$30,000 to buy a car. And you won't have to pay for insurance or gas or wear-and-tear or parking. The car could be out making money instead of being parked 22 hours a day.

Businesses and apartments and home developers will stop building parking spaces and parking lots once self-driving taxis hit a sufficient threshold.

Finally, cars will solve transit's "last mile" problem. Instead of paying for a taxi from home to work, you can pay for a taxi from home to the Light Rail station.
Former NSA top hacker names the filthy four of nation-state hacking
I worked for a place like this briefly. Their big thing was that it was a “family company”. Cool stuff — except it’s not your family.
what are you the hulk? I can’t twist a Ticonderoga
Does Pivotal have a list of resources/references to help new hires ramp up on TDD practices and principles that you can share?

My current plan is to finish reading and working through the examples in 'Growing Object Oriented Software, Guided by Tests' as that seems to be a very highly recommended book.
I think it really depends what your writing

I've come to the conclusion there's 4 different types of articles

- Personal stories

- News Stories

- Opinions

- Guides

Personal stories are generally the more interesting ones to read. Its mostly told from your perspective, and the things you learned and fucked up along the way. There really isn't a call to action here per say besides wanting to chime in with your similar experience(s). Its more for entertainment education purposes. Someone might gain insight by your stream of thought process and learn some tidbits of useful info. You write these mostly because you want to remember these war stories. Here's a good one https://medium.com/@noahbradley/how-i-became-an-artist-4390c...

News stories is just recent events and tradional reporting. Example with recent bridge drop in italy. Its all mostly unbiased factual information. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-45183624

Opinions are generally just that, opinions. This is all the medium articles you read online talking about how XYZ is the newest and best thing ever. You might reason through logic explaining the process of why you chose XYZ, its pros and cons to other closer equivalents. Things are generally told from your perspective and how your experience correlates to that decision. There might be a call to action encouraging others to do the same, or asking their opinions. Here's a good example of a strongly opinionated article https://medium.com/@robmuh/why-i-dropped-jade-pug-bf440c2269...

Guides is what this article talks about. It is mostly "know your audience". Its generally overall objective, and to the point. Its told mostly from the point of view of the reader. The word "you" is more used than "me" in these types of articles. How much jargon you use depends on your article. It could be mixed in with some ancedotal stories as well. It should be simple too. A good example of a the point article is this one: https://www.taniarascia.com/es6-syntax-and-feature-overview/
It still is appropriate because it's compensation for a job. VA benefits are part of the package deal a service member signs up for. Without those benefits the military would have to offer a higher salary to recruit the same number and quality of employees, at the margin at least.

It's like saying a government pension shouldn't be counted as part of the cost of employing government workers because the workers would still have to buy food and housing whether or not their career was with the government.
Gone! Where?
But how many people click the button to buy a license? :D
They might be more expensive to build, esp since customers may be more interested in having a tablet in their fridge than a repairable fridge.
I think I found what I want to do, but who offers this job position?
Hello all!

So in short after almost 5-6 years of working, I think I might have found what I actaully want to do!

Background, I am a web developer, worked in startups and big corps and then started also my own startup which ended :)

The problem is that I get easily bored, I need constant engagement and I do not mean this in the same way that job adverts list this. I need problems!

Recently I had the experience to help a company with their problems in terms of legal and due to my previous experience I knew who to call etc.

But in the end this is what I want to do. Get a problem, solve it and move to the next one, this is why I thought I liked development.

Now is there even such a thing? Is there a title a position who deals with this?

Thanks a lot!
I hear delay slots aren't so bad, and compiler optimizations have gotten really good since the itanium days when they last (half-hearted) tried vliw
Toll fraud is quite common due to the VOIP industry not valuing security. Combined with free conference calling numbers costing a bit to call (and calls to these numbers lasting a fair while), I'm not surprised that most of the traffic was headed to these numbers.