skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I make about $800/month selling place card templates and formatting at https://www.placecard.me/.

I started the project last year and made $3 in my first six months. But have seen pretty decent slow and steady growth since then.

I've written extensively about the process on my website (http://www.coryzue.com/writing/) and on indie hackers in case interesting to anyone.
It's like the Sony Let's Play thing all over again.

Honestly though, I do have to wonder why anyone can trademark common phrases at all. Why not just accept common usage means prior art and they're automatically deemed invalid? Like with the invalidated patents being applied for again thing it makes you wonder who the hell even likes this system.

Honestly, at least one political party should make it a policy to rip up most existing IP laws and rewrite them to be sane again. Just ignore the lobbying, ignore the corporations and go back to step 1.
> IIRC seL4 had a couple bugs where the code _and_ the formal model both got it wrong in the same way, and it therefore passed the proof.

I haven't heard this one yet. How did they find it, then?
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I think that what you mean is that being active non-stop is a natural state. Perhaps even being usefully active. But latching on to a single activity to the detriment of all other aspects of your life, and then collapsing on the couch for the remainder of the time, is anything but.
Japan to add millions of new nodes to federated Nextcloud network
US boarders have long list of questions you are supposed to be asked every time you enter country, but because its over 800 questions, its impossible and impractical to ask everyone. Someone who travel with entirely wiped out phone is an exception of the rule, I imagine.

Sample of questions:

- have you ever been associated with Nazi party?

- have you ever been associated with any Cuban government agency?

- do you know anyone that is terrorist?

Etc. Some questions repeat later on, some are constructed different way but ask the same. All questions are only YES or NO. And you clear if you have all NO checked.
I agree that probably working on bash feels more snappy but Jupyter is not that clunky as you mentioned. My laptop is a mediocre one and I can run the Jupyter, navigate to the code and open the editor in total like 3 seconds.

In my experience, kernels work just fine unless you are doing something you shouldn't. My kernel problems occur at points where I have a memory issues. Though I agree with you that you don't understand what's wrong once the kernel dies.
Elon Musk has an obvious technical competence that's very appealing to those who appreciate those skill sets. It's like Paul Graham -- when you listen to him speak, he's mostly soft-spoken and measured (I have no explanation for Musk's Twitter, which seems much more... hyperbolic). It's clear to me this isn't charisma exactly -- he doesn't strike me as charming, just like he cares a lot about understanding his businesses in tremendous detail.

You're absolutely right that this shouldn't matter. But since charisma _does_ matter, the SEC just has to paint him as an angry anorak trying to punish short sellers. I don't think that picture is hard to paint (I can't see into his mind, so obviously I have no idea if it has even the smallest element of truth).
Other kinds have existed.

Ternary computers [0], where the most famous examples come from the Soviet Union.

And whilst I'm not aware of any computer that used the quaternary numerical system, it should be possible.

However, none of that necessarily means it's a good idea or necessary to perform quaternary logic.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ternary_computer
I put originalist in quotation marks for a reason.
I got my break working for a startup that went big, but without any equity. The CEO asked me to work on his next startup, and I did so.

I worked every hour, of every day for over a year to try and make things successful. It was never enough, and I felt like a failure regularly. It destroyed my personal life, and I still feel like there are ramifications from it.

Finally they questioned the hours I was billing, from the minor level of pay + equity, they didn't feel the output was enough. I quit on that point, having given so much, and then to have to defend myself.

It was a disaster, that in some small part ruined my life. I mean, I'm fine. Life is great, but it took some measure of life out of me.

They ask me to come back regularly, and I always say no. They have twice said they'd give me more equity with no strings attached just because of the work I had done, and then never said anything about it again.

I have no idea if the equity will ever amount to anything, but I learned my lesson. It just isn't worth it, under any respect. Sacrificing for some dream that isn't in your hands is a fools errand.

They can talk about whatever millions they want to from your equity. It can never make up for the destructive aspects you do to yourself to obtain it.
You are only focused on the language grammar, instead of the full development experience.

This is what most people miss when comparing languages.
Thanks for bringing this up. I wonder how the naming conventions could be improved? 1.2 does mention that this is a list of public keys identified by fingerprints:

> 1.2 The term "keylist" is defined as a list of OpenPGP public keys identified by their fingerprints ...

Does this imply that the public keys themselves are included?
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Although being a 'leftie' myself, the writer of this article has no problems applying tactics that would make fascists turn green of jealousy. Any attempt to argue with facts are served off with 'misogynistic'. That's not how you debate.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angela_Nagle
http://zero-books.net/blogs/zero/angela-nagles-state-regardi...
http://zero-books.net/blogs/zero/our-response-to-charles-dav...
I don't understand, why did Red Hat need to start shipping their RHEL kernel source pre-patched just because Oracle started providing commercial support for RHEL? I don't understand how shipping pre-patched vs not pre-patched kernel source is related to Oracle providing support.
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If you are the sole person responsible for the main feature of a startup, and it isn't completed, you know that the only thing you can do is put every hour you have into it to try and make it work.

That is what is so hard.
Not sure that suing is in their strategic interest. Do they publish the oracle Linux kernel prepatched? If so, they wouldn’t want to set a precedent that Red Hat is breaking the GPL.
The iPhone connects to the baseband via an internal USB connection, so the baseband doesn't have full direct memory access to the phone
It's not a pure hypothetical, large parts of contemporary Chicago were built up a level.

The results are mostly "garden apartments" which are damp, dim, and slightly less expensive.
https://www.ox.ac.uk/admissions/graduate/courses/msc-softwar...

University of Oxford Master’s in Software Engineering
... However, more extensive experience may compensate for a lack of formal qualifications, and a strong, immediately-relevant qualification may compensate for a lack of professional experience.
You might instead want to make a looser pays rule standard for patent suits, due to their special notions for who has standing.
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This is the weird part about the internet of things. No one has any generalized rule for differentiating which things should be smart, and which things should stay dumb.

One thing that consistently jumps out at me, though, is the lack of legitimate consumer demand. The motives for buying smart devices are shallow, for the individual. Trying out new toys with disposable income, purely out of boredom, tends to sum up why most people opt for slightly smarter dumb things.

I can think of many powerful applications for smart devices, and almost none of them are in the home. Parking garages, or almost anything transportation related, short term lockers at public places like gyms, any hospitality setting, where nothing actually belongs to an individual, but routine maintenance is required. Any vending machine is kind of already on the internet. Break rooms in office settings, and so on.

In some respects, I don't even want my desktop computer to be an autonomous internet enabled device, and it's the smartest thing I own. I don't regard it as a reliable server of information. I don't want anything personal to become a reliable server of information, because any information it might serve is almost assuredly, implicitly personal.
Ask HN: Good books leading technical teams
I just got a job where I will be leading other technical employees to develop secure software and correct vulnerabilities.

I wondered if anyone had any good book title recommendations on this topic or even more broadly scoped?

Thanks
> And I'm not taking off the dangerous lead weights ballencing my tire rims on the drive to work

Yes you will, because they are being banned in a growing number of states and countries. Lead weights are already illegal in the EU and in several of the most populous states in the U.S.

> because I want to live.

That's silly. Unbalanced wheels are annoying, but they aren't dangerous unless the shimmy is extreme, like when you have a lot of mud stuck in your wheels, in which case wheel weights won't help anyway.
Birds also have vastly more mobility at lower time energy and risk of predation.
Doesn't everyone imagine themselves to be one of the 'good guys'? Surely the 'bad guys' in your example will also be telling themselves they just have to do some bad things to defeat a truly bad foe.

Does it even make sense to speak of 'good guys' who do bad things? Intentions count, but at some point I don't find it unreasonable to call someone who is doing very bad stuff a bad person, no matter how they rationalize it to themselves.

Which ethical theory are we using, anyway? Sounds like consequentialism is assumed?
Javascript Fundamentals: ‘this’ keyword
I've been looking for a tool like that for a while for a small open source project. Most of the other logo generators I've found only give you a single file and then you're on your own.

This one generates an archive with a few interesting alternatives like a favicon or a transparent background version. For someone not versed into graphic design this is helpful.
The Oscar Wilde of YouTube fights the alt-right with decadence and seduction
LaTeX Coffee Stains (2009) [pdf]
I suspect it is a cache if visited pages or something like that.
NoSQL to RDBMS Stories
> The Jupyter notebooks are version controlled like my .py modules.

That's interesting, could you give us some more details ? Last time I tried to put a Jupyter notebook under git it was as mess. Do you use another tool than git or have they made tools to help with version control ? Or is it just your workflow that helps, like emptying all cell results before saving ?
> Python was designed for scripting.

Can you provide a citation?
This is staggering. Crossing the border gives the government freedom to do whatever they like, privacy be damned.

(Looks like the submission was missed; really needs to get to the front page)
LOL FML Chanel tried to copyright the word “jersey” it’s no coincidence that it’s one of the Chanel island...
Probably worth mentioning that this article is from 2016, but I'm sure not much has changed.

In fact, this article may have been inspired by a much longer piece from the previous year (1) which focuses on the kinds of dropout teens that Peter Thiel would later come to encourage to head west. Fascinating read.

(1) https://stories.californiasunday.com/2015-06-07/real-teenage...
> 6/8 is skiddledeediddledee - often used in folk and/or ethnic music. It's a much lighter, more skittery feel.

There are two common forms of 6/8 (jigs) at least in the kinds of traditional music I'm used to: single jigs and double jigs. A double jig is "skiddledeediddledee" as you said, like the song "99 bottles of beer on the wall", while a single jig is more like "humpty dumpty".
Imagine something as your parent with a gui.
It doesn't remove it completely, but it goes a long way towards removing incentives to deplete the public schooling system from resources.

As more and more people in position to support campaign donations have no (perceived) stake in public school, there is less incentive to adequately fund it. What you create is schools for a minority of the poor that are left with whatever is left when everything the people politicians hear care about is funded.
This was the era before UAC...
Data 8: The Foundations of Data Science
The lawyers they have on staff wouldn't otherwise be shooting pool and drinking beer, they'd be doing useful things for the company. There's a big (opportunity) cost.

Plus lawyers are not all interchangeable, just because you have people who know employment law or how to M&A didn't mean they are good at fighting patents on court. AFAIK they're usually externally firms, not in-house lawyers
> My car have scratches from my fingernails near the door handles

Professional car painting is expensive for avoiding things like that. There are a lot of super-cheap brands also of course, but in the end, you have what you pay for.
It depends a lot on where you are. Driving a riced out car in the suburbs carries a subtly different status message than driving a Maserati in the center of town.

You absolutely can signal status with a car in a way that will convey what you want. Look at me, I'm interesting, I'm worthy of getting to know. Admire me.

It's just a lot more expensive than the attention is worth. That's the only real problem with cars. A watch and a pair of nice shoes sends that message for way way cheaper.

And even then, it's only one brick in the wall. You also need personal style, and interpersonal style as well. Somebody who is really status conscious will weave all those things together in a way that is so compelling to look at, it's really like you're looking at a movie star that just stepped out of a screen. You can't look away, it's enthralling. Magic happens around them.

Yes, the car you drive matters when you're playing at that level.
I love jupyter notebooks, but unfortunately the code editor is unusable to me. I cannot stand the bizarre parenthesis auto-completion, and the autoindentation settings; and there's no easy way to remove them.
Public education is an important issue and I don't believe a coherent (if wild) argument for improving it should be flagged. If it generates heated arguments, those should be dealt with one by one.

We'll need to have this discussion at some point.
Treaties have to be ratified by the US Congress, and I doubt relinquishing sovereignty was ever in the cards (no matter who is president).
It seems to me that the main source of confusion is about the independence of Redis from Redis Labs.

To you Redis is an independent open-source project, to which Redis Labs generously donates your salary so that it you can work on it full time.

But to most people online, that is not immediately obvious: because of the company name, you working at Redis Labs, and them being the main sponsor, Redis is seen as the "open-source core product" of Redis Labs. https://redislabs.com/community/oss-projects/ also strongly leaves that impression - it even says that to contribute to Redis you have to sign the contributor agreement with Redis Labs.

Once you have that impression, it's natural to assume that Redis + Redis Labs modules are part of one product family, and that the roadmap for both is being planned based on the business goals of Redis Labs.
>In my experience, kernels work just fine unless you are doing something you shouldn't.

Here's the thing. I'm sure many of the complaints I voiced can be chalked up to lack of experience. But even if it weren't for the issues about documentation and troubleshooting, I'd still have yet another tool to manage, learn to use, learn best practices, etc. Instead of just getting things done with my tool it just gets in the way and tells me there are things I should and shouldn't do. It takes time to learn about it.

And now, I'm not sure the investment is worth the effort. Despite its warts, everyone uses bash and it's really easy to learn about it and translate that knowledge into many applications. And, it does the job when I ask it to. Same for Python, IDE/editor usage, LaTeX, and all the other toys in your typical academia toolbox. I'm all for learning. But time is short, deadlines loom close, and the good enough is often the better's worst enemy. And when it turns out the better isn't actually better, welp.
Context matters, indeed.
Main issue seems to be quality of Model 3s and

> Tesla’s pitch for several years has been that the company will grow to 1 million unit in sales in 2020. With a potential future China factory not producing any meaningful quantities of cars until 2021, investors need to downgrade the growth prognosis from 1M cars in 2020 to 600K cars in 2021.
I don’t provide citations for such obvious things. If you’re interested, you can find the origin story as written by Guido himself in Python FAQ using any of the available search engines.
A human sees a 3D scene with objects, creatures, texture and lighting (and it evaluates the scene based on these concepts and how they related to each other even if it's never seen green fields, sheep, dry stone walls or fog before).

The computer generally sees a set of pixel values, and takes a plenty of training to distinguish between "sheep" and "field the same shade of green as usually found in images containing sheep" because it doesn't have an innate concept of animate objects and habitats, how they relate to each other and which is more important. Whilst the computer's busy seeing a white pile of stones as a false positive for the presence of sheep, the human's looking at the way the stones are piled as possible evidence of human activity and noting the presence of droppings in the foreground might mean sheep were here recently.

(of course, it's not entirely impossible for computer vision systems to deal with higher levels of abstraction: autonomous vehicles model the world in 3D and classify objects as vehicles in order to predict their near future behaviour and signals in order to regulate their own behaviour, but that goes well beyond mere learning processes. And of course a pixel-by-pixel understanding of the world has its use cases in spotting changes in colour and texture which are so subtle humans abstract away from, like crop discolouration on satellite images or cracks in rough surfaces)

We're much better at abstraction than other animals too: show us a 20,000 year old cave painting and we'll easily grasp that it was produced by humans and the lines represent shapes of animals broadly similar to today's livestock. Same goes for 2000 year old marble bas reliefs. You might well be able to train an algorithm to recognise "paintings of animals" and "carvings of animals", but you'll struggle with a training set consisting purely of photographs of real world livestock
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Even if the session key for voice calls were shared, what use is it if the audio is sent peer to peer and never hits Facebook's servers?
The social brain hypothesis is on a pretty weak footing, since schools of fish, flocks of birds, herds of ungulates, and swarms of insects all manage to socialize in largish groups that don't correlate especially well with disproportionately large brains.
So you basically admit that pentesting is useless, because they have to follow the rules which the blackhats won't even think twice about.

It's pentesting not penthieving. That's like saying military training is useless because they don't actually kill people.
"The periods of depression in my life were quite safe and comfortable"

The problem is many find a way out of depression via suicide, so that is a very real danger for the chronically depressed.
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Go 1.11 is released
I think there is a difference between inventing and commercializing.

Think of it like that: if you park your cars with the keys in it somewhere you could say that it will be stolen eventually by someone. But someone could also call the police and handle it properly.

Thus, you could argue: if it is unethical and inevitable, then commercializing it first is a good measure of how unethical you are and should be prosecuted.
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His work was never peer reviewed if I recall so it is suspect. Can anyone provide more info on the validity of his work and research methodology?
I don’t think you wanted two “not”s in that comment (or else I don’t understand; please expound).
> There's no real security difference and the documentation makes this quite clear.

Only once you've dug deep enough. The page you linked to doesn't mention security at all. It does say: "Except for some types of files on external storage, all these options are intended for app-private data—the data is not naturally accessible to other apps." Elsewhere, it mentions that files on external storage are world-readable, but that's not a problem here. The fact that they're also world-writable is left unsaid.

Going another layer deeper into the docs at https://developer.android.com/training/data-storage/files we get this: "Private files: Files that rightfully belong to your app and will be deleted when the user uninstalls your app. Although these files are technically accessible by the user and other apps because they are on the external storage, they don't provide value to the user outside of your app." That doesn't clearly warn that "private" files on external storage will be modifiable by other apps while you're still trying to use them.

Only by going all the way down to the documentation for getExternalFilesDirs() itself do you get a reasonably sufficient and clear warning: "There is no security enforced with these files. For example, any application holding Manifest.permission.WRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE can write to these files."

For someone coming to Android programming with the knowledge that it's Linux-based with a fairly strict permissions model, and with so many mentions of "private" storage in the high-level docs, it's a surprise to discover that there are no file permissions enforced on "external" storage.
there are 2 kinds of startups: those with shitty software, and those with shitty software and customers
London salaries are surprisingly low to this US-based employer with employees in a handful of cities around the world.

I was expecting “NYC salaries” and instead found more like “Atlanta salaries” which I can’t figure out how the economics works for London-based employees.

Given that, lots of US employers with remote work available will be able to hit London salary level I think.
There’s nothing obvious about this. Hate is entirely in the eye of the beholder, and is no different from the idea of “offensive”. People are free to, and routinely do, read hate into all sorts of things where it’s not at all obvious whether it was intended.

You also won’t be able to prove that hate it always wrong. Is it OK to hate Nazis? Is it OK to hate people that have harmed you? Is it OK to hate people that want to harm you? Is it OK to hate people that hate you? There is no obvious place at all to draw the line on that.

Finally, all facts are disputable. There are entire disciplines devoted to disputing facts. Science, philosophy and logic all revolve are hypothesising, disputing and falsifying facts. In the centuries that humans have been pondering logic, the combined efforts of everybody who has ever lived have yet to produce a single objective truth.

Asserting that people should hold the ‘correct values’ before being entitled to express themselves is simply asserting that your own orthodoxy should be universally enforced. This idea comes directly from Orwell in the form of ‘wrongthink’.
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