skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The title of this article is pretty misleading. There is no confirmation that the cell-site simulators disrupt emergency calls. Rather:

> Harris Corporation claims that they have the ability to detect and deliver calls to 911, but they admit that this feature hasn’t been tested.

The fact that the feature isn't tested is a serious concern, and should be addressed, but this headline is completely inaccurate, frankly dishonest, and reduces my faith in the EFF.

I understand where the EFF is coming from, and for the most part believe in their causes, but this sort of willfully dishonest headline just serves to reduce credibility. In the future when I see EFF articles with dramatic headlines I'm going to assume they're probably not what they seem and be less likely to read the article.

Fans of he EFF will forgive these sorts of inaccuracies. Skeptics will not - this sort of article just serves to drive reasonable but undecided people away from your cause.
The danger is of course that your tech bubble distances you from the place you are visiting, resulting in a duller experience.
It seems to have purpose-built interactions for certain kinds of diagrams, foremost flowcharts. This is a major benefit for those kinds of diagrams where you can then tailor the editing gestures towards things that make sense while editing, but of course may not work so well for general-purpose diagrams or other special kinds.
This is awesome!
(More in the spirit of visualizing Special Relativity: https://www.testtubegames.com/velocityraptor.html)
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I would suspect it is a function of how dangerous it is to eat the poop. For us it is risky to do so, therefore aversion evolved.
Boeing-backed startup Zunum is doing exactly that and is planning on delivering their first 12 seat aircraft to JetSuite in 2022.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zunum_Aero
Another lesser known survey analytics tool that just came out recently is Surveyking.com. They have a lot of really advanced features that some of the smaller companies don’t have and it was all coded by one guy apparently. From the pricing, it looks like they are only $19 a month for everything. https://www.surveyking.com/pricing
Curious, Why can't people annotate PDFs?
Your comment reminds of the total surprise hierarchies of supervisors and managers had in Indian public sector companies post the 92 reforms when they discovered their jobs were not needed, or even needed to exist.

Apparently managers(of managers of managers...) suddenly came to terms with the fact that the only thing they were doing is passing memos and approving leave requests. Generally a small additional meta responsibility existed which required them to make an entry into some register(Issuing a tool to a shop worker etc).

They also realized approving leaves, passing around memos and filling tables wasn't exactly a skill set anybody was looking to hire when they were fired. Most of them were in 40s, unprepared for retirement and angry there wasn't a market for their sort of entitlement.

Additional reading:

Richard arrived in Boston the day after the company was incorporated. We had been busy raising the money, finding a place to rent, issuing stock, etc. We set up in an old mansion just outside of the city, and when Richard showed up we were still recovering from the shock of having the first few million dollars in the bank. No one had thought about anything technical for several months. We were arguing about what the name of the company should be when Richard walked in, saluted, and said, "Richard Feynman reporting for duty. OK, boss, what's my assignment?" The assembled group of not-quite-graduated MIT students was astounded.

After a hurried private discussion ("I don't know, you hired him..."), we informed Richard that his assignment would be to advise on the application of parallel processing to scientific problems.

"That sounds like a bunch of baloney," he said. "Give me something real to do."

http://longnow.org/essays/richard-feynman-connection-machine...
Does Print Media in India have an expiry date?
I am not glossing over things. Nobody would want to live in the world like 100 years ago or even way before in time. We are just acting as spoiled brats.
First the Great Wall of China, Now the Greater Bay Area?
> How else would you explain the rise of HTML/JS/Electron and the fall of C++/Qt in the UI world?

Does this "fall" really exist though, or is it just the byproduct of extremely intense marketing from the HTML/JS/Electron software authors ? I'm pretty confident that there are more desktop software being written today in Qt than in Electron - but most of the time they don't end up plastered all over the interwebs for the simplest todo-list app.
You don't have to hire a DPO. You do have to appoint someone within your company to be resposible for data protection, which seems like good practice anyway.

You don't have to hire an expensive company to go through your systems. There is no such thing as GDPR "compliant" it is a series of steps for which a company can self-certify based upon the data they collect and the way that data is used. These steps are again good practice e.g. only collect the data you really need, database encryption, access controls and so on.

In terms of "nightmare letters" - your company should have a privacy policy which answers a user's generic concerns, again this is good practice. If a user requests a copy of their data or to have data removed this is a simple reapeatable process that you should design into your system from day one. Remember, the key premise of GDPR is "privacy by design". If you take that into consideration when designing and building your solution, you are 90% of the way there.

You don't have to constantly monitor 3rd parties privacy policies and update your own. Your privacy policy, which I think we all agree every company which collects personal data should have, can link to the privacy policies of the companies you send data to.
#No Fake News: End of Line for Hay'et Sl- Sham in Syria
Acid test: how many German military bases in the US?

[edit]: Rammstein is one of my all-time favourite band.
Even in ancient greece there were jokes.

Plato wrote about Thales:

"Thales was studying the stars and gazing aloft when he fell into a well; a witty and amusing Thracian servant-girl made fun of him because, she said, he was wild to know about what was up in the sky but failed to see what was in front of him and under his feet."
Russia requires the last 10 years. The people at the visa centre just told me to make up the dates if I couldn't remember them.
Personally not a huge fan of two-way binding. As someone who has come from the C#/XAML world (where two-way binding can be abused), I found the pure-functional component strategy for React and similar frameworks to be far, far simpler.

Now, I do agree that it can lead to a bit of boilerplate, but this extra verbosity helps keep a simple mental model for us to reason about. Two-way binding can get very complex when you can have weird cyclical state changes.
You're making me so happy, because the most frustrating thing for me is that, with how tied up in personal and cultural identity and self-worth it all is, few people are willing to admit or recognize this.

Economy, at its core, is a network of transaction predicated on value.

Value, at its core, is nothing more than a perception.
As someone who has carried a modern Android phone and modern IOS for not quite a decade, I do agree that IOS has some very odd UX choices.

The podcast app is like a puzzle game.
If you think this stuff is frustrating wait until you have to deal with government bureaucracy.
I think you need to experience more European tech companies. Crazy and new ideas are very much appreciated here, but they also have to be funded, you can't just go hog wild and worry about the budget later.

>"Risk-taking, innovation, doing crazy "unthinkable" things is something that has simply deserted the European DNA a long time ago"

I dunno, just off the top of my head, I'm thinking about Spotify, Skype, Sitecore, Endomondo, Just-Eat, Unity, Tradeshift, Trustpilot, GoMore, Zendesk, TC Electronic, Soundboks, Navision, Vivino, and that's just Scandinavian and primarily Danish(-started) companies off the top of my head.

Perhaps your beef is more with German corporate/startup culture, and not European culture in general? We're very different from North to South, East to West :-)
Ok, thanks for clarifying your comment!
The last thing Germany needs is more Berlin-style startups though. There's has to be a good middle ground between the encrusted industry giants that have all been founded in the late 19th century, and the all-bullshitting-no-substance world of "startups".
Ironically other systems programming languages developed outside AT&T walls since 1961 did not suffer from the majority of C's pain points regarding memory corruption.

I really wish Bell Labs had been allowed to sell UNIX.
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I found that for the time I was on the bike I just didn't have opportunity to graze!

So those long rides were really helping twice.
I only see Chromecast and Chromecast Audio on this page.
this is a very poor point. People who want to take risks prefer to take additional risks which can be prevented by cooperating with other people through a social security system?

Also, your health is not a calculated risk. Having a poor health (sometimes) just happens, even if your lifestyle is healthy.

This also ignores the massive social problems that are taken for granted in the US because of its non existant healthcare system for the poor.
The cadence of his speech in the video was clearly off. It was pretty jarring to me.

It didn't sound like the mom was buying it either. Her tone of voice was somewhere between "I'm going to play along with this" to "Dear god I think my son is on drugs again."
Ask HN: Webapp like CodeSignal.com or leetcode.com. how to implement a compiler?
Hello all,

Maybe one or the other can give me a hint.

My goal is to create a Webapplication like codesignal or leetcode for my final project of a 3months-coding-bootcamp.

I want to code it with Java, Spring boot, html, css and Javascript.

A Admin of this page should be able to upload problems/cases with test-cases.

A user should be able to write his code in a given method and once he submitted, the test cases should run his code.

But i am struggling how to approach it.
Like how can i implement a compiler in this construct?

Thank you very much in advance.
UK, same issue. Possibly only available on the US store, or similar?
US only, it seems.
I have now inserted some sound demonstrations into my blog post! You can now listen to what 1-dimensional (mon) and 2-dimensional (stereo) quasirandom sound might be like.

I will leave it to you to decide which ones you prefer, and maybe even think why some of the quasirandom sequences are more pleasant than others.

For those who have already visited the site, you may need to clear your browser cache to see/hear this update.
My opinion is that the GDPR over the long term, will hamper the ability of EU companies to do business on the world stage, even more than currently. But that's a completely different topic for another time.

I would argue the opposite. Most of the laws laid out in the GDPR were already laws in EU countries such as Germany and the Netherlands. Creating a single EU law should reduce the effort needed to launch a company that is compliant in multiple countries within the EU.

Also, you wont need a DPO if you don't process large quantities of PII. (https://gdpr-info.eu/art-37-gdpr/)

And you don't need to hire an expensive company to 'prepare' for gdpr. A conversation with a lawyer should suffice where you lay out how you (plan to) use or process PII.
> Research has consistently shown

Research on non-professional users run by mediocre UI "visionaries" trying to justify change for the sake of change (I am looking at you Jensen Harris).

The justification for ribbon UI is making it easy for people with tablets, with jittery hands unable to hit a menu item, and newbies -- and making it mandatory degraded the experiance of the 95% of regular users who are none of the above.

There is a good reason why my private computers still get Office 2003 installed by default, despite of all of its limitations at age 15...
Am I correct in my understanding that this will only work for Google devices? It states that, but at least for the physical U2F key I don’t see why that wouldn’t also work on a non-Google device.

EDIT: Revisting, it states anything running Google Chrome should also work. So I guess macOS should be fine, what about iOS?
People make choices based on multiple aspects, not just the political aspects you'd like to focus on.

Europeans tend to be nationalist and if you're from the "wrong" nation you feel that. In America you won't be treated with more respect if you're from Denmark and not Poland. So that's an aspect.
You, and others, gave additional reasons why the comparison goes moot.
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...in which case there would be no market for short-haul electric airplanes which would mean that not only those Norse 'hypocrites' but also all those other, less wealthy countries would continue to use B737 and A319/320 for flights which could have been flown on those machines.
The idea that free time should be filled with entertainment rather than intellectual activities and social engagement is surprisingly modern.

Even only 50 years ago, in many cultures, people were spending more time reading, writing songs and playing instruments, engaging in politics, doing home DiY, gardening, improvisational theater.
Vodafone bets on $8B merger to boost Australia business
They're just here to suck in the local talent, filter the best of them and "gently" nudge them towards a job in the US.

No one is saying there isn't eng. talent in Germany. They're just mistreated by the system.

And the valley tech giants know this very well and take advantage of it.
This is on the road map to 2.5, as stated e.g. in https://lwn.net/Articles/755207/
I don't see them either, it might be region-bound.
Pretty cool, I like that it comes with two keys at the start so you have a backup, unlike Yubi where I have to buy two before I can even get started in earnest. Still living the dongle life though, but it appears to come with its own usb a -> c adapter at least.
You're the reason why I said "almost" :-)

I don't think the majority thinks this way when they first build their career and look for places..

I'm heavily inspired by your learning 6 languages! I'm learning Danish as my first foreign language as an adult, and damn is it a struggle...
An attempt to compare writing JavaScript to designing our own chips is a typical response I see from certain individuals online all the time. No knowledgeable person would ever do such a thing but I see it on reddit, and other amateur forums, all the time.
I still have a hint that the larger and super-human scales that you refer to also lack a meaningful architecture in them. They don’t have something in them that would make a thinking sentient being like us(or me) find joy in participating.

That bettering of efficiency in super-human collections of stuff seems just like any other organization-it just strives for survival aka efficiency in a boring meaningless way.
That is because an API should express high-level concepts, not low-level implementation.

Just as the new WebExtensions API does. And as any hypothetical Slack API should.
Hooray! Been looking forward to this for ages. Serif are doing amazing stuff at the moment.

I can now completely drop Creative Suite...
>>So only engineering and production are 'real jobs' ?

To some extent yes.

But that covers start-to-end aspects of such jobs. For example, Courier is a highly productive work in the process of delivering iPhone to your door step.

Every job demands involvement of some kind of meta-coordination. Think of it like an operating system. The OS needs to manage things, and is a very important piece of software. But if it starts consuming most of the computer resources at some point in time you are doing a lot of things that don't have to be done.

Some jobs are that way.

In the Pizza job context. Something like 'Senior Manager Pizza deliver car inspector' would fit in the definition of a BS job.
It’s so big. Couldn’t they have come up with a more subtle form factor?
Even in the 70's there was NEWP, PL/I, PL/S, PL/8, Concurrent Pascal, Mesa, BLISS, Modula-2, ....

C wins them all in implicit conversions and opportunities for memory corruption.

Their major sin was to be tied to commercial OSes, instead of one with source code available for a symbolic price to universities.
We're not talking about individual preferences, but about country-size statistics here.

And statistically, my bet is that most folks will put their dislike of the US in the backseat when offered a 4x wage increase.
> Doesn't matter how rich and powerful you are, you have to hire layers of managements to run your organization. These managers get their share of status, power & money by managing more people. The people they manage also want to get into management, so more layers and departments will be created. You are also competing with other companies to keep your employees happy so that they keep making you richer, and for this you have to give them their share.

Sure, but there's competition there. If you can figure out how to achieve the same results with fewer layers of management, or have your management act more efficiently, you'll reap the rewards. So any bullshit managerial position is inherently unstable: as soon as one company figures out they can do without it, it'll vanish from the industry.

> The second thing is that if your plan worked (companies get rid of all bullshit jobs), then society would collapse. .001% of the people would end up with 99.999% of the wealth, everyone else in abject poverty. The more technology evolved, the more extreme this inequality would become.

We're at pretty close to full employment, which suggests there's plenty of genuine work to be done. Remember that eliminating bullshit jobs wouldn't lower productivity (by definition), so redirecting that effort into productive work would massively boost overall productivity and be good for everyone. Even if we were to run out of productive work (which seems a long way off), surely we can find better things for idle people to do than sitting around and obstructing the productive people.
Transform any hands-drawn design into a HTML code with AI
The Bluetooth one works for iOS. I'm not sure about connecting a USB one in some way - haven't tried.
People Hacks for Technical Leads
Why startups are leaving Silicon Valley
Unconventional Parallelization of Nondeterministic Applications [pdf]
Vaccines mean healthier children, and healthier children leads to a reduction in the number of births a family living in a high-childhood-mortality-rate region will have so that some of their children survive.

He's talking about reducing childhood mortality and population growth, not reducing population outright.

If someone can't tell the difference between "reducing population" and "reducing population growth" then I don't think they're qualified to opine on Bill Gates' motives.
I'd love to read ideas for improving the design of Transportr, a FOSS public transport app for Android (https://github.com/grote/Transportr)
International Space Station Status: minute pressure leak
> I have to ask - does anyone actually use half of the C++ features? Exactly how much of C++'s 1600-page specification can be attributed to its success?

do you also use all the classes of Python or Java's standard library ? C++17's spec is ~1400 pages (http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2017/n471...) but the actual language spec stops at page 406, the remaining 1000 pages are the specifications for the standard library.
And in these 400 pages of specs, there are a lot of examples, grammars... just look at the chapter on templates: it's ~80 pages but more than half are valid & invalid code examples.
>The unemployment rate is very low but wages aren't rising.

...yet.

Wages are a driver of inflation, which will rear its head as we reach late cycle. Then we blow up and start over. This is the way of the world.
My understanding of the kratom situation is that the worst danger is how it's all too easy for it to become habitual. I absolutely do not think it ought to be banned (nor any psychoactive plant for that matter), but interested parties should be forewarned.

Many advocates may only use it occasionally and/or in consistently low doses, but there are plenty of accounts out there of users ramping up dosage and then having a really hard time getting off it. Withdrawals from heavy use read a lot like similar accounts of kicking a Vicodin habit.
This was a really fun article to read. However, extrapolating American's insulting words for smart people to ...... the culture as a whole is dumb and uneducated .... is insulting.

Anti-intellectualism in American politics, as the author pointed out with Bush, is mostly made up. In most cases it's designed to make the politician more appealing and easier to understand.
Likely US only. I can access the page via https://store.google.com/us/product/titan_security_key_kit, but ordering would likely require US address.
Some of the links on the page are broken. The presentation example is 404 and the HTML example for latex gets redirected to the author's profile page.
See https://lwn.net/Articles/755674/ and https://lwn.net/Articles/755673/ . Having cn=config is very useful for config parameter changes without downtime (e.g. log level) and for replication. But I agree that file based config is more convenient for boot strapping.
"I'm pretty confident that there are more desktop software being written today in Qt than in Electron"

I'm pretty confident that this is not the case.

There may be a huge amount of legacy software still based on Qt, but new stuff? Only if it is performance critical.

I mean, who wants to pay a C++ dev for something a web-dev can do?
The easy way to back up Google App Engine Cloud Storage files to your machine
> Now, if only you were Norwegian instead of Swedish

Why?
How smart is your shop floor?
Reminds me of https://www.fastcompany.com/3036728/office-roleplay-meet-the...
I wonder how often such an event happens? Is this every week, month, year? Or first time?
That's a great way to spread wood parasites.
That's unfortunately the harsh reality of a business. They always want it done yesterday, never mind arguing the time needed for writing unit tests / E2E or performance & load testing as those don't give "business value". oh, don't even mention refactoring.

* can this button do action A? yes move on to B. etc... (don't even look at A anymore)

I completely feel you with this one.
>Basically, I’d like to move beyond the headlines and the spin.

Create a Twitter account and get on FinTwit (finance Twitter). Find the people doing real research (you have a couple in your list, Dalio, Grantham, I follow some of the guys from Ritholtz Wealth Management who are active on the platform) and follow their retweets or follows. More information than you can handle.
I would love to learn more about using capacitive touch screen to track pupils. Is there a specific article or smth you can recommend?
well thats stupid.
Isn't this the same as a code app like Authy? Why carry the extra dongle?