skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In Bad Blood, a pedestrian tale of heuristics and lies
https://www.fullwsj.com/articles/the-billion-dollar-mystery-...
It's important to express the underlying reasoning for the policy: things with similar size and speed can be together, dissimilar things should be separated. Cars and bikes/scooters are not the same, and streets need to separate them via dedicated lanes. If not, those users are going to choose sidewalks as the lesser of two dangers.
https://www.fullwsj.com/articles/amazon-investigates-employe...
You'll need to be specific about what features you are looking for. For me - Inbox bundles are the killer feature although it's part of a complete workflow so there's probably some other aspects that I'm (ahem) bundling together that are also key.

Your use-case might be different so something that's an adequate replacement for you might not be for me.
I believe 12ga is specifically exempted by administrative decision - although some 12ga shotguns are exempted from that exemption by name, like the “Street Sweeper” and AA-12.
Do you have a source for that? I would quit most of my whining if I knew that was to be the case.
There have been some improvements like adding instant messaging and webpack. Here's the end of DHHs 2018 keynote:

>Let's continue to compress the concepts
that are worth keeping, reject the ones that aren't,
broaden the base of people who can actually have
a chance to write this software that's eating the world,
such that the software that we end up with
is software the benefits the world.

I think that's what's interesting - reducing the technical complexity to allow more focus on building things that are interesting in the real world.
They absolutely are apt descriptions as an opinion. Clearly the iPod was wildly popular, I was questioning why and described my viewpoint of an "ok" device with plenty of competitors. That also had better interfaces.
How is this different from http://fairpixels.pro?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wU0PYcCsL6o
What kind of solution is best depends to 100% on thr warehouse you are looking at.

Take you standard Amazon warehouse for small articles as an example. Maximizing untilisation, meaning the ratio between space used und spa e available, in that case you end up with a never ending mixture of differwnt small articles in the same location. Without RFID chips on every article, which is as of now prohibitively expensive, the only feasible way to count the inventory is using people.

For other warehouses and articles, like white goods or other large stuff that easily identified with out touching it whether a drone, a ground vehicle or something running on rails is better suited depends on a couple of factors. If you might run into situations that require a chenged warehouse layout, which occurs much more often than you think, fixed installations add a lot to the fix costs and rwduce flexibility.

Using ground based solutions runs into issues with high warehouses, storing up to 15 meters in height is not uncommon. Again, density is the main reason for this, getting more inventory at the se number of square meters. In that case a drone is both more flexible and can cover the heights as well.

But thats theory, not sure what came out of the Fraunhofer trials covering white goods.
I think it is more politics vs technical stuff. Political stuff is recognized by headlines 'bigcorp does X' kind of story, political news, huge number of comments, and lots of downvotes for me :-) technical content is usually very relevant, but lately the noise tends to drown out the techies, very sad development - if you ask me.

I would love some filter that just makes the political stories disappear.
Same paywall. oh well.
DRM being DRM, see [1].

[1] https://github.com/truedread/netflix-1080p/issues/15#issueco...
Asymmetric crypto allows you to use the same public key across all your machines without the concern that one compromised machine will leak the key for all of them.
The story of a Game Developer developing games in his free time to feed children
No.

What disadvantages come from the removal of a ubiquitous headphone interconnect that's been on our devices for years? iPhone's have gotten thicker since the removal of the headphone jack. Apple's made iPods much thinner than any of the iPhones, and they all had headphone jacks.

There's no problem. It's not redundant if you want to charge your phone and listen to audio at the same time - I have those Bose headphones noice cancelling headphones that everyone travels with. To use them, I need to carry around an adapter which is a pain. When I fly, I have to choose whether to charge my phone or listen to audio.

Look, I love my iPhone X, but I've gotten absolutely nothing out of losing the headphone jack. It's only come at costs.
By comparison, it's also easy to tickle the roof of your mouth with your own tongue.
Honestly they are doing a great job with Gmail.

I was one of the sandy people about losing Inbox too, but the sunset date is several months out and they have coordinated the timing of the EOL announcement for Inbox with the rollout of all the new Gmail features to people with Gmail via Gapps or whatever they're calling it now.

I have two institutional Gmail accounts and I've been using all of my Gmails with Inbox. They've both (institutional accounts) finally sent an opt-in notice inviting me to try the new Gmail (which looks intended to replace Inbox), and offered to convert me over or let me keep the old Gmail.

Hopefully everyone else is getting this new Gmail too. I'd suggest to try it, if you've been holding out. A lot of the innovations pioneered in Inbox have already been ported over[1]. I was one of the strongest supporters of Inbox to my friends, and I didn't convince very many people to try it, (so I've got that going for me, at least I'm not likely to have to answer this question a hundred times...)

I liked Inbox's implementation of a few of the features better, but there's also a few of them I can't put a finger on. I'll probably switch back and forth several times over the next 6 months. I'm sure I'll be able to articulate it better by then. (In that respect, they've really done a fine and decent thing here, for the betterment of Email at large, so I can't be too sandy about it I guess.)

Notably in all of this, I haven't heard anyone complaining about "this new Gmail and how much crappier it is than the old Gmail." That must mean it's better than the old Gmail. So the experiment is going well, at least a naïve eye might infer that...

[1]: and you're still not losing access to Inbox for 6 months, so you'll have plenty of time to whine about whatever you like most from Inbox that still hasn't made it to Gmail. I'm looking at you, travel bundles...
JDBC List of Common JDBC Drivers and URL's
> and later Marxists kept that tradition.

[citation needed]
How do these 'unlimited for flat fee' business models work? They can't have too many customers that actually use the service or they will lose tons of money. Are they playing with averages hoping that most customers won't use them much? They should be scared to death of people liking their service and using them.
Reminds me of a Safari memory leak issue I stumbled upon two years ago: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/35782231/why-is-a-safari...

I guess that restarting is less important than modifying memory it shouldn't.
> This is all also under the assumption that bluetooth is good enough. It isn't.

I don't think that's true. I don't think there's an inherit quality problem with Bluetooth, but it's just that bluetooth is an added cost, so manufacturers cost save on the audio components, or the headphones become expensive.
Yes but Costco only has a specific set of things that I'm looking for, sometimes in too high quantities and at a price point that is not particularly amazing
I get why some people are annoyed, but it’s not like the 3.5mm jack was so great.

If you forget the massive number of compatible headphones in existence, the 3.5mm jack isn’t that great. If we were designing the ideal audio interface today, it would not be the 3.5mm jack.

For an audiophile experience, you’d better love the DAC built into your phone. You also probably need to live with whatever audio processing parameters the phone manufacturer chose because probably few, if any, are exposed. You’re largely shut out of control over audio processing details.

Meanwhile, for mobile use you, need to thether your head to your phone and manage the cord. Not a great fit for mobile uses because you don’t want to move around too freely. It gets worse in the oft-mentioned scenario of charging while listening, because now you’re generally tethering your head to a wall or at least a battery pack. Not great.

The 3.5mm jack also doesn’t have a decent protocol for on-device listening controls. There are workarounds so maybe you can play/pause or skip tracks, but then again maybe not. There are wide compatibility problems. Forget about anything advanced.

It’s not like lightning connector is perfect, and neither is Bluetooth. I’m just pointing out that the 3.5mm jack isn’t a no-brainer by any stretch and it makes sense to look for something better, whether or no you think Apple or other OEMs succeeded.
Google mysteriously removes cryptocurrency wallets from Play Store
Here are the subjects our reporters enjoy covering the least
If you're after an android email client, try FairEmail[1]. It has some inbox-like features, plus it's open source.

https://email.faircode.eu/
And if you’re on a bus or subway?
> And getting rid od headphone jack takes that away.

Why? You can use your wired headphones just fine...
Will be interesting to see if this goes the way of PhysX or not.
Having a book scanned produces a hard-to-read PDF for books with large pages; you'd need either a very large reader or to tolerate very small print.
> To access the source code see it on github. remember this project is just starting, so there is not much to see yet.

In fact, there is nothing to see yet, because there isn't any code on Github.
Google's CI system is proprietary, but learning how a CI system should work is valuable. Google's code review system is proprietary, but learning how code review should work is valuable. Repeat for every proprietary system Google has.

When I left Google for a startup, all the tools I took for granted didn't exist. But because I knew how things could and should work, I was able to apply open source and commercially available tools to improve software development practices at my new employer.
I really liked the Tao of TMUX.

I also made a very succinct cheatsheet for tmux (along with a list of all the other key CLI commands for full stack engs):

https://github.com/nemild/cli_for_full_stack#user-content-tm...
I believe this is more a general indication of Chinese students' inability to find acceptable jobs more than their desire to stay in the US. Even for the perceived prestige of adding a significant work experience abroad, most international students will choose to work at least a couple of years here in the states. This is of course not true if you were lucky enough to be sponsored by a gov't agency or corporation.
I'm not seeing this mentioned anywhere in the thread but isn't this based on the business model of manypixels.co / fairpixels.pro? This "unlimited for flat fee" business model seems risky to operate.
Note that it costs $145 to get a U.S. passport now
Not everybody can downvote, so when somebody does it means they have been around long enough

And long enough to know that they can write a reply if they want to write a reply, without being prompted.

Nobody is a politician here, what does that have to do with anything? This entire site was designed to talk about things, so I am hardly interrupting "what's happening"

It's illustrative because politicians are the main thing people deal with when 'voting' for something, and the scale of political votes draws attention to the problem. Imagine HN if every comment that got downvoted had a line asking for an explanation - that would be almost every single comment - totally interrupting the flow of the comment threads. Imagine if political votes with millions of voters were stopped by someone demanding an explanation for one or two "down"votes. It would be unworkable. Voting is an aggregate, noisy, large-scale summary. And now this really is dragging it off-topic talking about voting instead, and entreaties to "explain your votes" to people who could have done that if they wanted to, always will tend towards "that's not downvote-worthy", "yes it is", "no it isn't".

AWS has public pricing, I can compare them to other publicly priced places.

Right. So why are you telling other people they are spending "more than they realize"? Either they didn't bother reading the prices, or they don't understand the prices - where's any evidence for either of those? How is it any more than an insult about their inability to understand the public pricing before signing up?

"I can compare server for server , compute for compute, and all the above. I don't really need to know what our anybody else is doing with a system to understand the raw resources you can get from the services offered and compare them based off that."

Indeed you can. What you can't do - or what I disagree with - is you saying "I can get cheaper compute resources here, /so/ that's what your company /should/ have done". It doesn't matter what you started with, who you employ, what skills they have, what constraints you had on timescale or rewriting or redesigning, what your management or investors would support, what discounts you could get, what your future plans are, none of those things matter, only a rudimentary price-per-ghz is enough to tell you that you did the wrong thing and say I know better.
I'm using paid accounts on both Fastmail and Protonmail. I have settled on Fastmail now for primary use.

Its not as feature rich as some services, but it covers what I need. Multiple account fetch, simple identity management for sending from those accounts, and a basic calendar to aggregate work and personal schedules make it just handy enough.

The idea behind Protonmail is interesting, but Fastmail was just a bit more convenient. The calendar is a differentiator for me.

I'm apparently one of the few that did not prefer Inbox.
If you've got an economics degree, you should know that it isn't a person not monolithic. Many economists "admit" to falsifiability.
Exactly. It's a perfectly reasonable concept with a completely outlandish syntax. I don't know of any current programming language where the RHS of an assignment will even know what the LHS is.
If you have a preferred client or multiple clients across devices, this means that you don't need to worry about differences in features or preferences. It guarantees a consistent experience.
Trust your instincts, ignore everyone else, and don't overthink it.

The startup could fail and lead to some other amazing opportunity or you going back to Google with a better job. The startup could succeed and be career defining. The startup could fail and be a waste of time. Google job could be career defining. Google could end up destroying your passion for your job, but make it extremely hard to leave, so you'll be trapped doing work that doesn't mean much for some of the best years of your life.

There's no way of knowing, and no right or wrong decisions when the goal is undefined.
That redirect site is priceless.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but if an instance wants to comply with the recent EU laws about copyrights, GDRP, anti-hate speech, etc, filtering on the server is mandatory anyway.

As I understand it, "qualifiers" give the same filtering power to the user too.

I guess people could simply send encrypted tweets to the instance, and decrypt them on the client side to escape the filter.
I would so very much like to know how the design and engineering analysis was. For the original.

From my limited knowledge it certainly seems easier to make it waterproof without a headphone jack.
By assuming that most users are satisfied with simple quick graphics and by using tools that auto generate variations of a design. Also, don't expect more than 7 graphics a month. While you can make unlimited requests, they only work with ONE of you requests at a time.
Nit: he said founders, not CEOs.
> Developers managing infrastructure is expensive.

This is a phrase tossed around a lot, and I am challenging it.

If you make the developers part of the process then the software that is produced is forced to keep the entire vertical inline with the business needs.

You do this by giving the developers the budget along with the requirements. Developers are smart, they will figure out how produce the solution with the budget at hand. And when they realize they will be the one getting the call when things go wrong they will ensure systems are robust and fault tolerant by baking those features directly into the software they are building.

But I guess part of the process is there is a big effort to dumb down each segment of building software so people who have no desire to build software can simply use people as pawns in the game of business. It really shocks me that we still have businesses built with the core of people coming form antiquated business schools. Where they have reinforce the notion that a business needs to be swamped with a bunch of people who collect big paychecks for attending meeting after meeting after meeting while the engineers and developers continuously bring real value to organization.

Nobody ever talks about that CEO, CFO, or VP of whatever or Director of what ever as being expensive. Nobody ever talks about how to cut cost at that level. Meanwhile we have all sorts of strategies and cost cutting measures to lower the amount of budget going to the very people who are actually creating the value in a company.

I will tell you what is expansive. Paying some guy 6+ figures to tell you the guys who build the software that the company's revenue comes from is expansive. When was the last time you heard somebody outsourcing the executive team at a company ?

For those enraptures and founders out there, please don't get me wrong. I am not talking about you. I am talking about the people you may hire, or the people that other people say you need to hire.
Why is BASIC a great introduction to programming? Genuinely curious. It's a bad language by pretty much all computer science standards. It only has global variables. In the past it used line numbers not labels. Many Basics only allowed 2 letter variable names. It has almost no library. (I suppose those could be added but they're already available in other languages). AFAIK there is little to no tooling for BASIC (meaning no auto0completion or popup docs that many languages have now)

I grew up on basic on TRS-80/Apple II/Atari 800 and I have super fond memories of those times. You can even find lots of my BASIC code in old magazines from the 80s. But, I don't really believe those were better than today with kids with Scratch or Unity or other alternatives. Python or JavaScript (runs everywhere) etc... Maybe even PICO-8/Lua etc...

Are there some concrete reason BASIC is actually a good place to start?
Google has had corrupt employee problems in the Adwords department: https://techcrunch.com/2009/04/07/shoemoney-sues-google-empl...

I trust the security and audit trail on Google's engineering side. I definitely do not in other areas of the company.
Go with Google. Better street cred, better contacts, better salary, better everything. Best of all, it gives you the option to work normal hours and plan your life.

Besides, working for startups is much better experience when you have a strong financial backbone. And promising startups aren't going anywhere.
I use a macOS laptop with iTerm2 to connect to a remote tmux server running on Linux, and the iTerm2-tmux integration [0] is pretty great if you like multiple panes per window. I don’t have to mess with mouse mode for straightforward pane resizing, buffer scrolling, or copy/paste text in the buffer. I recommend taking a look if you’re typing on a Mac.

[0]: https://www.iterm2.com/documentation-tmux-integration.html
I have a hard time believing that a reason there is no Swiss Google, or German Facebook, or Swedish Netflix, etc cetera, is because they aren't innovative enough because they aren't efficient enough.

I have worked for and with some German and Scandinavian companies, and inefficiency is not a complaint that I would throw at them. Neither is lack of innovation.

YMMV, I guess.
“Dinosaur” is a word for a specific group of creatures united by shared characteristics and which had their own evolutionary history—it is not a catch-all term for anything reptilian and prehistoric"

Fascinating, didn't know Pterosauria split off from Dinosauria so far prior to either's evolution.
This is counterintelligence 101. There are four traditional motivations of insider threats (MICE):

M: Money

I: Ideology

C: Coercion

E: Ego

The thinking around that is changing, but the financial motivation is still at the top of the list.

[1] https://www.cia.gov/library/center-for-the-study-of-intellig...
No, my Samsung S5 for instance is waterproof and has a headphone port.
..although Apple did not use the space for anything else when they removed it from the iPhone 7.

Whats the evidence? Scotty from strange parts actually managed to add a working headphone jack back to the iPhone, in the exact spot where it had been removed!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=utfbE3_uAMA
An easy way to bypass the wsj paywall is to use a facebook redirect.

http://facebook.com/l.php?u=https://www.wsj.com/articles/who....

works as usual. Putting "http://facebook.com/l.php?u=" before the url does the trick.

I've had picked up this technique from a fellow HN user, wanted to share.
> So the REP function looks at the statement it's part of, finds the variable that is being assigned to, and uses that as the starting string (!). It's kind of like a function, only with a weird implied variable that only works in an assignment.

As DonHopkins notes, this appears substantially identical to the assign-equals operators which are generally thought of as "easy and convenient" rather than "weird". How is the line of code "a *= 7" meaning

"whatever the current value of a is, multiply that by 7 and assign the result to a"

weirder than the line 'a$ = REP("123",4,0)' meaning

"whatever the current value of a$ is, do a string replacement on it and assign the result to a$"?
Non-paywalled version https://outline.com/ERu58d
I receive mail in English, Spanish - and occasionally French - and I've been so impressed by the categorisation, and even auto-reply suggestions in both English and Spanish (too small a sample to say on the auto-replies with French). Maybe there are other languages it's not hot with, but these at least I'm happy with. On the plus side, this is a feature that's made it to Gmail already, so if they can handle hiding non-critical messages till the morning, I'll be happy to switch back.
This is why I don't trust CNet's reviews of Apple's products. They'll convince the customer that "you're holding it wrong" for bones from Apple!
Quantum key distribution is a method of securely exchanging a symmetric key from afar. Once you have that symmetric key, you encode your message with the key (say using a one-time pad), and send it via a classical channel as usual, and the other person decodes it.

So what could happen is that that every month you could have a session with your bank to exchange a 100MB secure key using quantum key distribution. Then during the month, you and the bank could use regular internet to communicate securely using the key.
(I package sage for nix)

The problem is that sage actually depends on Octave, Maxima, R and many other packages. It parses binary output of many dependencies and often needs the exact version it expects because of that. It also has relatively brittle doctests testing everything an as a result often breaking on minor changes in dependencies.

If you have too much time, there is a very lengthy discussion on this on sage-packaging: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/sage-packaging/ZJmJZ...