skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wonder whether flicker decreases lifetime significantly enough to eat up even the supposed savings.
Ask HN: Interview coach/consultant?
I want to practice interviewing weekly with feedbacks for even the smallest details. I don't need any platform, simply someone who has had his/her share of good/bad candidates and can give honest/brutal advices.

Thank you very much.
Google assistant is pretty amazing so would be surprising. I heard this song and all I had was "South" in the band and "hell" in the song name.

I thought it was "down south". So I said "play down south hell". It plays. Google figured out it was "The Dead South - In Hell I'll Be In Good Company".

Alexa and Siri just can't do that. Have not tried the Baba one but have serious doubts.
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She's a legitimate global superstar in fiction writing. Her books are popular enough to move the percentage of total book sales represented by translated fiction in English-speaking markets (she` writes in Italian).
Strangely enough, her approach is often considered a kind of anti-marketing: no book tours, few interviews, strangely downscale cover art - people, mostly women, just really love her writing.
IFIR, Win3.1 didn't have a command line either, you had to exit Windows completely back to DOS.

IMHO the Amiga offered the best of both worlds at that time (except for expensive UNIX workstations). On one hand you had a modern windowing UI, and a real multitasking OS. On the other hand you had terminal windows with a command line interface that was slightly different to UNIX, but close enough to be enjoyable.

Later in the life of the Amiga it became standard that UI applications provided standardized scripting interfaces (via AREXX), so you could write complex automation tasks that glued together all sorts of UI- and command-line-programs. In a way this was a lot more advanced than anything that's available on Windows or Linux today, since it wasn't limited to a few applications that all live in their own isolated world.
Ask HN: Every SaaS startup needs this but no one built it yet, why?
Think Shopify but for subscription products.

I just want to get a subscription product out there fast, not spend three months building yet another user registration database with oauth and payments.
What I really need is something like shopify - but allowing subscription payments via Stripe. I also need Shopify to provide an API so I can query my user database and do stuff with it.

Writing it on your own is too much trouble. You are responsible for backups, bugs and everything. It's lot more work and it's not even the core feature of our start-up. We want to spend time solving unique problem not redundant one.

VAT compliance, taxes etc... Different kind of reports like churn rate etc... Building all this will require domain expertise and is prone to errors in understanding.

GDPR is also one big headache.

I want someone else to be taking care of user interface stuff. I should be able to pay and get a gorgeous looking site that works well on mobile and desktop, facilitates user signin via oauth, allows me to set up products and prices, lets people purchase my services on a recurring basis, doesn't try to own my user base and lets me write code to access all the relevant user and account and product data.

Is there a SAAS handling user registration, oauth signin and Stripe subscriptions?

I don't want to write all that stuff yet again.
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Her books are not even hers.

Elena Ferrante is a product, we should not speak about the influence of the author(s) of the books, but about the influence the marketing department has.
You don't see it directly, but you see its interaction with eye movement. See "phantom array" effect. I can see this up to at least 5kHz under the right conditions.
I think you’re making a lot of people very uncomfortable with your implicit demand that we act like we agree with your beliefs all for the sake of protecting your feelings.
> Music catalog is sub-par and not worth the switch from Spotify.

Definitely not true for the electronic music I'm into. Songs are always posted first to YouTube on the official channels and curators, and much later released properly on Spotify.
Amazon Cracks Down on Scams, Fires Employees Over Data Leak
The significant battery drain is driving the LED when it's on, so having it on only half of the time effectively doubles the battery life.
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> Seriously, read the thread again. This has nothing to do with comfort, it's about FU money.

I was responding to the HN comment, not the Reddit thread. If you're talking about having "FU money" and I'm talking about being "comfortable" then I think we are talking about different things.

> You're thinking that people who don't constantly have to worry about finances is what the poster is talking about, but that's worlds away from never worrying about finances again.

I agree, I think we have a different understanding of what it is to "worry" about finances. I am talking about the sort of worry that comes from not knowing where the next meal will come from, or not being able to pay rent. That, to me, is what worry is. I appreciate your explanation that others mean something different.
What’s the Difference Between Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning?
Australia's [new] data encryption laws explained
Just imagine if you lived in a society that had good public schools, health and dental care.
Perhaps because the articles headline is wrong? Sargon is not a "far-right figure".
America’s Power Grid Isn’t Ready for Electric Cars
> The bug is old enough to drive.

Where I'm from it can't drive, but it's been old enough to drink for a while now !
More Self Confidence Anyone?  Yes, Pease
Why is selling this data not illegal and harshly prosecuted?

You'd expect to find this data being stolen by trojans and sold for bitcoin by anonymous actors on blackhat sites, not by registered companies with offices and employees.
I've researched this brand and could only find devices sporting RCA outputs (like Fulla or Bifrost). You need a proper XLR balanced output (3 wires) for balanced.

In that regard, the AG06 is much cheaper than any of the offerings i'm finding from Schiit.
China can assassinate you on foreign soil - as Russia has demonstrated, the consequences for this are essentially nil.
eventually this (e2e encryption everywhere) will happen once governments realize their security and secrecy depends on the security of consumer technology and to protect the public is to protect themselves.
Most of the time, just google an address before leaving, and gives that to the border, saying you will "hand around visiting". I've set foot in almost 30 countries so far, this has never been a problem.
"Oh and PIAs support site and customer DB were compromised using a deserialization vulnerability in kayako."

Can you please detail when this was? I would assume based on your example in December 2016, however PIA Support wasn't using Kayako in December 2016. For clarity, I run PIA Support and one of the first things I did when I joined the company was replace Kayako.
I use ClearScore too (which covers Equifax), as well as the MoneySavingExpert Credit Club which covers Experian, and is also free: https://moneysavingexpert.com/creditclub
Depends a lot on the particular place you're in. And that in turn may depend a lot on where your existing network is.
Learn Stoicism.

My favorite classic is Enchiridion by Epictetus and Letters from a Stoic by Seneca.
For a more modern approach: The Antidote: Happiness for People Who Can't Stand Positive Thinking by Burkman

PD:I compiled a list of quotes from the best books http://arandomquote.com/categories/stoic/
Learn to be comfortable being alone
"Once you've wrestled, everything else in life is easy."

The entire experience, from the first days when I got triangled by girls half my size (choking my ego as much as choking my body), to competition days, with pressure passers and crazy leglock guys... It absolutely changed me - for the better.
I think this is the best advice.

I did not go this route; I developed my own form of mental toughness. I used to be insecure as a kid, and some other kids picked on me, and eventually I learned to not care what other people thought. Especially if their opinion leads them to be negative about vulnerable people, it's their opinion that sucks, not the vulnerable people. So ignore that stupid opinion.

This has worked very well for me, but at the same time, I worry if I'm not too detached from other people, from their emotions, and from my own. My empathy exists mostly on an intellectual level, and not really an emotional level.

So it works, but now that I read your comment, I think it may not be the best outcome. Embracing vulnerability, your own and that of others, sounds like a better idea.
> A poor person simply doesn't have these luxuries, and the anxiety of poverty is a killer in its own right.

When I was younger the lyrics of "Common People" by Pulp [0] really resonated with me on this point - that day to day background worry of making ends meet plagues communities.

Obviously once you reach a certain level of comfort, you get diminishing returns (and even negative returns once the money owns you), but we still need to work on getting more people up to comfort.

[0] https://genius.com/Pulp-common-people-lyrics
> YouTube ads are annoying

Just use an adblocker.

> Music catalog is sub-par and not worth the switch from Spotify.

Youtube has virtually every song ever made for free, a much larger catalog than Spotify. I can't think of anything that's on Spotify but isn't on Youtube. I never understood why people pay for Spotify subscriptions.
South America's Other 'Easter Island'
Sadly, I don't.

A replier said something about a brand called "Schiit Audio", but I've researched them and they only offer stuff with RCA outputs which are sadly not balanced at all.

If you're on a budget you could get the AG03 which is the same interface, but with less input channels.

Also, the DSP is totally optional on those, If you don't use it you'll bypass it totally, not coloring or changing your signal in any way.

Btw you mentioned your speakers are Mackie, right? Before buying, research if your speakers actually support balanced input (they use XLR or P2/TRS "stereo" (2 black bands) for that, because each speaker is actually receiving 2 polarity-inverted copies of the signal). If all they have are RCA inputs (mono), you're out of luck.

Hope I could help!

EDIT: I have researched your monitors and they do have all three types of input: XLR and TRS (balanced) and RCA (unbalanced). yay \o/

Now go get yourself a nice audio interface with support for balanced output and go make yourself some nice XLR cables.

The Yamaha AG03 AG06 output balanced TRS signals, but for that extra "click" factor no the monitors I have built a custom cable that is TRS on the DAC and XLR to the monitors. That way it stays put :-)

Have a good one mate!
Madoff’s Victims Are Close to Getting Their $19B Back
Doing an esterfication and extracting something are still two different things. There is no aspirin tree, even if the pharmacological actions are the same.
What's the typo?
The weird thing is I come from a place that's said to have all those things.

Not my opinion, but a lot of Americans hold up Scandinavia as such.
I have also seen the content quality decline. Online community management and moderation policies seem like an important research area but I have found little that explores the dynamics of these communities and analysis of which policies work and which don't. Why, for instance, are the comments here on HN generally quite good but not so good on other technical sites? What kind of moderation would enable people with differing political views to discuss them without the usual flaming?
It hasn't yet been used to expose a congressman?

The US lacks GDPR-style general privacy law, but there is a very specific one for video rental records passed specifically as a result of exposure of Robert Bork: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_Privacy_Protection_Act
They added weights to their headphones to add a "quality" feel to them, because they were made of plastic and usually high-end headphones use metal in some places like the mounts and the headbands.
The vibe on many of the technical branches of SE is one of exclusivity and pretentiousness. Just Friday I was stuck on using some old CLI tool that nobody uses any more, and my problem was two some obscure settings in the myriad options that you can set that had to be configured for this case just because. Somebody at SE came back to an ancient question on the site last year and updated it with the answer last year.

And I can't even thank him. Quora is much easier to assimilate into.
For me Quora has improved, I get really interesting answers emailed to me on topics I find interesting, Roman history is one
Ask HN: Weekly Employee Newsletter SaaS?
Hi

My wife needs to create a weekly staff company newsletter at, ideally displayed in an email. But open to other options - e.g if its a link to an interactive web experience.

I assumed this would be a super simple thing to do. I have looked at Mailchimp etc - but seem more geared towards mass email rather than sending out to employees. She needs to be careful around GDPR / data with uploading employees emails. She works in a pretty locked down IT environment, so that's another issue. Whatever solution will have to go via approval :(

I am looking for recommendations in the best way to do this either with a SaaS app or is there a good HTML email App for this? She is pretty tech capable - but not to write HTML / CSS for a day job :)

Thanks
I'm afraid I do not see this part of the rule explained enough. Why is the identity important there? Wouldn't the content of the messages suffice? Often I do not even look at the name of the poster.
Built-in converters for retro fit are such a waste. An external converter is small enough to build into the enclosure and industrial setups do just that.
I think Windows 3.1 did have one. Accessible at command.com

Here's the best source I could dig up https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/tutorials/windows-command-p...
OK, maybe I jumped to an unwarranted conclusion.

So when did builders start turning columns on lathes?
There are free browser extensions that block ads. The only value add is the premium content.
That reminded me to check my privacy > location services settings and look for any apps that have "Always" and change them to "While Using" only
>I'm pretty well-read, although not really in the "general literary" genre. And I also only heard about her a few months ago.

Same thing here. I think she(/he?) is what Paulo Coelho was back in the 1990s, but adapted to the #metoo and gender politics momentum. Hence why half of the article is really, really curious about the author's gender.
One of the original draws was asking a question and getting an answer from a guru. Like asking a question on SO and having Torvalds politely respond. It was actually a feature, not too far removed from Reddit's AMA.
I agree, that is an assumption built into my belief, and possibly a foolish one.

I would still maintain that it is possible to live on much less than $10M, although some may not enjoy the change in lifestyle.
Since the beginning of this year it's been technically illegal here in the EU to charge more for payments by debit/credit card over those by other means.

This is a strange decision I feel, very much to the benefit of larger companies who pay a significantly lower processing cost per transaction.

It means that little people like myself have three options: raise all prices by whatever percentage it is that the processing fee is; charge as normal and take the hit if a client decides to pay by card; wing it and try to charge people as i may suspect they'd best prefer, which is illegal.

I'm really not sure how the customer benefits, as I assume most businesses will simply raise all their prices.

The likes of Visa and Mastercard will be happy though, which is good?
That explains why the best way to reach the bigger tech companies is to make a complain go viral here. It's kinda fucked up.
And that's why Apple prices are only going to keep rising, lots of people are locked in on their own choice.

If I were you I'd start planning how to move to the side where competition is actually a thing, before you're paying 4x or 5x for the same thing.
It's a list of influential people, not most famous. Knowing who they are I'd say you could reasonably put both on such list.
Have people here heard of "what3words"? It's a similar encoding scheme that is much more human-memorable (for English speakers, at least).

The same spot, to +-1.5m is universe.renovated.upon as opposed to 6GCRPR6C+24
> PC propaganda

How disconnected are our realities? How are we supposed to communicate or work towards a common goal in this world? I really mean it.
As I grew a family my YouTube time went from mostly desktop to almost all phone/tablet. Can't Adblock that stuff. I'm betting lots of people watch YouTube on mobile devices.
Well, there were the "Diplock courts". But yes: it does seem that the newspapers have no interest in reporting actual convicted terrorists. Which is very strange given how they sensationalise the threat of terrorism.
Well yes, most people would have no trouble detecting 20 Hz flicker. But 1000+?
Every famous author is a "product", it doesn't make them any less real.

JK Rowling has a much bigger marketing machine around her, for instance, but it would be wrong to claim that she, or her books, aren't worth mentioning in a discussion about Harry Potter, only Bloomsbury and Warner Bros.
Using 2nd hand devices from a company that keeps raising prices would be a no-go for me.
I did it with my wife when we visited Croatia ages ago. We only planned the flight there (to Split) and the flight back (from Zagreb), and we had to figure out how where to sleep and how to get everywhere. We visited the big island at the coast near Split, we visited Dubrovnic, the big nature park in the middle of the country. It was great. Not hard to do at all.

Though I expect some places outside Europe it might get a bit harder.
iOTOS would be pretty damn interesting!
been doing this for past 10 days or so.... I can't exactly say what is better but I feel like I am overall 10-20% better than before.
With meditation I do wim-hof breathing for 20minutes every morning
Agreed - that is not how the platform should be used.
You could cheat, and make the stuff in bulk, then just use a little of it.
I found it easier to read when `anySatisfy` was inlined:

find :: (BitSequence -> Bool) -> BitSequence
find p =
if p (False : find (\s -> p (False : s)))
then False : find (\s -> p (False : s))
else True : find (\s -> p (True : s))
I suppose saying that the DS was built into '75 is more interesting than useful. You'll be hard pressed to find a D Berline model from '75. According to the Original Citroën DS book from 1996, only 847 DS's were built in 1975 (compared to 40'039 in '74).

I am also fortunate to know a great DS specialist here in Denmark, who mostly imports his spare parts from the Netherlands and Germany, since that's where the good parts come from these days (Chinese parts have only gotten better in looking good, not actually working). In appreciation (and for helping working on my cars), I build him a website.

That being said, I do like actually working on the cars myself, but there are limits to what I can do when I live in a flat in the city. But don't worry, my cars are both parked in garages, as I want these to last a few more decades. The previous owner of my DS actually sandblasted it.
I live in the EU too and the only name that anybody would recognise there is Donald Trump because they spend all day on the telly telling us how evil he is. Also Hugh Jackman if you like his movies.
I agree, while I don't visit or use the site anymore, I enjoy the newsletter. Also fan of history so in that aspect it improved. Not in some other areas though.
@nickysielicki I agree with your sentiment.

Children always had peer influence.
But the accessible sexualized media streams -- have become an overpowering influence.

It is so powerful, that many have been brainwashed to think that it is 'normal' and just the sign of modern times.

Just like you, I do not think so.

Just looking at the salary/compensation of the folks in the enterainment industry (moves/sports/etc) -- it shows how disproportion their influence and reach is, compared to any other historical presedent.

Clearly, enterntainer skills have been 'multipled' by the TV, and now internet explosion. That makes them very influential as well as accessible.

It is not engineers/statesman/doctors/accomplished military personnel -- that drive the 'standards' and the influence.

It is, instead the folks from sports, entertainment and fashion industries.

They have their own set of standards (or whatever you might call that) -- it is based on sexuality, appearance, being funny, being dismissive and 'outspoken' for something.

The above traits, when fire-housed on our kids through the they information channels, are very difficult for us as parents -- to manage/reason about.
I think the key word is "worship". Not e.g. "value intellect" etc. but worship it.

I draw a parallel to sports. It's easy for young athletes to "worship" ability in their sport...to the point where, when you achieve success, you look down on those who are worse than you and look up to those who are better. Reality is that while athletic accomplishment is admirable it does not automatically make you a good person and vice versa.

My experience with "intelligence" has been a bit similar although I have found that smart people I encounter also tend to be wonderful human beings. But I know correlation is not causation.

Anyway, my point is that I think there's an unhealthy "worship" vs a healthy "value" of intelligence beauty etc, and DFW's quote makes sense to me from that perspective.
On the other hand humans have built-in special processing stages already. One that comes to mind is that the neurons in your eyes in effect run a sharpening filter on the incoming light before the data ever enters your brain. I don't think it's a stretch to propose that we should implement certain features as special-purpose processing stages that the neural network can use, with the goal of having a more efficient system.

The holy grail would be a neural network that has programming capabilities and can write bare metal programs for itself.
@lumost wasn't talking about splitting up a story into tasks, but splitting a story up into 'stories', because the actual story is to large to fit into a single sprint.

So what you end up with are several 'stories' that are basically collections of tasks from the actual story. Each of those 'stories' barely make sense on their own and it makes about as much sense to delay the last 'story' and use the intermediate result as it would be to delay the installation of the engine into a car.
There are free browser extensions that block ads.

Even on mobile?
it was mentioned.
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'Why is QueryPerformanceCounter running at 10 MHz on my Lenovo P51 laptop?' Wild guess, Spectre mitigation ?
Something like 80-90% of their revenue comes from Google. Their higher-ups can spin it all day, but they know damn well their jobs depend on a good relationship with Google.
Also the meta information is nice.
IIRC that hasn't been negotiated at all, merely recomputed.

There were things like pensions that were effectively decided on long ago. The 1985 budget said "the salary budget this year will be...; the member countries promise to pay the related pensions later, whatever the sum turns out to be." Ditto other years. Someone's now gone though past budgets and tried to sum up all those non-numbers (both pensions and other future commitments). Must've been a terrible job.

(Edit: fixed conflicting use of x.)
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