skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Seems they could make it a bit stronger by glueing the batteries to the display (and, if that isn’t done yet, to the back plane), at the cost of repairability.

In the end, though, there’s little you can do to make a device that thin very strong against bending forces (steel tubes around the edge would make it harder to bend the entire thing, but would use a lot of the volume, add weight, and wouldn’t help much against forces applied to the center of the display)

I can see the lure of thinness and its associated decrease in weight, though. If you compare today’s iPad to previous generations, the weight difference feels enormous.
India: All computers now under govt. watch
This is a bit ahead of the getting started area, but the last time I was interviewing out of state, no one told me this, and I was young, so here goes:

Do not let companies set you up for failure with a ridiculous travel schedule. I was flown from MD->CA for a big-five tech company, on a flight with 2 layovers, that arrived at 11PM, with interviews starting at 10AM the next day. I have never screwed up an interview so bad as that one, and to some level I still blame the whirlwind schedule for being super-fried coming into that interview setting.

You'll probably get much better suggestions from the rest of the group here, but hopefully this still-painful-12-years-later story will bring some amount of levity. Best of luck! :)
tldr: Fix is in the works. (bug fix will probably make it to prod faster than many enterprise applications do, and this is a physical device deployed thousands of miles away)

Love that this is being led by a young engineer (24) and came up with the idea 8 years ago. So great to see young people making a difference! (gosh I can't believe I just said "young people", I am 37 now...)
This only relates to iPhone 7 and 8 models, not iPhone XR and XS.
Gatwick Airport: Army called in amid drone chaos
TIL. Yeah, I looked it up now, he seems to have had quite a fall, as one year before his resignation he was still at about 60%.
I couldn't make it past 5 minutes. Fratboy-level jokes and constant detours into the irrelevant. Clearly my sense of humor is different from theirs.
They made a movie a few years back based on this novel. It was pretty good from what I remember.
Do you really think the people who are concerned about Google Home/Alexa/etc don't also have their webcam covered with a sticker?
The Muslim Immigrant: The Icon of Oppressed Humanity
Looking Ahead: 2019 Developer Tool Trends
First china.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18648042

Now Germany. Looks like the execs at qualcomm are going to have a nice christmas.
Probably the stack overflow winter bash.

https://stackoverflow.blog/2018/12/12/winter-bash-2018-2/
Does not look like this is immediate: "The injunction is effective as soon as Qualcomm posts the required bonds which will be completed within a few days."
That’s big
A name like "smallgovt" should've made it clear that they would be pro-corporation above all else :)
True but...

1- Apple might not be interested in listening to its users but I'm sure other businesses are. Apple users are loyal customers who can pay twice for a piece of technology and some of them will happily spend a night in line to be able to do that. Most advertisers would pay big money to Apple to know who those people are and what they want; that information is like gold.

2- unfortunately advertisers aren't the only entity potentially interested in spying people.
I was thinking that... a hell of a sense of humor. Merry Christmas, DDoS jackasses.
"Hackernewsing"
For packaged goods, maybe. Have you ever watched how people pick out specific apples from the bin? Do you ever sniff the package of raw chicken before you put it in your cart? Have you ever seen somebody tapping on a melon before buying it? Buying perishable foods is a sensory experience which cannot be easily mimicked.
> I know plenty of non-technical people who chatted on IRC who were not developers
> I simply don't understand where the idea of needing a technical background came from for using something like IRC.

You don't have to be a developer but you do need a level of technical background higher than that of the average computer user. There are plenty of tech-savvy, non-developers who can get up and running with things like IRC. There are plenty more non-technical users who can't. Or at least wouldn't given the learning curve time commitment.

I'm the only person in my family who would be able to sign on to IRC in under an hour whereas they'd all be able to have slack up and running in a matter of minutes.
It's just leverage to get Apple to settle without waiting for next year's trial(s). Just like the Avago LBO was leverage to force Qualcomm to settle on Apple's terms.
Add Google Chrome for free to increase real followers on the intgram channel
Hyper-V only works on the Pro versions of Windows.
This is not an accurate characterization of the debate. "The world's scientists" are in fact a small cadre of self-described climatologists whose academic careers depend on this being a real issue.

If you want to be skeptical of the skeptics, fine. We all should be. But the notion that the bias is one-sided is silly.
I've looked at acting classes, and even beginning classes are much more expensive (2-5x) than any other type of classes I've taken, like martial arts, music, or dance -- even private lessons.

Do dancers not need to eat? Do musicians not study as long to become competent teachers? Why is acting priced so different from every other art?
Aww yeah ok this is more realistic :-)
Great to see this is still going! This space needs competition, and I can't see a future where this potentially life-threatening (and also life-saving) technology is close source. It only seems logical it will eventually be 100% open, in order to gain public trust.
No, Qualcomm needs to post money for bonds so that if the ruling is overturned on appeal, they have funds locked away to compensate Apple.

NB: the case does not deal with all IPhones, so a segment of the product line will still be vendible.
Only because the X models did not exist when the motion was originally filed, not because they don’t infringe.
From [1]:

> Apple says it will stop selling the iPhone 7 and iPhone 8 at its stores in Germany. But all iPhone models will be available at third-party retailers in the country.

[1] https://www.cnbc.com/2018/12/20/qualcomm-reportedly-wins-inj...
Nuro launches the first unmanned delivery service
I don't much about private equity, but Corel is owned by Vector Capital, so maybe they're providing the money? https://www.vectorcapital.com/investments/case-study/corel
I might admittedly be remembering this wrong, but I seem to recollect that Postgres had a couple of (unofficial) contrib modules to support JSON back in 2008 or so, and that (unfortunately buried in Postgres vs Mongo articles) the initial release of Mongo was actually a fork of Postgres for all practical intents.

The relevant data structures and indexing mechanisms (hstore, tsvector, gin, gist) were all available -- if only experimentally -- before Mongo launched.
Was there something in the article to suggest that it wasn't collected and stored in accordance with policy?
> arstechnica

techcrunch you mean
For true remote with employees at their homes, security failures become far more likely.

There is a middle ground. One can open up small offices in small cities. For example, instead of 1000 people in a city of 5,000,000 people, it could be 20 people in 50 cities that have 100,000 people. Each site gets a VPN connection, with the hardware physically secured in a commercial building.

The COL goes way down. The commute becomes tiny for most people. I'm in that situation, and my commute is 3 minutes if I use a car.
In my thinking window size is something that is optimized for the decoding resources -- whereas the encoding effort is optimized for how expensive the transfer is in relation to encoding cost.

For example, a mobile client might prefer to have no more than 512 kB sliding window due to design of its memory system or for multi-processing reasons. There, a static resource can still be encoded to the smallest size with extremely slow encoding (quality 9-11) -- but for one-use we'd still prefer a faster encoding (quality 6 or so).

Thank you for explaining your focus. Did you arrive to that by doing economic calculations or was it to have minimal changes to situation with no compression?
Global hack of MSPs affects Australian organisations
I use Feedly for my rss-feeds and they do recommend other sites to follow if you search for a feed.
Hadn't heard them called "stressers" before. Is that for sites that were pretending they were for stress-testing your own site, not DDoSing someone else's? Glad it didn't work out for them.
My God. This "it is an insult" thing is insufferable. Please stop doing it.

It's literally what the phrase means.
Invents a reason to search, and definitely finds something.
Data Skeptic : Especially all the episodes of Kyle explaining a concept to Linda. I've learned lots of great concepts from those episodes. https://dataskeptic.com/

CoRecursive : Long form interviews around a particular topic per episode, with a focus on programming languages and functional programming. This is my podcast. http://corecursive.com
There are more listed on an earlier thread as well:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18662336
Using the brand is wrong but making a similar product? Isn't what she did in the first place?
There is one hell of a filmed entertainment series here. You've got every element necessary, including the "truth stranger than fiction" angle. I wonder what, if any, studios are developing this history into a show, film or something.
I'm not disputing Crowley's influence, but you are mischaracterizing the "veiled" language.

Masking a reference to ritualistic masturbation with an edgy joke is a pretty good example actually.

> To portray him as nothing more than a sexual deviant

Getting a little ahead of ourselves though, aren't we. You know, if you really want to push the issue, we can discuss how much he loved animals and how that might have influenced his work.
I still miss google reader. If was such a fine product that just worked so of course it had to go.
Is there a link to the judgement, or at the very least a link to anywhere but Apple and Qualcomm’s press release websites?

EDIT: Post updated to a better link, thanks mods!
All it ever takes is the utility outweighing the risk for enough people to support a business.
Whats worse is that newer generations will not know what an analog switch is and how powerful and yet simple it is and how it just works in an instant when you want it to. When I was a kid I used to disassemble things and learn lots from the adventure because it was logical and intuitive (I also had to assemble it back or I'd get scolded at). Kids these days don't bother because the device of their choice captivates most of their attention and their control is limited.
Interesting to see they went for an injuction (and were granted one), considering Qualcomm doesn't directly make a competing product. Does anybody know why the courts would do this, instead of allowing the sale, but requring Apple to pay a cut of every future phone sold + infrigemenr damages? Surely based on other devices using this Qualcomm tech, it would be possible to determine how much the patent when licensed is worth? (edit: I know there's no love lost between Apple and Qualcomm, but this seems like another way patents can be weaponised way beyond the scope of protecting innovation)
Don't let perfect be the enemy of good.
Suppose someone uses an app that has built-in end-to-end encryption. In the eyes of the law, what does that now make them?
also MARC and Amtrak have different endpoints in DC. even though it's more expensive, Amtrak may put an arbitrary person closer to where they need to be.
I haven't been to Whole Foods much in the last few
years, but their produce used to be at least as good as
other supermarkets, and usually better. What are you
comparing it to? Have you noticed the quality go down
over time, or have you always had issues with the
produce?

Whole Food's produce quality has tanked since the Amazon acquisition. I'm with you: I used to think that their produce was usually better than the competition. While that might've been changing before Amazon acquired them as well, the produce is now awful: I sometimes literally find better-quality produce in the vending machine in my coworking space, and I can virtually always find better produce (at a cheaper price!) at Kroger, Fresh Market, and even sometimes Trader Joe's or Target.
Tensorflow models can be used in ML.NET and the API is open to suggestions for what to support next. https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/dotnet/2018/09/12/announcin...
I think Masashi Wakui does a great job in this genre https://www.flickr.com/photos/megane_wakui/
Show HN: Stop Slack from controlling your brain
HN, we talk a lot about how Slack has ruined our productivity (eg. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18320968, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16301508, etc.), but nobody has taken steps to fix this. I am building Oliv to take a stand.

I am a software engineer turned manager. I am guilty of enthusiastically introducing Slack in my previous organization, only to realize how it killed the pockets of focus time that my engineers need to be productive. Once you introduce Slack in an organization, all communication becomes synchronous, even if only 10% of it needs to be, and Slack’s notifications start controlling everybody’s attention.

Oliv is a slackbot that manages your Slack status & Do Not Disturb based on your calendar. Oliv also auto responds and takes messages for you / escalates as needed when you are unavailable for a longer period of time.

Here’s how my team and I use Oliv today to create focus and manage expectations around communication:

1. We make it a habit to schedule couple of 2h “focus time” blocks for every day on every engineer’s calendar. During that time, Oliv sets Do Not Disturb, updates the status to “is heads down” and takes messages to show later when the focus time ends.

2. For me, when I am in meetings, Oliv updates my status to “in meetings till 4p”, etc. so that my team knows I won’t be able to respond immediately.

3. During vacations, Oliv sets our status to “On vacation till Dec 31”, etc. and takes messages on our behalf. We get to enjoy our vacations, and instead of having a deluge of notifications to comb through when we come back, we get a list of clear asks from our teammates.

Oliv has worked wonders for our productivity, and I hope it can do the same for you and your team. You can enable it for yourself at https://oliv.app . It’s free and you don’t need admin privileges to enable it.
Un-added, since we've changed the URL to an updated version of the paper.
Take a close look at the others in the office when you 'walk through' to the conference room.

"Ripped jeans and Concert T's" vs "Suit & Tie" vs "other"

In my experience, the apparel of the others makes a huge difference on how you are perceived. If this is a 'Silicon Valley Garage hacker' wannabe and you show up wearing a full suit you will be ostracized before you open your mouth.

I've gone as far as hanging out at a bus stop near a potential employer and watch how the staff are dressed as they leave for the day, just to get a feel of what average is. Then make sure you dress _moderately_ better then that average.

This could also be double-speak for "you are too old, old man!"
Actually, no. I'm remembering asking myself how Mongo worked back when it launched, and reading somewhere that it was a heavily modded Postgres under the hood (like Amazon Redshift, which makes no secret about it, since).

I might be misremembering, though. And there's a possibility that what I read then was inaccurate.
Nice blog post at vice.com! That’s all this is.

Facebook posts my content using a template. Wordpress could do the same thing, but it’s missing Friends.

So we need a personal site with Friends. Looks like Facebook works for that.

Discord is the only other app I have with Friends list.
Both points are very important. One tells you that there's a systemic issue, while the other reminds you that you can adapt and be better off at the end of the day.
I find the discussion around sugar very similar, where some stress how sugar made everyone fat and caused diabetes and then you've got the other side pointing out that inherently there's no problem [0], sugar just causes some to overeat, and you should watch your calorie intake.

[0] it's a little different in that whether there is or isn't inherently a problem still isn't exactly settled science
Really my standing is that what we need to accept is different - that it is okay to be a technically sophisticated niche but that it will certainly have lesser traffic. That sort of experience is much of what people bemoan about with the 'old internet' anyway.

The internet is built for that sort of specialization anyway - it isn't a pure broadcast medium in the first place so accept that it isn't all conglomerates - if you don't want it for profit in the first place you don't need the crowds.

I can see potentially setting up a good 'seed kit' to distribute but generally they've had the trap of being too technically sophisticated for the lowest level and too simple for those with more expertise.

It is probably more hard on a social level than a technical level given things like UX consistency. Not to mention the infamous 'classic angelfire 90s website' tackiness that nobody tends to want to visit anyway.
Take me to the nearest McDonalds - gives me a list.

“McDonalds” - gives me a list.

“Take me to the closest McDonalds” - brings up maps and starts navigating to the closest McDonalds.

After further experimentation. Siri doesn’t understand Nearest but does understand “closest” to mean that I don’t want a list.
Thanks! Changed from https://weakdh.org/imperfect-forward-secrecy-ccs15.pdf.
money > mission
There's already a lot of aggregators which are partially-social. For example theoldreader tells me that someone likes a specific post from RSS feed. Not sure if they have recommendations, but they could certainly generate them if they wanted.
Kong is different from Nginx ingress controller. Without a controller, you have to manually register the endpoint/service. You would want to by pass k8s service and use pod ip directly. That's why they do the kong ingress controller.

The main difference is in plugin API. It's very easy to write plugin for Kong. The second is where data is persisted. Kong stores data in db. Therefore they can do something with it. Ingress controller in 0.21 has dynamic backend, they basically hold an in memory objects for api routing rule.

Kong shines when you have complex logic routing, want to leverage their API keys authentication. Such as you can easily expose a service, with API key store in db. Where as you have to write a logs of `auth access` rule and store key in configmap/env in Nginx ingress.

Nginx ingress config is all about watching configmap/annotations and re-generate config. Such as when new service are added, the config is generated(When new pods are added/remove they use Lua to routing so no more reload in there). In Kong, these are seamless, no reload. All data are stored in either Postgres/Cassandra.

That's said, Kong is very nice but it adds more overhead than a simple Nginx ingress.
Genuinely curious here -- what alternatives are there to this service that are guaranteed beyond 18-24 months?
When Facebook becomes the new Myspace, there will not be a new Facebook, it will be something is user-centered, that cares about the user. It will likely be de-centralized, but I haven't found something that has the low friction onboarding that FB provides that accomplishes this yet.

The new solution won't require you to pick a server (e.g. Mastodon) and will be straight forward to the user.

It will come.
Additionally the "biography" of Parsons, "Sex and Rockets: The Occult World of Jack Parsons", is a great read.

https://www.amazon.com/Sex-Rockets-Occult-World-Parsons/dp/0...
This is why most large tech companies have data engineer roles that are separate from the data science role.
Innocent New York man billed $4,600 for police rectal probe
Wrong - Apple moved all iCloud data, which includes text messages, email and other data stored in iCloud (according to Reuters) as well as the access keys. Apple even forced users to sign the updated TOS or drop service.

The Chinese government access is _not_ limited to metadata.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-apple-icloud-insigh...
Just so I'm clear here, you're proposing a conspiracy theory where Amazon, the DHS, and The Pentagon are in collusion to collect and transcribe audio from Amazon Echos -- in such a way that none of the many people who have hacked and extensively reverse-engineered them would be able to tell?

I can't find any holes in that theory.
Check out Strange Angel! It's a television series. They even came to Caltech to film on location.
The ulter ego he says he encountered in his occult rituals he calls "Dajjal". Interestingly, it is the same name for the Anti Christ that exists in early Islamic literature. What is even more striking is that this same literature describes the Dajaal as one-eyed. We all know that the one eye is the symbol of the illuminaty cult. Another thing that really reminded me about this guy is the movie "Ready Player One", it had the same insinuations, regarding the moon landing mixed with the illuminaty one eye and the movie The Shinning.
Noticed in the materials for the product: "Nearly Silent (<50dB)". Seems like bogus copy - for every broadband acoustic measure of dB I'm aware of 50 dB would be very non-silent.
Excel – Going Strong in 2018
Thanks for the question, it’s an incredibly important one, playing out on the national stage most recently with lawsuits against Harvard.

Diversity is notoriously hard to define, and few companies try due to the risk of such lawsuits. We take a deliberately broad view of diversity as you referenced, and we admit students based on a skills assessment evaluation that aspires to be blind to those criteria. No process is perfect, but this allows us to avoid the issues you mentioned. When companies hire from us, they then evaluate based on skills criteria and our certifications.

Happy to follow up if you have more questions.
me too. i still have corel draw from late 90s
> World-class accuracy of 1.96 meters

Good for WiFi/IMU-based indoor (phone-based) position tracking, I believe. For more accuracy, especially for robotics, etc., Pozyx [1] claims resolution of "a few centimeters" (indoor rooms/outdoor) by using some custom trilateration circuitry, and then there are attempts to use VR (esp. Vive) methods [2], which are even better (albeit more limited range).

[1] https://www.pozyx.io/
[2] https://hackaday.com/2018/09/04/this-is-your-solution-for-op...
I really like the idea of all of this tech being open source, but I don't think it's logical that eventually it will all be 100% open. There's tons of safety critical software now that's closed source (avionics software, utility and power plant software, spacecraft control systems, etc).