skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Deep Learning in Android Malware Detection (2018)
Use the subscription fees to cover up the lack of search result ads, to pay for better policing of fake reviews, moderating, etc.
What "precarious financial state"? The Kenyan economy has grown at a steady, rapid 5% pace for the past decade, with no backsliding or instability. Are you sure you're not making assumptions based on political conventional wisdom, rather than facts and observation?

China wants trading partners, generally. It drives their economy, so it's in their best interest to see their partners do well. And since China has increased per capita GDP by 130x (in constant dollars) since 1960, they know something about lifting nations out of poverty.

edit: Per world bank data, Kenya's per capita GDP has increased every year since 2002, and has nearly quadrupled in that time (from $395 to over $1500). If that's a precarious state, sign me up! [https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/NY.GDP.PCAP.CD?location...]
That's true up to a point. But chances are, they will eventually have corporate leadership that is desperate to make a profit, and they'll seriously consider doing the same thing.
Phone

Not much of a phone without a phone app.

But Apple does sell an iPhone without a Phone app. It's called an iPod.
It's pointless to think the industry will regulate itself, they can't help it. If there's a shred of profit to be made in anything give it time and it will be done as long as it's not illegal and often even if it is.
Liked that though the boxes seem to be a distraction. Perhaps they could use the dim ansi code or be turned off.
Necessity is the mother of all inventions. I am glad to see some are skipping politics and actually trying to solve this with some intelligence.
The correct answer is: use LyX[0], a WYSIWYM[1] editor.

LyX is truly fantastic by comparison to Word and LibreOffice. You get all the power of LaTeX and none of the pain. WYSIWYM is superior to WYSIWYG! WYSIWYG means you have to fiddle with typesetting as you write, whereas WYSIWYM means you don't.

LyX also supports a variety of export formats, including XHTML. I've used its export to XHTML feature so that I can edit Internet-Drafts in LyX then convert them to XML (using an XSL) in the schema accepted by xml2rfc, and presto, no need to edit XML.

[0] [1] http://www.lyx.org/
[1] What you see is what you mean.
Has anyone compared this to dhex, hexer, or ht?
Personally I love coding, but I don't do it primarily for a living. I do work with code daily, but more in the side of quality assurance and DevOps. This I why I can focus to code various things that are interesting for me (multiple open source and personal projects) during my free time. I believe this is big reason for why I still love coding.
Self-Driving Cars Will Always Be Limited. Even the Industry Leader Admits It
That's the issue. How do you solve merit without an Orwellian system monitoring everything everyone does? Without some kind of capability for privacy-respecting decentralized systems - solving for Merit is a function of dystopia.
The EU is not a single trading block; it's many many individual trading blocks all different cultures and languages; the US is the single largest trading block in the world. And no, the GDPR is awful legislation, the notion that every foreign country can simply declare jurisdiction over other countries citizens violates national sovereignty is and flat out disgusting and will not stand.
Very well thought. Thanks for sharing.
There's no cannibalism, but Bourdain tells some interesting stories.
Animalus Anthropomorphicus, "the animal as seen through the human eyes."

I think Dindim has found a source of free food. Although it's a win win because who doesn't want to be visited by a penguin.
FWIW this post is a summary of an investigation posted and discussed yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18857220

(The TC summary is lengthy enough that it’s not necessarily blogspam)
I completely agree, but again, are we mad at restaurants for following the law when the servers are the ones breaking it?
10 years ago today: Remembering Steve Jobs make iPhone history
I remember when this article was knocking around during last Summer, and came away thinking "nope, that's not how to analy[s|z]e a [football|soccer] game".

I have people inside a Premier League club just waiting for me to be able to throw OpenCV at an archive of video and turn it into something useful they can do something with, and have had for a couple of years now. I think in 2019 we might get there, but it isn't quite this.

Object detection isn't enough, and drawing paths isn't enough. You need to know which player is which, where on the pitch they are, the phase of the game (knowing who has possession is enough, but knowing current score and minutes of play elapsed is also helpful), how long the player has been on the pitch, etc., etc.

At that point you can then start to do some real analysis. It's doable, but not trivial, and this is only the start.

Good work on the object detection though.

If anybody reading this thinks they know how to do the above and is interested in having an interesting conversation about it, feel free to ping me...
US needs (something like) GDPR. 2% to 4% of revenue is a good starting point for a penalty. In the absence of a penalty why would anyone running a Telco company not take the extra cash from selling data.
Kitchens are hidden from the public so it’s one of the few places that will hire people who can’t be seen by customers.
>due to political pressures from the elites

As a Chinese, I can't think of ANY Chinese people would prefer to reform Hanzi to Pinyin and I'm surely not within "elites".

>whose family's positions are secured by the higher barrier to entry to becoming an intellectual

Holy shit, it's 2019 not 1950. China has a literacy rate of 96.4% [1]. What exact barrier are "elites" trying to set with that?

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_literacy_...
direct link: https://codepen.io/sdras/details/gogVRX
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Hi,

My business partner and I are in the process of releasing https://jobletter.io

Our goal is to provide subscribers with high quality, curated jobs for people just starting out in their career.

There are a lot of features we still need to work out, including:

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But we wanted to get feedback from the HN crowd.

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I've tried this a few years back when Spotify started repeating some annoying ad over and over. It's quite "low-tech" compared to adblockradio, but it worked pretty well.

https://github.com/serialoverflow/blockify
Squarespace is down
Bad gateway. https://twitter.com/SquarespaceHelp/status/1083044372931796992
That's all anybody has ever done. You may as well be claiming that the reals don't exist because no mathematician has conceptualized one non-symbolically and non-approximately.

When you do calculus on the reals, you only ever approximate or encode a finite (really, countable) subset of them.
>None of this applies to cloud-based work using e.g. Google Documents

I think the more important issue there is that Google Docs is bad. It doesn't even support copy and paste properly!

It's fine for what most people use a word processor for. If you're a student writing a paper in 12-pt Times New Roman with one-inch margins, double spacing, no footnotes, etc., it will do that just fine. It falls to pieces when you want any sophisticated formatting or version control.
Can't the carrier still reveal what cell tower you're nearest? It seems that no solution for this problem is possible without federal regulation followed by BIG fines for violations.

Maybe a few dozen kids need to be abducted before anyone will care. But frankly, after ignoring Sandy Hook, I no longer see Washington as a force for good of any kind.
There's no general constitutional level right to privacy comparable to that in ECHR. So there's a constant risk that privacy laws get overridden by First Amendment considerations.

The specific example of VRRP came about because of a Republican - Bork, who had his privacy invaded.
AT&T Defends '5GE' Amidst Backlash
That work without root?
Very cool! I greatly appreciate the author's inclusion of a `Pros and cons` section in the README, particularly the cons.
Airplane mode does not disable GPS.

It could be queuing positional and temporal data, and awaiting a connection to later send.
Kenyan here. English has always been mandatory in Kenya, seeing that it's a former British colony, just like India
I think thats it. We don't know how much or how many shares she owns.
I wonder why this post was flagged
How are you judging positivity?

Classroom time should be spent on the most important things. Learning for the sake of learning is meaningless. There is no value in knowing how many dots are on the ceiling. The classroom time could been spent learning something more meaningful. For example, cursive writing should not be taught.

I would suggest only praising skills that help a child economically or make life fulfilling. I do not consider learning different ways to say a word as fulfilling as history, art, or philosophy.
> 4. The SA applies to a US court for enforcement of the EU judgment

The US courts says fuck off, you don't have jurisdiction over our citizens. That's what's going to happen; lets stop pretending there's any actual legal right for the EU to impose laws on non EU citizens, there isn't.
You're definitely not alone. A big part of what drew me to customer-facing roles in tech was that I found purpose and impact from human connection.

Being able to master technical product, build relationships, solve problems, and find problems that customers didn't know they had has been a really rewarding experience. It comes with its own challenges for sure, and a whole new skillset and language, but the level of impact is huge, and the ability to code helps you relate complex concepts and learn from users.

There's some great research by Adam Grant that debunks the myth that customer-facing roles (ie: tech sales) are for non-technical extroverts. In fact, the most successful tech sales leaders develop technical skills to be thought leaders in their industries.

Happy to chat more - DM me if you have questions. I'm the founder at Flockjay (YC W19 - Tech sales education where the school doesn't get paid until you're hired) - we have amazing engineering talent in our current batch, and past graduates. We help with the transition from engineering/other backgrounds into sales.
I think I found some flaws with this, now I think I am rather experienced but I haven't seen everything.

1) He didn't demonstrate it in real hardware without outside power and ground, while he says an arm core is very small, capacitors are large unless you change the laws of physics. Also I never saw a reliable clock generator the size of a 0402 (or even 1208 now that I think about it) passive. Like I said I haven't seen everything, if there are answers to these I'd love to see them.

2) He faked in some addition to unprogrammed memory, he theorizes the change can only work one way (change a high to low) so an obvious countermeasure is to fill empty memory with random bit patterns.

3) IIRC he intercepts an spi flash in series on the data (MISO) wire. Not only does this assume the spi clock is regular, I think it's totally wrong because he says he turns high to low. Usually the quiescent state of a net like this is high, due to pullup on one or both sides to Vdd (high state.) The mark on the data wire is a short to ground against this pullup to get a low state. Now I haven't seen everything, nor have I looked at any datasheets of parts used in any real system, of course the pullup can be anywhere along the wire, or in one or many integrated circuits along the net, but it really strikes me as incomplete because he says he turns high to low and I didn't notice him mentioning anything about any pullup and how to deal with it.

So until I see something better than this talk I am writing this off as feeding the FUD.
Fair point, but where are you getting your statement "For the time being a couple percent of the electorate selects your house member"? As far as I know, voter turnout is at least a magnitude higher.

It's important to realize that what seems like the obvious way an ideal democracy should function is not what we have in the US. We have a partial democracy where all decisions are heavily lobbied by massive corporations to a degree that can't even be compared to most nations. If the 'free market' didn't surround these lobbyists, it would be called racketeering the government.
The author doesn't want to treat Chan's insistence on his account being an inspirational one and just wants to see it as sad.

I'm reminded of a Quora answer by a guy who loved fighting, one phrase he used stuck out at me. "Great fighters have to kind of like getting hit."

You can't push your body to its very limits without getting injured. Planning and preparing for it is not sad, it's smart. Chan's account should be taken at face value. It is inspirational for all the reasons he thinks it is.

I mean, sure, it would be way better if Hong Kong weren't the colonial hell-hole it was. Chan rose above that and made a noticeable dent in the world. If he could do it in the situation he grew up in, anyone can.

As the Brits like to say, Chan and his story are exactly what it says on the tin. To say it's not demeans Chan and his life and his choices.
It takes a second to compute all that color.
Nice tool though - but what I would really like to see is a --color argument added to xxd as well, as I'll probably forget about hexyl down the line and start looking for xxd again (which is conveniently already installed on most *nix systems).
> The advantage of pictograms is you can infer meaning from component radicals when looking at more complicated pictograms. Pinyin is useful but limited, e.g. there is a number of different pictograms that are all pronouced 'shi4' so simply by looking at pinyin you won't be able to differentiate without additional context that might not be available in written scenario.

I kinda find it hard to believe that could be much of a real problem. Pictograms may allow homonyms to proliferate more than in an alphabetic writing system, but as long as the language still lives as a spoken language, there will be limits on them that prevent them from becoming too much of a problem. A spoken language with too many homonyms just isn't useful, so it will be adapted to eliminate the problem.

All bets are off when the spoken form is dead, though.
For anyone planning to take a road trip in an EV, there are really good tools that allow you to avoid almost all of the issues the author faced due to bad planning. The Tesla navigation system has one built in that takes into account supercharger closures, but there are also https://evtripplanner.com and https://abetterrouteplanner.com , which are highly customizable and quite nice.

For this particular route, https://abetterrouteplanner.com/?plan_uuid=45a1f1bd-5697-448... finds a route with just under 2.5 hours total charging time, and 10 h15m driving time.

The one issue that might have been unavoidable was having a supercharger be closed unexpectedly while you are driving towards it, but I suspect that Tesla indicates impending closures on the display, and you can also call their roadside support line to clarify details about impending maintainence if you are worried.
In regards to that article:

>If you’re so smart, why aren’t you rich? Turns out it’s just chance.

Someone in the industry, someone with considerable influence, someone active on this very forum, once told me when asked what their secret was "I worry it's been more luck than skill".

At the time my immediate thought was "bullshit, you had to have busted your ass but your background also had to have had great influence but hey fine, don't tell me". But as time has passed, much reflection, looking at their peers I now fully believe it. It was largely luck. While the individual had an interesting idea which started their journey towards success, they've had fortunate event/connection after fortunate event/connection that have allowed them to get where they are today. That has allowed them to be doing what they want to do, pursuing what they want to be pursuing, working towards a goal that they want more than anything else.

I'd say 10% idea, 20% work ethic, 70% luck.

Wish I had some luck (and maybe the ability to pass some hindsight of my personal life back to a much younger me so I'd have gotten a degree, avoided my personal bankruptcy and thus been in a much better position to actually get opportunities but alas).
This is a really cool and well written post. Thank you!
Doesn't "the tyranny of the rocket equation" kind of make the idea of fully propulsive braking systems kind of infeasible?

I know it's possible, but when you have an atmosphere not using it would be just throwing away potential weight that you could be using for the mission at hand.

I'm not rocket scientist, but it sounds like solving that problem using other means (like active cooling) gives you a good amount of weight to play with before it even begins to equal the cost of propulsive braking. And that means you can have a lot of redundancy or can use less efficient but simpler to operate/manufacturer/fix.
As a deaf person, hailing a ride by phone is much better than a taxi. But I also have friends who use wheelchairs frustrated by Uber's unresponsiveness to addressing accessibility; Uber just claims the drivers are independent contractors and so it's not Uber's responsibility.

I felt Doctorow's piece addressed the nuance of Uber bringing both improvements and regressions.
> which is reckless behaviour.

It depends on the amount of risk and diversification you are looking for as well as where you are in your financial career. For example, if you have no college debt, and can afford to live off of your salary alone, leaving RSUs as company stock when they vest is no different than a non-employee buying shares of that stock at the vest price.

Diversification is great but not everyone is in the same financial situation to assume there is a one size fits all rule.
Wall street did plenty of bitching and moaning over the oil price declines that happened in the past 5yr and there was not shortage of articles decrying that even though it might look like a good thing from the perspective of someone who has to buy gasoline that it was actually a bad thing for the economy.
> Why does Android have undeletable apps anyway?

It was explained only zillion times, but I will try one more:

In android, you have storage in two partitions: /system and /data.

/system is read-only, this is where anything that is shipped with phone is stored. Outside of system updates, it is not being touched.

/data is, where user data, installed applications, configuration, etc. is stored.

To factory reset the phone, you just wipe the /data. No separate partition for factory reset is necessary, because /system due to its immutability doubles as one. Anything you configure/change/etc is stored on /data. If you disable any bundled app, whether through gui or adb, the info that you disabled it is written into /data.

Once you want to sell your phone on craiglist, you wipe /data and the buyer gets exactly the same software you originally got.

There is also secondary use of the immutability: android system is distributed as partition image, not as a file archive. That means, that the physical fs layout is same for all devices of the same SKU, can be signed (dm-verity), and then verified at boot, whether the filesystem was modified or not. This is being used for ensuring secure boot, and unsealing secrets in trusted environment.
I'm surprised he's still considered relevant given how spectacularly his cellulosic ethanol companies failed, taking probably hundred of $M's in investor and government money with them. http://fortune.com/kior-vinod-khosla-clean-tech

edit: fixed the link
Reporting on terrible things doesn't need a conspiracy. Can you imagine someone saying "I'm no Ebola fan, but doesn't it feel..."
Making Sense of YouTube's Monetization Policies
Wife of Norwegian billionare kidnapped, €9M crypto ransom
I've been really getting into growth and marketing lately as I want my ideas to take off. If I'm building a new company I want to be able to get users quickly.

This stuff is REALLY screwing us over.

Users are insanely skeptical now. This data is insanely valuable for growth but if the industry creates an entire generation of people who REFUSE to be monitored we're going to be in a horrible situation.

If someone is legitimately just interested in the cities you're visiting I don't think this is much of a problem.

For example, say their product is only available in San Francisco. It doesn't make sense to try to recruit users in New York.

This makes it much easier so get initial users as you can just buy ads for users in San Francisco, potentially saving a massive amount of money on your ad campaign.

With Polar (https://getpolarized.io/) I need to have analytics about what users do in the editor. What they click on, etc.

Polar is a research tool for reading and annotating PDFs and caching web content for later reading.

I get regular complains from users to disable all analytics.

I might ship it as an advanced feature for users to opt-out but I don't have any nefarious use case here. My only goal is ti figure out if you're using feature X or not.
Cross-platform terminal coloring was solved in the 1980s with termcap and then terminfo, for every terminal that's even come close to seeing mainstream use and which had colors in the first place. The libraries are part of the ncurses library and are shipped with every OS this stuff would build on to begin with.

This also solves the problem of moving the cursor and drawing a screen in general.
They stole the name from the turtle? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lonesome_George
I could give a shit about travelling to the EU, the vast majority of Americans never leave the US, that's not going to change.
...and then have them taken over by absentee investors.
They are easily disable-able.
Worse than just letting him get away with it, we're still promoting his ideals by giving him a platform.

Shame on Vinod, and shame on YC/Sam.
Very unlikely that any animal will swim hundreds or thousands of miles to a free food joint, there’s easier ways to eat. And there’s biologists on record saying that this imprinting does happen with handlers and they try to avoid it in research situations.
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But again, Airbnb doesn’t own or rent those units, or choose to put them on the market. Should they only allow a certain percentage of units in a particular building or neighborhood to be rented out? How is that fair to marginal apartment owner who also wants to rent their space out?

I think Airbnb could do a better job of working with cities to ensure that negative externalities don’t poison the well. But I don’t hold them responsible for the tsunami of demand on both sides of this market. It seems pretty clear that people really, really want this, and I don’t think the right answer is “too bad, stay in an overpriced chain hotel”
> When that happens, I will just sit on my chair for few seconds to appreciate the time that I've saved for not to write the hate message with my broken English

Don't appreciate the time saved; appreciate having avoided the embarrassment of falsely accusing someone for your own actions. I mean, it's interesting that you don't think of the other party that avoided receiving a misdirected hateful message, and just think of your own time saved.

Also, what good do hate messages do for anybody? Why even consider writing one? If you need to vent, can't you do so privately, or share constructive, open-minded criticism free of hate?
From a business standpoint trying to market goods, no, it isn't. That's just a fact. Every culture has to be marketed to differently, they are different markets.