skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Like "git for issues"?
How solitary confinement drove a young inmate to the brink of insanity
So some has already built an "Eye Seeking Laser" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q8zC3-ZQFJI
Major (ie insignificant) lurker here. No chance there is a superfluous 's' in the People epithet? Naturally I expect to be down-voted. But if anyone gets a chuckle, I will be happy.
It's like Lenin said: “The Capitalists will sell us the rope with which we will hang them.”
I've found secure scuttlebutt (www.scuttlebutt.nz) really impressive. By using public servers called pubs as meeting point they can ignore lots of issues like NAT punching and discovery. I don't like that it seems to be based on an immutable log but it showcases well how much is possible with offline first, sync when possible software (just like syncthing)
Nope, they can't. There are reasonably-strong legal protections against police entering your home, because it's the main place where you actually have a legally-acknowledged expectation of privacy.
Even with that description, I can't find it.
Scientists find massive ancient whale with stomach full of fish and other whales
AI's failure to live up to the hype is starting to put off investors
Ultimately the purpose of taxes is to force citizens to use the currency the government produces, which in turn, makes their currency valuable to citizens.
I just with that the NSA had policies to disclose backdoors to appropriate business entities 30 days after discovery/purchase. They could still use 0-days, but at least the window would be reduced so the stockpile isn't unleashed on the world at large being a much bigger risk to security.
Is this directly related to learning the structure of PGMs?

eg. https://arxiv.org/abs/1111.6925 and practical example at https://github.com/jmschrei/pomegranate/blob/master/tutorial...
It's worth to mention the consequences explicitly: if you happen to mention you're fleeing because of religious oppression it may be considered apostasy, which is punishable by death[1]. Saudi Arabia is a very thorough implementation of Islam, and therefore a disgusting country.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_of_religion_in_Saudi_A...
Comments like this will get you banned here, regardless of how right you are, or feel you are, or how wrong someone else is.

Please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and post civilly and substantively, or not at all, from now on.
Have you ever used Unity before?
Could this be a big setback for "Let's Encrypt" since it uses DNS resolution for its own authentication instead of being a second factor?
Could you provide a link to the implementation, please?
Surveillance lidar is a thing.

[1] Quanergy Perimeter Security System https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IFCgEzdrbQM

[2] Quanergy's LiDAR-based security solution https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PpYDWb2yX_M
Didn’t force the Islam? You Sir are severely misinformed or you spread disinformation.
A whiteboard.

If you have more open bugs than can be listed on a whiteboard, you are in trouble anyway.
You're operating under the assumption that most people have their choice of where to work. If you can work at Google or Facebook, then sure, don't go the startup route

On the other hand if you didn't go to an Ivy league you can prove yourself at a startup or advance your career faster before transitioning to a bigger company at a better position
Well, time for me to put on a pair of reflective sunglasses to never take off.
I wish there was a book that teaches how to create a programming language based on the Roslyn idea.
Mainstream consensus is that his 'proof' didn't do anything besides introducing an analytic function called the Todd function that doesn't appear to satisfy his claims.
Ok, this suggests a solution: use a similar fluid in front of cameras.
> and I had a ‘spiritual’ experience.

Obviously no pressure here, but are you willing to share your experience?
> 3.5 walls

The $5.7B that Trump is asking for isn't enough to build the whole wall, it's just the amount he wants now. Cost estimates for the wall vary but they're all larger than $20B.
They're getting it working on OpenGL first. "We are using OpenGL 3.2 for now, but DirectX 11 support is definitely coming before we release it."
Couldn’t agree more. The whole simplistic idea of just throwing everything that took years to build just because some stranger can feel good shows a lack of understanding the economic hardship it took to get there.
> though apparently their reporting is factual.

One of the most effective forms of misleading reporting involves cherry-picking facts that support your narrative.

You can also conveniently ignore stories where it is obvious that facts may disrupt your desired meta-narrative.

Some organizations have even found ways of doing this whilst being revered for taking a balanced stance and presenting the full picture.
I wasn't familiar with the story of Microsoft and Eric Raymond, but I just went and read it. Man, that was very difficult to get through.

For others who haven't read it: http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=208
Back in the day I did this to an old CyberShot with a laser pointer, it permenantly had two purplish marks on the images afterwards. I would think the laser would need to be somewhat static or slow moving to cause the damage though not scanning at high speed.

You can see the purplish marks just slightly down and left of centre here - https://i.ibb.co/THMS42D/dsc00006.jpg
"almost unprecedented" implies that there was an earlier wave of DNS hijacking that was even larger (thus setting some kind of precedent). Was there such a precedent? And if so, I didn't see mention of it in the article.
My stereo is from 1979. For the last 30 years mainstream audio equipment has been in a race to the bottom on BOM cost and build quality. A well made stereo receiver from 1975-1985 will, when paired with the right speakers, greatly outperform the majority of modern listening devices.
This nasty and stupid flamewar is exactly what we're trying to avoid on Hacker News. Regardless of how strongly you feel or how wrong someone else is or you think they are, please don't do this on Hacker News ever again.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
"As a policy, it’s not completely unreasonable, but makes the mass content-farm websites like YouTube unfeasable."

...? Where are you getting this?

Have you read the current copy of the draft proposal? I did.

None of the restrictions are going to kill sites like Youtube (let alone HN). The proportionality element alone makes the 'we need to invest 200% of our revenue into content blocking' myth absurd.

Will some margin need to be shunted into mitigating unauthorized distribution of works that profit the platform? Yes. But that's already the law. It's literally unjust enrichment 101.
Ask HN: What is best email client (to replace Inbox)
I love Inbox and I'm dreading Google shutting it down. I've tried several others in the past but haven't found anything else I like as much. At this point I suspect I'll just go back to gmail and be less happy but I'm hoping there is an alternative I could like as much.

Tell me what you use for email and why it's awesome.

only requirements are works on iOS and Mac. Doesn't need desktop app, web is fine (perhaps even preferable).
The license can be a problem for some studios, specially ones with uncomfortable contracts with publishers. If you are in that situation, I highly recommend writing a LuaJIT integration layer.

The game code is very well separated from the engine, and qengine already removes a lot of non-generic game code from Q2. So all you have to do is delete a little bit more, write some glue code to tie in Lua, and you can write the entire game logic in a separate codebase, with a separate license. Also, you get moddability.
OPG v Diebold suggests a countersuit under 502(f) would prevail in this case. (Disclaimer: I was a plaintiff in this case, we won, EFF were our lawyers.)
"Do not stare into laser with remaining eye."
I don't read that? The quote says that taxes are not needed by a country that does not promise to convert its currency into gold etc. It says nothing about whether that country had issued debt outstanding or not.
Funny, I thought Stack Overflow was a spam site.

Frequently I have to barge through ten screenfuls of code that don't work before I finally get to a correct answer.

To add insult to injury SO doesn't allow questions about many important topics such as "how do I eliminate the wheat from the chaff for all the libraries I could possibly use to do this?"

It might be 2035 when they finally add parenthesis to all the Python code examples so they work in Python 3.
Apple's position is more nuanced than that.

Apple is saying "we do not want to write code to compromise device security", which is different than "not helping the FBI". They are obliged to and do provide access to things like iOS backups, etc.

These companies are neither good nor evil. End of the day, if you care about privacy, cleartext cannot be in the custody of a third party.
I was expecting it to be Sawant out preaching the evils of Amazon... That said, it seems especially silly for Seattle to think Amazon's impact on NYC will be anything like what happened in Seattle.
That's my hope too. Love my Chromecast Audio.
Google Fi sucks, it's way too expensive. The last several years have seen an explosion of MVNOs, mobile virtual network operators. I use Mint Sim and get 3gb LTE/month with unlimited talk and text, and unlimited throttled internet after the 3gb, for $15/month.
Yup, my parents had many in wall / ceiling speakers wired up to a receiver that they sort of forgot about because the system only received input from a 30 pin ipod dock and no one ever bothered to figure out how the receiver was configured. I pulled that interface out and replaced it with a chromecast audio and it blew their minds. It was probably the biggest ROI I've ever gotten out of any tech project I've ever done for them.

I'm very sad they are discontinuing this product. I was actually about to buy one for my new apartment. It looks like they are sold out everywhere already :(
A lot of milennials are eschewing running the rat race working 9-5 jobs to be in debt, rent, and not own anything their entire life for gaming. Once inequality reaches a certain point, everyone either checks out or revolts.
Your claim about California migration sounded biased to me, so I looked up the US census data [1].

2010: -130,416 (net migration out of California)
2011: -94,122
2012: -73,864
2013: -96,915
2014: -79,892
2015: -129,409
2016: -142,932
2017: -137,895

Compared to population [2], we get:

2010: -0.35%
2011: -0.25%
2012: -0.19%
2013: -0.25%
2014: -0.21%
2015: -0.33%
2016: -0.36%
2017: -0.35%

Conclusion: migration out did spike up starting in 2015. Now, what is it correlated with? You said it was due to taxes, firearms policy, and board policy.

Tax changes in 2014/2015: I didn't see any major tax changes [3].

Firearms policy changes in 2014: Long gun serial numbers required to be recorded on new sales. Police can confiscate guns from high-risk individuals for three weeks (signed in 2014, took effect in 2016). [4]

Firearms policy changes in 2015: Firearm Safety Certificate required for all guns (previously only required for handguns). [4]

Board policy change: Passed in 2018. [5]

My take: Migration out of California has increased, but it's not clear why. My personal guess would be cost of living.

[1] https://www.census.gov/data/tables/time-series/demo/geograph...
[2] https://www.google.com/publicdata/explore?ds=kf7tgg1uo9ude_&...
[3] http://www.library.ca.gov/Content/pdf/crb/reports/FinalVersi...
[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gun_laws_in_California
[5] https://www.wsj.com/articles/california-moves-to-mandate-fem...
The scary thing is that there are so many issue trackers out there and they are all bad. If you want to start a new one you'd better have a plan to avoid the traps that everyone seems to get stuck in.
Faster async functions and promises – V8
Hence “But her emails...”
i think it is relatively common in creatively brilliant people who become older. some people solve problems in ways that are counterintuitive and against the grain. it takes a lot of courage to do this, especially social courage. so for the few people that have success with this way of thinking, as they get older, they are trying to resummon the processes they've used before. much of that includes not listening to those who tell you you're wrong. but some declination of mental faculties makes this a bit dangerous as the mind isn't as sharp as it once was. although some of it may be even as simple as they miss the attention.

this is my theory anyway.
Please don't respond to flamewar comments by encouraging more.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
It would be empty.
Can you stream to an Echo Dot from any/many music apps on your phone like the Chromecast? Or do you have to control everything by voice?
the fluid in the human eye is opaque to 1550nm light, so the light can't reach the retina at the back of the eye.

So...it'll just fry the front of the eye?
I'd rather neither... however, I've not been arrested for reading/spreading articles about the Snowden documents or for making disparaging comments against the U.S. (I'm a resident and citizen).

The difference being if you live in China and do these things you may never be seen again.

I'm also against the whisle-blower persecutions that started under GWB and escalated under Obama.
Having done both i wouldn't categorize the work you do at a startup as glamorous. A lot of the jobs and tasks you'd never be asked to do at bigco become the responsibility of everyone at a startup out of necessity, not efficiency or choice. Things like covering a support phone, or training users or marathon sales trips.
You want to build your mosquito-zapping lasers to use a frequency that won't go through your eye to hit your retina.
P.S. It's a pretty ugly script but it's been doing the job for 4+ yrs. Feel free to grab it here: https://pastebin.com/jt7RfEbF. It'll write the output to the file o.txt.
True, but in a major city in Canada at that age, she will have no problem making friends. Just has to contend with her first winter. Otherwise her timing coudn't be better, with diplomatic relations being the disaster they are now.
Dragon boundary markers
Seth Godin recently had a thought provoking podcast on this very subject -- essentially asking, WHAT is school for?

> https://art19.com/shows/akimbo/episodes/130767e0-00fa-464f-8...

Relative to your daughter -- what critical skills do you think she will need? And what's the best environment for her to develop those?
> One of the most effective forms of misleading reporting involves cherry-picking facts that support your narrative and not exploring stories where it is obvious that facts may disrupt your desired narrative.

Isn't that what about 100% of existing news media is doing? They key here is to read more than one source, but having a source that would alone represent more than one narrative by now is pretty close to hopeless.
I can't really say for sure, but some things that stood out:

People skewed older than I expected for a startup. Most people were in their 30s, and the C suite people were mostly in their 40s. No one other than me was below late 20s, and everyone seemed laid back but competent.

I probed at it during the interview and was told that everyone leaves between 5-6, and that the CEO wanted to go home to his family and didn't expect anyone to do differently. When I asked engineers things about how days and weeks went there they were very direct about how people didn't stay late and didn't dance around the subject.

The CEO had already sold multiple startups while raising his family, so I assumed that he would be able to make the company successful without setting a precedent of burning yourself out and without us being under constant threat of death.

Also yeah, I didn't make nearly what I make now that I'm at FANG. But I ended up in a higher role and with more leverage than would normally be possible at my age and experience level in the new company, and got some cash from the deal, so it's been pretty great. But yeah, if I was just trying to maximize short term dollars earned it wouldn't have made sense to work there, since I couldn't have realistically known that this was the outcome.
How about "No one in the linked-to article is saying no alcohol."

Eg, quoting from the article: "These scholars don't want everyone to become teetotalers, or for conferences to ban alcohol altogether. They just want to be able to tackle the social labors of being an academic without the expectation to imbibe." and "Pearl isn't arguing that there shouldn't be any alcohol-related events, she said."

Also, "no one in the HN thread is saying no alcohol."

While your statement is true, I don't think it's useful to point to extreme viewpoints as a reply to a comment saying that we shouldn't use an "all or nothing scenario".

Any more than it would be useful to point out that that, in a piece arguing for vegetarian alternatives, that there some people who insist that no one ever eat meat. Sure, they exist, but it derails the topic.
One problem is still asymmetric upload/download speeds for many (most) home connections.

Often upload is 10x slower than download.
The number of web jobs is higher. The number of web programmers is higher, too. I don't think you can tell from the number of jobs how the pay situation is going to play out. (Look at the number of fast food jobs. It's huge. That doesn't result in high pay, though...)

I really can't tell whether an entry-level systems programmer gets paid better than an entry-level web programmer. But it seems to me that in web programming, you hit a wall at about ten years, where more experience quits translating into more pay. In embedded, you can find at least some jobs where 30 years experience gets you more pay than 20 years experience.
Is there any research material to support these claims? I can't imagine the energy and optics involved would have been sufficient to do this. Seems like coincidence to me. The sun has far more energy than what we're talking about here.

I'm happy to be proven wrong though as I wouldn't want something unsafe on the streets as much as anyone else.
I don't understand, what makes her more inspiring than these women?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ursula_Burns
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosalind_Brewer
So that goes from being 400x worse than a PWR to only being 40x worse (metric: power density of the primary reactor vessel). It's still not going to be competitive.
Ironically the first group of photos are of the bombsite on the Enola Gay -- an atom bomb is the only kind of bomb which the Norden Bombsight could put on target.
> how do you cause a cultural change or mindset change?

You're right to call this out. It's the most difficult and elusive thing to achieve. However, it has been happening pretty continuously since the dawn of civilization. Thomas Kuhn sat down to study it in the 50's or 60's and published "The Structure of Scientific Revolutions." That book is one of the best treatments of this subject area to date. It is the book that popularized the term "paradigm shift."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Structure_of_Scientific_Re...
I was excited to set a bunch of these up around the house a couple of years back. I set them up in every room in the house. Then I realized you could not cast just the audio from youtube videos (without YouTube Red or whatever). I could cast from youtube audio from my desktop computer to all of them through an open source app. It never worked like how I had envisioned in my mind with everything being seamless.

We also ran into the bug where having too many chromecast devices attached to the same network would spam the router, preventing some devices from connecting. It would happen randomly and it took a while to figure out that this was the problem.

There were other reliability issues and other minor annoyances that just made me give up on the idea.

Now I begrudgingly use an amazon firestick on the tv.

The idea was awesome, it's just that Google did not provide a reliable product and pointlessly limited its own hardware's capabilities to sell their monthly service.
The City of Los Angeles paid $300,000 for a vulnerable earthquake alert app
> debt is not necessary to finance a state that control its own floating currency

It is if you wish to avoid runaway inflation. Even countries which have cast off the fetters of the gold standard (or equivalent) have found that there are still limits to the rate at which they can issue currency. Moreover, once the implications sink in people just index prices (including wages and interest rates) to the expected rate of inflation and you're right back where you started.
Pharmacy and health care advertising should be banned, period.
Depends on the infrared band they're using but normal glass or acrylic should stop most of it.

Edit: looks like they're using SWIR (~1500nm) so glass/acrylic/polycarbonate will pass it just fine.
Identifying electricity-producing bacteria
A friend of mine is still using a ~1976 Pioneer receiver I "loaned" her ages ago when I got a receiver I could use in a home theater setup. My supposedly high-end Sony receiver died and then died again 30 days post-repair. And I'm on my second receiver after that.

(She's also using speakers of mine of the same vintage that I didn't need after I upgraded.)
Maybe you would like bugseverywhere[0] for some inspiration, at least.

[0] http://www.bugseverywhere.org/
> It was always worthless Options that could never be sold. One company's options I worked for 6 years, was worth about 4K after taxes, fully vested.

There's your problem.

Getting paid in options is the exact mistake I've warned about repeatedly in comments throughout this thread.

Yours is a fairly common case in SV: worked in a series of startups that "paid" you in illiquid options that ended up being totally worthless.

I'm willing to bet these very same startups encouraged you to value these options very highly: high 6 and even 7 figures, right?

These places don't pay well, because why should they? Talent is apparently willing to work their ass off for these "worthless options" that are sold to them as vouchers for surefire multi-million-dollar jackpots.
Ask HN: How do you do code reviews without getting silly over little things?
I've had good experiences with code reviews where someone corrected my logic, saw an easier way to do something I was doing, stopped me from being lazy, etc. I've also had a lot of dumb code reviews where I used a variable name that conflicted with one of ten conflicting standards or I did something in five lines instead of one because it was easier to read.

The problem I see is once code reviews are in place and you have a big enough team you get code review specialists who don't add any value but create an awful lot of work. I've literally seen companies consider any change made in a code review to be a bug fixed so you get folks who pride themselves on flagging things in code review even though there is zero, and often negative, substance to the flag.

How do you get the good parts of a code review without the bad parts?
Government Employees Are Getting Offers to Join the Gig Economy
Walkability indexes are flawed. Let's find a better method
Waterfall versus Agile is a useful and relatable example of different paradigms. Thanks for that.
Those weren't developed in the throes of combat, diverting resources from traditional combat tech.

The Nazis were a huge fan of the technological approach - they even called them "Wonder-weapons". In actual fact the vast majority of the "Wunderwaffe" were duds for one reason or another - a major cause was rushed development due to the desire to have the technology now.

No discussion of the two philosophies is complete without mentioning A.C. Clarke's 1951 short science fiction story "Superiority", which was doubtless influenced by the Nazi failure.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wunderwaffe
http://www.mayofamily.com/RLM/txt_Clarke_Superiority.html