skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You know, not all phones are like the iPhone. There are baseline/midrange phones with more battery charge capacity than even an iPhone XS Max! And a headphone jack! And an IR blaster, even. And an OEM system which can be officially unlocked! (which might help you make the battery even more long-lasting, by keeping its state of charge well below 100%.) Yes an iPhone will have a planned time-in-service of a mere 5 years no matter what, but a modern baseline/midrange phone can be expected to last a lot more than that. (Aside from factors that can't be meaningfully planned for, such as changes in mobile network standards.)
Nonsense, my views are based on sound reasoning, unlike my opponents, who are blinded by their ideology!
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$990?
One thing the drones really need to do before being deployed en masse (besides safety) is to become relatively silent. They are quite loud. I can hear a single one from about 1/2 mile away. I can't imagine what it will be like if many are flying all over, at all times. It will be like everybody is living next to an airport - something I consciously choose to not live close to due to noise pollution. Quality of life will go down, and people will become very annoyed. I own 2 drones. They are very loud and there isn't much you can do to quiet them. They are helicopters with 4x the number of blades on very tiny motors that spin very fast and are loud.
A guy with a gun in my face can have my PIN. I’ll also happily provide my fingerprint or look at my phone to unlock it.

This idea that digital security is going to solve for physical violence is absurd unless you’re willing to die to protect your digital assets.
Yes, after all I-IV-V is the most common chord progression.

It would have been nice if the author also had analyzed chord progressions instead of single chords.

Who knows how many Pachelbel's progressions he would have found! :)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JdxkVQy7QLM
I mean that makes sense. But they have a huge team and I really can't think of any new feature in the last 2 years.
The agency I work for is doing pretty extensive work to support JAWS 2018/2019, and NVDA. The problem we have is that a fix for a specific issue in JAWS may break NVDA (or cause double reads).

Making everything work nicely in our Single Page Apps is a nightmare.
Get Ready for the Q1'2019 GitLab Hackathon
"Story" is a link to a website's cover page for a slideshow where ... they can get bent. Don't upvote based on title alone.
Eating is pretty basic. I see no reason to deny our basic biology.
Imagine a Beowulf cluster of these!
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multiply that by many, many drones. Those "small" drones aren't what they will use for delivery services. They are not nearly powerful enough to carry more of a load much more than it's own weight. They are even louder taking off and landing. I own 2.
apologies -

I nearly added a parenthetical that these were typically open source under a different name if bolt-on (e.g. 389 vs directory, etc). will edit.
The issue is more related to the intent of the action regardless of the practicalities of it. Essentially the subjecting giving a password is giving their consent to the device to unlock it. Using their iris or facial pattern as something compelled in that context would be distinct from the gunshot residue or blood of a victim which also incriminates them since that is something about them as opposed to being compelled to testify against themselves.

It is admittedly a weaker argument from a pure physical standpoint but the law doesn't operate based upon that anyway. Any judge would throw out a request in discovery for the defendant to produce a recording confessing their guilt even for legitimate comparative purposes and many other requests or demands that would be unduly prejudicial for 5th amendment reasons.
Will they have restrictions on the cargo that these drones are allowed to carry. I know that the drones themselves will probably have rechargeable batteries powering them. However, if

1. the drone is carrying cargo

2. the cargo isn't sufficiently secure to the drone

3. the cargo contains rechargeable batteries / some other component that can explode as result of high speed impact with a sufficiently hard surface

4. the cargo lacks sufficient packaging material

5. the cargo happens to fall from the drone's flight altitude

then isn't there a risk of an explosion?

Update: Is this question inappropriate? I made it in good faith.
> Because it's a literal hardware limitation.

Citation needed. Further, listening for a wake word and reacting to that is likely done completely in software: the fact it's even listening for a "wake word" means the hardware (microphone) is in fact always listening, it's just [presumably] not actually sending that audio to The Cloud (tm).
The service itself? SAML (e.g. Active Directory)?
SPAs are particularly useful in scenarios where you need to combine the characteristics of desktop apps (responsiveness, event-driven UI, complex interactions) with those of web apps (links, drawing upon data various sources, declarative UI, ease of software distribution and installation).

SPAs are usually associated with frameworks such as Angular and the MVVM pattern.

While multi-page applications or frameworks like jQuery can provide similar benefits, with features such as component architectures, pub/sub mechanisms and dependency injection that come with SPA frameworks those usually allow you do so in a more deliberate, comprehensible manner.
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soo, you're saying it's "the spreading of ideas, information, or rumor for the purpose of helping an institution"?
Flask isn't bad, but as an absolute beginner, you might want to start with a "batteries included" web app platform like Web2Py. It's surprisingly good, and I've had teams use it as the basis for a fairly complex prototype that became a sophisticated product.
Whoa, check out that Samsung NF1 form-factor [0]. Looks like you could pack a ton of small finger-sized SSD drives vertically into a small space.

[0] https://images.anandtech.com/doci/13752/IMGP2727_575px.jpg

This is one way in which it's a cool time to be alive. I'll never forget circa 1996 when I waited 20+ minutes for my Apple Performa 550 to read and load a 30MB file from the scsi disk into memory. All so quicktime could play a grainy, low-resolution video clip for all of 30 seconds. At the time I was like "That's almost 1 minute per second of video! WTF? That sucks."
How is that risky? They're discontinuing the hardware, casting isn't going anywhere. Unless you're one of those people that would be offended by someone getting your gift on sale.
Stop worrying so much about what other people think.
Voder 1939 voice synthesizer
Reminds of that guy in The Crucible that gets crushed with rocks for refusing to take part in the witch trial.
Seriously consider getting a projector and screen. They're never "smart" and are dramatically cheaper at larger sizes.

If you have a lot of devices to plug in a mixer may also be needed.
obligatory https://xkcd.com/538/

edit: - sorry if it's annoying but for me it was a very graphical way to always remember this issue.
LittleBits Goes Big: Ayah Bdeir Shares History and Lessons Learned
I'm more than happy to wait to see how those citizens in other countries like the noise, before doing it here.

The privacy issues will also be interesting. Do you think these companies won't be attaching cameras to them as well to capture as much data as they possibly can why flying around? Then multiply that times as many drones as will be flying around. It will be great for tracking too, since you can theoretically have almost have 24/7 coverage, especially cities where everything is more compact. Just patch all the feeds together, like they do with cell phone cameras in Argus: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=13BahrdkMU8
Limits the potential battery impact.

Without this restriction, how long before an app maker schedules their alarm every millisecond?
That's not what the article says. It says they paid some money in fees, and more than the average IPO. It does not say they paid more or the same as a percentage than the average IPO. I can't find any information on how much money they/their shareholders ultimately raised, so it's difficult to contextualize that $30M number. But, for example, if only ten percent of the shares were sold in the IPO, that would amount to $500M in sold shares. The typical IPO nets 5% in fees, which would be $35M. On the other hand, if 20% of the company changed hands in the IPO, that would amount to $70M in expected fees.

To me, ten percent seems pretty conservative, so I'd say it's a safe bet Spotify saved money. I expect Slack would not do the direct listing if they didn't also expect to save money on the deal.
I wouldn’t worry about it. If you barely use it, what are the odds you’ll ever fill it up? And if you do fill it up, SSDs will be even cheaper then.
Either NYT or WSJ (I forget) had some analysis for this after some of the fires. One of the cited reasons was that municipalities are fine building into sensitive areas, because it increases their tax base while the state shoulders the cost of fire prevention/fighting/etc.
Have you worked on this small of a team before?

When the team is actually small (not a small part of some mondo corp), you get a lot of great team dynamics, and it's very easy to know that 'ken doesn't like being interrupted.

Working with a small team in the context of an open office w/100 people where 10-20% of the team is actually remote is what I've found to be the most unique intersection of terribleness.
Let me try to make this as clear as I can:

Canada operates on the rule of law.

Rule of law.

Rule of law.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rule_of_law

When the fucking Queen of England had a minor medical issue and was bumped in priority in the hospital she was in it was fucking news with journalists asking how this list was overseen. Our own head of state made the news because she got bumped in our hospitals.

When the Americans do a request like this it doesn't go through our political arm. It goes through our civil service and our courts. We don't have random people with the random power to bend the law. We set law and judges enforce it. Some laws we have are very flexible, like the ones we have for CSIS, etc. But we don't politick extradition.
> How do you think push notifications work?

There’s a very distinct difference between having a persistent connection that only transmits data when there’s something notable vs having a connection that constants pushes a kitchen sink of data that may or may not be needed. Sure, if you sent a push notification on every single message and status change on the IRC server, it’d likely use the same amount of (or maybe more) battery, but who does that?
We'll all eventually go deaf from all the noise.
Larger drones tend to be more quiet, or at the very least are perceived to be so due to the lower pitch sound made by larger, more slowly rotating propellers.
No, it's not, because I don't have one. And won't ever have one.
I remember my great excitement of receiving a pair of matched pentium pro processors (200mhz!) as a gift from a group at intel (I worked tirelessly for one of the vendors that group was using at the time). I purchased a dual p-pro motherboard and fired it up.

it was pretty impressive for the time, especially as a home machine, but it wasn't until virtualization became mainstream that something like that really became useful for me. it ended up running my web servers, mail, and mailing lists for quite a while, but was eventually retired for an e250.
Serverless Computing: One Step Forward, Two Steps Back (slides)
Huh, what ever happened to Beowulf clusters... I guess they were superseded by the whole Hadoop and mapreduce stuff...
To be more precise, TS is a worse ES4. AS was a partially conforming implementation of ES4 drafts that most are aware of. But Microsoft had its own thing along these lines - JScript.NET (in fact, it still ships as part of the .NET Framework, even though it's deprecated).
I think it's pretty easy -- they're selling (or selling access to) every piece of data they have access to.
The proposed flying zone for drones like these is between 60-120m height. Seems like a bullet must travel at least 62m/s to penetrate human skin [1], for which you need a height of at least ~200m [2]. So even dropping a bullet from one the delivery drones would not carry a high risk of fatal injuries.

That, and P=MV, momentum/energy increases proportionally to mass. A 'safe weight' can be defined if the altitude is known.

[1] https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2011/03/can-falling-bull...

[2] https://www.grc.nasa.gov/www/k-12/airplane/mofall.html
I'm not trying to be a jerk, but the answer to this, like most things in software development is, "It depends how you use them". They're wonderful if thought out, designed, and used properly, and a bloody nightmare if not...
I haven't tried it in firefox, I'll definitely give it a look. Using it in chrome however, the performance feels the same as the hacky electron wrapped version. I notice it the most when switching between two heavy pages or trying to get to the bottom of a page I have 50+ pictures saved to. But it's useful for me to still have it register as a separate application in case I ever need to kill chrome for some reason. Or for organizing it across my different desktops.
Shareholders including pension funds. Nobody likes to be told that their retirement savings just lost 8% of their value because of a lawsuit.
Proper enterprise products are hosted on-prem. This is exactly why atlassian is pretty much the only contender in a lot of cases.
I don't most people resent wealth or many people can argue that Jeff Bezos should not be extremely rich. He created a company that has benefited the lives of millions of people, it is only natural that he should be rich. I just think people would like to see a more balanced system. The top 6 richest people owning more than 50% of the worlds wealth? It seems extremely imbalanced, For example, if Mark Zuckerburg never existed, i'm sure the world wouldn't change too much, some other guy would come along and create a social network just like Facebook, yet Mark Zuckerburg is richer than some countries.
Yes but why not link to the original (which is also more readable)
And the vast majority of code is written for a VM that has such a forward looking design, it specifies 128-bit pointers!
Energy efficient buildings tend to handle noise pollution better with their extra insulation. Not ideal, but there's always a solution.
Partial function application would be sweet. I wind up manually currying a lot of functions and readability starts to get sketchy.

const foo = (a: number, b: number): number => { /*...*/ }

to

const foo = (a: number) => (b: number): number => { /*...*/ }
I have an iPhone 6 Plus that's going on 4.5 years old and it's doing fine (better than last year even with iOS 12), save a temperamental ring/vibrate switch. I recently sold my 4s that was in a drawer (about 7 years old at the time) and it also worked fine.
Life Is Just a Game
As someone who hated ActionScript 3, I vehemently disagree. AS3 felt like some Java guys trying to force a Java mindset on a language that didn't really suit it.

And I say that as a Java guy myself. TS is much more dynamic and less abrasive, IMO.
On a fundamental level, the decision to stick with 'rationality' as the basis off of which to make decisions is its own kind of ideology.
I'm just not seeing a meaningful distinction between forcibly taking their fingerprint ("something about them") to check against prints found on a gun and forcibly taking their fingerprint ("something about them") to check a smartphone found on the scene.

If they have a warrant to check the phone, and if taking fingerprints of the arrested without consent has already been found constitutional, I just don't see a problem.
Your phone could reveal your radiation exposure after a nuclear disaster
Do gummy bears not work anymore?

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2002/05/16/gummi_bears_defeat_...
But that’s fine. My company can easily afford a few tens of thousands per month for the on-prem version.

If the on-prem version does not exist, I’ll never even try to convince them to switch, since we aren’t going to store anything sensitive on someone elses infrastructure.

So we stick with Confluence. Which everyone hates, but is still the best solution around.
It happens enough in China that it’s a common occurrence. Enforcement of Chinese law makes the employee culpable, not the employer, so the employers see no reason to stop doing that to each new crop of naive foreigners.
Those were just a list of obstacles, but there was no honest analysis to speak of despite the boast that he can 'do math'; e.g., the nonsense claims about transmission losses and that solar only makes economic sense in the 'ideal' locations.
Their blog post explains this really well. [0]

I'm running this on an old Mac Mini which sits under my desk, is ethernet connected to my router, and is never turned off. My only concern is CPU usage, this thing is a mid-2010 Core 2 Duo. It runs quickly enough because I stuck an SSD in it, but I've no idea how Tor might affect it once I start seeing actual traffic.

Also interesting that there are only 78 [1] active relays in Australia as of the time of writing. That's not many!

[0]: https://blog.torproject.org/lifecycle-new-relay

[1]: https://metrics.torproject.org/rs.html#search/country:au
Fixed the video now so it should work on iPhone / Safari.
So the main tool that memory champions rely on is essentially 'visualizing/picturing' fake situations. Now, I have a solid memory outside of this. But when I picture things, it's pretty hard for me even for most familiar places like my home. Any memory experts with actual advice to see more vibrantly? I feel like I'm always fighting against the natural tendency to see black (as is natural with eyes closed) versus trying to focus on what I'm picturing.
So you should always play to the skills in your team, agreed. But in this case, it gives consistency across Government. If your Department/Agency is rolling their own components, why not add them back into the Design System for others to use? Less repeated effort, cheaper for the tax payer.
I've been looking for something similar for a while now, and I love the fact that it can be self-hosted. Is there any way to easily disable the Google / Slack auth integration in favour of something local, for small self-hosted installs? I'm trying to reduce external dependencies (and specifically dependencies on Google).
That could work if knowledge of the password itself is all they are trying to pin on you.

Usually, though, they are going to be after what the password is protecting. If you try to invoke the 5th claiming that admitting knowledge of the password itself would be incriminating, prosecutors can grant you immunity over that and that greatly reduces your 5th Amendment protections with regard to that particular subject.
> AlaSQL.js which does implement a decent alternative to the WebSQL standard

Well, it isn't at all if SQL is important to you (and corresponding performance gained through delegating to a native C application), or table joins, or efficient aggregation, or window functions etc.

AlaSQL.js is a DSL built on IndexedDB with all the limitations that implies; you can't share code between client and server (unless you're all-in on JavaScript and go with Node on the server); all clients have to download it (400KB isn't huge but it's also not a 0KB "download" like browser built-in Sqlite).

> SQLite itself directly runs very well with Emscripten (sql.js)

Oh, yes, now try writing to disk -- you can't, it's in-memory only, not to mention huge (2MB). I'm sure mobile devices will love parsing that, battery life must be wonderful.

> All of which seems to be further proof that SQLite is much better in "user land"

No proof has been given, severe limitations have been, however. Security is an issue, I'll conceed that, but otherwise I'll stand by "The notion that a WebSQL-like library would be created on top of IndexedDB to replace the deprecated API has proven to be utterly groundless".
Pretty much anything that comes from Microsoft today that is a web app, or uses the HTML for UI on the desktop (such as Electron apps), is likely to be written in TS. Not even because there's some push to do so, but because people who mostly write in C# and C++ find TS far more preferable.

(That, by the way, is one reason why you can trust that it's not going away anytime soon.)
Exactly, just like these propaganda posters:

https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/visions-of-the-future/
What if someone wanted to operate drones containing scientific instruments over industrial sites? Several years back, the PLOS folks visited my local hackerspace and talked about using balloons to double check chemical emissions of oil refineries near Houston. They had to use balloons, because there were legal problems with using drones. The concerns of overflown companies are quite understandable as well. For things like scientific instruments, what about some sort of inspection of flown equipment and licensing?
good luck on your ventures! you sound excited
Helicopters have lower pitch and larger, slower rotating blades as well. They're not quiet, and they've had a lot longer to perfect the blade tech. My block gets about 15 deliveries per day from UPS/USPS/FedEx/Amazon/etc. Have you been near a drone, of any size, taking off and landing? It's quite loud. They're not just going to drop the package from the sky. They're going to be constantly landing and taking off to deliver the package, right near you.
Choosing a trade-off between half-life and radioactive mass would be a fun engineering task. Plutonium-238 has a half-life of 87.7 years and would be long depleted before 55 million years are up. Longer term isotopes would need a ton of mass to get you there.
Sorry, how is this different from Quip? Looks exactly same?
Wow. This is completely over the line and unacceptable.

It appears that GoDaddy's reputation for being dodgy is well-earned.
YouTube decided to remove annotations for good, I decided to write something
> Privatization of natural monopolies cannot work, period. Why anyone would think otherwise is beyond comprehension.

Reality begs to differ.
Populating an oncall rotation
Exposure value
You're changing the meaning of the word to suit your philosophy.
Invariants in design by contract are usually also not run in release/optimized builds.

With asserts, it's not uncommon to provide a separate switch, that defaults to excluding them in release/optimized builds, but you can override. And some languages make the distinction explicit in asserts themselves - e.g. in C# (and any other .NET language that uses the stdlib for this), Debug.Assert will be excluded #if DEBUG, but Trace.Assert will not.
I believe the best ways to buck this weakness are:

1. Invest more energy into trying to falsify your favored beliefs than into confirming them.

2. Embrace humility, since we're always wrong sometimes. Humility to me means: you can have convictions, but you should never assume that people who disagree with you are stupid or evil.
Hot take - just pay pagerduty to handle the problem for you.
Alice in the Land of Mathematics: 150 Years Later(2015)
A Founder's Farewell