skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sublime Text versus Visual Studio Code in 2019
How to Save a Child’s Life with Python, AWS IOT, AWS Lambda and Twilio Wireless
I can't quote any statistics but have the impression that a large part of non-Systemd crowd are old-time admins who maintain a large number of servers, myself included. When you break something on a desktop machine, that's easily fixable. When you need to deal with a large heterogeneous environment, you prefer to have things handled a bit more gracefully. Linus is a good example of a person who got this right.
That shouldn't really be a criteria, since at least in Europe there's no such thing as having your employer provide a healthcare plan for you.
Dante audio and video – together at last
Huawei's attempts to copycat a T-Mobile robot read like a comical spy movie
The case for vanilla front-end development
"There must be something in the water" and variations thereof is a common saying in the west, too. It's often heard as a response to learning that families of tall people or smart people come from the same town.
I think visual languages have been vastly unexplored. Sure, textual languages do have some great features (e.g., can be edited by many, many different tools).

In academic research, visual languages have largely been used to study non-programmers performing programming-like tasks (e.g., [1]), but I think that is just the tip of iceburg!

[1] http://eusesconsortium.org/projects.php
There are plenty of people that score reasonably well without private tutoring, specialized schools or summer camps
Probably going to be torn to pieces for this (if someone sees it) but at least it will be entertaining :)
The piece of paper is good for getting past the initial sieve of candidates that is an HR department.
Most westerners appreciate a balance between supporting one's country of origin in a generic, thoughtful way, and unthinking jinoism[0].

Part of the mental maturity process is being able to see the greater affects of the policies of one's country on the wider world, and advocating for policies which enhance things for the greater world while still being positive for one's own country. That maturity process is naturally short circuited in authoritarian countries like China.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jingoism
The way they operate, I expect that there's HTTP logs of all activity. They do not operate in a way which is conductive to privacy.
I think the quality team will laugh at me for the rest of my life if I ever suggested using an open loop and nonsynced axis system to do testing...
I think it's much more likely their code is a mess and it's not super obvious when stuff starts and ends and this is just an unintentional mistake.
I agree. Do also visit the Reina Sofia[1], mostly dedicated to (modern) Spanish art.

It's your chance to experience Picasso's Guernica[2] in real. To me it was one of the most moving and impressive, while also disturbing exhibits I've ever seen in any museum.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Museo_Nacional_Centro_de_Arte_...
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guernica_(Picasso)
Doesn't it?

The Fibonacci diagram isn't any clearer than the code. The Petri net animation seems as likely to obscure as it is to enlighten.

I think there's space for making better use of graphical environments, and modern IDEs are already stepping up this kind of capability - code folding, mouseover hints, small automatic parameter annotations. I still haven't seen any case for visual programming.
Indeed, this trick should work on any social network, that's scary! Although it seems facebook is now doing a good job to quickly review again and unban domains when the offending content is removed.
While i have little experience on the remote side of things....i can assure you that working for The Man at an office in a conventional, non-remote way, also takes "a few decades" to pay of a mortgage, save for retirement, etc. ;-)
Tim, is that you?
My biggest objection to PWAs is that a significant part of the value of the app store is the constant scanning for various kinds of malware. I'm not sure that there's a way around that, and that makes the various app stores infinitely better in my book.

That's all assuming you trust the efficacy of the app store scanners of course, and my trust in google on that is pretty low.
I have little interest in the content, but kudus to the creator for a very well designed site.
A "secure", closed source processor. Given the Ledger bootloader had a rather nasty and bluntly obvious bug in it that allowed you to bypass all of the write protection and boot any firmware, I'd give them nearly zero chance of having got anything else right.
HP long ago rebranded "The Machine" to be just a powerful regular computer, since they haven't been successful in making viable memristors at scale.

So they will deliver it, it just won't be anything like what they promised.
Tell me more about this perfect world with no bugs and nondeterministic behavior.
Don’t cite ResNet everyone. Fking find the original ones
Ask HN: What do I need to know before launching an online store?
Bisqwit makes some awesome content. Glad to see him on HN.
POSIX APIs are typically not appropriate for embedded systems.

For example filesystems.
Filesystems are not generally applicable for single-purpose embedded systems. You're never going to need textual filenames, opening and closing file handles, etc. All that is just a waste, typically you just want to store your data to a log. This is much more appropriately stored in a simple circular buffer on FLASH without the overhead and non-determinacy of a filesytem.

Also, processes. These should be static. You typically never ever exit a task/thread on an embedded system.

Resets are a way of life. You have to acknowledge them in your design and error handling takes advantage of this.

I would not take POSIX compliance for a system like this as a plus point.
Lighter is probably better, to be sure. Less mechanical stress per step. Faster generally means less steps per mile, and being lighter often means being faster too so it's a double bonus. Maybe I could wear shoes twice as long if I lost twenty pounds. But I think we all know by now that weight is more affected by diet than exercise, so there are a lot of us "Clydesdales" out there.

P.S. For any who don't know, "Clydesdale" is a real running term at least in the US. Many races let men over a certain weight (e.g. 185 pounds) register in that division instead of their normal age group, with its own leaderboard etc. "Athena" or "filly" are slightly less common equivalents for women.
I am actually living abroad now. I think the math is different depending on what country you are from though, choosing to be born in the US carries unfair advantages.
Ask HN: Are there any online lawyer services?
Throwaway account for obvious reasons. I will not go into details, but I am personally facing some legal charges in Santa Clara county. I am not staying in the U.S. but I need to find a lawyer to represent me there. Do you have any lawyer firm you could recommend?

Extra points if they provide an "online" service where the case can be discussed electronically, as phone calls are a hassle due to the time zone differences. And preferably be able to pay using regular credit card, I guess hourly for initial consultation.
Ask HN: Neural networks and health image classification?
I have worked with some image classifiers in the past - mainly relating to transport, e.g. detecting road signs, classifiying vehicles, etc.

However, I'm interested in classifying health images. I can either build my own training and test sets to classify using Keras, or use a pre-built neural network for classification, e.g. VGG16, Resnet50, etc.

However, I would prefer to go the latter route, as training a medical image classifier is quite a time-intensive process.

Does anyone here work with health images, or would anyone be able to recommend good neural network packages that are pre-trained for analysing health data?

Would be grateful for any advice.
I am wondering, why Instagram and MS did not react and fix this issue. And I am wondering, what one can do, if "forced" to use these two.

IG I am using privately, with my FB login. That works with a dedicated email address and password. So ok - one could hack that and do stuff. Well bad, but ok. But MS? I am forced to use it in the company setting I am in. What to do to secure this more?
Jack and runit.

They manage better performance in real world use cases with a fraction of the manpower invested in them. I wonder what will happen to the suite of projects supported by redhat now that they are owned by IBM however.
Because 1) maintainer can be overloaded, so (s)he will stick to defaults, 2) maintainer needs a logical reason to change default setting to something else, which is not obvious in most cases. Maintainer is not a QA team.
Wow. Would have thought that reporters would have done the lookup that you did. And explained their absent record. Several other outlets are running with the story too.
You watch porn, log out, but mpv is somehow stuck and still playing. Broken enough?
I'll recommend you the book Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell.

It will open your mind about how people like Nick Caldwell(author of the article) or Bill Gates got to the top.

It is very, very hard for people on the lower class get up, even with IQ particularly high.
Or perhaps even a vendor that had contracted more capacity(in Nanke 14) than the present market demands, could benefit from a delay in production.
Gmail has had almost four nines availability at least in some years and no scheduled downtime. That's still a hour of downtime per year.

Generally the availability of web services for individual users seems to be between 99.5 - 99.9 depending on the service.

Too high availability target wastes resources and network failures and third parties limit what actual effective availability can be.
I also switched to mutt a few years ago, as part of a switch away from gmail (which I no longer use). HTML email is actually a much smaller problem than I initially expected (and in the rare cases it's a problem you can always pipe it to lynx).
When I grew up in 1980s Britain, we used to have milk delivered in re-usable glass bottles. Deliveries and collections occurred daily, and were done using an electric vehicle[1]. It's interesting to look at why this approach (popular until fairly recently) has declined.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milk_float
I'm in such a situation right now.... Not sure what to do :/
Its turtles all the way down..
4 elephants if we're being pedantic
Anddddd I don’t want to live in the US even if they do make twice as much money.
Visual Programming doesn't suck, but it doesn't really help either. It's still programming. Non-toy examples are going to be just as tricky to understand and debug as text-based programming.

I think text scales slightly better but it could just be that we don't have the tools to scale graphical programs yet. But in the end, the hard bit is figuring out what you want the computer and then explaining it correctly to the computer. The exact symbols you use to explain it are much less important.
Four: https://goo.gl/images/BfXfC7

Cite: https://wiki.lspace.org/mediawiki/World_Elephant

:)
To be fair, at least poettering presented an argument and is responsible for software that helps a whole bunch of us get things done.

You're just kind of yelling, and it diminishes any point you may have made.
I would say one of the benefits of hiring somebody remotely is that the employer doesn't need to care about 401K and health insurance. The company pays the worker a salary and the remote worker takes care of their own taxes, pension and health care. The downside is that the remote worker is a contractor and not a real employee.
confirm: iphone works almost fine with no apple account or cc.
if only it would be able to talk/mount webdav...
Not for this one, no.
Not really. My experience so far is:

1. They're usually too noisy, meaning it's easy to hear the entire floor from any office or seating area located there. This is especially bad with loud sales teams (which quite a few startups will need).

2. The reliability of the infrastructure is poor compared to an office you yourself own/rent. Seriously, in the last WeWork I was in, we had the internet go down for hours twice, the microwave explode three times, the toilets fail or have issues on a semi regular basis and keycards stop working for people every other week or so. We also had them refuse to provide the latter for larger teams, so hey, some poor shmuck got stuck sitting in reception till someone else came in.

3. Just dealing with so many others in a small environment is annoying in of itself.

But hey, not sure whether those issues are more with coworking as a concept or certain ones being really poorly managed/maintained.
My heretical view is that it's time to abandon CSS. You already generate your HTML with some program (whether server-side or javascript) that takes a canonical, normalized representation of your content and spits out repetitive HTML elements (one pattern of elements for a button, another for a calendar, etc). Have that same program apply inline styles on elements that need styling.
I'm confused why hosting PostgreSQL themselves on GCP or AWS was not considered an option?
I don't think that's what he's implying. He means I think that the cloud providers are not very friendly to devs who will take the time to customize their RDBMS to squeeze more performance out instead of switching over to a more expensive solution capable of handling the kind of high volume OLAP he had to deal with.
The next gig economy will be on-demand knowledge
I share your perspective. He got invitations to do early application at both Harvard and Yale (and yes I know that an invitation to apply is not a promise of acceptance) but it clearly suggests that they think he could make a go of it there. I also told him that it wouldn't really matter if they didn't accept the cc credits.

I used to work remotely with firms in the Boston area. I would travel to Boston several times a year and worked with a number of Harvard and other Ivy League graduates.

I tried to convey to my son the value of the network that Harvard supplies. Not only your own student cohort, but also the uniformly high quality of world-class professors and alumni who are in positions of leadership and influence. But for some reason he wanted to go to school close to home and chose our state university. At some point I decided that me pushing was not worth the tension and that he could get a good education at a state university.

Assuming that he will go to graduate school, maybe he will try for some of the elites schools at that point.
An audio message improved our conversion rate by more than 50%
Ubuntu VMs Under Windows with Multipass
I sort of agree with this.

One caveat is that laptops are commonly compromised and your security would depend on nobody stealing keys/passwords needed to access your database/password manager/whatever.

Having hardware token with paper backup, makes this harder. Having a lot of tokens creates a huge incentive for getting hacked.

If you have non trivial amounts of tokens under your control, you need to consider all the points of failure. Laptops get compromised in all sorts of ways and can be equipped with key loggers or worse. Unless you are a security expert, defending against a determined & skilled hacker is super hard. Most of us never get our setups audited by an expert and I'm afraid that a bog standard OS X/linux setup is probably only get you so far. Even if you turn on disk encryption and do all the rest of the things you are supposed to do.

So the advantage of a token is that it does not depend on your laptop being uncompromised and that it is a third party solution that can be scrutinized and audited. That being said, I'm not a big fan of having a proprietary software/hardware package and would prefer to trade in my ledger for a properly OSS platform. There are a few of these platforms but it is early days and I'd need it to support Stellar though. As far as I know, ledger is the only thing working with that. I own a few of those for this reason.

IMHO there's a big market opportunity for creating a secure, easy to use hardware token for ubikey/oauthn signins, managing blockchain wallets, and doing 2fa. Not impossible, but making open hardware/software platforms commercially is apparently still a big challenge. I'd buy several if the price and feature set were right . Assuming enough auditing/vetting has happened by people that are smarter than me, of course.
It might not suck, but the cost benefit analysis ends up washing out any value it might have.

Text is glorious and portable. I can run emacs in a terminal. I need a software stack just to look at my code like I need a hole in my head.

The thing I really hate about visual programming is that programs are fundamentally tree structured and 2d space introduces extra degrees of freedom which, for me, impose additional cognitive load.
I guess... Assuming relocation for a local job is not possible.
Dynamic loading and unloading of drivers in a single-purpose embedded system is not a good point.

In this level of devices, everything should be statically allocated for the worst-case situations. This is for reliability, simplicity, determinism, etc.

The space taken by the code involved in handling dynamic loading could be better used by giving you a cheaper, simpler, more reliable device.

What seems 'nice' on a desktop system is (in a lot of cases) inappropriate for a resource-constrained embedded system.
"Praat" = speak (in Dutch)
Yeah, with flexbox we can finally do the layouts we could do with tables since 1996, and it's only a little harder.
x86 is not RISC by any meaningful definition. RISC vs CISC has always been about architecture, not microarchitecture. Breaking down instructions into microinstructions is as almost as old as the CPU itself and predates the CISC/RISC nomenclature by decades.
I'm not sure that "fairness" is exactly the right ideal if our goal is the most health and wealth for the most people? I want my doctor to be really great--to be in that job because he is the best at it. I don't want someone placed there by a truly random lottery, and I do want the guy who won the intelligence DNA drawing to be the one I talk to. I also want wealth to motivate people to get into that job, as it is so tough to gain that knowledge, I don't know if there will be enough people without a financial reward.
JavaScript overtakes Java as most popular programming language
Depends on when the information was made public
Mozilla is starting to throw resources at Thunderbird again, so it will hopefully get better this year. https://blog.mozilla.org/thunderbird/
Let he who has never written software that had a bug throw the first stone...
The UPS truck probably emits significantly less CO2 per delivery than the average American trip to the grocery store.
I've been using thunderbird for several years...and frankly its not bad. I want to love and support it more, but it does have a few - i think minor - issues. Nevertheless, my opinion is that it is good enough, and the client best suited for general users. I'll be honest though, lately i've been teetering on the brink of trying out cool kids type of clients like mutt/neomutt, etc. But haven't yet, due to too many other projects. And, then....i read a recent blog post about some decent-sounding 2019 plans for thunderbird; see https://blog.mozilla.org/thunderbird/2019/01/thunderbird-in-... So, i'm actually inspired to stick around with thunderbird, and see how/whether it improves. Naturally, the best approach is for you to try things out on your own, and judge for yourself.
Why I Quit Tech and Became a Therapist
Create an online store with this Java-based framework
There is also http://torbiak.com/post/autofixup/

Which is supported by magit: https://github.com/magit/magit/issues/3053#issuecomment-4104...
I've become a particular fan of oat milk over the past couple of years. It's one of the more difficult milk substitutes to find in at restaurants the UK (coffee places usually fair better), almond and soy are relatively common. There are varieties that also froth up really well that barristas now use.

I'm a particular fan of the price point. Being from the UK I can assume that any almond milk I drink would be made from almonds from another country, it's same with the coconut oil I use for cooking. So I am willing to accept some price inflation in order to remove dairy. But oat milk tastes much nicer and would probably get whittled down to a generic price point that beats any other milk substitute because it can be grown locally (almost anywhere in fact) and cheaply.
Global outage implies everyone on the planet. Outages globally would imply what you've stated.
You know your comment in hacker news is rendered as a table :)
To me, the fundamental issue isn't that CSS is hard, it's that CSS is just not interesting.
No IPv4 support?

https://github.com/RIOT-OS/RIOT/tree/master/examples/gnrc_ne...
I don't know why this gets thrown around but it's completely wrong. RISC and CISC are about instruction set architecture. As soon as you have crossed the decoder boundary you are deep into micro architecture territory where the ISA is completely irrelevant because you can use the same techniques regardless of whether you have RISC or CISC.

Now if one would take what you said at face value then it would actually imply that RISC as an ISA is completely irrelevant because it is possible to achieve the same benefits or even beat it despite CISC having the inefficiency of hard to decode instructions and the high cost of a conversion step in the micro architecture. One suddenly realizes that this battle of ISAs is completely futile and the secret sauce is in the micro architecture which is completely divorced from the ISA.

Here are some examples: ARM makes slow ARM chips. Apple makes fast ARM chips. AMD made slow x86 chips in the past but now adopted a faster micro architecture. Intel made Itanium but the chips didn't have any sort of dynamic scheduling so they couldn't deliver the promised performance gains.
I don't think that may be the case, in his video he posts too many "far right" red pills, even Paul Graham got criticised on Twitter for defending Kjelberg.
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I read an article a while back, probably a couple of years (sorry, I can't find/cite). The observation in the article paints this "theft" in what they perceived to be a cultural distinction...

Specifically, in the US (and the west, more broadly) we ascribe a great deal of value to figuring out "what" to do commercially and "how" to do it technically. Most of our energy around IP are wrapped around this value and defending it.

The article had observed that for the Chinese, there was no additional value ascribed to the people or groups that paved that path, but rather that there was perceived merit/value in "doing" those things better. To use an example, identifying the market and technology and usage trends to develop a valuable product is no more important or meritorious than merely seeing/understanding that product and fast-following with some other advantage. And further, there is nothing inherently negative about re-creating someone else's work for personal benefit, after all, you still need to do the work of "doing" it.

One of the conclusions drawn was that this lack of value around creativity and direct inventorship makes the Chinese a super formidable second place in many arenas but without the skills or cultural DNA to actually take the lead or be the expeditionary force... There are pros and cons to all of that (and some pretty rebuttable presumptions in the analysis) but I thought it was an interesting take that (if valid) sheds light on what we have seen, are seeing, and will continue to see.
Http://www.Basedremote.com is another doc list with remote companies