skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Crypto is a pain to use even if you have a bank account, passport to scan and so on. I doubt many of the unbanked will use it to join the financial system. There is more promise from payment systems like M-Pesa, or new semi banks like Revolute I think.

In the long run I think banks will win amongst the unbanked.
Is Vaping the Solution to a Major Public Health Problem,or a New Health Problem
My Iphone 6 is still going strong after 4 years. Replaced the screen myself twice and battery once, planning to do a second battery replacement. There's no killer feature in the other models that would determine me to upgrade.
When I was growing up our family had a fairly sizeable strawberry patch. My Dad enjoyed gardening, and for a few years my parents canned the produce we produced. Strawberry preserves were a treat I didn't realize until I was an adult.

The strawberry patched served dual purpose. Kids too rowdy? Go weed the strawberries. Strawberry picking can be a little tricky. Strawberries like to grow all over the plant, both in plain sight on the periphery, and nestled in among the leaves by the stems. Strawberry plants grow "runners" and spread out of their own accord making walking among them a challenge of not stepping on nascent runners.

Strawberries aren't always right for eating though. Sometimes a turtle would take a bite, sometimes it would be to moist and rot on the stem. Sometimes they'd become a projectile to stain a siblings face or clothes.

Today my father is 81 and still tending his strawberries. He gets excercise and keeps busy, and we bring them home to eat during the growing months. Sometimes a little, sometimes a lot depending on the year.
> This need to update your phone every year or every two years is insane, the peak of consumerism.

I'd happily still use my iphone 4 if I could. The problem is the software bloat means that even the latest compatible version is really slow. Not to mention that it means that I no longer get the latest version of apps or security fixes (due to stopped software updates).
That makes as much sense as calling the earth’s tidal ebb and flow “crony gravitation”. The present situation is the rule, not the exception. And if morality is your concern, then it’s the fundamental operation of capitalism you have a problem with. As long as workers at the point of production are coerced to give up a majority of the value they create to nonworking stockholders, we have a system built upon a ripoff that propogates ripoffs — and that system is correctly called capitalism.
It already did kind of, after all it has all the modern goodies (modules, generics, oop) and was supported on CUDA since day one.

One of the major reasons why many researchers never cared for OpenCL.
Where are those statements? From the NYT article, I just see tweets about Israel and Zionists. Also the tweet, "I refuse to conceptualize #Israel/#Palestine as Jewish-Arab acrimony. I am in solidarity with many Jews and in disagreement with many Arabs.".
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Mining is the most harmless use of botnets.
In commercial environments the OS starts to not matter so much. The machine is literally bought for one purpose and that alone.

I have worked in environments where vendors actually give a proper legally binding guarantee that Windows boxes work as expected and they charge accordingly.
I use calibre from community packages on archlinux, it has absolutely no problems reading metadata (authors, titles and covers, and tags etc when present) from epub / mobi / pdf / etc.
Ask HN: Career as an Information Security Analyst
I've been working as an information security analyst for a year now. I don't find much information online for this job, beyond basic career statistics and job postings.

I graduated with comp sci, and like most I was a hobbyist programmer and passionate about making software. So this wasn't something I was especially prepared for. It's not easy.

I'm looking to learn from more experienced ISAs, or people familiar with the field, so please share your experience with the career, what kind of work you do, and how you progress. What community do you participate in? Where do you get your news/industry info from?
Hetzner rents out 1080Ti GPUs which are not available in most regions or from most cloud providers, hence the lower cost. This article refers to the much more expensive Tesla V100 GPUs. From what I understand the NVidia license for the 1080Tis prevents cloud providers from offering them for uses other than blockchain. Since AWS can't control what you actually do with it, they simply don't offer 1080Tis.

Source: https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/01/03/nvidia_server_gpus/
German is considered an inflective language, because it uses just one suffix for words, and that suffix has many-many variants to express the required grammatical meaning (singular/plural, modality, subject/object, dative/accusative, genitive, etc.)

Agglutinative languages just jam everything after the word in small morphemes. (And some, just to be sure, has a few variants of each of those, to match vowel kinds and such.)
Server should all be back, and surviving HN hugs. No need to use this URL anymore
Where I'm from, the basic police education is a three year bachelor's degree with admittance rate of about 7% of applicants.
If you're alone, you could use this "one simple trick" (from 2007) to up the realism by quite a bit:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jd3-eiid-Uw

It would look goofy for a copilot, but it would make a world of difference for the pilot.
I doubt cellular stack certification is what's driving prices up. I used to make mobile phones back in the late 90's, and even then we constructed mobile phones as an n-way system.

The cellular stack runs on a subsystem on it's own, and all communication to that system is done through the good old fashioned Hayes Command set (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hayes_command_set).

This subsystem is responsible for everything cellular, and it is certified by itself, meaning when you make a new phone model, you put in the same certified chip as you did in the last n models, and it's automatically certified (wrt to the stack anyway).

There are still FCC/CE certifications to be passed for all electronic devices, as well as devices containing radio emitters, but those are cheap in comparison.

Apple has always priced their products on a level of what they think people are willing to pay. It is a luxury product, and they (used to) spend a lot of time making sure it feels like it. From the very moment you enter the store, to you open the box, to the onboarding experience.

Most Chinese manufacturers have more of less copied the experience since then.
I don't particularly like Calibre's library implementation, but a generic file manager just isn't a very good way of managing documents. Metadata like bookmarks, references, excerpts and annotations are a really important part of an effective reading experience.
Interesting point of view, in most of Europe you'd not get in debt at all for that. Finding a job as a beginner would be as hard though.

In the age of Internet though, it's never too hard to learn something new for free.

Also, you can still try another occupation during the week-ends. You get to learn and experience something new while volunteering or making additional money, and after all you either see that your existing job is better, or that you want to make a change, being trained and knowledgeable of why you want to switch.
I used to live in an area where was-marts were built out very densely, probably a dozen super-centers within easy driving distance. When the stores first open they tend to have really great produce, then after six weeks or so everything falls off, and your left with overripe/wilting produce, and the fruit flys are like a plague. After seeing this pattern a number of times I decided that the good produce goes to store openings, then once people develop a habit of going to the store they start sending the good produce to the next store opening.
On the other hand, in France you can buy fresh produce in all Walmart-type stores.
Maybe raising money for ventures. A huge amount was raised in ICOs and mostly they were scammy and are heading to zero but there may be a future for more legit versions. There is a bit of law sidestepping about it but you can run them in jurisdictions where they are legal. And there's no real reason for them to be illegal if you are not screwing the investors. CZ of Binance was saying similar recently https://ambcrypto.com/binance-ceo-changpeng-zhao-cryptos-kil...
I think that steam engines went hand in hand with the availability of coal. Even the production of steel (or iron) was hampered by the fact that there wasn't enough stuff to burn.

Afaik there was much less forestry in Europe until the advent of coal as the wood was burnt for heating, cooking and iron work.
Koreans watch others eating [1], westerners watch others doing manual labor. Welcome to the future!

https://gizmodo.com/you-can-pay-to-watch-strangers-eat-on-th...
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I rally don't think Apple don't care about the Mac. They invested huge amounts of money and R&D resources into it in recent years. The problem is it mostly backfired.

Those ultra-slim butterfly keyboards didn't invent themselves. Likewise the Touch Bar. Not developing it and sticking with Fn keys would have been a heck of a lot cheaper and easier. All the things 'everyone' complains about took a huge amount of attention and investment to deliver. Even the jet engine Mac Pro took a lot of work to screw up so badly. They just seem to have got it wrong.

Apple is constantly under pressure to innovate, from themselves as much as externally, so they just feel they can't sit still even when where they are is actually the best place to be.

On the other hand I got a 5K iMAC when it came out and ... oh... m... g... is that thing gorgeous to use. But a lot of the very pretty, very well engineered, innovative bits and bobs they've come out with recently have just been wrong.
regarding the simpler solution, i just had that situation today. working on elevatorsaga.com the candidate clearly wanted to solve the full problem correctly (the way a real elevator works) from the get-go. however doing so would have taken him several hours without him knowing if he got any closer to a working solution.

i had to push him to try something simpler first just so that he would get to somewhere meaningful within the hour available.

so which approach is better depends on the goals. in my case i wanted the candidate to solve the basic problem first: (make every person get to their destination, no matter how long the elevator needs) and then optimize to make it go faster.
Amen. I just got a Switch and Zelda: Breath of the Wild, and it's really nice to just sit down and play, knowing that since I have already payed everything upfront, the next 100 hours of gameplay are mine to enjoy without any business transactions interrupting it.
What Is Real User Monitoring
https://conradadam.com

I'm a UX engineer so my focus was on a site that loads quickly, is accessible, and is easy to read. It gets 100s across the board on Google Lighthouse because it's built with one HTML file.

The CSS was ruthlessly cut down to a single style tag and I believe there's only a tiny bit of JavaScript for lazy loading images and Service Workers for offline capabilities (in case you need my email in a Subway tunnel?). The service worker file needed to be separated (so I guess it's two files then) but the single HTML was compressed as much as I possibly could to reduce the size down. I even downloaded the Google font file to preload it faster and to strip out all of the unused glyphs.

It definitely loads quickly.

I also have some interest in design, so I wanted to express myself a bit, choosing lots of fonts and designs to create a somewhat eclectic homage to computing past and present.
I usually think of it as trading a capital (up front) cost for a operational (ongoing) cost. They want to purchase machinery up front instead of paying employees/contractors monthly. Usually, this is more efficient as long as they can get their financing up front as well. If they could pay the people up front for 5 years of work, at a fixed rate, they would probably do that.
The final code is longer because Rust's standard I/O is a lot more minimal than Python's, Fortran's, and even C's. If you use a library like [text_io], which provides the equivalent of scanf, then I don't think that it'd be any longer.

[text_io]: https://crates.io/crates/text_io
“You may be too refined to say it, but I'm not: I wish all the fucking West Bank settlers would go missing."

"Zionists: transforming anti-semitism from something horrible into something honorable since 1948."

And many more: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven_Salaita_controversy

Edit:
I’ve been flagged! Wow!
I usually buy ebooks through Humble Bundle, download all formats and then import them into calibre. For 2 of 3 formats the metadata will be extracted without problems.

Only one is usually lacking. I think it's mobi or epub, but never bother to pin it down because I just combine then in one entry anyway, and then the metadata will be merged together.

Calibre has usually no problem with extracting metadata from files, independant from the source.
Ah what I would do to play a good ol’ game of TradeWars 2002 the ol’ fashioned way
> 5 business days is our mean lead time for that unit. Most workstations are 2 days.

So this is an advert? Gotcha.

I think if you called out at the top of the article then it would have been a little more honest.
If that's your reaction to a cop talking to you, I hope you're ready to spend some time at the police station.
> if you search for «illegal Irish potato recipes», it’ll inject similar searches such as «fun Irish drinking games» and «funny potato pictures». Google will now see your relevant but also irrelevant queries making it hard to distinguish what you actually searched for. This will give us a layer of «plausible deniability» in case anyone accuses you of a crime you never committed based on your search history stored at Google.

This is pretty implausibly deniable.

"Yes, officer, I know my computer searched for that, but that's only because I installed some software to deliberately search for things so that if I ever got suspected of a crime based on my search history I'd be able to tell you that it might not have been me"
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Personally I disabled Gmail’s spam filter long time ago[0]. (False positives plus I have some weak morbid curiosity as what comes in spam.) Not getting too much junk so far.

Recently I started to give a different email to each service so that I can see if any get compromised, but so far I don’t think I’ve noticed anything like that.

[0] I borrowed someone’s workaround where you create a filter that excludes emails matching a specific random UUID, which no email would match, with action “never send to spam”. Perhaps there’s now a more straightforward option.
Not to be confused with the Aiolipile, a very tasty garlic lake near Rome.

Quite surprising that a steam engine existed that early. I hope it doesn't take another 2000 years for robots to be used for these tasks.
But still no (physical) escape button.

I know regular consumers probably have no use for it, but as a die hard Vim user, it's kinda annoying.
To be fair, you can find poor examples of food in Europe too (and very poor hygiene).
While discussing crypto as an investment vehicle, I think a company is an apt comparison.
two pictures of stairs? are you kidding? how about a single external picture of what the heck they're talking about??
Hah, a few years ago I learned Go by building a simple programming language (super basic with Lua-like syntax) and definitely used this article to help me. I made a slight modification so it could support functions with multiple arguments. Fun times.

https://github.com/bhoeting/blast/blob/master/parser.go#L82
> all of Boeing's large jets now have low-mounted wings (major structure where bomb bay doors would need to go)

Couldn't they just have separate fore and aft bomb bays?

> and steeply sloped rears.

Why is that an issue?

Alternatively, why not adapt the C-17?
Unpatched Apple MacOS Hole Exposes Safari Browsing History
My coworker also calls it the most abused software in the world. Some people do things that are amazing, and sometimes scary to software engineers.
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Great work! Already celebrating at 501? :)
To Argentina https://transferwise.com/gb/send-money/send-money-to-argenti...

I'm not sure you need a swift code, probably just a bank account number/sort code.

>The recipient gets money in their currency directly from TransferWise''s local bank account.

I have not tried Argentina as I have no business there but have sent money to Indonesia which is another tricky place and it worked fine. Fair enough re Kraken - they do GBP to BTC, not BTC to pesos.
Trying to have this discussion without IPA for multiple dialects is pretty tough with "long o" and "short o." I've only ever heard Coq pronounced like /kɑk/, but I'm from the Western US. I know Brits and Americans from the NE have the round low back vowel for /kɔk/. Coke sounds like /kouk/.
ruin? as in still present tense? really? ok
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Four-day week trial: study finds lower stress but no cut in output
Carnot's work came almost 50 years after Watt's development of his steam engine. Of course valuable, but not strictly necessary. One could argue that thermodynamics developed out of necessity for more efficient engines but it's not a strict prerequisite.

As another example the brothers Montgolfier weren't aware that heated air could lift their balloon because it had less density than cold air. They still managed to get it work.
That is an interesting approach. Care to let us know how you go from https://github.com/ronomon/mime to some kind of SMTP server plugin (like for postfix for example)?
Outline:

https://outline.com/nCYm4b
The optics of burningman as a yuppie escape are as old as burning man. One of the main reasons I perfer smaller less commercial gatherings. This move is easily a decade too late, but the organizers have been riding the gravy train too long to actually put their foot down. Anyone who has been can unleash a deep regret-filled belly laugh at 'radical self reliance' in the same paragraph as the current festival.
Possibly more potassium in the tomato? Potassium having a purple flame and plama. http://www.webmineral.com/help/FlameTest.shtml

However, your eye/brain is seeing energy in a bunch of spectral bands, and making a decision as to what colour to call it.
My 13" Retina is due for an upgrade, but when i went to the store and tried out the new keyboards i couldn't in any way see myself becoming comfortable typing on it.

It may just be the good old fear of something new, but i'm usually not afraid to try something new - despite bad reviews - and i'm normally not picky when it comes to keyboards, but the Macbook one just didn't "click" :)
That would be awesome
Very interesting. Thanks for posting!

His section about circumventing CSPs was particularly interesting and relevant. CSPs were an impediment to him, and he avoided operating his scam on sites where a CSP was installed.
Because this way you get to fly a 737/747/777/whatever you feel like.

For a lot of simmers, the driver behind their passion is the desire to fly one of those heavy jets. I have a PPL, but unless I committed about a decade for it as a career, there's simply no way I could ever find myself behind the cockpit of an airliner. Simming is the only way. You do see people make cockpits for smaller aircraft, but it is definitely the exception, and usually those people do have licenses and use it for flight training.

Also, you can find airline-quality simulators out there who will gladly rent you some time, but last time I checked the full-motion 777 simulator I had available to me cost $750/hr.
Or hide it in a bar or at your workplace for a day
We have no reason to trust either the sensitivity oe specificity of such an identification, and every reason to assume police and juries will think it's foolproof.
The first thing this page should mention is why anyone would use this over Calibre.

Calibre works for me. Why should I bother changing my setup?
Why you think you’re right, even when you’re wrong (2017)
This would make a great coding interview question. ;-)

Thinking about it, I'm wondering what a "proving interview" would be like for a mathematician.
You should drop the condescending tone toward people who have more years of experience photographing professionally than you have of age.

I can operate my Nikons blind folded and single handed. Canons are not my cup of tea, but I can get by if needed to.
Sonys, on the other hand, have amazing sensors and great glass, yet bury such important features under menus requiring pressing the Fn button while staring at the LCD, or something like it.
I'm using Windows 10 Pro with Manjaro Linux 18 on a dual-boot AMD desktop computer, with 1 SSD for Linux and 1 SSD for Windows.

- I had to fix the time on windows to use UTC instead of localtime
- I had a bit of trouble with ext2fs on windows, it tried a few times to format my disk.

Apart from that, I'm not noticing any serious problem
For your GPlay purchases, how is it handled?
> What I do know is that I don’t like large companies

I think this is a key thing to learn about oneself. Very large companies often have a lot of cachet and can provide opportunities that small companies cannot (scale is scale, after all).

But small companies (not even start-ups, just companies with < 100 employees) can provide a different kind of opportunities:

* Interaction with different parts of the business

* Opportunity to wear multiple hats

* Less likely to be in the Bay area

* Nowhere to hide incompetence

Of course this isn't every small company, but I have worked in a few that were like this.
So in other words, you don't mind if your camera's battery drains mysteriously.. Let's get a battery discharge graph in there so you can debug the process that's killing the battery!
I recently bought a new MacBook Air, and it had an absolutely terrible keyboard, and had a horrible high pitched whine. I sent it back within a few hours and got a refund. So now I still have my Late 2013 MBP (top spec) but I really want a new work machine. I've looked at a few Apple alternatives with the intention of putting linux on them but they are all so ugly or bulky.

Is it so hard for laptop designers to create decent looking machines?
But that's only if the GPS and wifi are activated on the phone. On my phone it's rarely the case.
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Isn't that always the tradeoff - job which is satisfying pays less than job which is less satisfying?

If it felt good and paid more, it would be too easy.
Then you need to explain how the fecal transplants triggered similar symptoms.
GNUstep was far from painless. I had the pleasure of trying to use it to port some Objective C code maybe 8 years ago and it was an absolute pain to deal with, not to mention that there were some implementation details which varied from the Apple implementation so your code would not behave consistently between platforms.

Not to mention that it’s very different to have cross platform support as part of the core development process. With a 3rd party implementation like GNUStep,(especially one with a relatively small user base) there is no guarantee that it would keep pace with Apple’s implementation.

Swift is a much smoother, modern experience. I am not saying it is perfect, and other languages have much better support across platforms, but to compare Swift and Objective-C is just not accurate.
Which president got busted for what?
The professors behind this work are well known and credible.