skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If we trace personal computers to their root origins, we'll see the LINC. The LINC was designed to be used by a single person. This was before time-sharing and interactive computing happened and, due to the differences in their use, the two kinds of computers diverged into what we saw in the 70's until today in every way - from the hardware to the software to the way they are used.

OTOH, my laptop has more in common with a VAX running Unix than it has with a Commodore PET. Or a LINC.
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The military market for tiny turbine engines has been serious for decades; cruise missiles use them. I really do not believe that a plucky SV attitude towards engineering and VC funding is going to waltz into this domain and shock the world. But I definitely believe that SV self-confident arrogance would lead some to convince themselves otherwise.
Games now with MTX are bigger than your games from 15 years ago.
The more punishing the process of getting shared access to the book, the more units it'll sell. At least, that seems to be what publishers believe in.
I thought that YC was only interested in stuff that "scales"? This is just a toy for wealthy type-A thrill-seekers. How big of a market is that?

Seems sort of like a premium jet-ski that flies, but is even louder and more annoying, and has far more property damage potential in addition to being capable of producing even more gruesome accident scenes than crotchrocket motorbikes.

I think they should go for it, but I expect they'll be as popular as Bugatti Veyrons.
If you’re in a field where future work may require a security clearance in the US, my understanding (which may be incorrect) is that you have to renounce the second citizenship. You may have other trouble if you travel to a place sanctioned by the US, but not by the second country.

There may be others — citizenship is a deeper commitment than a visa.
The Emacs Package Developer's Handbook (2017)
I'm not familiar with the immigration system of too many other countries. But for the UK this is masking a lot of major differences between visas. For instance, the Tier 2 visa requires an employer to sponsor it. The visa is then tied to that job. That employer needs a license, et cetera. Whereas the tech nation visa allows someone to come to the UK without a job and look, and then change jobs easily.
In the USSR before Stalin's death. It was a crime to make any art. After Stalin's death they decriminalized art but it was still illegal to be an artist. That isn't even to get into the censorship.

The fundamental reasoning here, in communism where everyone gets the same pay regardless of performance. If artist is an option, everyone would become an artist; why work a hard when it doesnt matter.

That's why communism/socialism bans artists. You never addressed this. You simply asserted I was offensive.

You risked going to a gulag and near certainly probably death by creating art. Nobody did this, the few who did, did it in secret.
Elastic Beanstalk: The Struggle
See e.g. https://towardsdatascience.com/breaking-neural-networks-with...
Unfortunately, there's a trade-off - a good protection from theft may make you a little more vulnerable to hackers. LoJack for laptops installs persistent software in the BIOS, and allows you to track your laptop if it gets stolen. However, hackers may be able to access it if they can find an unpatched vulnerability. That's because you're installing what amounts to a root kit. See the Wikipedia article below, or the company's site link below, for more.

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

https://homeoffice.absolute.com/
On the value of limiting yourself to standards:

...which was why the idea of 100 percent IBM compatibility took so long to be accepted. "Why be compatible when you could be better?" the smart guys asked on their way to bankruptcy court.

It sounds a bit like a jab at Apple (or maybe even NeXT, which I believe was struggling in 1992 with its hardware releases). AFAIK neither company ever went bankrupt.

Or was it referring to the crop of other personal computing platforms from the late 70s/early 80s? (Vic20/C64, TRS-80, Sinclair, Heathkit, etc.)

Or something else? Big SGI workstations, etc.
A Common Job Ladder for All Creative Professionals
It really feels like you’re trying to distract from the fact that you have no idea how the supposed NSAKEY backdoor works if it exists.

How would the signed payload to activate this backdoor be delivered? Where’s the code that receives it? Where’s the code that then processes that signed payload?

It’s not like this stuff is terribly hard to reverse, you’ll almost certainly be able to easily find all the symbols and probably even leaked source on various NT-related forums.
Technology standards are anything but standard
The last time I experienced it I was using search bar on AliExpress.com's mobile website
Apenwarr podcasts are really good, recommended to everyone.
> The driver was watching TV on her phone. She might still be charged.

Has that been conclusively established, rather than they were watching the central console where the automation they were also supposed to oversee is located?
I would appreciate the Netflix model. 10 dollars per month to have the latest and greatest experience. No ads, no extra costs.
Splashdown of Dragon SpaceX Capsule in Atlantic Ocean
I am sorry to hear what happened. My guess would be selling to friends, or friends of a friend and so on...
Ha, I love these discussions about what is a "good" way of travelling. In the end it's all about your personal values; if you prefer to be one with the nature you'll be labeled as a "deep traveler", if you are playing the social game you'll be labeled as a "shallow traveller", or you can do both and get a label accordingly. Long story short, the way you travel is proxy for who you are.
Try setting it on an URL, on an environment variable or in a config file.
True, but that is not the same as "mortgage interest is no longer deductible".
“If you want, I can store the encrypted password.” [pdf]
I'm sure in pretty much any country a driver is supposed to break if there's a chance of collision.

But consider the following situation: An Average Joe drives down the road. Suddenly out of nowhere a pedestrian appears. Joe hits the brakes, but too late, the poor guy is killed.

He just didn't have time to react. There's no Joe's fault, unless it can be shown that he saw the pedestrian, could stop, but deliberately decided to teach him a lesson.

Now if exactly the same thing happened on a crosswalk, a driver would be at fault. A crosswalk, by design, is a place where pedestrian are crossing. In this case the driver should have expected a person appearing on the road and be prepared to stop. Unless it can be proven that a pedestrian has done something nasty, like jumped on the car from a tree.
My First Alexa Skill – Lessons Learnt
> It is the responsibility of car drivers not to hit softer things - full stop.

I get the feeling a lot of people on HN have never actually driven a vehicle or at least haven't in recent memory. If you're driving through a street at a perfectly safe and reasonable speed a sufficiently stupid pedestrian is still perfectly capable of creating a situation that causes you to hit them. Nothing is foolproof. I'm sure I could get a truck driver who's doing nothing wrong to back over me if I behaved ignorantly enough.

Absolutes like "always the driver's faults are just stupid, ignorant, poorly thought out, whatever you want to call it but they sure aren't good.

It is every road user's ultimate responsibility to behave in a manner such that nobody else is forced to take emergency action to avoid them. The reason we have specific rules is so that people behave predictably (e.g. stopping at stop signs) making this easier.

I say this as someone who walks a couple miles through the city every day.
Captain Marvel review: The hero we, and Marvel Studios, need
Haven't the game industry always relied on offering a "dream job" to underpay?
FWIW: Some countries like Poland, don't have a special visa, but regular ones are easily available. Reasonable quick (2 months) with low legal cost.
> 225kUSD/yr

That seems insanely high by European standards. That is well above what I would expect even a CTO to make.
"Not supporting" and "Deliberately blocking user agents" are two completely different things though.
Firefox's market share is presumably comparable to safari on desktop, and edge which is supported.
> This is an infrastructure problem. A startup isn't going to solve this.

Opportunity in the Himalayas. Bottle the snow melt rivers flowing in unbelievable blue before they turn shitbrown.

Did Steve Jobs get cancer in China from drinking contaminated water?
It seems you have the option to use Firefox, and convince friends and family to do the same.

Personally I like it better for most things, so it’s not like I’m giving anything up and thus don’t feel bad recommending it to people.
I'm a bit suspicious of the camera shake when it's zoomed in before takeoff. I don't have video editing software available to me at this moment, but it would be interesting to track a few points and see if the path they trace out is actually random or if it looks artificial. Artificial camera shake is easy to spot this way if the VFX specialist was careless.
I guess, these might be the engines: https://pbs.cz/en/our-business/aerospace/aircraftgines/jetgi...
Trading slips away from London ahead of Brexit
> Even if a pedestrian runs out onto a highway and it's physically impossible for you to avoid hitting them?

The rule over here is that a driver must always be in control of their vehicle. Exceptional circumstances such as those you describe (which are completely and utterly unlike those of the Uber case) would act as mitigating factor, possibly down to no fault if there was no way for a reasonable driver to avoid the accident.

But the default state of things is that if you decide to put yourself in control of a multi-tons vehicle, you better be able to handle it or the consequences of your recklessness.
For desktop, where one would use this, it is 8%
> Between lack of water and unsafe water, I'm not sure that the proportion in the US is much different.

Care to show me the figures on that? I don't believe for a second that the US and China are comparable on freshwater when it comes to quality and supply. The US is among the top several nations on freshwater per capita and has a truly vast supply of inexpensive, safe water. Flint was/is such a big deal because it's an exception, not the common. Freshwater supply challenges are exclusive to building large cities in deserts (eg Las Vegas), or poor decisions on allocation (eg California agriculture, which is ~80% of their water use).
Unless you have saved a lot of money, you will be living on a fixed income in retirement, while rents will continue to increase. I'm not saying buy a house today, just be very careful as you get older that you have hedged against inflation for the basic need of shelter.
Windows 10 closes in on Microsoft’s 1B device goal
AFAIK chicken systematically and thoroughly pecking at open wounds need proteins.
With federated protocols, ideally, many would be running their own servers.

In reality, users tend to concentrate in one or two servers. And then federated is about as good as centralized.

Reminder of what happened with XMPP: It got embraced, extended and extinguished... by Google.

We should be moving towards fully distributed architectures. Only when there are no servers is this problem really gone.
Sure, I expected web devs to earn maybe €80-90k but not €120k+
That's very cool! Would love to see more examples in the future and maybe some examples that are somewhat in between the consumer and pro market.

I've been trying to find a 4 wheel skid steering robot with a decent payload capacity for sensor testing and they are surprisingly rare.
Russia is usually considered CIS, not Europe+friends: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commonwealth_of_Independent_St...
The most surprising thing I learned from reading this is that people still call other people hipsters in 2019.
I wasn't the one who downvoted you but I agree with IanCal and this blog title didn't trigger my "clickbait" sensor.

I disagree that this is an example of "adversarial attack". The famous duck/rabbit illusion has been around since ~1892[1] and therefore was not deliberately constructed to be an "adversary" to image classification neural networks.

To me, it's an interesting example of feeding a well-known optical illusion to an AI algorithm and observing its behavior.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rabbit%E2%80%93duck_illusion
"Big computers and little computers are completely different beasts"

Are we living in a period in which many things seems to be going backwards? With ARM trying to go into servers/desktop, or the (somewhat) failed attempts to bring the tablet/phone interface to PC (Ubuntu and/or ugly full-screen-only apps)?
Facebook is testing 'Watch Party' features on Instagram, too
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>And the old blood is getting tired - tired of failing in some cases or just tired of working so hard and now ready to enjoy life.

I think that this is, perhaps, the most apt quote that will live-on in a state of permanence throughout the generations.
A belief in meritocracy is not only false: it’s morally wrong
It is an example of an adversarial title - one that is sometimes mistaken for clickbait even though it is an accurate summary of the content. This response can be primed by repeated prior training on real clickbait.
Yes, i don't give a rating to this statement, i just say that Musk is not conservative about this topic as op suggested. If you ask me, I don't think that they will be anything close to that by the end of 2020
I didn't experience the first two, but I remember being amazed by Sonic & Knuckles. I can't imagine the technical wizardry that went into these devices given the constraints at the time.
Are GA turbofans really more common than GA turboprops?
A good subtitle would be:
"Security? Ask for it. Freelance devs password-storage practices [pdf]"
It could also be that "Skype" has become the generic catch-all term for video chatting on desktop, since it rolls off the tongue way easier than "video call."
Basic functionality works fine on Safari as well. Just change the UA.
That’s what he/she was making in the United States.
Thanks Troy!
Unfortunately, timapple.com was registered in 2013 by a real Tim Apple.
https://dofo.com/timapple.com
> salary I ever saw was 70-something €k per year (and it is quite rare to go above €65k even as a very senior programmer).

That's my impression as well, of the job market in Berlin as dev contributor in many industries. There exists just rock solid ceiling at 70k EUR and that's it. No idea about stricte managerial roles but these are oftentimes reserved to native Germans and the competition is beyond fierce so forget about it (unless you are Abmahnung, Betriebsrat, and Arbeitsrecht virtuoso).
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Robert X. Cringely is often incredibly observant and accurate. That is why his writing stands the test of time because he saw things accurately and wasn't just a hype pedeler or mindless trend follower. I feel he doesn't get enough credit for that.
For me (Opera on Windows 10 with Privacy Badger and uMatrix) the site seems to have mostly loaded okay.

> The tagline "The World is ready for the robot revolution" is hidden underneath the header bar

For me the top of the tagline is partially obscured but there is enough visible for it to be readable. Still needs fixing.

The 'Scroll Down' button. Hmmmm. It should perhaps be called 'Hide header' since this is the main effect. Once you've clicked it, you have to use the normal scroll bar anyway.
Affordable housing? I heard that Stockholm is super expensive relative to local salaries.
> We have seen some auditors who say, 'Look, this is an ambiguous case, but if you come up with X dollars, then we can see the change of domicile.'

That sounds more like gangsterism than the proper functioning of the State.

People should of course pay their taxes properly.

Seems to me that we should fix our idea of state citizenship. Right now, the Fourteenth Amendment just says that one’s a citizen of the state in which one resides, with no definition of what that means. It’s pretty obvious that one doesn’t change citizenship just driving through a state, or spending a night there. But what about if one owns homes in two states? And it does seem odd that one can spend six months minus a day somewhere, and not have any tax liability. OTOH, free movement is also important, and it would be pretty annoying to have to register for tax purposes if all one did was spend a weekend or two somewhere.

I think that it’d make sense to amend the Constitution such that state citizenship is, like federal citizenship, a birthright, and that to change one’s citizenship to a different state one must go through a naturalisation process. Then states could write laws treating state citizens & aliens appropriately, and there’d never be any question of who is a citizen of what state.
0Days in Adobe ColdFusion and Google Chrome
Air Force Releases Video of New Combat Drone, the XQ-58A Valkyrie
Combatting Vaccine Misinformation – Facebook Newsroom
I use uBlock Origin, uMatrix and Greasemonkey, and FireFox is nice and fast with several dozen tabs open for weeks at a time.

Slack leaks memory like there's no tomorrow, but that's on Slack. I just close the Slack tab and force a full GC/CC cycle and I get my memory back.

I'd do a binary search of sorts, disable half of the extensions and see if performance is still bad or not etc, to narrow it down to the offending extension(s).
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One of the first results on Google:

https://eu.usatoday.com/story/news/health/2018/02/12/tens-mi...
Mine only has whatever Gravatar had.
Don’t sell it short! You can crash this into everything you can crash a motorcycle into PLUS everything in the sky!
They say they're using Skype because the Skype Broadcast Terms of Service require them to say it: https://www.skype.com/en/legal/broadcast/
In USA you have rights to format shift, so can libraries just 'rip' books in to an open format and lend those versions as long as they internally reserve a paper copy?
The Quantum Suicide Experiment
Good to know you're thinking about these kind of things :) I think your definitely trying to do a good thing :)
Contra-point: in Buddhist countries where the children do not have ADHD problems (that's a fact because their religion already tell them about meditation and dharma etc) are less creative. Sometimes I think as a curse itself creativity: ideas gives rise to more ideas and never end. This quote from Ernst Gombrich:One never finishes learning about art. There are always new things to discover. Great works of art seem to look different every time one stands before them. They seem to be as inexhaustible and unpredictable as real human beings.
p. 33. (which I swear I read somewhere in pg essay)

Anecdotally I can tell you ADHD friends are more creative and most of them are bored to death in class. They are charismatic and have many friend and I wouldn't doubt that when I will meet them again in decades to be CEOs or successful ventures.
There is an 'About' at the bottom but all this seems to do is to return to the top of the page - it doesn't seem to have any profile info.

Also, why not have an 'about' link on the header bar?
People from countries with lower salaries, obviously :)
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Replace “choose file” upload button with set image library
I found code that allows a user to write custom text on an image on front end on a previous stack question https://stackoverflow.com/questions/17564368/allow-users-to-write-a-custom-text-on-an-image

I would just like to replace the button "choose file" upload button with a dropdown selector where users can only select images from my library and a button to download the image with the custom text on. Please help. Herewith the code:

<!doctype html>
<html>
<head>
<meta charset="utf-8">
<title></title>
<script>
var
maxSize=600, // Max width or height of the image
font='italic small-caps bold 40px/50px arial', // font style
fontColor='white', // font color
textX=50, // text x position
textY=50, // text y position
h=function(e){
var fr=new FileReader();
fr.onload=function(e){
var img=new Image();
img.onload=function(){
var r=maxSize/Math.max(this.width,this.height),
w=Math.round(this.width*r),
h=Math.round(this.height*r),
c=document.createElement("canvas"),cc=c.getContext("2d");
c.width=w;c.height=h;
cc.drawImage(this,0,0,w,h);

cc.font=font;
cc.fillStyle=fontColor;
cc.fillText(document.getElementById('t').value,textX,textY);

this.src=c.toDataURL();
document.body.appendChild(this);
}
img.src=e.target.result;
}
fr.readAsDataURL(e.target.files[0]);
}
window.onload=function(){
document.getElementById('f').addEventListener('change',h,false);
}
</script>
</head>
<body>
1.write text
<input type="text" id="t">
2.add image
<input type="file" id="f">
</body>
</html>
Browser wars are back? What happened, the app store wars went over budget?
What personal cloud storage would you recommend?
I’ve been looking to try get away from Google cloud lately but it’s been hard to find an alternative. I’ve looked at services similar to Google cloud all the way to setting up OwnClouc on DigitslOcean but I’m still unsure.
What do you use and recommend for personal cloud storage?
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John B. Calhoun studies are pertinent.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_B._Calhoun