skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I for one live in a plastic bag to mitigate any risk that I might leave DNA around to be exploited.

Really, it's not a risk. You won't be able to name a single case of active harm caused by disclosure or sharing of genetic information. The worst thing that is possible is to learn your family isn't what you expected it to be. There have been no other known cases of harm due to genetic disclosure.

This will absolutely change if someone decided that DNA makes for a good way to access your bank account. It is not. It would be no better to key your bank account to an image of your face. Face unlocking phones look to be a good testbed for what might go wrong if security is placed on this kind of footing.
Was that a typo, or is there a bike that is literally only expected to be used for a couple of bike trips?
I had a similar experience (on a smaller scale), but then discovered that working away from home—usually at a cafe—was basically a magic fix for my productivity problems. And I’ve seen a number of people on HN say the same thing.

IMO, if your focus starts drifting, find a new physical location to work from.
How on Earth does this have 60 votes? It's a content marketing piece for H&R Block based on a throwaway online survey that probably had ten people in it. Are HN readers just upvoting because they want validation?
OK! We've updated it from https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/apr/06/casimir-pula....
That type of attitude I would not allow through an employment review. Too many programmers share varying opinions on style. Enforcing your design principles onto others during code review is not only arrogant but you can't prove in any formal way that your "design" is better. Especially on a controversial design such as this.
Do you have any resources about this? It sounds like a fascinating story.
Law enforcement wasn’t interested in their shady shit before, because they weren’t motivated to look for it, and if they had found it, it probably wouldn’t have been prosecuted anyway.
It’s Your iPhone. Why Can’t You Fix It Yourself?
Dutch disease : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dutch_disease
Oh, I've seen it but forgot about the name. Thanks for putting it here!
Chinese Workers Are Trying to Bake Fair Labor Practices into Software
The impression I'm getting from new historical findings, is that the Continental Army basically took anyone who could stand up straight and shoot.
I know all of these in isolation. I’d just like to thank you for joining the dots. Wow
There are all sorts of reasonable options here:

- prompt to install updates when shutting down/rebooting
- prompt when locking the screen
- prompt when updates are available

The point is, ask to install updates. Users will update if you remind them when it's convenient for them, but you don't know when that might be, so have some kind of non-intrusive prompt at any point where a user might be ready to do an update. Maybe make it more annoying if there's a critical security patch pending, but don't ever force it.

So yeah, Microsoft didn't listen, they just did the bare minimum to make it look like they're doing something.
Those subscriptions would have been footnotes in a Google event; that's why Apple is different. When Google enters a market with a new product, most of the time it's a half-assed play by some middle manager to get a promotion. When Apple does something, they put Force behind it to make it successful. Generally.

Google Play Music wasn't a thing Google cared about, really. Same with Youtube Music. Neither of them achieved much success. Apple Music now has more US subscribers than Spotify. They care about it because they make it their business to care about it. Customers see that. They give Apple money. Its that simple.
No, it depends on the contract, and usually you forbid it, at least without approval, as things can get pretty nuts. There are some real horror stories.
just skip the story next time if you can’t post it
Funny, I've seen Nirsoft windows utilities on the front page and I thought that it might be a good idea to post a link to "Everything" too. I wanted to check if someone already posted it to hackernews and I found this submission made "2 hours ago" :)
I don't doubt people have the tv on for 5 hours a day. I do doubt that people are intently watching every minute. Making dinner, washing dishes, straitening up, and folding laundry are all sort of obvious things people do while the tv is on.

Heck, that second reference included 'game console' which, i think, is the only one listed that really requires full engagement. that's 14 minutes a day.

the 2.5 hours on a web/app on a smartphone is an interesting one. Does listening to spotify at work count? that would definitely pump those numbers a lot.
Pułaski była kobietą!
Is there a source of information you could point me to that explains more of this story?
Ah yeah it is at the moment. Working on fixing that, I only have an iPhone, so I’ve been hesitant to heavily advertise the Android version. At the moment its breaking on a fair amount of people’s phones, but working on fixing it
Usenet, IRC, RSS, XMPP, ... Well, still rockin'
Luxury cars are very much an exercise in form over function. How easy they are to service is not a high priority like it is in every other mass market vehicle. It doesn't help they have large (often supercharged or turbocharged) displacement engines which is a challenge to package in themselves, let alone consider the ease of servicing.

Their high powered, boosted engines also puts the entire powertrain under relatively high stresses causing accelerated wear out and fatigue of components. Although some durability test takes place to pick up on issues, if a design issue occurs late into the development phase it won't be fixed, if the cost to implement a change is too high. It will just become another 'service' item which has to be changed every x,000 miles. Sometimes the required technology does not exist to allow a component to last the entire life of the car so just has to be replaced at a set interval.

Luxury cars are often used as the test bed for new technology. This new technology is often novel or experimental and has new unforeseen failure modes which the design engineer is unlikely to account for. The accelerated testing done during vehicle development picks up most issues but a few slip through and only present themselves during actual customer use. The quality of these any new components can also be highly variable especially if a new process or material is being used in their manufacture. If the supplier has poor process control this can lead to high failure rates.

Another consideration is that luxury cars (well luxury sports cars at least) aren't driven that much - most will never reach 100,000 miles - so are designed to a lower durability than most cars. There's no point in over-engineering a component but if a customer has an extreme usage profile, they may exceed the design limits of a component. Cars are not designed for the worst case customer but rather the median usage profile. If cars were designed for the most extreme customer I imagine the cars would weight significantly more or have to use expensive exotic materials.
I was sad when I had to switch to Spotify. Rdio was clean. Even today I don't understand Spotify.

Rdio also had an amazing recommendation engine from Echo Nest. Even though that company got bought by Spotify it took them a long time after the acquisition before they had decent recommendations.
> Odds are you don't have an Outlook login across multiple apps on an iPhone (fuck MS), so why can't you access it from the app itself?

HUH?? This is exactly why Accounts are a global setting.

What you are describing it literally EXACTLY HOW IT WORKS on iOS. Set it up once and it will work in Mail and Calendar
I disagree with those being sticky. I have a fleet of Apple devices and iMessage and FaceTime are absolutely sticky but they just don’t compare to what Apple introduced at the recent event, which I think was all pretty weak.

I was interested in News, because of the WSJ, but it’s not even the full Journal.

I’m still amazed Apple is not doing anything about robocalls. This is an area where software can improve the situation, and I do believe this is related to privacy.

And instead we get the latest iOS with...more Animoji.
last.fm

Although it didn't die yet, it certainly doesn't live up to its potential.
Some of us actively dislike what Mailchimp has become and welcome the alternatives.
Vacuum?
Show HN: Better identifying duplicate articles during a systematic review
Has any university ever lost federal funding because of admitting too many unqualified applicants? I doubt this is a major risk.
Run Every EXE as Service
Hopefully reddit didn't trademark versions of "change my view" like they did with AMA.

https://trademarks.justia.com/869/44/ama-86944696.html

Update: they didn't, but they did trademark "nosleep."
Looks great. Do you Oka on offering US hosting? Looks like it is currently based in Amaterdam.
Yep, being dependent on a single person might be unavoidable if you can't afford to hire a backup but not backing up mission critical data is simply incompetence. Doing it at least half way properly does not cost much nor is it difficult.
Reddit doesn't really care what their subreddits are used for. If they did then they would just delete the numerous hate/death/gore/revengeporn/etc. subs that have persisted for years.
We have a pickle tankyard in our town. Talk about stink.
I agree this seems bizzare at best.

"According to a study conducted by the Motorcycle Industry Council (MIC), the number of American households with at least one motorcycle in their garage has reached 8.02 percent in 2018." [1]

"The total of motorcycles owned by US families has now reached 13.1M—12.2M or 93 % of which are active on the road, a decrease in percentage over 2014 (96.1%)." [1]

While these numbers do not say "and they plan to purchase tires" (tyres?), I can not imagine that the number of those planning to purchase tires would be greater than the number of people with cars who plan to purchase tires.

There are roughly 276.1 Million cars registered. [2] That does not mean anything, but inference would seem to suggest more people would purchase tires for cars.

Of course, this article may have given the respondents a multiple choice sheet (with just those choices :)

I sill lay claim, I can not imagine asking 100 people what they want to do with the tax refund, and their answers even remotely aligning with those. I might live in a strange part of the US, but I know the answers here would look much more like:

Fishing rods.

Fishing reel.

Tackle.

Parts for the boat and motor.

That #$@%^ thing I have not fixed on the house yet.

That other #$^!@# thing I have not fixed on the house yet.

BBQ supplies.

Pay off debt.

[1] https://www.rideapart.com/articles/302630/more-americans-own...

[2] https://hedgescompany.com/automotive-market-research-statist...
Good catch. I've confused the dates with the introduction 3-1/2 inch HD floppy on IBM PC and its support on Amiga.
Hmm, hadn’t seen that (“many ...parents involved acted as if ... were things everyone else was doing...”).

In the few stories I’ve seen, the parents have not committed.

Sources?
#notallmedicalprofessionals, says my SO. Needles get thrown because they're cheap, and expensive instruments get sterilized. Boiling will kill the few things that can survive on stainless steel, like the virii that cause hepatitis.

But we don't need to nitpick one tree, and miss the forest of products can be designed better for reuse. The central issue in my mind is that companies are usually incentivized for obsolescence.

You have exceptions like Patagonia with strong DNA for societal good, but companies generally need some extrinsic motivation. What could be effective here? I can see service models working, as the company providing hardware would want longevity to save costs, but I don't want my stuff's lifespan to be connected to its manufacturer.
Venture backed, took a big bet on Vdio that the market didn't care for, probably couldn't meet growth goals compared to their burn.
I did not know that. Thanks.
I read the article because I thought "this can't be right, right?", and sure enough, it seems like SEO click-bait.

Their marketing will now be able to show a spike in traffic because of me searching for their stupid product and can report marketing success to their boss even tough I would never though the company again.

I fell a bit dirty ...
The tooling has also converged to some extent. Java is very much Simula-style, and methods calls aren't messages... except when they are:

https://www.baeldung.com/java-dynamic-proxies

C# also has something similar with TransparentProxy, not to mention "dynamic".
And 50% of the world cobalt production comes from DR Congo, a country that hasn't been stable since the 1990s. A lot of that cobalt money ends up in the hands of international mining companies doing dodgy deals with corrupt top government officials.
Yeah, that and the incentives are not there for programmers. They are often treated as the support, not given proper training and managed by people who has no idea how to develop software. This is slowly changing but is still bad.
Agree. It's also an - involuntary - message to the rest of us that we are likely capable of a lot less than he is.
You basically make your home dir a git repo and by default ignore everything inside it. When you want to store a dotfile in that repo, you have to force add it (`git add -f`) and it will be tracked.

You can learn more about how git ignores things here:
https://git-scm.com/docs/gitignore
Darth Vader in CSS
Google Inbox. And I don’t “find my favorite Inbox features in Gmail”. If you can’t tell I’m still bitter about it :(
Nokia linux tablets/phones n800x series and their Maemo OS
Ironically one of the major barriers is actually modern environmental laws. Simple engines tend to have poor control over combustion and produce lots of pollutants. Two-stroke engines, while far simpler, have fundamentally far higher emissions.
Well, I think there is some deeper truth to 'everything making sense once you understand it all'.

Granted, it doesn't really work as a motivator and those who use it as such are missing a real motivator quite often. Nevertheless, when you think about people, you will find that their actions will make sense once you see all the factors that influence them. Knowing that you probably don't know all factors that affect a person's actions will make you search for the missing parts before judging that person, resulting in a suspension of judgment [1] which is quite valuable actually (not just for human interactions).

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suspension_of_judgment
What is surprising about seeking status (or more importantly avoiding status loss) in the eyes of your peers?
Exactly this. T9 input is difficult for most people, but especially for the customer base of the Jio phones: a lot of the people who buy these phones are looking for content in languages they aren't necessarily fluent in, and some are even semi-literate in their native language. Being able to send a text message, make a call, or search for a popular video via voice input is a huge boon for those users.
I’m a Linux die hard fan, but the Windows Phone was indeed a great product. I liked mine!
An airplane usually spends 1-2 hours in the airport between flights. During that period it needs to be recharged.
Have you tried it before? I had a hotel room for one night like that in xian and couldn’t stay a second night there.

More to the point, musty and moldy is bad for your health.
The article says two people got the gender of pictures of babies wrong and then says "his parents could have done the same thing" but that makes no sense. It makes no mention of Pulaski possibly being intersex or having any other condition which would interfere with looking at his genitals to determine sex. It also says Pulaski always considered himself male but has absolutely nothing to back up that claim. People back then were ignorant but not so ignorant as to mistake a vagina and a menstrual cycle for being a "weird man".
I still don't understand how MS managed to mess up Windows Phone. My girlfriend had one for a while and it was excellent.
They keep mentioning the two, but never explicitly state the connection.
Even more so when both titles are not clickbaiting
Apple Watch keeps me on iPhone big time but attraction to alternatives increases. IMesseage is essentially dead in Germany, the music app is a usability mess and apple maps unusable...
I dont even want to start on siri, the appstore-app or apple tv
Its hard to watch a renowned company like apple to fail on quality so badly...
Never owned one, but interested about what made it great?
Automotive is a surprising quantum front-runner
Also Google (reader/fiber/insert several dozen other cancelled Google programs)
Oh, yet another example of "We'll do zlich unless the media gets a whiff of it, in which case we'll apologize for getting caught and do our best to pretend it's an isolated incident and not at all our fault" incident handling by a disruptive tech company.

How surprising indeed.
https://www.postgresql.org/docs/11/sql-vacuum.html
Sega Dreamcast. All Sony had to say was "PS2 is coming next year" and everyone stopped listening to what they could get today.
Farouk al-Kasim. It's a fascinating story, glad I found this in webarchive as it's now behind a paywall.

http://web.archive.org/web/20100123225932/http://www.ft.com/...
WPF is still pretty much the standard on Windows but it definitely could be much better. They just abandoned it and then went on these weird detours with Silverlight, WinRT and now UWP.
The mugshot project. 2006. it could have been so much. But it was ahead of its time, I guess. (Disclaimer: I might be biased, I work at Red Hat)

https://arstechnica.com/uncategorized/2006/05/6955-2/
The interface got rolled into Pandora Premium after they were acquired.
See my link to a sibling comment of yours
Treble is just another layer of abstraction on top of HALs and more binder use. Android HALs don't replace kernel drivers and so it's still the same distance from mikrokernel as it ever was, and neither did Treble further the split from mainline Linux.

If anything, Android 8 reduced the gap to mainline with switching e.g. to DRM synchronization fences.
Changetip was neat but got acquihired and shut down
KaiOS is not a google-developed OS. kaiostech is its own company with offices in several countries. Google gave them financing but it isn't fair to them to paint them as some sort of vassal - Google funds lots of things.
Huh, the prestige is most definitely real. The status is real. If your kids go to Harvard or Stanford, people will assume they're smart and you're a good parent.
Yes, one purpose of the service is sharing with people who have similar DNA to you (not just police officers conducting dragnet searches). And it's not the "entire purpose" either, much of the ancestry data is available for you to view even if you don't use the sharing features.
>If you are involved in a secret affair without your partner's knowledge or if you're closeted non-hetero sexually, you shouldn't apply for high level security clearances or run for politics.

Those two things are completely different. The first is an active lie to the person you are supposed to be closest with. It is a demonstration on some level of a lack of character. The second is the omission of not telling people something that it shouldn't be their business to know. LGBTQ folks are under no obligation to be out publicly and refusing to do so is not an indictment on their character.
Are you portuguese? Wanna hang out in Lisbon?
Is that a trick question?
Have others integrated Reddit submissions into third-party web sites?

I'd be surprised if Reddit liked that.
Email enhancement products need an offbeat name like Superhuman, not a noun every email program already has (inbox). Seeing it in the App Store, how would I know I don’t already have it?
> Luxury car buyers don't want to maintain their cars

I think most people prefer to pay someone else, luxury marque or not. Not everyone has the skills, knowledge and tools to do maintenance beyond topping up the washer fluid.

> They are ok with paying someone else to do it

Yep, I'd rather pay someone that knows what they're doing - that doesn't mean I want to get ripped off though. BTW, a tip for car owners - always haggle on service costs. I've been a car owner for 20 years, and every time I've asked, the dealer has offered a discount, just because I asked.

> cars come with long warranties these days anyway

At least in the UK, the luxury car makers (e.g. BMW, Mercedes) come with a 3 year warranty, same as they have for a long time. This is short by comparison to Kia's 7 year warranty, and I seem to recall Hyundai offers a 5 year warranty.

Of course, if you need to actually claim on the warranty, that's when the fun and games might start... I've never actually had to claim on the BMW and Mercedes I've owned, but I've had a hell of a time getting pissed about by Nissan and just assumed other makers did the same.
If you want to see if an environmentalist really believes that climate change is as bad as scientists say it will be, look at their stance on nuclear power. If they are against it, they are basically denying the seriousness did climate change.

There is no way you are going to convince voters that they need to cut their energy usage, especially before the worst of the climate change effects are felt. You need to provide steady, stable carbon free power. Nuclear power is the only current technology that can provide it. If you really care about slowing down climate change, you need to be all in on nuclear power.
This is stunning in its scope and made me wonder in what other developed country is it even possible for a citizen to defraud its government of over 1 billion dollars?

The skilled nursing system in this country is broken, with no meaningful oversight other than an annual inspection which everyone knows is coming. Lengths of stay are unnecessarily long and the quality of care is unbelievably sub par. Despite all of this, fraud at this level is pretty astounding, and should serve as a wake up call for the government to more aggressively monitor all facilities, or outsource monitoring from the States to private agencies.
>Germany’s rate of adding clean energy relative to gross domestic product, it would take the world more than a century to decarbonize, even if the country wasn’t also retiring nuclear plants early.

Why doesn't the article explain why the Germans are retiring their plants? I think these articles should go more in-depth regarding the pro's and con's. From what I read and hear Nuclear power is a great source of energy but I feel when convincing other people of this you need to portray the good and the bad.
I play City Skylines only to tune my roads with that mod. It's awesome, but in general I think the game has some annoying flaws, like that bringing dead people to graveyard is like a logistical problem, the blocky zoning makes neighborhoods boring, buildings are never that big, etc.
Huh, I didn't think about that. I know they do open boot loaders, but I just figured they'd leave the drive alone. Afaik, even Richard Stallman doesn't care about drive firmware, but I could be wrong there.

But that is a valid reason. I've thought about buying a Librem laptop, but the price always turned me away. I know part of this is scale issues, but it feels bad to pay 2x more for something with worse performance, and the hardware switches and open boot firmware don't seem like enough to justify it. But I guess they won't be able to drop prices until they get enough volume, so maybe that's the answer.
The article paints the picture of a person who, rather than being transgender, or intersex, or just not liking the role of women in the 18th century, had mind-bogglingly idiotic parents who raised him the wrong gender as a "whoopsie" and never thought to question it. I find that rather unlikely, especially considering the other women from that time period who assumed male identities to break out of restrictive gender roles.