skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I use EN every day also. The search is not good, but I haven't found anything better, I have a lot of notes in different notebooks and it works ok for me in terms of speed and usability across mobile and desktop. I'm glad they didn't become some bloated app that tries to upsell you with useless new features all the time but worry they might not survive. I had a major problem with sync 3 years ago where I lost an important document, ever since then I write important things outside EN and store a copy in it
Text of the announcement:

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Team Cloud9 <support@c9.io>
8:04 AM (1 hour ago)
to me

Dear c9.io user,

On July 14, 2016, we shared the news of Cloud9’s acquisition by Amazon Web Services. Since then, we launched AWS Cloud9 at re:Invent 2017. AWS Cloud9 combines c9.io’s most popular features with new capabilities enabled by AWS. As we focus more of our efforts on AWS Cloud9, we plan to discontinue the ability to create new or to use existing workspaces on c9.io on June 30, 2019 and to discontinue all access on December 31, 2019. We would love it if you would join us on AWS Cloud9.

We've built migration tooling to enable you to download all your data and to make transitioning your Cloud9 environments to AWS Cloud9 easy. Read the docs to get started.

AWS Cloud9 is free tier eligible when using an Amazon EC2 instance for an AWS Cloud9 development environment. You can also connect your AWS Cloud9 development environment to an existing Linux server (for example, an on-premises server) for no additional charge. For more information, see our AWS Cloud9 Pricing page.

Please note, any accounts not migrated by December 31, 2019 will be deleted and your data will be unrecoverable. If you have a subscription, we will issue a refund for at least the unused amount upon deactivation of your c9.io account or the termination of c9.io.

We've enjoyed having you as a Cloud9 customer and appreciate the trust you’ve placed in us. We hope you'll join us at AWS Cloud9 by following the migration checklist to migrate your c9.io environments to AWS Cloud9. Please contact us with any questions or concerns.

Sincerely,
The Cloud9 Team"
That's not surprising -- those companies are all using their attorneys for registered agent services, and the law firm states that they specialize in energy companies -- both transactions and litigation.

It appears that the developers of solar projects follow the same pattern of real-estate developers: each project gets its own LLC, which allows them to contain any potential liability for the project, as well as sell ownership interests in the LLC to raise the funds for the project.

Per your linked article (and easily confirmable through public records), the Jackpot* series are all projects of Robert Paul of Alternative Power Development who has been quoted in the Idaho press about solar for the last decade.
Ultraviolet refers to wavelengths of light which are just a little bit outside the range which humans can perceive. It is not visible.

Some fluorescent materials can be lit with UV light, because they will fluoresce at wavelengths we can see. Otherwise, UV lamps also emit visible wavelengths.
Intellectually humble people tend to possess more knowledge, study finds -- Psypost 31/03/2019

https://www.psypost.org/2019/03/intellectually-humble-people...
You should be purchasing hardware based on whether the current model looks good, not what model may be next in that product line. The latter is pointless and largely impossible.

Chrome OS itself isn't going anywhere.
Visual Studio 2019 goes live with C++, Python shared editing
I would guess, that they fear, that Metastream could implement a feature, where only one of the users has paid for the content and streams it to his peers.
I'm using it with a VPN rn, it's working fine.
But yeah using a VPN/TOR increases the risk profile (or whatever they call it). It even slows down the animation of loading new images, it drives me crazy.
I tried replacing myself with a Python script
Was your original backup encrypted?

Did you log into your iCloud account before restoring? (I don't remember if that's a step that happens prior to restoring in the new Mac setup flow)

There could be some credential that needs to be provided in order to find/decrypt a TM Backup. If that key was not available, perhaps the OS/UI doesn't even show you the backup as a restore candidate.
No, the issue is entirely that firefox has market share and any given alternative browser project does not.
This is a good point; it's amazing what's still out there. Bitrot does set in over time, though, and the less distributed a work is the worse its odds of living through each new tech transition. I've known people who still have cassette recordings of concerts that are publicly considered "lost". Hopefully they digitize and back up, but not all of them will.

Even the brief bloom of the torrent and sharing scene was incredible, though. Scarce works that circulate manually are in near-constant jeopardy, because every new copy takes new effort. But a whole lot of unique content, from jam-band tapes to obscure translated books, just showed up on torrent sites and got shared widely. Even if it's inaccessible at the moment, that stretch may have spawned enough copies to endure across the next few transitions.
My X1 Carbon (6th gen) touchpad isn’t as good as my (former) 2017 MBP.

But I am so much happier with everything else that I am willing to put up with it.

The main difference is that some of the pad click actions I found frustrating and unintuitive, but I now use the buttons which work fine.
Mosque Cleric in Faisalabad Sells Woman for Rs 2 Lac – UrduPoint
Antitrust complaints / lawsuits?
> "Quoting the actual mistake is more useful"

This isn't Twitter, and it's not my job to condense a paper down to a single sentence for people that wouldn't otherwise spare the time to actually read the article in the first place. Commenter is more than welcome to go ahead and do the reading themselves.
Firefox does need cooperation from widevine for their solution to work.
Open models
> Traditionally the FSF advocate will say something here about end users hiring developers to modify software for them, but in reality that’s economically ridiculous.

Why is it ridiculous?
U.S. students excel in computer science, outscoring China, India and Russia
Tuning Hyperparameters of Deep Learning Models
> depends if you can safely and reliably reverse the decision

Can you safely and reliably reverse a find/replace on a program's source? Generally, unless you have a backup, the answer is no. There's also a lack of any kind of guarantee that the resulting program will compile, or if it does, that it will run without any more bugs than it had before.

CRISPR is just about the same way. We need to do research in ethical and humane ways, ways that balance the possible gains with the possible losses. We've already had an incident where human DNA was edited, and not particularly ethically or responsibly. I'd really wish that people not bring sci-fi futurist fantasy thinking to this particular table.
I'm not talking about recombining polyethylene chains. I'm talking about thermally cracking polyethylene etc to some mix of small hydrocarbons, and likely some H2, CO and CO2. More or less how the industry now deals with low grade petroleum fractions and tar sands.
Premium is DRM-free, but Google Play purchases, which you can watch on YouTube, use DRM.
If it's NC or ND-style it won't be a free software license.
Can I ask what startup this is? This kind of thinking is refreshing to see and pretty rare in my experience, to not just say you want great people but actually compensate like you mean it.
Location: London UK

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: Ruby, Ruby on Rails, Sinatra, Javascript, HTML, CSS, TDD/BDD RSpec, Graphql, REST API, Docker, AWS, Heroku, CICD- Jenkins, Travis, Pipe (bitbucket), Codeship.

Résumé/CV: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ewelina-sobora

Portfolio: https://github.com/Cherrylady

Email: e@e-dot.uk
I am willing to bet on GCP's life-span - it will be around for 10 more years at least. What would you like to bet for?
If your white light source has a flat spectrum, then the violet paint wouldn't be any dimmer than any other color. The reason red or blue paint looks bright enough to see is because, as you said, they do reflect a range. So the violet paint could reflect the same bandwidth range as the traditional visible spectrum paints, and it would have the same power density.

Unless you mean appearance, in which case, yeah, our eyes don't detect violet very well.
That's because he's a noob. He thinks facts and "positions" matter in political campaigns. They do not. You don't publish an encyclopedia-sized set of "policies" (spot checking which I've discovered that many of them are extremely ill-conceived), and expect anyone to read, let alone remember any of them. In fact anything more than very general and ambiguous statements throw you into an argumentative morass in which you will drown as your opponents focus on the less thought-through parts of your program and blow it completely out of proportion. If, by some miracle, this guy makes it through the primaries, Trump will take him apart pretty easily.
I see nothing indicating that he wouldn't opt to write a compliant DRM plugin at his own cost, or pay for the license or plugin if it were required.
They should just make touch bar be a touchable dock and be done with it. At least the thing will be somewhat useful by recovering some screen space.
Well, it is clearly stated that it's a methological error.
If if the users of software don't even know about FLOSS, then there is no incentive pushing companies to adopt.

If it's truly about the users, it has to come from users, not developers.
Looks like it was an issue with a script. I wouldn't be surprised if this isn't a bigger issue than we know in science. Good scripting practice is not taught in most programs. On top of that it's not really possible to write tests for regressions.
> DNSSEC, which tptacek has repeatedly criticized

FWIW, tptacek's argument in that thread seems to be premised on certificate pinning being widely deployed[1], which it's not, and it seems at this point like it never will be[2].

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10553608

[2]: https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/forum/#!msg/blink-d...
Odd. I don't see code for tracking the potential tax liability of all those "free" meals.
I had a similar mindset change the last time I had a prolonged depressive episode. Usually, I would be either happy and productive and feel on top of the world, or I would feel like shit and do nothing.

My recent epiphany is a lot like "putting one foot in front of the other". It's mostly a change in values--instead of worrying so damn much about my own happiness, I just kind of thought, "I don't have to ENJOY being a high-functioning human being, but at least I can BE a high-functioning human being." Grim determination isn't really that much fun, but at least it breaks the part of the depressive spiral where you feel useless and your obligations continue to pile up.
I'm not sure I understand. Can't you have Chromium browser work with that software? And modified Chromium browser, e.g. Firefox? I don't remember I accept licenses at least as a user.
No, it's a victory for all the women who are autistic but go years without a diagnosis because of stereotypes about autism.

Simon Baren Cohen is an expert, but he's got some stuff badly wrong before, such as saying that autism is a condition marked by lack of empathy because of alexithymia. Turns out this is incorrect, but it caused considerable hardship for many autistic people who were unable to get a dx because they could see things from someone else's point of view, even if only in a limited way.
> The FCC is directed by five commissioners appointed by the President of the United States and confirmed by the United States Senate for five-year terms, except when filling an unexpired term. The U.S. President designates one of the commissioners to serve as chairman. Only three commissioners may be members of the same political party. None of them may have a financial interest in any FCC-related business.

He doesn't "work for" the FCC, he's a commissioner [1], which is a political position for which he was nominated. The role is inherently political and he's there to provide leadership. He's a Democrat, if anything this means he's more likely to find a higher role in the future.

1. https://www.fcc.gov/about/leadership/geoffrey-starks#bio
It is in the AUR (arch-linux user repository). Packages in there are submitted by the community and there is deliberately some barrier to installing them, including requiring that you build them yourself (this is because the packages are not vetted before they are posted, and they could be malicious).
A whole week, if I remember.

Then again, when it’s not enforced and when you know how violent union people can be, you don’t know how long you’ll stay there, and if you will get out alive at all. You only know when it’s over.

What I’m furious about is that the signature should have been considered under duress. It was not.
Oh I see. You’re self-identifying “problems” that your product can solve.
A researcher on twitter recently cracked widevine level 1 quite quickly according to himself. No proof of concept was offered but he seemed to be claiming it was fairly simple. Netflix uses level 3.

The browser has to decrypt it somewhere along the line to play. Always was interested in tinkering around with it.

For a starting point I'd be going through chromium and checking out how they implement widevine.

For a while now there's been rumors in the torrent scene that a few people have broken it, but keep coy in case it gets patched. Then again it's trivial to screenrecord at the cost of time. Who knows?
A Founder's Perspective on Growing from Startup Failure
Turns out Netflix is an evil legacy studio after all!
> You never truly own anything that has DRM, you're just licensing it.

The thing that I hate is that the marketing either explicitly says "you own it", or does it implicitly or indirectly, or in a way to make you think that you do.

They never, ever put in big bold letters "License this game for $69.95, today!"; not even when you actually "purchase" does it say "license". In fact, you see the words "purchase" or "buy" or similar; words that have always connotated "ownership".

Now granted, all software, and media in general, has always been a "license" - but there was always something physical around; that if the company or entity that licensed it to you disappeared tomorrow, you could still - theoretically - continue to use the license you had and enjoy the media as intended.

That all really changed with license keys. One would think that the whole DIVX debacle would have made this abundantly clear, but I guess it didn't (makes me wonder if the DivX media format or whatever it was actually wasn't created purposefully to muddy the waters; but that's just conspiracy theory on my part).

I don't even think people will "get it" if tomorrow everybody who "bought music" from iTunes or whatnot lost their licenses with no recourse. I really don't think there'd be anything done, except for some bawling at most.

If everything we have seen over the years, including the various massive data breaches that have occurred recently, hasn't woken anybody up to force reforms and changes that benefit the citizens and consumers, well - nothing will.

Society has basically said "we don't care if we or our children get slaughtered" - where that last word takes on a wide variety of meanings - up to and including its literal meaning.

Those of us out here being force down the chute screaming about the injustice, the wrongness, the reasons why, etc - we are all just so much noise that nobody cares about anymore.
Kasa AI
Yep, I saw that go by, and a lot of my work is heavily influenced by Andrew Lines. But what I've been seeing is that QDI is really bad at arithmetic because the acknowledgement requirements turn XORs into a nightmare hairball of signal dependencies. But QDI is really good at complex control.
As a passenger do I have choice for not riding a particular aircraft model?
>But, for the last 10 years, I can honestly say that nothing I have done takes any level of advanced computer science understanding that you would learn in school.

I don't work at a FAANG company. We mostly work on boring line of business apps, but I use CS theory every single day. If I take what you say literally, my experience is so different from yours that we might as well be working in different industries.

My guess is that we have different definitions of "advanced" computer science theory, and that you've internalized a lot of what I'd consider computer science theory to the point where it seems like common knowledge to you.

When I went back to school, the programming classes weren't super helpful because I'd already been programming for professionally for 7 years or so. But in every single theory class I constantly discovered much better solutions to problems I'd had in the past, or in many cases I realized that I'd spent a day or 2 rediscovering a solution to a problem that was solved 50 years ago.

There were so many holes in my knowledge that I didn't know were there, and if you'd told me just how valuable having a more complete understanding of CS theory (and hardware) I wouldn't have believed you, but it has been immensely helpful.

>Schools don’t teach what I consider “computer engineering” - how to build a maintain complex system within a team that translate business requirements to working maintainable systems.

They do. I had several software engineering classes that focused on building large projects in a team--estimation strategies, design patterns, how to gather requirements and talk to business people etc...
"It can’t have been strong because otherwise we’d all be Von Neumanns."

But the type of intelligence that secures safety and access to reproductive opportunities is the sort which wages war and waits for the right time to backstab and/or do away with one's rivals.

With agriculture you get the monopolization of surplus resources which greatly increases the rewards for autocratic and oligarchic formations.
> staffed by about a dozen engineers

That's part of the problem. You should be able to leave Reader unstaffed for as long as it isn't strategic (it's not as if borg has trouble keeping the tasks up), but in practice it will randomly fail because somebody in infra went for promo, so every project faces a choice: staff this indefinitely or kill it now.
No doubt every 15% price drop will add at least 30% demand. So the main economic bottleneck is production capacity.
I wonder how much of this is simply cognitive overload. I mean, climate change, crispr, ocean acidification, asteroids... I would guess that most people prioritize dopamine first and foremost.

Software is arcane, so thinking about how it affects society probably seems irrelevant to them. Even if they do care, power dynamics make defeatism a logical and realistic mindset.
They could block that, too. (It won't work on Android and iOS anyway)
So then replacing their guns with toy turrets seems pretty smart. And still funny.

I tried to search for some actual national statistics it couldn’t readily find anything. My suspicion is that some of those BART stations are extremely dangerous environments that put police in very tricky situations.

There have also admittedly been a few very high profile accidental shootings.
That does seem to rather miss the point.

What if you substitute "bounty hunter" for "the private investigator your ex-wife hired". "The stalker who's willing to put a couple of hundred dollars into an internet grudge", etc. At some point you have to realistic that perfectly innocent people can care about their privacy too.
In Seattle about half of school age white kids go to private schools. Half of the largest demographic.

Also, I don't believe that you are more invested in the 90% over the 10% unless the 10% is a group you disfavor -- such as parents who refuse to condemn their children to bad public schools if they can help it.
I use zotero for papers and plain text files in folders for everything else. Dropbox keeps everything synced and I'll definitely be able to open a text or pdf file in 40 years, not too sure about evernote.
Show HN: Maildown – email management using Markdown
I just launched the MVP of my new product: https://www.maildown.app

As a serial hacker, I inevitably get to the stage where I have to use something like Mailchimp or Mailjet to start sending transactional or automated emails. I've never liked the WYSIWYG editors that apps like this offer, as I find them far too time consuming.

This is why I've created Maildown, an email management tool that uses Markdown syntax, which I think make it much quicker to get going.

At the moment, its at a very early stage - the functionality is quite limited and its probably still a bit buggy. However, I'm putting this out there now to see what appetite there is for a tool like this.

Would be great to hear feedback from anybody, and whether you think it'd be of use to you

Thanks,

Chris
James -

For the $$ questions I strongly advise you talk to your sales rep. We will make it simple for you and your scenario. It's great to see real world concepts and we are working to align how you work with how we price. I'm confident we can work something out - no need to try to solve it on your own.

As for the build release process, no - we are not releasing the release engineering pipeline work. But since I'm confident we can get to constructive, affordable commercial relationship with you this shouldn't matter.
I am not aware of Lyft intentionally breaking laws, spying on city officials responsible for enforcing those laws, and lying about and hiding their nefarious behavior. Uber has done all of those things.
Any such scheme would require some objective rules for certification, not dissimilar to what OSI does with licenses really.

I doubt that a scheme that would take this sort of thing into account would be popular, for the same reasons why licenses that try to do that never became popular with the FOSS crowd.
I'm dying to know more information about Google Music. I'm one of the people who uploaded their entire library up there, and while it vaguely exists as a backup of a 20XX version on a hard drive somewhere, losing access to it would be pretty crippling to my every-day listening.

I'm absolutely not interested in a Spotify-like subscription to a revolving library that I don't control; Google no longer letting me listen to music I upload will probably mean that I'm going to have to switch to something otherwise god-awful that prioritizes syncing my own library.

Can't wait to enjoy the iTunes experience of manually syncing music, except from someone even worse than Apple at writing that sort of software. Anyone got any recommendations?
By support do you mean performance/load or array of features/team tools to be effective, support different use cases? Curious what you mean by 20 user cap for Chartio.
In terms of project management, aviation software is one industry where the "three-legged stool" should always, always favor quality, so I'm more than happy to see Boeing take the extra time to get this right. Though the nose-pusher system's entire existence is due to the aerodynamic design of the entire MAX...which seems to be driven by the other 2 legs of the stool (i.e. budget and time).
>I also love my 12 min commute, back yard garden, and walkable neighborhood in a rapidly growing "metropolis" of 1 million that barely existed 50 years ago.

May I ask where you live? Sounds like a dream, but also sounds fairly disconnected from the urban reality that many people face. If the jobs for your industry are in a big coastal city, you'd need to be a multimillionaire for the lifestyle you're describing.
Oh just go ahead an name Facebook.

The irony, is that this pattern at FB and and Big G isn’t indicative of a good engineering culture. It’s pathological engineering.