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A Saudi woman's iPhone revealed hacking around the world
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This Saudi women's activist - Loujain al-Hathloul, is one of the most courageous people I have ever heard of. She was arrested for driving a car in 2018 and remained in prison till 2021 and she was subjected to severe torture and abuse.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loujain_al-HathloulHer husband is another exceptionally courageous person and it is inspiring to see their cheer and steadfast courage despite all the hardship they face. It is sad to see Saudi Arabia continuing to harass this couple.
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Swedish Radio created fake pharmacy, reveals how Facebook stored sensitive data
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Well done - we need more of testing how big companies handle your data in practice.
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Oracle Suspended My Account
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Why would anyone use Oracle Cloud? The company has proven themselves to be incompetent and useless time and time again.
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Tell HN: The 10-bit timers are about to overflow on September 17th
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Here are a few links. This is the key one. The units with this problem are obsolete and Microsemi has done very little to publicize this. This means you have a ticking time bomb if you thought everything was good because you got through the 2019 rollover. There are a few select models where a return-to-factory firmware update can help you dodge the problem, but it is probably too late to get something turned around now if this is the first you have heard of it. If all you need is a 10 MHz or 1PPS reference, those bits will continue to function. If you need it for NTP, you've got a problem.https://sync.empowerednetworks.com/keep-your-ntp-server-curr...Another link stating "But other GPS receiver manufacturers set a delayed date for the rollover date to occur on – September 18th, 2022". "Other" in this case = Symmetricom / Microsemi.https://www.orolia.com/will-your-network-time-servers-be-aff...
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Demo of =GPT3() as a spreadsheet feature
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As a casual Google user, how do you start developing something like this? Does Google Sheets allow loading custom plugins?
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Tumblr to Add Support for ActivityPub
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Previous brief discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33694096
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Jailbreaking ChatGPT with Dan (Do Anything Now)
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write an email
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US jet shoots down unknown object flying off Alaska coast
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So the Raptor is all about shooting down balloons?
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Finland becomes the 31st member of NATO
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I sure hope for Sweeden's sake that NATO member count is not a five bit integer type.
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In the LLM space, "open source" is being used to mean "downloadable weights"
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The author clearly doesn't understand the term open source as it is used for software in the first place as evidenced by the completely nonesensical diagram [0]. And no, the term doesn't need to evolve even if parasites want to in order to ride of the goodwill fostered by the open source community.[0] https://www.alessiofanelli.com/images/open-models.png
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What's up, Python? The GIL removed, a new compiler, optparse deprecated
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The tenses in the headline and the article are very iffy.It’s more like there will be work to remove the GIL that will start after a particular PEP will be approved.The main reason we are still writing some stuff in java at our shop is because parallel processing sucks with multiprocessing, and trivial in java.I look forward to a future where it as trivial in or even simpler in python.
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‘Baldur’s Gate 3’ Prepared for 100k Concurrent Players, They’ve Gotten 700K
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It’s good, Larian did a great job with DOS1/2 so I expected it would be a great game. I’m surprised this many people are playing it, but maybe Baldur’s Gate and DND are part of why. My only complaint is the combat is a little underwhelming, it feels like there’s less depth than DOS1/2 because of how actions/movement use separate pools instead of unified AP, where better positioning can net you more attacks per turn.
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Show HN: RISC-V assembly tabletop board game (hack your opponent)
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Core War is a game played in a memory arena of a virtual machine supporting a simple simulated assembly language. I first saw it described in a 1984 issue of Scientific American[1]. I had already been programming for 15 years by then and recognized Core War as being inspired by Darwin, an even earlier game developed at Bell Labs.Darwin was created in 1961 and ran on an IBM 7090. In Darwin, programs competed for resources and the winner was the program that reproduced and took over all of the allocated space. It didn't last long because an unbeatable program was developed by Robert Morris Sr. See [2].Software Practice and Experience was one of my favorite CS journals in the mid-70s and it had a frequent column call Computer Recreations written under the pseudonym Aleph-Null. I enjoyed implementing a number of the games described in that column while in grad school. Unfortunately, Software Practice and Experience is an expensive journal, but university students can likely find it like I did in the university libraries. The issues in the 1970s were easy to read and fun, having articles on subjects like pascal compilers, Algol 68, and concurrent programming. That is where I learned about Module[3,4] and later Oberon[5] in articles by N. Wirth.[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Core_War[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darwin_(programming_game)[3] https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/spe.43800701...[4] https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/spe.43800701...[5] https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/spe.43801909...
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Microsoft Defender was flagging Tor browser as a trojan and removing it
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The issue of MDE EP2 is that they roll-out signature-based definitions to all fleets of all customers with what appears to be insufficient testing.This led to a situation where it decided to delete all of the shortcuts to apps, leading end users to believe all of their apps were removed.If there is malware on a machine, it's already compromised and needs to be reimaged rather than selectively, haphazardly repaired through so-called "remediations". There should be no malware on a machine to begin with by disallowing running random software from untrusted sources. Signature-based anti-malware is a last line of defense, reactive security often unable to prevent a machine from being compromised as it already happened.Another issue is that only a fraction of malware ever has signatures for them by either being too new or not widely seen.A final problem is mis-categorizing things as "malware" when they do no harm but do things certain factions of people don't like: remote control, recover passwords, and pirate keygens.
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Hiring Developers: You're Doing It Wrong
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As a former head of HR for three successful start-ups and now as the founder of my own, I (in the words of our former president) feel your pain. I've reviewed 10's of thousands of resumes and interviewed over 1,000 candidates so I know what you're going through.Your points are well taken and insightful - and while they're especially true of technical hiring, they are also applicable for all start-up hiring. A smart person can learn the tech skills you need but it is impossible to impart passion and an intuitive understanding of culture where it isn't already present.I eventually honed my interviews down to one question: "Please describe your most significant team accomplishment, where you were a key member of the team."Then I'd follow that with numerous follow up questions until I really understood the person's role. This will uncover the candidate's passions, communications skills, leadership abilities, and their technical prowess. Then I'd ask the same question about another accomplishment.Good luck. I'll write you a note on the side with my contact info. I'd be happy to talk over any "people stuff" if you'd like.
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Want to Write a Compiler? Just Read These Two Papers.
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I found Peter Sestoft's "Programming Language Concepts for Software Developers" an enjoyable read. The book incrementally builds two compilers - one for Micro-ML and one for Micro-C. The implementation language is F#.http://www.itu.dk/courses/BPRD/E2010/plcsd-0_50.pdf
http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/martinesmann/Teaching-program...
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My job is to watch dreams die
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First world problems....
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Iran Shuts Down Major Websites and Https Protocol
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Any update from Iranian users on the current situation? Are the blockages still in force? I covered this issue for Ars Technica on Friday: http://arst.ch/sg1 and would like to be able to provide an update. Thanks.
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Remove Google Search History Before New Privacy Policy Takes Effect
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There are probably better ways of doing this but I just use Chrome now exclusively for Google services. I don't login to Google on my primary browser anymore. I'm hoping this will limit their stalking a bit. I don't mind if they read my mail since that's the price I pay for using the service but I'm getting a little paranoid about the other things they might be doing. Better to keep it sandboxed away from the rest of my browsing.
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After 244 Years, Encyclopaedia Britannica Stops the Presses
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Hopefully the electronic edition will keep going for the foreseeable future; replacing its effect ourselves would be a real pain. Wikipedia just does not replace it; Wikipedia aims to presents consensus of sources on the web (even when it is broadly acknowledged that consensus is wrong), EB aims to present correctness.
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Googling for "conway's game of life" gives a simulation in the results page
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I am in Malaysia and it doesn't show up in FF or Chrome.
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GNU sed 4.2.2 released, maintainer resigns
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I believe that MIT/BSD/Apache-style licenses are not only better for business but also better for developers and better for users than GPL-ish licenses.If we get to a point where people don't have to make money, then maybe GPLish will be better.I think that in a way the GPL and older code bases are just a less evolved and less practical tradition.If I'm wrong, please explain to me why I'm wrong, because I would like to know.
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Sorry Google; you can Keep it to yourself
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Expecting services to continue forever is like expecting that you will never be laid off.It is a rude awakening when it happens, but it should hardly be surprising for anyone that has been around for a while.
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Stop working so hard
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This makes sense for most of us.But if you want to be the next Mark Zuckerberg, Bill Gates or Elon Musk, do you work smart but not that hard or do you work smart and work hard like they did?
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Programmer Creates An AI To (Not Quite) Beat NES Games
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The only winning move... is not to play.
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Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2013)
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London UK: Red Badger - http://red-badger.comWe're a creative software workshop working on the leading edge of tech. We've been implementing Node.js projects for enterprise size clients for 2 years now. Our team is the perfect balance between creative and tech. Our UX people understand the technical limitations of what they are designing. Our techies understand UX. Everyone sits side-by-side and they talk, solving complex problems together.We're passionate about providing value to our clients. We use agile processes such as Scrum and Kanban to deliver quickly. We use lean startup principles to innovate, failing fast & failing cheaply.Most importantly, we have strong opinions, weakly held. We're always adaptable to new ways of working, new technology and new ideas.At Red Badger our tools are chosen to fit each project, not the other way around. We are technologists, geeks and polyglots.Technology doesn't stand still and neither do we. On a regular basis we get our whole tech team together (developers, testers, agile project managers) and review all the tech we've used across all our projects to derive what's hot and what's not in our world of tech.Far from an exhaustive list, you can find the results of our most recent Tech Round Table with our favourites on our website: http://red-badger.com/services/tech/.We're currently hiring into the following positions:
* Technical Architect - leading interesting new projects across multiple enterprise clients. http://red-badger.com/about-us/join-us/senior-developer-tech...* Software Engineer - Working on the cutting edge with multiple languages, for enterprise clients. Strong Node.js or Ruby, JavaScript, HTML5 required. http://red-badger.com/about-us/join-us/software-engineer/* UI Developer - Working on interesting new Responsive Web Design projects across multiple enterprise clients. Strong HTML5, CSS and Javascript required. http://red-badger.com/about-us/join-us/user-interface-develo...The full set of job listings you can apply to is at http://red-badger.com/about-us/join-us/
You can also email us directly at [email protected]
Our stackoverflow page is here:http://careers.stackoverflow.com/uk/company/red-badgerWe have won a few new key accounts so are looking to expand our team. Quality is of the upmost importance however. We will not hire for the sake of growth. We only hire great people.
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Read less HN
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You forgot "I want something to read while building, so hey what does hacker have to say."
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A Programmer's Guide to Data Mining
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As of January 5, 2014, the pdf for this book will be available for free, with the consent of the publisher, on the book website.
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On Hacking MicroSD Cards
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r3GDPwIuRKI is one of the recordings of the talk. CCC will have others in free formats, if you prefer
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Hacker News down, unwisely returning HTTP 200 for outage message
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ah. this explains why HN has been telling me it's down for 2 days now. had to open it in incognito to realize it was a cache issue.
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Memories of Steve
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This story says more about the insecurity of the Safari guy than it does about Jobs.Sounds like people at Apple spent too much time worrying about what Steve thought of them, whether he'd remember their names or invite them to meetings.While everyone is worried about what one man thinks, the man himself was thinking about design and business issues, trying to solve problems.Funny how bookmarks was never really solved in Safari. On my iPad, I hate the bookmarks functionality, it confuses me pretty much every time. When I try to find a bookmark, or add a bookmark, every time it seems I have to "figure out" and remember how to do that. It's not intuitive or snappy. And now with iOS7 flat design, all your bookmarks and history appears as one big list - black text on white background. The lack of interface delineation mean elements bleed into other elements and make it harder to mentally remember where things are found.If Steve were still around, he'd be kicking someone's ass over the half-baked iOS7 flat design.
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Marking HTTP as Non-Secure
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HTTP is not always insecure. Some environments (eg: LAN), can have network-level security (eg: IPSec).
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Securing Email Communications from Facebook
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This sounds like another completely pointless PR stunt to fool people into thinking Facebook gives a shit about their privacy.
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Major Flaw in Android Phones Would Let Hackers in with Just a Text
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Just a_text
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Netflix Switch – dim lights, turn on the TV, order food, and silence your phone
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Others have mentioned the Flic and Amazon's Dash buttons. Here's the one I'm most excited about, which should (when they have an IFTTT channel) make things like the Netflix Switch doable for non-nerds: http://www.dropletlife.com/
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A global movement to ban urban billboards
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People dislike pervasive advertising because it becomes clear that you are a pawn in the game. This grates, consciously or subconsciously. The dissonant suspicion that you're a bit-player in a game from which you derive no benefit (while others gain massively) underpins sentiment in a number of recent threads: the role of universities [1], the influence of money on research [2], motor vehicle emissions [3].We don't like being played for fools, and some of us feel that pervasive advertising does exactly that.But what of the "benefits" of advertising? Free access to content, for instance.Well that's only "free as in beer". Ad-funded content on the internet, or in print, confuses "free as in beer" with "free as in speech". It assumes that if I can get something for free, then I'm happy to exchange it for something else; that I'm happy to accept content in exchange for my attention being drawn to goods and services that want my money.Personally, I'm not happy with that. I never opted-in, and I can't (easily) opt out.Billboard advertising is irritating because of exactly this reason: no opt out.People who disagree (or simply don't sympathise) with my sentiments probably feel happy to exchange their liberty for advertising. Fair enough -- I don't wish to persuade or disuade. I would, however, like the capacity to make my own choice.People who think we do have a choice -- it's very, very limited. It seems that every square inch of publicly-visible surface in major cities could be scooped up by advertisers. Risers on staircases; LED billboards on top of taxis; it's getting ridiculous.[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10372181[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10372446[3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10354127
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Economic Inequality
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Polyamory and open/alternative relationships gaining acceptance is yet another example of this fragmentation. The expectation up until now is that you need a single "vertically integrated" partner that satisfies most of the partner roles in your life. More and more people are starting to realize that this is a compromise between time and satisfaction. With a single partner, you get a lot more of their time, but the likelihood that they will be satisfactory for all of the roles partners typically assume is less likely. There are two reasons for this that I can see.The first is that we are less and less likely to share extremely similar upbringing with others such that it is easy to find someone who is largely on the same page. When people were born, lived and died in a small town or city and the internet didn't exists, two people from the same place likely have a LOT in common. Now, everyone is shaped by the information they encounter and experiences they have, and at no time in history has there been as much variation between people than now.The second is that our sexual and romantic tastes are fragmenting and we demanding greater satisfaction in both breadth of tastes and depth of tastes. People want to have the same level of satisfaction from the romance and sex parts of their lives well beyond the honeymoon period, and when a single partner doesn't or can't meet the variety of needs you start looking elsewhere to satisfy them. The difference is now that there is acknowledgement of this greater fragmentation in sexual and romantic needs, giving people the position to be more transparent with dialogue surrounding it. There is also a greater acknowledgement of enthusiastic consent between all partners involved in an act as being important. This focus on consent means that you don't try to make someone participate in something they don't desire to participate, thus you need to find other partners that reciprocate for those sexual or romantic needs.
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Amazon Echo, home alone with NPR on, got confused and hijacked a thermostat
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That is a serious security issue
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Microsoft Sues Justice Department Over Secret Customer Data Searches
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I thought I'd repost the lawful spying guides by the biggest cloud service providers [1] (including Microsoft). There's a great one from the Hotmail era I couldn't find on a whim though.1: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11504068
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Bitcoin 'creator' backs out of Satoshi coin move 'proof'
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Perhaps he was simply clued to some seriously bad consequence of proving his ownership of the Satoshi hoard.
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Nintendo Developer Portal
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I signed up.
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Noms – A versioned, forkable, syncable database
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How does this compare to gun.js.org?
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A Look at How Traders and Economists Are Using the Julia Programming Language
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just like pandas in python, I want to give a quick impl in go lang for my backtest strategy system.
now it is open sourced in github: https://github.com/qingtiandalaoye/GoDataframecould anyone give a performance test of it?
many thanks
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How to Hide $400M
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i'd just pack my stuff and leave the country the second i'd transferred the money offshore.once you're a resident of another country you only have to share your wealth with the country you move into.
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Yahoo SEC Filing: Name change to Altaba Inc and director resignations
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Probably shouldn't laugh at the new name, but "altaba" really sounds like "ali(baba)'s father" in Chinese...
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Weapon physicist declassifies rescued nuclear test films
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They used cameras that could do 15 million frames per second:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KQp1ox-SdRI
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rapatronic_camera
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Show HN: Colormind – Color schemes via Generative Adversarial Networks
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Really great idea, and very practically useful! Thanks for sharing.
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Thirteen Years of Bad Game Code
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The only way to not make any mistakes, is to do nothing.
As Nike says: Just Do It!
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I spent 29 years in solitary confinement (2010)
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and there is even worst: here exceptional testimony of Madagascar's thirty years imprisonment in a recent very book (french only, unfortunately) I suggesthttp://www.plon.fr/ouvrage/la-sentinelle-de-fer/978225924354...
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Netflix Originals: Production and Post-Production Requirements v2.1
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Can anyone break this down a bit for the lamen. What's the ACEs pipeline? Frame chart, power windows... And more?
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Microsoft Paint to be killed off after 32 years
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MS Paint is here to stayhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14845225https://blogs.windows.com/windowsexperience/2017/07/24/ms-pa...
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Flash will be EOL by 2020
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Comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14848786, which has the original source and was submitted a bit earlier.
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Alibaba is leading a $27M investment in MariaDB
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Just looked through the Crunchbase profiles of a few Western SQL/NoSQL database companies, and I did not see any Chinese investors. This investment will certainly give MariaDB a significant competitive advantage in China. It will be interesting to see if other startups follow their strategy.
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Tensorflow sucks
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Tensorflow does do really well when it comes to serving models in production. Tensorflow serving or TensorRT 3 are fairly throughput efficient and low latency. PyTorch, for instance, does not have a good serving solution (I guess that's where Caffe2 is useful)
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Reaching $10k monthly revenue with WakaTime, my SaaS side project
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It is funny to see this post. I started to use this product three days ago. A friend told me about it (word of mouth). It is great. I use RescueTime since 2013, but the WakaTime product has complementary features.
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A Dark Room: From Sabbatical Year to $800k
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- 215k$ in savings after game had succeed, according to the graph in the article- managed to spend in few yearsThere's plenty of decent countries where you can live off this sum for decade, at least, and have much more dice rolls.
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Announcing Go Support for AWS Lambda
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What about Ruby.. ?
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The Long, Slow Decline of BitTorrent (2017)
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In order to have torrents, someone has to buy the DVD or BluRay. If fewer people are buying that stuff, there are fewer torrents. Could be a factor? Only takes one person though for a given movie.There is a trend now that the encodings are larger. A 110 minute movie can be anywhere from 5 to 10 gigabytes or more in full high def. Sometimes you can find newer movies in smaller sizes; sometimes not.Downloading and storing that is inconvenient compared to streaming. It takes longer; less powerful mobile devices don't decode the large stuff very well; you may get skipping if you happen to view these huge downloads over shitty Wi-Fi in a crammed airspace.An 0.8 to 1.5 gig download is still a reasonable alternative to streaming.I was traveling back in January and crammed 16 movies into as many gigs of free space on the 32 gig SD card on my tablet for watching on planes and in hotel rooms. I did that by running almost each one of them through ffmpeg to get the bitrate down. In some cases I tweaked the resolution. In one or two of them, I re-coded the audio to a lower bit rate (256 kbps to 128: it wasn't a musical movie, WTF!) Almost no perceptible loss of quality; all perfectly watchable.Pain in the butt to do that, though!Basically, I have this theorem that two hours of a perfectly watchable movie with good sound do not require more than around 1.5 gigs of H265+AAC data. When I see larger sizes, I tend to become kind of reluctant to pull the download trigger.
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Belgium declares loot boxes gambling and therefore illegal
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Great stuff, let them get back to game mechanics.
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Actix: a small, pragmatic, and fast Rust web framework
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I really love seeing rust making progress. It's a fantastic (with slightly ugly syntax) language that I want to learn. :)
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Extracting the private key from a TREZOR with an oscilloscope (2015)
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Tell me again how we're supposed to be competent enough to run our own banks, and that as long as we never make a mistake reversing transactions are not a needed feature...
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I Quit My Job to Live on Donations to Zig
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Eh, it says he's getting $720 per month? Won't last long on that...
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Why ActivityPub is the future
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My buzzword antibodies have been circling "federation" for quite a while, but the email analogy in this article has made me reconsider.Ever since quitting social networks I've been looking for a way to push content to close friends and I really had to fall all the way down to email before anything worked. So I'm hopeful for some slightly more tailored technologies to step in.
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Fukushima’s nuclear signature found in California wine
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A similar example of how sensitive measurement tools are: wine from the Livermore area is slightly higher in tritium than wine from elsewhere in California, ostensibly because of proximity to LLNL.https://books.google.com/books?id=nAgxAQAAMAAJ&pg=RA2-PA63&l...
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Security Researcher Assaulted Following Vulnerability Disclosure
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Wonderful man, this Jessie Gill.https://www.leagle.com/decision/infdco20180828d81
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PureOS is convergent
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Looks like somebody found a new buzzword.
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Wipe and reinstall a running Linux system via SSH (2017)
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"you know you want to" Okay, I'm in.
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Unraveling the JPEG
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This is an amazingly well done article! The writing is very clear and the interactive elements are fantastic in explaining the concepts. Really impressive and it was great to demystify how JPEGs work, I had a vague idea but the details are fascinating. Would love to see another one of these about MP3!
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Cities: Skylines Is Turing Complete
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Idea for the sci-fi story: after the civilization collapse, the only computing device that has survived is an arcade machine, with a difficult game that accidentally is Turing complete. People need to program it, so they can use the results to reboot the power/transportation/medical equipment/etc.
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People Simply Empty Out (1986)
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So I knew hacker news was a place to go for tech stuff. But... HN denizens, you have now officially impressed me with your interest in literary matters. (but don't get a big head, impressing me is sometimes not that hard.)
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Is Perl 6 Being Renamed?
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Suggestion for rename: Pearl 1
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What Happened in the UK Blackouts?
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CityAM published a really interesting article about this https://www.cityam.com/what-was-behind-fridays-national-grid...
It certainly fits the given explanation
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Let Children Get Bored Again
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Discussed at the time:https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19069312
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The Church of Interruption
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Or everyone could just stop being a little bitch about everything 24/7.
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Google's ‘Project Nightingale’ Gathers Personal Health Data on Millions
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I've seen past instances of articles like this getting flagged here - possibly by a large amount of Googlers/ HR? I'm glad this didn't occur (yet).
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"This community is available in the app"
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/watchredditdie
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Shelter in place for Bay Area counties
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It worries me that this is not directly addressing the obvious issue of people who will not be getting paid for 3 weeks needing to pay rent(not to mention food and other living expenses). Will this need to be handled at the federal level? What are the options? If it doesn’t get addressed soon the words “rent strike” are going to become louder and louder.
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We called it RAID because it kills bugs dead
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im a CMVC man myself
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Lead-Free Solder Is Better for You
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SN100C is finally a thing but it's really hard to give up 63/37
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AWS services to avoid
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Summary of the article's recommendations:Don't use:
- Cognito (authentication). Because: on mobile social login it isn't native. Instead: use Auth0, OneLogin, Okta or roll your own- Cloudformation (programmatically configure AWS). Because: various complexities. Instead: use Terraform.- ElastiCache (managed Redis). Because: expensive. Instead: run Docker Redis in EC2.- KINESIS (queue), as a general-purpose data queue. Good for: streaming data such as video processing/uploading. Bad for: generic data queue, because its's difficult to route each event in the queue to one of multiple workers. Kinesis is meant for every listener to be assured to get the entire stream. Instead: SNS/SQS (SQS FIFO) or a queuing framework that sits on top of Redis or traditional databases.- Lambda (server-less), to implement a REST API. Good for: Serving/Redirecting requests to CloudFront, also reacting to events from SNS or SQS by running small asynchronous tasks. Bad for: replacement for REST API endpoints, because it's too hard to work with a zillion lambdas. Instead: use a regular web framework (or, other commentators say, route all requests to one lambda and then do more routing within than lambda)I do not agree or disagree, I'm just summarizing; although I did add in some information from other comments here, too.
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US customs and border protection is flying a surveillance drone over Minneapolis
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There's some insane shit happening in Minneapolis but using an unarmed drone to get a better picture of an unfolding riot doesn't seem...that weird?
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Thousands are monitoring police scanners during the George Floyd protests
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Anybody else having issues downloading one these scanner apps from the Apple App Store? I seem to be encountering an error I’ve never seen before...
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Zoom Earth: Website lets you look at live satellite photos of earths surface
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Very cool. Always amazed at how much cloud cover there is. Using Google Earth and maps, you forget about that.
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Why Did Mozilla Remove XUL Add-Ons?
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As a developer, APIs changing and going away is a part of life. Apple deprecates APIs on macOS and iOS all the time. Even the concept of porting from an older to a newer OS is quite common.Everyone rewrote DOS applications for Windows 3.x, then Windows 95, then Windows NT; Everyone rewrote applications for Apple II, MacOS classic, then OSX.But, when I read this article, it exposes a clear need for powerful 3rd party browser APIs; even though the API may change between browser releases. (This, BTW, is what happens on Mac. If you develop a MacOS application, every year or so you need to tweak it.) Also, there's a clear need to install 3rd party plugins that can do things to screw up the browser. (This, BTW, is why desktop computers let you install whatever you want, and why you can sideload on Android.)
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2,000-year-old redwoods survive wildfire at California's oldest state park
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Original article: https://apnews.com/ce2946afbc66040260cc76ffbbe744caThe nbcnews.com site refuses to show content in Firefox Focus on mobile.
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Modern C
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The ##C freenode channel's webpage has a great list of books as well:http://www.iso-9899.info/wiki/BooksI like that it includes books to avoid, and ideas for further topics.
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A Short Story for Engineers
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the line worker that came up with the idea probably didn't even know that engineering was spread thin and external firm was hired to find solution. Even if he did, his idea would have been thrown out.
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Facebook is a monopoly that buys, copies, kills competitors: antitrust committee
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Yes, but also "Facebook gives us all the info and leverage we need about everyone : three letter agencies."And that's why nothing will happen to Facebook.
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Facebook Messenger, Instagram and WhatsApp Outage
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Curious, do these outages affect Oculus users too?I am so looking at VR in the near future but crap like this rules certain products right out.
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Ask HN: Co-founder wants me to leave but won't entertain a buy out offer
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Just don't sell then. What they gonna do, they are bound contractually.If they try something fishy like getting toxic, abusive, etc and still doesn't want to buy out, I'd just blow the server on them, which, along with the entire code base, had no working backups uNfOrTuNaTeLy, then spin up a company two months down the line under a shell company that is registered via lawyers and doesn't have your name on the public papers.
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Spotify is letting employees work from anywhere while paying SF and NY salaries
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I find it absurd that wealthy Tech people are making decisions on where to live based on the financial value proposition.People in Tech are rich enough to comfortably live anywhere. Surely, the lifestyle and character of a town/city/country plays a much larger role in where you choose to stay. Life in cheaper cities in the interior is very different from that in massive cities like SF/NY/London/etc. No amount of money can fix life in the wrong location.On HN, the Remote vs Local argument often ignores critical advantages of a local setup. Over 1 year of remote work, I haven't been able to replicate the magic of physical work a single time. This is while having an social workplace that has really tried to make people feel included.This may sound like heresy to some but, if I am going to be spending 50% of my waking time with a dozen people, then I would want to be good friends with them, and remote work certainly doesn't make that easy.____________I also don't buy the flexibility argument of remote work. It requires a lot of discipline and deliberate action. All of my acquaintances (all single, wealthy and in tech) have increased their working hours during Covid, due to unclear expectations around remote work. None have used this freedom to travel or fulfill their 'live in a cabin' or 'digital nomad' dreams. (ofc, it is challenging to fulfill these during covid).Now let be clear. I love the idea of companies letting their employees choose what's best from themselves. But, there is a feeling in the air that remote work will be the norm for effective teams after Covid. I have feeling these people will be in for a rude awakening.Offices are most effectively leveraged by the 90-99th. Those who are doing productive work that needs focus, but not deliberately effective enough to make in the '1' Percentile. (don't read too strongly into the numbers). The structures lent by the office are most useful to these people. Those who are smart enough to use structures to improve, but not smart enough to not need them at all. The bottom 0-90 percentile are often in jobs that 'require' a physical presence (chefs) or ones that are mundane enough to be done from any location. (excel table filling)
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A lost tourist who thought Maine was San Francisco
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Never heard about about that airline, although I flew from Germany to the US more than once only few years later. I would also have claimed that no way there was a direct flight from Frankfurt to Bangor.However the airline existed and served Frankfurt: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_AirwaysSo probably even the weird connection existed. The Spiegel article from 1977 is online, if you want to read it in German https://www.spiegel.de/spiegel/print/d-40736384.html
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ShellCheck: A static analysis tool for shell scripts
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There is a plugin for intellij based IDEs. The first thing i install on a new installation alongside IdeaVim (which is the best Vim emulation IMHO)
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Groove Pizza
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This was so much fun and so easy to have a play around with. I found it to be incredibly intuitive - as someone who isn't musically talented but is curious enough to just try stuff outAfter trying out the "rock you" special beat, I quickly managed to make what I think is a common rock drum beat - what I would describe as: dum ch dadum dum ch. Then while that was going, I started playing around with that beat - different variations of it, without pausing it at all. It kinda sounded like I was jamming! I carried on playing with it while it was playing the beats and had quite a bit of fun changing the beat and making a drum solo. Unfortunately I was just changing that one pizza - would be cool if you could set it to record it as you change the pizza. I went back and made a cool beat with four pizzas so I could share it here :)https://apps.musedlab.org/groovepizza/?source=pub&museid=3ge...
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What it's like to be cancelled
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The sad thing about it that most of his attackers also want more men to come forward and admit their wrong-doings. Their reaction will men only more reluctant to admit anything.
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Software estimation is hard – do it anyway
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The first major problem with estimates is that there no good requirements. If you don't know what you have to build, it is pretty nonsensical to give out estimates.
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Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2021)
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BioTrillion | Full-Time | Remotehttps://www.biotrillion.com/jobsBioTrillion is a healthtech startup developing a digital biomarker platform to detect neurological diseases using computer vision/machine learning. Our mission is to enable ordinary consumers to take control of their own health outcomes using their smartphones. We're a 3 year old company with a very small, all-remote team (4 as of today); we're about to close a new round of funding to help us rapidly scale and grow.Roles:
* Jr./Sr. Computer Vision/Deep Learning engineers
* iOS/CoreML engineers
* Business and technical interns.The jobs page on our site says we're looking for 7+ years of experience, but that's only for senior roles - we're absolutely hiring junior devs too, so if you don't have that much experience please apply anyway.
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Tether executives said to face criminal probe into bank fraud
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that's interesting story. this is quite huge and I think that could be crucial to tether and its reputation i wonder if the companies that accept tether now (like those mentioned here https://nowpayments.io/blog/businesses-accepting-tether) will continue to do so? what do you think
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From stolen laptop to inside the company network
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This sort of thing is a reminder that your internal network should be kept as clean and secure as possible. Perimeters (physical or virtual) are nice but they're only a first line of defense.So many people have this mental model of a castle with a moat and inside the network it's unpassworded database servers and control panels, the same default password everywhere, etc.
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Launch HN: Slip (YC S21) – Build and sell interactive programming courses
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not able to open it
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