jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Agreed, but I would give up the micro-locations of having all these buttons throughout my house for a single panel with a half dozen or 10 buttons which are configurable for products I actually re-order pretty regularly (coffee filters, etc.)
That reminds me of the old story of people having a audio speaker connected to the address but of their mainframe so they could detect error conditions by the sounds being made.
Gabe at penny arcade uses an SP3 for his art, but it's mostly Illustrator, I think.

http://penny-arcade.com/news/post/2014/05/23/surface-pro-3
Had a few chuckles, a little disappointing when you see one where it got it right.
You can actually kill with 20V - just stab the copper wire into the thumb of each hand.

20V is fine through skin - too much resistance, but if you push it under the skin the resistance is much lower and it can kill.

You might be able to do it with sweaty skin and squeeze the wire hard. Not certain.

Not likely to happen by accident though.

Also it's enough to cause a burn if you put it in your mouth.
... link?

Word of mouth, for a quality tool, is significantly better than nothing (though probably not where you should stop... others will have more ideas).
The difference being that content posted to forum from a deleted account is still accessible unless explicitly removed - just marked as from deleted user, while Twitter feed or post is not.
Dark Reader for dark/light mode, ublock origin for ad blocking.

I understand you want these baked in, but if they baked every feature everyone wanted into the software, it would become an ugly monolith monster. This goes for Chrome as well as fx.
Dear Apple and Google, please do our job for us because we are understaffed and underfunded.

Signed,

All the LEO that grew fat on anti-terror and surveillance money.
Very few startups have failed because the coders couldn't solve a algorithms problem in 45 minutes. A lot of startups have failed because the coders built something that didn't have a large market, or didn't compete well with existing competition.

The big O of a function matters when you have 100 million users, not so much when you are struggling to get 1 user.
Personally, I'd call a state of the art high speed weapons platform a very animated object. However the reason that I am conflating the person with the technology is because they were. A knight was as much the armour, the horse, the swords and the retinue as it was the person inside the armour. The lesser kings, princes and dukes of the time were more like todays generals. Knights were more like tanks.
The fact that something is illegal doesn't make it wrong, just like the fact that something is legal doesn't make it right. Laws are supposed to reflect ethics, not the other way around. Unfortunately, many of our laws have no relation to what is ethically right, and are used by corporations as billy clubs to batter anyone who causes them the least bit of embarrassment.
I have worked on your 5th point. I have just added a border around the web app area. Will work it a bit more
If your work is an island and you don't collaborate with anyone, that is probably true.
I think what you may have experienced is a different phenomenon related to peer pressuring people to agree with everyone else. I'm not sure that a group of people eating together regularly normally devolves into something that one would describe as "cult-like".
1G costs about $30K if I decide to use my phone in other country, so I'd say that reports about cheap 3G is greatly exaggerated
If you calculate your time, almost certainly no, at least for pan roasting.
Lunch is also a really important part of my job. I run the IT department for a fairly small company (~200 employees).

Going to lunch with people affords me the opportunity to hear them complain about their job. Sometimes, although they might not realize, their complaints are things that I can fix for them. They're my best source of ideas for projects.

"GUH! I keep asking $so_and_so for new $office_supply, but I guess we're out of it, WTF!?"

Hmm...maybe we need an inventory tracking system for the office supplies?

"$so_and_so is gone today, and she is the only one with the $excel_spreadsheet on her computer. It sucks because I can't get ahold of her and I need $excel_spreadsheet!"

Well how can we solve this? Why aren't they using the file server for this stuff?

And so on.
This is something that varies depending on scale.

I work for Google in one of the larger offices (New York). Here we have several cafeterias. You go at anytime (in the meal times), take what you want, eat it there or eat it at your desk.

You can eat with team mates, by yourself, with friends from other teams, with random strangers or whatever.

I love this for several reasons:

1. There is obviously the cost aspect (not having to pay for lunch) but for me this is probably the least important part;

2. It saves so much time. Other places I've worked, going out to lunch means 30-60 minutes for a lunch break. Here you can eat and be back at your desk, if you want to, within a few minutes. Waiting for elevators, waiting in line, etc are all such incredible time wasters;

3. When choosing where to go and what to get for lunch, you're basically asking me to make decisions I don't care about. This I hate. Here I simply choose what cafeteria to go (typically the closest one) and take from the selection. I don't have to decide about where to go, what to get. I simply taken what's (generously) offered.

(3) for me is probably the most important. This one applies to software and hardware too and is (IMHO) one of the key reasons for Apple's success: Apple is unafraid and unapologetic about making most decisions for you. These decisions are right for most people most of the time.

Joel had an old blog post on this (probably the famous "Controlling Your Environment Makes You Happy" one that everyone should read) that said something like this: every option you give someone forces them to make a decision. I would go on to add that every decision has a cognitive cost, which simply annoys the decider if they're deciding on something they don't really care about.

Now, on a smaller scale I can see work lunches being a problem. If you need to be there at a set time, have limited opportunity for mingling or your team is so small that if you don't want to get stuck with someone (eg you don't like them or you simply don't want to talk about work).

So I see edw519's point. On a sufficiently large scale however, provided meals are fantastic.
the DMCA as the law and the practices it established is beyond broken. It is a rare occasion where i'd agree with Facebook approach - there is no reason to invest in the lipstick for that pig. Don't like how DMCA works - write to your representative, or even better - elect a one who'd represent people not the money.
Yes I do.

No, I'll stick with my .com's for my apps. Thanks.
Yes I make those, however, I'd take a .edu for my app, but otherwise I'd stick to .com
I, for one, think this is awesome. Thanks Google!

I'm usually using SkypeOut, but it's great to know that I have a free backup plan always available wherever I have access to a microphone.
Most users who have uploaded videos are probably aware that it isn't available right away, but may not really understand why as far as encoding goes. If that process is sped up by such a significant factor, they don't have to worry about it. The 150x number is at worst misleading if you take Amdahl's law into consideration, but upload speeds really aren't at the mercy of site owners. Improving any part of the pipeline is going to be a big win, especially for video.
> You do realize that NoScript is not "block all scripts", right?

Actually, I didn't. You do realize that the name "NoScript" implies NO SCRIPTS, right? It shouldn't be surprising that many people think it makes your browser execute "no scripts".
Dammit, this kind of comment is why you have all the karma it's physically possible to have.
How many ffmpeg instances are you holding in memory? You have a single ffmpeg process for each upload that is happening, do you? Additionally, if I am uploading files with B-frames and GOPs of 300 (which I assume will lead to a lot of frames being kept in memory, not sure about this), is your RAM requirement not going to be massive if you have several uploads happening at the same time? And considering the length of time a single video takes, it's reasonably likely you'll have a lot running in parallel, is it not?
No,you don't.

I'm really tired of anti-money meme. Why is it so difficult for people to admit that many things in life come down to money?

This isn't about being Gordon Gekko. You could have the purest heart, but it still takes cash to care.

Some are fine with minimalism. More power to them. But I don't want to exist. I want to thrive.

I'm 24. I realized a few years ago that my highest value in life is autonomy. I want to be able to wake up tomorrow, and say "Hey, I've never been to Sweden," and just hop on a plane, without worrying about a small matter called rent.

What if your boss made you miserable every day, but you can't quit because of the mortgage. Is that any way to live? Me? I think I'd rather die.

Albert Camus said it best: It is spiritual arrogance to believe that one can be happy without money. And I'm a pastor's son; so I should know.

I like money. I want lots of it. A million dollars? Pftha! That isn't even what Felix Dennis called comfortably poor...

</rant>
Actually I use a Panasonic P&S with a Leica lens too. Fantastic piece of kit and not too pricey.

I've been using Digital cameras since I first used an old Nikon that took floppy disks (the first camera I bought was a Kodak DC215 that could play MAME roms) and the Panasonic is the best I've had.
This reminds me of when the .mobi domain was described as a threat to the future of the web (http://www.w3.org/DesignIssues/TLD). While Facebook is much more of a thing than .mobi I'm pretty sure the end result will be the same, Facebook will come and go, the web will abide.
Thanks. Learning keyboard controls can be daunting. Your advice on where to start is much appreciated.
NOT just an Indian problem.
Well, it does seem Microsoft was involved in buying some of the IP: http://www.zdnet.com/blog/microsoft/whats-microsofts-role-in...

But notice they don't say what that IP was, so it's not clear if it was Mono-related or not yet. Not sure what MS would do with any Mono-related IP or if they'd really care about it (except for killing it, of course, and I wouldn't think that is their intention).
This is the first release common to iOS devices.
But it used to be that only people in a whitelist of schools could be on facebook, which was a pretty small number of people.
Indeed, that's what I was expecting to see. Now imagine you'd typed "bella" and you saw an empty list. That was Spotify when I gave them a shot.

I might have to try again at some point.
I pity all the uninformed consumers who buy this, or even worse, people who receive this as a gift from those uninformed consumers...
You mean the citizens, because the government doesn't have any money of its own.
This is an amusing tutorial on how to scam users into giving your app more permissions than it needs. Their popup text reads "Heyday would like to access your location Heyday uses your location to journal places you go. It's completely private and secure."

Now compare their privacy policy:

"If location services are enabled on your mobile device, our HeyDay application will passively and automatically send location information to Hey, Inc..."

"Hey, Inc. cannot guarantee your safety and security and you should be aware that submitting any information and using the Services is done at your own risk."

So, in the popup, they claim to take responsibility for the security of location data, but in reality, they're tracking you at all times and don't take responsibility for the security of the data.
As I wrote in another comment, I think there are competing forces within us.
Decades. They're Microsoft.
I have had a good experience using Twilio to handle and route incoming sales and support calls.
One big advantage that China has over India is reliable physical infrastructure (e.g., power, roads, ports). In China when you turn the lights on, they stay on. In India, not so much, unless you're in a private industrial park with its own power source. Although the flip side is that the Chinese have been able to develop their infrastructure at a much faster pace because, unlike India which is democratic, their citizens have much less say about large-scale developments which impact them (e.g., Three Gorges dam).
Develop the discipline.

Do you brush your teeth every morning? If so, how did you develop the discipline for that?

IMO, there's even more similarity between the two. If you skip brushing for a day, you'll have slightly bad breath. If you skip a week, you'll have really bad breath. A month? You're looking at cavities. The longer you put it off, the worse it gets, the effects just aren't immediate.

The same goes for time management. Skipping a day is no big deal, but if you keep skipping, it only gets worse.
So Murdoch's empire gets propped up to the tune of over $300 million per year and needs nothing in exchange except keep sending traffic to his sites.

Bad news for Australia for starters, but don't think Murdoch will be content just with drinking our blood. He's coming for USA and UK too, and now he has a tested playbook for getting Facebook & Friends on the leash.
Hit the nail on he head. You could do that with nearly any group. Coal miners, orphans, community college dropouts, deaf people, whatever. As long as your pool is large enough and you select the top handful out of that pool.
$1 billion doesn't sound like a lot, considering the way Facebook user doom scroll. How much is that per headline+summary viewed? Maybe $0.00001?
It's not accelerating, IMO innovation has stalled quite a bit.

If you compare the speed of innovation between now and 30 years ago, the change is quite dramatic.

There will not ever be a Singularity.
MS should consider including the freetype library instead of Adobe's type manager
In a world where users automatically equate encryption with safety, self-signed should be regarded with skepticism.
I have a PhD in HEP; got it on ATLAS at CERN and contributed to the Higgs discovery analysis in the H->ZZ*->4l channel. I work at NASA and still do particle physics, but a lot of my work is software oriented - anything from scripting to developing data analysis frameworks to web development to fixing legacy code.
Generally true, though you do see it employed in Lascaux cave paintings.
https://archeologie.culture.fr/lascaux/en/perspective

And linear perspective/DoF/foreshortening shows up in Ancient Greek art and the Ajanta caves in India, amongst other examples.

Understanding rules of perspective is an advanced skillset. I’m not sure I’d equate it to raw talent as it’s a learned skill, and once learned may or may not be employed. I’m not sure if the artists in the Amazon rainforest had the skillset and were making a choice to not employ it. Art skills do develop with leisure time and patronage, and in that sense this art was less developed in a broad sense. That shouldn’t take away from it though - they communicated ideas in ways that were recognizable - as you said, their visual language. I find the choices they make in sizing elements of an animal pretty interesting. More to their credit, they survived under extremely harsh environmental challenges and found some time to paint.
You can refer to some of the NSA leaks like “The Find” https://www.washingtonpost.com/gdpr-consent/?next_url=https%...

I’ve seen a demonstration of this (intelligence community heritage museum, it was public it was part of an RF demonstration which also included remotely capturing screen images by listening to a VGA cable and some other cool stuff), the specific mode of operation wasn’t revealed it wasn’t clear if the RF absorbed by the antenna causes enough current to flow to power something in the cellphone which sends out a chirp or if it’s completely passive and measures the RF attenuation changed from an antenna being present.

It wouldn’t surprise me if older 2G phones could be wirelessly powered to some extent I still remember those inductive LED after market antennas for old Nokia phones.
Alternatively even if no logic was powered it might be that there was some sort of a mechanism to deal with unwanted buildup like tying a capacitor that once full discharges back through the antenna which causes it to emit signal, that might be the thing that makes most sense since otherwise you are risking building up enough charge to damage something.
I don’t know what you consider a “serious ISP”, or what serious people do, but I’m confident that 10/10 of the big ISPs have Solarwinds on their corporate network.

The customer facing stuff may be different, but once you own the LAN, you own the company.

Their play was a
cheaper, easier, multi-vendor toolset for enterprise networks. You’d pay half of whatever the Cisco dreck costs, and not need an army of consultants to tend it.

I’d argue that the vast majority of network people do not demonstrate strong Unix skill sets. Windows tools FTW in most enterprises, as dumb as that may be.
How in the world do those have anything to do with each other? Is Uber the peak of human technology?
Because it leads to catastrophic economic crisis and starvation of millions. Anyone with half a mind has known this since the 1930s at least.
Slaves in the supply chain...
True. Bitcoin as currently designed doesn't support the transaction throughput or latency anyways for folks to buy gum, only larger money transfers. (I'm a skeptic, FWIW)

Without the presence of transaction fees though, things would fall apart once the block reward ran out, as asked in the original question.
I disagree about the FBI, they can still make life miserable if they wanted to, just look at Michael Flynn. If the FBI wanted to, they could force Apple, but it wouldn't be pretty. IMO the problem with the FBI vs Apple is that the FBI is afraid of pissing off Apple, because the company has better, wealthier, more powerful friends.
Horizon is developing a good reputation. I haven't tried it yet (I'm a daily Altium user) but keep meaning to give it a whirl.

https://github.com/horizon-eda/horizon
Cellular plans from the major US carriers change every couple months. Throw in all the resellers and you have new plans every week. Describing a cellular plan from 5 years ago is like talking about a 286.
IE11 has a feature, Emulation: Document Mode = IE9. No JS errors, so I assume it's a difference of how the "Document Mode = IE9" fails to actually emulate true IE9. Sorry for the false positive.
This. For some, this is SO hard to understand.
Interesting note. Not only are government pensions officially in trouble, but they also assume that the return on investment for their pension funds are absurdly high, like an 8% annual return. If we take the reported figures and substitute in the risk free rate of return (which is what economic theory says we should use) then the unfunded government pension liability isn't a half trillion, it is 2.5 trillion. (See http://www.intellectualtakeout.org/library/pension-crisis/pu... for those figures.)

Now how are they trying to address this problem? Well many pension funds have been engaging in risky investments, hoping that they will generate the returns they need. But if they fail, they've created a bigger problem. Unfortunately for all of us, a large piece of that investment was private equity funds. Much of which went into leveraged buy-outs that should start going south in a year or two.

For those who remember the history, private equity is what the junk bond kings of the 80s renamed themselves to. Back then the Savings and Loans had a similar need for high returns and invested heavily in them. The deals failed, and we had the S&L crisis.

Same story. Only this time we're talking state and local governments, and the sums are an order of magnitude bigger.
$0.

I'm a veteran with a disability rating of 40% after several deployments overseas. This means I get free healthcare for life through the VA(although my family is not covered through the VA, instead through my wife's employer).

If I didn't have VA coverage we'd have to spend $800/mo for me to be added to my wife's plan. Incurring an extra $800/mo out of the gates would have likely been a non-starter.

That was a significant factor in my ability to step out on my own.

It feels like America is really hamstringing our entrepreneurs by not having a medicare-for-all or some other public option.
I think this is the truth of the world we live in. People want this stuff so bad that they are willing to give away a lot in exchange.

The other component is apathy, many people are just resigned to the fact that they will be surveilled one way or another.

I can foresee huge implications for all of this, it doesn't take much to get from here to using these devices to aid law enforcement. I know the argument is 'if you have nothing to hide... it keeps the kids safe...' but it all smells of a conformist dystopia.

Edit: I have a bunch of Google Homes, I count myself in the apathetic group, sadly.
It's also exactly what Apple is doing in this situation

> The region is now displayed as Russian territory on Apple Maps and Weather, when viewed from inside Russia.
I promise you they are. There's a reason why over 90% of the programs you invoke or interact with on a daily basis are written in C.
I'm the author of Polar - https://getpolarized.io/

Some of this functionality will land in the short term. We're working on adding the following:

- a sidebar for documents with extended metadata (publication year, authors, abstract, etc)

- The ability for notes directly on the document itself. This would give you your 'overview'. Lots of people want to use it as a summary feature. We might actually add a summary field.

- links between the documents and directly to annotations.

... in the longer term we're going to add more complicated full-text search of the documents themselves. My background is search so I want to do this right using Elasticsearch as the backend so that we can add more advanced features like clustering, auto-tagging, etc.

Search is probaby 90 days away I hope. The other features are on the short term. I might actually flag the summary feature a bit higher as a a lot of people are asking for it and it's pretty easy to add technically but I need to work on some UI around the summaries.

Maybe a non-perfect UI is good to get us off the ground.

Oh. I'm also working on adding metadata automatically from documents you upload like author, publication year, etc.

We do about 2x releases a month so dev time is iterating really fast!

If you'd like us to go faster buy premium ;)
What are some good theories on how to break up these over-empowered groups?
the main issue I have with native PDF annotation is that it mutates the file, which changes the hash. I've been thinking about building a collaborative PDF reader (using native PDF toolkits, not pdf.js) that fingerprints the file locally and pulls/pushes annotations to a central repository (either self hosted by individuals, research teams) or globally. Would love to see annotations on popular research papers or textbooks.
Replace marketers with, say, blacks, Jews, or any other minority group...

People aren't typically born marketers, and tend to have a choice about whether or not they stay one.
I'm not arguing against your right to complain that software is bad from the user's perspective. But that wasn't your point. You claimed there was something wrong with the software industry, that their failure to produce better software was in some way related to your original post regarding faddishness in the software industry.

That's what I'm arguing against. I'm saying that you can't know the reasons why software sucks unless you've worked as a programmer (or have some other equivalent way of knowing, e.g. being a product manager).
This would make a great subject for a book, along the lines of NAND2Tetris, starting at the transistor level or below.