skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So - real life example where I personally would have benefited from wearable screens.

In another life I was a mailman using a bike.

To do that efficiently you steer the bike with one hand, keep the mail on a tray in front of the bike and deliver it with the other hand as you keep biking.

When I was doing a new area I needed to bring a map to know what way to go.

Having that map be interactive and visual would have been a real benefit to me - it was an A4 sheet that I needed to stop the bike to read. Audio wouldnt have been as good, as I was veering, slowing down and accelerating a lot so the directions would have been confusing. It's a situation where something strapped to my arm would have been a lot more effective - a paper map was too small to strap to the arm, but an interactive map would have been perfect.

Google glass, or a flexible screen would have both solved that situation for me.
That article is just a bunch of prejudices. And I say that as a Dane. I am sure American, French or Spanish programmers think for themselves too and that they also take pride in their work.

First of all, a number of nations in Northern Europe have done well in tech: Dutch (python), Norwegians (css, opera), Swedes (erlang, skype), Finns (linux, nokia) and Brits. What do these countries have in common? They are close to each other, they had strong universities within science or engineering before the computer revolution, they have been wealthy for the past 50 years or more and they speak English as a first language or as a strong second language.

You get nowhere in computer science without a good understanding of English. Virtually all the popular programming languages use English terms, most (all?) articles are in English and almost all documentation and tutorials are in English years before they are translated to local languages (if ever). So it's much easier for an average Scandinavian or Dutch teenager or college student to get into computer science than for an average Italian or Greek.

Oh, and they have all had a generous welfare states for the past 50-100 years so even back when computer science didn't pay well it wasn't so risky to go down that path.
There are way too many negative remarks about this project. It took a lot of effort to share this project with the world. Presenting alternatives projects and arguments against pymux is a direct assault on everything good about open source, python, and our hacker news community.
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Looks nice. I'd prefer higher-order (wrapper) components to extending the component classes though, HOCs are more idiomatic.

Another question, somewhat off-topic. How do people feel about talking to elastic search directly (via proxy or not), versus going through another service layer. The argument for a service layer is providing a cleaner and more stable API for front-end developers. The downside is that elasticsearch has a lot of useful features, and it's hard to imagine an API that's much simpler that exposes them in a useful way, you'd end up significantly slowing down development of front-end search features.

My reason for asking here, is that libraries like this are appealing, but may not fit well with the way more micro-service-y teams approach search.
thanks for your honest reply, good luck with the library!
You're right about nuclear (though, if we can get hydrogen fusion to be profitable, that won't even be stellar in the way that fission is).

Tidal energy isn't solar in any sense. It's harvesting momentum which in turn is generated by some combination of gravity and the Big Bang.

Geothermal energy isn't solar. It's harvesting heat, which apparently comes from three sources: heat from the planet's formation, caused by gravity, heat from friction from deep-interior motion, and heat from radioactive decay. Only the last of these is even stellar, and none are solar.
Is this a self-hosted solution or anything is being sent to the "cloud"? Strangely site's FAQ did not answer this.
More infos:

https://github.com/pddring/cpu-battle-tank/wiki
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Interesting product. Good luck.

I had similar ideas about automatically enriching subscriber / profiler data but ended up not following them any further because behaviour like this is slightly creepy and might put subscribers off.

From your experience how do you alleviate such concerns? Is there a target audience? For instance, people subscribing to industry newsletters professionally might be less privacy-minded than say people interested in information technology subjects.
> I hope there won't be some Library of Alexandria event in the intervening period.

It would take a pretty well-coordinated attack, but you could probably erase the better part of modern Internet by striking a dozen targets simultaneously[0].

[0] - https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/global-infrastructure/
Ok, rereading FAQ found "None of this information ever leaves the Pi" for information in my profile. Still interesting what cloud services are being used, but this probably is on a per-module basis.
Well in that case a normal screen attached to your bikes handle bar https://www.google.com/search?q=bike+phone+holder would probably work better....
Inside+Out+Thought+Bubbles+v1.8.0+Hile+Mod+Apk+İndir-Ferhat+Özal
I remember it seeing in the "Human Edge" of Nat GEO 15 years ago.
IIRC TOR is already slow. I am now sure you want to do this.
I have an opinion on this and will take a shot at it, would be interested to see further discussion. In a recent conference call GoPro's CEO commented that most video shot with GoPro cameras are home videos, not action videos. GoPro may have become less relevant because smartphones can now shoot 4k video at 30+ fps. Why spend $400+ for a GoPro when you have a device that is perfectly good for what you will be using it for already? Yes they're doing VR now but as we've seen from the limited uptake of their 3d kits, that won't be big enough to justify GoPro's valuation.
Seems like you have decent web development experience. I also agree that building an impressive Github profile will take a lot of time. You can always try on freelancing sites . If not, I do have one more suggestion.

1. Look for startups from Angellist or Crunchbase. Pick a couple of them based on your skills. Filter by remote working option. Also checkout https://remoteok.io/.

2. Once you have a couple of companies sorted, check out their blog and see if they have any public APIs available or not.

3. Build something with their public API. It doesn't have to be awesome. A simple working app is also fine.

4. Directly contact the company via Linkedin with your resume and show them the app you have built.

Overall the entire process won't take more than a couple of weeks. Clearing the tech interview is another thing. But I am sure you can get an interview with this approach. Hope it helps.
> I mean, even though I'm pretty crappy at Polish - my only Slavic language - even I can understand a surprising amount of Russian.

As a native speaker of Slovenian, and a passive understander of most southern slavic languages, Russian sounds like people are messing with me. It sounds like I should understand what they're saying, but I really just don't. It sounds familiar and relatable, but it just does not parse outside a few very simple words/phrases. Definitely not enough to even remotely hold a conversation.

It's really quite unnerving.

Same situation as Dutch, I guess. It's so close to a mix between English and German (I'm goot with English, was forced into 4 years of German in high school) that reading/hearing it sounds like I should be able to understand, but it just does not parse.

I hate that feeling.
I think you are looking for T460p
http://www.anandtech.com/show/9889/lenovo-refreshes-thinkpad...
>Think of how limited our tools were just a decade ago.

Not sure what you mean here. What were the limits a decade a go?

Many top programmers still swear by vi(m)/emacs, both started 40 years ago. C is 40+ years olds, C++ is 30+ years old, Python is turning 25, Javascript 20, Rails is 10 years old.

Turbo Pascal, which is over 30 years old, was arguably on par with modern IDEs on very many fronts.

I would say the contrary, there has been very little improvement in the tools aspect.
thanks, looks promising!
837W all day long is 20kWh, almost exactly so I guess that's the figure used. That's roughly double my usage in the UK, and I work from home.

It's ~7300kWh/year, which is a bit lower than the US average of almost 11000kWh (https://www.eia.gov/tools/faqs/faq.cfm?id=97&t=3). In the UK it's an overestimate as we average closer to 4000kWh (chart 3: https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachm...)
Can't much off the electronics be off-board? Given I could buy a Fire, Apple, Roku etc. I've always wondered whether there is a market for just a panel with a single HDMI input.
How does your idea handle situations when a field gets renamed, or simply subdivided? E.g. Newton died long ago, but pioneers of quantum chromodynamics are still alive and kicking.
This was also my takeaway after reading the list. In fact, it might be simpler to write a guide of "here's what you can do and exactly how to do it - with Tor".
mathematical fundamentals

Unfortunately, a lot of real-world programming doesn't have mathematical fundamentals and is instead what I call "information bureaucracy". Some data items go in one side of the system; we sort, collate, bend, fold, spindle, mutilate them and they come out the other. Also called "business logic", although it is often infuriatingly illogical and crammed full of exceptions to obtuse rules.
If you are able to positively identify negative externalities that produce benefits for your company--benefits your company depends on--you shouldn't tread carefully. You should quit your job.

Is there no sense of ethics in our profession?
A $50 color e-ink display (letter size) could replace newspapers and magazines. (The same goes for a flexible display.) Make it dust and water, and people will use it everywhere (bath, beach, restroom, etc.).

I wonder why Amazon hasn't updated their bigger Kindle DX for 6 years? Color e-ink displays that can play small videos at a good enough framerate exist for 3+ years, though no reader devices I know of make use of them.
Here's another helpful story based explanation of encryption.

Comment on the above article by Richard Tucker -
http://debaffle.net/tech-primer-online-services-and-encrypti...
This made my monday.
What is the motive here?

Why would the NSA concern itself with patents, considering its projects aren't intended for commercial use but for national security, are confidential in nature, and are protected by the most powerful branches of government?
Thanks will! We listen :D
> Adding a new syntax that doesn't exist in any language.

Please, even JavaScript (ES6) got itself something similar; implicit string interpolation is not that rare.
This is interesting. As a Polish native speaker I can understand quite well other western Slavic languages (Czech and Slovakian) and I'm not bad with southern Slavic stuff (Croatian etc). But Ukrainian or Russian is quite hard, maybe a word here and there (often with different meaning!).
Interesting. I'd have thought custom sizing would be bad for between-site tracking as it's much more likely to be unique, whereas fullscreen wouldn't have been much of a problem since resolutions are pretty standardised.
It's not quite there yet for consumers, but it will be soon. I've spent quite a while using the HTC Vive, and it really is an incredible experience. The only software available right now are quite short demos, but even those are pretty amazing. Going through the robot repair demo (set in the portal world) is exhilarating and a little bit scary in a way that no video game I've played before has been.

Things like screen resolution (pixels are still slightly noticeable) and weight will naturally improve. The bigger challenge for this type of motion-tracking VR is working out how to build games which take place in a larger space than you have available. It will be interesting to see what people come up with.

Honestly, once this stuff is a bit smaller and lighter, I can't imagine anyone wanting to play games on a TV.
> That we have an entire industry where humans in the past could do anything in freeform (pen and paper) we are now limited to representing that as text only.

So, how do I get pen-and-paper notes from Montana to New Mexico in less than a minute? It's still within one country, no wars are going on in the region, should be easy, right?
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It doesn't seem right if the NSA were to generate revenue by licensing its patents. Any technology that they'd consider monetizing obviously no longer fits the for-national-security-only category and so should instantly be open sourced.

Open sourcing declassified government technology really needs to become a 2016 initiative..
I'd love to have an updated T61 with a 1400*1050 (or a more high-res 4:3 display).
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Thanks, we can look into higher order components for wrapping and overriding blank states etc.

The service layer is purely opt in, and its a thin proxy incase you want to apply permissions, it speaks elasticsearch purely, this is one thing we don't want to change. E.g. our demos actually connect direct to a read only elasticsearch instance
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Not sure if you can drive 4K and above with 3D with 1mm thick screen like LG showed.
They've "cheated" on the demo's the screens were fed with through a flex connector and had only a few still images on them, even the LCD driver is something that would require a bigger package than what you can put on flex today, and those solid state components aren't flexible...

>I've always wondered whether there is a market for just a panel with a single HDMI input.

Checkout the Korean white label TV's and monitors Ebay they use LG and Samsung panels usually come with the most basic features (the vast majority of them don't have a tuner cheaper, and avoids hideous import taxes for most the world) but then again you get a 65" 4K TV for less than 2000$....
e.g.
http://stores.ebay.com/Dream-Seller/UHD-3840-x-2160-/_i.html...
Thank you for that link.

Now to convince management that a 3yo lowish T520 with a ~half-dead~ battery and constant thermal problems isn't exactly the best gear for your developers.. But at least I got time until February, until the T460p ships :)
Definitely can relate. Dutch to me is like - oh, they speak German. No, I don't understand. Ah, it's Danish. No, I don't understand. Gahh!! It also sounds like English, but not really. So I conclude it must be Dutch.
Thanks for the pointer.

It looks promising, except for the keyboard layout. WTF http://images.anandtech.com/doci/9889/T460.jpg

Can we please go back to IBM designed keyboard layout. The T410 had a very good keyboard, I want to keep such an layout :(

I want my keys grouped together not such a mess. The F1-4, F5-F8, F7-F12 keys should be grouped. The Del, Home, Page Up/Down keys should be grouped. I want to be productive, not look at the keyboard the whole time...

Edit: The T410 keyboard looked like this: http://cdn6.bigcommerce.com/s-blhknq8/product_images/images/...
I know what the fifth dimension is!
Line startup debugging, supply optimization. They have loads of orders. I expect them to ramp up very quickly
The best thing imho would be having distros include the noto fonts by default.
It kinda reminds me of holidaying in India - lots of English speakers, and for the majority I'd be fine understanding them (as a native English speaker), but occasionally would stumble.

My wife's sister was there with us, and her English wasn't so great - and yet she understood everyone.

It kinda seems like if you're still learning a language, you know the pitfalls to expect and understand unexpected pronunciations that bit easier.
Bus story was in Japan, no doubt. (Knowing Finland to some extent.)
> It seems like we're talking past each other. I was referring to effects that computers have on the world and our daily life, but it sounds like you're referring to total worldwide computation speed, and how it will change over time.

Interesting, because you seem to be arguing for each other's side. If you look at what we have then yes - for scientific purposes, total computational power has increased enormously and continues to do so. But if you ask what effects computers have on daily life of you and me, then not much has changed in the last two decades. Software bloat, piling up abstraction layers, turning everything into webapps - it all eats up the gains in hardware. Yes, the screens have better resolution and we now have magic shiny rectangles as another interface, but it seems like software only gets slower and less functional with time.

> Yet we're way more powerful today than a mere 4x multiplier, if you measure what we can do.

Scientists? Maybe. SpaceX can run moar CFD for their rockets on a bunch of graphics cards than the entire world could a decade or two ago. Rest of us? Not much, it really feels our tools are getting less powerful with time, and I don't feel like I can do that much more (and if anything, the primary benefits come from faster access to information - Googling for stuff instead being stuck with just the spec and the source code speeds things up considerably).
Ask HN: Do we need a code of ethics?
This is partly inspired by the thread about WTFs becoming normal and accepted.

We are not a well-regulated bunch of people, and I think that is some of the strength of the developer population. Our lack of an oversight committee allows certain innovations to happen that might not.

But I wonder if we need something similar to a doctor's oath. Something like, "First, do no harm."

Harm is a difficult thing to define, probably. Perhaps this ethic is already in place in most people. People who do things that I would consider harmful probably don't think of what they do as such.

But maybe, just maybe, if you had to make a promise to not do harm, perhaps it would at least make you think about the nature of harm.
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I am quite happy with a W541.
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Hah, I always think that Ukrainian is just like Polish, albeit spoken with an Italian accent.

(although I know there are plenty of false friends between the two!)
How is that any different from any other string formatting mechanism?

myquery = sql("SELECT %s FROM %s" % (column, table))
I wish Apple would do the same. Unfortunately there is no MacBook Pro with 32 GB RAM.
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Oh great.

Now we can experience OLED burn-in on our notebook displays, too. And since the thing is freakin' glued together, good luck repairing it.
Explain that to HR drones.

Tooling matters a lot if you want to be doing this for a living.
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WOW! Like it. Thanks for sharing
I bet you took too much of it. I know it comes in 3mg-ish sizes but the correct dosage would be about 500mcg.
Tetrane - http://tetrane.com/en/ | Mâcon, France (near Lyon) | ONSITE | SW engineer & Reverse engineer

We're a small startup building a dynamic tool for reverse-engineers: recording the entire execution of a VM (on a limited timespan) & replaying it on our custom symbolic CPU for manual analysis. The user gets to see, down to the assembly language, exactly what happened on the machine. It's a really, really cool project to work on:

- no such tool exist on the market yet

- we get to have a strong relationship with some of our clients which are at the top of their field

- it's down to earth, down to the metal

- it's all developed on Debian, but we may have to dive into any OS' internals

The kind of problems we face every day look like:

- managing the amount of data we generate & reworking our backend to scale it up

- fixing our emulation engine, extending the x86 support and planning new architectures

- providing insight through new, relevant data visualizations

We're looking for very autonomous software engineers for R&D and UX developments (see http://tetrane.com/recrutement.html): C++ & python, Qt, basic computer architecture knowledge but more importantly a strong, strong ability - and will - to learn.

If you're a reverse-engineer, we need you as well! Basically, we want you to eat our own dogfood and give us bug-reports, insights and visibility :) You'll have the opportunity to help create the next-gen set of tools, you'll have a lot of freedom in what you choose to work on, you'll have time to improve your skills and your network of relations. Working with us could be a very interesting step in your career.

All in all, we are looking for people who are self-driven, creative but rigorous and good team-players. We believe in giving a lot of room in choosing what you work on based on what you perceive as the most urgent, but the whole team must be involved and support your decisions.

If you're interested, shoot us an email at jobs (at) tetrane dot com !

Hope it's not too late to post here, and hope to see you soon :)
Since it's based on Google metrics - what are the stats like for countries where Google is not the most popular search engine? E.g China, Russia and Japan.
FFS: MX records didn't take 20 years to get deployed!

This is crap. After twenty years, none of the problems with IPv6[1] have resolved, and when you get an IPv6 address from some places (hotels, mostly), much of the Internet turns into a unusable ghetto.

There's also zero IPv6 at BT or Virgin Media, two of the largest Internet providers in the UK. We've been hearing we'll get it "next year" for a while, and I'm frankly tired of dealing with the incompatibility.

If IPv6 offered a single user-visible feature it would sell like hotcakes: Mobile IP? IPSEC? All just as optional as with IPv4. Heck, if they even nailed auto-configuration or let multicast onto the Internet at least they'd have some customers.

Instead, it's sold a twenty-year clusterfuck of doomsday predictions about running out of IPv4 addresses, and the experience has been impossible to learn from because (a) it's spanning three decades now, and (b) everyone disillusioned by IPv6 can't come around without losing face.

I'm tired of IPv6 patting itself on the back; This was the worst deployment ever.

[1]: https://cr.yp.to/djbdns/ipv6mess.html
You just made my day. I am able to keep notes for my articles. As a blogger it is just awesome.
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I have definitely noticed that the more time I spend in the US, the worse I am at understanding bad English.

More infuriatingly, I have started making their/there/they're mistakes. I always thought native speakers were just dumb, but damn it, they really do sound exactly the same.
Looks like a tourist that didn't like something about Vietnam and is now making a general case.

I've lived in Hanoi for 8 years so for anyone interested out there, I'll clarify a few things:

- I don't know exactly where this guy went, but there is indeed a "Snake Village" near Hanoi, called Lệ Mật : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%E1%BB%87_M%E1%BA%ADt
Hanoi has expanded a lot since the beginning of the 20th century. Many villages from that time are now part of a large city, but of course we still call them villages for what they used to be. Compare old maps with new maps and you'll see.

- I've been to Le Mat a few times, although not recently. I've eaten the heart a few times, and I've seen with my own eyes that there isn't just 1 place serving snake.

- Sure Hanoi suburbs are not the sexiest place on earth: constructions all over the place, dust, pollution, noise, etc. The traffic is awful at times, like many other cities in the world I guess. That point is irrelevant to the fact that this guy didn't like snake's heart.

Cheers.

PS: French here, pardon my english.
thanks, will fix this today :D
I have a W530 and it looks very similar to this layout (Return key is over 2 rows though).