skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> They have a lot of flaws, but every proposed JS- or wasm-based replacement for them that I've seen has been significantly worse.

I'm a fan of Gopher and Wikipedia mobile.

http://gopher.floodgap.com/gopher/gw.lite

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/?mobileaction=toggle_view_mo...

HTML and CSS are not bad. The problem (for me) is the lack of diversity in the layout engines. It can be explained by the complexity of the standards. It's near impossible to create a new browser from scratch (that can display modern websites).

BTW people can't choose something else because there is nothing else and every computer has a web brower. It's more a monopoly.
I think you and I must be looking at different 2016 Webs. In the one I see, content is increasingly locked up in closed, proprietary and/or centralised systems. In the one I see, standards don't matter much any more because there are no usefully stable browsers anyway. In the one I see, one browser is rapidly becoming so dominant that the existence of several others that were formerly influential and competitive is all but irrelevant for many web development projects, just as happened in the days of the IE vs. Netscape browser wars.

We all know how this story ended last time. And yet, here we are watching it all over again and most of us are powerless to do much about it. For all the superficial openness of the modern Web, the reality is that it is now utterly controlled by a small group of browser developers, a small group of centralised content hosts, and a small group of curators, several of which overlap with each other but almost none of which have goals that necessarily align with those of either the average web surfer or the average small content producer.
Ask HN: What has been your experience working at a large consulting firm?
Awesome Chrome Devtools
My favourite book of all time actually, deeply recommend :-)
To me, it seems the trend is to ditch both the app and the browser, and just provide a web api that can be used with anything that supports http.
gitlogs

Where git = github

Looks great though! Already found something sweet.

Another feature request, can you add an up/down trend indicator?

Can I ask which peak detection algorithm you used?
Yes - aside from the inevitable LOVINT abuses, it seems likely that this will end up compromising even more sources and methods.
A Brief History of Time (2016) [video]
Your definition of robotics is similar to one I've heard for artificial intelligence. As soon as AI works for something, it's renamed (machine learning, computer vision, natural language processing, etc.)
Is Silicon Valley Now Starter-Ville Instead of Stay-Town
A well-architected monolith is better than a spaghetti of mis-designed microservices. Microservices don't reduce complexity, they /can/ help manage it better, but only past a certain scale, as the article points out.

They do help achieve better mean time to blame / mean time to innocence, which is important in some organizations.
What I perceive as the good bits of BART could be replicated on Caltrain with much less effort than replacing Caltrain with BART: the off-peak timetable. Caltrain does better for longer trips in my (limited to South Bay) experience, which makes sense since Caltrain average trip length is 1.5x to 2x longer than BART's. But overall, getting improvements seems much less technical and more political, and neither system seems to have much luck.
Can you downvote replies in threads that are locked? Can collaborators delete these reactions like we would with comments?

> Have feedback on this post? Let know on Twitter.

Not everyone uses Twitter. It would be awesome to give feedback using the one account I'm guaranteed to have: a GitHub account. Otherwise I have to ask my question on HN...
I think that Netflix is rocking it with their original ad-free content more than anything. The movie catalog? It's awful most of the time. I don't care for most of the documentaries, C-rated "mock busters," and direct to video flicks. But the original shows? Awesome.

We use Hulu for more current stuff and more recently, their movie offerings. I have a weird job schedule and being able to binge watch on my iPad during downtime is fantastic. The price is decent too. I also have an HBO Now subscription and I like some their original shows besides Game of Thrones. It's a little more pricy, so just out of principle I find myself checking there first when I want to see a movie.
It's time to shut down the NSA for good.
Where I live the $5k chips and up are tagged. Or they were, ten years ago when I stopped playing. They may all be tagged now.

Casinos have cameras at the cage, and beyond that cash transactions in a casino have the same reportability as cash transactions everywhere. If it's in the US that means IRS paperwork at $10k. I have no idea what the limits are in the Philippines, but I'll bet they have video of the people who collected the money.
Even for Trump?
MIT Media Lab and MIT Press Launch Journal of Design and Science
In particular, other viewers often display zero-width lines, which is annoying for colormaps. Those can't safely be saved as bitmaps without oversampling either, as not all viewers can be made to avoid interpolating.
Show HN: A Chrome Extension to Replace Pictures of Trump with Nicolas Cage
Milankovitch cycles
OneModel - "atomic knowledge", or a new way to manage knowledge by looking at it differently. The vision subsumes essentially all KM & notetaking etc products, and the current iteration is a text-mode bare AGPL3 app that I use every day (no mobile support yet, other features still in the pipeline...).

Hopefully explained at the site "About" link and its links (if not let me know!): http://onemodel.org

(ps: I'd love to talk about funding etc.)
Do you only accept plain text?
I used to be with OVH, but now my servers are with online.net and I see what you are saying.

If I had a startup - i'd have a few of these servers as the baseline, then i'd scale up with AWS. I assume i'd be using Kubernetes for this or something similar. Basically i'd be using the cloud for what it's supposed to be - taking the extra load off.

Does anybody do this?
Does that mean that if my car breaks down, it turns into a robot?
"Making strange" is a popular pedagogical technique in architecture (a highly formalistic activity). For example, students on a field trip to a site will construct a "device" which they will use to examine/measure/represent some conditions on the site. It's a way of both getting started with the making of an object, and of more closely engaging with the environment, hopefully prompting an inventive architectural response. Shklovsky is a common point of reference.
BART tried to, but IIRC San Mateo county unwisely pulled out of the project back in the early days. Part of the reason that it took ages to get BART to Millbrae. That Daly City - Colma - SFO extension took way longer than it should have.
To which Chesterton would reply, "We can thank God for beer and burgundy by not drinking too much of them."
Never thought I would learn from Steve Harvey, but hear his talk on 'jumping'
"new nonprofit organizations should not think all that much differently than their for-profit peers when it comes to growth. [...] Even if you are a solving a big problem, you must find a way to measure it in real time"

finding a cure for leukemia is not the same as writing a chat app.

solving truly big problems -- such as the example the article mentions: curing a disease -- requires large swaths of time, deep thought, reflection, curiosity, imagination, hard work, more had work, and then even more hard work . . . and it also means giving people room for that hard work to consist of exploring rabbit trails, failing, and hitting dead ends. such endeavours cannot properly proceed and unfold as they should in the kind of growth-and-metrics-obsessed, MBA-ideology-driven, strait-jacketed environment such as that which this article is proposing.
I would love to use W10. I just don't support MSFT's new business model. I want the OS to be the product, not me.
Xen is worse than Linux in terms of quality, and therefore security. That Linux is much bigger doesn't make Xen any better.

What de Raadt means to say is, generally speaking, you can't build security on top of bad code. No amount of patching, sandboxing, or whatever will help. Security comes from quality and Xen (like Linux) is very lacking in quality.
In modern CSS we have even more ways to do this, specifically many values of "transform:" will also create a new context.
There is a lot of info here [1], summarized here [2]. Probably of the most interest to most people is "Improved Train Performance, Increased Ridership Capacity
and Increased Service: Electrified trains can accelerate and
decelerate more quickly than diesel-powered trains, allowing Caltrain to run more efficiently. In addition, because of their performance advantages, electrified trains will enable more frequent and/or faster train service to more riders".

[1]http://www.caltrain.com/projectsplans/CaltrainModernization/...
[2] http://www.caltrain.com/Assets/Caltrain+Modernization+Progra...
Life is better for who? By what characteristics?

You're not even remotely talking about economics at this point. You might as well be arguing:

playing guitar -> heroin: GDP drops, but life is better

How do you know that your life is better because you have an mp3 player? Does it make music better? No. Musicians make music, mp3 players have nothing to do with the music. Honestly, my life feels way better when I pull an old vinyl off the shelf. I also like knowing that the artist is getting a better share of the vinyl sales than from YouTube or Spotify. And I kind of hate using my computer outside of work hours, it stresses me out to think about unread emails. So to me, I already don't agree that my life is better when I use an mp3 player.

The point of economics is to measure real productivity based on the assumption that people need a place to live and they need to live and there's a pretty clear limit to the land and food that we start with.

That you're trying to use economics to argue about subjective opinions on mp3 players? Come on, dude, that's just weak.

Money talks, bullshit walks. End of story. Or maybe in your case you should seek some help with this technology addiction that you're trying to rationalize...
I should probably be ashamed that I brought it up :)
Faster acceleration. Each stop will cost less time, and Caltrain has a surprising amount of stops between SF-SJ (22 weekday) for its length (47 miles). You can see this effect already with the amount of express schedules that Caltrain has and their varying trip times.
Socialists in the US Democratic party? Where?
Readability, there it is.
If you believe that too much of the gains from progress have accrued to capital, you can fight to redistribute those gains. Protectionism is redistribution too, it's just poorly directed.

Personally, I'd rather see the wealthy fund more public goods. Few people are struggling, and we should support them. Other than that, let's pursue abundance together instead of trying to adjust relative wealth.
The best software has no need of a user interface at all.
http://abstrusegoose.com/171

http://blog.dilbert.com/post/102627914061/dilbert-pocket

(the philip k dick in me thinks, if we merge, the machines would absorb us, not us them into our blood. the borg > cyborgs)
In an ideal world, vice (sex, drugs, alcohol, tobacco, gambling, gaming, other?) profits could be funneled into addiction research, education, and treatment. But I don't really have any hope that this will materialize, especially not with private industry calling the shots.
Not if it still runs at-grade and keeps killing someone every few weeks.
Businesses are irrational, but they're certainly more rational than government.
I had that happen with Infosys. They do exactly what you tell them to do, good, bad or stupid. You never get feedback that something doesn't make sense. So in the end you look stupid to your managers because you didn't write a good spec.

Now I avoid dealing with outsourcers as much as possible unless I have 100% understanding of the issue and can describe it precisely.
This reminds me of one of the things Chesterton said about his trip to America. He concluded that if Prohibition drove so many families to making such good home-brewed beer, maybe Prohibition wasn't such a bad thing after all.
not sure how i said accelerate and not excel. brain glitched.
Does anyone have a recommendation on an online course or tutorial that walks you through doing this type of applied analysis in R? I prefer learning using actual problems, where the complexity of analysis increases gradually.
The JVM problem was that it had applets and did not have the DOM integration of Javascript. I do often wonder if instead of Javascript in 1995 we had got WebAssembly and WebSockets.
This ensuring that everyone will use Chrome.
Interesting. Dr Dorry Segev is a personal acquaintance! He also was involved in getting congressional approval for HIV+ -> HIV+ transplants (which were technically illegal till recently).
>how do you stop 100,000 drones

Another 100,000 drones carrying rare earth magnets on strings :D
having studied philosophy helped me more as a developer than anything else
I think the rules for the sophons are not entirely clear, because he set them up as a plot device for a few of the things he needed (FTL, no more science, omniscience of the enemy) in order to create the special conditions that force humanity to defend itself by creative thinking and this is also why I didn't spend too long cross-referencing their viability. Nevertheless I vaguely remember them being some kind of giant PCB when unfolded in 2D with a fairly high level of abstraction and autonomy without being strong AI (and therefore a new civilisation). It's a given in the plot anyway that you don't want to create a higher civilisation, because of the DF... well, I'm not going to spoil it, but the Trisolarians have very good reason not to create real intelligence capable of resetting its goals.

The translation is as good as it's going to get. The main issue is that Liu is from the PRC and spent most of his life there. It took me years in Asia to slowly realise how differently the Chinese think from Westerners (hell, Westerners themselves think very differently just across borders - compare the worldview of a Brit to that of a Nordic or a Frenchman). If you compare Strugatsky and Asimov, you also get this huge cultural difference that is untranslatable because of the large amount of metadata bagage that Russians would already have coming into Strugatsky's work after growing up in Russia.

The book is "very Chinese", if that makes sense, which I think is what confuses people (and to me is a feature). A quick intro to what that means might be watching a few episodes of If You Are The One (非诚勿扰), a slightly crazy dating show that since the second season has had a government censor added to the panel to moderate the gold diggers; an Australian TV channel has started subtitling a bunch of episodes, although I unfortunately could never find the infamous season 1 ("I'd rather cry at the back of a BMW than smile on a bicycle"). You both get a sample of PRC normal citizen thinking and a taste of how the government is setting the tone culturally.
>But then Google actually did exactly that with their Go machine!

I would argue that this is not what they did. What they did was take something a human player does (study games to learn how to play). And then parallelized this to a level that a human can't match. Basically the equivalent of having one go player playing against an entire team of go players who are all experts.
Yes parents have to do something to end up with brighter children than themselves - if you put a child in a dark room from birth with no human interaction I can guarentee that they will not come out very bright 20 years later (there have been some very sad examples of this in history).

The point I was making is that intelligent agents are built all the time by less intelligent agents. Humans will build more intellgent AI using exactly the same approach and these AI's can do the same.

Of couse building an AI via evolutionary training opens up a whole lot of control issues. Do we really want to be creating entities vastly more intelligent than ourselves when we have no real idea of their interests and when we occupy something that is valuble (e.g. matter and energy) to this entity?
Easy sort in Go
This is pretty cool. When I heard pixel art I thought about video games and a old game of a Mario World
> I find it to be a fairly common refrain.

I don't object to the idea that some software trends towards sluggishness because of feature creep or lazy developers, but I take issue with the statement that computers of today don't feel any faster than computers of 20 years ago because there is a large cross section of computing tasks that are wrapped up in the notion of what constitutes a "fast" computer.

For example, in 1995, running Paintshop Pro and netscape on the same machine was about the limit of what my computer could handle at once. Today, I can run photoshop, chrome, Visual Studio and 2 VMs simultaneously without skipping a beat. In 1995 just trying to minimize netscape could result in a 30 second wait while the system attempted to redraw the windows beneath it.

I have distinct memories of how my brain was conditioned to avoid certain actions because it would render the machine practically inoperable if care wasn't taken to ensure that no more than a few programs or operations were performed simultaneously. Today, even on Windows, I can leave dozens of programs (including the browser with a dozen tabs of it's own) open for months at a time and experience zero slow down; compare this with 1995 where restarting a sluggish Windows PC was a daily ritual because it would just become unusable if left with multiple applications running over night. Even in 1999, if I decided I wanted to play the original starcraft, I needed to ensure that I closed all other applications if I wanted to avoid game-breaking slowdown, and even with that, accidentally hitting alt-tab resulted in a 30 second wait while the desktop rendered itself and another 15 seconds for the system to return context to the game. Today, I can leave all my work open in the background, play a few games or seamlessly alt tab to adjust my playlist and then continue working afterwards without any impediment. in 1995 it took my computer 20 to 60 seconds to boot, today, thanks to the SSD, it takes 8 seconds maximum from boot to desktop on Windows, and even faster on Linux.

Today, you don't even have to think about performance (as a user) because the vast majority of common computing tasks can be performed effortlessly by modern systems.
You just contradicted yourself. You're giving a -1 on giving -1s.
The article kind of seems to contradict itself -- she starts out talking about how the Rift and the Vive are super expensive and will only be available to a small subset of the population and then she ends by telling you to get started with the $15 Google Cardboard and a bunch of free tools. In fact I don't really know what the takeaway of this whole article was, about half of it just talks about how exciting the potential of VR is and then talks about whatever project she worked on.
While "cloud" may be a big part of the future of computing, I think the relationship painted between that and the end of Moore's law is tenuous at best.

I believe a more plausible link exists between the end of Moore's law and the rise of open hardware as explained in this article:

http://www.eetimes.com/document.asp?doc_id=1321796

TL;DR

If eight year old hardware is almost as fast as today's hardware, there is ample time to reverse engineer competitive open hardware.
This is a good point. Most of our 1:1s are in small 2-3 person conference rooms or walks outside if it's nice out. There are no offices.
I agree with how you want to conduct the PR or RFC process, where it's annoying if people are being negative without providing an alternative. I do however agree with the parent where there are plenty of times when a simple yes/no vote is what you really want. The comments are there for people to provide alternatives still, removing the -1 would just be removing flexibility for a very common case.
It's just for fun, don't read too much into it.
> ... it is now utterly controlled by a small group of browser developers ...

If the group is small, it's mainly because the job is very difficult. All browsers are a big mess and it takes time to be productive.

The idea of asm.js is one of Alon Zakai. He explains on his blog all the experiments he made before concluding with that.

A quote from the oldest post I know about emscripten:

"I want the speed of native code on the web - because I want to run things like game engines there - but I don't want Java, or NaCl, or some plugin. I want to use standard, platform-agnostic web technologies."

http://mozakai.blogspot.fr/2010/07/experiments-with-static-j...
I don't know, the WaPo article adds some useful context, like links to stories about previous, unofficial information sharing.

Of course, the usefulness hinges on whether you trust that WaPo is being impartial. (I have no opinion on that, since I don't follow US politics that closely.)
> Guess what AWS was developed for.

EC2 being developed for internal use is more myth than fact. The original idea was for internal use, but didn't exist much beyond a "short paper"[1] until it was green-lighted (by Bezos) as an external/sellable service.

[1] http://blog.b3k.us/2009/01/25/ec2-origins.html
How do you say Envato in Chinese (Case study on translating a brand)
You're better off with 1% inflation if you're spending 99 dollars out of 100 to stay alive. Do the math out. In one case, you will have to take out extra loans, in the other, you will not.
Meteor.com ends their free hosting
I don't understand why you've been downvotes, but after 3 minutes of fighting my Chrome on my phone, I had to give up.
I just finished reading Parasite Eve. While the horror aspects of the novel are questionable, I found it was a very interesting way to learn about kidney transplants and mitochondrias. I had no idea, for example, that even with a compatible donor the recipients have to take immunosupressants for the rest of their lives and are always at risk of rejecting the organ.

So, it's really amazing to hear that this could be a thing of the past!
We're researching a number of different ideas in that space, with a couple of different high profile customers, so I can't say much in public at the moment!
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Sonos' future will echo Amazon’s Alexa, says CEO
Learn You a Haskell for Great Good – Chapter 12 in Clojure
Vehicle and person hits cause exceptional delays, but not significantly more so than the string of breakdowns in February. They apologized for this, and seem to have fewer rush hour problems, so maybe this has improved.

They could do more to improve the standing room problem, which adds up quickly. My evening train is now perpetually 3-5 minutes late, which adds 10% to the runtime, due to the train in front being overcrowded. They are putting out new timetables for next month that they claim will improve this. Their fix is to move its departure time closer to the slow train in front, and add 3 minutes to the trip duration. Frustrating.
Ignition: Libraries for Robot Applications
Punctuation has rarely been truly stable
is it the web without hyperlinks?
To answer your last question, it is simply that there is no incentive for them to do so. If they don't use all their budget, it will be reduced the next year.