skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Anyone who's studied some elementary hydraulics and electricity is aware of some of the parallels between fluid flows and current flows. Some are direct analogs, and the article mentions one: the fact that power water systems make use of slow fluid flows under high pressure to minimise friction losses. That's a direct analog to low-current (amperage), high-voltage currents to minimise resistance losses in long-distance electric power transmission.

Other relationships are inverted. Electricity must be generated continuously. Unused generation is wasted. Hydraulic pressure is retained in a system (absent leaks) until tapped, a periodic re-setting of a concentrator load is sufficient to re-charge the system. Tremendous forces can be made available over wide areas with little energy input.

Oh: and city-wide grids of this existed. Until the 1970s in some cases.
Correct. I typoed.
Can't you just use Transmission on windows? It's a GTK app and they're better on Windows than MacOS. Or you can always use it's web interface on Windows.
I bet org mode is one of the most posted things on HN. It has passionate users. I'm not one of them.
Unicorn club in February: 2 new entrants, $2.24B raised, and Cisco annexes IoT
Why We Worry and What to Do About It
Same here. I switched to Google Music via their $1 intro offer, and so far haven't bothered to look anywhere else. They throw in an ad-free YouTube, so Google's offering is strictly better in that regard.
4-6 seem to be getting noticeably worse. Xi is very different from Hu. Basically, things have been going backwards since 2008, but the backward momentum picked up in the last few years.
This is the "sort of" landline solution that I use. I get iffy cell reception in my home, this means is a nice affordable way to ensure calls get through.
Time for adult supervision at Domo?
Does free speech have the power to corrupt other minds at a level that that free speech should instead be controlled?

Yes. And ironically, the one who convinced me of that point is Yarvin/Moldbug. (He actually argued, partly tongue-and-cheek, that Egypt should shut off its internet from the world. And while this sounds outrageous and terrible, remember that he was right about the revolutions in the Arab world, and virtually everyone in the tech world who cheered on the revolutions were wrong).

I think it is fine that some speech is considered beyond the pale. Some speech is in fact dangerous. Power comes from the barrel of the gun -- but speech is used to organize the gun holders. Speech tells the people with the guns who the bad guys are.

My problem is that the wrong people are controlling speech, and for the wrong reasons. De-platforming is being instigated via a heckler's veto -- the biggest cry-bullies try to dictate what is acceptable. I'd rather have speech controlled by an official council selected by a random lottery of citizens, than by self-appointed censors.

And also I don't agree with banning Yarvin/Moldbug in particular. I have found Yarvin/Moldbug to be an amazingly insightful and interesting blogger. The history and sources he has cited has greatly enhanced my understanding of the world. Sometimes he can be abrasive, hyperbolic or a troll, but overall I am better off for having read him. I hate it that I'm scared in real life to mention that I have read his material. I'd rather see him inside the Overton window of conversation.

But the worst aspect of the current attempt to deplatform, is that the line of what is acceptable is constantly changing. If I say "it's silly that someone with male equipment be allowed to use a women's bathroom", does that make me transphobic? Should I be banned from conferences? What about five years from now, when the line has moved? And what belief that is normal now, will be unacceptable in twenty years?
Those are also all apps made by Apple. You might be able to reasonably argue that there has been degrading quality in Apple's own apps. Personally, I love Mail and don't use any of the other native apps.

I don't think that really says much about the quality of the ecosystem for developing native apps though. Some of my favorite apps are Notational Velocity, 1Password, and Sketch.
My concerns are the opposite. I'd rather see a few Nigerian scams get through than completely miss an old friend's email.
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Cogent <> Level 3 is the only problem link left with 13.33% packet loss
I think there are a couple of key things that people need to grasp with Org mode. First is the way it cycles visibility. You go from closed, to semi-open, to completely open, back to closed again. You can't go backwards. I know this frustrated me for a long time before I got used to it.

The next biggest frustration is the way it folds empty lines. If you have a paragraph followed by an empty line, when you fold the paragraph, the trailing empty line will get folded as well. This makes it practically impossible to have empty spaces in your outline. Trying to make it work will result in madness for your average user.

Just relenting on those 2 issues and allowing org mode it's own way will go a long way to making it easier to use, I've found.

The main benefit I've found for using org mode is being able to write up TODO lists and then easily move everything around by folding it and cutting and pasting. Also being able to change the organization by easily changing the hierarchy is amazing. I know of no other application that allows so much ease of change.

After that, the spreadsheet capabilities are really quite interesting. I've actually implemented full on XP-style planning lists with automatic velocity calculation in org mode -- complete with automatically generated burn down charts.

Of course, other people use org mode for completely other uses. This is just what I end up using it for.
HSBC: The bank and the incarna-self
Having used Transmission on both Windows and OS X, I vastly prefer the OS X version. It never crashes, gives nice notifications, and is generally very pleasant to use.
Cellebrite UFED Touch device [pdf]
A GPG signature has major usability problems. From where do you get the public key to verify the GPG signature against?

If it's from NPM, an attacker who could convince you to download the wrong package could convince you to download the wrong public key, too.

If it's from previous versions of the package, what happens if the author loses the public key, or if package ownership needs to be transferred (another name dispute, or the author abandons their package)? Does NPM force people installing the package to decide whether to accept the new key? If NPM merely warns people installing the package, the situation is again barely better than an NPM-provided shasum.
Oh yeah... once we have Windows and Linux we will finally have a single paradigm for GUIs. It's enough to make me actually love Facebook.
Reminds me of "Facebook will eat everything with React Native" - https://www.quora.com/What-is-mobile-development-going-to-lo...
When you think about it, using react with electron is kinda like react-native for cross-browsers. It'll be hilarious when someone writes a wrapper that let's you do cross browser with react

Let me know if you guys know of one
Holy shit your quote is a perfect example of exactly what I'm talking about.

1. It dismisses an obvious truth. You know, that there actually really were/are actually people who actually thought black/latino/etc. people were actually inferior... actually. For Real. Historical Fact. Period. That the term "racist" clearly and unambiguously identifies those people, regardless of whether people disagree about the edge cases.

2. MM dimisses this totally obvious objection by quoting historical inanity (who the fuck cares if the word wasn't in common usage until the 20's? What does that actually have to do with anything?! "Cathedral" didn't enter common usage (under MM's defintion)... ever. Guess the term means nothing in the context in which he's using it? This observation is pure unadulterated inanity)

3. And also while making some unsubstantiated comment about those icky Progressives for those In The Know.

4. Note that what MM literally said (that in addition to being an epithet, "Racist has a clear objective meaning") actually directly contradicts your interpretation of what he said:

> The word is just an epithet with an ever changing meaning. It's not a descriptive label.

I'll excuse you for the lapse in reading comprehension since you actually perfectly translated MM's true meaning. MM said X. He gave unimpeachable evidence for X. And you interpreted X to mean the slightly different Y. Unsurprisingly, since it's totally clear that Y is what MM actually intends his reader to walk away beliving. The rub is that MM didn't actually provide any cogent argument for Y. But his defense of X sure did sound authoritative and unpeachable!
This is actually really interesting. How granular are these metrics? Do individual bearings have sensors on them for example? Does the locomotive cut a maintenance ticket when light bulbs burn out? How many different sensors contribute to the 150,000 data points?
> Sure the east coast has nice modern cities which look like the cities of any Western country.

Not really. I mean, there is shanghai and shenzhen, but the rest of eastern china is very much like...

> But large parts of the country are still poor, rural and remote.

Infrastructure has definitely gotten better, but a lot of capital has also been sunk into white elephant projects and...

> Houses are built for people to work in the city doing high-productive factory jobs where they before were doing small-time farming in the country side.

Those aren't the houses that are being built though, rather they are focusing on luxury apartments that migrant workers will never be able to afford.

> This is a massive lift in real economic activity which can finance a lot of debt.

If the debt was spent wisely, yes. But a lot of the ventures are dubious (lux apartments), farmers still can't mortgage their land or acquire urban hukou anyways, and wealth descrepency is only getting worse.

> Completely incomparable to the expansion of credit to low-income families to finance housing that gave the boom in the US and other western countries from 2002 to 2007.

Agreed. Those kind of people would never get a loan in China. The money has been mostly lent out to those with power and connections, a lot of that money won't be repaid because it was invested very unwisely.

> Secondly there is a now huge upper middle class who are travelling the world, sending their kids to Australia or US for study and still buying Apple products. They are not going away.

Uhm, ya, well, they aren't leaving the planet, but many of them are definitely leaving china. What do you think that apartment in Vancouver they bought is for?
Cascadia CleanTech Accelerator Launches for Pacific Northwest Startups
>>I can typically just add print statements and figure out the problem in less time than it would take to setup and attach a debugger<<

this 99% of the time
That's the one. Don't recall the specifics, but combinations of MultiIndex as index and columns and the other features were not supported with HDF5.
Don't blame the economists - it is the Dismal Science after all. Economists just measure and model things. There is now more cross-fertilization with Social Science in trying to measure "intangibles" like happiness. Internet and social media are making it much more scientific to measure such things.

It is politicians and developers who put a value-judgement on growth - specifically GDP growth. And they are perfectly rational in doing so. In most jurisdictions the developers hire the politicians and so they adopt that value-judgement. The other 99.9% of the constituents are largely ignored on this topic.
Quadcopter Navigation in the Forest Using Deep Neural Networks
And the CIO at Target probably said "It's only the HVAC system." :)
You shouldn’t need a diversity officer to stop your business being inhospitable to employees on the basis of background - this should be core to your business culture. It is like having a come-to-work-and-get-stuff-done officer.
Related: "What Went Wrong? Campus Unrest, Viewpoint Diversity, and Freedom of Speech" http://www.skeptic.com/reading_room/campus-unrest-viewpoint-...
> but P, Q, R, S, and T together may have more power than X. Or they may not. When and how they do is an important question, that I wish we had better answers to.

There are rarely clean answers when the problem is social.

In this instance, however, it is very clear that the mob has far more power than the individual they are targeting.

For the person in question, if he had equivalent power, he could simply replace the sponsors and lost speakers with people who shared his views. At that point, the mob would be VERY reluctant to pull out for fear of leaving the stage to people whom they find distasteful.

The fact that this mob would have a very different behavior if he actually had real power is telling and disappointing.
TFA seems to contradict at least your "nobody ever does that". ISTM that while many of the unsecured printers were mistakenly so, many others were intentionally so.

But we don't need to speculate about motivations. There is very little functional difference between a fax machine and an unsecured printer. The addressing scheme and transmission protocol are different, and the fax is limited to B&W, but those are the only differences of form or function. The differences are in the expectations that some people have. They'd shred obnoxious faxes without comment, but at least for now they won't do that for obnoxious printouts.
Seems like a good time for Western governments to invest in infrastructure then. Every cloud...
Teleportation Is the Best Superpower, and We’re Getting Closer
a very happy org-mode user here!
It's interesting enough to know that I could possibly void my warranty by dividing by zero, rather than throw an annoying exception.
If you care about this, remember to vote in the primary, accordingly:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gPVhPqy_Z6U
Don’t use casts
Holy shit, massive political instability followed a century of plunder and political domination?! And powerful institutions exploited that?!

Well damn. Better go back to colonization.

But seriously, what the fuck is supposed to be the take-away from this non-argument? Progressivism is bad?
Caddy's Road to 1.0
What I don’t understand is why they are raising this money? Do they expect that they are about to get into an all out war with Apple?
Background checks? I had 2 UberX/Grab (the Singaporean Lyft) drivers who openly admitted to being ex-cons - and that in Singapore too. One even laughed that British prisons were like a 5* hotel compared to Asian ones.

If these companies perform background checks, what are they checking for?
I have broken GitHub links, I assure you they're not irrevocable. I transferred my project laughinghan/mathquill to its own organization, so the repo became mathquill/mathquill, and then forked it, unwittingly breaking all github.com/laughinghan/mathquill/* URLs: not commits obviously, but Issues, PRs, Commit Comments...my commit messages occasionally link to discussions in commit comments, all of which were broken. :(
The Android version of the browser transmits personally identifiable data, including a user’s search terms, the URLs of visited websites, nearby WiFi access points, and the user’s IMSI and IMEI identifiers, without encryption or with easily decrypted encryption

Well call me a skeptic but save the final clause isn't this exactly what Google collects?

Because GPS is often too slow or cannot get a fix, location services are usually based on using every single Android device to approximately geolocate Wifi APs ... then send the data to Google, who tells your phone where it is when it reports in the local APs.
You do have a point.
OSX UX libraries are always was slower than chrome-based. If your chrome-based app is slow then this is problem in your code, not in chrome itself.
It doesn't hurt the mechanism. It just keeps subtracting zero until you push whatever division stop button is provided. Or, on the previous model, stop turning the crank.

The article provides links to YouTube videos supposedly explaining the mechanism. Those are videos for mechanical analog computers used in Naval gunnery fire control.
Well I agree, ideally this should be automatic and inherent to a business, but when a company gets to a certain size you need people to be really thoughtful and consciously focused about this stuff, otherwise it can slip. So sometimes growth necessitates a dedicated person thinking about these issues.
T-Mobile had it from 2013 and earlier (they got the iPhone5 in 2013 and it supported HD Voice). Call quality can be like a clear Skype.
The magic market fairy gave me another unicorn.
>Electron apps also get none of the native L+F that you get if you use an actual toolkit properly.

This is a selling point. CSS can make an app look beautiful, native look-and-feel is always atrocious, everywhere.
His whole deal is genetics, it's the core of his argument. But if you read it carefully you notice all this rhetorical sleight of hand. The guy is one of the most transparently disingenuous writers I've ever encountered. I feel like the arrogance is just a cover for a weak argument that is just too painfully tedious to deconstruct.

https://medium.com/@curtis.yarvin/why-you-should-come-to-lam...

> Here’s how you are not-racist. You hold two beliefs: one, neurological problem-solving performance (ie, “intelligence”) is homogenously distributed across the genetically inhomogeneous human species. Two, it’s better to be smart than stupid.

> Ergo, no race is better than any other race, because all races are equally smart. Is that right? I hope I have it right.

> Here’s how I’m not-racist: I share neither belief.

But he's a racist because he uses the word race in a genetic context, and so are you if you do the same - which is what he's trying to get you to do.

[ Sorry, I realize that this isn't the most coherent post... ]
I've been using Transmission on Linux for years. Need another example of an app that's better on Mac (I have no doubt there are plenty:)
Capital flees because capital is a perfectly rational meta-being. If capital is fleeing, it is for good and rational reasons. "Irrational exuberance" - sorry, there's no such thing. Capital works with the information it has at the time it makes decisions. "Risk of a correction" - sorry, but I see no mention of risk when I lookup "correction" in the dictionary. When capital updates its model with new information, there will be losers and winners. Finance is about having a better model and better information.
Is the source code for this available somewhere? I'm curious about how exactly you're sending the text messages, and I can't really tell anything from a quick glance at the binaries included in the zip.
Take away? I have no takeaway. I have no idea how to fix things. But the first step to any solution is recognizing what actually happened.
True innovation happens in amazing places. I'm really excited to see the future of agriculture enhanced by robots and AI.

One Bay-area company doing awesome stuff, not mentioned in the article, is Blue River Technologies. They make lettuce crops (of all things, lettuce!) insanely efficient with AI and hyper-fast distributed systems computations. This stuff is so cool.
I left Canada not too long ago. With the current exchange rate, my base here in SV is 350% of what I made in Canada for a much less stressful job. When you take the absurd RSU grant I'm getting into account, my estimated take home for the year is going to be nearly 10x that of my total Canadian compensation. The cost of living in SV is higher, but it is not THAT much higher.

The problem is that they just don't pay enough to compete. I'd move home in a heartbeat, but I won't work for a decade there for what I can make in a year here.
Prohibiting unpublish wouldn't prevent those scenarios, only the subjective decisions.

The same scenarios would still happen, there just wouldn't be the opportunity to make the subjective call to help more and harm fewer by unpublishing.
> or the latinate "regulations," as you prefer

"Regulation" (at least in the US) is a broader category, covering both "laws" passed by elected lawmakers and "rules" made by unelected public servants.
Venture funds raise $13B this year, most since 2000
I have to point out that this article is not factually accurate. TerrAvion (YC W14), is actually crushing the whole electric drone market and switching people who hold 333 exemptions and own drones to using manned planes for collection tens of thousands of acres at a time.
It doesn't really look like that's what this is, it's just a different way to wire up native UI components. You're still writing Objective C and using Cocoa.
Depression and anxiety are by definition not ideal physcological health.

And almost no ones social needs are ever truly completely met. we also know already that social support helps anxiety and depression regardless of whether it is a root cause. So your test wouldn't falsify if it returned a negative value, nor support with a positive correlation.
Did "Building MacOS apps with JavaScript" ever get any traction?

http://tylergaw.com/articles/building-osx-apps-with-js
http://www.terravion.com/blog/the-market-is-speaking-terravi...
Being an ex-con should not disqualify you from driving a cab. Especially in a country like the US that has obscene incarceration rates, and where who ends up in prison is a factor of race and wealth more than the seriousness of the crime.

An ex-con has paid his or her "debt to society" by being in prison. If we don't let them get a job and earn a living, how will they get rehabilitated in society?

Edit: typo/car/cab.
Which starts with not obfuscating the history of colonialism in order to push a single-minded obsession with discrediting something called Cathedral that is, vaguely, all the badness of progressivism.

This is kind of my point wrt MM. He says a lot of True Things that, in the end, amount to nothing. And then pretends he's substantiated some grand thesis about the evils of the Cathedral. But it's often all just inane bullshit when you stop to figure out how the pile of highly specific factoids actually substantiates the overall claim. This isn't always true; there are always diamonds in the rough, and MM wrote prolifically. But the style of argument and accompanying rhetoric lends itself to these sorts of logical leaps from cherry-picked particular to validation of over-arching thesis.

Edit: Also, pre-colonialism is a shitload of time. Asserting Africans were categorically better off during High Colonialism than during the millions of years of human history that is lumped together as "pre-colonialism" is a pretty bold assertion.
And with it you can steal an identity.
Someone on HN tried to make a similar service in Africa (I can't remember who you are, sorry!) and found that eventually the commuters just worked together to commute and cut out the middle-person.

$10 per ride is really not a lot of incentive to drive an hour to the city with company that you don't want, who may not want to listen to your music/podcast, or smell your farts, or listen to you sing along to Rebecca Black.