skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I find the average triathlete more down to earn than the average programmer or hacker news user. YMMV.
Sample workflow for LP digitization
It was a bit of hyperbole. But digital rot really is not taken as seriously as it should.

I mean the Iowa computers were on combat duty until the 80s.
http://www.secretflying.com/
I don't think you have to bring evolution into it to explain why people like absolute moral rules. Take 'do not steal' vs maximise human happiness. Go with the latter and someone will nick your kit and claim it was for social good.
my sense is that alphabet is selling boston dynamics because they are focused on robots with hydraulic actuators. they are great for industrial and military applications, but it appears that alphabet wants to focus on home and office settings. li-ion based systems are much more practical for those markets.
I think it's also the problem that we just can't predict what the consequences are of such a large ecological change.
See the second level comment I made for a couple of modern use cases where I'd get benefit in current Windows.

Now consider virtual workspaces that you can move around and assign a z order to. You can expose a small part of a screen at top, or bottom for copy pasting to. Or work in a full size terminal session that you can only see 2 lines of.

Status windows/web pages can live on background screens and only get dragged into visibility. It's really just a nice to have thing now we decent virtual workspace setups, and huge resolutions, along with 3rd party stuff like Ultramon, but I still would like the option. I get too messy with wndow management.

OSX would benefit most as multi workspace and screen handling was very kludgy, though I know they are meant to have improved that a lot in the last couple of releases. Not had a mac since mavericks, so can't say for definite.
Article is from 2013.
Personally my issue is lack of freedom in choosing currency. What if I don't want to use CAD in my store, but something else, something more local. It says a lot when as a Canadian I'm not free to choose what kind of money to trade in. What if I don't trust those who manage the currency? Additionally, a TON of cash is being siphoned into redistribution programs aka grants, social, etc plus their supreme administration costs. This money is making the bureaucrats rich and the people at the bottom doing the labor with less wealth to invest. I still believe there are the political capitalists and the market capitalists, we need more of the latter and more transparency as to who exactly is the latter in order to understand who is really contributing.
Direct link to app: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.wikipedia
And I would prefer a legal solution to that. Cryptography is great when you control the keys.

Do not allow restricted devices on the mass market if the legal owner is unable to override the restrictions.
Technically it is only the singularity at the center which doesn't grow when seen from a frame of reference on the outside.

But things will still fall in below the event horizon when seen from the outside.

A black hole forms when the density (of energy or matter) at some point adds up to a gravity that light can't escape. Colliding two neutron stars would likely instantly cause a high enough density in a volume such that a black hole and its event horizon can form, which would envelop a very large mass in much less than a second.
"Deal with it" is what you've come up with after "unpacking the problem a bit more"? As the Donald would say, "sad".
> Are there any examples of that happening on the web yet? All browser vendors agree that most of these new features need to be behind explicit permissions.

Well, WebRTC is enabled by default. Exposes your real IP, and allows anyone to portscan your whole LAN.
It's a spectrum of course. There's some things that are clearly not correct for a given mode of a language.

What's interesting of course about issues like there/their/they're is in all likelihood, at some point in the future, the orthography will simply converge and we'll just use context to tell the difference. After all, there's plenty of words with the same orthography and different meanings.

Languages tend towards simplicity and the kind of tension unnecessary orthographic differences make is exactly the kind that languages evolve away from.
Sure, some of that does happen. Absolutely true.

There are also MILLIONS of people fucking off at work every day who do not deserve to have a job. GM had (has?) a clause in their union contract that did not allow them to fire people if their job was automated away. They had a building where 10,000 people would show up every day, year after year, get paid full salary and benefits only to read the paper and drink coffee all day.

I've worked with so many people, both as just another employee and as an entrepreneur, who fuck off all day or work sub-optimally that I sometimes wonder how some companies run.

I know a guy, a sales guy, who "worked from home" for a large multinational while earning six figures. He spent most of his time doing home improvement projects. He replaced his roof (himself), he built and installed new kitchen cabinets, he remodeled the entire house and painted it all.

My point, in case it isn't clear, is that if we are going to start to pass judgement based on who deserves what they have or they are getting let's make sure we are honest about passing said judgement at all levels. There are millions of people who do not deserve the jobs they have and millions more than are being carried by the work of others.

What do we do about them? Where is the evil?

I don't have a problem with the whole inheritance thing. If someone is born to a wealthy family and they get to float through life because of it, fine with me.

Let's bring it down to a lower level. If you have kids and you are fortunate enough to be able to buy them a car and pay for their college education, that's OK. Is is OK for some guy to think less of your kid or think ill of you for this? No, of course not. You might not be wealthy but you love your kids and want to help them get launched into the world. Different scales? Sure, but it is exactly the same thing.

The right attitude in life isn't to envy those who have more than you do but to try to better yourself and strive to help others as you do better in life. The first sentiment is destructive at a personal and national level. The second is constructive at a personal, national and global level. Only one of these outlooks in life result in improving life for everyone.

Sure, there are lots of assholes with money. There are lots of assholes without money. What else is new? The vast majority of people are good, money or not.
The trouble with high taxes on capital gains and dividends is that the corporation itself is subject to a rather high tax already. So the underlying productive activity in a corp is taxed twice on its way to the ultimate owners. (Barring trickery.)
Hah, I felt the same returning to US from Europe. For a week I was waking up at 5am and going to watch the sunrise for the first time ever. It was amazing, I wish I could always do that.

I recently flew the Dreamliner to Australia and experienced no jet lag. Noticeable difference.
The point is that it gets the job done. Being able to omit a function name doesn't add any more power to a language; it's just syntactic sugar.
I understand your distinction, but I'm talking about first impressions. They're not the same, but can still be easily confused until you spend a bit of time with someone.
Damn, I can't imagine how many truck drivers would lose their jobs if this actually became a working thing. Maybe they still need drivers for tricky situations like going down a hill or driving in a congested area.
Yes, the knight is to the queen as the bishop is to the rook.
An OpenBSD developer vouched for MuPDF's code quality on Schneier's blog. A combo of good code and use of OS mitigations is a good sign. Might try to switch to it soon.
Ammonia Is the Everest Base Camp for Clean Energy
Since they are at the top of the "security by policy" game, they don't really think about the value of "security by design".

So she passes a bill to protect trade secrets just before she proposes another bill that might put trade secrets in jeopardy. "Don't worry, they're still protected by this other bill!"

Which would just mean open season for governments with state-sponsored hacking for industrial espionage. This includes China and the US.
It strikes me as strange that the article doesn't discuss context at all. For example, if you're commenting on a website or texting me, I'm unlikely to care about grammatical errors. However, if you can't be reasonably close to correct on a website that's selling something, I will be much less like to buy from you.
Small adjustment: flying East on a long flight, you should sleep 4-5 hours during night-time, which will happen naturally on the plane. That will make you want to go sleep earlier that day when you land, but also make you functional until then.

The difficulty is flying Westward. You're going to turn into an early bird for a while. Since you're going to sleep hours later than usual, you should take a nap during the day, as you would do locally if you had to stay up on New Year's Eve for example. Then you "crash" as late as possible and you wake up on normal time.

Think of it as switching from being an early bird to a night owl locally, and vice versa.
For a cheaper & smaller alternative, also worth looking at the Samsung Galaxy Tab A with S-Pen 8.0. Convoluted name, but I love it, and it is dramatically cheaper than an iPad Pro. I think it compares favorably too, I've tried both & I don't feel the Galaxy Tab lags too far behind the iPad Pro in latency. I'm not a heavy writer, but for me it has replaced paper note-taking during phone calls or webinars, or times when I need to sketch or write an idea out on paper (sometimes I find typing doesn't help me solve a coding problem, but writing with a pen does - writing on the Galaxy Tab is giving me that same mental shift). And of course it syncs with Evernote & you can resize/move objects you've sketched and all the other good things.
Yeah United the same on my 787 journeys. Truly the worst staff in the world consistently.

However, 787 does have pressurization and humidity features as well and these made a huge reduction in my jet lag over the 777 and A380
Often in Texas, it's cheaper to ship the cows to the food than the alternative. Not trying to be pedantic, but it's an interesting factoid.
Fun lesson on why judging others doesn't scale.
It's hilarious to hear the police response:

> a spokesman for the Patrolmen’s Benevolent Association, the largest police union in New York, passed on a statement from union president Pat Lynch, saying...
> “Where is the database of the thousands of police interactions each day that save lives, take guns and drugs off the streets, prevent terrorist acts and demonstrate the concern and caring of our officers?”

I would be delighted to see NYPD build and release such a database. The reason the public is forced to cobble together their own database is because the NYPD refuses to release information themselves.

If you're a highly secretive recluse, and as a result people have to rely on rumors instead of first-hand information about you, then that's kind of your own damned fault. What did you expect?

I hope this really does pressure police departments into being more open.
IBM have a free viewer. http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21479879

I have no idea how useful that is.

> Question

> How does one view IBM SPSS Statistics output if s/he does not have Statistics, or has an earlier version than that which produced the output?

> Answer

> For output produced by versions of SPSS/Statistics 16.0 and later (i.e., *.spv files), the free IBM SPSS Smartreader is available for Windows, Mac, and Linux from the SPSS Community (www.ibm.com/developerworks/spssdevcentral). Look for the Download materials for IBM SPSS Statistics.
and ski jumping is actually one of the safer sports, fwiw.
Show HN: Hacker News from the command line
Just to clarify, all over the counter painkillers are NSAIDs, non steroidal anti inflammatory drugs. And like OC said, they all inhibit COX1 and COX2. Selective COX1 inhibitors have been created as prescription drugs to avoid effects of stomach ulcers and liver damage but were pulled off the market due to studies showing increased risk of heart attacks. Ie. Celebrex

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celecoxib

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/NSAID
> It's like if someone suggested how to improve public transportation and you answered "I found the best improvement - just take a cab everywhere."

I think you mean the experience of public transportation, in which case, air travel is public transportation and buying 1st class tickets does improve it. Cabs are private transport and wouldn't be a solution to that specific problem.
I recently hooked up a C64 to my stereo for the first time. Hearing things through a decent system (instead of my old crappy tube-TV speakers as a kid) - a can't believe how great it sounds: all that huuuuge base wasted on me!

I also am surprised I never noticed as a kid the limitations of only having 3 channels of sound for music AND effects. It's amazing how well it's hidden, but still - long notes abruptly chopped because I decided to shoot at a bad guy, or notes falling out of chords: I never heard this at all when I was younger!
Honestly, I think too many people take their situation as a given and don't look at it as something they can change and improve for themselves.

> * Choice over what kind of tasks you work on

At a high level, you already do that by choosing one job over another.

> * Freedom to spend some extra time on a task, both to get it to a level of quality you are happy with and to use the opportunity to learn the domain in question a little better

That should be in your schedule estimate. When the PM asks "How long will this take?" the duration you tell them should include time to understand what you're doing and make it nice.

> * Blocks of time to work on a maker's schedule; to read, concentrate, and work with minimal interruption from coworkers

I don't exactly understand what this means. Block off time in your calendar and turn off IM and email. If that doesn't work, go to an empty meeting room or somewhere else quite where people can't find you and work from there.
If you want to connect a USB device to the cloud, that's great. All you need is a usb<->socks proxy running on your local machine, tunneling USB traffic to the remote server.

Why should we build this functionality into the browser? Is it really that much more convenient than installing an app to run the proxy?

The use case you describe is sufficiently rare, that if you need it, downloading an app should not be a high cost to pay. If only 1% of browser users need this USB proxy, why expose an additional attack surface for the 99% who do not need it?
> While we heavily utilise Helios for container-based continuous integration and deployment (CI/CD) each machine typically has a single role – i.e. most machines run a single instance of a microservice.

It's strange to me that this is still so common. My theory is that the "one machine one port" philosophy is still built into a lot of software (monitoring, the ELB, etc). Another is that this is the philosophy we've always known.

Take a look at Kubernetes. Everything is accessible via localhost:<some port>. that breaks most home-built and enterprise orchestration and monitoring tools spectacularly even though it's a much simpler mode (everything is a port, not ip port combo).

Density is much easier to accomplish on larger machines with more cores, which are elastic in the face of bursty residents. They are also generally cheaper per compute/memory.
Very poorly documented. I could not figure out what the goal of the project is although it sounds like a codec that uses machine learning.
When I get time, Im going to straight up try and run one through the tools like Softbound or Code Pointer Integrity that CompSci is building. If performance hit isn't too high, then problem mostly solved.
And therein lies the problem. In the US, one cannot support politicians that will be amenable to reasonable, environmentally friendly legislation without embracing leftist economic ideologies as well. That said, once again I think HN is not the place to discuss or voice support for specific political views one way or the other. There are plenty of fact-based, scientific discussions to be had on this topic.
That is a very good point you made about ergonomics as the solution for poor typing practices.

As someone who suffers from decades prior of poor typing, I think there is a cultural propensity to associate RSI/CTS with external solutions. Especially people talking about having surgery for RSI/CTS symptoms as a "cure" of sorts.

The way I try to describe it to the younger generation is like this. When you are young, you can put your body through a malicious amount of abuse through typing. As you get older, you may start experiencing pain of sorts directly related to binges of typing. However, they usually go away after rest. What happens is that eventually the rest does not fully subside the pain/strain/soreness, it is always there. That is RSI/CTS/whatever you choose to call it. You broke the camel's back.
How Scams Worked in the 1800s
> still make money from them which likely influences their decision to not release source code.

This isn't actually a thing at all. All the id games still sell like hotcakes moreso now, because of the open source engines that keep those games modern and have dramatically improved over the originals (check out Brutal Doom for an example).

Even if your engines and your art assets are liberated, you still do not have a complete game without maps. And while the user community built up around your product would certainly make their own, the fact they are all created on the basis of your game would, almost always, drive dramatically more long-tail sales to just play your original maps that inspired an entire ecosystem than locking up the complete package to rot in video game obscurity like the thousands of Playstation 2 games are doing now.
Which politician is more likely to take steps helpful for climate change: (a) one who "claims" to be eco-conscious, or (b) one who thinks climate change is a hoax? Are you seriously telling me that a person who wants to do what they can for climate change should consider candidates (a) and (b) as equivalent, so far as climate change is concerned? Boggles my mind.
They seem like unrelated, non-competing products. I don't think Facebook ripped them off.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/NSAID

> Paracetamol (acetaminophen) is generally not considered an NSAID because it has only little anti-inflammatory activity. It treats pain mainly by blocking COX-2 mostly in the central nervous system, but not much in the rest of the body.[3]
Well, then it will be way too late to do anything.
These both look like loose clones of Apple’s iPad message app style. That is, the two aren’t any closer to each other than either is to Apple’s app

I don’t understand what this guy is upset about..
To be honest, chat.center looks a lot like the iMessage interface, or the legacy facebook.com/messages interface… or, well, any messaging client.

There's nothing remarkably unique about having that layout, or using blue and white as a color scheme (again, iMessage does the same!).

Nor is there anything unique or creative about having a URL with your username in it, that redirects to your page/chat. Who knows, Facebook may have copied ChatCenter, but the evidence seems circumstantial at best.

This seems just like a plug for the author's product, the URL of which is mentioned 16 times (!) in the article.
This trend of shoving as much functionality into browsers as possible is really worrying. It's indicative of lazy architecting, because most of the time the complex features you desire are fully available using native OS APIs. There does not need to be a bridge for every feature in the browser. For apps using OS level APIs, more often than not, users will need to grant some permission to access their device. The permission scopes in modern operating systems are very strict and hardened. It would be very difficult for an app to execute a "drive by" exploit without first requesting some form of permission. At the very least, the user needs to explicitly download the app into their device (as opposed to simply viewing a webpage). The permissions API of browsers, compared to OS, are less mature, operate in userspace, and are inherently less secure.

If an exploit exists in the browser, suddenly every device with that browser becomes vulnerable to a drive by exploit, as opposed to every device that downloaded a single malicious app. The user may be completely unaware, because there is no download confirmation or permission granting involved in viewing a webpage (assuming the exploit bypasses the weak permissions API of the browser). A malicious actor could load the exploit into an iframe via an ad network and the user would have no idea.
I wouldn't characterize the situation in either of those ways.

I think we could all agree that non-renewable energy sources will run out at some point. Hence the name :). Or, to be more precise, the extraction of non-renewables will cost more than their utility.

So, at some point we have to transition: first to a mix, and eventually to renewables only.

I would venture that we could also agree that those who make their money from non-renewables have an interest in delaying this transition as long as possible. That's what I would do. So, there will need to be some sort of agreement to transition, and incentives to do so.

This doesn't necessarily need to be a "large long-term centrally planned project to administer the solution as decided by the most prominent or respected thinkers" - you can use economic incentives to leverage the market to do so. Well, you can in one country at a time fairly easily, but globally - it's tricky.

If (as it seems) use of non-renewables is also a cumulative pollutant and could cause large costs to society globally, then the smart thing to do would be to accelerate this process. This doesn't mean giving up "freedom for the promise of safety" - it means, again, using economic incentives, but balanced against the costs. This already happens, all the time. We aren't giving up freedoms. In my opinion, anyway. We don't need to give governments loads of new power. We need to agree this is what we want and instruct our governments to do it. They already tax, rebate, and subsidize many things (e.g corn crops).

The difficulty is the tragedy of the commons - and that's what all the arguments are about. Lots of countries, lots of different incentives, different histories, etc.
The real problem is purely economic. It's not just economically-influenced as many would have us believe. It is 100% economics.

It's virtually impossible to move forward without fully acknowledging this fact.
Last Ninja endlessly trying to pick up an unpickupable key. Nice touch
Inventing my world?

You mean how he invented democracy, electricity, the internet, the worldwide web, air travel, artificial satellites, and cars?

Oh wait, he invented none of those things.

I'd say his greatest achievement is GCC, which is a pretty awesome piece of software, but to claim he invented anyone's world is laughable.
(1) Gas is composed of particles that are not moving in the same direction.

(2) Electromagnetic waves come from the movement of an electric charge. Even a single molecule falling into an event horizon is a moving charge (plasma) or dipole (gas).