skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I used HyperNeWS for a few years on a project and had great fun with it (front end in PostScript/NeWS, back end in Common Lisp and plumbing in C).

You could do some neat tricks - draw something in the graphical editor, copy it and paste it as the shape of a window (stack). Another thing you could do was log in through the PostScript shell to the server, navigate to your window (or anything else) and fiddle with it using standard PostScript 2D transforms. e.g. You could gradually rotate a terminal window, although I would never have done this to a colleague as they were using it, honest.

I rather enjoyed working in PostScript although I believe there was a C to PostScript compiler built at one point (inevitably this being done in Glasgow it was called pdb for "pure dead brilliant").

Don't think there was much of a security model in NeWS so probably not a great fit for today's world but it was so much cooler than X.
Well, yes it is possible and there are development stacks that support it (Este). You will not be able to reuse visual components as native renderers to native components and react to html, but you can go around it by abstracting your UI and implementing two UI libraries (native, web) with the same API. Then you will be able to reuse most of your code.

Technically I think it is possible to achieve a decent amount of code reuse, but I feel product requirements usually require different functionalities that might make code reuse more difficult, ie. user input touch/swipe vs click.
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Interesting! Source?
If they target 99,99%, this outage already blew away their budget for the year.
Actually we don't know this - it may just be that the male offspring were infertile, not that the genetic incompatibility was lethal.
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Here's two more: karmaplatform.com and kdcalc.com. This whole area of converting end user produced Excel solutions to scalable systems does seem very promising. But no one has nailed it yet, and I suspect there are at least two reasons.
1) Over technical solutions that require a .xls to be converted into some other technical deployable eg kdcalc.com producing a .jar
2) The diversity of Excel based solutions eg spreadsheet as DB vs. spreadsheet as calc engine vs spreadsheet as reporting dashboard.

So when you say "convert a spreadsheet into a web app", it means many things to many people. Which is a real expectation management challenge!
Just like Ingress used to be Google!
Don't know about Seattle but my ISP does run a transparent proxy that does mitm for http and caches files.
They use http://www.peerapp.com/ devices to do so.
I was also successful in poisoning their cache quite easily
> It is a pretty sweet language with amazing features and type class

Type classes is the one thing that OCaml does not have. It might get a sort of similar to use mechanism called modular implicits, but we will see about that in the future.
In the early 2000s all the cool people were running Sun E450s, mod_* and Oracle, which makes 5 9s a little more reasonable than we see today with multiple layers of things to go wrong on less-managed platforms. I'm not throwing shade on any particular technologies, I'm just saying that the deployment and configuration management side of things these days is more complicated.
This is pretty cool. I've seen some startups try to tackle this (sorry don't remember the names) but I haven't seen someone actually make the search standardised.

My recommendation would be to make sure people are not giving custom names to stuff but rather choose from a list. This would make the whole searching thing much easier.

Good luck!
I'm also skeptical that there's a very large demographic for whom even $10/mo in subscription fees would break the bank.

But what can you buy with $10/m? The subscription to a single newspaper is more than that (and you often still get ads).
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AdonisJs 3.0 dev release is beyond the words
As a non-enterprise user, it has been disappointing to see GNOME invest more resources into immature apps like GNOME Music, GNOME Photos, and GNOME Web instead of trying to ensure that standard Linux applications without GNOME branding (like Rhythmbox or Banshee, Shotwell, or Chromium) are first-class citizens in their desktop environment.

Poetteringification: it's to GNOME's advantage (in some people's opinion as expressed by their actions) if the GNOME apps are better than the non-GNOME apps, so they're quite happy to break the non-GNOME apps because they're NIH.
YES PLZ
I stand corrected, my statement was too broad.

AWS had two regions in 2008 [1]. That was 7 years ago, and I think you would agree that running a distributed object storage system across an ocean is a whole different beast than ensuring individual connectivity to servers in 2016.

1: https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/global-infrastructure/
I've looked at Anker products in the past but it looked as if they didn't have any certification (TÜV, UL, CCC, GS). I'd rather trust a non-profit safety consulting company than one particular brand.
That said, UL LLC is no longer a non-profit since 2012.
RDP is the best we have… and at the same time one of the worst kitchen sink protocols I've seen.

• Encryption can be completely disabled, forcing plaintext login – to comply with French government orders at some point in the 90s. It's still implemented in a lot of clients, because why not?

• Serial and parallel port forwarding (suddenly, USB over JS doesn't seem that surprising any more…)

• SMB share forwarding (complete with 8-byte-name-limit)

• SMB printer forwarding (as opposed to parallel port printer forwarding). rdesktop's manpage helpfully states that "Keep in mind that you need a 100% match in the server environment, or the driver will fail." Charming!

• PCI device forwarding. Holy mother of DMA attacks!

You know, WebRTC doesn't seem too bad…
The per-core speed of a given CPU has been pretty stagnant for about 6 years... However, the number of cores (specifically in server hardware) continues to grow (slowly) and the CPUs themselves are using much less power per core than before.

There's more ways to improve than just faster cores.
> Has there ever been a recorded case where the request was denied, except maybe for even more shady reasons?

Yes. And most are never reported, since law enforcement will either fix what was wrong with their application, pursue a different line of investigation, or drop the investigation.

Perhaps you are thinking of FISA court surveillance requests in the national security arena. Those have been revealed to have an extremely low denial rate. But nonzero. And that's a different space than criminal search warrants.

Perhaps as important as the level of judicial scrutiny of warrants in the first instance, and their denial rate, is subsequent review. An improperly granted warrant is invalid. A party with notice of an invalid warrant can move to quash it. A criminal defendant implicated with evidence from an invalid warrant may be able to have the "fruit of the poisonous tree" suppressed.

Just a few: http://lmgtfy.com/?q=%22in+re+search+warrant%22

Your alternative is ridiculous; saying the police can conduct so many searches without respect as to whether or not there is probable cause that a crime has been committed and that the search will yield evidence of a crime.

The point of the warrant is to force police to show probable cause to a neutral arbiter. That, plus judicial review and the suppression rule, plus federal §1983/Bivens claims, provide a powerful check on arbitrary behavior by law enforcement. Of course most warrants are granted; for the most part police don't waste time going to judges saying outright "Joe Bloggs is suspicious, unlikable, and has a Green Party yard sign. We want to go turn his house over just to harass him with a fishing expedition." If the police are corrupt and abusing warrants, what would their motivation be to use them properly just because they had some arbitrary quota? If they use them properly, what purpose does a quota serve?

The idea that having to show a defensible reason to a judge with a paper trail is worse, betrays a complete ignorance of the legal system, and how much worse it could be in a really authoritarian society that doesn't have meaningful constitutional protections.
Not allowed to see porn on my phone. mk
Automated certificate deployment tools?
I have to manage a large number of VMs - different OSes - are there any tools that would automate installation of keys and certificates for SSH and/or into Java JKS?
Can't you do this with tmux instead?
No, it's completely reasonable — he didn't like what he was told and he left Twitter himself, instead of trying to turn it into a "safe space".
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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11476679
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11477135
Good observation. Only thing which really works on the dandruff is Ketoconazole. However, washing hair with ketoconazole shampoo can leave your dry. So I guess adding deep conditioner to the shampoo makes real sense. Also, I see lot of people apply hair oil before washing their hair with shampoo.

Do you like this idea? Please share your thoughts.
TreeRover – a tree planting robot
Games, mobile apps, desktop apps like Photoshop, Office, Intellij etc and some shrink wrapped server side apps. But you are right, some of these products are starting to have an online component as well.
Government IT projects are government IT projects, no matter what the end goal.
Google Glass isn't AR. It's a tiny HUD. AR understand your immediate visual context, not just your situational context, and can display any kind of overlay, anywhere in your field of vision.
Case in point: I'm not a console gamer and didn't pay any attention to what console he was using. It only registered as "playing a military FPS on a TV screen" which to me seemed like the obvious modern equivalent of punching a punching bag in the basement to relieve stress.
Absolutely. Working on auto-related stuff would be far more interesting to me than any of those three you mentioned.

Sure, but the question here is would you rather work on auto-related stuff at Ford or Apple? Admittedly I have no idea what Apple is up to, but I do know from a couple of acquaintances working in the car industry that they've recently interviewed a ton of automotive engineers.
I am reading about this story for a while now and still do not get what is so surprising about it. While people of caucasian descent all share about 2% of their DNA with the Neanderthals, thats all random bits and not a single larger fragment or even chromosome. The latter would need to happen for the Y Chromosome. All Chromosomes but Y (and Mitochondria) can exchange fragments with their homologs but as there is always just one Y chromosome in any given cell, thats is not going to happen there. Therefore, if we should find it, we would find a whole Y Chromosome. But that is not going to happen. And that is honestly not very surprising...
Nice idea.

But the whole idea of OpenBazaar is that it's decentralized. I guess you'll be the "center" in this case. If OpenBazaar becomes big enough, I think this will work (and face competition from hundreds of clones) but if it stays the niche it is today, I'd assume this won't work because currently the only people who use it are people who care about the "decentralized" part. The reason for that is everything else at OpenBazaar currently sucks. (Early stage problems)

I could be wildly wrong though, I'm not an expert in this domain.
AR can be turned into VR with a plastic cap. Any approach using VR plus cameras to imitate AR is flawed due to unnecessary latency.
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I guess I will accept those as a list of luxuries that are available now that would have required servants to match before 1916 ( I guess if you had servants the hot and cold running water, the refrigerator and microwave were matched in utility - and servants are a luxury.)

However there are a number of luxuries that have not increased in these years that are pretty important, such as personal space and privacy, my house and I suppose yours have this luxury. The houses I grew up in, and which poor people are living in now, often do not have these luxuries.

There is another thing that it seems was not a luxury in 1916 and is becoming now, relative freedom from the threat of eviction. According to the article there is a greater deal of eviction of today's poor than there was in the past, and I think that luxury might be really important if you have children. Important enough that I would be willing to trade indoor plumbing, microwave and TV for it, maybe some other luxuries if I was given the tools to make up for them (tools like ice delivery and so forth).

Finally given the low quality of poor people's housing not all of these luxuries you list can be counted on as being available, if for example the heating breaks it might take months to fix etc, so the luxury at the level is highly variable.
There is a vast gaping chasm of difference between leaving a place that you don't like because there are things you don't want to hear (aka flouncing off Twitter), and wanting that place to be censored so you can go there without hearing those things (aka safe spaces).

If you believe that people should be free to say things without fear of censorship, even if they're things that you don't like, then "safe spaces" are a really bad idea.
Maybe it's just a test to see how quickly this was broken.
I think that's a little unfair. As far as I'm aware, Stephen Fry hasn't, say, demanded that Twitter take action to prevent people from being offensive on the platform, or that they kick people off for the same.

There's a distinct difference between being offended by something and 'flouncing' away, versus demanded that people be prevented from doing things which offend you in the first place. Stephen Fry is the former; 'safe spaces' are the latter.
NeWS was really cool. Back in 1987/88 I used an early release of NeWS for my final-year undergrad project. It was made a little more challenging by only having a photocopy of a pre-release of the documentation, that was missing all the diagrams.

The model was really cool - completely different from X11, which is much more limited. With X, your app runs on the client and sends drawing commands to the display server. With NeWS, you can split your app arbitrarily between the client and the display server. The client simply extends the server by sending it postscript functions to locally interpret when asynchronous events happen. So you can write new widgets, and they run entirely on the display server so get really low latency, while the rest of the app is running remotely over a piece-of-wet-string network connection.

You could be sitting in from of a display running a nice interactive GUI, with the app running in a different country or over a modem connection. At least you could if the application designer got it right. Getting the split of functionality between the client and server (and the communication between them) right was definitely more challenging than writing X apps, but the benefits were significant.
I used to work with fMRI scanners, and I would definitely not want to lay inside completely still while tripping on acid for 8 hours. Interesting results though.
To be fair, getting of Twitter because you find the interaction became toxic is in line with what he is propagating. If you are a staunch believer in the concept of safe-spaces and trigger-free environments, you would stay on Twitter and expect everyone to adhere to those principles. But the world doesn't work like that, and people become complete and utter twats behind the veil of anonymity afforded by the internet.

If you don't like the way rude people act, and you can't reason with them or have a meaningful dialogue, you can simply ignore them. If a communication tool turns from a cheerful digital village square into a seedy back-alley, getting out of there is sensible. That seems to me opposite of insisting that people accommodate you at all costs, which is what he is criticizing.
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https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/treerover-a-tree-planting...

Not quite 1/second, but imagine having a bunch of these running around in your neighbourhood.
> ... or the release by Bloomberg of an OCaml to JavaScript compiler

I have never heard of bloomberg/bucklescript.

How does it compare to js-of-ocaml? (which is what the author actually uses, according to the article)
An article here a couple of weeks ago claimed that sea weed is more effective than tree fighting carbon dioxide, and it seems cheaper to plant and manage... Shouldn't we focus on it instead of trees ?
The SLO is 99.95%.
Tesla has found a way to extend the $7,500 tax credit past 200,000 cars
There are quite a few formalisations of category theory for proof assistants. For a relatively recent overview, see:

https://mathoverflow.net/questions/152497/formalizations-of-...
AR glasses that understand mirrors and with a good physics engine could do wonders for the fashion industry.

You could try out clothes and accessories and anything else in front of any mirror and get incredibly realistic renders of how you'd look. You could even experiment with different colors trivially. It could even render multiple alternatives next to each other. And you could be assisted just like normally by a sales person who can give you personal advice and suggestions.

Just about anything involving design could benefit beyond fashion as well, like being able to try different colors or other customizations on a car, or with furniture, etc.

In fact you could even get live remote assistance with this like home decoration and layouts, getting suggestions with live renders for what to place where. Or that same service but for gardening.

Then there's IRL MMORPG, LARP:s would never be the same again. Imagine Ingress with AR.
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Spotify founder threatening to move operations from Sweden (transl)
Sometimes my girlfriend reminds me that its kinda fucked up that I get excited when the things I need to understand are presented to me in a more readable way but still look like the Matrix to her.
Every generation takes what the previous generation set in motion and expounds on it. This is obvious when looking at things like extreme sports and technology. The irony is that the "infantile" behavior he is complaining about is just the cultural neoteny of the last generation being adopted by the next and extended a bit. There is a trend on shows like Dave Rubins to blame liberals for this. I think it has nothing to do with political affiliation and is just a side effect of modernity. Just complaining about trigger warnings shows a lack of priority and is a bit infantile. There is global warming and nukes to worry about. :/ see....irony.
It is a very lucrative sector

http://www.paragontruckrouting.com/
Five years after split, Honda rides strong but Hero remains No 1
This will translate to a very well deserved bonus for all parties involved. Except, you know, the tax payers and citizens who aren't.
Right. You continue to exemplify my point.

Talkers truly underestimate the bandwidth it takes to engage someone properly, and if you're not engaging someone properly, your presence is just insulting.

If you're in an open office without walls or cubicles, and people kept talking to you, you wouldn't get anything done. Their excuse? That they're living, sociable, human beings. Well, tell that to your boss.

Think of a busy kitchen. People don't talk beyond the signals required to advance workflow. Of course, everyone can chat when they're not busy. But that's also when the business isn't making any money. Restaurants close to take you off the clock.

Think of all the jobs that require focus, like programming and writing. Think of all the jobs that are so much easier with focus, like almost every job.

Of course, if you like to talk, just get a job that requires it. Waiters get to talk while they wait for customers, and get to talk with customers. Journalists, teachers, lawyers, consultants, entertainers.

And my suggestion was to know when to shut up, not that everyone must work in silence. There is a time for communication, and for your presentation skills to shine. It just isn't "whenever I feel sociable because that's who I am, yo". But that's school! Get it?

And all this, they DO NOT TEACH IN SCHOOL.
Show HN: Smoovie pocket-sized video stabilizer for smartphones and GoPro
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Yes, the computations are all done server-side, which lets us parallelize big computations. It also keeps our thorny evaluation logic crisp and maintainable, because Haskell. =)
NeWS was lovely --- the application got to download custom logic via Postscript onto the display server and run it there, so you could run interactive applications quite comfortably on high-latency links. Proper MVC separation!

Also, it had PizzaTool. http://www.donhopkins.com/home/catalog/images/pizzatool.gif

Source code: http://www.donhopkins.com/home/code/pizzatool.ps.txt

I've always rather wondered why no open source NeWS clone never came along.
The entire story here is about crime, specifically in the USA. All criminal defendants in the USA are entitled to a trial by jury on all factual elements of the offense to reach a verdict, unless explicitly waived by the defendant. Most defendants waive a trial (usually by plea of guilty), but relatively few who go to trial waive a jury.

Judges do rule on pretrial proceedings including warrant applications; although in federal and some state jurisdictions grand juries still return indictments on felonies.

That said it is wrong that judges do not decide criminal cases. Besides ruling on evidence and instructing jurors, they can also acquit, dismiss, or declare mistrial without the jury.

N.B. Right to jury may not apply to so-called "petty" and/or non-criminal offenses which can carry as much as 6 months jail.
The most likely danger with this fault is that someone would touch both the live device and ground, causing a path to ground. This would cause any RCD to trip. It's obvious that whoever owned this didn't have one installed because even the cable shorting to a grounded radiator didn't cause a trip.
This is cool. I tried to do something when Groupon was hot. I had a site that was a Groupon just for travelers.

As we already had all the tools, we thought it would be easy. The idea was to bring together many people who wanted to buy something and then try to negotiate a better price with the dealer. Neither worked. Do something with big scale is very complicated.

I think only two people negotiating could work. As proven by facebook groups that are horrible =). If you do something with a better UX, than the Facebook, and guarantees for both, I think will work.
An article by Tyler Cowen of the Mercatus Center - "the most important think tank you've never heard of." [1]

If you're interested in the background of this interesting organization, there's some funding information at [2].

It's maybe not that surprising that a board member of an economics outreach effort heavily funded by Koch Industries would argue for the freedom of the very rich to "to minimize their tax burden through (mostly) legal shell corporations," especially considering that the Kochs were exposed doing just this by a previous round of ICIJ published leaks. [3]

But maybe it's worth asking why such a reasonable practice, totally within the law, would be so secret in the first place that it takes leaks like these to make it known.

1: http://web.archive.org/web/20070824203256/http://gazette.gmu...

2: http://www.desmogblog.com/mercatus-center

3: https://www.icij.org/project/luxembourg-leaks/new-leak-revea...
Reminds me of softice