skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Even the word for bags in a supermarket can't be agreed on. Here we use "buste", where as in the north they use "sacchetto". Our word there means envelope, so obviously you will get a funny look if you ask for three envelopes when paying for your groceries (the joke is on us though, we use that word for envelope too :P).

Ha, that reminds me of sac in the north of France versus poche (the word northerners would use for the thing in their trousers) as used in the south(-west?) to designate a plastic bag in a supermarket...
To be honest, fightaging theme isn't the most 'serious' looking one. First page content seem technical enough to compensate though.
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Very close to what I was thinking. BTC or possibly a credit card for the kid to use. Doesn't need to go through a bank. Kid gets a card, parent accepts chore, piggybank charges parent, piggybank credits kid.

The problem as I see it is the founders didn't think about what they were doing, and didn't have the right attitude to find another way.
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The AiraWear massage hoodie is absurd, but it works
My Career with the Phone Company
Have you heard of this thing called Android?
Easy Karma
That's entirely the point though, especially since free-for-alling marketplace, Amazon have proved their rating is worse than useless. If you trust the star rating without reading the reviews of every item you have more money than sense, or it's a £1 item.

I basically do have to read the reviews of every item I buy from Amazon or buy somewhere more trustworthy. Which is most places of enough size to be well known.

That's really sad because in the early days of Amazon, before marketplace, Vine and unchecked shills, their rating was one of the better metrics going. They threw away every single ounce of trust they had earnt. Apparently intentionally.

IMDB ratings are the same - so untrustworthy as to be worthless noise. Early IMDB, before Amazon, I could trust the ratings blind.
Visual Basic 3.0
Any version of Turbo Pascal or Delphi.
dBase II.
> The technology advances when it can advance, no matter what.

I know it's a popular theory but I don't know that it stands up to scrutiny. Nuclear weapons technology hasn't advanced in many years, for example; the few who could do the R&D don't seem interested. Technologies involving cannibis and LSD have not advanced in large part, AFAICT, because they are illegal. How do you overcome those and other obstacles I raised above? Another: Powerful interests freeze development in many industries.

Here's another way of thinking of it, more theoretically: There are an effectively infinite number of technologies that could be developed; only a few are chosen. Almost all tech is ignored.

I think that calling it inevitable is a way to duck difficult questions and obligations, similar to the way that some blame the free market and self-interest for their choices (as if those are gods who forced the mortal's hands).
That's interesting but I think it addresses a different problem. It seems to be directed at having a more natural and intuitive way to construct and analyse data.

The thing is most business users are already familiar with pivot tables in Excel, for as clunky as they are. But Excel is not only used for data, it is also largely used for a complex business logic. And that's where you have a logic which IT will struggle to understand and therefore should rather not own, and that the business needs to set up and maintain. Think complex tax calculations, or a business plan, or the logic for a quote on a big project, etc. These will be highly non trivial in term of the logic the spreadsheet will follow, and that's where a library that could just reliably swallow a spreadsheet and make it a function IT can use but the business can maintain has a lot of value.
Imagine if all gyms were replaced with cocktail bars. Has science fiction done this yet?
A moving average might be a good idea there.

Giving Vine reviews a strike probably cuts all the "I received this item on spec..." garbage, with or without photo. what's left is photos from hopefully "normal" reviewers.
People ask me all the time will this ubeam technology work. I tell them of course it will, believe me I know. And who are those naysayers anyway? Have you looked at ubeam's investors? They're yuuuge. 4 rounds financing and counting. Number one in the polls that matter. And who's complaining? Low energy unfunded technoid losers just sitting around and throwing bricks. Where is their funding? Ubeam's got $23M in four rounds. If they slander them much more, I think they'll have to sue them for libel. That'll show them. Just another few rounds and they'll get this stuff finished and shipped. There will be energy zapping all over the place. People will get sick of all their gadgets that will be charging for free everywhere. They'll pay the company to remove the chargers, there's too much ubeam energy everywhere. Investors are calling all the time wanting to give ubeam more money. They never had a deal this good. Yuuuuge I tell you, yuuuuge!
Visual Studio's debugger still smokes anything I've used since. You could literally drag the program counter to the point you wanted, rewrite your code, and start stepping through it again.

That, and the ability to double click on a damned button and see what it did... What a golden era.
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Haha. It's like AST (abstract syntax tree), but for human language. We just need the code generator to make human language run on CPUs. </joking>
Thats weird, because actual real engineers realized what is possible, and what would be the result of trying to deliver the lie BEFORE company managed to scam first $20mil. In case you are wondering this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YI3NoBeNwfk is the likely outcome of trying to charge couple of phones at the same time in enclosed space the size of starbucks (actual pitch at some point) with this technology.
> The actual engineers working on the project (including the one in this "spat") at some point realize the actual limitations of what is possible physics wise

From reading the blog of their former VP of engineering [0] I got the impression that the actual engineers were aware from the start of the limitations of what was physically possible. Instead, said engineer seems to have only realized with time something else: that the founder and CEO was perfectly at ease with making unrealistic promises to raise truckloads of funding at valuations that were impossible to justify with the performances he (and the other engineers) knew were physically possible.

[0] http://liesandstartuppr.blogspot.com/
A bit of a duplicate comment that my response to melchebo above: looking at it quickly, it looks like it addresses a different problem. PowerApps seems to be directed at giving business users the ability to quickly create a simple CRUD application / website. But I think the use case where the business logic has to sit in Excel and be owned by the business is where you have a complex logic in Excel, like a tax calculation, or a regulatory formula, or some complex quote for a client, etc. They are problems that are intrinsically complex and that IT can't really productionise by just looking at a couple of formulas, and where having the ability to express the logic in Excel but use it on a server has value.
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Ask HN: Advice on Filing a Patent Without a Lawyer?
What's your advice on filing a patent without a lawyer. The cost of using an IP lawyer is prohibitively expensive for me. I did quick search and what I found seems encouraging. For example, see this:

http://www.inc.com/articles/2000/03/18173.html
I don't think they will. Or rather they won't deliver anything as good as what they promise. Imagine you're testing for something that requires 10 modified white blood cells per million. A pinprick drop of blood has about 7,000,000 white blood cells in it. So you might expect to see 70 modified cells... but only if those cells are evenly distributed throughout the patients blood. They're not. They're randomly distributed. So the statistical likelihood of getting a false negative is high.

The answer to that is to take more blood, from a vein. You can't make a more accurate test because you simply don't have the necessary information. If you do take more blood then the test gets as expensive as a normal test and you no longer have any cost advantage.
Please read it from a consumer perspective about consumer topics: (of course B2B is very different, where other things matter)

* products/software without DRM, always-online, analytics, tracking and spy "features" - bad for consumer personal privacy, and prevents second hand market, products cannot be owned anymore, try buying Windows 10, John Deer tractor, Tesla S without that crap

* Cash money: those Davos attendees started a war against consumers - electronic money transfer is useful, yes, but without cash money everything in daily life can be tracked and you can loose everything over night it's just a digital number after all, state wants negative interest rates ... just a matter of a mouse click, a normal consumer would get a kind of a slave, as we learned from cases like "1984" or various real cases like former state East Germany, while wealthy folks have numerous companies in various countries. Some states already started to limit the amount of cash money one is allowed to carry and eliminated entire cash notes like the 500 EURO note. Some probably fall for the propaganda that it's a way to limit criminals - as if those wouldn't use shell companies and electronic money transfer.

* Erosion of the idea of ownership: some like renting things and consume services, fine, but others prefer owning things like a house, a car, a computer device. And with ownership I mean also the possibility to sell the stuff to someone else and using it without an artificial time limit.
This kind of representation is famously done by word2vec, also from Google, and the Python package Gensim. Many NLP projects start directly from word embeddings precomputed on very large corpora of text.
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SML needs a roadmap forward.
Linksys WRT routers won’t block open source firmware despite FCC rules
My wife spent 10 years in Surrey before moving in with me. We are thinking of moving to Canada, currently living in Bay Area, myself a developer for last 5+ years, earning decently but just tired of the Silicon-Valley rat race (commute, real-estate ownership and long term family settlement) and the weird systems here (immigration [being affected] + general political sentiment[long term, not currently affected]), and not able to decide whether to go to Vancouver or TO or any other option? Most likely, I will be working remotely for the same company and making trips every month or two when I move. Do you mind if you share any advice you might have? Thanks!
Is the plan to start advocating for using rustup on the homepage?
But will it integrate with Twitter? (had to do it, with a name like chirp)...

I haven't used any of Amazon's voice products (voice search for firetv, or an echo), so can't compare... with a good connection, I will say Google's has been decent... but they still have a ways to go on giving the correct answer.
Thank you for your advice.Do u think if you push live trade with the twitter api it will have positive impact i.e anyone can get a stock update provided they subscribe to a trading company of their choice.
Two comments
1) If the investor had another idea of how to make the product work, why did that not come up earlier? You should be working "with" your angel investor, not selling your work to him so he can run it.

2) You took the wrong lesson from this. "Don't even think about building your product" is the wrong mentality. Build it quick and get a few people using it. Figure out what you need to do to get people using it. The MVP for piggybank didn't include payments (possibly) or it had something else.

The founders here didn't find a way to make this product work. It's a great idea (I think) and now the first Angel investor is going to take it and make it work because for some strange reason the founders saw the hard road, the one which could break them and destroy their dreams and they decided to run straight into that wall with their eyes closed instead of finding a different route around.
The universal basic income is a bad idea whose time will never come
Rust:

$ cargo new --bin hello
$ cd hello
$ cargo build --release
$ strace ./target/release/hello 2>&1 | wc -l
124
The most difficult issue I've encountered is identifying a format to use. Here are some specifications, which I think are widely applicable:

* Readable 100 years from now. If that sounds crazy, consider whether your family currently has photos 75-100 years old? Ours does, and I don't think it's unusual. Come to think of it, possibly the factor that determines the age of a family's archive is how long they have had access to cameras.

* Maximum fidelity: Complete and correct, over time. This involves resolution, color gamut and some sort of color correction (I'm not quite sure; I'm no color expert), and error correction for the ravages of time.

* Metadata: Stored in the same file as the image (otherwise the relationship between image file and metadata file will almost certainly be lost in 100 years), readable 100 years from now (UTF-8 seems the obvious choice), machine-readable and parsable for building databases, user-defined fields, and editable (to add and update information after the image is created).

* End-user control of data: That online service you're using might not be around in 100 years, or even in 1.

Maybe I'm missing one or two specs here, but does anyone know the recommended solutions? What do professional archivists use?
Key phrase

"I became very enthusiastic about it."
Completely agree, this was just the first foray into documenting this project and I wanted to make it less heavy on the details of the hardware to reach a wider audience. I'm definitely going to put up a more technical post and the sources/schematics as soon as I can.

To answer your questions, it's hard wired with the control logic made out of the simpler chips (7400, 7408, 7432 etc) but the rest of the system does contain more complex chips, the 74181 ALUs being the largest.
May I ask you what you think about organ generation. As testbed I mean, is it naive to believe it could be a better substrate than ex-vivo, and than in-vivo in other animals ?
The Self-Taught Developer Path
Try `rustup target add aarch64-apple-ios` and see how far you get. It's a tier 2 platform so it usually has builds available. But the iOS targets are some of the least tested for Rust. I have no idea if they work!

The process for adding tier 2 platforms isn't well defined but is closely related to ease of automation. If it can be done in a Docker container then it is simple to build std and ship it. Right now we're enthusiastic about this level of support - we can provide builds of std for lots of things. As long as somebody cares just enough to keep std building, which is pretty easy to do.

Whether those builds work at all is a different matter! We don't run tests on most tier 2 platforms. It's a big commitment to do so, even more to keep the tree green.

Personally, I really want to say that in time Rust will have perfect test and build automation on all platforms that matter even a little bit. All platforms are on a slow treadmill to perfection. They all come with maintenance burden, but the more successful the project is the more maintenance (and perfection) we can afford. Hm, I hope that's how it works...
check those who are citing them with the keyword 'oxygen': https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=oxygen&cites=1233997312... (or without it: https://scholar.google.com/scholar?&cites=123399731234947157... )
Second that recommendation. There's a lot of stuff to check out but even just flipping through his analysis is really informative. If you're interested in financial shenanigans (or bond market liquidiry) this is the thing to read.

His writing is a national treasure (well for financial news anyways)

I don't think he 100% gets the technicalities of bitcoin though, but hey even bitcoiners don't get that...
Still a pain to see the Dev Tools together with the website in the same window. The DT pane reduces the available screen for the website and creates problems when trying to check layout while having access to the internals. I was hoping they would crack that problem.
Magic 1 was what inspired me to start the project, I continue to be in awe at the ambition of Bill's project. Watch this space for a more technically focused post.
Provia 400x :(
Ask HN: Peer to peer learning
what do you think will be the future of classroom learning?do you think live streaming will replace going to school much the same way sms/emails replaced post offices?
Bayesian reasoning. You and him had different prior beliefs. It's quite justifiable because we live with incomplete information about the world.
Url changed from https://boingboing.net/2016/05/13/clicking-buy-now-doesnt.ht..., which points to this.
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I just can't comprehend how something as trivial as indexing can be a deal-breaker for someone. I write 0-based most of the time, but I can think of as many advantages for 1-based indexing as I can for 0-based. The only time I can understand prefering 0-based is in C or something of a similar level, where indexing is just syntactic sugar for pointer arithmetic.
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Grouping or Batching Tasks for Hyper Productivity
Well in the past ownership in shares were linked to pieces of paper. So moving everything around in a 1:1 relation with the real trades is annoying. Much easier to just move things in bulk at the end of the day.

The ownership layer mechanisms are not ways to make more money, but ways to spend less money. It's like how if we're both using the same broker to buy/sell the same stock, the broker could just... Change his records and not actually do any trading.

Though now some layers could be simplified, at one point they stop being middlemen and start being offerers of liquidity. Or something. Is your bank a middleman for mixing your dollars with other people's dollars?
FLOW: State in Productivity
I'm worried that DownThemAll and other major add-ons will be abandoned with Firefox's changes soon.
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Another alternative: theoldreader.com - they aim for a very close replica of the original.
and my ability to stay up late at night and work. I pass out no matter what. This is what family and responsibilities do to you. I don't regret having a family but it did impact my ability to work substantially.
In the US news business, $100k/month is strictly the domain of TV on-screen personality presenters; i.e., not the reporters, but network affiliate anchors who are referred to in-house as 'the talent'. Absurd sums of money when you look at the rest of the newsroom staff salaries, but this is all about ratings, sweeps and very local/regional popularity.
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0-based indexing is technically superior, because it makes offsets for memory addressing simpler.
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winamp was all you needed. no bloated UI. just play music.
How does one subscribe to this column?

Do you use RSS or do you get this as an email on your inbox?

I noticed it has a feed icon next to the <h1> of the page but clicking it leads me to a 404. Perhaps you can share an rss link that works.
The internet when it was all web sites and I just learned about google.

Just before everyone and their dog got a "blog" and way before Facebook and Twitter.
pinboard.in replaced that perfectly for me.
Indexing is not for counting elements, it's to reach a particular one.
That's addressed in the article. The LLVM backend is on the way and Rust will be able to take advantage of it relatively easily, it seems. Emscripten is more of an intermediate step to get Rust working on the web in the meantime—I doubt it's going to be the long-term solution for Rust on the web.
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The main problem is that technically, the DTC owns all the shares. So there needs to be a system in place so the DTC knows how to vote for the 'for practical purposes' shareholders

It's kind of like when you sublet your apartment . you're renting the place, but you are also renting it out, so who is the renter?

The simplest idea is that those who hold shares should vote. But that idea leads to the DTC casting all votes.
These were amazing. So much power and flexibility. Todays IDEs are somehow far less powerful and more complicated sadly.
Graham Hancock has an interesting theory of a worldwide civilization that was wiped out (along with the mastodon) by a comet hitting the north american icecap during the younger dryas period around 11000 years ago.

http://www.amazon.com/Magicians-Gods-Forgotten-Wisdom-Civili...
The question is, assuming that life survived space travel, can it survive there, let alone thrive?

Also, the people involved in those missions must have known about the possibility of contamination. Do they take no steps against it?
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If you scroll down to the bottom of one of his money stuff articles there's a CTA (email signup form).

I also noticed the busted RSS recently on Bloomberg. Don't know what's up
Please explain how to lift the constructors of Maybe to typeclass instances where its use can be monomorphised.
I wish something better than yahoo pipes existed in the first place. I mean, I love the idea, but every time I tried to use it for something more than a toy, I ran into the same issue - I need to unpack one item into several items and switch to processing those. I never found a good solution for that and ended up writing own python/requests/lxml processor instead.
Same here, especially the first version.
Thanks that worked. If anyone is interested here's a direct link for the subscribe form.

http://www.bloomberg.com/view/?alcmpid=view&subscribe-form=l...
Do you know about https://www.haiku-os.org/ already? It's actually quite usable.
If you're in .NET or Powershell, and Excel is installed on the PC, you already have the Excel libraries. Not to mention the amazing ubiquity of functions to convert, import, manipulate, export, and otherwise work with spreadsheets. Or just work with the functions directly.
Winamp still exists, I think.
While I agree that it's easy to misinterpret statistics. And I agree that sometimes the government needs to restrict freedom of choice to nudge the collective good for the betterment of society. I just can't see testing as one of those issues compared to the other health issues of society, like overwork, junk food, sedentary life styles etc...
Depends on your depth. I'm 38, and I have opportunities thrown at me every day, based on a resume with work experience going back to '99, so my age is easy to tell (I'd actually assume that I was 40 from my resume).

There's some ageism, but if you're current on technologies and are charismatic during a phone interview you can make it happen.
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Interleaf, an electronic document application that did (nearly) everything Word does but better. Repaginate a 2000 page document, according to rules that you know will not place graphics hanging halfway off the page? Create a table of contents in seconds across several books? Lisp extension language? It was very good. All before Windows 2, and on UNIX workstations. The current document creation tools just make me want to cry.