skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sure, but as a global personal computing infrastructure, the idea of absolutely ensuring that some people's identities will be worth more than others (not only in terms of monetary worth, but in terms of trust, etc) based on an artificial limit is a bit weird.
If you're interested in Linux-specific benchmarks, https://phoronix.com/ has some, and in general http://anandtech.com and http://www.hardocp.com .
Can't wait to get details of this game here in Shanghai via VPN
Can you do the work? Then do the work. But outside of that ...

Try to analyse what it is about the job that you hate. You say the team feels lethargic? Is it the work that's made it so, or has it become a cultural thing that's self-perpetuating?

Having looked at that, the puzzle to solve, the challenge to set yourself is this: Can you change your job?

A colleague of mine spent the first three months in his real job coming to understand the work, the next three months coming to understand the internal dynamics, and the next six months slowly changing his job description and specification to become something challenging, rewarding, and enjoyable.

Can you do that? There's your challenge.
"uBeam could be vaporware"

You don't say?

Seriously — uBeam's claims were always ridiculous. Anybody with any kind of engineering background should be able to feel it instinctively, and be convinced after spending a couple of minutes with pen and paper.
They attempted to go with "repulsive" for a nuclear waste disposal site in Finland, there's a really cool documentary:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GmWadizC8AQ
Bone Lisp – Lisp Without Garbage Collection
(My first, and last, conspirationist comment here.)

Wow, so maybe the Egyptian pyramids were indeed built (or at least - planned) by aliens, so to cover a dangerous site... let's dig under then to see if it's true!
Armiga Project (Hardware based Amiga emulation) Store Now Open to General Buyers
That's awesome!

I have a suggestion: I love how when you tap a week number it zooms to that week. But I think it would be useful if it resets to the previous zooming if you tap it again.
And what does this have to do with anything? Let's not get distracted here and get back to discussing facts about the technology (which can't possibly work like they are claiming).
Most of them are closed, at least I couldn't find one which fit my needs and also none explain what they do very well.

But hey, I can't answer your question, since I cannot upvote on my own post, so I'm not the one calling it interesting ;)
Not if that was the goal in the first place. See also: pre-mining digital currency blocks, land ownership and other attempts to corner the market.
He inspired me too after studying some of his games and reading about him and his philosophy to the game, playing as Black did become more fun as well.
Its not. We've been in the Eternal September of Hacker News for a bit now. This is interesting to all the people learning javascript/programming/graphics for the first time and they're a sizable portion of the users.
> The high proportion of usage in the car would suggest it has more to do with the hands-free law that regulate driving and texting vs. a free choice by consumers to embrace this technology.

I doubt this conclusion. For one, given how many people I see everyday driving while holding a smartphone to their ear, it does not seem that too many people are concerned with that particular law. Couldn't it be instead that driving is a situation where not having to use your hands is perceived as an actual benefit?
As someone who was there: Darkness was impressive for sure, but not all that fun to watch, since it was mostly static dioramas, which the viewer can grok in a few seconds, and then it goes "oh and each one has a little jiggle too". Camera movement is minimal, and even when its there it doesn't expose anything new in the scene to the viewer. Additionally every scene is mostly faked with very obvious 2D shapes, meaning if the camera moved too much, the illusion would break. Lastly, the music was quite dull and not connected with what was on screen.

Fermi Paradox was also dioramas, but: Each one had had some engaging event happening, or at least well directed camera movements that exposed new visuals to the viewer over time or show-cased the full 3d nature of each scene. Additionally each scene had at least one well done graphics effect. The music was almost movie quality and in a few parts nicely synched up with the visuals.
Thanks! Spent quite some time searching for the algorithm in Google, DDG, what-have-you, but didn't find something that does exactly what I want and also none that explains it lucidly for anyone who wants to understand it.
I have to concur on this one - the effects it had on me could be more usable in real life. I was reconstructing an apartment, doing design of places like bathrooms by myself - the ideas coming in random & semi-continuous stream very very usable, it was just hard write them down fast enough to not forget some.

Same for some ideas for work that come when home. Also, "processing" some harder moments and making some tougher decisions in life worked very, very well with this substance.

I think truth might be somewhere in between - we perceive things as better/easier/less while high, but it's an altered state of mind with different perspective, and it's up to us if we make a fart out of it, or something more meaningful.
New compiler tackles JavaScript's weak typing
Hey! I use it for many of my personal notes. When I'm not using txt.
Disciplined Inconsistency [pdf]
JavaScript sleep Function
Is this a problem where multiple connections wouldn't help?

I can add an option to saldl[1] to use a new connection with each chunk. But I'm not sure there are real world examples where this would help.

[1] https://github.com/saldl/saldl
> Surely written warnings, if some future society discovers them, they might be curious enough to have decrypted at least one of our present day languages/methods of communication.

The pyramids were known for their entire duration of their existence, and investigated and/or plundered regularly. But we lost all knowledge of hieroglyphs for a time period of almost two thousand years (until we found the rosetta stone).

And at the same time we were using Uranium to give glass a wonderfully green sheen. And it glowed in the dark, too! Awesome!

If there is an event cataclysmic enough to wipe out all knowledge of nuclear repositories, it will likely wipe out human civilization at large. We can't make really useful predictions how much knowledge will be kept, and at what pace it will be rediscovered.
Performance monitoring got badges
It's all much more fun with an over-sensitive (broken) home button at a festival. Random calls for everyone!
1080: http://www.hardocp.com/article/2016/05/17/nvidia_geforce_gtx...

1070: http://www.hardocp.com/article/2016/06/06/nvidia_geforce_gtx...

Other benchmarks: http://www.trustedreviews.com/nvidia-geforce-gtx-1080-review...
Mining, dynamite or otherwise, has to be for something. So why would people dig super far down in the desert through sand and worthless rocks?
I thought the common wisdom (not saying it's correct) was that dogs had been domesticated several times (not just twice) and most modern dog breeds are derived from a mix of different (but closely related) animals?
India seeks to renegotiate treaties with 47 nations (ISDS)
Facing Data Deluge, Secret UK Spying Report Warned of Intelligence Failure
How one should know that a combination of signs (or a separate sign) stands from "death" not, e.g. "food", "fortune", "treasure", "fame", etc? Regardless of in how many different languages or styles repeated.
If you activate Google's voice recognition from a bluetooth headset, it will respond to you through the headset -- but you often have to interact with the device anyway, to get it to do more than the most simple of things.
I feel jealous instead. Being a bit old myself, I learned static typing from C and Pascal. It somewhat naturally led me to a conclusion that static type systems are these primitive, repetitive annotations which guarantee almost nothing while cluttering the code. It took me many years - and learning many languages - to recover from this perception.
Top 3 Reasons to Opt for a Visitor Management System
Saying thank you goes a long way
And yet nobody has yet to dig hundreds of feet under the pyramids to find out what they're really hiding.
Also, the thing will be practically made of Rosetta Stone, designed on purpose to help translate.

Really, there is nothing to worry about.
Hi. Thanks for the interesting article. Unfortunately link https://juxt.pro/yada-example?thing=dear%20reader leads to "401: Unauthorized result".

PS Oh, sorry, I've got it. My bad :)
Excellent app! I too am jealous you beat me to it.

I just wanted to say one thing, you can make it open source, or wait until someone else does it.
Below the intro paragraph on the homepage are two links: "Learn more" and "jump to the technical docs".

Given your aversion to the technical docs, I'd imagine you might click "learn more". This scrolls the page down to another lead in para with links to "overview" and "beliefs and principles".

So sure, it's two clicks not one but are you seriously telling me the https://urbit.org/posts/overview/ (posted on HN the other day) isn't a well written explanation of what Urbit is / does / why you'd be interested in it?

[edit]: typo.
After update some Samsung's phones can't recognize fingerprints and passwords
+1 for CalDav support, currently it looks like it only works with Google Calendar.

I've moved away from Google Calendar to self-hosted CalDAV, but there's a frustrating lack of good Calendar apps that support it. I'd like to give this a try!
Have trust fund - will travel
Ask HN: What is the most malicious piece of JavaScript I can run on a web page?
On a tangent, this reminded of this 2D shadow mapping technique.

https://github.com/mattdesl/lwjgl-basics/wiki/2D-Pixel-Perfe...
Have you really read that article? Their main focus is on how to enforce customizable writing styles/rules/constraints. They want a lightweight markup language like XML+DTD.
"The original is unfaithful to the translation."
--Jorge Luis Borges
I had that same exact idea years ago but didn’t finished it. Congrats, looks very, very promising.
I had a hilarious experience being brought into a meeting at Steorn, designed to explain to potential investors and commentators the technology and the origins behind it.

I'm not going to make any comment on the intentions of the founders or even on the technology itself. The presentation itself however was comically childlike and questions were answered with a circularity that was amazing to witness. What I noticed, though, was that if you ask penetrating questions and if someone calmly and persistently fails to address the core of your question then other people eventually accept that your question has been answered!
Lattices and the associated Galois connections are used quite a bit in the Abstract Interpretation school of program analysis [1].

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abstract_interpretation
A very clever idea. The UX and the ease to onboard with the demo are both well executed. Congratulations!
Language Hacking in a Live Programming Environment
This article is making a clear dog whistle.

And I'm calling it on it, if you can't see that I'm sorry but you really need to look harder at the media.

So I'm being on topic for what the article is actually saying.
Live Literals
Why the cynicism? I don't get a "holier than thou" vibe from this article at all. To me, it reads as a simple progress report about one person's trial in embracing something other than consumerism to fill emptiness. I think this individual should be congratulated for even trying.
Blizzard Challenge 2016 – Study for the improvement of synthetic voices
'Alarming' rise in ransomware tracked
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How did we figure out any historic languages? We researched them and analysed them. It's not really my field but there are ways of doing this and we've been doing it for thousands of years.
It's not completely unlike Roadside Picnic, which I highly recommend.
Great app. I hope you will make apps via apache cordova from it and upload it to the app stores.
If the millions you are surrounded with are living exactly the same way, then yes--there is no challenge. But to make options or even omit things that are widely considered staples by your peers, to put yourself at even this much of a cultural disconnect from those around you, I do think there's a challenge in this.
Sure, so what we do is, as the other bit of my post said, make the material sufficiently difficult to get to that it would take a long time and an advanced civilisation to be able to get to it, by which point they would have had plenty of time to figure out what the writing meant.

We're not talking about a bunch of dudes with shovels here, we're talking about colossal industrial machinery or advanced explosives.
The automatically inserted whitespace always bothered me in VS Code. When writing code without an auto-formatter I always end up noticing the extra whitespace in the diff before committing and end up hunting it down. Automatically trimming the automatically inserted whitespace sounds like a somewhat complicated solution. It makes me wonder how other editors handle this, because I never had this problem with other editors.
Devil's advocate here. What nice things would we have if nobody gave money to people who believe that? Or, if that is what you meant, if the belief itself was extinct?
That image of "L-Tower" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Vienna_flak_tower_dsc0159... ) reminds me the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nakh_architecture , especially https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Chanta.jpg
Debunking Serverless Myths
If no-one helps you after a car crash in India, this is why
Ask HN: Rules on distributing logos in open source software?
I've struggled to find anything concrete, but I'm looking to distribute some company logos in part of my open source project. Are there any laws on distributing them (showing that they use the software) that would prevent me from doing so?
The commit messages for this are gold.
https://github.com/matildah/hellcat/commits/master
Sounds like an interesting approach.

I hope they integrate a proper capabilities framework too, ideally one with cryptographic credentials that allows for reasonable assurances in distributed systems. Stuff like being able to provide a cryptographic guarantee of who have access to what data.
These articles explain the mathematical underpinnings of Rust's borrow checker. The explanation is actually fairly simple, but it assumes prior familiarity with abstract algebra.

For people who are unfamiliar with posets, lattices, etc., this introduction might help a bit: http://old.iseclab.org/people/enji/infosys/lattice_tutorial.... (PDF)

For introduction to how Rust's ownership/borrowing/lifetimes system works, see the three chapters starting here: https://doc.rust-lang.org/book/ownership.html

And a "standard disclaimer" for math: To understand this material, you may need to read slowly, look things up, and work through each example. Math is often very simple, but that doesn't mean that it's easy. The trick is usually to stare at it from enough different directions that the underlying simplicity finally "clicks," and you wonder how you could have ever been confused. If you're unfamiliar with the topics in question, a page per day can be a perfectly acceptable reading speed.
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Wildlife conservation in the Brazilian swamps
I don't need to provide a reference because it's obvious that negotiations of rights are currently on an EU basis (because that's the big legal bloc) and they would suddenly have to be UK-specific, and what big company can be bothered to prioritize that?
Good explanation, thanks.
In case you weren't aware, what you've described in your second paragraph is very similar to a famous thought experiment known as 'the Chinese room' - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_room
Thanks! The original inspiration cited in this (Catalin's article) did come up during development.
It's also interesting to some of the people who have been developers for almost two decades and haven't yet seen such an implementation in the browser before, or, you know, find it interesting to see people come up with solutions to things themselves. Good on OP for giving it a crack.
Show HN: Share what you own
All I got from this is "we want to sell you a domain name that is unrecognized by all existing software and infrastructure, please give us money"

If I wanna join a cyber-utopian hacker-hippie commune, I'm not going to pay a cult to do so. Especially not an inarticulate cult. I'll build it myself? It sure doesn't sound understandable to regular people if the HN crowd doesn't know what they're talking about.
IANAL

I think you're OK under 'nomanitive fair use'[0] as long as you're only using the trademark to refer to the company by name and not implying that you have some kind of sponsorship or endorsement from them.

[0] - http://trademarkapply.com/nominative-fair-use/
There are many many successful applications. Yes, production scheduling has proven to be "resistant" towards mathematical optimization. But many other engineering disciplines rely on it heavily.

Take for example model predictive control aka receding horizon control.

Control people have always built formal models of their systems. And now they use optimization theory where the systems don't fit the old linear quadratic controller paradigm very well.

You drive a car with traction control? Chances are that some embedded system is solving an optimization problem at kilohertz speed so you stay safe when turning on the road.
Let me guess... it still can't just automagically auto-complete, auto-param infos and jump-to-definitions, based on requires in nodejs projects (and, no, not for TS, for plain JS)?

Seems like a pretty low bar... but at 1.0 they were still not there, and Javascript is obviously one of the languages they focus on...
William of Orange (pigeon)
It's unlikely that they made such decisions "lightly".
Most of the time the correct pricing decision is: make higher pricing (especially for a "startup" which had aggressive pricing to conquer the market). To raise the price of your ads, you need to make them more sticky/entangling, the outcome is straightforward!
Ah, this looks like using multiple TCP streams to counter latency based throughput. Its not really new, its used in VFX to shuttle large amounts of data about.
U.S. spy agency trialling live video recognition tech to spot terrorists
The downside is I can't actually scroll in the page at all on my Firefox, works ok on Chrome though
How we improved our conversion rates by 450 percent
(3) immutability ~ https://www.google.com/search?q=elm-lang.org+immutabilty
Influential theories precisely equate meta-cognition and consciousness. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Higher-order_theories_of_consc...
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> How is that fundamentally different than what humans do? I mean our brains algorithms are probably much more complex, but the principles should be the same. Shocking a neural net with negative reward, and it will strongly desire to avoid that again. How is that different than pain?

Because we feel the pain, why? Does neural net feel anything?
Unicore Landing Page Builder Is Out
I love their focus on user requested features. Within a few releases (probably 4-6 months) they will add tab and terminal support.

Really cool!
This. Blatatantly quoting myself [1]:

"Experience or qualia is what the process of simulation of reality feels like. Or to put it in another way: Conciousness is the process of simulating reality."

So I'd agree: If you reach a certain complexity in your inner model, qualia will "magically" emerge.

Another interesting point the article makes is the relation to the theory of mind. I wonder if you could even say, that we first had an inner model for the complex inner model of others and then, by applying that inner model on ourselves developed what we call conscioussness. You could probably assume that many animals are not able to take this final step and that this is what separates our consciousness from those of animals.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11826593
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Bionic leaf turns sunlight into liquid fuel
I find it more interesting that they're both archetypes of an "attractive" woman (blonde, light-skinned) in American culture.

In studies where workers/students are asked to rate their peers on traits unrelated to attractiveness (including intelligence), there's a consistent bias toward attractive peers. [1]

uBeam's technology sets off the BS alarm of most university students with intro physics knowledge, so I find it mind-boggling that an entire room of VCs threw millions of dollars at this.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Physical_attractiveness_stereo...
How asylum seekers could help ease Finland's tech skills shortage
Ask HN: How to get into maths again?
During high school and afterwards I never really cared about maths. Now through web development I got really into cryptography and suffer from my lack of interest a few years ago.

Can any of you recommend resources (e.g. MOOC's or books) to learn on my own?
Autoclave:  repeatedly run programs until they break
Fascinating hardware with great processing speed.

One question for the knowledgeable: Why are speeds for PostgreSQL hashes so high (~ 25k MH/s) compared with, say, MSSQL(2012) (~ 1k MH/s)?
Great answer, I feel the same way. Let's not forget the documentation, way too abstract. Probably the result of an overengineered framework.

Sadly I'm stuck having to deal with it, and I can honestly say I hate it and it makes me want to cry. Might have to do with the way it was used, though. I find myself having to write a directive each time I have to populate a fucking select2.
Anyone know if there have been any deaths or serious medical slip ups due to the Theranos debacle?
ASP.NET Core problems and fixes
And mostly fail (unless we get some direct translation, like the Rosetta Stone). And if the civilization is gone, it's not unlikely that there won't be much more written record.
Ironically, Elm's type system is actually one of the simplest out there. No subtyping (unions or intersections), no flow-sensitive typing, just plain first-order type constructors, Hindley-Milner type inference and nice records. Much of the complication in Flow and TypeScript's type systems comes from the need to accommodate existing JavaScript idioms.
Some people speak with a lot of parentheticals.

We don't need speech to be a monoculture for people to understand one another.
The thing is that qualia can't be objectively measured, they're subjective. The reason why so many people just don't get qualia or hard problem of consciousness is that it requires a complete change of perspective on science. I.e. that subjective experience is in a way above science.
Show HN: English Wikipedia Clickstream Visualization
Visualization I made of the English Wikipedia clickstream data. This is the March 2016 data.
(from figshare: https://figshare.com/articles/Wikipedia_Clickstream/1305770)

It lets you navigate the full dataset, even though the set of articles it pulls on startup is limited.

Click on an article title to shift views.

Let me know what you think!
Yeah you are right, we may be over-doing it. Think we should drop the all-screen one from the first page view when we add a special appeal because of a HN spike? I'll bring that up with the team. :)
I like the idea but semantically, this is confusing. If I want to scroll, it zooms in/out. Even that, it doesn't keep the focus making me wanting to really scroll. Now I'm really confused how to scroll. (I know how but I'm giving you the cognitive load that's necessary here). What would be cool is to use zoom gestures to ....zoom . That is completely intuitive. Aside from that, vertical bars take too much screen space without adding much information. Perhaps they could be translucent or some such.