skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I believe there must be a way of allowing people to live forever without growing old or dying. Unfortunately, neither of our beliefs are very helpful since we cannot describe an exact method for achieving our goals.
Very nice but it explodes my work laptops CPU (running ubuntu 16.04 + chrome 50) even just idling on http://anime-js.com/

Im guessing you need to add some "sleep" somewhere
Oh, you're right, startups aren't the main cause of the problem, but anything that moves out of London will help a bit, and it would certainly be good if people who want to create or work in startups had better options.
I prefer netfox! https://github.com/kasketis/netfox
On the other side of things - why should you assume that this other box, which you can only get from a super sketchy online dealer and which gives you something for nothing that you're accustomed to having to pay for, is legit?
I'm somewhat technical, and I find it difficult at times.

For example, there's a new licensed/authorized streaming television service that was recently launched by Southern Fibernet.

Compare their webpage-
https://southernfibernet.com/index.php/television

to one that operates without any licenses-
http://rapidiptv.net/

If I encountered both of those webpages without context, it wouldn't be immediately obvious to me that one of the services is "legit" and one isn't.. They're both online streaming companies, and both offer similar services.
Trump is going to build a dome!
This is the kind of thing that's relevant when it's relevant. If you are making twilio or stripe, it is probably important to be in SV. If you're making tinder, you should probably live in a big college town. Facebook? You can live anywhere. Twitter? LA might be a good idea.

If you're making an ebay killer, you can live anywhere.
I had to look up the word, and the dictionary definition didn't suggest this meaning to me. The library is much more interesting when you realise what you're looking for this word to convey, though!
> I dread the fact that I don't have my old meter-high stack of MAD magazines to pass on to my kids, nor the Heavy Metal or Metal Hurlant stack either. (Three continent moves later, these items are now just faint memories in the wind..)

Same. Sometimes I buy modern issues of magazines I used to read when I was younger, but it's not the same. MAD seems quirkier and I don't recognize many of the authors (although the movie parodies are still good). Heavy Metal/2099 AD seems very focused in the art of it and the writing is often mediocre.

Either they changed, or I have, or both. There's this intangible feeling of wanting to revive an old pleasure. It is hard to let go.
Don't give Google your data, instead give it to us!

But seriously, I'm not seeing what the benefits are of using this? Also their privacy page has no English version so I'm going to pass anyways.
But why aren't we all talking about Solaris then?
Yes. The housing situation in Dublin is not as good as I'd like it to be, but it is significantly better than London, even if that is damning with faint praise.
How we’re building a culture in our small bootstrapped startup
Can a Company You Hate Make a Cable Box You Love?
Experiences and mistakes dealing with bullying in the tech world
Pod: On the Media – The Great Divide on Gun Control
Microphones need tremendous amplification to even get them to "line level" signals to interface with other audio equipment - 60db is not uncommon. Bass signals require a great deal more power (watts, or in this case milliwatts) to amplify accurately than midrange/treble signals, so they're a lot more likely to cause distortion. Rolling bass off as early as possible - preferably at the capsule, before the microphone's internal circuitry - reduces distortion.

Beyond that, with a few exceptions, most of the signal rolled off by the switch is stuff you don't want to hear anyways - "plosive" pops, rumble from low-frequency buildup in rooms, vibration, etc. Much of it can't even be reproduced by most speakers (speakers don't do low bass because, as said before, it's a hard problem and not actually audible in most cases).

As an aside, when mixing records, I'll often roll off guitars at 200 or 300hz, losing a couple of octaves of low-frequency information. In theory, this is awful. And if you listen to the solo guitar tracks, it's awful. But in an actual mix, it's great! It gets the low end of the guitars out of the way of real low-frequency instruments like bass and kick drums, making the bass sound tighter and cleaner. The guitars sound clearer too, because they aren't getting muddied by competing bass instruments.
Where have they refused to be up front about any of this? As far as I'm aware, they have detailed all of those things except how exactly they anonymize the data, which I haven't seen anyone specifically ask them about.
Some of these "pirate boxes" have a google logo on them (chrom ebox) and it makes non-techies think that it is legit.
Documentation as a PDF (constantly updated):

https://readthedocs.com/projects/aspnet-aspnet/downloads/pdf...

It's really just a copy of their informational web site content with articles by different authors, but still very conveniently combined into a single PDF useful for printing etc.
Tour de France will use thermal cameras to spot hidden motors
It worries me, but definitely less than with Windows. The lock-in factor is a lot lower with Linux. With Windows, once you invested in the infrastructure you were pretty much stuck there for life. If you switched, you'd need all new software and maybe all new hardware (if your alternative was Macs).

With Linux, most of your software runs out of the box on other platforms. If you want to switch to FreeBSD, it's a fairly shallow learning curve and you can be back where you were before too long. If you want to try out Macs, you can run most of the same stuff on them, and switch slowly. Even Windows can run the same software.
> But don't most open source licenses waive liability?

Most open source licenses include a liability disclaimer. Many jurisdictions, OTOH, have laws which limit the effect of liability disclaimers, so whether the disclaimer means anything, and if so what it means, varies based on which jurisdictions law applies to the liability at issue.
Giant leap forward represented by Microsoft!!
Happened right there when I heard of Microsoft released SQL Server running on Linux...
My biggest aggravation with Windows is the pattern of unapproved restarts.

Sure, there's usually a setting to disable it, and a popup to delay it, but it's not really enough. The setting appears unreliable at best, and the popup is useless when it pops under fullscreen programs.

It really only takes one ill-timed restart to damn an OS forever, especially when the restart is chased by lengthy (and impossible to decline) downtime while a patch or upgrade is installed. Restarting on someone during a Skype interview or business call is shockingly unacceptable, no matter how sensible the average case.
No love for FreeBSD, OpenBSD, etc? Doesn't the cloud run on the internet? What does the internet run on? Is it primarily Linux? Is it turtles all the way down?
Am I the only one annoyed with the post title of "NET" and not ".NET"?
That's a really interesting story. Let me tell you another one. Both my wife's and my son's computers updated automatically, with no button presses on their parts, even after them pressing "do not update" on all the nag screens for the past several months.
theres a whole lot of camera monitors for pro video that would die that day.
By that logic, there is no such thing as an upgrade. https://xkcd.com/1172/
I set up the petition for London's independence. Here's how it would work
I think Berlin and Stockholm are two of the front runners of being "Startup Capital" (whatever that is suppose to mean), having lived in both I can offer some reflections, IMHO of course.

Stockholm is pretty great when it comes to technical and investment maturity. We blew through and did all the stupid dotcom stuff in late 90's, while some have been repeated many successful entrepreneurs learned from that time. Internet access has been really good leading to a lot of good technical talent. It's a beautiful city that want's to be "international" and overall things are very polished. Sweden's also has a track record of producing a few gigantic hits such as Spotify, Soundcloud, Klarna, Skype, Minecraft etc etc.

On the downside the housing situation is insane and everyone has borrowed to the hilt trying to keep up with the ever increasing prices. You can't get hold of an apartment without buying. It's also a pretty expensive place to live. It get's pretty dark & pissy in the winters but summer's are great. I used say that living in Stockholm is 9 months of wondering why the hell you live here and three months where you get the answer.

Berlin in contrast feels like something very unique in Europe and Germany. It's like melting pot of different countries and not quite grown up mentality. Housing is still relatively accessible and affordable, there's even rental contracts to be had. Food and drink is overall cheaper. The startup spirit in Berlin still felt a bit naive when I was there, like a first wave city, but it's big and enthusiastic. However they seem to struggle to product big hits outside of their own country. Maybe the difference between Sweden and Germany is that Sweden is so little we have to go international, and also we're more anglofied. Big companies generally haven't been so big on Berlin since they don't have an international airport, leaving the city wide open for everyone else. On the downside Berlin is a bit meh when it comes to scenery and nature.

Outside the tech scene the English in Berlin is pretty bad and some look down at any not speaking German. Swedes grow up with English and most love every opportunity to use it.

I think there's a good bet Berlin will start to dominate as a "Silicon Valley of Europe", if nothing else because there's a vacuum there that can be filled, and it will become even more international than german. Even Swedes look at Berlin simply because it's cheaper and more accessible. It also has a bit bigger scene when it comes to small "startuppy" kinda ventures while Stockholm dominates on the more serious ones.

Working as an employee seems to suck in Berlin because everyone is looking for a job and job's pay poorly. But if you work for yourself and/or with investment money that doesn't matter and you're in a good position to leverage that money.
I love Linux to bits but I think it isn't the best natural technical fit for the cloud. Unikernels like mirageOS seem IMHO a much more elegant tool for the job and might gain traction in future.
HP’s new Chromebook offers up to 12.5 hours of battery life and starts at $189
I still can't shake the feeling that their naming is just confusing. I still am not sure what exactly is .NET and what's not.
Much cheaper. Dublin has a housing crisis (and housing is still far more expensive than Berlin, say), but it's not London levels of absurd. Yet.
Capture of HDMI Video via Network, driverless, on any OS that is able to accept a Video Stream.
I'm pretty sure not many people will understand what the word means in this context, and I would strongly suggest removing it. "valency" has specific meanings in chemistry and grammar, and I think it's not well-known outside of those contexts, and I'm not certain it really means what you want it to mean here.

That aside, this looks seriously awesome - the animation along the SVG path is great! The API also looks very pleasant.
Corporate Ecology
Here's how it works:

Data (even encrypted data) is being collected and stored today. It is decrypted/made sense of whenever technology has reached the required maturity. At that moment, we become 100% open books. And you may feel that at the border (or elsewhere).
Have you tried ChromeOS? My grandfather is in his mid 80's.
I've been helping him with his computer(s) for years. In the last year, I switched him over to a Chromebook, after trying and failing to switch him to Windows 10 (wasn't compatible with his old computer)... and since everything he does involves websites and bookmarks anyways.

It's the easiest time he's ever had using a computer. No random update notifications, adware popups, anti-virus subscription nags, etc. Nothing but a browser, which he knows how to use.

I'd recommend it to anyone considered technically illiterate.
Only permit logins from a client access device that you also manage and/or control.

Like a Bloomberg terminal.
Apple manages to get rapid uptake of their new OSes without resorting to these shenanigans. But apparently making an OS that people want to upgrade was too difficult for Microsoft.
The "startup capital of Europe"? Is that like being the soccer capital of America?
It was either not fully thought out, or Microsoft's analysis figured that it would cost less to do it this way.

Anecdote: When I worked dispatch, the local Network Operations Center pushed out an update that forcibly rebooted all of our Windows workstations...including the machine that ran inbound emergency calls. The admins at the NOC didn't think that anyone would dial 911 at three in the morning. No malfeasance, but a simple lack of foresight.
My sentiment is that after salaries most of the VC money gets funneled to landlords, lawyers, and subsidized food/food delivery.
1.They are a pain in the ass to keep track of in version control. 2. They are hard to debug, especially when lots of business logic gets dumped to them
Something very similar happened to me + my old father (not tech savy). My parents have carefully written down steps on how to accomplish various functions (seems very unnatural to me but that is the only way they get things done on PCs).

I went to his place yesterday and as part of the usual tech support, he said he couldn't open his email and was confused why. Turns out, his machine had upgraded to Windows 10. What was horrible was that Windows decided to be in tablet-only mode (completely unfamiliar to me since I left Windows after Win7.. the Metro UI sucks when forced on non-tablet users). His printer/scanner all went kaput. It really made the entire day crummy. I say shame on you Microsoft. I've got my father an iPad but it isn't a PC replacement. He refuses MacOs because of the stupid touchpad. It is sad.
I was unable to upgrade my wife's old 32bit computer, but I think it was some other bit of CPU capability that was the stopper.

Edit: It was NX bit support.
What I find surprising is that I see tech journalists reporting the issues, I see people complaining about these forced upgrades and the privacy invasion in windows 10 on forums or around me, but I do not see the press confronting Microsoft on any of this.

Has anyone seen any interview where Nadella is pressed with questions on why they think it's OK to treat customer this way? All the interviews I have seen of Microsoft executives have been by docile journalists who prefer to keep their good relationship with the company than ask tough questions.
Yes, that's a thing but at this point imagine just how much more confusion it could create if they change the name.
With $3M in funding, Farm Hill brings healthy lunches to San Francisco
Yeah, the extent to which the banking sector leaves might make an impact, but the collapse of sterling is probably going to drive more investment into London property, not less.
InfoWatch and Vulners cooperation: search for vulnerabilities in popular CMS
Show HN: CLI for checking GitHub user profile and repositories information
Investors may choose to invest with a company in a certain city, like Nashville or Berlin or Singapore, because wages are low. So if wages become a problem for the company, the investors stop being interested. There won't be money available to raise wages (for that, the investors will just go back to markets like NYC, Boston, or SF that they trust more).

So from birth, companies based in these areas are predicated on the idea that wages must be low -- that's what makes them attractive to investors -- and as a result they really are not recruiting good people.

The whole thing basically amplifies the casino effects in start-ups. You invest in Berlin/Nashville/Singapore start-ups because it's an insanely cheap scratch-off ticket that costs you mostly nothing, has very low chance of striking it big, but offers you entertainment, or bragging rights, or something else, as an investor.

Companies in these areas will not be in a position to raise their wages to a truly competitive level for very long periods of time (most won't live that long anyway). So by agreeing to work for them, you are simply resigning yourself to a permanent reduction in real wage (i.e. after accounting for cost of living). Not to mention, for international workers anyway, adding visa risk, tax complications, equity complications, etc.

For a very talented developer who can earn far enough about market salaries even in NYC or SF so as to live a comfortable life in those places, it would only make sense to bear all these risks and join a firm in Berlin if you were being paid a premium -- i.e. that your wage in Berlin was even higher above cost of living than what your ~ $180k salary would be in Brooklyn -- and you should not at all consider it if someone starts conning you with arguments like, "but it's so much cheaper in Berlin ... and you can drink beer in the park and watch Bayern or Dortmund play here twice a year, go to Berghain on the weekends, etc. etc." (unless, of course, your utility function responds more to beer and soccer than to money).
Startup Quotes for Founders,CEOs,Entrepreneurs
This account comes to mind:
https://twitter.com/TSAgov
Sure. I think that's preferred to the one community going stagnant--math is one of the only areas where that is arguably preferable.
There's no way to turn it off. It says it's turned off, and it's still sending shit to Redmond. That's unacceptable and deceptive. I do not use software that lies to me, period, paragraph.
> may well come as a surprise to many Brexit voters

Not to me - the opaque processes of unelected EU officials was the main reason.
Thank God for that. I'll finally be able to boot my Windows partition again without worrying if it's going to nuke my Linux install.
Here's some free machine learning books to get you started, as well - https://hackerlists.com/free-machine-learning-books/
HN is probably small, but often suffers from bad latency.
Thanks for your thoughts. I've tried Construct2 and GameMaker before and before too long it felt like I was in a straitjacket I couldn't break free from. That's why I specified any genres, because those both seem to handle puzzle/strategy games rather poorly (Construct2 moreso than Gamemaker).

I've tried LibGDX and I just ran into too many little issues that slowed down development (especially for certain platforms) with not enough discussion online to help fix it. It wasn't the Java part of it (I have a decent amount of Java experience), it was the library. I had that same problem with Haxe as well, which I really wanted to make work for me. I did not try OpenFl, however.

CreateJS seems appealing because some of my flash assets are tons of frame by frame vector animation, and I'm not wanting to manually convert those to bitmaps. It'd take forever and the filesize would be huge.

But I looked at a 2d tutorial for Phaser last night and that had a syntax that looked very comfortable for me, so it's looking like that might be the way to go. CreateJS is tempting for ports, though.
See my post above. Windows thought my father's touchscreen laptop was a tablet, and put him in tablet-only mode by default.
What Twitch Data Tells Us About Livestreaming
I would trace the beginning of the decline of Ars Technica back to when Jon Stokes sold it to Conde Nast. But Siracusa's departure was another nail in the coffin.
I take it that you don't use a smartphone, either, since you have no way of knowing what is transmitted either, either by the primary OS or the secondary radio OS. http://www.osnews.com/story/27416/The_second_operating_syste...

Or macOS (nee OS X), since Apple gathers telemetry as well: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11907060

Moreover, security researchers looking to make a name for themselves are crawling all over Windows. If they haven't found anything in the telemetry that makes headlines yet, most likely there's nothing to find.

Paranoid or not, telemetry is already everywhere without you knowing what's being sent and it's here to stay. Singling out Windows is ridiculous.
Yeah, it's like my bank "upgrading" me to a Gold account where I will be charged more fees and receive more calls from my bank trying to sell me products...
> If the UK actually does leave the EU, they'll replace EU rules of skilled immigration with something similar.

Do you understand how EU freedom of movement works? As an EU citizen I can get on a plane tomorrow, and go to any other EU country, and work there. Skills or no skills. And if I'm not happy with my job there I can quit and get another without fear of being deported. And so on...

A points-based system would be a very different proposition. There'd be far more bureaucracy involved in getting in in the first place, and then once you're in there'd potentially be issues with changing job, and with long-term residence, and with medical care, and with this, that and the other.

There is no possible way in which shutting down free movement wouldn't make the UK a less attractive destination. Of course, this is irrelevant; the UK will almost certainly have to accept free movement as part of its future EEA or EFTA member status.
Software I have to 3x over provision to keep alive is crappy software.

ElasticSearch is by far one of the most obnoxious software programs I ever have the misfortune to administer. I now avoid self hosting it at all costs.
> The "startup capital of Europe"? Is that like being the soccer capital of America?

Wouldn't that mean that Europe has a fairly strong, by global terms, actual performance in startups, despite European popular culture mostly ignoring startups?
It's not as bad as it seems: SSL v3 is supported, but no cipher is supported for SSL v3... It should get a B instead of a C ;-)

(shameless plug: I used https://sslping.com and tried to understand why it didn't catch the SSLv3 problem: no cipher, so SSLv3 can't really be used. SSLPing doesn't test DH params length yet though)
I see a bunch of ad-garbage, but luckily nothing played for me when I tried it on my extensionless Chrome profile.
Brexit: A possible theory on what lies ahead
What makes cases like these extra hard is that the only place we know that is kind of knowledge can be stored in is human brains.

If you want a cobol programmer (aside: iOS autocorrects that to cool programmer), get a decent programmer, give him a language reference and half a year of time, and presto! There's your cobol programmer. After all, programming is programming.

If you want a good glassblower, there's no reservoir of people with experience in similar stuff.

Having said that, there is at least one school that educates instrument makers of all kinds; Kamerlingh Onnes started one in Leiden because he needed instrument makers in his cryogenics lab.