skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ask HN: Parents how do you limit your kids time playing the computer?
My kids play on the computer all day (games/netflix/youtube) unless I stop them. I'm seriously worried about them getting carpal tunnel, or posture issues. I constantly nag them to take breaks and do something outside, but generally just let them do as they please, since they are at daycare / school all day. The weekends though are bad, I will force them to do something else if they have a marathon five hour session. What do you guys do? When I was a kid I was free to use the computer as much as i wanted, but the options sucked compared to today, so it was self regulating, you just got bored and went outside faster. Kids don't get bored anymore.
A baby "born under a caul". A rare occurrence, it was taken as a sign of extremely good luck in many cultures a long time ago.
InspIRCd 2.0.23 released, fixes critical vulnerability related to SASL
What kind of fiber could you even provision to the base station? 50gbit? 100gbit? Is that even possible?
That said you can probably make your own slipstream iso with the drivers installed and setup windows 7 that way.
> Also HN is a place for rational discussions not trolls

This forum is however subject to groupthink. I have witnessed participants being downvoted and hellbanned simply for having a dissenting opinion. Unless by "troll" you mean anyone who disagrees with the popular views on this forum.
Wow! What b.s.
They can use books to inspire other people to kill, maim and disfigure other people.
> and if you're doing a string-compare for some target value that's already UTF-8, you never need to decode UTF-8 for that field at all

Is Go's internal representation of the target string UTF-8?
Absolutely right on with your points #1 and #2. I remember I lost half my karma with the first childish comment I made on HN. Now I only comment if I feel strongly and can speak intelligently on a subject, or have a question. It is a natural curation process.
The Art of Feedback
Just to clarify -- it does not maintain that power. It will quickly ramp up to that on empty-ish batteries (320 amps at 320 volts is max that I know of) and maintain that until the battery is ~50% full. It will then ramp down and charge more slowly. While I can make lots of guesses as to why they charge in this way I don't know for sure on any of them.
But whats their policy on DDoS? Since this is the topic you are posting this on just saying Hetzner "feels cheap" doesn't make that any less important.
A few minutes ago (and after your comment) one of the commenters of that issue tested against Apache Commons CSV and found that Java was 1.9x faster than Go, rather than the original 3x: https://github.com/golang/go/issues/16791#issuecomment-24456...
The politics of grand housing bargains: Lessons from NYC
It's a bit late now. When your company is basically one research and development project you need to cut all costs down to specifically those that's going to provide you with a product you can sell, and then keep iterating over until you can sell for a profit. You do the boring grunt work until that is achieved.

The fact that Musk told us stage one was done when he came up with that ridiculous grand plan, designed to drum up yet more investor cash, was laughable. Once the Model 3 sells for a profit, and for $35,000, which it never will do, then you can start looking at further grand plans. The Model X was a ridiculous distraction with gull-wing doors any sensible automotive engineer would have pointed out was a production and maintenance nightmare that would never end well.

They're also swallowing Solar City, basically to save it, not because of any grand plan for 'synergy' as Musk says that makes sense.

The Emperor's clothes are starting to dissolve and the wheels are coming off I'm afraid.
Would be a great experiment to Cythonize PyPy's _csv.so
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What is your phone telling your rental car?
I've never actually experienced this. I believe the 320 amp / 320 volt charging is for emptier cars... I've plugged in at a 100% full charger and gotten full power charging.
There will be a call to cut whatever costs they can, which won't get far, and then there will be layoffs.
> The only reason why this "worked" was because following the plan imposed by foreign investors (i.e. the IMF) meant that they could secure foreign currency.

Well, yes, that was the idea.

> This still meant that they were basically swapping hyperinflation for racking up a huge external debt instead, and they were essentially more dependent upon foreign investors. The fact that this 'worked' and didn't lead to disaster was probably due to the fact that oil prices kept creeping up. Currency pegging was used in Venezuela too and that story ended in disaster.

An external debt that was payable and negotiable. And that we were able to pay successfully (though now we have a large internal debt). In any case, having an external debt is not the end of the world. How many countries do it?

> Currency pegging was used in Venezuela too and that story ended in disaster

Right. That was the reason of Venezuela's disaster...

> In terms of poverty reduction, Lula's Bolsa Familia program was more effective than this at actually helping people, but foreign investors love the story about how "Brazil was made safe again for foreign investors".

Do you have any idea how destructive inflation is to a poor household? I'm sorry, this is ridiculous.

And what does Bolsa Família - a program that was actually a merge of several programs from FHC's previous administration, modeled by Ricardo Paes de Barros around Friedman's negative income tax - have to do with this?
Actually, the current science shows that impacts are routinely understated. BTW, I'm not a warming "advocate" - this implies some sort of cheerleading. I simply follow the science.
I just want to say that I've been reading HN for about 7 years now, and it has been invaluable to my personal and career development. Being able to read well informed commentary about a variety of subjects makes it so much easier to reach for the right information when I need to learn something new. I'm sure I wouldn't have been exposed to many of the esoteric technologies that make my life interesting without it. I consider it one of the most valuable resources on the internet and I would be devastated if it went away.
International students pour millions into the U.S. rental industry
I think it was 325 3x a day.
No rss on that blog, is this a thing now?

Harder to follow unless I go to Medium
СУПЕРКОПИЛКА стабильный проект куда стоит
Slashdot had a grassroots tradition of horrible reference humor and trolling. I have to assume the consequences of that tradition were in mind when creating the HN culture.
Falcon Wing Doors
The Global Network of Startup M&A Deal Flow Is More Concentratd Than You’d Think
Designing the Machines That Will Design Strategy
Did you hear about the woman who went on a fishing trip with a bunch of rednecks? She came back with a red snapper.
My father in law actually created a brush type tool to clean a grill, but has no chance of losing bristles.

http://grillbros.com/

I know he has several hundred of these to sell. They work well but he definitely needs a distributor.
Regardless of Apple's review process, the article makes a good point -- go search the app store for election related terms. There is almost no mention of Hillary, one way or another. In addition to lots of trump themed games, you'll find Fox news, Bernie and foreign elections. When Hillary is mentioned, she is in a screenshot for trump themed games.

Election news apps almost always show Trump in screenshots. It is hard to argue there is no supply of Hillary content if they are preferentially rejecting such apps.

Anyway, Apple's vetting process doesn't seem to be helping get minority (of developer resources) content into the store, and that seems relevant to HN.
I don't have enough experiences. I should have qualified my lead-in statement as "domestic airlines".

After taking the Singapore flight, I did joke about flying across the US via Asia just for the better service. But (thankfully) I still have no idea how they handle problems.

I want to believe that there are still businesses that believe in customer service and doing the right thing, and not just for customers who have paid an out-of-touch price. But part of me thinks it's just a matter of time until "market efficiency" gets to them as well.
HN is a bit more serious and bit more focused than Reddit. Reddit has so much content, that it becomes a distraction (esp. if you wander off into some of the toxic train-wreck sub-Reddits).

That said, if I want even more concentrated tech news, I like Lobste.rs, which doesn't have political sidetracks. At least with Lobste.rs, I don't feel the need to comment, even when I know I shouldn't.
Just a clarification-- the chargers burst to that 80kW range but they don't maintain it. Typical charging is closer to the 10-20kW range.

In addition people are not constantly charging.
3 new programming languages: What their creators say
I think there is an area of social search which remains largely untapped. This is because major social networks doesn't allow search engines to search their networks. I think Facebook tired to do this but they used Bing but have they used Google mmm maybe they would have been at social search but I don't think social search will be a thing if Facebook and other networks open up their network
The whole Solar City/Tesla crossover I can see in a way, when you've proved the technology and are making some profit from it. Tesla and Solar City are a long, long, long way from doing that and the Solar City takeover is a way of saving it, not because of any sensible plan and integration.
I don't see how. Most owners are not taxable residents of the country where companies operates. If I'm personally taxable in the Bahamas, but I make all my capital profits from a company operating in a country with no corporate taxes, that country will never ever see a single tax cent from me, despite me leveraging their infrastructure and society for profit (for virtually free). I would directly profit from their roads, their transportation, their education, their Internet, their police, their laws, their justice, while never contributing to it.
I read you blog post tilte "My Timeline of Failed Business Ideas" [0]
It was a interesting reading, I can relate to that. I think everyone here have a similar timeline after a few years in the business.

[0]https://www.bugmuncher.com/blog/timeline-of-failures/
Part of some half-arsed rescue attempt. Solar City doesn't have much life left to it on its own and it needs some creative accounting to stay afloat.
Another idea: if a new submission (but not older than some threshold, maybe 24h?) did not reach the front page, each up-vote resets the submission time. Now if a story is noticed and upvoted when it is already reaching the bottom of the 'new' category, it is unlikely that it will accumulate enough votes fast enough to reach the front page.
This can easily solved at the UI level. Posts longer than a certain limit can have only the first few lines shown, with a "fold" like on blogs, or some other mechanism, to reveal the full content.

There won't be many long posts in any case.
10, 40 and 100 Gbit/s are common fiber speeds (as in, you can buy standardized parts from multiple vendors), but at least 100GbE is properly expensive (something in my brain says +100k€ per interface, but that figure probably is a few years old). And that's per individual fiberpair & wavelength, so it is easy to bundle up multiple channels.

I assume the quoted wireless speeds are for a single client under perfect conditions, what summed up bandwidth can a single tower support with multiple clients? 10 or 40G probably go a long way already.
A girl I knew at university was hired one summer to map out an indigenous trail by examining archaeological records and talking to community elders. She found it: down the center of what is today a divided highway. The larger resurrection project was abandoned because most all of the ancient trails were on/under/beside roadways. The flattest and easiest path between two points is the first to be paved.
Process and flexibility in startups and larger organisations
Interesting question, considering buying someone like Saft would make more sense in their current position.
I suppose there will be a class of people, probably techies/hackers, that will build/use technologies that will protect their privacy. I wish there were communities similar to the one around linux do develop these technologies.

However, we can't think about anything digital nowadays without factoring in AI, the problem is that once you do that, things become quite unpredictable...

For certain, there will be a fight, on one side governments ans control structures trying to increase their control, and on the other regular citizens trying to live the way they once did.. althogh.. that may already be impossible..
It seems to be having the opposite effect. Every time there is a threat to institute new legislation, gun sales go through the roof.
Jason Scott Talks about Preserving Games with the Internet Archive
The CIA funded remote viewing at Stanford for 20 years:
http://www.irva.org/library/pdfs/puthoff2001cia.pdf
Some sites (Medium comes to mind) allow readers to "highlight" sections, and even expose some threshold of those "highlights" to other readers. It may be that that feature isn't used enough to give authors much data, but I also wonder how much people use Twitter the way you describe.
UI. Reddit seems like a busy fish market while HN seems like a relaxing lounge.
When I fix something, I immediately send it upstream, did you do that? I just did it now after I fixed a bug, so that neither me nor anyone else has the problem in the future. Debian has a program called „reportbug“ which you invoke with the package or file name related to the bug, even if you do not have a solution.

I think a distribution like Debian should appeal to you for its focus on quality. New packages in Debian move first to the Unstable distribution and then after some time to the Testing distribution. Testing is “freezed” before a Stable release to weed out remaining bugs. [1]

Debian also has a tool called “apt-listbug” that warns you before installing a new version of a package that has a known bug and gives you an option to not update that package automatically for as long as that bug exists.

What Ubuntu does is just putting its own stuff on top of Debian Unstable (or Testing, when it does a Long Term Support release). They have next to no quality control. When I drew glyphs for Unifont, this meant that for half a year, Ubuntu had a half-finished Unifont it imported from Debian Testing at the wrong time. I got complaints as I told people to install Unifont to play my Unicode proof-of-concept roguelike [2].

The guy from the article I wrote eventually did use Debian. I think he fiddled around with Emacs for over a month until he arrived at his “perfect” setup (which is different for everyone, by the way).

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debian

[2] http://news.dieweltistgarnichtso.net/notes/zoo-tycoon-roguel...
Mosquitoes Are Deadly, So Why Not Kill Them All?
Tesla makes the Power Wall. And they have had a ton of orders for them. Those are an asset, not a liability. And merging with Solar City will actually help them sell those with less overhead.
My best manager did this
>Apple wouldn't be playing the games it plays with the US if we didn't have the 2nd highest or so corporate tax rate in the world

How low do you think that tax rate would have to be? Ireland's corporation tax rate is just 12.5%, but Apple didn't pay that either. They had a special deal under which their effective tax rate was as low as 0.005% to 1%. This is the deal that the EU has now ruled against under furious protests from Tim Cook personally and the US government.

So yes, if the US lowers its corporation tax rate to effectively 0% then Apple will stop playing games.
Aannddd..... I just got a dick pic as my first photo.
Ask HN: How to Access Bitbucket Without Atlassian Cloud?
I would like to lookup some old code which is in a Bitbucket private repo, however it seems I can't login to Bitbucket unless I let Atlassian force me to create a Atlassian Cloud account.

Is there a way to recover my code?
> Is Go's internal representation of the target string UTF-8?

Kinda but kinda not, a Go string is actually an arbitrary bag of bytes, but some API (such as unicode/utf8 or `range` to iterate on codepoints — runes in Go parlance) assume it's proper UTF8.
What kind of nightmares?
> It's not at all clear this violates "Econ 101". Supply and demand set prices, and wages are basically the price for labor. Increasing the supply of labor should necessarily decrease wages, and vice versa.

Increasing the supply of labor also increases the demand for other goods. Workers have to eat! If you kick someone out of the country, you reduce demand for food, clothes, etc., eliminating the local jobs that would have gone towards satisfying that worker's needs.

Not that I'm arguing against the possibility of more workers lowering wages. They might, to some degree (studies are unclear on to what degree they do), but it's not a zero-sum game, here.
The worst thing about those falcon doors on model x is that I keep hitting my head ( I am 6'3") on the pretty sharp corner when it's sometimes not fully up, just like this bmw ceo did: https://electrek.co/2016/03/07/bmw-ceo-tesla-interview-model...
I think it's a pretty terrible door usability wise, but it brought some marketing buzz to model x, like a wow factor
I think there's an implicit benefit of the 140 character limit: people are forced to shorten their thoughts into bite-sized pieces. This, to me, is the biggest selling point of Twitter, it allows for an easily palatable feed of what's happening, all in small servings. This sword cuts both ways however, since it leads to short, emotional (oftentimes angry) tweets.

Overall though, the 140 limit I find is a better from a Twitter consumer point of view, but is far worse as a participant on Twitter.
Funny, but inevitable. Musk was asked specifically if Tesla would takeover SpaceX or vice versa in a tesla conference call and he said no, but it is really inevitable. Without some creative accounting through shifting investor cash and grants from one company to another Solar City has no future, and that then goes for Tesla as well.
What evidence would convince you it is a large problem? Massive dieoff of coral reefs worldwide? A cruise ship from Alaska to New York?
i thought solar cells are dirt cheap, because China can produce them at very low cost?
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> What features do you want in HN?

'Always show original article title on hover' (in front page and other listings).

> Feedback on HN (if you got some time)

The 'Avoid gratuitous negativity' guideline is still not being followed and often gives the whole community a negative-nancy vibe. Perhaps a simple rule such as "if the entire content of a comment is about how the OP idea is bad/won't work/etc. (and is marked as being so by a mod[/high-karma-user - implementation detail]), it wouldn't be allowed to rise to be the top comment" will go a long way.
10kW array would be at least 600 sqft, so that will be a lot of commercial real estate.

The state/feds should stop subsidizing utility solar and incentivize covered parking lot panels. Prettier than lots and putting the energy where the cars are.
D'oh! Sorry about that and thanks for reporting it - that keeps it off the site. For what it's worth, you received the very first!
I loved reading how they optimized the search problem. Charlie has CS education, the way they sorted their tuples and organized their data (as long as it's not by name!) reduced query times. Ironically, a CS education can help you optimize those processes even where computers are not allowed.
I wondered this, I'm not an American so the whole gun thing totally mystifies me. I don't think anyone should be allowed to own a gun, not the government, criminals, and certainly not people with mental illnesses. That being a somewhat naive hope then I think restricting them as much as possible is the thing to do.

However, I'm not an American so I wouldn't presume to tell you what to do with your own country. You're welcome! /s

But at what point does it become a database and searchable, does he have to deliberately pile up the boxes of receipts higgledy-piggledy lest they accidentally fall into some sort of organised and therefore searchable order? Seems crazily broad, no?

Edited to Add: Wow, form 4473 doesn't get sent to any kind of centralised place until the gun shop that sold the particular con goes out of business. So this to my mind means a family gun business this been open for 100 years has every 4473 form they've ever written since the law came in, am I reading that right? Surely that can't be right? As in not correct, I don't mean morally, I mean that's just crazy to have a central database that doesn't centralise regularly.
More succinctly: Linux doesn't have this problem at all because it's open source. You can stitch together the kernel in any way you want, and layer any user space on top of that to get an OS.
> This will happen in any community where you're getting voluntary support.

And that's another reason I won't go back to Linux from a Mac. I don't want voluntary support and to have to spend hours trawling forums to find fixes that don't work.

I want paid support where someone is accountable when things don't work like they're supposed to. Every hour I spend futzing with Alsa or PulseAudio or PPAs or dodgy WIFI and printer drivers is an hourI could have been earning money (I'm a freelancer).

That's what I meant when I said: "Polished has become more important to me as I've aged." When I was a student, I loved fiddling around with Linux. Now I'm a grown-up, I loathe wasting time. OS X lets me get on with things in a pleasant and consistent environment that works exactly as it's supposed to.

I do have Linux nostalgia, but when I've tried to go back, I just become frustrated.
FBI releases Hillary Clinton email investigation documents
The big things are related to string length not matching byte count. strlen() is O(n) because you have to see how many sequences are actually in the string. More than that, splitting/slicing/indexing a string based on byte offsets doesn't work. For a 100-byte ASCII string, you're guaranteed that you can split it into two 50-byte strings and things will still work: you can output them separately, you can get the total length by adding strlen() on each half, you can find a character by doing strchr() on each half, etc. For a 100-byte valid UTF-8 string, splitting it into two 50-byte strings will possibly get you an invalid string, because a character could be split in half. So strlen() (even a UTF-8-correct strlen()) and strchr() don't compose. Outputting a string in two halves works properly as long as the receiver buffers its input, and is willing to wait to reconstruct a partial character.

A related problem is that in older UNIX terminals, pressing backspace would delete one byte, not one character. Newer UNIX kernels have code in the terminal implementation to decode UTF-8 enough to backspace an entire character.
Since they switched auth completely to Atlassian Cloud accounts I don't think so. What's so bad about migrating your account to an Atlassian Cloud one, to me it didn't seem to make much of a difference?