skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Can you give a concrete example? Something that I can't do now with all these super rich people around that I could have done when they weren't so much richer than me. If I'm competing with them to buy a Picasso, sure, they'll outbid me, but what about things I actually want to do, like buy equipment for my hobbies or go travelling. Are they making that more expensive?
True and not true. I own few telecine and film scanning machines. Most of older film material, esp. 16mm isn't worth scanning over full 2k. 1556 in y on 16mm esp. important because lots of people want to reframe into 16:9 and 1556 gives more than 1080.

Anyways, most of old stock (print, negative, ip) have grain such that over cca. 2.5k won't yield anything better. However, kodak and fuji stock from mid to late eighties definitwly is worth capturing at higher detail. Highest-detailed stock from nineties we've measured to have spatial rwsolution of around 8.5k and that's about as high as you will get (rare) out of 35mm.

tl;dr; depends on the stock

edit: Here's previous mini discussion regarding telecines, if anyone's interested https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11377678
Although Stross's default stance in the Laundry Files seems to be that everything is a weapon, or could be one. Camera? Weapon. Smartphone? Weapon. Pidgeon's foot? Weapon. Your own brain? Weapon. Violin? At least one of them is a weapon.
As per an earlier comment option to enable this feature is here: chrome://flags/#mark-non-secure-as

Occasionally in a build it flips on then another build off.
Eh, you just need four of them, so you have (effectively) a 54" monitor...
@symbiote

I'm also unwilling to switch to https. If your ISP is attacking you then you should be tunneling things. I personally like the image compression and caching that they do and think it's somewhat important for my site and others like it.
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Incredible Photos of the Hermit Crabs Who Live in Trash
Interesting thread.

Wondering if anyone here has tried using shorthand, a.k.a. stenography, for to-do lists?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shorthand

I remember people using it much earlier, and it was offered in a neighborhood typing class I took as a kid. Plus, had seen books about it then.
Tromp family: The mystery of a tech-free road trip gone wrong
Well, actually JavaScript now has secure random number generator. You can use window.crypto.getRandomValues().

Edit: note that I did not say that other points in that article are irrelevant.
Rare Pokemon planted in Fukushima to lure tourists back
see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12441989

> The problem is that there are large blind spots when aircraft go over oceans due to the lack of receivers, so this is intended to increase coverage.
Wasn't it from that old Jim Carrey film Liar Liar?

Greta: Mr. Reede, several years ago a friend of mine had a burglar on her roof—a burglar. He fell through the kitchen skylight, landed on a cutting board, on a butcher's knife, cutting his leg. The burglar sued my friend. He sued my friend and because of guys like you, he won. My friend had to pay the burglar $6,000. Is that justice?

Fletcher: No!…I'd have got him ten.

[1] https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Liar_Liar
So I should be guilty for asking for a silent working atmosphere, a decent laptop and perhaps a second screen while the execs get the latest iteration of the iPhone every year. Right.
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EDIT: this is mostly wrong - see jblow's reply. Sorry for misleading you into thinking I know what I'm talking about :D
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I think of it like this: a complex number represents a rotation in a plane. You need two "coordinates" to do that. 2d has one plane, but 3d has two planes - think about how an anti-air cannon rotates left-right and up-down. So, if we've got two rotations to represent, you must need two complex numbers - that's four "coordinates", or one quaternion.
Me too. Google can do what they want but they don't own the Internet.
I'm not the parent, but I say "let them".
Good luck explaining to a non-expert user how they should be "tunneling things" in order to avoid their shitty ISP's non-features.
I am with you. In many use cases HTTP 1 is fine. And as we have seen with the Hearthbleed bug, if you cannot devote resources to keep your HTTPS up-to-date all the time 24x7, it makes your server and the user sessions more insecure. And often providing HTTP and HTTPS makes sense too. So I am against labeling HTTP as "evil" or legacy. We should look who has an interest in doing just that, and why they are forming initiatives. Beside all that pretty much all ad-networks serve HTTP ads, so if you want to loose much of your ad revenue, please go with the HTTPS-only route and face the real world surprise.
This is exactly what I need. We have about 20 PI's for our kids coding club and need to set them up for VNC. Well done PiBakery.
Because we hold Mozilla to a higher standard than Google.
It's been a trend for a while, now. Instead of using something that is intuitive like "gcc" for GNU Compiler Collection, everyone just picks a random word that is only slightly a propos and then calls their product by that obscure name.

I'm going to launch a Web app using monads-as-a-service built with docker and emscripten and deployed via packmule.io that will translate all these stupid names to actually-useful definitions.

I'll call it Language.
I don't think I've even seen that key since I was a student... "Das Keyboard" have that? Should order.

(Just got the best feel I could find in the stores. I paid 70 Euros, maybe not cheap but fram from extreme. I only play a snob on internet. :-) )
because the whole thing lives off trust. if any certificate could be self signed for getting the browser trust, all MITM attack would go unnoticed unless the browser is pinning the hash of specific domains.

that's why it's so important to blacklist fast certificate authority that do no domain ownership validation; it's a frail system, but it's the best we got for now.
Ask HN: Why Twitter
I was talking to a famous technical author the other day, and the subject of Twitter came up. I mentioned that you could get 100k rewteets, end up with 300 visitors -- and still get bupkis as far as conversions or new customers.

"I really have no idea why I keep using it."

This is a really good question. I've been on many years, and I like using it to tell jokes and idly chat/help my friends. It's also a place I'd use language that I wouldn't use on my family-friendly FB account. But the place is a cesspool. It has internet-drama-of-the-day, people repeating the same tweet over and over again, retweeting rings, idiotic arguments that self-generate because you can't fit anything nuances into 140 characters, fake accounts trying to like and follow whatever you post, paid crap that you don't want or need, and so on.

So why bother? What are you guys using it for? Where's the value here?
Who Framed the PTA Mom?
Someone could modify a link in your blog to go to malware.
Example:
"Hi guys, I like software X, download it here"
As a foreigner in Sweden you will face the following problems:

- most of your friends will be other expats. Swedes, at least in Stockholm, do not seem very keen to open their social circle to you. Language is certainly a part of it, but there is a darker cultural side to it that neither myself or others have been able to crack.

- As others have said housing is a shit-show. Fortunately public transit is quick and makes long commutes tolerable.

- If you have a foreign-sounding name, then you will want to change it. Swedes love to play the multicultural card all over the place and virtue signal at every level, but facts are facts. Your CV/resume is passed over by recruiters and HR people if it not Swedish enough. Indian, Muslim, and African names go to the bottom of the pile or are never called. Seriously, take a Swedish name when you get here.

- Working in the tech sector, there is little incentive to learn Swedish. The amount of time it takes you to become proficient is not worth it. Worse, if you are dark-skinned and speak broken Swedish it only hurts you more socially and professionally. Best to keep it in English. Save Swedish for social things.

- Quality of life by many measures is high, but there is a depressive darkness here. Strangers don't chit-chat. I've never seen a subway car so full of people be so quiet. Everyone is silent, and that makes it incredibly lonely.

- Customer service sucks. I mean it is pitifully bad in Sweden. From restaurants to banks it seems that there is no training or appreciation for customers. This is where Americans really kick ass, and I wish Swedes could take a couple of notes here.

- There is no 24-hour culture. Strange that a place claims to be the capital of Scandinavia, but literally everything shuts down before midnight save a a couple of bars.

- Gypsies everywhere panhandling, but you are from EU -- so nothing new there.

- Drinking culture here is strange. People are absolutely hammered by 10pm

- The tech scene here is nascent and lacks the pay-it-forward attitude that you might find in the US, Berlin, or London. There is an American guy here named Tyler (@steepdecline) who has worked his ass off for 3+ years to make something happen. However, I fear that if/when he leaves, this scene will die. He might be a good resource to ping.

All in all, quality of life in Sweden is high (clean, healthcare, etc). However, there is a cultural darkness/sadness/loneliness that touches everything -- and I think Swedes would agree with me here.
And disable WebRTC because of local IP address leakage. Check yours at http://net.ipcalf.com/ :-)
> Nobody asked for an [automobile], they asked for faster horses.

FTFY, assuming you're looking for the Henry Ford reference. People actually DID ask for the telephone. It was a natural extension of the widely deployed telegraph system.
Goldman Sachs Has Started Giving Away Its Most Valuable Software
If memory serves well, there was also the amazing Ctrl-O, which allowed you to send control sequences over a busy terminal --for example when scrolling a lot of text, seems to be mapped to the arcane VDISCARD and unsupported by Posix & Linux.
Elsewhere in the arctic: Geophysical Letters 22 JUN 2016: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/2016GL069292/pdf reports "No signiﬁcant increase in long-term CH4 emissions on North Slope of Alaska despite signiﬁcant increase in air temperature"
> but 3d has two planes

Why not 3 planes?
One of my biggest concerns is that the many "Not Secure" websites out there, likely older ones, will get ostracised as a result of this type of change. I don't think that's necessarily a good thing, because that's where I've found the most informative and interesting content. You can imagine in the future, users coming across some site that actually has good information, but being scared away by the "Not Secure" and instead going to some vapid ad-filled "modern" site with very little in the way of detailed content, just because it happens to be using HTTPS.
Amazing books. I was pleasantly surprised by Kill Decision as well, not quite in the same league, but more interesting than I expected.

That, and Ramez Naam's Nexus, Crux, Apex are recent additions to my collection of awesome books.
While not mandatory, I always sort of assumed BSD and Darwin do the same...

Just wanted to point out that memory usage isn't necessarily inherent to multiprocess, but with a sizable portion of users on Windows the point is practically moot anyway.
A PDF viewer only renders content of a file, and it's okay and good. A browser is not merely an HTML viewer, it should also render other files like plain text, images, videos etc. Hello is a service for video-conferencing, has nothing to do with rendering content. Pocket is another wart that I hate in Firefox (though it's a useful service, I was a paid user for a while). Pocket is no content rendering and it's external service, so is Hello. Many use Chromium instead of Chrome because the Google Services.
Huh? No they don't, that'd be an easy way to get rid of debt - just ignore it!
How about injecting malware?
Tesla driver dies in burning Model S after hitting a tree
As general rule, before you start using language provided secure random number generator, you should at least informally verify the full chain of the generator on multiple platforms.
Apple Events – Keynote September 2016 – Apple
Borderline SF.
yourbrainonporn is an oft-posted page that seems to concure with sex maniacs, although they mean conventinal porn and manic depression.
I think Gates, even if he had to give an exclusive license to IBM for DOS, would have come up with an operating system for the other computer companies demanding one. Paul Graham is wrong on how this would have played out.

Gates already had the business model in place for licensing basic to computer manufacturers. It's easy to see he would have extended that to some DOS-like operating system.

Indeed he went onto do precisely that with Windows, leaving OS/2 to IBM and failure.

PG called this one wrong. Gates would still have come to own the industry as he did, whether or not the DOS deal with IBM was exclusive. The computer industry was always set to expand and Gates was always the guy to meet the demand. Gary Kildall had shown by this stage he didn't have what it took to pick up every commercial opportunity offered.
Is it too much to hope that pocket will be next?
This is what it actually looks like in Chrome Canary: http://i.imgur.com/PN8OewF.png

There is no announcement that I know of that Chrome will start highlighting http:// sites with a red warning icon and the text "not secure". The headline is wrong. The article is cleverly worded to be misleading while technically correct.
Tesla investigates deadly crash in the Netherlands [Dutch]
Seems like Gordon Murray agrees with you.

On the [Ox website](http://oxgvt.com/) it mentions that the powertrain can be swapped out in future versions for electric or hydrogen powered altenatives.
Not that this is the same situation with unencrypted websites anyways.
This is all from memory, so I may misidentify some factors as important and fail to identify some factors, and my chronology may be wrong.

Steam won because it had first mover advantage. Valve was historically a developer, and it launched Steam with a highly-anticipated game, so I suppose it didn't have pre-existing relationships with its retailers to negotiate. Other traditionally to-retail large publishers didn't get into the online distribution and online DRM game till quite a bit later. Meanwhile, the indie gaming scene exploded, and many of them chose to distribute via Steam.

As for why it continues to be the most popular platform, I presume that they are mostly due to it's reach as a channel as well as its gamification of its platform to encourage loyalty and spending. I think I should let someone who's seen things from the developer side answer this though.
Thread on Reddit with translations: https://www.reddit.com/r/teslamotors/comments/51khs8/tesla_i...

Local news source: http://www.gooieneemlander.nl/regionaal/gooivechtstreek/arti...
The real problem is simple: there are a lot of people now, and more in the future, who cannot generate enough value by working to be self-supporting, let alone have a good life. They're competing with machines which are better than they are.

Ok, where's my Robo-maid who's better than any human? How about my Robo-Taco-Truck, my robot laundry guy, and my robot driver? As other nations demonstrate, these are all things that humans could do.

https://www.chrisstucchio.com/blog/2016/robots_didnt_take_ou...

People aren't competing with machines, or with each other. Valuable work is just not getting done for a variety of reasons: people prefer to live off welfare/disability fraud, people are afraid of summary execution by the police for doing certain valuable jobs, etc.

Technological unemployment may happen some day. But it hasn't happened yet.
Ah yes, here come the marketers to tell me how much I need them.
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Will ExxonMobil Have to Pay for Misleading the Public on Climate Change?
The project supports for interaction to smartfox server 2x, 1.1.4 released
I don't even want a bookmark manager built-in. Address bar, tabs, viewport, dev tools. Done. Make it fast.
And after that, hopes for a big auction at your friendly neighborhood the Netherlands where high! Expecting similar numbers, the action became a big flop with just under 2.5bil euro's.
Hehe, that is exactly what I did. By page 100 I was hopelessly hooked. It's not an easy book, but I thoroughly enjoyed how it was both intellectually stimulating and extremely funny.
There is another nice one here:
https://github.com/soumith/convnet-benchmarks
Yes, that is true. He really did not care about it. The paper he wrote is Mendelian Proportions in a Mixed Population (http://science.sciencemag.org/content/28/706/49.full.pdf+htm...). It is brief, barely a page in length, and he introduces the HW equation with the preamble "A little mathematics of the multiplication table type is enough to that in the next generation the numbers will be [equation]".

As an added bonus, he cites Karl Pearson
What web technologies were used to build Flat? I'd be particularly interested to know how the music editor was built. It looks gorgeous!
This is a pretty common complaint with Stephenson. Probably even more obvious in Diamond Age because the first half is so amazing.
This Leaked Catalog Offers ‘Weaponized Information’ That Can Flood the Web
How not to be a noob in your first job
I wrote a to do list manager https://github.com/thewhitetulip/Tasks
I would prefer the PDF reader, like the flash player, to be a plug-in that I can disable or even uninstall if I wish.

In fact, in my chrome setup I have disabled the PDF viewer because I prefer to download and open them in mupdf.

For PDF viewing especially, it wouldn't be impossible to hav an offering of various competing plug-ins, some perhaps offering extra features like annotations and others offering just the bare minimum.

I think firefox is held to a higher standard because "firefox user" is correlated positively with "aware of privacy issues". Those that just want something fast and easy to use might have used to use firefox instead of IE, but most of them have now moved to chrome.
Reviews of RapidSSL Certificate by RapidSSL Customers
I have a Pocket List option but no hello option. Strange.
Audiophiles - probably the most prominent example of them all.
This is funny because no-one bats an eyelid at an "executive" demanding a corner office, an expense account, a company Mercedes, to fly first class... But God forbid a humble worker should beg for scraps.
My company pays to license their feeds for our own use. I think that their business model is fairly solid.
Ask HN: Self-taught or college education?
Self-taught or college education?

Hey there, I am a self-taught programmer and I want to ask you how many of you learned programming by learning it on your own and how much went to a university and got their CS degree. I'm asking you this as I was talking with other fellow programmers about the fact that people prefer the university path because being self-taught is a lonely pursuit. Do you agree? Thanks, Alin R.
There is also https://spreed.me
It doesn't benefit it's citizen with the exception of free roam.
On the Existence of Weak One-Way Functions
The proper news would be that Chrome started properly highlighting all MITMed https pages in the enterprise setting where an organization just blankly subs the cert.

Until then, everything else is PR and money grabbing.
Re downvoting: I wasn't being sarcastic here - it's just that without context, this is just a bugfix release, with no note on which are the big features here. We could as well put every single Linux git commit here, couldn't we?
Maybe I'm not a decent programmer but I definitely don't want multiple screens. I would perceive such a set-up as unergonomic and creating too many distractions. Nothing against the rest, though.
This latest flash of "chrome marks http as insecure" news seems very premature.
It's an experimental feature behind a flag and as far as I can see there's nowhere any indication that this will hit average users any time soon.

Which is a bit disappointing. Chrome and later Mozilla announced years ago that they'd do this, yet as long as it's an announcement for some undefined point in the far future it doesn't create any pressure to the ecosystem to become more https friendly. I'm saying this as someone who regularly works for publications that can't use HTTPS, because Ad-networks don't care.

I'd really wish Google/Mozilla make their plans to mark HTTP as insecure true.
If your ISP is attacking you, then you should think about switching to a different one.
The free pocket is really useless. I am helpless now identifying an alternative which would give me the ability to search for more but one tag (as is the case with pocket)
1000ppm methane would be a big problem. Meanwhile methane concentration (2015 figure) is 2.85 ppm. Please correct if you think this is way out.
on the other hand only a poor craftsman blames their tools.
Can you explain what you mean with "server is in the cloud", is it like literal placing a fog machine to make some kind of cloud around your servers or placing a server inside another server, such as a raspberry pi within a PC box?

What is the cloud if not other peoples servers?
So you'd rather write the same logic in every app, and trust that every developer of every app does the same and gets it identical? Good for keeping busy I suppose but if I were your manager I wouldn't pay you for it.
So you prefer plaintext, which is even easier to MITM? These MITM attacks go unnoticed every day. Logging self signed certificates at least gives us a chance at detecting a MITM.

All of your concerns require an assumption that the browser uses unauthenticated encryption the same as PKI authenticated. Please stop conflating encryption with authentication; they solve different problems. This attitude that a partial solutions should be actively discouraged is why the internet is still uses plaintext which should have been dropped years ago.
Teaching Coal Miners to Code [video]
If that "higher standard" means that a Free SW project is forbidden from implementing new functionality and experimenting in general (even if some of those experiments fail, as is the case here), that's not a very good standard at all.

In fact, it sounds more like a recipe for letting others innovate and being perpetually stuck chasing taillights.
Because certificates are about identity verification as well as encryption.

If a site doesn't have a certificate , there's no identity verification at all and whether or not to trust the site is left up to the user.

If it does have a certificate, and the certificate doesn't appear to be validated by a CA for the domain or organization, or whatever, then there's a risk of misplaced trust. Anyone can issue a certificate for any domain, but they're only "trustworthy" if they've been signed by a CA.
Slightly off-topic but does anyone know the status of the "Send Tab to Device" function? It is my favorite feature on Firefox for Android and it has disappeared. Not the first time this happened, either. Are they randomly adding and then removing support for this? I'm definitely not the only one affected: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1087138.

I can visit the desktop version of Mozilla's add-ons site and see an extension which supposedly does this, but the 'add to Firefox' button is disabled if I visit the same link on my mobile. Bizarre.
We use SVG and Angular.js for the editor and the engraving.
WebMidi & WebAudio APIs for the playback.
WebSocket for the realtime collaboration.
You can find our stack on our AngelList page.
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Model Simulates How ET Civilizations Could Be Deliberately Avoiding Earth
what does your company do?
plus it keeps you from getting distracted. I did have a twitchstream of me coding once. It was awesome. Not once I got distracted, even though noone watched.