skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Can be even worse. I have seen some ugly corporate services using links with GET request to perform delete operations and having serious data loss caused by crawlers like this tool.
I'd rather have some corporate overlords moderating than some self-appointed social justice warriors who obviously have too much free time.
> There is no reason to do that if the goal is just to provide best experience on supported OS.

I don't believe it's accurate to say there's "no real reason", it seems like enforcing this behaviour is very much aligned with the goal you've posited.

This is under the assumption that this was indeed done for the purpose of ensuring Intel specific drivers are used for power management purposes.
Moderators will get paid, one way or another. Whatever you pay them with, you will get the kind of moderators who like that as payment. For some people, the power to filter for others is the best payment they could want.

I'm heartened by how many of the nice, kid-friendly youtubers I follow who nonetheless have already spoken up about this terrible idea.
Honor system....ahahahhaha. You have me in stitches. Anything with alerts is not efficient for real work. You get what you pay for. You my friend, are the Salami Sultan of today!!
I wonder how good a desktop app will work if we drop the JS part altogether and use HTTP and regular client-server architecture (i.e. every click will have to rerender the template)? I guess something like Mozilla's servo can be used for that instead of a full featured Chromium to improve performance.
Netflix’s spooky 12-minute film noir only makes sense to engineers and developers
>"Not only are dodgy methods that seem to produce results perpetuated because those who publish prodigiously prosper—something that might easily have been predicted. But worryingly, the process of replication, by which published results are tested anew, is incapable of correcting the situation no matter how rigorously it is pursued."

This isn't referring to science, and these studies aren't being done by scientists. It is research, and these are researchers. I wish people would stop dragging science through the mud over these problems.
Of which there are surprisingly few. Big pharma has trouble marketing those, typical attempts include Alzheimer, stroke management, ADD and narcolepsy, which are pretty hard to run a trial for. These are good enough to establish safety at least.
There are even fewer in people without disorders.
Hey,

Can you tell me where do you look for freelance projects ?
The World of Liquid Crystal Displays (2006)
It's not so much that why get to charge that much, it's that they have chosen to. "Mylan, better health for a better world".
Wait, how is the state trying to achieve "free healthcare" in the US? .... or is your comment not about the US?

If it's in regards to Obamacare, that's pretty recent compared to the trend of the medical lobbying getting one over on Americans... and definitely not "free healthcare" by really any measure.
I also preferred Konqueror to Dolphin as the file manager.
While it is true for Regular Languages (FSM) strict RegExs, it's hardly true for any contemporary implementation of RegExs. They have back references and other constructs that make them more powerful than a Regular Language, and thereby make it impossible to decide equivalence in the general case.
Relevant: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jHxyP-nUhUY
TLDW: The brain is very soft
I prefer KDE 2.0 style.
No, HN is the "random junk on the home page" forum; the idea was to post IT related content. But the quality of the content is entry-level for a dev. This site == r/programming + NYT/etc. articles.
"Best practices" are a mirage.

I just use a regular CSS file. Because it works nicely without any weirdness.
I think all these resent attempts to censor speech and engage in narrative peddling are going to backfire on the companies. There is nothing more frustrating then taking the time to comment on something or participate in a conversation and have those comments removed by someone who has an agenda or simply disagrees with you.

There has already been a fair amount of attempts to start alternatives to popular sites that start to censor. Voat has been fairly successful in pealing off Reddit users. GNUsocial, Wikipedia clones etc.

It would be nice to see some of these services like Facebook and Youtube have a sizeable chunk of there users taken away by companies that make an public commitment to limited data retention and freedom of speech.
Tap water in a sweaty bottle is a bacteria haven you dolt! You are the Salami Sultan of today!!
Not on an industrial scale. Currently, solar and battery is roughly similar too diesel generated electricity in cost (i.e. very expensive) but for load displacement solar is very hard to beat. In this case the Abu Dhabi grid is basically running on gas plants that would be peakers in other markets.

i.e. Abu Dhabi could consume much more solar especially as a large demand for power is for cooling (storing cold water, freezing some food further is a much cheaper way of storing power than batteries as it is load shifting.)

Basically oil is out of mind for generating electrical power on an industrial scale as its way to expensive so it is not competing with that. See every small island powergrid investment over the last 5 years.

Comparing stirling engines to panels -> Panels are so much simpler they will perform better for any domestic and even industrial use. Maintenance is a driving cost in getting these prices down, mechanicals tend to have much higher maintenance requirements.

20% worst case degradation over 20 years is an minor issue. Easily planed for in the financials of such a plant.
Only for people that own their house; renters won't be able to take advantage of this because it's a lot of capital outlay that the home owner gets no benefit from. Same for anyone in an apartment.

So the residential market for purchased electricity will never go away, but a significant reduction would still be a huge win.
Plenty of competitors are approved in Europe, and we're not hearing stories of Europeans dropping dead from autoinjector failure.
We have been taking a small cut of the hundreds of thousands of barrels of oil we have been producing daily for the past 100+ years and spending it as fast as we possibly can.

Right, but the money was spent on something tho'. So the question - and I don't know the answer - is whether having that thing, at the time, was worth more than having something else, in the future.
Ask HN: Popular React Native apps?
I think this is a bit of a hyperbole. To me the definitive feature of the internet is the potential it offers in networking services, offering accessibility to great pools of data and serving as a forum to cheaply create networks of value from producers to customers.

In this scope a public repository of photographic data is one embodiment of this potential. Just changing the behaviour of this single embodiment does very little to affect the fabric of the internet.

Maybe there are social bubbles for whom flickr is much more important but if I had to list any number of internet services that I consider markable flickr would have not been on that list.
Yahoo is expected to confirm data breach impacting hundreds of millions of users
At some point (after years!) it became OK and I went back to it, but it was never as good as KDE 3.5 was for me. I realized it was not just nostalgia, when a friend showed me a laptop with KDE 3.5 and used it for some minutes.

While the whole DE got worse, there's two pieces that got better and better, Kate and KWin.
I never quite understood that lawsuit. The volunteers understood that they weren't being paid when they signed up for the gig, right?
There's currently a backlash against this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wh_1966vaIA

1,500 likes vs 75,500 dislikes. Most people on the Reddit thread dislike it too: https://www.reddit.com/r/videos/comments/53wffb/youtube_intr...
Oh this is exactly what I wanted - I hope you make a firefox addon soon.

How does your approach of looking for text frequency compared to, say, pattern-matching existing clickbait titles from a database? Can the two approaches be combined (say, by using Splice to generate a corpus, remove false positives manually, then use it to train a pattern matcher?) Not having to load the linked article has huge benefits on bandwidth, robustness, etc.
> When you think more about regexes this way, you realize that a regex is just a tiny description of a virtual machine (or emulator) that can process the simplest of instructions (check for 'a', accept '0-9', etc.). Each step in the regex is just a piece of bytecode that can execute, and if you turn a regex on its side you can visualize it as just a simple assembly program.

which is _exactly_ what bpf does :)
For what it's worth, I think the current KDE Plasma is quite evenly competing for the nicest desktop environment around (including the proprietary ones in functionality and looks -- polish is behind due to obvious mismatch in development manpower).
I'm missing something - why were the costs rising?
But I mean, isn't that how reddit moderation works? And all of stack exchange?

Why is that okay and this isn't?
Everyone from dental hygienists to radiologists must undergo health physics training before being allowed to use an X-ray machine on human subjects.

Everyone, that is, but law enforcement.

Thanks, FDA. Good job.
Gnome and KDE have both embraced flat designs but the Enlightenment community seems to still do some rather "original" decorations [1]. They do look rather retro these days though.

https://exchange.enlightenment.org/themeGroup/show/24
> Similarly, even though you might think Google sounds like a programmer-friendly company, there are programmers and then there’s the people who are closely tied to 1% improvements in AdWords click-through rates. (Hint: provably worth billions of dollars.)

It's hard to quantify the benefits your work brings to a company. Probably worth the effort, but for most jobs it's going to involve some time with pen and paper and some imagination regarding counterfactuals.

> I recently stumbled across a web-page from the guy whose professional bio is “wrote the backend billing code that 97% of Google’s revenue passes through.” He’s now an angel investor (a polite synonym for “rich”).

Wait. Yes there's a number in there but it's not one that attempts to quantify benefit. So is this guy just saying you need to quote a number (preferably high), doesn't matter what it relates to?
Also a couple of typos: "acceleation" and "sofware’s"
I am a hacker at heart, and I believe there are definitely some shady dealings with government and industry lobbyists, however, I like to look at things on both sides, since there is always another side.

Truth is if it was more than one hacker in this collective making the 'Epipencil' they must have designed, procured materials, fabricated and did this all in less than an hour to say $30, and they would have had to do all of that in less than an hour to meet minimum wage requirements.

This does NOT speak to QA/QC, testing, insurance, FDA approval, legal costs or even their hacker lab overhead in equipment and energy to make one, let alone hundreds of thousands of these potentially life-saving products.

My guess is that the $150 per Epipen is close to what you need to fulfill all of the above and then some requirements. Far from the $300 or more in pen price hikes, so it was good they did this as an exercise for putting Mylan and government in the spotlight. Bravo, really!

My belief is that it is not solely big bad corporations, but big bad government AND big bad corporations. Just look at the moral integrity of our two current POTUS candidates.

I am trying to become more financially literate in my old age, and I am trying to teach my children likewise, since financial illiteracy is a deterrent to poor people improving their lives, or hackers making a worthwhile dollar in conjunction with learning and exploration.

I tell my kids to think twice when they reactively say or answer:

"ASAP" - when is that? Point to a date on the calendar;

"It will take 5 min." - It never takes just a minute or five;

"It only cost $8 for the materials." - How much is your time worth? Learning is a benefit that cannot be quantified too easily, but for other matters, you need to value your time.
This plant follows an honor system!
Why not? Governments and corporations do it every day.
I have committed to the project twice, we would appreciate more people contributing :-)
Havin data limit and if exceeded limiting speed is default way of doing things in this part of europe. No overcharges ever.
" For antisocial personality disorder? For obesity and addiction?"

If we have a hypothetical scheme to find out all drugs that can be found, and see that the cure for those is not there, that is as a conclusive contribution into finding cure to those ailments as finding a cure. Most biggest discoveries are not about going on a beeline to a solution as a race. Rather, one is charting an unknown territory. As the unknown part shrinks, one does not need to spend energy in stumbling there and concentrate on other areas, finally reaching a solution (if a solution can be found).
I think alternative approaches can bring some things, however, I'm not too sure of all these(Gates a few days back, Zuckerberg today) will encourage alternative approach. But given those guys history, let's hope so.
Hindsight is 20/20. You can look back on many innovations and say that they'd be impossible to imagine in the past, but that doesn't have any bearing on the inherent viability of a given idea. I'm not saying that the Zuck/Chan moonshot isn't a worthwhile endeavor, only that examples of past skepticism prove nothing about what is actually possible.
Ask HN: Audio books for developers?
I love audio books and I really enjoy books on programming but the overlap of those 2 sets is pretty small in my experience.

Any suggestions?

I'm really enjoying Algorithms to live by - by Brian Christian Right now.

Thanks
Hangouts crashes all the time on my Nexus 6P. Video calls are buggy and any interaction with photos is extremely sluggish. This has been going on for months and months.

And the name is stupid. When I used to encourage people to use Hangouts, I always had to explain the name. Talk is a great name and they should have gone back to it for Allo.
My computer is allergic to web apps pretending they are desktop ones.

The only thing that keeps VSCode on it is the great support for Rust.

The day Rust IDEs get feature parity with VSCode plugins, it is out.
fwiw, nypd has a clothes on policy in stings involving sex work. Only on the books because you know why
A Revolution in Supercomputing Is Coming, from Los Alamos, NM
It's also a sneaky back-door way of letting state sponsored censorship that stretches far beyond your legal rights. States can implement Orwellian censorship and Youtube has plausible deniability they have anything to do with it.
100% agreed, worth every penny.
> Creating DIY medical drugs would certainly be something to be concerned about, but I don't see the problem with DIY medical tools.

There was a non-EpiPen epinephrine injector on the market in the US up until last year, the Auvi-Q by Sanofi, that was taken off the market because there were problems getting accurate and consistent dosing.

Sanofi is the fifth largest pharmaceutical company measured by prescription drug sales. They have annual revenue of $37 billion, and 112000 employees.

The fact that Sanofi was not able to get the mechanical aspects of this thing right leads me to suspect that these kind of things are not as easy to make as it might at first seem.
Compulsive smartphone usage related to Psychological traits [pdf]
I wholeheartedly agree that it doesn't sound like much, but sometimes all I'm doing is applying general, human intelligence to the very vague question of, Is there anything in here that I'm not aware of but should be? That's not an easy query to write in grep or SQL, but it's a common query that often turns out to be important, so I handle it the old-fashioned way: I look it over with human eyes and see what I find.
KDE 4 is not updated any more, is it? I switched to KDE 5 well over a year ago, and found it better already back then. It's very solid these days I think.
Is it wrong that I really like the look of some of these? Some are garish, sure, but others like http://www.digibarn.com/collections/screenshots/KDE%202-x/kd... and http://www.digibarn.com/collections/screenshots/KDE%202-x/kd... have a professional feel that is missing in modern desktop environments. Even http://www.digibarn.com/collections/screenshots/KDE%202-x/kd... has a certain appeal to it. I miss the days when UI toolkits drew everything as grey boxes with a 3D edge. I miss Windows 9x/2000 and Mac OS 8/9 too.

I think one of the best things about early 2000-era desktop environments was that it was hard for programs to look out-of-place. In a modern desktop environment, you can easily tell the difference between programs written with different toolkits, like GTK+ and Qt. Even though each toolkit can imitate the other (there's a Adwaita theme for Qt and a Breeze theme for GTK3,) due to the complexity of modern UI themes, it's impossible to get things right and the lack of drop-shadows or animations or hover effects will leave some programs looking sub-standard. On the other hand, every developer can draw a 3D-bevelled grey box. Both GTK+ and Qt apps were made of grey boxes and they both represented each kind of widget in a pretty similar way.
Realtime Multiplayer Game Development on Cocos2d-X with AppWarp
Yr suggestion works for me. Thanks :)
"try exercising"

Actually that's very good advice, as expanding the lungs stimulates the nervous system similar to acupuncture.
It so happens that a map is a metric space. Euclidean metric. If you want to include transport, change it to optimal travel time metric. (Requires evaluating optimal travel time in the tested vicinity first. There are nice and fast algorithms to do it, starting with variants of A* and IDDFS.)
Genesis chapter 2 says God formed Man from the dust of the ground. It also says "And out of the ground the Lord God formed every beast of the field and every fowl of the air and brought them to Adam to see what he would call them."

I find this fascinating that apparently all life has the ground in common. Science says no creator, but after a Big Bang, life evolved from sludge with Darwinism from thereon.

Doesn't the two kind of compare?
>My experiences showing it to students is that people often find it foreboding on first glance, and part of that has to do with all of the accidentals used

But, of course, other late-Romantic and early-modern music has almost as many accidentals. (Try the music of Max Reger, to take my favorite example du jour.)

I personally think accidentals ought to be retrospectively regarded as implicitly or explicitly attached to every note, with a convention of omitting them for brevity in passages that stay in a single diatonic area for long stretches. This 'retconning' of notational convention makes them seem much less forbidding to me.

>I have a PhD in music theory, so the distance may not be as great as you'd imagined

(Indeed, I wasn't expecting that!) That does cut down on it significantly, though it still needs more exposition than can be given in a comment.

Very briefly, the idea is that if (following Schenker and Westergaard, and for that matter the implications of staff notation itself) you take a line-based view rather than a chord-based view, tonality doesn't depend on "classified chords". And if, furthermore, you discard the peculiar non-Bayesian notion of tonality characteristic of German theory at turn of the twentieth century (where a key must be "established" or "confirmed" by a cadential ritual in order to be said to exist), you find that you can always read local keys if you zoom in enough; and out of these local keys grow the global ones.

There's a pernicious confusion that persists in music theory between tonal function and the chord-based view (to the point where the former is most commonly referred to as "harmonic function", as if the two were conceptually inseparable). But a tone has a scale-degree value independently of its participation in vertical "chords". This should have been clear ever since Schenker ; yet it is so poorly understood that, for example, Daniel Harrison could write a whole book advocating this view, all the while under the impression that he is doing something new and non-Schenkerian, when in fact this is part of the core of Schenkerian theory (as the origin of the circumflex notation testifies).
People vote with their wallets (and their feet) on matters of life and death all the time. People choose what car they buy (with crash ratings and cost being significant factors), what dentist they go to (in places where they pay for dental), and many (but not all) Canadians choose to pay for medical care to avoid long waits. People also choose what neighborhood they live in (both safety and pollution are significant concerns), what job they do, how much to spend on food, what airplane to fly on (, the DC-10 was doomed by its safety record), and any number of other health-critical, financial decisions.
Good one bro! Keep it up. I like it.
Growth without goals
> People buy Tylenol and Advil not Aspirin and Ibruprofen.

Aspirin is still a registered trademark of the acetylsalicylic acid in many countries and it's owned by Bayer AG. The generic name of Tylenol is acetaminophen (paracetamol).
It'd be interesting to see if the reaction against this kind of legislation varies depending on whether the country in question has mandatory motorcycle helmet law. I've been riding motorbikes for 30 years, and would never ride without a good full face helmet, but I've only fallen off twice (both times at low speed). I've fallen off my mountain bike many more times than this, but I'll be honest, I didn't wear a helmet every time I rode until I had kids, and felt I need to set a good example for them; indeed I'm surprised at the stats for injury prevention as I've always felt that typical cycle helmet designs wouldn't protect much of your head, but that is clearly wrong.

I'm not entirely convinced by the wearing of the typical bike helmet leading to increased risk-taking; I could see that with a full face one (as it gives you a real feeling of being protected), but with the normal ones I don't think it gives the same feeling at all. FTR I can't find a full-face helmet for cycling that fits - I have an enormous head - at anything other than insane prices - £300+!
Or even better we could use the native window API's.
Okay people, you win. I wasn't trying to change opinions, I just kept my own. I'm still new here so let's consider this an experiment in public discourse.

Peace ;)
Is this the same project that was like...dormant for years?
It's that, or have every + risk integer overflow.

It's a small thing, but it's nice to do. Or at least detect overflows and move to bignum in the default numerical implementation. It's not end-of-the-world if you don't, but it helps avoid a lot of bugs...
LXDE has some really "interesting" window borders. Beauty is definitely in the eye of the beholder.
having written one as a slightly larger python thingy, i can fully attest to that.

now that it is kind of done, i want to make it faster :) for example, having a home-grown vector_3d class kind of sucks (performance wise). it might be better to have vector_3d be actually based on, say, numpy.array ? once that is done, and i start seeing some real improvement, it might be possible to go the other route as well i.e. write the hot-spots in c++/c, and interface that with python.

or go with lua all the way ? or maybe try a hybrid approach (which would allow you to see how embeddable the language really is)

possibilities are endless, and as you so rightly said, gratification is instantaneous :)
People cared about consistent look and feel back then, everyone was hating on java because it got it wrong. Now everything seems to have it's own style and behavior.