skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The last time I played Standard seriously was RTR/Theros and all the top decks were 1K+. I looked to buy in a few months ago, but 4 Jace's alone were over $400 (a new person would also be looking at several hundred for fetch lands). The only reason current standard is "cheap" is because everyone knows that most of the cards won't hold their value post rotation.

I think I'll be sticking with the eternal formats where cards don't lose 90% of their value in 2 years.
Lots of references here: http://bfy.tw/8bhJ
Come back to me when you've managed to convince the USA to adopt metric, which is significantly more of a no-brainer than throwing away timezones.
Only a few people have to maintain the time zone system, and only a few people (those writing the software that everybody else uses) have to understand the minutiae. The alternative is that everybody has to understand, which will invariably cause many mistakes.

I mean, when someone schedules an across-timezones meeting they use software anyway; and who really cares about that one time 2 decades ago when some small region switched timezones or whatever? (yes, I'm painfully aware that there are changes to timezones across the world pretty much every month; what I'm saying is how often does anyone really care about the historical changes, in contexts where the hour or 30 minutes really matters?)
The 25 Hour Day
Neither of us can credibly answer if a socialist system would have created cellphones. A socialist system certainly put both the first man-made object and the first man in orbit, so it's certainly not out of the question. A more interesting question is would a socialist system have designated smartphones worthy of the R&D & manufacturing efforts or would they have merely been brushed off as substandard replacements for existing personal computing technology if multi-billion dollar international firms weren't burning cash on marketing to convince people that they needed them in the first place.
There's another submission from a few months back that got on to the front page that is about how much things cost: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11519085

The original URL has moved to here: https://crew.co/backstage/dispatch/what-does-unsplash-cost/

So how do they make actual revenue? They wrote a second post, How side projects saved our startup:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9786642

https://crew.co/backstage/blog/how-side-projects-saved-our-s...
Interesting, but I'm pretty sure our body's metabolism is tied to daylight, and this system would be pretty unhealthy for the "night-shift" people in the long-term. (I don't have science on this)

Also I'm not entirely sure what benefits this brings. Seems like the only ones who'd gain something are people dealing with international matters - a small fraction of society. Could you expand on the gains for the average Joanne? :)
> Doesn't matter who you are - you don't get any.

Really? I doubt it. The rich and powerful get plenty of privacy and protection. It's just the us remaining 98% that don't.
Any link to that talk, or info about the speaker(s)?
Elm.
> It's like that everywhere in Europe. Nobody says 'see you at fifteen'.

Not really? In France it's perfectly normal to say "Rendez-vous à quinze heures" or "Le film commence à vingt-deux heures trente"
Bash is a strange choice, why not a more readable language like python/perl/ruby?
That would be fun. There are a significant amount of people in my building that don't realize the top light means the elevator is going up and the bottom light means it's going down.
Wish I hadn't asked now. Talk about snatching defeat from the jaws of victory.
This gives me an idea. The keyboard on my phone recently added the feature to drag along the spacebar to move the cursor in the text, but it's far too small to be that useful. I think being able to swipe on the spacebar to move the cursor or horizontally scroll would be fairly useful (especially given how often I actually scroll slightly horizontally on trackpads when I try to scroll vertically)
In my experience it's better to store local time (where the event physically happens) with a named timezone. That way when daylight saving laws change with 3 weeks notice you can adjust without shifting events (cough Outlook). UTC can be calculated easily if needed.
11am-7pm? Kids are often up at dawn and forcing other times is bizarre. So by 1900 the kids would be going mental.

While it would be nice if there was slightly later childcare and work to shift peak hour, I don't really think it will work.
In so far as there's a "right answer" for the pay-to-win parts of the game, this is it. EDH, in general, is much gentler on using cards that aren't the best and most expensive thing around.

I have a tourney-competitive EDH deck that, according to current prices, costs about $400. That's a good bit... but replacing 4 cards with cheaper counterparts brings it down to $63. And I have recently seen at 2 other good EDH decks under $40 from someone who decided he wasn't going to spend more than $50 on any deck.

Definitely doable.
I remember reading the Welch book and finding it terrible. It seemed to me mainly a litany of great things he did and great people he hired. No real insight, just an egotist full of himself. Maybe am I just too low on the totem pole to appreciate his way of thinking?
This.

# Before abolishing time zones

I want to call my Uncle Steve in Melbourne. What time is it there?
Google tells me it is currently 4:25am there.
It's probably best not to call right now.

# After abolishing time zones

I want to call my Uncle Steve in Melbourne. What time is it there?
Google shows me a daylight map (First result https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/sunearth.html)
It's probably best not to call right now.

We are just used to the insanity that is timezones. Of course, I say this because I have to deal with time and timezones every day at work and bugs are always prevalent. Each DST switch there are new bugs we find; every time we change our core date and time code there are bugs. Just painful.

In the end, we'd build new tools and intuitions around time. People would adapt and my life would be measurably better (though not completely solved; scheduling anything across a date boundary is odd. No one thinks of 1am as "tomorrow" but instead as "later tonight").
Pointer Events Polyfill: a unified event system for the web platform
As others pointed out society adjusts.

In Anchorage for example elementary school starts between 9am and 9:30am to account for the late sunrise.
You could color-sample the pictures displayed on the fly with a library like color-thief[0] and render the text in some acceptable contrasting color. We do something similar for a bit of our app that allows the users to set color schemes.

[0]http://lokeshdhakar.com/projects/color-thief/
>Remember the server sending out emails

Interesting 'fact' to cite. How many emails did that server send again?
Hopefully the function keys on your external keyboard will still act like they used to!
I agree about the rush hour on the trains in the cities. I also live in a large city in Japan and have to battle to get on the train around 8am and 6:30pm. The guys that are working all the over time tend to work in the really big name companies (Toyota, Honda, Mitsui, etc.) which have their main working centers outside of the big cities. We have a lot of engineers who work at these locations and it seems that the minimum amount of paid overtime is 40hr/month for our employees (I have interviewed engineers here who have reported working 110hr+ of overtime in a month, which is illegal here).
The problem is, these are all reported paid overtime hours for contract employees. Patrick is talking about lifetime employees of the large firms, who do a lot of service overtime, which is unreported and un-paid.
When I was an English teacher I was often hired by these firms to do 6 month intensive courses for employees who were moving to an English speaking country for 3-5 years. These guys had an unbelievable amount of work for that six months and often slept at the office (which has showers and changing rooms) for their 3 or 4 hours of downtime.

So I think you're right, that not everyone is doing this, but there is a certain circle where it is highly expected.
Beware, iPhone Users: Fake Retail Apps Are Surging Before Holidays
I really miss The Oil Drum.

Can anyone recommend sources for news/analysis from the energy industry?
I had assumed from the title and given Asimov's personal behavior that this was referring to this kind of "missing stair": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Missing_stair
Best advice we had was 'keep a diary/log' - started seeing the larger patterns that our fried brains were missing day to day.
We should use local relative times based on sunrise.

"I start work at 3 past".

Meaning he or she starts work at 3 hours after sunrise.
I travel a lot and despite coordinating meetings across timezones being a bit of a pain, I'd hate universal time. When travelling, you just set your watch to whatever timezone you're currently in (phones do it automatically), and to plan meetings you use a website. It would be a major pain having to readjust in every time when trying to find a meeting time 'after lunch' - you'd have to remember a reference point for every time zone you're in, and then do a bunch of arithmetic to adjust for 'first thing after coming into the office', 'just before lunch', 'after work', 'after children are in bed' etc which are the real anchor points you hang your mental time model on.
And since this is not going to happen, and carbon sequestration takes more energy than we gain from the remaining oil, an articifial volcanic winter is probably going to be the only way out. Main problem: Kiss complex oceanic life goodbye - 2C warming will already be enough to pretty much kill all the coral reefs. Getting a cooling effect but with a continuously increasing ocean acidity will be devastating.
I suspect we'll see cheap storage before modular storage. If there's 64 GB onboard and nearly as fast as RAM, it's easier to live with the rest of the world being on the other side of a USB interface.
I think you've had this for ~20 years ... it was (is) called "gallery" and it was a perl/cgi script that basically everyone on the web used until ~2000 ...
Not sure if this is the reason , but:
24 and 60 are both multiples of 12. This gives you the same benefit dozenal counting systems have - it's easy to divide stuff into 2,3,4,6 parts, the factors of 12. With 60 you get 2,3,4,5,6,10,12. Whole lotta neat factors that come in handy in everyday life :)
some cursory googling would yield 'reputable' mainstream media sources calling Donald Trump the next incarnation of Adolf Hitler. So I really don't want my fb posts being censored by fb because a wapo article disagrees with me.
Absolutely. Lots of places offer free stuff if you have the sticker: http://www.thepennyhoarder.com/election-day-freebies-i-voted...

Anyone can do that in whatever location they like.
Considering the rule is only self-imposed, it's pretty self-selective.

"Crocker emphasized, repeatedly, in Wikipedia discourse and elsewhere, that one could only adopt Crocker's rules to apply to oneself, and could not impose them on a debate or forum with participants who had not opted-in explicitly to these rules, nor use them to exclude any participant."

In essence, it's a rule about how you allow people communicate to you, rather than how you communicate with others.
My problem with vim is that I keep pressing 'ESC' almost automatically to get out of insert mode. How to fix?!
OK, it might be a social construct. I'd never say 'treize heures' to set a time with my Parisian colleagues, and neither would they (to the best of my recollection). Sometimes people would say it, yes, but it'd sound strangely artificial, like read literally from a schedule - which in many cases it would be.
With projects like this, I'd love to see a demo site instead of just a screenshot. Since it's static you could just throw it up on GitHub Pages.
Contributing by being interested and actively listening is more important than knowing everything about everything.
> it seems likely that they are all using (and are more secure using!) off-the-shelf iOS or Android phones

In what sense are they more secure using stock Android than CopperheadOS? They wouldn't be installing it themselves either way. It's a product available for purchase too... have you done any research into what it is before making claims about it?

> Do you have any pointers on how Play bypasses local signature verification? I'm surprised about that.

Play contains a bunch of privileged / platform signature apps. They don't follow the regular permission rules. An unprivileged app not signed with the platform key cannot do automatic upgrades and counts as an unknown source. The Play Store chooses to bypass the trust-on-first-use signature checks of the package manager too. Upgrading apps via F-Droid or manually will perform the signature checks, but the Play Store does not. Try installing an app from F-Droid on a phone with Play, and note how Play will happily clobber it with an update signed with a different key. On the other hand, F-Droid won't do that even if you sign it with the platform key as CopperheadOS does to mark it as a unknown party source.
This is true. IANAL but I was a paid photographer at various points. My understanding is that if you use a photo that you don't have the rights to accidentally you can still be liable. This post seems to concur: http://www.contentfac.com/copyright-infringement-penalties-a...

The nice part of using going through a photo agency or pro photography that despite the extra paperwork and cost, you know you have the rights.

When Virgin Mobile used a photo of a young girl that was licensed by the photographer as Creative Commons on Flickr, she and Wong sued Creative Commons, Virgin Mobile USA, and Virgin Mobile of Australia. They eventually dropped the other plaintiffs and went after VM of Australia: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/12...

https://www.flickr.com/photos/sesh00/515961023/

They seem to have lost the lawsuit: https://wiki.creativecommons.org/wiki/Chang_v._Virgin_Mobile

But in any case, the user of the photo ended up paying the most legal bills, even though the photographer had given implicit permission.

One thing that Unsplash has going for it is that all submitter of photos also have to log in with Facebook, so there's an extra barrier preventing someone from turning in a random photo. I mean, you can still do that while logged in, but that's work to impersonate someone.

I just signed up an am about to upload a photo. Will let you know if there's a special thing that I have to sign.

edit: signing up and uploading photo just tells you to read the Terms before uploading...I'm guessing there's something that protects Unsplash from a user uploading maliciously https://unsplash.com/terms
You didn't actually read it. Only the listener can declare they're operating on Crocker's rules. You can't just unilaterally declare that nobody can be offended by anything you say.
Nice library! All javascript too. Thanks for the heads up - will certainly make an interesting project to use this to calculate the text colour for the error screens.

In fact, I may be able to go back to using coloured Unsplash images. I went for Grayscale images purely so that I could stick to white text for the contrast.
I think the idea that emotions are not information... alien? I guess. Whatever. These sorts of rules do select for certain kinds of people to have certain kinds of conversations, but I don't buy that the actual selection effect is what is intended or claimed.

When intelligent people have great conversations, they are not the kind where people's emotions are disregarded. That does not make them less efficient, in fact, considering that humans have a great deal of circuitry for empathy, I think it would be perfectly reasonable to claim the opposite: That an environment where a high level of emotional communication is processed in a constructive way is the most efficient way to convey information.

I don't think this post holds up to scrutiny:

> The underlying assumption is that rudeness is sometimes necessary for effective conveyance of information, if only to signal a lack of patience or tolerance

In other words, some emotions are perfectly acceptable! It's ok to be rude, because, I guess, somehow rudeness is an emotion conducive to rational communication? Ok. Granted. Why is signaling that one is upset not also a constructive emotion? It's not entirely spelled out but it's easy to infer that what is really at issue here is the expectation of empathy and good faith. The implication being that empathy is an obstacle to rational discussion.

That's what disregarding "emotional feelings" means.

To put it lightly, I emphatically disagree.

Edit: To make it clear, here is an alternative rule I think would be more productive. Crocker's rules gets you some types of conversations with some types of people you otherwise wouldn't get. Instead, I think one should offer to be receptive to empathetic discussion about a difficult topic. I think this gets you other kinds of conversations with other kinds of people and I think they are more useful.
I can see how this could work for recording timestamps as they happen, or for events that have already happened. In this case, you still need to keep around the tables of time zone changes if you ever want to compare two timestamps.

How do you handle future timestamps when time zone data changes? Update all future timestamps? Keep a separate timestamp recording the timestamp at which the future timestamp was last updated?

Storing timestamps at UTC solves this at the expense of knowing how to view the timestamp at a specific time zone.
Would you play Russian Roulette with those odds? I wonder if an artificial intelligence would.
Ask HN: 30 and beyond folks – what's your household income?
Assuming majority of thw crowd on HN works in tech, I am curious what's your household income? If you don't want to identify yourself, just create a throwaway account.
How old are you? Married? Kids?

What is your major expense besides rent or mortgage?

What's in your safety net?

I will start with myself -
I am male,30, not married, no kids, obviously:-)
Household income - 120k before taxes. For me Food is major expense after rent. I hate cooking so I buy lunch outside everyday. I buy microwaveable food for dinner.

I don't own any property.
> Computers have less than a century of history so far

That's actually the point.
Which collapse do you mean?
Many IDEs do that. For C++ i use Qt Creator which differentiates all of that and more (virtual functions, globals, primitive vs complex types etc)
they're private companies that can do what they want on their platforms, but if fb actively censored my posts i and many ppl i know would immediately stop using it
To be honest I'm surprised at how simple this UTC/Local solution is. I feel like we reinvent absolute/relative in many different areas, and act really surprised each time... That concept is so universal, it's beautiful.
Awesome, thanks. If you need any money to support the server, let me know. I can also buy you the required github plan if the price isnt outrageous. :)
There are also more email-to-fax services (and fax-to-email, as well) than one can shake a stick at.
There are also analog clocks with 24 divisions.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/24-hour_analog_dial

I guess 12 hour clocks are an easy trick to make them easier to read and manufacture and so on.
no-body, no-where, interrupt-able, etc
Thanks for the link! That was an interesting read. For us it was sort of a balancing test. Our analysis went something like - the risk of SIDS is really low to start with, and we don't drink or smoke, we breastfeed, we sleep in a king bed and we're both light sleepers. In addition we take precautions to make sure there aren't pillows or blankets around the baby.

Towards the end the of paper it says, 'One has to ask whether it is worth taking the risk, however small, of losing a baby, when it can be so easily avoided.' I feel like that's the justification for a lot of safety precautions that each seem like a no-brainer individually, but add up to a sterile and unpleasant (and very low mortality rate) way to raise children. But I do think that's how a lot of people look at it, basically just sleep worse and bond less with your baby to take this risk from something like 1 in 5000 to 1 in 12000. But for us at least, it lowered our quality of life to not have the baby in the bed, so it wasn't really that low cost of a way to decrease the risk, especially given that 1 in 5000 starting point.
I have a Nexus 7 II (2013).

I can reversibly root it?!
> Something is seriously wrong with today's app development ecosystem if it takes 70 MB, even when I already have both Chromium and ffmpeg on my system.

I used to think this way about Electron as well, but then I tried bundling up a ~30 lines long Python/NumPy+SciPy script for standalone use on Windows. pyinstaller produced a 300mb blob; the smallest I could get the whole thing was around 100mb.
On that I disagree. I am a long time Vim user and I always enable vim mode wherever I can. But compared to IDEs and editors that use compilers for hilighting, vim is pretty poor.
I've switched to 3PM ET or, better yet, 3PM New York time.
Since when is any unit of '3 million' not a huge difference?
I agree with you that Wizards has figured out how to create a fun and rewarding limited environment.

I also agree with your parent comment that they have dumbed down constructed.
Previously:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11522661
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11519085
Try to write some GPU software on AMD cards, then compare that to the NVidia/CUDA experience. I don't know about the Bitcoin thing (maybe in the end, for very long lived code, the lower cost would be more important than the developer pain and time time required) but for pretty much all the HPC code I see, getting things running sooner and with more polished dev tools beats price/performance ratios every time. If you're spending a few thousand on Titans anyway, getting a few more cycles per watt doesn't matter all that much anymore; except for Bitcoin mining where your main cost is energy (by design).

So I think there's a very clear reason for that specific case.
So you have to write JS.

But I guess there would be a single event handler that shows all the error messages and server would push down HTML describing errors, e.g. validation.

Why not make it part of the lib then, so "no js" thing stands? :)
it is for me too (Windows 10 + Chrome)
Is this an accepted psychiatric phenomenon, or just some Freudian bullshit?
Yeah that's it. Thanks. Unusually thorough survey in terms of categories and paying attention to stuff other than Red Hat and Linux. ;)
> one the fastest interpreted runtimes around

Maybe tangential but I think V8's speed has become somewhat mythologized. In AWFY [0] benchmarks I've seen JSC routinely come in 30-50% faster.

[0] https://arewefastyet.com/
Web of Trust caught selling private browsing history of millions
"no one" is two words.

Edit: corrected. But I can't delete? Oh, I have replies :)
The pension scheme is a bad example as it was put in place in 1961[1] long before Japan experienced it current population decline. Furthermore recent government actions have been towards weakening the yen which will adversely effect the elderly and pensioners (who are on fixed incomes).

Unlike the US, there does seem to be a recognition that people are part of the economy of the country and that there are mutual shared interests in making things work. The issue seems to be more in the speed and adeptness at which changes are made.

That being said, the biggest obstacle to start-ups in Japan is the Japanese aversion to risk. The most talented people would rather work for peanuts in large Corporations or in secure Government jobs rather then risk failure in a start-up.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Pension