skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> But Leibniz's idea was more like that there is an arbitrarily large number of computers running the same simulation, while some of them also run artificial intelligences which just watch the simulation unfold.

I think this was just Leibniz awkward attempt at explaining modal realism. The idea of many possible worlds is much more mainstream now in physics, so I wouldn't call it "completely nuts".
Can Windows Replace Your Macbook for Dev? Yes and It’s Quite Nice
Anonymous Apps infographic
love is about appreciation, not possession.
Banker's drafts can be an even bigger pain in the ass in the EU, with some banks charging percentages for them... And losing one of those tends to be a Bad Thing too.

Anyway, my point was that despite being rare the 200 and 500 euro notes are far from "absolutely useless".
It's neat how the reaction to an authoritarian state further restricting its people's access to information from outside sources is "see, just another reason why the United States is evil, all hail Edward Snowden and the FSB."
> Seriously, NYT. Fucking. Seriously. You're such a complete joke.

Please don't comment like this here. We ask that you post civilly and substantively or not at all.
So simple, yet extremely effective. Way more helpful than Netflix's suggestions.
I have no luck pre-ordering one in Europe
Do you just want me to repeat myself? He's defeatist, typing almost incoherently and he's clearly already abandoned this thread. The reasons why he doesn't deserve help are self evident.
You can get a SNES to USB adapter on Amazon/eBay for not much, plug and play pretty much, just need to map it to your emulator.

You can't beat the feel of a genuine, 20 year old controller!

They also make them for pretty much every controller you could want - Even Wiiport to USB which means you could plug these NES Classic controllers into the PC to use with emulators directly.

I wish these all worked with Steam Link though :(
Developer Book Club
Ask HN: Share your non-profit projects ideas
I would love to invest some of my time into either existing or a new project which does some visible good, however I cannot find anything good enough as well as have no ideas.
Chiquita Bonita Reacts to Clinton and Trump
It turns out that this is not a good link to be starting with: see
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12901346
They have 3-5 feeder sites as free services that bring them traffic for crew.co. That's where they presumably make enough money to finance Unsplash, their office/café/etc.
To me tmux, like a lot of tools, suffers from bad defaults that makes it less enjoyable to use. One example is not being able to scroll with a mouse. I usually find someone's tmux.conf online and use it, but always run into strange problems that I don't have the energy figuring out. My current conf suffers from the navigation bar going completely black when I try to rename a pane (can't see what i'm typing).

Really wish more tools took care into making solid defaults and not assuming all users are like the ones on their mailing lists.
You sound like you think wireless is the only option...? All my consoles are wired. Anything that was doing cloud gaming would take an ethernet port unless the manufacturer is just an idiot. It might work with wireless but it would recommend wired.
I'd presume they use the virtual console codebase, not a FOSS emulator.
FAQ: Analyzing Social Data to Understand the US Electorate
Most modern relational databases now allow the cells of a table to have additional structure through the use of SQL/XML. We can query into the contents of a cell using XQuery.
It was a combination of things. I didn't enjoy the work environment very much and I thought some of the policies were rather dumb. The product itself was ~8 years old and had just been hacked on since then.

The Big Thing was when, after I had been there 2 months, they announced benefits cuts for my subsidiary -- and no bonuses. These benefits were very important to me and I had stressed this during my interview. So that turned me into a motivated job seeker.

I kept my resignation as professional as possible. Worked out my time, did a proper knowledge transfer, wished everyone luck.
The Closing of the Liberal Mind – Folly of the Masses vs. Wisdom of the Crowd
corporations are not persons anymore?

citizens aren't private entities anymore?
> Some website managed to convince her to switch to developer mode to install a non-web-store extension that overwrites the new tab page and search functionality with ads

I'm not even mad, I'm honestly impressed both that your mom went to such lengths and that a website managed to convince a layperson to do such a thing.
Show HN: The Fucking Electoral Count
Why does the windows version start at 0$ but the linux version start at 4.99$
shameless plug 2 (I saw another shameless plug)...

I created hackernews.club

https://hackernews.club

Which shows posts and comments of any HN user.

You can also create a HN profile widget you can embed anywhere. Here's mine.

https://hackernews.club/hacker/profile/sideproject

Love these types of HN tools though!
I've used screen for darn near 20 years now. Have tried to switch to tmux, but even with screen-like keybindings, I end up running into something[0] that makes me switch back because screen is just muscle memory for me at this point.

[0] like switching to a non-existent-numbered screen to get a list of which ones I do have...
Funny, when I saw this I immediately thought of UpdatePanel (I used to be on the ASP.NET team back then).

The motivation of UpdatePanel was not to provide the best design pattern for AJAX, but provide the fastest path to incremental page updates for ASP.NET Web Forms developers (with minimal code changes) - with all its limitations.

It makes a lot less sense to have a pattern like this in a modern SPA.
Amiga 500 at age 14ish. Simple as that :). Done & done.
let's just say that the choices I have made in those regards have provably kept me out of a jail cell.
Be the First Product Designer at Close.io
This is telling organizations developing standards to basically pretend IPv4 doesn't exist and is no longer in use. At least that's how I read it. Seems a bit premature.
Love it! Wish I would have found this earlier...
Is Mirai attacking again? Level3 looks sad
Linux? Or a Chromebook.

They'll only be able to do like, two things with it, but at least Google has tools that replace most office-type apps. I'm going to say Chromebook is the slower but simpler solution.
Meh. That stack overflow survey is definitely flawed. My conclusion is based on the fact that most businesses run Windows and as a consultant, I visit many many many enterprise shops. None of them are running Macs or Linux.

The people here on HN live in a bubble.
I am not sure that is a big improvement. I dipped in here, and what I found was mostly a repetitive litany of complaints.
There is only one currency: time.

You can trade this for everything else - the exchange rate is up to you.
In E&M class, seeing Maxwell's equations be manipulated into the wave equations that predict a propagating EM wave.
I was thinking about meta-level semantics, i.e. semantics that apply to all HTTP/REST-based systems, not just one's own special snowflake :).

EDIT: Though, honestly, I must say that I also question the value of these things. For example, HTTP error codes are notoriously ambiguous and you usually need to transmit an actual response (and sometimes are forbidden spec-wise!) with an error code. I was just assuming the position of an advocate for HTTP/REST.
Recently, I realized that instead of putting the pressure to launch a website specifically, I could launch products within the website instead. This got me to start writing, sharing, and getting feedback immediately, and has made me feel much more comfortable that I'm building something people will actually use.
Delivery Drones Will Mean the End of Ownership
You can not tell me what accusations to make, based on your seniority of having been here longer than me or for any other reason.

Moxie is a member of HN and of Github, and I have read his posts and his discussions on github, his contempt for the common user is obvious and abundant.

Signal is dependent on Google. That is a fact.

It can be hard to swallow, but many people, just read the github issue page, consider that insecure.

For many people security means not feeding their data into USAs corporations and intelligence services data centers. For many users, like me, if the choice is between USA and others, Id prefer in fact to feed my data to Russian or Chinese or Indian corporations and intelligence services. Then its not a matter of "oh my encryption is better", it doesnt make a difference, in that position, Telegram is for me a better choice even if its encryption is not as good - if it at least makes it more difficult for USA (but very easy for Russia) then its better than Signal.

Both Signal and Telegram suck, to various degrees in different forms, but the choice is easy to stay away from Signal and similar Google-only "secure" apps.
You can use Kotlin just fine with the Intellij community edition, which is free, Apache licensed OSS. What more do you want?
This one hits home right now.
Or even better, Probotector and Probotector II: Return of the Evil Forces (the European and Australian versions of Contra and Super C that replaced the main dude-bros with robotic soldiers)! :)
IntelliJ Community and Android Studio are both free and gratis software.
Live Feed of the Election in Football Form
This would be my suggestion as well

Also might be useful to get a hosts file mapping bad domains to localhost
> What I meant in my comment was that Blue Apron seems pitched toward people who don't normally cook (i.e. they eat out/get takeout) and are relatively insensitive to price but would consider doing so if they could push a button and have all the ingredients and instructions delivered.

Yeah, but those people are gonna realize this is still a lot of work and then end up wasting some of them, probably.
<script src="https://comments.network/comments.js"></script>

No need (for me). Recipe to roll your own comments for your DIY blog:

- write your own templates, content and engine

- crack out your python/alt-language and download the HN News API https://github.com/HackerNews/API for favs/stories posted

- find your firebase json repository https://hacker-news.firebaseio.com/v0/user/bootload.json?pri...

- download json posts by id. For example ^this post^ cf: https://hacker-news.firebaseio.com/v0/item/12904458.json?pri...

- parse and roll into your blog.

Wasn't that hard was it?
I believe you read the | as "Therefore" (possibly going for ⊢ ?), as in "The probability that someone who scored highly on this test is also suicidal is .93" They want to know that the probability that someone who is suicidal scores highly on the test. The test could be good at identifying suicidal thoughts in only a small portion of the population, since they have demonstrated a good false-positive rate (i.e. 93% of subjects that it identifies as suicidal are); but not good at identifying which members of a population are suicidal - that is, if given to all of a population, only find some small percentage of people with suicidal thoughts.
We detached this flagged comment from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12900891.
What?? Okay then count by lengths of the spacing of carbon molecules in graphite, or Plank lengths, or whatever.

I don't see why your objection is on inches or otherwise any unit I chose for dimension of length.
Abusing protocols in LTE networks to knock mobile devices off networks
Care to elaborate how VS Code is miles ahead of Jetbrains offerings?
His point is that the 3/5th compromise doesn't count people equally, like today where all votes aren't equal.
I've never been anywhere near the GFW but I do find OpenVPN listening on 443/tcp and a few other ports (tcp and udp) on the outside quite handy for drilling through firewalls. It supports basic auth proxies but CNTLM is in the toolbox as well. Add in NAT and a few routing entries on other hosts.

It also provides a simple way to detect a transparent MitM proxy. If OVPN fails to connect but an "unprotected" https connection gets through then the alarm bells go off and the presented SSL cert gets a serious examination. I keep a couple of thumbprints of known certs handy for this - the discipline of proper checking rather than a cursory glance at an image that the GUI throws up.

I use readily available stuff but looking into the description of how the obfs protocols work in Tor I'm impressed and rather glad that my life or liberty doesn't depend on my efforts. When I get it wrong I simply lose access to BBC iPlayer or whatever. When someone who is having to take this rather more seriously gets it wrong, they might not get a chance to repeat their mistake.
> those 80 billion lines of code don't maintain themselves

They kind of do sometimes. I know a guy who makes part of his living maintaining the emulation system that runs COBOL.
Yeah, but maybe it's trickier to relate the restoration force of a membrane with displacement of water.
Not the biggest aha. But when I figured out how VLQ encoding works in a source map, I did a hoora!
But you certainly can talk about curvature scalars being positive/negative which are derived from the Riemann tensor.
Or ya know... Google Images...
The OP may be confusing Facebook with Google. Apparently there's some evidence of Google's ties with the US intelligence community:

https://www.corbettreport.com/meet-in-q-tel-the-cias-venture...

Two of the names that come up most often in
connection with In-Q-Tel, however, need no
introduction: Google and Facebook.

The publicly available record on the Facebook/In-Q-Tel
connection is tenuous. Facebook received $12.7 million
in venture capital from Accel, whose manager, James
Breyer, now sits on their board. He was formerly the
chairman of the National Venture Capital Association,
whose board included Gilman Louie, then the CEO of
In-Q-Tel. The connection is indirect, but the
suggestion of CIA involvement with Facebook, however
tangential, is disturbing in the light of Facebook’s
history of violating the privacy of its users.

Google’s connection to In-Q-Tel is more
straightforward, if officially denied. In 2006,
ex-CIA officer Robert David Steele told Homeland
Security Today that Google “has been taking money
and direction for elements of the US Intelligence
Community, including the Office of Research and
Development at the Central Intelligence Agency,
In-Q-Tel, and in all probability, both the
National Security Agency (NSA) and the Army’s
Intelligence and Security Command.” Later that year, a
blogger claimed that an official Google spokesman had
denied the claims, but no official press statement was
released.
Please rethink your characterization.

"Wholly corrupted" would mean 110% voted for the selected politician. "Wholly corrupted" would imply a completely bought and sold election board. This is absolutely not the case, and goes to feed apathy, violence, and adverse voting outcomes (Mussolini, Mugabe, etc.). Note that I am not implying any of the political candidates this year meet this qualification.

"Polling stations are engineered to underserve minorities", "voters are wrongfully being purged from the rolls", "districts are drawn for the advantage of a political party" are truthful statements that are more meaningful.
Are you my mind?
How is integer zero better in that scenario, though? The (void-star)0 pointer can still be cast to the correct type (and will be for everything except variadic functions like printf).
Some of us that don't have respect for intellectual property rights certainly understand the concept of "plausible deniability", and how it applies to an ARM system running an emulator for 30 NES roms. :)
I'm disappointed that this is the top comment.

You're not wrong. But this comment completely lacks substance and doesn't even attempt to address the post.

I don't fully agree with Slava, but at least he makes some thoughtful points. You just typed out a handful of platitudes which sound like they came straight off a Startup Vitamins poster.
Who the heck posts secrets on Facebook? Well, in China, lots of things are state secrets, like pollution readings, basic street maps, consumer price information, or basically anything that would embarrass the party. In that case, I guess you are right, but it is basically vacuous.

But mainly, they want control over the communication channels, so they can shut them down when it suits their difference, as they have done time and time again. Seriously, how does banning this picture do any good?

http://globalriskinsights.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/TIG...
Marketing is the top of the funnel. He's not talking about a hard sales function but actually the process from attracting someone to closing the sale (e.g. clicking 'buy').
I am not sure if it takes care of corruption completely to be true. Most of ministers and big business people, they have Swiss bank accounts. Though with UP elections coming, it may affect the heat. But again, the ministers are most corrupt and not sure how things will play there. At common man level, I am wondering how much will it help with inflation. Already in last year, the taxes are raised to such a high level that the investments there are already looking waste. With this move, when property prices will be high on paper, but lower in actual, it will also effect the property prices that were paid in full and I am including most of properties purchased by service class people or NRIs, with no black money. Not sure, but just going with words I am trying to draw a full picture here. My investments in India were devalued in last year because of taxes, properties prices are also highly affected. At least as one of one year, this will affect the property prices further. Will it even help common people to a large extent or is it uprooting old Indians while making foundation for lower classes.
Most things people tell you that are important are not (at all) important. Realizing that removed all stress and since then everything has become easier business wise as well.
Trying to work on a startup when your emotional gas tank is on empty is basically a cruel paradox. Doing anything productive is virtually impossible when you're consumed with self-hatred.

By the same token, starting a startup because you have nothing to lose is generally a terrible idea, because the aforementioned tank is already empty before you even begin. Road trips seldom succeed when you have to push the entire way.

While the author didn't make the latter mistake per se, his situation sounds more akin to having embarked upon a road trip with a single tank of gas, and no gas stations along the route.
How SMS Text Messaging Won the 2016 US Elections
It's pervasive in this industry, no matter the sub-discipline.

That sort of crap doesn't happen in other, mature engineering fields. At least not to the extent it does in computing. It's as if there is some unaddressed need to be considered among the intellectual elite that festers and ferments into casual, ego driven aggression.
yep, this is the "second-mover advantage." It doesn't always outweigh the first-mover advantage (especially where network effects exist), but it can in some cases.
On the plus side, planetary distances are so large you know for a long time that someone is coming to your planet. So you have time to prepare a reception.
CBC threatens podcast app developer for using publicly available content
1) No local Admin rights.

2) Chrome + uBlock Origin w/ Malware filters.

3) Sophos Home[1] which has the bonus feature of being cloud-managed and not providing any control to the local interactive user.

4) Sophos XG Firewall Home Edition[2] on whatever $100-ish hardware the pFense crowd is currently in love with. Web filtering for Advertising and Threats, AV scanning.

5) Backups!

[1] https://www.sophos.com/lp/sophos-home.aspx
[2] https://www.sophos.com/en-us/products/free-tools/sophos-xg-f...
Hah! I don't work for a startup, I work for enterprise, we give meaning to bureaucracy too!

I'm not going to a startup, please don't suggest it. I've been there done that. Too broke for my liking, Enterprise got money, plenty of it! I like money and not worrying about it.
So it looks like they are planning on adding the map editing tools directly into Google Maps - ETA March 2017

And in the meantime, all the existing editors are being asked to be what I imagine is more of a local content writer.

Would it be similar if an OpenStreetMap contributor is asked to contribute to a Wikipedia Article about their town?
Marketing leads to sales. If your marketing doesn't convert viewers of your marketing effort to buyers then you have nothing.

For consumer products, look at how competitors do it. What looks like it is successful? Try it. Put proper metrics and A/B testing on everything you try.
Wow. I thought the increase from $50-60 a few years ago was crazy. I had no idea prices back then were higher.
You have no idea how deep the USB-C spec rabbit hole goes
Hmmm. I had no idea there was powerline for tmux (I used powerline a couple of times in vim, then lost patience with it because sometimes I'd lose the wedges for some reason. It was early days then).
ROSCon 2016: The State of ROS Is Strong
Maybe I'm being dumb, but couldn't you just lock down the level of user access on the machine?

As another option, assuming you can use Linux, could go down the route of using Tails or another live distro:

https://tails.boum.org/
> The controller ports aren’t as satisfyingly analog-feeling as the old ones, but that’s really not a big deal.

It's slightly ironic that the author says this, since there is absolutely nothing analog about NES controllers -- they're nothing more than a shift register internally. By contrast, modern controllers do in fact have analog input mechanisms (although they are of course communicated with digitally).

It seems to me that "analog" and "digital" have lost their true meanings over time, and come to mean nothing more than "old technology" and "new technology" over time.
At age 14, I realised if I have to be in school, I could just as well listen to what was said. This resulted in learning a bunch of useful stuff.
Twitter's not going to go under. It just won't grow to FB/GOOG/AMZN/MSFT size (at least not under their current strategy), and that's not necessarily a bad thing.
Love the Netflix integration!
Scaling our Norwegian solar company
"...converted to other assets"

These is mainly real estate assets.
A lot of this black money is laundered to the builders who in turn do not declare a large part of it. Thus my hypothesis that it is the builders that will be hit the most. I'm expecting a real estate market crash.
Plus these:

* If it sounds too good to be true, it is.

* If anything related to it says Nigeria, run screaming.

* Nothing is free and you will never win anything.

* Never enter your social security number at any time for anything.

* Surfing the Internet is like walking down a back alley in Hong Kong. They claim to have everything, but you probably aren't going to like it when you get it.

* Illegal software and marginally legitimate sites are breeding grounds for viruses.

* Even if it seems legitimate, make sure it comes from a source you have heard of.

* Always check the URL bar. Just because the website looks like Paypal doesn't mean it is Paypal.

* Get on all of the 2nd factor auth.

* Never download anything.

* Never run anything.

* Learn to close windows without clicking on anything (Alt+F4 or similar)

* If you enter your credit card anywhere, just assume that number is now compromised.
Fortran, Mathematica, Matlab, R, Lua - all start indexing from 1 (you can find an incomplete list in [1]). For users coming from these languages (which is a large part of the Julia community) the cognitive load would be in the opposite direction.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_programming_lang...
Or, you know, let it suck for awhile and we get some competition.
Trying to be constructive: How much work would it be to rip the current UI out of blender and replace it with one, that adheres to humanity's standards and defaults?