skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> This post gets it close, but what we need is the best tools that can run in a web browser on a public library computer. Many don't even have a Chromebook or RPi.

This would further the centralization of the internet, which is a disaster waiting to happen. It's easier, it's cheaper, but it's also wrong.

We must teach people to take control of their computing power. This means giving them a personal computer they can control. They need enough computing power (low-end phones and the R-pi are more than enough), a decent I/O setup (screen and keyboard, mostly).

You also want to avoid proprietary software. I won't object too loudly about adults and companies using proprietary products, but when it comes to children, I have to go full RMS: proprietary software is wrong, teaching it is evil. In some cases (MS-Word vs LibreOffice), we really have no excuse.

(An ubiquitous counter-argument is, not knowing MS-Word makes it harder to find a job. This ultimately does not matter, because "proper" training will cause other* people to be unemployed. To reduce unemployment, we have to either create more jobs or share what we have (4 days work-weeks come to mind). Of course, since computing is mainly about destroying menial work, don't get your hopes up about job creation.)
I don't see why that wouldn't be possible, it likely wouldn't run in realtime though.
first world problems :)
Surely there's a difference between "hyped by many reviewers and related journalism" and "hyped by McDonald's and 7-11 tie-ins"
Let's Encrypt certs hosted: https://www.clearalias.com/

Simple story: I've been involved with a lot of SaaS in my career and unless you're running the latest and greatest, it can be hard to host customer websites on a plurality of custom domains. This just makes that really simple by hosting it for you.

Disclaimer: I posted this earlier today as a Show HN, but posting here as well in case anyone is interested.
Yup, that works!
> Now if only i was not stuck on ESR because GTK3...

What's the issue with GTK3?
I was confused by what this meant - so perhaps some others are too. This is what a few minutes of research got me:

Uploading individual files in a directory = was possible
Uploading an entire directory (eg: a folder to a cloud storage service) = was not possible

Personally my workflow means I've uploaded the contents of a directory to a directory I make myself, so I've never encountered the problem.

Am I missing something or was that right?

Example of error: http://superuser.com/questions/909112/does-firefox-support-f...
This makes me happy. :)
If you can't get this up to $4000 by enabling all the options then HP is doing it wrong.
WhatsApp unveils video calls, Skype pops open guest accounts
Have you ever considered installing remote screensharing software rather then having to troubleshoot over the phone? That's how I help out my parents.
Fuzzyurl.

https://github.com/gamache/fuzzyurl.js
https://github.com/gamache/fuzzyurl.ex
https://github.com/gamache/fuzzyurl.rb

It's a library for parsing, constructing, and wildcard-matching of common-style URLs. Aside from being crazy useful, the fun part is that I wrote it for Ruby, Elixir, and JS with the same basic interface. Kind of like writing a poem that works in three languages. :)
neat idea
50$ though? Ill just implement it myself and print it myself. The price tag is a bit high
Likely because they never intended "developer mode" to be "develop on the device" mode, but more a "test the web app" mode.

ChromeOS is first and foremost a web terminal. That Google recently started introducing Android apps on there do not really change this, as most Android apps are just frontends for web services.
I like that version better anyway. Thanks for helping me improve it!
Flexible hours would be nice, but I would dislike the difference in pay. Although the commute and downtime play a factor into time wasted during my day - I can't really justify a pay cut to work less hours.

I've heard working in chunks of time throughout the week is useful, but also only 4-6 hours a day could be nice.

I doubt any place would pay you the same rate to work less though (most places seem like butt's in chairs types of places)
The linked video is largely a critique of Dedekind cuts, arguing that they don't in general let us recognize, distinguish, or perform arithmetic on most real numbers. (Almost all of the informational input to a Dedekind cut for a randomly chosen real couldn't be written, remembered, or specified in any way by a human being.)

I think the presenter in the video is trying to justify a kind of finitist attitude based on the inaccessibility and unspecifiability of reals-in-general to us. This could also be advocating a position something like

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computable_number#Can_computab...

Edit: or perhaps https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constructive_analysis (I didn't watch enough to understand exactly what alternative he proposes)
New VTEC Technology World's Fastest Oil Change
In addition YC is very systematic in how they choose what to invest in. I doubt there is much bias towards.the wrong things.

Success rate as a discrete count is low, but in $ terms one unicorn pays for many dead mules, and then some.
You can 'flag' stories with 500 karma, which is basically a super-downvote in the sense that a flag suggests the story doesn't belong on HN at all. My sense is that it is a much stronger signal than a comment downvote.
Any reason you prefer NoScript to uBlock Origin's script blocker? Just curious...
LUKS vulnerability allows root initramfs/Dracut shell on affected systems
If you have a hard requirement to use a thoroughly obsolete GUI toolkit, you can for now fairly easily compile your own copy of Firefox for GTK2; it takes around 30-40 minutes on a laptop with a Core i5. (On Gentoo, there is a USE flag for it.)
Could have sworn that you already get apps that set up a Debian chroot, complete with a SDL based X11 desktop even.
Special JavaScript detects when you're being rude and invalidates your downvote. Solution: Be nice.
Why do they do that? Seems great for this use-case but terrible information to give bad actors.
James Woodward's one of the old names in propellentless thrust --- he's been working on Mach Effect based systems for a long time now. His approach is my favourite of all the anomolous science thruster systems, because (a) he actually has a testable theoretical model to back up his experiments, and (b) he doesn't talk about it much; in the fairly rare interviews, he tends to be focused more on coming up with ways to disprove his experiments, rather than self-aggrandisement; which to my mind is the main mark of a serious scientist.

By which I mean to say, in the nicest possible way, that he's not an impartial observer when talking about this thing, so it's worth being careful about what he says.
Based on the details like deuterium fusion with high voltage, my guess would be that FiatLuxDave built a variant of a Fusor. It is a challenging project but not out of the reach of a dedicated high school student.

http://makezine.com/projects/make-36-boards/nuclear-fusor/
Very interesting read that nuance the challenges with Facebook's approach to news, at least for a naive European like me.

I agree with the overall article, but it mention that no self organising communities succeed in policing itself, I guess Wikipedia is good counter-point.
https://www.google.com/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant&ion=1&e...

Perhaps we should reconsider the term. I feel that giving plugin collaborators the opportunity to edit the plugin with an online code editor tool is live code editor.
I built https://snowpool.org about 8 years ago. It's used in New Zealand for carpooling to ski resorts. I'm awful at marketing though so while there are US and Canadian resorts, it's not really used.

Still, it's nice to have a project which results in a little less carbon going into the atmosphere :)
For anyone who might be misled, here are some links that people can use to judge for themselves how "crank" someone is:

Professor Norman Wildberger's homepage:

http://web.maths.unsw.edu.au/~norman/

...a paper by Wildberger tackling some of the issues in this thread:

Set Theory: Should You Believe?

http://web.maths.unsw.edu.au/~norman/papers/SetTheory.pdf

Some interesting works by Gregory Chaitin

Meta Math! The Quest for Omega

https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0404335

Exploring Randomness

https://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/~chaitin/ait/

How Real are Real Numbers?

https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0411418

People who are interested in ultrafinitism would also want to check out Doron Zeilberger

http://www.math.rutgers.edu/~zeilberg/

and

Edward Nelson

https://web.math.princeton.edu/~nelson/
I did several years of programming in high school. Our teacher had first learned to program in BASIC on TRS-80 and wanted us to have the same first introduction, so we actually started with a gentle introduction to programming on TI-83 calculators in TI-BASIC which we did for about a month (for a year long first year course). My fun achievement was a Tic-Tac-Toe game that could play as 2 player or with an AI. It was pretty crude how I accomplished it, but it played well.

Looking back, it was a great idea, because it is one of the few ways to get the feel of retro computing and programming, along with its advantages to getting started, that is still useful and relevant. My TI-BASIC knowledge continued to be helpful into college.
The Ship of Theseus was gaining and losing mass at a molecular level constantly.

So from a scientific analysis, it is the concept that remains, and the materials/constituency of the whole are details that must be abstracted (unless you have a way to diff at the molecular and/or subatomic level).

From an philosophical view of identity, I don't see much in past works that recognize how a person changes through their life path - I would most certainly make some different decisions than the 20y ago self - does that mean I am a different person? If not, then how do you determine identity? For every moment could it possibly be that you are a different person, and there are infinite instances of "you"?
That was the theory with the first clocks to go on ships ... but then John Harrison realized that smaller can be just about as good for a significantly more useable product: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Harrison#The_longitude_wa...
I imagine you just turn cellular off and only use Wi-Fi or LTE. A lot of these backdoors are poorly constructed and wouldn't check to see if they're on a cellular connection.
"I don’t believe Facebook is responsible for the election."

What is wrong with the election? I'm not an American but Donald Trump had done everything he can to reconcile and bring people together since he won.
I kind of agree with the author, but that ship sailed a long time ago. It's not coming back.

This reminds me of the (Hitachi?) thousand dollar rice cooker.

I guess you can argue for balance between craft and automation, but it's rather futile and more a nice mental exercise.

It's like trying to convince most kids to learn how to derive square roots longhand when they have a computing device in their pockets.
My a lecturer in the office next to mine was working on this stuff around 1990/91 (we were in the theory section of the Physics Dept of the University of Glasgow.) I'm not sure it came to anything, he described the theory behind it to me when he was working on the grant application; these sort of side-project applications went on all the time.

At this distance in time, my memory of it is no more than what's in the article anyway, so it's not like I have secrets to tell.
> I think people just get used to Windows' issues and don't recall how many times they have to deal with them.

I can recall a lot of issues that I've had with windows. I can tell you with certainty that I've never had a device go missing from the device manager.

I've had printers have trouble being discovered after they are unplugged. I've had driver updates cause hardware to stop working. I've even had windows updates completely mess up my windows installation.

But I've never had the issue you are describing.

> [0] At least once per week out of several hundred machines.

You're saying you have a greater than 1% occurrence rate per year? Google doesn't show the issue in the first three pages for me with the query "Windows forgets network hardware." Have you opened a Microsoft support ticket? I mean, if you're losing device drivers every week, that's man hours your burning! I would want to get that fixed ASAP!
Certainly the individual, assisted by the extreme ease of finding fairly accurate information from reputable organizations.

It's extremely worrying that anyone would propose anything else - how some refuse to think for themselves or vet information properly in this day and age I'll never understand.
I think once you start getting potentials over 10 kV, the Schottky effect starts to give minor x-ray emissions.

The more major or typical source is from tubes. Most tubes at high voltages will emit x-rays, even if that is not their intent, from an emitted electron striking the anode. This is why CRT TVs usually used thick leaded glass, to block the x-ray emissions.
Support your unique user needs with a choice of Windows 10 Pro or Linux® operating systems.

Above that line on the product's page is the Micorsoft Windows logo. HP should know that Linux also has an official logo. Put it there
The Tuesday Pattern is just great!
It was really fluid at the time - and, as you point out, even now it's good. Sure, the resolution is junk by today's standards, but that's expected.

I'd like to also point out that, from an artistic perspective, the game had a coherent atmosphere and story. It was the first game I've seen where you could see the beginnings of games borrowing a little from movies. Visuals, story, and music told the same message and expressed the same spirit.

It was an early preview of a concept that would be pushed further by later game series such as Uncharted and Mass Effect. I think it was the very beginning of the big eventual merger between games and movies that's still a ways ahead in the future.
How Many Rocks Are There?
I'd expect Ubuntu on a desktop but what do I know. It's exciting to see Linux support no matter what.
It doesn't. For one thing, the axiom of choice is only necessary in situations with infinite sets, and this has none.
Yes! Because primes are infinite! The statement assumes limited primes. And, because it falsifies, it proves primes must be unlimited. I find this argument based on prime factors much simpler.
Awesome work, I was just working on some image manipulation experiments in Rust. Great for some inspiration :)
PolySync Launches Open-Source Kit for Autonomous Car Development
No surprise there. I have the impression that their Pixel line of products is first and foremost for dogfooding their staff. Because Google has long been one of Apple biggest customers, right up there with Facebook. This i suspect because most web dev courses got their start in media/art, not compsci. And you can sometimes tell with how even official Google apps on Android lag their iOS equivalent in features, or bring over iOS-isms.
I was more interested in the exploration aspect. Levels in the first Tomb Raider are very good, with puzzles and spooky traps. Violence plays quite a minor role there.
Write a System Call
Sort of asked before, but does anybody have experience with packet.net as a cloud host?
There's not much trigonometry in this proof, just the fact that sine has period 2pi is zero at pi. Any function that has these two properties could directly replace sine in this proof.

And actually any periodic function that is zero somewhere could be used in a tiny bit modified version of this proof.
The Iris Pro in the Skull Canyon is impressive for an Intel IGP but it's not really comparable to an nVidia Quadro...
Our web sys admin heard me read that out loud and now we have to get him an ice-pack because he almost shoved his head entirely through his desk.
I think it all depends on the quality of the convention you plan to attend. Are there success stories? Try to find out the amount of deals that are done through this convention.
Only every other week, much less often than they talk about that proxy app of which I shall not name.
...or uMatrix with its fine-grained control.
FYI I'm from Packet. Agreed reliability is important (I'll let others comment on our own record) but I'd say there is significant workload via spot market, batch processing, etc that doesn't need uptime and is interested in cost.

Also, I've seen most users want 99.9+% uptime. 2% downtime is 14 hours in a short month. People would probably get angry about that...
On a tangential note, Google isn't easily fooled:

https://www.google.com/search?q=Great+Wall+of+Don'Ald
Blockchain and the 3D Printing Industry
No.

Audio Calls on Whatsapp are already bad, not only is there no way to turn them off, the quality just sucks compared to the local mobile network.

I guess same goes to the Video Calls... and honestly, who does video calls from their phone?
Sadly most people don't want to, as they are mentally exhausted after pulling triple shifts and whatsnot to keep food on the table. They just want to vege out, with the web being the new cable TV.
I didn't mean 'go back' to anything, rather unplug from the constant information highway because it's a farce.
Would make sense to prevent themselves to be marked as spam in the future.
The fact you can't turn this off at all is the problem. Even, as has been mentioned elsewhere, if you set jumpers to flash the BIOS, you can only reduce it down to two seconds!
http://launchaco.com/

I hate how long it takes me to find a name for my new projects so I made launchaco. It's super simple but has saved me so much time when ever exploring names for new projects.
No, you don't get it, since adding anything to the list increases costs and slows down development. But I guess since you aren't working on those engines, you just assume magically adding a bullet point is all it takes.
Show HN: Stratusville – Game-Based Learning for Devops
Wow, thank you.
Hey everyone,

I recently put together a prototype of a game for teaching devops/backend server stuff. You navigate through servers and deploy new instances as needed. Currently it is a set of structured tutorials to get your familiar with the terminal and JavaScript coding. This prototype is a 4-level tutorial on navigating through a machine with terminal, sshing into another box, running JavaScript files ala Node.JS, and using trendy cloud-functions on demand. It was loads of fun to work on since I have a particular fascination for educational services that teach odd skills.

Future work includes fleshing out the game engine further, which includes implementations of SQL/NoSQL-style databases. And a game like this wouldn't be complete without a world view + branching paths so users can decide which path they wish to travel (DBA? DevOps? Build Manager?).

Question: Are you interested in seeing a real product out of this? What would you want it to cover?
Refactoring towards functionality
https://screensquid.com

I'm pretty sure this is best quality user session recorder out there. Just gotta work on the marketing bit :)
I see — I just think that aside from barring use of their ad platform by publishers of fake news, there's not much Facebook can do that would be effective.

A "verified news" (fact checked or otherwise endorsed) scheme could backfire for the intended demographic. It's not like most FB users are seeking news from verified publications.

It's even kind of a badge of honor: "we're bringing the news THEY don't want you to see!"

And frankly, I don't trust FB to not want to hide something.
I have cryptsetup, so I am probably vulnerable, but I do really care -- I do not have BIOS password, nor do I physically disable my USB ports. If I wanted to get a root shell with the disk still encrypted, it would be much more convenient to just boot from the USB stick.

And in the case of "libraries, ATMs, airport machines" it is likely there will be no boot-time passwords at all -- regular login process will likely be more convenient for many reasons.
Heh, seems like a "slight" improvement on their big name Chromebook that would revert back to "normal" mode if the battery ran out. This because there was no separate BIOS battery, so it would reset if the main battery zeroed out. This in turn locking people out of developer mode.
> Technical obstacles...?

Disclaimer: I work at Backblaze. The underlying base of original client backup software was originally written from scratch on three platforms simultaneously: 1) Windows, 2) Macintosh, and 3) Linux. It was designed that way from the beginning. This code continues to compile every time we do a client release, simply as part of the process. However, it is entirely lacking a GUI layer and an installer - those were never written. The underlying backup engine runs even when the user is logged out or the GUI has stopped working.

So it is technically possible, but along the way we released Backblaze B2 (storage API) which not only supports Linux, we assume Linux is the primary customer! We're seeing if that can satisfy the Linux community. Backblaze B2 is a large ongoing effort consuming a lot of our software developer's time.

A note about limited resources: Backblaze never really raised any funding, there are no deep pockets, so we can ONLY hire an additional programmer when the products we sell throw off enough money to pay that salary. We run on really tight margins (thus our obsession with failure rates of drives) which is fabulous for our customers, but not so great for hiring lots of extra help to do projects like a Linux GUI. :-)
Again, try working on that abstraction layer, and then you'll see what it takes. Claims that it's trivial or it's normal and should be that way have no substance. It's like saying that Web developers enjoy browsers not following standards and the need to address all those quirks is trivial. No normal developer wants that.
Seems good !
Or as Joel likes to call it 'that hyphenated site'
You're probably right that Rust code isn't the most minimal way of doing this specific task, but I think the author's intended point was not "This specific task is best done by cross-compiling Rust for Windows" but rather "Rust is a viable alternative to using Python (or the like) for general-purpose cross-platform scripting; here is an example of something that's surprisingly easy to do with Rust". In this case, using a simpler example is just a way of making the demonstration of the concept easier, which I think is fairly effective.
That site made me wish I could set up a "exclude from search results forever" on Google.
Do you have any details on the ADB convertor? I have a few old keyboards I'd love to be able to use!
> Being discussed hurts a submission's rankings.

Only rarely is this actually the case.
Good specs, I wonder what it will cost with maxed out memory.
Randomness is a statistical quality and isn't necessarily tied to physical phenomena. It just depends on to what you apply the statistics.
I definitely agree that it'd be great to decouple the improvements in software and drops in cloud pricing. In reality it is pretty difficult because the Nanjing U/Alibaba team spent a lot of time also optimizing the software specifically for the AliCloud environment, which might not be applicable when running on Amazon EC2, which was the environment of the 2014 record.

This is a great task for a rigorous academic paper!

Disclaimer: I wrote the blog post.
Right! The Skull Canyon NUC is brilliant, but the lack of ECC RAM is regrettable.
Thanks a lot, Patrick. This is very helpful to me.