skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> they may be neutral today, but that's hardly a guarantee they'll be neutral tomorrow.

Doesn't work like that. Politifact takes a consensus of people who are experts in the topic, and its answers are subject both to peer review and to corrections from outside sources.

> Do you think that sneering at people who have an issue with PolitiFact is going to win them over to your side?

I'm damned sure that neither facts nor rational arguments are going to win them over, because they have been conned by a pathological liar. And as I pointed out above, he's a liar who has been supported by a lying alt-right media.

They live in the same sort of truth-free alternate reality as the whackjobs who believe in con-trails, think the moon landings were faked, believe Obama was born in Kenya, and don't believe in evolution.

As the judge in the Trump University fraud case pointed out: "victims of con artists often sing the praises of their victimizers until the moment they realize they have been fleeced".
Is there any indication they can monetize their audience? Twitter claimed to. How is snapchat different?
Ray Dalio's post-election financial outlook
For that volume I'd think a degausser would be used.
Is it possible to have a non-shared machine? Is it virtualized anyway?
Works great. Thank you Google!
Ask HN: Any side projects or startups involved in Framed Prints?
I'm looking for some services to provide prints/framed prints from images for gifts/etc. Everything from traditional, to interesting (metallic cutouts/etc).

I thought it might be wise to ask hn for any projects anyone has worked on in this space. So, are there any projects (yours or otherwise) that you find interesting or good for the above needs?

Thanks to any replies!
I have experienced this post VR depression with PSVR. Although I have to say that it has been happening less and less the more I play. Perhaps it's possible to become desensitized to VR. I've found myself becoming more aware of the fact that I'm in a game. I'm not saying the magic has completely wore off. I still experience moments of aw. Anyone else experiencing this?
Jaron Lanier: Why people should pay more attention to me and not Web 2.0

When I noticed myself getting mean online I thought, “Something has gone terribly wrong.” It was obvious the rest of the ARPAnet had a social problem, not just me being some sort of asshole.

My book You Are Not A Gadget: A Manifesto is ruffling virtual feathers across the ARPAnet. And so it should, because I invented virtual reality. Wikipedia, which is a tissue of lies, says so. Prospect magazine’s Top 100 Public Intellectuals Poll lists me. Also, my hair is much better than yours. And I’m fifty. According to Wikipedia, so I’d better change my birthday.

Today, the web is a bland place. It’s all user-generated content — silly clips on YouTube, spiteful anonymous comments on blogs about my books, endless photographs of people at a bar with their friends or up a mountain with an ironing board. It was much better back in the early days of the ARPAnet, before we let the commercial users on. These words will mostly be read by numb mobs composed of people who are no longer acting as individuals. You know, the peasants. Virtual reality is far more ennobling, but you never hear people talking about that any more.

The ARPAnet only creates banal mashups of old culture. Salvagers picking over a garbage dump. Only the old-world economy of books, films and newspapers creates original content like Lawnmower Man or Battlefield Earth. Everyone knows that real artists have no influences. This stuff the kids are into these days is just noise!

The ARPAnet is also killing music, according to my good friends at the RIAA. Did you know there’s no music in Spain any more? It’s true!

Will we — meaning I — be able to live off our brains in the future, or will we just have to give our creative works away for free? If we can’t live off our brains then we’ll need a form of SOCIALISM just to survive. WIKIPEDIA IS COMMUNISM! Until the Wikipedia Corporation finally builds a good interface, for goggles and power-gloves.

Open source and open content are a cancer. The dogma I object to is composed of a set of interlocking beliefs and doesn’t have a generally accepted overarching name as yet, so I’m going to call it Digital MAOISM, which is COMMUNISM. Update, five years later: Here is a detailed retcon explanation of why I was not just trolling for headlines by calling Wikipedia COMMUNISM, but was speaking precisely and you just weren’t thinking hard enough: [snip 10,000 words]

Also, you should get into virtual reality more.

You Are Not A Gadget: A Manifesto is published on papyrus scroll and hand-illustrated by monks. You cannot have a copy until you have fought your way up the mountain and proven yourself worthy.
Addictive design: Why the iPhone is just like a vending machine
Project idea: The death cap mushroom is really tasty according to people who are now dead. Disable the poison.
I'm in a role that involves a lot of communication as well as code. I often get my best development work done on Friday afternoons because everyone's already spent the rest of the week asking me questions/updating me on things and they're out of things to say and/or goofing off in anticipation of the weekend.

That said, on Fridays I like to:

- make sure I've listed out all the things I need to talk to people about next week

- get to inbox zero

- clean up my personal to-do list

- update my calendar to make sure I've blocked off time for development work next week

- push all local work to the remote repository

- take notes on next steps/blockers for my current project/task

For an individual contributor, the last one is the most important. The weekend is the most massive context switch you can have short of a vacation, and it'll take you much longer to get back in the zone if you have to re-excavate the various layers of things you need to do in order to do the things that will let you do the things to fix the bug/implement the feature.

Pro tip: do the same before you go home every night, too, and save yourself a headache in the morning.
Your first link is to one of a series of articles linking Star Wars to: Lawrence of Arabia; E.T.; the Seventh Voyage of Sinbad; The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly; Empire of the Sun; and possibly others. They can't all be major influences!

The start of the YouTube video puts the exposition of the attack from one film next to the exposition of the attack from the other. Is that really such a strong similarity? I'd guess a lot of war/action movies have a here's-how-it's-going-to-go-down scene. Some of the other pairings are closer - I think I buy the one with the line about the number of guns.

So, I see a Dam Busters reference, and that's interesting! But I'd need more convincing that it's used for storyboarding.
I've made a converter for 2.x series, reach me at turrini at gmail
What in this release would you class as functionality removal, appearance changes or added bloat?
Presumably you can contact them and ask for early access.
Compared to Chrome profiles, it's much less usable in regard to launcher icons and window management. There are workarounds (system-specific), but none I saw worked as nice as Chrome's implementation.

Container tabs are (IMHO) better than Chrome profiles, because they don't require one to have a separate window just to open a single site.
> I am sure that the local German civilians didn't have much to do with, nor condone, the Russian POWs or forced labourers in the area at the time.

And I'm sure Allied bombers didn't want to kill anyone when they hit the dams, but that doesn't seem to prevent you being judgemental about it. What makes you "sure", BTW, that the Germans in that area didn't condone the Nazi policies of slave labour that resulted in so many people killed?

> You seem to think that they need to be punished with extreme prejudice for having the temerity of accepting what the German leadership and military machine at the time did.

You seem to like telling me what I think. Where did I say the Germans need to be punished with extreme prejudice, or anything even remotely like that? Stop being so hysterical.

I'm questioning why you are so fixated with emphasizing German victims, while dismissing or showing little to no interest in non-German victims, because the only people I have ever seen doing that are Nazi sympathizers.

> But you are probably OK with...

There you go again, telling me what I think. Is this a tactic you find works in other arguments you have?

> the moment you dismiss and forget them

Who is forgetting them? I specifically said you should include all victims, and not just the Germans, which you refused to do.

You're the one who is going out of your way to dismiss the fact that the majority of the people who died were not German, and only died because of German barbarity and racialist far-right policies.

And I think it's pretty obvious now why you're doing that.
Tons of laptop keyboards. Of course lots of those have no PgUp either.
If trumps a fool then what does that make the people that he beat?
Too late to edit my comment, but I added a couple more photos if you want to check them out. A night scene that I thought would be a tough test (hard to do stars!) and some columnar basalt that turned out great.
Have you used a vive? The resolution I don't think is any better, but the vive does feel magical to me. Everyone I put in it seems to feel similarly; but the tracked controllers are probably a big part of that immediately immersive experience
Movistar vulnerability makes it possible to transfer balances between accounts
yeah you can.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meal,_Ready-to-Eat

i have no military experience but i'm guessing this is actually one of the easiest things to strategically deploy. a day's worth of ammo for a platoon probably weighs a few hundred pounds. a day's worth of food is probably like 10 pounds.
I sometimes wish I could be better at exploiting what shareholders believe -- which would involve a certain degree of cycicism. (I think your first paragraph is right, but I think you second paragraph is believed-by-shareholders-but-absolute-bollocks. I'm guessing you'll agree.)
What is this magic?
For me, I kept hearing "try CockroachDB" any time I brought up Google F1 or FoundationDB. Months of that went by then I see a post saying that high-availability & scaling database had no attention to stability plus couldn't scale to a dozen nodes. The criticism was warranted.

Their reaction to the problems and criticism was good though. They got on the problems. The product is in better confition. A dedicated team is there to keep it that way. Good ending.
And of course Kunstformen der Natur [1]. Even if Haeckel did cheat a bit.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kunstformen_der_Natur
Really? I was under the impression they just use standard compute instances to power Cloud ML?
This packet is probably more for their investors then anything else and investors probably think 6 monitors means powerful. It's smart marketing to attack who you are actually advertising to (and here it's business 'leaders').
Pleased to see ICQ here on HN.

They were the competitors at a company[2] I consulted for in mid-90's in India who I believe made a product equal or better than ICQ.

But the potential was never fulfilled due to founder personality quirks and right time/place issue. They had a gun video conferencing product[2] in late 90's than worked quite well on ISDN lines and even on dial up.

The product was built in collaboration with the famous IIT-Chennai

[1] https://goo.gl/hV4EVz

[2] https://goo.gl/P97rhN
The specific discussion thread is in spanish: https://m.reddit.com/r/argentina/comments/5d55z3/vulnerabili...
What's the assurance like regarding security against other concurrent users on the same hardware? Historically multitenancy with GPUs has been quite iffy and not much security research around, even if there theoretically are IOMMU's.
Nothing like as interesting as your other responses, I think, but I got quite into userscripts (eg for Greasemonkey) when Facebook was trying out different kinds of adverts, in the news feed and sidebar etc. Wrote a few little userscripts to stop them showing up. It was nice to regularly spot something I'd made was installed in friends' browsers.
I think the study set a cutoff that is too low. It'd be great to be looking at the richest and the poorest for symmetry reasons.

I've always nursed the idea that the only people who don't "care" about money are the extremes of wealth distribution; the wealthiest for there is too much, the paupers for there's too little.

Anyone in-between cares because marginal utility makes sense.

In other words, is it not legitimate to interpret the study showing that egalitarianism being most shared amongst the poor as follows: we want equality the most when we're at the bottom, not so much so when we're at a relative top.

A less optimistic view about human nature, but I think it's safe not to dismiss incentives and self interest in these studies.
Interesting to note that James Comey directly reported to Dalio at Bridgewater a few years back.
What an odd question. Seems like training a new voice recognition model, or image classifier, or any of a zillion other research projects google is working on would be perfect for any unused capacity.

I've never worked at google. Do they just let each team go with their own crazy hardware setup? Or maybe two separate systems, one internal and one external? That seems a little wasteful (they have the money, so whatever).

But wouldn't programming against a big unified api be a bit more, well, sane? I can see really sensitive stuff locked away on its own hardware, but the search front end? why not serve some JS or provide chrome downloads from a giant pool of common hardware?

Things grow organically, and they might be technically locked into a specific layout right now, that's totally understandable. But, unused capacity is just capital depreciating steadily away with no gain. Soaking up every spare cycle doing something useful should probably be somewhere in the company goals.
Free flow of information isn't going away, it will just move into channels where that information can't be corrected. It will create even greater information bubbles.
Specifically water. Control the water supply and you can control the people within 3 days.
There are many factors and implications that go into the tradition, and the diamond itself is symbolic of much of it. That's why you can't logically reduce the tradition down to a single element with an easy alternative.

For example, the actual act of popping the question is an important part of the tradition, and it's inextricably linked to the ring. We all know how it goes: the guy and the girl are on some sort of date, the guy says something vague, he pulls out a small box and opens it, and the girl can see the ring inside. She knows what this means before he even says anything, and is already nodding her head (hopefully) before he asks, "Will you marry me?"

That's all very easy to follow. Now imagine the guy pulls out the keys to a house or something instead of the ring. She wouldn't realize what's happening until he actually asks the question, which is fine of course... but it's not the same tradition, and it might not have the same magic to it. Beyond the proposal itself, the ring is a physical difference that she will carry through to the next day, which will prompt excitement from her friends and coworkers and remind her of that moment.

And that's just one element of the whole tradition. I think it's very easy to see why one would value the diamond. I just said that the price was about expressed commitment. There's much more to the tradition than that.
Internet connection speeds have been flat longer so it eves out I guess.
> You seem to be equating all the German population in WWII

So referring to "barbaric and racialist German policies" is "equating all the German population in WWII as Nazis", is it? So, what, we're just supposed to pretend their polices were A-OK and legitimate?

> I think I am beginning to understand the agenda of your posts now.

Don't worry mate, I suspected the agenda of yours the minute you posted about German victims, while showing zero interest in non-German victims, and you've done nothing but prove my suspicions right.

It's always handy when Nazi sympathizers out themselves.

Edit: it's pretty funny you spend so much time crying about downvotes, here and elsewhere (fishing for upvotes), when you're so happy and willing to downvote other people's posts.
Sounds like 12ft ladders would have also been pretty effective, depending on which side you were on.
https://slackpass.io

It's the missing invite system for Slack.

Let's anyone create invite pages that can accept payment (monthly, one-time) for access to a Slack community.

It's been a blast to work on. Learned React, Redux, and got into Flow and Tcombs while building it. Interest so far has lead me to realize more people are interested in creating private/paid communities online than I had previously expected.
I'm in the process of switching to Pale Moon because Firefox is making changes that will break Pentadactyl.
That's a problem if you want to keep commenting here! Comments on HN need to be civil and substantive.
Secret backdoor in some US phones sent data to China
Amazon takes counterfeit sellers to court for first time
This sounds amazing! I can't seem to get it running on Chrome, but I'll check back on it!
That's what I am currently going for. Took a job that I cannot afford to lose, doing something most people on here would accomplish in an afternoon tops.

I guess your stance is right. You don't grow unless you're challenged.
http://www.responsivetester.net

Not sure it's the project I'm most proud of, but as far as a simple tool I use everyday, this is it.

One reload shows you the site in multiple sized iframes, so you can quickly test breakpoints.
What a great way to create huge amounts of IT maintenance work for yourself.
OpenWhisk is also in this space.
Dude, I use this every day! It's super handy for doing code reviews. Thanks :)
Unreal. I know that every hit I've ever had with my compromised email / password came from this hack.
I can confirm: I took some of the most difficult text I could find (some articles from lesswrong.com) and translated them from English to German with Google... the German translation is very close to perfect now- Comparable to any manual translation I could do on my own, being fluent in both languages.
> I don't think I saw any concrete structures when I was in Afghanistan.

Seriously? You never saw the giant prefab concrete walls around Bagram and Phoenix, and Eggers? Where were you in Afghanistan?

I have been to just about every significant ISAF base (while it was still called ISAF, not RS) and US DoD base in the country, and can assure you that giant prefab concrete walls lifted into place with cranes are everywhere.
Complement with https://www.debuggex.com to also get an interactive finite automata (this can really help with understanding what's going on)
That's a good point. On the other hand, the SST measurements are a lot lower impact (in terms of the number of times they're used in graphs that get into your newspaper) than air temperatures.

Which may be not be logical. But humans aren't logical.

For that matter, increases in air temperature in the 20th century by no means constitute definitive evidence of anthropogenic warming, since the planet has been warming for about four centuries. Finding the anthropogenic "signal" is a matter of number-massaging statistical wizardry, not at all unlike general circulation modeling.

If we had a sample of about 20 independent planets we could experiment on, it'd be no sweat. But science is hard. There's no law of nature that says the definitive experiment actually has to be practical. The definition of science is "we know," not "this is the best we can do."
>arguments from scientific validity always trump arguments from incentives

The science is settled, human behavior is heavily influenced by incentive. Including the practice of science.
Project Omnate: The Mother of All Charities
#ProductSF 2016 presentations
Ask HN: How do you effectively read code from someone else
What are some of the techniques you use to read and understand a code base from someone else, say open source libraries, frameworks, etc.

Do you just do lists (bullets of functions, etc), maybe mind maps?, abstractions?
or do you just straight up top-down read it and get it.

I found that this is sometimes not an easy task since keeping track of dependencies and/or async flow is not a trivial thing. I personally just try to abstract as much as possible and then go deeper into each part (as needed), but maybe you have a better method.
You're a lifesaver, I'm glad I scrolled down the thread this far. Sometimes I hop around these sites when one gets blocked, but yours seems to be consistently helpful for me.
Why assume that climate scientists find global warming desirable? Most scientists don't wish to see their unique research subject destroyed.

It's like claiming that mass extinctions of species are probably not happening, biologists are just biased and want to make their field look more important... The argument is absurd when applied to biology, but somehow climate science is considered "crooked" it seems.
If they really plan to be a camera company then this stock will be the next Twitter, but possibly worse.
It struck me as the prose form of a TED talk; part sermon, part meditation, part poetry.
Also, increasing their security team by 1 engineer would have cost them more than $1M (assuming a salary of $100K). So from a pure economic standpoint it makes more sense for them to keep paying fines in future breaches.
Stackie. It's a stack machine texture generator using single character instructions. This lets you produce textures from a very small encoding.

For example, this URL contains code for a flame texture.

http://fingswotidun.com/stackie/?code=x1x-*5*dx4**y3*p%2By!-...
Peter Thiel's VC Partner Publishes a Sharp Critique of Donald Trump
http://puns.samueltaylor.org/

Enter a word, and this site will make up some puns for you based on that word. I'm way more proud than I have reason to be of this.
Like I said, I'm just curious. Google has so much capacity that I'm not sure it would be important for their bottom line to move it between Google and customer workloads in quanta smaller than one physical machine. Your theory also requires Google to have a substantial standby workload that is currently not scheduled, doesn't it?
A widget that displays basic context sensitive help. I work in payments and we wanted to address user questions without polluting a simple UI and update the content without deployments:

[https://www.whatthefaq.io/]

A small directory for finding informal household services in
Jakarta. Old service, ticking along - still proud of the mobile UI :)

[http://www.bangarif.com/]
Even though I appreciate the quality of the new translation, on the translation example on the image with the 2 phones, I find the old translation more insightful (even if not grammatically correct) than the new one.
I.e. I prefer: "No problem can be solved from the same consciousness that they have arisen" to "Problems can never be solved with the same way of thinking that caused them"
Busses too?! Man, I wish this were around in the Bay Area!
> we have studies which can indicate or disprove about any point anyone can raise.

What are you basing that belief on? How many studies did you spot check to reach this "studies can disprove about any point" determination?

That's an exceedingly broad claim, and I'm skeptical you've done more than hand pick studies that support your worldview, but I would be incredibly relieved to be proven wrong.
I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question.

rsync.net is a cloud service that provides a remote filesystem and ssh access. How do you envision using a remote storage provider to backup your laptop to your local server?
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