skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hmm. and I was just wondering how much longer Google would last. How often do people really use Google? Most everyone I see is just taking & sharing photos / occasionally updating a facebook page.
I'm working on a Node.js app, which'll be hosted on http://xervo.io -- formerly modulus.io

Not as over-engineered as Heroku for small projects, but you still get free LetsEncrypt SSL certs, auto-scaling (for us wishful thinkers), and an integrated/cheap MongoDB (which I haven't messed with). A small side-project runs $7.20/month. I had a good experience with them on a previous Meteor project, so I'm looking forward to using it again.
It is conceptually like a global variable except changes to it are strictly controlled.

So in that sense it is a very close representation of reality.

The reality is that the state of your application can be (and I'd say should be) perfectly presentable in a giant object.

Redux is not shy about that and doesn't try to hide or escape from it. The importance is in how you manage reads and writes.
Js engines are really fast. The stuff they run is bad.
in 2017 you should be able to view the entire map imo ;)
The cheating part however is true, the limited view creates extra challenges. The best solution is allowing servers to set the desired allowance.
I'm confused too. To my knowledge Dropbox credentials are only ever stored on the client. If the 1Password client is compromised (presumably meaning the installer download is hijacked like what happened to Transmission), your Dropbox files being compromised will be the least of your worries.
I don't think its a baby Google thingy. The costs associated with hiring the wrong person are huge. But its not only the money - it really is a pain in the ass and most people trusted with hiring other people at a startup have made many painful experiences in the past. Which, over time, makes them quite risk averse. I think this is the main reason why many startups implement intensive screening processes.

But having an intensive hiring processes doesn't guard you from hiring the wrong person. So they fail again and again, while making the hiring process even harder every time. Its a death spiral. You can easily spot a startup stuck in this death spiral if someone trusted with hiring other people tells you they get a lot of applications but none of them are any good.

I'm sorry that doesn't help you much in your situation, but I hope it explains why you see a lot of defunct hiring processes these days.
> But what if you want built-in streaming in your car, which standard do you support? There are none. You have to have apps. Do you think your car will still get software updates for those in 10 years?

None. You add a plain 3.5mm line-in plug.
I was just recently playing openTTD (https://www.openttd.org/), a clone of Transport Tycoon, on an Android tablet.

For a game that was originally made in 1995 (openTTD is much newer though), the UI and gameplay work remarkably well on a tablet.
Time-series compression (part 1)
Another factor is that many micro-endgame sequences simply have a "correct answer" that loses the least points. Any human who's played Go for more than a few months knows these sequences, and if they choose to answer a certain move, will prefer the answer which is "always correct" to another move which would also win the game. This naturally leads to the winning player preserving their margin even when they could throw it away, while the machine has no such bias, and will just as happily throw away the margin as preserve it.
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Word! Norwegian living in Oslo here, my iPhone 6 can shut down around 40-50% battery around -5 centigrade if I keep it out for long enough that it cools down (5 mins should do it). Now I always try to keep it warm in my hands and stick it back in my pocket asap, and I always keep it the pocket on my thigh, if I keep it in a pocket without close body contact it cools down as if it was outside..
I've heard something about this being caused by the aluminium covering the back of the phone and it accelerating the transfer of heat. Can't confirm it though, my last phone was an iPhone 4 which was equally terrible in the same environment.
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I've actually got a iPhone to cassette interface (I would call it a cable, but one end looks like an actual cassette) in my desk drawer, so that I could play my music in my car.

New car now (well, new to me), so it's redundant.
I had the same problem here, while scrolling Firefox couldn't catch up and showed white just white for a short time. Then I saw the huge background gradient. The background is an image, a radial gradient, and also background-blend-mode: hue;

edit: there are even more huge div's that have the same background, so there are multiple layers of gradients with hue blend mode.
I agree that a compromised 1Password application poses a much bigger threat than Dropbox access. But instead of a malicious attack, I would argue that it's more important to protect against a bug or faulty code.

Based on 1Password's response, it sounds like the app has to locate the password file based on a settings file, which could be a little fragile. A flaw in the code logic could accidentally modify other files unintentionally.

As an example, there was once a bug in Steam on Linux that force-deleted root because a path variable wasn't checked to ensure it wasn't empty.
> For one, the electric car market markets itself as green and while they are running on renewable energy, the costs and sources of power for building them are reportedly a lot less environmentally friendly.

This is the kind of made up on spot arguments you hear from ICE vehicle owners. Until they switch to EV :)

"Manufacturing a mid-sized EV with an 84-mile range results in about 15 percent more emissions than manufacturing an equivalent gasoline vehicle."

http://www.ucsusa.org/clean-vehicles/electric-vehicles/life-...

15pct is not anywhere enough to offset the lifetime footprint of a fossils-driven vehicle, especially in case of Norway where effectively all electricity is hydro.
I feel sorry for companies these days who have to continually respond kindly (for years in this case) to unreasonable customer demands via forums/facebook even when they've clearly stated why things are configured the way they are and changing that will break functionality for tens of thousands of people.

Some companies after a while just need to start following the Wendy's Twitter account model where they start just telling folks like it is after they've shown they aren't going to be reasonable.
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It will have to replace it because users chose different things. In Austria more people now listen to Spotify than DAB.
Grab a Pi.

Might be slow, but if you set it up to just remote shell into it, then you do get access to Mathematica for a fairly small outlie.
According to this frequently cited study, most don't[0]. It states that "unless they are experts, individuals who are unaware of the price enjoy more expensive wines slightly less". Which means it goes like this: an expert tastes the wine, detects elements which they know are found in expensive wines, then judges the wine favorably because they know it's expensive. Grossly stated, the accolade is a consequence of becoming aware of the price.

This is similar to this great Penn and Teller "Water Bottle Survey"[sic] video [4:04]:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YFKT4jvN4OE

[0]: https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/6534611.pdf
Weird to read this, because I'm thinking of switching into software development.

But if I were going to switch into something else, it would probably be something involving the outdoors, with a tangible physical aspect to it. Surveying?
Ask HN: Best resources to learn Java in 2017
Most of the Java tutorials available online don't have very good interface and structure, in comparison with front-end documentation.

I have been doing front-end development for past 3 years and know enough node and Java to get by on server sice. I want to deepen my knowledge in backend dev in general, Java seemed like a good start because of better career prospects.

Related: Is Java still relevant? Or should I start with some other backend stack?
When they launch something that overtly flaunts their political affiliation like this, my first thought is: what will they omit?

Are we going to get 'curated' history now? Will everything they archive going forward come with a third-party annotation by a 'non partisan' fact checking group, or disappear into the ether? The latter option is far cheaper and less prong to scrutiny, after all.

One primary use I have for IA is to look for things that have been censored off their original platforms. Will I only be able to find those that align with their views going forward?
It is possible shrinking PCs/all-in-ones will make a difference in this.

A nicely designed all-in-one PC is a lot more palatable and manageable to the average person than the old tower/cables/monitor/speakers/etc.
To play devil's advocate, FM radio broke in my car with a similar price to fix it.
What you describe is not unique to DAB radio.
Even more important today with a share of around ~70% instead of ~60% back then (http://www.w3schools.com/browsers/)
>I doubt that 4G is capabable of replacing FM/DAB. Radio is broadcast, 4G is individual streams. For a whole morning queue full of cars, that's a lot of bandwidth.

-True, but surely one could simply allocate bandwidth in the 4G network to multicast at least the most popular channels? (This may be a very stupid question; I know a thing or two about broadcast networks, but hardly a thing about computer networks. It all went downhill after Token Ring, as far as I am concerned. :))

That being said, I think it would have been smarter to stick with FM, but we should cut our politicians some slack - I think it would be unfair to expect them to realize in 1992-1993 or whenever the decision to go DAB was made that by the time it gained some traction, there would be a national, wireless, high-speed data network which could to a large extent provide the same service DAB does.

DAB coverage is still spotty, though, claims to the contrary nonwithstanding - when I drive along one of the most heavily used routes in Møre og Romsdal county (E39/E136 between Ålesund and Vestnes), I get consistently good FM coverage and DAB with decent quality most of the time, but several dozen dropouts lasting from a few seconds to perhaps a minute.
As an old Opera user I really want to like Vivaldi, but the weird titlebar without title and especially the non-native menubar really turn me off (in a native menubar under Windows, once you click a menu, you can just move your mouse without clicking to navigate the rest of the menus. In Vivaldi's menubar, you can't, making the menus way clunkier to navigate). For this reason, I actually find the experience of Otter Browser (http://www.otter-browser.org/) to be closer to Opera's than that of Vivaldi: even if Otter is more bare-bones in terms of functionality, it really gets the efficient UX feel better. I encourage old Opera fans to check it out as well.

I hope the Vivaldi team fixes these so I can really like it. Some of my previous turnoffs (like lack of "click tab to minimize") were implemented so I'm hopeful... although not too hopeful because this menu implementation has been there for quite long so they don't seem to take the menubar too seriously.
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Respect is not a given, it's earned. If you "respect" everyone it's the same as respecting no one.
AGI is a pretty hard to define term, but I never saw it defined as "self-conscious". Most definitions are along the lines of "do what a human does", i.e. walk into a random house and make coffee or get a college degree, or, more mathematically, "Average a good score over all possible problems, weighted by their likelyhood and the compactness of your code"
Facebook is accessed mostly mobile these days. I remember that they said sth around 70% mobile usage, and that was 1-2 years ago. Many people never use the desktop app (me included).

Facebook pushed mobile first several years ago and were very successful with it.
> the Vivaldi guys insist on pouring resources into an integrated desktop email client instead, because that was a signature feature of Opera back in the day.

Really? That's dumb. Why would I want my browser to check my email? That should be another program, or just a webpage. The browser browses the internet.

Perhaps I'm not the audience, as I've always liked the Unix "do one thing and do it well" approach.
Lovely crinkly edges.
I would be a cook/barman in my own small establishment. I actually prefer the work to dev (after 30+ yrs since childhood) but lack the finances to make the transfer.
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Correct; FM is very power inefficient, particularly in Norway where one needs quite literally thousands of repeaters to provide coverage to every nook and cranny where someone saw fit to settle down... :)

Also, only the national broadcasters vacate the FM network; local radio stations are free to keep using FM for the foreseeable future.
Its quite interesting

Anti-Hillary has gone about leaking private correspondence and documents to "attack" her

Anti-Trump (which I'm considering Archive to be, considering their prior reactions), has gone about collecting and documenting public data to "attack" him.

As a nice side-effect, it does mean that (for the most part) truth is being used as the weapon of choice, which I think is pretty great. I hope the act of publishing truth as a political tactic becomes more of a thing over time, even if partisan.
It's worse than the author even envisioned, we're seeing apps like notion and atomic be chrome only with no sign of Firefox support. So the exclusivity has extended beyond Google properties.

When you can't even use the browser it's very hard to keep marketshare.
> For a whole morning queue full of cars, that's a lot of bandwidth.

Yes, but that's a problem for the telco's to solve, if they want to continue selling mobile internet. So they have strong incentives to solve it.

> One is emergency broadcasts

How is having to buy an expensive device to listen to emergency broadcasts a benefit? One of the reasons DAB was scrapped in Sweden was this. Everyone and their grandmother has a bunch of FM radios already, no purchases necessary, it's deployed, it works. Shutting down FM means less people will be able to listen to emergency broadcasts. That's bad, not a benefit.

Besides, most modern smartphones have emergency broadcast functionality that's accessible to local authorities. And everyone and their grandmother already has a smartphone.

> the other is future-proofing. DAB will probably be a standard for decades.

DAB or DAB+ ? The poor bleeding edgers who bought a DAB radio got pretty pissed when they had to throw it out and buy a DAB+ radio instead. All five of them. Not a good track record exactly. Meanwhile, FM has been going strong for almost 100 years now.

> But what if you want built-in streaming in your car, which standard do you support?

There's two: iOS CarPlay and Android Auto. Works great. Everyone already has a smartphone, and can then use whatever streaming app or service they want.

> I also think we tech geeks overestimate the popularity of streaming in cars

The only thing being overestimated is the general public's eagerness to run out and buy a DAB+ car radio. It's pretty much at zero.

Look, broadcast radio is going away just like broadcast television. It's a dying medium. And to force a change while it's dying will only hasten its demise.
I'm not surprised with 70% for Chrome. Every Android phone comes with a Chrome browser. Too bad Mozilla mobile strategy didn't work. times and times again I said to whoever was in charge with the project :"Target hipsters, and hackers, not emergent economies and low hand devices, make it the phone for those who can afford a third one with good specs and are trend setters, or engineers, they'll develop cool shit for Firefox OS!", but no, they went with cheap and low end, ignoring the fact that a pure HTML/JS phone will perform worst than a phone that runs C apps and Java... People in third world countries don't give a f. about HTML/JS, they want their phone to run skype and whatsapp ...
I played this game so much when it came out. Really great strategy game.

I tried playing through a campaign using the open-sourced engine a while ago but it felt like the pathfinding had taken several steps backwards since the original game. You really start to feel it in the later missions, where the pathfinding becomes the biggest hurdle - your units get stuck while retreating and so get destroyed before they manage to return to a repair station. Never did manage to finish it because of this.

Too bad, because in all other respects it's great. But the pathfinding makes it unplayable for me once a decent number of units are involved in fighting.
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A coastal mountain type originally designed by Slartibartfast. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slartibartfast
I've used both programming models, and I find "can I read/write this fd" much more intuitive and versatile than "try to do it and let me know when actually done". In particular, you can use many different models to distribute and parallelize work with poll/epoll.

Also, poll/epoll get even more versatile with current Linux systems, which take "everything is a file" much further with signalfd, timerfd, and eventfd.
Maybe these other browsers should stop being complete shit and maybe I will. You want to know why people pick Google products? Because they work and they work well with each other. The only people that don't like Google are tech people that write stupid blogs like this. Sorry, but the general population doesn't give a fuck if Google does any of this. They just want products that work. They don't even give a fuck about how much Google knows about them.
This is not correct in the case of Norway, at least - I believe (mind, believe, I do not know for sure) that telcos are mandated by law to have emergency power supplies available; whenever we have a massive power outage, cell service stays up for hours, if not days afterwards.

Them being bulky is a major deterrent to theft, as a lot of our cellphone infrastructure is way out in the boonies and not really accessible unless you REALLY want to get to it...
> My tip: test on lower spec machines

I wished ever developer would do that. Too many mobile apps or websites that do very simple stuff (displaying content, simple forms) don't work properly on older phones because of some sophisticated features that no one needs. Many developers seem to think that everyone uses the newest machines and flagship phones with high bandwidth, and forget about everyone else.

Unfortunately the fear of premature optimization is so big for some people that their users have to suffer just because the programmer wanted to have a nicer developer experience..
I notice Firefox does not feel as responsive as Chrome is. On my reasonably powerful system, switching between tabs is slow, even slower when large photos load. It's holding me back.

I'm typing this from Vivaldi, because I'm constantly looking for a replacement that feels fast and I can have the few 4-5 extensions I typically use.
Audio is surprisingly low-bandwidth compared to what today's networks are designed for. I'm not sure what the total bandwidth of a site is, but I've gotten 130 Mbps speed test results over 4G - right there you have up to 2000 typical DAB+ streams, and I'm certain a site can handle multiples of that.

And if people are listening to something like Spotify, a lot of the data will be cached.
I would become a teacher of some sorts. Probably secondary school.
At this point, it's not anymore about customer choice, the problem is systemic.

Serving Google with the same kind of antitrust Microsoft got would be highly deserved and beneficial, but unfurtunately google made the political investments that Microsoft lacked.

Which means we get to hear officials say Google is indeed in a situation deserving the antitrust, but it's fine "because their products bring value to customers"...
What about chromium browser? Google's tracking features are disabled there. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chromium_(web_browser)#Differe...

The author might argue that this is weak resistance because it's just adding fuel to Google's fire. They have co-opted the open source community by building their tools this way. I prefer this to the nearest alternative, which is a company that pushes closed software on the world.

IMO, the best alternative is a fully open ecosystem in which the players are very small relative to the overall size of the markets in which they operate. Such things don't last long on their own. We need to decide to support them as a community or they will be overwhelmed.
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Encryption is meant to provide security in a hostile environment (the cloud in this instance). So, as long as you're using proper encryption and long enough pass phrases to make brute-forcing nearly impossible, storing info on the cloud should be okay.
This was the killer for create-react-app for me. I resentfully ejected so I could use SASS.
No thank you.

"They trust me — dumb fucks" - Zuckerberg

Very untrustworthy and seedy individual.
I think so but you will be charged in euros. And their servers are in Amsterdam and Paris.
Problem is DAB coverage sucks compared to FM, it's not an improvement. In the Western Norway with hundreds of tunnels only the bigger ones are equipped with radio relays. Plenty of dead spots outside major highways too.

I had to drive Bergen-Voss 4x last June around the time a landslide ruined E16, taking a different detour each time. Very spotty in the tunnels along Hardanger, which is a major route. Even worse out there along fv344 which goes mostly on the surface, but through numerous tiny valleys.

There was a talk about postponing the FM sunset, which would be wise given that majority of vehicles don't have DAB support, and some of the most popular models are still sold without DAB tuners. Either way, DAB is an unfortunate transitional technology. Sounded nice in 2000, obsolete now. I concur that 4G network streaming would make much more sense in this era.
To be fair, that's usually the only solution official dealerships know. When the CD drive stopped working in my LR Discovery 3, the garage quoted me almost £1000 for replacing the whole unit. I took it to an electronics repair shop, who took it apart, replaced something inside, and ended up charging me £100 for the whole repair.