skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Now if only ISPs could start notifying/disconnecting compromised users until they fix their shit.
> Apple had Siri out and was in the lead with voice control, then they wasted it.

Just ask "Who's the next President of the United States of America." OK Google gets it. Siri shows you a list of web/wiki articles.
> Personally, the lack of scrollback and tabs is a dealbreaker for me

Completely understandable. This decision was expected to be polarizing.

> Do you support color emoji in the Terminal? I've never quite managed to get it working on Linux.

Not yet. Fallback fonts, wide chars, and a number of other font rendering items are part of the 1.0 milestone.
* Visual Studio + Resharper for C#. Don't really think there are any realistic alternatives, although I'd be happy to try some out, my current setup tends to get slow.

* Visual Studio Code for JavaScript/TypeScript and React. I tried Sublime and Atom, didn't quite like them, haven't had any issues with VSCode since I started using it about a year ago. But I wouldn't be able to tell you why I like it better than the alternatives. I probably should.

* Eclipse + Counterclockwise for Clojure/Script. It doesn't seem to be very popular, and I've been meaning to try out Cursive and proto-REPL (and maybe actually get into Emacs), but I've been using Counterclockwise for years and I really like it. The Clojure data structure editing functionality is really neat, and I don't remember seeing its flavour of it in other editors. But like I said, I don't have that much experience with other editors.
Facebook is actually coming via Disqus! See:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13338841

https://blog.dantup.com/2017/01/visiting-a-site-that-uses-di...
Following on my comment, back around 2004 or so when I was doing my PhD in physics, I made a Java applet showing how resonant tunnelling works (ie, the phenomenon that drives the negative differential resistance in the RTD above), and also how band structure arises in an ordered crystal.

I put these on GitHub, if anyone wants to play with it, this applet is from the top screenshot :
https://github.com/jeffwass/Physics_Simulations/blob/master/...

Basically, in one dimension, we represented an atom as an infinitely-thin 'spike' in potential, a Dirac Delta function.

For a single 'atom', regardless of how much energy an incoming electron wave function has, some energy is always reflected back and a smaller amount goes through. (Here, energy and frequency are basically synonymous, where E = h * nu, h is Planck constant and nu is the frequency.)

For two atoms (a double barrier), certain input frequencies cause destructive interference of the reflected quantum wave function at the first atom (ie - the reflections bouncing off the first and second atom cancel out), and exactly 100% of the incoming energy transfers through! At certain other frequencies, the output waves cancel and the wave is entirely reflected. The plot of transmission vs input frequency looks sinusoidal, between 0% and 100%. The applet shows the impact of adjusting the spacing and relative 'height' of the barrier atoms.

This interference is the quantum mechanical basis of resonant tunnelling.

In the applet, you can control how many atoms are in the crystal. As you add more atoms to the system, the output transfer function starts forming notable regions of high transmission and regions of low transmission.

This is for a perfectly ordered crystal (same potential and spacing). The applet also shows what happens if you randomise the spacing or the potential heights.

Question for the HN community : as Java web applets are seemingly obsolete these days, any recommendations on current front-end tech for making these types of simulations?
~95k UTF characters x font sizes x font styles(bold, italic, etc) x outline size.

It's pretty large.
I agree. There's no accountability for such neglect. There should be a fine, or even better, a tax on bad security.
0 to 1M: Scaling my side project to 1M requests a day
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As a consultant working in the security industry, I get asked this question a lot. "How do we minimize liability when we know that security is never perfect?" The answer is best practices. I have never seen a company held liable for any breaches that occurred while they were following best practices. As long as you can show that you decided on a set of best practices before making/implementing your product, show that your product follows these best practices (or documenting why it doesn't), and show that you have a process to evaluate these best practices periodically against the latest industry standard, you're basically off the hook.

If FTC.gov was vulnerable to Heartbleed in March of 2014 and you suffered damages related to someone exploiting that, in practice FTC.gov holds no responsibility for that. They were following best practices, and no one knew there was a vulnerability. If they're vulnerable today and you suffer damages due to that being exploited, then you could make a case against them. They should have known better by now.

As for consumers bearing the cost, that's working as intended. Good security costs a little money. How many people do you hear complaining that consumers are bearing the cost of seatbelts and airbags installed in cars? We're willing to pay the few extra dollars because we all know how dangerous it is to not have those things. We could make cars a lot cheaper if they didn't have crumple zones, air bags, seat belts, roll cages, or steel frames. But that's not the world we want to live in.
Out of curiosity, why do you love iTerm? It's always struck me as kind of ugly (especially its preferences). And AFAIK, the only real feature it has that Terminal.app doesn't (besides the native tmux integration, because I still don't really see the point) is support for apps customizing the 256-color palette on the fly (e.g. the initc capability), and wile I really would like to see Terminal.app gain support for that seeing as how the xterm-256color terminfo it uses declares that it works, lack of support for that isn't a good enough reason to switch away.
What's the benefit of this approach vs doing scoped queries? i.e. current_user.pages.find(params[:id])
Has the Dow hit 20000 yet?
I have been donating to the Mozilla Foundation for the past 2 years so far.

I appreciate that Firefox is open source and that I feel a little more comfortable with my privacy using it.
Audio engineer or full-time musician.
" "users can no longer afford their products"

Er, what? Going back to the last iPhone that fell mostly in the Jobs era - the 4S - it was priced at $599 for the 16GB version.

Compare that to the iPhone SE which starts at $399 for the 16GB version. Or the iPhone 7 which starts at $649 for the 32GB version.

I'm not sure how users who could once afford the products no longer can.
A USATF certified coach, probably focusing on distance running with one-on-one training for adults. There are apps with algorithms that create personalized training programs for things like marathons and 1/2s but they aren't there yet. Plus, nothing is like in person human interaction for on the fly adjustments to training and for motivation.

http://www.usatf.org/Resources-for---/Coaches/Coaching-Educa...

OR

Somehow get into climate science. I almost went to school for meteorology in the early 00s but on a tour of a college atmospheric sciences department when I was 17 an old professor told me it was a hard career to get into with very limited job prospects. :(
If I'm a dude in my workshop making children's toys, I'm on the hook for strict product liability the rest of my life in I made dangerous toys.

If I'm a one man contractor building a house, certain categories of mistakes I'm on the hook for for the rest of my life.

I don't think it would be unprecedented for IoT device makers to be on the hook forever for certain categories of security flaws. It is not like security flaws grow spontaneously like rust a car. They are all in there from the beginning, whether they are known or not. Most of the IOT security flaws that I have heard about could have been easily prevented with security conscious design and development practices. If we want to have secure IOT devices, then we need to hold people accountable for making insecure ones.
Check the user agent (don't think GA saves that). It's likely bots.

Check the referer. If it's viagra sites, it's referer bot spam.
The only surprising thing about this news is that its only 41%, i figured it would be closer to 100%
High quality and custom made stuff are always hard to find.

You normally can't build a big business on any of those niches, but it may be enough to sustain a single-person shop.
The highlighting can be customised to do pretty much anything you want. I imagine OP does something like highlighting "should" a different colour to "must" and things like that.

I too am curious about details though.
Call it an experiment. Sure the communities failed, but they succeeded in giving insightful social data.
That's a jobs program.
I think the new design/specs were polarizing enough to dissuade many devs (at least in my circle) from even bothering to upgrade.

But those who were polarized in the positive direction probably got it and do love it.
Isn't that just like a traditional investment bank?
While we talk about free and open source reimplementations - is there anything similar to Sim Tower? I quite enjoyed that game, and haven't seen anything like it since.
Ask HN: How to study an idea viability in certain country?
How to study a product idea viability targeting a certain group of people (targeting a country), if they will use the app or not?

If you can point me to references to direct answers it would be appreciated.
> The company you say is in "total disarray" still made $45.7bn in profit in 2016, and grew its share price by 10%.

Microsoft was very profitable with Ballmer at the helm, but it can be argued he put the company in a very bad position that took them significant effort to fix and right the ship.
Your phone didn't come with a USB-C to USB-A cable? I find that hard to believe.
But as someone who has industry experience, what are the advantages of applying for the residency program over a normal perm position within Google Brain? The Residency program allows you to focus more on research than engineering I suppose?
Sure, but you're either going to have to generate the whole font up-front(can be many thousand characters) or you need to re-upload as you use/generate new characters which can thrash unless you're very careful about the regions you lock(and you have a driver that behaves appropriately).

Most font renderers I know do a tiered LRU cache of 3-4 texture "pages" which hurts your drawcall batching but tends to be a nice tradeoff in texture usage.
Well, I wouldn't expect to walk in there and tell everyone what to do. I'd have to do my research first, i.e. study criminology, learn about the field, work with them.

But yes, it would be hard regardless. That's ok.
Very relevant 33c3 talk:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CCu8XIHjKwc

This all sounds to be entirely due to inadequate emissions testing processes and manufacturers doing the absolute bare minimum to comply with those tests as if they're gaming the rules of an automobile race.
Maybe you could point me in the right direction. I'm looking to construct a panel that can make it look like day, but has infinite dimming.

Making daylight is easy enough. The Nichia 219B LED in 5000K R9050 (CRI 90+, R9 50+) is beautiful. 12-18 of them will comfortably make over 5000 lumens without having to be driven especially hard. It's not terribly hard to come up with options to wire them up and heatsink them properly either.

What I haven't been able to find is a suitable power supply and driver. I want to plug it in to 100-240V and have a dimmer knob giving me 5-5000+ lumens via current regulation, not PWM, though very fast (> 10kHz) PWM might be acceptable. Yes, I'm aware the tint will shift a bit through the brightness range without PWM. I'm OK with that.
“Stylish users will be joining SimilarWeb's market research panel”
Soylent comes close
As a consumer, I would like for my devices to not be security nightmares for, at least, the useful life of what I'm buying. Unless you plaster a giant warning on the product, ~5 years from the time of sale seems reasonable to me for many tech related things.
The Homebridge project provides HomeKit compatibility without Apple authorization. I don't know if Apple controls this using patents or trademarks but you don't technically need Apples authorization.
Free broken-link finder tool. Pretty useful stuff
A better version of this: http://cbsg.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/live . The corporate bullshit generator. If it could also make powerpoints with nice graphs of merging product timelines, we could replace most of management.
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I would love to be there, even if i failed, it would be fun to steer the thing.
What I've skimmed of recent PluralSight courses on the subjects seem to be good resources, especially if you are the sort of learner that prefers video tutorials as benefits some of my colleagues.

There's a lot of scattered Medium articles and "Awesome Lists" I've seen from time to time, but I don't seem to have any organized bookmarks on the matter.
well, i dont know if i've got above and beyond, but i wrote about 90% of the code for an app that was critical for their big release ... the rest of the team wasn't that strong.
Thanks, though I've been on linux for the last couple of years.

On the mac side I had other performance issues with Terminal.app (particularly when using all of widescreen + tmux - lots of flicker during move/refresh operations). iTerm2 did well for me though, iirc.
> The Nazarene denomination is really the only notable group that believes that today.

At least not entirely correct. The group I belong to considers this important. We are only a few thousand though.
This kind of soap is actually interesting: http://imgur.com/a/lxOn4
What do you mean it wouldn't sell well? DEF diesels in the US do go into limp mode (5 mph limit) if you ignore the empty DEF alerts.

Well, they don't sell well in the US, but they didn't sell well prior to DEF, so I don't think you can pin the blame on that.
You don't need to call names like this to present an argument here, and the guidelines ask us not to.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Control Theory in Psychology (1989, 2016)
This sounds a bit like "my income is normal, and everyone above that is rich"-thinking that a lot of people have.(if there's a word for that i'd appreciate any hints :) ) i'd definitely consider engineers at google to be rich and don't see how another 200k makes that much of a difference. you think these execs are rich and don't see how another million makes a difference. and the execs consider billionaires to be rich and don't see how another billion makes a difference. it's just different scales, but who's actually right?

i think it's important to realise that the scale of income has an extreme range and we are already on the upper end and definitely rich by global standards. my personal opinion is that a majority of people living in the western world is actually rich and any complaints on salaries by these are just first world problems.

on a more constructive note, i think i've seen a study that said that higher salary actually does motivate more, but hits the point of diminishing returns at about (i think) 80k or 100k. I don't remember which country and whether it was $ or €, but that should give a sense of the rough order of magnitude.
I agree but you seem confused about the phrase/concept of "tort reform", which in the abstract could mean many things BUT as usually touted by politicians, generally involves making it harder for companies and individuals to sue other companies/individuals for damages.
Music Typesetting. I've published a book and have been involved with a few related projects. I do pretty good work here. It pains me showing up to rehearsal and seeing poor quality sheet music on my stand. It's worse when these mistakes cause stoppage during rehearsals--usually easy mistakes that the person creating the end product could have fixed saving rehearsal time.
I strongly prefer remote over in-person. There are pros and cons to either. One of the interesting things that comes up in remote is confronting the conflation people have between work and a job. Work and a job are not the same thing. A lot of people conflate the two and rely on external things to enforce a work ethic and self-discipline, but a lot of that structure is no longer there when working remote. If anything, your internal motivation and drive has to be strong. Related is that, when working on a distributed team as a remote worker, what feels like over-communicating to the point of harassment is probably the right amount of communication.

One interesting consequence though is when both partners in a marriage work from home. In a situation where one or both partners work outside of home, some of the stress that comes with intensely being together all the time is not there. When both partners work from home, though, that can get interesting. I know this because my wife also works from home. I don't think the general populace is quite ready for that yet (you won't see advice for this yet on the self-help section of the bookstore), though it is something that can still be worked out.
i've heard this from many people ... the thing is, if i find a company cool enough to interview at i would probably leave ... and i feel like a jerk interviewing just to get an offer ... although if that's what it takes ... maybe ill just do it
How did you became a nightlife photographer ?

I did photograph for one night and it was pretty hard to prevent people from spilling theirs drinks on my camera :S how did you handle that ?
Money fetishization.

I personally would rather be middle class and supporting something that improves the lives of all people than having exhorbitant personal wealth that insulates you from reality. Look at money as a means to an end and it becomes less of a fetish.
I wish all website would wait for the user to turn on social features before offering them. I'm not interested in any of them, the scripts shouldn't be loaded for nothing.

Take a look at this way to do it: http://panzi.github.io/SocialSharePrivacy/
Short answer: no.

Long answer: Yes, if you can find a PI/project that's solving the exact problem you want to solve.

The work doesn't have to make money, but it has to make papers. And if your publications aren't landing in high profile journals, your funding (and career) will dry up.
My feeling is that having a lot of people running on different rust versions is likely to raise the bar to contribute to the project; for example if I go to hack on a python project the odds that I have to change my interpreter setup are basically zero.

In this specific example, I saw that building the project required mucking with my rust version/setup and decided that the cost of that was too high for me to proceed. Totally possible that I mis-evaluated the cost, but that was what happened in my head.

I don't at all mean to tell you what is best, I do think highly of your project and wish you all the success.
Please comment civilly and substantively here or not at all.

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Picasso: "It took me four years to paint like Raphael, but a lifetime to paint like a child."
Cocaine makes you very vigilant.

I became a photographer because I had some friends who were socialites and had VIP access to clubs. Their various club owner friends liked my photography, so I just started showing up with my camera all the time and I'd get in free and drink all night.
Before that we had other systems that lasted just as long. Mercantilism had a good run for 3 centuries.
This tracking stuff is a plaque and I'm part of the problem. I run an unpopular site with random bits of information on it that uses AdSense to give me a few bucks a month and Disqus to allow comments.

Uhg. I really need to think about whether I want to be part of the problem.
Not in my experience (and I've used Windows too up to Vista and can compare). Can you give an example of how Mac apps overuse modals?
No I can't, it came with p2 to lightning adapte not the oposite.
Is that being done via custom partitioning functions? i.e. rather than a blind hash of the partition key to the shard space, adding if/else logic to say that key ABC goes to shard XYZ?
Oh, just as interesting, plugging this into VR system! Make it way easier to multitask and work on lots of systems (at the risk of looking incredibly goofy).
Check out pandoc. With it you could convert your documents into Markdown. Then use common *nix text-utils to merge the parts you want into a single file and then load it to InDesign. Check out this article (http://rhythmus.be/md2indd/) that inspired me to automate protocol specs extraction from Word documents (bluurgh).
UI for digital radio requires a more expensive hardware than for TV set top box (which will be happy with just the antenna in / signal out and power interfaces, and a remote control).
It seems like the Cargo.toml file for binaries should be able to specify this, and cause the crate to be built with the nightly if it is installed. This way you only have to enter cargo build --release.
My guide to repurposing Snapchat (and Instagram) stories
I'm not sure where the parent poster lives, but I've read about this system (called allotments) in kids' fiction; it was apparently common in the UK (and may still be). Some of the characters in the stories used to be growing vegetables in their allotments :) It's something like small plots of land in or near the edges of towns, so easy for the renters (town-dwellers) to reach after/before work or on weekends.

I've done a good amount of gardening myself, and it is great fun (apart from being a good way to get fresh vegetables etc.)
Since it is impossible to give a precise estimate of each manager's contribution to the firm's output, it is inevitable that this process yields decisions that are largely arbitrary and dependent on hierarchical relationships and on the relative bargaining power of the individuals involved. It is only reasonable to assume that people in a position to set their own salaries have a natural incentive to treat themselves generously, or at the very least to be rather optimistic in gauging their marginal productivity. To behave in this way is only human, especially since the necessary information is, in objective terms, highly imperfect. It may be excessive to accuse senior executives of having their "hands in the till," but the metaphor is probably more apt than Adam Smith's metaphor of the market's "invisible hand." In practice, the invisible hand does not exist, any more than "pure and perfect" competition does, and the market is always embodied in specific institutions such as corporate hierarchies and compensation committees.

Piketty, Capital in the Twenty First Century
E: Would you attack humans if you could?

V: attack human

http://imgur.com/a/GV36K
Out of curiosity, is there anything significant other than flexbox that's not in IE9 but is in IE10/11?
My current Bash prompt contains a unicode character. I guess this is unsupported?

Can report find / works very quick on macOS (so quick, it is unreadable), and Fish works as well. Just the Rust install assumed I was using Bash.

Possible bug: on macOS when I minimize Alacritty, and I put it on focus again, it tries to select text. Strangely, not always.
I think its coming this year. Few signs: 1. Surface range of notebook is doing well. 2. Latest Snapdragon 835 is compatible with Windows 10. 3. I've seen somewhere MS said or demoed plugging in Windows Phone to an LCD and run the full desktop version of MS Office apps.
By jump ship, you mean you now consult? or work for contract to fix/automate a company's process and move on?

As someone who's interested in this kind of work, do you have any advice?