skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>3.) There are no decisive elections. Unlike Germany in 1933 or the USA in 2016, there are no elections in which it feels like the entire regime has changed all at once. All change is gradual, and it happens at the same pace every year.

The funny thing is, USA 2016 didn't change everything at once. The Republicans already held Congress, and actually lost a few House and Senate seats. They unexpectedly gained the Presidency, but their seeming total power now comes only from their extreme willingness to use procedural tactics that other Americans regard as "bad sport". This turned a Presidential upset into a Presidential upset plus a free seat on the Supreme Court, similarly to how it turned the midterms in 2010 from a midterm election in which the opposition party usually gains seats into a semi-permanent Republican legislative majority throughout the 2010s (thanks to the gerrymandering described in TFA).
They seem to be in the process of replacing PageSpeed.

First:

> PageSpeed Insights has moved the User Experience test for mobile pages into the Mobile Friendly Test

And then a bigger launch about this fancier version.
Monitoring Thrift RPC
The subheadline says what I've been writing over and over again here: there's no such thing as "anonymized data". There's only "not enough other data to correlate out identities".
Is this considered a bug in appcache (deprecation aside)? Why would it download twice at all?
It's all held together with painters tape

I love this. Even duct tape was too expensive, but we have this roll of masking tape, so...
Some people work with COBOL on a daily basis. It's still antiquated.
A discussion about transitioning into data science
Thank you for all your comments and suggestions. I updated the website.

1) you see date added
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3) twitter names are fixed
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May not be true as unsupervised learning improves.
Show HN: React Native and VR
I hate it when big companies buy other, smaller entities, and hope they don't interfere and change them too much.

But seriously, exciting news for Tesla.
I appreciate that it's tempting to add telemetry and crash logging functionality. The problem is that Microsoft gets the benefit (in reduced QA costs) but the consumer pays the cost (loss of privacy). Classic externality trap.

Microsoft acknowledges that full documents along with stack traces (that can contain sensitive information) can end up on Microsoft servers when error log reporting is enabled. Sending a call stack consisting of function names and pointer offsets and register values to aid debugging is one thing. Sending entire globs of application memory along with the crash log is much less defensible.

My objection about linking user data to real world people still stands. There is no technical reason why _personalized_ logging is necessary. Telemetrics can be pretty innocent (e.g. track which percentage of Windows users have multiple monitors), but as they become more personal it's again much harder to justify.

The absence of a single switch (during install or first login) to get rid of all logging/monitoring/telemetrics and other privacy-invading nonsense is indefensible.
After buying Pebble fitbit now acquires Vector
Mowing a lawn is vastly easier (especially if you ignore the various edge trimming etc. that tends to be part of "mowing the lawn.") There are robot lawnmowers today though they mostly (all?) work by just using a perimeter wire like an electric dog fence which works pretty well for the small lawns these are designed for. They're basically Roombas for your lawn.

They're just not very popular.

They're (all?) electric which you sort of want in this application. But that means that they typically only mow up to 1/4 acre or so--which isn't a lot of work to do with just a standard mower. And they're expensive ($1K+).

So you have an expensive and not very good lawnmower that can only cut lawns that are generally easy to do anyway. And, besides, if you're not very price-sensitive and don't want to cut your lawn, there's no absence of people who will do it for you and do other trimming etc. at the same time. So there's just not a lot of market for the product.
http://www.amazon.in/Samsonite-Luggage-Vizair-Backpack-Elect...

Special things I found
1. Lot of compartments
2. Shock absorbers at bottom part to protect laptop
3. Color highlighting and design
I hardly think it is surprising that Chromebooks would be better optimized for running ChromeOS than Macs are at running Chrome.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13369510
Nice looking bag. Which size do you have?
Depression is nature and unescapable, you just have to bare it and build endurance to lower the threshold of the stimulus that trigger it. It needs to be running simultaneously with your other natural brain activities.

In 2011, I found a job of my dreams, but it ended in 2012, since then I began to took jobs that I'm not comfortable and I do not like just to provide for my family, it was hard and sad, and it lasted from 2012 to 2016. Now I'm happy I have a new job that I'm very comfortable with.

Depression is not new to me, I've experienced it since childhood, teenage period and throughout college. There's no OFF switch for it, the only way to turn it off is build strength and endurance for it, sooner or later it it will attack again, but it would be too weak to affect you.
Could we not reverse-engineer the machine code that generates this data?
Or theye are a place for young adults to learn the reading and reasoning skilks they are no longer taught in highschool. The state of highschool grads these days is pathetic.
Tesla: Welcome Chris Lattner
High performance data pipelines
Wow, that was unexpected. Great hire by Tesla. Interesting move from compiler development to driving AI, though I guess for the VP position, his experience in managing those teams is much more important.
http://imgur.com/tRkHsPA They seem to be using chrome 27.
A toll road that somehow measures the emissions of the passing vehicles and charges them proportional to their particulate matter content. Maybe someday...
> Conversion from analog to digital will necessarily involve the loss of information. Now the question is, is the data lost crucial to the operation of your system or not? If losing some data is not that big a deal, you might as well build it digitally from the ground up?

I think of it as the output being the solution of an equation/dynamic system. It's ok you lose the equations, you care about the solution. I've been doing some light internet research into this not too long ago and came across this title https://www.amazon.com/Neuromorphic-Photonics-Paul-R-Prucnal... that seems to suggest that analog photonics might be the way forward.

But I can't really comment on the state of this. Photonics is definitely becoming more and more viable it appears.
Tesla, apparently.
Well, mystery solved.

Now, the new mystery: What does this mean for Apple's car project?

Yes, I realize he probably didn't have much (or anything) to do with it (whatever it really even is). There are going to be some batshit crazy theories though, and I can't wait to see how this affects Apple's stock price.
This is just a normal hire, no different than thousands of others that happen every day aside from being a fairly high position in the company and being someone well known in the tech community.
Given the context of the grandparent quote - I do not believe you are correct but I can see the ambiguity. I see it as them using the argument of "if you don't like the ads, don't visit the website" which has been argued ad nauseum (pun intended) in nearly every discussion on HN that involves ads and ad blockers.

They aren't visiting the site if they read it via archive.is links. So "Don't like the ads on forbes? Pay them or don't visit them at all." is out of place there if not talking about ad blockers but actually talking about the practice of using archive.is links.

And giving people you know archive.is links, since you may not know if they run an ad blocker or not, also serves to protect them from malware. So my point stands - except I'm protecting my friends/family from malware instead of myself.

Get rid of the user-tracking, Javascript-enabled/Flash-enabled/3rd-party ads that can serve malware and maybe they could convince the security/privacy concerned users (I'm purposefully excluding users who block ads to block ads from my list) to whitelist their advertisements.
It's become, at least in many departments of many universities, about "culturation" rather than education - about making students fit into a culture of what "liberalism" has become, which is unquestioningly holding "liberal" values. That's not education; it's something between indoctrination and a social club.

I put "liberal" in quotes, because real liberalism is much more broad-minded than what's on much of our universities. Real liberalism isn't about making your opponent shut up; instead, it's about recognizing their right to exist and to have their say.
The joke is that the creator of Rust is now working on Swift.
What? What small entity are you referring to?
The scariest part to me is, there's no way to control how your data is reported except to ensure its accuracy. You can't opt-out.

No opt-out makes NextCaller a creeper—like all the others.
And then Google will start to treat publishers better.
Wow – that makes a lot of sense and now I just learned an amazing trick. Thanks!
> Due to the way Fark was built, we are invisible to both SEO and Social Media traffic.

What does this mean? Clearly, they can't block anyone from sharing fark links on facebook and also, this: https://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Afark.com
Another example of why Apple is going downhill... Macbook with less ports, copy&paste iPhone with no originality, imac/macpro with old CPUs :-(
The vast majority of users browse different pages.

And why it wasn't a problem until now? CR was praised when they acknowledge that Macbooks had almost always the higher battery life
What stack are you using to develop desktop apps lately? (Win/Lin/MacOS/other)
Pretty sure the poster and the person interviewed in the article are different people.
If only they worked. It's incredibly frustrating to walk into a store ready to spend hundreds of dollars on something only to be ignored or snubbed by staff and leave empty handed.
This is a proposed spec, no one has implemented this. I was in the BoF for this session a few years ago.
This is very exciting for the future of Autopilot. I thought it was amazing already. I can't wait to see what they have in store.
I carry a "SteeSeries" gaming backpack, made by PORT [0], it is huge, and could fit my large laptop, tablet, books, large earphones and clothes with no problem.

The build quality is above average, but for the price it is great.

http://www.portdesigns.com/Portal_Upload/Images/catalogue/pr...
Could be that rumors are true and they stopped the car project. Could also be that Apple's extreme compartmentalization came into play and Chris wasn't privy to that team and therefore couldn't really express interest in it. Could also be that they already have a full staff and didn't really have a spot for him or feel he was a good fit.

I don't think we can derive much about their project from this hire tbh.
I use bing.com for that :D
And this is why we have yet to converge. We are people, we have opinions! And some of us lead teams and make decisions.
Interestingly, Certificate Patrol warned me that the certificate at that site changed from a "Domain Validation" to an "Organization Validation" certificate from the same CA.

Why did they do that change, and what would be the advantage for them of an OV instead of a DV certificate?
Yep, part of the reason I commented. Also the reason I listed some PITAs regarding LR. The author of the article didn't really describe his workflow regarding raws and jpegs so if he doesn't do really big edits, maybe he doesn't have the same problems as I do.

I truly like the idea of Darktable, but converting existing photo library to Darktable is big and problematic job and the workflow + UX feels really painful.

Sure there are other apps with great Algorithms for RAW editing like Capture One but that's another workflow/UX killer. Lightroom is actually quite awesome compromise between the quality, workflow and UX.
And what do you plan to use in the near future?
> If you want to [...] play guitar for fun [...], your multiplier probably won't stop you.

Well, mine did :-D

After 3 years of practice, I could still not accurately do what a kid can do after 1 week, or someone who plays another instrument after 20 minutes.

It was time to throw in the towel and admit that there are hopeless cases and that I was one of them :-)

The worse thing is that I did not have great expectations when I started, since I don't have any interest and even dislike complex music. But I couldn't even reach my very very low expectations... By far... since 3 chords were 2 too many and the other one would never come at the right time :-D
Stick with VSCode. It's better in my experience.
I have spent more time dealing with compiling from the source and handling weird package interactions on osx than on any linux system I've used recently. At least the Linux system will come with a standard package manager that supports major developer tools.
Curious why they didn't pick something like .go to be more out of the way.
I guess CarPlay or "Project Titan" just wasn't as interesting?
same here with gandi.net, thanks for sharing!
The options I use are the ones the browsers themselves use:

http://gstatic.com (Chrome uses http://gstatic.com/generate_204 , which returns a 204 No Content)

http://www.msftncsi.com (Windows, desktop and mobile, uses http://www.msftncsi.com/ncsi.txt. NCSI is "Network Connectivity Status Indicator")

http://captive.apple.com (macOS / iOS)

because those are likely to be extraordinarily well-maintained and reliable.

Unfortunately sometimes some captive portals allow just this one site through and not the others. Looking at you, United WiFi, which whitelists gstatic.com, but fortunately not msftncsi.com.
can confirm it still requires a call. its worked on me because i dont want to deal with it and keep putting it off.
After buying a lot of backpacks, I settled on the 5.11 12 hour RUSH as a good compromise in size. It is just large enough for my Dell XPS 13, or probably most 11-12 inch laptops. Plus it has a lot of organizational features and flexibility. I can take all of the organizing pouches out of the bag and attach them to the outside of the backpack if I need extra space.

http://www.511tactical.com/rush-12-backpack.html
"Nice attempt" used to actually mean the words it said. You know, like "nice job".
It's several of the most popular Black Metal bands, isn't it?
Because outside the university system is such a bastion of broad-mindedness. Turns out meeting a diverse set of people usually leaves people less willing to put with the more insular values they may have grown up with, go figure.
Just saw that he is joining Tesla as VP Autopilot Software.
I believe there is a customer service chat online where you can also terminate a subscription.
I almost did once, but they gave me a discount that I took. All in 10 minutes while reading HN.
South Carolina Church Shooter, Dylan Roff, Sentenced to Death
Hi Tesla. We Are Top Dutch
This isn't about language support or library support, this is about hardware support. How many instructions does it take to derive/integrate a function on x86? On an analog platform this is very close to "single instruction". What if you could solve calculus idk, 1000x times faster. It could be even more though.
I had a GORUCK GR1 (26L) until my car was broken into.

I'm now bagless, and looking for a replacement.

The Tom Bihn Synapse 25 is at the top of my list.
Yep - I do this all the time, where polite (not on the bus, for example). I'm often having serious conversations over text and don't want to break the cadence, but also walking briskly downtown where typing 120 words would significantly slow me down. The glitches in voice-to-text are tolerable and worth the speed gain.
Italy ex-PM and European Central Bank president hacked by mason nuclear engineer
Try Rust. It's available for Windows.
If you're making a marketplace app, what are the most common methods for overcoming the chicken-and-egg problem in the very beginning? For example, I think Airbnb did door-to-door in the early days.
> 374 bytes of CSS

Put it <style> tags in the <head>. No reason to use an external file for so little. It's not worth the overhead.
I know what it should do, and I use it regularly.

That one time, it triggered or caused Xenial to stop working correctly.
Okay, I didn't know that. Would it be illegal just to verify an user too?
So it's models all the way down?
If you had left out "infrared radiation != temperature" it would have been clear. I didn't understand why you said "infrared radiation != temperature" when the source material did not say or imply "infrared radiation == temperature" and I incorrectly guessed at the point you were trying to make.

I was not one of the downvoters, btw.
Maybe in liberal arts and crafts, but this bullshit doesn't apply to STEM.
It's reserved for the purpose of documentation/illustrations (especially RFCs themselves) without fear of changes/invalid domains/directing mass traffic. It's also useful for establishing an idiom for those RFC examples.

[1] https://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2606.txt

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Example.com
So I kinda what to be Chris Lattner when I grow up. :) LLVM, Swift, and Autopiloting cars is a hell of a run.
We haven't implemented a conversational UI yet. Messages are currently one-way. We'll be adding in voice support soon too so that you can call in and hear your schedule (even if you just hang up after when your "next shift" is).

As we roll out two-way messages, I've been contemplating internationalization. Date formats are somewhat universal, but for things like shift swapping - I think that we could overcome a lot of usability issues by adding Spanish support quickly.

Regarding cost and education - we also learned in user tests that we still need to support a print schedule. We're in the process of building that out. Our focus is on making structured, accurate scheduling data available to other systems (such as payroll). If that means that we need to focus on a printable view, that's fine :-)
Chris Lattner : Tesla :: Bjarne Stroustrup : Morgan Stanley [1]

[1] http://www.morganstanley.com/profiles/bjarne-stroustrup-mana...
Google and Facebook basically split the market between them. Almost all growth goes their way. And Facebook doesn't have an on-page network. https://twitter.com/jason_kint/status/793562463119745024/pho...
Because it's supposed to be your actual development workspace. To be honest, I think this is one of the most asinine parts of the go development workflow (and there are a lot of contenders…). Having to organize all your go projects separately from everything else just because they happen to be developed in that particular language is maddening.
Some apple vendor, probably
How a northern region in the Netherlands wants to attract Elon Musk's GigaFactory.

I think this is the first time I've seen national government, provinces and business pitch their region to a single player in the market using a fancy microsite.
> Wow, that was unexpected. Great poach by Tesla.

Tangential, but I really hate the term "poach" when referring to recruiting employees.

We shouldn't think of hiring people as "poaching", because employees are not property. You can't "poach" an employee because there's no ownership, and employees should be free to make their own decisions regarding their employment opportunities.
We are all slaves to dopamine. The higher the karma a user on HN has, the more enslaved he or she probably is ;)

More seriously, making things and having a sense of accomplishment was one of the dopamine-triggers I used in my new system for breaking bad habits: https://repla.xyz/
They collaborated a long time ago. The last collaboration I'm aware of was a few decades ago when they allowed Varg to write some lyrics while he was in prison for murdering Euronymous. It's hard to know why they did that.

Varg has maintained that Euronymous was planning to kill him. When asked why he thinks Darkthrone allowed him to write some lyrics despite being a pariah in the black metal community, he said that he thinks Fenriz believes him about Eronymous' plans. He said Fenriz may think it was unfair that Varg was charged with murder for killing a man who was planning to murder him.

That's obviously not how the law works, and what he did was deeply wrong. That said, I can kinda understand feeling some sympathy for someone in that situation.

Who knows if Varg is right about Fenriz. Frankly, Varg believes some pretty crazy stuff, and I'm not inclined to trust him about much of anything. But you never know. Maybe Fenriz took pity on a really screwed up kid who made a terrible mistake.

Anyway, onto the subject of racism. I think there was definitely a bit of racism in the early black metal scene. It's hard to know if it was genuine or just some kids trying to find a way to shock people. Either way, it seems like that's mostly gone these days (I can think of a few exceptions, but they're seemingly rare).

Black metal (and the people who create and listen to it) has grown up a lot over the last couple of decades. Fenriz even got elected to local office in his hometown!
Yeah, that's a Comcast-level move, though to be fair, I tried to unsubscribe from The Economist a few years back and it was a nightmare as well [1], so maybe it's just that the news media industry puts all it's eggs in a different basket when it comes to UX.

[1] http://www.economist.com/help/manageprintsubscription#cancel...
You might disagree with the specific culture involved, but acculturation has always been the job of a university - making students of whatever background into members of the upper-middle (or, in more exclusive places/times, upper) class. Left-wing politics are indeed a class marker these days, but before that it was northeastern upper-crust conservatism that students were supposed to be indoctrinated with.
Sure, I am building an app so I wanted to know how willing would people be. The idea is to only verify the registered users against the ID and not store them for later use.
I wonder if you can delete the binaries that have the telemetry functionality.
~~~my anecdote~~~

During my first semester of university, I suffered crippling depression and at some point tried to kill myself. Soon after I entered a mental hospital and started journaling. In one of my first journal entries, I noted that I was fairly smart, had great friends, had parents that loved me, had a full scholarship to university, and yet I hated my life and wanted to die. At the time, my condition certainly seemed like some sudden contingency resulting in brain malfunction.

What I did not then realize, and in fact did not at all realize until last year, was that I spent the first 16 years of my life in a literal doomsday cult. I was raised a Jehovah's Witness, and since that was really all I knew, even when I eventually came to the point where I disagreed with some of the doctrines, it never crossed my mind that there was anything at all nefarious about how that organization treats its members.

What you have to realize is that without exceptional self awareness or being adapt at adopting multiple perspectives, people are mostly blind to context of their own circumstances. That's usually fine; such awareness takes a ton of energy and most people just don't need it to stay alive. But when things do start going seriously wrong, and you're experiencing non-congenital mental disorders, is it really reasonable to believe that your mental state is "independent of external factors"? As if that's somehow the one thing the brain's constant processing of sensory data and immediate experience and past memories isn't effecting?