skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The Lumia 800's hardware requirements were largely shaped by rigid requirements that Microsoft set for Windows Phone that were an attempt to avoid the fragmentation issues that have come to define Android hardware development. So the fact that Lumia 800 hardware was underpowered compared to Galaxy hardware of the time is much more Microsoft's fault than Nokia's fault (except for that PenTile display).

Nokia fell because in the beginning,

a) Symbian accrued massive technical debt that Nokia management refused to pay down because they could keep cranking out dumbphones for the foreseeable future and so paying down technical debt didn't seem like a good investment decision to management. Why should you have an OS architecture that allows dual-core processors in a cell phone? Nobody will ever need more than a single core processor in their cell phone, any more processing power will obviously use up way too much battery. This leads to:

b) The rise of the first smartphones - Palm and Blackberry. Nokia management paid down a minimum of technical debt to get out some Symbian smartphones to compete and stayed ahead of the market because early smartphones were targeted to heavy business users and not consumers. Nokia's continued advantageous market positioning leads to:

c) The rise of consumer smartphones - iOS and Android. Nokia management starts to try to adapt and go to engineering and tell them they need a decent competitor yesterday. Nokia engineers tell them the technical debt makes that impossible within any reasonable time frame. They are buoyed by hierarchy figures who predict that Symbian will carve out a niche alongside all the other players and that the sky isn't falling because the sky is never falling. Cell phones are a totally different product from music players, don't you know, and Apple products don't always run away with the market, look how few computers Apple sells! And Android is this unproven, insecure, ugly, rudderless mess with no real enterprise support and too many players pulling it in too many directions. Still, revenue is falling and so Nokia management starts to freak out. This leads to:

d) Hiring Stephen Elop from Microsoft, who calls up his old contacts at Microsoft and gets Nokia management the deal of a lifetime: huge amounts of aid to hold off the wolves until they get a flagship out for the immortal IT company throwing everything it has into catching up on mobile with unbeatable integration with products like Office that everyone uses and is deeply dependent on. And the rest is history.

Two things killed Nokia: they rested on their laurels when the going was good, and when the going got tough they hitched their cart to a horse which abandoned them along the way.

If Symbian was inevitably going to go the way of the dodo, Nokia management should've swallowed their pride and pursued an acquisition by Microsoft. But Nokia was a Finnish national symbol that accounted for far too much of Finnish GDP to ever allow the company to be acquired outright, upper management would've been signing their social death warrants. So in truth, Nokia's death was inevitable.
Most good studies on THC are on adults/ developed brains. I'm not sure it's established yet that marijuana wouldn't cause a "physical" addiction if used in adolescence.
It might be / hopefully is fine, but people shouldn't assume that just because cannabis is fairly harmless in adults it is also established to be safe for youth.
Show HN: Generate a static status page, displays status of websites and services
For certain categories of problem it seems the general public is ignorant. OTOH, the headphone jack seems to be the talk of my non technical iphone associates, and more than one regular upgrader has mentioned they aren't ready to upgrade their iphone 6's because of it.

My wife is the apple user in the house, and I think she is indicative of a lot of them at this point. She chooses apple because they are cool status symbols and her friends have them. The issues with the iphone7 modem (yah I went out of my way for the qualcomm and then had an entertaining conversation with her about it) and headphone jack were completely off her radar. The apparent short life of her iphone 5s battery, and the weird wifi issues with the ipads after OS upgrades/etc don't enter her head as problems with the devices.
Seems like a natural progression given video games. When I saw that photo I immediately thought about the S.T.A.L.K.E.R. video game series. That gave a lot of gamers an idea of what walking around in the exclusion zone was like, albeit a very fantastical version of it.
Have you ever been to Amsterdam or Copenhagen to make such a ludicrous assertion?
to echo df3's point: this study showed that online CBT wasn't that helpful but didn't couldn't tell if it was a compliance issue or a modality issue.

This is a classic problem in drug trials as well: you get data on how the drug works in a controlled setting (when the patients are monitored) but in the real world: do people take their meds reliably?

It may be that many people suffering depression benefit from the (not specifically trained -- this is the point) GP talking to them as a forcing function. The diet companies know this well.
In addition to Blender there is MakeHuman: http://www.makehuman.org/

Pixar also open sourced OpenSubDiv: https://github.com/PixarAnimationStudios/OpenSubdiv

They also offer a commercial and non-commercial versions of RenderMan: https://renderman.pixar.com/view/renderman

For the purely commercial side, Maya from Autodesk works wonderfully on Linux: http://www.autodesk.com/products/maya/overview

There is also Katana (commercial license only) from The Foundry: https://www.thefoundry.co.uk/products/katana/

For 3D CAD modeling rather than the artistic style modeling, there is OpenSCAD: http://www.openscad.org/

For 2D animation (cartoons and anime) there is OpenToonz, from Studio Ghibli: https://github.com/opentoonz/opentoonz (The main OpenToonz website lists it for Windows and Mac only, but the Github repo has Linux build instructions.)
Show HN: I made a progressive web app for https://xkcd.com
> APT28 had consistently compiled Russian language
settings into their malware. The second was that
malware compile times from 2007 to 2014
corresponded to normal business hours in the UTC
+ 4 time zone, which includes major Russian cities
such as Moscow and St. Petersburg.

You'd think that a state-sponsored attack would be a little less careless. This seems like a rookie give-away and makes me wonder if this is made to look like Russia instead of being Russia. When I think of a state-sponsored attack, I automatically envision something in the realm of Stuxnet in terms of quality and the level of sophistication.
Any xkcd fans here?
I made a progressive web app for xkcd, with all the usual features of a pwa(offline loading, installable etc.)
I made this to learn about service workers and performance optimisations, so comments and feedback are welcome.
Amazon’s Alexa heard her name on TV and ordered up a ton of dollhouses
The case isn't "my kid mellows out on weed" it's "my kid has behavioral problems that prevent him from functioning at home & in school that are alleviated by weed".
The mother saw something in literature that made her think it could be useful, researched by going to a marijuana support group, talking to a Harvard professor/psychiatrist, and got clearance from her son's neurologist, then did methodical experimentation to find the right strain.

She didn't just wake up one day and say "hey! Let's give him a joint and see what happens!"

Which, I should add is pretty much how my sister came to use marijuana as medicine -- except she didn't live in a state where medical marijuana was legal, her teenaged son had a source. She was on treatment for an autoimmune disorder and on the days she took her meds, she was so nauseous that she couldn't get out of bed. Pharmaceutical anti-nausea meds (including $20/day Marinol) worked poorly or had unwanted side effects. Finally her doctor pointed her at a website and told her that he couldn't recommend it, but other patients had gotten relief from medical marijuana. And indeed, it made a huge difference for her.

Due to her illness, she had access to pretty much any narcotic painkiller she wanted, yet to gain access to marijuana, she had to ask her son to risk prosecution to buy it from a guy he knew from school.
As I said, highlighting of identical words helps a lot with that. Example: https://code.visualstudio.com/images/language-support_docume...

Also, I always wondered if something like this would work well: https://github.com/ankurdave/color-identifiers-mode
After 80 years of ignoring the data, I do not know how else one would effect change other than employing the same tactics. Empirical data is available, anecdotal data is available, historical harm has accrued for non-violent "offenders". The rarely spoken facets of the hemp plant's superiority to pulp derived paper and cotton fabrics have been ignored for almost a century. Before "reefer madness" was invented, the aforementioned products couldn't compete, hemp was common and priduced superior products. The reasons for demonizing hemp, not marijuana, were economic forces and lobbyists pushing their agendas at any cost.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_J._Anslinger#The_campaig...
It is too early to happy. I think the reason of dart popularity in the last month is Dart WM 2017.

Source: https://www.google.com/trends/explore?date=today%2012-m&q=da...
(Not the OP)

There isn't just the selection bias of people you tend to know potentially not being representative of most drug users, but the need for comparing how those same drug users would do without drugs (I'm not sure how this is possible to evaluate). It isn't enough to say that some drug users are highly motivated and successful, which I don't contest.
> Regular taxis in NYC already give this information.

All the more reason for a better service to differentiate themselves by not doing so.

> It is about tracking the taxis, not the customers.

And wiretapping eavesdrops on telephones, not people?
>I've thought that dd's behavior could serve as a model for a new standard of interaction. Persistent progress indicators are known to cause performance degradation unless implemented carefully. And reality is, you generally don't need something to constantly report its progress even while you're not looking, anyway.

Progress bars by default are also garbage if you are scripting and want to just log results. ffmpeg is terrible for this.
Science and logic are products of philosophy, so I would hardly call philosophy useless. By "armchar" I presume you mean philosophy is not empirical. This is true to some extent, but you could level the same criticism against math, and math still turn out to be usable to solve problems in the real world.
Rsync wrapper, good (not reinventing wheels). Perhaps passing through any additional arguments would be useful (e.g. --bwlimit).
Are you looking only for Germans speaking developers?
Gauge Blocks
I elect to give my data to Uber et al. I do not elect to give my data to the NYC government.

> all kinds of unregulated purposes.

You make that sound so nefarious. "Unregulated purposes" like better routing and drop off points, and maybe some advertising?

What "regulated" purposes is the NYC government going to use this data for? Increasing the scope of their already massive surveillance mechanism?
The discovery of medieval Trellech and the plucky amateurs of archaeology
I'm glad to see someone else come to a similar conclusion. The one thing i would add: this singular enemy tends to be held generationally. As the generations move in and out of the prime voter ages (and the congresspeople they are voting for) US policy changes dramatically around these vilified groups.
Without further debating the merits of the verses in question (I thought it was self-evident)... I think it would be an accurate characterization that the author of this editorial will not be read or remembered half-a-century from now. Therefore if the purpose of education is to provide something of enduring value, I do not think it strange, or snobbish as you put it, that we should prefer to have Shakespeare, Edgar Allan Poe and Langston Hughes in our public schools.

You might find that you personally dislike them but than that too has helped shape your esthetic views, education should indeed bring you to encounter significant milestones of cultural and literary heritage; at the very least to give a student some understanding of the landscape.
Automation can help our relation with the natural world. For example we use weed killers because labor is expensive (and the work is horrible: mindless and backbreaking). Robots could do all the weeding and spare the environment from the depredations of Roundup.
I had never heard this story before about the Swedish nuclear worker who tested positive for radiation was what led to the discovery of the incident. I would love to know how they traced it back. This is fascinating and really incredible that the U.S.S.R. didn't feel any responsibility to share such information with Europe.

Amazing research and effort by the author. This is the Amazon link:

https://www.amazon.com/Chernobyl-01-Incredible-Nuclear-Disas...
Populism and Institutional Capture [pdf]
> Uber is also run by unelected creeps

Of course no elected officials are morally questionably in any way.
It would be nice if they exposed these ideas, so that programs written in Rust can themselves become incremental.
Affinity is excellent! Thanks... I use Photoshop once every few months and have been wanting to lose the recurring cost for a while.
Constantly banging your head off an iron bath also interferes with brain development, and any other drug that could treat this
Pro Tip: use PayPal account for any Adobe subscriptions. If you suddenly want to cancel Adobe subscription cancel it in PayPal. Very easy
Yes this is true. Note BSD supports this better with Ctrl-T to generate SIGINFO, which one can send to any command even if not supported, in which case it's ignored. Using kill on linux, and having that kill processes by default is decidedly more awkward.

It's also worth noting the separate "progress" project which can be used to give the progress of running file based utilities.

We generally have pushed back on adding progress to each of the coreutils for these reasons, but the low overhead of implementation and high overlap with existing options was deemed enough to warrant adding this to dd
Is your argument that "the government could do this immoral thing under the table, so we might as well let them do it over the table"?

I'm not sure I buy that line of reasoning. I would rather just say that the government can't legally do this immoral thing, and prosecute the government actors involved if we catch them doing it.
Almost all of the drug users I know are unemployed social outcasts. One of them at least somewhat tries.
Photo RAW/workflow management:

- Lightroom

- Aperture (now discontinued)

- Darktable (open source, does RAW conversion but not great on library management)

- CaptureOne

- ???
No, it's all closely inter-related. pandas as a project is responsible for data manipulation and in-memory analytics. These other projects are all complementary technologies.
Rubbish. Complete rubbish. Cannabis is decriminalized in the Netherlands. The Netherlands like all countries has its good and bad parts.
So why do you know the scientific method is the best method or even a valid method? Any answer you give to this question will be a philosophical answer. You are doing philosophy whether you like it or not.
The issue is that programs will behave unexpectedly unless they know and respect the filesystem's rules for case insensitivity (which might be tricky when you go beyond ASCII):

$ touch Open
$ ls open*
ls: open*: No such file or directory
$ ls open
open
About 3mbit/second, or 400kbytes a second. I'd expect something 50-100 times faster.
One Name, Numerous Companies: The Many Lives of Packard Bell
"Generate" and "Propagate" are referring to the names of the signals in the first stage of a carry-lookahead adder ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carry-lookahead_adder ). Generate is A AND B (AB), Propagate is A OR B (A + B). This is also where the AND and OR for the logic functionality comes from.

The '181 has no clock input, the outputs will change after some propagation delay whenever an input changes.

This explanation of CLA adding may also help: https://www.cs.umd.edu/class/sum2003/cmsc311/Notes/Comb/look...
I ran into a similar issue with Spotify. Reported a bug in their unsubscribe process and they would only respond with "don't worry about that, I'll do it manually" as if that was the norm.
Technically, this isn't an argument for legalization, but an argument for medical use of synthetic cannabinoids. If research were not so difficult, you could treat this with a pill, which does nothing for all the other problems of the war on drugs.
Is the article asking for legalization, of for proper controls of it to be used as a medicine? It is illegal for me to buy Heroine, but my doctor can prescribe me dia-Morphine which amounts to the same thing. Why stop something being used as a medicine because you don't want recreational use?
Agreed, as well as the evolving nontrivial hunt for cost reductions e.g. "Just use spot instances in US west 1 on weekends", stuff like that.

A pascal GPU and older CPU that takes at least 32GB RAM is a decent combination. I'm looking to upgrade to an older Xeon and a 1080 (price should be dropping any week now...) or 1080 Ti. Even the Sandy/ivy bridge i7's have not too bad results on most benchmarks: http://www.anandtech.com/show/9483/intel-skylake-review-6700...
Lipton is legit. In page 1 though

> However, it does _not_ mean that all instances of NP problems can be solved in a _feasible_ sense.

Basically, this says nothing about the P vs. NP problem (as I'm sure many are thinking of when NP is mentioned). This is more about a non-trivial utilization of the massively parallel properties of DNA computers in order to speed up brute force computation.
The application is written in Ruby and the code was just slightly[1] obfuscated so there was no need to decompile the actual application he was analyzing.

[1] "This obfuscation is intended to discourage GitHub Enterprise customers from making modifications to the VM. We know this 'encryption' is easily broken."
Yes and in fact we do basically give stimulants to roudy kids in the form of Adderall and Vyvance.
‘See What Y’All Can Work Out’: The State of Empathy in Charleston
Thanks for the link. I know someone too who has greatly benefitted from CBD as well. This is only anecdotal but I've heard that there is a positive relationship between CBD and THC, where for some people/conditions it is helpful to have both
Amsterdam is very far from being a dump. Sure, the (very small) red light district might not be the kind of place you take your mother-in-law, but outside that it's a wonderful, picturesque, friendly, vibrant city.
The Prisoner
On the other hand, the strain mentioned in this article is famously high in THC.
I think it has. People started to think twice about the switching costs before adopting a google service. The first question you hear whenever google starts a new cloud service is "how long is google going to offer this".
What would this mean? Rust is AOT compiled, so I'm not quite understanding what it would mean for a program in Rust to become incremental.
I wanted to cry, thinking that I could buy bags of White Russian but I wouldn’t be able to take them out of Colorado. If we bring our son’s marijuana when we travel, we worry that we’re committing interstate drug trafficking.

Isn't moving the oil from Rhode Island to New York the same thing?
We went from Shakespeare, Oscar Wilde, Emily Dickinson and Robert Frost to something that sounds like lyrics from a '90s grunge band. I don't quite think OP's criticism is unwarranted.
Maybe the answer is being able to control is via the payment processor like this subscription supports Apple payment subscribe /opt out or whoever and that middle man can kill off the account.
"The war on drugs is probably one of the biggest crime against humanity since WW2 "

Spoken by someone who has never known an opioid or cocaine addict, and watched lives crumble, sometimes into death.

Most drugs are quite dangerous and have seriously adverse affects upon populations at large.

Cocaine, Meth, and Opioids create massive social health problems far beyond anything dope or alcohol ever could.

I have no doubt there are 'responsible' users out there, but in general, those things will lay waste to populations at large.

I had a friend who lived in his (wealthy) parents basement, smocking crack all day, every day. Visiting with him - there was gerbil feces everywhere, a divot in the sofa were he sat all day, and a pile of ashes next to him on the sofa. He had every opportunity in life, he now lives in a clinic.

Another 'responsible partier' friend in who died of suffocation 'laughing gas' mask to his face.

Another - a weed addict (yes, despite the fact that pot is not really chemically addictive, there is definitely such a thing as addiction) - who threw himself in front of a subway in despair. Not blaming the drugs, but it's specifically related in this case.

A family member who is point-blank prescription opioid addict - and it's complicated because she gets debilitating migraines that few drugs can help her with, but the 'solution' is poison.

And finally - close family members and friends who are 'chronic' pot smokers, who manage it quite well, but are basically always high. It has dramatically affected their lives, though they are functional - they are entirely different people. I'm not sure if I would call that addiction, but I would say it is problematic.

I live in a mixed neighbourhood of creatives/wealthy/working class, there's a health clinic across the street - and the effect of crack in my neighbourhood is quite visible.

Visit places where the 'war on drugs' is truly being lost, like West Virginia, and you get the picture pretty quickly.

Of course there is no reason to put pot smokers in jail - but this antagonism about the 'war on drugs' is very naive, unsympathetic, and dangerous.

Chewing on coca leaves? Maybe. The occasional LSD/Hyabithsca user? Doesn't matter.

But there is no way we will legalize opioids, coke, meth - it doesn't matter that some can 'handle it' - it just wreaks havoc overall. On the whole they destroy lives, families, social scenes, and this is before the legal framework.

I think that the 'perception' problem of the 'war on drugs' is largely led by people who are recreational users, living in the 'Burning Man' bubble of people who have their act together. Then they read up on 'jailing' because of this and that. Remember that if you're in that club, heck, if you're reading HN, you're probably in the top 5% of Americans, and probably the top 0.1% of global population.

Visit your local Salvation Army :)