skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
$ youtube-dl --list-formats https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DeJLzyxZqbk | grep '[0-9]x[0-9]'
278 webm 256x144 DASH video 93k , webm container, vp9, 24fps, video only, 1.09MiB
242 webm 426x240 DASH video 110k , vp9, 24fps, video only, 1.00MiB
160 mp4 256x144 DASH video 113k , avc1.4d400c, 24fps, video only, 1.41MiB
243 webm 640x360 DASH video 196k , vp9, 24fps, video only, 1.83MiB
133 mp4 426x240 DASH video 247k , avc1.4d4015, 24fps, video only, 3.08MiB
134 mp4 640x360 DASH video 263k , avc1.4d401e, 24fps, video only, 2.95MiB
244 webm 854x480 DASH video 322k , vp9, 24fps, video only, 3.11MiB
135 mp4 854x480 DASH video 554k , avc1.4d401e, 24fps, video only, 6.30MiB
247 webm 1280x720 DASH video 714k , vp9, 24fps, video only, 7.48MiB
136 mp4 1280x720 DASH video 1127k , avc1.4d401f, 24fps, video only, 12.92MiB
248 webm 1920x1080 DASH video 1579k , vp9, 24fps, video only, 17.86MiB
137 mp4 1920x1080 DASH video 2304k , avc1.640028, 24fps, video only, 27.09MiB
17 3gp 176x144 small , mp4v.20.3, mp4a.40.2@ 24k
36 3gp 320x180 small , mp4v.20.3, mp4a.40.2
18 mp4 640x360 medium , avc1.42001E, mp4a.40.2@ 96k
43 webm 640x360 medium , vp8.0, vorbis@128k
22 mp4 1280x720 hd720 , avc1.64001F, mp4a.40.2@192k (best)
I keep on postponing the trip. I always tell myself that I will go next year. Been postponing for 20 years now. People who stay closer to something rarely values it. Most people closer to the national parks will pick Eiffel Tower over going to the national park anyday. Vice versa.
For me not, because of the lack of Docker.
>"But on the plus side, once you know this stuff"

Can you give some examples of "this stuff"? As a recent entrant to the world of C++ I would be curious to hear those areas I should investigate to get to that point. You mentioned breaking cycles with weak references so it is it mostly understanding how C object model is implemented and/or anything else? Any resources or book you found helpful to find that enlightenment? Cheers.
the secret to finish a project is to set a realistic goal
Wow, this is an obscure reference. Nothing at all turns up on DDG, and two results on google: One Slashdot comment from seventeen years ago, and two undocumented lines in an attachment from the Eclipse IDE bugzilla:

https://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=9569&cid=1418091

https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/attachment.cgi?bugid=436478&ac...

This may be the most obscure reference to a thing that clearly exists that I've ever seen. Well done.
>Ruby and JavaScript have modern dependency managers (bundler and npm/yarn). They're easy to get working cross-platform.

Ruby is easy to get working cross-platform? The only fully supported platforms are Linux and OS X (and really only the Linux-like parts of OS X). Ruby on Windows is a trainwreck, and other platforms are not supported at all. Meanwhile C++ runs on everything and the toaster. Ruby might have many strengths but cross-platform support is not among them.
You can get them in major European electronics chains, no need any shady reseller. They are pricier than online but you will get clean software and two year warranty while price is still beating closest competition of Lenovo and Honor.
It's not even short-sightedness, it's failing to internalise externalities[0]. And of course the current profiteers will do everything they can to keep things as they are, see e.g. the fate of carbon taxes whose entire purpose is to try and internalise some of the externalities into capitalistic frameworks.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Externality
It uses a belt :)
Belt drive, no chains.
I'm so happy to have come across this. Had no idea it existed.
Depends on the strategy.

Venture captialists' strategy involves mostly taking sizable losses, but with enough breakout successes to still make money in the aggregate.
It has a belt drive [1], rather than a chain.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belt-driven_bicycle
its better to own a part of something then 100% of nothing
Of course some of these concerns are real. But your last statement could also be phrased "not everyone wants to change anything, in order to give people places to live".
There's less awareness surrounding abusive relationships where men are the victims because it goes against the cultural trope of manliness, but what you describe is an abusive relationship. Psychological abuse is a form of domestic abuse even if it's not something you can easily call the cops over.

There are plenty of unhealthy relationships among married couples because of traditional views that "marriage is forever" and if you get a divorce, you're a failure. Luckily where I live these social pressures have become much weaker and this experience seems to be less common than a few generations ago.

This has nothing to do with marriage (or any other committed long-term relationship) itself, however. Of course these relationships are about compromises but it's highly subjective what compromises you are willing to make and what compromises you can make without being unhappy.

In a healthy relationship both partners should care about the mental and emotional well-being of the other. That also includes preventing the partner from compromising where they shouldn't and being respectful enough to their needs to tell them if things can't work out. It doesn't sound like that happened in the relationships you describe.

It's actually pretty common for women to seem more "controlling" in relationships. This doesn't even have anything to do with feminism, the trope of the "henpecked husband" has been around for a long term. But that's not a problem in itself.

Also, behaviour that could seem condescending to outsiders can actually be part of a healthy relationship as long as both partners have a shared understanding of what they are comfortable with and in what context. It can be very difficult to determine whether a relationship is healthy or not if you lack the full knowledge of these dynamics.
This account may be true. But the source has an exceptional interest in promoting a specific point of view coming from extreme political conservativism which should be considered.

The Witherspoon Institute is a conservative think tank in Princeton, New Jersey.[1][2][3]

...

The Witherspoon Institute opposes abortion and same-sex marriage[7] and deals with embryonic stem cell research, constitutional law, and globalization.[2] In 2003, it organized a conference on religion in modern societies.[8] In 2006, Republican Senator Sam Brownback cited a Witherspoon document called Marriage and the Public Good: Ten Principles in a debate over a constitutional amendment against same-sex marriage.[2] It held a conference about pornography named The Social Costs of Pornography[9] at Princeton University in December 2008.[10]

Financially independent from Princeton University, its donors have included the Bradley Foundation, the John M. Olin Foundation, the John Templeton Foundation, and the Lee and Ramona Bass Foundation.[2]

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Witherspoon_Institute
Yuval Harari explains the Capitalist Creed (& why it underpins entrepreneurship)
From the manual:

> This bicycle is powered by a belt drive, which is a rustproof, durable and maintenance-free alternative to a regular chain.

Seems like it's a similar but different system to produce the same outcome. It also says to not oil it, just wash with water. The bike also has no gear cables so it looks like it's designed to minimise maintenance as much as possible and that's a part of it.
It's missing my favourite: CTRL + _ for Undo.

Also there's a big difference between Alt + Backspc and Ctrl + w. The first will delete a word consisting of only alphanumerics, while Ctrl + w also deletes the word, but word can be made of any characters other than space.
> and the one most people are least willing to cut down on.

Getting people to eat less meat or meat from less worse emitters or upgrading existing buildings to low emissions for heating does not seem that much easier.

Anyway, you can't fix the problem with a single change.
BitTorrent was, and is still, remarkable technology. Not focusing on the ethics and costs of piracy (that affects one part of what BitTorrent is used for), it has helped all kinds of content (entertainment and otherwise) have a massive reach globally (and across country borders) like nothing else has. I only feel sad for Bram Cohen in this whole series of events, and more so considering his condition (Asperger's syndrome) and how much he would've just put up with (in silent frustration) while others ran the show.
In this article, I was surprised to see no mention of uTorrent, the BitTorrent client, and how it changed from the time it was bought by BitTorrent, Inc.

P.S.: Off topic, but I dislike these Medium hosted sites with large blurry images on page load that come into focus later.
It doesn't have a chain. It uses a belt drive.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belt-driven_bicycle
I realize it's the best option right now, but it's terrible. That's my point. The system is awful.

Theoretically you can change jobs but only to another employer who is in a position to sponsor your H1B. Which really limits your options, and doesn't likely move you into a better scenario because the new employer still has a distinct advantage over you (they are the one allowing you to stay in the country.)
It's pretty simple: the author thinks she's the worst and her husband is the best, but the husband (if he were a similarly engaging and witty writer) would write an article where his interpretation would be that he is the worst and his wife is the best.

What you're missing is that you're only seeing one self-deprecating side of the story. You're assuming it's painting a full picture when it clearly isn't trying to.
I wouldn't say Windows has "improved dramatically in ten years" --- perhaps "changed" would be the right word for me; given how popular XP was, I'd say WRK is still quite relevant.
Well, that's called a blanket pardon, and the fact that it was granted to Nixon establishes it as precedent.
The discoverer of the vulnerability, t0b0, is weighing in again, saying there is a backdoor:

https://tobi.rocks/2017/01/there-is-a-whatsapp-backdoor/

Edit to add: It's also on HN (empty so far):

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13404263
Which is why people say that the pioneers end up with the arrows in their backs.
TL;DR - guessing "badly."
Language nit-pick: in English, we just use "s" to make words plural, no apostrophe is needed. The correct way to make "card" plural is "cards."
So, you added 9000 units and the world did NOT in fact come to an end?
It's two gear, so it's not great for inclines, and the belt and frame are less durable. I'm not sure it's worth the money once you learn bicycle maintenance (but you could say that about a lot of IKEA furniture and woodworking/metalworking)
> we ought not condone or enable this self-serving behavior.

so what do you suggest? make it illegal to not live in your house ? Have a city inspector drive by once a week and see if lights are on and cars are parked nearby ? Every homeowner has to show up every 90 days to get their property ownership license stamped ?

sure, having vacant houses is a waste of resources. but having wealthy people actually use their money - even in a wasteful manner - can be a good thing. more money moving through the economy is better than less money moving through the economy.
Yeah -- I figured that out after I caught a little shut-eye. If my brain had been operating at all, I would have seen that and not even asked. Sorry.
It doesn't matter what I believe. The topic at hand is circuses, not all 19th century institutions.
If you consider the use of elephants for profit-driven entertainment to be the same as cats or dogs, or even cows and horses, you need to learn the history of domestication.
The circus is an affectation of nostalgia held by people that weren't even born when the circus was still a thing. They may have read a book when they were children that was 40 or 50 years old at that time that showed clowns and happy lions and bears dancing on balls. Like other cultural touchstones, horse racing, boxing, the Harlem Globetrotters, their time is past. They've been existing on fumes for decades and, now, those fumes are dissipating.
Don't you mean --Abraham Lincoln? That quote is from an unknown source.
For those interested Grace Hopper helped popularize this term

In 1946, when Hopper was released from active duty,
she joined the Harvard Faculty at the Computation
Laboratory where she continued her work on the Mark II
and Mark III. Operators traced an error in the Mark II
to a moth trapped in a relay, coining the term bug.
This bug was carefully removed and taped to the log
book. Stemming from the first bug, today we call
errors or glitches in a program a bug.

Reference (wikipedia) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_bug

Reference (which wikipedia cites) http://ei.cs.vt.edu/~history/Hopper.Danis.html
Buy $13 widgets and sell them for $7 on eBay. Repeat 100 million times.
They only started working on a phone in 2005 according to the wiki page.

Yes, there were rumours for years ... ever since the Newton.
Thanks for the link. This theory seems relevant to my own work and motivation.

> A child playing baseball may be satisfying his need for physical exercise, while the professional player is satisfying his parental instinct by providing a good income for his family.

> For children and professionals, baseball is a means to two different ends.

When other people start setting goals for me (and I buy into them), I'm apt to lose motivation, even if the nature of my work remains unchanged. Perspective can be a very powerful tool. I appreciate the nuance provided by this "16 basic desires" theory.

https://explorable.com/16-basic-desires-theory
The sense of decorum we all ought to have in participating in HN is called out in https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html. As an example, Be civil. Don't say things you wouldn't say in a face-to-face conversation. Avoid gratuitous negativity.
The security of passwords at rest depends on how they are stored. Further, if an SSA database is dumped, passwords won't be the data exposure people are upset about.
Oooooh and also, if you're not paying for the product, you -are- the product.

Leave these glib platitudes at Reddit.
The reaction times quoted at the link associated with the main quote are actually: a reaction time of 0.67 seconds, which assumes the driver is alert, concentrating and not impaired. Driving when tired, distracted or impaired significantly increases reaction times, so the thinking distances above should be regarded as minimums.

The NHTSA assumes 1.5 seconds because: A typical reaction time to perceive a threat such as a deer or a child running into the road is about 3/4 second, and then you add another 3/4 second to decide to act and move your foot to the brake pedal. I agree it's unintuitively long, but I also know that reaction times have always been slower that I think they are when they've been tested...
I find this as well. My motivation for new projects is 100x compared to my motivation to finish existing ones, and I feel part of it at least is because on the existing ones I've reached a point where I'm not learning anything from finishing them. The flipside is that I have a lot less work that I can point to having done, compared to how much I've actually done. Having 5 completed things to show is better (for "achievement" purposes) than 20 projects at 80%, but the rewards as you say favour the latter.

This year I'm thinking about only working on projects where I'd actually use the outcome for something. If it's a project for the sake of learning library X, I won't do it. If it's a project to solve problem Y for myself, I'll try and work on that, learning anything I need along the way.
You're making a rather sweeping statement based on the opinion of a single professor. A quick Google Scholar search will show you that the vast majority of research on motivation still shows that intrinsic motivation very much exists. It's just our definitions of extrinsic vs. intrinsic and the recognition of how the two interact that are changing slightly. See, for example, [1][2][3].

[1] http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0361476X99...

[2] http://psycnet.apa.org/journals/amp/55/1/68/

[3] http://psycnet.apa.org/journals/bul/125/6/627/
That's exaclty the point. The article doesn't explicitly talk about monogamous relationships. It simply sees them as given and talks about solution 'inside' of this given assumption.

I'm just saying, you don't have to follow these parts.
Can anyone figure out why it's so expensive? Here's a fancier-looking 26" bicycle on walmart.com for $79.97 - $249.00. [1]

[1] https://www.walmart.com/ip/26-Roadmaster-Granite-Peak-Men-s-...
Really love Bryson's writing style. He manages to convey a lot of information in a way that makes it easy to consume. Great rec.
VR will pick up on this space :)
It depends on your own personality, really. There's a difference between a habit in your spouse you might find annoying sometimes and a habit that will prevent you from sharing a happy relationship.
Ask HN: How to turn this tiny Windows native app into a web app?
As a weekend project I made this little desktop toy that shows a live count of twitter followers for both Donald Trump and Barack Obama in the Windows system tray.

Now I would like to turn it into a web app. I guess it would be a really trivial project, but I currently have zero experience in web development.

Would love to see some recommendations for quick, fun and lightweight frameworks/approaches!
That’s not true. The word “bug” has been used for problems in engineering well before computers; the funny story we all heard about a moth trapped in a relay causing a _bug_ in the Harvard Mark II is from 1947. Edison himself used the word back in 1878. The Wikipedia article about “Software bug” is pretty interesting: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_bug#Etymology
> trending toward recovering back to within 2 sigma?

I wouldn't bet on that. The graphs only show area. The shortened time the arctic ice has to grow means it will be thinner than previously and thus melt more rapidly during spring, again driving it away from the historical mean.
Ride-sharing is not an area that can be monopolized

I bet people said they said thing about silicon chip market in the 80's. But look where Intel is now. They have monopolized the desktop, server, and super computer markets.
None of them bother me actually.
Dutch woman resident in UK for 30 years may have to leave after Brexit
Generic ideological discussions (and "taxation is theft" is a poster child of those) are what we don't want on HN. Please don't post them here. They're predictable, which makes them boring, and they rile people up into a froth, which creates flamewars. Just look at the trainwreck we ended up with below.

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13402805 and marked it off-topic.
That's an overly broad and inaccurate depiction of libertarianism on the issue. A considerable segment of libertarianism advocates such measures as land value taxation, which places it directly at odds with the land owning class.
If you can't google how to install https://www.virtualbox.org on your windows machine and get a linux VM up that'a okay. But that's step 1. And I will help the student do this. But stop pretending like it's bad teaching to make this step 1. This is great teaching. Getting a degree from HDT means when you graduate you will be a linux expert. You can't become a linux expert without taking that 1st baby step of leaving windows.
I think the problem is the duo of valuing labor using free market capitalism, and requiring people earn quite a bit of money just to survive, let alone thrive.

Finding alternatives won't be easy, but the continuing reduction in demand for human labor due to increased productivity in technology gives us little alternative.

Also: San Francisco is built on a fault line. Most other places, it's cheaper to build a safe high rise.
NBA will consider shortening games due to millennial attention spans
> Few foreign governments will permit an American company to see where their citizens are, where they're going and with whom they are meeting for how long.

Of course they will. See Google, Facebook and hundreds of others. The EU –to use an obvious example– also doesn't discriminate non-EU companies but only requires them to implement the same safeguards expected from EU companies.

But I just don't see how "data" even plays any major role in the future of Uber. It's ultimately a commodity dominated by the costs of a driver's time. Cost/risk of switching is low. Barriers to entry are almost nonexistent.

When Uber eventually goes Under, net effect will have been the transfer of a few million passengers from a to b, and a few billion dollars from whoever owns stock when the ride ends to the drivers (and possibly earlier investors who had the good sense to see it as the ponzi scheme it is).
If the belt is like standard belt drives (I need to look further into this, not sure if Ikea cheaped out or not), it should actually stand up to time better than a chain would. Belts are simply carbon cord embedded in a molded casing of nylon and polyurethane, and, more importantly, do not have any moving parts or linkages. It's just a belt! So you don't have to worry about the metal pitting over time or road salt settling in and destroying your drivetrain like you would with a traditional metal chain. This is more important to the European market where bicycle riders my not have cars, but owning a bike that you aren't afraid of taking out in the rain is another benefit of the belt.

My biggest concern though is that like all parts, the belt will fail eventually. A quick look online shows that new belts cost around $250, over half of the retail price of this bike!
Yes it is. The rocket costs 15 million. The Fuel is 200 thousand. Getting the rocket back is a huge potential realization in cost efficiency.
Her husband is the better partner because she wrote the article. Based on her own self-deprecation I would guess that he has quite a few character traits that make him just as if not even more of a "bad partner".

It's one thing to poke fun at yourself talking to your dogs and passing out while leaking from both ends, it's another to list your spouse's character flaws when they're not relevant to the story.

Saying either of them is the better partner based on this article is like touching an elephant's trunk and insisting it's a snake.
Sounds like the typical FOSS syndrome. If you make comments about this you can expect "if you don't like it don't use it", "works for me" and "it's open so you're free to fix it yourself".
Zooming in, the belt says "Conti Drive System" on it. More info on that here: http://www.conti-drive-system.com/

They seem to be competing with the "Gates Carbon Drive", here: http://www.gatescarbondrive.com/

I know nothing of bicycles, but I do recall when automakers started replacing timing chains with timing belts. The results weren't always great, especially with interference engines where misaligned timing means bent valves.
you do realize Windows costs money and linux is free right?
Conversely, even the myth that the NSA reads all traffic also lends credibility to that theory. They don't need to read all traffic, they just need HN commenters to say they do.
43 lbs, ouch.
I've been considering for a while moving to Montreal to be closer to the US for practical reasons. Any idea how easy that is as a french citizen?
Wow, what a scare monger!

TL;DR - running out of oil will destroy the economy for the rest of our lives. And seriously, that's barely paraphrased!!

The author has gone down the path of no return. Instead of testing his hypothesis against facts that might disprove it, he cherry picks doom and gloom facts that prop up his crazy idea.

I'd go into a more detailed deconstruction, but honestly, it's not worth the time. Go spend your time with someone who understands the oil & gas business as well as economics. This guy does not.