skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is an organ really in the 'computer' class of machine? It doesn't "carry out an arbitrary set of arithmetic or logical operations," to quote the Wikipedia definition.

A barrel organ could be said to follow a 'program', if we're loose enough to mean 'a set of machine-readable instructions that cause a process to take place' but it is in no sense calculating a result based on logical operations.
Do you actually think I'm suggesting you fly home on the weekends or something to fight crime?

Is it possible to have a reasonable conversation anymore?
http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/134672-harvard-cracks-dna...
Check out MOSIS. They combine multiple small projects into a single reticle set to spread the cost of a fab run.

Been a long time since I looked at it. No idea if they have a packaging option.
They have a traffic page here: https://www.startpage.com/traffic/
I honestly haven't paid attention to elementaryOS drama, but I don't want to give them shit if they are at least trying, even if not entirely successfully.

I admire open source, but open source software suffers very strongly from "programmer design". It's a difficult process to get these things right, and I wouldn't expect some distribution to pop up overnight that does things on the same level of refinement as OS X. These things take time, and we need to encourage projects that do try.
If you watch the talk, their main problems were designing Persona as a hosted service within Mozilla so that others could not replicate, and creating it as a product and not a platform so success was measured the wrong way for what their aims should have been. I was in the audience for this and it was a great talk, recommended watching.
Aside from Apple appearing on a PRISM slide deck, I don't think there is any evidence to support your claim.

I suspect they weren't complicit in being involved in PRISM, but maybe that's just me hoping.
If it's been baked the source is wrecked, so not really.
ECMAScript 2017: the final feature set
It's a simple game that combines our two loves: making voices more accessible via speech-to-text, and videogames :) (PS—I'm one of the devs)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13511759
The Disintegration Loops
Ah! You mean that "typing"!
This is true. It is most commonly used to decrypt backups and allows developer to install personally signed apps on the device for development.
You're not anonymous because you're selling something.

You're selling startup expertise even though your SaaS -- according to your own numbers -- never made more than $37,000 in annual profit. Although I'm happy for you, I don't think that qualifies you to give people advice on how to run a SaaS business.

I'm sure you mean well and perhaps you'll become a great startup coach. Still, I have serious reservations about people who start teaching prematurely.
> TUIs are great for experienced users, but are terrible for inexperienced users.

Usability research proved this to be false again and again but unfortunately text is not showy enough.
It's surprisingly complete and polished for an open-source project.
Drug Discovery and Python
A lot of "biodegradable" plastic is actually plastic that just breaks down into tiny bits. It only appears to degrade, it doesn't actually go away.

This is probably another massive problem lurking in the deep.
i agree; no tab favicons is upsetting. they do come back if you pin tabs (so only the icon is visible), and i'd say apple wants you to do the "zoom out beyond maximum" gesture to show all pages for navigation. i don't really use tabs when i have many open any more, because they go off the edge of the screen pretty quickly anyway.

safari is also incredibly fast compared to chrome and ff. i love ff, but since starting to use safari i honestly don't think i could switch back
For a huge chunk of the industry, the consequences of broken software are limited to annoyed users and lost revenue. In cases like that, the benefits of shipping quickly often outweigh the value of "expert testing". Further, in many cases the software engineers have as much expertise as the customers, making the handoff for testing simply a way of abdicating responsibility for quality.

For your structural engineering example, I'm not sure you couldn't benefit from continuous, automated release. If the only risks are missing "bugs, omissions, simple improvements", you could fix those in the next release (which could be the next day). Delaying valuable features so that the customers can tell you that a tweak would be even better doesn't seem to be a net gain. The only reason to hold the release would be if you're catching dangerous bugs this way.

You could also build new features under a "flighting" system (pick your favorite name; there are several) where you don't expose new features to most customers until they are "baked" with your internal customers and/or customers who've opted into early features. This allows you to release constantly so your customers get bug fixes quickly and features as soon as they're ready without the complexity of separate branches and versions maintained in parallel.
"But self-styled astronomer Dr Dyomin Damir Zakharovich has accused the space agency of a cover up and warned that the space rock is a fragment of fabled planet Nibiru. ... Nibiru is a fictional planet predicted to bring about the end of the world, according to doomsday theorists."

So, according to a self-styled astronomer, a piece of a fictional planet is going to hit the earth? This doesn't really qualify as news.

More on Nibiru: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nibiru_cataclysm
Why Your Business Should Ditch Cash
Sydney Australia has had this for several years, including through it's various tunnels. Whilst the majority of the network is above ground, the inner-city is underground. The telcos here spent a lot of money/time in getting 100% coverage through the tunnels in ~2011 though, which definitely enabled something like this.

Glad to hear that cell signal is finally reaching across the subway network - when I was last in NYC it drove me nuts not being able to just browse on my phone whilst waiting for a train.
What about the other 60 million displaced people? Seems a bit selective for no apparent reason.
Yes, it's detrimental because it's distracting. It interrupts my concentration when I make typing mistakes, or can't get the code written down fast enough. I want to write it down fast, because I can only hold so much in my head, and the faster I can write down an idea, the faster I can move on to the next one. Once everything is down, it's much easier for me to look at the whole, and edit it (refactor, etc.).
> You're average web-skinned 3270 app

Am I?

(Sorry I couldn't resist)
Google's political grandstanding is a turn off. I can no longer trust that they aren't censoring search results based on their political leanings. It's a deal breaker, sorry. They best tread carefully or other companies that cater to a more moderate crowd will win out.
Totally support www.opencollective.com, those guys are awesome.
Documentation always helps
There needs to be a piecemeal way of supporting such projects, take a look at hit record.org for creative stuff and also I am part of a team thats building a platform to do exactly what you request. Launching Feb 8th. Check out www.crowdraising.co
As on 9/11 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Yellow_Ribbon), the forgotten neighbor named Canada steps up to do the right thing.
If anyone says they know where they can get instructions to make a bomb you should kick them out regardless, doesn't matter if they're probably an agent or not.

That actually reminds me of the time when the FBI sent undercover agents to mosques to try and entrap some Muslims by pretending to be jihadists, and the people at the mosque reported the agents to the FBI.
If you're very sophisticated, I like Tarsnap for online backups. But you have to be very sophisticated to use it.

I think you're overstating this a bit. You have to be comfortable at a UNIX command line. Surely that alone doesn't qualify someone as "very sophisticated"?
The article assumes that string theory has been proven correct. From what I understand, that is very far from being true.
My first real job out of college, classic DoD contractor gig, I walked in and was shown the spiffy VAX I was going to be using. I didn't know which was older, the computer or me. There's one sitting in the Computer History MUseum in Mountain View. Wirewrap, 4mb of RAM maximum and each 1mb was a square foot of circuit-board you'd have to slide in and lock into place with thumb-tabs. I felt my own obsolescent like an angry itch every day I showed up for work and turned it on.

The way I understand it, the Navy got tired of supporting that. "If you want more of our money, you'll upgrade this crap." So they did, and now it's one server rack with, wouldn't you know, such modern things like USB ports and 21st century OSs and ethernet capability. But that's crazy talk.
Turmeric seems to have zero medicinal properties
You don't need an integral scanner, you need a scanner that can look through any persisted user files. You can write triggers for Amazon Lambda that trigger scans when a file is dropped on S3, for example.
Try to down with the sickness your brain has before commenting something utterly useless and calling names. I was talking about the lack of competent workforce.
> It is a fantastic database

no, it really is not.
Windows is a proprietary, closed source OS. It is not a valid choice imo.
From what I read they used to use it for private use, so they would have clients and make games for them and they decided to open source it in the end.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whataboutism

Let's not dismiss what Canada's doing because they could be doing more. I'm sure it's nerve-wracking to be left with literally no place to go, so something even as small as this should be commended.
Happy to see this is alive and kicking since it became OS.

I've never had the occasion to deep dive into it, so I wonder, from 10000 feet how does it differentiates from Unity?
No one's actually pulled apart the update (to get a copy, you'd need a real Blackphone + email support) to check what it's doing.
Zach Holman recently tweeted this same question:

https://twitter.com/holman/status/824767207699734530

There a few suggestions, but one of note was this (yet to be released) product called That Key:

https://twitter.com/ramseychapin/status/821071516322234368
http://thatkey.com/

The founder claims it will be released soon.
Yes, it very much does.
Good point and if this were a bigger company I would agree with you. However, we are still a very small company (single digits) going through a critical period.

As one of the key employees I have leverage. Am I irreplaceable? No, but it would definitely be a setback. One that the founder cannot afford at this time.

I can't speak for the other employees but I imagine they won't be happy either once they learn how the founder treats employees.

Besides appeasing existing employees there is the added benefit of attracting and retaining talent going forward. This is a great point that you mentioned and shouldn't be overlooked especially considering how competitive the valley is for talent.
Have the facts straight
Complain loudly including twitter
Write to the CFPB and BBB
Call out the CEO on social media.
Customer service has been a loss leader for companies existing in oligopolic structures. Time to follow the Amazon model and make customer service a USP
I would've too, but I'm fairly confident it would have been a one-time-only thing. I had a roommate, smart lawyer kid, who talked casually about doing cocaine one day, which surprised me since back then I drew a line between "hard drugs" like cocaine, H, meth, and "soft drugs" like marijuana, LSD, and the like. And this guy seemed (and still is) like such a smart, successful person. He told me that drugs don't change who you are... if you're a cautious person who has self control, that doesn't change.
Yes I have been disabling widevine, nacl and flash in chrome:plugins since chrome was in its teens. At that time there used to be even more crap there, stuff like adobe and picasa and whatnot.

I'm considering Chromium too, but if I'm going to migrate, I might as well migrate to something like Safari which has the added benefit of cross device integration (ios-macos). Sticking with chromium likely signals a vote for chrome in browser stats that I would rather not do. Firefox would have been the ideal pick had it not been for multiple very dubious choices in their history like bundling hello and pocket.
Because if you're from those countries it doesn't matter what your race is?

White, black, asian, latino, they are all banned if they originate from those countries.

Same with religion. Christian, Muslim, Jewish, they are all banned if they originate from these countries.

The ban is based on country of origin, not race or religion.
Companies these days chose Oracle for one reason. They're scared of being sued. Several operations I've been involved with chose it as insurance policy. They want the ability to defer litigation to Oracle should it occur. Oracle touts its support and aggressive legal defense as a selling point. Engineers don't recommend Oracle, C titles and Sr. Management do. Sorry to hear about your issues, I'm sure the product worked amazingly on Postgres.
Adults Passed Out with Kids in the Back Seat
Just switch to Firefox. This kind of stuff is why we need plurality in the browser space, and Mozilla is one of the few companies that takes - or has to take - a pro-user stance on many issues.
BrandFox (https://brandfox.io) - we let Instagram users sell photos to brands/startups/agencies who are looking for more authentic content than stock images (which tend to suck and/or be expensive). Also going to start letting brands bid on influencers to mention their product/do a review etc :)
I use the same setup of tools at work as at home on 2 different systems. OSX at work and Linux Mint at home. Love mint, it's fast, lean and simple (and has basically everything debian has)
Piggy backing on your comment. The problems with FOSS are personalities and alignment. OS X happened because Jobs made it happen. I was hoping Ubuntu and Shuttleworth would achieve something similar, but working the established community and w/ X and the two major UI libraries might be too limiting.
Σκορ εκατέρωθεν στο Λας Πάλμας-Βαλένθια
I think "pick a commit" only holds up for server based software.

For things like large desktop software with long term supported file formats, mission critical software where people might get killed if something malfunctions etc then it's pretty normal to have manual testing. If the cost of deployment of a release is high (N people training, downloading, installing) then you want few releases - and you can also motivate spending on manual testing to ensure you don't need a new release sooner than necessary.

The release branch also works as a beta/rc branch so that a version is tested on a subset of users before general availability, while things like large refactorings and major features can start being developed for vNext in the trunk/master.

I'm not sure but I'd guess this is how most software other than web and server software is developed.
I would second the serverless idea as well.
Also one thing that is going to be of incredible value, getting a friendly UI to the crypto currency / smart contracts world.
Tough selection but will pay off dividends if you get it right
The biggest application will be introducing unnatural amino.acids into proteins.
Mostly because it's not hard to acknowledge both sides have good and bad parts. I don't understand how you can be so obvlivious.
That's expensive for a burner phone.

I don't know about the USA, but in New Zealand you can get a phone for $10, usually with $10 credit already loaded onto it. So in essence a free phone. It won't be a smart phone, but that's probably good.

Viewing Google maps on your phone, burner or not, is a pretty bad idea from a privacy viewpoint. Good old fashioned static maps is what you want, printed out is even better.
Polyfills: everything you ever wanted to know, or maybe a bit less
I went with one of the "arch for humans" distros (antergos) recently and while the installation was simply enough it didn't help the day to day operations, like mounting my second hard drive. I agree with going with ubuntu for the "just works" stuff, but it may not work at all with newer hardware.
I learned VHDL a few months ago. Since then I've build a few projects with it (some PCIe and ethernet stuff). I was very excited to learn a HDL because FPGAs seem like extremely powerful devices.

However, I now know why FPGAs aren't as popular as they could be: the tools are horrible. There is no way FPGAs will become popular among software developers unless the tooling improves dramatically. You can really tell that it was all build by hardware engineers who know their electronics very well, but not good software design.
The vendor shouldn't be able to push an update, no. And to the extent that this update was pulled by users without a diff/sanity check/etc, then that constitutes a de facto push. In any case, any update should be completely revertible (which doesn't prevent against data leaks from hostile code, but does prevent against denial of service).

This type of attack is just a test case that any truly secure device has to defend against. I'm not advocating a specific mechanism of avoiding this behavior, because there's obviously work to be done here to come up with a better mechanism than "every user audits every line of source before installing". It's just that this design work has to be done - "security" based on trusting a company is easy, and doesn't differ appreciably from what say Apple already provides.
If you're a laptop user you'll likely notice much better battery life.
Edited! Thanks for correcting me!
Eh, I'm not sure you got the point of the story. Good argument, though.
Absolutely love indiehackers.
Not a straight answer to your question I know, want to shameless plug the Platform I am helping build, it's for people with side projects and cognitive surplus as clay shirky puts it to get max value out of their time.
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Googling that phrase leads to one of your tweets which has a no longer valid link(redirects to the microsoft research homepage).

Edit: I presume this is the intended article: https://www.usenix.org/system/files/1401_08-12_mickens.pdf
Ending a bash script in rm $1 doesn't magically make it not open source, just inherently self-destructive.
Can you make a paid version of Firefox (identical to the free one)? I'd buy if it were for $25, or even give you $50/year subscription to keep you afloat.
yep, it is a general insult our tolerant left is throwing at someone they don't like. standard multiple choice - racist, sexist, homophobe, antisemite, islamophob, child molester, hitler, nazi. or just downvote anonymously.
I had never seen this described before, but I have always experimented it with noise such as from air conditioners or plane flights. Especially plane flights, as the noise is so loud. However, I don't hear voices, but music (maybe because I'm a music lover?) And I have learned to control it, so that I can somewhat listen to the music I want (kind of: I can control the melody, but timbre control is very limited, and sometimes I lose melody control too). It keeps me entertained for a while on flights.

A pity the article doesn't really explain the reason. I have always assumed (just as a wild, uninformed guess) that it's because the noise contains a wide selection of frequencies, so if our brain is looking for one for some reason, it can tune the others away and isolate it.
In my experience, Ubuntu (and Unity specifically) gets stale after a while; as more and more cruft builds up it is difficult to use the system without breaking things and you end up having to do a clean install to refresh the system.

I haven't experienced this with a ``cutting-edge'' distro like Arch.
The Long Farewell of the Norwich City
Agreed - people in this thread are too down on typing skill. It's not the only thing, but it is important.

Think -> decide that you need to extract a method -> using the keyboard, and your editor, do that -> think again.

The step w/ the keyboard will involve your custom editor environment, and typing. If you get it done, you can shorten the cycle from Think -> Decide -> Act -> Think, and get into a smoother workflow. If your keyboard and tools need your active thought on how to succeed, you get derailed in that Act step, and have to restart your thinking about the real problem.
...aren't they both using ffmpeg? Where's the difference coming from?
Why is VENEZUELA a CATASTROPHY?
That's a bit of an oversimplification, no?

The number of EOs don't matter. What's in them matters.
> you should be working on some more difficult problem instead

Building simple things that solve real problems pays really really well.
Why did humans evolve to be ticklish?
Take care of your contract with BigCo. Totally second the idea of looking at carmack and oculus story.
Usually I would start by building stuff or contributing to an open project. You can get a letter saying you CNA contribute to an open project from your employer .
Also building a platform for people with cognitive Surya and the drive to build stuff.
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Yes, my roommate in college went pretty deep into opioids for a couple years and eventually quit. He's now a PhD student studying math, smart as ever. I think we know very different addicts.

> Can you imagine 50 000 people at a Football game, all doing smack? Sure, it would be a fun game. Within days, 10% of them would be full on addicts. Within weeks maybe 50% of them would. Those people would go through hell or high water to stay permanently high.

You sound like my middle school DARE teacher talking about how our brains would fry like scrambled eggs on MDMA. (ie those numbers are pulled out of your imagination)

Here's probably the most strict source on drugs saying that the addiction rate is 23% https://www.drugabuse.gov/publications/drugfacts/heroin

That's still terribly high, and I think your ideas have an element of truth, but your approach to using unsubstantiated numbers and overall tone of self-assuredness is just kind of sad to see.
There are great fanless systems. I use a HD-Plex case with a real i7 CPU (although a few generations old by now) as a workstation. It's dead silent and with an internal PSU. It's been very reliable so far.
Gutting a Fish with Two Chopsticks
Then try the movie "White Noise"
I wish they finally fixed the freezing bug in Cinnamon; every time I switch to a user while logged in as another user Cinnamon goes down hard (Intel systems, Core M and i5). And 1/3 of suspend/resume attempts end up that way. I use Mint for >4 years but this is starting to kill me :( HiDPI is fantastic on Cinnamon, 4k is a joy.
i think the point is that probability is, in essence, a human assessment, and so depends on the knowledge of the assessor.
You misunderstood me.

That better code had a cost of 1 000 euros, due to the amount of hours spent on it.

How much profit did those euros spent on developer salary brought to the business revenue?
That, plus the "(and all the other plugins)" really signals that this is unintended. Something probably isn't reading or writing the setting to the right place, and it's just being enabled by default.
I use StartPage and thinks it works very well.

I like the "Proxy" function, but it's only available for search results, it would be nice if you could submit a link and use the proxy function for pages not indexed by StartPage, they could then send their crawler to that domain and the search engine would improve.
It's revocable:

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT202778

It's anyway not a great idea to plug anything into strange USB ports.
For a non-browser alternative Emacs' speed-type.el is an excellent choice.
Yes, that's probably why it's so good. Blender was also originally proprietary.