skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The aerial bombing in WW2 was so spectacularly inaccurate that being the aiming point was possibly safest place to be. It was the fires that did the most damage. For something that consumed so much resources it is very contraversial - not helped by German production going up during the period of heaviest bombing.
I was a cog in the machine [1]. You're welcome for my 1e-23'th-sized contribution.

[1] https://quickdraw.withgoogle.com/
I can't believe that in 2017 we're still discussing what's wrong with our chat software. I have to wonder when we will finally see chat as a solved problem.
DnsControl – “DNS as Code” from Stack Overflow
Switched from Slack to Telegram. The desktop client is so much faster.
Thank you for sharing your experience. I will definitely need to follow up with a doctor first before I can make a decision.
United shares lose $1B in market value after man dragged off flight
> Real programmers design and build their own FPGA's for their code...

https://xkcd.com/378/

/I don't disagree with you one bit...
It appears to be just a wrapper around web interfaces. Electron or some such nonsense. Truckloads of megabytes - binary size as well as memory consumption.
I don't think that LaTeX is a significant competitor of MathML, just like markdown isn't a competitor to HTML. If you're writing something for the web, you're highly unlikely to be directly inputting HTML, whether it's on Wikipedia, StackOverflow or Hacker News, so you'll need some sort of server-side processor or a javascript library previewer, anyway.

Native (browser) support of MathML is far more convenient for the reader and not more cumbersome for the writer.
"To electrocute" means "to kill by electric shock [0]," therefore it's in principle impossible to "repeatedly electrocute" anyone.

[0] https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/electrocute
Looks like a lorem ipsum web mockup to me. Maybe was an early equivalent of a sales pitch for the author's skills. Just seems like odd features like the fold-out pages, sketches of plants and nudes to combine in one unless the sole purpose was basically marketing.

Can't wait for 100 years from now people trying to read meaning into all the various lorem variations combined with kitten placeholder images out there. "This culture revolved around mysterious repeated verses praising the juvenile feline in all its forms."
It's not really "auto-draw" as much as it's a visual search in which you suggest shapes and it looks across the collection for visually similar icons. Impressive and fun, but not yet a huge advancement over just typing "house" or "cake" to search the image library.
> capitalism is an intrinsically _personal_ system, individuals helping each other.

Rand was so averse to the idea of "individuals helping each other" that she includes a scene where a zillionaire capitalist charges for giving one of the other heroes a short ride in his car[1]. It's the villains who show their villainy by talking about doing each other favours and the heroes who talk about driving a hard bargain even when they're about to consummate the business relationship by having an affair.

[1]which is absurd both for the assumption that it's better that way and for the assumption that a zillionaire capitalist accepting a token amount of gold for performing unskilled labour represents a functioning market.
Google doc is a lost fight. Word and spreadsheet editors need to be proper desktop web applications.

A web site inside a browser cannot resemble that and all the hacks to try to are not getting much close.
Visualize and share trends in GitHub activity across machine learning libraries
Creating machine learning models to analyze startup news
Also their right to deny boarding ends once a passenger is boarded
Yep, completely agree with everything you said. I'd love for their to be a standard on the desktop side, but until then, I'll keep using a hodge-podge of technologies depending on the project, I guess.
A small video of Eco walking through his house library, discussed in the article

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UoEuvgT1wBs

EDIT:

this is actually an extract from a small 3 part documentary that should be visible here http://www.artribune.com/television/2016/02/video-umberto-ec...
Writer Duet is like staring at a Cable News Broadcast screen with all sorts of stuff everywhere in the way. To me it's visually distracting and more than I feel like using / interacting with.

Story Writer is like using a Text Editor with just enough smarts to assist with predictive Character type names and quick-to-set-up descriptions / transitions. Personally I far prefer the simplicity of Story Writer.
> But - can I get a copy of Notepad++ on my Linux box?

Yes.
There's been a lot of talk for at least 15 years now. I'd like to see some action, finally.
Linux kernel compile times:

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=ryzen-180...
So by your logic if I don't want to upend my side of the deal I can just call muscle and smash a man face?
You'd put The Pantheon above The Parthenon? Or do you too suffer from my problem of having to check which is which?
MagicaVoxel
Aka Trillian from the last Great Messenger Client War.
Right. No one man (or small group of men) can understand, model, or control many areas of society. (Depends specifically what you have in mind here.)

But it's not incumbent on Rand to plan these areas. (Not sure if you're implying that it is.) Free market price signals do the majority of the heavy lifting, in resource allocation, broadly speaking.

To the GP, I would stipulate "state distortion free". ("State", as in "by force".)
Somehow I had a feeling that we wouldn't get the juicy trivia :x Congrats!
>instantly recognizable and nameable. Washington D.C. is rich in those.

I'm curious as to what other instantly recognizable and nameable buildings are in Washington D.C. to a non-American. I can think of the Pentagon and the White House. I can't really think of any others I would think a non-American would immediately recognize and be able to name. The Capitol, maybe? The Washington Monument?

I'm also wondering, with time, if the rebuilt World Trade Center will become just as recognizable. It certainly is striking in the Manhattan skyline, but it just doesn't seem "the same" to me for some reason I can't put my finger on.
> The r/videos subreddit has a rule against videos of fights/assault.

Specifically against videos of police brutality / misconduct... which coincidentally came into effect around the time a police officer joined as moderator.
I think the Master Print technique is an novel approach to biometric cracking — closer to the statistical techniques used to defeat passwords, right?
Furthermore, there's a fair bit of pushback by many content creators around orphan works legislation. This has been perhaps most pronounced with photography. There seems to be a concern that big corporations won't try very hard to reach people who have neglected to renew copyrights and will snap up their works.

(Not saying I agree with this POV but it's out there.)
add nashorn so you have a spare javascript vm just in case...
How strong is the new material compared to the old approach?
This would be even more interesting if one could morph the provided object with the provided sketch. Sort of like style transfer.
Honeycomb: a new tool for your debugging nightmares
IndieHackers is an awesome sight, and with Stripe Atlas, I see a good vertical developing. IndieHacker is an inspiring high quality source. Definitely, agree with Patrick of Stripe, the execution was stellar.
Run Android applications on any Linux system
Go offline if you want to win online
Introducing paid subscriptions on GitLab.com
Yeah. What would make it really stand out is if it were compositional. Judging based on the demo animation, it doesn't appear to be so.
Oh I do agree, it's just the debate is all about being a critic of electron instead of providing viable alternative.
A great alternative to Slack, in the spirit of IRC, is matrix[1]. It has lots of clients, and a great vision.

You use an online client called riot[2] which uses the matrix protocol. There are other clients available[3] including desktop clients.

There's E2E encryption coming to more of the clients which is inspired from signal protocol (double ratchet part of it specifically), without Forward secrecy so as to maintain session history on new devices.

I think it has a bright future and you should consider it too.

[1]:https://matrix.org

[2]:https://riot.im

[3]:https://matrix.org/docs/projects/try-matrix-now.html
Similarly, the huge buzz over the past few weeks about Mastodon as a distributed/decentralized micro-blogging service has been positive. People starting to learn more about federation and decentralization. Good to see.
I'm not sure it's wordpress, from the source code it looks like a custom Ember app but I might be wrong.
BlackBerry solved this with their picture code lock
http://n4bb.com/blackberry-10-getting-picture-password-unloc...
Show HN: Life in Code – A game about software careers
Iteration patterns for Result and Option
Google ruins the Assistant’s shopping list turns it into a big Google Express ad
Looks like the end justifies the means.
Bankers and financiers incite terror/violence for political purposes?
Well, perhaps but I am more trying to develop a service to avoid the Slacks and Basecamps of the world, while still being aware of what's going on, rather than just being a multi-network client.
I don't quite understand what everyone has against email. Just get a good client and server with imap IDLE support and you should be good to go.
> It doesn't matter how complicated it is to implement - the user doesn't give a shit, they just want two monitors.

Evidently it does matter how complicated it is to implement, or it would just work by now.
I take it to mean they've never actually worked on a truly hard problem in their lives.

I certainly have some empathy for this view. On the other hand, the right time to have addressed actually fixing some of these problems is 25 years ago. The second best time is today (to steal/abuse a phrase). Enterprise organizations sometimes punt these things down the road with half-assed solutions. It's cheaper today and tomorrow maybe it will be someone else's problem, right? All the while the overall issue becomes worse.

It sucks sometimes to be at the bottom of a deep hole you dug yourself into without a ladder, but at the end of the day, it's your hole.

And you are right that sometimes it's just a hard problem. But you can always make those worse.
Face Value: Celebrating Two Years of “Giant Days” – Multiversity Comics
Pedantically? If we take your new definition, how many countries is the US currently invading with its airforce (particularly drones)?
It isn't invading them because it's armies aren't in them and that's what the term "on its soil" means.
I personally prefer Gitter & other tools over Slack for open source communications. The Slack signup process can be a road block as it takes to many steps. To often I run into open source communities that require you to join their Slack channel for posting any questions (that may or may not be bugs in their software).

I really like Slack for a lot of things, but it's often a tool used incorrectly due to its popularity.
Thats all containers are?

They are an abstraction over OS level isolation.
Every single cellphone that uses broadcom wifi (basicly all of them) has remote root via wifi. 95% will never be patched.
What do these acronyms mean? Google is not helping me.
Celtx is probably the best free-tier screenwriting software
Might be more impressive if they didn't have tons of broken image links and functional buttons on their blog.
Digit Savings App Introduces Monthly Fee
Just wanted to say congratulations to Courtland! I've seen you share the progress of your business since it was introduced, and to see it grow and become so successful is very inspiring. You earned this! Hopefully it motivates others as well. I think it might have motivated me.
http://hackerpixels.com/
Ok, here is one of the important opinions in the Google Books settlement, by Judge Chin in 2013 [0]. He basically says (paraphrasing), "I'm going to assume Google has violated copyright by creating digital copies and serving them. But it's fair use, because the new products are transformative".

For example, re:ngrams

"""
Similarly, Google Books is also transformative in the sense that it has transformed book text into data for purposes of substantive research, including data mining and text mining in new areas, thereby opening up new fields of research. Words in books are being used in a way they have not been used before. Google Books has created something new in the use of book text-the frequency of words and trends in their usage provide substantive information. [...]

On the other hand, fair use has been found even where a defendant benefitted commercially from the unlicensed use of copyrighted works

"""

Oh man, this is mind-blowing.

[0] https://copyright-casebook.com/about/recent-cases-edited/aut...
tried drawing some circuit components but they weren't in the library :(
Faking a Conversational UI Within a Traditional UI to Solve a Design Problem
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Professional_Air_Traffic_Contr...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UK_miners'_strike_%281984%E2%8...
I actively don't use and discourage people from using Slack where I can because of how poorly it runs.
The core but unspoken idea of socialism is a zero-sum world. Everything stems from that. Marx's labor theory of value is an attempt to explain how economy works given that premise. In a zero-sum world every profit indeed means loss for the other party; so employers' profits must come from workers exploitation.

There's no room for any improvement in this mindset. In a zero-sum world being more efficient at something and hence more profitable means you're stealing, either from customers or from less-efficient producers. Which really means any attempt at making things better is evil.

After a generation or two people start to internalize it, and you get a 'homo sovieticus' society which interprets any ambition as aggression - wanting a better life becomes synonymous with wanting to steal.
I don't think this should be assumed to be true, but I also don't think it should be rejected out of hand. The correct answer is often the middle-ground: ask twitter for a clarification about what happened to the tweets in question, the trending tag, and what its larger policy is.
Isn't that one of the arguments made in The Fountainhead?
Hitting a plateau in my algorithmic skills, looking for advice
I've been working on algorithmic problems for over a year now. I have been using materials such as CLRS, leetcode, Elements of programming interviews, and geeksforgeeks, youtube videos and other algorithm books trying to improve my skills. I try to work on at least 2 problems a day, compiling it or writing it out on paper.

I've come a long way. Last year at this time, I was no where near as good as I am now. Back then, I had trouble with C++ syntax, STL, and understanding basic data structures like heaps and recursion. Today, I can do dynamic programming questions (knapsack, coin change, rod cutting, LIS, etc), super recursion problems (permutation, super subsets, etc), and graph problems(DFS, BFS, MST, shortest path, etc). I am especially good at super recursion brute force at the moment, I am able to implement the N-Queen problem, and I understand the solution to recursive Hanoi problem.

My progress is slowing down. Despite improvements, I still get stuck on some basic questions. I had trouble finding minimum element in a rotated array using binary search. The hard questions I did a year ago is still difficult even knowing the answer. In addition, understanding solution to difficult questions such as Hanoi problem using bit manipulation, has been mentally tough, and I end up giving up and moving on. This is a terrible approach, and probably one of the reasons why I am not improving.

Perhaps I am working on tougher problems, but I struggle to push the next level. This is a common problem I have. I get "good" at it, and I stopped improving. It happened when I played violin in HS, I got decent, and I stopped.

If anyone resonates with my words, please point me to what I should do. I am open to any advice. I want to know how to hit the next level. I believe deep down, this is an attitude problem that requires self discipline. But I am having trouble.
The Japanese also used ground troops to take over several Aleutian Islands during WWII.
There's a difference between writing maintainable code and premature optimization. Experience is knowing the difference between you can and you should.
Are you sure? Titanium sublimation pumps exist because Ti is so reactive. Perhaps the reactivity is self limiting with depth
The combination of Storage Spaces and ReFS is pretty nice. Drives are added to storage pool and then block devices are allocated out of the pool. The blocks devices are thinly provisioned and expandable, so it's more flexible than it sounds. If you create a block device that has redundancy (either mirroring or RAIDZ-like parity), you get the data integrity like ZFS. I beleive the system also does periodic scrubbing.

One advantage of this setup is you can have multiple block devices of differing parity on top of the same pool. The pool is also more flexible than ZFS, allowing you to add drives of different sizes and later remove drives.

The main thing I miss from ZFS is the ability to create snapshots and do zfs send/receive for backups. Also not being able to read the source code is a bummer.
> The disclosure came as the Japanese company reported earnings for the third quarter

It would be interesting to read the actual disclosure written by Toshiba. Does anyone by chance know how to access these reported earnings?
Reactive Pitfalls: Java Serialization
Install 1Password and it's basically like having SSO.
I rather like Porter.io which will provide you a digest of top HN posts, but if you login with your GitHub they will also include articles relating to repos you are following. Some days I get a digest of articles I have already seen, but most days I find an article or two I missed.

https://porter.io/
> When something in a free OS is not what you want, you always have the option to use something else.

Or to modify it yourself, or even hire someone to change it to your liking.
If you keep a blog on Medium and you really had no clue that Medium makes money from user generated content, then it's your fault. Welcome to 2017.
I feel like some goalposts just moved.

Cars can be safe, but still crappy. Only part of their function is regulated.

Similar for banks. My bank provides great online functionality, friendly service, and more they aren't obligated to do.
The main thing is, as I said, to drop the religious slurs. They're not needed and are acts of incendiarism in their own right.

I'm very glad you like HN. Since you do, you should help the rest of us take care of it, just as you wouldn't litter in a city park or drop lit matches at a petrol station.
Sounds like you're confusing the integer code point and the integer representation of characters.

Many programming languages internally represent chars as UTF-8 or UTF-16, so when using libraries to read bytes into chars everything get's mangled.

Check out this guide for more in-depth look at the mangling that can happen. http://cweb.github.io/unicode-security-guide/background/
Which works fine as long as there's an ultimate authority to enforce fairness (defined how...?) and consent.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14034092
It's closer than I thought to my 2011 vintage Core i5-2500. I don't see any point in upgrading either....

http://cpuboss.com/cpus/Intel-Core-i7-860-vs-Intel-Core-i5-2...
It's not Flash, it's the new Visual Basic 6.
The "Rule of Two" seems like one of the most important takeaways here... If there was a "correct answer" to questions like market and product, many more startups would be successful... There's a certain amount of prestidigitation in bringing any new company/product to market, and to think any one person's opinion (including your own) is the 'truth' is misguided.
> The point is not how long "temporary" is. It's incredibly hypocritical to complain that nuclear power has some sort of serious "nuclear waste problem" that must have some type of 10,000 year solution while conveniently ignoring the actual problems in other power sources.

Yes, it would be hypocritical if that's what I was doing. Except, instead, I was simply submitting what I felt was an important concern with nuclear energy. Similarly, it's disingenuous to talk of breeder reactor designs and their "tiny" amounts of waste when these remain mostly experimental and undeployed. The original links you posted for some other environmental disasters are very real, otoh.
Even better, read We the Living. Rand is at her best as a critic of Soviet Communism, the system under which she came of age. Despite her stated love for the United States and its economic system, I don't think she ever really understood it at the level she understood Soviet Communism. This is why her novels set in the U.S. don't really feel like any version of the U.S. you know of, historical or current. It's not so much the real United States as it is an idealized not-the-Soviet-Union. Maybe it's a place you want to live, and maybe it's not.
No it isn't rude at all. Yes, some sites are already established but I also launch at least one new site every month to add to my income.

3 hours is a lot of work if done without distraction. I think the key is to make your work more mechanical and less creative.

I have a system that I have perfected over the years which helps me do this[1]. It's like a stupid step by step list where each item links to a document which is another stupid step by step list that I follow like a "Robot" for these 3 hours. When you do it this way, it makes it quite easy and 3 hours daily is more than enough to launch a small to medium size project in a month (I think there are less than 200 items in total and about 50% of it you can easily outsource).

[1] http://i.imgur.com/i1oBM2t.png
One of these days, you'll look at 850 MB of RAM like I used to see 4K of RAM: Amazed at how small it was, and how much we have today.

My first computer saved data to a cassette tape; today, terabyte hard drives are nearly give-away prizes in cereal boxes (yeah, I know they don't do that anymore, either). We have machines in our pockets which are arguably (in some ways) more powerful than the machines only government-funded agencies and such could afford when I was a kid (and they took up entire rooms).

I hope I live long enough to think of 850 MB as a small amount of memory (and 8-cores at 4 GHz each a slow machine; actually, there are some multi-cpu server mobos I'd love to have as a desktop, but I can't afford it - yet).

Honestly, I'm amazed that we do have enough memory to support these huge apps. Sure they're bloated; I won't argue that - but at the same time its amazing that we can run them at all - a decade ago it would have seemed ludicrous!

Could it be better? Sure - but in my mind, all software is bloated - because even the simplest piece of compiled code I can't run on my old TRS-80 from when I was a kid (heck, even an Arduino has better specs!).