skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Lightweight is awesome. I feel that the absolute most important next improvement is in managing spam and fake accounts.

Things like Lite keep me from deleting my account. But with less spam, I'd probably use my account.
This excites me more than a machine learning or speech-to-text API because I'll actually use this feature a lot.
I don't know about XBox, but does anybody actually use anything from the Windows Store? The only app that I have gotten is the SlingTV app, except I ditched it for the older native app, because the UWP Store one was so hideously broken and slow.
You are right. This is a big benefit!
Bi-Modal Deep Learning for Indoor Localization with Commodity 5GHz WiFi
North of the border as well. Spend a Friday evening at the West Coast around LA, very few people driving home from bars or restaurants will be sober.
We should take a cautious approach before analyzing the positive or negative aspects of Twitter Lite.
You are right. Thanks for the correction.
I applaud the budding journalists persistence, and certainly having someone falsify their credentials is a really terrible start into such an important position.

However, I must mention that I been in contact with so many really bad HS staff (teachers, principals..) all with legitimate credentials, that I am starting to wonder about their significance? A principal should probably have some teaching experience, but seems to be like more of an MBA/business type of background?

Also, let me clarify I was not one to get into trouble and had very good grades in HS. I can really remember 2 really good teachers, and the rest ... quite mediocre at best. I also dated a HS teacher (as an adult,much later on) so I've seen firsthand the inner workings of teaching 'system'.
"Bitter" is a strangely ad hominem argument.

The thing is that Uber explicitly disclaims responsibility for its drivers in its terms of service. And in court, when an Uber driver is accused of a crime, Uber maintains it's not responsible.

Eg.:
http://bigstory.ap.org/article/a242e2ad2fab4f57805aa047f8c06...

It's inconsistent to credit Uber with positive outcomes and not negative ones.
> We want to try new ways to motivate employees that don’t revolve around stock options with unknown value.

How about salaries?
Wells Fargo did this to me many years ago from a business account. The State of California issued a seizer for unpaid taxes for another business. In the end I think Wells Fargo told us that our tax ID numbers were similar. We did end up getting the money back from the state of California after about 3 years. We of course never got back the penalties Wells Fargo charged or interest.
The term walled garden refers to service lock-in where membership and mode of access is tightly controlled. It's not about using an app.
More Extreme in Every Way: The New Titan Is Here – Nvidia  TITAN Xp
…why would Nintendo port their old games to the PC? They develop almost exclusively for their own platforms.
And no public transport. The real difference to Europe is not the lack of taxis (you often don't get one in Europe at night when everyone leaves the bar), it's that you don't have acceptable and safe public transport (night buses) as an alternative.
I think maybe the word spam is not what I should be using for this project as if I write a message to Elon Musk asking him something I am not spamming but my email will not get through as if I donate let's say 1K first to his org of choice he will read it. Any ideas of how to rephrase it?
This just in, there have been a surprising number of resignations from Faculty members all across the nation. In unrelated news, student journalist have begun investigating administrators credentials as projects for their school papers.

Seriously, this is remarkable. That kids today have the power to effect this level of change is nothing short of incredible.
It was a 10-15 min drive, or one hour walking. Which sounds about right (maybe a little less than $20.)
Or just use mobile.twitter.com in a desktop browser.
Yeah, to be honest I think Ubuntu should've picked KDE. It's a more direct competitor to Windows 10 which is in my view the best desktop OS. Gnome 3 is nice, just had it installed a couple of days ago. But some things are unpolished, some don't make sense. GTK open dialogs don't even have proper image previews which has been a feature requests for a lot of years (something KDE does have).
If everyone on this thread tweeted his story, he'll get his money back. In the age of social media, the only effective tool we have against corporations is public shaming.
Yet emulators have been a niche before virtual consoles for better on two decades. Only a handful of people I knew ever used them (myself included). Most folks that play games today rarely knew of the older consoles nor are they even that curious. So to blame a few dorks like myself for not abstaining from ripping our ROMs to play on our crappy college laptops back in the early 2000s is nonsensical. It's up to the firm to find out if a market is viable, not the consumer.
I don't blame Microsoft, as they are supposed to curate their app store and therefore could be found liable of... whatever crime it is to emulate an old system.

You can still run any emulator on Windows 10, you just cannot download it from their app store.
Hm. In the case where the ASI inserts a semicolon where you wouldn't have expected one, how do the semicolons you already added where you would expect them help? Using semicolons in JS to avoid problems is like making sure the seatbelt is securely fastened across the seat before you sit down: there's a satisfying click and the worrying light on the dash goes off, but it won't actually protect you in an accident.
So what? They're under water. If anything that makes it easier to alter their environment with lasting effects. In calm waters, it would be trivial to dig trenches and stack rocks, to create structures, as hunting traps or dens.

Either way, the octopus is similarly prehistoric, despite readily prehensile appendages.

Nor does a lack of hands readily explain the level of elephant intelligence, given a prehensile trunk.
SLES 12 High Performance Computing Module for ARM based systems is now available
You might also try dosbox, which is easier to use than a normal VM and works amazingly well.
Calling with WebRTC from a browser to a GSM using your own GSM network
To be fair, this might be an actual use case for proof of work. Do some CPU work that is trivial to check but expensive to compute. Set the difficulty of your inbox and just have your SMTP server bouncy any email without an attached bit of "work". I can wait a few minutes for an email to send.
Yamaha YZ250 Dirt Bike sound effects library
Some time ago I went overboard and wrote an editor in PHP with the 'main' feature being auto encrypted files. Completely bananas.

https://github.com/ziqbal/pubscripts/tree/master/logos
Installing and playing with MS Office 2010 in ReactOS [video]
I'm a UX Consultant working at a full-service agency in Europe. The most valuable (and interesting) part of my job has more to do with strategy and the design process than it does with UI.

In my pov, my job is first and foremost to understand the "problem" that a client communicates. The stated problem may or may not correspond to the actual problem that needs to be solved. This is especially true of semi-privatized, previously national monopoly working in infrastructure (like SNCF or EDF in France, Deutsche Bahn in Germany...) or service industries, but is also true for smaller mid-size businesses.

The stated problem might be something vague like "more digitalization", "being more competitive with with newer, smaller actors" (eg. SNCF/DB vs. Trainline/Uber) or something specific, like "redesign our website so it's more modern", or "design a new iOS/Android app.

The real problem might be: aligning internal departments on a vision (seriously, getting the heads of Marketing and Engineering on the same page is VERY hard at that scale); making sure that good ideas at the company don't get diluted and killed going through middle management; promoting innovation within a company (which then is translated to a website, an application or even a change in strategy, management, structure).

Sometimes the real problem is that the company just hasn't spent enough time (or money) to understand what their users'/client's experience in relation to their product (in context of their normal lives). It could be something as simple as clients not really knowing how to use the product properly, being frustrated because they had to wait too long, not knowing which option to pick or pressing on "like" just to find a post later. It could be that clients absolutely love a small detail that wasn't meant to be very important. You learn a lot about just talking to people and asking questions.

So, depending on the type of project my job as UX Consultant is to:

— coordinate ethnographic interviews (mini-ethnographic maybe; the idea is to learn from real, in depth conversations) with either clients, potential clients or internal management

— organize ideation/innovation workshops (two goals: come up with new ideas AND get different departments and levels of management aligned on the same vision)

— map out customer journeys and create personae (with the client) so that we're able to empathise with real users (not always relevant; there's a risk of doing meaningless work if done because this it something that was sold, but when used properly can be really useful).

- translating these insights/findings into strategic recommendations or digital objects (app, websites)

- designing wireframes to concretize ideas and encourage discussion/debate

- working on high-fidelity interactive prototypes to pass on to developers (who might be working client-side)

- designing and organizing usability tests (and A/B tests) when relevant.

So that's how I see it.

Of course, there's also that part of UX which is to create addiction, increase "engagement" or encourage certain behavior (increase newsletter signup). That's not really my thing.
Using Lighthouse on Google Chrome shows that Twitter Lite has a score of 82/100.
It's pretty buggy, but it works! if you really want an unmodified version of this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vFxeMxPj-qE
The core plugin system is painfully broken.

It's like kernel panics: if an application causes the kernel to panic, then the more fundamental bug is in the kernel, not the application. If upgrading a plugin through the UI can cause other plugins to break because of mismanaged dependencies, then that's not really a bug in the plugin, but in the plugin management scheme.

That Jenkins does not forbid administrators from upgrading through the UI plugins which are fixed dependencies of other plugins without at least a warning message about the possible damage to the instance, is a critical defect, one that has gone unfixed practically since the creation of the tool. And so it is a defect which should immediately disqualify the tool from consideration in any large environment where the need to maintain critical updates (security etc.) while keeping uptime high is crucial.
I tried to download a game off of it, some 30GBs, it took 2 days and broke at 29GBs, then tried to restart from 0%... never again.
I think you might have a wrong impression of the tube. I use it quite often but cannot remember when I last saw vomit on a train. If at all rather on the platform as many people try to get off if they feel very sick but don't make it to the exit of the station. There are certainly many drunk people but also a fair share of people going from/to work late at night.
And there are also plenty of animals that question whether their own role in human agrarian society is a smart move.

Hint: the animals are less intelligent for doing so.
you do this by acquiring bitcoins right? :)
Holy poop, and I thought Apple is being quirky with its App Store!

Compared to the Xbox side and its costs, the App Store app review is a walk in the park.

I might understand this for AAA titles, but for indies this must be a nightmare.
BofA also launders money for gangs, according to the FBI https://www.wsj.com/news/articles/SB100014240527023032922045...

They had to pay $17 billion because of the scale to which they institutionalized mortgage fraud
http://nypost.com/2014/08/21/bank-of-america-to-pay-record-1...

The other big banks aren't too different... I went with a small, local bank years ago and haven't looked back.

Find a Local Bank http://banklocal.info/
Fascinating. I love the Internet. Could you expand a little on the ghost writing bit?
That's what we call a "fired if you do, fired if you don't" kind of situation.
I would recommend getting a plain old code solution up and running first, get the logic right. Once you have that staring you into the face, you will see what is needed where. Starting with the database paradigm will never lead to an optimal solution. Good luck!
Surely the two questions are "price to insure against failure" and "business risk involved if launch delayed by needing to build a new one"?
Drawing the Foul: Operation of a DDoS Honeypot (USENIX Enigma 2017)
It's not like MS don't know they are locking down the console, they've been doing it since the beginning.
How the GOP Could Use Science’s Reform Movement Against It
They don't have to forgive the loan right? They just take the stock back? Then she would owe nothing and have no tax due.
and then realising the last time the BB project page was updated was 1997.. 20 years ago!

(http://aa-project.sourceforge.net/bb/)
I guess it depends on your cultural background. We latinos tend to be a lot more connected with family and friends. It is also the economic incentive. In a poor country, a Whatsapp over wifi call is basically free. Furthermore, a key selling point for most carriers down here is: unlimited Whatsapp and Facebook.
Xbox Scorpio Won't Feature a Jaguar CPU Most Likely; Might Have Ryzen Features
Exactly. My experience as a tourist in the US has been horrible. Even drunk I still realize that the driver makes considerable detours on the way. With Uber that will either not happen or I can complain and get a refund.
They probably have bad memories of their last indie store on Xbox 360 which, if you visited it, was full of tutorial games and dating apps...
> We also know that consciousness does not require your entire brain. You can lose 80 percent of your neurons. You can lose the little brain at the back of your brain called the cerebellum. There was recently a 24-year-old Chinese woman who discovered, when she had to get a brain scan, that she has absolutely no cerebellum. She’s one of the extremely rare cases of people born without a cerebellum, including deep cerebellar nuclei. She never had one. She talks in a somewhat funny way and she’s a bit ataxic. It took her several years to learn how to walk and speak, but you can communicate with her. She’s married and has a child. She can talk to you about her conscious experiences. So clearly you don’t need the cerebellum.

These edge cases are so informative.
I think that you are confusing my argument with another one. I'm not in the "ls should only list files" camp. I'm merely questioning the idea that it isn't oriented towards composability on the basis that even the more featureful implementations revert to a simple filename-newline format that's perfect for stream editing or grepping when their output isn't a TTY. If history is anything to go by this is not an unintended side effect, which would suggest that ls is oriented towards composition, even if poorly and unexclusively so.
>Bezos even states that he thinks most industry should be moved off-planet. If we can do that, wouldn't it be good for the environment?

I would think the energy and infrastructure requirements to move most industry off-planet, integrate it with terrestrial civilization at scale, and maintain continuous growth, would be far more environmentally damaging than simply keeping it all on Earth.
The goal of rocket reusability is to get the fraction of launch costs that is spent on burning stuff as close to 100% as possible. In a somewhat literal way, by making launches cheaper they are making "rocketry is burning money" more true, not less.
The real-life Iron Man
I have read employment agreements in full for all jobs I have ever taken as well as read few of other people who have consulted me about such agreements. I have also read two books on IP laws and researched enough online. I do not think this clause is boilerplate.

On the other hand, whenever someone questions these lawyers about such clauses, they always tell you, ha, this is completely normal, it's boilerplate.
Make sure you're technical house is in order. If you're selling/changing ownership make sure access to systems/services are documented. While you're at it, make sure you're not paying for stale services or over paying on existing services and infrastructure.
Cloning another app?
Hi all,

I wanted to know how legal it is to literally clone another app. For example, if I havev an online platform that helps people compare different cameras and its already up and running - what stops someone from scraping all my data and making the exact same website, but just executing it better?

Do I have any legal grounds for this?
I was just reading about webOS[0] lately and it turns out LuneOS[1] exists and is supposed to work wherever cyanogenmod did.

[0]: http://www.openwebosproject.org

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LuneOS
Don't all three of those commands spawn new processes?
This is hilariously fun.

If you drop search_term from the query it bombs out though.

And when I searched for "KKz4xj0jON+5zfTrikgvIXiJLXE=" (head -c 20 /dev/urandom | base64) I got a 504.
The nintendo DS had both flash carts and emulators early in it's life and it did just fine.

Good original games sell consoles, the PSP had PS2 ports with worse graphics.
Industry level salaries are important. In addition to that, how do you create an environment that people want to work in for the next 10 years? I think remote work is a big incentive. Maybe capping work hours at 40/week. That makes people happy. Maybe profit sharing. There are incentives that are more tangible than stock options.
I know it's so 90s to bash neither the current nor the last POTUS but I can't resist

Fool me once, shame on - shame on you. Fool me - you can't get fooled again. - G.W.Bush
I had something like that happen with a closed credit card. I don't know what the mistake was, but I suddenly had a $6,000 statement credit due to a misapplied payment. When I called to tell them, they offered to send me a check! After I declined the misbegotten windfall, they put in a little effort and figured out where it was supposed to go.
This is fantastic news for the game industry. With console gamers demanding 4K or 60FPS, gone are the days of shoddy console ports.
My instinct is that this is wrong. Probably rather hard to bribe the economist.
Ask HN: Best ways to work on web app views that require complex state to render?
Often when building web applications (be it JS SPA or more traditional templates+server side rendered), there are views that require quite complex state in the backend in order to be rendered.

Concrete example:

User receives an invitation email to access an admin panel of a certain Project. The invitation page requires the following things that it can be rendered:

- a valid Project with all of its dependencies
- User+Profile with Invite permissions
- another User+Profile
- Session for the other User+Profile
- an Invitation object
- etc.

What are some good strategies to allow easy iteration of these kind of views/routes in common web frameworks and libraries?
I don't believe it's going to kill a lot of people. The planet went through this before during the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum[0]. Basically a quantity of carbon roughly equal to our industrial output estimate up to 2100 or 2200 was released into the atmosphere over about 20k years. It stayed there for several hundred thousand years, raising global temperatures by 8 degrees. We're talking aligators and crocodiles living in jungles on Antarctica. Massive die-outs of microbes in the oceans due to acidification and sea levels rising. 70m of sea level rise is locked up in polar ice and then there's also thermal expansion.

None of that is going to happen in our lifetime. But the lifetime of our great grandchildren? There's a good chance. After all, this isn't the first time. However we will have several centuries to adapt. The real issue is we're destroying the natural environment faster than it can possibly adapt or evolve, but we'd be doing that even without climate change.

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paleocene%E2%80%93Eocene_Therm...
I've been wondering: Is information processing "free" in terms of energy? I.e. if I put 100 watts in my GPU to make it do computations, will it heat my room for 100 watts' worth of heat?

I'm guessing yes, because where else is the energy going to go, but then we should probably be using heaters that are made of old/cheap GPUs, rather than just a resistor.
I've had an Xbox kicking up dust for months now, this is the first I'm hearing there were even emulators to start with, pretty disappointing.

But then again I guess it shows how often people actually use the App Store, I never looked at it, and I don't think anyone I know has either
Funny, both the top and bottom comment in this little thread branch are saying the same thing.
Yes there is. We know the target that they are planning for it. Those targets are for 2020 and beyond and its already more then you pay for a F9 now.

Yes, maybe sometime after 2025ish they might have their so far completely theoretical re-usability plan in action. Even then, they are still throwing away far more stuff then SpaceX. They throw away a very expensive upper stage, solid fuel boosters and most of the core itself.

Additionally and that is not talked about enough, Arianspace can only compete on price at this level with Arian 6 because the development cost is majority funded by ESA (and co). They don't have to put that in their launch price. So Arianspace is essentially completely unable to compete with SpaceX in terms of cost.

As long as the Arian 6 flies, it well simply never be competitive in cost with the Falcon 9. Even in price it will not be competitive. The architecture of Arian 6 as currently planed is just not designed for it.
It looked like a better desktop client until I noticed that the search box does not display my saved searches.
It works the same as any other contract works. You ask the other party to fulfill their obligations according to the contract they signed -- in this case, submitting their systems for review. If they refuse, then you take them to court for breach of contract.
A helpful on-topic note: Amazon has 1x K80 cloud GPU instances for $0.90/hr (not prorated), but very recently, Google announced GPU instances of the same caliber (https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/gpus/add-gpus) for ~$0.75/hr (prorated to the minute), although Google Compute Engine requires configuring the GPU drivers first.
Not sure why the parent is being downvoted. Perhaps people don't like the read the truth, perhaps they are too young to remember a time of more computational freedom and openness.

The majority of "computers" people own are already locked down, and it seems clear that things will only get worse -- hardware is increasingly opaque and designed to do things against the interest of the user (or, to say the least, without the consent of the user).
Less hard sci Fi, more space opera, I think. It has themes.
Norilsk

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2016/01/26/09/3094F19C0000057...
On the positive side, the corrosive powers of the dollar from your example appear to be only logarithmic.