skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> What astronomers hope to finally see when they add up all the signals is a halo of light surrounding a dark circle—the shadow of the black hole. The crescent of light comes from luminous gases, heated to hundreds of billions of degrees, that orbit just outside the black hole, tracing the region just beyond the event horizon.

Probably some sort of ring image captured from the side or something like the artist's rendering in the article maybe.
A girl I talked to on Tinder a few years ago popped up on my People You May Know list. I befriended her and met up with her recently.

I brought it up to her, we wondered how it happened, and she admitted that she'd searched for my profile a week before.

I'd say this aspect of the system is a good feature. If you're searching for someone, it's nice to give them an opportunity to "independently" reach out to you.
Right the "shadow graph."

I've also noticed other trends to where using a credit card at a store has resulted in receiving postal junk mail from the store I have just used the credit card at. I suspect credit card companies give give stores access to your credit card billing address when you use your credit card there.

Protecting against these creeping incursions is certainly a feather in the cap of crypto currencies.
It pretty much was the entirety of the Facebook app's life. And it only somewhat changed when Google introduced permissions where the user actually has to opt-in (post app install).
FYI this is the keyword that Visual Basic uses as well.
How to find a technical co-founder
SpaceVR, SpaceX to launch VR camera into space
in the face of male dominance

It's a big jump to that from "Fearless girl".

the bull without the girl retains its strength

The bull in deep space Queens becomes, I dunno, a pair of brass balls attached to a bull? The whole thing is pretty silly no matter how Di Modica feels about it.
This sounds a lot like the Valley angel investor system.
"TV" has been undergoing changes for its entire history. Cable brought major changes. The ability to play movies at home changed things. Streaming did, too. And regulatory changes along the way had their impact. I also have to take anyone who talk about "4 networks" a bit less seriously because for a long time there were only 3, and Fox actually making a 4th was also a big deal when it came along.

So, sure, if what you mean by "TV" is the original networks, yeah, that may be concluding at some point. But "TV" itself just continues its ongoing evolution.
I absolutely agree with Di Modica.

The problem is that the old piece of art has in effect been destroyed.

Imagine if I purchased Vincent van Gogh's painting 'The Starry Night' and painted over the sky to make it 'The Bright Day'.

Imagine if the publisher of the Harry Potter books decided to rewrite the protagonist as a six inch alien in disguise - and did not publish the original work.

The Fearless Girl artist should use a replica of the bull and place it in a different location.
I agree. I may even suggest that mainstream-geared media is fundamentally flawed, as it has to attract a wide audience, providing great appeal to nobody. We accepted it in the past due to not knowing better, but now that we have a taste of video content tailored to our very specific interests, where producers are happy to have an audience of 1,000 people, it's hard to go back.
I think I'd rather learn Kazakh using Latin letters than Irish with it's séimhiú system that h really is hard to grasp (I'm attempting to self learn it as a hobby).

I wish there were accents not just fada it would seem more intuitive hey maybe Irish would be better written in Cyrillic. Maybe there should be a Celtic alphabet just for Irish, Scottish, Welsh, Manx, Cornish, Breton.
What does that have to do with introverts?
I think the original asker said he had never uploaded his contacts. Presumably though Facebook could just follow the reverse relation from the doctor without needing to confirm that it goes both ways.
> Earlier versions had a few more characters

The comparison to Old English with ash ⟨æ⟩, eth ⟨ð⟩, thorn ⟨þ⟩ and wynn ⟨ƿ⟩ sounds appropriate.
The link from hackerfall to your page breaks due to the trailing slash. Probably something easily fixed on your server...
AM radio hasn't died yet. Heck, books haven't died yet. New media doesn't always kill old media.
I had a similar need except I didn't which variable I was looking for. I think I found this on stack overflow:

.PHONY: variables
variables :
$(foreach v, $(.VARIABLES), $(info $(v) = $($(v))))
@echo

which prints all variables and their respective values.
Whoa whoa whoa. Amazon has focused on page speed load and user experience for over a decade. Their core business is their website. They have refined and improved thousands of times. You should ask "What would happen to Amazon's sales if they suddenly stopped caring about page speed?" The answer is over time they will add additional bloaty libraries and it will eventually slow down to a horrible crawl. This will likely start turning customers away who want a better user experience.

On a daily basis I have to interact with HPE's website. Now THAT's a company that could care less about their user's experience on their website. Pages take on average 20 seconds to load and sometimes up to 3 minutes! They are lucky that it's not their website that is their business but it's their products or else they'd lose business so fast. I absolutely HATE interacting with their site because of how slow it is. I can deal with bad UX if the site is quick to load, but I can't deal with bad UX if the site is extremely slow.

Another thing to think about is simple single content pages, like ones that just tell you the time, or tell you what your IP address is. The ones at the top of Google searches pay extremely close attention to page speed load times. There is so much competition in their space that they know they need to be the best and that is just another way to do that.
The decentralized web grew organically after the initial invention, without an overall designer. The decentralized nature of the web means there will not be an overall designer in the future. The web will never be a clean system. Clean systems cannot be easily disrupted, and do not lead to great innovations.
Why restrict the software to nextcloud? What if I want Git hosting? Or run some cms. Imo, something like yunohost, arkos or cloudron is better suited.
At the low level, it's pretty straightforward to work with their dev kits. A Raspberry Pi + some jumper cables + a bit of python gets things going.

There are some quirks, since for the most part the board is optimized for internal update speed, not for usability. I ended up putting together some code to update the display given a PNG file, including some basic dithering for greyscale. And I drive all that from screenshots of a browser running in a virtual X terminal on the RPi. The update speed is not the best (several seconds from screenshot to render), but that's fine for my use case, since I'm using it for slow-moving info (weather, bus schedule, tides, etc.) and I'm better at writing HTML+JS for UI than writing bitmaps.
SAFT/sendfile (2008)
What it's like to work in a Chinese factory via a student who worked there
I don't know if I agree that employee engagement is a great thing to optimize. I feel like engagement is a side effect of wanting to get work done.

If I focus and engage and double my productivity, I don't get to spend half as much time at work, instead I get twice as much work. If I double my productivity and double my amount of work, I'm still not going to double my salary or double my PTO or anything like that.

Not to mention that most corporations have no problem whatsoever laying people off when it'll save them enough money. "Sorry you dedicated 80 hours a week and weekends to this project, but the economy's bad so we're canceling it and laying off your division. Oh, and BTW if you try to work on something similar after we lay you off, we'll sue you. Bye."

I think many people have realized at this point that corporations have very little respect for their employees and that spending significant mental energy being super engaged and efficient has mostly negative consequences (at most companies).

I bet a company could improve productivity quite a bit if they let employees take the rest of the week off once they finished the week's work. But that would require management to have an understanding of the work being done and to plan well, so it won't happen.
>Maybe have/work on multiple companies, have companies interact better with other ones so they can accomplish more,

Ronald Coase[1] explains why an integrated large company can be more productive and efficient than interacting individuals (or interacting small companies). Basically, internal transactions (departments) cost less than external transactions (contracts).

E.g. there is no way for Apple to sell an iPhone for $500 or Amazon AWS to offer EC2 compute for 1 penny per hour if those 100,000+ employees were split up into thousands of smaller 5-person companies.

It seems reasonable that many entrepreneurs have ideas that require more than 5 people to execute.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Nature_of_the_Firm
There's a huge opportunity for the attentive. Rock and roll got started largely because the major broadcasters moved away from radio and into television, and as a result operating an FM radio station got crazy cheap, leaving lots of room for experimentation. I have had my fingers crossed for years that the same thing is going to happen to terrestrial TV.
They're not patenting the biological process itself, they're patenting how they can hack it.
I'm on a Linux machine and figured out the trick fairly quickly: clicking the green padlock does not perform the same action. That's part of the hack too, the interface that pops up is styled like the Windows dialog and isn't interactive. (Clicking on it simply dismisses it.)

It's quite convincing otherwise, and that's very frightening. :)
I got an email from YC for a video call with Dalton Caldwell. It was a very crisp 10 min call. Dalton had already gone through our application and was aware of what we are trying to build. He had very specific questions.My advice: Don't try to pitch anything to them and stick to what they are asking.Try to be very clear in your answers
I am surprised nobody mentioned http://www.tranceaddict.com/forums

It was massive! Well still is!
Have you seen Me TV? WGN?

I think the physical costs are manageable already. I doubt good content will get dramatically cheaper any time soon.
Impressive work :)
Sent. We'll see if it's approved. https://golang.org/cl/40860
If demand for shares is constant during the buyback, then reducing the number of shares via a buyback should send the price up. Which raises the question: Why would marginal demand for shares be independent from cash holdings? Probably because the investors have other reasons for wanting the stock, chief among them being future growth potential.
> (I cannot fathom a single person reading this who does not regularly use OpenSSH)

We're real and we're here!
The most unusual friend suggestion I have received is a profile for the actor Steve Martin. It had two mutual friends, and appeared 20 minutes after a friend asked me "Have you ever listened to Steve Martin? The actor? He's also a bluegrass musician" and played a couple of songs on Spotify.

Any ideas on how that came about? It's hard to believe it's anything other than some app listening to audio.
Game engine != Productivity(artist/designer) focused game engine.

I've worked on UE3 based titles, in-house engines and quite a few in-between. Building a new engine from the ground up is easily in the 10s of millions if not more which is why you rarely see new entries into the market.

Sure FB could do it, but it probably makes more sense to worth with UE4/Unity to augment them. You'll be able to draw from a large base of developers/designers/artists who already understand the workflow instead of having to build up that community from scratch.

[edit]

Also the default-large packages of UE titles is mostly a function of optimization, We'd have only ~200mb of system memory back on the PS3 which is way smaller then what modern mobile platforms have available to them. UE has a bunch of things you can do to pull them down, it just takes work.
The reason these things aren't discussed is because they shouldn't have to be discussed.

> their formative years of the internet happened when the entire Internet was sponsored by the government and universities. So to them, it just seems like today's problem can be solved with "technology".

As it should be.

The internet mirrors our reality, and our reality mirrors the internet. If we let corporations control either, we've already lost. We have to ensure all data is owned by the people, or cooperatives, governments, etc they formed democratically.

If we let corporations control data, and access to it, and use it, then we have already lost.

I'll mention at this point Bundesdatenschutzgesetz §34, allowing a user to get the canonical representation of all data stored about them from any entity that has data on them, plus a list of all entities they gave data about the user to, plus info what data they gave to which entity, plus all data derived from this users data (including probabilistic models trained from the user's behaviour or choices, for example models for credit scores).
"Well, at a first glance, this is mostly reusing existing protocols, so I'm not even sure where the complaint comes from."

It comes from the fact that non of the decentralized tech is getting massive adoption outside of BitTorrent. That got adopted because it met a user need better than anything else as opposed to being decentralized. Since all this tech isn't working & centralized tech is, then the commenter wonders why someone doesn't just build compelling, privacy-preserving, centralized tech that the masses might use. Probably because it's harder work with unfamiliar skills (eg marketing, UX, business) for developers that would rather bullshit around with custom crypto or protocols nobody will ever use.

I strongly encourage privacy-preserving, non-profit, usable alternatives to every popular ad-supported or cheap tool out there as an intermediate step. That might go somewhere. Think WhatApp vs Facebook Messenger but with WhatApp using Moxie's stuff and staying paid non-profit.
There doesn't have to be a match. Simply the fact that either person either uploads their contacts (either via linking to their email or installing Facebook on their phone) is enough to assume the link.

After all, if you have someone in your contact list (phone or email), you've probably been in touch at least once.

Nefarious? Debatable. But also totally predictable.
Emacs not even mentioned as an alternative tried?
Does anybody think having a gigantic e-ink desktop monitor would be rad for coding? The refresh rate might be a killer, but I wonder how your eyes would feel after 8 hours compared to an conventional monitor.
Done! https://www.reddit.com/r/FPGA/comments/65q0ny/cynth_a_simple...
> Why is it not possible for patents to recognize multiple, independent sources of innovation and to award intellectual ownership of the ideas to all deserving parties?

Why is a temporary monopoly even necessary here? I've written about this before, but every time I see "patents" mentioned anywhere, I find myself thinking "Do we need this system?"

I asked on HN a while back for good examples of the patent system working as it should. The examples I got back were the Super Soaker guy and a sprinkler system someone's uncle invented -- but that's such peanuts compared to what would be possible if money fighting this case were spent on CRISPR researchers collaborating across organizations instead.

The arguments in defense of patents are so weak and yet so vehement. Delaying the cure for cancer is not a fair exchange for the Super Soaker guy getting rich from artificial scarcity in a child's toy category.
This was easy to do as late as 2010. I haven't tried it recently but it was a common attack for quite a while:

https://caseysoftware.com/blog/social-media-for-social-evil-...
The following is NOT about USA:

Some lobbying very hard in various countries to introduce digital radio. When you look up the implementation details, it would be pretty bad idea to stop analog radio. Now some countries already mandate that radio in new cars and also try to mandate that all new sold radio in those countries are digital radio.

It's absurde as people listen less and less radio, and analog radio has a lot better coverage - even in bad signal quality you can actually hear something - something vital in emergency situations. Of course you cannot censor analog radio at all, pirate radio stations were common back then when things went wrong. And we already had a time when certin countries allowed just one type of radio device with just one radio channel.
Do you log into spotify through facebook?
One think to stop collusion and gaming is that who they select their grant to go to should be part of the public record. After-the-fact analysis could quickly show gaming or other nefariousness.
"4. Has anyone ever built a useful and successful decentralized service. I mean the one that would be popular even if it's centralized, not just like "Facebook but federated". How about starting with this step instead of creating an abstract protocol?"

BitTorrent is the only one that I'm aware of past the core Internet protocols. As I said elsewhere, it spread because of the problems it solved for users in a way they could learn easily. Most probably didn't even know it was decentralized. So, best advice is to solve a problem for users really well with extra benefit of "we also protect your privacy instead of selling you out."
Remove the cause and not the symptoms!
Perhaps its the actual measurement cup vs a big mug cup.
gRPC feels very industrial to me. It's similar to Google's Guava library, used everywhere but nobody really talks about it. A lot of the stuff I've seen hyped to heaven in recent years is UI related or close to it. I think we might still have a human fascination with shiny objects.
One problem with the TV discourse is that it mixes together different meanings of "TV". One is the actual technology to broadcast video, second is the act of broadcasting video to consumers, and the third is the actual receiver, e.g. physical a television screen.

The first one will surely die, and has already died for most(?) young people where I live. But that doesn't really matter much as content can be streamed using the internet.
I think Facebook also connects people who appear at the same wireless access points, so you could have received the suggestion once your phone connected to the Internet at the doctor's office.
There's another good example: H264, and the related audio patents. The Fraunhofer Society has funded years of university research just with the license money from MP4 and similar. Always keep this in mind when choosing between h264 and vp8/vp9.
Indians on Playstore about Snapchat and Evan
Here's what the game looks like: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vfz6_V5Ldyw

I could see this being a great product when combined with those guide meditation apps. Like https://www.headspace.com

I remember one of these meditation tapes I found on PirateBay which combine binaural beats and guided meditation. It had you climbing a lush mountain, coming upon an old looking door in the side of the mountain, and being in this relaxing room with pillows on the ground and you look up and see stars. That was my first exposure to meditation and it surprisingly put me in a very hypnotic/meditative state after the 30 minutes was over. Very good state to get in before starting creative design work. It would be a great experience to translate to VR with 3d sound.
Google "parasitic storage." That's what CompSci called such schemes when I last saw them. They might even have done "parasitic computing" or something like that by now.
Facebook tracks your location and the locations of others. If it sees that you are around some people often, it might suggest you to be friends.
They should require that who the fund get disbursed from, and to, and the amounts, be part of the public record. The quality of results, and year-after-year funding to the original researches (the ones who selected who the disbursement goes to) should be related to the success of the research. This would massively crowd-source successful grant creation, and make the market into a winners market.

The record would make things like gaming and collusion clearly visible after the fact.
If I were Di Modica, I would remove my statue just to spite the advertisers.
Parts of it still exists I think.

I'm afraid we help in killing it everytime we:

- Complain about styling and form

- Worry about the SEO effect of what we link to

- etc

I wish people would start to create more weird and wonderful pages. Pages without styling. Pages with nice styling. Pages with weird styling. But most importantly full of text content, links to friends and weird projects we love, images and videos etc.
If I was Di Modica I'd place another statue between the girl and the bull.

I wonder how the artist of Fearless Girl would react if someone placed a Bart Simpson statue directly in front of the girl like this:

http://m.imgur.com/ZYVsopb
At least in the past the devs specifically ask for feedback from Carmack knowing that the review will be public.
We need interconnected networks to succeed again. Remember when the internet was all about services based on open protocols that could talk to one another? I do. We've moved away from that in no small part to the fact that it isn't in the interest of the Facebooks and Googles of the world, who want to BE the internet rather than just a part of it. Everyone has a closed off messaging system. Platforms are working harder to bring content into their wall so you don't ever have to leave to get it.

I'm not sure how to fix this now, as the answers (xmpp, openid, diaspora, matrix) don't seem to be gaining a huge amount of traction, either because they are too difficult to use, lack important features, or because most users don't care.

Either way if we can't figure out a way to bring that spirit of interconnectedness and decentralization back to the internet I'm afraid that the situation will continue to deteriorate.
Swarm Intelligence
The Fast and the Furious and the Data
Why can’t all my chargers just charge all my stuff?
I think in this case it doesn't, because the `HashMap` implementation just stores everything behind an untyped pointer.

https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/blob/master/src/libstd/col...

It would be cool to see if the "we'll manage our own pointers, thanks" approach makes less sense with this optimization in place. It would be nice; the source is pretty inscrutable, mostly in the interest of performance, I think.

Edit: Or, maybe more importantly: in the untyped memory they store hashes and (K,V) pairs separately, so I think the only opportunity is to swap (K,V) for (V,K).
> Is advertising actually self-serving if it isn't upfront about what it being advertised?

Yes, subliminal advertising is a real thing, and other techniques desperately try to hide the fact that it's an ad. Not sure about this case, it's definitely an interesting one.
> Static images with mip maps or proper prefiltering can go up to around 18 pixels per degree if you really want the most detail in the center.

I'm not very familiar with VR. What does he mean here by "center"?
> Isn't it just better to keep companies small?

That depends on what you're trying to achieve: the bigger the goal you're striving for, the more people you'll need for it. Yes, technology is an amazing lever, but it's not infinitely long: 5 people aren't going to make the next smartphone, electric car or rocket.
I am not sure if Europeans in general prefer subtitles. Most of my friend in Germany do. However, they are younger and well educated. Most people from my parent's generation probably would prefer dubs. It turns out that almost everything in Germany gets dubbed. You really gotta go out of your way if you want to see subs.