skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is some discussion in this thread that bitcoin is possibly a bubble because it does not really serve a purpose.

But maybe its more like investing in gold ? Gold does not have much purpose for the average person either. But the supply is limited and it serves as an alternative for investing in stocks or putting money in a bank account.

And it seems Bitcoin is here to stay.

Our current currencies also only have value because we trust them. Otherwise those are just as worthless.

Trust is probably the most important ingredient in finance.

So conversion of other currencies into bitcoin could also be seen as a conversion of trust. A case could also be made for more and more people loosing trust in governements.

[Edit: added text on trust]
We need you to stop posting unsubstantive ideological comments here, like we've already asked. We ban accounts that won't.
I didn't want to "minimize" but just to characterize and clarify. I'm not being critical or objecting and did end with "okay".

Page and Brin were right on the problem and the solution for the time.

While I want my startup to be still more successful, I'll thrilled if it is as successful as what Page and Brin did.
I've switched to Bing on my mobile as well.

My contract with a search engine is that they should provide links to other sites in a relatively painless way. In exchange for this the search engine can track me while I am on the site.

AMP breaks this relationship by refusing to let me leave the site and extends tracking to other sites. The speed difference is negligible to me and not worth this violation of privacy.
That's not going to stop authoritarian elements within the country from screwing with basic freedoms.
That sounds fascinating, can you explain the project a bit more?
it can be but you offered no evidence contrary. the data WAS there, but it conflicted with their well established views, call them political or not - it doesn't matter.

it would take a great deal of hubris to say 'yes, all other sciences and research suffer from the human condition, but not physics!'
>First of all, that's an ad hominem

Technically it's an argument from hypocrisy, more commonly known as "Tu Quoque".

Sorry, just get a bit anal about people confusing different fallacies because it makes it hard for some people to understand =P
World’s Largest Wind Turbines Have Started Generating Power in England
In my experience, DuckDuckGo just requires a habit shift. You're used to Google knowing everything about you and utilizing that to provide you catered results. Be more specific on DDG and you should be fine.
Did you read the article? This was mentioned and multiple tweets were quoted.
I don't think that is the premise of this, though - it's not showing where the purchasers are located, but what currency is being traded.
It's tu quoque. Not much better.
Google news has a bug on iOS safari for me that makes it just load the header - it's actually cut back a lot on my idle news consumption - please don't fix!
I threw together something small that works for me if anyone wants to try it.
I've been learning some simple Korean, and the biggest stumbling block is romanization. 한글 is so simple to learn that there is no reason to romanize it. To make matters worse, Korean vowels are very specific, and quite different from English vowels. My instinct is to find Korean children's books, and learn to read like a Korean. Either way, romanization is harmful.

Japanese does not have the same problem per se. Romanization of Japanese is quite effective. All you need to understand are a="ah", e="eh", u="ooh", o="oh" and i="eeh". That being said, it is still very important to learn kana; else, what would you read?
Thanks, we updated the link of this submission to the original from https://daringfireball.net/linked/2017/05/20/gilbertson-amp.

The previous submission was older than the threshold to be considered a duplicate, which is why it went through on its own.
Is this why Google News on mobile is so terrible? Feels like using an android news app inside of Safari. Thumbs down.
> Undaunted is a terrible boat, but he is a great storm shelter

Anyone know is there an intentional reason to use "he" for the boat here? Normally sailing vessels are female in English and this was jarring to me, but it looks intended.
I didn't think that they were studying user behavior, but saying Edge has better security, full stop, based only on a study that only examines the URL blocking capabilities (and not e.g. protection from malicious JavaScript) is pretty silly.
Yes, we could abandon it. The point of science is that we never should.

Before the scientific method was adopted, we would take that pretty woman, ignore any flaws, and make them essentially god. A new one had almost no chance to compete, even of they were much prettier.

With the scientific method, we say that she's the best around, but there's probably a better one out there, and with a little work it might be the old one. So it's easier to adopt new ideas, and the old ones still provide some value.
Thanks! We updated the link from https://daringfireball.net/linked/2017/05/20/gilbertson-amp.
talk about being over-dramatic
Yep, I agree with you. It should definitely be consistent across the board.

Oh well, maybe I'll get used to the inertia scrolling. I'll give it a shot when they make the system-wide change.

For now though, the different scrolling experience on AMP (and some other pages) is jarring to the point that I don't even bother and I just bounce.
You call someone's work "terrible" (twice) to their face and now you're upset over a little bit of snark?
Are they serious with the following?

AMP HTML uses some stupid Unicode emoji character:

<html >
^ HN filtered out the voltage symbol, bravo.

Just, no, Google. You're not Ken fucking Iverson, and this is not APL. Just supporting one way of doing it, <html amp>, is perfectly fine.
This feels dubious. People go to ikea because it is cheap but stylish, and flat back saves shipping costs.
I really don't ex: "ice cream calories" share several but not all sites and use a different order for those they share, which just suggests similar algorithms.

PS: DDG redirected image searches to bing, but not generic searches. Which honestly seems reasonable as doing image search well is incredibly hard, with minimal payoffs.
It used Yahoo last I checked.
Another bug I've noticed is that AMP breaks in-page searching with iOS Safari. If you perform an in-page search, the browser will not scroll to the found instances of the search term on an AMP page. I imagine it's related to the other scrolling issues.

Please, please fix this. It's impossible to support something that's foisted on us and breaks basic web functionality. If I were cynical, I'd say bugs like this are designed to degrade the web experience on iOS. There's a lot of bad web programming out there, but very few sites manage to break search.
The main problems I have are that it breaks two really important web features: sharing links and trust. Users seeing google.com URLs means they trust them more, which has helped propaganda sites and phishers.

The other thing is that for me, AMP has not been faster many times. I know they're working on it but having to download and run 100KB of external JavaScript before rendering frequently meant that it was slower than the real page. It helps the stragglers but e.g. WaPo or NYT load just as fast and that should be enough.
Thats neat but it does discourage poking around at new sites and seeing what else might be out there and more useful. I remember in the early days of stackoverflow - thats how I found them... random google searches. Then I bookmarked it.. etc.
Why UX Design for Machine Learning Matters
Snark? I think we're reading two different comments. I think it's fair to share surprise at a response like that from Apple. I would be surprised, too.

It almost feels like you're looking for reasons to be upset and finger-point. I hope that's not the case.
We really need you to stop posting unsubstantively like this, or we'll ban the account.
Which language? What surprised you the most?
Must've been it, thanks.
That would be IoT.
> You deployed something that worked horribly on iOS

Except that thing was a bug in Safari. They used perfectly valid plain HTML without any hacks or JS.
Some quick Googling tells me that the fifth amendment was ratified in 1791, 74 years before slavery was abolished. So apparently the US didn't really take that one seriously from the start.

More recently, I recall the case of David Hicks, an Australian citizen. He was declared an "enemy combatant", detained without charge and tortured in Guantanamo bay until he signed a confession to a law which did not exist at the time he was detained.

You should read more here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Hicks#Guantanamo_Bay

Regardless of the stupidity and provocativeness of Hicks' actions, he is a citizen of a nation that is supposedly a US ally, and one would think a person under the US constitution, but he received no protection. The US abused him while the AU government did nothing.

The US government ignores it's own constitution whenever it finds it inconvenient, and any objections are arm-waved away as being legal by the findings of a secret court no US citizen is allowed to know the inner workings of.

It doesn't matter what's written on some crusty paper in a museum somewhere if no one actually abides by it. The US constitution is dead, and I would certainly not trust my liberty to the tender mercies of those who have nailed it's corpse to their standard.
Larry Wall's patch was a huge step forward. In case you don't know what this is, it takes the output of diff and
tries to apply those diffs to your source files. If diffed
baseline and your baseline are the same then the patch will
apply cleanly. If they are close the patch may apply cleanly (though it may have some messages like "offset 3 lines" which tells you that it found the place to patch 3 lines away from where it thought it was).

There was a big period of time where the Linux kernel work was all
diff/patch based. So the answer was (a) a mailing list that everyone was one, (b) some way of knowing a baseline (you could just have a baseline tree and a copy of that and you diff -Nur the two trees),
(c) email the patch.

All that worked but it didn't scale which is why Linus switched to BitKeeper and then later Git.
There is a separate branch for ES2015+ here:
https://github.com/mishoo/UglifyJS2/tree/harmony

The new primary committer, alexlamsl, is good about responding to bugs & pushing out new versions fast:
https://github.com/mishoo/UglifyJS2/issues?q=is%3Aissue+is%3...

But there is still no CHANGELOG. He is aggressive at updating the docs, so you'll have to look at diffs yourself.
And Yahoo uses Bing.
It's not the standard, it's what google does to amp sites: re-hosts them on their own site so your site is now (essentially) google.com/yoursite.com.

AMP as a standard is great: limit javascript to a known set of behaviors, ensure images/etc all have defined sizes so content doesn't jump around... but google's using the benefits of this standard as a trojan horse to route even more web traffic to their servers, enabling them to get better and better analytics and insights to your browsing behavior. (Now all the things users do on your site are visible to google too, even after they've "left" the search results).

The whole thing sets off alarm bells and indicates an overall strategy that's aimed towards moving the web into a google walled garden. There's all sorts of dystopian futures we could imagine here: promote search results that are AMP, while users appreciate the speed benefits, and become less likely to click any non-AMP links, and suddenly every web publisher has to get on the train or lose viewership... so that they can monitor yet more of what we do online, widening their competitive moat, etc.

It's scary stuff and there needs to be a CLEAR separation of the benefits of AMP as a standard, from what google's doing with it.
Slight non sequitur, I know, but Texas Monthly apparently really knows how to assemble a superb writing staff.

A handful of my favorite pieces of long-form journalism were published in TM and now here's yet another great piece, but from 20 years ago.
Medieval and Early Modern Coinage and Its Problems
The moral imperative of economic growth
On the Turing Completeness of MS PowerPoint [pdf]
Anyone that isn't a full on left winger. I.e. crying about authoritarianism when you yourself, >by definition< of using the word "populist" in this context, are an authoritanian.

Lefties don't like that people can see the bad consequences of unchecked globalism and multiculturalism, but the politicians who aligned with these ideas tend to be popular... so what do you do? Basically consider huge amounts of people idiots who don't know what's good for them and call any politicians with that uncomfortable voter base "populists". Since for every leftist, democracy is great only to a point when it starts to produce results they don't like.
relations are awesome, but it def. takes training! I'd suggest avoiding window functions for pagination.. see http://use-the-index-luke.com/no-offset as one method.
Well, they deployed normal HTML5, which because of how the page was defined happened to expose a weird interaction in how iOS performed some actions. They thought it was a bug in iOS and treated it as such. Getting called out as assholes for doing what they thought was the right thing (and by someone that was wrong on the facts to boot) probably rankled a bit. Calling out Gruber as both wrong and in addition so wrong that the company he thinks was maligned is actually changing to the behavior he dislikes does come off as a little snide, but given the facts I wouldn't hold it against them. I definitely wouldn't use arrogant to describe it.
> I don't think they're actually are a lot of Apple fan is claiming that the one benevolent company should control everything as you posited earlier your post.

Not of course directly, as that would sound obviously fanatical, but the walled garden is almost universally cited as the "best thing" about iOS compared to more open platforms like Android.

This recent article in MacWorld invokes it at least five times, saying it makes iPhone more secure, more private, more user-friendly, more uniform, more polished etc:

http://www.macworld.co.uk/feature/iphone/iphone-vs-android-5...

Those are all magnificent adjectives, and unquestionably makes the Apple user's life great. (And surely then, if Google wants to make life great for Android users, they are perfectly entailed to it as well.)

But from 3rd party developer's perspective, I can assure the more open platform is better. Google is enhancing the experience for stock Android users, but if you don't like it you can write and publish a competing search engine or browser. On iOS, you don't have a chance to replace the browser, and I bet had Apple actually developed a search engine of their own, like Microsoft with Bing, you'd never been even able to use Google on an iPhone..
What is AMP? EDIT: I mean technically, not what the acronym means.
FWIW, you do get a link on the AMP page to the canonical URL now.
So far I have never heard my non-technical acquaintances talk about making payments with bitcoin. I have only heard them talk about investing in bitcoin, which sounds very bubbly.
Ask HN: Adding a Human Meta Layer to the Internet?
Would love to get your thoughts. What if there was a chrome extension that allowed you to upvote any link you run into over the internet. This way you have a meta layer of human curation over the internet, giving contextual clues as to whether something is really useful or not!
I am sorry you are in a stressed situation and I hope that you find a favourable way to change it.

My thought would be that if you can manage a way to increase that 43h by just 10% or 20% then over time and transport delays will not be as worrying.

Can you incorporate stretching exercises or walking into your work environment? Try and keep a diary of the positive things that can help you cope with work.
So what are the simpler terms? Any examples?
Oh, ok, I get you now.
The invariant of Civ games is that they need to create an immersive experience related to the historic period you are in and around each civilization.

Commercial Civ games achieve this using a combination of graphics, music and sound effects. So I think the challenge for FreeCiv is that, is to become more immersive in this way.

e.g: In commercial games you have accompanying music, you have sound effects and unit sounds for each language, each period looks very distinctive from each other.

But don't get me wrong though, I think it is a fantastic project, and have had fun playing it over the years. Same with FreeCol.
Nope, for that search I once again got the same results in the same order.

It sounds like Bing is personalizing your results either by location or by adtech tracking, which is kinda antithetical to the point of DDG.
It's not about whether everyone onboard dies, it's about how easily a small, common, trivial event can cause everyone aboard to die.
Among controlled access highways, some have tolls, and these are not referred to as freeways.
AmiKit is a modern configuration and a curated collection of software for the Amiga, set up as environment for the UAE emulator. If UAE is the application, then AmiKit is the document it loads. So to say...

AmiKit was always free. It seems to have gone commercial now.

Some Shareware soft is regsitered here, for example, MUI5, which is the Amiga OOP GUI library. Never has been a UI library that configurable on any system! It is the current version, in active development.

Another World, the game, is also pre-installed. A HD version sells on Steam and others.

Several freeware tools have an "Exclusive Update". That is surprising, because the m68k Amiga (the one which gets emulated here) is, basically, out of business since 1994-1996. If it would not be for AmiKit, these updates, most probably, would have never happened. Also "Rabbit Hole" let's you start host (Win/Mac) applications from within the emulator. This is all pretty cool. For people like me, who still have their old Amigas (and OS disks) the price is bearable. Please note, that this is not so much about playing old games and demos. For that you will be fine with AmigaForever. This is for using AmigaOS as a modern Workstation, as much as possible.

Here is a quote from their website:

It includes more than 380 Amiga programs (and games)
enriching the default system with exciting features and
add-ons.

We've done all the hard work for you so that your modern
retro experience can begin right away.

So, it's basically an installation on top of AmigaOS 3.9 (the last legacy version). If I remember correctly, one needs to own the original AmigaOS 3.9 DVD or an image, the ROM. AmiKit will then install everything into a consumable system, ready to go, with some modern drivers, that have been created for AmiKit.
They didn't explicitly set the behavior that way, but they deployed it knowing that WAS the behavior. And they didn't bother to change it or give anyone an option to turn it off or do something else making everyone on iOS suffer since they started pushing AMP.

They could've just as easily pushed you to a new page which contain the AMP content and wasn't an iframe, thus leaving all the standard feel and gestures working. Instead they choose to go along with what they were doing on android even though it was severely sub optimal on iOS.

I think choosing to do that WAS arrogant.

They made Google significantly harder to use as an iOS user because they didn't care and gave us no option to try and fix it.
I am on your side -- just chiming in to share my observations.

To 99% of the businesses I worked with, software development is a singular expense. It's treated like buying a tractor for the farm. Hell, even farming equipment is more generously funded by the buyers for possible future expenses (compared to most software development) -- maintenance, repairs, parts that periodically need replacement, fuel.

For one reason or another, most businesses treat software development like buying a socket wrench from the local store and never even thinking of spending another penny on the developed product in the future. They expect it to run perfectly forever.

It's a sad state of affairs.
I've gone through my Freeciv spurts over the years, and I must say the developers of this project deserve serious credit for continuing development and innovating. The art has been a bit lacking, but the new 3D version is looking pretty good and getting better. The real success with the game is the immersive detailed game play, the devs. have been smart to add a wide range of features and detailed management while not going over board.
Huh. What's the reason for that?
Regarding your edit: what I'm looking for is a genuine AB test. Example: suppose there was one packet (mixed dry batter) or two, and for B the user had to mix them. The Ikea effect says B gets better customer satisfaction than A.

Someone downvoted all my comments in this thread. Apparently despite the fact that this is a product design guideline that in my opinion is easy (though not trivial) to test, either all the science in all the world can't test it, or we should accept the theory proposed in the article (that the Ikea effect is real, exists, and should he used in product design) without any testing.

Cargo cult, anyone? :)
I think, individuality is a cornerstone of realpolitik. Remove it and you will have unified human hive. Does it worth it?
I just recently bought my first piece of nicer furniture, not Ikea, but a bed from Crate and Barrel.

Not only did I love the style of the bed, but they scheduled delivery to my house.

I assumed I still had to put it together, but the delivery guys assembled the bed in my room and put the mattress on top.

IMO This is way better than spending 2 hours driving to Ikea, wandering around, buying, loading, unloading, and assembling the item.
Ever heard about RSS? ;)
It wasn't a bug in Safari, that was simply the way the scrolling behavior was implemented in iframes.

It was still there choice to deploy using iframes knowing that that was the way it felt. They could've use JavaScript to load the contents into a div or simply pushed so far users to a page that had nothing but the AMP content on it.

They left it severely sub optimal and decided that was good enough… making google significantly more annoying to use on iOS than what it was before.

That was the choice they made and stuck too. No options to turn it off, no options to do it a different way; you just get stuck with it.
I believe we have a webkit patch pending for this. Definitely on our radar!

Edit: some detail. Safari sometimes doesn't scroll find results into view when they are in overflowed space. This issue actually affects a large percentage of web pages. Fixing it was very easy, was just an oversight in WebKit.
Specificity beyond the point of courtesy is NIST's mission, and it's passion. Please, nitpick away.
Ask HN: How do you close your side projects?
I have worked on various side projects involving design, development, music, etc. over time and generally kept the remnants living on somewhere (DropBox folders, word docs, random repositories). I like to have reference for nostalgia or to reflect on the lessons learned before my next pursuit. Recently, I have been considering creating a blog or documenting the key parts like screenshots along with a write up recap in an Archive folder somewhere and then purging the content such as code, mockups, assets, etc. I would partially like to write a post-mortem about a side startup but the rest are not as valued.

I was just curious if you have any personal examples or practices for closing out your cancelled or completed projects (Archive - Purge - Blog Post - Open Source - viking send-off)?
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Yandex?