skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Given the stuff Neo pulled at the end of Revolutions, there are implications that The Matrix is actually a Matrix inside a Matrix and "waking up" is just an illusion. Which ties perfectly with your idea - we created Dom0 Matrix to free us from thinking and then fabricated DomU Matrix inside it to make things interesting again...
I tried turning off targeted Google ads on my phone, and got only the worst ads possible from then on. Like, 100% strobing "YOUR PHONE HAS 37 VIRUSES, CLICK HERE TO CLEAN". Eventually I had to turn it back because ad-supported apps are nearly unusable with strobing banners at the bottom, which I'm sure was Google's intent.
Fraid not, I'm a Linux sorta guy. Very jealous of some of the tools Mac gets but not quite enough to budget for a Mac :)
Right, this guy doesn't know what he's talking about. Had he even done the most trivial of searches he would have seen that.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F74m2hph1l8
A company called Skysafe released some press in 2015 (nothing since), which showed them taking control of a DJI Phantom 2. It should definitely be feasible to intercept and take over many consumer drones, with the right hardware, but there may be some FCC limitations to consider.
> You need a browser with WebGL support. Tested on IE11, Firefox, Chrome, Edge, Chromium."

Or the webgl polyfill created with mesa and emscripten.
I have no insider knowledge about the relative merits of the two, but Micklethwait left LONG after the decline in quality started.
It could be only ~5%, but it could still have a >5% effect. The existence of a big price-insensitive well of cash buyers in the housing market could easily set off a feedback loop / bubble.
Considering how small, fast, and cheap drones are these days, I'm honestly surprised it hasn't happened yet.
I was disappointed when I realized it didn't say Nestle.
Less likely to have personal obligations to others, e.g. family. Less likely to feel social pressure to do time-consuming emotional labor outside of work.
It's not "internet points", it's simply a way to more easily measure how much data you've contributed to comma's database. Fundamentally, that data is only valuable to insurance companies, which are already willing to pay you ~$160 (in lower insurance rates) for a year's worth of driving data.

In theory Hotz could (and should) just pay you directly in $USD for your driving data, arbitraging a bit off the top before selling it to insurance companies.

But the genius of him "paying" you in cryptocurrency is that it will get you to give it away for free "points"! And to pay him for the hardware to do so! Because you think that a market might develop around these "points" where they will get bought up by a bigger fool, pumping up their value way beyond their fundamental value to the end consumers of this data - insurance companies.

These "points" have no other value or use, as they would not otherwise function as currency (store of value, medium of exchange, unit of account) unless Hotz decoupled point generation from car data generation and just started minting an arbitrary virtual currency.
Dropdown alternatives for better (mobile) forms
wow thats the biggest cop out i've ever heard. quality 100% matters, if not even more. shipping crap code still makes it crap and it will come to bite you in the end.

libfreetype is an example of a great library, clean and well documented...

beautiful coding isn't a myth, it actually works... write code like poetry and it pays off 10 fold... less errors, easier to reason about, malleable... the benefits are extreme... try to actually experience something before making unfounded claims... i've been writing beautiful for over a decade now... once you realize code is written once and read 100 times, you'll come to the realization of doing it clean and right the first time pays of in the future, which means less work and bullshit...
I do some beer homebrewing and (fairly or not) my first thought was of the BeerBug digital hydrometer, which was a temperature/density meter that wirelessly synced to an online service. The problem was that the website was the only way to read the data. And then the website went down for months :-/ . I didn't buy it but the whole debacle made me suspicious of depending on online services for brewing.
Yeah, exactly
I agree - I see this Benjamin Franklin ("if we don't all stand together, we shall all hang separately") attitude everywhere.

But I don't think this new attitude is an accident. It's not just because we're good people, or even good engineers. It's an inevitable consequence of what we're trying to do.

Fundamentally, all decentralized systems are one big federation. If two decentralized systems can't talk to each other, that's because no one needs to connect them yet. There is never a question of whether the connection can be made, as with centralized systems.

In short: for decentralized systems, the n in Metcalfe's law ("the value of a network is proportional to n^2, where n is its user count" - I think it's more like n log n, but whatever) is the number of users not in any decentralized network, but in all decentralized networks. (It also should add any centralized networks that you can gateway to.)

What this means in practice for Urbit and Matrix: if both Urbit and Matrix succeed, a gateway is inevitable. It's inevitable because (a) it will be demanded and (b) no one can prevent it. Then, Urbit will benefit from Matrix's network effect and vice versa.

So economically, we're not competitors. We're colleagues. So building a positive relationship is a professional no-brainer. In the new decentralized world, the only reason to be a jerk to someone else is that you're actually a jerk. You'll see this, but it isn't common -- at all.

(However, our domain is googleable and yours isn't. Owned! We'll just have to link to you :-)
Why are they so sure he didn't obtain the wire cutters the classic way: via dirty guard?
I think we're talking about the same thing from two angles—when a task appears uncertain, it's important to isolate it. Sometimes, as you suggest, it's an exploration (build the engine before the body to see it turn over), but other times you can chip away at a problem, piece by piece, until there's no problem anymore.
>why should the process of selling a house require "expertise"?

At a fundamental level, one could say sellers don't require outside expertise to sell a home. Real estate agents are optional. There is a concept called "for sale by owner" which is a strategy some homeowners use. They can list the house on their own (not on MLS though), vet potential buyers, coordinate the showing of the home (appointments and/or open houses), etc. They can also get a real-estate lawyer to draw up contract papers, handle earnest money, etc.

However, most sellers do not want to mess with all the above. They literally do not have the "expertise" to do it all themselves. (Yes, the homeowners can sell a car on Craigslist but selling a home is a step change in complexity.) Hence, you end up with middlemen like real estate agents.

Some people think real-estate agents only exist because they have a monopoly on the MLS computer listings. That's not true. Even if somebody disrupted MLS database with Zillow listings, real estate agents would still exist. Selling a house is a complicated enough affair that intermediaries who specialize in it would always be a natural emergent phenomenon. The real economic question is whether they can keep charging 6% commissions as the internet evolves.
well prisons aren't even allowed to block cell phones within prison walls, the state of Georgia confiscated over twenty two thousand cell phones in 2016. Yes, twenty two thousand. [1]. This lets them continue to commit crimes while behind bars.

The rules that prevent anyone else from blocking radio and cellular signals apply to prisons as well. so in a battle against drones one of the only steps would be to keep all inmates inside 24x7 but that still leaves you with exposure on details and worst yet, the staff.

http://www.myajc.com/news/local/georgia-prisons-inmates-use-...
Depends entirely on your market. A former co-worker sold his father's house for tens (possibly hundreds, I don't want to oversell this, but I can't recall for sure) of thousands of dollars over list in Denver in less than 3 days. If you count closing, it's definitely more than a week, but a contract was signed very quickly.
Climate change generally predicts 2 things: higher average temperatures and more extreme weather. It is called global warming due to the increase in average temperature. It is a mistake to think it is an increase in constant temperature.

Droughts and heavy rain fit those predictions perfectly.
I disagree. "Doing without" seems the most sensible to me.

There is no rule that industries whose business is built on copyright need to be able to live in the browser. Netflix demonstrated that quite nicely. Just because the want it doesn't mean they should get it. I personally cripple EME on my browsers, and if your content won't display for me, I'll happily go elsewhere. (Haven't had the problem yet, but fully expect to.)

It is bad enough, but unsurprising, that the closed browsers would go along with user-hostile bullshit like this. That Mozilla did, I find appalling.
A thermostat?
Sorry, new commenter, unfamiliar with the etiquette of the edit button. I'm done.
This is really confusing. I just bought a house in the UK, and the process is as follows:

1. Look for house on Rightmove or Zoopla.
2. Call the estate agent or private seller to arrange a viewing.
3. Show up at the appropriate time. Look at house.
4. Make an offer. Offer gets accepted/rejected/they want more. Repeat until you get it or get outbid or give up.
5. Offer agreed (hopefully). Now do all the actual buying through mortgage brokers and solicitors.

The estate agents charge the sellers a percentage, which is cheeky because they do almost nothing - the only reason you should ever use one is if you are incapable of taking photos or really can't spare a few evenings to show people around the house.

But nobody ever drives you to see houses or finds them for you. How does it work in America?
This seems like a good and thoughtful article to me. I don't know why some people are hating
If you're smart enough and patient enough to lay low, you tend to realize that you're better rewarded by working within the system.

Like, the fundamental character flaw that leads to criminality is believing that you're entitled to significantly more than society says you are based on the skills you've developed and the effort you've put in.
Chinese umbrella-sharing firm remains upbeat despite losing most of it's
A friend of mine while we were in school (RPI) interned at GE and apparently they receive tons of letters each Christmas sent to Santa which have 12345 as the zip that GE staff volunteer to reply to.

https://dailygazette.com/galleries/2014/12/09/ge-answers-san...
Originally you had no backups OOTB. Now I think you can restore deleted files for a month, or longer if you upgrade. This might be enough for your use case.

Otherwise it is purely sync (not backup).
A local grocery store has a points card that bases its offers on prior purchases, and suffers from the problem that you identified. I have often wondered if it would be practical to turn the tables by making a token purchase just before an anticipated sale, then reaping the rewards the following week.
In the UK: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Official_Secrets_Act_1989
Trebuchet seems like it'd be a lot cheaper with larger payload...
Would one need to create an LLC or something to claim R&D credits?
I agree, more stuff should work with $TERM=dumb, but how are you not using eshell?
> well prisons aren't even allowed to block cell phones within prison walls, the state of Georgia confiscated over twenty two thousand cell phones in 2016.

Seems to me that blocking cell phones is the wrong solution; preventing smuggling of contraband is the solution.

If you can smuggle cellphones in, cellphones are far from your only problem, and probably far from your biggest.
Ah, the low-budget variation on the old classic -- the helicopter prison escape!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_helicopter_prison_esca...
For a moment I thought this was making a parallel with 1980s "knowledge-base systems", which tried to make hay by piling up rules gleaned from experts.

Those systems sort-of, kind-of worked, and got plenty of press, but vanished from the market without much of an obituary, or post-mortem exam, AFAIK.

My guess is that they were impossible to maintain.

I'm waiting to hear that the problem is now licked for the current crop.
Does something borderline illegal, brags about it on the internet. What could go wrong?
> is that surprising?

No. It's a difficult problem to mitigate.

There are always going to be some students who want to learn the minimum possible to pass the exam, and who will never work with the material again. Although I do my best to be respectful of such students (indeed, in some circumstances this can be a perfectly rational point of view), my pedagogy is aimed at the student who sees my class as something more than a meaningless hoop.
Where to get an HTTPS certificate for localhost
If you download the discord client, unpack it, and look in the bootstrap folder (which should be next to the app.asar folder), you'll find discord_rpc.zip. Unpack that, look in data, and you'll find this_is_not_a_security_issue.{crt,key} which is the public and private key for an HTTPS certificate for *.discordapp.io, which is a domain that resolves to 127.0.0.1. This could be useful for testing HTTPS on localhost.
I was concerned about downloading several small text-files too, but if you visit for example nytimes.com there's 350 requests on first load. And Facebook has auto-plying videos ... Downloading a bunch of static web pages will feel instant.

This search script can be reused between different static site generators, compared to generating index data for each site.
My idea was simple: When you are at some party/pub, there is always some friend which wants to go home and everybody is trying to convince them, that they should have one more drink. So, I have created http://morebeer.today and http://morewine.today.
It's easy reaction time test where it's very easy to pass. They never got popular enough to be worth adding some ads there.
You're forgetting that they had a charge for revocation, which was also automated. Even after Heartbleed, they refused to revoke the potentially compromised certificates without being paid. They also advertised their certificates as 100% free, even though they clearly weren't (because of the revocation charges). The certificates were not free for commercial purposes either.

IMO, just like one of those schemes where you don't pay to get in, but you have to pay to get out.

It's a shame, because they could have achieved a market share similar to Let's Encrypt, if only they had played their cards slightly differently.
Jet.com are hiring in Dublin for all you Berliners

https://jet.com/careers/locations/dublin
I'll second you've got a potential second career in comedy writing, my coworkers and I are currently nearly in tears reading this. Thanks for the Friday laughs.
Not sure what you mean exactly by "up front costs" but yes, the capex and time to production for a complete clean coal power plant system or a functioning fusion power plant is what would make producing energy by those methods many times more expensive than natural gas or solar. Maybe if power companies can finance at negative interest rates, like some counties are doing, the high capital costs become a positive rather than a negative and all sorts of schemes are possible.
Because "income" does not equal "all of the economic gains of a country."

Lots of other things happened in the period in that graph which kept median incomes lower despite economic improvements taking place. Like:

1. The offering of health insurance as a tax-free employment benefit.

2. An increase in divorce rates (households all over cut in half but the median household income didn't drop; there must have been an economic gain distributed to not-rich people for this to happen).

Also, this graph doesn’t say anything about what happened to the size of each of these groups. Pretty sure the biggest trend in America has been the middle class splitting in half between people making more money (and thus becoming part of the "small few") and people making less (which worsens income inequality even though more people are now "rich").

So yeah, there's a lot missing from these graphs.
SoundCloud Lays Off 40 Percent of Staff, Commits to “Independent Future”
I think the future for cryptos is bright but Bitcoin, and other coins, have some issues. I'm also happy for the miners since you'r happy paying 5k$ for a single digital transaction.
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https://vidgen.io

It's a web app that generates summary videos of online articles/content.

I launched it in February and it hasn't made a dime. I was charging ~$3 per generated video, but since it's had zero traction, the videos can now be downloaded for free.

The main feature it's lacking is a way to customize the generated videos. Once I get this implemented I will try promoting it again.

Spent about 3 months building it and over $2k in hosting + licensing.
The First Battery-Free Cellphone [dupe]
Relevant XKCD: https://xkcd.com/1138/

It's interesting how many things generally correlate with urban/rural population distribution, too...
I made a clone of etsy focused on a specific industry. Vendors could open their own store, upload products take payments etc. I got 7 vendors signed up and site earned total sales of just under $18 Of which my cut was 64 cents before I shut down. A lot of fun to build though :)
Thank you Roland for all your years of service. Maintenance of one of the most important FOSS projects around must not have been easy. Cheers!
As I understand it users don't necessarily opt in to contributing data to comma's database. So there will be a large subset of hobbyists that just use it to monitor their own driving data privately - these are the users that comma needs to charge up front.

Plus, psychologically it feels like an investment with ROI in "comma points" for those who do contribute their data, with some vague promise of a reward later when someone (who?) decides to purchase comma points. So the upfront cost is justified.
Not just his customers, but also anyone unfortunate enough to be on the same road at the same time as.
We ban accounts that post uncivil religious flamebait like this, so please stop.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
>the JS to include should be minified

Why? I mean sure you save a little traffic, but it could just as well be gzipped.
Yeah, it's not like 3D, open-to-weather but not flying things (usually birds have been the bigger concern) enclosures are a new concept.
Exercising is a "no brainer" preventative treatment. Increased cardiovascular activity provides more and faster oxygen and nutrient flow to the brain which helps the brain to build more neurons.

Another important approach is to build up your cognitive reserve[1]. Evidence exists that people who read more, socially interact more, play music, dance, and stay physically active can delay the onset of dementia by years.

Eating right (minimize processed foods and sugars, focus on raw foods, vegetables, fruit, minimal chemicals) is also associated with better memory.

Finally, getting a full 8 hours of sleep is associated with good brain health. The brain appears to require about 7-8 hours to fully process the day's knowledge and build it into long term memory structures. If you cheat yourself and get 4-6 hours, most likely your brain simply won't have a chance to build those neural structures to capture long term memories.

Probably the type of people who read Hacker News are doing a lot of this stuff already; just working in a technical field that forces you to think all day is very helpful. Exercise and diet are probably the areas that techies notoriously neglect, but that's perhaps more a previous generation than the more health-conscious folks of today's workplace.

[1]https://www.amazon.com/Harvard-Medical-School-Achieving-Opti...
But way harder to correctly aim in first try.
Even if that worked, it will only buy a little bit of time. Drones already have partial autonomy capabilities and will probably be fully autonomous, with no signals to jam, before too long.
PDF is used primarily for pre-paginated media and does not reflow text; if the PDF author wanted the pages in landscape orientation, or using some other paper dimensions, he would have specified that. Same goes for margins and the like.
I was looking for a company like this to sell my house, instead of through traditional realtor. I see their about page says "On average, we save Utahns over $8,000 per transaction." Is the service only available in Utah?
To continue the anecdote:

This was done in a project I handled, for the World Bank. I had a team of 9 motivated though young developers (first project for most of them). Near the end, before we sent the software to the client, a colleague was assigned to test the software - testing by a member external to the team, a slightly senior guy, ex-CITIL (a Citi IT subsidiary which had more mature software processes than we did then), though of course we did test the software ourselves a lot, first. I remember what happened:

We prepared the machines and software for the test. Called him over.

He said: I am going to sit down and destroy your software.

We said: Go ahead, please try.

And he tried to. But could not. He only found a few minor cosmetic defects.

Getting up after a few hours of rigorous testing, he said something like - I am happy with your work.
Ask HN: Biodegradable electronic tracking
Are there any start-ups operating in this space or someone know of products that meet these general requirements:

Biodegradable (one time use) | Cheap (must scale to millions) |Easy to connect to mobile devices

Example--tracking individual cabbage plants (millions +) by embedding some chip (RFID?) when seedlings are planted. Each cabbage plant can then be hand-harvested and traceable to the consumer.
>Delivering to a bunch of vehicles on one street or hitting a bunch of vehicles in one lot/garage is better than one fill per location.

They say that they will deliver to a single area for a single fee. http://www.filld.com/groups/
EME is useless garbage. It's one of the first things I disable when I install Firefox. I can't do much, but I boycott any service that uses it.
Inflation is a monetary phenomenon that affects all prices in the economy. If there's only a price increase in one sector it's by definition not inflation.
>... That creates an extra $9k to split between the parties. And there's no way a closing takes a full day for an attorney (and most will be less than $200/hr).

Yes, most brokers use standard forms, there isn't much actual expense there for them - which is a good thing because a real estate attorney I know bills at more than $400 per hour.

A good realtor does a LOT more than just fill out the contracts for you to sign. The realtor will spend lots of time scheduling inspections, helping find contractors, being at the property to watch contractors, scheduling the photographer, putting the ad on MLS, running open houses, answering questions from buyers, negotiating with buyers, working with the title company, arranging to hand the keys off to the buyer, etc, etc. You are paying for their experience to know what needs to be done and for the time it takes to do all those tasks that I mentioned (and others). The standard commission costs are high, but there are brokers like Redfin who are less expensive.
Ondansetron is associated with long QT. The FDA does not like that side effect for OTC meds.
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