skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
From what I recall there were quite a few, most of them discontinued:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adobe_Wallaby
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shumway_(software)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Swiffy

There's also
https://github.com/tobytailor/gordon/wiki

I guess most of them are more or less dead :-/
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That'd encourage people to use flash, which is the opposite of what most everyone in web development (and possibly on the web, period) wants.
More up to date, but still looks dead: https://github.com/mozilla/shumway
Thanks, unfortunately the documentation about the project is rather scant.
Each services need to communicate with each other. And, 100 things can go wrong in that and lot of effort and fail-safe mechanisms has to be put in order for it to scale. Having said that there are lots of solutions out there but does require good amount of understanding and work
How come? It will stop receiving updates, not end.
There is no virtualization used in SQL server on Linux... It's not a VM. It's a just like any other Linux process... It just happens to have something that looks a lot like the NT Kernel running inside that process.
For context, LLL was used to prove that polynomial factorization can be solved in polynomial time. That is, given r(x) such that:

r(x) = p(x) * q(x)

where the coefficients of each factor are integral:

p_i, q_i in Z

LLL can be used to find p(x) and q(x) only given r(x).

There are other problems that LLL solves and there are more modern lattice reduction algorithms (PSLQ, etc.) but LLL was one of the first.
Shumway was a followup to this. Flash -> Gordon -> Shumway ;-)

But they're all dormant/dead. Compatibility is really hard.
when I first saw the tunnel plan, it was presented as a service-for-billionaires single use subway system for cars.

That's not what it is at all. It's a company that makes tunnels. Ultimately, they will be used for whatever infrastructure needs tunnels to work.
No, LA traffic is just that bad. I am in Omaha, only halfway to NY/DC, and I have to adjust my morning commute for LA rush hour.
Tell HN: Massive abuse of Google's DMCA process
A seemingly legal copyright enforcement company has been employing some very shady tactics for the past few years.

They spider the entire website, and submit the crawled links to Google for removal in small batches. Now, what they're doing is without the question of a doubt illegal. But due to the sheer amount of notices they send out, at least 50% of them will go through just fine. I'm talking tens of millions of removed pages.

Considering that subtlety is not one of my strong suits. I'll be blunt: Does Google even care that a few shady guys are manipulating SERP's and costing them resources probably better spent elsewhere.

I guess it's something to think about.
https://urbanize.la/post/los-angeles-should-ignore-elon-musk...
Obligatory The Oatmeal: https://theoatmeal.com/comics/restaurant_website
What a shame. Not installing flash used to be an excellent way of blocking shitty websites and annoying ads.
Failure is a bit strong, IMO. Flash played a role, and now it is done.

Meanwhile, it was (as you say) years ahead of standards and the most ubiquitous non-standard standard on the web. In early years it let web designers expirement. Most of those expirements went badly, but many ulitmately preceded and shaped the web of the "future."

Animated interactive UIs, video, audio, rounded corners.... These appeared as flash first and challenged html+ to keep up (with the better parts).

We've all been talking s--t about flash for years. But ultimately it was in use because it was useful and the web may have turned out worse without it.

On tools, this is inevitable. Tools don't last forever and professional these days need to retool periodically. As flash exits left, there is room for new entrants into the 'tools for ex-flash designers' segment.
Perhaps it is a case of a number without context. I have been here for nearly 18 years now and have become a citizen. I just wanted to get out of the rain of my homeland and into the California sunshine.

I guess I am part of the 42% but I was never one of the “poor huddled masses yearning to breathe free”. I just consider myself a proud American. 42% says nothing about how long people have been here and whether they are just a next wave building up the country like waves of immigrants from the past.
This is why they should open source it if they aren't planning to do anything with it.
Not every single person with CTE dies horribly. As I understand it, some simply live decades happily forgetting their children's names and what day of the week it is.
I'm not sure this comment appeals to anyone. The idea that day to day programming jobs are some sort of high end intellectual challenge is a myth. I think a coal miner could do what I've been doing since sixth grade just fine.

See: http://www.thehindubusinessline.com/info-tech/95-engineers-i...
> Yep it's a different situation, hence emphasising 'in situations like mine' in the post you're replying to.

Oh, I see. I was confused by "Seems similar to my experience", which I mistook to mean something like "I had a similar problem that I wanted resolved", but which I now think I understand correctly as "while trying to resolve a different problem, I had a similar customer-service experience."
The EnOcean protocol is a good example of this. Their sensors don't use batteries at all, instead opting to charge a capacitor from small PV panels or peltier generators.

https://www.enocean.com/en/technology/energy-harvesting-wire...

https://www.enocean.com/en/technology/energy-harvesting/

This is well suited to stuff like occupancy sensors in buildings. Time resolution isn't as small as an always-powered system could be, but if your use case for the data is "Turn off the lights if we haven't seen anyone move for 30 minutes" then it doesn't much matter if you transmit every 5 minutes instead of every 5 seconds.
So long, and thanks for all the Flash
Jobs can't be "taken" they have to be "given".
> Where does this leave all the existing flash content that still exists around the web after 2020?

Hopefully in their quieter moments they'll be reflecting on the wisdom of building on top of closed-source systems.
Sure, but you can buy alternative methods of accessing the internet to keep this metaphor going. They're expensive and aren't as convenient but that's true of having to go to the store to buy bottles of water as well.
Arduinos powered by AVRs aren't high-frequency. The highest-frequency external component might be a 20mhz crystal, which you can lay out just by following the example design in the data sheet.

Most ARMs up to even a few hundred MHz are also pretty easy to lay out.

For wireless you're right, but this is more or less solved by the recent proliferation of cheap plug-in wireless modules that are already certified.
Turkey's Crackdown on Human Rights Defenders Must Stop: A Call to Action
I'm guessing something like a "Let's Go Crazy Babydance" detector. Combine Shazam with image recognition seeded with brands and product images and you can cover a lot of UGC with takedowns or ad rev takeovers.
Folks who go through the trouble of immigrating here, many of whom are reliant on their job for renewing visas, have less bargaining power with their employers. Wages lower, standards for politics and labor rights lower, and standards of living lower. It's about the death of communities and societal trust, and and has nothing to do with people thinking who deserves what.
Fog Creek does this for inexperienced roles, they have a simple challenge of extracting a string from a text file of garbage and then using that string as the subject line when applying. Took only a few minutes using sort piped into awk to finish it and I'm sure it probably weeds out a lot of applications.
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I would make an entirely different case.

I had a system where the main running cost was MySQL. It turned out that I needed to provision a lot of MySQL capacity because there was one table that had a high rate of selects and updates.

The hot table did not use many MySQL features and could easily be handled by a key-value store with highly tuned data structures. That's a place where a "microservice" which has it's own address space, if not machine, makes it possible to scale parts of the system that need to be scaled without scaling the rest.
Worse, but swept under the rug. I wasn't officially notified of the OPM breach until a year after it hit the news.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office_of_Personnel_Management...
Anyone know of any command line tools available out there that can convert Flash assets to PNG assets? I have a large number of Flash assets that I will eventually need to (finally) convert over. Hoping there are some easy tools out there available.
An awfull lot of UI component in desktop and mobile application seems to be using flash under the hood, and yes that is including games as well, but not just the "farm ville" type (world of tanks is a prime example).
I think the parent comment was saying that being against those policies will get you branded as a xenophobe. The tone was meant to elicit sympathy.
Or perhaps it's tech barons bellyaching about engineer wages made manifest
My interpretation was that the parent commenter is against some aspect of immigration employment policy, but does not think that constitutes xenophobia.
Ask HN: Active, social online chat communities
Back in the day I was a member of a very active chat-based online community, and as a freelancer it kept me sane working from home alone all day.

The community was populated by a couple hundred people with a common interest, many of whom were retired, homemakers, or self-employed. Thus many of the regulars were present all day long and formed close friendships. Conversation ranged far from the original purpose of the community - it was like having a room full of friends to talk with about anything and everything at any time of day or night.

Since then, many of the regulars have either passed away or experienced career or life changes that have left them little time to go online in the middle of the day. As a result, the community has completely fizzled out. I was disappointed, but had also moved on to a 9-5 gig and wasn't able to visit regularly either.

Now that I've returned to remote work, I miss that type of constantly available interaction and conversation. Does anyone here know of any vibrant, close-knit, social online communities that they'd recommend?
Yeah, it's definitely hard work, I have a lot of respect for nurses. Something to think about, thanks.
What frontend stack fits Elixir most symmetrically? Is there a "ClojureScript" to Elixir's "Clojure"?
That's a pretty good rule of thumb - nice
Well first, Elixir isn't purely functional. It's got side effects all over the place, it just doesn't have mutable variables.

Second... While I love static typing as much as the next guy, there's definitely value in immutable data in a dynamic language. You also get Dialyzer in Elixir/Erlang, which is an interesting alternative to the usual type systems you find in Haskell/Rust/etc. in that it focusses on finding places where there's provably a problem, rather than where it's not provably correct.
Vmware, ADP, and Several Other very large Enterprise Vendors use Flash, Infact some of them just made a transitions from Java to Flash after Java announced the EOL of Web Browser Applets.
Not the secret sauce as all organic material have it to some extent. The point is the emerging complexity plus pattern recognition creates more and more consciousness.
Eh, I wouldn't say the share of english speakers everywhere reflects its neutrality as much as its usefulness in the modern world.

English is currently the international language, even at the esperanto congress. But it makes me appreciate having english as a native language, because I have to watch two non-native speakers struggle (like a polish guy ordering coffee from a korean barista).
Silicon Valley Might Be Converging with Sacramento
I bet there's lots of third party tech in Flash that prevents them from open sourcing it.
Agree - the biggest gain microservices give you is they allow many-teams to make progress together. If you don't have many teams then the overhead may not be worth it.
It looks like it's a system similar to contact ID. I hope this helps slow down all the free booting.
What an epic case study.

How hard it is to EOL anything. How non-standard standards can play a giant role. How important deign/dev tools can be. How hard it is to get designers to accept limits (there were all flash websites just for minor design capabilities)..
Yes. Tests run so quickly!
It may be time to legislate the concept of "tunnel space". This would be similar to air space. In the US a property owner doesn't control the air above their land (subject to details). Maybe Congress should declare the Earth below say 100' as not controlled by the land owner and allocated by some new agency, say the Federal Crust Administration.

Remove all of this from state, county, and municipal jurisdiction. Centralize the rules. Local government will still be controlling the portals where it must surface and interact with the surface world.

This will have to merge with mineral rights, but the intersection of mass transit and mining is minimal.
Indeed wages for STEM related work is better than the average JOB.
I dunno... If you took a few random textbook physics problems, and replaced all of the nouns and units with arbitrary consistent strings, do you think that it would be possible to tell an electromagnetic problem apart from a plumbing problem? What if the subject is an electric pump?
Coincidentally, I was talking to my father about getting his family tree work 'stored' in some digital format for future generations.

It struck me that a simple directory structure with info about each person in each directory, text files with info in, and then tar'd up would be about the most future-proof format you could get.

Anyone else thought about this?
I do not believe that American workers deserve better job opportunities than non-American workers.
It looks like Paint3D can do some pretty cool things: https://webmshare.com/NK89R
> So no, it's not about a specific situation. It's about the principle of the thing.

That's fair.

> i.e. if the FSF can be founded on the principle of freedom, why can't I claim to believe in the principle of freedom too?

They're founded on a principle of freedom as defined specifically by the four freedoms.

> The logical conclusion of that statement is that copyright doesn't really matter, whether the license is GPL or not. Violators can ignore the copyright, secure in the confidence that the majority of people won't have the resources to sue.

Yes there's a problem with the Copyright system. But the law does act as a deterrent because there is always risk involved in violating it.

> So why don't we assign copyright for all open source projects to the FSF?

The simple answer: they only accept copyright assignments for GNU projects.

They don't have the staff for enforcing others' copyrights, though; there's other organizations for that, like the Conservancy.

> After all, if the software is free, it doesn't really matter who the copyright holder is, right?

Sure it does: only the Copyright holder has standing in court.
It doesn't even need to be a superintelligence - Musk explains a scenario that isn't very far on the horizon here at the Governor's meeting: https://youtu.be/OYJ89vE-QfQ?t=2959 (from 51:45 to 53:50)
Articles like this seem to bring out people involuntarily triggered to grind their pet axe. The discussion is never enlightening. That's why I flagged.
What Does a Data Scientist Think of Google Optimize?
I share the same affliction haha
Oh, I see. Yeah I agree it would have been silly of Tesla to add LIDAR to the cars currently on the market, just for the sake of better training data.
Does anyone else see a problem with a session based approach to a/b testing (that Google Optimize uses)?
Meh. It would have been trivial to diff the old and new copies anyway.
I can understand why, I feel like the Chrome team has announced 3 or 4 times over the last 5 years that Flash was going away, but the only change was that you had to click to play it, and the other announcements seemed useless.
Whenever someone brings up H1B, everybody goes to abuse issue, but a lot of us got here as students and we still have to use H1B to work. It is unfair to just lump everybody on an H1B as a low wage, unqualified person.
Wonder how much they'll be using the technology and how. Will they try to do it like YouTube with trying to keep videos up, and having the revenue go to the copyright owner? Or maybe they won't do much. Comments seem to be divided.
I suspect a lot of triggering is voluntary.
A major congrats to the source3 team! I'm excited for them and for the changes they'll bring to Facebook.
I believe they're hoping to mitigate 3 and 4 by going deeper than most things. But wouldn't that make 2, emergency escape routes, a lot more expensive?

How do you make a very long, very deep, narrow-diameter, elevator-accessed tunnel safe from fires and toxic gas releases? You can make it a vacuum but then what if you have to escape a vehicle? How does this thing not become a death trap in the event of a fire?

Fire is the number one cause of fatalities in tunnels (remember it's the smoke that kills). Tons of engineering and expense goes into trying to devise shelter and evacuation solutions.
Yeah I agree with you. There's a difference between preserving diversity and trying to push your language down other people's throat. Clearly some of our laws and official posturing has more to do with the latter than the former.

And obviously I won't oppose English becoming the language of the EU since the other obvious contender would be German and I can barely speak a lick of Deutsch!
It is a podcast Episode, but also a blog post, so I do not know if I have to prepend [Audio] to the title. What should I do?
Haxe is an awesome programming language, but that's not really what he was talking about:

> The tools for 2D animations and games
We should open that data. Every single human would have a record in a freely accessible, distributed database with (at least) a highres full body shot, name and a date of birth. Maybe add "full DNA sequence" in there when it gets cheap enough.

There are definitely downsides (corporations having access to this will get annoying), but some of us (me and (I think) you) are already living as if this is the case, and this would teach people that this is the world we live in and remove some inefficiencies and let people build things like a global facial-recognition based authentication system.
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This does not appear to be hypocritical on Verizon's part. They don't view themselves as a utility and are actively fighting becoming one.
140 papers cited, smashing :)

Rodney Brooks famously condemned simulation and games positing that AI can only develop in an embodied agents.

Robotics with deepnets is the edge and Berkeley's Abeel, Levine and Finn are right on it (IMHO). This paper puts it all in valuable context.

Anyone else going to the DeepRL Bootcamp at Berkeley in August ?
Those are the same thing.

There is NEVER a time when there are not enough qualified US Citizens.

Why? Because if I am a company, I will 100% always be able to hire enough engineers, if I just do this 1 weird trick.

And that trick is "pay every engineer 1 million dollars".

The question is always about price.

In the same way that a food shortage has basically never existed in history. Sure, there were places where the price of bread was 1 thousand dollars, and people were starving to death because they couldn't have enough food. But thats not a shortage, thats just people complaining about price!

Now, the real question you have to ask yourself, is "is bread costing 1 thousand dollars a good thing?" And when you can answer that questions, you will also be able to answer "is a software engineer costing 1 million dollars a good thing"?

Edit: my post doesn't seem to be clear.

My point that I was making is that "bread costing 1 thousand dollars is a bad thing". And that there is nothing wrong with driving down the price of devs.

My definition of shortage is "prices are too high"
I think Intel realized that the 'maker market' is the craft/toy/hobby market not the embedded systems market. Intel is also dealing with threats to its core businesses so better to pull back from a marginal market that can't even support what were the two leading chip companies in the space (Atmel & Microchip) and focus on not losing market share to ARM in other areas.
Ignorance is bliss as they say.
Good on you for doing so many side projects. I barely get started on mine. Give up/stop way too quickly.
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Apple Seeds Third Beta of MacOS High Sierra to Public Beta Testers
There's a lot we'll lose once Flash goes away forever, in a way that can't be archived like old Geocities pages (unless someone makes a Flash player in Javascript O_o)

Looks like it's possible:

https://github.com/mozilla/shumway

http://mozilla.github.io/shumway/examples/inspector/inspecto...
Explain TCP like I'm five
Yup, it's very hard to make a good return in the competitive stock market, but easy to make a good return in the market you have exclusive monopoly access to: making investments that cut your own personal costs of living
For this level of time synchronization it is enough to send a few extra bytes with synchronization information in each packet. If you'd be down at microsecond-level synchronization, you probably need to do temperature compensation - particularly in outdoor deployments where there can be a 40 C / 100 F difference between two nodes on a sunny winter day.
This is why I said "seem." Everything has some bias, but I think foreign publications usually have a less-relevant-to-me bias, which is about as close to unbiased as I can get.
That's why I like Foxx microservices/arangoDb - but it's really more of something you need to do from the ground up
Thanks! Bloom is my latest endeavor, and one that I don't think belongs on the scrap heap yet.

I'm just not sure how to market it. I was going down a path of appealing to data-nerds with yards, focusing on the data techniques used to make decisions.

I've also experimented with using a physics ending to design beds, but haven't got it tweaked right:
http://www.plantwithbloom.com/physics.html

(pretty fun if you want to see some plants get wrecked)

The value seems too low as it to get people purchase it. I'm considering partnering with nurseries, but the build out to use their inventories would be ambitious.
Download Developer Edition https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/developer/ (or Nightly), load up the page, and in the browser menu click "Report Site Issue".