skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I use podcast addict to pile up my podcasts. I have maybe 100 hours sitting ready to listen to locally.

I hit the tmobile glitch up in Wisconsin.. but as long as I plan ahead it is ok. I have the areas downloaded locally to google maps etc.

Not perfect, but not terrible either.
Automatic visual regression testing
Ask HN: Any basic SVG/PNG charts with API/browser?
I am trying to find a resource that I used to use, where an API supplied with a few data points would return an PNG url of a chart!

Googling has only shown http://app.rawgraphs.io/ which is close but not exact.

Basically i'd like to provide a simple CSV of data and get a simple line graph.
Two unfashionable lessons that I learned when I was a practicing programmer rather than a hobbyist and loathsome manager.

1. Code is a communication system : between you and the next person to touch it. You are telling the other person how you made this work. Invest in this because the next person will probably be you in six months.

2. Compilers and type systems are your friends. Write code that extracts errors from the compiler by explicitly constraining things as much as you can afford to do. Avoiding typing or checking via long methods or low level datatypes is bad. Short typed, functional methods and high level data types are good.
On a related note, Phillip K Dick's work seems to have gotten better over time the more his schizophrenia progressed.
Any alternatives to 1Password / LastPass that support Google's SSO? I tried TeamsID before and I was ok but not nearly as feature-full as I was hoping: e.g. no automatic auto-fill on the page you land on, no password generation for new websites.
Well at no point does that chain of events trigger a public witch hunt.

Interpol now faces an ethical / moral / legal dilemma of how to proceed, but passing the addresses _up_ to Interpol was not a mistake.

Now, if Interpol was to share the addresses with a country which they knew had cruel and unusual punishments for the alleged crimes then _that_ would be a mistake.
Mega watt power plants and smart energy monitoring
Using a VPN still works fine for me on all my devices (iPhone, various computers, streaming boxes etc) - as a UK expat iPlayer via VPN is a critical lifeline to home.

Things are probably going to get trickier in this regard shortly though once user accounts are made mandatory. Despite the BBC's claims, I wouldn't be surprised if this is step one in a plan to ensure all viewers have paid the UK TV Licence fee, especially following the recent closing of the loophole that allowed you to legally view iPlayer content in the UK without a TV licence if you didn't have a physical TV set.

(For those not familiar, UK residents are typically required to pay 147 quid or so a year if they own a TV or access the iPlayer service, which contributes to funding the BBC. Hilariously there is still a discount if you only have a black and white TV...).

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2017/may/11/iplayer-catchu...
Today I learned unpaid breaks are not breaks.
They recently changed the RocksDB licence (https://github.com/facebook/rocksdb/commit/3c327ac)

This reopenned the discussion about React licensing (https://github.com/facebook/react/issues/10191) so maybe this will change soon.
> They're promoting cloud vaults and hiding local vaults, and the Windows version of 1Password has apparently never used local vaults.

1Password 4 for Windows uses local vaults just fine - I'm using it right now. The new 1Password 6 for Windows does not support local vaults.
The only reason I mention that this is at all probable is because of the length of a PGP key. How often is the average user of a site like this logging in to verify even the last few bytes of a PGP pub key compared to what is saved in their software? Plus how many users would chalk it up to "oh SellerX just changed their key pair" and continue on encrypting their message with the new key
No tools, generally just starts off as a tangent on a particular topic and spirals out from there.

I always have a tab-backlog of wikipedia and HN articles.
This reminds me of the ProPublic article, When Evidence Says No, but Doctors Say Yes: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13705761

As I said in that submission, "Sometimes medicine helps patients, sometimes the medical-industrial complex makes work for itself. I took a lot of medicaid patients to & from doctor appointments where nothing much was accomplished."

From the present article:

> Given these results, why do these surgeries remain so widespread? Because the ineffectiveness of these procedures can be hard for doctors to see.

All of medicine is handicapped by this phenomenon. A friend had an implant put in his neck... Was good for a few years, then the pain returned. He went back to see if the implant had failed: 'no, now the next joint down has failed'. Implants all the way down.

IMHO, the first implant might have been acceptable if they'd also made an effort to figure out how to keep his other discs from degenerating in the same manner.
"1Password has not in fact phased out their native applications or required people to use 1Password.com to store passwords"

That's true - but playing hide and go seek with the non-subscription version is uncool.
IMHO this part is where the nail is hit right on the head:

>Why is AgileBits doing this? · For the same reason that Adobe has been pressuring its customers, for years now, to start subscribing to its product, rather than buying each successive version of each app. A subscription business is much nicer to operate than one where you have to go out and re-convince people to re-buy your software.

It is the part (common to many other software vendors) where they stress the "I am doing this for your own good" that irks me.

You want to change your business model? Fine.

Do you believe that this new one is better? Fine.

Do you want to convince me that you are changing the "old" model (which BTW you used until a nanosecond ago) becasue it is better for me? Hmmm.
Nah, according to Dr. Robert Lustig, sugar, specifically fructose, behaves pretty much the same as ethanol in our bodies. Look up his Sugar: the Bitter Truth video on YouTube.

It's not that much of a stretch to see it that way either: alcohol is nutritionally barren. And instead of raising blood sugar, it lowers it, thus rendering one prone to cravings for poor carbs.
I attached the link to the url
when did x86 add mmu support? it would have been pretty hard with segments (maybe not...oh yeah, you would have had to swap segment registers on demand alot*)
Wow! I was expecting to see something much smaller in the picture. I guess it makes sense if you have very minimal/no breakfast.
I also felt hungry on low-carb. Actually, "deprived" is a more accurate descriptor than "hungry." There was a gnawing sensation during/after every meal that badly wanted rice/potatoes/something carby to round out the meal. Without them I never felt satisfied. All the avocado/butter/cheese in the world didn't sate that sensation. Maybe that goes away after a while, I never lasted too long on low carb.
Sorry, mine was also a joke :).

Paella is originally from Valencia, but prepared all over Spain, and that leads to some local variations and creative results. International exposure to tourists and foreign cooks has created an even bigger variety of paellas.

But since some years ago, there has been a growing group of Valencians that have been very outspoken (with varying levels of seriousness) about what goes into a paella, and what makes it just an "arroz con cosas" (rice plus things).

They even successfully lobbied to have a correct paella icon in unicode!
https://emojipedia.org/shallow-pan-of-food/ But, to great jest, a lot of implementations got it wrong (only apple, twitter, and emojipedia get it right in the previously link).

Supposedly, paella just adds chicken, rabbit, green beans and habones (big white beans) to a saffroned rice.
Glad to hear you like the audio-book stuff! We've admittedly not got it for all books, though have for our more recent & popular books. If feedback/sales are good, we'll be likely adding it to more.
The problem with this example is that if I knew your address I could order drugs to you.
It's just a matter of time until the store fronts are developed open source on Github and hosted decentralized on a network like MaidSafe. People love to get high and are willing to pay. Innovation will follow to meet demand.
My first thought as well.

Furthermore, in order to lower the risk of anyone detecting this here's something the LEO could do:

1. They seize control of the servers.

2. They make note of who is an existing user and keep serving them the real PGP keys of other pre-existing users.

3. For anyone who registers after the point in time where LEO controls the servers, replace the PGP keys of sellers and also the keys of these new users with MITM key pairs.

Then when they run the site for a month as they did and they have the influx of users they got from AlphaBay, they will have plenty of evidence on all of the sellers that are active during that period of time due to there being so many new users all of whom you are MITMing, regardless of whether the sellers are new or old because the old sellers are also being MITMed in all exchanges they have with new users.

The sellers were the primary target of interest, so the LEO got what they wanted.

All of what I said is just something they could have done though. Not saying that it's what they actually did.
Your original comment is totally correct, but I thought it might mislead beginners - that's why I said "to clarify." I think there is a common confusion about whether a qubit can have probabilities besides 50:50. The Hadamard gate example explains superposition, but tends to increase this misconception, so I also wanted to emphasize the many other possible states and how an answer is extracted from them.
to get variable defined in function scope? :)
Everything is 256 bit encrypted though. No way they broke that.
Are you serious? Thats like saying that Haskell or C++ compiles to assembler so its same.
Why would any admin do this? It would absolutely ruin their chances of getting a more lenient sentence by cooperating with the authorities.

The police have these people in physical custody. Why would they take a fall for their (also criminal) customers? There is nothing to gain but much to loose.

PS: If there is not enough evidence for prosecution, having a dead man's switch would be incredibly stupid. It announces to everyone "You got the right guys. Keep digging for evidence"
You are correct on nearly all points, and the parents is wrong in nearly all of their points.

However, I believe they are technically correct that we "are here because our ancestors ate carbs". This is not to say that carbs are healthy or necessary for modern humans, only that our ability to live on a diversity of energy sources was hugely beneficial, and almost certainly necessary, for the survival of our distant ancestors.
The search for the Solar System’s most likely place for life
Mozilla seems to have gotten infected by the same paternalism that is riding the likes of Gnome into the ground.
> it sounds like you're saying big drug dealers are just selling drugs to get money to, I don't know, go on murder sprees

No. I'm just saying that the people upstream manufacturing massive quantities of meth and heroin probably aren't the kinds of organizations that you want to be making that kind of money.
Right! Sorry. I don't use Windows. Honestly? My recommendation about password managers probably shouldn't extend to Windows; there might be no password manager I confidently recommend on that platform.

That's not a statement about 1Password; it's about the fact that the security models are different on the two platforms, and I'm very familiar with how 1Password works on macOS and less so on Windows.
The counterargument is that if drugs are legalized then the crime syndicates will need to find a new line of work. It's possible they'll go "legit" like the mob did after prohibition and get into the Casino business, but it's also possible they'll switch to human trafficking or gun running or some other harmful trade.

This is an especially big danger if you're talking about a gang that currently deals mostly drugs but also smuggles forced prostitutes over borders on the side. Take away the drugs and they're likely to expand the side business.
Freeboard – IoT dashboards
> Going for a long-ish walk outside.

Do you have a real objective on those walks (ie getting groceries, lunch) ?

I like walking with non-gym clothes but only when I'm actually doing something in the way...
I'm still trying to understand where these fads came from in the first place.
Why buy into just part of the statement? I don't think The Boring Company has any plans to do trench-and-cover tunneling, anywhere...
I could have sworn that Netflix had an open source library for sending encrypted responses to the browser that had to be decrypted with EME. I can't find it now though.

The cdm api in chrome at least allows for decrypting raw bytes. I'm not sure how it's exposed in javascript.
This is what led me to move to their subscription model (and I'm sure it was intentional).

1P4 for Windows was the last version that was "buy once and forever", but they weren't providing good browser integrations for that version.

I am happy to support them though, and gladly used their products.

I definitely don't want to have to unlock my vaults on their website though.
Google charts (https://developers.google.com/chart/) has a PNG export https://developers.google.com/chart/interactive/docs/printin...
There's no way we'll be able to do that until we have an agreed-upon definition of free will. Good luck with that. We can't even come up with rigorous definitions of many common, related words: intelligence, thinking/thought, life. Heck, we can't even define pornography!

All of these ultimately boil down to "I know it when I see it". This sort of definition is not good enough for scientific inquiry. For that reason, scientists tend to avoid such questions.
Today’s Internet is not moving data as well as it should. TCP sends data at lower bandwidth because the 1980s-era algorithm assumes that packet loss means network congestion.

BBR models the network to send as fast as the available bandwidth and is 2700x faster than previous TCPs on a 10Gb, 100ms link with 1% loss. BBR powers google.com, youtube.com, and apps using Google Cloud Platform services.

Unlike prior TCP advancements like TCP QUIC which required a special browser, BBR is a server-side only improvement. Meaning you may already be benefiting from BBR without knowing it. BBR requires end users to make no improvements. This is especially relevant in the developing world which use older mobile platforms and have limited bandwidth.
Why would you have free time in the office? Or to put it another way, why would you be in the office during your free time?
[Anecdotal] I have been on a 15-20g of carbs per day diet for 41 days. Giving up carbs feels like breaking an addiction and I treat it that way. I took it in stages so lessened the impact of keto-flu. I was gluten free for 2.5 years. Giving up all wheat oats, and barely products (accept beer and whiskey)was the hardest stage. After three weeks of withdrawal I lost all interest in bread/pasta/pastries/sweets. But I still ate substitutes like potatoes and rice. Four months ago I gave up beer/wine/whisky to address tension headaches (no improvement, thankfully). So when I was inspired to go ketogenic it was relatively easy. I don't find it difficult at all. Business meals invariably involve steak or fish. I am never hungry so long airplane rides can be addressed with maybe a handful of nuts and lots of water.

The author's claims of difficulty derive from treating himself to sweets on occasion. That is like a smoker being a social smoker. They never manage to quit and always have the cravings.
Contrary to popular belief (and internet logical fallacy experts), attacking the credibility of the speaker is a perfectly fine thing to do. The quality of the speaker is often times a pretty good indicator of the quality of the message.
Researching ideas that previously came to my mind minutes before when I was busier. I write down these kinds of ideas to save them for later and them I put them out of my mind as I'm trying to do my work. Or, I just browse HN.

Usually I look at this through my phone as I'm walking somewhere. Taking a 4-5 minute break for a walk is important because sitting all day is not healthy. Sometimes the walk has a purpose such as going to the coffee machine. Sometimes it's just randomly moving around then go back to my seat.
1) So make a request that Tor-like functions tell servers that our OS is Ubuntu. Perhaps I'm obtuse here, but who gives a darn if it's a matter of privacy - isn't the issue to hide under the most common OS?

2) So we send (through a Tor-backed PGP/GPG-encrypted message) a message saying "hey dev.dork, your minimuum window size is unrealistic".

3) Yay!

4) Yay!

5) And...? maybe it'd be wise to declare 4:3, but otherwise I see no issue.

6) Well, obviously we should have a button of "This page is requesting private data - Share for this page load? Y/N"

And I really, really don't mind if literally everything called an "API" were to go out the bloody window. Sure, it's throwing the baby out with the bathwater, but there's too much bathwater and the baby's a squalling jerkface anyhow.
The fun part is about the list not the languages themselves. Benchmarks, reviews and rankings are just the perfect time killers for me but job oriented lists have nothing new to say for now.
I would say no way. You arm get to tired and you don;t any real hepatic feedback. There's something about 'feeling' a keyboard or screen that humans need.

Whatever happened to Minority Report's technology predictions?

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/sep/18/minority-...
I think geebee's point is that the two trends go together chronologically; is there a causal relationship, or is it a spurious correlation?
Could talking to other developers about personal side projects constitute your company claiming ownership of the intellectual property?
I've never used Overleaf, but for several years I used ShareLaTeX as my primary LaTeX editor. I've since switched to using LaTeX through emacs but I still regularly use ShareLaTeX's great documentation and if I didn't carrying my Linux laptop around everywhere, I'd probably still be using ShareLaTeX. Hopefully this new partnership won't ruin it.
Unless they practice what they preach, anything from Wired (or any modern bloated "news" site for that matter) whining about this can be discarded. I don't even know why they publish this hypocritical crap.
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If they did, it would kill REST.

Maybe that would be a good thing.
The 'rise of passive investors' creates more opportunities for activist investors to discover overvalued/undervalued stocks. Index funds aren't affecting the prices of individual stocks. So long as the opportunity exists to make money buy buying/shorting stocks, someone will be buying/shorting stocks.

Moreover, executive compensation is still overwhelmingly set via earnings-per-share targets in a fairly transparent manner. If there's a conspiracy afoot to miss targets to benefit an industry sector, the authors haven't identified it.

I like the Matt Levine treatment of this question ('Are Index Funds Communist?'):

https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2016-08-24/are-index...
A lot of org crime mail order wholesale to distribute at street level, it's how fentanyl got into my country so doesn't stop street trade. Same with Australia there are gangs here that flood the mail system with meth and fentanyl to their gang counterparts there hoping some get through as prices 3x higher there so can afford losses. Ending prohibition would shut all this down though I can't see any politicians surviving a reelection if they do.
I clicked it and read it, and I see no reason to believe such, could you point out what is wrong to me?
Sure, lots of customers thought they wanted websites full of unrealistic, bad ideas, and Flash made that possible for them. I'm glad that's over with.
We've got our own internal RTOS, not a general purpose OS.

We use it for different things depending on the board, but my favorite is a really sweet profiler that's integrated with our watchdog logic that'll give us ~1000 PC+SP samples in the 100msec or so before our watchdog timer resets our board. That's pretty invaluable for debugging.
Wait, was that his plan all along?

I mean, is it feasible he released the idea of Hyperloop into the wild and let other companies battle it out and spend an enormous amount of money on R&D, only to build a "straightforward" company and sell it's "product" (infrastructure) to Hyperloop and the others?
Inside scoop from a creative director: Designers aren't toning down contrast to reduce eyestrain or to avoid black. It's an attempt (really a hack) to simplify a busy page / UI. They are telling you it's too much content on the screen at one time.

If you aren't empowered to trim the content, you can at least tone the type down in contrast & size to make it appear to be less. Every time I see subtle grey text on a marketing page, I can hear the designer thinking, "no one is really going to read this anyway."

Just like in speaking, my advice is to make your words bold but few.
I just get yelled at here when I leave out that sentence.
That's absolutely true. However, my question is whether part of the decline of text readability is due to a resume building need to involve technologies that don't have much to do with basic text.

Here's the thing - people don't like to bring in a more complex technology simply to do exactly the same thing as they could do with a simpler one. They need to justify its presence in there somehow.

For instance, supposed you decided to re-implement hacker news with a client heavy javascript framework. Would you leave it looking exactly the same as before? Almost certainly not, you'd start using that javascript stuff, and (in my opinion), the end result would no longer be the simple, easy to read, text based website that it currently is.

That's the connection I'm getting at here (and once again, it's something I'm mulling over, not a hard conclusion I've reached).
Real-World Angular Series – Part 8: Lazy Loading, Production Deployment, SSL
If only I had a keyboard with an NFC chip, and some password software on my phone ...
Surely that should be "anecadatum"?
What you describe is "reduction", not "moderation"
Watch, new computers lacking many peripherals unless you buy a bag of dongles, rehashing the same product over and over while software upgrades make them obsolete...just saying marketing is a huge part of what apple does.
To start, the LastPass browser extension auto logout feature has critical bugs. I've come back to my computer after several days and found it still logged in with full access to the vault (no master password re-entry required) even with auto logout set to 15 minutes of inactivity. After that happened several times, I lost trust in the product.