skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I grew up in Seattle. I remember my mother constantly complaining that Gates was always trying to drive public school policy but in the end sent his kids to private school. It does seem like a breed of hypocrisy to claim how good your education program is, but you won't put your own skin in the game. Also makes you feel like a guinea pig.
That's precisely what a fully-realized Continuum experience would be. Using the latest Windows on ARM with x86 emulation and the Composable Shell (CShell) [1] would give you a great experience.

Note that the Lumia 950 with the current production of Continuum is effectively a technology demo of that model since it doesn't have x86 emulation [2] and therefore can't run the full breadth of Windows applications. That said, Continuum already does use the Phone's display as a keyboard, mouse, or just a second display according to your preference.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YNxtMtlrm6U

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o2y1cKh-KXs
These are really solid for anyone coming from numpy land. Looking forward to the more advanced tutorials
A Rant on Usable Security
I tried it last week, I don't think its enough food for two people for two meals.

I'm trying Purple Carrot this week, so far the box was delayed in arriving and my emails to customer service about that didn't get replied to yet. But it eventually did show up and it looks pretty good, although I notice once of the recipes calls for a food processor which I don't have and have no intention of buying.
I recently came across a `pass` competitor called `freepass` built with Rust ontop of libsodium: https://github.com/myfreeweb/freepass

`pass` is my current favourite, the Android app works fine and syncing text files is easy. But I'm looking forward to trying `freepass` out. The interface looks nice in the asciicinema animation in the README, a Quicksilver/spotlight style floating window.

BitWarden looks too heavy-duty for me.
How BuzzFeed’s Tasty Conquered Online Food
negotiability, ability to sell, expiration and ownership interest are not part of howey test op described
Just curious, since your clients are visually impaired people, what steps did you take to make your website accessible?

It seems to be from a pre-made template, did you check the template ahead of time? Do you have visually impaired engineers, or do you do things like go through it with a screen reader/iOS VoiceOver every so often?
I ran through it. I didn't suggest he didn't cover it. I just used it as a trivial example, because other readers supposedly also ran through it. Some other commenter suggested communication between agents as an extension, I could've used that if I knew what results from it.
Facinating story, and well written with a proper amount of skepticism I think. This quote in particular sheds an interesting light on ... I dont know, the 1500's?

"The word of an ordinary, uneducated sailor like Ingram was not to be trusted, not because he would make things up so much as he couldn’t tell the difference between fact and fiction."
It's the old 'blame the dev not the compiler' quip. When I was in undergrad learning to code, before web browsers, if students blamed the compiler for their errors the profs just didn't care. If the compiler crashed the OS while compiling it was still the student's problem to figure it out.

Now you frequently hear intelligent devs complaining about how FF is slow compared to Chrome when loading website X. And here I am simply amazed that web browsers don't just crash constantly from the reams of dumpster trash they're forced to injest.

It's developers that have turned the web into a stinking pile of bloated code, but yet we continue to blame the interpreters(i.e. browsers).
> I wonder what can be done to improve the format of scientific papers?

See the Distill initiative, for one direction:

https://distill.pub

HN discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13915808
Cgroups: limit memory, limit CPU, and voila - it works! Slack is one of the resource hogs that will take all that you'll give it.
An interactive/collaborative standard for viewing, annotating, and sharing notes is really needed in this space. The technology exists to sit on top of the PDF files that are already created but a new standard to write and publish content is needed.
http://abstrusegoose.com/502
What about this is an operating system?
I'm not knocking this initiative, I hope it is very successful and helps the blind. However...

About 10 years ago I sat down with the folks at the Maryland School for the Blind (1) to demo a similar mini LIDAR based design with haptic feedback. They thanked me for coming in and promptly brought in a box of similar devices and contraptions and dumped them on the desk. They told me these devices were fine, but really they were happy using canes.

What came next blew my mind. They told me what they really wanted/needed was a way for a blind person to use AutoCAD so that bling people who wanted to work as engineers or architects could do so. Obviously, that's an exponentially tougher challenge, but certainly not not doable.

1. http://www.marylandschoolfortheblind.org
Well, I've worked on two now... once was self-hosted by a large services company, which has its' own data centers and redundant connections, it also handles a significant portion of DNS for the internet (for good or bad). It worked for them, but was painful.. Getting new servers up was months of work.

I'm working at another service company expecting to clear 5M requests/day with bursts close to what you're talking about several times a year. We've had so much pain managing colocated servers, we can't justify the cost of 3 full data centers for just our load, that doesn't make sense. We're currently moving to a cloud provider to be able to scale out better when peaks really spike.

We had a customer that wanted to do several million requests in a 15 minute window, and can't currently handle that... We're restructuring/refactoring so that we can.

It may not be sustained, but getting 330k requests/second in bursts is a different way to think about problems than anything less than 1k/second, which many servers can hit without a sweat, and why I'd be more inclined to push for mid-level VPS like DO or Linode in those cases. Depends on need and expected growth.
The reason for this level of inequality is this:

Our culture tells us that our motivation to do better (or more) work should be the power to dominate others (being rich is just that).

And that's just what humanity will have to change in the coming years: Change our culture to replace the incentive of domination with humane incentives and values.
Really interesting project, do you envision the usage of this technology on other use cases like for example robot navigation?
And rust (via rustler).
Tried that, doesn't help a whole lot (the desktop app is a glorified Webkit wrapper).
I've seen this, it wasn't super impressive, just a pretty sculpture with classical music playing and no recognisable connection between the music or sculpture and the bees when you're actually there.

Kew Gardens is beautiful though, if expensive to enter (somebody's parent will have a membership card and they aren't draconian about checking names so if you visit Kew or London, worth poking social media to save £40).
Ruby/Sinatra, then maybe Rails if it gets serious :)
Ohhhh I lose
Forcing the issue early on would have killed Python3. For the first so many years, the majority was against Python 3.
Introducing the Pokerware Secure Passphrase Generator
If Google can't make the best web application then who can ?
My guess is state preservation, for the purpose of making the bug happen more reliably.
>it would be great if Twitter provided better statistical insight into these matters

Yeah, that's my greatest wish too - something like average tweets per hour/peak tweets per hour/average tweets per day/peak tweets per day stats.
What is YOGA?
At Harvard, court battle between Ph.D. student and researcher grinds on
There is much more extensive and better (and pre-wikipedia vintage, to boot) help at

http://cr.middlebury.edu/bulgakov/public_html/
Just quit and find SJW friendly company (will be hard though as complaining and victim complex rarely makes money). You are clearly a wrong fit there. To get upset by such a comment as "Our app is big just like my dick" needs some special "special snowflake". Women are very valuable employees just like man only and only if they provide value and make money to the employer. The more the better. That's the only thing that matters and that's when your opinions matters to your employer. Otherwise you are just a toxic asset bitching about non issues and employer is probably just better off if he lets you go.
Which subscription did you purchase? That is, how many people is it supposed to feed?
No, this is a different paper and a different technique.

This paper cites "Simple, fast and safe..." in section 7 and explains the differences.
Well, this is linking to IEEE. I have mixed feelings about this, since IEEE is actually doing a good job about publishing. They have far better reviews than most other journals, and members free get access to most journals anyways.
We are also exploring other specialized channels with good response so far:
- Sunu band is currently being prescribe at NECO Center for Eye Care in Boston as it is proving to be a catalizer in the rehab process of patients who lost their sight.
- We are about to start trials with O&Ms (Orientation and Mobility Specialists) from the board of AERBVI (Asociation for Education and Rehabilitation of the Blind and Visually Impaired) to prove the effectiveness of the product to be a complimentary mobility aid and a maximizer in the process of developing O&M skills.
That's true for blind travelers who use a white cane. But, most people who live with low vision, like myself, and are legally blind, tend to not use a white cane, simply because we want to 'blend in' and avoid the 'social stigma'.
In which way is IPFS ideal?
His non-foundation donations don't add up to close to foundation donations. That would defeat the purpose of creating a foundation.
Seems like her colleagues have the maturity of 15-year-olds.
Actually, it does make sense. While the ability of the super-rich to affect society is enhanced by their wealth, their ability, and need to do so, are reduced by their small numbers. They do not form the kind of large, broadly homogeneous social group that drives long-term changes in society. The sheer scale of their exceptional wealth also lets them make special, individual arrangements that preclude the need to act en-masse.

The 1% on the other hand, are rich enough to enjoy outsized political influence, but poor enough to retain some economic anxiety, and be genuinely affected by changes to taxation, inheritance, redistribution, etc. And they are numerous enough to form a corporate whole that acts to protect its own interests.

The 1% are the middle managers of the world's socioeconomic hierarchy. They don't possess great power individually, but their collective power to shape the culture is vast, and has a tendency towards toxic outcomes as they attempt to safeguard what wealth they have managed to accumulate.
Marco! This is Maneesh from Pavlok (pavlok.com)! We met on Skype, and your co-founder worked with me at MassChallenge. Congrats on your success -- I hope I can help!
Sincere question: Why do you consider this "old fashioned thinking"?

(I don't agree that your other assertions are correct, but I'm most interested in this one.)
OpenRCT2: Open Source Re-Implementation of RollerCoaster Tycoon 2
It might be better to give your data to someone who has to tell you how they're spying on you, than to somebody who legally shouldn't be able to but does so anyway.
Out of curiosity:
The chrome tab running the engine is using 55% of my CPU, an i7-4770K running at 3.5Ghz...

Box2D with many more objects consumes 22%.

Oimo, with a 3D rendering scene with TONS of objects: 35% CPU..

Matter.js, lots of objects with mouse interaction: 15% CPU.

Plank, lots of objects: 25%

I'm wondering how/why this ended up in the front page...
Destructive updates are where computing the next step in the simulation destroys or overwrites the previous step.

This is destructive:

this.position += this.velocity
Anybody mirrored (or attempted to do so) libgen ?
We agree. A similar analogy using log scale would be the "Wheat and chessboard problem" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wheat_and_chessboard_problem
Aren't there more 2.7 users than 3.x users? I am certain this is true in the scientific community. But I also thought it was true for the general. So telling the majority of your user base "to go fuck themselves" is, generally, not considered a good idea.
I think it would be hard to get through without the discussions and some guidance.
The professor (real not in the book) was pretty good at making it more interesting.

I'm not a great reader though and read mostly non-fiction now. I go slow. I tried to read the "sound and the fury" by Faulkner once and didn't get past the first chapter.
This is incorrect. The principal is a liability to the issuer. Income from loan payments are subtracted from the balance as they come in.

The cash from the loan is an asset for the borrower, until it is presumptively paid to a third party.
From what I remember from the book it was pretty clear what Deckard is. But I agree, I liked the movie ending.

Is there more than one book? I've only read the first.
If the creator of Solidity, Gavin Wood, cannot write a
secure multisig wallet in Solidity, pretty much confirms
Ethereum is hacker paradise.

[1] https://t.co/WAR3eltfWl

[2] https://www.cryptocoinsnews.com/hackers-seize-32-million-in-...
Yes, it lazy-loads papers using credentials from institutional subscribers and then stores them for fast retrieval. When you're the first person to request a paper you'll see an animation of a biphenyl molecule rotating while the site fetches the paper from an institution with access. Sometimes, there is no corresponding institution with access currently hooked up to sci-hub and the retrieval process fails. But I've only seen that happen a few times.
Or if the Caltrain ran every 15 minutes from 5AM to 1AM and charged $1/ride?

Then you'd have absolute gridlock at all unseparated crossings (e.g. Castro Street, Rengstorff, Menlo, Redwood City, etc. Those would have to be separated first.
Traveloka raises $350m from Expedia as another US giant eyes growing SEA market
Swift, on iOS (and maybe macOS). I love the expressiveness of the language.
That's exactly the idea :) We don't want to impose structure before it actually becomes useful. That's also why the most basic elements are called "items", as their purpose can evolve into ideas, tasks, requirements, etc.
Is anyone demanding instant install or updates ?

I can download 95% of apps in under 30 seconds and all of my apps update whilst I am sleeping. And nothing is stopping you downloading new content in a native app which is where the majority of use cases stem from.
I'm an Android user, and I don't want these either. Mainly because they don't integrate with the native look & feel of the platform. And when a dev tries to, then inevitably make it look like iOS, and ignores Android look & feel.

"It seems like the majority of the comments opposing web apps oppose them because they're cross-platform and not written specifically for their chosen platform, which is a very silly stance to have."

But it's not. By not being written specifically for the platform, everyone is just getting a least common denominator approach. Nobody is getting anything that integrates with their platform. Nobody is getting anything that embraces what makes the platform special, or good.

"but a lot of the rhetoric around here really reeks of elitism."

No, it's more that we want developers to actually make an effort to embrace the platform they're trying to work on. And, quite frankly, use something that's not JavaScript. Learn a second language.
Since there's no universe in which this counts as a thoughtful comment, and this is arson on a site that's trying for much better, I've banned this account.

There's room for people to earnestly disagree about divisive issues, but no room for this.

If you don't want to be banned on HN you're welcome to email hn@ycombinator.com and give us reason to believe that nothing like it will ever happen again. But please don't create new accounts to break HN's rules with; when people do that we eventually ban their main account as well.
If you're not carrying it while you run how is the tiny iPod Shuffle perfect form factor? You're just "plugging it into the sound system"?

I personally leave my big Nexus 6P on the ground on top of my towel next to machines while I work out, connecting to headphones via bluetooth with a $40 headphone amp that clips onto to my shirt or shorts:

https://www.amazon.com/Creative-Headphone-Amplifier-Integrat...

Works well for me and the sound is great (despite the fact it's made by Creative and not overpriced autophile-ware).

Now that Bluetooth headphones are a thing I don't see the utility in the shuffle anymore.

I bet Apple views bluetooth headphones as the portable iPod killer more than anything...
Do blind people have games on their iphones/android phones?

I checked some websites this week but it seems most of the audiogames are mostly for desktop computers and just a handful of iOS games.
"You seem to be laser-focused on this one tiny part of PWAs."

We're laser focused on the annoying parts that we know will be abused to death.

"Imagine if you could press a button on the page to save that article you're reading for later, and have it available offline next time you need it."

Most browsers already do this.

"PWAs are just flat out _better_ than existing web apps. It's remarkable to me that so many people seem to be against these incredibly useful features just because the app they're using is web-based rather than native."

Because we already have native apps to do these things. I don't want websites to do these things. I want a website to be a website.
> There was a Black Mirror episode on giving every person on the globe their own rating. It seems that may be the actual destination that we're headed for.

"Nosedive".

One of the scariest things I've ever seen on screen. I joke about how realistic black mirror is but that episode was too much. Beyond uncanny. It was incredibly hard to watch and I hated every second of it. Awful. Cannot recommend it enough.
I agree, although different people's experience may differ simply because they were or were not using certain language features often.

What bites me all the time is the division operator. The 2to3 code will run, but produce incorrect results. String / byte handling is an obvious other one.
Statute!
Yes, good point. Perception of some things has logarithmic response. Within in certain ranges, of course.

It's funny because I first imagined the seeing/hearing comment as pitch & color, rather than volume & brightness. Pitch certainly feels somehow naturally logarithmic. But we can hear linear differences as easily as we can hear logarithmic differences. Within certain ranges, of course.
Those people already can't run bitcoin then, you need more than 100GB of storage currently (I think closer to 160GB now? I don't remember). Good luck running that on your smartphone.

So the question is: amongst the people running full nodes today, how many wouldn't be able to cope with 8MB blocks?

Also note that 8MB is the max size and blocks could be smaller, I don't expect that 8MB blocks would get fill up in the short term.
"and even if you get pixel-perfect between android and ios"

Nobody but designers who think too highly of themselves wants this. Everyone else wants the app to fit in with the platforms toolkit. This requires the designs to be different.

"Writing two pixel+cultural perfect apps on two platforms, keeping them in sync, making sure they're not buggy, attempting to share code, attempting to keep them both secure is incredibly expensive. If you don't believe me then do it yourself."

Which is why I don't do it the way you described. I embrace what makes each platform unique.
Why was this flagged?!
How would you design a human to be the best as both a horse jockey and a basketball player?
In practice, they tend to make it look like iOS, but then they ship the same thing for Android, meaning the Android app looks like an iOS app.
Mapping the United Swears of America
the db dump is public too, from the tip of my tongue libgen forums quoted something like 100TB altogether. (this includes more than scihub cache)
I really like this response, it gives tremendous insights into the person. I'd like to unpack it a bit though and perhaps provide some food for thought.

Starting in the middle:

> I think it's not productive to pretend like
> money doesn't equate to happiness.

That quote and this one:

> Yet the vast majority of the time, this sentiment
> comes from people who are well-off

Ties the notion of money to happiness.

It would be great if it were that simple, but it isn't. All of the studies show that once your basic needs are met The correlation between money and happiness essentially goes away. And part of the problem is being imprecise in our language, because their is 'money' which is to say "gee you're pulling in $10,000 a month!" and there is 'wealth' "gee it only takes 10% of your take home pay to cover your rent!"

Many people who work in the STEM sector of the market, will have their basic needs met. They will all have individually varying levels of happiness that are not well correlated with their individually varying levels of wealth. You'll meet them, people who are "rich" and miserable, people who consider themselves "middle class" and are totally happy.

And I assert there is a key to happiness in this uncorrelated range of wealth.[1] That key is to define your happiness in something you have complete control over, rather than something that is externally influenced. Everyone I've ever met who does that is happier, more consistently, than people who don't do that. It doesn't have to be learning like it is for me, I know people who are very happy and measure their days by how many people they have helped.

It is my thesis that everyone has some internal notion of their "score" in life, and once their survival needs are well met (food & shelter) their happiness is entirely a function of how much they are 'scoring' versus an arbitrary benchmark of what a good 'score' should be.

[1] For the literally minded we'll define this uncorrelated region as that level of wealth that starts just above 'I have enough incoming capital to keep from struggling to meet financial obligations' and below 'I have so much capital I don't have to work to meet my financial obligations.'
"I think the point is rather that single-codebase "productivity apps" that satisfy basic modern experience expectations (like "I could run it offline") are not possible elsewhere - but they should be."

Why?

"Also, the thing about expanding the Open Web Platform is that the new features that are available to me don't take anything away from you if you don't want to use them. "

As a user, they do. If you go whole hog on the PWA stuff, then I no longer have the regular website you used to have.
I guess the question is, why not Node/React/PHP/Laravel/JSP/a bowl of noodles?