skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is there a reason you don't have the Fastmail app installed?
Nothing about this seems to be 'for Electron apps'?

It just sits between the app looking for an update and Github releases; returns the latest release if newer than a supplied version number assumed to be the current.

Is it really so bad to have that `if latest.version > version` logic in the app itself, and download directly from Github?

Github releases are presumably pushed over a CDN and already well-cached - and almost certainly have better up-time than someone running an instance of this somewhere, which of course is still potentially victim to Github's down-time.

Have I missed something? What's the point?
lolamd
GPGPU in the browser. Some would say it's already here but not all browsers have a standardized API that facilitates it.
A house.

100% srs.

Buy the land and build your own house. You will learn so much... and you will make a load of money too!
Hopefully WebUSB will arrive sometime and be useful. I thought it would be really cool to write a basic SDR web app/browser extension, but unfortunately it's not really possible right now.

There was a project called Radio Receiver which used an RTL SDR, but it is a chrome app and chrome apps are pretty much dead.
It should be clear to anyone who has read this article by Dr. Beard (or her phenomenal book SPQR) that it isn't really up for debate whether there were Roman soldiers and civilians in Britain who came from the far reaches of the Empire and beyond. Yes, including from Africa. Whether we would have looked at these people and said they were "black" is, as Dr. Beard explains, pretty unanswerable (not to mention a vain attempt to view the ancient world in terms of group identities that are very modern indeed).

Dr. Taleb and others show a massive ignorance of how the studies of history, archaeology, and biology work when they assert that we can just "look in the genes" for an unambiguous record of every damn person who has ever set foot on the British Isles. But a misguided desire to hold history to the same evidentiary standards as, say, physics or mathematics - including by physicists and mathematicians - is nothing new.

What's more worrisome is the determination of some to willfully ignore historical evidence that might challenge their worldview.

Look around the Internet - there is a new revisionist history of the Western world that is being pushed, one that holds a shared "white" or "European" identity as paramount. These are the people who came after Dr. Beard as they come after anyone who challenges their views.

These people are undoubtedly far less numerous than they appear; they use bots and multiple accounts to make themselves appear more legitimate. This itself is dangerous, as it may cause bystanders to view these people as more mainstream than they truly are (and it's no secret that people ascribe more credulity to an idea when it seems widely accepted).

This is not going to get better as neural networks improve at writing tweets that sound human.
The scifi novel "Omega" by Jack McDevitt also had this.
What is the Metaverse and why do I want to go there?
For the most part I prefer to use technologies like JdbcTemplate that only provide a very thin layer between the relational and the object-oriented world.

ORM systems usually try to paper over the impedance mismatch between these two worlds. This mismatch will always be there. There's no way around it. So, we might as well keep the systems dealing with it as simple as possible and not try to force object-orientation on relations and vice versa.

Document-oriented database systems are good alternative in many cases, too because by their very nature they're much more amenable to storing objects.
All the changes there were ridiculous, but easily provable.
Whats wrong with Vegas for large conferences? Airport is close by and has daily flights to it from most major cities, hotel rooms are cheap and decent quality. Can you name a better city to have a conference for 20,000 people? Only thing i wish it had was tougher smoking laws. You aren't forced to gamble or drink or partake in whatever debauchery that goes down in vegas.
I would love to drop the smart phone from every hour of my waking life but limited text input capabilities would be a major sticking point for me.
This is most business writing. Most of it is cargo cultism built from post rationalization of survivorship bias. There are so many factors that go into success or failure that it's very hard to ascribe causality, so superstition and folk wisdom prevails.

You find this in lots of other areas with similar characteristics. All "theories of history," etc.
The issue is social signals. "Resentment" is perfectly natural, and is a result of social status posturing. Party A views Party B as socially competitive and the result is discomfort, an attempt to pull B back towards the status quo or block them from succeeding, and of course, resentment.

I think the "lighting another candle" group are naturally wired more pragmatically; they're confident enough (or otherwise differently programmed) so that they don't feel socially competitive, and instead focus on growth. They focus on complementary aspects of Party B's success and act within reasonable social contexts to help propel Party B forward, understanding that if they're able to play a role in doing so, they'll likely be rewarded (be it financially, socially or otherwise).

I would posit that Silicon Valley can only exist because of a surplus of the latter category; it's the underpinning of VC as an industry, and business development as a branch of a corporation. In fact, it's downright dangerous for an investor to be socially competitive with founders - if you're expecting power law returns, you, by definition, have to invest in somebody that's likely going to end up more individually successful than you are and it's your job to make sure they get there.

All that said, there's definitely grey area. I'm sure that the "pragmatic" / "candle" group can still easily succumb to envy when the party they're interfacing with is quite literally competitive in a vertical they're operating in. None of us are perfect, so I think creating a delineation is a little dangerous. In-group vs. out-group thinking is only going to increase the social resentment factors (we can see it in this thread already).
Mass. I like to buy cheap clothes. I don't ever want to stand out as "rich person" to anyone... and in some cases it is preferable to just buy a completely new set of clothes rather than having to wash the current set (time management).
I'm a Libertarian, so I'd say No. But my point was that government has in the past done things that have been highly disruptive to their citizens' time.
Hyperloop needs vacuum, not pressure.
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The difference is that they actually told their investors what happened instead of lying and bringing in new investors to help cover the losses.
To clarify: he disassembled a Bramah lock and explained how it works, but did not pick open the lock. He provides some theoretical ways in which it could be picked (aside from the brute-force strategy apparently adopted by Hobbs).
Whoever made this assumes that the chimney wall would be a perfect insulator, which absolutely cannot be the case if it's supposed to be a thin cloth or film barrier. The air would cool to the same temperature as the surrounding atmosphere.

This will not work.
Why is there a tone that he's already found guilty without a trial?
Why You Shouldn't Be an Artist (or any other role)
Erlang/Elixir debugging is world-class. You can directly instrument functions running in production with fairly little overhead.

I highly suggest reading "Erlang in Anger" by ferd/MononQC. It (and his recon library) are indispensable tools for people running Erlang or Elixir in prod.
Apache has a process for retiring inactive top-level and incubator projects. It's not immediate but it does happen quite often.
I think voice controlled apps (on Alexa, Cortana, Siri, google home) will be pretty big.
>but it really hasn't made us happier as a whole.

Serious question. Has any technology done this?

We don't appear to be happier than any other animal. Even in the developed world plenty of people are downright miserable.

Unless primitive humans were just far sadder than the average animal, I can't see how technological advancement has made us happier as a whole, because we're not all that happy.

If antibiotics, electicity, and the steam engine didn't noticeably move the needle, it seems absurd to expect phone tech to do the deed. Whatever technology is solving "for the whole", it's not happiness.
I think voice controlled apps (google home, Siri, Alexa, etc will be the next big thing)
Wen-Ho Lee. Evidence showed that the leaked/stolen documents could only have come from a downstream contractor, not from Lee's lab. And yet the FBI latched on to him and wouldn't let go. Everything you think you know about the case is likely built on flawed reporting fueled by deliberate government leaks. Don't get me started... just know that what you think you know about that case is probably wrong. I was at most of his hearings and watched the judge apologize to him for the DOJ's behavior.

But as you say maybe that's another field. But still skepticism is not without basis imho.
It only has to be a reasonably good insulator. And anything that can stand up to winds at kilometer altitudes will do fine.
Hey, I've tried reaching out to you 2-3 times already. No response.
Perhaps, but the possibility of a revenge from a few powerful people annoyed by him shouldn't be discarded at this moment.

The underlying message for the community is "if you stand out in the way and go noticed, your identity will be disclosed and then you got owned". Keeping your real identity safe and your activity low-key on the other hand, will increase the probabilities to pass unnoticed and preserve your actual life and freedom.

Is the wrong message. Nobody will dare to try to be a hero the next time.
I would be perfectly happy to get more than my 10,000 back (like his investors did) late vs getting less or none back ever.

I'd be joyous if the return was better than I could expect to make otherwise, say > 10-20%.

Investments are risky. They are not automatic.

What I wouldn't be happy about is if I was lied to about the risk of an investment. That is closer to what this case is about. The money gained or lost doesn't really matter.
"traditional lectures work poorly, even when they are well done and well liked"

Just reflect for a moment on this general statement. You are saying traditional lectures -- a format used for millennia in education of every professional and technical class of society across multiple continents -- "work poorly".

And, we are meant to believe that "active learning" -- a new teaching style that throws away the lecture entirely and replaces it with group participation from students -- is, on the average, better.

Now imagine if I said this... "deep reading of books written by leaders in their field/discipline, even when those books are well-liked, work poorly."

How credible a claim could someone then make that "active reading" -- a new teaching style where we eschew books altogether and instead write and read material generated by students themselves -- is, on the average, better? Especially if in the classrooms where my hypothetical "active reading" is deployed, the students secretly buy well-written books, read them, and pass the tests just as well?
Amber Rose Explains the Real Reasons Why She Made the S3x Tape
It turns out you can make a very accurate, robust, and cheap force sensor by embedding a standard MEMS barometer in rubber.

http://www.takktile.com/main:tech

There are other methods of figuring out how much force a hand is exerting too.
Elixir does an amazing job of showing you why a test failed, but as for debugging, up until the latest release, 1.5, there wasn't really a debugger, it had pry, which lets you play around in the environment at the point where pry is called, but you can't step though code. 1.5 introduced a more useful debugging experience, but you can't step line by line, you can only step from breakpoint to breakpoint as far as I'm aware, but I haven't played much with it yet. It's getting there though! I should note that I haven't really lamented the lack of a good debugger, and I came from .NET where I had one of the best debuggers available.
> if you are creating technology for others to use

If they're selling hardware then it's a hardware company. Likewise if it's software. There is no way to sell technology, you sell the end product or service.

> you couldn't do that with a technology company.

Yes you can, it's just building software or other work. Don't buy into this special Silicon Valley hipster thinking, getting things done and making (and selling) a product the market wants is all that matters. How you get there doesnt. And none of it makes you a tech company.
Long-term that's true ... but just like you can make a fire go out by putting too much fuel on it too early, if you try to light too large a candle, the candle might go out.
They're accurate observations. I've seen these same things happen. There is a flip side to it as well that's also interesting to observe.
I don't consider android phones to be trustworthy, and iPhones are too expensive. So I don't do email, banking, or anything sensitive on my phone.
I doubt it has to be a good insulator. The air is travelling up the tube at high speed and there isn't time for it to cool significantly before it emerges.
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> Edit: I don't know why I'm being downvoted.

Don't whine about the Internet. Seriously, waste of time and beneath anyone with a modicum of confidence. Also it earns you downvotes.
I'd rather have the glucose monitoring
Actually, a bunch of wall street, banking, etc all said the state of the economy was fine, there was no housing bubble, etc all on national TV before the markets collapsed. None of them went to jail.
If a constant air flow is needed to keep the chimney upright, what will happen during the night, when the desert cools down?
Google sells advertising software and people's attention. They also make search software and various other portals that they give away for free. SpaceX builds rockets and sells freight-to-space logistics. We have had rockets for decades, newer tech just make it possible to make better rockets.

Google and SpaceX (like every other person and company on the planet) uses technology to create these products and services, but that's it.
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With "lazy CEO" I'm referring to other myth which is talking how successful CEOs are waking up at 4:30am, then they go run, mediate for 90 minutes, don't drink coffee, don't eat meat, and then work will 10:30pm. Every day.
Which is why he was arrested. He is accused of a crime, and will stand trial.
Sound's like a good thing tho, i mean we have seen his history and his past, a lot of things kinda conspired to see this coming in the end.
Grid works in Safari and edge too. The only thing you get with old browser support these days is IE people. And sure if they're 90% of your conversions, as mentioned in the comment you're replying to, that's great and go for it.
No, it would have to be a very, very good insulator. You're talking about three miles of tubing exposed to high speed winds and large convective heat losses. Anyone who's taken a course on thermal power systems would know that this is absolutely preposterous.
Public-key cryptography is used by Tor hidden services but it's not based on TLS/SSL certificates. There are a lot of detailed explanations of how this works on the web, but if you just want a quick overview I recently wrote about in the introduction of an article for 2600 (summer 2017 issue https://store.2600.com/collections/2010-2015/products/summer...). You can find a copy of my article here: https://pablo.rauzy.name/outreach/2600/how-to-run-a-tor-hidd...
> Still, dpkg doesn't support snapshots out of the box.

Yes, but it SHOULD, just because ALL REASONABLE FILE SYSTEMS SHOULD SUPPORT SNAPSHOTS. Therefore dpkg should assume that such support is avaiable, or at the very least take advantage of it, when available.

Just to reiterate: You (impersonal!), the "ignorant user", shouldn't have to even have to think about it.

Does this make my point clear?

(I'm only being this obtuse because you're saying "you're absolutely right", but apparently not seeing my point. I'm assuming it's some form of miscommunication, but it's difficult to tell.)

EDIT: Hehe, I'm sorry, that sounded much more aggressive than I intended. I just think that us software developers could and should(!) do much better by our users than we(!) currently do. My excuse is that most of my stuff is web-only, so at least I can't do the accidental equivalent of "rm -rf /", but...
"The inside and outside air will be rising up. However, the air outside will be cooling adiabatically, so its temperature will be dropping. The air inside will be not affected by adiabatic cooling and will maintain its energy, so it will be warmer and less dense than outside air."

Is this a joke, or a crazy person? Air in the tube will expand and cool just like air outside the tube does.
For the 5km chimney it needs to hold on 500km/h winds. For scale a category 5 hurricane is 250 km/h. Is it even possible to have that kind of structure with existing materials?
Python does have properties, which work via decorators @property (which decorates a getter) and @foo.setter.
Apparently people didn't watch the video. The author estimates $5M
Agreed. And furthermore, some corporate email filtering can delay receipt of emails for HOURS, making it literally impossible to login under certain circumstances, which in my own experience is insane and enraging.
It means the same thing in English:

http://www.dictionary.com/browse/exceptional
It's not an isolated incident. The same show depicted ethnic people in questionable situations.

– Sub-Saharan Celts http://i.imgur.com/WSHbj36.png

– A Sub-Saharan English Nobleman, 1215AD http://i.imgur.com/Y5WFtXO.png

– A Sub-Saharan blacksmith, Iron Age Britain http://i.imgur.com/XptrQDP.png

– A North-African Norman priest http://i.imgur.com/5JHBzMN.png

The criticized video was supposed to be "An exploration of life in Roman Britain shown through the eyes of a typical family." http://i.imgur.com/tg25juJ.jpg
It came out in congressional testimony that they were completely misrepresenting how they were re-investing profits. Employees were pilfering profits with 100% raises, massive bonuses and lavish parties. Very little if anything was going back into R&D.

If you want to make a profit and drink champagne on yachts that's totally fine, just don't go around telling everyone that you're pouring those profits back into research.
> armed robbery (30 years... his friends... all got probation

Those are both extremely inappropriate, tbf...
The Musk/Zuckerberg Dustup Represents a Growing Schism in AI
Has there been a significant update to HTDP? Or is this just being posted because HTDP is good? The second edition has existed in some form for a while now. Anyhow, the PLT/Racket folks are doing great work!
An antenna would not surprise me. There already seems to be a small contact patch on the bands that makes them snap into place.
> make a deliberately offensive or provocative online post with the aim of upsetting someone or eliciting an angry response from them.

That is the correct definition of trolling, yours is wrong. It comes from the method of fishing, as in baiting people. It's about getting reaction usually by making people angry or upset. It's purpose is not to hurt other people. Although many people get butthurt over being trolled. BThat is on them. And kind of the point of trolling, "don't waste your time getting upset over shit people, esp people you don't know, do or say. Don't give them power over you". Trolling wouldn't work, if people didn't freak out over it.
How many fraction of a cent.
HN is not supposed to be used to foster discussion of interesting topics by people interested in them?
All of that work and my back button is still broken. It also looks like I can slide a script tag into my comment and have it run.
How long ago was that? 'cause it seems pretty easy to get running now, even on Windows.
One advice I read recently was to focus on the problem you are trying to solve, not ideas.
Maybe a silly question but could you use this to recognize phrases or words in a language other than English?
One way is to talk to people who (you think) are your potential customers. Most people don't do that but even those who do it, can do it badly. I recommend "The Mom Test" (my summary: https://blog.kowalczyk.info/dailynotes/note/b4u674cvj43jdajd...) to learn how to talk to people to validate an idea.

Also, https://30x500.com/academy/ is an on-line course dedicated to that topic.

But the question shows a backwards process. You want the process to be:

1) come up with an idea

2) validate the idea

What 30x500 preaches is more like:

1) notice a problem people are having that you can solve with software

2) that is your idea

Following that process, the job changes from "come up with many idea" to "look out for signals that point to problems that are solvable with software".
They rather look like upside-down ships.
This is what happens when vendors' account get phished on darknet(DreamMarket)
The author also states in the FAQ that the air in the chimney will not undergo adiabatic cooling. If that were possible it would also not undergo expansion and would remain denser than the surrounding atmosphere.
Marketing is the real differentiator. If people don't know why your products rocks then they will never find it or buy it. Anyone and everyone with a side product must understand that to be successful.
> It was kinda sleazy to see the congress question him about his price increases when they knew damn well it was perfectly legal and they haven't done anything to stop it

Lots of things are legal uses of taxpayer money.

Lots of things aren't illegal but are worthy of public condemnation.

The intersection of those things are EXACTLY the sorts of things I want my congress people going after.

Do you disagree, or do you just like seeing things burn?
There is a market already, the only diff. from this case is who is the end buyer. If you are building a rootkit for Sony Entertainment to use on it's customers none minds much.
If our ancestors were anything like us, a lot of those got torn down because the needs of the community changed.
> doesn't your watch let you configure notifications?
Doesn't your phone too?

The whole argument reads to me like "to free myself i could just get a feature phone but that would be uncool, so i will buy a smartwatch instead"
> "Most of it is cargo cultism built from post rationalization of survivorship bias."

Is this written as a sarcasm to the business writing? ;)
Just to be clear, this is LITERALLY equating business success with ethical/legal conduct.
Are you suggesting that the hyperloop built 5km up?

Also no, as LeifCarrotson mentioned, the hyperloop is removed air to reduce drag.
I'm pretty sure the "no harm no foul" defense doesn't hold water in a fraud case. A Ponzi scheme is illegal the entire time (because it's fraudulent) even though the early investors receive returns.
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From the FAQ. His answer is:

> Air inside the chimney is not affected by adiabatic cooling. Unlike freely rising parcel of air, the air in the chimney is restricted in its horizontal expansion and thus, it is not free rising. When air rises in the chimney, it also expands but only into upper direction. It compresses the layer of the air above it, heats it up and loses its own heat. At the same time the air below does the same thing. And that how it goes all the way until the chimney exit: layers of air are being pushed and push themselves. That results in maintaining the same amount of heat in every layer of air, and that is why the chimney works.