skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd love to see this be adopted in the US, but I'm not holding my breath.

There's an example of this in my field that upsets me quite a bit. A set of tools were developed using public funds through federal research grants and other similar mechanisms, with the express purpose of making free alternatives to private tools available. After the project was successfully completed, the leaders of the project decided to start charging hundreds of dollars for "maintenance" of the toolset, which would only run on Apple devices no less. (For some tools, the cost is substantially less than private alternatives; for others it's more expensive or about the same.)

My concern about this isn't so much that they started charging money to maintain the project per se, after federal grants ran dry. My concern is that the product development costs were already paid for using taxpayer dollars, and that if it were open-sourced, it would be almost as usable, if not more usable (if it were ported to other non-Apple platforms), and free.

The other area of this that I find upsetting are these "small business grants" that basically use taxpayer funds for VC software development, with no public return. Government pays for software development, and then the developer gets to charge for it later.
> I even reflowed the motherboard after the housing got a [...]

How does one do that? Did you do it in a professional shop, or at home? What is the tooling required? I am interested in all details.
Trailer, possibly.
http://lapstore.de/ (happy customer)

https://www.nbwn.de/ (happy customer)

https://www.heinzsoft-shop.de/ (happy customer)

https://www.luxnote-hannover.de/

http://thinkspot.de/

https://ok2.de/Gebrauchtgeraete:::42.html
iOS rollouts are staged.
ad blockers here translate nicely to boot errors:
Boot failed: could not read the boot disk
ntoskrnl.exe missing or corrupt
Kids Praised for Being Smart Are More Likely to Cheat
Do you have any specific examples of that happening?
For me, it's the elegance of making do with the least sophisticated components. Using a microcontroller at all can be seen as bringing out the big guns.
it depends on your upload speed... I have 400 down, 40 up, and with Sia i can use the full 40mb upload speed (about 5MB/s). With SIA, you usually upload 3x the data, for security and safety stuff, so, uploading 1GB of data actually equates to 3GB, so on my 5MB upload, it would take about 10 min... give or take... YMMV...
Yup this is the optimal strategy. I figure that one out a couple decades ago.
just avoid anything that costs less than 1200$ at thinkpad. the E series keyboard are even worse than apple's
More like eating a bowl of soup with an excavator.
IMO micropayments would only be additive. (Ad-itive? ;D) In the "you fill the space you have" sense. XYZ news org would be giddily accepting micropayments w/ no ads but then there'd've been "the lean times" and instead of laying off 75% of their staff and having the C*'s take massive pay cuts, they'd add ads. And we'd be right where we are... only with micropayments.
I'm not sure if LinkedIn requires payment, the giant doorslam popup only offered registration/login…
I hope I can make Redox be that operating system.
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Lets be real; as much as I shit on systemd, since it released the desktop experience for people is much more well-rounded and I think it has helped distro maintainers really push usability.

Usability of Linux in the past 10 years has been exponentially increasing.
My favorite NPM moment was the time I realized a project's dependencies included all three of
https://www.npmjs.com/package/array-unique, https://www.npmjs.com/package/array-uniq, and https://www.npmjs.com/package/uniq.
> Sourceforge is respectable again! (hopefully?)

When pigs fly. I cringe every time I encounter a project hosted on SF and have to play their stupid find the download link game.
For the case presented using, QGIS would be a far more obvious solution. However another trend in GIS is much larger scale analysis. Someone will do some analysis i QGIS by hand for a small area, then someone will go "wait a minute. We have the necessary data for the whole city/county/country. Why not run the same analysis over all that data?" Then knowing how to do reproduce the whole analysis in code becomes vital.
It's insane, I can't make sense of how it works, here's a rundown of a quick test we did:

I have no LinkedIn account. I cannot view the article (nor anything else) on macOS in Safari and Firefox, neither normal nor private mode, and it has been so for months, possibly years. I can view the article in both normal and incognito modes on Chrome.

Coworker 1 is on Arch, has a LinkedIn account but has never logged in on his machine on any browser. With Firefox he can only browse a couple times before the wall kicks in, until he throws cookies away (manually or with private mode). About 15 min later, he is locked out and cannot see the page, even in private mode. Clearing every single bit of data from his Firefox profile does nothing at making the page accessible again. Still, Chrome displays the wepbage fine in both modes.

Coworker 2 is on macOS. Using Chrome he can see the page in normal mode (he had previously logged in). He cannot view the page at all in Incognito, ever.

We all share the same IPv4 but have IPv6 enabled.

It has to be some wickedly twisted heuristic possibly involving some evercookie.
I'm typing this reply on an X220-4290-CZ2, a bog standard laptop. The 1366x768 screen goes very bright and I find it useable in sunlight on e.g. a train in a seat by the window when you can't move out of the sun. This is at 52 degrees North mind you, might be different further South.

I have an X60 with slackware on that just runs and runs and runs. It is the screen that I find the limiting factor as OA mentioned. I might summon up the confidence to have a go at the LED backlight hack...
Slack CEO Says It'll Be 'Quite a While' for an IPO [video]
The linked post is just a very basic tutorial. Your idea is quite complicated geospatial analysis depending on the source data and desired correctness.
Apple “machine learning model” blocking ads that follow users around web
iCloud is running Linux?
<self promotion, but relevant> I just launched a product similar to this but a bit more powerful and aimed at a less technical audience (most of my customers are Excel users). There is a python client that does geocoding, census data lookup, and driving distance/time if you are looking for something more than the open source options provide. If you're interested, email me or check out https://cairngeographics.com/
Most UK government databases associated with identity are keyed by National Insurance Number ( NINO ) which is issued at age 15 years 11 months
It used to people would try to copy the quirks of IE since it was the dominant browser at the time. It seems tech is very cyclical.
Im thinking about upgrading my second laptop from x200 -> x220. That sounds like a promising change. I still struggle with low contrast screen on x200 sometimes.
Using geojson.io to visualise the GeoJSON seems like the wrong tool for the job; just use folium, it works perfectly in Jupyter Notebooks: https://github.com/python-visualization/folium
Since when does the US care about civilian casualties? Particularly soviet civilians
A friend just made a presentation on these exact tools at the Pycon JP 2017 a few days ago, I half expected to see Halfdan's face there: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yd5oEIBFQ_E
GNU are quite famous for their graphic design skills.
Looks pretty benign on first glance. It's only when you look on Github that the true horror reveals itself.

I'm laughing a lot more than I should at this.
Fabrice Bellard's jsLinux and Jeff Parsons's https://www.pcjs.org/ are pretty fascinating.

I think Bellard uses emscripten (transpiled machine and device emulator code from C to JS), while pcjs is hand-coded JS (which is neat: https://github.com/jeffpar/pcjs/blob/master/modules/pcx86/li...).

Also is the source for jslinux available anywhere? The emscriptified file at https://bellard.org/jslinux/x86emu.js is quite compex.
The Super-Aggregators and the Russians
Yes.

https://www.gnu.org/software/
There are a lot of legitimate uses for autoplay that users are expecting. This is going to degrade the user experience for these legitimate uses, such as games. It is frustrating that some bad actors are able to cause everyone else to take a step back.
I've got an older brother, the T440s, also running Arch Linux. It's pretty good. The keyboard had to be replaced because a few keys broke off after 2 years; it got replaced on-site for free though. The feel is good but apparently and disappointingly, the keys are attached with tiny plastic teeth that aren't too sturdy. The screen is IPS but a different SKU and lesser quality than the panel the first reviewers seem to have gotten.

Apart from that, it's silent, usable and reliable, and still not too hard to replace some of its components. I'd consider getting other one from the T4xxs line if it broke.

I've got a T41 (I think) from the IBM time lying around. That thing is built like a tank; I wouldn't step on my T440s, but I'm reasonably convinced that old machine could take that sort of abuse. Great keyboard, but atrocious screen (like most old Thinkpads).
Possible emulation option for olde Windows applications, but installing stuff would probably be tricky, and Virtualbox would be a better option. But it depends. Chromebooks or other browser-only systems would be a target.

But anyway, ain't it cool?
I wish Slack had some features that Discord has...

* Text channel 'voice' restricted by user level. Eg: a read-only channel

* Dark mode

* Option to mute someone in voice channel

* Push-to-talk
Actually yes, it's still quite unlikely. If you formalize your thesis here and actually do the calculation, you'll see that the chance of a fund achieving a consistently annual average 70%+ return over 20+ years is overwhelmingly unlikely to emerge with the number of funds that existed in the same time period.

"Survivorship bias" is a meme that is commonly thrown out, but to date no one I've challenged on it has empirically demonstrated that this accounts for the emergence of ultra-successful funds. Model this out a bit - what is your single unit of trading to judge and what is your time interval? How many other participants are there in the same interval, and how is each unit judged? You can't just judge on an annual basis - no firm has an actual 50% chance of beating the market each year. Funds like Renaissance make hundreds to thousands of trades each day. Moreover, different firms have different chances of beating the market each year.

Basically, I want you to rigorously formalize how a firm like Renaissance maps to monkeys throwing darts at the wall, because as much as people like to use these analogies (coin flipping, etc), they're never empirical. How do you account for a firm that beats the market by an overwhelming margin for 2 - 3 decades and never having a return poorer than the market (and in fact only rarely being down per quarter or month).

EDIT: Elsewhere: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13797635
Or people who would subscribe it are unable to afford the monetary cost. That doesn't mean it doesn't have value.

Wouldn't justify wasting energy and compromising user privacy, as the current model does, but that's why capitalism has to go.
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The Convergence of Health and the Internet of Things a Revolution in Healthcare
I don't know how to thank you for such a perfectly detailed and cited answer. This is going to help me a ton! As of now I don't have any questions as I am just starting out, will hit you up for sure if I have any, thanks a lot again!
> What do you want, to have them be some parriahs that never find journalistic work again?

By the time the correction is issued, the false information has spread worldwide. There are still people who believe dumb conspiracy theories because the early coverage of events like Katrina and 9/11 got it wrong.

And the correction will never go viral the way the wrong-headed reporting will.

So yes, they shouldn't work again. And maybe if we burn enough people in such a way editors will pump the brakes a little on breaking news in such a way to avoid printing bullshit and infecting the public further.
To be fair, they're responding to more sophisticated virus distribution.
You know, for a supposed feminist you're surprisingly accomodating that some men act unethically. Feminism at its heart believes that all people are equal, a notion that was revolutionary in its day. You apparently still believe that we should not aspire to that, and allow certain people to live by their own rules, as long as they are rich enough. I suggest you reconsider your username, and maybe even your values in life.
Hacker News Rebuilt in JavaScript Using GraphQL
This 'Airbnb of Lifestyles' offers life-rental service
> Private When you pay with Taler, your identity does not have to be revealed. Just like payments in cash, nobody else can track how you spent your electronic money. However, you obtain a legally valid proof of payment.

> The exact details of the underlying contract that was signed between customer and merchant. However, this information would typically not include the identity of the customer.

IRS: The term “money laundering” refers to the activities and financial transactions that are undertaken specifically to hide the true source of the money.

https://www.irs.gov/compliance/criminal-investigation/overvi...

Am I missing something?

[I see by the downvotes this is an unpopular perspective, but I can't see how Taler's claims "Taler is not suitable for illegal activities" and "Taler prevents tax evasion and money laundering" are justifiable. It seems ideally designed for money laundering as defined by the IRS - "hiding the source of the money". Please explain it to me (ELI5)]
I know the following models are better, I just have way too many thinkpads already.
> Getting paid for 40 hours

Do salaried jobs always specify a number of hours in their contracts? Otherwise you aren't being paid for 40 hours - you're just being paid to get the job done aren't you?
I believe now the iOS App Store lets you download the latest version of the app that will still work on your phone (though I suppose for a service like Skype that still may not be helpful if the service provider cuts off access to older apps).
I think you're just going to see more stuff become a Web app. Sandboxing doesn't make much sense with a system utility like this.
Pardon me for sounding ignorant, but how does this process work out procedurally each day?
This is the year of the Linux desktop? I thought that was 2002. With KDE3 and GNOME 2, for the first time you could mail your elderly relatives unsolicited stacks of CD-Rs and they were running Linux in no time!

On Reddit, someone else with a longer memory thinks it was 1998. [1]

Sadly, I think we're past the peak unless some major new development shakes things up. And, since major new desktop UI developments are more likely to come from Microsoft or Apple than from Linux developers, they are more likely to put desktop Linux further behind rather than breath new life into it.

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/3038d4/when_was_the_...
Yeah, that's the idea.
Smart trick, you will notice that people will be more rested, better motivated and thus almost as productive as in 70+ hours! But they will earn a lot less!
You can disable startup programs from task manager in W10. Or msconfig in older versions.
I hate to admit it, but I do think their ideas and projects would gain wider adoption if they packaged them in a more visually appealing way. I do like the minimalist style, however the logo could use some work.

PS: I am a programmer, not a designer.
I'm just passing the 6 hour 30 min mark, though my battery is a few years old. Its reporting as 75.8% capacity with 4% left, so another 20 minutes perhaps, gonna throw it on the dock here though.

I've got Atom open, Signal Desktop, Tor Browser Bundle (Youtube), Firefox with a few dozen tabs (Soundcloud, HN, etc). Couple spreadsheets too in LibreOffice, and Thunderbird & Transmission too. With a few of those closed, should be able to get some more battery life, but I don't feel in need of it.
Why does the term "vertically integrated digital media company" make me picture someone trying to stack bags full of trash on top of each other, seeing how high they can go before it collapses?
As can I. As with the smoke breaks, it becomes a water cooler moment - a socially acceptable time to talk with colleagues about personal lives and the occasional work-related meeting.
There are non-tablet variants with IPS screen. It's also easy to swap the panel so you can buy it separately if you don't find a good offer.
Optionsbleed – HTTP OPTIONS method can leak Apache's server memory
And thus the arms race begins.
It's worth noting that while it costs money to join the W3C, W3C membership isn't a requirement to participate in most (maybe even all now?) WGs where you can simply join the mailing list or subscribe to the GitHub repo and contribute.
They should, because if they would instead offer an amount per week or month without the hours, employees could just decide to only put in 4 hours a day. Contracts work both ways. Also the definition of "getting the job done" would also have to be defined in the contract somewhere.

The job advert also states "full-time", which IIRC implies a certain hours a week.
New project names matching stdlib modules may no longer be created on PyPI
What Are Your Strengths and How to Use Them
Hi, I am the developer of this project.

It's mostly working now so I'm posting it to HN to see what people think. The app does server side rendering making a GraphQL request to fetch the data and client side rendering using GraphQL requests too. Using Next JS it gets a bunch of benefits including code splitting and prefetching page assets.

I hope you can use the project as a starting place for your own as a boilerplate or to help you structure your own projects! Let me know what you think. PS: I made an architecture diagram in the readme to help explain.
OK, now it can hold all my node_modules folder.
Feels like you've vaccinated you brain and developed antibodies of security-conscious computer usage patterns.
> What happens when every company is doing this ritual?

Just look at Japan to see what a 12+ hour / day work culture looks like. Their population and their economy are both slowly going down the shitter thanks to it, depression is widespread, etc.
I still have a iPad 2 with iOS6. Its battery lasts days, with the same duration for 6 years. All the old apps work fine.

Only some ad-ladden websites crash the browser from time to time - but the same is true for all 512MB memory devices incl Android phones/tablets.

The big mistake that many iPad 2-4 and iPad Mini 1 owners made was to upgrade to iOS7 (or newer) - well than it's game over, the UI speed degenerated a lot, and I know of no one of those early iOS7 upgraders that are still on their old device, many regretted "bricking" their device and bought a new device to replace the laggy thing.
Glad to help and as I said if you have any further questions just shoot me an email.
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To add to this, I recently got let go from my job 2 weeks ago . With that said, my boss routinely tried to guilt trip me because I didn't want to work more than 40hrs a week. I have 2 very small children and my wife is pregnant, I can't spend all my time working, nor do I have any desire to. There were a few times I put in a couple of 60hr weeks, but that was only to appease him, not because I felt it was necessary. Like I said, my boss would bully me with phrases like "When CAN YOU work after hours?" "You're a 40hr work week kind of guy" "Time to put on your big-boy pants" and other totally demeaning comments. This was for an IT managed service provider.

The real clincher was that I was let go the day I got back from vacation. The first thing after he said "I gotta let you go" was "You didn't check in at all on your vacation".

That was incredibly disrespectful to me and shows a total lack of empathy for me and my family. I am happy to no longer work for him, although I am in a bit of a financial bind now.
This is great! I've implemented the PaymentRequest API on a couple of my apps, and customers have really liked the user experience on mobile chrome. This is another positive step towards PWAs becoming more ubiquitous (I strongly believe PWAs will play a bigger part in the app ecosystem in the near future). I can imagine Apple will feel a bit more comfortable with web apps if they could conduit payments via apple pay more seamlessly - I hope things like this help remove some of the dev inertia on their side and make safari more suited to web apps.
I mean, sure. But if you have a typical programming job, it's not like there's a clean finish line. There's always more work to do, but at some point you need to pack up and go home for the night.
Forgetting the article a second; I’d happily work for 40% less than the going rate as long as I can work remote full time...
It's called a subscription.

Micropayments don't work for journalism, because there's too much of a difference between the set of articles that people are likely to press the "pay 10cents" button on (or even read) and the set of articles that are necessary for civil society to function.

That's why journalists were almost disgusted by buzzfeed's "big board", the screen showing current traffic numbers for all articles: it encourages the sort of cat content that drives traffic for the least amount of effort.

As one example, there was the widely-shared frustration of one journalist on Twitter who had been investigating that Trump Jr. meeting with the russians for months, only to be scooped by Jr. making it public himself when he got wind of the investigation. It's not just that this journalist's work wouldn't be rewarded under a micropayment model. It also shows that some stories take an amount of work that I think people don't know about. Even if his article had become a hit, could it ever pull in as much money as the dozens of listicles you could pump out in those months of work?

Editors at high-quality publishers still tend to want to do the right thing. Subscriptions give them a bit of cover to send someone on an assignment that they deem important. Once every articles' costs and revenue become explicit data points on a colourful chart, even those owners that are currently willing to look the other way as long as the overall numbers make some sense will find it hard to resist the temptation to point at the outliers and ask if it's really necessary to spend a six-digit sum on that investigation of bribery at the Backwater County (MI) Department of Public Health when it only got 10,000 microflatters of 5 cents each, all from residents of East Nowhere (MI), especially since advertisers stopped being interested in readers from East Nowhere once they all started spending their money on Heroin.
Ironically (?) the book is on Amazon & there is some dark humour in the fact that Amazon will probably end up contributing significant in sales to this book. I bet Bezos has a evil smile on his face.