skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As if the target audience for Chromebooks is seasoned systems developers with a thing for obscure 60s-90s programming languages?

I mean, let's get real, obviously it wouldn't appeal to you (doesn't appeal to me either).

But at least I can pretend to understand the proposition -- it's about never caring for backups and stuff, and having all your stuff in the Cloud, in a Google curated computing experience.

Not about specs or if one can install fvwm and xmonad on it.
I just harden my sshd config based on https://github.com/arthepsy/ssh-audit and ALL bots will fail since they do not support the more current config os key-exchange, host-key, encryption and message authentication code algorithms.

To make it even more interesting: one can actually see which bot is trying by the way they fail to handshake.

I like a litte noice on my ports so leave ssh on its default port, accept authentication only with a certificate and be done. Works like a charm. And yes it makes my sshd stand out like a sour thumb since 99.9% (guestimation) of you folks don't tighten up your ssh configs :)
Same here, also using Route 53.
Caloric restriction delays age-related methylation drift – Nature Communications
Good point. Wonder how much more frequently we're going to start seeing issues like this.
out-of-ours = out-of-hours, for any non-english speakers reading^. (not criticising you lmm, only trying to help)
From what I’ve read over the past few years, China gets the credit for driving down the price of solar. They use a lot more than anyone else:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_power_by_country

China is saving nuclear power too:

https://qz.com/627113/bill-gates-says-china-is-the-best-plac...
I think it matters if those wanting to be sovereign make the claim.
JavaScript development is not fun for me anymore
Absolutely not. We went all in on it. We even developed our own open source framework based on it called Gluestick. It's original purpose was to make it automatically isomporphic by running the same code in the browser as on the servers, using node.

We also built a component/style library that allows us to make responsive designs into web and mobile apps quickly and easily. Gluestick also allows easy creation of native apps (native/react native/web views) with 90+% code sharing. We also added a bunch of features (regex based routing, etc) to help with seo. We do all of this from our single framework based on react.

We had a lot of front end 'frameworks' in use and no consistency. Now we do. It's been a lot of work, but for us totally worth it.

We also have done a bunch of optimizations to make react fast, including how we handle webviews in a react native/native app. It's seamless. I'd like to link a video, but proprietary work that isn't done...blah blah blah, company secrets, blah blah blah.
We will be releasing another blog post, detailing all the native enhancements soon.
What does "word splitting" mean in this context?
Haven't used it. Was considering it till I read the license rubbish. I use ionic and I'm quite happy with it. It's not Native, but for 80% of the apps out there it's create and there are lots of native Cordova plugins and you can write your own if you need missing native capabilities.
>The problem of looking at human consciousness is similar to someone that knows little about computer processors pulling apart an I7 and trying to figure meaningful things about what is going on inside. Without knowing the history of processor design, there will be huge information gaps on why some parts work the way they do.

I don't think the analogy is adequate. A processor is an object - it "objects" to all of us. It appears to have an existence independent of the thing that recognizes it as such. When we embark on an empirical investigation of something, we make a distinction between the scientific observer and the scientific object. We come to an agreement about the boundaries of the object. This does not appear to be the case if you want to call consciousness "that special [condition, or process, or property, or pattern, etc.] of being a scientific observer" (which we would ideally want because it seems to encapsulate all those special things that distinguish human beings from other organisms with nervous systems).

In that domain, we cannot make a distinction between subject and object. In order to even speak intelligibly about things, we must all draw the boundary of the thing we're talking about - but we are in the peculiar position of being the very act of drawing the boundary.
Can donation cryptocurrency mining support open source software?
Deposits are blocked. You can't deposit money in the exchange to start the arbitrage.
1.50 years since app development started
0.75 years since app was released

stuck with old version of rn, upgrades break app

new team members onboarding takes forever, environment is extremely tenuous

would i use again? no
And the story we tell ourselves today is, frankly, a dismal one. It's that all of computing should be invented and put into the service of "the economy" rather than people. Instead of a culture of "computational literacy" in which human thought is extended to another level to the same effect as written literacy hundreds of years ago, we have an environment of complex technologies that cater to our most base evolutionary addictions and surveil us for profit.

Our universities are no longer institutions where people learn how to think, but rather where they learn how to "do" -- usually "doing" involves vocational practices that already exist, especially those that some manager (ie provost or dean) deems economically important. This is why you have generations of programmers bitching about type systems instead of the very politics, history, and social consequences of their own wares.

We don't have funding like ARPA/IPTO anymore and the devices and software of our world show it. Everything is some iteration on ideas that came from that period, good or bad – iterations whose goal is always "efficiency" in some form. Our current political culture prevents big initiatives like this, because how on Earth would they benefit the economy in the short or medium term, the limits of our new horizon?

Because these technologies have been created in service of an economic system that has proliferated social problems, they can never be a meaningful solution to those problems. Sure, we might invent some new systems for dealing with environmental catastrophe, but they are always predicated on the assumption that people should consume more and more. We are at the behest of billionaires – smart ones, mostly – who understand complex systems but also have an interest in ensuring that they remain complex.

It is unlikely that we will achieve a new kind of transcendent way of computing until we change the way we think about politics and economics. That is our environment. That is the "fit" that our technical systems have, as you say.
As I said, my websites are doing well on Google that's all the SEO I care about and I'm not willing to sacrifice user experience. It shouldn't be difficult to index web apps these days... There are so many open source headless browsing tools/libraries available.
Even more so, why do we expect the state to pay for roads, which are only for drivers, but not to pay for sidewalks, which are for everyone? Sidewalks are just roads for people who aren't driving cars at the moment.

Logically, if the state were going to cover the costs of one of them, it'd be sidewalks, since they can be used by all taxpayers. You could have road users pay tolls to pay for the roads, and people who don't drive could simply opt out.
>And what does Chromebook offers?

A Google-curated, hassle-free computing experience. Those that don't want one can always, I dunno, not buy it.

>You mean it's an expensive gadget for rich hipsters to use as a vulgar display of wealth?

No, I mean that if you're pinching pennies, you can always buy something else, even if you'd really like a Chromebook.

A Pixelbook is for those wanting such an experience, AND being able to afford one (And of course there are much cheaper Chromebooks out there).

If you don't like yourself a Chromebook, on the other hand, why are you even discussing this?
Chelated magnesium is what absorbs best.
Ask HN: What was the main reason people bought the Altair 8800?
How would you categorize the MITS Altair 8800 (and other very early microcomputer kits): education, entertainment, utility, or something else?

Put another way, if someone bought one, did they mainly do so because the prospect of putting it together and programming it seemed like fun, they were hoping to learn a lot about computers, they wanted to program it to do something so useful that it made up for the price, or something else?

They were obviously the cheapest computer you could buy at the time, but still, at around $2,500 (CPI inflation-adjusted), most people would have had to have a pretty good reason to buy it.
A port number isn't a real secret, it just screens out the bulk of mass scans. There's no point trying to hide it from targeted attackers.
These two nameservers: ns-a2.io, ns-a4.io return wrong results consistently
Unemployment Is So 2009: Labor Shortage Gives Workers an Edge
> Sure, one could argue that you're still only looking into flat screens in the goggles, but the multiple axes of movement allowed by both the head translations as well as hand movements give you superior control vs just mouse input.

If you're looking at two screens with identical images, then that might be a valid argument, but VR headsets provide stereoscopic viewing by presenting different images of the virtual scene from each eye's viewpoint-- this is known as binocular disparity. It's the same principle used in 3D TVs and anything that requires you to wear special glasses.

The "head translations" you're talking about gives the visual system depth cues via motion parallax, where objects in the foreground appear to move faster than those in the background when the head is moved from side-to-side.

These two things together (stereoscopy and motion parallax) yield a very strong sense of "3D depth", called stereopsis. Having controllers with six degrees of freedom (6DOF: translation along and rotation about the x-, y-, and z-axes) to manipulate and interact with 3D data should be superior, as it is no longer necessary to map 2D mouse inputs to 3D operations which would also decrease cognitive load, in theory.
"Hyperbole is what's ruining the world today."

Well played.
When you use words like "enslaved" and "brainwashing" incorrectly (and extremely hyperbolically) like this, it dilutes what might otherwise be a relevant point.
Here in Maine your solar panels are going to be covered with snow 5 months of the year, so the power production in the winter can't be very significant.. It's one thing to store energy between night and day and it's another thing to store energy between summer and winter. Don't get me wrong, I think solar is the future, but not sure how to make it work up north.
I think it is. Tulips, John Law and South Sea Bubble et all.

No serious government cannot allow it's monetary policy to get out of control. And no one will.

As long as bitcoin were an aberration it had been tolerated. Not anymore.
Yeah because Search is an actual hard problem and putting up a proxy like DDG is not. DDG will never have any real value beyond that.
Customers are already filling up our support inbox, so same here. They can access nic.io

Any quick fix ideas I can get to a customer without technical command-line experience? Changing DNS or modifying hosts file is not really an option.
Its one step towards high-end line like the iphone is going for. Having 1200 bucks computer makes it ok to have 1600 next year. Same is happening with new pixel phone. They went for the luxury clients copying apple style.
I was certain I was getting DDoS'd, but then I inspected the Pingdom down notifications and seeing: DNS error
"It's virtually indestructible and very few materials such as diamond can scratch it."

Not really. It's a ceramic and as such will shatter if knocked against another ceramic, hardness notwithstanding. Also, for some reason, my skin eats away at it.

See my tungsten carbide ring vs my fiance's ring (mine is on the left) - both made before the requirement that the rings come with break points built-in -
https://i.imgur.com/fSIOUJf.jpg

Note the differences - his ring looks brand new. Both rings bought at the same time, same maker, same style.

Mine's practically obliterated.
Your situation is quite different than recently constructed sidewalks being unsafe to navigate by people with disabilities or the elderly, and lacking such basic features as curb cuts. Don't be so black and white.
Properly installed concrete doesn't heave from frost.

Trees are certainly an issue.
> (just a hobby, won't be big and professional like gnu)
it's because in a winner-takes-all system like we have, voting for anything but the top two parties is a waste of a vote.

Voting third party in our system just means that the opposing side has a better chance of gaining office
Meaning in Leading
team mate posted on HN already about this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15293578
In principle the same applies to paper money, too (if power is out for more than a few days). Currencies by their very definition don't have intrinsic value other than as a means of exchanging goods and services.

Some might be backed something that has a perceived real-world value but even in that case we're usually talking about precious metals, which themselves don't have any intrinsic value either.
Show HN: A random, recursive doodle of an Autumn tree, using the Canvas
bitcoin probably won't split again. Supporters of the initial proposal that would lead to the split are already withdrawing from this commitment. https://bitcoinmagazine.com/articles/no2x-breaking-bitcoin-s...
This split is fundamentally different because of the lack of replay protection. On the other hand, it is more consensus-driven. At this point, if the hashing power that is signaling Segwit2x follows the fork, and no replay protection is provided (and no "emergency difficulty adjustment", a la Bitcoin Cash), then we have 93% of the power following the fork, and only 7% staying behind.

That means that block times will decrease 14-fold, and it will be 200 days until the next difficulty adjustment. Since there's no replay protection, there's no effective way to isolate "segwit2x" bitcoins from the non-"segwit2x" bitcoins, so it seems infeasible to trade them separately and let pricing data drive the mining decisions.

This split is much more likely to either go very smoothly -- old chain completely abandoned, segwit2x is now bitcoin, or very disasterously -- becomes impossible to spend either bitcoins of sw2x-bitcoins because of the chain overlap until the coinbase transactions start to mature.
Have you heard of Atlaz, “JIRA and Trello killer”? Is it worth the hype?
What sort of negative feedback do you mean? Termination/jail time, negative annual reviews, or something else?
>but go ahead with your logical fallacy self - you are certainly making a stronger case for the americans being the dumb ones..

Hmmm

>most average people who invest - US and foreign alike - buy mutual funds and have no idea what is in their portfolio..

I put this to doubt. People who invest in US and in the remaining world do come from rather different socioeconomic classes.

US is probably one of the few countries where an average Joe ever knows what mutual funds are.
I really don't want to rail on RN. My experience is 2 years old at this point, and even then it was the internal decision we made based on our use-cases and needs. Yours are likely different and maybe RN would be a silver bullet for you.

We tried it for a few months in earnest.

There were a lot of bugs or incomplete APIs for our use-cases. Off the top of my head, if I remember correctly - intricacies and bugs around input handling, the JS navigator implementation didn't properly support swipe back/forward and we could crash it with a couple well timed taps, landscape mode was non-existent, same with master/detail view. We were able to make a few screens in a few days, but polishing them to a shippable standard took exponentially longer or was relatively impossible without doing more native work than what would have been necessary to build it natively from scratch. There were also serious perf issues, like around list views.

Our team members submitted a few PRs to the github repo and they took months to get merged, if at all. Back then it felt like nobody was really at the helm. I suspect this has gotten better since then.
Since when search metrics include YT, Maps and... Gmail?!? Unless you're talking about universal search results, I've never seen the numbers for all those products conflated.
> Your logic applies equally to roads as it does to sidewalks, so should we just give up on them as well?

No, but I wouldn't drive a low-riding sports car if I lived in an area with crappy roads. I'd buy a pickup truck with good suspension and large knobby tires.

The problem is that accessibility devices don't have the option of "good suspension and large knobby tires".

Every problem that woman experiences is because her wheelchair is not built for the environment she operates in. We need better wheelchairs. Yelling at local state government to fix sidewalks will not work. There are millions of miles of sidewalks to fix and hundreds of thousands of people responsible for them. You can't change that quickly. But you can build a better wheelchair.
Magnesium citrate and magnesium oxide (often called elemental magnesium or buffered magnesium) are the forms to avoid unless you're trying to clean out your colon.

Look for Magnesium glycinate or magnesium bisglycinate, but be careful because some of those will include significant amounts of "buffered" or elemental magnesium.
Why was it not a good fit for you? 30 devs seems like plenty to build native?
The problem is, even if you create a massively improved wheelchair (as several startups have done) you'll get absolutely destroyed by certification; and even if you get passed that hurdle, you'll have to sell it via medical supply merchants which often have monopolistic contracts for wheelchairs...

My point is, if it was just as simple as producing a better wheelchair and selling it, it would have happened already. This is like hearing aids all over again, and why most certified "medical device" hearing aids you can get on medicare are over ten years behind the technology curve (or more) and cost more than an iPhone X.
I remember buying a new GPU everytime a new edition of Quake came out. Those were the days...
The First Web Apps: 5 Apps That Shaped the Internet as We Know It
People who like inaccurate search results?
When Is SAO a Must-Have Technology? – Addressing Gartner’s SOAR Question
That's some very insightful reasoning. Thanks for presenting it that way!
It looks like the problem is in the process of being corrected. But no, it's not historic, and no, it's not a lack of parking - there are huge parking garages and street parking everywhere. It's about a lack of concern for people not in cars.

Here's the approximate route: https://goo.gl/maps/AXj2Agtfvx92. Compare this aerial photo, showing a previous lack of curb cuts:

https://i.imgur.com/Aawb0l8.jpg

with this Street View image after construction was completed, showing completed wheelchair-friendlier ramps:

https://i.imgur.com/A0vf6hV.jpg

(Side note: The 3D cell towers and billboard in Google Maps are awesome.)

But yeah, the intersection of Centennial Olympic Park and MLK Jr was not built with any thought to disabled people taking a wheelchair back to the parking garage, or even to regular walking pedestrians:

https://i.imgur.com/4rPa9Rp.jpg

I'm pretty sure that's not an intended route for anyone not in a car. I can see how it would be terrifying for someone in a wheelchair; I'd be scared to even ride my bike there. Looks like they were expected to take a different route to the parking garage than exiting Northside avenue and walking around the streets. While that should be possible, they were probably intended to take the skywalk between the dome and the parking garage. Oh wait, that only has stairs:

https://i.imgur.com/uxi0JRg.jpg

Wow, what an image.

- The red "Stop" pedestrian sign versus the green light for the the police SUV.

- The person waiting. Even with his face blurred, I see trepidation and concern in his posture.

- The 6" cement curb to the crosswalk

- The moldy construction cone

- The stairs for the pedestrians, no elevators or ramps for wheelchairs

- The bag of trash just laying at the base of the post

- The coils of razor wire above the fence

As a Michigander, I'm familiar with both frost heave and urban decay. But the warm, welcoming, hospitable South doesn't look particularly friendly in that spot. The location of the image: https://goo.gl/maps/RAFyYfWa5Xs
Allegedly it is legally binding! Scroll down to the bottom of the page, expand "OSP General" and you'll see a question "Is this OSP legally binding on Microsoft and will it be available in the future to me and to others?". The response is:

> Yes, the OSP is legally binding upon Microsoft. The OSP is a unilateral promise from Microsoft and unilateral promises may be enforced against the party making such a promise. Because the OSP states that the promise is irrevocable, it may not be withdrawn by Microsoft. The OSP is, and will be, available to everyone now and in the future for the specifications to which it applies. As stated in the OSP, the only time Microsoft can withdraw its promise against a specific person or company for a specific Covered Specification is if that person or company brings (or voluntarily participates in) a patent infringement lawsuit against Microsoft regarding a Microsoft implementation of the same Covered Specification. This type of "suspension" clause is common industry practice.
Thanks! This is what I was trying to get at, and provides a much better argument for VR-only and VR-first tools.
Hyper.sh launch EU region in Frankfurt
We're using it in production apps since 18 months, and even if it still sometimes feel like it's a 'beta' (interfaces change, navigation keeps changing too) it has become more reliable. The real struggle has more to do with XCode and native apps in general (Expo definitely fits in the prototype thing in my opinion).

The good (great) part comes from the fact we're a small team (4 devs) and and thus we can do / test / debug things only once for our different platforms (we're using Electron, with all its caveats too).

Apollo and GraphQL availability is also a great plus.

There are performance issues, and data transfer from RN to Native code and the other way is complicated (and different on each platform).

With 30 persons working on an App you've got more than enough to have 1 version for each platform though.
That's not a bad sign then. Mine shows lots of attempts.
lastb shows the last unsuccessful (bad) login attempts.
it uses the file /var/log/btmp as input.
the time stamp of "btmp begins .." either is the same as the creation date of the btmp file or if the btmp file was rotate of an older version i.e. /var/log/btmp.0
Study shows student attitudes toward free speech