skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks for the references. I haven't seen these, but the ideas have been around since the mid-60s by virtue of a number of the researchers back then having delved into McLuhan, Mumford, Innis, etc. and applied the ideas to the contemplated revolutions in personal computing and networking media we were trying to invent.

I think a big point here is that going to a network culture doesn't mandate losing narrative, it just makes the probability much higher for people who are not self-conscious about their surrounding contexts. If we take a look at Socrates (portrayed as an oral culture genius) complaining about writing -- e.g. it removes the need to remember and so we will lose this, etc. -- we also have to realize that we are reading this from a very good early writer in Plato. Both of them loved irony, and if we look at this from that point of view, Plato is actually saying "Guess what? If you -decide- to remember while reading then you get the best of both worlds -- you'll get the stuff between your ears where it will do you the most good -and- you will have gotten it many times faster than listening, usually in a better form, and from many more resources than oral culture provides".

This was the idea in the 60s: provide something much better -- and by the way it includes narrative and new possibilities for narrative -- but then like reading and writing, teach what it is in the schools so that a pop culture version which misses most of the new powers is avoided.
Solaris™ is dead, but everyone calls illumos "Solaris" :D
> Success & failure are more granular than the binary thing you are making it out to be.

Exactly, now you get it. Just because a company has huge warchest does not automatically mean they will succeed at everything.
OP said discussion though, not past submissions. And they are correct, linking the only other submission with any comments.
The article was a pleasure to read. I like the way you present important issues in a high-level way, it always puts me into a mood where I sense what is possible, because, just look at what has already been done! The origins of Montessori were unknown to me, and I tried out the thing with the ruler and the iPad :-)

It seems to me that the combination of an iPad Pro 12.9, Apple Pencil, and a bluetooth keyboard is a great environment for computing. It's just that the software running on it is not really that great, but there is no reason why it should not be possible to make much much much better software for it.
With freewrap, you can make a standalone executable for Windows. You won't need to install a VM on your user's machine.

The last app I built like this was a graphical front-end for joining PDF files with Ghostscript (choose files, choose destination, press go).
The title needs some context to avoid confusion with a current event. Perhaps "The German schoolboy jailed in 1970 for writing to the BBC"
Check out Constraint Optimisation algorithms. Try genetic algorithm. More detail in programming collective intelligence ( it covers group travel).
For constraint optimisation i think drools has a product.

I cant find a link but such scheduling problems should be converted into color coding problem.
Look into google scholar for group scheduling
The Sorrow and the Shame of the Accidental Killer
And an issue most sysadmins would be familiar with unfortunately.

For years, Microsoft's own guidelines suggested using .local for internal AD domains. Then one day, Apple started using it on mDNS, and Microsoft advice was suddenly "never use .local".

But renaming an AD domain is painful and in many scenarios not supported at all, and people with domains more than a few years old are regularly pointed at Microsoft's recommendations and forced to explain the situation.
other news:

* You can test PG10beta4 via docker: https://hub.docker.com/_/postgres/ [ docker pull postgres:10-beta4 ]

* PG v10 - at least 1-week delay expected: https://www.mail-archive.com/pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org/ms...

* PostGIS 2.4.0rc1 Released ( 2017/09/13 ) http://postgis.net/2017/09/13/postgis-2.4.0rc1/
I used this for my Quantum Countdown Sort:

http://alquerubim.blogspot.com.br/2011/10/quantum-countdown-...
Price changes in consumer goods and services in the USA, 1997-2017
Author here: doing this in any language is probably going to depend on some implementation details of the language repl, which may require dropping down to a level where you have access to these internals - for example, I can't think of a way you could achieve it in strict mode JS.

Python may well be able to do it with just the stdlib since it has excellent debugging capabilities, but Tcl is relatively weak. You might be able to do something with `tcl::unsupported::getbytecode` and checking the frame level, but this was just a throw-away novelty so I'm not particularly motivated to find out.
How do I access the moments feature. There is nothing on the homepage about moments. Doing a simple text search on the page turns up nothing.

Doing a Google search for "twitter moments" results in the about page, again with no info on how to access the feature. This is followed by some news articles saying moments has been replaced by an "explore" tab, which I again can't find.

No wonder twitter is going down the drain. :-(
Neat! See also TLSF https://github.com/mattconte/tlsf
Distribution of new coins that are "mined" are dependent on the price of electricity and popularity. Being first means it was the most popular by default, so it had the most diverse group of "miners", all of them. I could make CrapCoinV37 today, with only myself "mining" it, it would be a worthless expense of electricity if it wasn't popular. The price of Bitcoin stays reasonably in equilibrium with the cost of electricity required to "mine", which is substantial.

Most importantly, the Coin that has the highest expense to "mine" is the most secure. To attack Bitcoin by out pacing the current miners, it would require millions of dollars in hardware which could just as easily be used to legitimately acquire Bitcoin by mining.

However second place is easily attacked, as the case with BCH, the bitcoin attempted fork. Miners are using their hardware to primarily mine Bitcoin, paying for the hardware, then occasionally attacking BCH, to break it's adjustment algorithm.
Logical replication seems really useful. I wonder if you could use wal2json to connect the database straight to Elasticsearch.
What's the state of the art in memory allocation?
Disagreing with you is not the same as lacking integrity.
It's very difficult to find good laptops with 4:3 or even 16:10 screens these days. Heck, it's very difficult to find good monitors with aspect ratios other than 16:9!
I got my hopes up with the small splurge of 3:2 devices we got the other year, but that seems to have sputtered out.
At 22:33 in the video Bryan Cantrill states "S3 was arguably a lucky innovation for Amazon."

Does anyone know what he is implying here? What was "lucky" about it?
Dead-Simple DNS Server Daemon Written in Node.js
I've never quite understood the preload list. Is its only job to save the initial 301 redirect from http > https on first load?

Also, wouldn't bundling (tens of) thousands of domains start to add up, and slow down first page load for regular browser use?

I'm sure I must be missing something, because this doesn't seem very logical to me.
As a T470P owner I'm glad I didn't wait, I don't like the design of the retro at all.
I fully agree with you. I had never felt as good as I had while I was doing yoga.

The problem is , most yoga practitioners (atleast the ones I consulted in india) consider it like some sort of magical cure for everything. I was asked to do surya namaskar , despite them knowing I had back pain .
I went to one of the most reputed centres here, and all I got from them were pseudo science mumbo jumbo.

I have got much more valuable info from this HN thread.
Thank you for sharing for you experience. Your story has given me hope , I feel motivated to learn more about backpain and find a solution tailored for me.

I also feel this sort of information (personal stories of knowledgeable people) should be more easily accessible for people.A non profit , trust worthy website like Wikipedia, or even a github wiki.
Suggestion : smaller cockroaches belong to the family Ectobiidae.

How about EctoDB ?

(I actually love the name CockroachDB but it seems to be an intractable problem for some!)
Writing a Sink Connector for Your Kafka Stack
Rare? I have three! Two i5s and an i7 model.
Coroutine: A simple stackful coroutine implementation in C++11
Sure. And having read (part of) the paper, the point was more about reuse than abstraction (though they are obviously related concepts).
With VCs, there is reason to believe that the expected value of your total investments is positive. With ICOs, the claim is that many people mean to cash out by selling before the bubble bursts.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15267719
Predicting Car Steering Angle Using Deep Learning
Sure, but do the fixed costs really justify the current pricing? The last paper I submitted, the gold open access fee was $3k... Forget it, we just put the preprint on arXiv, which has no problem hosting versioned preprints at no cost to the authors.
My desktop is a 2690v4 with 128GB RAM. As a computational physicist I have access to a number of supercomputers to do larger simulations on, but queue time on them can be a hassle for 'smaller' jobs that a regular desktop can't handle. So having a decent middle ground machine is very useful for low resolution testing of jobs you'll throw at the supercomputer later.
Pirate Bay 'borrows' visitor CPUs to mine virtual coin
I suspect that some of the functions for iterating the linked lists are a big drag on performance. Such as: https://github.com/CCareaga/heap_allocator/blob/master/llist... An optimization that most memory allocators use are to instead store the nodes in a balanced tree, such as a red-black one. Or even better, a B-tree. That turns those functions from O(n) to O(log n).
What model notebook did you move to?
I'm not sure what is so retro about the 16:9 display. Surely Lenovo can do better than that?
Okay just to help out my fellow long-suffering HN users I made a Medium account and posted these tweets there.

https://medium.com/@thethreader/natural-history-museum-versu...
Doesn't have to be terribly inefficient if you're careful with your encoding. See e.g. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quote_notation
People like having recourse with trusted third parties. They also like universally accepted currency.
Is there an allocator that uses lockless programming?
>First, the largest data centers have developed virtualization platforms that are significantly more efficient than vSphere.

This needs a citation. One of the issues with AWS/etc is that they don't know the usage pattern of a customer that allocates a VM. A well managed vSphere system can be heavily oversubscribed with mostly idle VMs that don't need high performance.
Well, he could implement the Dynabook. Why should others do it for him?

Sounds like a lot of hand-waving to me.
Instagram: Autoplay of audio and news videos for Windows 10
To be fair, cgroups appeared before we got rctl/racct.

More actual disasters though: signalfd (https://ldpreload.com/blog/signalfd-is-useless), ALSA, wireless_tools/iproute2(ip command)/iw (was it SO HARD to just keep improving ifconfig?!), procfs/sysfs & udev.
Cool idea and product. Small bug report: The landing page ends with a </html> as a text node.
I've been wanting to experiment with something like this for my own dev environments for a while, and have been eagerly awaiting wildcard cert support from Let's Encrypt.

One thing I'm not quite sure about is if this means we need to be using the same wildcard cert for both dev and prod? I don't suppose the cert can be considered valid by the browser if otherwise?

If that's the case, I'm wondering if there are any best practices around securely distributing valid production certificates to dev machines across a team and keeping them up-to-date with Let's Encrypt's auto renewing mechanism? Ideally in a way that's transparent to each individual developer? I'm guessing committing them directly into a repo is probably a bad idea, especially for open source projects.
Not that there's anything wrong with that.
In Indonesia, We have a term for "fight on twitter":
Twitwar or Twitwor.
Maybe I am stupid, but nowadays there is no way to compete with Chinese mega-farms which made out of thousands of computers with specialized ASICs - there is no way one could find a correct hash sooner than these mega-farms and hence no way to get any actual reward?
How civilization started
once you have the domain, how to find a server/host for your site that will also respect your privacy ??
Some enterprising Brit hacker needs to turn this squabble into a real video game, STAT!
'More people need to know type 2 diabetes is reversible' argues report
Sadly no working docking port.
Yes, I am still using an old 4:3 Lenovo T61 and I wish there would be a modern replacement!
This is the correct answer. Microsoft has made Windows 10 a joke - which I hate to say because I have generally liked the NT line.
Show HN: SmileWidget: super-simple website feedback tool
Oh god yes. 16:9 is an absolute deal breaker for me. After the task bar, tool bar, menu bar, ridiculously oversized fixed position website nav bar, "up next: more related garbage" fixed position pseudo-ad footer and whatever else decides it wants to eat my vertical space, a 16:10 screen offers me a good 200% increase in usable pixels for whatever piece of content I was actually interested in in the first place.

If only Firefox would hurry up and integrate tree styled tabs without requiring one of several now-obsolete extensions, the experience of using a computer might become marginally less terrible. But of course I'm not holding my breath waiting for anyone in this sorry saga to do something that actually helps until I'm forced to read every single website one 200-word line at a time.
This is mostly inaccurate, the code behind the token creation and distribution is public. And while it's technically possible, in practice most token contracts do not give the creators the ability to mint to tokens on a whim.
Last Lenovo I had (±2y ago), it actually could. So there's a good chance this will be possible.
I'm not sure no one even makes 4:3 panels with a diagonal more than a few inches long.

I would have hoped for the light, though... It is one of the reasons why I am clinging to my X230.
Interesting to see a parallel drawn to theft which isn't about actual piracy in a discussion around TPB.
Not always line 21. Some stuff can appear before CPU info — like hypervisor info and some weird errors:

…
SRAT: Ignoring memory at addr 0x80000200000
VT(efifb): resolution 1024x768
Hyper-V Version: 10.0.15063 [SP0]
Features=0x2e7f<VPRUNTIME,TMREFCNT,SYNIC,SYNTM,APIC,HYPERCALL,VPINDEX,REFTSC,IDLE,TMFREQ>
PM Features=0x0 [C2]
Features3=0xed7b2<DEBUG,XMMHC,IDLE,NUMA,TMFREQ,SYNCMC,CRASH,NPIEP>
Timecounter "Hyper-V" frequency 10000000 Hz quality 2000
CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 1700 Eight-Core Processor (3000.00-MHz K8-class CPU)
Origin="AuthenticAMD" Id=0x800f11 Family=0x17 Model=0x1 Stepping=1
…

but it's always in the first part of dmesg.
Yet it’s had a huge impact on the decline in smoking
I like the name but there's potential for confusion with Ecto[1]

[1] https://github.com/elixir-ecto/ecto
In other words, you also have a system of password reuse (a personal password instead of a per-account password?!)?

Also, how is the reliability of the 2FA device established? If there were some claim before a court that you authorized some sort of transaction, what would they have to demonstrate to prove your liability? What will the court do if you question whether the numbers generated by the 2FA device are actually cryptographically random?
It's a truly awful language. For some reason it's used by a lot of CAD/EDA tools (hardware development), so if you're working in that ecosystem it's often all you've got.
Nice! Finally something with non-chiclet keyboard! I am in! My wrists will rejoice!
doesn't recognize ZFS :D
Not the OP, but I'm moving from a 2017 MBP-touchbar to the GDP Pocket, which is .. almost .. the perfect Linux machine for my needs. I only hope GPD scale up and keep this up - its beyond time for Apple to have competition in the unibody-laptop department ..
localhost.mydomain.com pointing to 127.0.0.1 is quite handy for development.
Depends what you mean by state of the art, but jemalloc?
Otus Tracker Uses Valve’s Lighthouse Tech for Drone Motion Capture
> Video enables them to check most security features on the ID.

Video is just another form of photo copy, so how would that work?
I think the GPD Pocket looks more like a dynabook these days ..
This AI could hold the key to decoding human intelligence
Book 'World Without Mind' argues Silicon Valley will lead us to our doom
Unlike the one in 7th edition unix? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15269040
You are angry about someone else making a mistake in your eyes.
His mistake (people moving away from his product) doesn't affect you, so your essentially drinking poison to spite someone else.

Alternatively, you think things should be free and get angry when people want to get something for their efforts.
Trypophobia
Software is eating the world. Really??
This. On a prior job I was in a mixed team (me being the only engineer in the room, and a team lead) and it was like a dorm room or a cafe. No way to concentrate doing anything, but luckily it was a gov't shop so no one was expected to do much real work anyway.

Currently I'm a much more relaxed (in terms of HR rules and even IT rules) tech company but the work atmosphere is full zone in. Very little chatter, soft downtempo music plodding along all day long and people doing actual work all the time and ever so rarely some "clear our heads" banter.
Rare White Giraffes Cause a Stir in Kenya
Three wild speculations from amateur quantitative macrohistory
I have made a few simple sites with hyperapp in its various stages of development. I am not advocating that any of these projects represent the _proper_ way to build a hyperapp (or a web app in general for that matter, I am learning too) but they are hyperapps.. in production!

Site: https://audiostream.world
Repo: https://github.com/joextodd/audiostream

Site: https://browses.io
Repo: https://github.com/browses/frontend

Site: https://plural.video
Repo: https://github.com/lukejacksonn/plural

Site: https://hyperapp-hn.deployable.site
Repo: https://github.com/lukejacksonn/hyperapp-hn

There is also https://github.com/hyperapp/awesome-hyperapp which is full of much community goodness.

Hope that helps! Join us on slack if you have questions :]
You can have more than one certificate for the same names but both would need to be valid. If the testing one leaks, someone can impersonate your production service.
The implementation of malloc in K&R is about 20 lines...
Massive cancellation of Ryanair flights
Exactly. It's never been difficult to move money around freely if you know how to. It's the "layering" which is the hard part i.e. avoiding questions from the relevant authorities of "where did this money come from". Monero doesn't provide good answers to those, and if anything it would raise suspicions.
Ever more Indians are struggling to find work
Sorry, but technical decisions also need to be based on trust, and a company that chooses a name like this is not a shining example of trust. But we're not going to see eye to eye on this, so let's end it here without anymore personal insults.
When banks say ‘I do’ – an API love story
Just so we're clear: that's 3 glasses, right. Have you really never drunk 3 glasses of fruit juice ?
WATCH Live: Milan – Udinese
Safari no longer supported by Spotify
Why GCP: Compute
Basecamps open source project POW (http://pow.cx), specifically configures rails projects to be automatically available at projectname.dev

From the homepage "That’s it! Your app will be up and running at http://myapp.dev/. See the user’s manual for more information."

I'm sure basecamp won't love this change and I'd guess many rails devs won't like this either.
I've run some half marathons and concluded that long distance running is the worst exercise. It's very repetitive, takes tons of time, messes up your feet, messes up your back, makes your body economical so you'll forever have a harder time losing weight, and on top of that it makes you lose muscle, professional long distance runners look like thin-armed freaks.

Do some strength training and some playful sport instead, like basketball or BJJ. It's fun, you'll look good, you'll move well, and you'll get confident with people, all in 2-4 hours per week.
Show HN: Whatigot.bash – Prints a list of installed software and their versions
If there is a need for "repeated or lengthy use of general anesthetic" on infants there is usually already something wrong which could attribute to the said symptoms as well. It would be crazy to not use anesthesia on young children based on this warning, as shock (Which usually happens when operated on without anesthetics and the reason the child is silent during and a while after the operation) may cause worse damage.
No, perpetual motion means more energy from less. This moves mined rock downhill, so the work of moving it uphill was done by geological formation.
It seems to me the Raspberry Pi people have put out a lot of good work making hard things possible and transforming education.

The video you posted reminded me about some of the work of Bret Victor, especially his interactive environments in his video on "inventing on principle". Although what's missing there is the ability to connect and modify the environment itself.

I still have to think a bit more about your link to Montessori, who has been a great inspiration for the school ( http://aventurijn.org ) that my parents started. Also in relation to what you said about teaching real math. Montessori has this system with beads and other countable cubes and pies to teach things like multiplying fractions, that is not used in most schools that call themselves "Montessori schools".
Devs unknowingly use “malicious” modules snuck into official Python repository
i see more and more people blogging on some-hacker-name.wordpress.com is it because you don't want to purchase a domain or something? what is the reason? (mere curiosity). why not for example then on blogger.com? why not on medium? I wonder if there is some specific reason i'm not aware of.. thanks.
Wow small world. I remember having a similar conversation with George Church circa 2000. Fun times and his vision has come to pass. Great guy.
Yeah, that pronoun-gate thing was pretty ugly. If I recall correctly the guy Cantrill called out for misogyny wasn't a native English speaker and hadn't even realized there was a political aspect to the whole thing.

I didn't follow the issue after that, and had sort of vaguely presumed Cantrill would have walked back his comments in some way, but if he hasn't then it's a little hard to square that with talk of integrity.
I think with Zim dollars and the like the problem is too much money chasing too few goods. Without that they would behave normally. I can't think of practical instances of restricting the currency supply leading to people inventing money getting far. Sometimes if the local currency is not taken abroad people will try using USD or similar instead but inventing some new money doesn't help much for that.
I know its kind of a ofshot question- but is there research in non-chemical batterys? As in storing energy mechanically in nano-structures? Goggle did not reveal much there.