skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
While you're right in that the extra nox might not be that bad in the scheme of things, what irks me is that they systematically lied and they also actively marketed AGAINST hybrids and other clean technologies based upon falsified data.
> Oscilloscopes went full digital in 90's not because they were worse than analog counterparts

Kinda curious example to bring up; I was under the impression that early (ie 90s) digital oscilloscopes were quite seriously compromised, especially in the UX department.
I don't think they intended to bring it back-it's just one of many languages that you can use now that Godot can use native code for scripts.
Wow, great to hear, thanks for sharing.
Anything administrative paid to a third-party vendor is administrative cost but not payroll. For example, the EPIC software license fee is admin but not payroll.
and yet the referenced article in the piece [1] doesn't seem to keep the execs from complaining "studio head honchos lay the blame for several months of horrific box office numbers — the worst in 20 years — on the website":

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/07/business/media/rotten-tom...
This is what Blumhouse productions do. They are responsible for Paranormal activity and a number of other cheap successful films.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blumhouse_Productions
Some of the good material that would have been turned into movies in the past gets turned into television/streaming shows now. Game of Thrones occupies the kind of cultural space that something like Star Wars did during the original trilogy.

It's not that that material doesn't exist, it's simply that it no longer is the sole domain of the movie format.
Maybe. OpenGL has a lot of history and baggage. I'm pretty sure the current browser engines don't use OpenGL for 2d graphics. I think they still use Skia (Chrome) and Cairo (WebKit). It could be as "easy" as allowing calls to be made directly to those graphics libraries in WebAssembly.
> TV is much better, with lots more variety

That's pretty interesting. TV used to be the home for schlock and quality story telling was mostly done by movies. These days, if you want to tell a substantial story with depth, you do it on television. Movies are to television as short stores are to novels.
>If you ask people why they don't go to the movies more they will often cite the idea that there is nothing new they haven't seen before

I have literally never heard someone say this

>(besides the complaints you hear about prices)

Yup, there it is.

But also, to watch a movie in the cinema I often have to sit in uncomfortably off-center chairs. I can't adjust the volume if I think it's too loud, I can't pause the movie to take a piss and I have to listen to the troglodytes behind me eat popcorn with their mouths open. The movies start at rigidly defined times that may not be convenient for me, I'm not allowed to bring a pizza in, I can't do anything about it if someone has an inconsolable baby or kicks the back of my chair repeatedly and to top it all off there's half an hour of ads before the movie starts.

And yeah, I have to pay $15 for that.

All in all, cinema is still a very 1920's experience, and I don't really want that. I have a 3D home projector man, I got it second hand for like $200. It's not as good as the cinema projector, but I assure you my couch is nicer. I've just delayed my cinema schedule by 6 months. Spiderman: Homecoming is being released soon, I'm pumped. No spoilers please.
On the one hand, money today is better than the possibility of more money tomorrow. On the other hand, have you tried getting a business loan from a bank?
It's not just for the iPhone X.

There are browsers in refrigerators, e-readers, game consoles, smart TVs, kiosks and who knows what else. There will be lots of devices that can take advantage of these new properties, not just the iPhone X.
Glad to hear that our issue boards are a complete alternative, that was our intention when we launched them a little more than a year ago. They've evolved significantly since then https://about.gitlab.com/2017/08/23/issue-boards-anniversary...
Can you give an approximate inventory of the services involved?
Well, sound mixing and resampling are a thing. Other operating systems do that where it belongs: in the kernel. OSS gets it right, for example.
The Strange Tectonic Coincidence of Mexico’s September Earthquakes
I am not sure what do you mean by TFS proper vs TFS 2013+

I meant TFS + Git , the lastest TFS is TFS 2017
I'd say the main difference is that if the US wants to screw you, they'll dig up convoluted laws and imprison you with bureaucracy. The Chinese just say "fuck you, you're in prison because I say so". I still prefer the US way, because of the higher barrier to entry.
Yeah bit of work there already. Receipts are a joke, they often give you a blank piece of paper where you write whatever you want on it. They think they are doing you are favour because they assume you are going to write more on it then the true cost so when you claim you make a profit.
This is one of the problems with GDP/econometrics in general: It tries to measure value but actually measures prices.

If I lower my prices (maybe as a charitable act, or due to competition), I haven't decreased my value, but econometrics thinks I did. If you and I pay each other to waste fuel, pollution and time to drive to each other's homes to do the laundry, that's consider "better" than if we stayed home and did our own, according to econometrics.
Great to see this in the NYT.

Drug use should be treated as a health issue, not a criminal issue.
Good. There's no reason for a game engine to use its own proprietary scripting language when other, more widely supported and optimal options exist. I should to be able to link any scripting language I want. If I want to script in Brainfuck, the engine should let me.
Hmm, the consensus here seems to be that you should take the money. But "it looks like we could sell for $12-14M" is not the same as "we have a firm offer".

It looks like a few investors have invited you to respond, and one or more of those connections might work out. If none do, however, it sounds to me like your best remaining option would be to continue to bootstrap. A couple of people have suggested bank loans, and that might be worth looking into, but I'd guess your better bet is to explain the situation to some of your customers and ask them to help out by prepaying some amount of their SaaS fees in exchange for a discount on same. Nobody knows better than they do how useful your product is, and they want you to stay in business.

Whatever you choose -- good luck!
I think HN gets away without changing the site design in years because I'd say most HN users who want to see it differently will just make the changes themselves. It's not something an average consumer could do on say newyorktimes.

I for one can't stand the default design and use the Chrome extension Georgify, which makes it 1000x easier to read for me. But we're all different and I love that there are so many ways to consume this site. Or that I have the ability changes things to just the way I'd want.
Yeah, originally I put pneumonic. Which, is definitely wrong.

I just keep thinking there is another word that is even more applicable than mnemonic. Guessing I'm just confusing myself.
Taking home $12-14MM now is a no brainer!

Say you raise $5M at a $14M valuation.
The VC will want a 3x return ... so the next sale for you is around $60M. How quickly until you are at $60M.

Having been in a similar situation in 2006 I am so glad I sold. With the GFC around the corner the next hurdle would have been very difficult to achieve!

Another way to look at it -- until the $$ are in the bank, the $12-14MM is not real!
Recently I've seen Wind River, mother!, limehouse golem, american made, Dunkirk, the big sick, Spiderman, War for the planet of the apes, wonder woman, baby driver.
Whose “My” is it Anyway? (1998)
In the UK, and I think many other European countries, the direct debit system is very heavily slanted in favour of the customer.

Here[1] is the UK Direct Debit Guarantee. It's extremely easy for the customer to reverse a transaction, and (advising the merchant) "Given the limited scope for appeals [against counterclaims] within the Direct Debit scheme, most disputes happen outside of it".

https://gocardless.com/direct-debit/guarantee/
> The Mughals eventually came to see themselves as "Indians"(sic) and built their homes here.

That is the key difference. The British were never interested in anything but looting India. The Mughals were more like the Normans in British history -- they started off as conquerors but eventually completely assimilated into the local population.

For those who read Hindi/Urdu, this ghazal, which eventually became his ephitaph, by the last mughal emperor Bahadur Shah Zafar is quite touching (https://rekhta.org/ghazals/lagtaa-nahiin-hai-dil-miraa-ujde-...). The whole ghazal is well worth reading, but it ends with:

कितना है बद-नसीब 'ज़फ़र' दफ़्न के लिए
kitna hai badnaseeb 'zafar' dafn ke liye
दो गज़ ज़मीन भी न मिली कू-ए-यार में
do gaz zameen bhi na milee koo-e-yaar mein

Rough translation: How unlucky is Zafar; he couldn't even/be buried in the streets of his friends.

(The British exiled Bahadur Shah Zafar to Rangoon and he was eventually buried there.)
One of the perils of research is that we can be wrong in ways that play out on five and ten year time scales.

"We" includes the funding agencies, the prevailing theories of the day, the ways that our institutions are structured, and the individual researchers themselves.

Failure occurs at all length scales: minutes, hours, days, years, decades.

A failure isn't necessarily a mistake.

It's nice to hear the anecdote, though! So often the only things we hear about science are the successes.
I wonder how much it costs to keep it running; I bet the comment "phew its got hot in here" is no coincidence, the equipment looks like it will draw some serious power.

Props to the guy for maintaining the equipment, it is definitely cool thing even if I struggle to think what I'd do with it.
very cool. would love to see a milkdrop-like visualizer integrated with this.

https://butterchurnviz.com/ is one of the better ones i've seen but it doesn't appear to be open source
I've bought the dictionary in 2013 and used on my previous model of iPhone too. My point is that the same phone which run the program for 3 years will stop running it as soon I allow the "upgrade" of the same phone to iOS 11. So I'm motivated to keep running iOS 10 and sacrifice security. Which is bad.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15314778
>My assertion that contemporary web design is affect-laden has proof in the pudding. It is ridden with commercial "trend" and "delight". Contemporary web design lacks concern for either content or form. It is a maze of 'interactive expressionism'.

We seem to disagree on what "contemporary web design" means, then, because I see little lack of concern for content nor anything which could be described as "interactive expressionism" in many of the Hacker News alternatives posted here. The exception in my mind (and personal opinion) is "Tiled HN"[0], which I find difficult to even look at, but the rest seem to be little more noisy than HN itself, and arguably in some cases easier to read.

[0]http://www.tiledhn.com/
You can get one for $60-$100 on amazon. I'd say it's worth it. What gets measured gets managed. If you can deduct such expenses, even better. And the effects on cognitive function of high co2 are stark, according to the linked article.

These two had good reviews on amazon. Same company, one keeps a log, one just displays current. I ordered the one with a log.

https://www.amazon.com/Autopilot-Desktop-Monitor-Data-Logger...

https://www.amazon.com/Autopilot-APCEM-Desktop-CO2-Monitor/d...
I don't want to see everyone prosecuted, just the people who break the law. Why does Hillary get better treatment than Bryan H. Nishimura?

I'm unfamiliar with your accusations against Gowdy and Chaffetz, but if they did something similar, I'd support their prosecution, too.

I had to remind myself of Bush's email scandal. It looks like, in the end, since the emails were found, there was no law broken? I'm unclear on this point. But the point is, that if they broke the law, somebody should have been prosecuted, then, too.

Your arguments seem to be going in the direction of "the other side is doing it, too." That's not a defense! It especially doesn't do anything to convince me, since I'm not on anybody's side.

And I would feel the same way if it were a male republican we were talking about. Do you really think you can retreat to accusations of misogyny every time somebody says something negative about a woman you support?
I think it's more than that. They tend to be simple and monochromatic, since they need to be displayed on the car itself - that helps them to be memorable.

My favorites are Infiniti and Toyota.
>hepatitis C is NOT curable, as it's a retroviral infection

Hepatitis C isn't a retrovirus, so I don't understand what you're saying.
If you overpayed you were mugged. Very normal term here in the UK.
Show HN: SQL Storage Back End for Kubernetes
Sure, sorry, I wasn't aiming to criticize the driver in the overall post -- my comment was solely aimed at the drivers described in the quoted passage from the prior comment :)

For most vehicles, on most roads, opportunities to allow others to pass safely appear with reasonable regularity. Despite this law, in my experience most slow drivers choose to entirely ignore those opportunities.
> Magit is so good that it's actually a reason to use Emacs in the first place.

This is a damn high compliment.
It's common in many parts of the US to buy a liquor license from an existing establishment.
If you have no family sure
A similar binding once nearly drove me insane trying to copy/paste an api key.
> I've failed hard here.

Stop that. No you haven't.

You've built something that is useful, valuable, and that others see massive potential in. That sounds like a win all the way around.

Could you scale it bigger and become something more? Maybe. Could you crash and burn and wipe yourselves out? Maybe.

Sometimes taking the small win feels like losing but putting a win on your resume will open doors that you didn't know existed and might need next time around for your next venture.
The view that you expound upon involve hardly any original thinking, just repeating things you heard somewhere. If you want a detailed rebuttal, provide sources and links, as the commenter I linked to has.

But I will humor your delusion. The colonial govt. did increase area under irrigation: to force farmers to grow cotton and Indigo, bought from them at exploitative prices, shipped to England and then exported back to India. Does Maddison talk about that?

> predominantly agricultural society

Again, bullshit. Yes, agriculture was an important sector, but it was so in every economy at that time. In addition, there was a substantial middle class of weavers, craftsmen,a rtisans etc. which made the Bengal region alone responsible for 25% of the worlds GDP.

Along with the textile weavers, there were also sophisticated financial system. In fact, Omichund financed Clive's expedition against the Nawab of Bengal.

All these systems, destroyed, ruined by Colonial policies.
The concept doesn't exist in the States, sadly.

Americans please correct me, but here it's more symptomatic with sexual health: You have a rash/etc, so you go see the doctor. There's no early-detection system where you are reminded to get into a clinic every 2-3 months and get a full test (blood test, swabs, etc) for all the usual suspects: HIV, herpes, chlamydia, etc.
I've tried twice to switch from helm (especially helm-projectile-grep) to the ivy ecosystem and I found the way that helm invokes the search tools to result in a much faster experience, and saw no reason to switch.
Well that is an exception to the rule rather than the norm.

In China, you can also get temporary ID from train stations and airports if you misplaced it.

It is really funny for me to see comments like this used to show US being better than China, when all I see is the act of shooting yourself in the foot - "We don't need ID to travel, because we can exploit the exception made for losing or misplacing ID."

If you really want to compare the ability to exploit the system, I doubt US citizens can beat Chinese citizens.
I guess it depends on a person but both of those are more reasonable options vs buying
Digital tends to have more latency by its nature. Parameter changes often produce zipper artifacts, stepping, etc. It's all solvable, but not uniformly solved.
They are using standards: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15315357
It's an interesting question, particularly because you cannot avoid multitasking in marketing projects because you cannot push a string.

That is, prospects are going to take a certain amount of calendar time to buy and you can't wait for them to do that or ride their ass to speed them up past a certain point.

For a high-touch sales process, customer relationship management is a high art, practiced even by lone wolf salesmen who put up big numbers. For other kinds of marketing I use the issue tracker in one of my github repositories, although I can't say it is a great system or I use it well.

I think the core thing is keeping track of commitments you have made. It might be "post a blog post every week" or "call five prospects every morning", "answer customer inquiries in 24 hours", "call Mary at the sign shop to replace the sign in front of the store, etc. Note some of these tasks are periodic, some of them are a matter of responding to events, others are specific one-time events.
Well sure, but OP used the word "buy," and I felt the need to clarify that full ownership of a private jet is really not a great idea until you've got that precious third comma.
You can buy and load data/minutes on SIM cards in the US with cash without an ID. I've had cell phones delivered from many different vendors without requiring signing for the package upon delivery, plus pre-paid phones are available for purchase with cash all over the place without the need to hand over personal information.

I can ride the light rail all over my city through buying a pass with cash. I can ride in the car between all 48 contiguous states without needing an ID. Going through TSA checkpoints or leaving/entering the country are the only forms of travel which require an ID or filing a form essentially equivalent to an ID.
The Audible version is extremely good. The narrator makes it sound like Monty Python, which seems to be an accurate tone for the book. It isn't a parody, but it's definitely irreverent and thoroughly entertaining.
I think you could stand to tweak the default font size and leading just a skosh though, and make all that information dense text easier to read.
You still chose to ride. You're the one not wearing a seat belt. You were within your right to exit the vehicle and order a new one but you choose not. Of course Uber doesn't care. You didnt care enough either so what should Uber do?
Sad thing is I won't the the option to say no because some customer is going to complain that that his site doesn't work on his iPhone X and that some other websites work fine.

Thanks Apple for yet another item we have to deal with because your "special". /s
> I'd love to do that. Unfortunately, even at a slow speed, it can be _challenging_ (to say the least) to detect a safe turnout area (e.g. in winding roads on the way to Tahoe) soon enough that one can actually use it.

I hate to say this, but... slow down more if you see a potential candidate approaching.

I'll hate you for it right up until I see you pull aside, once I realize what's up you'll probably even get a courtesy wave!
I like and appreciate org mode a lot, but I could live without and not notice. Emacs is more my lispy scratchpad with OS batteries (I mean bindat, sockets, comint, eshell, <lang>-mode, ...)
There's definitely a market place for that - one of the problems with disassemblable IKEA furniture is that it only survives so many moves. There's a good possibility that our current bed might survive being disassembled, but not being reassembled in our next move.
It may or may not help with the requirements, but when I was using it 6mo - 1yr ago you could definitely disable "extras" like wiki, issue management, etc. It was nice to simplify things for users and keep them from splitting info between that and your company's solutions for things like issue management.
English Police dogs sniff out USB sticks
DeepMind's AI Learns Locomotion from Scratch
Come on, we know it's Winamp 4.

lags on my x200 but anyway, it was cool. And btw, drag and dock works people.

ps: I use foobar2000 which is a mad gem of software, but Winamp 2.9/5 is still my sweet spot for music playing.
> Is this something that actually happens nowadays?

Yes, I personally know someone this has happened to. Also resulted in my own personal name/address/other info (amongst that of many others) also being demanded and hence provided to the government.

> Why on earth would anyone ever consent to this nonsense?

What would you do if you weren't a citizen and had a family to come back home to? Just be okay with being denied entry?
Does that mean you can mass-produce queens by separating them from the hive and continuing to feed them the jelly?
They've anticipated that sentiment by, you know, holding all the guns, bombs and stuff.
I don't think he coined the phrase, but his book is a strong read for sure.
Nope; just a few lines of CSS and you're good: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15315357
It‘s facinating to read about bees since without them food production would plummet and famine would set in.

I read that a simple system only has so many ways to adapt and a complex system has many more and so has a better chance to survive(„nature finds its way“).
Firstly, its great that more people are encouraging email encryption but why write yet another guide to it with essentially the same content as so many other similar guides? Considering its FSF, why not spend the time enhancing and updating existing open source/ creative commons guides?

For example Security in a Box, EFF Surveillance Self Defence and our own Umbrella App (we would love more community contributions). These are just some of the 15+ guides to essentially the same thing - using free open source encryption tools. Can't we all work together? I know some of us are using the Content as Code standard (on Github) to try and make this easier. There is so much more we need to address without writing the same stuff.
Vim should disable all mappings during a paste. And if it's not, you should be able to hit F8 (or `:set paste`) to toggle paste mode.
Before Ctrl+C and Ctrl+V to copy and paste, the usual method was Ctrl+Ins and Shift+Ins (and Shift+Del for cut), so this key did have a lot of use back in the day. These key combinations still work in most Windows software.
UK doesn't have Lyft. I'm sure if we did it would be similar. I tried out Lyft in Miami. Was good.
First, this is from two years ago, so it probably needs that info in the title.

Second, the presumption that "winky-face" is flirtatious is unfounded:

(in electronic communication) an emoticon, emoji,
or other image representing a face with one eye
closed in a wink, typically used to express humour
or sarcasm.
"I was being flippant, hence the winky face at the
end of my post"

which is exactly how I have been using it for more than twenty years now.
Sorry, what does %GDP have to do with per capita GDP in the context of the comment, beside the size of population?

EDIT: I'm trying to highlight the fact that preindustrial productivity is a function of population size and therefore per capita GDP is not really a good measure in that context.