skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’ve seen quite a lot of suggestions on here that X shouldn’t be allowed to fail by the state, but I don’t really get it. Taking Twitter, it’s not like they are a railway or fuel company that if it shut down would cause massive disruption for many people and industries. And let’s not even begin to get into complications about the state (US government) owning them. How would that affect the privacy of users in other countries?
>While I have complaints about Google, UX isn't one of them. I can't think of a Google product that is really all that unintuitive, undiscoverable, or difficult to use.

>Am I missing something? I guess it can be rather subjective, but I don't have any complaints about UX or UI.

For me search is about everything Google got right. I use
Google Cloud and I can tell you, everything is buried somewhere and change without notification. Even something simple as billing, I have to search Google to find it. Same with G Suite. Something as simple as the admin interface is impossible to find. I never got G+ and don't see why they haven't killed it. People put up with gmail because there is nothing better. Try to change your profile picture. Android apps look terrible compared to ios and I have apps notifications I never knew existed and can't even tell where they're located. So many I can't list here.
This seems like a pretty heavy-handed violation of the UX Principle of Least Surprise [1] given how those Control Center buttons have historically behaved.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principle_of_least_astonishm...
Dark Enlightenment
It's theoretically possible to have all the Upterm niceties over SSH, but not possible at the moment. As of screen and tmux, we have no plans to integrate with them.
> The Web, in comparison, is a joke. The Web was done by amateurs.

Which (like it or not --- I jump back & forth myself) is probably why it took off as explosively as it did..
"Does right by users" is quite a claim, to deprive users of targeted advertising.

Be aware of this - we all know advertising is abused, and has tired users - but it's tricky to find a vendor of hardware being the gate keeper of such stance.

Next step is main media groups start to block safari browsers.
Simple languages often require complex compilers if they are to run fast. You need to do more analysis of the program structure to squeeze out performance.
Ask HN: Best way to identify energy waste in a house?
Our power bill has been a lot higher lately and I've been wondering about ways to track/fix it. Any suggestions? Looking for everything from device power usage to things that could cause the HVAC to work too hard.
No one else hears this and thinks vertically integrated monopoly? What if Google advantages their own hardware over competitors, which in turn will decrease market competition and hurt consumers
I've not been able to find an adequate terminal emulator for Windows.

I found Conemu clunky (maybe I needed to spend more time configuring it, but out of the box it was fairly ugly, and borked out under some curses applications and when using tmux), PuTTY/KiTTY to be lacking some important features (like tabs) -- ditto cmd.exe.

IMO there's a real gap in the Windows market, be that a new terminal emulator entirely, or improvements to Conemu making it more intuitive and user friendly.
The 'original sin' is the political over-representation of the nationalist parties because both PSOE and PP have needed their support for the Spanish government most of the time. In exchange of too much concessions, of course.
[...] Electron is the only decent cross-platform UI framework

That's just not true.

What about Qt, wxWidgets, Tcl/Tk, or even Kivy?
It's a known bug, please vote to fix it faster. Variables interpolation doesn't work in built-in commands at the moment. https://github.com/railsware/upterm/issues/597
> May I recommend “Flashpoints” by George Friedman and “World Order” by Henry Kissinger.

Kissinger, seriously? I find it typical for neorealists to assume that if you're not also a neorealist, you "don't understand geopolitics". Cutthroat policy making for its own sake.
it's not like there are hundreds of cross-platform win/mac/linux software that have no problem being written in other frameworks than electron. See all the KDE apps, Krita, Inkscape, GIMP, Wireshark, Audacity, Unity3d, Maya, Houdini, Blender, LibreOffice etc etc which are all hundreds of time more featureful that your average Electron app.
Not actually foreign, you just have to have lived more than 150 kilometers away (straight line) from Dutch borders for at least 2 years before your employment begins.
Browsers are really where privacy needs to come from.

There's only so much a browser can do against someone who can follow your IP address around. What we really need is ISPs who randomize what the server sees from their pool of IPs and NAT it internally.
A bit off-topic but I wonder if it is possible that Electron team distribute something like the VS C++ Runtimes on Windows? And release patches for different versions/updates?

Haven't used a Windows machine for a while but I remember there were bunches of different VS Runtime version installed on my PC before. Some app installers came with a runtime installer, but if the required runtime version was installed it would just use that one. I think this might somewhat reduce the installed app size for Electron apps as at least some stuff got reused.
Thanks, I'll take a look at it. Although, it seems to only show a single best match, unlike IntelliSense.
French scientists sound the alarm about aluminum in vaccines
As I commented last time on the subject: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15285252

Sometimes the apps are the only way to access something else, in this case a car remote unlock.

Sometimes someone has paid actual money for an app, more than the $1 baseline; some music apps are in triple figures.
That's illegal propaganda, not free-speech.
Just tried it out, and it looks very good. It was a perfect way to demonstrate ARKit to colleagues. But for some reason it flips the board upside down.
Fired Google engineer wonders if KKK names are cool
More evil than any of the following?

* Banking

* Mining

* Clothing

* Pharmaceuticals

* Media

* Agriculture

etc.

Every industry has its good points and bad points, good people and bad people. Moreover, what one person thinks is evil another might think is completely harmless or even a good thing.

I suspect our discomfort is more with big businesses making massive amounts of money. That has more to do with modern capitalism in general, than the tech sector per se.
I had assumed once they used X for ten that they would use roman numerals moving forward
A private business is not a public place.
S.E.C. Says It Was a Victim of Computer Hacking Last Year
There is money there.

People are willing to pay a premium for convenience.

Not having to travel to the grocery store, not having to wait in line, not getting mad at the person who cannot bag your groceries, and not having to buy excess amounts of ingredients, nor measuring them, I consider valuable.

Also, Plated offers meals w/ ingredients that would take me a full day of travel to source.

If somebody is already willing to travel to the store, why would grocery delivery increase their existing customer spend?
This is amazing. It never ceases to amaze how much complex behaviour can emerge from gravitation. After black holes, neutron stars, gravitational waves, solar systems, this is yet another example of a structure that arises from gravitation alone (granted, many other principles of physics are needed for this to happen - for example conservatin of angular momentum). What else will we discover?
Compared to most companies, their CEOs don't change that much. The last one stayed on for life, for example.

And with regard to displeasing shareholders - Tim Cook has no problem with that - to quote, "if you want me to do things only for ROI reasons, you should get out of this stock."

http://www.businessinsider.com/tim-cook-versus-a-conservativ...
Numba can be much faster than NumPy for some calculations. For example if you want to compute both the min and the max of an array, NumPy requires two passes but in Numba it is easily done in one. This can give close to 2x speedup for arrays which do not fit in cache.
i think we need to care about shit eating battery as much as we do care about ads eating bandwidth.
Tried to start it; blank page and no response...

as said terminal emulator should do one thing lightly. Tough the nice interface still made me download it.

Try building the same stuff with smtg else than electron ?
If you want to show all possible completions that's even easier: https://github.com/hchbaw/auto-fu.zsh

I prefer the other plugin though because it's less obtrusive.
Sending capability (at least here) requires amateur radio license. It is technically illegal to even own transmit capable equipment without a license and you can operate it only under supervision of licensed person.
I use mintty with Cygwin. If you want tabs maybe you can try the fork called fatty.
> only getting enough

That's because total volume is so low. Back when it mattered we were seeing 5% of volume as income to Gratipay, comparable to Patreon, etc.
> That's not exactly the fault of booking.com though.

> They can't really offer a lower price than booking.com and hotels.com due to contracts

See, it is the fault of booking.com. I'm not saying I'd have done it differently in their position, but their demand that hotels charge the same via booking.com as directly (even while booking.com gets a cut) is the direct cause of complicated reward schemes like this.
How I hacked hundreds of companies through their helpdesk
There doesn't have to be a good ROI. Quoting Tim Cook: "When we work on making our devices accessible by the blind, I don't consider the bloody ROI. [..] If you want me to do things only for ROI reasons, you should get out of this stock."

https://www.macobserver.com/tmo/article/tim-cook-soundly-rej...
I’m golden on iOS 11.0.0
In my opinion, Qt and wxWidgets apps look ugly. At least I never saw one that looks beautiful.
Wait, because Amazon is known to do better than others on UX and lack of dark patterns?
That was a conflict between Habsburg supporters and Bourbon supporters, but those Catalans always spoke in the name of Spain, not Catalonia.
That won't happen. The media groups wouldn't alienate potential customers because of their browser choice, not these days.
Hmm, this prompted me to install the Keybase client on Windows, but the setup exits after "Initializing..."
Rolling my own invoicing
If that information isn't personalised in any fashion and the data are retained for a minimum period, I'd be OK with sorting out what types of queries aren't satisfied on DDG itself.
An eBook for $50?
Robotics Will Never Stop Amusing
This was a huge issue last year.

http://metro.co.uk/2017/08/01/man-who-filmed-dog-doing-nazi-...

What's funny is that the original youtube video is still up.

Edit: Might as well include the video.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SYslEzHbpus
This transformer: https://github.com/ds300/react-native-typescript-transformer
worked perfectly for me so far. You don't have to change your code at all but just add a single file to your project and the packager will do all the rest for you.
Units absolutely rocks. It can do quite complex calculations as well, and you can add to the units it knows.
Let me dial the paranoia up a little by calling your attention to this historic text:

http://www.ece.cmu.edu/~ganger/712.fall02/papers/p761-thomps...

A quote from the conclusions:

"In demonstrating the possibility
of this kind of attack, I picked on the C compiler/
I could have picked on any program-handling program
such as an assembler, a loader, or even hardware microcode.
As the level of program gets lower, these bugs
will be harder and harder to detect. A well-installed
microcode bug will be almost impossible to detect."
Golang Proposal: Just Use GitHub
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Full_fiscal_autonomy_for_Scotl...

popularly known as Devo-max.

Technically both sides were proposing more powers, it was a difference of degree in what was being offered. At the last minute more power was offered when it seemed like full independence had a chance of winning.
I don’t think it’s a RTFM thing. The lawyers RTFM, and this is what they came up with.

The legislation called for informed consent. Two core issues were left open to definition, in practice. [1] What requires informed consent? [2] What counts as informed consent.

For question 2, a standard answer (nag screen) emerged.

Question 1 is trickier. The cheapest & easiest solution is to just nag, so that’s the default. If you want to drop the nag screen you can deal with question 1, but most don’t bother. Either they want the tracking, they want the easiest option or they want legal CYA.

I think the legislative intentions were good, but this was a hard area to legislate. It didn’t work, IMO.
> All CPUs (two in the previous example, but there can be more) are connected via a common bus (the Front Side Bus, FSB) to the Northbridge.

This is very out of date. The Northbridge was pushed onto the CPU die about the time that the article was written (2007). I'm not sure exactly what consequence that has but I suspect it invalidates a large chunk of the discussion.

Modern memory controllers (which are on the CPU die and evolved out of what used to be the Northbridge) have various fancy features that weren't available in 2007. For examples:

1. DDIO. Without this, when a PCIe device DMAs data into system RAM, you are very likely to get a cache miss when the CPU reads the data because the data was written into DRAM and not the CPU cache. DDIO writes it into the CPU cache. This is quite important for modern networking, where the packet interval can be less than the time taken for a cache miss. (https://www.intel.co.uk/content/www/uk/en/io/data-direct-i-o...)

2. These days a single CPU has many cores, hyperthreading and deep-speculative execution abilities. As a result, the CPU can post many reads into the memory subsystem in parallel. The memory controller keeps a table of who's reading what, so that it can optimize DRAM access - eg two independent reads can be scheduled together if they happen to target the same DRAM row. Checkout my boring question on Stackoverflow (https://stackoverflow.com/questions/45382914/parallel-memory...).
"I haven't downvoted a SINGLE comment, and even if I wanted I wouldn't be able because I don't have enough points"

Say the guy with 682 points.
ME is the backdoor - it's unsafe by default meaning it can be used to inspect/control your machine remotely. That, AFAIK, is it's primary and stated function!
Apple is not just a vendor of hardware.

Would it be less tricky if it was an operating system vendor? If one of the Linux distros packages a default browser with this block would you say the same?
That's my experience too. An amazing amount of "hard" things are just "ohhh that's what they meant".. basically a communication problem when reading others. What they see is not what you see and here lie most of the problems.

For instance I failed linear algebra in college. Even though I loved CGI and 4 dimension matrices are bread and butter of 3D transforms. So I was eager to master it. I tried for 10 years reading a math text book and made no progress. I did lots of programming which helped me get a feel of what notation could be used to and also bought a stupid linalg book on amazon. Their wording and approach was different. All of a sudden everything became trivial. When I go back to the older book I understand what they mean now, but it hid so much meaning. I needed to get a culture of mathematical notation. Some kids might develop it naturally, or be able to grow with the help of teachers, I wasnt able at the time so I was left in the dark.

Now most advanced abstract subjects feel different. It's gone from mental cramp to tiny things that MUST HAVE meaning, and I just have to change my perspective and I'll see too. And weirdly it applies to CS fields too. After that I could finally read fat compilers book full of succint notation. Combinatorics became reachable, same for fancy physics. The symbols carry almost no fear no. And in a way I'm still a bit sad that I didn't know that before, feels like a huge waste, for me but for other kids too.

Lastly, going back to programming, haskell and the likes. After struggling to grok continuations and non determinism, I got a very very different picture of computing altogether. And I realize how crazy bad imperative first programming courses are. I didn't forget how impatients students can be and how efficient a simple statement sequence with visual output can be .. but gosh how far it sets you back in trying to approach different and vastly more useful ideas (say prolog).
Or buying four sticks of butter when all you need is a pat.
Couldn't access the website - too many pop-up! Hopefully the HN comments made me want to try DDG again
Qt with QML and QtQuick? Also a nice cross-platform UI framework, supports JavaScript, and is highly performant.

JavaFX? Also a nice cross-platform UI framework, supports JavaScript, and is also better performant than Electron.

Also, both support HiDPI by default, and can be themed with CSS however you want them (in the exact same way that you could theme Electron apps)
And who can't get the same quality ingredients locally.
Erm... am I the only one that's a little thrown off by the "mascot" in this project?
> If they are just writing regular code for some subsystems' subsytem, why is that evil?

Why should it be relevant whether you are "writing regular code for some subsystems' subsytem"? Shouldn't the relevant question be whether your contribution is "net evil" or "net good"?

How would you suggest we defend against an institution dividing the work to build some hypothetical ultimate evil into thousands of "regular small pieces"? Would it help any of the victims of the ultimate evil that is was built by many individuals, each one of them building a "regular small piece", instead of by one mastermind alone?
The number of questions/answers was decided in an agreement between the Scottish and UK parliaments.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edinburgh_Agreement_(2012)

It was openly known that the nationalists wanted the option, and the unionists didn't. Perhaps it was negotiated away for something else the nationalists wanted, but still the point stands, they wanted it, and didn't get it.
Why not an iPhone 6?
"overtreffe" is a Norwegian word. However they mean more to surpass some previous set benchmark. You have to "överträffa" something (either a set goal, someone else or your own previous effort), you cannot just "överträffa".
Fair enough, and it makes sense. Thanks for explaining. :)
DDG is not a search engine.
Running as in just having the app open and idling? Or is this comparing energy efficiency while actually using both apps?
Hayday game hack how please help
Any Qt app can be themed with CSS (Qt calls it QSS) as if it was an HTML page, just like Electron apps can be. You can completely change the design, if you wish to.

So, in terms of design, there’s basically no major difference there.
Pretty much my top reason for going Google any more.
The quality at my local Kroger and WalMart are inferior to the quality of the meal delivery meats and vegetables.

I use HelloFresh, HomeChef, and Plated.
I think that bit would be easy; but I'd probably cheat. You don't need to understand the context of the clues. You just need a big enough wordlist to brute force with. Start with the longest words since they will have the least options.

I'll bet you could scrape all the previously used words/phrases from the last 100 years of NYTimes, etc to get things rolling.
Weakening Google's monopoly.
I believe that NASA would have designed computers even without IBM. Possibly even faster but it would have been a tailored computer that would have been very expensive and of little civilian application.

You don't have to guess at this - just look at the Soviet space program.
Payment Request API soon in all major browsers
GBPUSD Sets Up to Weaken Further on Loss of Upside Steam
That's a stupid thing to say. People running large companies can be idiots. Look at Microsoft's Nokia deal.
None of the meal delivery stuff comes pre-chopped.

It will have the proper size, though.
Qt is leaps and bounds ahead.
I'm not fond of the joke right there but alas.

ps: I hope they have org-mode interop.
Or a VPN. Then again, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Device_fingerprint and it's game over again.
Bitcoin and Cryptocurrency and ICOs Resources
OpenFaaS on Azure (Docker Swarm)
Apparently it made it to the FAQ.
GRIHA UNNATHI
Well, there's a question of who I want engineering my social reality in addition.

I think there's quite a lot of selection going on and the criteria are much broader than just just "the smartest, most dedicated" engineers.
unMessage: metadata free instant messenger with audio chat using Onion Services
Not sure I understand. How much H2O/liquid/ice is inside an asteroid? Is the core made of liquid?
Why Are Middle East Girls Better in School Than Boys?
One advantage of Numba is that it doesn't require CUDA. You can easily write your code so that if the machine it's running on has CUDA then it will use that and if it doesn't it will just JIT it for the CPU.
If it is not profitable and runs on loss, then it is making profitable businesses in the same market impossible. We dont want it gone, but we are completely ok with it being gone due to bad business.

I am also ok with some help towards suddenly unemployed employees, owners who lost everything etc. However, business itself existing prevents a company with actual business model to appear.

I dont thing twitter is the kind of service that government should keep alive. It is not like roads.
The real difficulty though, is if you start moralising too much, you may find that there aren't many jobs (let alone any that pay well), that are completely virtuous.
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Gay animals are a part of nature. There is nothing to be offended about.
Actually using both apps.
I stand corrected, thanks!
Real nice NVidia. Now how about some support for Linux on Optimus/Hybrid GPU laptops?
UK scientists edit DNA of human embryos
> You are slipping in an assumption that the moral character of people is well reflected by the social institutions they belong to. Nothing I have seen about the world, or read about history gives the slightest hint favouring that assumption.

Do you think that still holds when you only consider those cases that people actually realistically had control over, and also exclude those who intentionally worked to subvert the institution they were nominally a part of? After all, being the member of a totalitarian state that doesn't allow you to leave the country is a bit of a different thing than signing an employment contract in the US, and I highly suspect that the people we are talking about here also are not in the class of people intentionally subverting the companies they work in, because chances are friends who care about this would know.

> Worse, you are implying that people should be judged by what social context they exist in. It seems far more likely that good people and bad people can end up in all sorts of situtions.

Well, not as black and white as you make it out to be, that's just a simplification for the sake of being able to discuss things at all. But I absolutely think that social context is significantly correlated with how people should be judged, yes.

Also, what exactly do you mean by "moral character"? I don't think it's a particularly well-defined term.
The rights come with responsibilities and/or consequences.

Being an adult means you get to own many of your choices, but also their consequences.

Giving the recruiter a direct "no" would be far more professional. OTOH, I've dissed more than my share of recruiters myself, though generally only after an initial clear and unambiguous communication wasn't respected.
It's two turtles on top of each other, what's the problem?