skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If it's Rock solid, what support do I need? Besides if they are selling support, they are not selling the software as a product. Paint.net is a product and not some support subscription.
There is nothing wrong with a political argument. (It would be a very narrow minded view on business building and IT, if you'd think of them as apolitical.)
> You can be sure that everyone outside the disaster zone will be along to restore capitalism before they restore electricity

"Keep your government hands off my medicare."
It looks like the linked knife has a handle sticking out of the blade specifically for grabbing on to. Perhaps you have a different model?
That depends an awful lot on how you define "carrying capacity".

For example, I'd define carrying capacity as to include consumer preferences in how much they want to have babies.

And if you include consumer preferences, well that changes the equation a whole lot. It means that you aren't necessarily going to get in a position where the stopping point is literally people starving to death.

All you have to do is have the environment cause 2 people to only want to have 2 babies. And there are a whole lot of reasons as to why 2 people might only want to have 2 babies, other than being forced to under the threat of literal starvation.
How absurd. Virtually every single photo of every male or female that is printed is photoshopped. A lot of people photoshop their pictures before posting to Facebook even. Should that all be declared too? What about those filters on social media apps that make peoples eyes bigger and clear the complexion?

And why the emphasis only on pictures of women when pictures of men have just as much photoshopping? Seems a bit sexist.
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I don't get your argument, is it that we should be fine with paying large corporations money for something they're already paid for by their customers, just so they can improve their bottom line?
Data Science is what statistics is called by engineers.
From the article:

““It’s an easy way to make an arrest. And they’re under pressure to make arrests.” A poster on Officer.com, a verified online message board for law enforcement officers, put it bluntly in 2013 when he advised a rookie to be on the lookout for “GKs”: “make sure they have a prior conviction so you can bump it up to that felony!!!”

So, there may not be quotas, but it’s pretty clear that there is pressure to deliver arrest numbers, especially felony arrests. A different mechanism that drives the same behavior.
I'm with you. Been using paint.net on and off since my high school days, and now that I am a wage earning adult, I'll be making a donation today even if I no longer use it all that often, because of how much I've used it in the past.
Guessed it but you wrote "continuous" instead of "continued" :) I was excited about something new ;)

And yes, this text is gold. Bill Gosper is the Hunter S. Thompson of science.
> The trick: Brave blocks data-hogging ads and flips the web’s publishing model. Instead of advertisers paying publishers or ad networks to serve their ads, they’d pay Brave, which serves only privacy-protecting ads.
If it was, this article wouldn't be relevant. Many sites feature affiliate links but don't state they are receiving commission.
I think Haskell's view of the world with types is basically right. Pattern matching, algebraic datatypes, typeclasses, powerful and usable functions, and immutability (by default) are a great way of reasoning about code. Add the other common aspects of functional programming (map) and you have a very lean and expressive core. Haskell also has a lot of really cool and crazy stuff related to parallelism/concurrency, which are at least partially possible/easy because of aspects like immutability (Erlang/Elixir show this, too).

http://chimera.labs.oreilly.com/books/1230000000929/index.ht...

To be honest I'm extrapolating a bit; my experience in static typing is mostly in other languages and my experience with functional programming is mostly in Elixir/Clojure, but a mix of the two in my book is the most bang for the buck you'll find. But as a disclaimer, ....I'm acting like I know what I'm talking about, these are just my feelings from working with some of these languages off and on. Haskellers can answer this much better than me.
Ahh, I missed that that was a handle. Mine looks more like this:

https://www.swiss-knife.com/media/catalog/product/0/_/0.9523...

When the blade is folded, only the little notch sticks out. Very hard to open.
Also looking forward to part 2. Please don't make us wait too long!! ;-)
...and if they're reported to FTC action will be taken.

https://www.ftc.gov/tips-advice/business-center/guidance/nat...

https://www.ftc.gov/tips-advice/business-center/guidance/ftc...
If you believe the Apple execs that have been using Face ID, it's absolutely a 'magical' technology. Faces (to a lesser extent voices) are the primary way that humans authenticate each other.

It's crazy to me that people complain so much about losing Touch ID, or think that Face ID was a 'backup plan'. Like Apple would be working for years on a more secure, more advanced authentication mechanism, but then use it as a backup plan?
Examples of good 'Exit Strategies'
I see startups which have raised small to medium amounts of money 500k - 3 million and I wonder how exactly are investors planning to get their money back? It doesn't seem the business is large enough to IPO so it's not that clear to me.

Does anybody know where I can find examples of real life exit strategies which have been pitched to investors? How do you convince an investor that google will want to buy you in 5 years?
Of course people are not things, this is an expression.

Allow me to rephrase that:
When you fuck an other guy girlfriend behind his back, you're an ass. Specially when you fuck the girl at her boyfriend place and later get her to leave him for you.
VLC creator did exactly that.
If current software language trends were dystopian then JavaScript would be the McDonald’s of languages. Fast but terrible for you.
But if pioneers do not grind their teeth on real world implementation, application, and hardening how do you expect those scales to change? Was it better when even US mil branches roamed the public internet and people dialed in with naive attacks?

I applaud these developers like those who died exploring countries unknown, minus the raping and pillaging and colonizing (not ironic; I just know people on HN will call me out if not clear preemptively).
14000 developers from 1300 companies have contributed, since 2005.

From 3.19 to 4.7, an average of 4600 lines of code was added daily.

Over 80% of all kernel development is done by developers paid for their work.

A small number of companies are responsible for a large portion of the total changes. These being, from biggest to lowest contributor: Intel (12.9%), Red Hat (8,0%), Linaro (4%), Samsung, SUSE, IBM, Google (2%), AMD, Texas Instruments, ARM, Oracle.

Contributions from unpaid developers have been in decline for many years. 14.6% in 2012, 7.7% in 2016.
VLC creator refused several tens of millions of € to keep the software ads free
I would like to see a combination of:

* Objective civil service exam which establishes competency in the position the person is applying for

* Once a person demonstrates basic competency, they can be entered into a pool and the final candidate chosen using sortition : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sortition

* The selected person can only serve in that position once

* The person will be well compensated above average
Item 1 (expressing (p/q)! in terms of other (p/q)!) has no general solution still, as far as I know, but can easily be handled empirically for medium-sized n with the PSLQ algorithm.

Item 96 ("Solve go") can be made tractable by setting the board size to n=2.
Thanks for taking the moral stance, even in the face of loosing access to millions of euros, much appreciated!
It sure feels like "blockchain" and "cryptocurrency" are the new misunderstood but mandatory usage buzzwords of the day.
> ~30% and ~13% of total traffic volume

So what? That's traffic that the ISP's customers requested. That isn't Netflix using some shared resource. Customers are paying Verison to transfer data, and if 30% of that data is NetFlix, that's fine. Throttling denies the customer the service they are paying for.

Should FedEx or UPS throttle the number of Amazon packages per address they will deliver on time since Amazon represents a very large percentage of their business?

(If this isn't compatible with a business model based on oversubscription, that's the ISP's problem)

> No ISP is going to stop rural Montanaians from looking up Yelp reviews or visiting obscure ferret jousting fan pages

Of course not, because that isn't what Network Neutrality is about. Obscure ferret jousting fan pages are not competing with Verison. However, ISPs are* often involved in various aspects of "media" production and distribution, which is a conflict of interest.
Show HN: Ubuntu-like release code name, but with plants
I do not think this is true. Last I recall, iOS did this a few years ago.
No, I am not, I don't even have a Paypal account because I personally don't trust them. But even 5% is too much, Paypal takes about 2% without the _mandatory_ goodie stuff for subscribers. Furthermore, Patreon actually takes 10% because of "5% transaction fees" plus their 5% share - following your logic, you must be a Patreon employee...

It's better to send donations via SWIFT anyway but most Americans here can use Paypal a lot easier right now instead of waiting for a never coming Patreon campaign or complicated wire transfers with high fees.
Great, I will definitely have a look at it. Did you implement exp(x) for any continued fraction x?
The only thing that fellow could really do for himself was buy some coconut oil. The brains of alcoholics become insulin-resistant and switch to running on acetate, one of the breakdown products of ethanol. The medium-chain-triglycerides in coconut oil provide brain cells with an alternate source of fuel. (I understand that Coconut fatty acids are short enough to be burned without having to go through another step that longer saturated fats [butter, etc] require; I don't remember exactly what that step is.)

I don't think that guy was able to get the coconut oil while at the recovery center. I think giving a more helpful context for viewing his history of addiction was much more helpful than the recommendation for coconut oil.

Another heavy drinker I know does fine while on "vacation", but "stress" in his every day life leads to excess drinking. I have no influence with this one, but I'd try to get him to eat more sweets when in stressful situations - juices/etc. I've heard an old treatment for alcohol withdrawal is to feed them lots of sugar. Here's a random NY Times article that says sugar helps reduce cortisol levels: https://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/04/23/sugar-as-a-stress-...

IMHO, sugar in juices and other foods is basically fine; starch is 100% glucose and is a greater contributor to excess weight. Lots of caveats with regards to the sugar issue...
CR-39 is great. They're scratch resistant, light, have high Abbe number (basically a measurement of the rainbow effect; higher is better), and UV opaque. I've had a pair of CR-39s in a lightweight titanium frame for over 15 years and still going strong.
I tried to install the OS, assuming it's a debian-derived distro but couldn't download it yet. Checking the author's twitter, patreon, instagram says he released beta 1, and is trying to name the web browser.

What's this all about? any ideas? Finally [1]

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/4onxro/extern_os_a_n...

PS: the website uses stratus wordpress theme, which, like most of the cool wp themes is inspired by the apple website.
Well I think the schleswig-holsteiners would disagree. They fought two wars before they were allowed to decide for themselves:-)
Yes, turning it off in Control Center means it will not join new networks. In Settings, it actually explains this below the still-on Wi-Fi switch, which you can turn off.
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Excellent points that most people overlook.

As impractical as it seems at first glance, the best post-apocalypse vehicles (barring an EMP scenario) would be electric since scavenged solar panels could provide the energy source for generations without significant degradation. Scrounging for electricity-based energy generation is much more practical than petrol-based resources that degrade, need refining, etc.

Batteries won't last as long as the solar panels, but as a personal observation, I've noticed that my parents hybrid Prius still has over 95% battery health after almost 15 years. High-quality batteries with well-engineered charge controllers have really impressive life spans in terms of maintaining their charge capacity!
Because if you were to magically turn off the sun and were placed somewhere in the solar system wearing a space suit you'd still be in a dangerous radiation environment from interstellar radiation. The Sun is not the only source of dangerous radiation when making interplanetary trips.

This NASA page has more info on that subject: https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/real-martians-how-to-pr...
having worked in large and small orgs, what I can say is, sure, a large org has many more inefficient workflows and latency than a smaller one. However it also has much more drive than the N independent smaller orgs it needs to accomplish the same scope. As a whole, a bunch of 10 person startups is generally more inefficient to accomplish something a big enterprise can do. (and of course, to accomplish what a startup can do, a big org won't be able to do for ages. Formula one vs huge train.) My point being, dont compare a big organization with a small team. Compare a small team within this org with an independant team. The indeêndent team wins, but not by far. With several competing small startup, the thing is, you cannot see the inefficiencies.
I don't know about that. It looks like a carbon copy of OSX.
Tens of millions of EUR/USD is not enough to qualify as poorest rich which is defined by a 400k net income regardless of having a paying job or not[1].

If you're gonna sell out, at the very least get enough money to hop into the poorest rich category.

[1]:http://www.jmooneyham.com/your-true-chances-of-getting-rich-...
Something like these?
https://boingboing.net/2017/04/07/bug-in-tech-for-antipreppe...

or
http://guifi.net/en

or
https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2015/11/how-a...
Your comment reminded me of this xkcd. https://xkcd.com/1497/
> eXtern is an Operating System that offers a unique user interface and user experiences compared to traditional systems. In addition, it is powered by JavaScript and takes advantage of the power of node modules making the possibilities of App development endless.

npm install bootloader? Please does anyone know anything about this? I highly doubt it is an "operating system".

EDIT:

https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/4onxro/extern_os_a_n...

It's not an OS.
> how do we get these assholes (the FCC, an unelected body) to do the will of (77% of) the people?

Hire lobbyists.

Whoever pays the most wins.
+1 for the recommendation. The first episode should be required viewing for anyone wanting to understand the post WW2 geopolitical world order and how the US became involved in such a mess. The rest of the series (especially once Nixon comes onto the scene) is like watching a slow descent into madness (the public polls and reaction after Kent State and Mai Lie astounded me).
nodejs is the right choice for doing anything nowadays. The next step is not just operating systems, but airplane systems. I want to see autopilot programmed in nodejs.
They explain in the article. Because of his prior convictions, his charge was "bumped up" to the next level.

They also say in the article that police officers are told to look for prior convictions (presumably over the radio when they check identity) so that they can "bump up" the charge.
That's why you want them to be free software.
Good technical exposition but of course these would be somewhat localized consequences of human lunacy. Imagine a replay of the 1859 Carrington Event (equatorial disturbance – storm time estimate = -800 nT to -1750 nT) which fried telegraph networks worldwide. Wonder what would still work?
This is a poorly written puff piece that reads like it was generated by AI.
Are You Afraid?
First mover disadvantage
It's a DE
Proofs by contradiction do not require you to play dumb, you can just present them as they are.
He didn't get her to leave for you is what I'm saying. She would be the ass for deciding to have sex with someone else behind your back. He his surely not responsible for her decisions, as she is a human being with full decision making capabilities. And he didn't get her to leave. She chose to leave. All of this is her responsibility, not his.
Haven't seen a high-profile NW.js application in a little while now. What's the current state of the landscape between it and Electron? Fading, or still a very active project and viable option?
The maximum thickness is about 4mm -- very reasonable, given the strength of the correction. This is with a fairly small round frame (lens width 41mm).

The first RGB LED monitor I ran into was an Apple Cinema Display, several years ago. I initially didn't understand why I found it so uncomfortable to use. I think all the iMacs built in the last 7 years or so are RGB, as are all the Retina MacBook Pros. -- Well, as the article you linked to explains, they might be GB-r instead (green and blue LEDs with a red phosphor). From a dispersion perspective, GB-r is just as bad as RGB; so are quantum dots and the now-obsolete wide-gamut CCFL. All of these wide-gamut technologies will have much more red-green dispersion than either the old standard CCFLs or WLED.

I wasn't aware of Freeform; I guess that's because I don't use progressives -- I just switch glasses, or slide them down my nose to adjust focus. But it seems to be a lens shaping technology, not a lens material.
Autocompletion from the notmuch database is fine when you don't have many addresses in there. But when you are subscribed to a bunch of large mailing lists and you try to search your notmuch database for "John" you're going to get a thousand completion candidates.

If instead you search just your BBDB database, which only has the contacts you actually correspond with, you're going to get just the useful and relevant ones... and you'll always have the notmuch database to search on as a backup, in case the contact you want to to correspond with is not in BBDB yet.
I think I could write a random article generator full of catchphrases they like, and it'd be upvoted like crazy here, Reddit, and Slashdot.
I don't really find the law of jante very applicable to Scandinavia, at least not uniquely so. Scandinavia is in many ways one of the most individualistic places in the world, in terms of things like social values or religion.

It's seem like most people who mention the law either seem to describe things prevalent in many parts of the world, don't agree with egalitarianism or dislikes the fore mentioned individualism.
Mitch Hedberg is dead.
HN's guidelines ask people to avoid, not political arguments as such, but flamewars, which is what they lead to on the internet: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.

This isn't naively denying the political for the supposedly non-political—of course there are politics in everything. It's about the limitations of the internet forum as a medium. We can't have both flamewars and stay interesting, and the mandate of the site is to try to stay interesting. Flames are lame.

Re "business building and IT", I suppose I should add that HN is absolutely not just about business and technology—never has been and never will be, as long as I have a say.
Actually good craftsman knows how to use the tools available to him to do the job in the most effective way. Choice is a luxury that is not always present.
It is not so simple. Many users would be left on the sidelines and the trust would be damaged forever.

If something like this had happened I would have migrated the machines I maintain for sure but probably not to the VLC fork.
The article makes the false equivalency that all three skills are mutually exclusive. In actually, having proficiency in all of AI/DS/Data Engineering is important, as they are all interrelated with DS proper (where AI is used for Moreno robust modeling and Data Engineering is for practical schema management)

And DevOps too. Honestly I’d like to see more thought pieces about statistical devops workflows that aren’t from startups which intentionally complicate the process to sell their own product.
I assume on limited connections, it will never sync, meaning if you use a latop tethered to your cell-phone, you will see the windows-appstore of 1984. (any old date would have done, but this one rhymed)
Love how 2 - 6 all have lost in their title.
BotDigger: Detecting DGA bots in a single network using DNS traffic
Email is the pinnacle of human communication.

Without notifications, which I, of course, do not use, email is the least intrusive and least disrupting way someone can contact me. I simply check my email when I feel like it, which is about two times daily, morning and sometime late evening.

Then, even when I look at my email, I don't have to respond. I don't have to do anything. And if there's an email I want to reply to, I won't necessarily do so right now. Maybe tomorrow. Maybe never.

The best part is the record of all communications and the fact that you have a searchable archive. Man, I wish I could search all my other conversations with people. In fact, I think I should just start recording everything, every day, all the time, and convert the audio to text.
yes, of course I meant "continued" (this is a common error by speakers of latin languages since we use the same word for both things)
Hmm, does it apply to iPhone and iPad screens, especially with Apple’s “True Tone” display? Given the size of the iPhone user base, your blog post should be better known.

edit: web search did not locate definitive statements about RGB LED in either iPhone or Macbook retina screens.
Actually the application and icons bar is at the bottom and there are menus inside each window. I'd say it's more like Windows or as I reconfigure Gnome to be (except the dark theme), starting from the Gnome Flashback coming with Ubuntu 16.04.

It seems a really well executed demo. Too bad the site has very little details and the download page is offline (limits exceeded). However the last part of the Developers page is somewhat revealing:

> Since eXtern as of Beta 1 does not have a terminal, you can use the Linux binary powered gnome-terminal. You can do this by typing this into the I.T.A.I assistant input area (the bottom input area that says “What would you like to do?”:

gnome_terminal_exec

> Then press enter.
It's kind of funny, I recently switched from a note 4 with front fingerprint scanner to an s8 with the scanner on the back. I much prefer the scanner on the back, I use it when the face recognition unlock fails in low light situations and it only requires me to slightly move one finger from my natural grip position.