skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"The service is unavailable."
VLC hasn't done much to improve picture quality. An mpc and madvr combination easily trumps it and yet you want to donate to this cookie cutter program to only maintain but not make it better? MPC was on the verge of being stopped of development until few people made the effort to volunteer and contribute to code.
Can I buy these individually? Having a 6$ GPS enabled tracker is useful for more than just shipping. Ex. as a replacement for https://www.thetileapp.com/
Show HN: Simple command line Spotify controller
Where do you live? I would love to hear all about it.
The, uh, minstrelsy part of that movie has aged poorly.
We need more competition. What we have now are two parties that act as one. Candidates outside that cartel are squashed. Sure we get to vote, but for what? Another cookie cutter?

We need more and better choice.
Or using HSTS (especially with HSTS preloading)
It's all good. Employees don't get nearly as much protection here. I see that as a negative.
Apparently it needed the $8M replacement for a $20 webserver
Just my guess, but the practical motivation is probably not there -- we are so far from the levels of efficiency at which the Landauer principle is noticeable.
Air France A380 over Greenland on Sep 30th: Fan and engine inlet separated
> you need to radically reduce the cost of goods and services

Yes. Starting with housing, most people's #1 expense (and, complicating matters, many other people's #1 investment).
Then flag the post and let the moderators handle it. There is nothing more obnoxious than lecturing other people on how you think they should express themselves.
please don't use uber as an example.
they made just so many mistakes with postgresql (mistakes that would probably blow up a ton of databases including mysql)
And why the emphasis only on pictures of women

Where do you see this?
Voter Matchup
Do you use a calendar(.ics) to keep up with local elections? -and- Would you like a way to directly tell elected officials if an issue is important to you?
> I'm still missing one extension (Join for Android)

AFAIK Firefox extension is pending addition of push API support in extensions. Joao has filed a bug report[0] for that, but there hasn't been much activity on it for some time.

[0]:https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1378096
What's in it for them that justifies the expense?
Yet people can't wait to jump to ios which does the same and worse. Google cutting out windows platform from their app development which seems like its more intentions than just cost cutting. Microsoft is doing everything it can these days and all people do is talk smack about their past.
> Galera cluster (M-M functionality)

not sure if galera cluster is a good thing.. we've started out with galera and it was a pain. we now run on postgres, but even if we would've stayed with mysql we wouldn't use galera anymore. network split was a pita, even if you had major quorum.
I've been through the first half of the course and it was informative and enjoyable.
> Transforming real-estate, from a system largely aimed at profits...

I think profits from productive use of land (rent, farming, logging, tourism, etc.) is fine. It's the speculation on family residences as if it they were an appreciating commodity (like gold or oil) that seems to be the current issue.
Google Cache version: https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:http:/...
Good job. Is the code available?
I still think an Iberian federation is possible in the future. The main impediment IMHO is that the Castillian/Spanish political leaders - and hence probably their voters - never understood the multi-national nature of this gorgeous peninsula. Mediterranean greetings my fellow Iberian :)
No, the central government is as petty as it gets. For instance when the Canaries banned bull fighting a long time ago there was no problem, but when the Catalans did it recently the ban was overthrown by Spanish courts. Don't get me wrong, the Catalans did not bann it because it is not part of "their culture" or because it is cruel, they just did it to piss off Madrid :-)

Also now for the referendum, the central government sent four thousand police officers in cruise ships to the port of Barcelona to prevent voting. Does not seem particularly grown up to me neither ...
I do agree with you. There's no magic bullet. But I still have a hard time comprehending why soda is a good choice. Even juat switching to water would make a difference. I think.
WHAT'S IN THE BOX?
Yes, they should really pass a law to deal with those illegal drugs.
Sprint's Soon to be vacant 3.9M sq ft HQ – Hey Amazon, move in ready!
Note that creatine should be avoided if you're bipolar, according to a study or two and a lot of anecdotes.

Kidneys: https://examine.com/nutrition/does-creatine-cause-kidney-pro...

Overall, it's a very safe and moderately effective supplement, particularly if you don't eat a lot of red meat. Just make sure to drink enough water.

I wouldn't say I've been depressed (a psychiatrist might disagree, I've been dx'ed with it in the past), but daily 5mg creatine and 2k IU vitamin D have made a remarkable difference in mood/energy for me this year.
Querying RESTful webservices into Emacs orgmode tables
> Have fun when you run into the same lesson left unlearned from the 70s - distributed permission-less databases like blockchains cannot scale without becoming centralized. The more people that wish to participate, the growth rate starts jumping from exponential to exponential * log with the bandwidth and storage requirements to ensure every other node on the network is properly updated.

You mean it may fail ? Yes, we are aware. Since the beginning. That's what "experiment" comes from.

> Cash is a money system. You contradict yourself.

Being an alternative is not being a replacement. Just like the bike is an alternative to a car, and not a replacement for it.

You seem to have a terrible grudge against bitcoin. I'm sorry about it, but it's irrelevant here. You may like it or not, but don't give the early community objectives we didn't have.

We never sold a magical solution. We were not some 14 years old kid in a hoodie screaming "kill the banks".

We hoped. A lot. We dreamed. We did noticed and disliked a lot of flaws in our current systems and institutions and explored other ways.

But as intelligent people, we know very well the limit of the project and how much it can hurt.

So keep your negativity to yourself. It's uncalled for, and definitely unwanted.
Wow, you really have no idea what you're talking about.
> Because of course people won't squander their basic income (maybe on Bitcoin?) and if they do, so much for a social safety net.

Why don't people do it on existing benefits?
Some anecdotal data:

Due to some reasons I couldn't use contact lenses in one eye for a couple of months. I switched to using contacts in single eye for that period, as I can't stand glasses for more than one hour due to very high myopia. It turns out, single contact has enough benefits that I didn't switch back to wearing two contact lenses after the issues with the eye went away. Instead I use single contact lens alternating between eyes for the last four years. Some observations:

- The issues with contact lenses became almost nonexistent. I almost never feel dryness in the eyes.

- Perhaps surprisingly, whenever I feel dryness in the eyes, it's always the eye without contact lens.

- It seems that the eyes have much much higher stamina now. They never feel tired regardless of how much I abuse them. I could look into screen all day without breaks and I wouldn't feel any issues as far as eyes are concerned.

- Since I have high myopia, using single contact gives my vision very high dynamic range. The eye without a contact is almost like a microscope.

- The potential wear of the cornea is reduced twice.

I can also attest that the brand of the contacts matters a lot. I remember several brands of contacts being really uncomfortable to use. Currently I wear 'Biofinity XR' if anyone cares. There were several other brands that I liked, but I don't remember them.
Well, the region grows better than almost any Spanish region (except maybe the metropolitan area of Madrid) and they saved their banks when the crisis hit them first ;-)
Let me guess, it was hard to get to it
The US free market has been very successful at radically reducing the cost of goods and services. Where it has failed to do so are in areas that are not free market, like health care.
Yes. The key to that is approximating reals by the second Ostrogradsky series (or, more properly, Ostrogradsky-Sierpiński series): x = ⎣x⎦ + 1/q₁ − 1/q₂ + 1/q₃ - 1/q₄ + ⋯, where the denominators qₖ are greedily chosen as the largest possible. The following formulas are true: exp(1/q) = [1; q−1, 1, 1, 3q−1, 1, 1, 5q-1,…], exp(x + y) = exp(x)exp(y), and exp(x - y) = exp(x)/exp(y).
The algorithm keeps two most recent partial sums of the O-S series: sₖ₋₁ and sₖ. As long as the partial quotients of exp(sₖ₋₁) and exp(sₖ) are equal, it emits them; otherwise, it computes the next partial sum sₖ₊₁. Similar formulas work for tan(x).
It's a process we've witnessed (I'm from Turkey), so I don't know where to point you to. But while since 2010 minimum wage went from ~800 liras to ~1400, most of the basic needs' prices have at least doubled, and with the USD and EUR parities of TRY tripling in the past two years, the increased amount of liras people get has lost lots of value.
You will be no more "owned by and dependent on" the government than you are on whoever pays you salary right now.
List of academic databases and search engines
I feel there is a more recent upgrade to this type of story where Elon Musk ramps up production of one of the early Tesla vehicles by talking to factory workers and swapping out lines or parts about 10x+ faster.
I was a print subscriber the last few years, but this year (well, since December) it's been incredibly spotty whether or not I get the issues. Too bad.
US Navy Debuts First Underwater Drone Squadron
> It was intended to be disparaging

and thus your thesis of 'HN doesn't like to be reminded' falls to the simpler explanation of 'trashtalk usually gets downvoted'.
Sprint merger with T-Mobile could be an economic tragedy for Kansas City area

http://www.kansascity.com/opinion/opn-columns-blogs/steve-ro...
But also probably for pulling fire alarms repeatedly, petty vandalism, cussing people out, etc. Not your actual violence, but still acting contrary to how we expect people to generally act in society. Which is also different from simply not interacting with people very much.
I made the mistake of reading Digital Fortress at some point. The entire plot is predicated on the existence of a computer at the NSA that can defeat any encryption through brute force without even knowing the underlying encryption scheme. You give it ciphertext it outputs plaintext. Not satisfied with how ludicrous that is, as in it can be proven impossible by anyone with even a passing familiarity with what encryption is, he also goes into all these actual numbers like it can break 2k long keys in under a second so even using much larger keys it's only a few minutes. Completely ignoring the fact that key spaces grow exponentially with key size and instead assuming it's linear... This is all in the first couple chapters so I'm not even spoiling anything

Researched his books are not... At least that one wasn't, because if he'd consulted even a first year CS student they could've told him it's all wrong.

That whole experience turned me off of Dan Brown books (even though I had previously read Angels and Demons and enjoyed it, knowing his research was so shit in areas I'm knowledgeable in makes it harder to read books about things I'm not because I know I will be coming away with wrong ideas stuck in my head)
Here are a few examples:

- http://store.steampowered.com/app/458200/Rumpus/

- https://postgrest.com/en/v4.3/

- http://skedge.me/

- http://darcs.net/

- https://pandoc.org/

- https://git-annex.branchable.com/

Some lists with more:

- https://wiki.haskell.org/Haskell_in_industry

- https://wiki.haskell.org/Haskell_in_practice

Also, a bunch of programming languages are implemented in Haskell.
Gamers have an advantage in learning
The core of the article (See full version for the extra commentary):

A toothpaste factory had a problem. They sometimes shipped empty toothpaste boxes without the tube inside. This challenged their perceived quality with the buyers and distributors. Understanding how important the relationship with them was, the CEO of the company assembled his top people. They decided to hire an external engineering company to solve their empty boxes problem. The project followed the usual process: budget and project sponsor allocated, RFP, and third-parties selected. Six months (and $8 million) later they had a fantastic solution – on time, on budget, and high quality. Everyone in the project was pleased.

They solved the problem by using a high-tech precision scale that would sound a bell and flash lights whenever a toothpaste box weighed less than it should. The line would stop, someone would walk over, remove the defective box, and then press another button to re-start the line. As a result of the new package monitoring process, no empty boxes were being shipped out of the factory.

With no more customer complaints, the CEO felt the $8 million was well spent. He then reviewed the line statistics report and discovered the number of empty boxes picked up by the scale in the first week was consistent with projections, however, the next three weeks were zero! The estimated rate should have been at least a dozen boxes a day. He had the engineers check the equipment; they verified the report as accurate.

Puzzled, the CEO traveled down to the factory, viewed the part of the line where the precision scale was installed, and observed just ahead of the new $8 million dollar solution sat a $20 desk fan blowing the empty boxes off the belt and into a bin. He asked the line supervisor what that was about.

“Oh, that,” the supervisor replied, “Bert, the kid from maintenance, put it there because he was tired of walking over to restart the line every time the bell rang.”
I used to have a small well made faraday cage for storing a laptop. (I was also using stupid fonts[1] that were meant to make TEMPEST harder, and FDE, and etc etc.) I don't do any of that any more, apart from the disk encryption.

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/comp.society.privacy...

https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/emsec/softtempest-faq.html
Here ya go:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/16/nyregion/16narcotics.html
How is the progress on power coming back to the island? Is it still dependent on diesel? The cell networks work?
https://web.archive.org/web/20170915175036/http://workforces...
It's more than just fan blade failure. Engines are tested against fan blade failures. The surrounding cowling should contain it.

In this case the whole fan disk is gone. Uncontained failure like this can down the plane depending on the where the parts fly.
This seems to be some kind of scam. It leads to "bitpost.com", which has the TLS cert for "abettertrader.com". There's no picture of the actual device. Just clip art.

Such trackers exist, but they start around $50 and need a minimal cellular account. There are various short-range devices like Tile, as well.
We are everywhere, there are dozens of us. Dozens !
The debate about basic income is based on the wrong premise in the sense that people evaluate it based on two different viewpoints of the world.

Unconditional Basic Income (UBI) is based on the assumption there will be no jobs for most humans in the future.

What we have today is CBI or Conditional Basic Income which is conditional based on the assumption that you can motivate people to find jobs and that jobs will be available for most. If there are always going to be plenty of jobs then UBI makes no sense.

But if you believe that there be fewer and fewer jobs for humans, then UBI make a ton of sense.

I am of the latter belief.
For the U.S. this will be a non-starter. Most people in the U.S. don't want lower income people to have access to Universal Healthcare, Universal Basic Income is a joke concept in the U.S.
> We have been getting shipments of money.

It's kinda weird to think that at a time when there are huge shortages of basically everything it makes sense to use shipping space on something whose value is purely symbolic.

I do get that they're shipping plenty of other things and the cash is probably a pretty small piece of the total space, but still it's worth thinking about.
Why does playing around with the block below "Interaction" also mute the sound of videos playing in other tabs? (Chrome browser)
What's deceitful about it? It seems like the person making this offer didn't really think this through, considering that VLC is open source.

The name is meaningless if they implement ads.
I’d be curious to hear more about that idea but thank you for introducing me to this theory of entropic gravity.
Learning about China’s Cultural Revolution by scouring the Tianjin flea market
Well, do you think it is worse than stationing four thousand police officers in cruise ships in the port of Barcelona? The Spanish government is determined to not let this happen. Period. Fortunately (and to make things more complicated) the parliament did not revoke the Catalan autonomy.
After the Tsunami, Japan’s Sea Creatures Crossed an Ocean
> but you don't really know what is accepted knowledge or not

This is his primary problem. When he presents his "facts" he is often not presenting obscure but well established facts, but wide-eyed conspiracy theories that have been soundly refuted and are not taken seriously by legitimate historians or scientists.

If he bothered to do even a little research, and look for original historical sources, such as contemporary accounts or archaeological evidence to confirm what he has read in his fringe conspiracy books (in other words if he bothered reading well-researched and vetted books from credentialed historians), most of his "facts" would evaporate and he would lose his plot devices.

I don't really care that he uses this stuff to create a narrative. It's fiction, after all. But I have a real problem when he presents this crap as fact to an audience that lacks the discernment to know better. He is, in my opinion, intentionally misleading people, and making them more ignorant, to line his own pockets.
If those phones were actually available to buy. I wanted to buy one but they were not available to western europe, then were distributed over weird channels and turned out to have performance issues. So I gave up and got an older android phone for free.
See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qantas_Flight_32 ... although that happened both in a different part of the engine (the hot bit) and that was a Rolls Royce engine whereas this is an Engine Alliance (GE/P&W) GP7270 engine.
negativity [x]
uncalled for [x]
pro-blockchain [x]

You Sir, have won the millenial-plays-adult award.
Do you believe automation can have no net benefit for society, then? Is there no future where increasingly all of the basic needs of people can be taken care of by automation, freeing up humans to do creative work?

I would like to understand your viewpoint.
>I also gave up on progressives and now have two pairs: readers and drivers.

Yes, both progressives and high-index lenses suffer from the same problems: smaller field-of-vision and higher distortion of peripheral vision

If I sit with my eyes 36 inches away from a 30-inch screen...

With a single-vision lens, without my head moving at all, my eyes can move within their sockets to see the bottom corner of screen showing the date & time, and to the top corner showing the [x] button to close windows. Single-vision lenses have edge-to-edge clarity.

With progressives or high-index lenses, it requires rotating & tilting my head to put those corner locations directly in my central field of vision. Imagine a horse with blinkers[1]. The edges of those lenses are blurrier so you have to move your head to move the lens' center spot toward the item of interest for maximum sharpness.

Maximum field-of-vision is the optimal ergonomics of looking at multiple windows of text on a 30" monitor. Yes, high-index lenses are thinner and more fashionable but I don't need that when concentrating on programming code and reading web pages.

>You cannot depend on optometrists+opticians to make the right choice for you. You need to educate yourself on the available choices.

That's why I bought my own set of trial lenses[2]. I can methodically optimize my computer distance vision without exhausting the patience of my optometrist repeatedly asking, "which is better? 1? or 2? (again) 1? or 2?". I then go to Zenni and order the exact diopters I need. (I'm not going to buy a glaucoma tester so I'll still go to the eye doctor for that.)

I end up with 3 separate pairs of single-purpose glasses: 1 for reading books ~12 inches, 1 for computer distance ~36 inches, and 1 for driving 20+ feet. Swapping out glasses for each purpose is inconvenient but the larger field-of-vision makes it worth the hassle.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blinkers_(horse_tack)

[2]
http://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_nkw=trial+lens+set
> The reality is that if you want to cover everyone's basic needs with $12K, you need to radically reduce the cost of goods and services. How ? That's the conversation we should be having.

Why even insist on that $12K number in the first place, isn't that like approaching the problem from the wrong end?

It's something that always puzzled me about economic policymaking, regardless of which country; Changes seem to happen at a pace of years and only with static values, which makes reacting to our modern volatile and interconnected markets, in any useful way, impossible.

Case in point the basic income: Ideally the amount of money people get could be linked to the general living costs, adjusted to their area of residence, and some national economic index.

Sure the first one could be abused by people registering in more expensive areas while living in cheaper ones, but in the long run, and economic big picture this would only lead to rising prices (and basic income) in the cheaper areas, generated through the spending by the "cheaters".

Imho something really underestimated is how much of an economic boost a basic income would be, it'd be like the government directly subsidizing general purchasing power, and lot's of that will come back to the government in the form of taxes. It's like the opposite end version of corporate bailouts and tax giveaways.

Looking at a number like 7 trillion from that side, suddenly makes it way less intimidating and way more appealing. It's not like money is some finite resource that has to be mined in deep and dangerous caves; When it's about saving banks, Big Whatever or waging wars, against something or somebody, there always seems to be more than enough of it?
Databases or data storage would be some of the dumbest applications of
blockchain. Blockchain is very expensive way of storing data, much more
expensive than plain DHT.

> I've thought a little about it, and I wonder what could be achieved.

You should have put less thought and more learning in the topic,
especially history of cryptosystems. Blockchain is not the first idea of
cryptographic money, and in fact, from cryptographic perspective it's not
money at all, it's document timestamping service.

> Does anyone have already studied the idea?

Yes, cryptographers, for a long time.
Seriously lucky that the disintegration didn't take out vital hydraulics or fuel systems in the wing, or penetrate the pressurised fuselage.

I'd like to hope that this wasn't caused by ground crew error, i.e. an improperly secured cowling or access hatch, which snowballed into major component failure...
I thought Garth Marenghi was the only author who has written more books than he has read.
Sounds like it was over water, meaning they won't be able to retrieve the fan to determine why it failed.
Except the marriage (i.e. the constitution) came into place way after Franco; and the Catalans approved it with a humongous majority!