skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We are very similar, in those regards. I don't mind if people post my photos, but I ask that they not tag me in them. I don't have any accounts on what people call social media sites. (I'd argue that Slashdot qualifies as a social media site, for example. I don't have twitter, Facebook, etc...)

I have been a sort-of, low-level, public figure. So, I don't mind if people post my picture, I'm used to it. I just ask that they not tag me, specifically in non-public spaces. I only have so much privacy, really. I mean, I've been in newspapers, magazines, and on television and radio. I don't mind if those things get republished, but I'm happily retired and my private life is something I'd like to keep that way.

Err... I'm not famous or anything. Well, I'm famous to maybe a dozen people. I had some brief fame when I sold my business, but that was it. I'm not even notable enough for a Wikipedia article, I don't believe. I'm a mathematician who helped bring traffic modeling to the age if computers, that is it. I got lucky and sold my company. It was to a publicly traded company and so there were SEC filings and the likes.

That's the extent of my infamy.

Since then, I've retired to the side of a mountain in Maine. It's nice and I live here because it's very remote. In return, I get some privacy when I want it. People are good about that here.

But, I don't really have anything to hide. I will happily tell you all sorts of information - about me, and only about me. It's not my right to tell you about the private details of other people.

So, I don't mind being posted if I am in a public space. I don't mind, within reason, if it is in a private space - but don't tag me and certainly don't tag me in a private space, or tag the people with me. Basically, don't put me in a position where I am used, willingly or not, to compromise the privacy of another person.

I don't think that's too much to ask. Just, you know, be smart about it.

So, yeah, I can see where you're coming from and very much agree. We're pretty similar in those regards.

Also, speech... I don't have anything offensive to say. Yet, I'm a very adamant supporter of the right to free expression. I am even willing to defend the free speech rights of Nazis and Nazis pretty much hate me. I'm not white, not on the political right, and I'm not a huge fan of strict nationalism. Not that they need all those reasons to hate me, they hate me just because of my skin color.

But, I still strongly support their rights to free speech. If I can't support their rights, it means I had no principles to begin with. Besides, someday, my speech may be considered harmful. Someone has to defend it.

Sorry for the novella. I need to sleep soon.
Per George Santayana, "Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it"
Is that inflation adjusted? Because 1 1980's dollar would be about $2.99 nowadays according to Wolfram Alpha.
we just get more averse to bad ideas, or have heard it all before.
> I guess you would have to sanitize when you save and/or load the spreadsheet

Sanitizing? No chance. Either you have a dedicated expression parser, or you run it directly throgh eval. There is no reliable middle ground. Decades of security failures of so-called "sanitizers" show this pretty clearly.

(Even if you manage to create a perfect sanitizer today, wait a few months, new features are added to the browser, and new loopholes will appear out of nothing.)

But that may be missing the point, because if you want more code quality, more safety and more features, of course you need more code. This demo illustrates the other way around: If you allow for dirty hacks, you can get away with a surprisingly small amount of code.
"I have realized I often behave first, and then come up with the narrative to understand my own behavior." -> I recall a book https://www.amazon.com/Why-Everyone-Else-Hypocrite-Evolution... that explores the same concept; and one of the thesis there is that, using the analogy of a government for a brain, we like to think that our conscious internal monologue is the president in charge, but actually it's more like a press secretary observing and describing events and decisions after they've been made; our rational brain is literally rationalizing our actions, eagerly inventing reasons why we did when it doesn't want to disclose the real reason (like our politicians do) or when it can't know the real reason (for e.g. split brain patients). Our conscious self is usually not in charge - it can influence and nudge our actions, it can make plans, but it's ultimately up to the other parts of our brains whether the plan will be followed or we'll do something else.
I am curious too, the brexit vote for many people was an emotional one. It was certainly not based in any logic that anyone can cite.

That sample is too large to be anecdatum.

However to play devils advocate; leave voters were drip fed anti-EU propaganda for decades with nobody on the EU side defending it, and the run up to the referendum there was a lot of lying. So the fault may be that people were more susceptible to misinformation in that state.
Why octopuses are building small “cities” off the coast of Australia
Why have HN at all then? Let's close comments.

You can't discuss specific things if you never figured generic things out. We will have pointless discussions like "was is a good thing to murder this particular person, or you say it wasn't?"
=alert(A1) is more "useful" though.

The cool thing is you could code some extra features or an entire SPA inside the spreadsheet. Better than XL.
That might be something of an illusion. People tend to strongly agree on this until they realize they think it about incompatible comment sets.
and footer and sidebar and other 'components'.
I have no investment in the outcome of Brexit but I have to say that speaking as if it was objectively worse is dismissive of the section of population who showed up and voted in favour of it.
I have had their JavaScript bug out and require a page reload though - in Chrome of all browsers
That is not true, X-ray in india costs around INR 300 ($5)to INR 120($2) based on the hospitals and trust managed orgs.
We don't close comments because some comments are good. But some are boring, particularly the generic ones and the indignant ones. To make HN discussions better we need to make them less boring, i.e. less predictable.

Nobody figures generic things out. They're too generic for that. The true things you can say are trivial and the non-trivial things are untrue.

The grander and more general a topic, the fewer interesting things there are to say about it—especially in internet threads. Those few things get said over and over, making the threads predictable and boring. The solution is to avoid such tangents. To avoid a black hole, don't go near it.

https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comme...
Normally, I would say that a strain of 1 would be way too much. A strain of 0.1 would already mean a change of length of 10%, which is probably more than enough to destroy your body. But we are talking about orders of magnitude here, so the comparison of 10^-20 with 1 seems precise enough.
Why Do People Use BBW Dating Sites
try this https://www.meetup.com/cities/cn/hangzhou/?country=cn&zipsta...
> incompleteness concerns the ability to prove certain characteristics rather than meaning a system has/hasn't got those characteristics.

That's right. I like the way Gregory Chaitin puts it, "some mathematical facts are true for no reason, they are true by accident, or at random."

I also don't see any connection to objective reality. Ignoring mathematics, we know that the universe contains things that are true by accident, but that doesn't undermine the idea of objective reality.
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Both are true:

- Water bodies help HF propagation.

- HAMs doing DX will generally prefer more unusual to less unusual locations, and island station is definitely more unusual.
99% of regular consumers don't.
I prefer writing markdown to html.

I want an automatic table of contents.

Source code highlighting is nice too.

I use mdbook and not Jekyll anymore, but it's similar stuff.
>These are the uncurious people, who never delved deeper, never tried doing more than required...

So in other words, some old people are good, some are bad. Just like young people. This is not known?
I learned the neat trick of -~

Thanks!
First time I saw a HAM installation was when I bought a lab power supply on Craigslist. I went to pick it up and the guy lived on the third floor of a 5 story building with his family. One room was entirely filled with radio equipment. Some big cables went through his window and up the building. He told me his landlord was OK with him putting antennae on the roof of the building.
Sounds like a killer tool for identifying similar songs, I'm sure it'll become a big part of their recommandation engine.
The younger people weren't wise enough to actually show up and vote. If they had voted in the same numbers, there wouldn't be Brexit.
> wot

Strong choice of word.
Ask HN: What's best mail server alternative?
I need a mail server that will primarily serve as mail transfer (ex. get/send email from gmail).
The suggested solution I'd like to be open source or very cheap alternative.
Checked Apache James but it sounds to complicated to implement.
This guide provides startups with the weapons to rule the fundraising process
How does this compare to PyPy in terms of speed and optimizations?
You don't build immunity to a virus that constantly mutates, e.g. the flu virus.
Always scan the freighter before you and your catalyst buddies suicide gank.
It's crazy how accurate this article was. How far along were mobile phones during 1992?

The technology to connect your mobile phone to a mobile fax machine to be able to send and receive documents while on the road definitely existed in 1992 and this: http://oldericsson.sweb.cz/obrazkymobily/gh197_all_colors.jp... was the cutting edge of phone tech

PDA's that we would today at least conceptually recognize as a smartphone-without-the-phone had been demoed by 1992. The first PDA with a built in phone was starting to be demoed by IBM in late 1992/early 1993, but not available to buy before somewhere round 94/95.

The first 'smartphone' generally available was really the Nokia Communicator (1996) and the first smartphone following the whole phone is a touch screen design concept was the Ericsson R380 (1999)

But I completely agree that the article is pretty amazing in its forecasts.
Instead of making the ridiculous (i.e. unsupported and wild) generalization to the effect that if you voted for Brexit you were unwise (stupid?) which frankly amounts to little more than name-calling, why not go head to head with the <arguments> made by hundreds of business leaders and intellectuals who voted Leave? I don't hold out any hope because you certainly give the impression of someone who's impervious to argument.
Reminds me of the HTML-only MTG life counter I made:

http://zichy.de/public/counter.html (437b)
I wonder if any of the other ntp implementations (chrony et al) suffer from this same issue?
It won't save you from this particular case but you're safe so long as your clock is off by no more than ~68 years.
As a note, this feature isn't exclusive to Julia. For example, Eigen implements something similar and the requirements for doing so are specified here:

https://eigen.tuxfamily.org/dox-devel/TopicCustomizing_Custo...

The reason to do so is to use a more exotic type that gives additional information. In the simplest case, we may want to use quad precision, which BLAS and LAPACK do not support by default (but it is possible to hack in). Alternatively, it's a good way to run automatic differentiation through the solve, or use infinite precision libraries like GMP, or use interval arithmetic.

So, yes, it's right to be skeptical, but it is possible, some libraries support it, and it's a useful trick to have available.
Ask HN: A separate thread for 'Who is Hiring – with global visa?'
The 'Who is hiring' thread can run into several pages. For those looking to work on cool stuff, but would need a visa, its a pain to go through all the listings.
They do much more: primarily, they translate from markdown to HTML. This is, you don't write your content in HTML, you write it in a markup language that the static generator converts in an HTML document. Then, they can manage tags, paginating, menu structures, etc.

For instance, you can write

> {% note %} Something I want to emphasize {% endnote %}

And this will be converted by the generator into a properly-styled <div> according to your theme. If you change the theme, another run of the generator will convert the note to a different style, without you needing to change your content.
Bingo, not all ages groups are present in voting
Show HN: Hypertext Erlang – Erlang Extended with HTML Expressions
Could someone explain how this works? Meaning, I want to understand how the application uses the data from several MOOCs and get the result. Is that they manually build the data store and indexing on top of it? If so, what happens if a new course is added to the site? Link to source code would be really great, if you can provide one.
You will need to disable inline scripts which is inconvenient. CSP looks more like as hack for broken sites.
> Empirical studies have shown that older people are better than younger ones in terms of control over emotion

Is this a puritan/evangelical thing? What's wrong with displaying emotions? Why is the ability to control them seen as "better"?
Yeah, it's an issue with NTP the "protocol" not NTP the "program".
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Intrusive thought
Have never found it. Triple checked now. Nada.
Actually pretty good but it still falls into the trap of thinking that there are rules, and that some people follow them and some people break them. For example:

> When used in this way, the bracketed information should be an addition, not a substitution. For example, if the original quotation is “She never called back,” do not change it to “[Lucy] never called back.” Instead write: “She [Lucy] never called back.” (Note: Many newspapers ignore this rule. In professional and academic writing, it is better to follow it.)

Says who?

About the only real "rule" I can think of in English is that you use "an" iff the following word starts with a vowel sound. But even some people (idiots) break that rule for the weirdly specific case of 'historic'.
Of course it's seen as better. Do you lose your temper and get angry after every setback or inconvenience?

This is so self-evident I'm surprised it's even discussed.
'My toaster still has a slider to select how long I want to cook it.'

And this is great, simple UI that means you can use it without a manual. If we we're to liken a lot of "configurable" software to the toaster it would:

* A resistance range setting that defined the max and min resistance ranges of the internal heating element, implicitly measured in ohms.

* A resistance setting to defines the current resistance from 0 - 100% where the percentage set gets it's temperature from the range defined with the resistance range UI element.

* A timer setter that allows you to set the time-to-cook value via a ISO 8601 formatted duration.

etc.
They deserve what they voted for. Have almost no direct stake in this, I'm just tired of this mantra of "showing respect for what people chose". It's not wrong telling someone that they made a bad decision, no matter if you offend said person by doing so. I personally wish my friends would be the same towards me, i.e. tell me whenever they think I made bad decisions.
I assume they use some kind of deep learning these days. Does anyone know?
Using Cerebral in a complex React + TypeScript app and really enjoying the workflow. This is a great tool to work with and a great community as well :-)
I may be confusing them with the later windows mobile and cheaper Casio ones (which I was rocking as a super sophisticated primary school kid at the time), but I remember noticeable input lag and frame rates of approximately 1fps. As amazing as they were at the time I still found them slow and clunky, was the Psion noticeably better?
Just wondering, at what point will the face camera data be used to send feedback to advertisers? Being able to tell if phone users watched (for example) a youtube ad and with what facial expression dynamics would be worth something to someone.
I tried this one a couple of years ago on two existing project (one fairly new product in development and one mature product) after some irritation with pyinstaller, etc.

But ran into compatibility problems with most libraries we used (one application were a native QT-based and one were for web based on Falcon). Not sure how it looks today but if it's anything like before I'd recommend developing with it in mind from scratch if you want to use it.
Weird how focused you are about being labeled 'sane' by people who don't use that label.
I enjoyed the rules about the em dash — It reminded me of the English class that I was taught that you could use it in place of pretty much every bit of punctuation and the subsequent essays I wrote having optimized the rules of English punctuation somewhat ;-)
http://www.kb6nu.com/ham-ham-radio-ham-radio-amateur-radio/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Etymology_of_ham_radio

> I don’t think that you can argue with this. Let’s avoid confusion by using “amateur radio” when writing about our hobby/service. I’d even urge the ARRL to rethink their use of “Amateur Radio.” Sometimes, it may be OK to use “ham radio,” but it’s just not correct to use “HAM radio” or just “HAM.”
Underfunding the navy in times of peace is a pretty much par for course for the USA. Personally, I feel it'd be better if we went back to our roots as a country that tried only for supremacy in its own hemisphere, rather than operating as the #1 military everywhere around the globe. To do the latter is both expensive, and requires an empire or diplomatic web that we simply do not have.
Does "emotion" only equal "angry" and "having a temper"? Is this also a puritan/evangelical thing? What about displays of love and tenderness?

And even so, the answer to your question is most of the times "yes", at least in my case, as in I do prefer to spill it out in the heat of the moment instead of keeping it all inside.

It's not wrong having "emotions" and displaying them, I though that this was established since back in the Romantics' day (with only a resurgence of "showing emotions is bad" in the Victorian era).
> iOS apps could be transmitting details back to home without your knowledge.

Erm, so could Android apps? You don't need to request permission for internet access anymore.
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Cryptocurrency runs at a much faster pace than the usual stock market. Because we are still in a dot-com like phase and we haven't found the true valuation of the whole concept, yet.

You could make a killing because you knew from history that the market usually overreacts and the 2007 financial crisis was such an event. Everything went down, even stuff that had good fundamentals, so you could scoop up lots of good stuff in 2008 at a cheap price.

Such events happen in cryptocurrencies every few months because of the increased pace. Like a few weeks ago when the whole market dumped 30% because China was flexing their muscles again and now we are about 20% up from that bottom.

So, that was easy money. But OTOH, if you bought in Q1 and just did hold since then, you would even be up 3x. Despite the dips in between. Insane performance but nobody knows if we are 10x next year or /10.

> Of course the economy was going to recover. It always does.

That's the important point. We have a long history of the stock market and we have some rules of thumb how it behaves.

We are in the exponential growth phase of a new technology and we don't know yet if the cryptocurrency hype has passed its top or not. The concept of cryptocurrencies is certainly here to stay but how much worth will it be and even more important, how much worth are the coins and tokens that exists now going to be?

Look at the history of other new technologies and try to decide where in that cycle we are right now. If that's easy money is up to you :-)
A link to the product page (Basis) would be helpful to give context. Sounds like a lot of advice veers toward enterprise sales.
WebFiddle.net using Coinhive XMR miner instead of Ads
I'm more concerned with the use of the symbol `b` to denote bytes instead of `B` :)
Both Psion and Palm where really great. I used a Psion 5 (and later 5mx) as my main 'laptop' for a while. Working with text and spreadsheets was amazingly smooth, and it had a battery life that most smartphones today would envy. Oh and the keyboard design on the Psion 5 was one of the greatest pieces of industrial design the computer world has ever seen.
Interesting edge case! This is why it may be sensible to do some extra checks in things like product expiration batch jobs, to check if the previous run was not to far in the future or past and refuse to run in that case.

Scary to think what might happen if some database purge process is running after this bit flip!
The point wasn't about showing emotions, it was about controlling emotions so that you have conscious choice over whether to show them or not.

For instance, in certain circumstances anger may be appropriate to be shown, but in other cases if you show anger it could work against you. Similarly with humour or any other emotion.
Just because someone examines the same facts as you and comes to a different conclusion, it doesn't mean their choice wasn't based on facts.
They do add stuff - that's the point, but limiting it to HTML boilerplate isn't all.

My static generator:

* Renders boilerplate

* Builds the correct file paths

* Generates a JSON tree for a clientside search engine

* Generates a RSS feed

* Creates a global navigation menu

* Examines all my code blocks, and if they're valid, also renders output into the finished file

* Spelling and grammar checks my pages

I could do all that manually, but it'd be a pain and take a lot longer.
That's makes sense, thank you for explaining that. I'll be a better citizen going forward.
Isn't that something that can be helped by having a good standard library though (e.g. STL)? OpenZeppelin [1] is one example that comes to mind.

There are also other contract languages aimed to solve some of the limitations you mention, like Tezos/Michelson [2][3], which facilitate formal verification.

The issues you point out are certainly valid, but I believe people in the space are cognizant of them and are working on solutions.

[1] https://openzeppelin.org/

[2] https://www.tezos.com/

[3] https://www.tezos.com/static/papers/language.pdf
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> If the resulting time that ntpd sees is more than a few milliseconds off, it'll step the clock, and that will clear out the future time.

It shouldn't do that, otherwise it's going to break in 2036.

(The "future time" it's going to clear off will set the time back to 1900 once we are past February 7, 2036)

Edit: I don't know if I didn't explain myself well enough. Because the protocol only has 32 bits of seconds it cannot tell apart September 27, 2017 and November 4, 2153. This means that ntpd absolutely must trust that it is in the correct 68-year span. But according to the author ntpd "clears out the future time" if it is more than a few milliseconds off. This violates the spec and is also inconsistent as it happily keeps up with the future date as long as it doesn't have to step the clock.
Didn't know minimizers were this good today ;)

Well done!