skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I partially agree with you, in that the rendering of the page is good-looking in circa 2007 standard on a mobile device. But rendering one page nicely does not prove it is full-featured. It has to go through some kind of benchmark, which reflects the general ability to process trillions of other pages out there. It loses to Opera Mobile or Symbian browser on the test I just googled (not sure about how accurate it is though).

A full-fledged browser experience in 2007 to me means at least I could have mouse hover, to deal with sites not yet adapting to mobile computing (there were a lot of them). WM6 browsers did that. If it fails, I'd go and use my Palm device to VNC into my workstation -- a 2004 Sony device that will be up-to-date forever because it is a decent thin client.

I also remember opera mini being a very handy browser on lower end phones like the S40 models. Since the first iOS safari does not do javascript IIRC, it makes no difference if the rendering is done with WebKit locally, or pre-computed on a server. The only difference is that iPhone has a bigger viewport, which allows you to consider the webpage a minified version of the desktop rendering -- and you are able to freely swipe, zoom, rotate -- not relating to the functionality of the browser itself. I'm not sure if you would agree, but I think, if iPhone1 runs Opera Mobile (with beefy 128MB RAM and fancy graphics chip), it beats the built-in Safari to the ground.

Of course it will cause other troubles -- battery life, thermal management, slow startup, or even unstability etc. This is, to my understanding, why Apple decided to ship a "reduced" version of Safari3.

Edit: adding explainations.
The concept that "property" is a human right makes no sense. Why should something belong only to me, and what should I need to give to society to attain it? The logical answer is "the fruit of my work," but in any practical example that is not what happens. And it is the acceptance of "property" that leads to cronyism.
> We could have: Offered the mobile OS for free from day one. Given Office on Mobile for free from day one. Bought or OEMed Xamarin a lot sooner. [...] Made dev tools (Studio CE) free earlier.

Quoted for emphasis. It's remarkable in hindsight that Microsoft didn't try to leverage it's own already successful products with their inherent network effects, to buy market-share.
Some taxi companies buy new cars, which adds overhead, but largely I think the Uber/Lyft driver model doesn't work for a full-time wage. It's great supplemental income for some.

From hearing many interviews with Uber drivers, I've gathered that most are happy about the opportunity and possibilities in the beginning but then realize within a year that it's a meager living (less than minimum wage). They also notice that their profit margins can easily be eaten away by Uber's rev share changes or when Uber tests the price elasticity of a market. Anecdotally, Uber drivers don't last more than about 2 years.

My father is a sole proprietor limo driver who has occasionally tried driving for Uber.
The 75% should only be provided with little more than bare essentials. An apartment, food, and health care, with a small allowance for niceties.

The 25% that actually work should be rewarded with luxuries. Financial means to travel, own their own house, drive a nice car, etc.
The simplest way to send unlimited files using the distributed web.
Does anyone love the financial sector? The fact that the two are becoming difficult to distinguish from would be more evidence that people are falling out of love with Silicon Valley
I'm obviously not talking about this specific modification.
Oh god. Their versioning system uses a unit of measurement that is decrementing towards zero. Those poor souls!
Chinese Woman Goes Blind After Playing Mobile Game for 24 Hours
Imagine graph paper with the length of the side of a square being the feature size. 3nm. Where you shade in represents the metalization. Now imagine you have a design rule that says a metalization trace must be no less than 3 squares wide, for the sake of functionality.

That's a 3nm process. You might get away with putting to 9nm lines within 3nm of each other, or you might come up with some interesting transistor shapes that would not be possible on a larger process. But a trace would still have to be 9nm.
>Every single person who claims they believe global climate change is a very serious, and man-made, problem absolutely should be taking personal steps now to address it. Quit telling _others_ to solve the problems, and start doing it personally, now.

This being effective seems contrary to everything we know about economics. If even a huge portion of people voluntary lower consumption or energy usage, it frees up that energy to be consumed more cheaply by other people and so the overall consumption is hardly impacted. Historically this is the case.

If you don't price an externality into the market with a tax or credit or it's useless.

Put another way: if you're seriously concerned about global climate change, and do not support pigouvian taxes or other policy that will actually have an impact, you're not seriously concerned about climate change - and I can't take your concerns seriously because you don't. You're just concerned about projecting the appearance that you care.
Brené Brown: America’s Crisis of Disconnection Runs Deeper Than Politics
Another funny translation, I wrote This is funny, I just insoduces inteligerted a few letters in order to have some fun of their AI (what I wrote was garbage) and it still prible words

I receive in French :

C'est amusant, j'insère simplement quelques lettres de leur propre IA (ce que j'ai écrit était des ordures) et des mots encore prévisibles:

Which means:

It's fun, I just insert a few letters from their own AI (what I wrote was garbage) and still predictable words:
Jailbreaking and installing FOSS like Jolla is doing with Sailfish on Xperia X right this week, with some help from Sony Open Devices.

Still, it would be nice to have some hope do be able to do it without relying on manufacturers' goodwill... If ARM gets sufficiently commoditised so it's cheap (both time and money) enough for smaller players to create hardware, surely there must be enough open-source and/or privacy-oriented folks around to come up with a profitable product?
My question/concern is related, although for the moment specifically addressing these apples.

"Brown" is a sign of aging. And generally, fruit and vegetable nutritional content declines with aging.

So, by hindering these apples' browning, is this essentially facilitating their selling us a less nutritious product?
This is, unfortunately, remarkably common. It only received a lot of attention here because it pretended to be a well-known extension: The Web Store is full of extensions which hijack your start page and search provider and have full access to all of your web content. They're often installed via pages through malicious ads which state that you must accept Chrome's install extension request to continue web browsing and use a variety of JavaScript-based tricks to keep you on the page until you do.

Many times, I've reported malicious extensions I've found on user's PCs, and months later they are still alive and well on the Web Store. Google has not taken significant steps to vet browser extensions despite the massive amount of access to your personal data they have, particularly if they use permissions like accessing the content of pages you're on.

Microsoft appears to only permit Edge extensions on a case-by-case, human-vetted basis. I strongly recommend instructing lay users to use Edge over Chrome, and those who insist on Chrome should have --no-extensions added to their shortcuts to ensure Google's extension interface is wholly disabled.

Unfortunately, while Chrome regularly brags about their security measures, it does very little when they permit (and distribute) malicious extensions in their store with permissions to do whatever they want with user data. It is akin to bragging about how good your deadbolt is while leaving the door wide open.
Firstly the internet is a lot older than 25 years (perhaps you mean web?) and secondly if the last 25 years has taught us anything it's that allowing users to download and install whatever they want usually leads to problems. I mean I do get your point and even sympathise with it, to a point. But if someone needs SSH access and I don't trust them enough to put them in the sudoers file, then I'm not going to trust them enough to even choose what software to install and run from their own local user area. I've been burnt before from intelligent people doing stupid things because they thought they knew what they were doing. So if you're not a sysadmin and you're logging into a shared host, then you don't get install rights. I don't think that's an unreasonable stance to take.
Right, but you don't need to "check" it since it has notifications.
I actually really like windows 10 mobile, but as a developer my attention span is limited and the market just wasn't there.

That said, I think if they announced convergence on all devices, released some really nice hardware (surface phone anybody?), and marketed convergence as the Next Big Thing, they could have made some serious in-roads in market share.

"Your all-in-one wonder device is ready!"
Hah. I live in Montana, and I find myself lusting sometimes for the inundation of tech in SV. I wish I could nerd out with more of my friends, instead of talking about hiking/skiing/whatever. I guess the grass is always greener :)
The best litmus test I have seen is "Are double spends a problem in your architecture?"

If not you probably don't need a blockchain.
There are several ways to do it: compile to C++, compile to the Neko VM, or use Node (there are official bindings: https://github.com/HaxeFoundation/hxnodejs) In development it's Haxe (which is a lovely language to work with) but in production it can be something you're familiar with.
Your last example is a standard laser triangulation rig. They're extremely simple to build and give excellent accuracy. Here's an example system I was involved with for cast steel: https://doi.org/10.1109/CRV.2016.55

The pedant in me wants to point out that laser triangulation has nothing to do with LIDAR, even though it's commonly lumped in. It's basically a parallax measurement, whereas LIDAR refers explicitly to time of flight (either direct or by proxy from phase/frequency offset).

Mostly they're used for profiling on conveyor-based systems - anything where the target moves underneath the stripe. The downside is usually a big trade off with accuracy and depth of field; and usually their usable range is poor (> 5m and you're struggling and have eye safety problems). You can buy nm-precision systems, but they only work within a range of a few cm. Also the triangulation angle is important - the further away you go, the wider your laser-camera baseline needs to be to retain accuracy.
We do have patents, thank goodness! Our manufacturing costs are no where near $10, that would be amazing. We have a more advanced chipset than a Fitbit and all the capabilities of an Apple Watch (without the screen). Jewelbots can have 8 simultaneous central and peripheral relationships via bluetooth. We are the only wearable device that talks to other wearable devices! (we are also completely open source!)
We're not, actually:

https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2017/06/the-ends...

I used to think that we were, and when I read that article, I kept looking for flaws in its logic or counterexamples in other press. But ultimately, it interviews a real expert, and his logic is correct: we're drawn to flashy apex predators at the top of the food web, but these species spring in and out of existence all the time, and when it comes to the fossil record, they're barely a blip. If we were actually in a mass extinction, we would be worrying about cockroaches, ants, and seaweed going extinct, not tigers and rhinos. And of course, we wouldn't be here to observe it.

That's not an argument to completely fuck up the environment, since, like I mentioned, we'll be the first to go and most people have some sense of self-preservation, let alone preservation of the human species. It is a reminder of just how insignificant we actually are on a planetary scale, and of how our cognitive biases often lead us to think that we are more important or more powerful than we actually are.
Yes! I love this idea and we are working on something similar currently.
I figure a great deal of this will be standardized with modules you swap out like you do a water pump and sensors like light assemblies. plus it is not like all these older cars are going anywhere.

people vastly over estimate how fast self driving cars will arrive and just as much the electric only revolution
Show HN: new dating advice app – Crowdsource advice from the opposite sex
My partner and I are developing an app at the moment which gives people the opportunity to crowdsource dating advice exclusively from people of the opposite sex. That is, women seek advice from men, and vice versa. The fundamental concept is to break down the barriers of communication between men and women and give people a more reliable source of advice than the usual channels such as friends - who can either be notoriously unreliable or sadly may not have the best intentions.

People would post information anonymously about their situation by way of a short message and would also have the option of uploading a text msg feed (between them and their partner). People would then respond to that situation over a limited period (of 24-hours), with the most popular piece of advice being sent exclusively to the person who posted.

We have a launch page below.

https://www.readbetweenapp.com

We have a prototype developed are seeking interested users to be the first to test it out. If you are interested, please email us at:

readbetweenapp@gmail.com

Any other feedback would be very welcome below!
> Why can't we put that money, effort, manpower, and will into actually addressing climate change and make crazy projects like vast man-made Mines-of-Moria-style underground tunnels and huge artificial reservoirs unnecessary?

In part because the Carbon Industry is huge and powerful, and holds power over most of the worlds major governments.

I mean Rex Tillerson, the former head of Exxon Mobil is currently the US Secretary of State.

The rest is because the machine of Late Capitalism is built on a presumption of endless growth with no consequences. The crisis that's barrelling down on us is so __alien__ to the established way of thinking that it's literally impossible for these economies to react with anything other than stupor and paralysis.
>* SMS don't have read receipt.

I feel like this is a pro.
Preparing for the effects is much more practical, and something that you can execute against. I have long been a proponent of the notion that there is ample, and incontrovertible, evidence of climate change even before people started adding their own hand to the mix. As such, the expected value of a dollar spent on preparing for a change in climate gives a better return in terms of survivability than spending a dollar changing a local contribution to CO2 production. Spending money on both is even better.

When one of the super volcanoes burps its going to screw up a lot of things, and it would be nice to have some options.
Windows Phone had potential. All MS needed to do was to show some real commitment to it by keeping APIs relatively stable and not impose any onerous requirements.

APIs were never stable for very long and all the weird UI decisions they tried to force down peoples throats really backfired. The marketing hype around universal apps backfired too - the developer APIs were not at all aligned with the marketing vision.

Truthfully, I think Microsoft is adjusting to being a corporation without a monopoly. That's what it comes down to - away from the desktop users had more attractive options (iOS/Android) and even on the desktop users just avoided upgrading (I skipped both Vista and Windows 8) while others have totally ditched desktops altogether.

Bye bye WiMo.
Will it have a GPS?
> "The RPi isn't anywhere close to open hardware?"

The RPi is the one of the most open of all the SBC (Single Board Computers) currently on the market:

https://anholt.github.io/twivc4/

https://github.com/christinaa/rpi-open-firmware

What that says about other SBC, I'll leave up to you to decide.
Honestly, unit testing good code should have a minimal impact on overall productivity. I'm not suggesting rigorous testing of all possible inputs, but at least testing one good case and one bad case can save you a lot of headaches and only takes a couple minutes to code in most cases.

I mean I agree with your general point in that testing too much is also a bad thing, but too often I hear this used as an excuse for not testing at all. And that's how we end up with legacy monstrosities that you can have no confidence in modifying that so many of us have to deal with.
I'd almost suggest that discussing the morality of pixel manipulation is a bridge too far, but this is sort of why I come here.

I sort of now want a PETA for video game pixels.
> No other profession that's been measured has showed near this level of profane, unwelcome environment.

Author obviously has never worked a blue collar job...
This issue is too political for normal people to properly understand. I don't mean to offend you personally but there's little value in the feelings of someone who's been immersed in a social atmosphere of global warming propaganda, calls to action, and pressure to shut down dissenting voices. Even scientists can't safely publish work on positive effects of climate change or areas where it's not as bad as previously thought without littering their papers with defenses of "but it's still bad".

Your GP said "we must" do some things. No, there isn't a single obvious best answer. We don't know what the longer term effects will be and whether building protection will be enough or not - or enough to pay for their useful life. We don't have accurate science for that. Even if we did, we've still got hundreds of years to prepare, and importantly, future money to spend on it, which is cheaper than spending money today because of the time value of money. Every solution costs money and it's no obvious which one is cheaper.

Where did you get the mass extinction and "entirely destroy life on the planet" ideas? I know there are frequent extinctions of insects and large mammals, but that's been going on for centuries and is nothing to do with global warming. Global warming might exacerbate that but again, I don't think we have clear predictions of whole food chain collapses.

EDIT: I see you've toned down your comment from a strong belief to a suggestion of a possibility, so the main motivation of my reply doesn't really apply now.
maybe build one w/ raspberry pi?
I guess I just don't see how this title can be practically misleading, unless you're intentionally primed to think that "best" means "significant gains".

Further, let's look at some of Mark Walton's other processor review titles:

1. Intel Core i9-7960X review: It beats Threadripper, but for a price

2. AMD Ryzen 3 1300X and 1200: True quad-core CPUs for just $130 and $110

3. Ryzen 5 review: AMD muscles in on Intel’s i5 sweet spot

4. AMD Threadripper 1950X review: Better than Intel in almost every way

5. Nvidia GTX 1080 Ti review: The fastest graphics card, again

If Mark Walton or the editorial staff are being paid by Intel, they're doing a bad job of drinking the kool-aid. I included a GPU review as well, to demonstrate another title that could be labeled as "technically accurate and practically misleading", but that I think is completely fine.

On another related topic, what does the word "best" mean? Some may think that it is the best on price, others may think performance, etc. I do think a more descriptive term could be used in the title, but that doesn't imply that I believe that Ars is a corporate shill working with Intel.
A few responses:

Your initial comment is being downvoted because the research has been done, and it is a strongly supportive theory. It's viewed as lazily ignorant. To imply that it's the topic is missing the point.

If you already knew about this, you should be bringing something to the table in terms of an argument against it from the beginning.

> It's a perfectly plausible theory, but of course it suffers from the same sexual discrimination "injustice" that causes all the arguments whenever this topic comes up.

I don't see this as true at all. You're going to have to provide some good arguments for that.

It's not just "a theory". So is "gravity". That's just a bad argument. Degrees of proof is what should be discussed, and I have yet to see you bring up anything that would cause doubt. I am making a claim based on studies and evidence that have been vetted by a scientific community. Is it as strong as our evidence for gravity? Of course not. Is it plenty sufficient for using to inform actions? I think so.

> I'd personally prefer we don't pretend it's something other than what it is though.

I don't see where I made claim it was anything but this. As a society, I doubt we have this level of nuance in common conception, but I don't think we can expect that either, no matter what argument. We just don't have well-nuanced arguments for most things on average. Heck, most people still use evolution to argue for things it does not actually support, but I guess it's survival of the fittest (if that actually was an argument that held up in this context!).
The corporate accounts thing is actually pretty interesting - a cost that was previously absorbed by large companies (doing the accounting for expensed food orders) is shifted to the restaurants by a third-party entrant in the space (Seamless) which captures a profit in the process.

Of course this is money that the large companies could have been extracting in the first place, but they didn't bother because it's not worth it for them on an individual basis - they don't care about the money, they are giving their business to Seamless just for the convenience. I wonder what other similar opportunities might exist?
Could be Spotify as Groove Music is being discontinued:

https://blogs.windows.com/windowsexperience/2017/10/02/micro...
Part of the problem is that doing a decent MOOC takes a TON of preparation and effort, much more so than a regular class. The professor who runs the class (Stratos Idreos) has a billion things that he's working on, so turning it unto a MOOC would require some outside support, probably. That said, releasing the videos might be a possibility, I'll ask and see. I believe Andy Pavlo's class has videos online already.

The other part is that in the Harvard classes specifically, the class discussion is a huge part of the class.
This is all a great illustration of support for Elon Musk's idea that a carbon tax is the best way to fight climate change.

Unfortunately, a global carbon tax would put the billion dollar Climate Change Bureaucracy Industry nearly out of business. And people act like we haven't seen this kind of perverse incentive structure--bureaucratic inertia--before with the War on Poverty, War on Drugs, War on Terrror, etc.: they all end up focusing on self-preservation rather than their apparent objectives.
Isn't the whole premise that one is, in fact, a car thief? I submit that the presumption of superior morality is cast aside by the very title.
The International Semiconductor Roadmap was properly tossed out the window at the 28nm node. In the past year they're more or less retconned the industry's current node system _into_ the road map.

Modern pitch measurement is more a marketing term then a _real_ measurement of engineering precision. A smaller/newer value is roughly equal to 1/2 power consumption, it no longer implies 2x density.